You mean that you can use the snapchat feature to see if a particular phone number is associated with a snapchat user? It's not like someone is hacking into their database and extracting a list of users. The "hack" is doing an upload of every possible phone number and seeing if there are any hits.
I used to program a CDC machine that had "fast core" and extended "slow core" memory. Not to mention figuring out how to get your loop into 7 instructions so it fit into cache.
See, in the USA, unlike most of the world, we have this concept of "rule of law". It's a little slower than rioting, but it generally produces better results.
Hes protesting against surveillance of non-americans: exactly the opposite of what we should be protesting. Everyone spies, and its sort of the NSA's job. Whats not their job is to spy on Americans while bypassing the 4th amendment.
Exactly. Spying on citizens of other countries is normal. Really. ALL countries do it, throughout history. Having the NSA spy on Americans is what citizens of the USA should be protesting.
Wow... so the incompatibility is that the O/S that came out 10 years later uses more resources? Yeah, OS X doesn't run on my Apple II, I guess that means OS X is a huge downgrade.
What part of the OSS licenses are they violating? How are they different from the 99.99% of the users of Open Source Software who don't contribute changes? If you are arguing that users of software "owe" the makers of software something, that's exactly how proprietary software vendors feel.
Yeah, it really depends on how long you intend to be in business. If you figure you'll be done in 5-10 years, fine. If you plan on going longer than that, you are really buying yourself a world of hurt by locking into ancient tech. And the whole "proprietary vs open source" issue doesn't even matter... if you are locked to a 10 year old version of linux, you are still screwed.
I'm baffled by this stuff about massive changes from XP to Windows 7. I know that Vista had some serious device driver architecture changes, but it doesn't sound like that was your issue. When I worked on Windows software we had to handle changes to how settings and user data was saved, but that was pretty minor. I can't recall the last time I saw a major issue going from XP to Windows 7. Just what kind of code were you writing that you needed to completely rewrite it for Windows 7???
Definitely. Just reading the mailing list entry makes this clear. It sounds like the developer was looking at doing virtually a complete rewrite in one shot, and found himself overwhelmed at that prospect. The mailing list entry just tries to break it down into some smaller projects and farm them out. Management is exactly what was needed.
Well, it's a question of which is the bigger risk: a proprietary product is abandoned because the company doesn't have the revenue stream to support it, or an open source project dies because no one wants to pick it up. Yes, there's the "possibility" that someone else will pick up an open source project, but that's just a possibility. There's also the possibility that someone will like a proprietary product enough to pay to keep it going. It's not like Open Source is a guaranteed win.
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It's not what I would do, but it's not going to cripple their kids either. Somehow they'll survive.
Wow... the horror of actually having to experience the world instead of sitting behind a keyboard.
As long as we are being anecdotal, the young adults that I know seem to constantly be on Facebook (young being early 20's).
There are these things called facebook and google that pretty much can get you anything that anyone has stored on the system of tubes.
You mean that you can use the snapchat feature to see if a particular phone number is associated with a snapchat user? It's not like someone is hacking into their database and extracting a list of users. The "hack" is doing an upload of every possible phone number and seeing if there are any hits.
This is a non-issue.
Guess what, there are these big books that list names and the associated phone numbers.
I used to program a CDC machine that had "fast core" and extended "slow core" memory. Not to mention figuring out how to get your loop into 7 instructions so it fit into cache.
Actually, the new world of development is to release to production, then patch like mad and hope the database hasn't been totally trashed.
You are correct, any attempt to equate speech suppression in the USA and Dubai is a false equivalence.
I wondered how long it would take to morph a discussion on how Dubai suppresses speech into "USA Evil!!!!" Congratulations!
Rioting? Really? That's going to help?
See, in the USA, unlike most of the world, we have this concept of "rule of law". It's a little slower than rioting, but it generally produces better results.
Hes protesting against surveillance of non-americans: exactly the opposite of what we should be protesting. Everyone spies, and its sort of the NSA's job. Whats not their job is to spy on Americans while bypassing the 4th amendment.
Exactly. Spying on citizens of other countries is normal. Really. ALL countries do it, throughout history. Having the NSA spy on Americans is what citizens of the USA should be protesting.
Or do what everyone does, which is use the closest equivalent on the keyboard.
Wow... so the incompatibility is that the O/S that came out 10 years later uses more resources? Yeah, OS X doesn't run on my Apple II, I guess that means OS X is a huge downgrade.
What part of the OSS licenses are they violating? How are they different from the 99.99% of the users of Open Source Software who don't contribute changes? If you are arguing that users of software "owe" the makers of software something, that's exactly how proprietary software vendors feel.
Yeah, it really depends on how long you intend to be in business. If you figure you'll be done in 5-10 years, fine. If you plan on going longer than that, you are really buying yourself a world of hurt by locking into ancient tech. And the whole "proprietary vs open source" issue doesn't even matter... if you are locked to a 10 year old version of linux, you are still screwed.
I'm baffled by this stuff about massive changes from XP to Windows 7. I know that Vista had some serious device driver architecture changes, but it doesn't sound like that was your issue. When I worked on Windows software we had to handle changes to how settings and user data was saved, but that was pretty minor. I can't recall the last time I saw a major issue going from XP to Windows 7. Just what kind of code were you writing that you needed to completely rewrite it for Windows 7???
Faster, smoother, better UI, better supported, easier to use... need more?
You can run XP in a virtual machine if you have software you must absolutely run that cannot run under Windows 7 or 8.
If your business cannot support the cost of an upgrade, you really aren't doing it right and probably aren't making much money anyway.
Windows 7 has been out for over FOUR freaking years. Quite the whiny bitching already.
This. People are complaining about a version of the O/S that came out 11 years ago.
This is absurd. Yes, Vista was a disaster, but Windows 7 was a huge upgrade from XP.
Definitely. Just reading the mailing list entry makes this clear. It sounds like the developer was looking at doing virtually a complete rewrite in one shot, and found himself overwhelmed at that prospect. The mailing list entry just tries to break it down into some smaller projects and farm them out. Management is exactly what was needed.
Ah yes, thus reinforcing the stereotype of programmers as have zero empathy for others.
Exactly. Both are unmaintained. In other words, there's no advantage to the open source project over the proprietary one if neither is maintained.
Well, it's a question of which is the bigger risk: a proprietary product is abandoned because the company doesn't have the revenue stream to support it, or an open source project dies because no one wants to pick it up. Yes, there's the "possibility" that someone else will pick up an open source project, but that's just a possibility. There's also the possibility that someone will like a proprietary product enough to pay to keep it going. It's not like Open Source is a guaranteed win.
Whatever they are, the dig site is going to look like an abandoned rock quarry