Being how the Russians with some other countries have militarized the internet, causing other countries to fight back, I could see this as an opportunity to update all the equipment as to stop foreign attacks on them, as well disconnect any attacks in progress.
Science based reporting to the public is flawed. There is a big gap from the raw data, to the over simplified and often inaccurate general use "Science is Cool! Really it is!" reports.
Part of the problem is general news sites target people with an 8th grade education. Why 8th grade? Because after 8th grade students will tend to focus more on particular tracks of study. So in depth or more advanced explanations is often over most of the populations head, (even those with PHD because they will probably have a PHD in an other area of study).
The other part of the problem, is there is a vocal group of people who are disenfranchised with science. This can happen from many directions. People who were taught to trust science, only to show it was harmful. (kids playing the DDT Cloud)
People not adapting to changes in the scientific strongest theories. The 1970's because of the smog that was blocking sunlight, there was a prediction of the earth cooling. Then after smog controls were enacted now we have global warming. To some this is Science being wrong again! However Smog does cause the weather to be cooler, as shown from the Beijing Olympics, where the temperature has risen, because they stopped all the smog for the events.
The conspiracy from scientists idea. It seems being a scientist, you are targeted to be part of some sort of grand conspiracy, either by those people who want to take your cars away, or by the corporations who just want to pollute the world for quarterly profit rises. (I kinda wish, I went into climate science, just so I can get paid the big hush money bucks!)...
So we need to appeal to these people and not cause them to freak out as well.
We were more patient then. Loading a page back in the 1990's a 1 minute wait for the page to load was considered acceptable. Also we had screens closer to 640x480 so such gif files were smaller,
This was a 90's style page, but not for a professional site, it looks like a armature built geocities page. The professional pages back then, were actually much better made. They were mostly styled off magazines, and news print.
Some of the biggest issues, was the lack of Anti-Aliasing text, speed of downloading,
The Simulated Empathy and Compassion just stops you from feeling bad. The Real Empathy and Compassion will help you feel good.
Empathy and Compassion, the real ones, is earned or given and when received it feels good. The type from Computers, basically is simulated at to not insult the user, and prevent them from feeling bad.
However I don't feel that Video Games gives Empathy and Compassion, but it gives them empowerment.
This 19.3% of the population, is mainly busy with making sure there is food on your plate, fuel for your car, heat in your home, and lumber for your building. While these people may have a lot of money in assets, they themselves do not have a lot of money, unable to timely go to stores due to distance and their working schedules, the Internet for shopping is important to them. Increasing fees will only hurt this group of people, who makes services that we need.
Yes these people are mostly Republican Trump Supporters. However they are still the backbone to our country, and we shouldn't try to be Cruel to them, just because they may disagree with our views and sensibilities.
That seems reasonable. Of course this is an AC Post. There are times where a Company will say No, to what seems like a good deal, because they know the nature of the customer. We have seen small software and chip makers get burned by Apple because they will use your product, and get high demand from it for about a year or two, then they would drop you like yesterdays lunch left out on a summers day. Leaving the company with a large infrastructure now missing its biggest customer, and will need to go out of business. Where if they didn't pick Apple as a customer, they probably would have a steady growth because you would have more smaller customers, and could tolerate the smaller number of sales fluctuation.
Well most IE users, only use IE at work because of old Active-X and Sliverfish crap. Home users, would be for people using older versions of windows and never upgraded.
If the site still works in IE, it isn't really up to the site owner to stop them. Why should they add an extra line of code that could be conflecting with something else only to annoy a customer.
There is a cost to Winning. Winning doesn't make you better, or put you on a stronger position in the future. It just means you have met the initial objectives first.
I remember a story on NPR about a Chinese Violinist he was always winning the Violin Contest they have. He went to America to study under one the best Violinist. While training he was asked "Do you want to keep on winning competitions or do you really want to be good at this?"
Winning a competition or competitive war, strategy isn't being the best. But being good enough to not fall behind, then find ways to make your competitor loose. Wither it being showing all the features your browser cannot do. knowing your competing Violinist may play a rift a little slower then you, so you play faster just to show them off, or find a way to injure your competition and hope the refs (or legal) do not find out (such as hitting a batter known for home runs, and forcing them to walk).
