You need to look back into history a bit further. Oracle purchased InnoDB--the principal engine in MySQL--back in 2005. Sun acquired MySQL in 2008. Oracle in turn acquired Sun in 2009.
Hopefully it was in the gut. I really want to see them suffer for their arrogant thuggery. It's only right. For Apple to just accept a meager dose of humility with a cross-license at this point would be very disappointing.
Apple was Steve Jobs, and he was one of the most conceited and arrogant men on the planet. Anyone capable of stealing the spot light must be crushed...
Forks are only drop in replacements for so long. By their very nature they are divergent. Unless they're shepherded by organizations such as the Apache foundation they're also very difficult for corporations to trust and thus adopt.
Oracle has been doing nothing more than gobbling competitors the whole time. Just because the haven't done it overnight doesn't mean that's not what they're doing.
So if your infrastructure is built upon the API of the service you subscribe to you're OK? That music or game you downloaded that's dependent upon a DRM server is always usable even if the company shutters? If the unimaginable happens and Amazon goes down in smoke you're still good right? The U.S. enters WWIII and the data centers hosted in Europe become inaccessible to the companies dependent upon them. The Chinese government plants some trojans on that lovely data center hosting your R&D. So many personal and corporate computing devices should not be rendered worthless by external factors "in the cloud".
Irrelevant. You're dependent upon Internet service providers.
I however, can install locally a host of productivity and entertainment software that does not depend upon a service hosted "in the cloud". I do not need a cloud hosted IDE, word processor, a cloud hosted FPS, a cloud hosted storage server, music/video content, compute node, etc. etc.. each with a monthly rent, each vulnerable to external threats. Threats from business shutdown, threats from foreign or domestic attack, threats from rate increase, cash shortages, etc. etc.
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to get at. Email by definition is a "service". There is no alternative but a personally serviced sneaker net.
Software as a service is nothing but a bloody business model based upon extortion. Can't afford to pay your fees, or your service provider goes out of business and you're completely hosed.
For which part? That our space program's roots are in pissing contests with Russia? That the American engineers served under former NAZI party members of whom many (most?) belonged to the SS? Or that the engineers and scientists responsible for launch vehicle development were employed by DoD contractors? I'm not entirely certain why any of it would be a slap in their face?
Most engineers and scientists don't give a damn about politics and just want to play with their toys and pursue their craft to its utmost. I'm sure the same was true of the Germans we harvested in operation Paper Clip. Once they realized what was going on they had a choice, kill a few Jews and create the technology that rained death on the world, or be executed for treason. Perhaps more accurately it's an insult to the "golden age" nostalgia that cause Americans to beam with arrogance and pride over things they neither know nor understand. The truth is always uglier than government propaganda. It's more pleasant to hide from it but often it has a nasty habit of coming back around to bite you in the a**.
You're reading it with sensible and "moral" eyes. They can view circumstances beyond their control as "profitability" and "the whim of shareholders." Within the text of the escape hatch are words such as "but not limited to." It's also more than "delay" issues. The very first line speaks of delays ordefaults.
That very wonderful to say, but relatively speaking each and every one of those are incomparable to technologies coming out of government sponsored research. It really is quite amazing how quickly people forget the ancestry of things such as the Internet, passenger jets, computers, and nuclear power.
Government is an invaluable and very necessary patron of the sciences. No sane business would invest in anything that doesn't have a near term payout let alone things such as basic physics. If private finance were the answer to funding science we would have had the first computers in the 1830's not the 1930's. Babbage could never find a patron willing to pony up the dough. Who they hell would finance things such as the Tevatron, the LHC, Hubble telescope, Curiosity, etc.? What kind of prosthetic limbs do you think our returning soldiers, athletes (yes athletes!), etc. would have? What kind of trauma care do you think you'd receive?
The very foundation of the incomparable yet regrettably eroding science and engineering prowess of the United States private sector would not exist with out the patronage of the U.S. government by way of tax payer dollars.
