I think it is to show how poor woman are at making good decisions. A guy like him without the notoriety would be on the ignore list for women. But he showed he is a dangerous guy who is on the edge of getting killed means he is prime material.
The biggest issue I have with Rust is the set of external libraries that you need to install with the Cargo tool. It isn't as much that we have the tool to install only the libraries you need, but going in the list of libraries. That are suppose to be in the approved repository, there are a lot of them with descriptions that makes me worry about using them.
The fact that software can be made (and made well) by amateurs. So such regulations saying that software shouldn't have encryption means outside sources will still make it. This will only put the big companies into a disadvantage as they wouldn't be able to make secure solutions to their system.
Well Google vs Apple vs Microsoft vs Oracle vs Samsung... Big companies that do a lot of things have complex relationship with each other. They have particular product lines that compete with each other, then they have other product lines that complement each other, where it is in their best interest to partner. Then there are products that uses the products of the other.
Apple uses Googles Services which may be using Oracle's products and Samsung's components... and Samsung makes a product that competes with Apple which uses Googles Product's based on Oracle's Products...
Depending on the product they are best partners or bitter rivals. Capitalism isn't about making friends, it isn't about making enemies. It is about making choices that will benefit you the most.
However advertisers don't need to be adversarial. People are using this product, there must be a good reason for this. Ad-Blockers do not block advertising, but they do block particular types of advertising. If they learn from ad-block they may realize that they will be sure to follow less intrusive and safer advertising methods.
The problem isn't Homeland Security. There job is to find threats, and see if they can have solutions to solve them. When you work security the tyrannical solution is often the easiest one. You want your PC secure from hackers. Unplug it from the network, cant do that make sure your firewall has 0 outside ports and the inside ports are setup for talking to only the servers each system needs to talk to. Such IT security is hard, because the End users are rapidly changing what they want and the cost to build such a secure system isn't worth the expense.
Law enforcement and security would have an easier job without civil liberties, not because they have nefarious purposes, but because it will make their job easier.
Our jobs as citizens is to let our officials know that we value our freedoms and what we are willing to give up for security, and what security we are willing to risk not having to keep our freedoms. It isn't cut and dry but these department report to a higher political offices, who will need to take their recommendations and decide to accept or reject them. These political office need to be elected by the citizenry. If we refuse to be involved citizens then the easiest path will soon follow.
Well there are issues for the case study if you are going to compare like people who smoked pot and didn't. There will be a good population to will not admit that they smoke pot.
Also as kids/young adults, they will tend to do things on on extremes. So being a teetotalers when they were younger, when they grew up they realized they were way too judgemental. So when asked in the future they may want to hide being such a dick as a kid.
Why would they lie... The smokers would need to admit on paper that they did an illegal activity. Thus perhaps coming up to bite them in the future. The Non-smokers will need to admit that they were may had strict with their life as a kids being on record of being to uncool years ago may hinder their relationships they are in now.
Gen Xers grew up with those stuped Anti-Drug messages... They didn't work except for bringing shame on both ends of the spectrum.
It really depends, I have been finding myself more often spending a few extra dollars on quality. If I am getting a hammer or a wrench, I look at the available ones and I really look at which is better built. Having a crappy tool, makes a job much harder then a quality one.
To load the truck with 50 deliveries means you wouldn't be able to keep the drones in the air. Because the truck will need to drive back and refill with new goods from the warehouse anyways.
The standard distribution is good for overnight deliveries. But anything past that gets increasingly expensive.
A Hub, is designed to handle deliveries within a days travel, they will load up the trucks with a day's worth of goods. And the Driver will spend the full day driving to each location. Going to the Hub in the Morning and at the end of the shift with preferable an empty truck or filled with packages to be delivered elsewhere.
To give direct delivery from the Hub to your home, and back to the hub, would make delivery extremely expensive. The Drones (50 lbs), being electrical, flying, and automated makes it much cheaper to get an individual package from hub/warehouse to home. Then it would take for a Person (200lbs), a gasoline vehicle (1000+lbs) and driving to drop off you 5 lbs of goods.
Now the Current system isn't going to go away if you can fill up your truck then you can still be cheaper than a drone/per lbs of material shipped. But if you need it right away drone can be cheaper.
It will probably be looked at, mostly if you are going to port it to Linux, that you will need to De-Windows a lot of the methods. There are many fundemental differences towards proper windows development and Unix/Linux development.
