it's hard to imagine that customers will take the news well.
Seriously!? Has the writer not paid attention to the Apple customer profile for the last 20 years? Not only will Apple customers take the abuse well, they will drop their pants, bend over, and ask to be anally abused with 1 grit sandpaper. Then they will kindly ask Apple to include rougher sandpaper (and charge an extra $80 for it), because 1 grit isn't edgy enough.
...imagine the chances of a normal sized company to do so.
We moved all of our Oracle instances to PostgreSQL. The biggest problem used to be ESRI, but their PostgreSQL support is now really good. And as a bonus, performance has gone up.
All of our in-house software was migrated to PostgreSQL reasonably easily. Of course, I saw the proprietary database trap back in the 90's, and went with PostgreSQL from the start. I didn't so much talk management into using it as I just used it and didn't bother explaining it to anyone unless they asked.
The day it becomes official will be the day that Windows users will continue to justify Microsoft's abuses, but do absolutely nothing different (except to keep less of their money).
We no longer have a usable desktop operating system!
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. Whether or not "we" have a usable desktop operating system depends on your definition of "we". All desktop operating systems have strengths and weaknesses, but I've found Kubuntu to work wonderfully for everyone I've switched to it.
Your corrected topic sentence should be, "We no longer have a usable Windows operating system." We can both complete agree on that.
The rest of your posting seems to be a drunken rant, so I'll leave it alone.
If Microsoft tries to charge a monthly fee for an operating system, eventually 1) Nations will all gather together and try to buy Windows from Microsoft. That would be cheaper than paying monthly. Or, 2) Nations will gather together and contribute to ReactOS, a free operating system that runs Windows programs.
And now back to reality: people will continue to bitch and moan about Windows and Microsoft, but take no meaningful action to help themselves. Then they will be shocked, SHOCKED, when Microsoft continues its predatory monopoly abuses unabated.
Updates on my Linux boxes don't noticeably impact performance, and don't generally disrupt work and require multiple reboots and inexplicably long boots/shutdowns.
And it's going to get a whole lot better in the near future, as nondestructive kernel updates become the standard in Linux. At that point, not only will system updates have a negligible impact on performance, but reboots will become even more unnecessary than they are now.
If I remember correctly, my last several dozen updates required reboots only because of kernel upgrades.
"Hey, there's updates to apply. Is now good, or please tell me when it would be best for you (ask again in 1 hour) (ask again in 3 hours) (ask again in 6 hours) (ask again tomorrow)"
Or better yet, do what Kubuntu does: put an icon in the system tray alerting the user that there are updates pending. Then the user can click on the updates whenever he decides to do so.
It's an EXTREMELY simple problem with an EXTREMELY simple solution that seems to continuously elude Microsoft.
It's also somewhat amusing that Windows users are so used to being shit on by their operating system that they propose solutions that involve further shittage from said operating system.
Absolutely not. The system should wait until the user is good and ready to reboot. I've had my Linux systems tell me that security and other updates are ready to download and install. There have been many times where I had decided that I wasn't ready to install updates for several months, and then installed them when it was convenient for me to do so.
My operating system is my servant, not the other way around.
Customers are people who buy things. People who are downloading roms for free off a 3rd party site are by definition not engaging in a business-customer relationship with Nintendo, they are doing literally the opposite.
You could understand that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, both physically and emotionally. The more you censor, the more your 10 year-old will feel drawn to the materials you are forbidding.
You could then move up to understanding that your 10 year-old is not stupid, and is very curious. And then understand that your desire to censor is an expression of YOUR fears, not your child's. Help your child understand what porn is, why it exists, and why you are afraid of it.
Porn's not going away, and you are not going to be able to keep your child from seeing it, if the motivation to see it is strong enough. Be a guide, teacher, and counselor, rather than an enemy.
2) How did he get a job that can support himself, a wife, and 3 children?
Circumstances are wide and deep, and I (and everyone else) can't possibly imagine them all. It is also irrelevant to this discussion. Find the start of this thread to remind yourself of its reason.
3) No one cares about your plea to emotion.
Which is bizarre, because every single law ever created in every jurisdiction that has ever existed was done so to protect someone's emotions. Murder, rape, stealing, immigration, payroll, estate planning, family planning, taxes, etc. Every. Single. One.