Microsoft won the browser war. But because of that Win, all their underhanded tricks to win, for the short term, is now a generation later biting them back, and is preventing them from future growth.
If Microsoft wants everyone off of Internet Explorer. They are going to need to think of a way to easily convert the Past 20 years of IE Only Crap that Microsoft pushed on businesses to deploy.
Active-X and Silverlight (or as I like to call them Active-Exploit and Silverfish) technologies got pushed as core development platforms for those mainframe programmers who needed to keep their jobs after the mainframe and mini-computers were retired from their work environment, to modernize for y2k, but didn't want to learn how to program in HTML/JavaScript and learn how to think in Web Server type of thinking for back end request and responce processing. . These 2 crap technologies, which were a bad idea when they were made are now an anchor to Microsoft growth.
Microsoft was intent on winning the browser war are nearly any cost. Well they now need to pay the cost for their winning. Back in the late 1990's Microsoft could had played the high ground, by insisting on open standards, using the fact that the browser was default and integrated into the OS, to really push the direction on where the open standards went to make sure they were always ready for the first release. But they made IE as part of the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish style. As Microsoft never had put too much faith in the Web. (Windows 95 era, Microsoft though big BBS like AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe, and their MSN was the future) However it was getting a lot of press. So they made IE good enough to compete against Netscape, they extended it with IE/Windows Only features. Hoping to keep everyone on Windows so they can extinguish the Web and go to MS Services (like MSN).
Microsoft Messed up the extend part, not realizing the fast growth of cheap broadband always on Internet. Their Security model and the Wide Open Gaps that Active-X did for system security, just couldn't be managed by educating users on how to be safe. Because the nature of the attacks have changed to broad hit any computer as you can. The processing power and showing Ads, and collecting personal data in their home folder was more valuable, then messing up the boot record, or tinkering with system files. This allowed the fallout of the Netscape/IE wars Mozilla team to make Firefox which was a small fast browser that followed the open standards, to become popular enough to encourage open standards web development, and avoiding MS only Technology which people lost trust in. This with Apple Safari (ditching the aging IE 5 for Mac) and Google Chrome to get popularity as they all wanted to be the fasted browser out there. (Poor Opera, just never made their browser Open enough to get traction fast enough, they hung with add revenue filling up a good portion of the screen real estate or having to buy a commercial copy, while the others started to hit is main selling point)
If MS wants us to stop using IE. We will need a way to cheaply and easily convert our old stuff made by developers who have long retired, and where source code may be lost, to newer technology say HTML 5
Well it is the catch 22 of today's economy. Small rural towns, would love a big company to come in and bring in jobs. Because the influx of jobs would bring in more higher skilled people who would then require services which brings in more jobs. However these companies will not open in these small rural towns because they don't have the educated workforce, or the infrastructure to deal with the services they will want.
For the old factory jobs, this was easy for a small town to get a factory, and grow the economy. Because you needed basic labor, and skilled labor only needed a couple of months of training. Now we need people with College Degree and advanced specialized skills. You can open a company in the middle of nowhere, but you will have a hard time attracting people who can do the work, and people will not flock to that location because the small town couldn't support them.
Two inches of asphalt on Solid Granite Bedrock in an area that has rather consistent temperatures Is more then enough.
In other areas, not so much.
There are potholes over 2" deep. Potholes happen when water seeps into the asphalt, freezes, and unfreezes cracking the asphalt. I don't want to think about the pressures on a tiny strand of glass wrapped in plastic, from this.
However this problem show the problem that a lot of tech companies have. They are too West Coast Centrist. A lot of cultural oddities in America are due to different geography and weather patterns.
Coastal Cities are usually larger and more tolerant to other cultures. Because they have people from all around the world stopping by and living there. While interior cities which are landlocked, are smaller and less diversity in people, who are often more dependent on each other.
West Coast cities have more of a temperate climate, while East Cost Cities are known for their cold winters. This effects building codes, and environmental usages. I am on the East Coast. My home needs a slanted roof, and I have two sources of heat for the winter, it isn't uncommon to have at least one car that is all wheel drive. However if a major earthquake hits us, we are probably screwed.
I wish Google realized the complexity when deploying fiber, the California method just doesn't work in Kentucky.
