The fact that they are pushing it so hard tells you everything you need to know. This update benefits Microsoft in a very big way. Scratch that -- in a HUGE way. And if it benefits Microsoft in a huge way, take a wild guess how much it benefits you.
My guess?
I "bought" Windows 7.
They GIVE Windows 10, but require that you accept updates.
They've already indicated that the next version of Windows (which will have no version indicator, they said) will be a return to the old mainframe leasing rules, and you will pay an annual leasing fee in order to keep your OS working.
Nobody's made any convincing argument yet that the conversion from 10 to the annual lease won't be a mandatory update to 10.
I don't think 10 is meant to spy on me and learn all my deepest, darkest, innermost secrets. But I think it is a way to make sure you comply with the updates, including the one which will start charging you an ongoing fee.
Nope. Not converting from the license I PURCHASED.
Wait, you're saying Oracle (and Sybase) are not natively relational? Do tell more...
Assuming that you are not just a bad troll looking to feel important . ...
Why do Oracle and SyBase engines use indexes?
Because indexes provide a traversable tree structure that "terminate" with direct access addresses for the individual records within the system.
Maybe you are unaware that the existence of indexes is not part of the RDBMS definition?
Why does the primary index definition and implementation affect the performance of an Oracle or SyBase instance? Because the records are physically sorted into the order of the primary index in order to make traversing the contents of the database in that order a trivial issue.
Maybe you are unaware that RDBMS theory mandates that it is impossible to predict the order of data within a query response unless the query mandates an order?
Why is so much of the overhead associated with running both Oracle and SyBase dedicated to maintaining indexes? Because neither system has the ability to provide a reasonable query return time when you ask for a response set in a non-indexed order.
Maybe you are unaware that RDBMS theory mandates that the delay in a query response should relate to the complexities of the joins used in the query, not the requested order of data?
Teradata, for one. Yes, it is primarily a hardware solution instead of a software one, but it is scalable, reconfigurable, and actually an RDBMS instead of an ISAM depending on computer speed/power to overcome the limits of the interpretation code required to pretend to be an RDBMS. The power, speed, and capability these machines are capable of is simply amazing.
SyBase, the company which has been losing market share to the Oracle marketing department for well over a decade, but whose ISAM implementation with an RDBMS interface is cleaner and not as hardware intensive as Oracle's.
These are other, BETTER options than Oracle that I've had the fortune to work with during my career. I know there are more options out there.
For the same reason fully trained fighter pilots are required to fly USAF UAVs: Because they are the people running things, so they don't trust people with different backgrounds and skill sets to handle things they way they want them handled.
This is very basic, normal human behavior. All the posturing and attempts to justify the behavior as right or wrong appear to have ignored the reality that this is simply normal human behavior.
The only thing of note here is the level of reaction to behavior displayed every moment of every day in every bit of the industry still in America.
Seriously? Don't thieves try to pass the stolen items off for cash FAR MORE than they keep them?
Now, it is QUITE possible that the guy with possession of the laptop is complicit in that he knows he has stolen property, but assuming that he's the thief seems WAY overboard.
I can't speak to the "majority of users", but there are 5 XP boxes (all legal) I control that will never have SP3 put on them because MS has no business gathering the information about my family and our computing practices that SP3 institutes.
While you can argue his choice of words, the point is accurate. There are people like me refusing to perform this upgrade because OS-based spyware is still spyware.
Uhhh . ... If you are planning on going to Gen Con and pitching an idea cold, you're setting yourself up for failure.
The major corporate employees that are on site are heavily booked, and heavily assaulted by people with the same "great idea" on how to get their game mass produced/published in the marketplace.
If you want to "play this game", use Gen Con (the player focused event) as a chance to make and create contacts, not a sales opportunity.
Origins is the company focused event, in theory, but it doesn't honestly run much differently than Gen Con does.
Now, if you have previously made the contacts, then you can progress into asking them if they are willing to hear your pitch. If you have to force your pitch on them, you won't sell your game.
