... where the primary purpose is user habit tracking. Perhaps for a get-as-much-users-as-possible web site with no real content that has no other purpose than to attract ad clicks it is important to target different ads to different users.
But all cases I can think of where REAL websites have REAL content, it is trivial to display ads that are aligned with the content of the site. If I look at science fiction movies at a movie web site, they just have to show me other science fiction movies. If I look at car parts at a car site, they just have to show me ads for car parts. If I look at a blog post about storage technology they just have to show me ads for hard drives. Then the ads would already be pretty much aligned with what I'm interested in at the moment, without any need to really "track" me.
Perfectly OK then, since Facebooks customers are the Advertisers.
Since no European advertiser would be willing to be Facebooks customer, since it would be illegal for him to use the private data Facebook stores about their European products, Facebook would pretty much no longer be interested in acquiring and keeping new European products. Problem solved.
Facebook could either decide to keep buying infrastructure to keep their European products in storage with no chance of ever selling it, or to stop investing in European merchandise.
Well, every system *I* run that has *any* customer interaction at all is redundant anyway.
So basically the move would just be:
- Shut down mirror 1, move mirror 1. - Startup mirror 1 at new location, wait a few hours to see if it works. - Shut down mirror 2, move mirror 2. - Startup mirror 2 at new location.
And even for out itty-bitty 200-user company internal Apps we don't have both mirrors in the same data center anyway, so it is very unlikely they would have to be moved at the same time at all.
The only reason I can Imagine that Ubi isn't doing it that way is that they blew 90% of their budget to come up with new DRM schemes and didn't have any left to give the customer a satisfactory service.
On the other hand, the more web apps you get at the more different browsers diversify into different features, the more you get the "This web app only works on $browser from $version to $version, and that on only from $browser from $version to $version."
We already have some of those problems with about 10 web Apps in out INTRAnet, where we have perfect control over both the server AND the web browser the users use.
The more web Apps start to interact with each other, and the more they interact with the local data, the more that problem will happen. If any desktop app would 100% stick to the standard it would be no problem to install thousands of them. It's just the "tweaks" that cause problems. The same thing is already happening with web apps.
1) weird problem occurs after install. You report problem to IBM. 2) IBM asks for your software version, see they are the newest ones available, and say they look into it. 3) You ask several month later if they did find anything. They ask for your software version, they ask you to upgrade and see if the problem goes away. 4) You upgrade to newest version. 5) go to 2)
*There are of course non-weird problems where you get the answer from IBM support in 2-3 days, and from Linux forums in 2-3 minutes.
The first thing that would need to change is that workers and employees pay for healthcare (and pensions and social security)
When those would be funded more out of the corporate profit, with a bonus for more people hired, it might create an incentive to hire four people to each work 10 hours a week instead of one person to work 40 a week.
I also wonder why they mention DVI. DVI and HDMI is basically the same video signal.
Just that DVI has no sound and no DRM capability.
So when you don't need sound or have an additional soundcard, and you don't play content with DRM (Like in 99% of workplaces) you can simply replace the DVI -> DVI monitor cable with a HDMI -> DVI Monitor cable. Starting at $2 it seems.
As both a Arch and Gentoo user, I also like the fact that both don't have version. The update of a specific package is done when the package is ready upstream, not when a new version of the distro comes out.
Basically the way it feels is that the both are versionless distros with a package management system. In Gentoo the default format for a package is source, but you CAN create binary packages yourself if you want. In Arch it's the other way around, the packages are binary by default, but you CAN use source packages with AUR. Both also follow the same path that they don't have "default" window managers and desktop environments and stuff, but let the user decide what to use from the start. That of course is the cause for the "there is just a bash prompt when you have installed it" that some people don't like. Of course having your DE of choice installed is only a few commands away, with easy copy and paste instructions to follow.
The usual: You need to go through a TSA checkpoint on the highway with such a vehicle, and they will deny it because you have a nail clipper in the glove box.
Copyright also needs to get the priorities right. The GOAL was to "further the arts", not "make endless money"
I often try to get some older stuff from the 70s / 80s, but a lot of that is unavailable in ANY form due to "unclear copyright situations". Nobody wants to make money with it any more, but they are lost to culture and history.
In a day and age where it is technical trivial to make a copy of an existing work ( even when it's not digital, a copy from a television master at a local TV station here cost $50 per hour from either tape or film ) there should be no reason to DENY a copy, if the person is willing to pay for a copy.
One thing that needs to be fixed it that anybody that wants to be granted a copy*right* to a work, also needs to have a copy*obligation*. Once that is in place, distributors would have a higher incentive:
- to either actually create a efficient and easy to use distribution system for the works they want to keep the copyright to. OR - place works they don't want to administer anymore into the public domain.
