Its still going to be more expensive for them (the company) to start from scratch with the environment than it would be otherwise.
And you are assuming that all those Linux developers have the knowledge and ability to support the *entire* Linux platform, from the kernel on upward, when a particular device driver or six is dropped from mainstream due to lack of maintenance or whatever, because thats the same issue as what they are having with the XP EOL.
They originally chose XP because it had a much lower cost of entry than anything else, and I'm not saying that as a Linux hater - yes, you do get the source to do with as you may, but that means hiring developers who know how to do something with that rather than just hiring VB developers. Low start up costs versus less control over your long term environment. But that wasn't an immediate problem when the EOL date was a decade off.
So now, a decade on, they are reaping what they sowed.
It all smacks of very very poor planning on the case of the ATM vendors, and they have to find someone other than themselves to blame - after all, they've ignored the issue for 7 years, which is how long we have known about the EOL date for XP, so where has the forward planning been in the interim period?
So they eschew Microsoft's replacement because doing so supports their laying of blame on them, they have little other option than outright admitting their own failure.
I find it to be very production ready - I'm doing it on RaspPi for a particular reason, but more recently I've switched to NancyFX self hosted on Mono, which is really reliable, fast and development is frictionless.
Also, he may be referencing Robert Maxwell, who disappeared from his boat while sailing off the Canary Islands, but his body was actually recovered a while after and positively identified - but his disappearance at the time was widely believed to be a deliberate act to avoid being prosecuted for discrepancies in his companies pension funds.
The first half is strikingly close to what happened recently in the UK - John Darwin went missing while canoeing in the North Sea during 2002. His canoe was found, but his body was never recovered and he was declared dead in 2003.
In 2007 he returned to life, having lived in the intermediate years as John Jones, firstly in the UK (living in a bedsit next door to his old home, then living with his supposed widow wife, before they moved overseas, eventually ending up in Panama. The catalyst for his return was a change in Panamanian visa law, which required British police confirmation of his identity.
So he came back to the UK, claimed he had amnesia and didn't know what had happened after his disappearance, and his widow wife and children played their part in the fantastic return - but it soon all unravelled when it was discovered that his wife knew all along and had lived with him in Panama for several years.
They are both now serving jail sentences for insurance fraud.
No, not confusing at all - Crusade was indeed a direct carry on. Allies of the Shadows unleash a plague on humanity in a revenge attack, and the alliance sends a ship to find a cure. How is that not a direct carry on?
What you are talking about is something like Stargate Atlantis - definitely not a carry on from the original series, but set in the same story universe (not physical universe of course:) ). The two had essentially no story cross overs of any real mention, but Crusade was very heavily crossed with the original B5 story.
Crusade was really something like the later Stargate: SG1 seasons, with a largely new cast, new enemies to fight and a new story arc to pursue, but basically a continuation of the same old story.
Really? All the "made for TV movies" that were released after the end of the final season? The entire Crusade series? The Legend of the Rangers? The Lost Tales?
It certainly seemed like there was a struggle to actually end the story...
There has always been the concept of a "spent" conviction here in the UK, where you don't have to disclose it to prospective employers etc, and it differs for the type of sentence - this year new legislation comes into effect which lowers the time period for "spent" convictions.
Once your conviction is spent, you are the same as everyone else.
The government issued an apology several years ago.
And yes, he did something wrong according to the law at the time, regardless of whether the law has since changed or societies feelings toward such a law has changed - are we to go through every single conviction back to the dawn of time to pardon and apologise to every single person in the same situation every time a law changes?
Alan Turing isn't special, he's just famous. And he gets an apology and a pardon because of it.
I should note about why my points about observers differ between posts - initially the UN declined to send observers, and my original view was based on that, but checking just now shows that in fact they relented and requested observers to be sent by member countries at the last minute.
You can hold your own opinion, I'm not trying to convince people one way or another, just call out the bullshit.
Oh, and why are people repeating the "not under scrutiny by international observers"? Observers from 21 countries were there, including the US, and irregularities were lower than that in South Sudan, which the US accepted as a fair vote.
Several of your other points are just as debatable, and serve only to put a particular spin on things - of course it was hastily organised, and the fact that the vote went wildly one way doesn't actually surprise me knowing the demographic of the people there and the history of the region. Doesn't mean it is implausible however.
