What's funny is that you provided a meaningful answer to a question that you had already identified as stupid.
To actually answer the question, a language like COBOL that uses pseudo-natural-language would probably be king, as it would be the least like programming, and also assuming an infinitely fast computer, it would be capable of handling proper voice recognition. Interfacing with the computer and programming it would be more like the fictional LCARS on Star Trek: The Next Generation, where one simply speaks to the computer and gets meaninful audible responses or beautifully formatted visual feedback.
Things that would be mostly deprecated out of programming would be extended formatting characters, library includes (why load separate libraries when the system is able to have all of them available?), and other sort of housekeeping functions. The system would do those automatically, there would be no reason to manually invoke them.
If Apple did a better job of actually protecting their users I might agree with you, but remember, one of those huge nude celebrity photo theft scandals was based on iCloud data being compromised en masse. On top of that, Apple provides textbook examples of vendor lock-in, creating their own versions of things like communications software with no compatibility for non-Apple devices, so that once one get accustomed to using said applications, it's much harder to leave and one has to continue paying the Apple Tax.
No single vendor is perfect. Once big in the market, every vendor attempts to manipulate the market itself. Apple is no different.
Sounds to me like there's a pathway to make them both work without systemd then, even if it requires looking at what might be unique about the BSD port.
Mine was a Cyrix clone, a 40MHz 486 with math coprocessor and 8MB RAM, a partition on a 420MB hard disk shared with DOS and Windows. The motherboard was unusual, it had sockets for both 386 pinout and 486 pinout processors; and if I'm remembering right the Cyrix processor went into the 386 socket and there was a placeholder chip in the 486 socket.
For several years my normal process was to upgrade the Linux box with the old Windows box's hardware when I'd build a brand new Windows box. So the Linux box became a Pentium 133 when the Pentium 200 was built. The Pentium 200 became the Linux box when the AMD K6-2 350MHz was bought, etc.
Now I mostly shop at the college surplus. Current desktop is a Dell Precision T7400 dual-quad Xeon box with 32GB RAM, and while older is rock-solid, and cost about $300 three years ago when I bought it.
This is where I'm at, my first Slackware box would be old enough to drink at this point.
On top of the issue of experience, I've got actual dead-tree books describing UNIX SystemV and BSD inits, which Linux's inits were derived from or outright copied from. In other words, documentation. I can actually RTFM if I need to, as I have the "FM" on my shelf.
I have had to fix a couple of rackmount servers over the years with nothing more than my laptop, minicom, and a null modem cable to get into the TTY. I know I can manually edit init scripts and it's also very easy to back up or replace the init scripts, they're just scripts!
An oil refinery is an industrial cathedral, a place of power, drama and dark recesses: ornate cracking towers are its gothic pinnacles, flaring gas its stained glass, the stench of hydrocarbons its heady incense
I think a college somewhere is missing an English major.
Word. I mean I have an asshole too, but I'm not going to spend the entire day talking out of it.
"Our cloud is more comprehensive than any other cloud in the market today, a full end-to-end cloud," said David Donatelli, Oracle's executive vice president of converged infrastructure. "We design from the chip all the way up to the application, fully vertically integrated."
So in other words, vendor lock-in? That what I take out of this, they're a vertically-integrated monopoly, meaning that they handle everything from the very top to the very bottom. Because nothing is from other entities, it means that everthing one does here is Oracle-based. Once you join and tailor your stuff to their system, you cannot simply leave their system for another.
If the court knew it was a reenactment then that's one thing, but if the officer attempted to pass-off the footage as legitimate then he needs to be found in-contempt.
Has making false statements to police ever been used against the police? Seems that it should qualify if an officer lies about the circumstances in official reports.
Data is all about potential, and that potential can in some cases have volatility- if there's no use for it then it goes stale and becomes essentially worthless, until suddenly someone comes up with a new algorithm or a whole application for it, when suddenly it becomes valuable, or the results from interpreting it become valuable. Cycle then repeats itself as more and more data is collected.
Sometimes real estate loses value too. I'd hate to have owned a business in a small midwest town that was dependent on a single large manufacturing employer, sitting on a million dollars worth of real estate that became a hundred-thousand dollars worth due to shifting market conditions would suck. Granted, in a lot of places land doesn't swing that quickly that fast, but then again, my wife and I were able to buy a house in late 2010/early 2011 when the market had bottomed-out for about 3/5 of what it appraises for now. Land can change.
