There's nothing separating a bitcoin, a US dollar or a napkin that says $10000 1337 D0ll@rz on it.
One of these I can exchange for goods and services in the real world and have a reasonable expectation the other person will want it. I'll let you figure out which one it is. And no I don't care that your shitty blog takes donations in bitcoin.
Historically, there's been a 100% failure rate for fiat currencies.
And historically 100% of people have died. Who gives a shit.
It's just that someone else is buying all that hardware to have sitting around idle until you need it.
That's no longer my problem. It's now an operating expense for me instead of a massive up front capital expense.
What makes it work is that they have so many customers that when one needs more capacity they can take a bit away from everybody else and each customer's share will be so small they won't notice.
Nooo... when you reserve a VM that VM is yours whether you use it or not. You are paying for it after all. I have a very tough time buying that any of the major cloud platforms are oversubscribed. You will have to back up that claim.
It doesn't matter anyways. If you have grown to such a monstrous scale that you start to outgrow the capabilities of these cloud platforms, the capital cost of rolling out your own data center is likely no longer an issue. Operations on that scale are few and far between.
Yes and it was done by buying a shit ton of hardware and all the complexities and expenses that come with it. The problem is that 90% of the time that hardware was sitting around idle. Or that you would have to purchase a bunch of hardware for a one time project and then hope and pray that someone would buy that hardware from you when you were done. It doesn't take a tech website genius to realize how incredibly inefficient that is.
You must be new here. We have a Microsoft bitch-fest everyday even if they don't make anything newsworthy. It's either a Windows 8 post, or some rumour about DRM on the xbox, or Stallman saying something dumb, or something about UEFI, and if all those fail then we find some random guy that quit a decade ago and writes a butthurt blog post.
Python... our ultra underground language that only the super secret priesthood of unix admins knows about?? You are letting our divine truth out to the unthinking public! You better believe you are going to get shunned at the next invocation.
Looking forward to watching the usual mental gymnastics from you guys trying to make him out to be evil or something. Bonus points for not reading a word he says.
You guys making this argument really need to start picking better examples.
IBM (with MS-DOS
They defined the PC as we know it including a lot of standards that persist to this day. It was immensely successful and allowed for IBM to dominate the personal computing space for years.
and OS/2)
Was doomed from the start. IBM is equally to blame for its demise, despite the haterade that people on slashdot are drinking.
Sun (with Java)
I seem to remember that involving more lawsuits than any sort of cooperation. In any case Java is currently a very popular language in the enterprise.
I've done it several times. It's much faster than dragging out a piece of hardware I'm never going to use again to burn a disc I'm never going to use again.
Don't know and don't care if this works for your bizarro OS of choice.
Cosmic rays go straight through the earths atmosphere. So an iphone on earth gets hit with the same amount of cosmic rays as one in space. Off the shelf computer hardware does indeed work just fine in space. You can watch people on the ISS using normal laptops and cameras all the time.
If you know they exist you maybe shouldn't say shit like this:
Next, try to find a PC without a Windows License forced on you. Building it yourself from pieces doesn't count (thank goodness as that's how I do all mine).
Have fun.
That Windows license wasn't forced on you. You made that choice with full knowledge of your options. Pretending otherwise is basically lying.
Of course the Linux version of the same hardware is more expensive. Windows PCs come with the bundled crapware that subsidizes the cost of the operating system. Linux PCs don't have the bundled crapware and therefore cost the OEM more money. Not to mention most people who buy the Linux version did so by mistake and end up returning it.
Slashdot Mirror
You seem to have only read the first 2 sentences of my post. I'm going to go ahead and let you read that again because it's relevant to your post.
There's nothing separating a bitcoin, a US dollar or a napkin that says $10000 1337 D0ll@rz on it.
One of these I can exchange for goods and services in the real world and have a reasonable expectation the other person will want it. I'll let you figure out which one it is. And no I don't care that your shitty blog takes donations in bitcoin.
Historically, there's been a 100% failure rate for fiat currencies.
And historically 100% of people have died. Who gives a shit.
conveniences of bitcoin
Don't make me laugh.
You just gave them real money and got nothing back in exchange. Stupid beyond belief.
