but I'm pretty sure this move won't make Oracle any happier
I'm pretty sure Oracle couldn't care less if RedHat uses MySQL or MariaDB since it doesn't benefit greatly from either. Oracle would much rather have everyone using Oracle DB since that is where they put most of their development and support efforts and that is what makes them their money. I don't think Oracle would even continue to offer MySQL support if they weren't ordered to do so under the conditions of their buyout of Sun.
We will be upgrading some of the workstations in our ops center in the future and some of those workstations have three monitors on them. If I had to hop across three monitors every time I need to get to the app's menu under the new unified Gnome menu, I would probably be throwing things across the room in a very short period of time.
Video games, especially first person shooters, definitely increase your situational awareness. In those games, you often have to identify multiple simultaneous threats, prioritize them, and strategize how to neutralize them all with split-second precision. While that process may require analyzing more of the visual field faster than the average person, as this study seems to show, I think there is a lot more higher-order processing going on to prioritize the threats and neutralize them.
With that said, I see a lot of comments that claim that video games aren't realistic enough for these skills to translate into real-world advantages and I have to highly disagree. Regardless of the realism of the weapons or the play mechanics, the increased situational awareness can be drastically advantageous in situations such as traffic accidents involving multiple vehicles, since a gamer would be able to analyze the new trajectories of all of the vehicles and have a better ability to steer around them. A non-gamer in that situation would not only be less likely to find a safe path through the colliding vehicles, but they would also be more likely to be overwhelmed by the situation and freeze or simply slam the brakes and hope for the best. The point is that regardless of the realism of the simulation, training your brain to handle multiple simultaneous moving threats will still provide an advantage over someone with no training.
In addition to all of the good comments posted above, it is still possible to make calls and send text messages legally through bluetooth headsets, car synchronization systems, etc. And there is currently no way to prove you were using the headset/sync system during the time of the crash which means that there would be strong evidence that you were doing something illegal and weak/non-existent evidence that you were doing it legally.
But as far as I'm aware there's still another platform that offers far higher technical capability
You can buy a PC with a CPU and GPU tightly integrated with 8GB DDR5 RAM and a Windows license for $400 today? Where can I get one?
zero DRM
PC games have some of the nastiest DRM of any software. I'd rather buy a locked-down console to play games rather than install games that try to take control of my PC.
Call me back when the PS4 gets all that, too.
Call me back when I can get a PC in which I can play used games. Or you can call me when I can hook up a PC to my living room television and upgrade the OS, firmware, drivers, and games with a proper ten-foot interface and not require fiddling around with a mouse and keyboard trying to get everything up to date.
I'm not trying to say that consoles are better than PCs, but don't you try to tell me that there's no reason to own a console.
So this means that if I want to buy one of the next-gen consoles, I need to end my 15 year boycott of Sony products. Microsoft: you know you're really fucking up when you make Sony look like the good guys.
The XBMC interface is the nicest interface I have used for any media device. That ribbon interface that you mock allows you to focus on the task at hand instead of polluting the screen with irrelevant options. When it comes to desktop computing, I want all of the options on the screen at once, but when I'm operating a specialized device such as a media center, the interface should be clean, well-organized, and focused. There are plenty of examples of bad interfaces in open source, but XBMC is certainly not one of them.
A new xBox was launched on May 21. Unfortunately, like all digital markets, gaming is moving increasingly mobile, and consoles show all the signs of going the way of desktop computers
This guy clearly has no idea what he is talking about. First of all, the new XBox was announced on May 21, not launched. Secondly, yes mobile gaming is increasing due to the popularity of smartphones and tablets, but true gamers aren't going to be flocking to play a new Call of Duty on their smartphone. The next generation of consoles may not sell as well as the last generation of consoles, but that doesn't mean that the new XBox is doomed. If anything, it's possible that Microsoft may be able to gain ground in the console market since the Wii U is doing so poorly.
xBox might have had a future as an enterprise networking hub, but so far Kinnect has not even been marketed as a tool for business, and it has not yet incorporated the full network functionality (such as Skype) necessary to succeed at creating a new market against competitors like Cisco.