If #3 were true, then they would have long since gone to the trouble to get documented.
And face the likelihood of being deported? It's much safer for them to just keep their heads down, do whatever they have to do to get by, and hope that our political leaders gain some wisdom as they age. Many of the postings in this thread are excellent proof that the illegal immigrants are choosing the smartest options under their circumstances.
If the parents stole money and used it to buy a house would it be "cruel punishment" to remove the children from the house? The parents' "stole" citizenship and that does not mean the children get to benefit from it.
That's completely irrelevant. If the parents came here illegally while the woman was pregnant, and managed to stay within the U.S. border long enough to give birth, their child would automatically be a U.S. citizen (see the 14th Amendment). That applies even if the parents stole money, bought a house, gave birth in the U.S., and then got caught.
Children born in the USA of illegal aliens should no longer be considered citizens of the USA. At least one parent should be a citizen, and I'd even consider that both parents should be citizens before the children be considered a citizen.
Fortunately, our Constitution was amended by people with more wisdom and compassion than that.
For example class sizes were increased so their citizens children's education suffered.
Class sizes will always be increasing. They have been increasing for many years, even in places where illegal immigration is essentially a non-issue. The same thing holds true for traffic and housing. None of that is relevant.
I am sympathetic to illegal immigrants who have improved themselves, their families, and their communities after their arrivals.
Don't forget the entire reason for my posting: to rebut the notion that all illegal immigration can be properly handled by simplistic reasoning. It's rarely simple.
It is rarely that simple. Let's follow a simple sequence of events, then you can respond:
1) A Mexican family crosses into the country illegally: husband, wife, and three babies.
2) The husband gets a job (for the sake of argument, let's even stipulate that he gets a job that would have otherwise gone to an American, since it ultimately doesn't matter).
3) Twelve years pass until the family is caught. The three children are fully indoctrinated Americans in every sense of the word, except for legal citizenship. They identify with being American, as that's how they were raised. They are culturally entirely American.
4) The parents have been paying their taxes, abiding by all the same laws American's abide by, and have behaved entirely as any loyal American. But now they face the prospect of deportation back to a land that even the parents find unfamiliar, and that, to the children, is completely foreign.
Forcefully sending that family to Mexico is a cruel punishment, even though the parents violated our immigration laws. The children did nothing wrong, and there is no benefit to separating them from their parents. The parents should be given the naturalization test and allowed to stay, and the children granted retroactive citizenship.
While we can't, and shouldn't, open our borders to unconstrained immigration, neither should we be so rigid as to cut off our noses to spite our faces.
It is perfectly legal for authorities to follow you around with a notebook.
Unless "authorities" have a reason to suspect you're committing a crime, the act of following us around with a notebook is police harassment. Note that the standard USED to be Probable Cause (as specified in the Constitution), but our Supreme Court has chipped away at our Constitution and redefined the requirement to be, "Reasonable Suspicion".
I don't understand this trend in America of throwing away our rights to police. Police misconduct is rampant, and too many people are encouraging and enabling it. I can understand not wanting to be the one to personally challenge an edge case when confronting police; but we have a very safe, very effective way to collectively shape our police via collective public opinion. Never before in all of human history has our country given us ordinary citizens the megaphone that is the Internet. We need to use it as a tool to reduce police misconduct, not condone it.
And while the ledger itself may be secure and tamper-proof...
It's neither of those things. Anyone controlling over half the computing power on the chain can do whatever the hell they want to do to it. It would just take a lot more electricity than doing the exact same thing with a relational database.
It encourages inheritance, which fundamentally breaks the box-model (a.k.a. the black-box-model) of programming. Rather than breaking things into discrete, understandable chunks, it encourages massive classes that must be understood in their entirety.
This is the exact opposite of what a good object model looks like. Anyone who writes the way you described has a very poor understanding of OOP. See SOLID for a good introduction to good OOP.
All the basic features of C++ (inheritance, polymorphism, classes, and objects) make writing large systems MUCH easier than they would be without those features. Everything in your posting indicates a near complete lack of OOP comprehension.
The Constitution is quite clear that any power not claimed by the federal government defaults to the states.
