1. create dummy identities in your team 2. make those dummies look underperforming compared to you (I know, this is the hard part) 3. next stack ranking comes, they get in the pool, so you are above average. 4. profit!!!
I believe this technique is called "stack overflow" and I bet it will work for microsoft for another 30 years at least.
No added value in linux? I have two words for you: Package manager.
That one aside: FOSS on windows, what a joy. Like one of my first rails apps, developed on an already aging laptop, which needed 10000 records to be loaded from db. Time to perform that so called migration under linux, a minute. Time under the rails plus mysql windows installer, N/A, after losing 15 minutes watching it "progress" I reset and opted for putting the linux version on USB and booting from it.
Oh and you probably don't value the freedom of controlling your software infrastructure. Enjoying keeping up with whatever ballmer + hardware producers decide it must be your desktop experience.
> Off hand: Adobe, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian all require the immediate previous version to upgrade.
Nope, using debootstrap on debian lets you install debian from whatever previous version, and whatever other linux distro. Stuck with only one partition? The system is in a folder you can chroot into, so you reboot from another media and move the current install to a backup folder, the chroot to the root, rerun the update-grub or whatever is needed by your bootloader.
Of course they are worth it. You have to factor in the huge advantage of patents in transforming a virtual landscape, where the idea of a startup can sink an established competitor in a matter of months, in a real market where the advantage of being big makes it very hard for real competition to emerge. Add the secondary advantage of dealing with imaginary property, which let corrupt managers of big corporations create empty shells/patent troll companies that can transfer money with no need for justification to whatever bank account they like, evading taxes or cheating shareholders.
Big companies dueling are just pretending they hate each others, they cannot use patents only against the little guys, and keep the pretense that they facilitate innovation (which happens to be true, but only for non trivial patents which describe enough of a system to let people replicate it easily when it expires)
The Police will soon have a list of all the people who changed ISP after this announcement. People who demand privacy obviously have something to hide.
What does an 80s rock band have to do with this? Are they suing downloaders?
No, but they like to watch every breath you take and every move you make.
There's speculation that a security program that ends up classifying sites featuring bitcoin as gambling, sucks. What is the reason behind this mistake/sabotage/whatever? who cares.
> just try updating xulrunner when Firefox or Thunderbird is open
That's a package manager issue. Service/apps need to be restarted? notify it ahead of installation, or restart them. Isn't it nice to login using ssh, update ssh and not lose the connection?
This offline updates idea is a wasted april's fool joke.
> If what you are saying was true, Windows would have died 15 years ago and the world would be running on Linux.
15 years ago there was no competitive office suite. Besides. the pc market is different, using windows there ensures that your hardware will get obsolete/unsupported after a while, no such luxury (from the POV of the hardware manufacturer) on linux. And the market grew up alongside windows. Very different situation than the smartphone market.
Once the linux deskop has THE GAMES, hardware manufacturer will have to offer linux. That's why MS never mentions GAMES:)
> the end goal being to encourage OEMs like Samsung to move their investment from Android to Windows 8.
They should move from an open source, that is ownable and forkable OS, to one whom they have no control of? And to achieve what? compete with a table which will likely be sold at a loss like it was done for the xbox?
Samsung probably wishes that the MS tablet tanks and makes MS depart from a ton of money.
Other OEMs? Well it was fun and games until MS entered the hardware market. Welcome to the long list of MS partners who got screwed in the end. Better remove the - mostly artificial - barriers to the proper running of linux, or prepare to be a second class windows adopters.
Maybe control is the objective, not an unwelcome side effect. So Monsanto (or another corporation, or the sum of companies backed by the same worldwide financial system) threatens the non-ogm farming; just like environmental pollution in general, these are entirely rational consequences.
When all you have around is polluted and patented, those owning the therapies and the patents own you, no matter what you vote for, or whether you voice your concern.