The success of the GPL is in spite of Stallman not because of it. Most successful GPL program are "Infrastructure based" Operating Systems, Web Servers (the most popular one is under the Apache Open source license) , Programming Languages, Databases. These are software that people use as the backdrop to the real work they are trying to accomplish. Installing a Database will not solve any problems, but using the database to solve your problems may improve your success. These get a lot of action because these are tools people really want, there are enough of them to keep interest, and the fact that they are not solving any real business need, means a lot of people don't have interest on keeping it for themselves. Support in an Open Source Project means that your particular needs will have a say in a larger project. However GPL doesn't have too much in end use applications because they are solving rather narrow solutions. So they will not get a lot of support because their solution is very narrow. This means if someone is going to spend a lot of time/money working on a solution they will need to sell the software for money.
The problem with Hardware manufactures is that they make money off their hardware. There code is specialized for their hardware. So they are not so willing to let it go.
Well being that you on the Internet the chances are rather good that you are Using a product that is partially or completely manufactured in China. Every dollar you spend on these goods will help fund China and allow them to continue their evil ways.
Nah the Brits love to rip off 'merica. Cricket is a cheap ripoff of Baseball. Dr. Who is a cheap ripoff of Star Trek They even double down by making a Red Dwarf a cheap ripoff of Voyager. The Office is a cheap ripoff of The Office And British football vs Football.
Back in the 1990's during the "Tech Bubble", "Economy 2.0". Tech workers were treated like gods, High pay, large benefits, and easy jobs. Anyone who was around during that time was lucky. A lot of people skipped college and went straight into tech, as "Web Developers", with an increase of people going to college in degrees that they really didn't care for but because it made a lot of money and was an easy job. So what happened it created a glut of bad employees, lazy tech workers, who were over paid. Well new immigration laws, and the rise of Free Software allowed these business who realized that "Economy 2.0" was "Economy 1.0" in a market bubble needed to switch to more profitable entities. So they outsourced to cheaper countries for many of these easy jobs at a much lower rate, and kept raising the bar until, they found a happy medium. So Tech workers who are employed in the US today have to be the following to be competitive 1. They need to be at a particular skill level, if not they will need to work harder to compensate. I am sorry but in my 20 years of professional experience, I have found the person who is working past 50 hours a week is either new at the job, and is working up experience, or just not technically savvy enough to get the job done right and on deadline.
2. They need to know how to be professional. This means a degree of people skills, not being insulting. Also knowing a bit how to deal with politics, how not to take blame for every problem yet willing to work on a solution to fix it. Also if you are to point blame you need to be professional about it, and make sure it isn't too sharp of a point.
3. They should understand the business they are in. There isn't a "Tech Industry" No one works in Tech, Apple make Consumer Product that happens to be computers. Google/Facebook/Twitter... are advertising companies with interesting software to keep its viewers engaged. Your technology skills should be used to benefit the business they are supporting. Medical IT work is different than Industrial IT Work, which is different than Government IT work... Know the business is important.
4. Know your place. In tech we tend to work across the organization, so we get high level glance at every job, and try to improve it with technology. This sometimes makes us think that we know how to do all these peoples jobs... You do not. You can make the best hammer in the world, but it doesn't make you a good carpenter, but your hammer may make a good carpenter better.
Yes today we tech workers have to be like the rest of the middle class staff. We are no longer treated as gods having the skills unknowable by mere mortals. We are not expected to produce, and be part of the team.
Now my experience, I don't work in metro areas, I have worked for startups, large and small orgs, Governments and industries. I found for the most part I found my aggravation is from my own pride being stomped on by reality, not from The Man who is trying to keep me down. Much of IT work is very creative, however working as part of the team means your creativity is limited to the needs of the group. So you will not get your own way.
Not so much greed, but pride. Lets face it, our ability to reproduce means we need to show that we are part of an upper class. We need to prove that we are somehow better than the competition. In this Utopian leisure society where everyone is equal means we will have to find ways to differentiate ourselves from others to show that we are a better person than the others. This will not work for long, someone will always want to have more, be stronger, be more influential.
The problem with ideals, is they are never 100% accomplished, at best your ideal ends up as a major influencing force. But the problem with ideals, is that real life problems get in the way and makes things complex.
