For sure. America definitely made them invade and rape China.
The invasion part is shared between 7 members of the 8 nations alliance who thought it would be a good idea to invite 'freshly Westernized Japan' to a nice little punitive expedition in China following the Boxer rebellion... where Japan provided a third of the ships and 40% of the ground troops. America was indeed part of those seven countries, however Germany probably played a more active role in teaching them the rape part.
Oh, and attack the US. Definitely, all things, no matter what, are America's fault.
Japan was an isolationist country until America decided to use canons to force-open Japanese ports to US trade, ending 254 years of relative peace in Japan and triggering a civil war. Japan had neither the desire nor the means to interfere abroad until America went there. After America went there, the new Japanese government had to modernize the country or face having the same thing happen again.
For your first question, this is actually an obligation for all payment institutions and banks. There is a legal obligation to collect information on the client (Know Your Client/Know Your Business). Once a certain threshold in transactions value is crossed, that information needs to be validated and additional information needs to be collected (proof of ID, proof of address). There is also an obligation to run the collected data against sanction lists on a regular basis (daily/weekly, depending on risk exposure).
For your second question, if the details do not check out once the lowest threshold is hit or the details raise a hit on a sanction list... the institution has the legal obligation to seize the funds, sneaky freeze the account and immediately report the suspicious activity to the financial authorities. I used "sneaky freeze" because they can't actually alert you of their suspicion, as that would be considered "tipping off" and expose them to penalties (fines, potential jail time for the party tipping off).
If I'm not mistaken... the oil production was literally a once-off event that happened before bacteria started processing the dead matter. Once that once-off stockpile is gone, it's not coming back.
You don't. Bitcoins are mined on ASICs using wholesale electricity costing 3 to 4 cents per kwhr. Anything less, and you are not going to break even.
I did the calculations less than 2 months ago, using a pulled ASIC (fastest publicly available at the time) from one of the top miners... even with free electricity, it would have taken more than a month to recoup the initial ASIC cost. Those ASICs aren't cheap, even used, and they aren't reliable either with a lot of people complaining that the equipment fries within a couple of months. If you pay the electricity at public prices, I couldn't foresee a way to break even on the ASIC investment. Of course, with the recent spike in BTC value... that changes the equation.
Being in pre-sales did the company you were working for not see value in investing in such a thing? Particularly if it really was so trivial?
The company sort of had conflicting goals of its own... they'd rather have sold them a groupware solution to replace Exchange, and ultimately the Linux migration projects were seen as a way to get more customers to use their own back-end solutions and server hardware. Having a perfect integration into exchange wasn't seen as a desirable outcome.
Why use a tool that doesn't work properly and requires fixing when you can just pay for a tool that does work properly?
Current versions of windows still require a hotfix if you have users with more than 120 AD groups. It's been a known issue since 2003, we're in 2017, how is that working properly out of the box? You only learn of the issue and hotfix after you encounter the problem. This brings back memories of when I was still administering Windows servers... a service pack deploys a corrupt CCISS driver, that makes your server blue screen at GINA, and when you search for the blue screen string it leads to a TechNote explaining that it's a known issue and you absolutely have to reinstall the CCISS driver after installing the service pack and before rebooting. Of course, reinstalling the driver on a machine that wouldn't let you log in required either restoring to pre-SP deployment, a bootable windows device or installing a second version of windows in a separate directory. Any sane provider would have released a fixed SP ASAP or at least added a note on top of the SP page to tell you to reinstall the driver if you have that piece of equipment installed.
There's an entire industry out there thriving on propping up Windows shortcomings or providing functionalities that either changed or went missing between releases. Releasing a new desktop image (even simply with a higher SP installed) is a major project for most large customers, at my previous employer they had a 3 persons team working full time on that task alone. At the job before that, they had an even larger team dedicated to maintaining the standard desktop image.
At my current job, I'm on the fast-track to receive a brand new MacBook Pro because for some "unknown reason" docking or undocking my current windows laptop is creating two issues. If Windows is running, the machine becomes unresponsive for 15 minutes (no mouse, no keyboard, no touch screen, disks and fans spinning at 100%). If Windows is suspended, the machine requires a hard reset when I try to resume it. It literally means that I need to shut down the laptop, undock it and then start it up again if I want to take the laptop to a meeting. As far as I can tell, this has been caused by a hotfix/SP applied in the last 6 months as it had been working flawlessly for the 2 years before. Then again, I may be wrong because some of my colleagues had a similar issue months before me and others are just starting to have it now. There are exactly 5 non-MS applications on the machine: Chrome, BigIP, RSA, Acrobat Reader, PuTTY. Chrome and PuTTY are the only ones that weren't part of the standard image. Based on my colleagues experience, re-imaging fixes the issue for a few weeks and then it comes back. Except if you switch to Windows 8... but then again, there were no issues either with Windows 7 for a long time.