The Constitution is quite clear that, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
One of the big problems we have is that the Federal Government interprets the Constitution as you have just described, rather than abiding by what it actually says.
You may be referring to KDE's Activities. Or maybe even virtual desktops. The former always seemed to me to be a solution in search of a problem, while the latter has been a useful part of the X Window system for decades.
Java has just about dropped of my list of PLs 'up there' in terms of future-safety.
Then you're not thinking straight. Java is still THE most secure widely and deeply used programming language on the planet (as an ongoing product). Sun's foresight in releasing it under the GPL ensures this. At this point, Oracle is just a steward of the GPL'd version. It would not take much for a coalition of interesting parties (Google, Red Hat, Apache, et. al.) to wrest that stewardship away from Oracle if its behavior became harmful to the GPL'd version.
As it stands, ALL of my Java projects use OpenJDK, and none of them use Oracle's SDK. I have absolutely no qualms about writing new projects using it, as Java is in absolutely no danger at all. You should be MUCH more worried about starting and maintaining C# and Swift programs (regardless of them being released under certain Open Source licenses), as they are still controlled by a single company which can pull the rug out from under you at any time.
Companies run by stupid people, on the other hand, are going to get shafted. But then, these people probably already surrendered themselves by relying too heavily on closed software.
On the other hand, there might be a battle between AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and other carriers to convince customers that they are better ISPs, by not screwing with third party content.
No.
What will happen is AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and Mediacomm will collude to ensure that everyone gets the same shitty Netflix experience across the board. We'll have nowhere to go, so we'll give up and keep paying for shitty service.
The Low Earth Orbit satellite companies (StarLink, Boeing, and I think one other) will likely be our only hope of getting decent Internet service on a broad scale. Alphabet seems to have already given up on being a terrestrial ISP, and no one else seems to care to fill the gap.
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it's hard to imagine that customers will take the news well.
Seriously!? Has the writer not paid attention to the Apple customer profile for the last 20 years? Not only will Apple customers take the abuse well, they will drop their pants, bend over, and ask to be anally abused with 1 grit sandpaper. Then they will kindly ask Apple to include rougher sandpaper (and charge an extra $80 for it), because 1 grit isn't edgy enough.
...imagine the chances of a normal sized company to do so.
We moved all of our Oracle instances to PostgreSQL. The biggest problem used to be ESRI, but their PostgreSQL support is now really good. And as a bonus, performance has gone up.
All of our in-house software was migrated to PostgreSQL reasonably easily. Of course, I saw the proprietary database trap back in the 90's, and went with PostgreSQL from the start. I didn't so much talk management into using it as I just used it and didn't bother explaining it to anyone unless they asked.
What are they moving TO? The article doesnâ(TM)t seem to say.
They're moving to PostgreSQL.
Okay, I'm kidding (though I love PostgreSQL for all of my database work, and we've successfully replaced a bunch of Oracle instances with PostgreSQL).
The article implies that Amazon is moving to their own Aurora database, since they have already moved a bunch of their internal services to it.
The day it becomes official will be the day that Windows users will continue to justify Microsoft's abuses, but do absolutely nothing different (except to keep less of their money).
We no longer have a usable desktop operating system!
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. Whether or not "we" have a usable desktop operating system depends on your definition of "we". All desktop operating systems have strengths and weaknesses, but I've found Kubuntu to work wonderfully for everyone I've switched to it.
Your corrected topic sentence should be, "We no longer have a usable Windows operating system." We can both complete agree on that.
The rest of your posting seems to be a drunken rant, so I'll leave it alone.
If Microsoft tries to charge a monthly fee for an operating system, eventually 1) Nations will all gather together and try to buy Windows from Microsoft. That would be cheaper than paying monthly. Or, 2) Nations will gather together and contribute to ReactOS, a free operating system that runs Windows programs.
And now back to reality: people will continue to bitch and moan about Windows and Microsoft, but take no meaningful action to help themselves. Then they will be shocked, SHOCKED, when Microsoft continues its predatory monopoly abuses unabated.
Updates on my Linux boxes don't noticeably impact performance, and don't generally disrupt work and require multiple reboots and inexplicably long boots/shutdowns.