The FSF problem isn't that they have noble ideas, but the idea of Free Software, gets in the way to making a career writing software. Now some software you can make a good living with following the ideals with FSF, however other software product it just won't work. The traditional Software Development (Closed source): You make the software then you sell copies. Simple enough, you just need to make sure that others are not copying your work, thus digging into your funds that you will be using to grow the software and support it.
Consulting: This is all fine and good, assuming the software is Difficult to use, hard to configure, or has a large scope. Not all applications fill that roll.
Distribution: This was a good method back in the 1980's and 1990's but with most of the population with over 1mbs connection, downloading FSF from other sources makes it difficult to make money off of.
Donations: There are some groups that can get donations, however you may have good and important software, that just isn't targeted towards enough people to get the donations to keep it going.
Mixed-License: This works, however it really distorts the ideal of FSF. By saying here you go Free Software but if you want to use it differently then you gonna need to pay up.
Technology changes, so does how to better use them.
Old technology long term storage was very slow. So we used to CPU calculate a lot of data. Think Mario and Luigi in the original NES They were 1 bitmap and you just swapped the pallets, as well many of the creator's same expensive bitmap image, and use the CPU to cheaply give them different color. As times goes on Storage is cheaper and faster. So we have independent bitmaps for Mario and Luigi so they are different in appearance, luigi being taller and thinner. Technology advanced to a point where it was good enough to have different images, and it was worth it vs trying to spend all your time with silly hacks.
But lets get away from games and onto serious computing.
1980's Mainframes: Computing was expensive, so you were better off having a centralized computer that would be accessed with dumb terminals. The speed of communicating data to the terminals was fast enough to balance any speed in processing the data, allowing many users on one system. A lot of the data were stored in active RAM. And were very small, being that most data retrieval would be needed via tape. These programs were very small and concise. And they wouldn't be used today because they were very buggy, and could be hacked into. People who used the computers often had the title Computer Operator, as they would know what to do and what not to that would cause a problem.
1990's Desktops: The PC has reached a price point where except of having one mainframe people would have their own PC. This means faster displaying of data, and also allow people to do big calculations without worrying about slowing down everyone else. This allows applications to query the disk for the programs much more readily and page data. This allowed for more advanced UI in programs that would prevent people from doing stupid things as often. However program sizes got larger.
2000's Networked Desktops: With servers now being build on Desktop Technology and 100mbs - 1000mbs networks being common in an office. It allowed PC's to talk to the server easily and quick enough for most data retrieval. Data files began to be stored on the network, freeing the desktop to have smaller drives, enough to run the application, and RAM requirements peaked at the 4gigs. While the improvements went toward the servers. Also with cheap Servers, we were allowed to install effective Databases on them. MySQL, PostGreSQL, MsSQL Server. All very affordable DB that were able to deal with most businesses level of work. (Causing the decline of systems such a FoxPro, Dbase and MS Access) which were meant for PC usages.
2010's The "Cloud": Well web based applications, they may not be setup on a cloud platform. But with higher speed internet access available to most people and business, the web standards have matured to a point where most UI functionality is available. We were able to run our apps in a browser or thin client, so the performance of our personal device matters a lot less. Most things we do we can still do on a PC that is 10 years old. Where back in the 90's if your PC was 4 years old it was too out of date to do anything new. Servers have been designed to be more distributed and faster storage means we have more than enough processing power. The limitations are usually more limited to total bandwidth.
As time changes how we use software changes, now these are trends not hard and fast rules. I still work on a mainframe daily for work, and it is handing a lot of work rather well. I still run across FoxPro and Access Applications that are in production use that needs to be maintained. There are still file share drives. And now there is a set of hosted apps to use. They all come with tradeoffs. But changing technology gives us more options.
Roddenberry was progressive for the 1960's. But a lot of this is rather conservative for the 1980s and 1990's. Star Trek trying to keep with Roddenberry ideals gets more and more dated. While they appear to be utopian, it requires cultures to change and I can't see such changes happening smoothly or not having repercussions in the future. If we Get rid of Religion, money, and everyone lives for the betterment of society then we will have a happy world... This is bogus. 1. Religion: This is actually not really a cause for war, but something manipulated by people to rally the troops. While we think Religion as a the mystical stuff... It is actually far more complex. This is a belief based on faith. We see similar type of patterns with interpretations of the founding fathers, the life of Abraham Lincoln, views on software licenses. This militant behavior comes to the question are you a pure... 2. Money: Ok we may not need money, but some form of system to make sure the population is doing things that are needed to be done. Jobs that are in shortage but high demand get paid more. Jobs which can be easily filled and are not needed much get paid less. With no incentive people will tend to trend towards the jobs they want to do. So we get a lot of bad poets and street musicians. 3. Betterment of society: Who really wakes up and says I am going to be evil today. Most people try to do the right thing, but there logical reasoning or process may be flawed. As well we can have polar opposite approaches to try to solve problems. Just for example. The poor: Should we give them money so they are not poor. or should not give them money as an incentive to get a job. Now there is also a lot of stuff in the middle, and it is rather complex. But it would just cause a lot of fighting.
