They don't divulge what they know because it would most likely be a security breach if they do so. Why do the user community in a company feel that they need to know the details of how the corporate IT infrastructure operates?
The reason why is very simple. Seagate and Western Digital want to sell you extended warranties. In order to do so, they had to make the original warranty period so short that customers would want to buy the extended warranty.
Why is the NTSB targeting gadgets instead of bad drivers?"
Because the gadgets are involved in, and the cause of, a very large number of accidents. You can cherry pick the accident stats all you'd like in a failed attempt to dodge the issue, but the fact is that the car's driver seat is becoming more like the comfy chair in the living room instead of a driver seat.
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Should cell phones be singled out? I'd say no. But the problem remains, how do you determine the "bad" driver who thinks it is OK not to pay attention to what is occurring on the road around him/her?
How do you find and remove from the road the drivers who are simply not paying attention?
Why do even the best programmers call their mistakes bugs and not their mistakes? Why are even the best programmers avoiding taking responsibility for their errors
Why do you try to rationalize programmers' errors as being the result of ~there is too much to test~? Don't you think that programmers who really care about the quality of the code they write might object to your kicking the can down the road and blaming the problem on QA?
Why are you avoiding the responsibilty for the errors you as a programmer create?
If it is a commercial product, present reasons why there is more money to be made by fixing the issue you raise.
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If it is an open source product, it is not so easy....
- some projects require you to appeal to the egos of the developers. This is a losing proposition, as their egos are far larger than you can imagine.(the Linux kernel comes to mind)
- some projects require you to navigate a maze of problem reporting pages. These projects have lost their compass.
- some projects require you to show technical or use case reasons why what you suspect may be a bug is really a bug. There is hope here.
Not a surprising development, as the Mozilla developers seem to have lost their compass lately.
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Egregious shortcomings, such as the inability to remove any unwanted plugin (there's only the option to disable them), ridiculous version turnovers, etc.,.etc., etc., are beginning to cost Firefox popularity with the users. Once the Firefox developers started stroking themselves, instead of providing useful features for their users, the downward slide in users was all but certain.
Microsoft is unable to compete in the mobile marketplace, so Microsoft turns to the courts and blackmail in order to obtain Windows Mobile market share.
. Those who can compete, do; those who can't, litigate.
The resulting WEC7 driver for Radeon GPUs is proprietary, but that's allowed per the MIT license that the ATI-AMD Linux driver code is provided under."
Several German states admit to use of controversial spy software
Several additional German states have admitted to deploying spyware in order to investigate serious criminal offenses, according to regional media sources.
The interior ministers of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony said that regional police had used the software within the parameters of the law. In Lower Saxony, the software has been in use for two years, according to the public broadcaster NDR.
Authorities in Brandenburg, meanwhile, told the daily Berliner Morgenpost that they are currently using the spyware in a single, on-going investigation. Baden-Württemberg has also used such software to investigate "individual cases," according to the Badische Zeitung.
The interior ministry in the western state North Rhine-Westphalia also admitted that police had used the software in two instances, both of which had been approved by a judge. The news agency dpa reported that both cases had involved serious drug crimes....
... was that all the invites I sent out to friends had the text in the body of the invite message fixed by Google+ and immutable. Because of the nature of the wording in that invite, my friends who read the invite message thought my PC was infected by malware and sending out spam, and they promptly deleted the message.
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They don't divulge what they know because it would most likely be a security breach if they do so. Why do the user community in a company feel that they need to know the details of how the corporate IT infrastructure operates?
I'm still waiting for the Year of the Linux Desktop that has been forecast for ten of the last 15 years.
. While Western Digital wouldn't explain why
The reason why is very simple. Seagate and Western Digital want to sell you extended warranties. In order to do so, they had to make the original warranty period so short that customers would want to buy the extended warranty.
Why is the NTSB targeting gadgets instead of bad drivers?"