The Saturn V was very much yet another military pissing contest project, specifically with the Russians and used the usual suspects, Boeing, North American Aviation (of P-51 fame) and Douglas Aircraft as contractors, and Nazi scientists providing the brains. All technologies developed were also very much developed by and intended for subsequent military application. The shuttle, inherited much of the Saturn V technology and was also NOT a NASA project, but another cabal of MIC contractors from the Saturn V project as well as now a few others. NASA hasn't done any significant launch vehicles on their own.
Oh, and I almost forgot the most obvious and on point...
TextDrive, Inc shall not be liable for delays or defaults. TextDrive, Inc shall not be liable for delays or defaults in furnishing goods or services hereunder, if such delays or defaults on the part of TextDrive, Inc are due to:
Acts of God or of a public enemy;
Acts of the United States or any state or political subdivision thereof;
Fires, severe weather, floods, earthquakes, natural disasters, explosions or other catastrophes;
Embargoes, epidemics or quarantine restrictions;
Shortage of goods, labor strikes, slowdowns, differences with workmen or labor stoppages of any kind;
Delays of supplier or delay of transportation for any reason;
Causes beyond the control of TextDrive, Inc. in furnishing items or services including, but not limited to, breakdown or failure of machinery or equipment, or delay in Client reporting problems or furnishing information or materials. Acceptance of delivery of goods or services shall constitute a waiver and release of TextDrive, Inc by Client for any claim for damages, setoff, discount or other liability on account of delay.
Doesn't matter. These folks made sure they had a "get out of jail free" card. Starting and certainly not ending with a waiving of right to sue in favor of arbitration, and an attempt to get out of any legal encumberments pursuant to the "Interstate Commerce Clause".
You operate from the premise that if you are NOT using a pre-paid that you will NOT be tracked by local and federal spooks and para-military thugs? How would you come to that interpretation of the ruling?
Who cares about the local cops? They might often be a bunch of para-military thugs but you can at least relocate your residence to get away from them. You can't so easily accomplish that with the federal government's spooks and thugs.
Just because your content tastes revolve around popular culture doesn't mean that's true for everyone. If you're not within the mainstream for your country, your choices are pretty limited. For those willing to go the extra mile for their content even that is hindered by things such as region codes on DVDs and BluRays.
Content providers will only provide what they feel contributes positively to their bottom line. This does not necessarily align consumer demand. Unless all content, is available in all markets, in the manner desired by the consumer, when they want it, and for a price they are willing to pay then there will always be a justification. I'm glad you are happy with what is served to you. I am not happy, nor are countless others who are not content to be told what they may enjoy, and how they may enjoy it.
The capacity to earn money is generally tied to the capacity of that person's brain (or at least that of those earning it for them). Given that airline travel would be priced out of reach of "low capacity" individuals you have the perfect conditions for survey results that reflect ignorant perceptions rather than the reality on the ground.
True, but unfortunately that version is not nearly as energy efficient as this one. Which of course is also the problem with traditional desalinization plants.
Will you directly use the Calculus in your day to day? Probably not. However, before you feel justified in rejecting further math education there are a few things to consider. First, limiting your education is limiting your future career options. What you as a youth believe you will want to do in your adult life is more than likely shortsighted if not plain wrong. The more choices you have--by way of an education--generally speaking the better off you will be. Second, while it isn't likely that you will directly use advanced mathematics in your day-to-day learning these maths is exercise and training for your brain. Much like learning a second (or third,...) language you expand your potential for creativity and problem solving. Techniques and ways of thinking used to tackle these advanced concepts ARE directly applicable. To phrase it another way, if the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail.
Even if software development isn't going to be your future career choice, but especially if it is, I would encourage you to push yourself as much as you possibly can to learn as much math as you have opportunity to learn. In the same vein I'd also recommend learning a second language, particularly one that does not resemble your first language. Will it be hard? Will it be a pain in the ***? Of course. However, at the end of the day, you will be stronger, far more capable, and justifiably confident than your slacker peers providing you with a distinct advantage in a highly competitive job market.
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You need to look back into history a bit further. Oracle purchased InnoDB--the principal engine in MySQL--back in 2005. Sun acquired MySQL in 2008. Oracle in turn acquired Sun in 2009.