Why not just get a human butler. Sure a butler is a luxury that the common man cannot afford, but for someone like him, who has so many people already on payroll, is it really that bad of an idea to have your own butler, to manage your home, and take care of things, so you as CEO can focus more on work, or what little free time you have with your family.
As a CEO, he may not be smart of effective, or a good person, but every CEO I have met are very busy people, to have a glitchy assistant is a waste of his time. And it better off hiring staff to manage his estate.
Most organizations when they start there is rapid growth, for Wikipedia, there is a lot of information to be loaded in and maintained. Now for the most part a lot of this information is in, and may be taking minor edits or changes for most articles. Many things do not have new insights or new discoveries in generations. So the bulk of the articles don't need to be updated with latest and greatest, because they are already there.
So a decline in contributions is expected as it is now one of the great repositories of information.
Before making new stories they needed to identify to the viewers that they can make a movie that shows that they can do an effective Star Wars film. Sure it is filled the same story as the original story. But for the most part they had made it with characters that we can relate too and feel connected too. It felt it was a continuation of the story not some random crap to try to make it fit.
Star Wars isn't science fiction, it is a Space Opera, Science will be set aside as to make the plot and build the tension.
But Disney needed to prove that they can make Star Wars, they needed the first one to be safe, establish the characters, explain the universe, set the tone. Now the question will be on the future episodes will we be seeing new stuff.
Yea how many desktop users really care about SystemD or not.
I tried it with and without it... No difference in my opinion, I was using Linux for a desktop, just as long as the distribution is correctly setup I was fine.
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I think it is to show how poor woman are at making good decisions. A guy like him without the notoriety would be on the ignore list for women. But he showed he is a dangerous guy who is on the edge of getting killed means he is prime material.
The biggest issue I have with Rust is the set of external libraries that you need to install with the Cargo tool. It isn't as much that we have the tool to install only the libraries you need, but going in the list of libraries. That are suppose to be in the approved repository, there are a lot of them with descriptions that makes me worry about using them.
The fact that software can be made (and made well) by amateurs. So such regulations saying that software shouldn't have encryption means outside sources will still make it. This will only put the big companies into a disadvantage as they wouldn't be able to make secure solutions to their system.
Well Google vs Apple vs Microsoft vs Oracle vs Samsung...
Big companies that do a lot of things have complex relationship with each other. They have particular product lines that compete with each other, then they have other product lines that complement each other, where it is in their best interest to partner. Then there are products that uses the products of the other.
Apple uses Googles Services which may be using Oracle's products and Samsung's components...
and
Samsung makes a product that competes with Apple which uses Googles Product's based on Oracle's Products...
Depending on the product they are best partners or bitter rivals. Capitalism isn't about making friends, it isn't about making enemies. It is about making choices that will benefit you the most.
However advertisers don't need to be adversarial. People are using this product, there must be a good reason for this. Ad-Blockers do not block advertising, but they do block particular types of advertising.
If they learn from ad-block they may realize that they will be sure to follow less intrusive and safer advertising methods.
The problem isn't Homeland Security. There job is to find threats, and see if they can have solutions to solve them.
When you work security the tyrannical solution is often the easiest one.
You want your PC secure from hackers. Unplug it from the network, cant do that make sure your firewall has 0 outside ports and the inside ports are setup for talking to only the servers each system needs to talk to. Such IT security is hard, because the End users are rapidly changing what they want and the cost to build such a secure system isn't worth the expense.
Law enforcement and security would have an easier job without civil liberties, not because they have nefarious purposes, but because it will make their job easier.
Our jobs as citizens is to let our officials know that we value our freedoms and what we are willing to give up for security, and what security we are willing to risk not having to keep our freedoms. It isn't cut and dry but these department report to a higher political offices, who will need to take their recommendations and decide to accept or reject them. These political office need to be elected by the citizenry. If we refuse to be involved citizens then the easiest path will soon follow.