Microsoft has clearly stated that Skype will be heavily integrated into the new XBox and this will be their attempt to gain traction in that market. I imagine if it gains the traction they're hoping for, then expanding a PC version of Kinect with Skype functionality would certainly be possible, especially due to the network effect and Microsoft has already stated their intention on doing exactly that.
Thankfully, after more than a decade losing money, xBox reached break-even recently. However, its margins are only 15%, compared with historical Microsoft margins of 60% in “core” products.
There are very few companies that can claim margins of 60% on their core products. And 15% margins aren't terribly bad.
As consumers, suppliers and investors, we like the idea of a near-monopoly
Speak for yourself! The only group of people that might like a near-monopoly in software platforms are software developers since it would require porting their software to fewer platforms, but as a consumer I absolutely want choice and not a "near-monopoly".
Look, I'm not trying to say that the future looks completely positive for Microsoft. They are certainly facing their share of steep, uphill battles and they've done everything possible to put themselves in that position. But things are far from settled in the computing market and despite the fact that they face increasing competition, they're not completely out of the game yet. The upcoming Haswell processors from Intel will allow tablets running a full version of Windows to compete better against ARM-based tablets that run alternative OSes with apps of limited functionality. And an increase in tablet sales with Windows 8 could spur more interest in smartphones with Windows Phone 8 due to their similarities. Sure, that's a lot of "ifs" and I'm certainly no fan of Microsoft, but I don't think they're as screwed as this article is making them out to be.
My friend knew beforehand that the code was four digits long and there were four worn keys, therefore it was highly unlikely that any of the digits were repeated.
My friend had a keypad on his garage door opener with a four-digit code. One day he invited me and another friend over, but he didn't answer the door when we got there. Calling his house line also proved futile. We figured he fell asleep before we got there (which turned out to be the case). However, while we were waiting, the friend who was stuck outside with me started punching numbers on the garage keypad. I tried telling him that there were 10,000 possible combinations, but that didn't dissuade him. After a few seconds, the garage door opened up. I asked him how he knew the code and he pointed out that four of the numbers on the keypad were very worn. I did the math and realized that his observation took the number of possible combinations from 10,000 to 24! The point is, be careful with those keypads and change the numbers periodically if possible.
As an artist with songs available for download, let me be the first to say that iTunes is skeevy - very skeevy. Apple makes it very difficult to sell your music on iTunes. To start, you have to have a working Mac capable of running the latest OS version, at least 20 albums in your catalog, UPCs/EANs/JANs for all products you intend to distribute, ISRCs for all tracks you intend to distribute, a U.S. Tax ID, and a valid iTunes Store account with a credit card on file. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if I received a copyright violation from them just for copying that list of data off of their web site. In addition to that, the artist receives absolutely no money until they "meet payment requirements and earning thresholds in each territory".
As a result of this, many indie artists have to hire third parties to post their content on iTunes. Most of those third parties don't pay out until the sales of your products reach their own thresholds. To make things even worse, artists have no way to verify that the sales figures reported by the third parties are accurate, so it is relatively easy for them to get away with under-reporting sales of your albums and underpaying you.
For all these reasons, and many more, my band has said "fuck you" to Apple and instead we direct fans to our merch on CDBaby and BandCamp. Not only that, but those sites do more to refer new listeners to our products than Apple does for any small-time band.
Forgot to mention the most important point: if I am upset because I can't buy or sell used games nor lend or borrow them, then why would I switch to a platform that has absolutely no potential to do so?
why not vote with your dollars and return to PC gaming?
Because I:
- Don't run Windows
- Don't want to deal with Windows Activation
- Don't want to deal with Windows Update
- Don't want to fiddle with buggy drivers
- Don't want my computer to be affected by every game's brand of invasive DRM
- Do want to play on my big-screen TV using a proper 10-foot interface
- Do want to play games that aren't being released on the PC
I'm not trying to say that that everyone should play console games over PC games, but there are legitimate reasons why some people prefer consoles over gaming PCs and vice-versa.
