Ah yes, and the conspiracy theorists come out to play. Last week it was evil scientists trying to hurt poor ol' Big Tobacco. The week before it was evil scientists trying to kill God with evolution and old EArth geology. The week before that it was evil old scientists trying to move the Earth from its lauded position at the center of the Universe.
Evil scientists one and all! We should fucking kill all of them, and promote views that square exactly with your ideological leanings. Science is evil and must be destroyed!
Why would they need sophisticated software when there are so many denialist Libertarian types who seem to believe that dumping millions of years worth of sequestered CO2 into the atmosphere in the space of three centuries has absolutely no ill effects whatsoever? After all, these people show up on every single web forum anywhere to declare climatologists are frauds and AGW a global conspiracy of evil Communists out to destroy the economy...
I've been playing with it for about six months now. I'll probably begin the migration of our LAMP stacks and Samba file servers over to FreeBSD in the New Year. We're going to be building a new database server in the next few weeks, and initially it was going to be another Debian install, but at this point I'm thinking of altering the requirements to use FreeBSD. It's only mysql, so it's not like if it doesn't work all that well I can't push it quickly to a Linux server.
I simply do not like the direction Debian is going, and indeed many of the Linux distros. Systemd violates some of what I consider to be core Unix principles.
The cost for major enterprise operations to move from Java would be monumental. A web interface is one thing, changing your underlying transaction management system would be a huge undertaking and cost an enormous amount of money. It would probably be cheaper to pay Oracle to fix the security bugs.
Do you seriously believe.NET ever really had a chance of crushing Java? By the time.NET really came online, Java was already heavily embedded in the enterprise. This guarantees that Java will be a development platform of significant entrenchment for years, probably decades to come.
People seem to believe that because Java has retreated to some degree from the desktop that it is a failed platform. But its penetration in many enterprise and financial organizations is huge, and I can't imagine that changing any time in the near future. Maybe in the long run, sure, but then again, the long run for banks, insurance companies and the like is half a century; look at all the COBOL code out there.
There are all sorts of Windows-centric issues that I can see being a problem. The reliance on environment variables pointing to home directories, system directories and program data directories could be an issue. I suspect that there will be a considerable amount of.NET software that will never run on any other platform than Windows, even if the byte code executes.
Mind you, I've seen Java programs that committed similar sins, so it isn't completely a.NET problem, it's just that, as you say, the.NET ecosystem has by and large been almost exclusively been developed on Windows, so don't expect all that.NET software to fire up on your Linux or Mac box.
Another development stack and application ecosystem is nice, and if it's licensed under a proper open source license, then I'm all for it. I can't say I'd be in any rush to develop in it, and that may be the real problem here, that Microsoft is about seven or eight years too late.
If you're relying on the MTA to keep your email communications secure, you're doing it wrong. If data is important enough to encrypt, encrypt it at the sender side first.
Frankly, I don't know why anyone lives in Italy. With the EU free movement rules, it's a wonder the whole damned country didn't pick up and move to Germany
Actually no. Evolution is about variation already present in populations and selective pressures "choosing" which variations will be more likely to be passed on to the next generation. In a way it is the polar opposite of what you are saying.
You're the one making the claim, you demonstrate it's veracity. And no, "it's obvious" is not a defense, it's merely handwaving. You keep repeating "it's obvious" like it represent anything other than your own homophobia.
What are you afraid of? That Mother Russia may someday have to answer for its mistreatment of minorities? That homosexuality isn't the evil you seem to believe it is?
If you have some actual evidence, cite it. But if you think "it's obvious" will convince anyone of anything, then you're as big a fool as you make yourself appear to be.
No it is not obvious. If you can provide actual citations showing that homosexuality depresses populations, then I have no reason whatsoever to believe your claim.
What I do know is that homosexuals, at least in any industrialized population, make up roughly 5 to 10% of the population, and that is likely be consistent for at least decades, if not longer.
When someone responds to a demand for actual references in peer reviewed literature with "no, I won't, because my claim is obvious", then the only thing I can discern from that is that you have no data to back it up, and your simply asserting without qualification or data, that your prejudice is true.
As to Russia, I cannot influence them, but that doesn't mean I should approve of their persecution of homosexuals.
Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church do a lot of favors for each other. The payback for the Church's pretty much unwavering support for anything coming out of the Kremlin is that the Kremlin make sure the ROC's nearly medieval social views be propagated into law.
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Ah yes, and the conspiracy theorists come out to play. Last week it was evil scientists trying to hurt poor ol' Big Tobacco. The week before it was evil scientists trying to kill God with evolution and old EArth geology. The week before that it was evil old scientists trying to move the Earth from its lauded position at the center of the Universe.
Evil scientists one and all! We should fucking kill all of them, and promote views that square exactly with your ideological leanings. Science is evil and must be destroyed!
Does that sum up your position?
Why would they need sophisticated software when there are so many denialist Libertarian types who seem to believe that dumping millions of years worth of sequestered CO2 into the atmosphere in the space of three centuries has absolutely no ill effects whatsoever? After all, these people show up on every single web forum anywhere to declare climatologists are frauds and AGW a global conspiracy of evil Communists out to destroy the economy...
