For many, if not most individuals, quality would be priceless because we aren't going to necessarily want to create a RAID array of our disks.
Not this individual. My use case is different than yours, I guess. The amount of data I actually generate myself is miniscule. If I need big drives at all, it's to fill them up with media of various kinds. Since almost all of it would be trivial to re-acquire (re-rip from the original media, etc) I'd hardly shed any tears if my one, non-redundant drive went south. Storage, for me, simply isn't "mission critical."
As a key example, I have never met a shop that did SQL Server because they explicitly wanted it, but that it was the path of least resistance for supported database given an existing contract with MS.
But once Microsoft gets its database running on these customers' platform of choice, it can always start competing on price. SQL Server is a totally competent database. If Microsoft really gets it running on Linux in a way that Linux admins will like working with it, it stands to gain market share.
(Which pretty much means you have to be an asshole about copyright all the time if you want it to be valid.)
Not true. You can let 100 people rip off your works without asking you permission, but if you decide to sue the 101st, that's still your right.
There are other rules -- like if you want to sue for money, you generally have to have registered your work with the Copyright Office -- but those are just details.
Exactly. In many of the exams I took, it wasn't so much that calculators and the like weren't allowed, they weren't even really needed.
For example, in trigonometry class they generally presented problems in terms of a unit circle, i.e. a circle with a diameter of 1. Makes many of the arithmetic operations easy enough that you can do them in your head, or at least on paper. But you were required to show all steps of your work, so if you didn't understand the basic principles then the "easy" problems didn't help you.
I was told other sections of the class didn't even let you bring notes to class. I never understood that. Forcing students to memorize what trig identities look like doesn't do a lot of good. What they need to know is which ones apply where. The memorization method seems to be geared solely toward test-taking, rather than really helping students understand.
I don't know if the stuff they're shipping to developers is the same as the stuff that I demoed in the last Build conference, but I was fairly underwhelmed by what I saw. It had a lot of promise. I'll give Microsoft credit for figuring out how to (for the most part) make the "holograms" stay put. If something was supposed to be sitting on a real-world table, you could walk all around the table and the object would still look like it was sitting there. But it was far from being something that a consumer would enjoy.
In particular, all the mocked-up screenshots they show you make it seems as if the "holograms" cover your full range in vision. In fact, with the unit I saw, the holograms were limited to a small square that hovered in the center of your face. You had zero peripheral vision on any axis, horizontal or vertical. And my hunch is that this is all down to cost, because people told me an earlier prototype actually performed better. If Microsoft wanted to ship a model today that would deliver what they've led consumers to expect, I strongly suspect it would cost far more than $3,000.
I tried to illustrate what the experience was like for me in this article.
Funny. I remember spending something like $3,300 for a PowerMac G4. It was the first hardware on the market that shipped with a DVD-R burner, and I was the first guy on my block to start using DeCSS to burn DVD-Rs.
I would have been in my mid/late 20s, and I didn't even bother to talk to an accountant about it.
Windows is incredibly DIFFICULT to use. It's got a million crufty old and non-intuitive weird things people need to know.
I agree. Even the new stuff is difficult/non-intuitive for the average user to figure out. For example, the new control panels/settings changed several times during the Windows 10 beta period.
But then, by the same token I've always felt Mac OS X was a huge regression from Mac OS 9 in terms of how easy it was for the average shmoe to use it properly.
They asked for more and I started giving them none.
Same. I'd be surprised if anyone felt differently.
The prompts are a nuisance, and they tend to be asking me about things I haven't really thought deeply about. But by popping up a prompt when I'm in the middle of doing something, they seem to be saying they want an answer right away, and I don't really have one.
In other cases, the questions just plain sail over me. Q: What do you think of such-and-such new capability in Cortana? A: Just haven't got into the habit of using Cortana for anything yet, sorry.