[...] it also possesses a low-power standby mode, allowing Xbox Live and game updates to be pushed to the Xbox One overnight â" or whenever the box knows your usage is lowest â" without keeping the console all the way on. (Donâ(TM)t worry; you can still play a single-player game without being connected to the Internet.)
No thanks! I lost my savepoint in a difficult level of Call of Duty: World at War on Veteran due to a game upgrade. Now, if I have any savepoints, I don't allow the game to update until I have beaten the game. Even if they had an option to disable this feature, I still probably won't buy the console because the first software update would likely set this option back to enabled in typical Microsoft fashion.
So it outsold the 7-series (top end full-size full-luxury sedan), the S-class (top end full-size full-luxury sedan) and the Audi A8 (full-size full-luxury sedan), which even BMW, Mercedes, and Audi would admit make up a small fraction of their overall sales, and this is a win?
The Model S is a top-end full-size full-luxury sedan. It makes complete sense to compare it to the top-end full-size full-luxury sedans of the incumbent manufacturers.
When you outsell the 5-series, the E-class, and the Audi A6, then you'll have something to talk about, as all three manufacturers sell an order of magnitude more of those.
The fact that they were able to outsell any manufacturers in any series during their first attempt at a car in this class still says a lot. Given that this is their second success (the first being the Roadster), and that each success is building on the last, I think that the future of Tesla Motors is very bright and judging by the stock price, so do many others.
Support the candidate you believe in with your mouth and with your vote. As soon as you bring money into the picture, you are introducing corruption that violates the purpose of democratic elections in the first place.
I really don't understand why we still allow campaign contributions to specific politicians
I really don't understand why we still allow campaign contributions to anyone. You are right in that this is the biggest issue in this country right now because the effect of this is the complete subversion of the democratic process - politicians are creating laws that favor a minority of special interest groups at the detriment of all of the citizens those "public servants" are supposed to represent. This systemic form of bribery taints the vote of every piece of legislation that comes up which is why changing this needs to be our top priority. However, it is not an easy problem to solve since the only way to end private campaign contributions is to pass new legislation, which can only be done by politicians who have won and continue to win elections thanks to private campaign contributions. At this point, I think the only peaceful way to force this change is either directly through the use of a referendum or indirectly via a petition that a majority of the people sign that promises to vote out the current politicians unless they pass legislation that bans all forms of private campaign contributions. For the latter, you could either vote for the "other guy" during the election or vote out the current politician during the primary. One thing is for certain, though: they aren't going to fix this without extreme pressure from the voters.
Those ignoring or making fun of it don't care about their
descendants
This is slashdot! In order for us to have descendants, we'd have to be able to find women willing to procreate with us. Solving that problem would be much harder than solving the global warming issue itself.
Would it allow users to install multiple versions of the same application from packages? One of my gripes with Linux is that it's not easy to test new or beta versions of software since there is no easy way to install from packages alongside the existing (stable) version. Yes, I know that I could build the app from source, but that can be quite a hassle sometimes.
Your example of bluffing is NOT fraud because you are fooling humans. It's alright to fool humans, but you had better not fool a machine! This guy fooled a machine to get more money than he deserved and the fault lies solely with him - not with the negligent developers of the firmware, not with the negligent testers of the machines, and not with the casinos who put them out on their floor. We can't expect people to do their jobs or to pay for the consequences of their own mistakes.
I fully agree. The concepts of free markets and communism are both ideological extremes that are only viable in fantasy worlds. The difference is that most Americans realize communism is a fantasy while many Americans feel that a completely free market is not only sustainable, but the best option given all of the options within the spectrum between communism and free-market capitalism.
But this entire public good argument is horseshit.
So how is it good for the public to let Verizon and/or AT&T bid on this spectrum considering they already own quite a bit of the spectrum? The more spectrum that they own, the less spectrum available for competitors. Hell, they could buy up spectrum they have no intention of using just to prevent competitors from offering comparable services and risk losing customers. And since Verizon and AT&T have more assets than most of their existing competition, they could easily outbid the competition. All of these factors favor Verizon and AT&T at the detriment of the rest of society. At first glance, I was slightly taken aback by the idea of such a heavy-handed tactic by our government, but after more consideration, the alternative seems worse.
