My G1 ran Android 1.0 (in October 2008) all the way to 1.6 stock, and further, 2.1, on Cyanogen Mod.
Since Cyanogen had offended Google by then, I had to get the Google Apps from a zip file, a lot of stuff wasn't in CM 5 due to memory constraints, and it was slow. But it worked. And it still does to this day, though the battery I have is pretty sad.
Not that Google was the least embarrassed to release Android 1.0 without working Bluetooth, mind you. But that was a fun phone, rooted and all. Perhaps my HTC M7 was as much fun. I can assure you my U11 is not. I will not purchase another HTC device. the run is over.
Competitive advantage. I do not know if we share within other security forums, probably yes, when we see either dangerous new methods, but we do not share anything proprietary unless it were a known industry-wide problem and we saw a duty to share.
The commodity is information. Knowing the prices or benefits of all competitors.
It is ending up, in online retail, with prices largely becoming homogenized, fulfillment centralized to a few actual providers, and bargain/sales coming and going on an hourly basis. Targeted advertising designed to force a decision from you without adequate information to make an informed choice.
So you go to Amazon, keep looking at an item, and it never goes down in price UNLESS there is a promotion, usually along with a bunch of other items. Or you go to book air travel and find that when you go to actually pay the price went up due to 'demand'. In a few minutes. After you've set your order. For five seats. In high season. They know what they are doing to you, and an extra $12 per seat after you've spent a half hour finding just the right combination is good money.
My second favorite Chinese-like restaurant was take out oriented back in the 70s. They had 8 seats total in the store, and it was a constant flow of takeout orders. They thrive to this day, despite being on one side of a busy street, on the wrong side of a busy intersection. No matter what time of day or what you order, they have it ready for you, no matter how fast you think you can get there. Damned good too.
OTOH, sports bars and steak houses should have no interest in delivery, it just makes no sense.
QSRs (McDonalds for instance, look it up) might be a delivery opportunity, but somehow waiting for the driver to get to me with old and cold fries isn't the least bit interesting. Pizza places that solved the hot and fresh problem do very well. In fact, I think pizza is well suited to delivery, and really much Asian style food also. Hamburgers and fries, not so much. Steak? Well, if the veggies are right.
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer fresh food. Even Mexican takeout sometimes leaves me cold. Pad Thai, though, that golds up well on the trip. Some restaurants may end up giving up on delivery.
I deal with tech a lot where I work, an instantly recognizable financial business.
Our core transaction processing systems run COBOL. When your Python app can settle as few trillion transactions nightly with deadlines met within minutes and downtime measured in seconds per year, present it. Someone will listen.
The stuff I deal with daily now uses Cassandra for a db backend, all is hosted within LAMP stacks (we said goodbye to WebSphere a while ago), and is tolerating all major browsers for internal and external users. Our constraints aren't tech, they are resources; we decide to support a certain range of demand, and so size the systems according to budget. When our users begin complaining, we will resize.
I've noticed a bunch of internal apps moved to interesting containers, and using two- or three-factor authentication. Our security methods treat employees as strangers, and internal systems as threats. Nothing is trusted until it is authenticated, carefully. This security problem is the source of much of the apparent lack of innovation in the industry, as we where I work are a top 50 target. Maybe top 10, we have not been told of a breach. We spend as much on testing our security as we do on the security.
Our single biggest repository is on a custom Linux system, some our own software. It handles the volume you would associate with Google. It has to be secure.
And we of course have document storage, but that's on old stuff based on Wang systems, which you cannot outperform yet. No you cannot.
Yet we are faced with demand for flexibility, new and innovative solutions to new problems, and creative products. We've delivered a blockchain based international settlement system with a respected partner, at the same time as we've spun off a product that made all the sense in the world but didn't sell and are turning off one that just isn't working for anyone.
A previous CIO lamented that a third of our projects failed. That's actually pretty good in the business world at large. But it's really not good enough. And new tech by itself will not do it. Better planning, better management, and better infrastructure will. And we are building those. I can name a few competitors that are clearly not, and I relish the opportunities we have to drink their milkshakes.