Microsoft Corporation: Affected by the bug- notified:01 May 2012 corrected:08 Jun 2012 Debian GNU/Linux: Affected by the bug- Unknown notified:02 May 2012 corrected:02 May 2012
Easy victory for debian, as there was no manager who had to wonder how fixing the bug ASAP vs. schedule the fix for later could potentially affect his career...
I wonder what's my liablity for not doing anything about mass surveillance. If you want to prevent crimes you want to reduce the number of suspects. Labeling a lot of people "potential terrorist" is instead a way to curb people discontent. Behave, Big brother watches you. And besides, all corrupt systems try to criminalize as many people as possible, it's difficult to control people which can easily live a clean life, it's pretty easy if you can get sent to court no matter what.
I don't discount the possibility that our online rights are being targeted as a diversion while our independence in real life is being slowly reduced by regulations and an economic system which calls us human resources and favors replaceability of said cattl.. er resources. Here, we are simply shifting electrons around, real wealth and power are elsewhere.
Get debian or a long term release mature enough if you want finished stuff. With the exception of kde 4 apps which were a step backwards compared to the 3 equivalents, I don't meet many half finished apps.
The problem is that if you can interfere with EMERGENCY cooling (normal cooling is ok) using software, you have bought a machine that can be potentially bricked by malicious hackers. No problem if it's your home machine as nobody is going to bother, problem if you buy dozens of those.
Oh wait, forgot the worst case scenario when an overheating machine lights up the piece of paper standing nearby and sets the house on fire.
I'd say the BIOS is slightly safer, yet IMHO any serious hardware manufacturer shouldn't let the software mess the hardware, not the wireless chip, not the motherboard. I should be able to execute/dev/random for days, lock up but never brick the machine.
Or possibly, if linux hadn't featured the gpl, it would be a niche OS with a version developed by apple or some other giants whose patents make it impossible to keep the free version on par with features. But speculaton on what could have happened is pointless. OTOH speculation on the future.... possibly linux in VMs or other security frameworks will be used for general and specialized purposes, until the guys running 20 VMs on their 16 core cellphones start to wonder if they would be better off with the microkernel approach. In other words, linus was right, tanenbaum wiil be right.
You are assuming this project is done with the aim of making it work as honestly as possible. If it's only a shell for a censorship program, giving it the pretense of being driven by people, it's perfectly workable. In other words, the system will radomly filter and accept legitimate censorship requests from joe the public, instead it will always censor the sites that are against powerful interests when said interests express that desire.
The concept of "the creator" of an universe like ours requires "time" laid out as ours. The creator is something that causes the creation. Cause needs unidirectional time.
We have no indication whatsoever that the world of the creator has something comparable to our time. Religious nuts giving him the "eternal" attribute say "no".
Therefore the existence of "the creator of a creator" is not necessary. Worse even, the existence of THE CONCEPT of a creator in the world of the creator is in doubt. All concepts and relations between them are not necessarily the same outside of space-time.
Not even INSIDE space-time, once you pick suitable abstractions. Define the universe containing foobar and only foobar. Is the principle of no contradiction "either foobar or no-foobar" valid in that universe? No, the concept of no-foobar doesn't exist there. The concept of "either" does not exist there. The concept of "or" does not exist there. WE could be less rigorous, ignore the undefined parts, and say the principle is valid, because the first case is verified. We are outside such universe however.
So, you wonder about the attributes creator's creator when you're not able to guarantee that the concept even exists? Fine, to each his own invisible pink unicorn. But you can't derive any logically valid conclusion if you have to make assumptions in your implication, can you? Nope, doing that would be a logic error. Except that atheists do, in the infinite regression argument that you seem to echo. For each step of the infinite regression, assumptions must be done, and they become unbearable at the first step already.
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1. create dummy identities in your team
2. make those dummies look underperforming compared to you (I know, this is the hard part)
3. next stack ranking comes, they get in the pool, so you are above average.
4. profit!!!
I believe this technique is called "stack overflow" and I bet it will work for microsoft for another 30 years at least.
LOL, +5 insightful!