Well there are issues for the case study if you are going to compare like people who smoked pot and didn't.
There will be a good population to will not admit that they smoke pot.
Also as kids/young adults, they will tend to do things on on extremes. So being a teetotalers when they were younger, when they grew up they realized they were way too judgemental. So when asked in the future they may want to hide being such a dick as a kid.
Why would they lie...
The smokers would need to admit on paper that they did an illegal activity. Thus perhaps coming up to bite them in the future.
The Non-smokers will need to admit that they were may had strict with their life as a kids being on record of being to uncool years ago may hinder their relationships they are in now.
Gen Xers grew up with those stuped Anti-Drug messages... They didn't work except for bringing shame on both ends of the spectrum.
It really depends, I have been finding myself more often spending a few extra dollars on quality.
If I am getting a hammer or a wrench, I look at the available ones and I really look at which is better built. Having a crappy tool, makes a job much harder then a quality one.
To load the truck with 50 deliveries means you wouldn't be able to keep the drones in the air. Because the truck will need to drive back and refill with new goods from the warehouse anyways.
The standard distribution is good for overnight deliveries. But anything past that gets increasingly expensive.
A Hub, is designed to handle deliveries within a days travel, they will load up the trucks with a day's worth of goods. And the Driver will spend the full day driving to each location. Going to the Hub in the Morning and at the end of the shift with preferable an empty truck or filled with packages to be delivered elsewhere.
To give direct delivery from the Hub to your home, and back to the hub, would make delivery extremely expensive. The Drones (50 lbs), being electrical, flying, and automated makes it much cheaper to get an individual package from hub/warehouse to home. Then it would take for a Person (200lbs), a gasoline vehicle (1000+lbs) and driving to drop off you 5 lbs of goods.
Now the Current system isn't going to go away if you can fill up your truck then you can still be cheaper than a drone/per lbs of material shipped. But if you need it right away drone can be cheaper.
It will probably be looked at, mostly if you are going to port it to Linux, that you will need to De-Windows a lot of the methods. There are many fundemental differences towards proper windows development and Unix/Linux development.
The success of the GPL is in spite of Stallman not because of it.
Most successful GPL program are "Infrastructure based" Operating Systems, Web Servers (the most popular one is under the Apache Open source license) , Programming Languages, Databases. These are software that people use as the backdrop to the real work they are trying to accomplish. Installing a Database will not solve any problems, but using the database to solve your problems may improve your success. These get a lot of action because these are tools people really want, there are enough of them to keep interest, and the fact that they are not solving any real business need, means a lot of people don't have interest on keeping it for themselves. Support in an Open Source Project means that your particular needs will have a say in a larger project.
However GPL doesn't have too much in end use applications because they are solving rather narrow solutions. So they will not get a lot of support because their solution is very narrow. This means if someone is going to spend a lot of time/money working on a solution they will need to sell the software for money.
The problem with Hardware manufactures is that they make money off their hardware. There code is specialized for their hardware. So they are not so willing to let it go.
Well being that you on the Internet the chances are rather good that you are Using a product that is partially or completely manufactured in China.
Every dollar you spend on these goods will help fund China and allow them to continue their evil ways.
Nah the Brits love to rip off 'merica.
Cricket is a cheap ripoff of Baseball.
Dr. Who is a cheap ripoff of Star Trek
They even double down by making a Red Dwarf a cheap ripoff of Voyager.
The Office is a cheap ripoff of The Office
And British football vs Football.
Facts just get in the way of a closed world view.
Back in the 1990's during the "Tech Bubble", "Economy 2.0". Tech workers were treated like gods, High pay, large benefits, and easy jobs. Anyone who was around during that time was lucky. A lot of people skipped college and went straight into tech, as "Web Developers", with an increase of people going to college in degrees that they really didn't care for but because it made a lot of money and was an easy job.
So what happened it created a glut of bad employees, lazy tech workers, who were over paid. Well new immigration laws, and the rise of Free Software allowed these business who realized that "Economy 2.0" was "Economy 1.0" in a market bubble needed to switch to more profitable entities. So they outsourced to cheaper countries for many of these easy jobs at a much lower rate, and kept raising the bar until, they found a happy medium.
So Tech workers who are employed in the US today have to be the following to be competitive
1. They need to be at a particular skill level, if not they will need to work harder to compensate. I am sorry but in my 20 years of professional experience, I have found the person who is working past 50 hours a week is either new at the job, and is working up experience, or just not technically savvy enough to get the job done right and on deadline.
