But this is where they are wrong - AT&T doesn't "own the highway". In fact, we the taxpayers own said highway as we paid the telecoms huge sums of money in the 90s in the form of tax incentives for said highways that were never delivered as required. Perhaps we should repatriate the highways back to the municipalities, and the services that AT&T and other provide would be the only thing we pay for.
Microsoft's leveraging contracts and monopoly power to kill other businesses is evil (even if they missed the phone/tablet revolution, it isn't for lack of trying)
Though I do not necessarily disagree, I must point out that:
A) MS did not miss the tablet revolution, they predated the tablet revolution and inspired SJ to create the iPad
B) Apple uses the business model of litigate into bankruptcy or purchase against their competitors. At least MS had the decency to buy up the companies that were actually making decent hardware/softwares (but not all, I know)
A) MS most certainly missed the dock, boat, and ocean on both phones and tablets, almost as badly as the internet. Except this time they were too far behind to buy/force their way into either market. They were still swinging the antiquated Windows phone at the iPhone when the iPad came on the scene shifting the consumer market yet again. Android was better positioned to come in with a relatively untarnished name behind it, Windows Phones were just DOA from that point forward, and tablets just never materialized.
At this point, MS would have to recreate something like the XBox to make meaningful headway in either market, and while they have the bank account to attempt it, they would still have to overcome quite a bit of negative perception towards their products. Perhaps a whole new line with a whole new look? Since they've already fubarred the metro (MS modern?) UI, that probably won't be the answer either. Maybe reskinned, ditch all desktop capabilities, and just go from there?
BTW - love the MS fanboi's that appear to have mod points to spare today:)
Seems they went into bankruptcy as soon as discovery was filed. I'd say it looks like Apple's lawsuit merely hastened what was already a failing business model. And that business model was to take software only licensed for Apple products and run it on non-Apple products. Seems like a reasonable reason to file a lawsuit.
Why is this modded down? It's entirely fair to point out that both of these companies have a long and well-established history of walled gardens and heavy-handiness. Just because so many fanboys have a love-on for Apple on slashdot (and hate-on for MS) doesn't make Apple any less evil in their business dealings. And if there are any fans of Comcast out there in the universe, they must be about as rare as Yetis.
Because Apple's walled garden isn't inherently evil, and honestly, Comcast's gouging so far is merely ass-hattery. Google's tracking of everything you do everywhere online is evil. Facebook's building of a global facial recognition DB and tracking everything you do everywhere is evil. Microsoft's leveraging contracts and monopoly power to kill other businesses is evil (even if they missed the phone/tablet revolution, it isn't for lack of trying)
Just to put things in perspective. Just because you don't like something doesn't automatically make it evil. There has to be intent with harm to fall into evilness.
And with 33% of the windows market still running XP and a further 55% or so running Win 7, why would that change for anything but new games that require resources not available to the average XP machine? Even then, looking at those percentages, you'd only step up to DX 11.
I don't know about IMAP, but I still can get out my complete calendar data as ical file that I can import into any other calendar service/app.
Yes, you can. But you can't use a client to connect up to the Google calendar to do any meaningful interactions. In terms of merely getting the data out, you can. I just haven't gone through the trouble of facading my google account, yet. I use it as little as possible.
3) Yes, there's nothing as a free lunch. But there is no guarantee that in a few years, there will be free a OpenOffice Version that runs on Windows10. So you sjould always be aware that at some point, any service might cost money. You're a bit better of with Google here, as they at least acknowledge that problem and have a team set up to make sure you can move in and out(!) to and from Google services (www.dataliberation.org) Other services have a long record of vendor lock-in instead.
Google's services are locking you in now. IMAP and ICAL have been so broken that just about the only reliable way of interacting with them is solely through the browser. That action, btw, means that Google can track everywhere you as your account has been. The answer here is to sandbox google access to a separate secondary browser that you don't use for anything other than Google, preferably in a VM to be really safe. That, however, is too inconvenient for most. So besides the lock in, why do you think Google's services are better? I'll note that Apple's cloud services first and foremost require a local instance. They only use the cloud for sharing across devices and a secondary backup. Their software does not rely on the cloud. This is the opposite of Google and O365, which are both cloud first, local second, if at all.
I'm sure it's included in the price of the computer, much like MS's licenses for crapware are included in Dells and HPs. Except, for $500 or less (academic) you get a small power efficient box with much more functional software. you'll still need your keyboards, pointing devices and screens, but that whole bundle can be had from external sources cheap. I just checked, those prices are in line with Dell at least.
