Helping impoverished societies involves keeping the people alive, yes. This is done by improving their efficiency so that they can do less damage and get more gain with the same amount (or less) of distress. It also removes the waste they'd leave behind by dying. This all makes the situation economically and socially more equal. The benefitees actually get some free time to wax all philosophical in, and enough resources to do optional (social) stuff.
Just dumping gear on them by the pallet-load, she's a not gunna work. Never has, and can't see why it should mysteriously gain functionality just now.
Yes, PP's view is skewed towards "electronics == technology" but that doesn't make your view rational or reasonable either. (-:
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Note the complete absence of restrictions on version numbers, other providers and making up one's own mind. And licence-fee auditing. That's how I like it to be. All of the updates come under the same EULA each time.
...have you had it totally, irreversably trash a database file yet?
The rest of it looks relatively simple and easy-to-use but is ever-so-prone to making exactly the kinds of spaghetti-farms which the OP is asking about.
AFAICT, those spaghetti-farms are a lock-in policy done with more stealth than is usual for MS. It's likely that the cheapest, most effective answer for anything beyond an instant fix is the total rewrite (in something standard and comprehensible).
Well, no, in Linux we don't constantly get a stream of security invasions and layer upon layer of code dedicated to the prevention of this.
For example, it's technically impossible to secure display-function invokations in 'Doze, but it works safely in Linux. Is this absence of risk supposed to be a dis-advantage, somehow?
Well... only if one is looking for control over one's customers as the big aim, rather than indepoendence and safety. So... MS's grand aims still haven't materially changed all that much over the years, have they?
David Weber (the author concerned) has plenty of well-matched technology in his books, several of which are available here, complete. You can also join Baen's Bar to ask questions and generally discuss the properties of not just the Honorverse, but basically any of the Baen-based universes.
Jim Baen, the book company's founder, recently and sadly died from a stroke but thoughtfully had already left plans in place for Baen Books to continue in his absence.
About True science means that when you re-evaluate the evidence, you re-evaluate your faith, I have to agree.
Most truly impressive scientific advances come with re-evaluations, as Isaac Asimov once put it, The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny...' which will happen more often to people who take a break and a fresh look, as you advise.
Mr Asimov also needed to re-evaluate a lot of his own principles, even though he did fairly well for such a self-limiting personality. OTOH, while Charlie Darwin butchered quite a huge number of concepts very badly, he seems to have spoken this particular one pretty well: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. The bottom line is to take a break, not disconnect yourself completely.
...but their understanding is a little different to ours.
"We got away with it over there, a bit, so let's get away with it over here, too!" is probably a good summary of their US-style interoperable legal strategy being applied in the EU.
But... welcome to Europa. MS're in for a biiiig disappointment when the EU courts don't quite fall sucker to such ploys in the same way, and in fact will probably (ironic and all as this will be) soundly slap down the uppity colonists for daring to treat EU so presumptiously.
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Helping impoverished societies involves keeping the people alive, yes. This is done by improving their efficiency so that they can do less damage and get more gain with the same amount (or less) of distress. It also removes the waste they'd leave behind by dying. This all makes the situation economically and socially more equal. The benefitees actually get some free time to wax all philosophical in, and enough resources to do optional (social) stuff.
Just dumping gear on them by the pallet-load, she's a not gunna work. Never has, and can't see why it should mysteriously gain functionality just now.
Yes, PP's view is skewed towards "electronics == technology" but that doesn't make your view rational or reasonable either. (-:
Just checking, 'coz it seemed obvious. (-: Did I get a 1 or a 2? :-)
They don't need to escape this place for any season.
:-)
Well... y'know... that's just Australian weather for you. (-: Hello from Perth
I've had half-a-dozen client machines completely DOA until I install Linux onto them, over the top of "Doze (typically XP, but IRL all breeds).
I've also had two works-forever Linux bozes go DOA when 'Doze was installed on them.
No, I don't make this up. I don't need to. This is Real Life®.
...can you see what it did to my typing?
Mandriva CD into DVD drive, Linux on hard disk, never used MS-Windows or its CD since.
Waste of time OEM installing Win or packaging up the CD for it.
This means that they don't burn out as fast.
Your point was, again?
...seconded.
:-)
(-: Just science keeping us in the dark again.
...would make that read about right. (-:
...but it's too dark to see anything from here. (-: Them's grounds fer complaint! :-)
Nice scenario, pretend that you've just earned a +1 Insightful. (-:
You just saw GLIBC's summary.
Note the complete absence of restrictions on version numbers, other providers and making up one's own mind. And licence-fee auditing. That's how I like it to be. All of the updates come under the same EULA each time.
...have you had it totally, irreversably trash a database file yet?
The rest of it looks relatively simple and easy-to-use but is ever-so-prone to making exactly the kinds of spaghetti-farms which the OP is asking about.
AFAICT, those spaghetti-farms are a lock-in policy done with more stealth than is usual for MS. It's likely that the cheapest, most effective answer for anything beyond an instant fix is the total rewrite (in something standard and comprehensible).
Well, no, in Linux we don't constantly get a stream of security invasions and layer upon layer of code dedicated to the prevention of this.
For example, it's technically impossible to secure display-function invokations in 'Doze, but it works safely in Linux. Is this absence of risk supposed to be a dis-advantage, somehow?
Well... only if one is looking for control over one's customers as the big aim, rather than indepoendence and safety. So... MS's grand aims still haven't materially changed all that much over the years, have they?
That seems to me to be the appropriate response to jumpy splitters.
Oracle can of course support their own database on the main distro, if they care, yes?
This Wikipedia page has lots of Honorverse links within it.
David Weber (the author concerned) has plenty of well-matched technology in his books, several of which are available here, complete. You can also join Baen's Bar to ask questions and generally discuss the properties of not just the Honorverse, but basically any of the Baen-based universes.
Jim Baen, the book company's founder, recently and sadly died from a stroke but thoughtfully had already left plans in place for Baen Books to continue in his absence.
This is just a history check. Think nothing of it. (-:
About True science means that when you re-evaluate the evidence, you re-evaluate your faith, I have to agree.
Most truly impressive scientific advances come with re-evaluations, as Isaac Asimov once put it, The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny...' which will happen more often to people who take a break and a fresh look, as you advise.
Mr Asimov also needed to re-evaluate a lot of his own principles, even though he did fairly well for such a self-limiting personality. OTOH, while Charlie Darwin butchered quite a huge number of concepts very badly, he seems to have spoken this particular one pretty well: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. The bottom line is to take a break, not disconnect yourself completely.
The effrontery! How dare you actually take MS at their word? (-:
..."food", isn't it?
And if a whole enterprise is a piece of "food" for MS, where does that leave an individual?
...an interoperability issue?
Shocked! Horrified! How could this possibly happen? (-:
Top dollar (Euro, Pound... whatever) says that MS don't learn from this. Playing fairly seems to be against their religion.
...but their understanding is a little different to ours.
"We got away with it over there, a bit, so let's get away with it over here, too!" is probably a good summary of their US-style interoperable legal strategy being applied in the EU.
But... welcome to Europa. MS're in for a biiiig disappointment when the EU courts don't quite fall sucker to such ploys in the same way, and in fact will probably (ironic and all as this will be) soundly slap down the uppity colonists for daring to treat EU so presumptiously.