Our software used to rely on Stratus servers until we were forced to rely on eBay for spares... before that we had no downtime recorded for 8 years before i came, and none for 7 years after.
I managed Novell servers with uptimes over 3000 days, which for Novell servers wasn't at all unusual. For most of these we didn't rely on the IDE drivers for data, so we avoided the clock problems by kicking the driver in the head.
The battery goes from 100% to 50% under heavy use in about 90 minutes. At 50%, texting, dialing a call, receiving a call, opening a browser drops it to 46% and it dies. Not shutdown, power fail.
When I reboot, the battery says 44%, and will last to a home screen, but any selection it dies again. And Marshmallow doesn't like being unpowered twice in a row.
Obviously a bad battery, and it's well past 2 years, close to 3 years old. I probably have 1800+ cycles on it.
My next phone will, probably, be an LG G6. Unless they price it to the market, which means $700+/-, tough to swallow even with a replaceable battery. And my 8 year string of HTC phones will come to an end. The HTC U Ultra offers me another sealed battery, Snapdragon 821 (superceded in a month), too big, and for $750 it's not yet compelling for me. But it will sell well for an HTC phone.
Battery life cycle is a big deal if you want to spend less than about $1.02/day for your phone...
And is the unit of measure a single download, or a thousand, of for hugely popular items literally millions?
If your perspective is that the pricing is to be challenged, I expect you to define costs as largely fixed and minimal. If you examine the 'production' effort, you can readily find that costs scale with sales. For digital goods, this is mostly hugely nonlinear. And so it's hard to accept.
Ps- we are also blithely giving market forces and monopolistic market share a pass. Microsoft Office is a virtual monopoly. Candy Crush is a phenomenal but brief success. Both have huge total distribution costs, but marginal costs seem low. One finances continued development and less profitable projects, the other is a windfall...
I understood. You redefined it as 'essentially without cost', which isn't quite right.
And this example is 'essentially fixed costs' for most situations, as both very small and very large distribution models have disproportionate costs per download. Very large providers may have to use CDNs, negotiated peer access, and face greater security risks. Smaller providers may have higher unit costs due to very small scale.
The perception that digital goods are 'essentially without costs' is a fallacy, still, and one that is both popular and convenient. Simplistic defence of that perception isn't entirely honest, and doesn't serve to fully understand the industry.
If you would care to listen to Google, they explain plailn why they do not add SD slots to Nexus and Pixel devices.
They claim this leads to a 'consistent user experience' across the models.
You may disagree, but this is their reasoning.
Of course, when I argued over the Android browser defaulting to a mobile User Agent String back in the G-1 days, and Google claimed it was to ensure i had the best possible mobile browsing experience, I was being contrary when I pointed out I has purchased the first Android device precisely to enjoy the best possible browsing experience. By changing the User Agent String back from my attempt to set the desktop User Agent String, they denied me the best possible experience.
Their ultimate reasoning? I was using a lot of data. Yeah, I was basking in newly released 3G data. Sheesh.
No one buys pharmaceuticals for the pills, or sprays, or powders, ointments, whatever the physical product is. They buy and use them for the effects. The effects. The utility. Improved health, improved performance, whatever.
And no one buys software for the physical media, or downloaded data, the bits. They buy software for the effect. The utility, results.
This is a great fallacy with IP, trying to categorize it as somehow different form all other products. It is just another product, deserving of the same protections, but no more. Governable by the same methods as other products. Even some patented seeds risk reproduction, even accidentally, and so the IP involved being used and benefit gained by those who somehow (accidentally even?) are able to propagate and continue deriving value without purchasing new seed.
As the state often does, a thing is not regulated until it is practical for people to do it. then, all of a sudden, it becomes a problem to be solved. Vinyl records->reel-t-reel tape was not a big deal, more trouble than the masses would engage in. Vinyl->cassette, that was much easier, and boom, taxes. CDs, digital media, needed copy protection because it became trivial to copy them. Pharmaceuticals are still hard to copy, though many are based on plants etc found in nature, and those, surprise, are often heavily regulated. Software, easily duplicated both in distribution and design, is getting special treatment that is not needed. If the problem is that anonymity makes enforcement difficult or impossible, this has always been a problem.
IP is not different from pharmaceuticals. No, it is not.
Our legacy software we hoped would support SHA-256, which one of our processing platforms moved to 2 weeks ago. Nope, despite lukewarm assurances, it did not. Frantic migrations. Many upset users.
Over a 12+ year old app that has survived conversion from dialup to HTTPS to FTPS, moved through several processor changes, and finally the death begins. I expect other platforms to migrate off SHA-1/SHA-2 and kill this old beast dead.
