You never needed a Federal student loan, did you? Even the ability to get a loan---not a free ride---is white privilege. You witless cunt whose trousers have not been washed in years and your breath reeks of marmite.
If in the Griggs vs Duke Power 1971 case, that Duke Power is prohibited from requiring high school diploma which was disproportionally disadvantageous for blacks, then how can businesses now defend their practice of requiring college degrees which is even more arbitrary and harder to justify for business purpose? It's widely known that college degree is a white privilege much more than high school diploma. I think businesses are just in an ignorant bliss ripe for a lawsuit to slap them back into sense.
Etching is caused by the detergent, not by the dishwasher. I guess you could blame the dishwasher for prolonging glassware's exposure to the detergent during the 2 hour cycle as opposed to just a few seconds if you wash it by hand, but if you select your detergent carefully, etching is preventable.
Josephine Cochrane invented the modern dishwasher because her maids kept breaking her fine chinas and crystals. She would be sad to know that you think the technology is not doing a good job.
I don't know what to make of this. Either people are too lazy to even load a dishwasher and just litter the plates all over their house, or maybe there really is not much robots can do for us because our basic needs are already fulfilled by simple household appliances.
About finding the right person to fire, I suspect that this is an unfortunate but complex choreograph of events such that no single person is at fault, and everyone is doing their jobs.
Junior programmer did the right thing about unit testing: wipe the database between tests to ensure consistent result no matter the order the test cases are run. Senior programmer did the right thing and wrote detailed documentation. The management needed a paper trail for production credential, and the documentation is probably the only SOX compliant way the company has, so the management did the right thing and stored production credential in a SOX compliant way. Production backup is not working but someone is actually working on getting it to work, and they are having trouble with replication and consistency; they want data integrity assurances rather than having backups that could have silent data corruptions.
Everyone is doing their jobs in good faith, and probably doing it well. I think the disaster could have been prevented if someone looked beyond their job responsibility and noticed potential problems, but such busybody could readily cause ire in a hierarchical organization. I think the best thing a company can do is to encourage people to be nosy and speak up. The CEO has to make this part of their corporate culture.
I've had similar ideas and looked into it a few times in the past, so I can see a few reasons why this is not done. First, if you are working with raw video, then the bandwidth requirement is going to be the bottleneck, and you're not better off offloading the shader to GPU. In order to make good use of GPU, you have to integrate video encoding and decoding into your GPU pipeline as well, and that takes specialized drivers to do. I don't see any way to do it with OpenGL/OpenCL. If it's doable and makes sense to do, it is unlikely to come out of a hobbyist project because of the technical hurdles.
The likely place for an open source project like this to originate is a startup company selling cloud video rendering service using a stash of cheap Raspberry Pis. A company like that may or may not exist already, but it still hinges on whether they are willing to open source their software.
According to the Information for Maintainers of GNU Software, a package becomes adopted by GNU FSF when a maintainer volunteers to do so. They could bring in a package they didn't write, as long as the package source has a GPL compatible license. It's also not required to transfer the source code copyright to FSF.
Libreboot was derived from Coreboot by removing the proprietary blobs. Leah volunteered to be a GNU package maintainer and started recruiting developers to work on Libreboot, and not for long decided to step down as a maintainer. There is no rule forbidding Leah from continuing to work on Libreboot without being associated with GNU/FSF. She is entitled to stop volunteering for GNU anytime for no reason whatsoever.
What Richard Stallman says is that a GNU package could be orphaned by its maintainer and often remain a GNU package until a new maintainer picks it up, but in this case he was compelled to make a special exemption to excise Libreboot from GNU. GNU/FSF's role is a librarian/publisher, and the maintainers are more like curators. It makes no sense for a package to "leave GNU" just because the curator stopped volunteering.