2. They need to know how to be professional. This means a degree of people skills, not being insulting. Also knowing a bit how to deal with politics, how not to take blame for every problem yet willing to work on a solution to fix it. Also if you are to point blame you need to be professional about it, and make sure it isn't too sharp of a point.
3. They should understand the business they are in. There isn't a "Tech Industry" No one works in Tech, Apple make Consumer Product that happens to be computers. Google/Facebook/Twitter... are advertising companies with interesting software to keep its viewers engaged. Your technology skills should be used to benefit the business they are supporting. Medical IT work is different than Industrial IT Work, which is different than Government IT work... Know the business is important.
4. Know your place. In tech we tend to work across the organization, so we get high level glance at every job, and try to improve it with technology. This sometimes makes us think that we know how to do all these peoples jobs... You do not. You can make the best hammer in the world, but it doesn't make you a good carpenter, but your hammer may make a good carpenter better.
Yes today we tech workers have to be like the rest of the middle class staff. We are no longer treated as gods having the skills unknowable by mere mortals. We are not expected to produce, and be part of the team.
Now my experience, I don't work in metro areas, I have worked for startups, large and small orgs, Governments and industries. I found for the most part I found my aggravation is from my own pride being stomped on by reality, not from The Man who is trying to keep me down. Much of IT work is very creative, however working as part of the team means your creativity is limited to the needs of the group. So you will not get your own way.
Not so much greed, but pride.
Lets face it, our ability to reproduce means we need to show that we are part of an upper class. We need to prove that we are somehow better than the competition. In this Utopian leisure society where everyone is equal means we will have to find ways to differentiate ourselves from others to show that we are a better person than the others. This will not work for long, someone will always want to have more, be stronger, be more influential.
The problem with ideals, is they are never 100% accomplished, at best your ideal ends up as a major influencing force. But the problem with ideals, is that real life problems get in the way and makes things complex.
The FSF problem isn't that they have noble ideas, but the idea of Free Software, gets in the way to making a career writing software. Now some software you can make a good living with following the ideals with FSF, however other software product it just won't work.
The traditional Software Development (Closed source): You make the software then you sell copies. Simple enough, you just need to make sure that others are not copying your work, thus digging into your funds that you will be using to grow the software and support it.
Consulting: This is all fine and good, assuming the software is Difficult to use, hard to configure, or has a large scope. Not all applications fill that roll.
Distribution: This was a good method back in the 1980's and 1990's but with most of the population with over 1mbs connection, downloading FSF from other sources makes it difficult to make money off of.
Donations: There are some groups that can get donations, however you may have good and important software, that just isn't targeted towards enough people to get the donations to keep it going.
Mixed-License: This works, however it really distorts the ideal of FSF. By saying here you go Free Software but if you want to use it differently then you gonna need to pay up.
Technology changes, so does how to better use them.
Old technology long term storage was very slow. So we used to CPU calculate a lot of data. Think Mario and Luigi in the original NES They were 1 bitmap and you just swapped the pallets, as well many of the creator's same expensive bitmap image, and use the CPU to cheaply give them different color. As times goes on Storage is cheaper and faster. So we have independent bitmaps for Mario and Luigi so they are different in appearance, luigi being taller and thinner. Technology advanced to a point where it was good enough to have different images, and it was worth it vs trying to spend all your time with silly hacks.
But lets get away from games and onto serious computing.
1980's Mainframes: Computing was expensive, so you were better off having a centralized computer that would be accessed with dumb terminals. The speed of communicating data to the terminals was fast enough to balance any speed in processing the data, allowing many users on one system. A lot of the data were stored in active RAM. And were very small, being that most data retrieval would be needed via tape. These programs were very small and concise. And they wouldn't be used today because they were very buggy, and could be hacked into. People who used the computers often had the title Computer Operator, as they would know what to do and what not to that would cause a problem.
1990's Desktops: The PC has reached a price point where except of having one mainframe people would have their own PC. This means faster displaying of data, and also allow people to do big calculations without worrying about slowing down everyone else. This allows applications to query the disk for the programs much more readily and page data. This allowed for more advanced UI in programs that would prevent people from doing stupid things as often. However program sizes got larger.