LCS Syndrome is, for those well below the whoosh, the problem of building a new class of ship that has both known and new missions, some of which are combinations of previous mission specs, and is found to accomplish none of them well, and all of them inadequately. Add to that the problems of new systems not performing as expected, cost overruns even on the ammunition intended to amplify the class performance, and not meeting any reasonable target (cost, delivery, etc) other than floating upright and not killing crew outright, and you have a collection of CFs dubbed, for the purposes of this example, 'LCS Syndrome'. Me, I consider this an example of the 'not built at Bath' syndrome, for other than for CVNs, not building at Bath is nonoptimal. It just is.
But that's probably because I enjoyed the previews, and know the team there.
" if something goes wrong during launch", it is pretty likely to affect whatever i necessary for a return and landing, even a ditch at sea.
And ditching at sea is likely going to ruin the payload.
This is not a useful scenario, booster return is for reuse only. Nearly every launch problem is a range safety issue, missed orbit insertion, or total loss. again, very few 'something goes wrong during launch' situations give you the option of return.
And graphics drivers aren't nearly as important in a business setting as are kernel stability, networking, and security.
If you were focuses on graphics, you were a candidate for XP because of that alone. If you were connecting to a PDC and using shares, you wanted 2K. At least your IT staff did, it was significantly more stable than XP, whether because Microsoft limited the networking code in XP or not.
Generally the routing algorithms suffer the most when the routes have to take curved roads, have multiple speed changes, and are limited by bridges and other obstructions. Rectilinear road layouts are very forgiving.
So London, San Diego, and Boston are routing nightmares, New York less so, and Phoenix pretty simple. LA in the middle. Kuala Lumpur is unforgivable.
I know that after 3pm every 5 minutes I delay is another minute spent in traffic on the 101 Pima. After 4, it's a minute delay for every minute I waste getting out of work.
What I cannot know without real-time traffic data is that an accident has blocked it anywhere between Cactus and Thomas, or between the 202 and the 60. Those become huge delays. The radio traffic reports on the 10s give me stale info, usually only reporting a half hour after the accident is reported, and for two hours after it is cleared. And then I have to juggle whether to take the 17/10/60 or float to the reservation or take McDowell and Alma School. No amount of The Knowledge tells you that.
Phoenix traffic is interesting, mostly because it seems we should not have LA style rush hour, even if it is an order of magnitude less intense.
New York City cabbies have the same requirement, and the same problem, but London and NYC cabbies have a single advantage - generally, inner city traffic is less prone to accidents, but more prone to congestion. So knowing there is a UN event or the Knicks have an early game is more useful than knowing where the fender benders are, and time of day flow is predictable.
My commute sadly includes freeway, so when it gets just a little busier, and there is just a little more congestion, being in the fast lane gets you doing 50 in front of the kid from Flagstaff in his older pickup without ABS, and he can't help rear ending you when he looks down to figure out where the exit is on his map. He just didn't leave that extra 10 feet. Sad for the Corvette in front of you, but the officer assured me I would never hold my car against the impact, shoved back and off the brake pedal. My insurance still had to pay for exhaust tips and buffing out the bumper. He ruined my Saab with the working convertible top, and I hate him for it.
"A footnote saying something may be political is a far cry from letting the American people know that the Democrats and the Hillary campaign paid for dirt that the FBI then used to get a warrant on an American citizen to spy on another campaign," Nunes said on "Fox & Friends."
"Just because he makes that much doesn't make him smart."
Ah, then earning a more than adequate salary isn't smart. Sure.
Without a doubt every single over paid, uneducated union worker I know is living paycheck to paycheck and in debt above his eyeballs.
I cannot corroborate that. Most of the union workers I know are in fact educated in union-sponsored trade schools. One was in class last night at a community college, on his nickel, to ensure his career advances and his salary increases. He has a mortgage, but no student loans.
"...in debt above his eyeballs. The college educated are not, for the most part. You can easily go to 4 years of college and exit with a degree with no debt. This is something the lazy union workers who have a difficult time putting in a single full day of work in a single month can't fathom.""
Where is this reality you seem to refer to, where even many of the 'college educated' are not in fact saddled with student loan debt, subsidized by the federal government, for college educations that have increased in cost due to that subsidized student loan system? The complaints about college expenses are ubiquitous. And while you can go to 4 years of college and exit with a degree and no debt, that is not the norm by most accounts. This statement, more than your others, is pure BS. Why would you bother to make such a claim?