I've been a booth monkey at both conventions for several years. Trust me, assaulting people with your "big idea" IS assaulting them. You are handled the same as any other rabid fan.
Not even my own story.
Several years ago, my father was working for Perot Enterprises (that didn't last long), and one of his jobs was to "do whatever was necessary" to get the local office software licenses legal, without impacting their ability to do the work.
He ended up spending tens of thousands of dollars purchasing licenses for the software that everybody depended on, AFTER getting them to identify the stuff they didn't really use and removing it from the machines.
But, that's the rub. You can either do it cheap, and change how the business actually works, generating animosity about your evil practices, or you can do it expensive.
Ask the boss. He needs to decides which expense he would rather pay. And the risk of getting caught is a viable option for him to choose . ... You might not want to hang around if he picks that one, but it is an option from his seat.
Other articles I have seen on this topic have stated that instead of the USAF having a Cyber Command, that we will get a Numbered Air Force belonging to Space Command which will handle the USAF's share of these duties.
I know those new to the community won't recognize the description, espeically not with all the on-line trappings that are attached and blocking your view, but . ...
Wizards of the Coast is DECLARING that Gleemax is going to be ONLINE exactly what the RPGA TRIED to be in FtF gaming. The RPGA, for thos etoo young to remmeber, was started by a little company known as Tactical Studies Rules (or TSR) right about the switch into the 1980's. It was part of what WotC got when they purchased TSR.
It is worth note that it did not take WotC long to pare the RPGA back so that it no longer supported anything but internal products. Many moonms ago, the RPGA used to actually promote all the games that the membership (and other manufacturers) asked it to. Now it doesn't even support manufacturers who REQUIRE WotC products be purchased in order to use their own material.
I'm too callused to expect this to go any differently.
> if a terrorist attack were to happen, the same people who would be complaining about the authority's > actions now would complain about it's actions then as well.
Quite possibly. In the United States of America, they have not only that right, but that responsibility. Now, if they fail to maintain consistency in how they complain about the two sides, then they are displaying a lack of reasoning in how they approach their responsibility, but, as you've heard before: American's get the government they deserve.
However, I think the entire thing is just really and truly sad.
In a knee jerk reaction, so that they could be seen to be "doing something", Congress passed a bill which not only ignores the contents of the Constitution of the USA, but flat out stomps all over portions of the Bill of Rights within it.
Why is this sad instead of infuriating?
Because there have been terrorist attacks against America for DECADES, and nobody cared. Why not? Because they took place on foreign soil, and the primary bulk of those killed were military and diplomatic corps, people that the average guy on the street EXPECTS to have die in a foreign country because people hate the USA.
I've been told that terrorists do "their thing" in order to draw attention to their cause. If they make enough of a splash that "the man" changes his lifestyle as a result, then they interpret this as making a point, and having their message heard.
When they finally had a successful attack on US soil, with a big enough impact to atract world-wide attention, the US citizenry noticed for the first time, as a single entity, at least.
And we changed how we live. We began restricting ourselves, persecuting our own, obsessing about the possibility of more attacks, and accepting governmental actions that directly contradict the freedoms laid out for us in the US Constitution.
In short, we have given them what they wanted. They will be back for more, because that's normal behavior. Once you learn how to get the reward you want, you try to get as much of that reward as you feel comfortable with.
Will there be more or fewer attacks as a result? I don't know.
I do know that the way to win this kind of conflict is not eliminate the attacker. Genocide is not an ethical response, at least not the way I was raised, nor under the rules of warefare we claim to restrict ourselves to using. The way to win this is to simply not give the agressors what they want. Do not change our lifestyle for their benefit. Do not give away any of our freedoms in a hopeful exchange for a security that will never truly exist.
The path forward is to accept the risks, acknowledge the costs, and live like free men, despite the clamor to live as sheep, hoping to be saved from wolves.
Just an opinion that theoriginal poster OBVIOUSLY disagrees with.
