The labels cut their own throats to do so. They, too, need constant revenue to report to Wall Street and everyone else.
They're obliged to make the most money for their corporations, just like any other corporate stooges. They do boorish things because corporations are essentially sociopathic with few exceptions. They feel no pain, no love, only revenues, and preferably sustained revenues. Yet Real, Amazon, and other channels still sell their stuff, and they can't conglomerate or syndicate to sell their stuff because of the Sherman Antitrust Act, Taft-Hartley, and so on. What they can do, however, is continue to make money any old ugly way they want, so long as it's legal. Google, despite protestations to the contrary, will do this, too-- especially now that their stock has finally crashed a bit.
Which is why it makes more sense for Apple to do this. They have more cash. Unless SJ retires-- he has lots of media relationships (boards, the first iTunes deals) to make it work, while retaining some semblence of profitability. Oh, wait......
This is why we have best practices. This is why we educate youth. This is why work hard: to make it safe for civilians, your grandmother, the kid down the street, and so on.
We know that some organizations won't adhere to them, or they'll screw off and not patch or update something. When we find them, we try and bring them up. Barring that, we use other motivators. If we all screw off, the whole thing falls apart. Diligence, and unwavering diligence, gets it done. Yeah, sounds almost military, yet if we evolve standards and expect people to adhere to them, one of the motivators will also be embarrassment. So, Wordpress gets their dishful.
The rented "cloud" has standards. Test environments have standards. This is why we have protocols. Cloud storage should be protected. Data in cloud storage has some value. No data is cheap. Those that believe that data value is cheap are fools, and don't understand the basics.
Ok. Let's let it live somewhere close to you. Let's say your hard drive.
Perchance is it on Windows 2008R2? Do you have the current stack of 228 updates and fixes installed?
Maybe it's Linux on SUSE 11. Did you do the 51 kernel updates? How about the other apps?
Is your router up to date? Cisco? Extreme? F5? Updated? Not using a firewall, are you--- silly to imagine that there are secure perimeters.
Watching all of the traffic on your backbone and local nets for interesting destinations to say, Rumania? Have any Gabon destinations recently?
I like the concept of mirrored data. I'm backed up as of last night. My NOC has a backup. You can kill my email host, my web host, and I'll be up in about an hour, less if I have coffee nearby. But it's not foolproof. Nor is hosted data. That's why diligence is needed everywhere you compute, from the phone in your pocket up to your fattest cluster.
Was Wordpress bad? Yes. More onerous is that there's someone out there that needs to find himself/herself in front of a judge having a very bad day.
"and that's why I don't want everything in the cloud." (italics not preserved).
I go on to equate most all external activities with "the cloud", the cloud being a nebulous term for most things online. You can divide them into categorical definitions the size of an enormous post.
Let's use some simple exclusionary math here, and damn the passive-aggressive italics. My reply is that the cloud deserves the same responsible behavior that your own machine does, or any system-- the same high standard. People were asleep at Wordpress. So damn the cloud, which is more or less everything past your router, is to assert that the whole freaking Internet is some sort of sinking ship, which amazingly, it is not. It's riddled with holes, and irresponsible people, just like a highway you might drive down tonight.
The current implication that somehow "cloud" is unsafe is like damning the highway, because there might be drunk drivers there. I hate to use automotive analogies, but the implication that "the cloud" is some sort of homogenous thing that can be good or bad is beyond comprehension. It's like saying New York is a bad place because people get mugged there. Using one focal point, a Wordpress outage, to vilify "the cloud" is horseshit of the highest smell.
Ok, chump, since you want to continue the disinformation. I have cloud resources at AWS, Rackspace, GoGrid, and a lot of 'cloud' providers.
What are you computing on? Do you know if it's hosted at an MSP/ISP? Unlikely-- save for the hosts that you personally know of.
Wordpress by one definition, is in the cloud. Most hosted stuff can be considered cloud. Cloud is nebulous. Cloud is SaaS. Cloud is raw VMs on the hoof. Cloud are 100 instances that I can spin up in about 30sec.
So fuck off about your definition of the cloud, because the cloud is completely nebulous-- representing hosted services. You must be in marketing.