This is how the argument goes. Me: We should stay away from the Office Format, and stick to a more open format. Them: We are a Microsoft shop and Office is our standard tool. Me: What about in 20 years from now, we don't know if MS will still support that format, of the company could be out of business. Them: MS is the biggest company in the world, it probably wont go out of business, and we will just upgrade when the problem comes up. Me: Setting up office to default to an open standard will only cost the institution an additional $5,000 Them: That is way too expensive.
20 years from now.
Them: We need to fix all our docs, because MS isn't supporting that format any more and no longer will convert them. Me: My Consulting rates are $660 an hour. It will take me 160 hours for analysis on the scope of the project. Then I can give you a quote for me to complete the job. 1 month later. Me: To convert all these documents and review their integrity it will take me 640 hours to do the work. So that will be $422,400 + $105,600 (for the review) which will make a total of $528,000 for my services.
I also expect the inverse too. We humans are not as smart as we think we are also.
A lot of our actions and responses is more instinctive then intellectual. Political/Religious/Sports Teams/Text Editors/Cell Phones leaning is less about an intellectual response to the policies,rules and teachings. But the instinctive need to be part of group, and be protective of such group.
An Evangelical and an Atheist (Both English Speaking Americans) will normally be diametrically opposed to each other. However we take these same people and put them somewhere where they are surrounded by Non English speaking foreigners who are neither Evangelical or Athiest, they will probably be rather close friends for a while, as they will classify themselves as English Speaking Americans first and their Religion secondly, and stick together for a while. This is instinctive not intellectual.
Or back in my elementary school days. K-4 were separated by 6 schools, 5th and 6th grade was combined into one school. For the first couple of weeks I befriended some kids, who I never got along with and didn't really like in K-4 for the sole reason that they were in my K-4 and I knew who they were. Only to make new friends/allegiances later.
There are a wealth of other behaviors that are instinctual which seem like intellectual activities, from diet, sexual activity, grooming needs....
Addition and subtraction is often rather instinctual. What makes it difficult, is when we symbolize the numbers in an abstract base, and use symbolic representations of addition and subtraction. so 1 = * 2 = ** So if we say put * and ** together we get *** no problem. However saying 1 + 2 = 3 requires higher brain power. Because the symbolic numbers is more abstract and doesn't always mean the same thing. so 1 = A^ 2 = #$ So if we put A and #$ together we get possible combinations of A#$, #A$, #$A, A$#, $A#, $#A but we still have 3 characters. However a character is more abstract then just a * it is just the same thing, and we know instinctively what would happen if we add or subtract the same thing.
Quite true. Now if we can get Schools and Universities to use it and recommend it to students. Vs. Having the Professors with Cool Microsoft Swag to make sure the students pay for legit MS Office copies.
The side effect for the company. Other then just printing millions of CD's for you app and selling them for a hundreds of dollars. You now need to maintain a full data-center to handle the data for millions of customers.
Cloud is good when you need to share across networks. Or you are a small organization who just doesn't have a secure infrastructure. But for others having software that you can buy and keep updated (or not) yourself is useful. There isn't too many features past office 97 that I really need. Why can't I use office 97 for work.
Because of Buzzword. When I started working, I help code Decision Support Systems, then they Became Business Intelligence Systems, Now they are called AI. Of course I am not sure if My job is an Application Architect or Full Stack Developer?
I am not sure why Adobe wants to make its own chips. They are a software company, if these chips are for their own server farm "cloud" what real benefit is it going to give them. Will Creative Cloud software be reasonably priced for amateurs? For the amount of time I need their products, I cannot justify spending more then $5.00 a month for Photoshop. Anything more it is worth my effort banging my head with The GIMP. (mostly due to how little I use the product)
Back in the olden days. I would get the Upgrade for $200 every 4 or 5 years. But the current pricing, is much more expensive for the low volume use of the product. Especially, because I don't need the upgrade all the time.
Apple is rather clear without actually saying it. I really doesn't have interest in the Macintosh platform and OS X. Getting a MacBook Pro or a Powerbook back a decade ago, you really got a high end laptop, and for the Time they were attractive units. OS X based on a real Unix Kernel, gave it unprecedented security and stability, all the features that Linux had, plus a UI more advanced then Windows.
Now OS X is showing its age, the updates on both the hardware and the OS have been lackluster. If I showed you a 2001 Titanium Powerbook. and the latest Macbook Pro, they will look rather similar. Gray, brushed metal clamshell laptop.