Nobody really wants to touch javascript, its more a mess than a language
Not wanting to use it and having millions of people who use it anyway are two different things. And the countless JavaScript libraries that are available (jQuery, etc), plus the rise of things like Node.js, would appear to disprove your point.
I just tried it on Windows 10 with the English International keyboard and it does not exhibit the behavior you describe. Caps Lock works just fine with accented characters.
To type accented letters, in Windows I hit Start+Spacebar to toggle back and forth from the English International keyboard layout. (It ships with Windows, but you do need to install it and possibly activate the hotkey.)
The English International layout allows you to type most European accents with easy to remember mnemonics, like typing double quotes plus a vowel to put an umlaut over the vowel, or typing a single quote plus a C to put a cedilla under the C.
I know OS X has keyboard shortcuts for most of the accented characters, too, and surely there must be an easy way to achieve similar results on Linux, so I'm not sure what the problem really is.
Maybe what's needed isn't a new keyboard, but simply more education?
As a matter of fact, at some point in the last year or two, Netflix went to a "per screen" subscription model.
They did? I stream Netflix on my smart TV, with a set-top box type device, and on three or four PCs and tablets, and very rarely my phone -- and I think I pay $8/month.
The difference between OpenJDK and Java JDK is meaningless (In Android), so nothing will break
If that's true, why haven't they been using it all along? The first commercial Android phone was unveiled in late 2008. The OpenJDK class library was pretty complete by then.
Indeed, MS is most likely obligated to turn those keys over.
Not in all cases. One particular one that I'm aware of was where a US court ordered Microsoft to turn over one of its customers' data, but Microsoft responded that the data in question was not hosted in the US and therefore the court had no jurisdiction to seize it. I think Microsoft is still battling it out with the US government on that one.
Besides, using Win 10 without a touch screen kinda defeats the point of having it at all.
You're thinking of Windows 8. Windows 10 tries to cater to desktop machines more, and in the process it actually degraded the experience on tablets in various ways (smaller onscreen controls, gesture actions removed, onscreen keyboard acts in unpredictable ways, etc.)
I don't care much for the affordable care act, and I'm in favor of allowing people to buy medication from wherever the hell they please. There's no "doublethink" here. I'm just a free market guy.
The question is not really what they're allowed to do, because they seem perfectly content to import foreign medicines illegally. The question is why should they feel compelled to do that if the US healthcare system is so perfect it shouldn't be tampered with?
This is really pretty interesting. My parents have trended pretty seriously right wing since moving to Arizona for retirement. They absolutely hated the idea of Obamacare, every single healthcare reform that the Democrats proposed they would shoot down. But they buy their prescriptions in Mexico. That, friends, is literally what George Orwell called "doublethink." And damned if I know how to break its hold.
But if all you wanted was the Linux cert, you could just call the Linux Foundation and get that. So yes, it is really just an Azure cert bundled with (I assume) a discounted Linux Foundation cert.
Makes sense. As I understand it, the vast majority of workloads on Azure are running Linux.
Now I manage a windows environment. It's all 2012R2 and with server manager, core/minimal, DSC, and powershell. I honestly really enjoy it and find it to be a perfectly fine solution.
Seriously. If half the whiners would just learn Powershell and try managing some actual, modern Windows servers, I'm sure they'd go, "Huh! Whaddaya know." In some sense, modern Windows Server is kind of like C#, in that Microsoft learned from the competition, took its ideas, polished them up, and put its own spin on them. Nothing really wrong with that, if your chief concern is getting work done and not just arguing on the interwebs.
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For many, if not most individuals, quality would be priceless because we aren't going to necessarily want to create a RAID array of our disks.
Not this individual. My use case is different than yours, I guess. The amount of data I actually generate myself is miniscule. If I need big drives at all, it's to fill them up with media of various kinds. Since almost all of it would be trivial to re-acquire (re-rip from the original media, etc) I'd hardly shed any tears if my one, non-redundant drive went south. Storage, for me, simply isn't "mission critical."
