Short-term greed made them shoot their own Java foot, but that's how Oracle has always been and it at least got them "big" such that they won't fix habits that seem to usually work. But in their heyday they didn't have to deal much with OSS issues such that their big fat Greek lawyer approach may be obsolete. (Okay, they're not Greek.)
It seems little or no data was collected during a major portion of it's first orbit due to a software problem that escaped test,
Early in the mission, the engines failed fire to reduce the orbit size. Subsequent engine tests would interfere with and overlap with the optimum observation time point of the orbit so they had to choose between debugging the engine glitch OR observing Jupiter.
They decided to observe rather than tinker with the engine, in part because if the engine were bad, it could muck up the orbit further. Thus, the left the orbit larger than planned, and that's why they want more time to get the same number of close-passes as originally planned.
We got used to trains, buses, cars, and planes despite some wild and crazy doomsday predictions. CEO's who hype safety are mostly taken with a grain salt.
That's what I call "extreme libertarianism": repeal civilization and go back to "caveman" days, perhaps like Flintstones meet Mad Max. Their convention would be a hoot, that's for sure. I wonder if they piss in the hallway.
Using pre-mapped routes reduces the chance of problems and the nasty news that results. As kinks are worked out and trust (hopefully) grows, expanding to general routes could gradually follow.
[Existing taxis] will take you down neighborhood streets so narrow that you can reach the vending machines on the side of the road from inside the taxi.
Sounds like a good thing if you are hungry or thirsty while stuck in traffic. Although, something tells me it's illegal.
I suspect there's some sticky politics and/or national secrets connected to this story, and that's why more representatives didn't push for prosecution. It's as if those in the know in both parties don't want to open Pandora's box to the public. It's why pundits are loud but representatives relatively quiet.
One of the reasons OSS documentation is so crappy is because geeks often have a hard time putting themselves in the shoes of a regular user. It's one of the reasons why geek social skills are often not the sharpest tool in our kit.
Much of that is inconsistency with HTML5 events: both in terms of the spec but also the implementation.
I would suggest ditching direct reliance on HTML5 until they get the glitches out. Let other shmucks be the guinea pigs.
It took about 15 years to get pre-5 HTML (mostly) right, or at least predictable enough to work around its warts. I don't expect 5 will be significantly quicker.
People fear keeping up with the Joneses so much that they follow the Joneses off cliffs. There's a reason I kick the Joneses off my lawn...and the Kardashians.
The reason it gained market share was aggressive adherence to standards
Hogwash, consumers don't know standards from a hole in the wall. (Plus, many of the standards are ambiguous and confusing. The standards bodies are shitty writers. Their "reason" for deprecating "b" tag is some of the worse {intended} technical writing I have ever seen.)
the idea of "paying" for software makes me, well, not quite giddy
OSS stuff can "break" also. OSS's lousy UI's are often a big source of problems & confusion. As much as I despise MS, their UI's are on average slightly better than OSS competitors, probably because they actually test them with real people. OSS should admit it usually sucks when it comes to UI's.
Something needs to be done about the "giant menu tree of options". It's outgrown it's day. Put all the options into a relational-like system along with synonyms and synopsis's and make them more naturally searchable, almost in a Google sense. Still have tree-menus, fine, but don't make them the only navigation mechanism.
It would be difficult to sneak such non-military spying into the US budget without budget hawks taking notice. Since China's system is closed and has very few actual checks-and-balances, they can do that without it showing up in the open.
Now it may be possible for the US military to disguise non-military spying as military-related, but doing it heavily or for long periods is fairly likely to eventually be exposed. If your budget is for X but you keep doing Y instead, you are committing fraud by US law and at least some political entities will make it a public issue. Political competition is (usually) a good thing.
There's lots of similar scams. Generic repair shops couldn't fix our dealer-installed car alarm because the car manufacturer charges an arm and leg for the diagnostic software, which is too expensive for most shops. It's probably cheaper to have one installed from scratch.