"It is harder to trick college educated people into believing false statements."
Is it. This certainly explains a lot, but not in the way you present it. For starters, the false statements are inculcated in those people before they are educated. And those statements form the foundation of their education.
You can dis blue-collar workers, but no amount of fake news will deny the leaky faucet you call them to fix, and so the blue-collar type knows truth in a visceral, necessary way that no amount of philosophy studies can replace. They know the smell that comes from failure, and the inevitable results of that.
Elon has already talked about strapping two more boosters on and upping thrust to 9 million pounds.
That's a match for Saturn V, and probably enables a larger payload, if you're into a 'mine's bigger than yours' contest, which Elon is.
And possibly a launch cost under $200 million. Considering the SLS costs and Saturn V's 2017 equivalent of around $1 billion, it's pretty attractive. The SLS has only two potential competitive advantages, reliability and, well, I'm not sure about the other one. Government sponsorship?
And SLS will have to meet its cost goals, which is looking unlikely, but ya never know.
"Bu$hitler was the first president people reacted to in such an infantile, spittle flecked way."
You may have overlooked Reagan, the movie actor turned idiot senile fascist. He was vilified by his own party, the media, the opposition (of course, this is essential and expected), and of course the Left worldwide. His Vice Presidential candidate was investigated by Congress to determine if he had in fact been transported to and from Europe on an SR-71 to negotiate the release of the American hostages in Tehran, and ultimately was shot in the street.
I forget, political violence in the US isn't as rare as I think it is, and it is virtually universally prosecuted by the Left.
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My G1 ran Android 1.0 (in October 2008) all the way to 1.6 stock, and further, 2.1, on Cyanogen Mod.
Since Cyanogen had offended Google by then, I had to get the Google Apps from a zip file, a lot of stuff wasn't in CM 5 due to memory constraints, and it was slow. But it worked. And it still does to this day, though the battery I have is pretty sad.
Not that Google was the least embarrassed to release Android 1.0 without working Bluetooth, mind you. But that was a fun phone, rooted and all. Perhaps my HTC M7 was as much fun. I can assure you my U11 is not. I will not purchase another HTC device. the run is over.
Apparently they don't much like smartwatches, or the market would justify producing the chips.
Competitive advantage. I do not know if we share within other security forums, probably yes, when we see either dangerous new methods, but we do not share anything proprietary unless it were a known industry-wide problem and we saw a duty to share.
The commodity is information. Knowing the prices or benefits of all competitors.
It is ending up, in online retail, with prices largely becoming homogenized, fulfillment centralized to a few actual providers, and bargain/sales coming and going on an hourly basis. Targeted advertising designed to force a decision from you without adequate information to make an informed choice.
So you go to Amazon, keep looking at an item, and it never goes down in price UNLESS there is a promotion, usually along with a bunch of other items. Or you go to book air travel and find that when you go to actually pay the price went up due to 'demand'. In a few minutes. After you've set your order. For five seats. In high season. They know what they are doing to you, and an extra $12 per seat after you've spent a half hour finding just the right combination is good money.
The commodity is information.
You don't understand how allergies work, do you...
My second favorite Chinese-like restaurant was take out oriented back in the 70s. They had 8 seats total in the store, and it was a constant flow of takeout orders. They thrive to this day, despite being on one side of a busy street, on the wrong side of a busy intersection. No matter what time of day or what you order, they have it ready for you, no matter how fast you think you can get there. Damned good too.
OTOH, sports bars and steak houses should have no interest in delivery, it just makes no sense.
QSRs (McDonalds for instance, look it up) might be a delivery opportunity, but somehow waiting for the driver to get to me with old and cold fries isn't the least bit interesting. Pizza places that solved the hot and fresh problem do very well. In fact, I think pizza is well suited to delivery, and really much Asian style food also. Hamburgers and fries, not so much. Steak? Well, if the veggies are right.
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer fresh food. Even Mexican takeout sometimes leaves me cold. Pad Thai, though, that golds up well on the trip. Some restaurants may end up giving up on delivery.
I deal with tech a lot where I work, an instantly recognizable financial business.
Our core transaction processing systems run COBOL. When your Python app can settle as few trillion transactions nightly with deadlines met within minutes and downtime measured in seconds per year, present it. Someone will listen.
