Can you cite something that supports your assertion? Can you cite something that shows that they have any real possibility of achieving that sort of position in the market?
Last time I checked I can go to any number of retail stores, wholesalers, and even catalog/internet sellers that have nothing to do with Amazon. Even if Amazon wants to be in that position I don't see how they could achieve it.
...not sure where rage against Amazon is coming from. They run their own store, they run a market that others can rent space in, they run some TV distribution, they run ebooks and an ebook reader to varying degrees of success. They also have a cloud platform that anyone could rent time on.
None of these are monopolistic. I disagreed with the idea of a patent for 1-click shopping, and it sounds like they could do a better job with their warehousing picking staff (ie, they should be on the clock as they are stuck waiting to go through security because security is their employer's problem, not theirs) but I don't really have a lot of other complaints with them.
Heh. My most recent purchase is a Dell XPS 13, equipped the same as the Developer Edition models but bought through Costco 'cause it was like $500 less than buying a factory-loaded Developer Edition model. Got the one with the extremely high res touchscreen and everything. I had looked into the Apple Macbook Pro, but if I wanted the model with all of the USB-C ports then I had to have that stupid touchbar with no more physical escape key. That was unacceptable. When I was using an older MacBook I used it like I use Linux boxes, which is to have a lot of terminal windows open. I was not about to lose having a physical escape key.
I've used Linux for 22 years and participated in forums and discussions related to the kernel and to various projects off and on. I've never heard of this award. How is it prestigious?
I agree with you, but also bear in mind that a lot of corporate environments want processes that aren't reliant on a single staff member to care-for. Inefficient processes may also be processes that others in the same group or department can perform, while dealing with a script might not. I get to hear about data-importation problems that even our seasoned programmers have to contend with, data from fairly limited datasets from specific sources that even years into the use of products still requires manual massage in order to get importation to work properly en-masse.
Sometimes the best compromise approach is for the company to choose software tools that have their own scripting options built-in, so that savvy users can do said scripting and where the nature of what they've created is more easily reviewed by their IT staff and by those in-charge of the systems upon which the scripts run. Unfortunately getting a company to buy software with that feature or to purchase that module if it's an independent expenditure can be a problem.
I've run across resistance myself, they want to buy central configuration storage software for our network equipment to the tune of probably $20,000, instead of having me work on Expect/TCL scripts to pull down configs and archive them by-date, or to attempt to dump them into some kind of database where they're more easily associated with a location or asset tag. Their argument is that I am the only one that would understand this system if I implement it, which is kind of dumb argument when I'm writing in an open-source language using books readily available on Amazon and where probably a third of the lines in the script are comments describing how it works, but that's where it is.
No, it means that perhaps Microsoft is starting to recognize that Windows as a server only really makes sense when someone is sitting down at that server and running desktop applications on it. In a cloud environment where server instances are virtual-machines spun-up and spun-down on a demand-basis there's no advantage in the overhead of even a virtual machine GUI running, as the model for managing the VM is based on computer-to-computer interaction and templates rather than on user-to-computer interaction.
The Novell Netware approach suddenly actually makes more sense. When one would set up a Netware server, only the most minimal functions were done on that server itself, before connecting a workstation to the network and using the management tools on that workstation to finish setup. The server was essentially headless, all management was done from an end-user node.
In the cloud environment, where cloud applications are written for the specific environment, the nature of the configuration of the virtual machines does not need someone directly interacting with that VM as a user, they interact with management software, which then interacts with the VM or the templates for spawning VMs. GUI doesn't apply.
At work the only time I have to use Office is for a particular spreadsheet template for mileage reimbursement that's so strangely implemented that it doesn't want to work right in Libreoffice. Even pivot tables work properly in Libre, I've done a lot of complex spreadsheets in that program that are entirely interoperable with Excel.
You seem to miss that at least two tablet OSes are basically highly-tailored Linux distributions, locked-down to prevent the end-user from getting to the guts, as a tradeoff trying to maintain a disciplined approach to how applications are to run and interact with the user on the platforms. I'm speaking of Android and ChromeOS.
The vast majority of end users never really needed the down-in-the-trenches approach that early personal computing offered and even arguably required. I suppose that helped contribute to Apple's penetration into the educational market with early Macintoshes, the lack of transparency and ability to tinker with the OS was a downside for computer enthusiasts, but was an advantage to those who didn't care how the underlying device worked, they just wanted to open a program and have it work right. Granted, eventually pre-OSX MacOS got pretty messed up by the end, but for a long time the approach seemed to work well enough.
