He has zero chance of success. Just fumbling in the dark with young, inexperienced and unproven engineers will accomplish exactly nothing, the search-space is far, far too large. Somehow I also rather doubt that Dyson is an engineer (too lazy to look it up), because he seem to have absolutely no clue how actual R&D works.
From my experience, your guess is accurate. Fortunately, I have this experience as an outside consultant, and if they want me to work overtime to fix their screwups, I can smile friendly and tell them what my rate for overtime is. That ends the discussions pretty fast.
Would you do Fast Ring updates if you needed your machine to work because you do actual work with it? I think MS has not thought this "testing" scheme through.
MS wans to go back to the bad old days where their products were really crappy, but their revenue was king. So, since Win8, they have tried to fix the damage they did by releasing the actually reasonably good Win7, first by breaking the GUI and now by regularly breaking other things. Of course, this cargo-cult approach will not bring their revenue back, but it will remind everybody what MS really stands for quality-wise: Cheapest possible.
Very much so. Apple had a moment of sanity (or maybe they just realized their limitations) when they based OS X on BSD Unix, and Microsoft found that taking a networks stack, also from BSD, I believe, was a good idea. Other than that they are repeating mistakes made decades ago.
Matches my experience. Although coding is not my core-competency these days, I still do quite a bit of mostly pretty advanced coding at 47. Most of that I would have found much more difficult 10-15 years ago and pretty much impossible 25 years ago. And I have been coding since I was 14.
One of the most important shortcomings of young coders is that they usually have no clue what was tried in the past and did not work or did not work well. Hence they are re-inventing the wheel like crazy and mostly badly. MS is a very good example of that.
That seems to be very much the core of the problem: No negative consequences for management that is bad for the company and for society as well, but huge financial benefits for the sociopaths doing it.
If they are good at their jobs, then they are actually cheaper overall, because the provide more additional value than their additional cost. If they are not good, they should have been fired for that quite a while earlier.
Maybe if the IT industry would stop firing people that have experience, the products would finally get better....
That is how it works in a police-state: Even if the police rapes, pillages and murders wholesale, they get at most an inquiry that finds they did nothing wrong. Actual "rule of law" says the law applies to everybody and the police are held to an even higher standard. These days, many of them are thugs with no accountability at all.
They also happen two to be two different technology-clusters, one below the kernel interface and one above. They do interface very well though and that has made the Linux-revolution possible. But, for example, nobody in their right mind would call a Cygwin installation "Linux", but it is powered by the GNU toolset.
Bullshit, bullshit and an unsophisticated insult. You must _want_ a surveillance state. Probably also some concentration and extermination camps as long-term plans?
World domination for Linux has been achieved a while ago and it is obvious that it has been. All the Linux-haters seem to have some pathological mental condition where they are blind to reality. Possibly it is a combination of fear of the unknown and fear of losing the illusion of being the master of their machine, that makes them leash out irrationally.
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Yuck, American ham. And even worse, American bread.
He has zero chance of success. Just fumbling in the dark with young, inexperienced and unproven engineers will accomplish exactly nothing, the search-space is far, far too large. Somehow I also rather doubt that Dyson is an engineer (too lazy to look it up), because he seem to have absolutely no clue how actual R&D works.
It is rather surprising that this moron ever got anything done and apparently what he got done was not nearly as good as the press thinks it is.
No idea. I am not into men in latex costumes.
While I think that falls under "greed", good point.
From my experience, your guess is accurate. Fortunately, I have this experience as an outside consultant, and if they want me to work overtime to fix their screwups, I can smile friendly and tell them what my rate for overtime is. That ends the discussions pretty fast.
Not that much. And you also failed statistics 101, because that is _not_ what this graph says.
Which makes it a BSD-Unix. The alternatives would be SysV (like Solaris, for example) or Unix-Like (like Linux or QNX).
Why, oh why, do smart people act so foolishly?
Greed, arrogance, narcissism.
Would you do Fast Ring updates if you needed your machine to work because you do actual work with it? I think MS has not thought this "testing" scheme through.
MS wans to go back to the bad old days where their products were really crappy, but their revenue was king. So, since Win8, they have tried to fix the damage they did by releasing the actually reasonably good Win7, first by breaking the GUI and now by regularly breaking other things. Of course, this cargo-cult approach will not bring their revenue back, but it will remind everybody what MS really stands for quality-wise: Cheapest possible.
Very much so.
No surprise, because good managers have this issue that they do not take crap from the higher-ups either.
Very much so. Apple had a moment of sanity (or maybe they just realized their limitations) when they based OS X on BSD Unix, and Microsoft found that taking a networks stack, also from BSD, I believe, was a good idea. Other than that they are repeating mistakes made decades ago.
Matches my experience. Although coding is not my core-competency these days, I still do quite a bit of mostly pretty advanced coding at 47. Most of that I would have found much more difficult 10-15 years ago and pretty much impossible 25 years ago. And I have been coding since I was 14.
One of the most important shortcomings of young coders is that they usually have no clue what was tried in the past and did not work or did not work well. Hence they are re-inventing the wheel like crazy and mostly badly. MS is a very good example of that.
Actually, it indicates your distance from birth. Maybe you should look up the definition sometime?
That seems to be very much the core of the problem: No negative consequences for management that is bad for the company and for society as well, but huge financial benefits for the sociopaths doing it.
I have old age, treachery _and_ skill, while most (not all) young ones have youth and nothing else...
If they are good at their jobs, then they are actually cheaper overall, because the provide more additional value than their additional cost. If they are not good, they should have been fired for that quite a while earlier.
Maybe if the IT industry would stop firing people that have experience, the products would finally get better....
Well, if you look at how many policemen get away with "unauthorized" rape and murder, you may want to rethink that.
That is how it works in a police-state: Even if the police rapes, pillages and murders wholesale, they get at most an inquiry that finds they did nothing wrong. Actual "rule of law" says the law applies to everybody and the police are held to an even higher standard. These days, many of them are thugs with no accountability at all.
Interesting. As it is the first thing I throw out of a new installation, I do not really follow its security-record. Have a reference?
They also happen two to be two different technology-clusters, one below the kernel interface and one above. They do interface very well though and that has made the Linux-revolution possible. But, for example, nobody in their right mind would call a Cygwin installation "Linux", but it is powered by the GNU toolset.
Bullshit, bullshit and an unsophisticated insult. You must _want_ a surveillance state. Probably also some concentration and extermination camps as long-term plans?
World domination for Linux has been achieved a while ago and it is obvious that it has been. All the Linux-haters seem to have some pathological mental condition where they are blind to reality. Possibly it is a combination of fear of the unknown and fear of losing the illusion of being the master of their machine, that makes them leash out irrationally.