Do you have any idea how much money just 2% of the US mobile market is?
2% of the US market is still 6.5 million subscribers.
If you sell a new one every 2 years at $400/each, thats still almost 3 billion dollars a year in revenue. Drop it to $200/phone and its still 1.3b. In ONLY America. Then theres the rest of the world.
Just because some moron at some shitty magazine makes an ignorant statement doesn't make it news for nerds any more than Donald Trump talking about tech is news for nerds.
As far as every number indicates, the business is profitable. Its not an iPhone, but it still makes money. Killing it would be stupid. Selling it might be more profitable, but killing it would just be utterly stupid.
Did this guy work at GM when they decided to stop selling the only 2 profitable brands they had as well? Idiot.
I more or less have. Technically there were three of us and I'd estimate our peek traffic to be about 1/50th of twitters scale, however the only difference between where I was and where Twitter is... Is more hardware. The support structure for managing them is the same. They don't actually do ANYTHING special.
A server works properly or it doesn't. When it doesn't, you replace it, and that done by the rack monkeys at the data center or at twitters scale, probably robots, either way that person isn't technical stuff, they are paint by numbers janitors that plug in color coded cables. My 2 year old could do that job if he could lift the hardware.
And for the record, twitters uptime is absolute shit considering their scale, or do you just ignore the regular fail whale apperences?
You must have no admin experience at all if you find Twitters infrastructure impressive.
Watching from the beach, after my dad decided we should skip school to go watch.
I have pictures of it from before launch til after the anomoly occurred... And several pictures of random shots that happened when I stood in shock and awe looking at the sky and not realizing I was still pushing the button until my dad grabbed me and pointed out I was out of film.
Why? Because it's down SO often you just stopped using RCS all together?
No, but you'll have one tomorrow, 2 on Saturday, ssh won't work most of Sunday...
Don't try to pretend BitBucket is reliable. It is hands down the most unreliable service I deal with on a daily basis.
Our company is currently split between BitBucket for private Repos and GitHub for public... But only for a few more weeks as we finish abandoning the crapfest half assed mess known as BitBucket
Because you had one guy who did all the awesome work and yesterday he dropped dead?
This is a regular occurrence in business. Ive helped out multiple small companies when the ONE guy who wrote the code that the ENTIRE company revolves around ceases to be available for some reason. One of them was literally hit by a bus and he was the only one that worked on software for a company with roughly 30m in revenue that year and a couple hundred employees. A small company, but to me thats huge to have ONE guy that holds the keys to the kingdom so to speak. Its always some guy that either founded the company or is best friends with the founders or something, a Steve Woz type of guy.
Yes, it was a shitty situation beforehand to have it all in 'one guy's lap, but in most cases it works fine every day so it happens a lot. The likely hood of that one guy walking out with no warning at all is really low, and death even lower... but it does happen.
Your source code is leaked. Suing doesn't actually make it unleaked. It exacts a little revenge but it doesn't actually fix the problem in any way.
Second, what if they simply don't have the money to sue for? Sure, you check for insurance and all that... and then they don't actually pay it along the way and aren't actually covered when the event occurs, or maybe you just can't actually demand anyone thats properly insured.
If your solution to a problem is 'just sue', then you certainly don't understand the problem and are likely part of it.
Let me ask you this: If car hits you while you walk across the street IN THE CROSSWALK in front of a cop who see's the whole thing... Does suing do you any good when you're buried 6 feet deep?
Lawsuits are a form of revenge, they aren't actually a solution to anything other than lawyer salaries.
he said he was "officially over being upset about Facebook buying Oculus."
Yea, when you're about to be bought out by the company who you said you'd never make software for certain things they make... and then you change your mind for a billion dollars... you gotta kinda shut your fucking mouth about the other sell-outs that did the same thing you're about to do... don'tcha?
Notch is a sell-out douche, plan and simple.
But you know what, for a billion dollars... I'm a sell-out douche too. Everyone has their price.