When I see a tablet, I see the natural evolution of that model for how personal computing works. Hell, tablets even have screens similar in-size to many of those early Macintoshes. There's no digging into the OS, but most people don't want to do that anyway.
I've used Linux for my desktop operating system for the better part of twenty years but I can see why it would be the less desirable option for most people. Even for me it's a headache sometimes as the community fights over things or where development in some major projects stalls or goes off the rails. I put up with it mostly because it was not really any harder than Microsoft's approach back in the day, and because I don't like paying for basic software. For awhile I played with an old Chromebook and Crouton to run a Linux/X11 chroot environment, and it worked pretty well actually. I just wanted more/better than the Chromebook's hardware had to offer, so back to Debian I went.
The NPC isn't the focus of the game though, merely a small element of it. Additionally one can argue that even a work in a gallery or a work commissioned have commercial aspects, a gallery may be trying to sell its contents or may charge admissions, and a for-commission work results in the artist getting paid. It now becomes a matter of the degree to which this behavior is acceptable, versus it being outright prohibited. Creating an image or representation based on another fictional work in which the subject appeared is probably subject to more protection than the subject's natural likeness.
...there seems to be a point when the extra rules tacked-on do more to establish that rules-lawyers win, than they do to promote safety. Obviously no one wants a repeat of the 1955 Le Mans crash that killed dozens of spectators plus the driver, but as the audience we want to see drivers with nerves of steel that challenge both track conditions and each other. Over-regulate and we may as well just turn it over to computers, and then we're left with what amounts to an oversized RC car race.
Slashdot is in the business of fostering rational debate. If you cannot handle that, you do not belong here.
Hahahahaahahaha! HHahahahahahaaaa!
*gasp*
HahahaahahaAAHAa! HAHAAHAHAHAHAA!
Oh wait, you're serious?
Slashdot has never been in the specific business of fostering rational debate. It has vacillated between the ravings of fanboys and the ridiculousness of geek culture with the occasional insightful or meaningful comment from time to time.
If Slashdot were in the specific business of fostering rational debate then it wouldn't rely on community moderation and would have actual paid moderation staff to run the place.
Yes, but the self-driving car is not a function of the state or contracted to provide enforcement. If anything, since the accident the state has been harder on self-driving cars, not harder on jay-walking.
People that work in technology routinely skip the EULA, and those are the people that know better.
If those people don't read the fine-print, do you expect any average nontechnical person to read through the fine-print when they're just trying to install an app on their phone to make it easier to use than the web version?
This kind of crap is why I didn't sign-up for Facebook to start with. They might not be breaking the letter of the law, but to my view they appear to be fundamentally dishonest.
Pathologists already would, depending on the degradation of the corpse, basically take the skin of the fingers off of the body and either put it on a mandrel or else would put it over their own gloved hands as a human-glove to get fingerprints.
I am not surprised in the slightest that investigators would attempt to unlock biometric locks with the biometrics of the deceased. I would be more surprised if they didn't try it. I also wouldn't be surprised if they have to develop techniques to duplicate someone's fingerprint in a way that allows it to be applied with similar capacitance and temperature as their living body would have, to attempt to override any circumvention-blocks that look for that sort of thing.
You might find some historians or anthropologists that would have interest, but I could see them opting to 'resurrect' either brains from people that they can establish documentation-on for being interesting, or else they would only perform the procedure on a few subjects that their budget allows-for in order to see if it's worthwhile.
Results will either be messed up due to records corruption so they'll get the importance of a given subject wrong and mistakenly resurrect Jonathan Goldsmith, or else the end-result will be something like those failed Robocop II examples where the subjects immediately kill themselves in-horror at what they've become.
No they don't. Uber's current model's only purpose is to raise its profile and tide it over until it has self-driving vehicles, at which point it will stop using human drivers for at least its primary/basic service to move passengers around. Lyft, if they have an interest in self-driving cars, doesn't seem to actively pursue it. They certainly haven't gotten caught in industrial espionage.
The Amiga and the Atari ST lacked the market-share over the sum of decades that both Wintel and Apple enjoyed. They aren't unimportant in the history of computing but when discussing the totality of the proliferation of personal computers they don't matter.
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Can you cite something that supports your assertion? Can you cite something that shows that they have any real possibility of achieving that sort of position in the market?
Last time I checked I can go to any number of retail stores, wholesalers, and even catalog/internet sellers that have nothing to do with Amazon. Even if Amazon wants to be in that position I don't see how they could achieve it.
