As someone in the financial world told me once "profit is a matter of opinion"
ROI requires you to attribute investment to an incresased profit. Since every - insert favorite currency here -
spent shows up in the books as an investment, you know "CAPEX!!", it is seen as added value. Regardless of any effects it actually has on the business. Correlation not being causation and such, these kind of exercises are the prime reason why vendors can sell million dollar solutions with licensing that is often more expensive than the actual implementation and operational cost of in house solutions. I'm not underestimating the capacity of development teams to deliver a bad solution either. In the end, it all comes down to making intelligent decisions and Free and OSS must at least be systematically considered as an alternative.
Stitch up your enemy?
But seriously, programming is nothing like warfare. It is more like crafting a bespoke garment for a gorilla who believes himself to be a six legged, two headed flying dragon. And cleverer syntax and multiparadigm languages make it easier to confuse the gorilla.
Of course it is. Content owners can retract content. To hide and deny proof of wrongdoing, like a video of a copy shooting an innocent person. And more dangerously, putting content owners under pressure to retract such material. There goes freedom of 'speach'
It's funny how having different opinions on various topics now sounds so outrageous to a lot of people. Maybe it is, in this world of media bubbles.
Different opinions is just fine. But behaving as if opinions have the same value as facts is silly. As long as this is being done by a small minority, there is no real problem. Now there is a government making decisions based on alternative facts. This is outrageous.
Or you could add Donald T. to the Deaths in 2016 page.
Tweet that it's true because people are talking about it a lot and even Wikipedia picked it up.
Then watch the number of edits on both pages explode.
Same here. It requires a special kind of stupid to associate "new" with "good" unconditionally.
It's actually quite a common kind of stupid called 'inexperienced'. Never experiencing the fallout of bad decisions, makes the hipsters try any idea, good or bad.
That is a minor consideration next to the fact that HP's build quality and specs are shit.
I think you misread the logo as "HP" - it's "liji". And I'm convinced soon, they will actually make it look like "shit". Honesty in marketing, great idea.
Sometimes a driver simply isn't available for Linux, QNX, VxWorks or other embedded OSes.
That is actually the best argument to avoid such hardware. Rely on hardware that is open standards based, then you can reduce dependency on proprietary drivers
The reason they have to stay with XPe is because there probably aren't any drivers for Vista/Win7/Win8/Win8.1 So much for the benefit of reusing XP drivers
Also, we should just get rid of the ignition keys for cars, since some of them can be hot wired.
On an unrelated note, whereabouts is you car?
You fail to understand the problem, in a car YOU have the key, with UEFI, a great deal of organisations (MS, BIOS vendor, MB vendor, HW vendors like Dell/HP/Lenovo/...) have the key to your computer - we dislike the fact that as the rightfull owners of those computers, we seem to be the only ones NOT having a key.
If you want a car analogy, it is more like not having a "key" for the filler cap, wheel bolts, engine,... You can start, you can drive, but you can not replace parts, use other fuel supplier, do your own maintenance. There might even be restrictions on where you can drive to.
>An "agile" project cannot fail and cost Billions because it must always deliver runnable software with a maximum of a few weeks delay
You're literally just saying that a project can't fail because it's supposed to succeed. There's many reasons agile projects can fail. If a team is unable to deliver a working release then the project has failed. Also, if the release works but doesn't incorporate the required functionality then the project has failed.
No he isn't. He is saying "not(p1 AND p2)" p1 is "an agile project can fail" and p2 is "an agile project can cost billions".
An agile projecr can fail in several ways:
Calling it "agile" but not applying the basic principles. Then you'll fail in Waterfall mode
Fail early, but not sinking huge budgets
Fail later, delivering something in a workable state that can be the basis for other development...
Examples of "calling it agile" are: starting to do an analysis round of several man-years filling up a backlog with thousands of stories already estimated to help the development team; analysts that are not willing to validate the "working software" so that the team has to keep guessing for long periods of time;....
Applets run in the same environment as webstart these days.
Not really. They obey similar sandbox rules.
But key here is that applets are embedded objects running in the context of the browser (Java plugin). A webstart application is essentially a download of an xml description file (jnlp) and a new javaws process handles this. You can easily configure your browser to download jnlp files instead of opening them with javaws.
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it's a fetish. And "happy" involves tears and pain.
As someone in the financial world told me once "profit is a matter of opinion" ROI requires you to attribute investment to an incresased profit. Since every - insert favorite currency here - spent shows up in the books as an investment, you know "CAPEX!!", it is seen as added value. Regardless of any effects it actually has on the business. Correlation not being causation and such, these kind of exercises are the prime reason why vendors can sell million dollar solutions with licensing that is often more expensive than the actual implementation and operational cost of in house solutions. I'm not underestimating the capacity of development teams to deliver a bad solution either. In the end, it all comes down to making intelligent decisions and Free and OSS must at least be systematically considered as an alternative.