Hopefully it was in the gut. I really want to see them suffer for their arrogant thuggery. It's only right. For Apple to just accept a meager dose of humility with a cross-license at this point would be very disappointing.
Apple was Steve Jobs, and he was one of the most conceited and arrogant men on the planet. Anyone capable of stealing the spot light must be crushed...
And these entrepreneurs will have a chest full of funds to do battle in the legal arena to force the Apples whom just stole their idea to license it?
Forks are only drop in replacements for so long. By their very nature they are divergent. Unless they're shepherded by organizations such as the Apache foundation they're also very difficult for corporations to trust and thus adopt.
Oracle has been doing nothing more than gobbling competitors the whole time. Just because the haven't done it overnight doesn't mean that's not what they're doing.
So if your infrastructure is built upon the API of the service you subscribe to you're OK? That music or game you downloaded that's dependent upon a DRM server is always usable even if the company shutters? If the unimaginable happens and Amazon goes down in smoke you're still good right? The U.S. enters WWIII and the data centers hosted in Europe become inaccessible to the companies dependent upon them. The Chinese government plants some trojans on that lovely data center hosting your R&D. So many personal and corporate computing devices should not be rendered worthless by external factors "in the cloud".
Irrelevant. You're dependent upon Internet service providers.
I however, can install locally a host of productivity and entertainment software that does not depend upon a service hosted "in the cloud". I do not need a cloud hosted IDE, word processor, a cloud hosted FPS, a cloud hosted storage server, music/video content, compute node, etc. etc.. each with a monthly rent, each vulnerable to external threats. Threats from business shutdown, threats from foreign or domestic attack, threats from rate increase, cash shortages, etc. etc.
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to get at. Email by definition is a "service". There is no alternative but a personally serviced sneaker net.
Software as a service is nothing but a bloody business model based upon extortion. Can't afford to pay your fees, or your service provider goes out of business and you're completely hosed.
For which part? That our space program's roots are in pissing contests with Russia? That the American engineers served under former NAZI party members of whom many (most?) belonged to the SS? Or that the engineers and scientists responsible for launch vehicle development were employed by DoD contractors? I'm not entirely certain why any of it would be a slap in their face?
Most engineers and scientists don't give a damn about politics and just want to play with their toys and pursue their craft to its utmost. I'm sure the same was true of the Germans we harvested in operation Paper Clip. Once they realized what was going on they had a choice, kill a few Jews and create the technology that rained death on the world, or be executed for treason. Perhaps more accurately it's an insult to the "golden age" nostalgia that cause Americans to beam with arrogance and pride over things they neither know nor understand. The truth is always uglier than government propaganda. It's more pleasant to hide from it but often it has a nasty habit of coming back around to bite you in the a**.
You're reading it with sensible and "moral" eyes. They can view circumstances beyond their control as "profitability" and "the whim of shareholders." Within the text of the escape hatch are words such as "but not limited to." It's also more than "delay" issues. The very first line speaks of delays or defaults.
That very wonderful to say, but relatively speaking each and every one of those are incomparable to technologies coming out of government sponsored research. It really is quite amazing how quickly people forget the ancestry of things such as the Internet, passenger jets, computers, and nuclear power.
Government is an invaluable and very necessary patron of the sciences. No sane business would invest in anything that doesn't have a near term payout let alone things such as basic physics. If private finance were the answer to funding science we would have had the first computers in the 1830's not the 1930's. Babbage could never find a patron willing to pony up the dough. Who they hell would finance things such as the Tevatron, the LHC, Hubble telescope, Curiosity, etc.? What kind of prosthetic limbs do you think our returning soldiers, athletes (yes athletes!), etc. would have? What kind of trauma care do you think you'd receive?
The very foundation of the incomparable yet regrettably eroding science and engineering prowess of the United States private sector would not exist with out the patronage of the U.S. government by way of tax payer dollars.