It's just that someone else is buying all that hardware to have sitting around idle until you need it.
That's no longer my problem. It's now an operating expense for me instead of a massive up front capital expense.
What makes it work is that they have so many customers that when one needs more capacity they can take a bit away from everybody else and each customer's share will be so small they won't notice.
Nooo... when you reserve a VM that VM is yours whether you use it or not. You are paying for it after all. I have a very tough time buying that any of the major cloud platforms are oversubscribed. You will have to back up that claim.
It doesn't matter anyways. If you have grown to such a monstrous scale that you start to outgrow the capabilities of these cloud platforms, the capital cost of rolling out your own data center is likely no longer an issue. Operations on that scale are few and far between.
Yes and it was done by buying a shit ton of hardware and all the complexities and expenses that come with it. The problem is that 90% of the time that hardware was sitting around idle. Or that you would have to purchase a bunch of hardware for a one time project and then hope and pray that someone would buy that hardware from you when you were done. It doesn't take a tech website genius to realize how incredibly inefficient that is.
Remember kids, "I can't use this" is not the same thing as "nobody can use this".
Do you only have one device in your house? Because I'm pretty sure a lot of us have multiple.
Remember kids, "I can't use this" is not the same thing as "nobody can use this".
There's no way I'm every going to buy the mobile operating system they've released for my desktop.
The bad news for you is the desktop is dead. The writing has been on the wall for years.
bloat
Can we please all agree to stop using this lame weasel word. Thanks.
Win 98 to Win 7
WTF. How did you expect that to work at all.
You must be new here. We have a Microsoft bitch-fest everyday even if they don't make anything newsworthy. It's either a Windows 8 post, or some rumour about DRM on the xbox, or Stallman saying something dumb, or something about UEFI, and if all those fail then we find some random guy that quit a decade ago and writes a butthurt blog post.
Daily Microsoft bitch-fest in 5...4...3...2...1... GO!
Python... our ultra underground language that only the super secret priesthood of unix admins knows about?? You are letting our divine truth out to the unthinking public! You better believe you are going to get shunned at the next invocation.
Looking forward to watching the usual mental gymnastics from you guys trying to make him out to be evil or something. Bonus points for not reading a word he says.
IBM (with MS-DOS
They defined the PC as we know it including a lot of standards that persist to this day. It was immensely successful and allowed for IBM to dominate the personal computing space for years.
and OS/2)
Was doomed from the start. IBM is equally to blame for its demise, despite the haterade that people on slashdot are drinking.
Sun (with Java)
I seem to remember that involving more lawsuits than any sort of cooperation. In any case Java is currently a very popular language in the enterprise.
I've done it several times. It's much faster than dragging out a piece of hardware I'm never going to use again to burn a disc I'm never going to use again.
Don't know and don't care if this works for your bizarro OS of choice.
Cosmic rays go straight through the earths atmosphere. So an iphone on earth gets hit with the same amount of cosmic rays as one in space. Off the shelf computer hardware does indeed work just fine in space. You can watch people on the ISS using normal laptops and cameras all the time.
There is a boxed copy, but interestingly there is no DVD in the box. There is a key and a URL to go download the software.
Next, try to find a PC without a Windows License forced on you. Building it yourself from pieces doesn't count (thank goodness as that's how I do all mine). Have fun.
That Windows license wasn't forced on you. You made that choice with full knowledge of your options. Pretending otherwise is basically lying.
Of course the Linux version of the same hardware is more expensive. Windows PCs come with the bundled crapware that subsidizes the cost of the operating system. Linux PCs don't have the bundled crapware and therefore cost the OEM more money. Not to mention most people who buy the Linux version did so by mistake and end up returning it.
Besides, I often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants).
What... the... fuck...
Not quite. Entity Framework is actively accepting contributions.
I found one in 15 seconds on google. Can we stop pretending these don't exist now?
Clearly tuxracer is all the thrill he can handle.
The answer to that would depend on what your data and privacy is worth to you. Remember: if you aren't paying for it you are the product.
Yup and he mysteriously got out of legal trouble and now suddenly has enough money to rent an entire datacenter. Good luck with your "encryption".