We had a similar situation with our refrigerator. A repair shop has to deal with many brands, and purchasing diagnostic software from the manufacturer is too expensive for many of them*. If you repair say 15 brands, you have to purchase/rent diagnostic software from 15 manufactures, who love to jack up the price. This makes it so you have to call the manufacturer's OWN service, which is expensive.
If I suggest laws to reduce that kind of stuff, one will call me a "socialist", but if capitalists play games to avoid competition, then capitalism grows just as wasteful and noncompetitive as gov't. Throwing away otherwise perfectly good things because software games jack up the prices is bigly shameful, both from an environmental standpoint, and a consumer wallet standpoint.
That's not capitalism, that's crony capitalism. Saving $200 in tax but paying $800 the same year in repair costs for car, fridge, etc. repairs, or having to toss and buy new does not seem logical, Captain.
* The fridge has embedded chips that take readings from all the sensors and adjusts fans and temperature based on the readings. It's hard to diagnose many problems without dealing with the control software. A fridge doesn't require rocket science, but if you make it need rocket science, you can charge rocket prices to repair it.
I have a relative who fell for a "free Microsoft service" scam. (No cam here.) The family eventually had to lock their credit and bunches of other headaches because of stolen personal info.
He fell for it for two reasons. First, he's up there in age and not so clear-thinking these days. Second, he's a cheap-skate and didn't want to pay for real service. The idea of "free" always made him giddy, even before his marbles started slipping away.
That there are other problems, I won't disagree, but if a gov't interferes in non-military commercial endeavors, then the competition of capitalism is damaged and cannot be used to measure and compare companies. It's like referees biasing sports games.
China is not going to be 'guilted' into changing its behavior,
Maybe tariffs will help persuade them.
from the standard bullying tactics the US
Just about every country does or have used tariffs. Does that make everyone a "bully"?
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My real name is Micro Soft. (Getting dates with that name is not easy.)
Well, they perfected the first half.
Non-sterile neutrinos reproduce like Schrodinger Rabbits, or not.
I don't believe they know the exact cause such that assigning blame is premature. As I mentioned, further testing would have risked data collection.
Couple of typo corrections of mine:
the engines failed to fire to reduce the orbit size...
Thus, they left the orbit larger...
Short-term greed made them shoot their own Java foot, but that's how Oracle has always been and it at least got them "big" such that they won't fix habits that seem to usually work. But in their heyday they didn't have to deal much with OSS issues such that their big fat Greek lawyer approach may be obsolete. (Okay, they're not Greek.)
Early in the mission, the engines failed fire to reduce the orbit size. Subsequent engine tests would interfere with and overlap with the optimum observation time point of the orbit so they had to choose between debugging the engine glitch OR observing Jupiter.
They decided to observe rather than tinker with the engine, in part because if the engine were bad, it could muck up the orbit further. Thus, the left the orbit larger than planned, and that's why they want more time to get the same number of close-passes as originally planned.
In related news, Oracle is changing its name to "Cuddly Bunny".
and has 50 security holes
We got used to trains, buses, cars, and planes despite some wild and crazy doomsday predictions. CEO's who hype safety are mostly taken with a grain salt.
That's what I call "extreme libertarianism": repeal civilization and go back to "caveman" days, perhaps like Flintstones meet Mad Max. Their convention would be a hoot, that's for sure. I wonder if they piss in the hallway.
This should be the way all self-driving vehicle systems start out. Many co's are byting off more than they can chew. Bot-Goes-Wrong stories often grow to big news these days, partly out of automation anxiety.
Using pre-mapped routes reduces the chance of problems and the nasty news that results. As kinks are worked out and trust (hopefully) grows, expanding to general routes could gradually follow.
Sounds like a good thing if you are hungry or thirsty while stuck in traffic. Although, something tells me it's illegal.
Both parties are for snooping on others but not themselves. Politicians are flip-floppers who reflect absent-minded voters.
I suspect there's some sticky politics and/or national secrets connected to this story, and that's why more representatives didn't push for prosecution. It's as if those in the know in both parties don't want to open Pandora's box to the public. It's why pundits are loud but representatives relatively quiet.