No, that's not really true. There are serious sysadmins out there that take it seriously. Whether FOSS volunteers or paid people, people are supposed to take this seriously. There are consequences, both legal liability and criminal.
It's fine to keep data on your own host in your own data center with your own firewall and your own ass covered. Disconnect. Or try and raise the standard.
To look at "cloud" in any way that's different than any system on any network, including the network, is to bash the people that do hard work to protect online public and private resources.
You can store locally, but your use of the Internet is global, and differentiation with "cloud resources" is to damn professionals and not put the blame where it's due: sysadmins at Wordpress that need a really good spanking.
And once again, the importance of data security and professionalism means you protect whatever, wherever, to the same high standard.
Your suggestion that you don't want to have anything in the cloud is moronic. Most of what you do is on the Internet. The Internet is the cloud. Wordpress is hosted, just like this site. With luck, the venerable staff hosting this stuff has been responsible enough to protect us. If not, we'll be upset.
Reverse engineering is fun; Sony didn't do much to appeal to those that had bought various versions of the PS/3 to run different *stuff* on it. However, exploits that allow piracy specifically aren't legit. Boot Linux? Fine. Swipe games to use for free when they're licensed? Not good.
There wasn't much to do. IBM published the BIOS for the XT.
Guy reading BIOS code: ok, now it uses Int13 for disk calls, moving these register values.
Guy coding a new bios: Kewl. Got it.
This was before the DCMA. 'Twas legal to reverse engineer things, as IBM's patents were easy to sidestep. However, using corporate shields to serially reverse engineer products might be punishable in any number of costly ways, including criminal prosecution under RICO. It's not nice to be a pirate. It's better to boycott Sony, and let the market dictate Sony's future policy stance. I love to hack things. Corporations, overbearing or not, have assets to protect. Blaming them for protecting their assets is a bit silly, as you'd do the same thing, too, as a human.
Computers can handle complexity, iterative calculations, approximations, fractals, and darn complex problems. Doing the work with a computer is fine. But you need to understand the underlying fundamentals before your equations are going to work on a multi-core machine doing matrices matching.
In the bad old days before calculators, we used slide rules and fat heavy books of table values. When I got my first TI calculator, the first action was to find out what its actual register capacity was so that I knew its integer math limitations, which in turn, told me what its geometric limitations were, and so on. Then we'd argue among math students where these would have to be overcome, to inhibit rounding errors, and register mismatches.
The algorithms and proofs we did had lots of practical use. When 8-bit math, then FP math CPUs evolved, we used those, adapting for the differences. We took electronic spreadsheet programs and made generic math tests for them to validate their results. Sometimes they were wrong. We pointed out the problems to the embarrassed coders and they fixed it. Sometimes.
Hand computation is rough, but you need the basics and more to make hand computation work. If you can't do that, a calculator's not going to help you, just allow you to make mistakes more quickly.
Strange, or non-traditional (read Wright Brothers airfoils) can work. Look at the Stealth Bomber, Rutan's canard design, various flying wedges, and so on.
The veracity of the doc, the veracity of the observer, all can be called into question.
What did happen however, is that the FBI got several thousand free IP addresses of obvious slashdot readers. Perfect bait. Perfect.
The whole stealth aircraft program works on the principle of radar diffusion. Coat your craft accordingly, and the effectiveness goes way down. Seems like most of the bad guys don't have enough money for the reseach that it would take to do it. So the weapon works for a few years until a rational defense is found and can be afforded.
The whole thing goes to hell if the enemy uses the techniques found in those drug-carrying subs-- kevlar instead of steel, and therefore, tough to detect.
It's a dicey but promising business model. I don't think a freelance police force is going to work. Hell, Google's email abuse workforce can't even stop 419 spammers after a week.
The standards would have to be pretty clear, and will have the same problems everyone does with defining them very specifically. Enforcement then means that they lose some of their legal distancing, and different culture, hate laws, pornography standards, licensing agreements, DMCA theories, and other potentially expensive argumentativeness will dog them.
But it would be fun. I'd like to see a live-broadcast of a few concerts here and there, even if they're taken with cellphones. "Citizen journalists" will have a field day. Lots of fun stuff for all.
GUIs tend to limit the available choices, and if they're well designed, offer all of the combinations of choices that work, then allow you to remember what the choices were-- unless greyed out for logic flaws.