Microsoft makes both Surface and Windows, so they simply put in an optimized video playback pathway that only Edge knows how to use. It is easy to game when you control both the hardware and the OS. Safari on Mac OS X has an advantage in playing HTML5 videos over all other browsers on Mac OS X. Chrome, not surprisingly, works the best on a Chromebook.
Linux as an OS is about as impartial as you can get in terms of the playing field when doing browser performance comparisons, so if Microsoft ever releases Edge for Linux, then we can have a fair comparison.
This type of maneuver protects Microsoft if HMD Global becomes bankrupt. It also allows them to borrow money separately and not become a liability for Microsoft and Nokia. It says exactly how much confidence Microsoft and Nokia has on this new venture.
The real reason is much more nuanced than language differences between C++ and Java. The Seastar network architecture bypasses kernel TCP/IP stack entirely, but instead implements user mode TCP/IP stack using dpdk, which allows user mode to poll network card's packet buffer directly over memory mapped I/O. The user mode stack runs on single core only, but you could run multiple instances on multiple cores. It can scale linearly because there is very little shared state across cores.
C++ with custom network stack vs. Java with traditional network stack is not an apples-to-apples comparison. In theory, you could implement a Java based custom network stack over dpdk as well to make the comparison more fair.
The.onion domain is more geared towards websites run as hidden service so they cannot be identified. If you already use TOR, you can browse regular or hidden service websites anonymously already. The.onion domain protects the hidden service websites from being discovered. For example, SilkRoad ran as a hidden service which made it harder to trace who ran it (but it was eventually discovered by other social engineering means).
That makes SSL for.onion useless. SSL is for authenticating the operator's identity of the website. Why would a website simultaneously choose to be identified and not identified at the same time? That's oxymoron.
To be fair, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index still shows that the value is on par with March earlier this year, after losing 1/3 of value. How did they gain 1/3 just in 3 months is a bit beyond belief, but looks like the bubble merely corrected itself quickly. Hopefully this crash will also correct the bubble in the US housing market where foreign capital comes in as investors to compete with the local working people who just wanted a home for themselves.
I've been analyzing the housing market in my neighborhood because my old landlord just sold my unit to an investor who asks for the rent increase from $1900 to $2500. I realized that at the price the investors are offering, they can make only 2.5% APY, rarely 3% APY, at market rent, if they put down by cash which is rare. Most investors still need to borrow from the bank at 3.75% APR, so they lose money. In my new landlord's case, the rent increase is the amount he needed in order to make up for the loss. The foreign investors give the impression they bring in cash because they can't get a US mortgage, so they have to get mortgage from their home country. It's not as rosy (or gleam) as people think, depending on your perspective. I've now seen units on the market ripe for under asking.
I think you're intentionally conflating networking with something else (which you failed to specify exactly what is "much more"), just to show the world what a smart alec you are. But we are talking about a very specific profession, so please kindly stay on topic. The fact the OP mentioned CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) should give you a clue. Get a clue, pal!
Don't go into networking unless you're the principal architect. I know a company that outsourced network engineering to the Philippines. They're willing to stay up late at night their time to accommodate for the normal business hour here. On the other hand, you do need some low level tech to do the manual labor of connecting cables and building racks of equipments, but they are not well paid. You need to be the brain that makes the master plan and ensures that outsourced network engineers work well with the local techs.
Apparently this arrangement makes sense because Cisco IOS user interface is so poorly designed so that it requires a lot of training to use. I think the poor design actually inspired a whole job market, it's sad.
When ISIS executes prisoners for committing crime against their institution, they are acting on their own self-interest. When the jury declares death sentence on Dzhokhar, they are acting on my interest. I could be a potential victim and am indirectly related to some actual victims, but we otherwise have no authority to declare or execute the death sentence on the perpetrator. The evidence who'd done it was pretty clear from day one, and nothing so far has raised the red flag of him possibly being a scapegoat of some conspiracy plot. Yes, the authority upped the ante on the security theater as the result of the bombing, but even the actors themselves sympathize with the audience about it. Boston is a place where you can find an outdoor concert in the Boston Common where a rapper shouts out "fuck the police" over the amplified sound system, and the police standing there told me with a grin that they have the permission to do that.
