I agree, the amount of F-ups that UPnP offers greatly exceeds the advantages of that protocol.
I can't imagine that anyone allowed that protocol from the beginning. On the other hand - don't underestimate the power of human stupidity and laziness.
Torrent trackers will be replaced by something else.
We have seen usenet, fsp (File Service Protocol) sites, ftp sites, BBSes, torrent trackers and probably a few more variants more or less successful. There will always be a new solution to the problem of sharing information. The point is that the stakes will be raised and new methods to ensure anonymity will be created.
It also depends on how you calculate the tax burden. US property and company taxes are often high, added costs for insurances covered by taxes in EU also is a factor.
But either you are proactive or you are reactive in the market. Being stuck on reactive use means that you will always be behind and as soon as you have caught up with the competition the customers have already moved elsewhere.
The golden age of TV was in the 70's and 80's. Some stuff was cheesy but some stuff from that time was actually pretty good while still being cheesy and some was really good.
Among the really good stuff was in my opinion Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kojak, MASH and Hill Street Blues. Good and Cheesy was Happy Days and then too many bad cheesy shows not worth to remember.
And we didn't have all those age ratings everywhere and seldom a "Don't try this at home" except when something was really dangerous.
That seems to be right - experienced Cobol developers are rare these days and you can't get them when you need them so you better have a thick wallet. And banks have thick wallets.
Since I work with a large company the price for a small change like creating a new report is about $100 to $500k. And that's a list that could be thrown together at a coffee break in Java.
I have messed around with Cobol a bit and even though it's a pretty stable solution when you work with it there are some stuff that it suffers from, and it's primarily that it has a hard time to interact with other systems once you get the data into a Cobol file. A file written with Cobol should only be read by Cobol and any data sent to a Cobol system must be written in fixed record format where every position is important. Negative numbers is a creature all of their own since some Cobol variants don't use a "-" sign, instead it tweaks the most significant byte of the number field to indicate a negative number - something that can cause other languages to barf.
As long as you are bowing to the god Cobol all is fine, as soon as you start talk about other solutions you get a blank stare from everyone working on the mainframe and they put you twenty steps down the ladder.
Well, my parents bought one Zetor 6748 and one 8045 in the 70's and they are still running. Some quirks, but overall nothing that's impossible to take care of.
And if you get the opportunity - try a Dutra (Hungarian). Straight-cut gears and unsynchronized gearbox.
Except that if you buy Chinese you will have to buy a new tractor each time it breaks down. But maybe that's cheaper - you may get two Chinese tractors for the price of one American.
That - and I also miss being in control of my system. This is something we have lost with all those magic processes running in Windows or elusive ghost problems caused by Systemd.
I just post videos because I want to share something, I have never signed up for ad revenue. And I suspect that there are quite a number of people around that do the same thing.
I probably could have made some money on this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) but I don't really see it as worth the effort.
Add to it the additional costs that US workers have to take in the form of high property taxes, health care insurances and a lot of other stuff then the amount left isn't much different.
Just because one radiation source have little impact doesn't mean that we shall have radiation sources everywhere. At some point the threshold is reached.
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I agree, the amount of F-ups that UPnP offers greatly exceeds the advantages of that protocol.
I can't imagine that anyone allowed that protocol from the beginning. On the other hand - don't underestimate the power of human stupidity and laziness.
Torrent trackers will be replaced by something else.
We have seen usenet, fsp (File Service Protocol) sites, ftp sites, BBSes, torrent trackers and probably a few more variants more or less successful. There will always be a new solution to the problem of sharing information. The point is that the stakes will be raised and new methods to ensure anonymity will be created.
It also depends on how you calculate the tax burden. US property and company taxes are often high, added costs for insurances covered by taxes in EU also is a factor.
Sometimes copying is working, sometime it isn't.
But either you are proactive or you are reactive in the market. Being stuck on reactive use means that you will always be behind and as soon as you have caught up with the competition the customers have already moved elsewhere.
And that tells me that you are into necrophilia.
The golden age of TV was in the 70's and 80's. Some stuff was cheesy but some stuff from that time was actually pretty good while still being cheesy and some was really good.
Among the really good stuff was in my opinion Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kojak, MASH and Hill Street Blues. Good and Cheesy was Happy Days and then too many bad cheesy shows not worth to remember.
And we didn't have all those age ratings everywhere and seldom a "Don't try this at home" except when something was really dangerous.
Except this time it's important to catch the knowledge before it literally dies off.
That seems to be right - experienced Cobol developers are rare these days and you can't get them when you need them so you better have a thick wallet. And banks have thick wallets.
Since I work with a large company the price for a small change like creating a new report is about $100 to $500k. And that's a list that could be thrown together at a coffee break in Java.
To some extent true.
I have messed around with Cobol a bit and even though it's a pretty stable solution when you work with it there are some stuff that it suffers from, and it's primarily that it has a hard time to interact with other systems once you get the data into a Cobol file. A file written with Cobol should only be read by Cobol and any data sent to a Cobol system must be written in fixed record format where every position is important. Negative numbers is a creature all of their own since some Cobol variants don't use a "-" sign, instead it tweaks the most significant byte of the number field to indicate a negative number - something that can cause other languages to barf.
As long as you are bowing to the god Cobol all is fine, as soon as you start talk about other solutions you get a blank stare from everyone working on the mainframe and they put you twenty steps down the ladder.
Well, my parents bought one Zetor 6748 and one 8045 in the 70's and they are still running. Some quirks, but overall nothing that's impossible to take care of.
And if you get the opportunity - try a Dutra (Hungarian). Straight-cut gears and unsynchronized gearbox.
Not if you ask a Zulu. Then it's probably time to cook the result of the hunt of the day.
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Except that if you buy Chinese you will have to buy a new tractor each time it breaks down. But maybe that's cheaper - you may get two Chinese tractors for the price of one American.
What mistake?
Are you sure you have set your timezone right in your profile?
That - and I also miss being in control of my system. This is something we have lost with all those magic processes running in Windows or elusive ghost problems caused by Systemd.
I just post videos because I want to share something, I have never signed up for ad revenue. And I suspect that there are quite a number of people around that do the same thing.
I probably could have made some money on this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) but I don't really see it as worth the effort.
Add to it the additional costs that US workers have to take in the form of high property taxes, health care insurances and a lot of other stuff then the amount left isn't much different.
Interesting, but as I see it C++ has the bad features from both C and Ada and only have the positive side of allowing object orienting.
However some stuff in C++ is quite confusing and does not make it very readable.
If it's anything like the Windows 6 Mobile it's a severely lobotomized variant of the real deal.
Microsoft should have let Windows Mobile 6 be the last version and not try to waste energy on a futile business.
Just because one radiation source have little impact doesn't mean that we shall have radiation sources everywhere. At some point the threshold is reached.
If nobody can replicate it what value does it have?
You can always eat soylent green.
If they publish their research for public scrutiny I don't see that they are prevented from using it.
That's the deal here - since the hockey stick failure there's a large mistrust of what's published on environmental research.
Tell that to Nixon.
And the US missing out on the accelerator was because a senator wanted to know if he could find god with it and approve the funding in that case.