We really need to get off our nostalgia kick. Nostalgia isn't productive. The edgy funny shows of the past are now cliche and these attempt to bring them back will only fail to impress, as we look at these new shows now with our more experienced eyes. Red Dwarf was an excellent show. But we shouldn't bring it back. They had a few episodes made a couple years ago, and the show had lost its edge. The main characters are getting old, they really don't have the same appeal for the shenanigans they did 20 years ago. Bringing it back even with excellent writers won't save it.
Same with Mystery Science Theater 3000 (I am not going to abbreviate it, at it took me 10 minutes to figure out what the heck they were talking about) When it was new it was good. Today not so. You want you commentary on stuff go to sites such as channel awesome But this bringing back the things that we loved in our childhood - early adult just isn't cutting it anymore. New episodes will not have the same charm any more. Because we don't get charmed the same way any more. As a Kid, I Loved Star Trek, as an adult, I like it on a nostalgic kick, but not in the same way. The reason why Voyager and Enterprise didn't appeal to me, isn't about bad writing direction or acting. But the fact as I got older my tastes changed, what is new and exciting became predictable. Now I may watch a new show (or even an older show that I haven't seen before) and get interested in it, but after it is done reboots and spin offs appeal less.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Has been replaced with You-Tube commentaries. The fact that there are two Puppets giving commentary will not add much, compared to the variety of quality that we can get online.
The more senior Senators and Representatives have been beaten down over the years so they are more willing to compromise and work across the party lines. Knowing that by doing so they will get part of their agenda out vs none of it.
The new guys are out to try to change everything to their way, if they show any type of compromise that is a form of weakness against the enemy which is the opposing party. The American System does have Checks and balances and rules to help favor the slight minority. So you assume everyone gets kicked out, and we have a grand elections... That somehow your particular party will win the major majority and the world will be a good and happy place...
Sure it would be more popular with Kids, because it is the platform with all the games. Back in them good old days before mobile devices, parents gave kids designer name brand clothing, shoes designed for sport stars, and that Cabbage Patch Kid better have that logo somewhere or your child will be shamed. The fact that kids use it doesn't mean it is less premium, but the fact the parents are willing to pay extra so their kids can have the best, and not be ridiculed for not being on top of the latest name brands. Yes I am a bit traumatized from my childhood, but I think my point still stands.
Is iOS more profitable: iOS are often known as premium system. So they have some extra money they want to pay for this preseved premium. So they will be more willing to pay for such apps. Plus many are still from the iPod days and still have an account to the Apple Store to get their music. Android users are less likely to pay for an app and not give out financial data again.
Is android harder to support: iPhone and iPad are the biggest brand of any one company. Android has a bunch of manufactures and different sizes and specs. Not that it is a bad thing, but for game developers having a smaller set of requirements makes it easier to make an optimized game.
Is code portable: In games not so much. Portability is a performance trade off. For those boring B2B apps no big deal as you can just put more money into a faster back end. But for games most of the work in on your device, and split second lags in a game are noticeable and annoying. So they need optimized code.
Does iOS have more hardware resources? Yes and no. When a device is released it is top of the line. Next month and the months following competitors release their newest stuff which is more advance then apple. There may be some advantages Apple keeps but hardware specs fluctuates compared to the others. However apples smaller product line means less of a difference between. The end of support iPhone 4s and the newly coming iPhone 6s. While low end androids may be comparable to the iPhone 3G and the high end ones on par if not better then the 6s
No gambling isn't banned, they failed to pay off the politicians. There are numerous gambling sites in NY. All very politically motivated and connected.
Price for medical services are based on the cost of living in the zip code where they bill from. Then each procedure they perform has a different price. That is why a lot of doctors bills will have a bill to address in a major city.