An oil refinery is an industrial cathedral, a place of power, drama and dark recesses: ornate cracking towers are its gothic pinnacles, flaring gas its stained glass, the stench of hydrocarbons its heady incense
I think a college somewhere is missing an English major.
I've been in industrial sites, physical plants, power plants. They are the opposite of a church; form follow function, and often everything to do with maintenance has to do with function, not simply with keeping things tidy, and there's nothing hallowed or sacrosanct other than the ability of the machine to function as intended.
Another thing about "the free market" is that sometimes it is not possible for the buyer to beware. There's no means for the customer to know if there's a real problem or not until they experience it.
Getting a ride is one of those cases. People have been abducted because they got into vehicles with strangers and the strangers have ill intent. It's not common, but there's no means for the person to evaluate the risk entirely.
Some of Ubers ideas are good, but most of the good ones could have been evaluated by regulatory bodies and then applied to existing passenger livery regulations. It's not unreasonable to have a better booking system for rides. It's not unreasonable to use mapping software to determine the approximate cost of a fare. It may possibly even be reasonable to allow the use of private vehicles for passenger livery part-time, which means that part-time drivers would have to buy-in to whatever dispatch service they wish to work for. It even may be reasonable to allow customers to rate drivers and drivers to rate customers to essentially determine risk/worth/surcharge.
Thing is, at the end it still is necessary for the drivers to make sustainable wages. It's necessary to protect passengers with proper insurance. It's necessary to ensure that drivers are properly vetted. Bad things have happened over the years, many taxi and sedan regulations are reactions to those bad things, and while it's always a good idea to re-evaluate rules to see if they're still necessary, I expect that since the act of moving a fare from one place to another really hasn't changed all that much, most of those regulations still need to be in-effect.
They are not publicly traded but they still have a business license that was granted to them. Time to revoke it and force asset liquidation. If anything it's better that they're not publicly traded, the people most hurt by the behavior are those who invested in the criminal enterprise, losing their venture capital dollars may convince them to avoid these kinds of business practices in the future.
The flaw in this tactic is that it requires the person discussed on the billboard to be able to feel shame at the things they do in their official capacity.
Since politics has turned into a spectator sport where people choose what team to support like they were a football franchise, shame and an ability to look down upon the choices made has evaporated.
Part of what has made Apple successful in Asian manufacturing has been low wages coupled with conditions that favor the employer. Workers do not have overtime, do not have a lot of other protections. Some workers seem to essentially be prisoner to the company town, living on company grounds in company dormitories, shopping in company stores, eating in company cafeterias. That sort of thing is generally unacceptable in the United States.
American wages, even wages for manufacturing, are probably too high if the products are still priced roughly where they are now combined with the amount of manual labor used to individually assemble devices like phones and tablets. This means the alternative to all of this is automating as much manufacturing as possible. It may mean paying a manufacturing engineer a couple hundred thousand a year to work with designers to adapt designs to machine-manufacturable products, such that humans barely if at all touch the actual products being built- humans will be more likely to work on the factory itself, reconfiguring for new products or maintaining the machinery so that it keeps on producing units.
The effects of manufacturing will not be as strongly felt as they used to be. Sure some workers will still be employed at the factory, and arguably those employees might even be higher paid due to the technical work of maintaining the machinery, but the total number of workers won't be enough to support whole communities like it used to, and due to the technical nature of what work there is, the jobs are more likely to go to existing urban areas rather than rejuvenating rural towns. If the manufacturing was labor-intensive and unskilled then of course it would make sense to consider towns where wages could be lower, but that won't be as much a factor in this era.
Nevertheless I would like to see manufacturing come back; some jobs are better than no jobs, and higher paying jobs are good when the wages are fair for the kind of abilities the work requires.
I had a netbook that had Windows 7 Starter Edition on it back in the day. Hell, still have it laying about somewhere. Anyway, as a device for simple web browsing and basic usage it was fine. It was annoying as hell that Microsoft wouldn't let you change the background picture on the desktop (a feature one could do on Windows 3.1 on a 386, so their excuse about computing power was bullshit) but even as someone that asks their computers to do more than most it still was adequate for what the platform was.