Somewhere in the last year, the company made the decision that it would be cheaper to just replace the whole laptop in case of windows issues that couldn't be fixed in 30 minutes through a remote helpdesk session... especially if the laptop is already more than halfway through its 36 months lifecycle. Hopefully I won't have similar issues with the MacBook Pro down the line.
In terms of software compatibility that's simply not true, the primary reason people use Windows over Linux on the desktop is application compatibility, it's the same reason people use Android over Windows Phone on mobile. In terms of a
But as you see in the comments here, it's not Linux's fault, Linux is awesome and perfect. This is all a Microsoft conspiracy so the complaints about application compatibility must be all lies.
Having worked in technical pre-sales on Linux migration projects ages ago, I have noticed (through follow-up contacts with the technical stakeholders) that the potential customers I visited always ended up having extremely deep discounts from the big suppliers after our visits. And funnily enough, their reason to keep the status-quo was based on features that they weren't even using based on the initial requirements assessment. One of the most glaring example I have in mind was a large industrial company that ended up having the complete MS portfolio at educational prices and claimed they had to remain with Exchange (5.5 at the time) because they absolutely needed the ability to push mails to phone.
The problem is much of the Linux community has the Steve Jobs Antennagate attitude, if it's not working just blame the user. Just look at the shit I had to go through when putting Linux on my iMac just to get the bluetooth keyboard and mouse working, Windows worked just fine out of the box. If you want to install the latest nvidia drivers you have to ctrl+alt+f7 to get into a TTY then login, find out what your DM service is called, then work out which service manager you are using (maybe the command is service, maybe it is systemctl, stop that services, install the drivers and then restart the service and switch back to graphical terminal. You can say these are niche things but desktop computing is made up of these sorts of niche things, otherwise we'd all just use iPads to do web browsing and email.
None of these are issues in a corporate environment because the user won't install the OS himself and won't have administrative rights on his machine. The machine will be installed with the corporate image that already has all the required components installed and configured. This is based on first hand experience rolling out Linux desktops in corporate environments 10 years ago, that were fully integrated in AD and Exchange. The biggest issue I was facing at the time was that the Exchange connector of Evolution didn't cope well with large scale Exchange deployments where you had more than one exchange server... so, for example, the calendar free/busy was only working for users that were on the same exchange server as you... this would have been a trivial fix just requiring an extra lookup per user in the calendar, but nobody was interested at the time. 99% of the issues with Open Office had been caused by improper Office template design and were very quickly fixed. Some other interesting issues were caused by the way Microsoft overloaded their Kerberos tickets by enumerating the group membership of the user in a comment field of the ticket... users that are members of more than 120 AD groups generate tickets above 64K, which is creating funny issues in all kind of places (web services, IPSEC, login,...). Like, they are still releasing patches for Windows 8 for those issues. And yes, in large corporations with tight access controls, it's not unusual to be a member of 120+ AD Groups.
Linux is extremely powerful and for the most part very well engineered but people don't care about operating systems, they care about whether they can run their programs and until Linux distros catch up to the usability and hardware/software compatibility of macOS and Windows it isn't going to be widely adopted on the desktop.
This is certainly an achievable thing, Google demonstrated this with Android on smartphones so it certainly isn't outside the realm of possibility.
What has been demonstrated with smartphones/tablets is that software compatibility and a stable UI are actually a red herring. I'm currently using all major platforms (Wi
Similar experience with big iron... I saved my previous gig $2MM/year by decommissioning a farm of legacy SF15K and SF25K that hadn't seen any action (other than patching) for 6 years. Nobody actually had the guts to pull the plugs, so the company was still paying support for them.
Over there a problem is not a problem as long as you keep quiet about it.
Unlike US companies where every problem I report in management meetings magically fail to make it to the meeting minutes and every improvement I propose is met with "it's worked this way for the last 15 years, why should we change it?".
Coming at it from the opposite direction... between 2000 and now, there's been less than 10 movies coming from the big studios that I actually wanted to watch (I'm including movies to be released later this year). I don't have an issue paying for engaging content I actually want to watch, unfortunately the studios seem hellbent on not producing that. So I watch what they produce for free when it trickles down to the TV.
The point is that indeed there must have been some pretty sophisticated tools at work, well beyond what is attributed the ancient peoples.
The mystery is NOT whether ancient peoples moved large blocks, but rather HOW they did so without sophisticated setups that they weren't supposed to have known about.
Even stranger is the fact that the oldest structures (some perhaps much older than has been attributed) seem to be the grandest and most perplexing.
The mystery is: What kinds of technology did the ancients actually have, and why did they seem to lose their knowledge of these things.
The thing about ancient civilizations is that their collapse buried technology/knowledge that then get discovered again centuries or millennia later. Writing was discovered, lost, rediscovered... probably a few times. Most likely because reading and writing wasn't wide-spread in the society, but only in a specific class. If our civilization was to collapse tomorrow, I'm relatively confident that it wouldn't regress too much as literacy is more widespread in our civilization than in any before and we still have repositories of knowledge in printed form. The same thing happened with steam power (between Hero of Alexandria and 1606's Spain), mechanical computing devices (between the Antikythera device and the Pascaline in 1642) and even some simpler/humbler tools.
