Well for people who are good at what they do an know it, will tend to have a bit of an ego about it. As well as it comes easy to them, having people who struggle at the work gets frustrating.
I have been considered as one of those Rockstar developers. And it is a constant challenge to make sure I am not talking down to people, or seeming to snotty.
They are very few scientific laws. Laws are fact. There are a lot of theories. Theories are educated guesses of how something should be, backed up by known and measured facts, that seems to match. Hypothesis are educated guesses that needs research to be backed up. But there isn't enough data to make any sort of conclusion.
The problem is the news media, jumps on all these Hypothesis and states them as theories, and theories as laws. So for all those Hypothesis after doing its testing found out to be false, Scientists say well it isn't that. The Fox new watching drone will say, look scientists can't make up their mind.
For theories, occasionally there is some new evidence that needs to tweak it. Then the news say, LOOK EVERY This theory that told everyone this is true is actually a full lie!!!
Well not necessary. If you use say Slackware, BSD, or something else. And that App uses some crazy library that other OS's or distributions don't add by default.
Now the configure && make does work most of the time. However often for those little home single developer projects sometime they just assume what is in their linux distro works for everything.
Well I would say you actually try to get a few binaries. Windows 32bit Windows 64bit a DEB package and RPM for Linux and OS X.
The problem with a lot of open source projects especially ones made by a single person. Is that when they code it, many don't really know which library are part of the standard set, and what is placed on the OS for your convenience.
So if someone tries to compile your program that you wrote in say Fedora and say used a library that isn't used in Debian. Then the Debian user who is going off of source code may get stuck. With a rather unhelpful error message because the OS really doesn't know where or what that Library is.
I had this problem back when Perl was popular. If I downloaded a Perl program, and tried to run it on Solaris, It would say oh you need this library and that library. Because it was coded on a system that used a Linux Distribution with a bunch of Perl defaults loaded while Solaris has the base Perl installed.
The real question is will the fingerprint will be good enough if you are hooked into an Exchange server with complex passwords set. If it works, then I may get one, if not. I will just use my current phone.
My first TV CRT I replaced because it made a high pitch whine that got very painful. Then I got a DLP rear projection. That worked for about 5 years then it started to give me stuck pixels (White and black) A lot of them, in a normal distribution from the left center. So now I am on an LCD. Hopefully LCD will last more then 5 years. I mean it is a TV you shouldn't need to swap them every few years.
However for a lot of Soldiers, they are in the military right out of High School. And they don't have a lot of study in law. There is a gap between. Kill all the civilians and their children and Bomb these locations where there are expected terrorists. There are details and a lot of stuff that goes on, there is an illegal order and an order you don't like. You choose wrong, and you end up in jail.
You just called the State of Californa a bunch of Luddites.
But that is the problem, people react without understanding things and wants to classify things in nice easy bins of Good and Bad.
GMO is often used to make the foods more pest resistant. Now this could be bad because our GMO foods have trace amounts of poison in them. GMO can be used to make the foods more nutritious. Now this is good, because we can get more nutrition per smaller farming area. Less water, Less land, less carbon.
You can also Use GMO to make Agriculture useful for non-food usage. I have heard about GMO corn used to make biodegradable plastic.
So what happens when the breaks do not respond the the pedal and the car ends up in a bad crash? who is at fault and what happens to the victims who have bills that are piling up while the courts are working out who will have to pay them.
If the communication error is from lack of maintenance, then it would be the owner and his insurance company. If it is from a defect in the system then it would be the manufacturer.
For most parts there should be a way for a person to take control if needed.
For example, today if we are writing a program, having it display an Image, is a piece of cake. While before you needed to do crazy steps like decode the format, populate a memory buffer then dump that buffer to the screen at the right location. Vs today something like image.src = "Images/test.png"; image.position = (10, 10); image.visible = true;
Sure it does all the hard stuff in the background, but we don't need to worry much about it anymore. Because of people who figured it out in the past, now gives us something common today.
Now why is this news... Well it is using cars that don't look like rejects from a 1950's sci-fi flick, and that is is getting common enough for other companies to get in, and not just those eccentric start-ups.
Why do you think when people get in political trouble, they will use their 5th amendment rights. Because if they are found innocent of the crime they will, then find some inconsistency with their story and get them jailed for perjury. Normally this tends to happen to Middle managers working for the government. If they get caught doing something, they were often the last ones to execute the order, after getting orders from many layers down.
Android still has a problem getting into the Business market. Nokia probably wanted to carve a niche of being more business friendly phone. Microsoft promised them that.
"Jokes about this kid getting hurt are about as funny as jokes about the Shuttle Columbia's last re-entry."
While in real life it is sad, but most of us are rather distant from the actual person. It explains the jokes, but doesn't excuse it.
But we have the Darwin awards and we laugh at them too, we often don't think of the guys family who is missing a loved one now, due to some bad decisions on his part.
We have jokes like What is a Rednecks last word "Hey Billy Bob!, Watch This!"...
