At my first programming years, I'vwe written all control structures with GOTO NUMBER. That was because we didn't had labels by then. Obviously, nowadays there are still times you need to write assemby...
"Whatever happened for using the best tool for the job?"
Normaly the best tool for the job is the one that won't take your data as hostage and obly you to continuously pay big amounts of money just so you can still access it, keeping the hostage status, but keeping the data.
There are some exceptions, but they are that, exceptions.
I guess so, for varying values of "browser". There are more complex systems you can access today with "ssh -x".
Maintaining a farm of dumb terminals ought to be easier than a farm of Windows desktops, whatever tools you have to help you with the latter. And, no, that thing about users wanting their own resources doesn't apply to this situation. They may want desktops at home (altough it is way simpler to use a server and terminals at home too), but that is a different situation.
Android IS Linux. It isn't GNU/Linux, but it is Linux.
That said, if anything at all wants to win on a marketshare basis, it will have to win in the people that doesn't care about it. That's just because if you choose any random subject, the majority of people simply doesn't care about it.
That is insightfull, and shows Linux still didn't won.
Let's look at the goals: MS's goal is to destroy everybody and rule the desktop and servers alone. Linux's goal is to be a great piece of software for the people that maintain it.
I'd say that Linux will only win that fight when there isn't a Microsoft anymore, or at least when it doesn't want to destroy Linux anymore (what will hardly ever happen).
"How would she feel if she bought a new computer and... Or if she couldn't always watch DVDs on it? Or if she had to do something more complicated than click on system preferences to adjust a setting... And why don't this computer recognize my *insert peripheral here*???"
That is interesting... Are you really talking about Linux on all those problems? They remind me the Windows at of my wife's computer. Last month I spend an entire day getting the audio to work (but I agree it is rare for audio not to work at Windows).
Playing DVDs? Windows doesn't do that out of the box, you'll need to find and install some suitable software (that is thinkering with the machine, not everyone wants to do that), and not talking about other movie formats, Windows simply doesn't do that movie thing, not reliably, not in a viable manner, not untill you install mplayer on it.
Something more complicated than click on system preferences? Like removing stuff that appears on the registry and breaks everything up, or fixing those startup scritps that get corrupted once in a while, but are completely hidden and, altought mostly text, in a binary format that will break if you eddit them. Once in a while you have to reinstall Windows, and that is thinkering with the machine, most people hate that.
About not recognizing periferals, ok, Lunix has problems with GPUs, and Windows has problems with nearly everything. You have to hunt those drivers, and lots of them simply don't work as expected, again, why does Windows keep not recognizing my wife's webcam? It installs fine, and a few days later it is simply gone.
Most people simply can't figure how to fix most problems at a computer, it doesn't matter if it is Linux, Windows, BSD, or whatever.
So, you did what most consider the optimum price curve just by chance? Cool. Start selling it expensive, to get those customers that value your product a lot, then reduce the value to get the ones that don't value it that much. Those last ones pay a penalty in the form of waiting, for the smaller price they'l pay you.
You said it made no difference, because revenue was nearly constant, but had you keep the hight price revenue would probably trend down.
And that is the car analogy to the current situation, but it is illegal to make a copy of that piece of software. You'd better stop with stealing and car analogies when the subject is copyrights.
If people starts making Porshes themselves because it is too expensive, and Porshe goes out of business, by current laws and normal morality, there is nothing wrong with that.
And you are right, and at some level, the article is wrong. But also, at some level it is right, specialy when talking about music and movies, at poor countries, pricing is the leading factor maintaining piracy.
And that, of course, doesn't matter for anybody. The music and video producers are happy maximizing their earnings by selling overpriced stuf to rich countries, and you are happy maximizing your eranings by offering your software for a low price. Had the music industry used lower prices or you used highter prices both would be poorer. The only thing that makes the music industry different from you is that they are pushing for draconian rules so that they can exterminate a phenomenum that they (mostly) created, and that is, of course what makes them bad by the point of view of some people.
