Maybe they are, but network infrastructure isn't necessarily. It can be very difficult and/or expensive to get suitable connectivity between different racks in a data center your corporation owns, let alone one that you are merely hiring space in.
It is tax pounds, and since when has anything other than Income Tax and National Insurance come out of your pay?
There are plenty of taxes you pay directly or indirectly when you buy or use something, and the licence fee is essentially a tax on using your television - just like road tax when you drive your car on the roads.
I agree with you on everything else though - the BBC produces an incredible amount of quality programming, especially now they have the extra digital channels, and I should be able to easily access it from Linux, Macs, Solaris, whatever without DRM - I don't have DRM issues with the broadcasts (other than the MPEG format issue of DVBT)
We can usually use a debit card here in the UK to order things online like a credit card - apart from the "cash point" cards that only let you draw things out from ATMs.
We have PIN for every purchase now, which is much better that signature, and many banks now use the card with a two-factor authentication device that requires your pin to generate a code for logging in to your online banking.
Shopping in the US with cards always worries me - it feels like if I lose my card anyone can use it without any checks at all! (ok, the bank do misuse guarantees, but usually only if notified in advance and they don't contest it)
And like most companies they are patenting as much as possible that they use within their Point of Sale systems (or wherever else). Primarily this is a defence mechanism because the patent system is so broken - if they don't patent it they risk someone else suing them later.
In some parts of the UK there are quite strict controls on what you can throw away in the trash and what must be recycled. Some cities have a policy that vegetable/fruit waste must be separated from meat waste, and that plastics, metals, glass, paper and cardboard must be separated too. If you separate your waste in this way it becomes much easier to contain / store and stop flies and smells.
Hopefully this will become a UK wide policy, and fines will be introduced for those that don't recycle this way.
And they work with old legacy operating systems without USB support how exactly? (thinking DOS, NT4, old SunOS, SCO (yeah... people do still run it) here).
This is why there are "reference" systems - typically the same size and spec (or within the same ballpark) that contain the same data as the live system (or again, some representative sample of it) which are used for staging / integration / pre-release testing.
Err, there are ways of configuring decent RDBMS to have this kind of behaviour, albeit typically on a per user basis - just like you can limit the number of parallel queries a particular user can execute.
Sorry, why do you need HD to watch without letterboxing or cropping? 16:9 programming has been around for a long time on "SD" broadcasts and equipment.
Maybe Apache was a dependency because they rely on the APR or some other component in Apache. If you don't state the packages nobody is in a position to comment.
Re: Apache from scratch - that's generally a bad idea, both from a security and a performance point of view, as well as convenience (it can be a nightmare building modules after the initial install /./configure especially if you get something wrong!).
It seems your irk with Apache on Ubuntu is that it works differently to other distributions and the source install?
Ubuntu 8.0? Ubuntu doesn't have version numbers, they just have dated releases - perhaps you meant 8.04 (April 2008) - followed by lots of patches as they appear to the various packages.
The Apache setup in Debian and Ubuntu is one of the best around, and I've not had any problems with it - what exactly could you not do with it?
Oracle are scrabbling to catch up - some of their latest offerings are quite interesting, but really it is just trying to gain market share lost to the likes of Netezza. Netezza is great, but limited in capacity and very expensive. There are few SQL databases that can scale *huge* - and those that can are typically shared-nothing designs and suffer from data ingest problems (or are shared all (Superdome etc) and limited by general architecture problems, eg the typical CPU heavy/IO limited problem).
I didn't say it was used everywhere though - I was just making the point that Java for serverside (specifically web applications as described in the post I replied to) isn't actually a big damn, and lots of people use it.
Surely that suggests that the design of your traditional GUI approach is wrong (and indeed modern GUI design is somewhat different to the approaches of yesteryear, involving many techniques borrowed from different domains).
Rich clients aren't meant to be like traditional applications either - they are supposed to be what their name suggests, ie a client to some remote functionality that gives a richer experience than a traditional web application.
How you expose that functionality is critical if you want users to make the most of your data and services, but that applies to web applications as well as desktop applications and rich clients. Perhaps you are just better at building web applications (as most enterprise developers naturally are at the moment from 15 years of webapp development)
You weren't getting into janitorial business when you went into this field - it has just evolved that way over time (and naturally... as more and more people used computers then it was bound to become a utility).
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Maybe they are, but network infrastructure isn't necessarily. It can be very difficult and/or expensive to get suitable connectivity between different racks in a data center your corporation owns, let alone one that you are merely hiring space in.
The UK doesn't have a federal Government.
It is tax pounds, and since when has anything other than Income Tax and National Insurance come out of your pay?
There are plenty of taxes you pay directly or indirectly when you buy or use something, and the licence fee is essentially a tax on using your television - just like road tax when you drive your car on the roads.
