Developers dont matter if their deployments crash and burn due to library bugs before they reach first year deployment, and that is a big part of the reason the new frameworks aren't taking over the world just yet, nobody wants of have a fragile platform that need expensive devops to run for things that aren't designed to be replaced/extended every six months.
And to make it worse there is no attention given to this problem in any of the fad2.0 communities, ie nobody really wants to build the new standardized LAMP stack but wants to have a configurable stacks that each app developer can freely modify. Because they are mostly freshly minted CS grads and not paranoid veteran admins who have been through the hell created with you got custom dependencies, and library vulnerabilities are found.
Neither node or PHP apps are known for their high standard of security hardening, and nobody wants to deal with frameworks that are, because they tend to be alphabet soups of design by committee standards and associated mess, so in the end the platform with the least customizable run time is chosen because then at least you can make sure the libraries gets security patches.
Doing their hayday blackberry bought one of the companies who essentially invented the whole idea of internet of things, and a big player in the embedded market(QNX) so they have had a department doing that for a while, just not under the blackberry brand, but since knowing industry details is beyond most of the tech press we get snark and fluffy editorials on weather or not a mobile company can transform itself.
In essence what your seeing is that blackberry downplay it's old porfolio and tries to live off the one competent profitable company they bought doing their uptick, other companies have done so successfully before. but the thing to notice here is that the part of blackberry doing this were making internet of thing devices before anyone in the IT press even heard of the term.
The HOA are a way to have European like snobbery, without complicated birthrights.
No not really, there is no organizations in Europe with equal power's and status that are exempt from the anti-abuse protections place on the government by case law and constitutions, you dont see the crack down on diversity that HOA and local goverment in the us is infamous for happening as often in Europe.
Europe tend to classify organizations which have privileged status and is not "out-out at any time voluntary" of which a HOA is a classic example as having similar responsibilities for transparent, frees speech and fair process as a local government council, it not perfect but it does put limits on some of the more crazy rules.
The tendency for EU law(civil law) is look at applied power and not just formal paperwork, where as US/UK law(common law) tend to preoccupy itself only with formal rules.
The ECHR is also far more likely to jump into a politically charged case and rule against local government the the politically appointed US supreme court have historically been. And this just filters down the layers in both system meaning that a US court is more likely to defend entranced power then an European court.
your failure to follow the basic argument for 'no' or 'limited' government is 100% complete. You couldn't possibly misunderstand it more if you pondered it with a power drill to the left temple.
the argument is private parties that do this can be avoided, you can take your business elsewhere, and their practices eventually result in punishing market repercussions that the government would stay immune too, or would at least take many more sessions of congress to reverse similar bad policies.
Until you get to deal with the cartels and pseudo aristocracies that always arise when you deregulate industry, the problem for libertarians is that it have been proven experimentally that it does not work while they insist on only addressing argument based on a set of abstact theories.
People tend to forget that it was absolute property rights and not divine rule that defined the feudal society, where the local landlords(private property owners) usually did most of the nasty deeds, with the kings mostly playing a secondary role until someone invaded. It took collective action and activist goverment to break down the old mercantist system based on private investors with huge landholding setting their own rules. Smith was not anti-goverment he was gainst corporatism(the modern day expression of Mercantilsm). And the bad(usually landowner frindly) government practice that gave rise to those structures.
People often forget that Smith(and the founding of the US) died before socialism were a thing and Marx started writing so they never bothered to criticize socialism but dealt mostly with the policies of "The Company" and the governments who subscribed to mercantilism and backed the exploitation of colonies which were the core of that system.
They found a format that essentially boils down to historian on a road trip, it's probably dirt cheap since well the hostorians gets paid by a different goverment organisation and if you need extras for some staged meneuvre theres always the army.
There is a large subculture of historical reenactment groups and mideval fairs in Europe, along with a good number of working museums and plenty of castly ruins making a telegenic good backdrop. And well the BBC is producing more for the public school system then ad rankings so they are not under the same peasure to play the emotional register, and dont need to fill a full schedule either. Meaning they can run "non science/history themed" games show and reality tv to fill the empty slots.
ITV the main commercial competitor to BBC follows mostly the same template of using actual history grads and keeping it accurate though they do get a bit more corny from time to time.
Oak Island is supposed to be a Mystery... and if you read many of the sensationalized accounts of it from many disreputable reporters that conveniently leave out certain facts about the place it sounds very intriguing. But the fact is, the place isn't a mystery at all.
Some kid swam out to it and found a tree with a pulley hanging from a branch a long time ago. That bit is likely true. But then, a guy heard about it and went out there. He was a Free Mason. And now, I don't mean the ones that rule the world. I mean the real ones that are basically like the Shriners that ware funny hats, drive gocarts and throw candy to kids in parades, and more importantly absolutely love secrets, mysteries, puzzles and hidden treasure. It's their bread and butter. They also like to relate all these mysterious stories to non-members to try and get you to join. If you ever meet someone at a party that starts talking about the Free Masons, run away. They'er either not a Free Mason and a conspiracy nut... or they are a Free Mason and a conspiracy nut.