I'm going to use the woodworking hand-plane as an example... it's a simple family of tools that quickly adjust the size, flatten, shape or finish the surface of wood. A properly setup smoothing plane can adjust the dimensions by increments of a thousandth of an inch, scrub planes can take off chunks of an eighth of an inch. The hand plane is believed to have originated in ancient Egypt as a jig to hold either an adze blade or a chisel at a constant angle to the piece being worked. During medieval times, and up to the mid 19th century, they were a block of wood with a channel carved through it to hold the plane blade in the correct position (secured with a wedge). In the 19th century, 3 new designs of the tool were invented: metal-bodied planes, transitional planes (wood sole, metal holding/adjustment) and infill planes (wooden body, clad in metal). However, digs in Pompeii and other big Roman sites have brought up both metal-bodied and infill planes from the Roman era. So it's another relatively simple tech that was lost and rediscovered.
The only non-trivial change in woodworking tools between the Egyptians and now is that we have motorized most of the tools in order to speed up the process. If you remove the power tools from the equation, we're not even at the peak of the tool design. The peak in design happened between the 17th and the 19th centuries, and modern non-power tools are either copies of those designs (with better materials) or functionally inferior to those designs.
It's a mix of the accent and the expressions used... the non-Quebec Canadians I have met weren't native speakers and spoke standard French with either a slight English accent or no accent whatsoever. Quebecois speakers use sentences or expressions that haven't been used in standard French for centuries (or ever), or are word-for-word translations of the English expression ("prendre une marche" for "take a walk", instead of standard French "se promener"). New Brunswick's French sort of suffers from the same issues, minus the word-for-word translations... it's closer to the old dialects close to where I grew up, where French only became the primary language after WW2.
Most of the original settlers came from parts of France where their respective French dialect was the second language, but was the only thing intelligible to the settlers coming from other parts of France. What is now called metropolitan French was the local dialect of the Paris bourgeois class, and only became the official language at the end of the French revolution... centuries after the settlement of New France. That's what I meant with "too modern" in my original post.
And yes, Quebec enforced use of those words, even when they don't bother in France! (The stop signs are ARRÊT in Quebec, but STOP in France (and yes, the French do say "Stop").
It's understandable - some of the Quebec French-isms are a mouthful compared to the more compact anglicism (which is probably why they never caught on), while the more compact ones have actually stuck and have been adopted by France.
Actually, the verb "stopper" (meaning "to stop") has been in use in French since at least the 1840s (it was used in Balzac's Comédie Humaine "Cousin Pons" from 1847). Once it's been used by a great French author, it's automagically considered as "valid French and a French invention thank you very much". Note that there is also a "stopper" (meaning "to darn") in use since at least the 1730s, that was borrowed from Dutch (stoppen -> restauper -> estoper -> stoper -> stopper). Of course, both of those may be too modern for the Quebec's language police.
The French spoken in Quebec is basically an archaic regional dialect predating the French revolution and the standardization of the language that followed, so much so that I (a native French speaker) need subtitles when there's a person from the country side of Quebec interviewed on TV. When I encounter people from Quebec cities, I can sort of understand most of what they are saying except for some weird Quebec-only expressions. I have no issues whatsoever understanding Canadians from outside Quebec when they speak French.
I'm not that sure, seeing that he apparently either couldn't figure out how to generate a profit from a money printing press (the Taj), was running a very visible money laundering operation for Russian mobsters or both (in that order).
Also, that will teach me to comment without previewing while in a hurry.
Calling him any sort of stupid is belied by the fact that he is a self-made billionaire, successful reality TV star
A self-reported billionaire, who started up with a "small loan" from his father, that has a track record of enriching himself by not upholding his part of contracts and screwing over his contractors. For the second part of your statement, do you also consider the Kardashians to be Mensa-grade?
Talking from what I have seen when working in managed services and shared/cloud hosting environments... some admins have no qualms reading clients' mailboxes or snooping around clients' data when they're bored. Triply so if it's a follow-the-sun team, where only one localization is familiar with (or realistically gives a fuck about) European data privacy laws.
The cloud provider has complete access to the hypervisor, and still could access the data in memory even if it is encrypted at-rest and in-flight. If their hardware platform uses Intel's AMT or the AMD's PSP, a third party could do the same remotely. Colocated VMs could also reach the data through either VM escape or cache-based jamming agreement.
You are correct that the pain will be legal, even tho not for the cloud provider(s) but for their customers. I'm not sure about the regulation in the US, but in Europe I remain fully responsible for the confidentiality of my customer data even if I outsource the hosting to a cloud provider. And thanks to new regulation coming into force next year, my fines will be doubled if a leak happens through negligence... and deciding to host on a cloud with the issues of the previous paragraph can be construed as negligence.