I keep on hearing about IT Union. But how many IT firms are there. Google is an advertising company, Apple makes hardware. Most of us in IT work in some sector, health care, government, manufacturing... Some of the jobs do have unions, most don't. We can possibly form a trade union like a plumber. However plumbers are also just in plumbing companies. And are contracted to work at different locations. So IT jobs will be more like consultants. And our job will be more at risk as for the most part we will be working independently
Except finger prints are good agains blanket attacks. They will suck at a targeted attack. Such as someone who really wants to get onto my device. However most problems in security including bad passwords is the ability for someone to remotely hack into your system who doesn't know or care who you are.
So yes someone who is tracking me down can break in and steal my fingerprint. But that is very personal. Especially as such devices that read finger prints are mobile and are more often then not on my person. But if the data for my fingerprint is complex enough it will be hard via a brute force attack to get in.
Normally unlimited in terms of normal use. Downloading more movies then you could possible watch. Hosting a site/torrent off of a reseduntal site.
There is just going overboard. Normally unlimited means you will have an expected amount then if you go over it a bit one month it is no big deal. The expected amount is probably based off of say a few hours of Netflix and some you tube with perhaps 16 hours of streaming music.
Higher paper and consumables. Data is sent as image making it harder to index and catalog. The mechanics of scanning analog sending and printing can cause a lot of errors in the stream. Poor quality means less detail or bigger text. Having to translate a bad fax.
Facing sucks. I work at a hospital I know. It is hard to force people off the habit.
They are negititve trade offs too. A big symptom of autism is the inability to adapt to change. This adaptability to change is one of our key evolutionary advantages. In a world where the effects of global warming is happening we really can't afford a society that is unable to change. Sure they may be good at STEM jobs now, but what happens when they get older and the methods and technology have been altered. A baby boomer with autism may get a job as a mainframe system administrator. He may still have a job today, but increasingly threatened as such systems are being retired. Combining autism with older age will make it nearly impossible for him to transisition to deal with a distributed server farm. Even though they may not be that different to people with a lower autism spectrum, to him it would be like changing you career from a system administrator to a marketing manager.
They are a lot of talented techs without autism or score very low where they they can perform just as well without the baggage.
Now this doesn't mean we should outcast these people, but to say they are our next evolutionary step seems like it would lead us to a dead end like the Neanderthal. (Where they are some interesting hypothesis that the Neaderthal had many autistic like tendencies. Large brains and very focused, however not so good at adapting to change)
I think it was more due to really bad advertising from IBM. I remember OS/2 Warp Commercials, I was computer savvy enough to know OS/2 was an Operating system. Others at that time had no idea what they were trying to sell. Just a bunch of psychedelic colors and people looking amazed at the screen... Without actually showing the OS or its features. Microsoft actually showed the product and what new features it could do, although many of such features were inferior to what OS/2 can do, people actually could see them.
was is the key word here. OS/2 has been out of commission for so long. That I don't see any benefit of starting it back up again, other than for fun. But I wouldn't expect there will be any wide acceptance. Because it will behave a lot like the old version, and be dated, or if it were updated it wouldn't be distinguished as OS/2. Compare Windows 3.1 with Windows 10 or try to release a major Desktop Linux distribution with FVWM as the default Windows manager.
The problem is with internal IT, is that if there is an issue, then there is someone within the organization to blame. The really hard jobs would go to the best employee, if it fails, then they will need to fire their best employee, or someone up the food chain if he kept adequate documents, stating that he said it was a stupid idea. If you outsource, then if something goes wrong, you just raise your arms up and say, "Well if these supposed experts can't do it right, then no one can" and if there is a big failure, then you just switch to another company after the contract expires.
Outsourcing is a symptom of a bad corporate culture. Where you either don't trust your internal staff, or afraid of repercussions from any mistake made.
We need laws to limit rights when they are shown that are being abused. Making laws on new technology is a waste, because how the technology will be used and abused isn't fully known or understood.
I am guessing it would be EMACS protesting the fact that it isn't a perfect world, is more of a GNU thing. Vs. the BSD licence that vi uses, which realizes the world isn't perfect and tries its best to offer a more welcoming approach.
