"And the sad thing with the latest iteration of the apple OS is that Mountain Lion has turned into an iOS-copy-fest rather than leaving in the features that make a desktop useful like scroll-bars that stay in place"
How so? All my Unix programs are still here, my old post-PPC programs still work, the terminal is still present, etc etc. Sure, there's Launchpad, but that's for grannies and it can be safely ignored.
What's been removed? I haven't noticed Apple IOS-ifying any part of the OS here.
"The iPhone 1 should've been a huge kick in their ass"
When it was introduced it was openly mocked by several MS chiefs, including Ballmer. Part of me suspects that they were just as impressed by it as the rest of us, and that this was just bravado, but still.
By that reasoning (source site is "biased") one might also say that we can't trust anything Microsoft says about their own product, either, because they are just as biased. Nor can we trust the word of publications and sites that are friendly to Microsoft, either, because as you say, those fanboys are even LESS likely to be impartial!
This is called sophistry, and it's what you do when you don't have a real argument.
I'm aware of the use of mundane everyday materials for historical research. The problem is that there will be so much data that signals will be lost in the noise, if the data remains accessible at all. For everything significant said or seen, you'll have many hours of snoring, pooping, commuting, and so forth.
Add a couple pedestals with appropriate video clips of the deceased appropriately cued, and you have the basic setting for the Max Headroom classic episode, "Religion."
My question is twofold - who is arrogant enough to assume that they are interesting enough at all times to warrant 24/7/365 sousveillance, and who assumes that the massive amounts of this generated data will be taken care of indefinitely? Is this what a legacy amounts to these days and how much money can I charge for this service?
This tech has been feasible since the 1990s and hasn't caught on yet. There is just a limit to the nerdy technology that people are going to use.
Google glasses won't catch on outside of the fanny pack geeky fuck crowd. Heck, Bluetooth headsets have declined in use after the initial "neato" spike a few years back.
No, I realize that, but the article about the Snapper guy repeatedly emphasized that his product was expensive because of its high quality. I think he's full of it!
ZFS on Freebsd is stable and up to date. Why fool around with Linux and its flighty change everything on a whim philosophy when you can have a stable Unix that is binary compatible with Linux in the form of FreeBSD?
"Even the ZFS utilities are ridiculously complex and entirely inconvenient, and those are relatively recent."
That might be true if you are using a home computer, but if you are looking at managing a large amount of storage, there's nothing even a tenth as useful as ZFS. Everything else is a sort of sick, pathetic time wasting joke of a farce.
Open source means that when some two-bit operation like Oracle decides to shut down an operating system there is a chance for an organization which relies upon that OS to continue to support it themselves.
If you want to measure uptime in decades, or (in the future) perhaps centuries, open source will probably be the way to achieve it.
EA is just a husk, a shell used by the board members and executive officers to suck money out of both gamers and the remaining assets of the company.
If and when it goes bankrupt, it will be the excuse they need to fire off all the useless eaters, retain control of the profitable franchises, shop out development of them to teams in India and China, and sell off the remainders.
However, this means that, despite what you may think, EA's name might die but its immortal spirit will live on because these executives and board members will be rewarded with new jobs heading a new firm (which might or might not be called EA) which will inherit not only the IP but the business culture of the old EA.
Of course the videos are paid ads. It's one thing to put them put them out there as if they were stories, but please don't expect me to believe that you're just randomly interviewing the proprietors of nifty businesses because you have nothing better to do.
This is a very happy hobby. I find it tremendously amusing and so do many other posters. If you look at any of your recent Slashvertisements, you'll see that the number of people "sneering" and "being negative" outnumber those who aren't.
I find it strange that you'd resort to sad, pathetic insinuations - some bordering on slander - to deal with the ill will that you are generating by continuing to post these ill-disguised advertisements. As I said before, though, I doubt you really have much to say in the matter, though - Dice can easily find some other person to wander around and subject themselves to marketing spiels.
I just find it fun to narrate the action as Slashdot swirls down the toilet bowl.
You have to understand, Rob, that Slashdot is only worth anything as long as it has readers, submitters, and commenters, and the current trend of whoring Slashdot out for a couple bucks on the street is not popular.
Anyway I expect that you know as well as I that this is mostly a sign of desperation on the part of Dice to get some sort of revenue flowing. Obviously SlashBI and whatever the hell you're calling the pathetic Slashdot Cloud "informational" site are not turning enough tricks to keep the pimps at Dice happy.
The point of OpenIndiana is ZFS, but FreeBSD actually releases so there's no point to OpenIndiana any more.
For a while people were hoping it'd be a nice community-dirven OS but it turned out that most of the development work was coming from Sun, and while I don't have the whole story it looks like the community fell apart and fractured while trying to get OpenSolaris to compile on GCC.
VMS isn't a Unix, and I don't believe you can get ahold of VMS any more. The IBM mainframes are too expensive and not open source, so there's no point in comparing them to Solaris.
What's your point exactly? My point is that Solaris is useful, even in its somewhat dodgy state (thanks Oracle for the paid update program you fucks).
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They must be, because it just all seems so farcical.
Gambling in the stock market isn't really investing. It's more like a very large casino where the games are rigged in ways you canot perceive.
Hopefully you learned your lesson.
"And the sad thing with the latest iteration of the apple OS is that Mountain Lion has turned into an iOS-copy-fest rather than leaving in the features that make a desktop useful like scroll-bars that stay in place"
How so? All my Unix programs are still here, my old post-PPC programs still work, the terminal is still present, etc etc. Sure, there's Launchpad, but that's for grannies and it can be safely ignored.
What's been removed? I haven't noticed Apple IOS-ifying any part of the OS here.
"Microsoft has already promised all current Windows Phone 8 handsets will receive the next major version of the operating system."