That is the point. Ok, I've just needed a CPU upgrade recently (for a very unusual task), but for most people the CPU is the least thing they'll want to upgrade. So, most peole should buy another motherboard when they need more memory than what fits on the current one, and, then, upgrade the CPU. Making the socket stable should put away the need to upgrade the CPU when upgrading the motherboard.
That said, nearly nobody makes rational choices about computer systems. It is just too hard. That is why people here at/. upgrade their CPU, and think nothing about upgrding the motherboard at the same time (since it was the motherboard that they needed to upgrade since the begining), and normal people simply don't upgrade.
"I can not think of any cases where they took someone into court for 'using their stuff in a strange way'."
The 'Thou shall not benchmark our products!' Microsoft? Yes, they've sued companies for releasing benchmarks of their products, for releasing interoperating kits that let their products talk with concurrent ones, and are known to put small business out of the market by threatening to sue for the weardest reasons.
They are doing something unusual with the Kinetic.
The risk to the public from what they are measuring is zero. They could create some group to measure the risk to the public, but that would devert efforts from the people that are trying to bring food water and heat from the victims of the earthquake and tsunami. So, I guess that is a net loss.
It's hard even to know if evacuating the imediate vicinty of the reactors will do more harm or good.
Yep, we'll only know all the consequences 2 years from now. But we'll know nearly all of them in less than a year, and most of them in a few months. The worst days are the first ones, and it does seem that there was very little far reaching contamination. Of course, we can't know for sure yet, and I guess that is why the GP asked what kind of consequences it will have, instead of just exposing the consequences.
By the way, let's not forget that it was needed one of the greatest natural disasters known to men (in force, not number of deaths) for that accident to happen. And that the plant had a dated design.
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At my first programming years, I'vwe written all control structures with GOTO NUMBER. That was because we didn't had labels by then. Obviously, nowadays there are still times you need to write assemby...
Normaly the best tool for the job is the one that won't take your data as hostage and obly you to continuously pay big amounts of money just so you can still access it, keeping the hostage status, but keeping the data.
There are some exceptions, but they are that, exceptions.
I guess so, for varying values of "browser". There are more complex systems you can access today with "ssh -x".
Maintaining a farm of dumb terminals ought to be easier than a farm of Windows desktops, whatever tools you have to help you with the latter. And, no, that thing about users wanting their own resources doesn't apply to this situation. They may want desktops at home (altough it is way simpler to use a server and terminals at home too), but that is a different situation.
Android IS Linux. It isn't GNU/Linux, but it is Linux.
That said, if anything at all wants to win on a marketshare basis, it will have to win in the people that doesn't care about it. That's just because if you choose any random subject, the majority of people simply doesn't care about it.
That is insightfull, and shows Linux still didn't won.
Let's look at the goals: MS's goal is to destroy everybody and rule the desktop and servers alone. Linux's goal is to be a great piece of software for the people that maintain it.
I'd say that Linux will only win that fight when there isn't a Microsoft anymore, or at least when it doesn't want to destroy Linux anymore (what will hardly ever happen).
So that the GP will know the term for "Rent Seeking"?
That is interesting... Are you really talking about Linux on all those problems? They remind me the Windows at of my wife's computer. Last month I spend an entire day getting the audio to work (but I agree it is rare for audio not to work at Windows).
Playing DVDs? Windows doesn't do that out of the box, you'll need to find and install some suitable software (that is thinkering with the machine, not everyone wants to do that), and not talking about other movie formats, Windows simply doesn't do that movie thing, not reliably, not in a viable manner, not untill you install mplayer on it.
Something more complicated than click on system preferences? Like removing stuff that appears on the registry and breaks everything up, or fixing those startup scritps that get corrupted once in a while, but are completely hidden and, altought mostly text, in a binary format that will break if you eddit them. Once in a while you have to reinstall Windows, and that is thinkering with the machine, most people hate that.
About not recognizing periferals, ok, Lunix has problems with GPUs, and Windows has problems with nearly everything. You have to hunt those drivers, and lots of them simply don't work as expected, again, why does Windows keep not recognizing my wife's webcam? It installs fine, and a few days later it is simply gone.
