Amusingly enough I am thinking a late 70s to early 80s BMW with a brand new GM power-train. Classic car look and feel with new car fuel economy, a warranty, and no tracking!
... if the clause was presented in such as way as to be considered part of a binding contract agreed to when I purchased the car,...
Apparently you are not "purchasing" the car but licensing it. And this is happening more and more, like the sealed boxes in tractors preventing third party repairs. And it is a deal breaker for me.
And I worry that this might be the future of Economy. Deplorable as Communism. Here's to the old times, when you were able to actually own something you purchased.
Frankly, right now I am considering restoring a used car over purchasing a new one. The cost will be more, but I think I will have a better car.
... if the clause was presented in such as way as to be considered part of a binding contract agreed to when I purchased the car,...
Apparently you are not "purchasing" the car but licensing it. And this is happening more and more, like the sealed boxes in tractors preventing third party repairs. And it is a deal breaker for me.
i'm sick of stupid people constantly trying to make a point by finding the most extreme parallel they can imagine and then declaring confidently as if its fact..
If they're using TCP you can look at how long it takes to get an ACK from data send, basically a TCP ping. If it's outside of a certain range, it's probably on a VPN
Central and south Texas have a lot of Wireless ISPs to cover the vast regions of nothing... OK bandwidth, but very bad latency. Sometimes 100ms.
Well, I am running 10 or so that have to interact with each other. That is what real testing is about... The VMs alone use about 12 gig of ram when I am being stingy. Really need more like 20 gig for best performance...
Where it runs is irrelevant. You still need architects and user support. You still need migration consultants. And you still need custom code written...
A lot of the IT spend was because new versions were better. Faster, more features, new shiny! Now people are waxing nostalgic for the older systems. Win7 is still king. And CPUs have been fast enough for a while. The only thing improving is drive speed as SSDs get larger and cheaper, but you can stick that in old kit and keep Win7! And who wants to drop a grand every 2 years on a phone that is not much better then the old one?
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Amusingly enough I am thinking a late 70s to early 80s BMW with a brand new GM power-train. Classic car look and feel with new car fuel economy, a warranty, and no tracking!
How much fuel savings is needed to cover the carbon footprint of manufacturing an entire car and then shipping it from Asia?
Both are "using a software license to limit what you can do your the item you thought you purchased" cases.
Read more... It is made impossible to even diagnose what is wrong.
... if the clause was presented in such as way as to be considered part of a binding contract agreed to when I purchased the car, ...
Apparently you are not "purchasing" the car but licensing it. And this is happening more and more, like the sealed boxes in tractors preventing third party repairs. And it is a deal breaker for me.
And I worry that this might be the future of Economy. Deplorable as Communism. Here's to the old times, when you were able to actually own something you purchased.
Frankly, right now I am considering restoring a used car over purchasing a new one. The cost will be more, but I think I will have a better car.
Remove the feature at the next overnight update.
Uh huh... Might want to get on the ship already sailing... https://www.wired.com/2015/04/...
John Deer wasn't. Google "John Deer right to repair" and have a strong drink nearby...
Oh, they can do a lot more... https://securityledger.com/201...
No, you can not. https://securityledger.com/201...
Not working so well for John Deer owners... http://modernfarmer.com/2016/0...
... if the clause was presented in such as way as to be considered part of a binding contract agreed to when I purchased the car, ...
Apparently you are not "purchasing" the car but licensing it. And this is happening more and more, like the sealed boxes in tractors preventing third party repairs. And it is a deal breaker for me.
i'm sick of stupid people constantly trying to make a point by finding the most extreme parallel they can imagine and then declaring confidently as if its fact..
Damn right! Those people are literally Hitler!
If they're using TCP you can look at how long it takes to get an ACK from data send, basically a TCP ping. If it's outside of a certain range, it's probably on a VPN
Central and south Texas have a lot of Wireless ISPs to cover the vast regions of nothing... OK bandwidth, but very bad latency. Sometimes 100ms.
I remember reading about all this before. Of course, then it was East Germany and the KGB doing it...
Look at how many concurrent streams come from a specific IP and then block it. Not rocket science here...
Better selection too...
If you needed the VPN to use it, you should not have been a customer in the first place... They are doing it because the agreements require them to.
Between this and the smaller selection every year, it does seem to have less value every time you turn around.
Well, I am running 10 or so that have to interact with each other. That is what real testing is about... The VMs alone use about 12 gig of ram when I am being stingy. Really need more like 20 gig for best performance...
Yes, ECC. Brain gut stick in a rift in the space time continuum... :)
Where it runs is irrelevant. You still need architects and user support. You still need migration consultants. And you still need custom code written...
A lot of the IT spend was because new versions were better. Faster, more features, new shiny! Now people are waxing nostalgic for the older systems. Win7 is still king. And CPUs have been fast enough for a while. The only thing improving is drive speed as SSDs get larger and cheaper, but you can stick that in old kit and keep Win7! And who wants to drop a grand every 2 years on a phone that is not much better then the old one?
Because an app can have access to more data on your mobile, which a website can't (yet) reach.
One reason I do not install apps. And when you strip functionality because I am on a phone, I will stop using it, not install the app...
When DDOS started following robots.txt let me know...