The question is, are you gullible enough to believe them given their track record of abandoning their promises?
Microsoft's word is about as good as that of the former Iraqi Information Minister.
"The iPhone 1 should've been a huge kick in their ass"
When it was introduced it was openly mocked by several MS chiefs, including Ballmer. Part of me suspects that they were just as impressed by it as the rest of us, and that this was just bravado, but still.
By that reasoning (source site is "biased") one might also say that we can't trust anything Microsoft says about their own product, either, because they are just as biased. Nor can we trust the word of publications and sites that are friendly to Microsoft, either, because as you say, those fanboys are even LESS likely to be impartial!
This is called sophistry, and it's what you do when you don't have a real argument.
"Especially since MS has come out and said that all wp8 devices will be upgradable to wp9. It even says as much on TFA linked in TFS."
Microsoft tells lies all the time. If you are betting on any sort of follow through from MS you are just asking for disappointment.
I'm aware of the use of mundane everyday materials for historical research. The problem is that there will be so much data that signals will be lost in the noise, if the data remains accessible at all. For everything significant said or seen, you'll have many hours of snoring, pooping, commuting, and so forth.
Add a couple pedestals with appropriate video clips of the deceased appropriately cued, and you have the basic setting for the Max Headroom classic episode, "Religion."
My question is twofold - who is arrogant enough to assume that they are interesting enough at all times to warrant 24/7/365 sousveillance, and who assumes that the massive amounts of this generated data will be taken care of indefinitely? Is this what a legacy amounts to these days and how much money can I charge for this service?
This tech has been feasible since the 1990s and hasn't caught on yet. There is just a limit to the nerdy technology that people are going to use.
Google glasses won't catch on outside of the fanny pack geeky fuck crowd. Heck, Bluetooth headsets have declined in use after the initial "neato" spike a few years back.
Assuming that the nuclear power stations don't breach core like the Fukushima unit 3 (and possibly others) did, this is true.
However, if there is a nuclear disaster it's a lot more serious than coal plants.
No, I realize that, but the article about the Snapper guy repeatedly emphasized that his product was expensive because of its high quality. I think he's full of it!
We have a Snapper and a Toro and the Snapper is the biggest piece of shit mower I have ever used. Sure it's expensive but it's a piece of crap!
[citation needed]
I'm not so sure. Let's wait and see how the next Slashvertisement is received by the masses.
ZFS on Freebsd is stable and up to date. Why fool around with Linux and its flighty change everything on a whim philosophy when you can have a stable Unix that is binary compatible with Linux in the form of FreeBSD?
"Even the ZFS utilities are ridiculously complex and entirely inconvenient, and those are relatively recent."
That might be true if you are using a home computer, but if you are looking at managing a large amount of storage, there's nothing even a tenth as useful as ZFS. Everything else is a sort of sick, pathetic time wasting joke of a farce.
Open source means that when some two-bit operation like Oracle decides to shut down an operating system there is a chance for an organization which relies upon that OS to continue to support it themselves.
If you want to measure uptime in decades, or (in the future) perhaps centuries, open source will probably be the way to achieve it.
Who said that Solaris was the most reliable? I don't believe anybody here did.
EA is just a husk, a shell used by the board members and executive officers to suck money out of both gamers and the remaining assets of the company.
If and when it goes bankrupt, it will be the excuse they need to fire off all the useless eaters, retain control of the profitable franchises, shop out development of them to teams in India and China, and sell off the remainders.
However, this means that, despite what you may think, EA's name might die but its immortal spirit will live on because these executives and board members will be rewarded with new jobs heading a new firm (which might or might not be called EA) which will inherit not only the IP but the business culture of the old EA.
A vampire company, if you will.
Of course the videos are paid ads. It's one thing to put them put them out there as if they were stories, but please don't expect me to believe that you're just randomly interviewing the proprietors of nifty businesses because you have nothing better to do.
This is a very happy hobby. I find it tremendously amusing and so do many other posters. If you look at any of your recent Slashvertisements, you'll see that the number of people "sneering" and "being negative" outnumber those who aren't.
I find it strange that you'd resort to sad, pathetic insinuations - some bordering on slander - to deal with the ill will that you are generating by continuing to post these ill-disguised advertisements. As I said before, though, I doubt you really have much to say in the matter, though - Dice can easily find some other person to wander around and subject themselves to marketing spiels.
I just find it fun to narrate the action as Slashdot swirls down the toilet bowl.
You have to understand, Rob, that Slashdot is only worth anything as long as it has readers, submitters, and commenters, and the current trend of whoring Slashdot out for a couple bucks on the street is not popular.
Anyway I expect that you know as well as I that this is mostly a sign of desperation on the part of Dice to get some sort of revenue flowing. Obviously SlashBI and whatever the hell you're calling the pathetic Slashdot Cloud "informational" site are not turning enough tricks to keep the pimps at Dice happy.
This isn't "talking about it" and I hate cell phones, so it's not really my thing either way.
If you are paying attention you'll notice all the Roblimo Slashvertisement spam and you'll see that lots of folks are not happy with it.
The point of OpenIndiana is ZFS, but FreeBSD actually releases so there's no point to OpenIndiana any more.
For a while people were hoping it'd be a nice community-dirven OS but it turned out that most of the development work was coming from Sun, and while I don't have the whole story it looks like the community fell apart and fractured while trying to get OpenSolaris to compile on GCC.
VMS isn't a Unix, and I don't believe you can get ahold of VMS any more. The IBM mainframes are too expensive and not open source, so there's no point in comparing them to Solaris.
What's your point exactly? My point is that Solaris is useful, even in its somewhat dodgy state (thanks Oracle for the paid update program you fucks).