Free Market COULD sort this out. This is a matter of courts. IF you can prove the harm, and you should be able to, then we can use the courts to sue the corporations and their boards and CxOs for liablity, toss them in to Pound me in the ass prison, and confiscate their wealth, and finally, after all is done, give the shareholders absolutely nothing by revoking the corporate charter (including subsidiaries).
Until ANY of those things happen at least once for corporate malfeasance, nothing will change. Much like gov employees documented lying under oath still walking free.
If this is a once-every-20-years winter, by definition it's no longer "normal". Normal is the other 19.
Except if you go back 100 years, the last 19 have been abnormally warm (guess that global warming crowd might be onto something after all) so I guess this year is "normal" by definition, the other 19 were not.
I'd take this a different way, we finally had a normal winter, the first in a decade, and everyone is shocked, just shocked, that winter is cold, wet, snowy, icy, and generally miserable. They need to be reminded that gee, yes, this is what is normal for winter. You've just been lucky the past 10-20 years.
Exactly, there is also the perceptual problem that tariffs are solely punitive or protectionism, when in fact their main use should be leveling the playing field and providing a source of revenue to the federal government.
Some will argue that the first item, leveling the playing field, is "protectionism". It is not in the sense that it will ensure domestic production, what it does do is ensure that there is no unfair advantage due to not having to abide by pollution controls or worker safety, for instance. Granted, it could easily be bent to protectionism, by just bumping it up another few percent, ensuring domestic profitability, which is probably a closer true definition of protectionism. Note that in some cases, such as textiles, there are no domestic industries, so there would be no case for protectionism. The tariffs would still be applied.
The second item is something that should be applied across the board, as a percentage of value. The purpose here is to ensure that the fed gets its share of revenue that it would otherwise have gotten from income taxes. As for the argument that exports already taxed, you'd be correct and you'd also note that the huge trade deficit means this is a net negative. Why should the government not gain it on imports? If you think that this doesn't happen elsewhere, you're mistaken. Europe as a whole applies VAT, which adds 20% on average. I'd propose that 20% as a starting import tariff across the boards. It'd do a lot for the federal deficit, not to mention boost domestic production. Yes, cheap imports would go up 20%. That's sort of the point to avoid a race to the bottom.
PSST - there's a lot of other work occurring in other areas of the US, not to mention the world. It's not the dark ages anymore, and if anything, the internet has opened horizons. SF is still a hot bed of activity, but certainly not the only one. Too bad I can't short real estate nor pompous articles.
small controlled sicknesses only in those with this misguided belief is better than uncontrolled wide-spread sickness caused by pockets of these morons. (I have no regard for their opinions nor beliefs when it harms the whole of humanity)
The security of a web app (ie, running inside a container) is relatively secure. The "insecurity" attributed to Java is almost entirely browser plugin based, at least for the past few versions I ran through the last time someone made this claim. I personally would never write an applet, at least not using Java. I'd go for an application, in which case you're back to relatively secure. Now if you download a trojan, there's no helping that.
As for performance, I thought this one had finally been put to bed with results like these and many others. Yes, C/C++ can be fast. Yes, Java can also be fast. They all can be dog slow too.
I saved the 'D' for your post. Java, despite its flaws, is far superior for certain tasks than Perl. Having had the pleasure of converting several Perl based websites to Java versions, and having done the same for C/C++ sites, I can say for web sites, Java is definitely the preferred language over those for reliability, uptime, performance, security, and manageability and maintainability of the source code. If you never need to modify the source, then I suppose the latter 2 don't matter. C# in my experience requires more resources for the same general load. Now, if you're needing some single user code that is highly efficient and fast - you'd go C (or C++, if you must) or assembly. Having coded in all those and more, and having coded for large systems has shown where each language excels, if it does, or really is a wannabe.
How soon you forget Bush and the 107th Congress, Republican majority in the house, and the fact that the unconstitutional Patriot Act was written by a Republican. Yes, Obama extended it, but it should be noted that Democrats only held a majority of Congress from 2007-2011 since 1995, and Republicans also held a majority of the Senate from 1995-2007, with a few short exceptions. So then the question becomes who's responsible for the greatest economic downturn ever, after being handed the greatest economic upswing in history (FYI - that would be the upswing started around 92/93 and ended in 2001) Not that I'm a Democrat, but Republicans seem incapable of avoiding recessions no matter what they're handed.
How long until the first virus / malware infects machines everywhere and does nothing other than visit random "malicious" web sites such as wikileaks or the wikipedia page on wikileaks and Snowden in irregular bursts, just like someone browsing?
Slashdot Mirror
But this is where they are wrong - AT&T doesn't "own the highway". In fact, we the taxpayers own said highway as we paid the telecoms huge sums of money in the 90s in the form of tax incentives for said highways that were never delivered as required. Perhaps we should repatriate the highways back to the municipalities, and the services that AT&T and other provide would be the only thing we pay for.