A little more warning would be nice, but heh, we still would have had to leave it behind
"The charter states that "our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious" and calls for the eventual creation of an Islamic state in Palestine, in place of Israel and the Palestinian Territories"
" It emphasizes the importance of jihad, stating in article 13, "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad."
"The charter also states that Hamas is humanistic, and tolerant of other religions as long as they "stop disputing the sovereignty of Islam in this region".[6] The Charter adds that "renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion" of Islam" - to be fair, this IS Islam.
"In 2010 Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal stated that the Charter is "a piece of history and no longer relevant, but cannot be changed for internal reasons."[14] Hamas has moved away from its charter since it decided to run candidates for office." - which could lead us to question if anything Hamas stated can be reliable.
Ignoring the continued commitment of Arabs in the Middle East (worldwide, actually) to exterminate Jews certainly makes it easier to blame Israel exclusively. Even in 1948 the Arab world would have annihilated the Jewish populations in all middle eastern regions.
The creation of the modern Jewish state has been bloody. But when I consider the Arab treatment of those in Palestine, that is the great tragedy.
Their most ardent supporters (and most others) neither require nor expect any such veneer. So many in the world support the goal of extending Jews, and Hamas is merely one of the tools to that end.
Any justification of limiting Israel in both keeping territory gained in the defense of their nation and on selling that land only serves their enemies, those committed not merely to defeating Israel but exterminating Jews worldwide.
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That's funny. No, really, you're funny.
0. Many Stratus servers are single-purpose. They didn't need updates once the systems were stsble.
1. Stratus OS were never subsceptible to viruses, botnets, etc. They aren't Windows, or anything like it.
Our software used to rely on Stratus servers until we were forced to rely on eBay for spares... before that we had no downtime recorded for 8 years before i came, and none for 7 years after.
I managed Novell servers with uptimes over 3000 days, which for Novell servers wasn't at all unusual. For most of these we didn't rely on the IDE drivers for data, so we avoided the clock problems by kicking the driver in the head.
or more accurately, unrealistic expectations. Or marketing.
Qualcomm announced the 835 when? LG announced the G6 when?
Did anyone believe that LG would be able ship the G6 a month after the chipset was announced...?
Water resistance seems to drive this. Now to do something about ding resistance...
My HTC ONE M8 is so old. How old, you ask?
The battery goes from 100% to 50% under heavy use in about 90 minutes. At 50%, texting, dialing a call, receiving a call, opening a browser drops it to 46% and it dies. Not shutdown, power fail.
When I reboot, the battery says 44%, and will last to a home screen, but any selection it dies again. And Marshmallow doesn't like being unpowered twice in a row.
Obviously a bad battery, and it's well past 2 years, close to 3 years old. I probably have 1800+ cycles on it.
My next phone will, probably, be an LG G6. Unless they price it to the market, which means $700+/-, tough to swallow even with a replaceable battery. And my 8 year string of HTC phones will come to an end. The HTC U Ultra offers me another sealed battery, Snapdragon 821 (superceded in a month), too big, and for $750 it's not yet compelling for me. But it will sell well for an HTC phone.
Battery life cycle is a big deal if you want to spend less than about $1.02/day for your phone...
I know several LG owners, G2, 3, 4, 5. None tell me of any hardware problems. Maybe batch problems...
'very close' is the point I was making.
And is the unit of measure a single download, or a thousand, of for hugely popular items literally millions?
If your perspective is that the pricing is to be challenged, I expect you to define costs as largely fixed and minimal. If you examine the 'production' effort, you can readily find that costs scale with sales. For digital goods, this is mostly hugely nonlinear. And so it's hard to accept.
Ps- we are also blithely giving market forces and monopolistic market share a pass. Microsoft Office is a virtual monopoly. Candy Crush is a phenomenal but brief success. Both have huge total distribution costs, but marginal costs seem low. One finances continued development and less profitable projects, the other is a windfall...
We need not trust ANY data. Even our own. Verify.
I understood. You redefined it as 'essentially without cost', which isn't quite right.
And this example is 'essentially fixed costs' for most situations, as both very small and very large distribution models have disproportionate costs per download. Very large providers may have to use CDNs, negotiated peer access, and face greater security risks. Smaller providers may have higher unit costs due to very small scale.
The perception that digital goods are 'essentially without costs' is a fallacy, still, and one that is both popular and convenient. Simplistic defence of that perception isn't entirely honest, and doesn't serve to fully understand the industry.