Again with the bullshit - the vote was to either join Russia, or be restored to the 1992 Crimean Constitution as part of the Ukraine, the latter being essentially the status quo minus all the power grabs the Ukraine carried out in the region since 1992. Ukraine hasn't exactly been a shining beacon of good toward Crimea in the past 20 years either, but that's somehow being forgotten.
And independent monitors were invited, they declined because to do so would legitimise the vote in defiance of US and UK stances.
Interesting how the west are vehemently against this vote, but enforced the same vote for self determination in South Sudan, East Timor, Montenegro and other countries in the recent past...
You can link to that all you want, the problem is that that's both historical fact and not going to change. The peninsula is what it is, what happened 50 years ago doesn't change what is happening today.
Bringing it up is like bringing up the depopulation of any American country, north or south, by the European colonists and later the naturalised governments.
You do realise Crimea has been autonomous within the Ukraine precisely because it is more ethnically Russian than Ukrainian, and that in the post-USSR history of the region the Ukranian government has gone back on agreements with the region whenever they display behaviour that is too pro-Russian (for example, Crimea appointing a pro-Russian local leader, which had the result of Crimea having their privileges to do so revoked).
Theres a fuck load of history surrounding the region which is being glossed over by the international media - that doesn't mean I support what Putin is doing, but it annoys me no end when all you see are details which definitely slant it one way in the publics eyes.
Everything you "own" is protected by a government enforced monopoly over that item - why are the laws which protect your stuff better than the laws which protect other peoples stuff?
The problem is that over large tracts of water, transmission range is a huge issue - turning back aircraft traveling toward the US over the Atlantic or Pacific oceans on 9/11 was very problematic because they were out of radio range and the long range communication system had no guarantees on ability.
The maintenance data stream is also incredibly restricted by bandwidth, so a continuous audio stream at a fidelity which can cover voices in the cock pit *and* instrument activation noises (something people talking about CVR use often miss), you are talking about a data stream that often isn't viable.
Slashdot Mirror
Maxwell had lots of companies, several of which had irregularities.
It helps to not be arrogant in your attempts to "correct" people.
Learn this.
Its still going to be more expensive for them (the company) to start from scratch with the environment than it would be otherwise.
And you are assuming that all those Linux developers have the knowledge and ability to support the *entire* Linux platform, from the kernel on upward, when a particular device driver or six is dropped from mainstream due to lack of maintenance or whatever, because thats the same issue as what they are having with the XP EOL.
They originally chose XP because it had a much lower cost of entry than anything else, and I'm not saying that as a Linux hater - yes, you do get the source to do with as you may, but that means hiring developers who know how to do something with that rather than just hiring VB developers. Low start up costs versus less control over your long term environment. But that wasn't an immediate problem when the EOL date was a decade off.
So now, a decade on, they are reaping what they sowed.
It all smacks of very very poor planning on the case of the ATM vendors, and they have to find someone other than themselves to blame - after all, they've ignored the issue for 7 years, which is how long we have known about the EOL date for XP, so where has the forward planning been in the interim period?
So they eschew Microsoft's replacement because doing so supports their laying of blame on them, they have little other option than outright admitting their own failure.
Sorry, I left a parentheses open in my last post and its bugging the hell out of me. So heres the closing one. )
I apologise whole heartedly for all of the teeth-nashing this has caused.
I find it to be very production ready - I'm doing it on RaspPi for a particular reason, but more recently I've switched to NancyFX self hosted on Mono, which is really reliable, fast and development is frictionless.
Also, he may be referencing Robert Maxwell, who disappeared from his boat while sailing off the Canary Islands, but his body was actually recovered a while after and positively identified - but his disappearance at the time was widely believed to be a deliberate act to avoid being prosecuted for discrepancies in his companies pension funds.
The first half is strikingly close to what happened recently in the UK - John Darwin went missing while canoeing in the North Sea during 2002. His canoe was found, but his body was never recovered and he was declared dead in 2003.
In 2007 he returned to life, having lived in the intermediate years as John Jones, firstly in the UK (living in a bedsit next door to his old home, then living with his supposed widow wife, before they moved overseas, eventually ending up in Panama. The catalyst for his return was a change in Panamanian visa law, which required British police confirmation of his identity.
So he came back to the UK, claimed he had amnesia and didn't know what had happened after his disappearance, and his widow wife and children played their part in the fantastic return - but it soon all unravelled when it was discovered that his wife knew all along and had lived with him in Panama for several years.