HP allowed Woz to sell the Apple computer. Some think that HP should be kicking themselves, they were in the opportunity to lead the home PC revolution. However the consumer market wasn't HP focus. If they were to go with the personal computer chances are they would have failed at it, because that wasn't their market. They wouldn't have been able to sell small quantities like they did with the Apple I, as well offer the right amount of personal marking touch that only Jobs can do.
It isn't like anyone is using HURD in production. It would make spence to use tools that offer the best ability. Vs cantering to the get off my lawn approach.
No it isn't about encourage apple products. It is about realizing popular software, and making sure that update on it are well regulated and at a single point.
In debian, I try to make sure I have all my apps in some sort of APT repository, so updates are part of one action.
I blame Microsoft, more than Apple. Qucktime and Java, were Microsoft's biggest threats at one time, so Microsoft did little to embrace such tools, and actively went to making them suck on the windows environment. Forcing Apple and Sun (now Oracle) to get creative on distribution of its software. Microsoft could had realized that these competing software was popular on their platform, and it may be a good idea, to allow Apple and Sun/Oracle to post updates straight to Microsoft so it would be part of the standard Windows update. But they didn't go that route, so Both Apple and Sun/Oracle have a separate update tool installed on each PC, That will go off at unexpected time, and also be that one process that you don't need so you remove it.
Boomer mindset is also the idea after they find a job where they are content at, they should stay there. They got that job in the 1980's on the mainframe system. That mainframe while the hardware was upgraded in the 1990's is still about the same. They kept it going in the year 2000 as to pay for the investment of all those y2k upgrades. Now it is 2015, 35 years of doing the same job, and now they expect them to drop COBOL and learn Java or.NET, VTxxx or 3270 forms are now web pages. The grand mega mainframe is now a set of distributed servers, some may not be under your control at all and ran via the cloud. You got by 30+ years doing the job you liked, but they also failed to think ahead and hoped to ride out the lifespan of the technology with the lifespan of their careers.
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We really need to get off our nostalgia kick. Nostalgia isn't productive. The edgy funny shows of the past are now cliche and these attempt to bring them back will only fail to impress, as we look at these new shows now with our more experienced eyes.
Red Dwarf was an excellent show. But we shouldn't bring it back. They had a few episodes made a couple years ago, and the show had lost its edge. The main characters are getting old, they really don't have the same appeal for the shenanigans they did 20 years ago. Bringing it back even with excellent writers won't save it.
Same with Mystery Science Theater 3000 (I am not going to abbreviate it, at it took me 10 minutes to figure out what the heck they were talking about) When it was new it was good. Today not so. You want you commentary on stuff go to sites such as channel awesome But this bringing back the things that we loved in our childhood - early adult just isn't cutting it anymore. New episodes will not have the same charm any more. Because we don't get charmed the same way any more.
As a Kid, I Loved Star Trek, as an adult, I like it on a nostalgic kick, but not in the same way. The reason why Voyager and Enterprise didn't appeal to me, isn't about bad writing direction or acting. But the fact as I got older my tastes changed, what is new and exciting became predictable. Now I may watch a new show (or even an older show that I haven't seen before) and get interested in it, but after it is done reboots and spin offs appeal less.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Has been replaced with You-Tube commentaries. The fact that there are two Puppets giving commentary will not add much, compared to the variety of quality that we can get online.
What is a light weight HTMl5 compliant browser? That runs well on low end systems?
What is to make the replacements to be better?
The more senior Senators and Representatives have been beaten down over the years so they are more willing to compromise and work across the party lines. Knowing that by doing so they will get part of their agenda out vs none of it.
The new guys are out to try to change everything to their way, if they show any type of compromise that is a form of weakness against the enemy which is the opposing party. The American System does have Checks and balances and rules to help favor the slight minority.
So you assume everyone gets kicked out, and we have a grand elections... That somehow your particular party will win the major majority and the world will be a good and happy place...
Sure it would be more popular with Kids, because it is the platform with all the games. Back in them good old days before mobile devices, parents gave kids designer name brand clothing, shoes designed for sport stars, and that Cabbage Patch Kid better have that logo somewhere or your child will be shamed. The fact that kids use it doesn't mean it is less premium, but the fact the parents are willing to pay extra so their kids can have the best, and not be ridiculed for not being on top of the latest name brands.