CLI was spawned back in the day of 32K worth of memory necessicitating clever concepts (pipes, stdin/out, and script manipulations) in shells that would deal with the need for extreme brevity. The CLI of today, depending on the OS, can have great breadth of control and scripted beauty. I think this is why Microsoft openned up a bit with the PowerShell concept.
They're not necessarily the dividing line between 'junior' and 'senior' admins, but they do connote a different level of understanding of what goes on underneath the hood. GUIs change a lot, and options change from version to version of an app, which in the non-FOSS world, have to happen frequently as a business model. In the FOSS world, I use commands I learned 30years ago, and can still use those commands, obtuse as they are, for probably another 30yrs.
OS/2 failed for many reasons, most of them because it was largely proprietary to IBM hardware, but also because IBM's business methodology was obtuse in a populist era.
The whole Ring 0 BS that Microsoft foisted was a lot of FUD. Task-switching was something that Apple did, too, along with a consistent GUI and drivers that worked-- albeit on their own, proprietary hardware. Apple innovated a bit by taking NeXtStep and porting it as OSX; they leapfrogged many of the design deficiencies and architectural problems in the merged kernel species that was Windows 2000...."actually innovated"? You're a fanboi, for reasons unknown. I'm an advocate of the people that have to make this stuff work.
The ostensible 'inaction' really has nothing to do with the core problem. The music industry has an evolved business ecosystem, and can blithely ignore whatever technology you want to throw at them.
They fund the band, they control the media and also who the 'stars' are going to be, they do the tour promotions, link to the ticket companies, edit the fan pages, and so on. This is an ecosystem. You have to kill most parts of it and re-do it to make indie music work. I have friends and relatives that are in the indie business. They compete with huge wads of cash and a set of walls at each turn of the road to riches. Their fans just want the music; they'd just like a little money to keep from starving.
In the motion picture industry (sounds old, doesn't it?) it's the same set of characteristics. Studios, producers, theaters, TV, syndication, stars stars hype stars. The indie film makers have their own festivals, but at the root of their desire is artistic expression and oh, gotta pay the bills. At each turn of the road, they, too, face an entrenched set of business ecosystems. To fight this, you have to replace the ecosystems, 'cause people have to eat and get paid. Lacking that, you're fighting windmills.
Microsoft was clueless and once again counting piles of coins while Apple engineers were getting the full supply chain details buttoned down to make other tablets extraordinarily difficult to get into the market.
When you consider that the only real "invention" Microsoft has put into the market with any aplomb is the Kinect in the past five years, it's easy to see why they would wishfully dismiss it as a "current fad" when it's both a reasonably new market and Windows isn't plastered all over it.
So you're right. Not a fad. Hugely popular device and incredible insult to development teams that have a bunch of not-invented-here attitudes.
You say it's not a realistic car. In my realism, my truck gets 14mpg with a 17gal gas tank. That's 238 miles. That's 119 miles round trip. Yes, I can fill it up at the end and go for a lonnnnnng way, until I have to switch drivers, etc. My Metro gets 44mpg, but has only an 8gal tank. One way is 352.
The dramatization is indeed falsehood until it's proven. Entertainment? No.
Running for your very life, and jamming it full throttle to the floor isn't sporting. It's racing, where you try to keep your vehicle in front of all the others.
Sporting is going down US1 between SF and LA and getting to Santa Barbara in 3.5hrs. Racing, and chancing becoming cliff decoration can be done in 2.5.
I find doing a video where you make a viewer presume you ran out of fuel when you didn't is disingenuous. Being red-faced hopping mad when you ran out at 57 and they told you 55 could be understood, after all, a 55mi range is rather small even for gas gulpers.
Drawing a conclusion before the test(s) have been done is also disingenuous, even if you are prepared to change the scores should you find out that reality flies in the face of your pre-conclusion.
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The labels cut their own throats to do so. They, too, need constant revenue to report to Wall Street and everyone else.