Microsoft's leveraging contracts and monopoly power to kill other businesses is evil (even if they missed the phone/tablet revolution, it isn't for lack of trying)
Though I do not necessarily disagree, I must point out that:
A) MS most certainly missed the dock, boat, and ocean on both phones and tablets, almost as badly as the internet. Except this time they were too far behind to buy/force their way into either market. They were still swinging the antiquated Windows phone at the iPhone when the iPad came on the scene shifting the consumer market yet again. Android was better positioned to come in with a relatively untarnished name behind it, Windows Phones were just DOA from that point forward, and tablets just never materialized.
At this point, MS would have to recreate something like the XBox to make meaningful headway in either market, and while they have the bank account to attempt it, they would still have to overcome quite a bit of negative perception towards their products. Perhaps a whole new line with a whole new look? Since they've already fubarred the metro (MS modern?) UI, that probably won't be the answer either. Maybe reskinned, ditch all desktop capabilities, and just go from there?
BTW - love the MS fanboi's that appear to have mod points to spare today :)
Seems they went into bankruptcy as soon as discovery was filed. I'd say it looks like Apple's lawsuit merely hastened what was already a failing business model. And that business model was to take software only licensed for Apple products and run it on non-Apple products. Seems like a reasonable reason to file a lawsuit.
Why is this modded down? It's entirely fair to point out that both of these companies have a long and well-established history of walled gardens and heavy-handiness. Just because so many fanboys have a love-on for Apple on slashdot (and hate-on for MS) doesn't make Apple any less evil in their business dealings. And if there are any fans of Comcast out there in the universe, they must be about as rare as Yetis.
Because Apple's walled garden isn't inherently evil, and honestly, Comcast's gouging so far is merely ass-hattery. Google's tracking of everything you do everywhere online is evil. Facebook's building of a global facial recognition DB and tracking everything you do everywhere is evil. Microsoft's leveraging contracts and monopoly power to kill other businesses is evil (even if they missed the phone/tablet revolution, it isn't for lack of trying)
Just to put things in perspective. Just because you don't like something doesn't automatically make it evil. There has to be intent with harm to fall into evilness.
And with 33% of the windows market still running XP and a further 55% or so running Win 7, why would that change for anything but new games that require resources not available to the average XP machine? Even then, looking at those percentages, you'd only step up to DX 11.
I don't know about IMAP, but I still can get out my complete calendar data as ical file that I can import into any other calendar service/app.
Yes, you can. But you can't use a client to connect up to the Google calendar to do any meaningful interactions. In terms of merely getting the data out, you can. I just haven't gone through the trouble of facading my google account, yet. I use it as little as possible.
I'm sure it's included in the price of the computer, much like MS's licenses for crapware are included in Dells and HPs.
The crapware pays for the OS, which is why Linux versions of the same computer often cost more
The "crapware" is the MS OS.
3) Yes, there's nothing as a free lunch. But there is no guarantee that in a few years, there will be free a OpenOffice Version that runs on Windows10. So you sjould always be aware that at some point, any service might cost money. You're a bit better of with Google here, as they at least acknowledge that problem and have a team set up to make sure you can move in and out(!) to and from Google services (www.dataliberation.org) Other services have a long record of vendor lock-in instead.
Google's services are locking you in now. IMAP and ICAL have been so broken that just about the only reliable way of interacting with them is solely through the browser. That action, btw, means that Google can track everywhere you as your account has been. The answer here is to sandbox google access to a separate secondary browser that you don't use for anything other than Google, preferably in a VM to be really safe. That, however, is too inconvenient for most. So besides the lock in, why do you think Google's services are better? I'll note that Apple's cloud services first and foremost require a local instance. They only use the cloud for sharing across devices and a secondary backup. Their software does not rely on the cloud. This is the opposite of Google and O365, which are both cloud first, local second, if at all.
I'm sure it's included in the price of the computer, much like MS's licenses for crapware are included in Dells and HPs. Except, for $500 or less (academic) you get a small power efficient box with much more functional software. you'll still need your keyboards, pointing devices and screens, but that whole bundle can be had from external sources cheap. I just checked, those prices are in line with Dell at least.
How about 2B?
Free Market COULD sort this out. This is a matter of courts. IF you can prove the harm, and you should be able to, then we can use the courts to sue the corporations and their boards and CxOs for liablity, toss them in to Pound me in the ass prison, and confiscate their wealth, and finally, after all is done, give the shareholders absolutely nothing by revoking the corporate charter (including subsidiaries).