Nope the pulley story is demonstratably untrue in that it only apears in later books. But the rest of your post is probably true.
The original claims were of tree young men riding to the island and spotting a tree nail not a pulley meaning that nobody actually claims to have found a man made object hanging from a tree. Just a tree cut in a way that would facilitate it being used as a make shift pulley, this is a pretty important translation error, made by some later author unfamiliar with the term used in the original account.
The oak island is a wonderful example of a story getting lost in translation and increasingly better as key concepts of the time they were written down get's forgotten and re translated. For instance at the time they first started digging treasure hunting scams were a cottage industry on the eastern shores of America.
They found dozens of layers of wood, then sand, then wood, then sand....
They being a bunch of treasure hunters 150years ago who didn't actually keep records nor save any of their discoveries. At a time when divination and other treasure hunting scams were pretty common in the region oak island is located in. None of the famous objects recovered have survived, and the closes thing we got to contemporary newspaper reports are somewhat critical of the whole venture
There have been a couple of serious engineering reports made on the dig, by prospective investors who backed out but those are often downplayed on the oak island mystery edutainment shows since they essentially bould down to apart from some old hearsay theres very little evidence of anything special about oak island.
The oak island shows are a good example of the new policy of never letting facts get in the way of a good story at the "history channel."
It's worth notizing that it it's highday nasa was about laying the foundation for the weaponization of space and not doing science, ie their science budgets are likely much much bigger now then in the days of manned lunar flight and even back then the science types never truely needed nor wanted the manned missions, it was the military and political fractions that wanted it.
Of cause this is not how it got sold in pop-sci edutainment magazines and tv-shows, but in less frivolous circles it's always been assumed that long range exploration were about robotics and that the only real goal for manned exploration at this stage is the medical effect of zero gee exposure.
Until subsurface cities are economically feasible and have been tested going to other planes is not going to happen as anything other then a stunt and ocean exploration is sort of a forgotten field with way less money to burn then what nasa pays Energia to keep the ISS operational.
The problem here is that manned exploration serves no real purpose and probably wont for another century.
Im suspecting it's the same problem that have existed on every other rapid growing market since the dawn of economy.
A trend gives rise to some new product group which drives an influx of charlatans with a marketing product and barely enough of a product to avoid fraud prosecution, along with a group of blue eyed "fresh out of college" startup types who haven't any real clue about the problem they are trying to solve, flooding an market of mostly unsophisticated buyers who need to buy but don't know what they need nor what problems they will be facing.
Since computers are everywhere they school system need to teach the students how they work and how to use them, but that does not necessarily translate into a need for expensive edtech snakeoil. But it's easier and politically safer to throw money some techno utopian vision then making sure that the teaching staff actually understand how computers work.
Of cause it does not help the situation that educational curriculum is littered with political landmines, forcing the school districts to play it safe.
Decades? you mean there is anything from this century that still sort of valid, the sad thing here is that the only modern "theories" that have stood the time is more or less based on plato's and his comtemporaries.
This is a big part of the problem here we sort of know that the system that developed over time in ancient greece along with the mideaval aprenticeship system works better then almost anything we can come up with. Theres more statistical work to be done but as social scientist hate math it's not moving forward that fast and throwing money at pure research might not work that well if you dont allow the practioners to test it out for real.
There actually is a treaty that would allow prosecutors to go to a Irish court and get a search warrant. Why they haven't done so, nobody knows (though I suspect the standards of probable cause are stricter in Ireland).
Extradition treaties usually require two things and a few softer clauses.
The main one is not the standard of probable cause but the dual criminality statute of the treaty i.e. an Irish court cannot issue a search warrant to investigate activity that is not illegal in Ireland etc, and if this is a DA on a fishing expedition for a whistle blower it's likely he cannot find any Irish law that applies.
The softer rule that often play a part as well is that you cannot be extradited to face punishment the extraditing country does not allow.
Exactly - I was wondering if this is all for show... convince us Europeans that our data on servers in Dublin is safe from prying eyes in the USA. Once we stop worrying then it will be business as usual, but the heat will be off from the USA. Unfortunately: once suspicions have been raised, those who really care will not forget, so welcome to private pictures of cute pussies and of illicit love letters, but the stuff that they really wanted will, often, be located elsewhere.
What they are playing for here is not to get the NSA out but to get the shadowy backroom dealers of the federal level to put weight on the open court not to openly declare that date hosted at an american owned data-center falls under US and not EU law regardless of contracts and location.
The problem is corporate contracts and government tenders, if an competitor can make an good case with "public evidende" that the an US owned datacenter cannot live up to EU data protection regulation they are cut of from that market entirely. And a court case count a lot more then a set of newspaper articles here.