I have no doubt that most people would be find with this version, they're not going into stores to buy software anymore and even if they're limited to Microsoft's own package repository ("store") it'll probably still be good enough for them.
Where is all the crying about it not being user upgradable? Gamer dweebs won't be able to rice it out!
Also educational institutions that normally keep such devices for a long time won't find such a machine suitable for student use, as they won't be as readily able to repair or upgrade as needs change.
Modularity is fairly important in devices assigned to kids. Devices are expected to suffer drops, harsh transportation, kids failing to remove USB components, etc. Ideally the external ports are on their own circuit boards connected via cables to the mainboard so that when the unit gets dropped with the AC adapter plugged in or with the USB flash memory plugged it, the inexpensive circuit board for that subcomponent can be replaced instead of having to replace the whole mainboard.
With this mindset already in play, K12 also likes it when storage is modular. It means K12 can buy the storage that they see themselves need for the next few years, and if it turns out they need more storage it's a lot cheaper to spend $50/device to ugprade than it is to spend $500/device to replace them outright. With things like folder redirection and local caching that becomes an issue, as most users, be they students or staff, want the same access to their stuff whether on the organization's LAN or not.
I get that as devices miniaturize it's increasingly harder to continue to be modular, but sometimes the need for modularity outweighs the desire for small form factor.
"environmentalists" is not a monolithic block with identical views. Everyone who who self-applies the label or finds the label applied to them has at least some unique perspective, and while certainly there are people, even lots of people that agree with each other, there are undoubtedly various camps that people may or may not belong to.
I could see some valuing the dam, both due to historical drought issues and and in terms of offsetting power production that might otherwise be considered for a nuclear application.
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What's funny is that you provided a meaningful answer to a question that you had already identified as stupid.
To actually answer the question, a language like COBOL that uses pseudo-natural-language would probably be king, as it would be the least like programming, and also assuming an infinitely fast computer, it would be capable of handling proper voice recognition. Interfacing with the computer and programming it would be more like the fictional LCARS on Star Trek: The Next Generation, where one simply speaks to the computer and gets meaninful audible responses or beautifully formatted visual feedback.
Things that would be mostly deprecated out of programming would be extended formatting characters, library includes (why load separate libraries when the system is able to have all of them available?), and other sort of housekeeping functions. The system would do those automatically, there would be no reason to manually invoke them.
If Apple did a better job of actually protecting their users I might agree with you, but remember, one of those huge nude celebrity photo theft scandals was based on iCloud data being compromised en masse. On top of that, Apple provides textbook examples of vendor lock-in, creating their own versions of things like communications software with no compatibility for non-Apple devices, so that once one get accustomed to using said applications, it's much harder to leave and one has to continue paying the Apple Tax.
No single vendor is perfect. Once big in the market, every vendor attempts to manipulate the market itself. Apple is no different.
Sounds to me like there's a pathway to make them both work without systemd then, even if it requires looking at what might be unique about the BSD port.
I remember when it came out, and I'm really not surprised that it was written by a teenager. No one else would've chosen such a name.
It's not open sores software on a pentigram processor.
Mine was a Cyrix clone, a 40MHz 486 with math coprocessor and 8MB RAM, a partition on a 420MB hard disk shared with DOS and Windows. The motherboard was unusual, it had sockets for both 386 pinout and 486 pinout processors; and if I'm remembering right the Cyrix processor went into the 386 socket and there was a placeholder chip in the 486 socket.
For several years my normal process was to upgrade the Linux box with the old Windows box's hardware when I'd build a brand new Windows box. So the Linux box became a Pentium 133 when the Pentium 200 was built. The Pentium 200 became the Linux box when the AMD K6-2 350MHz was bought, etc.
Now I mostly shop at the college surplus. Current desktop is a Dell Precision T7400 dual-quad Xeon box with 32GB RAM, and while older is rock-solid, and cost about $300 three years ago when I bought it.
The only Devuan install I've done was a fresh install. I'm using it as a multimedia PC in my entertainment center and it's working fine.