And it's going to get a whole lot better in the near future, as nondestructive kernel updates become the standard in Linux. At that point, not only will system updates have a negligible impact on performance, but reboots will become even more unnecessary than they are now.
If I remember correctly, my last several dozen updates required reboots only because of kernel upgrades.
"Hey, there's updates to apply. Is now good, or please tell me when it would be best for you (ask again in 1 hour) (ask again in 3 hours) (ask again in 6 hours) (ask again tomorrow)"
Or better yet, do what Kubuntu does: put an icon in the system tray alerting the user that there are updates pending. Then the user can click on the updates whenever he decides to do so.
It's an EXTREMELY simple problem with an EXTREMELY simple solution that seems to continuously elude Microsoft.
It's also somewhat amusing that Windows users are so used to being shit on by their operating system that they propose solutions that involve further shittage from said operating system.
They should ask, but have a limit.
Absolutely not. The system should wait until the user is good and ready to reboot. I've had my Linux systems tell me that security and other updates are ready to download and install. There have been many times where I had decided that I wasn't ready to install updates for several months, and then installed them when it was convenient for me to do so.
My operating system is my servant, not the other way around.
Customers are people who buy things. People who are downloading roms for free off a 3rd party site are by definition not engaging in a business-customer relationship with Nintendo, they are doing literally the opposite.
The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
I would think that after reading TFA, this would change some people's minds....
It changed my mind. The fine is certainly justified.
What is the best way to achieve this?
You could understand that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, both physically and emotionally. The more you censor, the more your 10 year-old will feel drawn to the materials you are forbidding.
You could then move up to understanding that your 10 year-old is not stupid, and is very curious. And then understand that your desire to censor is an expression of YOUR fears, not your child's. Help your child understand what porn is, why it exists, and why you are afraid of it.
Porn's not going away, and you are not going to be able to keep your child from seeing it, if the motivation to see it is strong enough. Be a guide, teacher, and counselor, rather than an enemy.
2) How did he get a job that can support himself, a wife, and 3 children?
Circumstances are wide and deep, and I (and everyone else) can't possibly imagine them all. It is also irrelevant to this discussion. Find the start of this thread to remind yourself of its reason.
3) No one cares about your plea to emotion.
Which is bizarre, because every single law ever created in every jurisdiction that has ever existed was done so to protect someone's emotions. Murder, rape, stealing, immigration, payroll, estate planning, family planning, taxes, etc. Every. Single. One.
If #3 were true, then they would have long since gone to the trouble to get documented.
And face the likelihood of being deported? It's much safer for them to just keep their heads down, do whatever they have to do to get by, and hope that our political leaders gain some wisdom as they age. Many of the postings in this thread are excellent proof that the illegal immigrants are choosing the smartest options under their circumstances.
If the parents stole money and used it to buy a house would it be "cruel punishment" to remove the children from the house? The parents' "stole" citizenship and that does not mean the children get to benefit from it.
That's completely irrelevant. If the parents came here illegally while the woman was pregnant, and managed to stay within the U.S. border long enough to give birth, their child would automatically be a U.S. citizen (see the 14th Amendment). That applies even if the parents stole money, bought a house, gave birth in the U.S., and then got caught.
Children born in the USA of illegal aliens should no longer be considered citizens of the USA. At least one parent should be a citizen, and I'd even consider that both parents should be citizens before the children be considered a citizen.
Fortunately, our Constitution was amended by people with more wisdom and compassion than that.
For example class sizes were increased so their citizens children's education suffered.
Class sizes will always be increasing. They have been increasing for many years, even in places where illegal immigration is essentially a non-issue. The same thing holds true for traffic and housing. None of that is relevant.
I am sympathetic to illegal immigrants who have improved themselves, their families, and their communities after their arrivals.
Don't forget the entire reason for my posting: to rebut the notion that all illegal immigration can be properly handled by simplistic reasoning. It's rarely simple.
Yes, it IS that simple.
It is rarely that simple. Let's follow a simple sequence of events, then you can respond:
1) A Mexican family crosses into the country illegally: husband, wife, and three babies.
2) The husband gets a job (for the sake of argument, let's even stipulate that he gets a job that would have otherwise gone to an American, since it ultimately doesn't matter).