1) Muscles adapt to stress. You have to overload them more and more. It only takes a few months of doing bodyweight exercises before you really aren't going to build any more strength from them, just muscular endurance. Eventually you need progressively heavier weights if you want to get stronger.
You may have heard of this thing called leverage... which tends to increase the strength required by putting your body at a disadvantage...
Take push-ups, for example: incline push-ups (hands higher than feet), to horizontal push-ups, to decline push-ups (feet higher than hands), to hand-stand push-ups. You can throw ring-variations in there for extra difficulty, because of the stabilization required. Or you can go pseudo-planche push-ups, towards full planche push-ups, fingertips full planche push-ups...
There's a few interesting small-to-medium scale ecosystem restoration projects going on at the moment, trying to improve on the Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation projects. While the Loess Plateau projects didn't achieve all their objectives, they have still seriously improved the lives of 2.5 million people at a cost just below $200 per head... more than doubling their income, increasing harvest yield, reducing unemployment and reducing soil erosion.
Ecosystem management/restoration is a career path I actually considered while at school, and I'm currently reconsidering it for the second half of my career. The Science Faculty in my hometown has been 100% focused on ecosystem management and ecosystem restoration since 1971... attracting students from 25 countries to a tiny city.
Claiming that there are satellites showing a reduction of deserts is just idiotic.
It may have been caused by improper reporting of a discovery last month. To put it simply, better quality satellite imagery have revealed that there is 378 million hectares more forest than previously thought... most of them in dryland areas that we considered as deserts. It's not that deserts shrunk, it's that we incorrectly labelled areas as deserts due to poor quality imagery.
The interesting thing -to me- is that we already have the ability to restore large-scale damaged ecosystems, but that somehow it doesn't seem to be a priority for western civilization.
I do hope they have unlimited storage for the "have you travelled to any country (other than your country of residence)" question... for the last 12 months I've been driving through 2 countries other than my country of residence every morning to work and every evening from work. For the 14 years prior to that, one country a day for work and multiple countries per weekend for shopping trips, parties, conferences, trips to the seaside, hobbies, concerts, long weekend road trips across Europe, sailing... and none of those have any paper trail, as they happened within the Schengen Area.
Re 'All prior passport numbers?" Most normal nations will be able to give that to their own citizens. Most normal nations keep their passports and passport numbers very secure. So that passport list would be an enquiry a person can be expected to make in their own nation given they have a passport in 2017.
If a person can now get a passport they can get any past passport details too.
I'm a European citizen. I was born in one country, I work in a second country and I live in a third country (I have lived in six countries, both inside and outside of Europe, in the last two decades). As I am no longer a resident of my country of birth, I would need to visit their consulate for the previous passport numbers (>4h drive) as they won't communicate them by phone or email. I'm about to change nationality to become a citizen of my current country of residence as this will greatly simplify my daily life. Once that happens, my country of birth won't even give me the time of the day let alone previous passport numbers. My country of birth is as unhelpful as they can be, as I haven't lived there for 16 years and it's becoming clear to them that I have no intention of ever living there again.
My wife is a Japanese citizen with a permanent residency permit in Europe, where she has now lived for 13 years (in 3 countries so far). However, her passport was never stamped by customs upon entry through some rather silly oversight... the destination airport only had EU-origin flights at the time, and both Paris CDG and Vienna airports failed to inspect her passport as she was only transiting through the airport. That oversight happened on two separate trips, so I would tend to think there's a lot of people in the same situation.
Where I work, if you had started saving 50% of the gross median salary ($51K) 8 years ago you'd be able to afford the 20% down payment on a flat close to work (roughly $1MM). Unfortunately, even if you bring those 20% the banks won't lend you the money because there's a percentage cap to the maximum monthly payment... and the remaining 80% of the purchase value over 30 years will be over that cap. There's also the small issue that it's literally no longer possible to save those 50% if you're not living in your parent's basement or under a bridge, or that you won't cross that median salary line before your mid-thirties.
Or you could do what I did, move outside the commuter belt and buy the property of my dreams for less than that down payment.
BTW, your 50K wouldn't even buy a parking spot in that area. A weekend chalet that you can't register as a primary address fetches >180K.
There's no need for leaks on Le Pen or her party. The following is public information and has been available for any person able to read:
The FN is under investigation for the embezzlement of €5MM at the EU level through fictive jobs and €6.2MM at the French level during the 2012 Legislative campaign. Documents seized by the authorities indicate that both are the results of a strategy coming from the top level of the party. Marine Le Pen paid her ex sister-in-law and her own body guard using the EU budget for parliamentary assistants, while they were both working for the FN inside France. While she was elected in Nord-Pas-De-Calais, she paid her campaign director through a fictive job... while he was also paid full time by her father, and paid full time for his position in Frejus.
Both Marine and her father are currently under investigation for tax fraud and for misreporting of assets. His swiss account and BVI/panama companies managed through his majordomo, were found in the swissleak and the panama papers.
Marine and her father are also under investigation for the embezzlement of public money used to purchase a private property. As a board member of her father's campaign financing structure, she authorized a loan using the public money in order to purchase her father's current private residence.