Yes I am a bit traumatized from my childhood, but I think my point still stands.
Is iOS more profitable: iOS are often known as premium system. So they have some extra money they want to pay for this preseved premium. So they will be more willing to pay for such apps. Plus many are still from the iPod days and still have an account to the Apple Store to get their music. Android users are less likely to pay for an app and not give out financial data again.
Is android harder to support: iPhone and iPad are the biggest brand of any one company. Android has a bunch of manufactures and different sizes and specs. Not that it is a bad thing, but for game developers having a smaller set of requirements makes it easier to make an optimized game.
Is code portable: In games not so much. Portability is a performance trade off. For those boring B2B apps no big deal as you can just put more money into a faster back end. But for games most of the work in on your device, and split second lags in a game are noticeable and annoying. So they need optimized code.
Does iOS have more hardware resources? Yes and no. When a device is released it is top of the line. Next month and the months following competitors release their newest stuff which is more advance then apple. There may be some advantages Apple keeps but hardware specs fluctuates compared to the others. However apples smaller product line means less of a difference between. The end of support iPhone 4s and the newly coming iPhone 6s. While low end androids may be comparable to the iPhone 3G and the high end ones on par if not better then the 6s
No gambling isn't banned, they failed to pay off the politicians.
There are numerous gambling sites in NY. All very politically motivated and connected.
Price for medical services are based on the cost of living in the zip code where they bill from. Then each procedure they perform has a different price.
That is why a lot of doctors bills will have a bill to address in a major city.
I keep on hearing about IT Union. But how many IT firms are there.
Google is an advertising company, Apple makes hardware. Most of us in IT work in some sector, health care, government, manufacturing... Some of the jobs do have unions, most don't.
We can possibly form a trade union like a plumber. However plumbers are also just in plumbing companies. And are contracted to work at different locations. So IT jobs will be more like consultants. And our job will be more at risk as for the most part we will be working independently
Except finger prints are good agains blanket attacks. They will suck at a targeted attack. Such as someone who really wants to get onto my device. However most problems in security including bad passwords is the ability for someone to remotely hack into your system who doesn't know or care who you are.
So yes someone who is tracking me down can break in and steal my fingerprint. But that is very personal. Especially as such devices that read finger prints are mobile and are more often then not on my person. But if the data for my fingerprint is complex enough it will be hard via a brute force attack to get in.
Normally unlimited in terms of normal use.
Downloading more movies then you could possible watch. Hosting a site/torrent off of a reseduntal site.
There is just going overboard. Normally unlimited means you will have an expected amount then if you go over it a bit one month it is no big deal. The expected amount is probably based off of say a few hours of Netflix and some you tube with perhaps 16 hours of streaming music.
Higher paper and consumables.
Data is sent as image making it harder to index and catalog.
The mechanics of scanning analog sending and printing can cause a lot of errors in the stream.
Poor quality means less detail or bigger text.
Having to translate a bad fax.
Facing sucks. I work at a hospital I know. It is hard to force people off the habit.
They are negititve trade offs too. A big symptom of autism is the inability to adapt to change. This adaptability to change is one of our key evolutionary advantages. In a world where the effects of global warming is happening we really can't afford a society that is unable to change.
Sure they may be good at STEM jobs now, but what happens when they get older and the methods and technology have been altered.
A baby boomer with autism may get a job as a mainframe system administrator. He may still have a job today, but increasingly threatened as such systems are being retired. Combining autism with older age will make it nearly impossible for him to transisition to deal with a distributed server farm. Even though they may not be that different to people with a lower autism spectrum, to him it would be like changing you career from a system administrator to a marketing manager.
They are a lot of talented techs without autism or score very low where they they can perform just as well without the baggage.
