TFA mentions that one of the VC wants to fund a new RDBMS product to take on Oracle. What he apparently doesn't know is that there are already better products on the market, which have no chance in hell of getting any significant mind-share away from Oracle.
I work in the semiconductor industry and I think the tide has turned AGAINST outsourcing. I have *NEVER* heard an outsourcing story that ended well.
Intel's Israeli design center did a very fine job on their latest round of processors. Strictly speaking, that's "off-shoring" rather than outsourcing.
As for outsourcing, isn't every fabless semiconductor vendor or ASIC customer doing just that, whether they're subbing to a US or foreign vendor?
The worst thing about trying to deal with the open-source "movement" (as opposed to open-source users), is the tantrums coming from the people who fail to grasp is that their own choice to give code away does not create any moral imperative for anyone else to do likewise, nor does their wish to have documentation for a device create any obligation to the owner of that device to release said documentation.
My own company is developing a PCI express board for video compression, which several prospective customers would like to use in machines running Linux. If we decide that there are enough customers to justify developing a linux driver then we will do so, but whether or not we release the source code to that driver will be a business decision and it will not be decided by Theo, RMS, or any of their fans, no matter how vitriolic they may get.
Actually, in this case, I believe they are doing the upsampling.
Nope. Everything you can download from the iTMS today was submitted by the labels.
At the same time, a good friend of mine just sent a note stating his lable just got word from Apple that at least the audio components of the iTS (I guess its no longer the iTMS) are going to need uploaded in Apple Lossless Format. Does this mean Apple is looking forward to holding the uncompressed files and transmitting compressed or are they going to do the lossless files to the customer?
Neither. It means that Apple's getting too many complaints about the labels botching the conversion, so they want to do the compression in-house for quality control.
I wonder if there was a similar erosion of rights and freedoms during the second world war?
Similar? No. Far, far worse. Innocent people were herded into concentration camps for the crime of being of Japanese descent.
Surprisingly, the reaction of most Japanese-Americans was to go to great lengths to prove their patriotism. The Nisei divisions had more decorations per capita for valor than any other group you can point to in the allied forces during that war.
The twaddle about 1st Amendment rights applying ~out there, not in here~ was just angry-stupid horking, not worth getting in a flap about.
Actually, that's the slip-up that's probably going to cost that officer his job. If he's lucky, maybe he'll be able to get his old job at the DMV back.
It's rather worse, actually. The UK has pervasive surveillance, and they also have a nasty habit of prosecuting anyone who attempts to defend himself from a criminal attack. So, you get neither privacy nor the safety that was offered for giving up the privacy.
If you do that in the US you're commie terrorist traitor that wants americans to die.
That's the broad-brush problem. Just as Muslims are being tainted in the eyes of many people around the world by the fact that a pack of head-chopping misogynists claim to be Muslims, the anti-war movement in the US suffers from the fact that it's the commie traitors who get the most press. The fact is, Ward Churchill is s jucier story than any of the rationa people who oppose the war.
No, your rights remain.They may be infringed, but your rights are still your rights, and that's why this traveller has a cause of action to sue the TSA over this fracas.
Except power surges, magnetic pulses or other phenomenon that disturbs electronics. Or two vendors using a same library or OS. Or, because this is software written to certain specification, the specification itself having bugs.
Don't project the problems of desktop software onto this situation. There is a whole field of provable reliability in coding, which the avionics industry is very familiar with. In any event, they'd have to do an awfully slipshod job for the casualty rates to come anywhere close to what we see now on the roads. Nearly every major city has at least one fatality during the typical rush-hour.
NASA can afford to get error-free software. Automakers, who have to supply different software for each model (since they have different charasteristics), can't.
There is an economy of scale here, that NASA doesn't have.
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So who gets to decide what is legitimate, protected opposition speech and what is considered "hate"?
Judges and juries.
-jcr
TFA mentions that one of the VC wants to fund a new RDBMS product to take on Oracle. What he apparently doesn't know is that there are already better products on the market, which have no chance in hell of getting any significant mind-share away from Oracle.
-jcr
Emily Dickinson is far more enjoyable once you realize that you can sing any of her poems to the tune of the Yellow Rose of Texas.
This is a particularly effective way to irritate high-school English teachers.
-jcr
I work in the semiconductor industry and I think the tide has turned AGAINST outsourcing. I have *NEVER* heard an outsourcing story that ended well.
Intel's Israeli design center did a very fine job on their latest round of processors. Strictly speaking, that's "off-shoring" rather than outsourcing.
As for outsourcing, isn't every fabless semiconductor vendor or ASIC customer doing just that, whether they're subbing to a US or foreign vendor?
-jcr
What point?
The point that people like you aren't worth the trouble to deal with. Who needs the hassle?