I think it is partially due to the Anti-Cyber Bulling information going out. Also how most tech companies are tracking down on Trolling.
I think we need to indirectly thank Trump for this. By emboldening the "Deplorables" we are really seeing what the Racists and how they were using coded messages before. A lot of people may have begin to realize (as I have), how many things I use to say, actually hurt people.
Part of the problem with our complex tax situation and why any attempt to simplify the tax plan fails, is because taxes are used more then just revenue for the governments, but a tool to help manage behaviors especially towards large organizations. Economist both liberal and conservative in general know corporate taxes are a net negative on the economy on the whole, which creates higher priced goods, slows down growth, and requires an expensive labor force to manage all the taxes correctly. which slows down the economy more then what the revenue will bring in. But we also have billionaires who gets paid a dollar a year. But their wealth is tied into the company. So he needs a new car the company gives him a car. The company writes this off as a business expense and the CEO gets a fancy car with a net less money spent, then if I normal Joe bought the same car with my hard earned money, because I would need to spend full tax as well on it. So we get such shenanigans which the general population doesn't like, so the tax laws gets more complex, trying to reward good behavior, and discourage bad behavior without having to outwardly make it illegal. So the government wants you to follow the spirit of the tax laws that will lower your taxes, because that means you are doing actions they want you to be doing. However if a company is caught "hacking" the laws so they are paying less taxes without trying to perform the goal of the law. Then the government gets annoyed, and less forgiving of minor mistakes. In general France wants a portion of the billions of dollars Apple sells to that country. Because an issue is Apple doesn't need a big Brick and Mortar store front to sell its products. Thus billions of sales where Frances money leaves the country without supporting local jobs or economy.
In short it is all very complicated without a simple fix. And I havn't heard any leader (Government or Business) willing to really deal with the complexity, but just throw a cheap fix get a few bucks out of it, until the other side finds a cheap fix to make it pointless.
Slashdot Mirror
Al shot the Serifs but he didn't shoot the style sheet.
Slashdot, why can't we change the default font to something with some Serifs in it.
Being how the Russians with some other countries have militarized the internet, causing other countries to fight back, I could see this as an opportunity to update all the equipment as to stop foreign attacks on them, as well disconnect any attacks in progress.
Science based reporting to the public is flawed. There is a big gap from the raw data, to the over simplified and often inaccurate general use "Science is Cool! Really it is!" reports.
Part of the problem is general news sites target people with an 8th grade education. Why 8th grade? Because after 8th grade students will tend to focus more on particular tracks of study. So in depth or more advanced explanations is often over most of the populations head, (even those with PHD because they will probably have a PHD in an other area of study).
The other part of the problem, is there is a vocal group of people who are disenfranchised with science. This can happen from many directions.
People who were taught to trust science, only to show it was harmful. (kids playing the DDT Cloud)
People not adapting to changes in the scientific strongest theories. The 1970's because of the smog that was blocking sunlight, there was a prediction of the earth cooling. Then after smog controls were enacted now we have global warming. To some this is Science being wrong again! However Smog does cause the weather to be cooler, as shown from the Beijing Olympics, where the temperature has risen, because they stopped all the smog for the events.
The conspiracy from scientists idea. It seems being a scientist, you are targeted to be part of some sort of grand conspiracy, either by those people who want to take your cars away, or by the corporations who just want to pollute the world for quarterly profit rises. (I kinda wish, I went into climate science, just so I can get paid the big hush money bucks!) ...
So we need to appeal to these people and not cause them to freak out as well.
We were more patient then. Loading a page back in the 1990's a 1 minute wait for the page to load was considered acceptable. Also we had screens closer to 640x480 so such gif files were smaller,
This was a 90's style page, but not for a professional site, it looks like a armature built geocities page. The professional pages back then, were actually much better made. They were mostly styled off magazines, and news print.
Some of the biggest issues, was the lack of Anti-Aliasing text, speed of downloading,
The Simulated Empathy and Compassion just stops you from feeling bad.
The Real Empathy and Compassion will help you feel good.
Empathy and Compassion, the real ones, is earned or given and when received it feels good.
The type from Computers, basically is simulated at to not insult the user, and prevent them from feeling bad.
However I don't feel that Video Games gives Empathy and Compassion, but it gives them empowerment.