If MS looses this one MS azure and office365 revenue will go down significantly, as they have now given the EU governments all the ammunition it needs to ban American owned companies from bidding without facing IMO/ITO lawsuits.
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SystemD has a "journal" that is sensitive to unexpected shutdowns. The purpose of a journal is to protect from corruption. You'd think they would use a data structure that is safe from unexpected interruptions.
Yep and thats why it's irresponsively for any server admin to not pipe journald output straigt into rsyslogd, and thats how it is with all of the "systemd" selling points.
Journald was introduces as a hack to workaround the rare edge case where systemd needs to write a log entry about a syslogd crash and sort of grew into the one true log system with 1/10 of the features and none of the reliance of more modern syslog deamons.
It's not that systemd is bad pr see it that is being sold by morons to morons as a cure for problems that either dont exist or is not fixed by systemd. Hopefully nobody outside of redhat decide to go all in and replace all of the old scaffolding that systemd pretend to make obsolete need but in practice dont replace by anything that works better.
Unity is buggy. Quite buggy, to be honest. Compiz sucks - it has since the beginning - and Keyboard behavior is sometimes erratic right up to unusable.
However, I get the overall concept of unity and I think it's a good one. My Mom can use it, which is a good sighn. And it's not nearly as intimidating as the crap we see on other desktops.
Does any of the GTK3 based desktop environments actually work? Gnome3 made unity look good in comparison, And Cinnamon does not seams to be fully stable yet either. It will be interested to see how many users XFCE bleed to lxde when/if they make the move, unity8 touch is also QT based where as im unsure when or if they move the desktop version to QT. LXDE is abandoning GTK entirely for QT and will not be moving to GTK3.
I agree with you with respect to phones but disagree with respect to tablets, especially tablets that dock to a keyboard and behave more like detachable laptops.
But even with that only a few "true believers" does that for more then a few hours before buying a low power laptop for typing duties. What people want from convergence is access to data on multiple platform without having to turn to "web" apps. And here you do get an advantage from using the same render logic on desktop and tablet without the same UI something linux is closer to making work(because of the desktop fragmentation problem) then windows or OSX.
Does anyone have any *real* numbers on the usage of various distros?
In short no!
And to make it worse we barely even have a ballpark figure for actual linux installations in use for the obvious reason that nobody can track what happens on the unaffiliated mirrors. Ubuntu kylin is probably the most widely used desktop distro but because China is China nobody in the west really know anything about it, and what happens in the world of embedded linux is .
Redhat post revenue not users, you sometime see canonical brag of download numbers but those are misleading, Google only indirectly show usage share, steam post usage shares but thats only a fraction, distrowatch is a comunity upon itself and their numbers does not afflict the genneral linux population, so in short until we get actual hit counts from all the big websites(google, facebook. baido etc.) we dont really know. Wikipedia http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm places Ubuntu far above mint(i am assuming linux other is chromeOS) but again thats just one site.
Schools are just looking for a cheap method to deliver educational materials digitally. Chromebooks have some tools and support for managing the content. The maintenance of the device is simple, which is probably a plus to schools that don't have much of a budget for an IT department. However, I wonder if the savings are really significant over old fashioned textbooks. I really doubt there is any educational benefit over traditional methods of education. I always kind of agreed with Clifford Stoll that the best way to learn Astronomy was to go look at the stars. As long as it doesn't replace other elements of a curriculum, then I'm okay with it. Really doubt any serious CS education is going on with Chromebooks. Wouldn't learning mathematics be as beneficial to a future CS student as writing a Hello World program.
A lot of unversties are standardising on the web-based ipython-notebook environment for things like bioinformatics and number crunching in general, so there's nothing to prevent a school from teaching computer based math on a chromebook, The wolfram alpha web platform also does a pretty good job of bringing computer based math to the web. And it wasn't like they used anything better then that as those on the wintel laptops or PC's they are replacing.
The point here is that websites are replacing a lot of dusty old textbooks and there is really no big problem here as long as the students learn to pay attention to the URI and the organisation behind the sites, a lot of world class museums run pretty good websites and a lot of government research organisation have a outreach program for school children with good online content for instance but without internet access the teachers are stuck teaching from whatever textbook the creationist endorsing rural school boards have gotten the state to standardize on which might not be a good thing.
Dockers problem along with most of the web2.0 stuff is that it might look easy now but how are you going to ensure that everything is kept patched. When the installation/development team have fled the building and handed the task of running it over to some "outsourced operations center".
This is the question that never gets asked and why a lot of this new fancy smart stuff isn't that widely deployed by largish shops whose core business is something other then it and where a 5 year life cycle is considered short and agile.
Forking a filesystem is smart but remember your also forking and freezing yourself into all of the undiscovered bugs so you need a way to resync and retest every docker container ever deployed for every update in the platform you based it on. and this is something i haven't really seen anyone cover in dept yet.