-jcr
It's a shame you're so stupid then
Thanks for making my point.
-jcr
The worst thing about trying to deal with the open-source "movement" (as opposed to open-source users), is the tantrums coming from the people who fail to grasp is that their own choice to give code away does not create any moral imperative for anyone else to do likewise, nor does their wish to have documentation for a device create any obligation to the owner of that device to release said documentation.
My own company is developing a PCI express board for video compression, which several prospective customers would like to use in machines running Linux. If we decide that there are enough customers to justify developing a linux driver then we will do so, but whether or not we release the source code to that driver will be a business decision and it will not be decided by Theo, RMS, or any of their fans, no matter how vitriolic they may get.
-jcr
Men!
AARGH!
I mean, Amen!
-jcr
Currently, the labels are submitting compressed files. That will not be the case for much longer, because of the quality control issue. Clear enough?
-jcr
Not to mention Apple's policy of "we will give it to you when we give it to you"
That's not Apple's policy. If you want your shows in a more timely manner, write to the networks that own them.
-jcr
...as far as I know, encoding is handled not by Apple, but by the providers.
That is correct. This has been confirmed to me personally on several occasions by iTMS staff.
-jcr
Actually, in this case, I believe they are doing the upsampling.
Nope. Everything you can download from the iTMS today was submitted by the labels.
At the same time, a good friend of mine just sent a note stating his lable just got word from Apple that at least the audio components of the iTS (I guess its no longer the iTMS) are going to need uploaded in Apple Lossless Format. Does this mean Apple is looking forward to holding the uncompressed files and transmitting compressed or are they going to do the lossless files to the customer?
Neither. It means that Apple's getting too many complaints about the labels botching the conversion, so they want to do the compression in-house for quality control.
-jcr
An English racialist
Do you nazi pukes actually think you're fooling anyone by saying "racialist"? FOAD.
-jcr
Good ones, but you left out "tow the line", and "could care less".
-jcr
regardless, Konfabulator was there first?
Nope.
Widgets are just an updated take on Bud Tribble's original idea of Desk Accessories.
-jcr
Can you sue the government? I thought you could not....
In the USA you can. It happens every day.
-jcr
I don't want the TSA sued. I want the TSA employees involved fired, along with their direct manager.
Best way to make that happen is to file the suit, and then offer to drop it if the people responsible for the incident are canned.
-jcr
I wonder if there was a similar erosion of rights and freedoms during the second world war?
Similar? No. Far, far worse. Innocent people were herded into concentration camps for the crime of being of Japanese descent.
Surprisingly, the reaction of most Japanese-Americans was to go to great lengths to prove their patriotism. The Nisei divisions had more decorations per capita for valor than any other group you can point to in the allied forces during that war.
-jcr
The twaddle about 1st Amendment rights applying ~out there, not in here~ was just angry-stupid horking, not worth getting in a flap about.
Actually, that's the slip-up that's probably going to cost that officer his job. If he's lucky, maybe he'll be able to get his old job at the DMV back.
-jcr
You honestly believe the UK is as bad as the US?
It's rather worse, actually. The UK has pervasive surveillance, and they also have a nasty habit of prosecuting anyone who attempts to defend himself from a criminal attack. So, you get neither privacy nor the safety that was offered for giving up the privacy.
If you do that in the US you're commie terrorist traitor that wants americans to die.
That's the broad-brush problem. Just as Muslims are being tainted in the eyes of many people around the world by the fact that a pack of head-chopping misogynists claim to be Muslims, the anti-war movement in the US suffers from the fact that it's the commie traitors who get the most press. The fact is, Ward Churchill is s jucier story than any of the rationa people who oppose the war.
-jcr
No, your rights remain.They may be infringed, but your rights are still your rights, and that's why this traveller has a cause of action to sue the TSA over this fracas.
-jcr
The guy is karma whoring to get eyeballs on his sig:
If he is, you just helped him, sunshine.
-jcr
The Mac Mini will boot and run on a 12-volt supply. It only takes 17v so that it can provide Firewire power.
-jcr
When will Intel fix their floating point issue?
Is 1994 soon enough for you?
-jcr
Except power surges, magnetic pulses or other phenomenon that disturbs electronics. Or two vendors using a same library or OS. Or, because this is software written to certain specification, the specification itself having bugs.
Don't project the problems of desktop software onto this situation. There is a whole field of provable reliability in coding, which the avionics industry is very familiar with. In any event, they'd have to do an awfully slipshod job for the casualty rates to come anywhere close to what we see now on the roads. Nearly every major city has at least one fatality during the typical rush-hour.
NASA can afford to get error-free software. Automakers, who have to supply different software for each model (since they have different charasteristics), can't.
There is an economy of scale here, that NASA doesn't have.
-jcr