This 19.3% of the population, is mainly busy with making sure there is food on your plate, fuel for your car, heat in your home, and lumber for your building.
While these people may have a lot of money in assets, they themselves do not have a lot of money, unable to timely go to stores due to distance and their working schedules, the Internet for shopping is important to them. Increasing fees will only hurt this group of people, who makes services that we need.
Yes these people are mostly Republican Trump Supporters. However they are still the backbone to our country, and we shouldn't try to be Cruel to them, just because they may disagree with our views and sensibilities.
That seems reasonable. Of course this is an AC Post. There are times where a Company will say No, to what seems like a good deal, because they know the nature of the customer.
We have seen small software and chip makers get burned by Apple because they will use your product, and get high demand from it for about a year or two, then they would drop you like yesterdays lunch left out on a summers day. Leaving the company with a large infrastructure now missing its biggest customer, and will need to go out of business. Where if they didn't pick Apple as a customer, they probably would have a steady growth because you would have more smaller customers, and could tolerate the smaller number of sales fluctuation.
Well most IE users, only use IE at work because of old Active-X and Sliverfish crap.
Home users, would be for people using older versions of windows and never upgraded.
If the site still works in IE, it isn't really up to the site owner to stop them. Why should they add an extra line of code that could be conflecting with something else only to annoy a customer.
There is a cost to Winning. Winning doesn't make you better, or put you on a stronger position in the future. It just means you have met the initial objectives first.
I remember a story on NPR about a Chinese Violinist he was always winning the Violin Contest they have. He went to America to study under one the best Violinist.
While training he was asked "Do you want to keep on winning competitions or do you really want to be good at this?"
Winning a competition or competitive war, strategy isn't being the best. But being good enough to not fall behind, then find ways to make your competitor loose. Wither it being showing all the features your browser cannot do. knowing your competing Violinist may play a rift a little slower then you, so you play faster just to show them off, or find a way to injure your competition and hope the refs (or legal) do not find out (such as hitting a batter known for home runs, and forcing them to walk).
Microsoft won the browser war. But because of that Win, all their underhanded tricks to win, for the short term, is now a generation later biting them back, and is preventing them from future growth.
If Microsoft wants everyone off of Internet Explorer. They are going to need to think of a way to easily convert the Past 20 years of IE Only Crap that Microsoft pushed on businesses to deploy.
Active-X and Silverlight (or as I like to call them Active-Exploit and Silverfish) technologies got pushed as core development platforms for those mainframe programmers who needed to keep their jobs after the mainframe and mini-computers were retired from their work environment, to modernize for y2k, but didn't want to learn how to program in HTML/JavaScript and learn how to think in Web Server type of thinking for back end request and responce processing. . These 2 crap technologies, which were a bad idea when they were made are now an anchor to Microsoft growth.
Microsoft was intent on winning the browser war are nearly any cost. Well they now need to pay the cost for their winning. Back in the late 1990's Microsoft could had played the high ground, by insisting on open standards, using the fact that the browser was default and integrated into the OS, to really push the direction on where the open standards went to make sure they were always ready for the first release. But they made IE as part of the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish style. As Microsoft never had put too much faith in the Web. (Windows 95 era, Microsoft though big BBS like AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe, and their MSN was the future) However it was getting a lot of press. So they made IE good enough to compete against Netscape, they extended it with IE/Windows Only features. Hoping to keep everyone on Windows so they can extinguish the Web and go to MS Services (like MSN).
Microsoft Messed up the extend part, not realizing the fast growth of cheap broadband always on Internet. Their Security model and the Wide Open Gaps that Active-X did for system security, just couldn't be managed by educating users on how to be safe. Because the nature of the attacks have changed to broad hit any computer as you can. The processing power and showing Ads, and collecting personal data in their home folder was more valuable, then messing up the boot record, or tinkering with system files.
This allowed the fallout of the Netscape/IE wars Mozilla team to make Firefox which was a small fast browser that followed the open standards, to become popular enough to encourage open standards web development, and avoiding MS only Technology which people lost trust in. This with Apple Safari (ditching the aging IE 5 for Mac) and Google Chrome to get popularity as they all wanted to be the fasted browser out there. (Poor Opera, just never made their browser Open enough to get traction fast enough, they hung with add revenue filling up a good portion of the screen real estate or having to buy a commercial copy, while the others started to hit is main selling point)
If MS wants us to stop using IE. We will need a way to cheaply and easily convert our old stuff made by developers who have long retired, and where source code may be lost, to newer technology say HTML 5
Stupidity and jumping to conclusions transcends politics.