Even so, having a physical switch is already helpful. I don't need to worry about the firmware malware if I don't ever have the intention to flip the switch. I only need to take measures to secure the computer against the malware if I plan to flash the firmware. A physical switch is a very powerful countermeasure to thwart remote attackers. U2F tokens also use it to secure two-factor authentication.
Obviously you condone double standard whereupon it is okay for someone to fake a screenshot and wrongfully accuse a telecom company of lying, and I who pointed out inconsistency in his dubious evidence have the burden of proof. What kind of wicked creature you are? All I am alleging is that he could have faked his evidence, and I have probably cause to believe that. He is the one who has to show the full evidence and defend it.
I see you are having fun trolling other users in this topic. Here is my favorite Monty Python quote for you and get off my lawn.
I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
He can say anything about what the picture means as he wants. Some of his figures are pretty, but I'm pretty sure it's not a figure produced by the T-Mobile website. I'm a T-Mobile user, and their site only produces the usage over three billing cycles, Dec, Jan and Feb. I think his "Data Usage By Month Ending" figure is fabricated. The pink color is slightly different from the website's magenta color. Who is the dishonest one here?
I think you have problem understanding what "prove" means.
I need to see a screenshot of his iPhone data usage tracking before I could take him seriously. Even if it is true that he never changed his usage pattern, he might have mistakenly installed an app that ate up his quota. If so, I think he owes T-Mobile a public apology.
tl;dr but I think you are actually beginning to make yourself agree to my point, namely the value is what I can do with the software, not the price the software is marketed to me. Software itself has no value. It's what I can do with it that has value.
I feel your pain if the chip IP vendors move to LLVM and won't share the source to their backend. However, I don't see an incentive model for them to change their ways, except maybe you now choose the chip IP based on the toolchain's source code availability, or convert to a mainstream CPU.
It's futile trying to stop LLVM at this moment. They are funded by Apple with a lot of contributions from Google and the like. There is a lot of velocity being put into the development that gcc simply can't match. The feeble attempt of RMS won't stop them.
By the way, it seems that most people talking here don't develop at all. You might have found some who do when you moderated the thread, but you're the first one I know.
You ought to consider my proposition more carefully before you dismiss it as ridiculous. Your point of view comes entirely consumer minded and you don't seem to understand software development, so let a professional enlighten you.
May I sell you a copy of MS-DOS 2.0 for $40 today? Other than the fact you might be a sentimentalist, nobody is going to buy it in present time. But if you had told people that MS-DOS 2.0 had no value back in 1983, people would think you're crazy.
However, some form of DOS is still useful today as part of an embedded real-time control system. But is everyone going to buy it? Not by a long shot. Is Microsoft making any money selling MS-DOS today? I seriously doubt it.
Basically, ask yourself how much you would pay to get a piece of software that you depend on today if you had woken up to find that the only way you could still use it (or any acceptable alternative, or better yet, if there was no acceptable alternative) was to pay for it. That would be the value of the software to you.
No, this is not the value of the software. This reflects only the market pricing mechanism. A consumer would find the next lowest priced software. It might be yet another free alternative, or it could be non-free but bundled with a paid operating system. If the next lowest priced alternative turns out to be unaffordable, I might choose not to buy it.
Your mistake is you conflate value with pricing.
On the other hand, there is plenty of free software that has no value to me. I won't use it even if you pay me to. GNOME desktop is a prime example. I have also spent several hundred dollars on commercial video editing software because the free ones are essentially garbage.
I find that emacs has value to me not because all software has an intrinsic value as you suggested, but because it solves a problem that I have, namely to edit plain text files. None of my "normal" (non-programming) friends would find emacs valuable at all. Even some coworkers don't use emacs and use this abomination called eclipse.