That's another important aspect: What creates more problems.
I have seen all hell break loose because someone was able to break into a system.
But I ALSO saw all hell break loose because the only person who was able to get into a system was not available in an emergency, and there was no way to access the data otherwise.
So for each specific case you basically have to decide which of the two is *more* important.
That would be my preferred choice also. At the moment I'm at a fun but somewhat dead-end job (About one third development, one third administration and one third figuring out what the hell people actually want). I enjoy doing it, but when I have paid off some loans in 5-6 years I will probably have a look for something new.
Basically two options I have started to look into:
- Switch Industries. So far I have worked in manufacturing companies and retail companies. Perhaps I will try to get into something more technological / scientific. I have started to network a little with people from a aerospace research facility to see if there are any options for a garden variety geek there.
- Switch location Another option would be to try to go to some-place new. I'm taking a few language lessons already to give me some options there.
But I *definetely* know I don't want to do anything management related. I like fixing technical problems, so that is where I will stay work-wise.
A lot of the "horrible" things they allow, like 16 year olds able to work in a factory
Well, I'm from Germany, and I started to work at 16 in 1986, which worked great for me since I was completely fed up with school.
It wasn't until 10 years later that I decided to go on to college for a few years. With a lot of "real live" experience already accumulated. I think something like that makes far more sense than being "educated" outside the real world until almost 30, like in some cases I have seen, and then let loose into the job market.
I trust everything I have physical control over and have up to date backups/mirrors of to not stop working the next day. Which pretty much rules out that I would ever trust any "cloud" services that are not offered in an technical identical way by multiple companies.
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No, unless the previous night I was REALLY drunk.
"We're on a mining ship, three million years into deep space... can someone explain to me where the smeg I got this traffic cone?"
"Hey! It's not a good night unless you get a traffic cone! It's the police woman's helmet and the suspenders I don't understand!"
Desktop is so last century. In the 21st century mobile computers and entertainment center computers will rule. Desktops will just be for work and .....
..... People who don't wand to finish their posts prematurely by sliding on the wrong button on the touch screen. :-P
... where the primary purpose is user habit tracking. Perhaps for a get-as-much-users-as-possible web site with no real content that has no other purpose than to attract ad clicks it is important to target different ads to different users.
But all cases I can think of where REAL websites have REAL content, it is trivial to display ads that are aligned with the content of the site. If I look at science fiction movies at a movie web site, they just have to show me other science fiction movies. If I look at car parts at a car site, they just have to show me ads for car parts. If I look at a blog post about storage technology they just have to show me ads for hard drives. Then the ads would already be pretty much aligned with what I'm interested in at the moment, without any need to really "track" me.
Funny enough, such books would have been unlikely to be in Iraq universities at that time.
Iraq was a dictatorship, it was somewhat communist, but the government and the people in charge where not Islamists.
Perfectly OK then, since Facebooks customers are the Advertisers.
Since no European advertiser would be willing to be Facebooks customer, since it would be illegal for him to use the private data Facebook stores about their European products, Facebook would pretty much no longer be interested in acquiring and keeping new European products. Problem solved.
Facebook could either decide to keep buying infrastructure to keep their European products in storage with no chance of ever selling it, or to stop investing in European merchandise.
Well, every system *I* run that has *any* customer interaction at all is redundant anyway.
So basically the move would just be:
- Shut down mirror 1, move mirror 1.
- Startup mirror 1 at new location, wait a few hours to see if it works.
- Shut down mirror 2, move mirror 2.
- Startup mirror 2 at new location.
And even for out itty-bitty 200-user company internal Apps we don't have both mirrors in the same data center anyway, so it is very unlikely they would have to be moved at the same time at all.
The only reason I can Imagine that Ubi isn't doing it that way is that they blew 90% of their budget to come up with new DRM schemes and didn't have any left to give the customer a satisfactory service.
On the other hand, the more web apps you get at the more different browsers diversify into different features, the more you get the "This web app only works on $browser from $version to $version, and that on only from $browser from $version to $version."
We already have some of those problems with about 10 web Apps in out INTRAnet, where we have perfect control over both the server AND the web browser the users use.
The more web Apps start to interact with each other, and the more they interact with the local data, the more that problem will happen. If any desktop app would 100% stick to the standard it would be no problem to install thousands of them. It's just the "tweaks" that cause problems. The same thing is already happening with web apps.
You see my nick?
AIX sucks more than Linux.
Usual process for "weird"* AIX Problems:
1) weird problem occurs after install. You report problem to IBM.
2) IBM asks for your software version, see they are the newest ones available, and say they look into it.
3) You ask several month later if they did find anything. They ask for your software version, they ask you to upgrade and see if the problem goes away.
4) You upgrade to newest version.