The truth is life isn't Fair or Safe, and we humans don't always make good decisions all the time. People die in car accidents because, they were to impatient to look, or factor in the weather. People die from eating too much the wrong foods, or drinking the wrong drink. People die when inhale toxic smoke and fumes because it gives them a bit of a buzz.
Well like a lot of failures in the tech industry they get stuck on the idea. We are #1 at this so lets keep it up, Getting into something new will end up taking market share on what #1 makes. They play it safe and then they will slowly die.
Nokia was the #1 phone maker, because they made good phones for a decent price. Apple Came along with the iPhone and said. Hey you non-Business users, Check this out, a Smart Phone for you! and look at all these cool features you guys can get for a few hundred dollars more.
Apple took the risk, they could have failed, but they ended up making people to want to pay more for a smarter phone. This gave Apple a 2 year head start. The other phone makers who were trying to compete with Nokia, stopped that plan and started to compete with Apple. So in a few years Samsung, Motorola, etc... Caught up with help of Google's Android OS, which while was originally made for something else, but could quickly be modified to do what Apple does. During this Time Nokia was Happy to be #1 Phone maker, and even some growth as their competitors seem to stop competing with them. Then public opinion fully switched, normal phones seemed very outdated. So Nokia started loosing.
To try to catch up, they figured giving Microsoft OS a try might be enough to make them different enough to stand out. But Microsoft has its own image problem, and lack of apps, didn't work out right.
There are a lot of companies who make similar mistakes they are #1 so they are afraid of not being #1 anymore so they don't change to match demand.
Other examples (And yes there are other factors such as not getting good support from MS for the changes.): Staying as a DOS application for too long: Word Perfect, Lotus 123, DBase, FoxPro, Boreland Compilers
Staying stuck on a platform: Many OS's such as different Unix systems, VMS...
That our enemies are trying to stop or defense systems. My God, this leaked document has cleared my mind to the world! I though out enemies liked getting bombed from above. Man my world is soo off.
Lets bundle all the unpopular GNU products together to make one really unpopular one and try to make it sound like the greatest thing sense sliced bread.
Exactly, The USPS is loosing out to the Internet, for all the small stuff that it is really good at shipping to us. Letters, DVDs, and small packages. USPS can ship rather well. However most of these things is stuff the internet can do for less, and much much faster.
So their last breath is to try to make it easier for companies who are shipping media to ship stuff. As to keep their revenues going.
So $0.46 for a million DVDs is better then $1.00 for 25,000 DVDs. If they can keep these DVD sharing companies going strong, they can keep going for longer.
1 Hour, Things after a few hours start to move funny 2 Hours, I go for an hour or so, then I doze in and out for the rest of the day 3 Hours, I go a few hours, and blink out for a few minutes every half an hour 4 Hours, I can get threw the day, but I can't do much 5 Hours, I am am at reduced functionally 6 Hours, I can function during the day, but I am tired. 7 Hours, I am fine, however I am kinda grumpy 8 Hours, No problems 9 Hours, A lot of sleep and a LOT of energy 10 Hours, Too much sleep and I am kinda groggy 11 Hours of sleep I get Grumpy again 12 Hour a sleep I wander around like a zombie I spend the day like I just woke up.
When we get warfare type of actions, it is because society for the most part is saying Yes to the act.
The watching man in the sky will stop the individual, not the society. The problems we have is the society of the area is saying Yes to the act, then justifying religion as not to feel bad about it, to make sure the watching invisible man doesn't get angry.
Just as people use Religion to start wars, they use it as a reason to stop too.
It is OK if you don't believe in God, but don't think you are a better person because you do or do not, isn't the case.
So what if people go around thinking there is a God or not. If they are going to be just as crumby anyways.
You tweak any thing on the internet you are going to get a bunch of whiny complainers.
I have gotten complains back in my BBS days. Why have you switched to using color ANSI, ASCII text was so much faster. Why have you added an option to use RIP graphics, I don't want to download a new terminal emulator, but I want to see the new graphics. Your BBS is too slow for me using my 300bps modem. You have added a new door game, and you changed your menu to show it. Things look different I hate it.
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Didn't work for Linux
Well for people who are good at what they do an know it, will tend to have a bit of an ego about it. As well as it comes easy to them, having people who struggle at the work gets frustrating.
I have been considered as one of those Rockstar developers. And it is a constant challenge to make sure I am not talking down to people, or seeming to snotty.
Because RMS made it!!!
I think it is most likely due to the large set of OpenSource Apps written in GCC and people really don't want to risk trying a different compiler.
They are very few scientific laws.
Laws are fact.
There are a lot of theories.
Theories are educated guesses of how something should be, backed up by known and measured facts, that seems to match.
Hypothesis are educated guesses that needs research to be backed up. But there isn't enough data to make any sort of conclusion.
The problem is the news media, jumps on all these Hypothesis and states them as theories, and theories as laws.