There's still minor stuff like breaking data protection laws and possession of stolen goods (confidential police and national security papers were seized in the FN HQ while a search warrant was served).
A conviction in any of those affairs would mean jail time and ineligibility from running for public function for a set period of time (the first one would be 10 years jail, with a follow-up of 10 years ineligibility). Of course if she gets elected before any judgement, the whole investigation/trial would be suspended while she is in office.
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For sure. America definitely made them invade and rape China.
The invasion part is shared between 7 members of the 8 nations alliance who thought it would be a good idea to invite 'freshly Westernized Japan' to a nice little punitive expedition in China following the Boxer rebellion... where Japan provided a third of the ships and 40% of the ground troops. America was indeed part of those seven countries, however Germany probably played a more active role in teaching them the rape part.
Oh, and attack the US. Definitely, all things, no matter what, are America's fault.
Japan was an isolationist country until America decided to use canons to force-open Japanese ports to US trade, ending 254 years of relative peace in Japan and triggering a civil war. Japan had neither the desire nor the means to interfere abroad until America went there. After America went there, the new Japanese government had to modernize the country or face having the same thing happen again.
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For your first question, this is actually an obligation for all payment institutions and banks. There is a legal obligation to collect information on the client (Know Your Client/Know Your Business). Once a certain threshold in transactions value is crossed, that information needs to be validated and additional information needs to be collected (proof of ID, proof of address). There is also an obligation to run the collected data against sanction lists on a regular basis (daily/weekly, depending on risk exposure).
For your second question, if the details do not check out once the lowest threshold is hit or the details raise a hit on a sanction list... the institution has the legal obligation to seize the funds, sneaky freeze the account and immediately report the suspicious activity to the financial authorities. I used "sneaky freeze" because they can't actually alert you of their suspicion, as that would be considered "tipping off" and expose them to penalties (fines, potential jail time for the party tipping off).
If I'm not mistaken... the oil production was literally a once-off event that happened before bacteria started processing the dead matter. Once that once-off stockpile is gone, it's not coming back.
You don't. Bitcoins are mined on ASICs using wholesale electricity costing 3 to 4 cents per kwhr. Anything less, and you are not going to break even.
I did the calculations less than 2 months ago, using a pulled ASIC (fastest publicly available at the time) from one of the top miners... even with free electricity, it would have taken more than a month to recoup the initial ASIC cost. Those ASICs aren't cheap, even used, and they aren't reliable either with a lot of people complaining that the equipment fries within a couple of months. If you pay the electricity at public prices, I couldn't foresee a way to break even on the ASIC investment. Of course, with the recent spike in BTC value... that changes the equation.
Being in pre-sales did the company you were working for not see value in investing in such a thing? Particularly if it really was so trivial?
The company sort of had conflicting goals of its own... they'd rather have sold them a groupware solution to replace Exchange, and ultimately the Linux migration projects were seen as a way to get more customers to use their own back-end solutions and server hardware. Having a perfect integration into exchange wasn't seen as a desirable outcome.
Why use a tool that doesn't work properly and requires fixing when you can just pay for a tool that does work properly?
Current versions of windows still require a hotfix if you have users with more than 120 AD groups. It's been a known issue since 2003, we're in 2017, how is that working properly out of the box? You only learn of the issue and hotfix after you encounter the problem. This brings back memories of when I was still administering Windows servers... a service pack deploys a corrupt CCISS driver, that makes your server blue screen at GINA, and when you search for the blue screen string it leads to a TechNote explaining that it's a known issue and you absolutely have to reinstall the CCISS driver after installing the service pack and before rebooting. Of course, reinstalling the driver on a machine that wouldn't let you log in required either restoring to pre-SP deployment, a bootable windows device or installing a second version of windows in a separate directory. Any sane provider would have released a fixed SP ASAP or at least added a note on top of the SP page to tell you to reinstall the driver if you have that piece of equipment installed.
There's an entire industry out there thriving on propping up Windows shortcomings or providing functionalities that either changed or went missing between releases. Releasing a new desktop image (even simply with a higher SP installed) is a major project for most large customers, at my previous employer they had a 3 persons team working full time on that task alone. At the job before that, they had an even larger team dedicated to maintaining the standard desktop image.
At my current job, I'm on the fast-track to receive a brand new MacBook Pro because for some "unknown reason" docking or undocking my current windows laptop is creating two issues. If Windows is running, the machine becomes unresponsive for 15 minutes (no mouse, no keyboard, no touch screen, disks and fans spinning at 100%). If Windows is suspended, the machine requires a hard reset when I try to resume it. It literally means that I need to shut down the laptop, undock it and then start it up again if I want to take the laptop to a meeting. As far as I can tell, this has been caused by a hotfix/SP applied in the last 6 months as it had been working flawlessly for the 2 years before. Then again, I may be wrong because some of my colleagues had a similar issue months before me and others are just starting to have it now. There are exactly 5 non-MS applications on the machine: Chrome, BigIP, RSA, Acrobat Reader, PuTTY. Chrome and PuTTY are the only ones that weren't part of the standard image. Based on my colleagues experience, re-imaging fixes the issue for a few weeks and then it comes back. Except if you switch to Windows 8... but then again, there were no issues either with Windows 7 for a long time.
