Do you mean an appeal to authority fallacy? If you do then it is not.... that fallacy is about appealing to an authority that is not really an authority.
If a business is breaking the law as part of their business model(and this includes DRM,.... as much as I may disagree with those laws) then it is the same situation as a bakery not making a cake for a gay couple. And they should both be punished. How is it a thought crime when the bakery(and I am talking about the one in question that was in the news) said that they are not making a cake for a gay couple specifically because they are gay?
Except War Games is based on a incident that happened in the US. A test tape was loaded into a computer that simulated a Russian launch and thankfully people actually phoned up the radar stations reporting the launch and asked them or the US woudl have returned fire.
If they did this then it would be a very short step to being able to easily block people that do not want to pay their TV license. The BBC do not want this.
> The Uber cellphone could certainly act sort of like a standard taxi meter
How would that work? Who would regulate that the cellphone app was accurate? The same people regulating VW?
I work in insurance and these devices are already in all new cars(in the EU... and most in the US). Insurance companies also use them to adjust premiums based on other behavior like parking your car in a area prone to theft etc. Business fleet insurance(think truck fleets etc) can use them to contest speeding and parkign tickets issued in error(with surprisingly significant savings BTW).
Back in the day Visual Basic was going to remove the need for programmers. Programming GUI apps would be so easy the management could do it. That turned out OK didn't it?
Back in the day I used to work on systems that had to maintain modem links to rural locations in VIC and NSW from Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. Compared to the actual Outback those places are in downtown New York for Australia and they were still insanely unreliable(Telstra had a commitment to maintain at least a 300baud rate on lines(!!) and it often wasn't and we had to complain).
People from outside of Australia just don't understand.
QNX is a true microkernel. Device drivers crashing will not bugger the kernel because they do not run at ring 0. It does this via an extremely fast and deterministic message passing system. Writing a device driver in QNX is like writing a normal app... you can fire it up in a debugger without anythign like SoftICE and run it... if it crashes you just restart it.
Back in the day the QNX people used to have a joke about them selling more licenses than MS every year. Which they did. QNX was in all sorts of SCADA systems from DuPont(one of their major clients) oil pumps for Shell.
Photon was indeed the GUI that shipped with QNX6/Neutrino. The pricing back then(and probably now) could be a little weird and confusing. A full OS(usually for development) could be really pricey. But the OS was extremely modular because it was embeddable in small control devices without user IO or even any kind of comms all the way up to server type things.
So it was easy to jigsaw together a system that could remove unwanted components like the GUI, the TCP/IP stack and even the file system.
I was a QNX2/4 programmer around that time in Australia. A fully licensed QNX OS was AUD1000 at that time.
QNX was and still is the best operating system I have ever had the pelasure to write software and device drivers for.
Some of the software I have worked on is very much like that but much more complex. Scheduled events that can span timezones... for example you want to send a message to field devices at 6AM daily in their local time and their are devices in multiple timezones. I have written rules engines that can account for DST changes that occur in different timezones(ie one timezone may go a hour ahead before the others etc.
When the user schedules such an event they do it in their local timezone. It is translated into a UTC0 time and the system works as they expect.
If you meant dealt with them from a software point of view I have dealt with them a lot. I have dealt with fairly raise issues(how many people live where there is a half hour timezone for example).
The rtick in computing with timezone is pretty straightforward and I am always surprised when people don't do it. Store everything in a system in UTC0. All internal times a dealt with in this way. The only time you ever have to worry about timezone or DST is when displaying them to users. This simplifies everything enormously.
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It's 2016. The idea that remote working is wrong in the tech sector these days is like insisting we drive a horse and buggy to work.
Do you mean an appeal to authority fallacy? If you do then it is not.... that fallacy is about appealing to an authority that is not really an authority.
If a business is breaking the law as part of their business model(and this includes DRM,.... as much as I may disagree with those laws) then it is the same situation as a bakery not making a cake for a gay couple. And they should both be punished. How is it a thought crime when the bakery(and I am talking about the one in question that was in the news) said that they are not making a cake for a gay couple specifically because they are gay?