The Saturn V was very much yet another military pissing contest project, specifically with the Russians and used the usual suspects, Boeing, North American Aviation (of P-51 fame) and Douglas Aircraft as contractors, and Nazi scientists providing the brains. All technologies developed were also very much developed by and intended for subsequent military application. The shuttle, inherited much of the Saturn V technology and was also NOT a NASA project, but another cabal of MIC contractors from the Saturn V project as well as now a few others. NASA hasn't done any significant launch vehicles on their own.
Oh, and I almost forgot the most obvious and on point...
TextDrive, Inc shall not be liable for delays or defaults. TextDrive, Inc shall not be liable for delays or defaults in furnishing goods or services hereunder, if such delays or defaults on the part of TextDrive, Inc are due to: Acts of God or of a public enemy; Acts of the United States or any state or political subdivision thereof; Fires, severe weather, floods, earthquakes, natural disasters, explosions or other catastrophes; Embargoes, epidemics or quarantine restrictions; Shortage of goods, labor strikes, slowdowns, differences with workmen or labor stoppages of any kind; Delays of supplier or delay of transportation for any reason; Causes beyond the control of TextDrive, Inc. in furnishing items or services including, but not limited to, breakdown or failure of machinery or equipment, or delay in Client reporting problems or furnishing information or materials. Acceptance of delivery of goods or services shall constitute a waiver and release of TextDrive, Inc by Client for any claim for damages, setoff, discount or other liability on account of delay.
Too bad their TOS has you waive your right to sue.
Doesn't matter. These folks made sure they had a "get out of jail free" card. Starting and certainly not ending with a waiving of right to sue in favor of arbitration, and an attempt to get out of any legal encumberments pursuant to the "Interstate Commerce Clause".
You operate from the premise that if you are NOT using a pre-paid that you will NOT be tracked by local and federal spooks and para-military thugs? How would you come to that interpretation of the ruling?
Who cares about the local cops? They might often be a bunch of para-military thugs but you can at least relocate your residence to get away from them. You can't so easily accomplish that with the federal government's spooks and thugs.
I don't know. He's been doing some pretty crazy things lately like versioning the kernel as something other than v2.6.x..
That's easy. They want backdoors like India has insisted for the phones their masses use.
Just because your content tastes revolve around popular culture doesn't mean that's true for everyone. If you're not within the mainstream for your country, your choices are pretty limited. For those willing to go the extra mile for their content even that is hindered by things such as region codes on DVDs and BluRays.
Content providers will only provide what they feel contributes positively to their bottom line. This does not necessarily align consumer demand. Unless all content, is available in all markets, in the manner desired by the consumer, when they want it, and for a price they are willing to pay then there will always be a justification. I'm glad you are happy with what is served to you. I am not happy, nor are countless others who are not content to be told what they may enjoy, and how they may enjoy it.
The capacity to earn money is generally tied to the capacity of that person's brain (or at least that of those earning it for them). Given that airline travel would be priced out of reach of "low capacity" individuals you have the perfect conditions for survey results that reflect ignorant perceptions rather than the reality on the ground.
True, but unfortunately that version is not nearly as energy efficient as this one. Which of course is also the problem with traditional desalinization plants.
Will you directly use the Calculus in your day to day? Probably not. However, before you feel justified in rejecting further math education there are a few things to consider. First, limiting your education is limiting your future career options. What you as a youth believe you will want to do in your adult life is more than likely shortsighted if not plain wrong. The more choices you have--by way of an education--generally speaking the better off you will be. Second, while it isn't likely that you will directly use advanced mathematics in your day-to-day learning these maths is exercise and training for your brain. Much like learning a second (or third,...) language you expand your potential for creativity and problem solving. Techniques and ways of thinking used to tackle these advanced concepts ARE directly applicable. To phrase it another way, if the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail.
Even if software development isn't going to be your future career choice, but especially if it is, I would encourage you to push yourself as much as you possibly can to learn as much math as you have opportunity to learn. In the same vein I'd also recommend learning a second language, particularly one that does not resemble your first language. Will it be hard? Will it be a pain in the ***? Of course. However, at the end of the day, you will be stronger, far more capable, and justifiably confident than your slacker peers providing you with a distinct advantage in a highly competitive job market.