Well it is the catch 22 of today's economy.
Small rural towns, would love a big company to come in and bring in jobs. Because the influx of jobs would bring in more higher skilled people who would then require services which brings in more jobs. However these companies will not open in these small rural towns because they don't have the educated workforce, or the infrastructure to deal with the services they will want.
For the old factory jobs, this was easy for a small town to get a factory, and grow the economy. Because you needed basic labor, and skilled labor only needed a couple of months of training. Now we need people with College Degree and advanced specialized skills. You can open a company in the middle of nowhere, but you will have a hard time attracting people who can do the work, and people will not flock to that location because the small town couldn't support them.
"You gotta know the territory!"
Two inches of asphalt on Solid Granite Bedrock in an area that has rather consistent temperatures Is more then enough.
In other areas, not so much.
There are potholes over 2" deep. Potholes happen when water seeps into the asphalt, freezes, and unfreezes cracking the asphalt. I don't want to think about the pressures on a tiny strand of glass wrapped in plastic, from this.
However this problem show the problem that a lot of tech companies have. They are too West Coast Centrist. A lot of cultural oddities in America are due to different geography and weather patterns.
Coastal Cities are usually larger and more tolerant to other cultures. Because they have people from all around the world stopping by and living there. While interior cities which are landlocked, are smaller and less diversity in people, who are often more dependent on each other.
West Coast cities have more of a temperate climate, while East Cost Cities are known for their cold winters. This effects building codes, and environmental usages. I am on the East Coast. My home needs a slanted roof, and I have two sources of heat for the winter, it isn't uncommon to have at least one car that is all wheel drive. However if a major earthquake hits us, we are probably screwed.
I wish Google realized the complexity when deploying fiber, the California method just doesn't work in Kentucky.
You should have just lied to your customers and told them that VB6 will now work in Windows 10. You will need to upgrade to .NET
The last good version is the version that was recently retired from support.
This is how the argument goes.
Me: We should stay away from the Office Format, and stick to a more open format.
Them: We are a Microsoft shop and Office is our standard tool.
Me: What about in 20 years from now, we don't know if MS will still support that format, of the company could be out of business.
Them: MS is the biggest company in the world, it probably wont go out of business, and we will just upgrade when the problem comes up.
Me: Setting up office to default to an open standard will only cost the institution an additional $5,000
Them: That is way too expensive.
20 years from now.
Them: We need to fix all our docs, because MS isn't supporting that format any more and no longer will convert them.
Me: My Consulting rates are $660 an hour. It will take me 160 hours for analysis on the scope of the project. Then I can give you a quote for me to complete the job.
1 month later.
Me: To convert all these documents and review their integrity it will take me 640 hours to do the work. So that will be $422,400 + $105,600 (for the review) which will make a total of $528,000 for my services.
I also expect the inverse too. We humans are not as smart as we think we are also.
A lot of our actions and responses is more instinctive then intellectual. Political/Religious/Sports Teams/Text Editors/Cell Phones leaning is less about an intellectual response to the policies,rules and teachings. But the instinctive need to be part of group, and be protective of such group.
An Evangelical and an Atheist (Both English Speaking Americans) will normally be diametrically opposed to each other. However we take these same people and put them somewhere where they are surrounded by Non English speaking foreigners who are neither Evangelical or Athiest, they will probably be rather close friends for a while, as they will classify themselves as English Speaking Americans first and their Religion secondly, and stick together for a while. This is instinctive not intellectual.
Or back in my elementary school days. K-4 were separated by 6 schools, 5th and 6th grade was combined into one school. For the first couple of weeks I befriended some kids, who I never got along with and didn't really like in K-4 for the sole reason that they were in my K-4 and I knew who they were. Only to make new friends/allegiances later.
There are a wealth of other behaviors that are instinctual which seem like intellectual activities, from diet, sexual activity, grooming needs....
