So when 2 closed behemoths both want each other's content, they'll go after the weak link: the copyright system. Neither needs it. Each are multiples larger than the companies that need it. This is "a good thing"
Agreed. Although I think we could beat imperfect recall with some kind of cross-reference to a more reliable source (roughly an internal Google search), the others seem like part of the system. Sleep (like a maintenance run) seems a guaranteed necessity.
So many companies don't realize how their existence depends on the technology running it. They treat their technical people poorly for years (layoffs) and now they have technical debt. Businesses that can't delegate responsibility to competent people will fail.
I've worked with cement & other industrial plants (maybe even yours) and the best solution I've seen was simply the hardware boards with whatever hooked to them all wrapped in an airtight steel box with a tiny air conditioner attached that didn't expose it to outside air.
That allowed newer boards and progress in difficult environments.
Often I sight-see, get intentionally lost, or even prefer to visit locations with no name (to hike, to consider buying, etc). Are driving cars another round of "consumer" vs "creator"?
Having young kids, I can disagree with this. There was so much attachment to their mother that they didn't attempt a word for her at first (just cried). She was interested most in keeping me (the father) engaged, so I was the first "other" to be given a label once they were cared-for & acting rational enough to communicate.
What's wrong with Ubuntu (in the context you stated)? - Stable: > 5 years since last driver kernel panic. - Consistent: any Unix-ish utility from the Win XP timeframe should work fine. - Re-invent the wheel..... feels unarchitected: The "old wheel" is still there in all its even-less-architected goodness if the newer push doesn't work for you.
FreeBSD may beat all these points & security, but lacks development pace. It depends on your needs: I wouldn't use FreeBSD as a Win XP desktop replacement.
I think a great advantage of SQLite is no stored procedures. I've seen stored procedures munge backup/restore operations and have all kinds of unintended consequences when a developer is over-aggressive with them. Then they're difficult to scale versus up-scaling front-ends that run the logic.
As an ex-DB-Admin for ~100 developers, my rule was: no stored procedures.
I could tell in one bite of Heinz ketchup in Canada that they get better products. HFCS is nasty. In Texas, some restaurants offer premium Coca-cola from Mexico where it's made of Sugar due to Mexico's higher health standards. HFCS is far worse than sugar with its greater obesity effects, likely because people are more hungry after eating it.
Funny, my Android phone does MTP just fine. Well actually it works on Ubuntu, but not on WIndows! AFAIK, it's not even in the lawsuit-for-licensing bundle
So instead of saying 'open-source', you could sell those options as: - Free of vendor lock-in: We will never be forced to throw it out by anyone --- A market for support: Many places may compete for your support business - Endless customization: IT can change it to fit what you need - Learning curve: It can be made to fit the job, instead of employee training to force people to fit the software
Sure you'll cover the market & the work, but the first thing a clueless VC wants to know is what the competition/alternatives look like. Not in-depth company analyses, but what an average consumer may find & try in 1/2 hour and how poor their results will be.
Also, BusinessWeek has a recent presentation that won major VC buy-in. It's where I got the above tip from & there's probably more to mine from it.
My phone's running an OS I can completely verify & compile myself. I didn't since I got that from a 3rd-party with a reputation for no special sauce. I can still do all the things you mention and the only people with records are the phone company when using 3g/voice (something that hasn't changed from before when information came through the phone) and whoever owns sites/apps I select to interact with.
The markets are leaning away from the walled-garden devices. No part of technological advancement requires monitoring. Android's even got Tor now for all your "anonymously getting data" needs.
As for the camera situation, Eastman Kodak took that cat out of the bag over 100 years ago.
Tablets absolutely solve the "regular PCs are too hard & breakage-prone for my email/facebook needs" opinion of most middle-class digital consumers. Facebook (covered by peer commenter) Twitter: I never found the use for me, and I don't use it. I understand that it revolutionized celebrity monitoring (something many people are in to).
I asked this in middle school when I was first approached with the ideas. The (certainly over-simplified) answer I was given was this: If we do something to an entire electron, we can see measure it and often calculate it as a single point. However, electrons are not solid things. Their natural shapes around nuclei are various balloon-like structures. The entire structure is the one electron, yet anything we do to it will remove it entirely or stretch it somehow (covalent bonds).
So it's not perpetual motion as much as difficulty slicing-up an electron.