That would be my big thought, and it's likely why .NET and SQL Server are being ported over to Linux.
I would have thought it's more about cloud. It's my understanding that even most VMs on Azure are running Linux.
As a key example, I have never met a shop that did SQL Server because they explicitly wanted it, but that it was the path of least resistance for supported database given an existing contract with MS.
But once Microsoft gets its database running on these customers' platform of choice, it can always start competing on price. SQL Server is a totally competent database. If Microsoft really gets it running on Linux in a way that Linux admins will like working with it, it stands to gain market share.
If you refuse to pay for your right, we will refuse to let you have that right.
You've got a funny idea of the concept of rights.
(Which pretty much means you have to be an asshole about copyright all the time if you want it to be valid.)
Not true. You can let 100 people rip off your works without asking you permission, but if you decide to sue the 101st, that's still your right.
There are other rules -- like if you want to sue for money, you generally have to have registered your work with the Copyright Office -- but those are just details.
Exactly. In many of the exams I took, it wasn't so much that calculators and the like weren't allowed, they weren't even really needed.
For example, in trigonometry class they generally presented problems in terms of a unit circle, i.e. a circle with a diameter of 1. Makes many of the arithmetic operations easy enough that you can do them in your head, or at least on paper. But you were required to show all steps of your work, so if you didn't understand the basic principles then the "easy" problems didn't help you.
I was told other sections of the class didn't even let you bring notes to class. I never understood that. Forcing students to memorize what trig identities look like doesn't do a lot of good. What they need to know is which ones apply where. The memorization method seems to be geared solely toward test-taking, rather than really helping students understand.
I don't know if the stuff they're shipping to developers is the same as the stuff that I demoed in the last Build conference, but I was fairly underwhelmed by what I saw. It had a lot of promise. I'll give Microsoft credit for figuring out how to (for the most part) make the "holograms" stay put. If something was supposed to be sitting on a real-world table, you could walk all around the table and the object would still look like it was sitting there. But it was far from being something that a consumer would enjoy.
In particular, all the mocked-up screenshots they show you make it seems as if the "holograms" cover your full range in vision. In fact, with the unit I saw, the holograms were limited to a small square that hovered in the center of your face. You had zero peripheral vision on any axis, horizontal or vertical. And my hunch is that this is all down to cost, because people told me an earlier prototype actually performed better. If Microsoft wanted to ship a model today that would deliver what they've led consumers to expect, I strongly suspect it would cost far more than $3,000.
I tried to illustrate what the experience was like for me in this article.
$3,000 broke, huh?
Funny. I remember spending something like $3,300 for a PowerMac G4. It was the first hardware on the market that shipped with a DVD-R burner, and I was the first guy on my block to start using DeCSS to burn DVD-Rs.
I would have been in my mid/late 20s, and I didn't even bother to talk to an accountant about it.
Windows is incredibly DIFFICULT to use. It's got a million crufty old and non-intuitive weird things people need to know.
I agree. Even the new stuff is difficult/non-intuitive for the average user to figure out. For example, the new control panels/settings changed several times during the Windows 10 beta period.
But then, by the same token I've always felt Mac OS X was a huge regression from Mac OS 9 in terms of how easy it was for the average shmoe to use it properly.
They asked for more and I started giving them none.
Same. I'd be surprised if anyone felt differently.
The prompts are a nuisance, and they tend to be asking me about things I haven't really thought deeply about. But by popping up a prompt when I'm in the middle of doing something, they seem to be saying they want an answer right away, and I don't really have one.
In other cases, the questions just plain sail over me. Q: What do you think of such-and-such new capability in Cortana? A: Just haven't got into the habit of using Cortana for anything yet, sorry.
Nobody really wants to touch javascript, its more a mess than a language
Not wanting to use it and having millions of people who use it anyway are two different things. And the countless JavaScript libraries that are available (jQuery, etc), plus the rise of things like Node.js, would appear to disprove your point.