...not sure where rage against Amazon is coming from. They run their own store, they run a market that others can rent space in, they run some TV distribution, they run ebooks and an ebook reader to varying degrees of success. They also have a cloud platform that anyone could rent time on.
None of these are monopolistic. I disagreed with the idea of a patent for 1-click shopping, and it sounds like they could do a better job with their warehousing picking staff (ie, they should be on the clock as they are stuck waiting to go through security because security is their employer's problem, not theirs) but I don't really have a lot of other complaints with them.
It's possible to use labels in a fashion similar to folders.
Heh. My most recent purchase is a Dell XPS 13, equipped the same as the Developer Edition models but bought through Costco 'cause it was like $500 less than buying a factory-loaded Developer Edition model. Got the one with the extremely high res touchscreen and everything. I had looked into the Apple Macbook Pro, but if I wanted the model with all of the USB-C ports then I had to have that stupid touchbar with no more physical escape key. That was unacceptable. When I was using an older MacBook I used it like I use Linux boxes, which is to have a lot of terminal windows open. I was not about to lose having a physical escape key.
I've used Linux for 22 years and participated in forums and discussions related to the kernel and to various projects off and on. I've never heard of this award. How is it prestigious?
I agree with you, but also bear in mind that a lot of corporate environments want processes that aren't reliant on a single staff member to care-for. Inefficient processes may also be processes that others in the same group or department can perform, while dealing with a script might not. I get to hear about data-importation problems that even our seasoned programmers have to contend with, data from fairly limited datasets from specific sources that even years into the use of products still requires manual massage in order to get importation to work properly en-masse.
Sometimes the best compromise approach is for the company to choose software tools that have their own scripting options built-in, so that savvy users can do said scripting and where the nature of what they've created is more easily reviewed by their IT staff and by those in-charge of the systems upon which the scripts run. Unfortunately getting a company to buy software with that feature or to purchase that module if it's an independent expenditure can be a problem.
I've run across resistance myself, they want to buy central configuration storage software for our network equipment to the tune of probably $20,000, instead of having me work on Expect/TCL scripts to pull down configs and archive them by-date, or to attempt to dump them into some kind of database where they're more easily associated with a location or asset tag. Their argument is that I am the only one that would understand this system if I implement it, which is kind of dumb argument when I'm writing in an open-source language using books readily available on Amazon and where probably a third of the lines in the script are comments describing how it works, but that's where it is.
No, it means that perhaps Microsoft is starting to recognize that Windows as a server only really makes sense when someone is sitting down at that server and running desktop applications on it. In a cloud environment where server instances are virtual-machines spun-up and spun-down on a demand-basis there's no advantage in the overhead of even a virtual machine GUI running, as the model for managing the VM is based on computer-to-computer interaction and templates rather than on user-to-computer interaction.
The Novell Netware approach suddenly actually makes more sense. When one would set up a Netware server, only the most minimal functions were done on that server itself, before connecting a workstation to the network and using the management tools on that workstation to finish setup. The server was essentially headless, all management was done from an end-user node.
In the cloud environment, where cloud applications are written for the specific environment, the nature of the configuration of the virtual machines does not need someone directly interacting with that VM as a user, they interact with management software, which then interacts with the VM or the templates for spawning VMs. GUI doesn't apply.
Home users don't need Office. They need Wordpad.
At work the only time I have to use Office is for a particular spreadsheet template for mileage reimbursement that's so strangely implemented that it doesn't want to work right in Libreoffice. Even pivot tables work properly in Libre, I've done a lot of complex spreadsheets in that program that are entirely interoperable with Excel.
You seem to miss that at least two tablet OSes are basically highly-tailored Linux distributions, locked-down to prevent the end-user from getting to the guts, as a tradeoff trying to maintain a disciplined approach to how applications are to run and interact with the user on the platforms. I'm speaking of Android and ChromeOS.
The vast majority of end users never really needed the down-in-the-trenches approach that early personal computing offered and even arguably required. I suppose that helped contribute to Apple's penetration into the educational market with early Macintoshes, the lack of transparency and ability to tinker with the OS was a downside for computer enthusiasts, but was an advantage to those who didn't care how the underlying device worked, they just wanted to open a program and have it work right. Granted, eventually pre-OSX MacOS got pretty messed up by the end, but for a long time the approach seemed to work well enough.
When I see a tablet, I see the natural evolution of that model for how personal computing works. Hell, tablets even have screens similar in-size to many of those early Macintoshes. There's no digging into the OS, but most people don't want to do that anyway.