What's going-on in non-Linux? BSD and the like? Shouldn't their windowmanagers port over to a non-systemd Linux distro easily enough?
This is where I'm at, my first Slackware box would be old enough to drink at this point.
On top of the issue of experience, I've got actual dead-tree books describing UNIX SystemV and BSD inits, which Linux's inits were derived from or outright copied from. In other words, documentation. I can actually RTFM if I need to, as I have the "FM" on my shelf.
I have had to fix a couple of rackmount servers over the years with nothing more than my laptop, minicom, and a null modem cable to get into the TTY. I know I can manually edit init scripts and it's also very easy to back up or replace the init scripts, they're just scripts!
An oil refinery is an industrial cathedral, a place of power, drama and dark recesses: ornate cracking towers are its gothic pinnacles, flaring gas its stained glass, the stench of hydrocarbons its heady incense
I think a college somewhere is missing an English major.
Word. I mean I have an asshole too, but I'm not going to spend the entire day talking out of it.
Only in meetings with upper management!
"Our cloud is more comprehensive than any other cloud in the market today, a full end-to-end cloud," said David Donatelli, Oracle's executive vice president of converged infrastructure. "We design from the chip all the way up to the application, fully vertically integrated."
So in other words, vendor lock-in? That what I take out of this, they're a vertically-integrated monopoly, meaning that they handle everything from the very top to the very bottom. Because nothing is from other entities, it means that everthing one does here is Oracle-based. Once you join and tailor your stuff to their system, you cannot simply leave their system for another.
If the court knew it was a reenactment then that's one thing, but if the officer attempted to pass-off the footage as legitimate then he needs to be found in-contempt.
Has making false statements to police ever been used against the police? Seems that it should qualify if an officer lies about the circumstances in official reports.
Data is all about potential, and that potential can in some cases have volatility- if there's no use for it then it goes stale and becomes essentially worthless, until suddenly someone comes up with a new algorithm or a whole application for it, when suddenly it becomes valuable, or the results from interpreting it become valuable. Cycle then repeats itself as more and more data is collected.
Sometimes real estate loses value too. I'd hate to have owned a business in a small midwest town that was dependent on a single large manufacturing employer, sitting on a million dollars worth of real estate that became a hundred-thousand dollars worth due to shifting market conditions would suck. Granted, in a lot of places land doesn't swing that quickly that fast, but then again, my wife and I were able to buy a house in late 2010/early 2011 when the market had bottomed-out for about 3/5 of what it appraises for now. Land can change.
I think you opened the wrong article, you're looking for the one four entries down.
An oil refinery is an industrial cathedral, a place of power, drama and dark recesses: ornate cracking towers are its gothic pinnacles, flaring gas its stained glass, the stench of hydrocarbons its heady incense
I think a college somewhere is missing an English major.
I've been in industrial sites, physical plants, power plants. They are the opposite of a church; form follow function, and often everything to do with maintenance has to do with function, not simply with keeping things tidy, and there's nothing hallowed or sacrosanct other than the ability of the machine to function as intended.
Another thing about "the free market" is that sometimes it is not possible for the buyer to beware. There's no means for the customer to know if there's a real problem or not until they experience it.
Getting a ride is one of those cases. People have been abducted because they got into vehicles with strangers and the strangers have ill intent. It's not common, but there's no means for the person to evaluate the risk entirely.
Some of Ubers ideas are good, but most of the good ones could have been evaluated by regulatory bodies and then applied to existing passenger livery regulations. It's not unreasonable to have a better booking system for rides. It's not unreasonable to use mapping software to determine the approximate cost of a fare. It may possibly even be reasonable to allow the use of private vehicles for passenger livery part-time, which means that part-time drivers would have to buy-in to whatever dispatch service they wish to work for. It even may be reasonable to allow customers to rate drivers and drivers to rate customers to essentially determine risk/worth/surcharge.
Thing is, at the end it still is necessary for the drivers to make sustainable wages. It's necessary to protect passengers with proper insurance. It's necessary to ensure that drivers are properly vetted. Bad things have happened over the years, many taxi and sedan regulations are reactions to those bad things, and while it's always a good idea to re-evaluate rules to see if they're still necessary, I expect that since the act of moving a fare from one place to another really hasn't changed all that much, most of those regulations still need to be in-effect.