The stuff I deal with daily now uses Cassandra for a db backend, all is hosted within LAMP stacks (we said goodbye to WebSphere a while ago), and is tolerating all major browsers for internal and external users. Our constraints aren't tech, they are resources; we decide to support a certain range of demand, and so size the systems according to budget. When our users begin complaining, we will resize.
I've noticed a bunch of internal apps moved to interesting containers, and using two- or three-factor authentication. Our security methods treat employees as strangers, and internal systems as threats. Nothing is trusted until it is authenticated, carefully. This security problem is the source of much of the apparent lack of innovation in the industry, as we where I work are a top 50 target. Maybe top 10, we have not been told of a breach. We spend as much on testing our security as we do on the security.
Our single biggest repository is on a custom Linux system, some our own software. It handles the volume you would associate with Google. It has to be secure.
And we of course have document storage, but that's on old stuff based on Wang systems, which you cannot outperform yet. No you cannot.
Yet we are faced with demand for flexibility, new and innovative solutions to new problems, and creative products. We've delivered a blockchain based international settlement system with a respected partner, at the same time as we've spun off a product that made all the sense in the world but didn't sell and are turning off one that just isn't working for anyone.
A previous CIO lamented that a third of our projects failed. That's actually pretty good in the business world at large. But it's really not good enough. And new tech by itself will not do it. Better planning, better management, and better infrastructure will. And we are building those. I can name a few competitors that are clearly not, and I relish the opportunities we have to drink their milkshakes.
Turks emigrated to Europe for 20 years or more, they could do it again. Since choosing where you live is a big deal, they will choose.
If they are allowed to.
LCS Syndrome is, for those well below the whoosh, the problem of building a new class of ship that has both known and new missions, some of which are combinations of previous mission specs, and is found to accomplish none of them well, and all of them inadequately. Add to that the problems of new systems not performing as expected, cost overruns even on the ammunition intended to amplify the class performance, and not meeting any reasonable target (cost, delivery, etc) other than floating upright and not killing crew outright, and you have a collection of CFs dubbed, for the purposes of this example, 'LCS Syndrome'. Me, I consider this an example of the 'not built at Bath' syndrome, for other than for CVNs, not building at Bath is nonoptimal. It just is.
But that's probably because I enjoyed the previews, and know the team there.
Ok, that is funny. You win one.
" if something goes wrong during launch", it is pretty likely to affect whatever i necessary for a return and landing, even a ditch at sea.
And ditching at sea is likely going to ruin the payload.
This is not a useful scenario, booster return is for reuse only. Nearly every launch problem is a range safety issue, missed orbit insertion, or total loss. again, very few 'something goes wrong during launch' situations give you the option of return.
Why is death the only 'harm' considered?
And graphics drivers aren't nearly as important in a business setting as are kernel stability, networking, and security.
If you were focuses on graphics, you were a candidate for XP because of that alone. If you were connecting to a PDC and using shares, you wanted 2K. At least your IT staff did, it was significantly more stable than XP, whether because Microsoft limited the networking code in XP or not.
Many a fare knows the way as well as the cabbie. Trying to stretch a ride will get you some outrage.
Now, lots of fares at Heathrow can be duped. That is why many cities legislate airport rides and regulate fees.
Generally the routing algorithms suffer the most when the routes have to take curved roads, have multiple speed changes, and are limited by bridges and other obstructions. Rectilinear road layouts are very forgiving.
So London, San Diego, and Boston are routing nightmares, New York less so, and Phoenix pretty simple. LA in the middle. Kuala Lumpur is unforgivable.
I know that after 3pm every 5 minutes I delay is another minute spent in traffic on the 101 Pima. After 4, it's a minute delay for every minute I waste getting out of work.
What I cannot know without real-time traffic data is that an accident has blocked it anywhere between Cactus and Thomas, or between the 202 and the 60. Those become huge delays. The radio traffic reports on the 10s give me stale info, usually only reporting a half hour after the accident is reported, and for two hours after it is cleared. And then I have to juggle whether to take the 17/10/60 or float to the reservation or take McDowell and Alma School. No amount of The Knowledge tells you that.