Somewhere in the last year, the company made the decision that it would be cheaper to just replace the whole laptop in case of windows issues that couldn't be fixed in 30 minutes through a remote helpdesk session... especially if the laptop is already more than halfway through its 36 months lifecycle. Hopefully I won't have similar issues with the MacBook Pro down the line.
In terms of software compatibility that's simply not true, the primary reason people use Windows over Linux on the desktop is application compatibility, it's the same reason people use Android over Windows Phone on mobile. In terms of a
But as you see in the comments here, it's not Linux's fault, Linux is awesome and perfect. This is all a Microsoft conspiracy so the complaints about application compatibility must be all lies.
Having worked in technical pre-sales on Linux migration projects ages ago, I have noticed (through follow-up contacts with the technical stakeholders) that the potential customers I visited always ended up having extremely deep discounts from the big suppliers after our visits. And funnily enough, their reason to keep the status-quo was based on features that they weren't even using based on the initial requirements assessment. One of the most glaring example I have in mind was a large industrial company that ended up having the complete MS portfolio at educational prices and claimed they had to remain with Exchange (5.5 at the time) because they absolutely needed the ability to push mails to phone.
The problem is much of the Linux community has the Steve Jobs Antennagate attitude, if it's not working just blame the user. Just look at the shit I had to go through when putting Linux on my iMac just to get the bluetooth keyboard and mouse working, Windows worked just fine out of the box. If you want to install the latest nvidia drivers you have to ctrl+alt+f7 to get into a TTY then login, find out what your DM service is called, then work out which service manager you are using (maybe the command is service, maybe it is systemctl, stop that services, install the drivers and then restart the service and switch back to graphical terminal. You can say these are niche things but desktop computing is made up of these sorts of niche things, otherwise we'd all just use iPads to do web browsing and email.
None of these are issues in a corporate environment because the user won't install the OS himself and won't have administrative rights on his machine. The machine will be installed with the corporate image that already has all the required components installed and configured. This is based on first hand experience rolling out Linux desktops in corporate environments 10 years ago, that were fully integrated in AD and Exchange. The biggest issue I was facing at the time was that the Exchange connector of Evolution didn't cope well with large scale Exchange deployments where you had more than one exchange server... so, for example, the calendar free/busy was only working for users that were on the same exchange server as you... this would have been a trivial fix just requiring an extra lookup per user in the calendar, but nobody was interested at the time. 99% of the issues with Open Office had been caused by improper Office template design and were very quickly fixed. Some other interesting issues were caused by the way Microsoft overloaded their Kerberos tickets by enumerating the group membership of the user in a comment field of the ticket... users that are members of more than 120 AD groups generate tickets above 64K, which is creating funny issues in all kind of places (web services, IPSEC, login, ...). Like, they are still releasing patches for Windows 8 for those issues. And yes, in large corporations with tight access controls, it's not unusual to be a member of 120+ AD Groups.
Linux is extremely powerful and for the most part very well engineered but people don't care about operating systems, they care about whether they can run their programs and until Linux distros catch up to the usability and hardware/software compatibility of macOS and Windows it isn't going to be widely adopted on the desktop.
This is certainly an achievable thing, Google demonstrated this with Android on smartphones so it certainly isn't outside the realm of possibility.
What has been demonstrated with smartphones/tablets is that software compatibility and a stable UI are actually a red herring. I'm currently using all major platforms (Wi
Similar experience with big iron... I saved my previous gig $2MM/year by decommissioning a farm of legacy SF15K and SF25K that hadn't seen any action (other than patching) for 6 years. Nobody actually had the guts to pull the plugs, so the company was still paying support for them.
Over there a problem is not a problem as long as you keep quiet about it.
Unlike US companies where every problem I report in management meetings magically fail to make it to the meeting minutes and every improvement I propose is met with "it's worked this way for the last 15 years, why should we change it?".
Coming at it from the opposite direction... between 2000 and now, there's been less than 10 movies coming from the big studios that I actually wanted to watch (I'm including movies to be released later this year). I don't have an issue paying for engaging content I actually want to watch, unfortunately the studios seem hellbent on not producing that. So I watch what they produce for free when it trickles down to the TV.
The point is that indeed there must have been some pretty sophisticated tools at work, well beyond what is attributed the ancient peoples.
The mystery is NOT whether ancient peoples moved large blocks, but rather HOW they did so without sophisticated setups that they weren't supposed to have known about.
Even stranger is the fact that the oldest structures (some perhaps much older than has been attributed) seem to be the grandest and most perplexing.
The mystery is: What kinds of technology did the ancients actually have, and why did they seem to lose their knowledge of these things.