Stripping away functionality is going to be hard to do. For example if standard hostnamed is not going to able to support all the features of the systemd version. Which means either:
a) System admins are going to be directly exposed to complex use case reverse engineering when they can or cannot use the less powerful daemon b) The daemons are going to need to keep up with systemd's feature set and interfaces which means for all practical purposes being part of systemd.</p></quote>
Applications have been ignoring API features for decades systemd is just another piece of crap for application vendors to work around, and it wont become the gold standard for everything, since none of the addons does that good a job as what they are supposed to fix. Journald will not replace rsyslogd for any system where log consistency matter, the cgroup handling will not be offloaded from existing non frameworks to systemd. And people still need external process management for serious server instalations ect. That was the fate that met PulseAudio which is a lot less then it was projected to be.
Apart form rhel/coreOS most distro's are not exposing systemd directly that many places, i.e. they have their own tools grafted on and those tools wont become that systemd dependent in the time it takes for the systemd community to burn enough bridges that alternatives start looking good.
The biggest problem is that the systemd team is from the same school as the gnome/GTK+ team where only one way is valid and they will pull a gnome3 and fracture into 4 new incompatible projects as people try to keep their existing stuff working. All the while poor little upstart or openrc just wait in the shadows getting more and more stable.
In the short term debian's forks might end up breaking free from debian if they dont get a solution to the systemd situation that facilitate forks(none of the systemd success stories have been in distro's known for facilitating forks the way debian does).
That does not explain the fact that the field of programming being practically invented by a woman turned into a male world.
Math took a similar turn in the 50ies before then it was seen as a Womanly pursuit and almost all of the "Human Computers" were female which also explain why they were present in large numbers early on in the computer industry, then the 60ies happened with the fake hippie "revolution" and a return to older values.
The feminist dont get a pass here because they are just as responsible for the woman="soft people minded" and man="cold scientific machine minded" meme that is the root of the lack of woman in science. as their male chauvinist counterparts. The boy vs girls toy divide is more prevalent in modern advertizing then in the 1930ies because of and not despite the feminist movement.
There have also been female high level chess players but again it was more prevalent earlier and in the east, as it became socially unacceptable for a woman to pursue that kind of interest after the feminist values rose.
Some of it is also down to the marketeers seeking to create strong niches and tie products to cultural identity rather then just do general product infomercial type ads the way they did before the 60ies.
There really is a shift here coinciding with the time of the hippie movement going mainstream that sort of flies against common wisdom.
With about 2 decades worth of decreasing living standards in America and a ongoing recession, and a sense that the political system is broken, does the American Capitalism argument even work outside the mind of a narrow minority anymore.
All of the neo-mercantilist economist promoting what Koch labels "american capitalism" have been disproven empirically, sure they can push the logic utopians always do but nobody who have tried to practice it have ended up with anything but disaster. And America ceased being a small goverment country around the same time slavery were outlawed, since the it remained a regulated society. The real question is not if regulation should be introduced as regulation is already a big part of the decision process by market actors but what path the regulations should push market actors into.
Net neutrality is pushing the infrastructure owners away from creating walled gardens and cartels with the content providers and onto to a more pure competitive model where they focus mostly on running the infrastructure as cheap an effective as they can. Where as the content discrimination models pushes the infrastrucure owners to seek synergy(the politically correct term for the cartel effect) with content producers, and neglecting the actual infrastructure.
What they dont tell you in political inductrination 101 is that Smith and Marx aren't opposite poles on a spectrum, as Marx were borrowing most of his economics from Smith(they are seperated in time by about a century) but applied it in a different context.
Mostly the larger amphibious planes still in operation gets used for waterbombing and you need a lot of water for fighting wildfires. with a secondary role as observation planes ie they need to scoop water from forest lakes or oceans. as close to the fire as posible to be able to make a lot of runs quickly. And It is most likely designed for that role and not as a general cargo plane.
Yes and companies have lost billions and crashed entire currency markets when they got one little thing wrong. Those days you probably can get fired for even suggesting using excel for anything critical, but 10 years ago complex excel sheets were common in the finance and accounting departments.
PowerPoint is suffering a similar fate after the pentagon labelled it dangerous and banned it's use among staffers, not to mention that it have entered the corporate lore as synonymous with poorly given superfluous presentations.
The red hearing here is to think that libreoffice is deployed as a drop in replacement to MS Office without a general strategy to move away from the whole office metaphor and onto more specialized applications. It's usually more of a stop gap to give the drones some access to lower grade free form tools for the odd case when the specialized tools are too complex for the simple task at hand.
The last app standing is outlook but it's only really valuable if the organization moved wholeheartedly onto exchange and a that's not a given for large organizations where domino and notes often still have a footprint. And there is a trend towards web interfaces especially for organizations that dont have the entire workforce behind a desk.
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So Java Really is the new Java?