There are RC Air races already, Drones are less entertaining than a standard RC air race because the drones fucking fly themselves, it requires you point in the right direction, not actually fly. The electronics do the flying.
I've been 'racing' RC cars, boats and aircraft for literally 20 years. Drones aren't magically more entertaining thats going to draw people into it.
No one gets hurt in a drone race (no more than spectators at a NASCAR race, for certain). People expect to see carnage and damage that is painful to someone, even if that pain is purely financial. Completely destroying a racing drone costs less than most NASCAR fans will drink in beer while tailgating (And I know how much they cost, I race them!)
Well, except Linux isn't actually Unix. Its a bad clone that does a lot of things in its own silly non-standard way which is one of, if not the biggest problem it has.
Irix is actually UNIX. OS X is actually UNIX.
Being open has not made it amazingly faster, its advanced at a slower pace than both Windows and OS X in every measurable way. It is also not actual OSS software, its copyleft, which is nothing more than pretend open source fitting RMS's personal hippie agenda.
Its highly modifiable to a small select group of people capable of doing so. That same group of people is capable, with a little effort to making the same sort of changes to OS X and Windows for the most part. Once you understand how kernels work and interfacing with them, its not really a whole lot different between OS X, Windows and Linux drivers for instance.
I'm struggling to find anything factual to say about your post other than 'you spelled most of the words right'
. . . That every CNC Mill and 3D Printer have to do as part of their normal operations.
In an open loop system, you MUST tune the PIDs, in a closed loop system, they can tune themselves. Theres nothing new or marvelous about this. Its not 'quite a neat trick of engineering', its just a basic PID controller.
Great, except you fail to take into account the number of people who will now just live off the 'basic' income since they no longer have any incentive what so ever to stop being lazy douche bags.
Taking care of all those people, is not cheaper than sending some smaller amount to prison.
Its working exactly as its supposed to. Its not meant to stop everything, its just a whitelisting system with some authentication built it.
Blacklisting the offending apps is exactly how this type of system works.
Anything signed by a valid cert which has been signed by Apple's cert is trusted by default. Thats what having an Apple signature on top of the publisher signature means. This also means the applications are 'tamper proof' in theory, because changing the application invalidates the sig and the code no longer is whitelisted, so no virus will work.
The system then keeps a CRL, Certificate Revocation List. This list is... blacklisted fingerprints. That is, certs or specific apps that were not known to be compromised or malicious when Apple originally vetted them, but something became known to be compromised after that process. The CRL list means Apple can effectively change its mind about apps that it previously approved.
This is all it is intended to do, and that alone mitigates a metric fuckton of exploit cases.
Doesn't prevent apps that don't get caught in review. But you won't get more than one or two malicious apps past them before you're completely cut off from getting certs ever again. Vendors outside the AppStore will have their certs revoked when exposed in the wild.
At no point was it intended to prevent every single exploit vector ever. You're pretty ignorant of how this stuff works if you think they ever said it was the cure all to security issues.
All it does is adds a layer of control to who can run arbitrary code on your system, and by default, allows Apple to give people permission to do so. You can also use your own certs and remove the AppStore cert, effectively making it so only apps signed with your cert will run on the machine... or in the case of some companies, the company's cert is the only thing that runs on the machine.
99.999999% of the code posted to StackOverflow didn't originate with the person who's posting it.
Most of it is just someone spitting out what they learned from someone else, and in most of the situations, the most upvoted answer is the common sense and only real solution to the problem presented, thats why it gets voted to the highest/accepted as the answer.
SO doesn't really have the right to force a license on the code posted there, they are pretending to worry about people using the code, but ignoring the broken part of the people posting the code.
Link aggregation results in fail over and load splitting. At no point will any single IP connection get more than the speed of any given port. The speed will match the port thats being used for that particular connection. If you just have two machines, even both with bonded NICs, you'll never get more than the speed of the fastest port in the group (assuming they aren't all the same speed)
The point is not to get to 8gb/s on a 10gb connection between 2 hosts. The point is to get to 19.8gb/s on 2 10gb/s NICs between two hosts, which is possible with both SMB3 and iSCSI multi path. Neither of which is possible with 2 10gb ports in a LAG group of any sort.