2000's Networked Desktops: With servers now being build on Desktop Technology and 100mbs - 1000mbs networks being common in an office. It allowed PC's to talk to the server easily and quick enough for most data retrieval. Data files began to be stored on the network, freeing the desktop to have smaller drives, enough to run the application, and RAM requirements peaked at the 4gigs. While the improvements went toward the servers. Also with cheap Servers, we were allowed to install effective Databases on them. MySQL, PostGreSQL, MsSQL Server. All very affordable DB that were able to deal with most businesses level of work. (Causing the decline of systems such a FoxPro, Dbase and MS Access) which were meant for PC usages.
2010's The "Cloud": Well web based applications, they may not be setup on a cloud platform. But with higher speed internet access available to most people and business, the web standards have matured to a point where most UI functionality is available. We were able to run our apps in a browser or thin client, so the performance of our personal device matters a lot less. Most things we do we can still do on a PC that is 10 years old. Where back in the 90's if your PC was 4 years old it was too out of date to do anything new. Servers have been designed to be more distributed and faster storage means we have more than enough processing power. The limitations are usually more limited to total bandwidth.
As time changes how we use software changes, now these are trends not hard and fast rules. I still work on a mainframe daily for work, and it is handing a lot of work rather well. I still run across FoxPro and Access Applications that are in production use that needs to be maintained. There are still file share drives. And now there is a set of hosted apps to use. They all come with tradeoffs. But changing technology gives us more options.
Roddenberry was progressive for the 1960's. But a lot of this is rather conservative for the 1980s and 1990's.
Star Trek trying to keep with Roddenberry ideals gets more and more dated.
While they appear to be utopian, it requires cultures to change and I can't see such changes happening smoothly or not having repercussions in the future.
If we Get rid of Religion, money, and everyone lives for the betterment of society then we will have a happy world... This is bogus.
1. Religion: This is actually not really a cause for war, but something manipulated by people to rally the troops. While we think Religion as a the mystical stuff... It is actually far more complex. This is a belief based on faith. We see similar type of patterns with interpretations of the founding fathers, the life of Abraham Lincoln, views on software licenses. This militant behavior comes to the question are you a pure...
2. Money: Ok we may not need money, but some form of system to make sure the population is doing things that are needed to be done. Jobs that are in shortage but high demand get paid more. Jobs which can be easily filled and are not needed much get paid less. With no incentive people will tend to trend towards the jobs they want to do. So we get a lot of bad poets and street musicians.
3. Betterment of society: Who really wakes up and says I am going to be evil today. Most people try to do the right thing, but there logical reasoning or process may be flawed. As well we can have polar opposite approaches to try to solve problems. Just for example. The poor: Should we give them money so they are not poor. or should not give them money as an incentive to get a job. Now there is also a lot of stuff in the middle, and it is rather complex. But it would just cause a lot of fighting.
Why not just get a human butler.
Sure a butler is a luxury that the common man cannot afford, but for someone like him, who has so many people already on payroll, is it really that bad of an idea to have your own butler, to manage your home, and take care of things, so you as CEO can focus more on work, or what little free time you have with your family.
As a CEO, he may not be smart of effective, or a good person, but every CEO I have met are very busy people, to have a glitchy assistant is a waste of his time. And it better off hiring staff to manage his estate.
I am truly curious on how many systemd trolls would really know if their system had it or not, if it weren't for all they hype about it.
Most organizations when they start there is rapid growth, for Wikipedia, there is a lot of information to be loaded in and maintained. Now for the most part a lot of this information is in, and may be taking minor edits or changes for most articles. Many things do not have new insights or new discoveries in generations. So the bulk of the articles don't need to be updated with latest and greatest, because they are already there.
So a decline in contributions is expected as it is now one of the great repositories of information.
Before making new stories they needed to identify to the viewers that they can make a movie that shows that they can do an effective Star Wars film. Sure it is filled the same story as the original story. But for the most part they had made it with characters that we can relate too and feel connected too. It felt it was a continuation of the story not some random crap to try to make it fit.
Star Wars isn't science fiction, it is a Space Opera, Science will be set aside as to make the plot and build the tension.
But Disney needed to prove that they can make Star Wars, they needed the first one to be safe, establish the characters, explain the universe, set the tone.
Now the question will be on the future episodes will we be seeing new stuff.
Yea how many desktop users really care about SystemD or not.
I tried it with and without it... No difference in my opinion, I was using Linux for a desktop, just as long as the distribution is correctly setup I was fine.
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