They're obliged to make the most money for their corporations, just like any other corporate stooges. They do boorish things because corporations are essentially sociopathic with few exceptions. They feel no pain, no love, only revenues, and preferably sustained revenues. Yet Real, Amazon, and other channels still sell their stuff, and they can't conglomerate or syndicate to sell their stuff because of the Sherman Antitrust Act, Taft-Hartley, and so on. What they can do, however, is continue to make money any old ugly way they want, so long as it's legal. Google, despite protestations to the contrary, will do this, too-- especially now that their stock has finally crashed a bit.
Which is why it makes more sense for Apple to do this. They have more cash. Unless SJ retires-- he has lots of media relationships (boards, the first iTunes deals) to make it work, while retaining some semblence of profitability. Oh, wait......
This is why we have best practices. This is why we educate youth. This is why work hard: to make it safe for civilians, your grandmother, the kid down the street, and so on.
We know that some organizations won't adhere to them, or they'll screw off and not patch or update something. When we find them, we try and bring them up. Barring that, we use other motivators. If we all screw off, the whole thing falls apart. Diligence, and unwavering diligence, gets it done. Yeah, sounds almost military, yet if we evolve standards and expect people to adhere to them, one of the motivators will also be embarrassment. So, Wordpress gets their dishful.
The rented "cloud" has standards. Test environments have standards. This is why we have protocols. Cloud storage should be protected. Data in cloud storage has some value. No data is cheap. Those that believe that data value is cheap are fools, and don't understand the basics.
Ok. Let's let it live somewhere close to you. Let's say your hard drive.
Perchance is it on Windows 2008R2? Do you have the current stack of 228 updates and fixes installed?
Maybe it's Linux on SUSE 11. Did you do the 51 kernel updates? How about the other apps?
Is your router up to date? Cisco? Extreme? F5? Updated? Not using a firewall, are you--- silly to imagine that there are secure perimeters.
Watching all of the traffic on your backbone and local nets for interesting destinations to say, Rumania? Have any Gabon destinations recently?
I like the concept of mirrored data. I'm backed up as of last night. My NOC has a backup. You can kill my email host, my web host, and I'll be up in about an hour, less if I have coffee nearby. But it's not foolproof. Nor is hosted data. That's why diligence is needed everywhere you compute, from the phone in your pocket up to your fattest cluster.
Was Wordpress bad? Yes. More onerous is that there's someone out there that needs to find himself/herself in front of a judge having a very bad day.
"and that's why I don't want everything in the cloud." (italics not preserved).
I go on to equate most all external activities with "the cloud", the cloud being a nebulous term for most things online. You can divide them into categorical definitions the size of an enormous post.
Let's use some simple exclusionary math here, and damn the passive-aggressive italics. My reply is that the cloud deserves the same responsible behavior that your own machine does, or any system-- the same high standard. People were asleep at Wordpress. So damn the cloud, which is more or less everything past your router, is to assert that the whole freaking Internet is some sort of sinking ship, which amazingly, it is not. It's riddled with holes, and irresponsible people, just like a highway you might drive down tonight.
The current implication that somehow "cloud" is unsafe is like damning the highway, because there might be drunk drivers there. I hate to use automotive analogies, but the implication that "the cloud" is some sort of homogenous thing that can be good or bad is beyond comprehension. It's like saying New York is a bad place because people get mugged there. Using one focal point, a Wordpress outage, to vilify "the cloud" is horseshit of the highest smell.
Ok, chump, since you want to continue the disinformation. I have cloud resources at AWS, Rackspace, GoGrid, and a lot of 'cloud' providers.
What are you computing on? Do you know if it's hosted at an MSP/ISP? Unlikely-- save for the hosts that you personally know of.
Wordpress by one definition, is in the cloud. Most hosted stuff can be considered cloud. Cloud is nebulous. Cloud is SaaS. Cloud is raw VMs on the hoof. Cloud are 100 instances that I can spin up in about 30sec.
So fuck off about your definition of the cloud, because the cloud is completely nebulous-- representing hosted services. You must be in marketing.
I heard of one of those recently. Save you from having to smash it with a hammer.
No, that's not really true. There are serious sysadmins out there that take it seriously. Whether FOSS volunteers or paid people, people are supposed to take this seriously. There are consequences, both legal liability and criminal.
It's fine to keep data on your own host in your own data center with your own firewall and your own ass covered. Disconnect. Or try and raise the standard.
I stand by my description.