Skip to the end: I'm grateful modern development doesn't "skip to the end" that involves adding maximum program-ability everywhere, because then "the cat's out of the bag" and they must support it forever deprecate errors. It's convoluted & could be simpler, but it's safer which allows things like multi-domain use without XSS risks.
Facebook (est. 2004), the social 'revolution'
allowing many-to-many conversations and helped overthrow some oppressive governments. Tablets, smart phones: the basis of the summary wouldn't be recognizable a decade ago.
Those broke the MS monopoly and are breaking the Apple walled garden. Massive acceptance of solar & implementation of wind power. Power savings:
in '03 it was thought we'd need huge power draws to run today's computers.
Now theories of ever-growing energy requirements of a society are even in question.
With the above, it's helping break the oil monopoly. E-ink The Cloud
Now a start-up doesn't need to have huge VC funding to buy hardware it may not need, but can scale if they do. Near-free micro-controllers with amazing sensor arrays (plus OpenCV). 3D printing Vast materials science, directed sound, and other discoveries have happened (most I've read from Slashdot).
Engineers are better off now. Sure, politics is a little crazier, but technology (powering & directing the real world) is better off.
None of that is necessary. The Nexus S had no card slot and never emulated having FAT32 either. I doubt FAT32 libraries are even on the device. Now F2FS is nice, but not for avoiding FAT32 patents. It doesn't even solve the real problem that an F2FS SD card won't be read by Windows ever.
And occasionally dangerous/deadly the frustrations between them become. I'd rather live in a society where all weird is celebrated. Repression's a pressure cooker.
That keeps me hopeful that "the market" will solve this. How many more places are there to reliably undercut China? Everyone else is too unstable, or has stability that makes low wages or libertarianism impossible. Things have fallen since 1980, but I doubt they can fall much more before there's nowhere else left to go but up.
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So when 2 closed behemoths both want each other's content, they'll go after the weak link: the copyright system. Neither needs it. Each are multiples larger than the companies that need it. This is "a good thing"
I always liked that setup.
No update-alternatives.
No tricky paths.
Parallel old/new installations.
With dedup, it would work even better since you won't need library mappings and could have parallel installations (though with a larger package size).
... the entanglement theory.
BTRFS has had online dedup proposed. That solves the disk & memory hit. What would the linker need?
Agreed. Although I think we could beat imperfect recall with some kind of cross-reference to a more reliable source (roughly an internal Google search), the others seem like part of the system. Sleep (like a maintenance run) seems a guaranteed necessity.
So many companies don't realize how their existence depends on the technology running it. They treat their technical people poorly for years (layoffs) and now they have technical debt. Businesses that can't delegate responsibility to competent people will fail.
I've worked with cement & other industrial plants (maybe even yours) and the best solution I've seen was simply the hardware boards with whatever hooked to them all wrapped in an airtight steel box with a tiny air conditioner attached that didn't expose it to outside air.
That allowed newer boards and progress in difficult environments.
Often I sight-see, get intentionally lost, or even prefer to visit locations with no name (to hike, to consider buying, etc).
Are driving cars another round of "consumer" vs "creator"?
Having young kids, I can disagree with this. There was so much attachment to their mother that they didn't attempt a word for her at first (just cried). She was interested most in keeping me (the father) engaged, so I was the first "other" to be given a label once they were cared-for & acting rational enough to communicate.
What's wrong with Ubuntu (in the context you stated)? ..... feels unarchitected: The "old wheel" is still there in all its even-less-architected goodness if the newer push doesn't work for you.
- Stable: > 5 years since last driver kernel panic.
- Consistent: any Unix-ish utility from the Win XP timeframe should work fine.
- Re-invent the wheel
FreeBSD may beat all these points & security, but lacks development pace. It depends on your needs: I wouldn't use FreeBSD as a Win XP desktop replacement.
I think a great advantage of SQLite is no stored procedures.
I've seen stored procedures munge backup/restore operations and have all kinds of unintended consequences when a developer is over-aggressive with them.
Then they're difficult to scale versus up-scaling front-ends that run the logic.
As an ex-DB-Admin for ~100 developers, my rule was: no stored procedures.
I could tell in one bite of Heinz ketchup in Canada that they get better products. HFCS is nasty. In Texas, some restaurants offer premium Coca-cola from Mexico where it's made of Sugar due to Mexico's higher health standards.