They are not publicly traded but they still have a business license that was granted to them. Time to revoke it and force asset liquidation. If anything it's better that they're not publicly traded, the people most hurt by the behavior are those who invested in the criminal enterprise, losing their venture capital dollars may convince them to avoid these kinds of business practices in the future.
I wonder if SpaceX saw this development coming, and was the real reason they decided to land the first stage intact...
The flaw in this tactic is that it requires the person discussed on the billboard to be able to feel shame at the things they do in their official capacity.
Since politics has turned into a spectator sport where people choose what team to support like they were a football franchise, shame and an ability to look down upon the choices made has evaporated.
Part of what has made Apple successful in Asian manufacturing has been low wages coupled with conditions that favor the employer. Workers do not have overtime, do not have a lot of other protections. Some workers seem to essentially be prisoner to the company town, living on company grounds in company dormitories, shopping in company stores, eating in company cafeterias. That sort of thing is generally unacceptable in the United States.
American wages, even wages for manufacturing, are probably too high if the products are still priced roughly where they are now combined with the amount of manual labor used to individually assemble devices like phones and tablets. This means the alternative to all of this is automating as much manufacturing as possible. It may mean paying a manufacturing engineer a couple hundred thousand a year to work with designers to adapt designs to machine-manufacturable products, such that humans barely if at all touch the actual products being built- humans will be more likely to work on the factory itself, reconfiguring for new products or maintaining the machinery so that it keeps on producing units.
The effects of manufacturing will not be as strongly felt as they used to be. Sure some workers will still be employed at the factory, and arguably those employees might even be higher paid due to the technical work of maintaining the machinery, but the total number of workers won't be enough to support whole communities like it used to, and due to the technical nature of what work there is, the jobs are more likely to go to existing urban areas rather than rejuvenating rural towns. If the manufacturing was labor-intensive and unskilled then of course it would make sense to consider towns where wages could be lower, but that won't be as much a factor in this era.
Nevertheless I would like to see manufacturing come back; some jobs are better than no jobs, and higher paying jobs are good when the wages are fair for the kind of abilities the work requires.
We'll just have to see what happens.
I had a netbook that had Windows 7 Starter Edition on it back in the day. Hell, still have it laying about somewhere. Anyway, as a device for simple web browsing and basic usage it was fine. It was annoying as hell that Microsoft wouldn't let you change the background picture on the desktop (a feature one could do on Windows 3.1 on a 386, so their excuse about computing power was bullshit) but even as someone that asks their computers to do more than most it still was adequate for what the platform was.
I have no doubt that most people would be find with this version, they're not going into stores to buy software anymore and even if they're limited to Microsoft's own package repository ("store") it'll probably still be good enough for them.
Where is all the crying about it not being user upgradable? Gamer dweebs won't be able to rice it out!
Also educational institutions that normally keep such devices for a long time won't find such a machine suitable for student use, as they won't be as readily able to repair or upgrade as needs change.
Modularity is fairly important in devices assigned to kids. Devices are expected to suffer drops, harsh transportation, kids failing to remove USB components, etc. Ideally the external ports are on their own circuit boards connected via cables to the mainboard so that when the unit gets dropped with the AC adapter plugged in or with the USB flash memory plugged it, the inexpensive circuit board for that subcomponent can be replaced instead of having to replace the whole mainboard.
With this mindset already in play, K12 also likes it when storage is modular. It means K12 can buy the storage that they see themselves need for the next few years, and if it turns out they need more storage it's a lot cheaper to spend $50/device to ugprade than it is to spend $500/device to replace them outright. With things like folder redirection and local caching that becomes an issue, as most users, be they students or staff, want the same access to their stuff whether on the organization's LAN or not.
I get that as devices miniaturize it's increasingly harder to continue to be modular, but sometimes the need for modularity outweighs the desire for small form factor.
"environmentalists" is not a monolithic block with identical views. Everyone who who self-applies the label or finds the label applied to them has at least some unique perspective, and while certainly there are people, even lots of people that agree with each other, there are undoubtedly various camps that people may or may not belong to.
I could see some valuing the dam, both due to historical drought issues and and in terms of offsetting power production that might otherwise be considered for a nuclear application.