They are both now serving jail sentences for insurance fraud.
Ive been running ASP.Net MVC stuff on a RaspPi under mono and Nginx now for several months with no issues...
No, not confusing at all - Crusade was indeed a direct carry on. Allies of the Shadows unleash a plague on humanity in a revenge attack, and the alliance sends a ship to find a cure. How is that not a direct carry on?
What you are talking about is something like Stargate Atlantis - definitely not a carry on from the original series, but set in the same story universe (not physical universe of course :) ). The two had essentially no story cross overs of any real mention, but Crusade was very heavily crossed with the original B5 story.
Crusade was really something like the later Stargate: SG1 seasons, with a largely new cast, new enemies to fight and a new story arc to pursue, but basically a continuation of the same old story.
And my answer to that is "Crusade", which is a direct carry on to the story of the original show.
Really? All the "made for TV movies" that were released after the end of the final season? The entire Crusade series? The Legend of the Rangers? The Lost Tales?
It certainly seemed like there was a struggle to actually end the story...
There has always been the concept of a "spent" conviction here in the UK, where you don't have to disclose it to prospective employers etc, and it differs for the type of sentence - this year new legislation comes into effect which lowers the time period for "spent" convictions.
Once your conviction is spent, you are the same as everyone else.
The government issued an apology several years ago.
And yes, he did something wrong according to the law at the time, regardless of whether the law has since changed or societies feelings toward such a law has changed - are we to go through every single conviction back to the dawn of time to pardon and apologise to every single person in the same situation every time a law changes?
Alan Turing isn't special, he's just famous. And he gets an apology and a pardon because of it.
Radar coverage isn't magic, and it isn't all encompassing...
I should note about why my points about observers differ between posts - initially the UN declined to send observers, and my original view was based on that, but checking just now shows that in fact they relented and requested observers to be sent by member countries at the last minute.
You can hold your own opinion, I'm not trying to convince people one way or another, just call out the bullshit.
Oh, and why are people repeating the "not under scrutiny by international observers"? Observers from 21 countries were there, including the US, and irregularities were lower than that in South Sudan, which the US accepted as a fair vote.
Several of your other points are just as debatable, and serve only to put a particular spin on things - of course it was hastily organised, and the fact that the vote went wildly one way doesn't actually surprise me knowing the demographic of the people there and the history of the region. Doesn't mean it is implausible however.
Again with the bullshit - the vote was to either join Russia, or be restored to the 1992 Crimean Constitution as part of the Ukraine, the latter being essentially the status quo minus all the power grabs the Ukraine carried out in the region since 1992. Ukraine hasn't exactly been a shining beacon of good toward Crimea in the past 20 years either, but that's somehow being forgotten.
And independent monitors were invited, they declined because to do so would legitimise the vote in defiance of US and UK stances.
Interesting how the west are vehemently against this vote, but enforced the same vote for self determination in South Sudan, East Timor, Montenegro and other countries in the recent past...
You can link to that all you want, the problem is that that's both historical fact and not going to change. The peninsula is what it is, what happened 50 years ago doesn't change what is happening today.
Bringing it up is like bringing up the depopulation of any American country, north or south, by the European colonists and later the naturalised governments.
Its stored on OneDrive.
You do realise Crimea has been autonomous within the Ukraine precisely because it is more ethnically Russian than Ukrainian, and that in the post-USSR history of the region the Ukranian government has gone back on agreements with the region whenever they display behaviour that is too pro-Russian (for example, Crimea appointing a pro-Russian local leader, which had the result of Crimea having their privileges to do so revoked).
Theres a fuck load of history surrounding the region which is being glossed over by the international media - that doesn't mean I support what Putin is doing, but it annoys me no end when all you see are details which definitely slant it one way in the publics eyes.
Everything you "own" is protected by a government enforced monopoly over that item - why are the laws which protect your stuff better than the laws which protect other peoples stuff?
Problem with sat based transmissions is that they require decent weather, otherwise you are out of luck.
The problem is that over large tracts of water, transmission range is a huge issue - turning back aircraft traveling toward the US over the Atlantic or Pacific oceans on 9/11 was very problematic because they were out of radio range and the long range communication system had no guarantees on ability.
The maintenance data stream is also incredibly restricted by bandwidth, so a continuous audio stream at a fidelity which can cover voices in the cock pit *and* instrument activation noises (something people talking about CVR use often miss), you are talking about a data stream that often isn't viable.