Software has no intrinsic value. The value is derived from what the software can do for me.
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You never needed a Federal student loan, did you? Even the ability to get a loan---not a free ride---is white privilege. You witless cunt whose trousers have not been washed in years and your breath reeks of marmite.
If in the Griggs vs Duke Power 1971 case, that Duke Power is prohibited from requiring high school diploma which was disproportionally disadvantageous for blacks, then how can businesses now defend their practice of requiring college degrees which is even more arbitrary and harder to justify for business purpose? It's widely known that college degree is a white privilege much more than high school diploma. I think businesses are just in an ignorant bliss ripe for a lawsuit to slap them back into sense.
Etching is caused by the detergent, not by the dishwasher. I guess you could blame the dishwasher for prolonging glassware's exposure to the detergent during the 2 hour cycle as opposed to just a few seconds if you wash it by hand, but if you select your detergent carefully, etching is preventable.
Josephine Cochrane invented the modern dishwasher because her maids kept breaking her fine chinas and crystals. She would be sad to know that you think the technology is not doing a good job.
I don't know what to make of this. Either people are too lazy to even load a dishwasher and just litter the plates all over their house, or maybe there really is not much robots can do for us because our basic needs are already fulfilled by simple household appliances.
About finding the right person to fire, I suspect that this is an unfortunate but complex choreograph of events such that no single person is at fault, and everyone is doing their jobs.
Junior programmer did the right thing about unit testing: wipe the database between tests to ensure consistent result no matter the order the test cases are run. Senior programmer did the right thing and wrote detailed documentation. The management needed a paper trail for production credential, and the documentation is probably the only SOX compliant way the company has, so the management did the right thing and stored production credential in a SOX compliant way. Production backup is not working but someone is actually working on getting it to work, and they are having trouble with replication and consistency; they want data integrity assurances rather than having backups that could have silent data corruptions.
Everyone is doing their jobs in good faith, and probably doing it well. I think the disaster could have been prevented if someone looked beyond their job responsibility and noticed potential problems, but such busybody could readily cause ire in a hierarchical organization. I think the best thing a company can do is to encourage people to be nosy and speak up. The CEO has to make this part of their corporate culture.
I've had similar ideas and looked into it a few times in the past, so I can see a few reasons why this is not done. First, if you are working with raw video, then the bandwidth requirement is going to be the bottleneck, and you're not better off offloading the shader to GPU. In order to make good use of GPU, you have to integrate video encoding and decoding into your GPU pipeline as well, and that takes specialized drivers to do. I don't see any way to do it with OpenGL/OpenCL. If it's doable and makes sense to do, it is unlikely to come out of a hobbyist project because of the technical hurdles.
The likely place for an open source project like this to originate is a startup company selling cloud video rendering service using a stash of cheap Raspberry Pis. A company like that may or may not exist already, but it still hinges on whether they are willing to open source their software.
According to the Information for Maintainers of GNU Software, a package becomes adopted by GNU FSF when a maintainer volunteers to do so. They could bring in a package they didn't write, as long as the package source has a GPL compatible license. It's also not required to transfer the source code copyright to FSF.
Libreboot was derived from Coreboot by removing the proprietary blobs. Leah volunteered to be a GNU package maintainer and started recruiting developers to work on Libreboot, and not for long decided to step down as a maintainer. There is no rule forbidding Leah from continuing to work on Libreboot without being associated with GNU/FSF. She is entitled to stop volunteering for GNU anytime for no reason whatsoever.
What Richard Stallman says is that a GNU package could be orphaned by its maintainer and often remain a GNU package until a new maintainer picks it up, but in this case he was compelled to make a special exemption to excise Libreboot from GNU. GNU/FSF's role is a librarian/publisher, and the maintainers are more like curators. It makes no sense for a package to "leave GNU" just because the curator stopped volunteering.