I just tried it on Windows 10 with the English International keyboard and it does not exhibit the behavior you describe. Caps Lock works just fine with accented characters.
My PCs all have US English keyboards.
To type accented letters, in Windows I hit Start+Spacebar to toggle back and forth from the English International keyboard layout. (It ships with Windows, but you do need to install it and possibly activate the hotkey.)
The English International layout allows you to type most European accents with easy to remember mnemonics, like typing double quotes plus a vowel to put an umlaut over the vowel, or typing a single quote plus a C to put a cedilla under the C.
I know OS X has keyboard shortcuts for most of the accented characters, too, and surely there must be an easy way to achieve similar results on Linux, so I'm not sure what the problem really is.
Maybe what's needed isn't a new keyboard, but simply more education?
As a matter of fact, at some point in the last year or two, Netflix went to a "per screen" subscription model.
They did? I stream Netflix on my smart TV, with a set-top box type device, and on three or four PCs and tablets, and very rarely my phone -- and I think I pay $8/month.
The difference between OpenJDK and Java JDK is meaningless (In Android), so nothing will break
If that's true, why haven't they been using it all along? The first commercial Android phone was unveiled in late 2008. The OpenJDK class library was pretty complete by then.
Indeed, MS is most likely obligated to turn those keys over.
Not in all cases. One particular one that I'm aware of was where a US court ordered Microsoft to turn over one of its customers' data, but Microsoft responded that the data in question was not hosted in the US and therefore the court had no jurisdiction to seize it. I think Microsoft is still battling it out with the US government on that one.
Besides, using Win 10 without a touch screen kinda defeats the point of having it at all.
You're thinking of Windows 8. Windows 10 tries to cater to desktop machines more, and in the process it actually degraded the experience on tablets in various ways (smaller onscreen controls, gesture actions removed, onscreen keyboard acts in unpredictable ways, etc.)
I don't care much for the affordable care act, and I'm in favor of allowing people to buy medication from wherever the hell they please. There's no "doublethink" here. I'm just a free market guy.
The question is not really what they're allowed to do, because they seem perfectly content to import foreign medicines illegally. The question is why should they feel compelled to do that if the US healthcare system is so perfect it shouldn't be tampered with?
Really? Whose podcast was that? Because I've heard it's maybe as much as 90 percent Linux.
Call us when you're old enough to have actually been through a jury selection.
This is really pretty interesting. My parents have trended pretty seriously right wing since moving to Arizona for retirement. They absolutely hated the idea of Obamacare, every single healthcare reform that the Democrats proposed they would shoot down. But they buy their prescriptions in Mexico. That, friends, is literally what George Orwell called "doublethink." And damned if I know how to break its hold.
Bitcoin mining is still an in-demand data center application?
Makes you wonder ... just how much fossil fuels will have been burned by the time we've "created" all of the Bitcoin there is to make?
But if all you wanted was the Linux cert, you could just call the Linux Foundation and get that. So yes, it is really just an Azure cert bundled with (I assume) a discounted Linux Foundation cert.
Makes sense. As I understand it, the vast majority of workloads on Azure are running Linux.
Now I manage a windows environment. It's all 2012R2 and with server manager, core/minimal, DSC, and powershell. I honestly really enjoy it and find it to be a perfectly fine solution.
Seriously. If half the whiners would just learn Powershell and try managing some actual, modern Windows servers, I'm sure they'd go, "Huh! Whaddaya know." In some sense, modern Windows Server is kind of like C#, in that Microsoft learned from the competition, took its ideas, polished them up, and put its own spin on them. Nothing really wrong with that, if your chief concern is getting work done and not just arguing on the interwebs.
1. gui 2. Netsh and 3. Powershell. It is never something you ever used in the real world
I think you'll find that if you manage real-world Windows servers you will use at least one of the three.