Any other excuse for not hiring them is a smokescreen, or worse, an attempt to stigmatize them to drive down the price that their experience can command.
That's not necessarily true. Not everyone needs a developer of the highest caliber - sometimes a junior or mid-level developer will suit your needs, not to mention your budget, perfectly. Another issue with older workers is that those higher incomes they demand could be as much as two to three times that of your junior/mid-level developers. That's not to say that they shouldn't be hired, but it's something to think about as your income goes up. There's nothing wrong with demanding two to three times the income level of others, but you should be damn sure you can justify that cost to potential employers, especially employers with tight budgets.
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I'm pretty sure Oracle couldn't care less if RedHat uses MySQL or MariaDB since it doesn't benefit greatly from either. Oracle would much rather have everyone using Oracle DB since that is where they put most of their development and support efforts and that is what makes them their money. I don't think Oracle would even continue to offer MySQL support if they weren't ordered to do so under the conditions of their buyout of Sun.
Maybe it's just a Unity thing and not a Gnome 3 thing. I tend to just lump them together under the "things I don't want" category.
We will be upgrading some of the workstations in our ops center in the future and some of those workstations have three monitors on them. If I had to hop across three monitors every time I need to get to the app's menu under the new unified Gnome menu, I would probably be throwing things across the room in a very short period of time.
Video games, especially first person shooters, definitely increase your situational awareness. In those games, you often have to identify multiple simultaneous threats, prioritize them, and strategize how to neutralize them all with split-second precision. While that process may require analyzing more of the visual field faster than the average person, as this study seems to show, I think there is a lot more higher-order processing going on to prioritize the threats and neutralize them.
With that said, I see a lot of comments that claim that video games aren't realistic enough for these skills to translate into real-world advantages and I have to highly disagree. Regardless of the realism of the weapons or the play mechanics, the increased situational awareness can be drastically advantageous in situations such as traffic accidents involving multiple vehicles, since a gamer would be able to analyze the new trajectories of all of the vehicles and have a better ability to steer around them. A non-gamer in that situation would not only be less likely to find a safe path through the colliding vehicles, but they would also be more likely to be overwhelmed by the situation and freeze or simply slam the brakes and hope for the best. The point is that regardless of the realism of the simulation, training your brain to handle multiple simultaneous moving threats will still provide an advantage over someone with no training.
In addition to all of the good comments posted above, it is still possible to make calls and send text messages legally through bluetooth headsets, car synchronization systems, etc. And there is currently no way to prove you were using the headset/sync system during the time of the crash which means that there would be strong evidence that you were doing something illegal and weak/non-existent evidence that you were doing it legally.
You can buy a PC with a CPU and GPU tightly integrated with 8GB DDR5 RAM and a Windows license for $400 today? Where can I get one?
PC games have some of the nastiest DRM of any software. I'd rather buy a locked-down console to play games rather than install games that try to take control of my PC.
Call me back when I can get a PC in which I can play used games. Or you can call me when I can hook up a PC to my living room television and upgrade the OS, firmware, drivers, and games with a proper ten-foot interface and not require fiddling around with a mouse and keyboard trying to get everything up to date.
I'm not trying to say that consoles are better than PCs, but don't you try to tell me that there's no reason to own a console.
So this means that if I want to buy one of the next-gen consoles, I need to end my 15 year boycott of Sony products. Microsoft: you know you're really fucking up when you make Sony look like the good guys.
The XBMC interface is the nicest interface I have used for any media device. That ribbon interface that you mock allows you to focus on the task at hand instead of polluting the screen with irrelevant options. When it comes to desktop computing, I want all of the options on the screen at once, but when I'm operating a specialized device such as a media center, the interface should be clean, well-organized, and focused. There are plenty of examples of bad interfaces in open source, but XBMC is certainly not one of them.