Oh wait
I've been playing with it for about six months now. I'll probably begin the migration of our LAMP stacks and Samba file servers over to FreeBSD in the New Year. We're going to be building a new database server in the next few weeks, and initially it was going to be another Debian install, but at this point I'm thinking of altering the requirements to use FreeBSD. It's only mysql, so it's not like if it doesn't work all that well I can't push it quickly to a Linux server.
I simply do not like the direction Debian is going, and indeed many of the Linux distros. Systemd violates some of what I consider to be core Unix principles.
That is the part that is the most troubling. It is this very anti-FOSS "systems or nothing" that bothers me.
If the Debian team refuses to give me a choice, I'll be moving to FreeBSD after twenty years administering Linux. It is that simple.
You're quite right, of course, but the thought of a 21st century government defending voodoo pseudo science still seems horribly anachronistic.
The cost for major enterprise operations to move from Java would be monumental. A web interface is one thing, changing your underlying transaction management system would be a huge undertaking and cost an enormous amount of money. It would probably be cheaper to pay Oracle to fix the security bugs.
Java isn't going anywhere.
Do you seriously believe .NET ever really had a chance of crushing Java? By the time .NET really came online, Java was already heavily embedded in the enterprise. This guarantees that Java will be a development platform of significant entrenchment for years, probably decades to come.
People seem to believe that because Java has retreated to some degree from the desktop that it is a failed platform. But its penetration in many enterprise and financial organizations is huge, and I can't imagine that changing any time in the near future. Maybe in the long run, sure, but then again, the long run for banks, insurance companies and the like is half a century; look at all the COBOL code out there.
There are all sorts of Windows-centric issues that I can see being a problem. The reliance on environment variables pointing to home directories, system directories and program data directories could be an issue. I suspect that there will be a considerable amount of .NET software that will never run on any other platform than Windows, even if the byte code executes.
Mind you, I've seen Java programs that committed similar sins, so it isn't completely a .NET problem, it's just that, as you say, the .NET ecosystem has by and large been almost exclusively been developed on Windows, so don't expect all that .NET software to fire up on your Linux or Mac box.
Yes, I'm not looking forward to my apt-get dist-upgrade taking twenty minutes for five patches.
Another development stack and application ecosystem is nice, and if it's licensed under a proper open source license, then I'm all for it. I can't say I'd be in any rush to develop in it, and that may be the real problem here, that Microsoft is about seven or eight years too late.
If you're relying on the MTA to keep your email communications secure, you're doing it wrong. If data is important enough to encrypt, encrypt it at the sender side first.
If they base it on the original trilogy, Seldom would have about five to ten minutes of screen time tops.
Pity the old man is dead. He would have been thrilled.
Frankly, I don't know why anyone lives in Italy. With the EU free movement rules, it's a wonder the whole damned country didn't pick up and move to Germany
Well, the one thing we can always be certain of, and that is law enforcement is woefully, one might even say willfully, ignorant of technical issues.
Quick let's hire more of them to replace US workers. I mean, with high ethical standards like they're expressing, what could possibly go wrong?
Quit projecting, mate. It's no one else's fault that you're too scared to leave your parents' basement.
Actually no. Evolution is about variation already present in populations and selective pressures "choosing" which variations will be more likely to be passed on to the next generation. In a way it is the polar opposite of what you are saying.
By "finding something new", you mean copying what Google has had available for some time now.
Because society is just one big playpen for sociopaths, and the weak must die!!!!
It's the Libertarian dream; the freedom to starve.
You're the one making the claim, you demonstrate it's veracity. And no, "it's obvious" is not a defense, it's merely handwaving. You keep repeating "it's obvious" like it represent anything other than your own homophobia.
What are you afraid of? That Mother Russia may someday have to answer for its mistreatment of minorities? That homosexuality isn't the evil you seem to believe it is?
If you have some actual evidence, cite it. But if you think "it's obvious" will convince anyone of anything, then you're as big a fool as you make yourself appear to be.
No it is not obvious. If you can provide actual citations showing that homosexuality depresses populations, then I have no reason whatsoever to believe your claim.
What I do know is that homosexuals, at least in any industrialized population, make up roughly 5 to 10% of the population, and that is likely be consistent for at least decades, if not longer.
When someone responds to a demand for actual references in peer reviewed literature with "no, I won't, because my claim is obvious", then the only thing I can discern from that is that you have no data to back it up, and your simply asserting without qualification or data, that your prejudice is true.
As to Russia, I cannot influence them, but that doesn't mean I should approve of their persecution of homosexuals.
Since you're the one making the claim that homosexuality is counterproductive to population growth, I'm sure you can actually provide some citations.
Oh well, then it's totally reasonable...
Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church do a lot of favors for each other. The payback for the Church's pretty much unwavering support for anything coming out of the Kremlin is that the Kremlin make sure the ROC's nearly medieval social views be propagated into law.