No added value in linux? I have two words for you:
Package manager.
That one aside: FOSS on windows, what a joy.
Like one of my first rails apps, developed on an already aging laptop, which needed 10000 records to be loaded from db. Time to perform that so called migration under linux, a minute. Time under the rails plus mysql windows installer, N/A, after losing 15 minutes watching it "progress" I reset and opted for putting the linux version on USB and booting from it.
Oh and you probably don't value the freedom of controlling your software infrastructure. Enjoying keeping up with whatever ballmer + hardware producers decide it must be your desktop experience.
> Off hand: Adobe, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian all require the immediate previous version to upgrade.
Nope, using debootstrap on debian lets you install debian from whatever previous version, and whatever other linux distro. Stuck with only one partition? The system is in a folder you can chroot into, so you reboot from another media and move the current install to a backup folder, the chroot to the root, rerun the update-grub or whatever is needed by your bootloader.
Pole position was Namco's.
Just like Xevious which had some Atari built cabinets floating around.
Now, get off my lawn or i'll xevious-bomb your balls - with just one shot in the middle, of course :)
Of course they are worth it.
You have to factor in the huge advantage of patents in transforming a virtual landscape, where the idea of a startup can sink an established competitor in a matter of months, in a real market where the advantage of being big makes it very hard for real competition to emerge.
Add the secondary advantage of dealing with imaginary property, which let corrupt managers of big corporations create empty shells/patent troll companies that can transfer money with no need for justification to whatever bank account they like, evading taxes or cheating shareholders.
Big companies dueling are just pretending they hate each others, they cannot use patents only against the little guys, and keep the pretense that they facilitate innovation (which happens to be true, but only for non trivial patents which describe enough of a system to let people replicate it easily when it expires)
No, but they like to watch every breath you take and every move you make.
There's speculation that a security program that ends up classifying sites featuring bitcoin as gambling, sucks.
What is the reason behind this mistake/sabotage/whatever? who cares.
> just try updating xulrunner when Firefox or Thunderbird is open
That's a package manager issue. Service/apps need to be restarted? notify it ahead of installation, or restart them. Isn't it nice to login using ssh, update ssh and not lose the connection?
This offline updates idea is a wasted april's fool joke.
> If what you are saying was true, Windows would have died 15 years ago and the world would be running on Linux.
15 years ago there was no competitive office suite.
Besides. the pc market is different, using windows there ensures that your hardware will get obsolete/unsupported after a while, no such luxury (from the POV of the hardware manufacturer) on linux.
And the market grew up alongside windows. Very different situation than the smartphone market.
Once the linux deskop has THE GAMES, hardware manufacturer will have to offer linux. That's why MS never mentions GAMES :)
> the end goal being to encourage OEMs like Samsung to move their investment from Android to Windows 8.
They should move from an open source, that is ownable and forkable OS, to one whom they have no control of?
And to achieve what? compete with a table which will likely be sold at a loss like it was done for the xbox?
Samsung probably wishes that the MS tablet tanks and makes MS depart from a ton of money.
Other OEMs? Well it was fun and games until MS entered the hardware market. Welcome to the long list of MS partners who got screwed in the end. Better remove the - mostly artificial - barriers to the proper running of linux, or prepare to be a second class windows adopters.
> takes "I am the truth, the way, and the light" literally
"And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity".
No no they don't defend at all, they contract.
Maybe control is the objective, not an unwelcome side effect.
So Monsanto (or another corporation, or the sum of companies backed by the same worldwide financial system) threatens the non-ogm farming; just like environmental pollution in general, these are entirely rational consequences.
When all you have around is polluted and patented, those owning the therapies and the patents own you, no matter what you vote for, or whether you voice your concern.
Microsoft Corporation: Affected by the bug-
notified:01 May 2012 corrected:08 Jun 2012
Debian GNU/Linux: Affected by the bug- Unknown
notified:02 May 2012 corrected:02 May 2012
Easy victory for debian, as there was no manager who had to wonder how fixing the bug ASAP vs. schedule the fix for later could potentially affect his career...