Addition and subtraction is often rather instinctual. What makes it difficult, is when we symbolize the numbers in an abstract base, and use symbolic representations of addition and subtraction.
so
1 = *
2 = **
So if we say put * and ** together we get *** no problem. However saying 1 + 2 = 3 requires higher brain power. Because the symbolic numbers is more abstract and doesn't always mean the same thing.
so
1 = A^
2 = #$
So if we put A and #$ together we get possible combinations of A#$, #A$, #$A, A$#, $A#, $#A but we still have 3 characters. However a character is more abstract then just a * it is just the same thing, and we know instinctively what would happen if we add or subtract the same thing.
Quite true.
Now if we can get Schools and Universities to use it and recommend it to students. Vs. Having the Professors with Cool Microsoft Swag to make sure the students pay for legit MS Office copies.
The side effect for the company. Other then just printing millions of CD's for you app and selling them for a hundreds of dollars. You now need to maintain a full data-center to handle the data for millions of customers.
Cloud is good when you need to share across networks. Or you are a small organization who just doesn't have a secure infrastructure. But for others having software that you can buy and keep updated (or not) yourself is useful. There isn't too many features past office 97 that I really need. Why can't I use office 97 for work.
Because of Buzzword.
When I started working, I help code Decision Support Systems, then they Became Business Intelligence Systems, Now they are called AI.
Of course I am not sure if My job is an Application Architect or Full Stack Developer?
I am not sure why Adobe wants to make its own chips. They are a software company, if these chips are for their own server farm "cloud" what real benefit is it going to give them. Will Creative Cloud software be reasonably priced for amateurs? For the amount of time I need their products, I cannot justify spending more then $5.00 a month for Photoshop. Anything more it is worth my effort banging my head with The GIMP. (mostly due to how little I use the product)
Back in the olden days. I would get the Upgrade for $200 every 4 or 5 years. But the current pricing, is much more expensive for the low volume use of the product. Especially, because I don't need the upgrade all the time.
Apple is rather clear without actually saying it. I really doesn't have interest in the Macintosh platform and OS X.
Getting a MacBook Pro or a Powerbook back a decade ago, you really got a high end laptop, and for the Time they were attractive units. OS X based on a real Unix Kernel, gave it unprecedented security and stability, all the features that Linux had, plus a UI more advanced then Windows.
Now OS X is showing its age, the updates on both the hardware and the OS have been lackluster. If I showed you a 2001 Titanium Powerbook. and the latest Macbook Pro, they will look rather similar. Gray, brushed metal clamshell laptop.
I think it is partially due to the Anti-Cyber Bulling information going out. Also how most tech companies are tracking down on Trolling.
I think we need to indirectly thank Trump for this. By emboldening the "Deplorables" we are really seeing what the Racists and how they were using coded messages before. A lot of people may have begin to realize (as I have), how many things I use to say, actually hurt people.
Part of the problem with our complex tax situation and why any attempt to simplify the tax plan fails, is because taxes are used more then just revenue for the governments, but a tool to help manage behaviors especially towards large organizations.
Economist both liberal and conservative in general know corporate taxes are a net negative on the economy on the whole, which creates higher priced goods, slows down growth, and requires an expensive labor force to manage all the taxes correctly. which slows down the economy more then what the revenue will bring in.
But we also have billionaires who gets paid a dollar a year. But their wealth is tied into the company. So he needs a new car the company gives him a car. The company writes this off as a business expense and the CEO gets a fancy car with a net less money spent, then if I normal Joe bought the same car with my hard earned money, because I would need to spend full tax as well on it.
So we get such shenanigans which the general population doesn't like, so the tax laws gets more complex, trying to reward good behavior, and discourage bad behavior without having to outwardly make it illegal.
So the government wants you to follow the spirit of the tax laws that will lower your taxes, because that means you are doing actions they want you to be doing.
However if a company is caught "hacking" the laws so they are paying less taxes without trying to perform the goal of the law. Then the government gets annoyed, and less forgiving of minor mistakes.
In general France wants a portion of the billions of dollars Apple sells to that country. Because an issue is Apple doesn't need a big Brick and Mortar store front to sell its products. Thus billions of sales where Frances money leaves the country without supporting local jobs or economy.
In short it is all very complicated without a simple fix. And I havn't heard any leader (Government or Business) willing to really deal with the complexity, but just throw a cheap fix get a few bucks out of it, until the other side finds a cheap fix to make it pointless.