HFCS is far worse than sugar with its greater obesity effects, likely because people are more hungry after eating it.
Win 2000 was between those. So far MS always has had a "1 in last 3" success rate, which fits support timeframes.
Funny, my Android phone does MTP just fine. Well actually it works on Ubuntu, but not on WIndows!
AFAIK, it's not even in the lawsuit-for-licensing bundle
So instead of saying 'open-source', you could sell those options as:
- Free of vendor lock-in: We will never be forced to throw it out by anyone
--- A market for support: Many places may compete for your support business
- Endless customization: IT can change it to fit what you need
- Learning curve: It can be made to fit the job, instead of employee training to force people to fit the software
Sure you'll cover the market & the work, but the first thing a clueless VC wants to know is what the competition/alternatives look like. Not in-depth company analyses, but what an average consumer may find & try in 1/2 hour and how poor their results will be.
Also, BusinessWeek has a recent presentation that won major VC buy-in. It's where I got the above tip from & there's probably more to mine from it.
My phone's running an OS I can completely verify & compile myself. I didn't since I got that from a 3rd-party with a reputation for no special sauce. I can still do all the things you mention and the only people with records are the phone company when using 3g/voice (something that hasn't changed from before when information came through the phone) and whoever owns sites/apps I select to interact with.
The markets are leaning away from the walled-garden devices. No part of technological advancement requires monitoring. Android's even got Tor now for all your "anonymously getting data" needs.
As for the camera situation, Eastman Kodak took that cat out of the bag over 100 years ago.
Tablets absolutely solve the "regular PCs are too hard & breakage-prone for my email/facebook needs" opinion of most middle-class digital consumers.
Facebook (covered by peer commenter)
Twitter: I never found the use for me, and I don't use it. I understand that it revolutionized celebrity monitoring (something many people are in to).
I asked this in middle school when I was first approached with the ideas. The (certainly over-simplified) answer I was given was this:
If we do something to an entire electron, we can see measure it and often calculate it as a single point.
However, electrons are not solid things. Their natural shapes around nuclei are various balloon-like structures.
The entire structure is the one electron, yet anything we do to it will remove it entirely or stretch it somehow (covalent bonds).
So it's not perpetual motion as much as difficulty slicing-up an electron.
Skip to the end:
I'm grateful modern development doesn't "skip to the end" that involves adding maximum program-ability everywhere, because then "the cat's out of the bag" and they must support it forever deprecate errors. It's convoluted & could be simpler, but it's safer which allows things like multi-domain use without XSS risks.
The oil market had monopoly control of the wider energy market.
A monopoly's possessor need not be corporeal. It's just a relation.
Facebook (est. 2004), the social 'revolution'
allowing many-to-many conversations and helped overthrow some oppressive governments.
Tablets, smart phones: the basis of the summary wouldn't be recognizable a decade ago.
Those broke the MS monopoly and are breaking the Apple walled garden.
Massive acceptance of solar & implementation of wind power.
Power savings:
in '03 it was thought we'd need huge power draws to run today's computers.
Now theories of ever-growing energy requirements of a society are even in question.
With the above, it's helping break the oil monopoly.
E-ink
The Cloud
Now a start-up doesn't need to have huge VC funding to buy hardware it may not need, but can scale if they do.
Near-free micro-controllers with amazing sensor arrays (plus OpenCV).
3D printing
Vast materials science, directed sound, and other discoveries have happened (most I've read from Slashdot).
Engineers are better off now. Sure, politics is a little crazier, but technology (powering & directing the real world) is better off.
None of that is necessary. The Nexus S had no card slot and never emulated having FAT32 either. I doubt FAT32 libraries are even on the device.
Now F2FS is nice, but not for avoiding FAT32 patents. It doesn't even solve the real problem that an F2FS SD card won't be read by Windows ever.
And occasionally dangerous/deadly the frustrations between them become.
I'd rather live in a society where all weird is celebrated. Repression's a pressure cooker.
That keeps me hopeful that "the market" will solve this. How many more places are there to reliably undercut China? Everyone else is too unstable, or has stability that makes low wages or libertarianism impossible. Things have fallen since 1980, but I doubt they can fall much more before there's nowhere else left to go but up.