The best you can do with a 2 port 10gb lag group is 2 10gb/s transfers between the server and 2 different clients, assuming that your balancing method doesn't end up putting both hosts through the same NIC (its just a mod 2 on a hash of the ip or ip/port or mac or something depending on how you've configured the LAG group) but you'll never get a single connection over the speed of one port.
LACP doesn't actually increase bandwidth. Each host combination only talks to one port. At no point will any IP connection between those hosts go faster than 10gb.
LACP will let multiple ports talk to multiple other machines with one IP and load splitting (its not balancing since its static mapping) across the LACP group. Its barely more useful than round robin DNS, and you'll lose any advantage from protocols that support multiple links, like iSCSI or SMB3.
Clearing the buffer on app context request or at context release is a one time event.
And no, it doesn't take long, it is in fact the quickest way to touch every pixel. Anyone who's telling you it takes too long is using the wrong API to do it.
Disclaimer: I'm an Oracle employee; my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of Oracle or its affiliates.
And all credibility of your post was lost with this sentence. You might want to keep that secret, NO ONE thinks Oracle is impressive anymore, we discovered that you don't have to live in the seventies or pay for features that everyone else just does by default.
All of this bullshit about forcing people to use bad software is just pointless. I only wish more organizations would do this.
I'm sorry, that doesn't mean what you think it means.
What the new 'preferred' way to do it is... give financial incentive for doctors to have patients using EHR. Which means the doctor forces patients to put their records on the 'web portal'... which then promptly gets fucking hacked.
So no... its not actually better. You may think its better because it sounds good, but what they said, what you imagined (and most people), and what was done are 3 entirely different things, and the end result sucks for you and me.
And if I sound pissed off, I am. My 2 year old had his EHR forced onto a portal which was hacked and suddenly the email account I put down for my 2 year old at that office started getting spammed. Took a fucking judge to get them to admit to the issue even happening.
So pardon me, but FUCK ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS. I want all of mine in dead tree format, making them uneconomical to steal. I want it to remain this way for the rest of my life and the lives of all my descendants... not because I'm a luddite, but because I'm fucking tired of shitty people writing shitty software that gets hacked and doesn't cost them a damn dime, but costs me time and money. Reference: I work on the billing software for a large phone company, I'm aware of the difficulties in getting properly written software to market when security isn't a concern and when it is... and until there are harsh fines for leaking information regardless of reason, this shit will continue, and I'll continue to want my records in dead tree format.
I haven't even begun to point out that there is exactly 0 interoperability in EHR right now, even within different versions of the same software from the same vendor! If you thought Word compatibility was bad, you've not even begun to imagine the bullshit that is EHR.
I'm not real sure what one idiot they polled to get these results, with the fanboys of nosql these days, I can see MongoDB... but Oracle? Bullshit. You lose all credibility right there.
Not sure about FIFA, I can imagine that at this point no one cares about the same game with the name changed from 15 to 16, however I can assure you that JC3 has been cracked even if its not yet public.
If you think it hasn't been cracked, you just haven't looked.
the remorseless competition of the US tech industry
Uber is not a 'tech' company any more than pizzahut is for having an app. Stop pretending uber is anything other than a cab company that operates illegally and treats everyone involved like shit. Their customers, their employees and their competition are all just stepping stones to racking in money because idiots like techies think its 'great' for some unknown reason.
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Do you have any idea how much money just 2% of the US mobile market is?
2% of the US market is still 6.5 million subscribers.
If you sell a new one every 2 years at $400/each, thats still almost 3 billion dollars a year in revenue. Drop it to $200/phone and its still 1.3b. In ONLY America. Then theres the rest of the world.