The thing about ancient civilizations is that their collapse buried technology/knowledge that then get discovered again centuries or millennia later. Writing was discovered, lost, rediscovered... probably a few times. Most likely because reading and writing wasn't wide-spread in the society, but only in a specific class. If our civilization was to collapse tomorrow, I'm relatively confident that it wouldn't regress too much as literacy is more widespread in our civilization than in any before and we still have repositories of knowledge in printed form. The same thing happened with steam power (between Hero of Alexandria and 1606's Spain), mechanical computing devices (between the Antikythera device and the Pascaline in 1642) and even some simpler/humbler tools.
I'm going to use the woodworking hand-plane as an example... it's a simple family of tools that quickly adjust the size, flatten, shape or finish the surface of wood. A properly setup smoothing plane can adjust the dimensions by increments of a thousandth of an inch, scrub planes can take off chunks of an eighth of an inch. The hand plane is believed to have originated in ancient Egypt as a jig to hold either an adze blade or a chisel at a constant angle to the piece being worked. During medieval times, and up to the mid 19th century, they were a block of wood with a channel carved through it to hold the plane blade in the correct position (secured with a wedge). In the 19th century, 3 new designs of the tool were invented: metal-bodied planes, transitional planes (wood sole, metal holding/adjustment) and infill planes (wooden body, clad in metal). However, digs in Pompeii and other big Roman sites have brought up both metal-bodied and infill planes from the Roman era. So it's another relatively simple tech that was lost and rediscovered.
The only non-trivial change in woodworking tools between the Egyptians and now is that we have motorized most of the tools in order to speed up the process. If you remove the power tools from the equation, we're not even at the peak of the tool design. The peak in design happened between the 17th and the 19th centuries, and modern non-power tools are either copies of those designs (with better materials) or functionally inferior to those designs.
It's a mix of the accent and the expressions used... the non-Quebec Canadians I have met weren't native speakers and spoke standard French with either a slight English accent or no accent whatsoever. Quebecois speakers use sentences or expressions that haven't been used in standard French for centuries (or ever), or are word-for-word translations of the English expression ("prendre une marche" for "take a walk", instead of standard French "se promener"). New Brunswick's French sort of suffers from the same issues, minus the word-for-word translations... it's closer to the old dialects close to where I grew up, where French only became the primary language after WW2.
Most of the original settlers came from parts of France where their respective French dialect was the second language, but was the only thing intelligible to the settlers coming from other parts of France. What is now called metropolitan French was the local dialect of the Paris bourgeois class, and only became the official language at the end of the French revolution... centuries after the settlement of New France. That's what I meant with "too modern" in my original post.
And yes, Quebec enforced use of those words, even when they don't bother in France! (The stop signs are ARRÊT in Quebec, but STOP in France (and yes, the French do say "Stop").
It's understandable - some of the Quebec French-isms are a mouthful compared to the more compact anglicism (which is probably why they never caught on), while the more compact ones have actually stuck and have been adopted by France.
Actually, the verb "stopper" (meaning "to stop") has been in use in French since at least the 1840s (it was used in Balzac's Comédie Humaine "Cousin Pons" from 1847). Once it's been used by a great French author, it's automagically considered as "valid French and a French invention thank you very much". Note that there is also a "stopper" (meaning "to darn") in use since at least the 1730s, that was borrowed from Dutch (stoppen -> restauper -> estoper -> stoper -> stopper). Of course, both of those may be too modern for the Quebec's language police.
The French spoken in Quebec is basically an archaic regional dialect predating the French revolution and the standardization of the language that followed, so much so that I (a native French speaker) need subtitles when there's a person from the country side of Quebec interviewed on TV. When I encounter people from Quebec cities, I can sort of understand most of what they are saying except for some weird Quebec-only expressions. I have no issues whatsoever understanding Canadians from outside Quebec when they speak French.
I'm not that sure, seeing that he apparently either couldn't figure out how to generate a profit from a money printing press (the Taj), was running a very visible money laundering operation for Russian mobsters or both (in that order).
Also, that will teach me to comment without previewing while in a hurry.
Calling him any sort of stupid is belied by the fact that he is a self-made billionaire, successful reality TV star
A self-reported billionaire, who started up with a "small loan" from his father, that has a track record of enriching himself by not upholding his part of contracts and screwing over his contractors. For the second part of your statement, do you also consider the Kardashians to be Mensa-grade?
Talking from what I have seen when working in managed services and shared/cloud hosting environments... some admins have no qualms reading clients' mailboxes or snooping around clients' data when they're bored. Triply so if it's a follow-the-sun team, where only one localization is familiar with (or realistically gives a fuck about) European data privacy laws.
The cloud provider has complete access to the hypervisor, and still could access the data in memory even if it is encrypted at-rest and in-flight. If their hardware platform uses Intel's AMT or the AMD's PSP, a third party could do the same remotely. Colocated VMs could also reach the data through either VM escape or cache-based jamming agreement.
