Posts by asdf 6570 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2007
>I have done the custom rom thing, and I just don't have the time to dick with all that.
Smartly done getting one of the few phones (Nexus 4) where you can largely go stock without immense pain. This doesn't apply to most but also the problem with 4.1+ stock android is the voice dialer doesn't work well without a data connection (supposedly due to Apple patent). Its one of the big reasons I put CM on the wife's (which does work well).
Somebody had to say it. This is what custom roms are for. Yes I know many don't want to root and potentially invalidate warranty (very easy to put back to stock if know what you are doing but many don't) but this is more proof how you virtually have to. Long live the modding and rom community.
>BSD development is light years behind Linux (while MS is mega parsecs behind them both) . Linux has a lot to choose from, both development and stable.
Yeah usually if want a good laugh go compare LAMP performance between the two. It used to be even worse. Still BSD has its place. OpenBSD is still the best OS out there for a internet facing router/firewall imho.
>The upshot of one or both of these things is instability and uncertainty over whether something that works today will work tomorrow when you apply those updates.
>I speak as a Linux user of 6 years. I quickly learned my lesson not to use it for anything important unless updates were banned.
Well quit being cheap dude and move from Fedora to RHEL. The stability increase will be worth it.
>Because the desktop is where business gets done !!!!
A whole lot of factories would disagree with you on that. Any business that isn't using a significant amount of automation to get its business done is probably some mom and pop consultant outfit in somebody's basement.
>Really? The camps have always been people who don't mind using Microsoft and those who refused to. Don't see either side worrying there. If you mean OEMs "being forced by MS" to ditch Linux, then you're missing the point that the OEMs lacked the balls to stand up to MS and the faith in anything else that they could survive without MS.
Yeah that is why they are a convicted monopolist that had to buy their way out of punishment (god bless W Bush coming in at just the right time for M$ as they may be the only entity that benefited having the village idiot in charge).
>Less competitive yes. Irrelevant? You've pulled an Eadon there :)
When was the last time a Microsoft product release disrupted a market? Irrelevant. Windows 8 is actually killing the PC market which is disruptive I suppose.
>Depends on what employers are using and, if they're an MS house, MS dying.
Funny I bet IBM mainframe people were saying the same thing in the mid to late 1980s.
>Fair enough, as long as you don't try to present FOSS as an automatic, universal solution.
I never did. I didn't come in here and automatically say FOSS is the only solution. This whole chain started with some AC above trying to claim FOSS was a bubble and fad and should be avoided. Plenty of Fortune 100 companies would disagree including some of the companies with largest internet infrastructure (Google, Amazon, FB, etc).
Don't like FOSS simple don't use it. In fact it's often not a good idea to integrate FOSS into your codebase because then you might have to consult lawyers later (which is true with microsoft somewhat too, look at the whole past WTL fiasco). You can't put the genie back in the bottle though and go back to the late 1990's where having only microsoft skills mattered. Many companies have figured out the best way to collaborate on a large project is through open source think Webkit, Hadoop, etc.
People may have once been worried about Microsoft limiting their computer choices but luckily that ship has sailed. Microsoft had done a very good job of making themselves irrelevant the last five plus years. At this point its a good idea to have some FOSS skills on the resume because the days of single vendor skills lasting your whole work career are long gone. There are sure alot of MCSE praying they can make it to retirement without having to ever show how worthless they are with the command line.
The biggest problem with AC is because it is impossible to check their post history and see either A). they created the account today and have one post (probably vested interest that googled and found the article) or B.) they are a disgruntled employee like Eadon who does have an axe to grind and so can be ignored. I am not saying FOSS is always the answer. In fact right now I am developing on Win7 using VS 2010 but also rely on FOSS tools like subversion which has the mission critical job of storing my companies most valuable asset (with very robust backups, etc of course). Some FOSS tends to much more appropriate for mission critical task like subversion or apache. I also am not some right wing jagoff who think a single person must own everything or the world will end (ie FOSS is dirty socialism).
Actually based on what you posted you obviously don't have the chops to actually run an enterprise IT department so you are getting everything second hand as rumors. Yes FOSS like all other software varies greatly in quality. That is why if you are incapable of doing due diligence you are better off sticking to one of the proprietary big boys you can try and sue when you fail. But then its easier to use FOSS because you don't have to ask your cheap boss to spend money and then when you encounter problems you can blame all FOSS there eh AC (seems most of Microsoft's PR misinformation dept is AC these days).
Wow I see the doomsday bunker crowd is starting to get worried about putting their life saving into gold bricks now the price isn't going up any more. Gold has one enormous drawback though. Its incredibly dense and heavy and like any physical thing it can be stolen so you have to worry about storing it safely (granted bitcoins can be stolen also physically if you store them plaintext like a dumbass or give your passcode away). I am not saying putting your life savings in bitcoin is smart either (i own none but do think the idea is kind of neat) but it is actually possible to carry 10 million dollars of bitcoins on your person right across an international checkpoint (AES-Twofish-Serpent triple encrypted good luck breaking that). If you are counting on society collapsing your best bet is not gold but weapons (can get you things even better than any currency), generators and canned foods anyway.