Microsoft makes both Surface and Windows, so they simply put in an optimized video playback pathway that only Edge knows how to use. It is easy to game when you control both the hardware and the OS. Safari on Mac OS X has an advantage in playing HTML5 videos over all other browsers on Mac OS X. Chrome, not surprisingly, works the best on a Chromebook.
Linux as an OS is about as impartial as you can get in terms of the playing field when doing browser performance comparisons, so if Microsoft ever releases Edge for Linux, then we can have a fair comparison.
This type of maneuver protects Microsoft if HMD Global becomes bankrupt. It also allows them to borrow money separately and not become a liability for Microsoft and Nokia. It says exactly how much confidence Microsoft and Nokia has on this new venture.
The real reason is much more nuanced than language differences between C++ and Java. The Seastar network architecture bypasses kernel TCP/IP stack entirely, but instead implements user mode TCP/IP stack using dpdk, which allows user mode to poll network card's packet buffer directly over memory mapped I/O. The user mode stack runs on single core only, but you could run multiple instances on multiple cores. It can scale linearly because there is very little shared state across cores.
C++ with custom network stack vs. Java with traditional network stack is not an apples-to-apples comparison. In theory, you could implement a Java based custom network stack over dpdk as well to make the comparison more fair.
The .onion domain is more geared towards websites run as hidden service so they cannot be identified. If you already use TOR, you can browse regular or hidden service websites anonymously already. The .onion domain protects the hidden service websites from being discovered. For example, SilkRoad ran as a hidden service which made it harder to trace who ran it (but it was eventually discovered by other social engineering means).
That makes SSL for .onion useless. SSL is for authenticating the operator's identity of the website. Why would a website simultaneously choose to be identified and not identified at the same time? That's oxymoron.
To be fair, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index still shows that the value is on par with March earlier this year, after losing 1/3 of value. How did they gain 1/3 just in 3 months is a bit beyond belief, but looks like the bubble merely corrected itself quickly. Hopefully this crash will also correct the bubble in the US housing market where foreign capital comes in as investors to compete with the local working people who just wanted a home for themselves.
I've been analyzing the housing market in my neighborhood because my old landlord just sold my unit to an investor who asks for the rent increase from $1900 to $2500. I realized that at the price the investors are offering, they can make only 2.5% APY, rarely 3% APY, at market rent, if they put down by cash which is rare. Most investors still need to borrow from the bank at 3.75% APR, so they lose money. In my new landlord's case, the rent increase is the amount he needed in order to make up for the loss. The foreign investors give the impression they bring in cash because they can't get a US mortgage, so they have to get mortgage from their home country. It's not as rosy (or gleam) as people think, depending on your perspective. I've now seen units on the market ripe for under asking.
I think you're intentionally conflating networking with something else (which you failed to specify exactly what is "much more"), just to show the world what a smart alec you are. But we are talking about a very specific profession, so please kindly stay on topic. The fact the OP mentioned CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) should give you a clue. Get a clue, pal!
Don't go into networking unless you're the principal architect. I know a company that outsourced network engineering to the Philippines. They're willing to stay up late at night their time to accommodate for the normal business hour here. On the other hand, you do need some low level tech to do the manual labor of connecting cables and building racks of equipments, but they are not well paid. You need to be the brain that makes the master plan and ensures that outsourced network engineers work well with the local techs.
Apparently this arrangement makes sense because Cisco IOS user interface is so poorly designed so that it requires a lot of training to use. I think the poor design actually inspired a whole job market, it's sad.
When ISIS executes prisoners for committing crime against their institution, they are acting on their own self-interest. When the jury declares death sentence on Dzhokhar, they are acting on my interest. I could be a potential victim and am indirectly related to some actual victims, but we otherwise have no authority to declare or execute the death sentence on the perpetrator. The evidence who'd done it was pretty clear from day one, and nothing so far has raised the red flag of him possibly being a scapegoat of some conspiracy plot. Yes, the authority upped the ante on the security theater as the result of the bombing, but even the actors themselves sympathize with the audience about it. Boston is a place where you can find an outdoor concert in the Boston Common where a rapper shouts out "fuck the police" over the amplified sound system, and the police standing there told me with a grin that they have the permission to do that.