Now this doesn't mean we should outcast these people, but to say they are our next evolutionary step seems like it would lead us to a dead end like the Neanderthal. (Where they are some interesting hypothesis that the Neaderthal had many autistic like tendencies. Large brains and very focused, however not so good at adapting to change)
I think it was more due to really bad advertising from IBM. I remember OS/2 Warp Commercials, I was computer savvy enough to know OS/2 was an Operating system. Others at that time had no idea what they were trying to sell. Just a bunch of psychedelic colors and people looking amazed at the screen... Without actually showing the OS or its features.
Microsoft actually showed the product and what new features it could do, although many of such features were inferior to what OS/2 can do, people actually could see them.
was is the key word here. OS/2 has been out of commission for so long. That I don't see any benefit of starting it back up again, other than for fun. But I wouldn't expect there will be any wide acceptance. Because it will behave a lot like the old version, and be dated, or if it were updated it wouldn't be distinguished as OS/2. Compare Windows 3.1 with Windows 10 or try to release a major Desktop Linux distribution with FVWM as the default Windows manager.
The problem is with internal IT, is that if there is an issue, then there is someone within the organization to blame. The really hard jobs would go to the best employee, if it fails, then they will need to fire their best employee, or someone up the food chain if he kept adequate documents, stating that he said it was a stupid idea.
If you outsource, then if something goes wrong, you just raise your arms up and say, "Well if these supposed experts can't do it right, then no one can" and if there is a big failure, then you just switch to another company after the contract expires.
Outsourcing is a symptom of a bad corporate culture. Where you either don't trust your internal staff, or afraid of repercussions from any mistake made.
We need laws to limit rights when they are shown that are being abused. Making laws on new technology is a waste, because how the technology will be used and abused isn't fully known or understood.
I am guessing it would be EMACS protesting the fact that it isn't a perfect world, is more of a GNU thing. Vs. the BSD licence that vi uses, which realizes the world isn't perfect and tries its best to offer a more welcoming approach.
So they are low level internet trolls. Gotcha!
Growth without focus.
HP allowed Woz to sell the Apple computer. Some think that HP should be kicking themselves, they were in the opportunity to lead the home PC revolution. However the consumer market wasn't HP focus. If they were to go with the personal computer chances are they would have failed at it, because that wasn't their market. They wouldn't have been able to sell small quantities like they did with the Apple I, as well offer the right amount of personal marking touch that only Jobs can do.
It isn't like anyone is using HURD in production. It would make spence to use tools that offer the best ability. Vs cantering to the get off my lawn approach.
No it isn't about encourage apple products. It is about realizing popular software, and making sure that update on it are well regulated and at a single point.
In debian, I try to make sure I have all my apps in some sort of APT repository, so updates are part of one action.
I blame Microsoft, more than Apple.
Qucktime and Java, were Microsoft's biggest threats at one time, so Microsoft did little to embrace such tools, and actively went to making them suck on the windows environment. Forcing Apple and Sun (now Oracle) to get creative on distribution of its software. Microsoft could had realized that these competing software was popular on their platform, and it may be a good idea, to allow Apple and Sun/Oracle to post updates straight to Microsoft so it would be part of the standard Windows update. But they didn't go that route, so Both Apple and Sun/Oracle have a separate update tool installed on each PC, That will go off at unexpected time, and also be that one process that you don't need so you remove it.
I am so angry, just like when Kings Quest 5 stopped supporting CGA Graphics cards!
There is a difference of known what is happening underneath the hood vs. having to recreate it every time.
Boomer mindset is also the idea after they find a job where they are content at, they should stay there. They got that job in the 1980's on the mainframe system. That mainframe while the hardware was upgraded in the 1990's is still about the same. They kept it going in the year 2000 as to pay for the investment of all those y2k upgrades. Now it is 2015, 35 years of doing the same job, and now they expect them to drop COBOL and learn Java or .NET, VTxxx or 3270 forms are now web pages. The grand mega mainframe is now a set of distributed servers, some may not be under your control at all and ran via the cloud.
You got by 30+ years doing the job you liked, but they also failed to think ahead and hoped to ride out the lifespan of the technology with the lifespan of their careers.