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The fact that they are pushing it so hard tells you everything you need to know. This update benefits Microsoft in a very big way. Scratch that -- in a HUGE way. And if it benefits Microsoft in a huge way, take a wild guess how much it benefits you.
My guess? I "bought" Windows 7. They GIVE Windows 10, but require that you accept updates. They've already indicated that the next version of Windows (which will have no version indicator, they said) will be a return to the old mainframe leasing rules, and you will pay an annual leasing fee in order to keep your OS working. Nobody's made any convincing argument yet that the conversion from 10 to the annual lease won't be a mandatory update to 10. I don't think 10 is meant to spy on me and learn all my deepest, darkest, innermost secrets. But I think it is a way to make sure you comply with the updates, including the one which will start charging you an ongoing fee. Nope. Not converting from the license I PURCHASED.
Wait, you're saying Oracle (and Sybase) are not natively relational? Do tell more...
Assuming that you are not just a bad troll looking to feel important . . ..
Why do Oracle and SyBase engines use indexes?
Because indexes provide a traversable tree structure that "terminate" with direct access addresses for the individual records within the system.
Maybe you are unaware that the existence of indexes is not part of the RDBMS definition?
Why does the primary index definition and implementation affect the performance of an Oracle or SyBase instance? Because the records are physically sorted into the order of the primary index in order to make traversing the contents of the database in that order a trivial issue.
Maybe you are unaware that RDBMS theory mandates that it is impossible to predict the order of data within a query response unless the query mandates an order?
Why is so much of the overhead associated with running both Oracle and SyBase dedicated to maintaining indexes? Because neither system has the ability to provide a reasonable query return time when you ask for a response set in a non-indexed order.
Maybe you are unaware that RDBMS theory mandates that the delay in a query response should relate to the complexities of the joins used in the query, not the requested order of data?
Or were you looking for something more?
Teradata, for one. Yes, it is primarily a hardware solution instead of a software one, but it is scalable, reconfigurable, and actually an RDBMS instead of an ISAM depending on computer speed/power to overcome the limits of the interpretation code required to pretend to be an RDBMS. The power, speed, and capability these machines are capable of is simply amazing. SyBase, the company which has been losing market share to the Oracle marketing department for well over a decade, but whose ISAM implementation with an RDBMS interface is cleaner and not as hardware intensive as Oracle's. These are other, BETTER options than Oracle that I've had the fortune to work with during my career. I know there are more options out there.
In that case they don't trust Joe who never went to boot camp to light up a cottage half way around the world with a million dollar missile
They don't.
For the same reason fully trained fighter pilots are required to fly USAF UAVs: Because they are the people running things, so they don't trust people with different backgrounds and skill sets to handle things they way they want them handled. This is very basic, normal human behavior. All the posturing and attempts to justify the behavior as right or wrong appear to have ignored the reality that this is simply normal human behavior. The only thing of note here is the level of reaction to behavior displayed every moment of every day in every bit of the industry still in America.
Seriously? Don't thieves try to pass the stolen items off for cash FAR MORE than they keep them? Now, it is QUITE possible that the guy with possession of the laptop is complicit in that he knows he has stolen property, but assuming that he's the thief seems WAY overboard.
I can't speak to the "majority of users", but there are 5 XP boxes (all legal) I control that will never have SP3 put on them because MS has no business gathering the information about my family and our computing practices that SP3 institutes. While you can argue his choice of words, the point is accurate. There are people like me refusing to perform this upgrade because OS-based spyware is still spyware.
Uhhh . . .. If you are planning on going to Gen Con and pitching an idea cold, you're setting yourself up for failure.
The major corporate employees that are on site are heavily booked, and heavily assaulted by people with the same "great idea" on how to get their game mass produced/published in the marketplace.
If you want to "play this game", use Gen Con (the player focused event) as a chance to make and create contacts, not a sales opportunity.
Origins is the company focused event, in theory, but it doesn't honestly run much differently than Gen Con does.
Now, if you have previously made the contacts, then you can progress into asking them if they are willing to hear your pitch. If you have to force your pitch on them, you won't sell your game.