Just because some moron at some shitty magazine makes an ignorant statement doesn't make it news for nerds any more than Donald Trump talking about tech is news for nerds.
As far as every number indicates, the business is profitable. Its not an iPhone, but it still makes money. Killing it would be stupid. Selling it might be more profitable, but killing it would just be utterly stupid.
Did this guy work at GM when they decided to stop selling the only 2 profitable brands they had as well? Idiot.
I more or less have. Technically there were three of us and I'd estimate our peek traffic to be about 1/50th of twitters scale, however the only difference between where I was and where Twitter is ... Is more hardware. The support structure for managing them is the same. They don't actually do ANYTHING special.
A server works properly or it doesn't. When it doesn't, you replace it, and that done by the rack monkeys at the data center or at twitters scale, probably robots, either way that person isn't technical stuff, they are paint by numbers janitors that plug in color coded cables. My 2 year old could do that job if he could lift the hardware.
And for the record, twitters uptime is absolute shit considering their scale, or do you just ignore the regular fail whale apperences?
You must have no admin experience at all if you find Twitters infrastructure impressive.
Watching from the beach, after my dad decided we should skip school to go watch.
I have pictures of it from before launch til after the anomoly occurred ... And several pictures of random shots that happened when I stood in shock and awe looking at the sky and not realizing I was still pushing the button until my dad grabbed me and pointed out I was out of film.
I was in 3rd grade.
They seemed to have done so for their billing platform which had no problem charging me last night at 7:58pm
If you have a clue, that's true.
99.999% of "developers" only know that you click commit and push in SourceTree ... They don't actually have any clue what that does.
Why? Because it's down SO often you just stopped using RCS all together?
No, but you'll have one tomorrow, 2 on Saturday, ssh won't work most of Sunday ...
Don't try to pretend BitBucket is reliable. It is hands down the most unreliable service I deal with on a daily basis.
Our company is currently split between BitBucket for private Repos and GitHub for public ... But only for a few more weeks as we finish abandoning the crapfest half assed mess known as BitBucket
Because you had one guy who did all the awesome work and yesterday he dropped dead?
This is a regular occurrence in business. Ive helped out multiple small companies when the ONE guy who wrote the code that the ENTIRE company revolves around ceases to be available for some reason. One of them was literally hit by a bus and he was the only one that worked on software for a company with roughly 30m in revenue that year and a couple hundred employees. A small company, but to me thats huge to have ONE guy that holds the keys to the kingdom so to speak. Its always some guy that either founded the company or is best friends with the founders or something, a Steve Woz type of guy.
Yes, it was a shitty situation beforehand to have it all in 'one guy's lap, but in most cases it works fine every day so it happens a lot. The likely hood of that one guy walking out with no warning at all is really low, and death even lower ... but it does happen.
Yea, and how does that actually help?
Your source code is leaked. Suing doesn't actually make it unleaked. It exacts a little revenge but it doesn't actually fix the problem in any way.
Second, what if they simply don't have the money to sue for? Sure, you check for insurance and all that ... and then they don't actually pay it along the way and aren't actually covered when the event occurs, or maybe you just can't actually demand anyone thats properly insured.
If your solution to a problem is 'just sue', then you certainly don't understand the problem and are likely part of it.
Let me ask you this: If car hits you while you walk across the street IN THE CROSSWALK in front of a cop who see's the whole thing ... Does suing do you any good when you're buried 6 feet deep?
Lawsuits are a form of revenge, they aren't actually a solution to anything other than lawyer salaries.
he said he was "officially over being upset about Facebook buying Oculus."
Yea, when you're about to be bought out by the company who you said you'd never make software for certain things they make ... and then you change your mind for a billion dollars ... you gotta kinda shut your fucking mouth about the other sell-outs that did the same thing you're about to do ... don'tcha?
Notch is a sell-out douche, plan and simple.
But you know what, for a billion dollars ... I'm a sell-out douche too. Everyone has their price.