It's for spaceshaking their spacebooty.
Great to see that many are following his footsteps now!
Even so, having a physical switch is already helpful. I don't need to worry about the firmware malware if I don't ever have the intention to flip the switch. I only need to take measures to secure the computer against the malware if I plan to flash the firmware. A physical switch is a very powerful countermeasure to thwart remote attackers. U2F tokens also use it to secure two-factor authentication.
Obviously you condone double standard whereupon it is okay for someone to fake a screenshot and wrongfully accuse a telecom company of lying, and I who pointed out inconsistency in his dubious evidence have the burden of proof. What kind of wicked creature you are? All I am alleging is that he could have faked his evidence, and I have probably cause to believe that. He is the one who has to show the full evidence and defend it.
I see you are having fun trolling other users in this topic. Here is my favorite Monty Python quote for you and get off my lawn.
He can say anything about what the picture means as he wants. Some of his figures are pretty, but I'm pretty sure it's not a figure produced by the T-Mobile website. I'm a T-Mobile user, and their site only produces the usage over three billing cycles, Dec, Jan and Feb. I think his "Data Usage By Month Ending" figure is fabricated. The pink color is slightly different from the website's magenta color. Who is the dishonest one here?
I think you have problem understanding what "prove" means.
I need to see a screenshot of his iPhone data usage tracking before I could take him seriously. Even if it is true that he never changed his usage pattern, he might have mistakenly installed an app that ate up his quota. If so, I think he owes T-Mobile a public apology.
tl;dr but I think you are actually beginning to make yourself agree to my point, namely the value is what I can do with the software, not the price the software is marketed to me. Software itself has no value. It's what I can do with it that has value.
I feel your pain if the chip IP vendors move to LLVM and won't share the source to their backend. However, I don't see an incentive model for them to change their ways, except maybe you now choose the chip IP based on the toolchain's source code availability, or convert to a mainstream CPU.
It's futile trying to stop LLVM at this moment. They are funded by Apple with a lot of contributions from Google and the like. There is a lot of velocity being put into the development that gcc simply can't match. The feeble attempt of RMS won't stop them.
By the way, it seems that most people talking here don't develop at all. You might have found some who do when you moderated the thread, but you're the first one I know.
You ought to consider my proposition more carefully before you dismiss it as ridiculous. Your point of view comes entirely consumer minded and you don't seem to understand software development, so let a professional enlighten you.
May I sell you a copy of MS-DOS 2.0 for $40 today? Other than the fact you might be a sentimentalist, nobody is going to buy it in present time. But if you had told people that MS-DOS 2.0 had no value back in 1983, people would think you're crazy.
However, some form of DOS is still useful today as part of an embedded real-time control system. But is everyone going to buy it? Not by a long shot. Is Microsoft making any money selling MS-DOS today? I seriously doubt it.
No, this is not the value of the software. This reflects only the market pricing mechanism. A consumer would find the next lowest priced software. It might be yet another free alternative, or it could be non-free but bundled with a paid operating system. If the next lowest priced alternative turns out to be unaffordable, I might choose not to buy it.
Your mistake is you conflate value with pricing.
On the other hand, there is plenty of free software that has no value to me. I won't use it even if you pay me to. GNOME desktop is a prime example. I have also spent several hundred dollars on commercial video editing software because the free ones are essentially garbage.
I find that emacs has value to me not because all software has an intrinsic value as you suggested, but because it solves a problem that I have, namely to edit plain text files. None of my "normal" (non-programming) friends would find emacs valuable at all. Even some coworkers don't use emacs and use this abomination called eclipse.
Software has no intrinsic value. The value is derived from what the software can do for me.