I wonder what's my liablity for not doing anything about mass surveillance. If you want to prevent crimes you want to reduce the number of suspects. Labeling a lot of people "potential terrorist" is instead a way to curb people discontent. Behave, Big brother watches you.
And besides, all corrupt systems try to criminalize as many people as possible, it's difficult to control people which can easily live a clean life, it's pretty easy if you can get sent to court no matter what.
I don't discount the possibility that our online rights are being targeted as a diversion while our independence in real life is being slowly reduced by regulations and an economic system which calls us human resources and favors replaceability of said cattl.. er resources.
Here, we are simply shifting electrons around, real wealth and power are elsewhere.
Get debian or a long term release mature enough if you want finished stuff. With the exception of kde 4 apps which were a step backwards compared to the 3 equivalents, I don't meet many half finished apps.
The problem is that if you can interfere with EMERGENCY cooling (normal cooling is ok) using software, you have bought a machine that can be potentially bricked by malicious hackers. No problem if it's your home machine as nobody is going to bother, problem if you buy dozens of those.
Oh wait, forgot the worst case scenario when an overheating machine lights up the piece of paper standing nearby and sets the house on fire.
I'd say the BIOS is slightly safer, yet IMHO any serious hardware manufacturer shouldn't let the software mess the hardware, not the wireless chip, not the motherboard. I should be able to execute /dev/random for days, lock up but never brick the machine.
Or possibly, if linux hadn't featured the gpl, it would be a niche OS with a version developed by apple or some other giants whose patents make it impossible to keep the free version on par with features.
But speculaton on what could have happened is pointless.
OTOH speculation on the future.... possibly linux in VMs or other security frameworks will be used for general and specialized purposes, until the guys running 20 VMs on their 16 core cellphones start to wonder if they would be better off with the microkernel approach. In other words, linus was right, tanenbaum wiil be right.
> Intel Corp exists for one reason only: to make money
money (now) exists for one reason only: enforce control.
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You are assuming this project is done with the aim of making it work as honestly as possible.
If it's only a shell for a censorship program, giving it the pretense of being driven by people, it's perfectly workable.
In other words, the system will radomly filter and accept legitimate censorship requests from joe the public, instead it will always censor the sites that are against powerful interests when said interests express that desire.
The "undryable cloud"?
But hey why are we doing the work of Oracle ads team? let's see what they come it up with.
Hopefully they collected only the strength calculated before hashing salting and storing the result.
Hopefully.
The concept of "the creator" of an universe like ours requires "time" laid out as ours. The creator is something that causes the creation. Cause needs unidirectional time.
We have no indication whatsoever that the world of the creator has something comparable to our time. Religious nuts giving him the "eternal" attribute say "no".
Therefore the existence of "the creator of a creator" is not necessary. Worse even, the existence of THE CONCEPT of a creator in the world of the creator is in doubt. All concepts and relations between them are not necessarily the same outside of space-time.
Not even INSIDE space-time, once you pick suitable abstractions. Define the universe containing foobar and only foobar. Is the principle of no contradiction "either foobar or no-foobar" valid in that universe? No, the concept of no-foobar doesn't exist there. The concept of "either" does not exist there. The concept of "or" does not exist there. WE could be less rigorous, ignore the undefined parts, and say the principle is valid, because the first case is verified. We are outside such universe however.
So, you wonder about the attributes creator's creator when you're not able to guarantee that the concept even exists? Fine, to each his own invisible pink unicorn. But you can't derive any logically valid conclusion if you have to make assumptions in your implication, can you? Nope, doing that would be a logic error. Except that atheists do, in the infinite regression argument that you seem to echo. For each step of the infinite regression, assumptions must be done, and they become unbearable at the first step already.
Cockroaches are like humans so we shouldn't hurt them? who says that?
Not me.
I say: play with somebody your own size, coward.