Because the gadgets are involved in, and the cause of, a very large number of accidents. You can cherry pick the accident stats all you'd like in a failed attempt to dodge the issue, but the fact is that the car's driver seat is becoming more like the comfy chair in the living room instead of a driver seat.
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Should cell phones be singled out? I'd say no. But the problem remains, how do you determine the "bad" driver who thinks it is OK not to pay attention to what is occurring on the road around him/her?
How do you find and remove from the road the drivers who are simply not paying attention?
What a ridiculous comment.
What is ridiculous about it?
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(note - I am not posting AC)
Why do even the best programmers call their mistakes bugs and not their mistakes? Why are even the best programmers avoiding taking responsibility for their errors
Why do you try to rationalize programmers' errors as being the result of ~there is too much to test~? Don't you think that programmers who really care about the quality of the code they write might object to your kicking the can down the road and blaming the problem on QA?
Why are you avoiding the responsibilty for the errors you as a programmer create?
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(1) that people are surprised at the amount of data that Facebook collects about your private lives, and
(2) that Facebook"s data on this person was only a CD-ROM's worth. I would opine that they are holding back.
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If it is an open source product, it is not so easy....
- some projects require you to appeal to the egos of the developers. This is a losing proposition, as their egos are far larger than you can imagine.(the Linux kernel comes to mind)
- some projects require you to navigate a maze of problem reporting pages. These projects have lost their compass.
- some projects require you to show technical or use case reasons why what you suspect may be a bug is really a bug. There is hope here.
This is one product I really hope Microsoft succeeds in.
To what end?
To suck the profits out of the industry, like Microsoft did with the PC industry?
To stifle innovation in the industry, like Microsoft did with the PC industry?
To globally reduce quality expectations, like Microsoft did with the PC industry?
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What, exactly, do you hope Microsoft succeeds in within the healthcare industry?
... why in the world would they want to partner with Microsoft?
. .etc., etc., are beginning to cost Firefox popularity with the users. Once the Firefox developers started stroking themselves, instead of providing useful features for their users, the downward slide in users was all but certain.
Egregious shortcomings, such as the inability to remove any unwanted plugin (there's only the option to disable them), ridiculous version turnovers, etc.,
because it's obvious
How true.
Why not? It's a new and useful improvement of an existing process.
The rest of your message does not substantiate what you assert. Sorry, patent denied.
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1 - Why is this patentable?
2 - Doesn't /.'s meta-mod system help to correct the issue raised?
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Those who can compete, do; those who can't, litigate.
Doesn't Netflix use Silverlight for streaming? Will Netflix move to some other technology?
The resulting WEC7 driver for Radeon GPUs is proprietary, but that's allowed per the MIT license that the ATI-AMD Linux driver code is provided under."
If not, I guess that is one thing you can do with an ornery DBA.
It's a legal issue having nothing to do with technology, why is it cluttering up these august pages?
What are they doing nowadays that requires multiple servers?
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Opera's priorities are all fouled up.
Several additional German states have admitted to deploying spyware in order to investigate serious criminal offenses, according to regional media sources. The interior ministers of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony said that regional police had used the software within the parameters of the law. In Lower Saxony, the software has been in use for two years, according to the public broadcaster NDR. Authorities in Brandenburg, meanwhile, told the daily Berliner Morgenpost that they are currently using the spyware in a single, on-going investigation. Baden-Württemberg has also used such software to investigate "individual cases," according to the Badische Zeitung. The interior ministry in the western state North Rhine-Westphalia also admitted that police had used the software in two instances, both of which had been approved by a judge. The news agency dpa reported that both cases had involved serious drug crimes....
See the article (in English) for the full text.
More info (in English) on Digitask from Deutsche Welle news
It's called Metcalf's Law.
It isn't the best tech that wins but the largest market share.
Yup. Metcalf's Law. The value of a [social] network increases by the square of the number of people using it.
... was that all the invites I sent out to friends had the text in the body of the invite message fixed by Google+ and immutable. Because of the nature of the wording in that invite, my friends who read the invite message thought my PC was infected by malware and sending out spam, and they promptly deleted the message.