To look at "cloud" in any way that's different than any system on any network, including the network, is to bash the people that do hard work to protect online public and private resources.
You can store locally, but your use of the Internet is global, and differentiation with "cloud resources" is to damn professionals and not put the blame where it's due: sysadmins at Wordpress that need a really good spanking.
And once again, the importance of data security and professionalism means you protect whatever, wherever, to the same high standard.
Your suggestion that you don't want to have anything in the cloud is moronic. Most of what you do is on the Internet. The Internet is the cloud. Wordpress is hosted, just like this site. With luck, the venerable staff hosting this stuff has been responsible enough to protect us. If not, we'll be upset.
Reverse engineering is fun; Sony didn't do much to appeal to those that had bought various versions of the PS/3 to run different *stuff* on it. However, exploits that allow piracy specifically aren't legit. Boot Linux? Fine. Swipe games to use for free when they're licensed? Not good.
Sony's behavior was ugly. Vote with your money.
There wasn't much to do. IBM published the BIOS for the XT.
Guy reading BIOS code: ok, now it uses Int13 for disk calls, moving these register values.
Guy coding a new bios: Kewl. Got it.
This was before the DCMA. 'Twas legal to reverse engineer things, as IBM's patents were easy to sidestep. However, using corporate shields to serially reverse engineer products might be punishable in any number of costly ways, including criminal prosecution under RICO. It's not nice to be a pirate. It's better to boycott Sony, and let the market dictate Sony's future policy stance. I love to hack things. Corporations, overbearing or not, have assets to protect. Blaming them for protecting their assets is a bit silly, as you'd do the same thing, too, as a human.
Computers can handle complexity, iterative calculations, approximations, fractals, and darn complex problems. Doing the work with a computer is fine. But you need to understand the underlying fundamentals before your equations are going to work on a multi-core machine doing matrices matching.
In the bad old days before calculators, we used slide rules and fat heavy books of table values. When I got my first TI calculator, the first action was to find out what its actual register capacity was so that I knew its integer math limitations, which in turn, told me what its geometric limitations were, and so on. Then we'd argue among math students where these would have to be overcome, to inhibit rounding errors, and register mismatches.
The algorithms and proofs we did had lots of practical use. When 8-bit math, then FP math CPUs evolved, we used those, adapting for the differences. We took electronic spreadsheet programs and made generic math tests for them to validate their results. Sometimes they were wrong. We pointed out the problems to the embarrassed coders and they fixed it. Sometimes.
Hand computation is rough, but you need the basics and more to make hand computation work. If you can't do that, a calculator's not going to help you, just allow you to make mistakes more quickly.
Strange, or non-traditional (read Wright Brothers airfoils) can work. Look at the Stealth Bomber, Rutan's canard design, various flying wedges, and so on.
The veracity of the doc, the veracity of the observer, all can be called into question.
What did happen however, is that the FBI got several thousand free IP addresses of obvious slashdot readers. Perfect bait. Perfect.
The whole stealth aircraft program works on the principle of radar diffusion. Coat your craft accordingly, and the effectiveness goes way down. Seems like most of the bad guys don't have enough money for the reseach that it would take to do it. So the weapon works for a few years until a rational defense is found and can be afforded.
The whole thing goes to hell if the enemy uses the techniques found in those drug-carrying subs-- kevlar instead of steel, and therefore, tough to detect.
So you skydive, freezing like crazy. You're still breathing from 35K feet all the way down. Your speed will still be determined by terminal velocity.
There's that rocky ending. Gravity:it's not just a feeling, it's the law.
It's a dicey but promising business model. I don't think a freelance police force is going to work. Hell, Google's email abuse workforce can't even stop 419 spammers after a week.
The standards would have to be pretty clear, and will have the same problems everyone does with defining them very specifically. Enforcement then means that they lose some of their legal distancing, and different culture, hate laws, pornography standards, licensing agreements, DMCA theories, and other potentially expensive argumentativeness will dog them.
But it would be fun. I'd like to see a live-broadcast of a few concerts here and there, even if they're taken with cellphones. "Citizen journalists" will have a field day. Lots of fun stuff for all.
From "show me your papers" to "put this swab in your cheek, low-life" in a single step. How droll.
True.