There is no evidence to support the idea that this happens. It has been studied many times. Typical fucking poms who think they are all that.
Except War Games is based on a incident that happened in the US. A test tape was loaded into a computer that simulated a Russian launch and thankfully people actually phoned up the radar stations reporting the launch and asked them or the US woudl have returned fire.
If they did this then it would be a very short step to being able to easily block people that do not want to pay their TV license. The BBC do not want this.
You're funny and stupid. Mostly stupid. Probably young. And stupid.
> The Uber cellphone could certainly act sort of like a standard taxi meter How would that work? Who would regulate that the cellphone app was accurate? The same people regulating VW?
iAnd they bult their missle out of sugar cane and horse shit.
And rape victims who dress like sluts are also to blame. Do you ever feel bad for being a piece of shit?
Australian here. Same goes for me. Fuck off forever Putin.... I won't forget MH17.
I work in insurance and these devices are already in all new cars(in the EU... and most in the US). Insurance companies also use them to adjust premiums based on other behavior like parking your car in a area prone to theft etc. Business fleet insurance(think truck fleets etc) can use them to contest speeding and parkign tickets issued in error(with surprisingly significant savings BTW).
Exaggerated claims about about a methodology in the software industry? Whatever will happen next.
Back in the day Visual Basic was going to remove the need for programmers. Programming GUI apps would be so easy the management could do it. That turned out OK didn't it?
Back in the day I used to work on systems that had to maintain modem links to rural locations in VIC and NSW from Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. Compared to the actual Outback those places are in downtown New York for Australia and they were still insanely unreliable(Telstra had a commitment to maintain at least a 300baud rate on lines(!!) and it often wasn't and we had to complain). People from outside of Australia just don't understand.
QNX may or may not be used in avionics but QNX has a strict priority-preemptive scheduler that fully supports hard real time applications.
QNX is a true microkernel. Device drivers crashing will not bugger the kernel because they do not run at ring 0. It does this via an extremely fast and deterministic message passing system. Writing a device driver in QNX is like writing a normal app... you can fire it up in a debugger without anythign like SoftICE and run it... if it crashes you just restart it.
Back in the day the QNX people used to have a joke about them selling more licenses than MS every year. Which they did. QNX was in all sorts of SCADA systems from DuPont(one of their major clients) oil pumps for Shell.
Photon was indeed the GUI that shipped with QNX6/Neutrino. The pricing back then(and probably now) could be a little weird and confusing. A full OS(usually for development) could be really pricey. But the OS was extremely modular because it was embeddable in small control devices without user IO or even any kind of comms all the way up to server type things. So it was easy to jigsaw together a system that could remove unwanted components like the GUI, the TCP/IP stack and even the file system.
I was a QNX2/4 programmer around that time in Australia. A fully licensed QNX OS was AUD1000 at that time. QNX was and still is the best operating system I have ever had the pelasure to write software and device drivers for.
Spilling it? Google Synroc.
You forgot the geek one. Borland -> Inspire. One of the most recognised names in the software industry and they change it to one of the worst.
What about selling toxic antibiotics to children in Tennessee?
Some of the software I have worked on is very much like that but much more complex. Scheduled events that can span timezones... for example you want to send a message to field devices at 6AM daily in their local time and their are devices in multiple timezones. I have written rules engines that can account for DST changes that occur in different timezones(ie one timezone may go a hour ahead before the others etc. When the user schedules such an event they do it in their local timezone. It is translated into a UTC0 time and the system works as they expect.
If you meant dealt with them from a software point of view I have dealt with them a lot. I have dealt with fairly raise issues(how many people live where there is a half hour timezone for example). The rtick in computing with timezone is pretty straightforward and I am always surprised when people don't do it. Store everything in a system in UTC0. All internal times a dealt with in this way. The only time you ever have to worry about timezone or DST is when displaying them to users. This simplifies everything enormously.
Hate to break it to you. Justin.tv is gone.
Where the fuck do you live where Khakis are somehow above jeans?