No, successive downloading of digital goods is not without cost. Servers must be maintained and connections as well. Security is an expense.
Such fallacies. Not thinking it through comes to this...
Non-rivalrous? Hmm. Not sure I agree.
My N7 2013 won't OTG. Bah.
If you would care to listen to Google, they explain plailn why they do not add SD slots to Nexus and Pixel devices.
They claim this leads to a 'consistent user experience' across the models.
You may disagree, but this is their reasoning.
Of course, when I argued over the Android browser defaulting to a mobile User Agent String back in the G-1 days, and Google claimed it was to ensure i had the best possible mobile browsing experience, I was being contrary when I pointed out I has purchased the first Android device precisely to enjoy the best possible browsing experience. By changing the User Agent String back from my attempt to set the desktop User Agent String, they denied me the best possible experience.
Their ultimate reasoning? I was using a lot of data. Yeah, I was basking in newly released 3G data. Sheesh.
Yes, Google does decide things...
No one buys pharmaceuticals for the pills, or sprays, or powders, ointments, whatever the physical product is. They buy and use them for the effects. The effects. The utility. Improved health, improved performance, whatever.
And no one buys software for the physical media, or downloaded data, the bits. They buy software for the effect. The utility, results.
This is a great fallacy with IP, trying to categorize it as somehow different form all other products. It is just another product, deserving of the same protections, but no more. Governable by the same methods as other products. Even some patented seeds risk reproduction, even accidentally, and so the IP involved being used and benefit gained by those who somehow (accidentally even?) are able to propagate and continue deriving value without purchasing new seed.
As the state often does, a thing is not regulated until it is practical for people to do it. then, all of a sudden, it becomes a problem to be solved. Vinyl records->reel-t-reel tape was not a big deal, more trouble than the masses would engage in. Vinyl->cassette, that was much easier, and boom, taxes. CDs, digital media, needed copy protection because it became trivial to copy them. Pharmaceuticals are still hard to copy, though many are based on plants etc found in nature, and those, surprise, are often heavily regulated. Software, easily duplicated both in distribution and design, is getting special treatment that is not needed. If the problem is that anonymity makes enforcement difficult or impossible, this has always been a problem.
IP is not different from pharmaceuticals. No, it is not.
Our legacy software we hoped would support SHA-256, which one of our processing platforms moved to 2 weeks ago. Nope, despite lukewarm assurances, it did not. Frantic migrations. Many upset users.
Over a 12+ year old app that has survived conversion from dialup to HTTPS to FTPS, moved through several processor changes, and finally the death begins. I expect other platforms to migrate off SHA-1/SHA-2 and kill this old beast dead.
A little more warning would be nice, but heh, we still would have had to leave it behind
And a deserved end to online poker.
And virtually every other online or Internet based game. AI will rule, and humans will only tolerate verifiable human opponents.
And then I got sleepy.
Mozilla thinks it's the judge? Snore.
From Wikipedia /a;
"The charter states that "our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious" and calls for the eventual creation of an Islamic state in Palestine, in place of Israel and the Palestinian Territories"
" It emphasizes the importance of jihad, stating in article 13, "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad."
"The charter also states that Hamas is humanistic, and tolerant of other religions as long as they "stop disputing the sovereignty of Islam in this region".[6] The Charter adds that "renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion" of Islam" - to be fair, this IS Islam.
"In 2010 Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal stated that the Charter is "a piece of history and no longer relevant, but cannot be changed for internal reasons."[14] Hamas has moved away from its charter since it decided to run candidates for office." - which could lead us to question if anything Hamas stated can be reliable.
How does it not have anything with them being Jews? Are you deliberately ignoring the plain language of the Arab states and Hamas?
If you cannot accept that, it is you who is deluded.
Ignoring the continued commitment of Arabs in the Middle East (worldwide, actually) to exterminate Jews certainly makes it easier to blame Israel exclusively. Even in 1948 the Arab world would have annihilated the Jewish populations in all middle eastern regions.
The creation of the modern Jewish state has been bloody. But when I consider the Arab treatment of those in Palestine, that is the great tragedy.
Not for some time. Certainly not since Trump has been campaigning for president.
Their most ardent supporters (and most others) neither require nor expect any such veneer. So many in the world support the goal of extending Jews, and Hamas is merely one of the tools to that end.
Any justification of limiting Israel in both keeping territory gained in the defense of their nation and on selling that land only serves their enemies, those committed not merely to defeating Israel but exterminating Jews worldwide.
Romney held no office, and did not mount any noticeable obstruction attempts or any sort.
Did you just include his name randomly?
Hamas needs no such excuses.