You do realize that sort of mentality is why 'the south' is like it is today ... right? Because they burned it to the ground on the march through.
I hate patent trolls more than the next guy, but that would be a dumb idea.
And will never be NASCAR.
There are RC Air races already, Drones are less entertaining than a standard RC air race because the drones fucking fly themselves, it requires you point in the right direction, not actually fly. The electronics do the flying.
I've been 'racing' RC cars, boats and aircraft for literally 20 years. Drones aren't magically more entertaining thats going to draw people into it.
No one gets hurt in a drone race (no more than spectators at a NASCAR race, for certain). People expect to see carnage and damage that is painful to someone, even if that pain is purely financial. Completely destroying a racing drone costs less than most NASCAR fans will drink in beer while tailgating (And I know how much they cost, I race them!)
Well, except Linux isn't actually Unix. Its a bad clone that does a lot of things in its own silly non-standard way which is one of, if not the biggest problem it has.
Irix is actually UNIX. OS X is actually UNIX.
Being open has not made it amazingly faster, its advanced at a slower pace than both Windows and OS X in every measurable way. It is also not actual OSS software, its copyleft, which is nothing more than pretend open source fitting RMS's personal hippie agenda.
Its highly modifiable to a small select group of people capable of doing so. That same group of people is capable, with a little effort to making the same sort of changes to OS X and Windows for the most part. Once you understand how kernels work and interfacing with them, its not really a whole lot different between OS X, Windows and Linux drivers for instance.
I'm struggling to find anything factual to say about your post other than 'you spelled most of the words right'
. . . That every CNC Mill and 3D Printer have to do as part of their normal operations.
In an open loop system, you MUST tune the PIDs, in a closed loop system, they can tune themselves. Theres nothing new or marvelous about this. Its not 'quite a neat trick of engineering', its just a basic PID controller.
*sigh*
Great, except you fail to take into account the number of people who will now just live off the 'basic' income since they no longer have any incentive what so ever to stop being lazy douche bags.
Taking care of all those people, is not cheaper than sending some smaller amount to prison.
Its working exactly as its supposed to. Its not meant to stop everything, its just a whitelisting system with some authentication built it.
Blacklisting the offending apps is exactly how this type of system works.
Anything signed by a valid cert which has been signed by Apple's cert is trusted by default. Thats what having an Apple signature on top of the publisher signature means. This also means the applications are 'tamper proof' in theory, because changing the application invalidates the sig and the code no longer is whitelisted, so no virus will work.
The system then keeps a CRL, Certificate Revocation List. This list is ... blacklisted fingerprints. That is, certs or specific apps that were not known to be compromised or malicious when Apple originally vetted them, but something became known to be compromised after that process. The CRL list means Apple can effectively change its mind about apps that it previously approved.
This is all it is intended to do, and that alone mitigates a metric fuckton of exploit cases.
Doesn't prevent apps that don't get caught in review. But you won't get more than one or two malicious apps past them before you're completely cut off from getting certs ever again. Vendors outside the AppStore will have their certs revoked when exposed in the wild.
At no point was it intended to prevent every single exploit vector ever. You're pretty ignorant of how this stuff works if you think they ever said it was the cure all to security issues.
All it does is adds a layer of control to who can run arbitrary code on your system, and by default, allows Apple to give people permission to do so. You can also use your own certs and remove the AppStore cert, effectively making it so only apps signed with your cert will run on the machine ... or in the case of some companies, the company's cert is the only thing that runs on the machine.
itwbennet == bennet haselton / dumb
99.999999% of the code posted to StackOverflow didn't originate with the person who's posting it.
Most of it is just someone spitting out what they learned from someone else, and in most of the situations, the most upvoted answer is the common sense and only real solution to the problem presented, thats why it gets voted to the highest/accepted as the answer.
SO doesn't really have the right to force a license on the code posted there, they are pretending to worry about people using the code, but ignoring the broken part of the people posting the code.