This guy clearly has no idea what he is talking about. First of all, the new XBox was announced on May 21, not launched. Secondly, yes mobile gaming is increasing due to the popularity of smartphones and tablets, but true gamers aren't going to be flocking to play a new Call of Duty on their smartphone. The next generation of consoles may not sell as well as the last generation of consoles, but that doesn't mean that the new XBox is doomed. If anything, it's possible that Microsoft may be able to gain ground in the console market since the Wii U is doing so poorly.
Microsoft has clearly stated that Skype will be heavily integrated into the new XBox and this will be their attempt to gain traction in that market. I imagine if it gains the traction they're hoping for, then expanding a PC version of Kinect with Skype functionality would certainly be possible, especially due to the network effect and Microsoft has already stated their intention on doing exactly that.
There are very few companies that can claim margins of 60% on their core products. And 15% margins aren't terribly bad.
Speak for yourself! The only group of people that might like a near-monopoly in software platforms are software developers since it would require porting their software to fewer platforms, but as a consumer I absolutely want choice and not a "near-monopoly".
Look, I'm not trying to say that the future looks completely positive for Microsoft. They are certainly facing their share of steep, uphill battles and they've done everything possible to put themselves in that position. But things are far from settled in the computing market and despite the fact that they face increasing competition, they're not completely out of the game yet. The upcoming Haswell processors from Intel will allow tablets running a full version of Windows to compete better against ARM-based tablets that run alternative OSes with apps of limited functionality. And an increase in tablet sales with Windows 8 could spur more interest in smartphones with Windows Phone 8 due to their similarities. Sure, that's a lot of "ifs" and I'm certainly no fan of Microsoft, but I don't think they're as screwed as this article is making them out to be.
My friend knew beforehand that the code was four digits long and there were four worn keys, therefore it was highly unlikely that any of the digits were repeated.
My friend had a keypad on his garage door opener with a four-digit code. One day he invited me and another friend over, but he didn't answer the door when we got there. Calling his house line also proved futile. We figured he fell asleep before we got there (which turned out to be the case). However, while we were waiting, the friend who was stuck outside with me started punching numbers on the garage keypad. I tried telling him that there were 10,000 possible combinations, but that didn't dissuade him. After a few seconds, the garage door opened up. I asked him how he knew the code and he pointed out that four of the numbers on the keypad were very worn. I did the math and realized that his observation took the number of possible combinations from 10,000 to 24! The point is, be careful with those keypads and change the numbers periodically if possible.
As an artist with songs available for download, let me be the first to say that iTunes is skeevy - very skeevy. Apple makes it very difficult to sell your music on iTunes. To start, you have to have a working Mac capable of running the latest OS version, at least 20 albums in your catalog, UPCs/EANs/JANs for all products you intend to distribute, ISRCs for all tracks you intend to distribute, a U.S. Tax ID, and a valid iTunes Store account with a credit card on file. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if I received a copyright violation from them just for copying that list of data off of their web site. In addition to that, the artist receives absolutely no money until they "meet payment requirements and earning thresholds in each territory".
As a result of this, many indie artists have to hire third parties to post their content on iTunes. Most of those third parties don't pay out until the sales of your products reach their own thresholds. To make things even worse, artists have no way to verify that the sales figures reported by the third parties are accurate, so it is relatively easy for them to get away with under-reporting sales of your albums and underpaying you.
For all these reasons, and many more, my band has said "fuck you" to Apple and instead we direct fans to our merch on CDBaby and BandCamp. Not only that, but those sites do more to refer new listeners to our products than Apple does for any small-time band.
Forgot to mention the most important point: if I am upset because I can't buy or sell used games nor lend or borrow them, then why would I switch to a platform that has absolutely no potential to do so?
Because I:
- Don't run Windows
- Don't want to deal with Windows Activation
- Don't want to deal with Windows Update
- Don't want to fiddle with buggy drivers
- Don't want my computer to be affected by every game's brand of invasive DRM
- Do want to play on my big-screen TV using a proper 10-foot interface
- Do want to play games that aren't being released on the PC
I'm not trying to say that that everyone should play console games over PC games, but there are legitimate reasons why some people prefer consoles over gaming PCs and vice-versa.