Developers dont matter if their deployments crash and burn due to library bugs before they reach first year deployment, and that is a big part of the reason the new frameworks aren't taking over the world just yet, nobody wants of have a fragile platform that need expensive devops to run for things that aren't designed to be replaced/extended every six months.
And to make it worse there is no attention given to this problem in any of the fad2.0 communities, ie nobody really wants to build the new standardized LAMP stack but wants to have a configurable stacks that each app developer can freely modify. Because they are mostly freshly minted CS grads and not paranoid veteran admins who have been through the hell created with you got custom dependencies, and library vulnerabilities are found.
Neither node or PHP apps are known for their high standard of security hardening, and nobody wants to deal with frameworks that are, because they tend to be alphabet soups of design by committee standards and associated mess, so in the end the platform with the least customizable run time is chosen because then at least you can make sure the libraries gets security patches.
Doing their hayday blackberry bought one of the companies who essentially invented the whole idea of internet of things, and a big player in the embedded market(QNX) so they have had a department doing that for a while, just not under the blackberry brand, but since knowing industry details is beyond most of the tech press we get snark and fluffy editorials on weather or not a mobile company can transform itself.
In essence what your seeing is that blackberry downplay it's old porfolio and tries to live off the one competent profitable company they bought doing their uptick, other companies have done so successfully before. but the thing to notice here is that the part of blackberry doing this were making internet of thing devices before anyone in the IT press even heard of the term.
The HOA are a way to have European like snobbery, without complicated birthrights.
No not really, there is no organizations in Europe with equal power's and status that are exempt from the anti-abuse protections place on the government by case law and constitutions, you dont see the crack down on diversity that HOA and local goverment in the us is infamous for happening as often in Europe.
Europe tend to classify organizations which have privileged status and is not "out-out at any time voluntary" of which a HOA is a classic example as having similar responsibilities for transparent, frees speech and fair process as a local government council, it not perfect but it does put limits on some of the more crazy rules.
The tendency for EU law(civil law) is look at applied power and not just formal paperwork, where as US/UK law(common law) tend to preoccupy itself only with formal rules.
The ECHR is also far more likely to jump into a politically charged case and rule against local government the the politically appointed US supreme court have historically been. And this just filters down the layers in both system meaning that a US court is more likely to defend entranced power then an European court.
your failure to follow the basic argument for 'no' or 'limited' government is 100% complete. You couldn't possibly misunderstand it more if you pondered it with a power drill to the left temple.
the argument is private parties that do this can be avoided, you can take your business elsewhere, and their practices eventually result in punishing market repercussions that the government would stay immune too, or would at least take many more sessions of congress to reverse similar bad policies.
Until you get to deal with the cartels and pseudo aristocracies that always arise when you deregulate industry, the problem for libertarians is that it have been proven experimentally that it does not work while they insist on only addressing argument based on a set of abstact theories.
People tend to forget that it was absolute property rights and not divine rule that defined the feudal society, where the local landlords(private property owners) usually did most of the nasty deeds, with the kings mostly playing a secondary role until someone invaded. It took collective action and activist goverment to break down the old mercantist system based on private investors with huge landholding setting their own rules. Smith was not anti-goverment he was gainst corporatism(the modern day expression of Mercantilsm). And the bad(usually landowner frindly) government practice that gave rise to those structures.
People often forget that Smith(and the founding of the US) died before socialism were a thing and Marx started writing so they never bothered to criticize socialism but dealt mostly with the policies of "The Company" and the governments who subscribed to mercantilism and backed the exploitation of colonies which were the core of that system.
They found a format that essentially boils down to historian on a road trip, it's probably dirt cheap since well the hostorians gets paid by a different goverment organisation and if you need extras for some staged meneuvre theres always the army.
There is a large subculture of historical reenactment groups and mideval fairs in Europe, along with a good number of working museums and plenty of castly ruins making a telegenic good backdrop. And well the BBC is producing more for the public school system then ad rankings so they are not under the same peasure to play the emotional register, and dont need to fill a full schedule either. Meaning they can run "non science/history themed" games show and reality tv to fill the empty slots.
ITV the main commercial competitor to BBC follows mostly the same template of using actual history grads and keeping it accurate though they do get a bit more corny from time to time.
Oak Island is supposed to be a Mystery... and if you read many of the sensationalized accounts of it from many disreputable reporters that conveniently leave out certain facts about the place it sounds very intriguing. But the fact is, the place isn't a mystery at all.
Some kid swam out to it and found a tree with a pulley hanging from a branch a long time ago. That bit is likely true. But then, a guy heard about it and went out there. He was a Free Mason. And now, I don't mean the ones that rule the world. I mean the real ones that are basically like the Shriners that ware funny hats, drive gocarts and throw candy to kids in parades, and more importantly absolutely love secrets, mysteries, puzzles and hidden treasure. It's their bread and butter. They also like to relate all these mysterious stories to non-members to try and get you to join. If you ever meet someone at a party that starts talking about the Free Masons, run away. They'er either not a Free Mason and a conspiracy nut... or they are a Free Mason and a conspiracy nut.