I've used Linux for my desktop operating system for the better part of twenty years but I can see why it would be the less desirable option for most people. Even for me it's a headache sometimes as the community fights over things or where development in some major projects stalls or goes off the rails. I put up with it mostly because it was not really any harder than Microsoft's approach back in the day, and because I don't like paying for basic software. For awhile I played with an old Chromebook and Crouton to run a Linux/X11 chroot environment, and it worked pretty well actually. I just wanted more/better than the Chromebook's hardware had to offer, so back to Debian I went.
The NPC isn't the focus of the game though, merely a small element of it. Additionally one can argue that even a work in a gallery or a work commissioned have commercial aspects, a gallery may be trying to sell its contents or may charge admissions, and a for-commission work results in the artist getting paid. It now becomes a matter of the degree to which this behavior is acceptable, versus it being outright prohibited. Creating an image or representation based on another fictional work in which the subject appeared is probably subject to more protection than the subject's natural likeness.
...there seems to be a point when the extra rules tacked-on do more to establish that rules-lawyers win, than they do to promote safety. Obviously no one wants a repeat of the 1955 Le Mans crash that killed dozens of spectators plus the driver, but as the audience we want to see drivers with nerves of steel that challenge both track conditions and each other. Over-regulate and we may as well just turn it over to computers, and then we're left with what amounts to an oversized RC car race.
Ain't no mountain high enough.
maybe it would help him calculate the circumference of the Earth... ...or not in this specific case...
Slashdot is in the business of fostering rational debate. If you cannot handle that, you do not belong here.
Hahahahaahahaha! HHahahahahahaaaa!
*gasp*
HahahaahahaAAHAa! HAHAAHAHAHAHAA!
Oh wait, you're serious?
Slashdot has never been in the specific business of fostering rational debate. It has vacillated between the ravings of fanboys and the ridiculousness of geek culture with the occasional insightful or meaningful comment from time to time.
If Slashdot were in the specific business of fostering rational debate then it wouldn't rely on community moderation and would have actual paid moderation staff to run the place.
Yes, but the self-driving car is not a function of the state or contracted to provide enforcement. If anything, since the accident the state has been harder on self-driving cars, not harder on jay-walking.
I've heard that AA gun is popular in that region of the planet.
People that work in technology routinely skip the EULA, and those are the people that know better.
If those people don't read the fine-print, do you expect any average nontechnical person to read through the fine-print when they're just trying to install an app on their phone to make it easier to use than the web version?
This kind of crap is why I didn't sign-up for Facebook to start with. They might not be breaking the letter of the law, but to my view they appear to be fundamentally dishonest.
Pathologists already would, depending on the degradation of the corpse, basically take the skin of the fingers off of the body and either put it on a mandrel or else would put it over their own gloved hands as a human-glove to get fingerprints.
I am not surprised in the slightest that investigators would attempt to unlock biometric locks with the biometrics of the deceased. I would be more surprised if they didn't try it. I also wouldn't be surprised if they have to develop techniques to duplicate someone's fingerprint in a way that allows it to be applied with similar capacitance and temperature as their living body would have, to attempt to override any circumvention-blocks that look for that sort of thing.
I think it's time that we reintroduce an old concept, Ostracism .
No, smartasses cause comedy. Trolling does not require any basis in humor, even for the person doing the trolling.
Because the Swiss are so known for their transparency laws when it comes to records...
You might find some historians or anthropologists that would have interest, but I could see them opting to 'resurrect' either brains from people that they can establish documentation-on for being interesting, or else they would only perform the procedure on a few subjects that their budget allows-for in order to see if it's worthwhile.
Results will either be messed up due to records corruption so they'll get the importance of a given subject wrong and mistakenly resurrect Jonathan Goldsmith, or else the end-result will be something like those failed Robocop II examples where the subjects immediately kill themselves in-horror at what they've become.
Will they manage to get their hands on the preserved head of Ted Williams to make him Patient Zero?
No they don't. Uber's current model's only purpose is to raise its profile and tide it over until it has self-driving vehicles, at which point it will stop using human drivers for at least its primary/basic service to move passengers around. Lyft, if they have an interest in self-driving cars, doesn't seem to actively pursue it. They certainly haven't gotten caught in industrial espionage.
The Amiga and the Atari ST lacked the market-share over the sum of decades that both Wintel and Apple enjoyed. They aren't unimportant in the history of computing but when discussing the totality of the proliferation of personal computers they don't matter.