Until ANY of those things happen at least once for corporate malfeasance, nothing will change. Much like gov employees documented lying under oath still walking free.
If this is a once-every-20-years winter, by definition it's no longer "normal". Normal is the other 19.
Except if you go back 100 years, the last 19 have been abnormally warm (guess that global warming crowd might be onto something after all) so I guess this year is "normal" by definition, the other 19 were not.
I'd take this a different way, we finally had a normal winter, the first in a decade, and everyone is shocked, just shocked, that winter is cold, wet, snowy, icy, and generally miserable. They need to be reminded that gee, yes, this is what is normal for winter. You've just been lucky the past 10-20 years.
Exactly, there is also the perceptual problem that tariffs are solely punitive or protectionism, when in fact their main use should be leveling the playing field and providing a source of revenue to the federal government.
Some will argue that the first item, leveling the playing field, is "protectionism". It is not in the sense that it will ensure domestic production, what it does do is ensure that there is no unfair advantage due to not having to abide by pollution controls or worker safety, for instance. Granted, it could easily be bent to protectionism, by just bumping it up another few percent, ensuring domestic profitability, which is probably a closer true definition of protectionism. Note that in some cases, such as textiles, there are no domestic industries, so there would be no case for protectionism. The tariffs would still be applied.
The second item is something that should be applied across the board, as a percentage of value. The purpose here is to ensure that the fed gets its share of revenue that it would otherwise have gotten from income taxes. As for the argument that exports already taxed, you'd be correct and you'd also note that the huge trade deficit means this is a net negative. Why should the government not gain it on imports? If you think that this doesn't happen elsewhere, you're mistaken. Europe as a whole applies VAT, which adds 20% on average. I'd propose that 20% as a starting import tariff across the boards. It'd do a lot for the federal deficit, not to mention boost domestic production. Yes, cheap imports would go up 20%. That's sort of the point to avoid a race to the bottom.
So the answer there is to tax imports to even them out for unfair wage discrepancies. Seems easy enough.
PSST - there's a lot of other work occurring in other areas of the US, not to mention the world. It's not the dark ages anymore, and if anything, the internet has opened horizons. SF is still a hot bed of activity, but certainly not the only one. Too bad I can't short real estate nor pompous articles.
small controlled sicknesses only in those with this misguided belief is better than uncontrolled wide-spread sickness caused by pockets of these morons. (I have no regard for their opinions nor beliefs when it harms the whole of humanity)
God?
Expose them to measles, mumps, diptheria, etc seems to work. Maybe not compassionate, but neither is preaching ignorance and endangering society.
The security of a web app (ie, running inside a container) is relatively secure. The "insecurity" attributed to Java is almost entirely browser plugin based, at least for the past few versions I ran through the last time someone made this claim. I personally would never write an applet, at least not using Java. I'd go for an application, in which case you're back to relatively secure. Now if you download a trojan, there's no helping that.
As for performance, I thought this one had finally been put to bed with results like these and many others. Yes, C/C++ can be fast. Yes, Java can also be fast. They all can be dog slow too.
I saved the 'D' for your post. Java, despite its flaws, is far superior for certain tasks than Perl. Having had the pleasure of converting several Perl based websites to Java versions, and having done the same for C/C++ sites, I can say for web sites, Java is definitely the preferred language over those for reliability, uptime, performance, security, and manageability and maintainability of the source code. If you never need to modify the source, then I suppose the latter 2 don't matter. C# in my experience requires more resources for the same general load. Now, if you're needing some single user code that is highly efficient and fast - you'd go C (or C++, if you must) or assembly. Having coded in all those and more, and having coded for large systems has shown where each language excels, if it does, or really is a wannabe.
You'll make bigger bucks in COBOL. So exactly what does $'s have to prove here, other than perhaps there are more jobs than qualified applicants?
I guess if you live in the 90s.
How soon you forget Bush and the 107th Congress, Republican majority in the house, and the fact that the unconstitutional Patriot Act was written by a Republican. Yes, Obama extended it, but it should be noted that Democrats only held a majority of Congress from 2007-2011 since 1995, and Republicans also held a majority of the Senate from 1995-2007, with a few short exceptions. So then the question becomes who's responsible for the greatest economic downturn ever, after being handed the greatest economic upswing in history (FYI - that would be the upswing started around 92/93 and ended in 2001) Not that I'm a Democrat, but Republicans seem incapable of avoiding recessions no matter what they're handed.
How long until the first virus / malware infects machines everywhere and does nothing other than visit random "malicious" web sites such as wikileaks or the wikipedia page on wikileaks and Snowden in irregular bursts, just like someone browsing?