You are correct that the pain will be legal, even tho not for the cloud provider(s) but for their customers. I'm not sure about the regulation in the US, but in Europe I remain fully responsible for the confidentiality of my customer data even if I outsource the hosting to a cloud provider. And thanks to new regulation coming into force next year, my fines will be doubled if a leak happens through negligence... and deciding to host on a cloud with the issues of the previous paragraph can be construed as negligence.
Your post is bullshit because:
1) Muscles adapt to stress. You have to overload them more and more. It only takes a few months of doing bodyweight exercises before you really aren't going to build any more strength from them, just muscular endurance. Eventually you need progressively heavier weights if you want to get stronger.
You may have heard of this thing called leverage... which tends to increase the strength required by putting your body at a disadvantage...
Take push-ups, for example: incline push-ups (hands higher than feet), to horizontal push-ups, to decline push-ups (feet higher than hands), to hand-stand push-ups. You can throw ring-variations in there for extra difficulty, because of the stabilization required. Or you can go pseudo-planche push-ups, towards full planche push-ups, fingertips full planche push-ups...
I'm currently re-reading Bill Mollison, Sepp Holzer and Masanobu Fukuoka.
There's a few interesting small-to-medium scale ecosystem restoration projects going on at the moment, trying to improve on the Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation projects. While the Loess Plateau projects didn't achieve all their objectives, they have still seriously improved the lives of 2.5 million people at a cost just below $200 per head... more than doubling their income, increasing harvest yield, reducing unemployment and reducing soil erosion.
Ecosystem management/restoration is a career path I actually considered while at school, and I'm currently reconsidering it for the second half of my career. The Science Faculty in my hometown has been 100% focused on ecosystem management and ecosystem restoration since 1971... attracting students from 25 countries to a tiny city.
Claiming that there are satellites showing a reduction of deserts is just idiotic.
It may have been caused by improper reporting of a discovery last month. To put it simply, better quality satellite imagery have revealed that there is 378 million hectares more forest than previously thought... most of them in dryland areas that we considered as deserts. It's not that deserts shrunk, it's that we incorrectly labelled areas as deserts due to poor quality imagery.
The interesting thing -to me- is that we already have the ability to restore large-scale damaged ecosystems, but that somehow it doesn't seem to be a priority for western civilization.
I do hope they have unlimited storage for the "have you travelled to any country (other than your country of residence)" question... for the last 12 months I've been driving through 2 countries other than my country of residence every morning to work and every evening from work. For the 14 years prior to that, one country a day for work and multiple countries per weekend for shopping trips, parties, conferences, trips to the seaside, hobbies, concerts, long weekend road trips across Europe, sailing... and none of those have any paper trail, as they happened within the Schengen Area.
Re 'All prior passport numbers?" Most normal nations will be able to give that to their own citizens. Most normal nations keep their passports and passport numbers very secure. So that passport list would be an enquiry a person can be expected to make in their own nation given they have a passport in 2017. If a person can now get a passport they can get any past passport details too.
I'm a European citizen. I was born in one country, I work in a second country and I live in a third country (I have lived in six countries, both inside and outside of Europe, in the last two decades). As I am no longer a resident of my country of birth, I would need to visit their consulate for the previous passport numbers (>4h drive) as they won't communicate them by phone or email. I'm about to change nationality to become a citizen of my current country of residence as this will greatly simplify my daily life. Once that happens, my country of birth won't even give me the time of the day let alone previous passport numbers. My country of birth is as unhelpful as they can be, as I haven't lived there for 16 years and it's becoming clear to them that I have no intention of ever living there again.
My wife is a Japanese citizen with a permanent residency permit in Europe, where she has now lived for 13 years (in 3 countries so far). However, her passport was never stamped by customs upon entry through some rather silly oversight... the destination airport only had EU-origin flights at the time, and both Paris CDG and Vienna airports failed to inspect her passport as she was only transiting through the airport. That oversight happened on two separate trips, so I would tend to think there's a lot of people in the same situation.
Where I work, if you had started saving 50% of the gross median salary ($51K) 8 years ago you'd be able to afford the 20% down payment on a flat close to work (roughly $1MM). Unfortunately, even if you bring those 20% the banks won't lend you the money because there's a percentage cap to the maximum monthly payment... and the remaining 80% of the purchase value over 30 years will be over that cap. There's also the small issue that it's literally no longer possible to save those 50% if you're not living in your parent's basement or under a bridge, or that you won't cross that median salary line before your mid-thirties.
Or you could do what I did, move outside the commuter belt and buy the property of my dreams for less than that down payment.
BTW, your 50K wouldn't even buy a parking spot in that area. A weekend chalet that you can't register as a primary address fetches >180K.
There's no need for leaks on Le Pen or her party. The following is public information and has been available for any person able to read:
A conviction in any of those affairs would mean jail time and ineligibility from running for public function for a set period of time (the first one would be 10 years jail, with a follow-up of 10 years ineligibility). Of course if she gets elected before any judgement, the whole investigation/trial would be suspended while she is in office.