Nope the pulley story is demonstratably untrue in that it only apears in later books. But the rest of your post is probably true.
The original claims were of tree young men riding to the island and spotting a tree nail not a pulley meaning that nobody actually claims to have found a man made object hanging from a tree. Just a tree cut in a way that would facilitate it being used as a make shift pulley, this is a pretty important translation error, made by some later author unfamiliar with the term used in the original account.
The oak island is a wonderful example of a story getting lost in translation and increasingly better as key concepts of the time they were written down get's forgotten and re translated. For instance at the time they first started digging treasure hunting scams were a cottage industry on the eastern shores of America.
They found dozens of layers of wood, then sand, then wood, then sand... .
They being a bunch of treasure hunters 150years ago who didn't actually keep records nor save any of their discoveries. At a time when divination and other treasure hunting scams were pretty common in the region oak island is located in. None of the famous objects recovered have survived, and the closes thing we got to contemporary newspaper reports are somewhat critical of the whole venture
There have been a couple of serious engineering reports made on the dig, by prospective investors who backed out but those are often downplayed on the oak island mystery edutainment shows since they essentially bould down to apart from some old hearsay theres very little evidence of anything special about oak island.
The oak island shows are a good example of the new policy of never letting facts get in the way of a good story at the "history channel."
It's worth notizing that it it's highday nasa was about laying the foundation for the weaponization of space and not doing science, ie their science budgets are likely much much bigger now then in the days of manned lunar flight and even back then the science types never truely needed nor wanted the manned missions, it was the military and political fractions that wanted it.
Of cause this is not how it got sold in pop-sci edutainment magazines and tv-shows, but in less frivolous circles it's always been assumed that long range exploration were about robotics and that the only real goal for manned exploration at this stage is the medical effect of zero gee exposure.
Until subsurface cities are economically feasible and have been tested going to other planes is not going to happen as anything other then a stunt and ocean exploration is sort of a forgotten field with way less money to burn then what nasa pays Energia to keep the ISS operational.
The problem here is that manned exploration serves no real purpose and probably wont for another century.
Im suspecting it's the same problem that have existed on every other rapid growing market since the dawn of economy.
A trend gives rise to some new product group which drives an influx of charlatans with a marketing product and barely enough of a product to avoid fraud prosecution, along with a group of blue eyed "fresh out of college" startup types who haven't any real clue about the problem they are trying to solve, flooding an market of mostly unsophisticated buyers who need to buy but don't know what they need nor what problems they will be facing.
Since computers are everywhere they school system need to teach the students how they work and how to use them, but that does not necessarily translate into a need for expensive edtech snakeoil. But it's easier and politically safer to throw money some techno utopian vision then making sure that the teaching staff actually understand how computers work.
Of cause it does not help the situation that educational curriculum is littered with political landmines, forcing the school districts to play it safe.
Decades? you mean there is anything from this century that still sort of valid, the sad thing here is that the only modern "theories" that have stood the time is more or less based on plato's and his comtemporaries.
This is a big part of the problem here we sort of know that the system that developed over time in ancient greece along with the mideaval aprenticeship system works better then almost anything we can come up with. Theres more statistical work to be done but as social scientist hate math it's not moving forward that fast and throwing money at pure research might not work that well if you dont allow the practioners to test it out for real.
Welcome to the cloud where we trade a tiny bit of local complexity for a whole lot of network complexity managed by someone else.
Like it or not the ChromeOS is based around the premise that internet access is always there and maintained by someone else.
There actually is a treaty that would allow prosecutors to go to a Irish court and get a search warrant. Why they haven't done so, nobody knows (though I suspect the standards of probable cause are stricter in Ireland).
Extradition treaties usually require two things and a few softer clauses.
The main one is not the standard of probable cause but the dual criminality statute of the treaty i.e. an Irish court cannot issue a search warrant to investigate activity that is not illegal in Ireland etc, and if this is a DA on a fishing expedition for a whistle blower it's likely he cannot find any Irish law that applies.
The softer rule that often play a part as well is that you cannot be extradited to face punishment the extraditing country does not allow.
Exactly - I was wondering if this is all for show ... convince us Europeans that our data on servers in Dublin is safe from prying eyes in the USA. Once we stop worrying then it will be business as usual, but the heat will be off from the USA. Unfortunately: once suspicions have been raised, those who really care will not forget, so welcome to private pictures of cute pussies and of illicit love letters, but the stuff that they really wanted will, often, be located elsewhere.
What they are playing for here is not to get the NSA out but to get the shadowy backroom dealers of the federal level to put weight on the open court not to openly declare that date hosted at an american owned data-center falls under US and not EU law regardless of contracts and location. The problem is corporate contracts and government tenders, if an competitor can make an good case with "public evidende" that the an US owned datacenter cannot live up to EU data protection regulation they are cut of from that market entirely. And a court case count a lot more then a set of newspaper articles here. If MS looses this one MS azure and office365 revenue will go down significantly, as they have now given the EU governments all the ammunition it needs to ban American owned companies from bidding without facing IMO/ITO lawsuits.