>the anonymity of purchase from point A to sale at point B would be an auditors nightmare with respect to laundering practice.
for tax evasion they will just focus on the weak point of the system and force the credit card/debit card makers to inform them of any charges to from any of the major exchanges. Granted that won't catch everything but probably the vast majority which is usually good enough for them.
Anybody that has ever worked in a university psychology department can you tell you the majority of them are closer to pseudo social "scientists" than real scientists. They do teach a special statistics class for the grad students but that is only so they can pretend to be worth the grant money and to keep from being sued.
Intel is a victim of its own success in many ways. You would be hard pressed to design an instruction set harder to put in a phone than the x86(and its many derivatives). If Intel who has more money than God and is always a generation ahead of everyone else in fab technology can't get x86 competitive with ARM in the mobile space then it may well not be possible.
At least netbooks had their day in the sun. Ultrabooks costing over a grand with crappy 1366x768 resolution were DOA. I personal moved to tablets after pissing away close to $400 on a POS Samsung NC10 that failed a few weeks after the short warranty expired due to a crappy video cable internal design flaw (hinges pinching cable). Many people didn't buy a second netbook after seeing how crappily built to fail the first generation was.
The big important people making these decisions (and many in the GOP) think reducing bonuses of those truly responsible by half a million dollars incurs the same pain as firing IT people until their salaries add up to half a million. That is if you are some big important person (ie sociopath with connections or better known as an executive) then you get your big bonus docked for screwing up. If you are some peon then you simply get shown the door.
Yeah our legal system is pretty much crap with the whole innocent until broke thing and the truth mattering a lot less than who has more money. I liked in Germany how they have a jury of judges who know the law instead of clueless peers. A jury of the general public means you are virtually guaranteed to get several regular TMZ (for UK readers think the Sun) viewers. Still I do like a handful of US laws that the UK doesn't have like the fair use provision of copyright.
>The courts are getting fed up with lawsuits as a business strategy? (I could barely type those words as it all seems so surreal
Yes the courts are getting clogged up and increased caseload for judges unlike lawyers doesn't increase their income. Pretty much anybody that doesn't get paid with billable legal hours sees how ludicrous the whole system is but the problem is most of the people who make the laws either do, did or may well in the future get paid for billable hours or have buddies that do.
>Why, because you're in a 'senior' position should you reign in your personal thoughts?
Its one thing if your "personal" thoughts have very little to do with your company but when they are directly related to your job and or company products and worse intermixed with your controversial opinion then of course bad things can happen.
>Can you lot please stop reposting this bullshit? Tours are used to drive album sales, not the other way around. The cost of touring sucks up most of the ticket sales with the lion's share of the profits going to the venues.
That may well be more true now that the artists can do more self publishing and the colluding recording cartel is a lot less powerful than it use to be. I do imagine these days artists get a fairer cut of album sales. This was not always true.
>And thousands of artists a huge fraction of theirs.
Artists only ever got a tiny cut on CD sales. They have always made their money mostly on tour (not sure about economics of boybands and Disney acts these days but you did say artists which they are not).
>Please don't get into a "$17 isn't FAAAAIIR" whinge.
Not saying its not fair just saying treating their customers like crap is more of reason than piracy why the music labels are fighting for survival with little goodwill left towards them. Not giving customers even the option of what they want legally (decent priced digital downloads which only came about because of Apple) tends to lead them towards obtaining what they want illegally. If the music industry had came out with something like iTunes around the year 2000 without draconian drm they would be in a heck of a lot better shape today.
Yep an industry that charges $17 for a CD in the late 1980s because they see lossless piracy coming and then whines about it and acts like they are surprised is pathetic. The worst is you would pay that for the two songs you cared about because that would be often the only way to get them. They then fought tooth and nail against having any kind of legal digital downloads. They loved new formats where you would have to rebuy your collection until digital came around.
>If 0.01% of the total buyers know there is another OS and want it, who are you to forbid them ?
The problem comes in when you tell suppliers selling phones/computers that they have to buy a license for every item they sell regardless of what the user wants.
>you will find insurgents climbing out of their holes to get some fresh air (I think).
Giving the CIA and Army, drones with hellfire missiles takes care of that and saves a lot of money in the process. Obviously though you need airpower but it didn't make a lot of sense giving them their own bureaucracy in 1947 and makes even less now. The Navy has always had better pilots anyway.
As a Yank hard to comment on her but I can tell you her kindred spirit old man in the US Reagan did some good but that was all negated by getting the trickle down your leg economics ball rolling which has done a whole lot to destroy our middle class today.
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