3) Twelve years pass until the family is caught. The three children are fully indoctrinated Americans in every sense of the word, except for legal citizenship. They identify with being American, as that's how they were raised. They are culturally entirely American.
4) The parents have been paying their taxes, abiding by all the same laws American's abide by, and have behaved entirely as any loyal American. But now they face the prospect of deportation back to a land that even the parents find unfamiliar, and that, to the children, is completely foreign.
Forcefully sending that family to Mexico is a cruel punishment, even though the parents violated our immigration laws. The children did nothing wrong, and there is no benefit to separating them from their parents. The parents should be given the naturalization test and allowed to stay, and the children granted retroactive citizenship.
While we can't, and shouldn't, open our borders to unconstrained immigration, neither should we be so rigid as to cut off our noses to spite our faces.
It is perfectly legal for authorities to follow you around with a notebook.
Unless "authorities" have a reason to suspect you're committing a crime, the act of following us around with a notebook is police harassment. Note that the standard USED to be Probable Cause (as specified in the Constitution), but our Supreme Court has chipped away at our Constitution and redefined the requirement to be, "Reasonable Suspicion".
I don't understand this trend in America of throwing away our rights to police. Police misconduct is rampant, and too many people are encouraging and enabling it. I can understand not wanting to be the one to personally challenge an edge case when confronting police; but we have a very safe, very effective way to collectively shape our police via collective public opinion. Never before in all of human history has our country given us ordinary citizens the megaphone that is the Internet. We need to use it as a tool to reduce police misconduct, not condone it.
And while the ledger itself may be secure and tamper-proof...
It's neither of those things. Anyone controlling over half the computing power on the chain can do whatever the hell they want to do to it. It would just take a lot more electricity than doing the exact same thing with a relational database.
Blockchain is today's snake-oil.
It encourages inheritance, which fundamentally breaks the box-model (a.k.a. the black-box-model) of programming.
Rather than breaking things into discrete, understandable chunks, it encourages massive classes that must be understood in their entirety.
This is the exact opposite of what a good object model looks like. Anyone who writes the way you described has a very poor understanding of OOP. See SOLID for a good introduction to good OOP.
All the basic features of C++ (inheritance, polymorphism, classes, and objects) make writing large systems MUCH easier than they would be without those features. Everything in your posting indicates a near complete lack of OOP comprehension.
The Constitution is quite clear that any power not claimed by the federal government defaults to the states.
The Constitution is quite clear that, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
One of the big problems we have is that the Federal Government interprets the Constitution as you have just described, rather than abiding by what it actually says.
You may be referring to KDE's Activities. Or maybe even virtual desktops. The former always seemed to me to be a solution in search of a problem, while the latter has been a useful part of the X Window system for decades.
I'm sure that Law Enforcement is perfectly fine with the breach. After all, since they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.
Right?
Java has just about dropped of my list of PLs 'up there' in terms of future-safety.
Then you're not thinking straight. Java is still THE most secure widely and deeply used programming language on the planet (as an ongoing product). Sun's foresight in releasing it under the GPL ensures this. At this point, Oracle is just a steward of the GPL'd version. It would not take much for a coalition of interesting parties (Google, Red Hat, Apache, et. al.) to wrest that stewardship away from Oracle if its behavior became harmful to the GPL'd version.
As it stands, ALL of my Java projects use OpenJDK, and none of them use Oracle's SDK. I have absolutely no qualms about writing new projects using it, as Java is in absolutely no danger at all. You should be MUCH more worried about starting and maintaining C# and Swift programs (regardless of them being released under certain Open Source licenses), as they are still controlled by a single company which can pull the rug out from under you at any time.
Companies run by stupid people, on the other hand, are going to get shafted. But then, these people probably already surrendered themselves by relying too heavily on closed software.
On the other hand, there might be a battle between AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and other carriers to convince customers that they are better ISPs, by not screwing with third party content.
No.
What will happen is AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and Mediacomm will collude to ensure that everyone gets the same shitty Netflix experience across the board. We'll have nowhere to go, so we'll give up and keep paying for shitty service.
The Low Earth Orbit satellite companies (StarLink, Boeing, and I think one other) will likely be our only hope of getting decent Internet service on a broad scale. Alphabet seems to have already given up on being a terrestrial ISP, and no one else seems to care to fill the gap.