SystemD has a "journal" that is sensitive to unexpected shutdowns. The purpose of a journal is to protect from corruption. You'd think they would use a data structure that is safe from unexpected interruptions.
Yep and thats why it's irresponsively for any server admin to not pipe journald output straigt into rsyslogd, and thats how it is with all of the "systemd" selling points.
Journald was introduces as a hack to workaround the rare edge case where systemd needs to write a log entry about a syslogd crash and sort of grew into the one true log system with 1/10 of the features and none of the reliance of more modern syslog deamons.
It's not that systemd is bad pr see it that is being sold by morons to morons as a cure for problems that either dont exist or is not fixed by systemd. Hopefully nobody outside of redhat decide to go all in and replace all of the old scaffolding that systemd pretend to make obsolete need but in practice dont replace by anything that works better.
I use Unity. There, I said it. Said it before, in fact.
Unity is buggy. Quite buggy, to be honest. Compiz sucks - it has since the beginning - and Keyboard behavior is sometimes erratic right up to unusable.
However, I get the overall concept of unity and I think it's a good one. My Mom can use it, which is a good sighn. And it's not nearly as intimidating as the crap we see on other desktops.
Does any of the GTK3 based desktop environments actually work? Gnome3 made unity look good in comparison, And Cinnamon does not seams to be fully stable yet either. It will be interested to see how many users XFCE bleed to lxde when/if they make the move, unity8 touch is also QT based where as im unsure when or if they move the desktop version to QT. LXDE is abandoning GTK entirely for QT and will not be moving to GTK3.
Using desktop apps on a phone is horrible.
I agree with you with respect to phones but disagree with respect to tablets, especially tablets that dock to a keyboard and behave more like detachable laptops.
But even with that only a few "true believers" does that for more then a few hours before buying a low power laptop for typing duties. What people want from convergence is access to data on multiple platform without having to turn to "web" apps. And here you do get an advantage from using the same render logic on desktop and tablet without the same UI something linux is closer to making work(because of the desktop fragmentation problem) then windows or OSX.
Does anyone have any *real* numbers on the usage of various distros?
In short no!
And to make it worse we barely even have a ballpark figure for actual linux installations in use for the obvious reason that nobody can track what happens on the unaffiliated mirrors. Ubuntu kylin is probably the most widely used desktop distro but because China is China nobody in the west really know anything about it, and what happens in the world of embedded linux is .
Redhat post revenue not users, you sometime see canonical brag of download numbers but those are misleading, Google only indirectly show usage share, steam post usage shares but thats only a fraction, distrowatch is a comunity upon itself and their numbers does not afflict the genneral linux population, so in short until we get actual hit counts from all the big websites(google, facebook. baido etc.) we dont really know. Wikipedia http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm places Ubuntu far above mint(i am assuming linux other is chromeOS) but again thats just one site.
Schools are just looking for a cheap method to deliver educational materials digitally. Chromebooks have some tools and support for managing the content. The maintenance of the device is simple, which is probably a plus to schools that don't have much of a budget for an IT department. However, I wonder if the savings are really significant over old fashioned textbooks. I really doubt there is any educational benefit over traditional methods of education. I always kind of agreed with Clifford Stoll that the best way to learn Astronomy was to go look at the stars. As long as it doesn't replace other elements of a curriculum, then I'm okay with it. Really doubt any serious CS education is going on with Chromebooks. Wouldn't learning mathematics be as beneficial to a future CS student as writing a Hello World program.
A lot of unversties are standardising on the web-based ipython-notebook environment for things like bioinformatics and number crunching in general, so there's nothing to prevent a school from teaching computer based math on a chromebook, The wolfram alpha web platform also does a pretty good job of bringing computer based math to the web. And it wasn't like they used anything better then that as those on the wintel laptops or PC's they are replacing.
The point here is that websites are replacing a lot of dusty old textbooks and there is really no big problem here as long as the students learn to pay attention to the URI and the organisation behind the sites, a lot of world class museums run pretty good websites and a lot of government research organisation have a outreach program for school children with good online content for instance but without internet access the teachers are stuck teaching from whatever textbook the creationist endorsing rural school boards have gotten the state to standardize on which might not be a good thing.
Dockers problem along with most of the web2.0 stuff is that it might look easy now but how are you going to ensure that everything is kept patched. When the installation/development team have fled the building and handed the task of running it over to some "outsourced operations center".
This is the question that never gets asked and why a lot of this new fancy smart stuff isn't that widely deployed by largish shops whose core business is something other then it and where a 5 year life cycle is considered short and agile.
Forking a filesystem is smart but remember your also forking and freezing yourself into all of the undiscovered bugs so you need a way to resync and retest every docker container ever deployed for every update in the platform you based it on. and this is something i haven't really seen anyone cover in dept yet.