We bought used from a relative; it was otherwise a good deal.
I believe software central control is standard practice now, even on the low-end. Chipification is the trend.
One of the reasons OSS documentation is so crappy is because geeks often have a hard time putting themselves in the shoes of a regular user. It's one of the reasons why geek social skills are often not the sharpest tool in our kit.
I would suggest ditching direct reliance on HTML5 until they get the glitches out. Let other shmucks be the guinea pigs.
It took about 15 years to get pre-5 HTML (mostly) right, or at least predictable enough to work around its warts. I don't expect 5 will be significantly quicker.
People fear keeping up with the Joneses so much that they follow the Joneses off cliffs. There's a reason I kick the Joneses off my lawn...and the Kardashians.
Hogwash, consumers don't know standards from a hole in the wall. (Plus, many of the standards are ambiguous and confusing. The standards bodies are shitty writers. Their "reason" for deprecating "b" tag is some of the worse {intended} technical writing I have ever seen.)
Yes, human flesh feeds the robots' metabolism.
OSS stuff can "break" also. OSS's lousy UI's are often a big source of problems & confusion. As much as I despise MS, their UI's are on average slightly better than OSS competitors, probably because they actually test them with real people. OSS should admit it usually sucks when it comes to UI's.
Something needs to be done about the "giant menu tree of options". It's outgrown it's day. Put all the options into a relational-like system along with synonyms and synopsis's and make them more naturally searchable, almost in a Google sense. Still have tree-menus, fine, but don't make them the only navigation mechanism.
It would be difficult to sneak such non-military spying into the US budget without budget hawks taking notice. Since China's system is closed and has very few actual checks-and-balances, they can do that without it showing up in the open.
Now it may be possible for the US military to disguise non-military spying as military-related, but doing it heavily or for long periods is fairly likely to eventually be exposed. If your budget is for X but you keep doing Y instead, you are committing fraud by US law and at least some political entities will make it a public issue. Political competition is (usually) a good thing.
There's lots of similar scams. Generic repair shops couldn't fix our dealer-installed car alarm because the car manufacturer charges an arm and leg for the diagnostic software, which is too expensive for most shops. It's probably cheaper to have one installed from scratch.
We had a similar situation with our refrigerator. A repair shop has to deal with many brands, and purchasing diagnostic software from the manufacturer is too expensive for many of them*. If you repair say 15 brands, you have to purchase/rent diagnostic software from 15 manufactures, who love to jack up the price. This makes it so you have to call the manufacturer's OWN service, which is expensive.
If I suggest laws to reduce that kind of stuff, one will call me a "socialist", but if capitalists play games to avoid competition, then capitalism grows just as wasteful and noncompetitive as gov't. Throwing away otherwise perfectly good things because software games jack up the prices is bigly shameful, both from an environmental standpoint, and a consumer wallet standpoint.
That's not capitalism, that's crony capitalism. Saving $200 in tax but paying $800 the same year in repair costs for car, fridge, etc. repairs, or having to toss and buy new does not seem logical, Captain.
* The fridge has embedded chips that take readings from all the sensors and adjusts fans and temperature based on the readings. It's hard to diagnose many problems without dealing with the control software. A fridge doesn't require rocket science, but if you make it need rocket science, you can charge rocket prices to repair it.
I have a relative who fell for a "free Microsoft service" scam. (No cam here.) The family eventually had to lock their credit and bunches of other headaches because of stolen personal info.
He fell for it for two reasons. First, he's up there in age and not so clear-thinking these days. Second, he's a cheap-skate and didn't want to pay for real service. The idea of "free" always made him giddy, even before his marbles started slipping away.
Not necessarily, they just cancelled early because of politics.
Did anybody find a point in there? I didn't.
That there are other problems, I won't disagree, but if a gov't interferes in non-military commercial endeavors, then the competition of capitalism is damaged and cannot be used to measure and compare companies. It's like referees biasing sports games.
Maybe tariffs will help persuade them.
Just about every country does or have used tariffs. Does that make everyone a "bully"?