I agree with you on everything else though - the BBC produces an incredible amount of quality programming, especially now they have the extra digital channels, and I should be able to easily access it from Linux, Macs, Solaris, whatever without DRM - I don't have DRM issues with the broadcasts (other than the MPEG format issue of DVBT)
We can usually use a debit card here in the UK to order things online like a credit card - apart from the "cash point" cards that only let you draw things out from ATMs.
We have PIN for every purchase now, which is much better that signature, and many banks now use the card with a two-factor authentication device that requires your pin to generate a code for logging in to your online banking.
Shopping in the US with cards always worries me - it feels like if I lose my card anyone can use it without any checks at all! (ok, the bank do misuse guarantees, but usually only if notified in advance and they don't contest it)
You mean like ./configure ?
And like most companies they are patenting as much as possible that they use within their Point of Sale systems (or wherever else). Primarily this is a defence mechanism because the patent system is so broken - if they don't patent it they risk someone else suing them later.
In the UK we have many debit cards - VISA (Delta), VISA (Debit), Maestro, Switch, Electron etc, and many credit cards (Visa, Mastercard).
I've never heard of having more than one account on a card - it sounds really nasty, especially if you lose the card.
In some parts of the UK there are quite strict controls on what you can throw away in the trash and what must be recycled. Some cities have a policy that vegetable/fruit waste must be separated from meat waste, and that plastics, metals, glass, paper and cardboard must be separated too. If you separate your waste in this way it becomes much easier to contain / store and stop flies and smells.
Hopefully this will become a UK wide policy, and fines will be introduced for those that don't recycle this way.
And they work with old legacy operating systems without USB support how exactly? (thinking DOS, NT4, old SunOS, SCO (yeah... people do still run it) here).
This is why there are "reference" systems - typically the same size and spec (or within the same ballpark) that contain the same data as the live system (or again, some representative sample of it) which are used for staging / integration / pre-release testing.
Err, there are ways of configuring decent RDBMS to have this kind of behaviour, albeit typically on a per user basis - just like you can limit the number of parallel queries a particular user can execute.
Uh, Windows? :-)
Sorry, why do you need HD to watch without letterboxing or cropping? 16:9 programming has been around for a long time on "SD" broadcasts and equipment.
Maybe Apache was a dependency because they rely on the APR or some other component in Apache. If you don't state the packages nobody is in a position to comment.
Re: Apache from scratch - that's generally a bad idea, both from a security and a performance point of view, as well as convenience (it can be a nightmare building modules after the initial install / ./configure especially if you get something wrong!).
It seems your irk with Apache on Ubuntu is that it works differently to other distributions and the source install?
Ubuntu 8.0? Ubuntu doesn't have version numbers, they just have dated releases - perhaps you meant 8.04 (April 2008) - followed by lots of patches as they appear to the various packages.
The Apache setup in Debian and Ubuntu is one of the best around, and I've not had any problems with it - what exactly could you not do with it?
I take my mobile phone and Google products in the store... What's your excuse ? :P
Oracle are scrabbling to catch up - some of their latest offerings are quite interesting, but really it is just trying to gain market share lost to the likes of Netezza. Netezza is great, but limited in capacity and very expensive. There are few SQL databases that can scale *huge* - and those that can are typically shared-nothing designs and suffer from data ingest problems (or are shared all (Superdome etc) and limited by general architecture problems, eg the typical CPU heavy/IO limited problem).
For most people that are going to be using "cloud", the limitation is I/O bandwidth - something that SAN really doesn't give you at all.
I didn't say it was used everywhere though - I was just making the point that Java for serverside (specifically web applications as described in the post I replied to) isn't actually a big damn, and lots of people use it.
A lot of them also write in Cobol, C#, Ada etc. Your point?
Java *is* used, and typically for the bits that joins all of the C/C++/Ada/Java/Cobol/Netezza/SQL/{{List_of_programming_languages}} components up.
Surely that suggests that the design of your traditional GUI approach is wrong (and indeed modern GUI design is somewhat different to the approaches of yesteryear, involving many techniques borrowed from different domains).
Rich clients aren't meant to be like traditional applications either - they are supposed to be what their name suggests, ie a client to some remote functionality that gives a richer experience than a traditional web application.
How you expose that functionality is critical if you want users to make the most of your data and services, but that applies to web applications as well as desktop applications and rich clients. Perhaps you are just better at building web applications (as most enterprise developers naturally are at the moment from 15 years of webapp development)
It is? Best tell that to all the banks, Google, corporations, ...
Release, or produce? The two aren't exactly the same...
You weren't getting into janitorial business when you went into this field - it has just evolved that way over time (and naturally... as more and more people used computers then it was bound to become a utility).
This is the British Government dood... Anything is possible! ;-)