Stripping away functionality is going to be hard to do. For example if standard hostnamed is not going to able to support all the features of the systemd version. Which means either:
a) System admins are going to be directly exposed to complex use case reverse engineering when they can or cannot use the less powerful daemon
b) The daemons are going to need to keep up with systemd's feature set and interfaces which means for all practical purposes being part of systemd.</p></quote>
Applications have been ignoring API features for decades systemd is just another piece of crap for application vendors to work around, and it wont become the gold standard for everything, since none of the addons does that good a job as what they are supposed to fix. Journald will not replace rsyslogd for any system where log consistency matter, the cgroup handling will not be offloaded from existing non frameworks to systemd. And people still need external process management for serious server instalations ect. That was the fate that met PulseAudio which is a lot less then it was projected to be.
Apart form rhel/coreOS most distro's are not exposing systemd directly that many places, i.e. they have their own tools grafted on and those tools wont become that systemd dependent in the time it takes for the systemd community to burn enough bridges that alternatives start looking good.
The biggest problem is that the systemd team is from the same school as the gnome/GTK+ team where only one way is valid and they will pull a gnome3 and fracture into 4 new incompatible projects as people try to keep their existing stuff working. All the while poor little upstart or openrc just wait in the shadows getting more and more stable.
In the short term debian's forks might end up breaking free from debian if they dont get a solution to the systemd situation that facilitate forks(none of the systemd success stories have been in distro's known for facilitating forks the way debian does).
That does not explain the fact that the field of programming being practically invented by a woman turned into a male world.
Math took a similar turn in the 50ies before then it was seen as a Womanly pursuit and almost all of the "Human Computers" were female which also explain why they were present in large numbers early on in the computer industry, then the 60ies happened with the fake hippie "revolution" and a return to older values.
The feminist dont get a pass here because they are just as responsible for the woman="soft people minded" and man="cold scientific machine minded" meme that is the root of the lack of woman in science. as their male chauvinist counterparts. The boy vs girls toy divide is more prevalent in modern advertizing then in the 1930ies because of and not despite the feminist movement.
There have also been female high level chess players but again it was more prevalent earlier and in the east, as it became socially unacceptable for a woman to pursue that kind of interest after the feminist values rose.
Some of it is also down to the marketeers seeking to create strong niches and tie products to cultural identity rather then just do general product infomercial type ads the way they did before the 60ies.
There really is a shift here coinciding with the time of the hippie movement going mainstream that sort of flies against common wisdom.
With about 2 decades worth of decreasing living standards in America and a ongoing recession, and a sense that the political system is broken, does the American Capitalism argument even work outside the mind of a narrow minority anymore.
All of the neo-mercantilist economist promoting what Koch labels "american capitalism" have been disproven empirically, sure they can push the logic utopians always do but nobody who have tried to practice it have ended up with anything but disaster. And America ceased being a small goverment country around the same time slavery were outlawed, since the it remained a regulated society. The real question is not if regulation should be introduced as regulation is already a big part of the decision process by market actors but what path the regulations should push market actors into.
Net neutrality is pushing the infrastructure owners away from creating walled gardens and cartels with the content providers and onto to a more pure competitive model where they focus mostly on running the infrastructure as cheap an effective as they can. Where as the content discrimination models pushes the infrastrucure owners to seek synergy(the politically correct term for the cartel effect) with content producers, and neglecting the actual infrastructure.
What they dont tell you in political inductrination 101 is that Smith and Marx aren't opposite poles on a spectrum, as Marx were borrowing most of his economics from Smith(they are seperated in time by about a century) but applied it in a different context.
Mostly the larger amphibious planes still in operation gets used for waterbombing and you need a lot of water for fighting wildfires. with a secondary role as observation planes ie they need to scoop water from forest lakes or oceans. as close to the fire as posible to be able to make a lot of runs quickly. And It is most likely designed for that role and not as a general cargo plane.
Yes and companies have lost billions and crashed entire currency markets when they got one little thing wrong. Those days you probably can get fired for even suggesting using excel for anything critical, but 10 years ago complex excel sheets were common in the finance and accounting departments.
PowerPoint is suffering a similar fate after the pentagon labelled it dangerous and banned it's use among staffers, not to mention that it have entered the corporate lore as synonymous with poorly given superfluous presentations.
The red hearing here is to think that libreoffice is deployed as a drop in replacement to MS Office without a general strategy to move away from the whole office metaphor and onto more specialized applications. It's usually more of a stop gap to give the drones some access to lower grade free form tools for the odd case when the specialized tools are too complex for the simple task at hand.
The last app standing is outlook but it's only really valuable if the organization moved wholeheartedly onto exchange and a that's not a given for large organizations where domino and notes often still have a footprint. And there is a trend towards web interfaces especially for organizations that dont have the entire workforce behind a desk.