GUIs tend to limit the available choices, and if they're well designed, offer all of the combinations of choices that work, then allow you to remember what the choices were-- unless greyed out for logic flaws.
CLI was spawned back in the day of 32K worth of memory necessicitating clever concepts (pipes, stdin/out, and script manipulations) in shells that would deal with the need for extreme brevity. The CLI of today, depending on the OS, can have great breadth of control and scripted beauty. I think this is why Microsoft openned up a bit with the PowerShell concept.
They're not necessarily the dividing line between 'junior' and 'senior' admins, but they do connote a different level of understanding of what goes on underneath the hood. GUIs change a lot, and options change from version to version of an app, which in the non-FOSS world, have to happen frequently as a business model. In the FOSS world, I use commands I learned 30years ago, and can still use those commands, obtuse as they are, for probably another 30yrs.
OS/2 failed for many reasons, most of them because it was largely proprietary to IBM hardware, but also because IBM's business methodology was obtuse in a populist era.
The whole Ring 0 BS that Microsoft foisted was a lot of FUD. Task-switching was something that Apple did, too, along with a consistent GUI and drivers that worked-- albeit on their own, proprietary hardware. Apple innovated a bit by taking NeXtStep and porting it as OSX; they leapfrogged many of the design deficiencies and architectural problems in the merged kernel species that was Windows 2000. ..."actually innovated"? You're a fanboi, for reasons unknown. I'm an advocate of the people that have to make this stuff work.
The ostensible 'inaction' really has nothing to do with the core problem. The music industry has an evolved business ecosystem, and can blithely ignore whatever technology you want to throw at them.
They fund the band, they control the media and also who the 'stars' are going to be, they do the tour promotions, link to the ticket companies, edit the fan pages, and so on. This is an ecosystem. You have to kill most parts of it and re-do it to make indie music work. I have friends and relatives that are in the indie business. They compete with huge wads of cash and a set of walls at each turn of the road to riches. Their fans just want the music; they'd just like a little money to keep from starving.
In the motion picture industry (sounds old, doesn't it?) it's the same set of characteristics. Studios, producers, theaters, TV, syndication, stars stars hype stars. The indie film makers have their own festivals, but at the root of their desire is artistic expression and oh, gotta pay the bills. At each turn of the road, they, too, face an entrenched set of business ecosystems. To fight this, you have to replace the ecosystems, 'cause people have to eat and get paid. Lacking that, you're fighting windmills.
Let's go with:
Microsoft was clueless and once again counting piles of coins while Apple engineers were getting the full supply chain details buttoned down to make other tablets extraordinarily difficult to get into the market.
When you consider that the only real "invention" Microsoft has put into the market with any aplomb is the Kinect in the past five years, it's easy to see why they would wishfully dismiss it as a "current fad" when it's both a reasonably new market and Windows isn't plastered all over it.
So you're right. Not a fad. Hugely popular device and incredible insult to development teams that have a bunch of not-invented-here attitudes.
You say it's not a realistic car. In my realism, my truck gets 14mpg with a 17gal gas tank. That's 238 miles. That's 119 miles round trip. Yes, I can fill it up at the end and go for a lonnnnnng way, until I have to switch drivers, etc. My Metro gets 44mpg, but has only an 8gal tank. One way is 352.
The dramatization is indeed falsehood until it's proven. Entertainment? No.
Running for your very life, and jamming it full throttle to the floor isn't sporting. It's racing, where you try to keep your vehicle in front of all the others.
Sporting is going down US1 between SF and LA and getting to Santa Barbara in 3.5hrs. Racing, and chancing becoming cliff decoration can be done in 2.5.
I find doing a video where you make a viewer presume you ran out of fuel when you didn't is disingenuous. Being red-faced hopping mad when you ran out at 57 and they told you 55 could be understood, after all, a 55mi range is rather small even for gas gulpers.
Drawing a conclusion before the test(s) have been done is also disingenuous, even if you are prepared to change the scores should you find out that reality flies in the face of your pre-conclusion.
Was it fair to Tesla? Not as written, IMHO.
Data security doesn't matter where the data is located. It matters EVERYWHERE data is located. Incompetency is everywhere.
Standard reply: nothing is foolproof because fools are so ingenioius.