No thanks! I lost my savepoint in a difficult level of Call of Duty: World at War on Veteran due to a game upgrade. Now, if I have any savepoints, I don't allow the game to update until I have beaten the game. Even if they had an option to disable this feature, I still probably won't buy the console because the first software update would likely set this option back to enabled in typical Microsoft fashion.
The Model S is a top-end full-size full-luxury sedan. It makes complete sense to compare it to the top-end full-size full-luxury sedans of the incumbent manufacturers.
The fact that they were able to outsell any manufacturers in any series during their first attempt at a car in this class still says a lot. Given that this is their second success (the first being the Roadster), and that each success is building on the last, I think that the future of Tesla Motors is very bright and judging by the stock price, so do many others.
Support the candidate you believe in with your mouth and with your vote. As soon as you bring money into the picture, you are introducing corruption that violates the purpose of democratic elections in the first place.
I really don't understand why we still allow campaign contributions to anyone. You are right in that this is the biggest issue in this country right now because the effect of this is the complete subversion of the democratic process - politicians are creating laws that favor a minority of special interest groups at the detriment of all of the citizens those "public servants" are supposed to represent. This systemic form of bribery taints the vote of every piece of legislation that comes up which is why changing this needs to be our top priority. However, it is not an easy problem to solve since the only way to end private campaign contributions is to pass new legislation, which can only be done by politicians who have won and continue to win elections thanks to private campaign contributions. At this point, I think the only peaceful way to force this change is either directly through the use of a referendum or indirectly via a petition that a majority of the people sign that promises to vote out the current politicians unless they pass legislation that bans all forms of private campaign contributions. For the latter, you could either vote for the "other guy" during the election or vote out the current politician during the primary. One thing is for certain, though: they aren't going to fix this without extreme pressure from the voters.
This is slashdot! In order for us to have descendants, we'd have to be able to find women willing to procreate with us. Solving that problem would be much harder than solving the global warming issue itself.
Would it allow users to install multiple versions of the same application from packages? One of my gripes with Linux is that it's not easy to test new or beta versions of software since there is no easy way to install from packages alongside the existing (stable) version. Yes, I know that I could build the app from source, but that can be quite a hassle sometimes.
"Casino error in your favor. Go directly to jail"
Your example of bluffing is NOT fraud because you are fooling humans. It's alright to fool humans, but you had better not fool a machine! This guy fooled a machine to get more money than he deserved and the fault lies solely with him - not with the negligent developers of the firmware, not with the negligent testers of the machines, and not with the casinos who put them out on their floor. We can't expect people to do their jobs or to pay for the consequences of their own mistakes.
I fully agree. The concepts of free markets and communism are both ideological extremes that are only viable in fantasy worlds. The difference is that most Americans realize communism is a fantasy while many Americans feel that a completely free market is not only sustainable, but the best option given all of the options within the spectrum between communism and free-market capitalism.
So how is it good for the public to let Verizon and/or AT&T bid on this spectrum considering they already own quite a bit of the spectrum? The more spectrum that they own, the less spectrum available for competitors. Hell, they could buy up spectrum they have no intention of using just to prevent competitors from offering comparable services and risk losing customers. And since Verizon and AT&T have more assets than most of their existing competition, they could easily outbid the competition. All of these factors favor Verizon and AT&T at the detriment of the rest of society. At first glance, I was slightly taken aback by the idea of such a heavy-handed tactic by our government, but after more consideration, the alternative seems worse.
That's not necessarily true. Not everyone needs a developer of the highest caliber - sometimes a junior or mid-level developer will suit your needs, not to mention your budget, perfectly. Another issue with older workers is that those higher incomes they demand could be as much as two to three times that of your junior/mid-level developers. That's not to say that they shouldn't be hired, but it's something to think about as your income goes up. There's nothing wrong with demanding two to three times the income level of others, but you should be damn sure you can justify that cost to potential employers, especially employers with tight budgets.