Most people simply can't figure how to fix most problems at a computer, it doesn't matter if it is Linux, Windows, BSD, or whatever.
So, you did what most consider the optimum price curve just by chance? Cool. Start selling it expensive, to get those customers that value your product a lot, then reduce the value to get the ones that don't value it that much. Those last ones pay a penalty in the form of waiting, for the smaller price they'l pay you.
You said it made no difference, because revenue was nearly constant, but had you keep the hight price revenue would probably trend down.
And that is the car analogy to the current situation, but it is illegal to make a copy of that piece of software. You'd better stop with stealing and car analogies when the subject is copyrights.
If people starts making Porshes themselves because it is too expensive, and Porshe goes out of business, by current laws and normal morality, there is nothing wrong with that.
You are free to hire somebody to paint a copy of a Masterati for you.
Well, ok. I can't buy a Porche. Does that mean that I'm moraly forbiden from building one car that is exactly like a Porche at my garage?
And you are right, and at some level, the article is wrong. But also, at some level it is right, specialy when talking about music and movies, at poor countries, pricing is the leading factor maintaining piracy.
And that, of course, doesn't matter for anybody. The music and video producers are happy maximizing their earnings by selling overpriced stuf to rich countries, and you are happy maximizing your eranings by offering your software for a low price. Had the music industry used lower prices or you used highter prices both would be poorer. The only thing that makes the music industry different from you is that they are pushing for draconian rules so that they can exterminate a phenomenum that they (mostly) created, and that is, of course what makes them bad by the point of view of some people.
Nice to see that Windows is finally doing something as versatile as mount. Of course, I'd expect it to do it badly, but anyway, better than nothing.
That is the point. Ok, I've just needed a CPU upgrade recently (for a very unusual task), but for most people the CPU is the least thing they'll want to upgrade. So, most peole should buy another motherboard when they need more memory than what fits on the current one, and, then, upgrade the CPU. Making the socket stable should put away the need to upgrade the CPU when upgrading the motherboard.
That said, nearly nobody makes rational choices about computer systems. It is just too hard. That is why people here at /. upgrade their CPU, and think nothing about upgrding the motherboard at the same time (since it was the motherboard that they needed to upgrade since the begining), and normal people simply don't upgrade.
-> TI lays off engineers -> TI engineers go to X -> ...
You could explain that idea to the US Congress. It would save lots of lifes.
They seem to already have plenty of those on site.
That said, GM did well to not worry about tablets.
Because Joe Blogger does not have a monopoly. I don't think it gives Android any advantaje, but they aren't claiming something that absurd.
The 'Thou shall not benchmark our products!' Microsoft? Yes, they've sued companies for releasing benchmarks of their products, for releasing interoperating kits that let their products talk with concurrent ones, and are known to put small business out of the market by threatening to sue for the weardest reasons.
They are doing something unusual with the Kinetic.
I doubt TEPCO knows what is going on...
The spent fuel is usualy manipulated by robotic arms*. The only explanation I can think of is that they lost all the equipment during the tsunami.
* How do you expect they work when everything is ok? People can't really go in there, and ropes don't have the expected reliability.
"Nothing is goig to happen" can't be known to be true. Altough the rest of the sentence can be classified as such.
The risk to the public from what they are measuring is zero. They could create some group to measure the risk to the public, but that would devert efforts from the people that are trying to bring food water and heat from the victims of the earthquake and tsunami. So, I guess that is a net loss.
It's hard even to know if evacuating the imediate vicinty of the reactors will do more harm or good.
Yep, we'll only know all the consequences 2 years from now. But we'll know nearly all of them in less than a year, and most of them in a few months. The worst days are the first ones, and it does seem that there was very little far reaching contamination. Of course, we can't know for sure yet, and I guess that is why the GP asked what kind of consequences it will have, instead of just exposing the consequences.
By the way, let's not forget that it was needed one of the greatest natural disasters known to men (in force, not number of deaths) for that accident to happen. And that the plant had a dated design.