Stitch up your enemy? But seriously, programming is nothing like warfare. It is more like crafting a bespoke garment for a gorilla who believes himself to be a six legged, two headed flying dragon. And cleverer syntax and multiparadigm languages make it easier to confuse the gorilla.
nor is EME a tool for censorship.
Of course it is. Content owners can retract content. To hide and deny proof of wrongdoing, like a video of a copy shooting an innocent person. And more dangerously, putting content owners under pressure to retract such material. There goes freedom of 'speach'
It's funny how having different opinions on various topics now sounds so outrageous to a lot of people. Maybe it is, in this world of media bubbles.
Different opinions is just fine. But behaving as if opinions have the same value as facts is silly. As long as this is being done by a small minority, there is no real problem. Now there is a government making decisions based on alternative facts. This is outrageous.
Donald? That you?
Or you could add Donald T. to the Deaths in 2016 page. Tweet that it's true because people are talking about it a lot and even Wikipedia picked it up. Then watch the number of edits on both pages explode.
I'd propose Mac Book D'ongle.
I prefer a practical laptop over one that requires you to carry around a lot of adapters and dongles to get stuff done.
It's actually quite a common kind of stupid called 'inexperienced'. Never experiencing the fallout of bad decisions, makes the hipsters try any idea, good or bad.
After carefully analysis I found that 4 out 2 analysts misrepresent their facts correctly.
That's newspeak for "this program had an abnormal amount of bad problems."
Also good news that the total cost diminishes with time, 1 trillion to 0.4 trillion in two years time. By 2018 it will be for free.
That is a minor consideration next to the fact that HP's build quality and specs are shit.
I think you misread the logo as "HP" - it's "liji". And I'm convinced soon, they will actually make it look like "shit". Honesty in marketing, great idea.
How did they know to put "BC" on the EOY General Journal?
Well after several thousands of years counting backwards, everybody knew it stood for "Backwards Counting" - it looked like a great idea in 5000 BC
Sometimes a driver simply isn't available for Linux, QNX, VxWorks or other embedded OSes.
That is actually the best argument to avoid such hardware. Rely on hardware that is open standards based, then you can reduce dependency on proprietary drivers
The reason they have to stay with XPe is because there probably aren't any drivers for Vista/Win7/Win8/Win8.1 So much for the benefit of reusing XP drivers
I'm not sure, but was the KDE 4.0 disaster in 2008 not started for the same ONE reason?
It made me switch to Gnome...
In this Belgian journal article (dutch), he mentions he is sorry his colleague Robert Brout can not share and celebrate with him. He died in 2011.
Also, we should just get rid of the ignition keys for cars, since some of them can be hot wired. On an unrelated note, whereabouts is you car?
You fail to understand the problem, in a car YOU have the key, with UEFI, a great deal of organisations (MS, BIOS vendor, MB vendor, HW vendors like Dell/HP/Lenovo/...) have the key to your computer - we dislike the fact that as the rightfull owners of those computers, we seem to be the only ones NOT having a key.
If you want a car analogy, it is more like not having a "key" for the filler cap, wheel bolts, engine,... You can start, you can drive, but you can not replace parts, use other fuel supplier, do your own maintenance. There might even be restrictions on where you can drive to.
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>An "agile" project cannot fail and cost Billions because it must always deliver runnable software with a maximum of a few weeks delay You're literally just saying that a project can't fail because it's supposed to succeed. There's many reasons agile projects can fail. If a team is unable to deliver a working release then the project has failed. Also, if the release works but doesn't incorporate the required functionality then the project has failed.
No he isn't. He is saying "not(p1 AND p2)" p1 is "an agile project can fail" and p2 is "an agile project can cost billions".
An agile projecr can fail in several ways:
Examples of "calling it agile" are: starting to do an analysis round of several man-years filling up a backlog with thousands of stories already estimated to help the development team; analysts that are not willing to validate the "working software" so that the team has to keep guessing for long periods of time;....
Nothing better than some examples, like the DS5 Diesel electric hybrid with interesting styling.
You know, 1HP/cu in really isn't all that impressive.
Wasn't it about 40 years ago?
Applets run in the same environment as webstart these days.
Not really. They obey similar sandbox rules.
But key here is that applets are embedded objects running in the context of the browser (Java plugin). A webstart application is essentially a download of an xml description file (jnlp) and a new javaws process handles this. You can easily configure your browser to download jnlp files instead of opening them with javaws.
Because some people deployed the applications using Applets and WebStart so just getting rid of it becomes a bit of an issue.
Nobody uses applets for anything anymore - except the baddies - disable the java browser plugin and be done with it. Webstart is not the problem.
Unless it's for the Wii
I see, i own one Wus. Together we have two Wii.
[...]this means that it is an all or nothing choice, activated by default to block everything.
It's a choice. Opt out of the filter. Actually, opt in for ads.