I've been a booth monkey at both conventions for several years. Trust me, assaulting people with your "big idea" IS assaulting them. You are handled the same as any other rabid fan.
Not even my own story. Several years ago, my father was working for Perot Enterprises (that didn't last long), and one of his jobs was to "do whatever was necessary" to get the local office software licenses legal, without impacting their ability to do the work. He ended up spending tens of thousands of dollars purchasing licenses for the software that everybody depended on, AFTER getting them to identify the stuff they didn't really use and removing it from the machines. But, that's the rub. You can either do it cheap, and change how the business actually works, generating animosity about your evil practices, or you can do it expensive. Ask the boss. He needs to decides which expense he would rather pay. And the risk of getting caught is a viable option for him to choose . . .. You might not want to hang around if he picks that one, but it is an option from his seat.
Other articles I have seen on this topic have stated that instead of the USAF having a Cyber Command, that we will get a Numbered Air Force belonging to Space Command which will handle the USAF's share of these duties.
I know those new to the community won't recognize the description, espeically not with all the on-line trappings that are attached and blocking your view, but . . ..
Wizards of the Coast is DECLARING that Gleemax is going to be ONLINE exactly what the RPGA TRIED to be in FtF gaming. The RPGA, for thos etoo young to remmeber, was started by a little company known as Tactical Studies Rules (or TSR) right about the switch into the 1980's. It was part of what WotC got when they purchased TSR.
It is worth note that it did not take WotC long to pare the RPGA back so that it no longer supported anything but internal products. Many moonms ago, the RPGA used to actually promote all the games that the membership (and other manufacturers) asked it to. Now it doesn't even support manufacturers who REQUIRE WotC products be purchased in order to use their own material.
I'm too callused to expect this to go any differently.
Former RPGA Triad Member
Former WotC Delegate
> if a terrorist attack were to happen, the same people who would be complaining about the authority's
> actions now would complain about it's actions then as well.
Quite possibly. In the United States of America, they have not only that right, but that responsibility. Now, if they fail to maintain consistency in how they complain about the two sides, then they are displaying a lack of reasoning in how they approach their responsibility, but, as you've heard before: American's get the government they deserve.
However, I think the entire thing is just really and truly sad.
In a knee jerk reaction, so that they could be seen to be "doing something", Congress passed a bill which not only ignores the contents of the Constitution of the USA, but flat out stomps all over portions of the Bill of Rights within it.
Why is this sad instead of infuriating?
Because there have been terrorist attacks against America for DECADES, and nobody cared. Why not? Because they took place on foreign soil, and the primary bulk of those killed were military and diplomatic corps, people that the average guy on the street EXPECTS to have die in a foreign country because people hate the USA.
I've been told that terrorists do "their thing" in order to draw attention to their cause. If they make enough of a splash that "the man" changes his lifestyle as a result, then they interpret this as making a point, and having their message heard.
When they finally had a successful attack on US soil, with a big enough impact to atract world-wide attention, the US citizenry noticed for the first time, as a single entity, at least.
And we changed how we live. We began restricting ourselves, persecuting our own, obsessing about the possibility of more attacks, and accepting governmental actions that directly contradict the freedoms laid out for us in the US Constitution.
In short, we have given them what they wanted. They will be back for more, because that's normal behavior. Once you learn how to get the reward you want, you try to get as much of that reward as you feel comfortable with.
Will there be more or fewer attacks as a result? I don't know.
I do know that the way to win this kind of conflict is not eliminate the attacker. Genocide is not an ethical response, at least not the way I was raised, nor under the rules of warefare we claim to restrict ourselves to using. The way to win this is to simply not give the agressors what they want. Do not change our lifestyle for their benefit. Do not give away any of our freedoms in a hopeful exchange for a security that will never truly exist.
The path forward is to accept the risks, acknowledge the costs, and live like free men, despite the clamor to live as sheep, hoping to be saved from wolves.
Just an opinion that theoriginal poster OBVIOUSLY disagrees with.