Link aggregation results in fail over and load splitting. At no point will any single IP connection get more than the speed of any given port. The speed will match the port thats being used for that particular connection. If you just have two machines, even both with bonded NICs, you'll never get more than the speed of the fastest port in the group (assuming they aren't all the same speed)
The point is not to get to 8gb/s on a 10gb connection between 2 hosts. The point is to get to 19.8gb/s on 2 10gb/s NICs between two hosts, which is possible with both SMB3 and iSCSI multi path. Neither of which is possible with 2 10gb ports in a LAG group of any sort.
The best you can do with a 2 port 10gb lag group is 2 10gb/s transfers between the server and 2 different clients, assuming that your balancing method doesn't end up putting both hosts through the same NIC (its just a mod 2 on a hash of the ip or ip/port or mac or something depending on how you've configured the LAG group) but you'll never get a single connection over the speed of one port.
LACP doesn't actually increase bandwidth. Each host combination only talks to one port. At no point will any IP connection between those hosts go faster than 10gb.
LACP will let multiple ports talk to multiple other machines with one IP and load splitting (its not balancing since its static mapping) across the LACP group. Its barely more useful than round robin DNS, and you'll lose any advantage from protocols that support multiple links, like iSCSI or SMB3.
I've experienced the issue in multiple iOS revisions and devices as well
Clearing the buffer on app context request or at context release is a one time event.
And no, it doesn't take long, it is in fact the quickest way to touch every pixel. Anyone who's telling you it takes too long is using the wrong API to do it.
Disclaimer: I'm an Oracle employee; my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of Oracle or its affiliates.
And all credibility of your post was lost with this sentence. You might want to keep that secret, NO ONE thinks Oracle is impressive anymore, we discovered that you don't have to live in the seventies or pay for features that everyone else just does by default.
Which is the only meaningful way to do it.
All of this bullshit about forcing people to use bad software is just pointless. I only wish more organizations would do this.
I'm sorry, that doesn't mean what you think it means.
What the new 'preferred' way to do it is ... give financial incentive for doctors to have patients using EHR. Which means the doctor forces patients to put their records on the 'web portal' ... which then promptly gets fucking hacked.
So no ... its not actually better. You may think its better because it sounds good, but what they said, what you imagined (and most people), and what was done are 3 entirely different things, and the end result sucks for you and me.
And if I sound pissed off, I am. My 2 year old had his EHR forced onto a portal which was hacked and suddenly the email account I put down for my 2 year old at that office started getting spammed. Took a fucking judge to get them to admit to the issue even happening.
So pardon me, but FUCK ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS. I want all of mine in dead tree format, making them uneconomical to steal. I want it to remain this way for the rest of my life and the lives of all my descendants ... not because I'm a luddite, but because I'm fucking tired of shitty people writing shitty software that gets hacked and doesn't cost them a damn dime, but costs me time and money. Reference: I work on the billing software for a large phone company, I'm aware of the difficulties in getting properly written software to market when security isn't a concern and when it is ... and until there are harsh fines for leaking information regardless of reason, this shit will continue, and I'll continue to want my records in dead tree format.
I haven't even begun to point out that there is exactly 0 interoperability in EHR right now, even within different versions of the same software from the same vendor! If you thought Word compatibility was bad, you've not even begun to imagine the bullshit that is EHR.
I'm not real sure what one idiot they polled to get these results, with the fanboys of nosql these days, I can see MongoDB ... but Oracle? Bullshit. You lose all credibility right there.
Not sure about FIFA, I can imagine that at this point no one cares about the same game with the name changed from 15 to 16, however I can assure you that JC3 has been cracked even if its not yet public.
If you think it hasn't been cracked, you just haven't looked.
the remorseless competition of the US tech industry
Uber is not a 'tech' company any more than pizzahut is for having an app. Stop pretending uber is anything other than a cab company that operates illegally and treats everyone involved like shit. Their customers, their employees and their competition are all just stepping stones to racking in money because idiots like techies think its 'great' for some unknown reason.