Phoenix traffic is interesting, mostly because it seems we should not have LA style rush hour, even if it is an order of magnitude less intense.
New York City cabbies have the same requirement, and the same problem, but London and NYC cabbies have a single advantage - generally, inner city traffic is less prone to accidents, but more prone to congestion. So knowing there is a UN event or the Knicks have an early game is more useful than knowing where the fender benders are, and time of day flow is predictable.
My commute sadly includes freeway, so when it gets just a little busier, and there is just a little more congestion, being in the fast lane gets you doing 50 in front of the kid from Flagstaff in his older pickup without ABS, and he can't help rear ending you when he looks down to figure out where the exit is on his map. He just didn't leave that extra 10 feet. Sad for the Corvette in front of you, but the officer assured me I would never hold my car against the impact, shoved back and off the brake pedal. My insurance still had to pay for exhaust tips and buffing out the bumper. He ruined my Saab with the working convertible top, and I hate him for it.
From Politico:
"A footnote saying something may be political is a far cry from letting the American people know that the Democrats and the Hillary campaign paid for dirt that the FBI then used to get a warrant on an American citizen to spy on another campaign," Nunes said on "Fox & Friends."
"Just because he makes that much doesn't make him smart."
Ah, then earning a more than adequate salary isn't smart. Sure.
Without a doubt every single over paid, uneducated union worker I know is living paycheck to paycheck and in debt above his eyeballs.
I cannot corroborate that. Most of the union workers I know are in fact educated in union-sponsored trade schools. One was in class last night at a community college, on his nickel, to ensure his career advances and his salary increases. He has a mortgage, but no student loans.
"...in debt above his eyeballs. The college educated are not, for the most part. You can easily go to 4 years of college and exit with a degree with no debt. This is something the lazy union workers who have a difficult time putting in a single full day of work in a single month can't fathom.""
Where is this reality you seem to refer to, where even many of the 'college educated' are not in fact saddled with student loan debt, subsidized by the federal government, for college educations that have increased in cost due to that subsidized student loan system? The complaints about college expenses are ubiquitous. And while you can go to 4 years of college and exit with a degree and no debt, that is not the norm by most accounts. This statement, more than your others, is pure BS. Why would you bother to make such a claim?
"It is harder to trick college educated people into believing false statements."
Is it. This certainly explains a lot, but not in the way you present it. For starters, the false statements are inculcated in those people before they are educated. And those statements form the foundation of their education.
You can dis blue-collar workers, but no amount of fake news will deny the leaky faucet you call them to fix, and so the blue-collar type knows truth in a visceral, necessary way that no amount of philosophy studies can replace. They know the smell that comes from failure, and the inevitable results of that.
Elon has already talked about strapping two more boosters on and upping thrust to 9 million pounds.
That's a match for Saturn V, and probably enables a larger payload, if you're into a 'mine's bigger than yours' contest, which Elon is.
And possibly a launch cost under $200 million. Considering the SLS costs and Saturn V's 2017 equivalent of around $1 billion, it's pretty attractive. The SLS has only two potential competitive advantages, reliability and, well, I'm not sure about the other one. Government sponsorship?
And SLS will have to meet its cost goals, which is looking unlikely, but ya never know.
One did.
Since it affected even the cable signal, I'm not sure you have any idea what happened.
Hello? Hello?
NO such thing as 30 seconds of dead air and nothing was missed. It certainly looked like the commercial insert feed failed.
Mind you, not as bad as last year's CenturyLink outage in Gilbert AZ. On Super Bowl Sunday. For 31 hours. Without explanation.
Pretty remarkable how well a paper clip works as an HDTV OTA antenna.
"Bu$hitler was the first president people reacted to in such an infantile, spittle flecked way."
You may have overlooked Reagan, the movie actor turned idiot senile fascist. He was vilified by his own party, the media, the opposition (of course, this is essential and expected), and of course the Left worldwide. His Vice Presidential candidate was investigated by Congress to determine if he had in fact been transported to and from Europe on an SR-71 to negotiate the release of the American hostages in Tehran, and ultimately was shot in the street.
I forget, political violence in the US isn't as rare as I think it is, and it is virtually universally prosecuted by the Left.
Don't wake up. Your reality is serving you well, and opening your eyes will only crush your spirit. Party on, dude.