5) go to 2)
*There are of course non-weird problems where you get the answer from IBM support in 2-3 days, and from Linux forums in 2-3 minutes.
The first thing that would need to change is that workers and employees pay for healthcare (and pensions and social security)
When those would be funded more out of the corporate profit, with a bonus for more people hired, it might create an incentive to hire four people to each work 10 hours a week instead of one person to work 40 a week.
Easy. Because they have a rocket that they are willing to pay for and dare to launch, any you don't.
Well, A German in New Zealand is in jail over this for example.
The lesson learned from all this: Don't host any servers in the U.S. Never Ever.
I also wonder why they mention DVI. DVI and HDMI is basically the same video signal.
Just that DVI has no sound and no DRM capability.
So when you don't need sound or have an additional soundcard, and you don't play content with DRM (Like in 99% of workplaces) you can simply replace the DVI -> DVI monitor cable with a HDMI -> DVI Monitor cable. Starting at $2 it seems.
As both a Arch and Gentoo user, I also like the fact that both don't have version. The update of a specific package is done when the package is ready upstream, not when a new version of the distro comes out.
Basically the way it feels is that the both are versionless distros with a package management system. In Gentoo the default format for a package is source, but you CAN create binary packages yourself if you want. In Arch it's the other way around, the packages are binary by default, but you CAN use source packages with AUR. Both also follow the same path that they don't have "default" window managers and desktop environments and stuff, but let the user decide what to use from the start. That of course is the cause for the "there is just a bash prompt when you have installed it" that some people don't like. Of course having your DE of choice installed is only a few commands away, with easy copy and paste instructions to follow.
The usual: You need to go through a TSA checkpoint on the highway with such a vehicle, and they will deny it because you have a nail clipper in the glove box.
Copyright also needs to get the priorities right. The GOAL was to "further the arts", not "make endless money"
I often try to get some older stuff from the 70s / 80s, but a lot of that is unavailable in ANY form due to "unclear copyright situations". Nobody wants to make money with it any more, but they are lost to culture and history.
In a day and age where it is technical trivial to make a copy of an existing work ( even when it's not digital, a copy from a television master at a local TV station here cost $50 per hour from either tape or film ) there should be no reason to DENY a copy, if the person is willing to pay for a copy.
One thing that needs to be fixed it that anybody that wants to be granted a copy*right* to a work, also needs to have a copy*obligation*. Once that is in place, distributors would have a higher incentive:
- to either actually create a efficient and easy to use distribution system for the works they want to keep the copyright to.
OR
- place works they don't want to administer anymore into the public domain.
That's another important aspect: What creates more problems.
I have seen all hell break loose because someone was able to break into a system.
But I ALSO saw all hell break loose because the only person who was able to get into a system was not available in an emergency, and there was no way to access the data otherwise.
So for each specific case you basically have to decide which of the two is *more* important.
That would be my preferred choice also. At the moment I'm at a fun but somewhat dead-end job (About one third development, one third administration and one third figuring out what the hell people actually want). I enjoy doing it, but when I have paid off some loans in 5-6 years I will probably have a look for something new.
Basically two options I have started to look into:
- Switch Industries.
So far I have worked in manufacturing companies and retail companies. Perhaps I will try to get into something more technological / scientific. I have started to network a little with people from a aerospace research facility to see if there are any options for a garden variety geek there.
- Switch location
Another option would be to try to go to some-place new. I'm taking a few language lessons already to give me some options there.
But I *definetely* know I don't want to do anything management related. I like fixing technical problems, so that is where I will stay work-wise.
You seem confused. The copyright of facts and the copyright of newspaper articles are two distinct things.
That may indeed be true in the US, where "facts" and "newspaper articles" definitely are two distinct things most of the time.
Sounds definitely more interesting than a couple of the latest movies that have come out.
A lot of the "horrible" things they allow, like 16 year olds able to work in a factory
Well, I'm from Germany, and I started to work at 16 in 1986, which worked great for me since I was completely fed up with school.
It wasn't until 10 years later that I decided to go on to college for a few years. With a lot of "real live" experience already accumulated. I think something like that makes far more sense than being "educated" outside the real world until almost 30, like in some cases I have seen, and then let loose into the job market.
It doesn't make them evil. It makes everyone doing the "Oh, the Cloud is the future" dance look stupid, though.
For critical systems I only trust myself.
I trust everything I have physical control over and have up to date backups/mirrors of to not stop working the next day. Which pretty much rules out that I would ever trust any "cloud" services that are not offered in an technical identical way by multiple companies.
If there had been no ancient pottery, humanity would never have invented ceramics, ergo there would be NO ceramic spacecraft tiles at all.
Some sort of "Social" follow-my-bowel-movement thing or some such.
Move closer to a nuclear plant, that will fix you right up.