So for all those Hypothesis after doing its testing found out to be false, Scientists say well it isn't that. The Fox new watching drone will say, look scientists can't make up their mind.
For theories, occasionally there is some new evidence that needs to tweak it. Then the news say, LOOK EVERY This theory that told everyone this is true is actually a full lie!!!
Well not necessary.
If you use say Slackware, BSD, or something else. And that App uses some crazy library that other OS's or distributions don't add by default.
Now the configure && make does work most of the time. However often for those little home single developer projects sometime they just assume what is in their linux distro works for everything.
Well I would say you actually try to get a few binaries.
Windows 32bit
Windows 64bit
a DEB package and RPM for Linux
and OS X.
The problem with a lot of open source projects especially ones made by a single person. Is that when they code it, many don't really know which library are part of the standard set, and what is placed on the OS for your convenience.
So if someone tries to compile your program that you wrote in say Fedora and say used a library that isn't used in Debian. Then the Debian user who is going off of source code may get stuck. With a rather unhelpful error message because the OS really doesn't know where or what that Library is.
I had this problem back when Perl was popular. If I downloaded a Perl program, and tried to run it on Solaris, It would say oh you need this library and that library. Because it was coded on a system that used a Linux Distribution with a bunch of Perl defaults loaded while Solaris has the base Perl installed.
The real question is will the fingerprint will be good enough if you are hooked into an Exchange server with complex passwords set. If it works, then I may get one, if not. I will just use my current phone.
You are using it wrong.
My first TV CRT I replaced because it made a high pitch whine that got very painful.
Then I got a DLP rear projection. That worked for about 5 years then it started to give me stuck pixels (White and black) A lot of them, in a normal distribution from the left center.
So now I am on an LCD. Hopefully LCD will last more then 5 years. I mean it is a TV you shouldn't need to swap them every few years.
I had to reluctantly upgrade mine. As I got so many dead pixels that I couldn't watch anything, it was like a power hungry radio.
No more DLP for me.
However for a lot of Soldiers, they are in the military right out of High School. And they don't have a lot of study in law.
There is a gap between.
Kill all the civilians and their children and Bomb these locations where there are expected terrorists.
There are details and a lot of stuff that goes on, there is an illegal order and an order you don't like.
You choose wrong, and you end up in jail.
You just called the State of Californa a bunch of Luddites.
But that is the problem, people react without understanding things and wants to classify things in nice easy bins of Good and Bad.
GMO is often used to make the foods more pest resistant. Now this could be bad because our GMO foods have trace amounts of poison in them.
GMO can be used to make the foods more nutritious. Now this is good, because we can get more nutrition per smaller farming area. Less water, Less land, less carbon.
You can also Use GMO to make Agriculture useful for non-food usage. I have heard about GMO corn used to make biodegradable plastic.
So what happens when the breaks do not respond the the pedal and the car ends up in a bad crash? who is at fault and what happens to the victims who have bills that are piling up while the courts are working out who will have to pay them.
If the communication error is from lack of maintenance, then it would be the owner and his insurance company. If it is from a defect in the system then it would be the manufacturer.
For most parts there should be a way for a person to take control if needed.
Well that is the nature of technology.
For example, today if we are writing a program, having it display an Image, is a piece of cake. While before you needed to do crazy steps like decode the format, populate a memory buffer then dump that buffer to the screen at the right location. Vs today something like
image.src = "Images/test.png";
image.position = (10, 10);
image.visible = true;
Sure it does all the hard stuff in the background, but we don't need to worry much about it anymore. Because of people who figured it out in the past, now gives us something common today.
Now why is this news... Well it is using cars that don't look like rejects from a 1950's sci-fi flick, and that is is getting common enough for other companies to get in, and not just those eccentric start-ups.
Why do you think when people get in political trouble, they will use their 5th amendment rights. Because if they are found innocent of the crime they will, then find some inconsistency with their story and get them jailed for perjury. Normally this tends to happen to Middle managers working for the government. If they get caught doing something, they were often the last ones to execute the order, after getting orders from many layers down.
Android still has a problem getting into the Business market. Nokia probably wanted to carve a niche of being more business friendly phone. Microsoft promised them that.
"Jokes about this kid getting hurt are about as funny as jokes about the Shuttle Columbia's last re-entry."
While in real life it is sad, but most of us are rather distant from the actual person. It explains the jokes, but doesn't excuse it.
But we have the Darwin awards and we laugh at them too, we often don't think of the guys family who is missing a loved one now, due to some bad decisions on his part.
We have jokes like What is a Rednecks last word "Hey Billy Bob!, Watch This!"...
The truth is life isn't Fair or Safe, and we humans don't always make good decisions all the time.
People die in car accidents because, they were to impatient to look, or factor in the weather.
People die from eating too much the wrong foods, or drinking the wrong drink.
People die when inhale toxic smoke and fumes because it gives them a bit of a buzz.
Well like a lot of failures in the tech industry they get stuck on the idea.
We are #1 at this so lets keep it up, Getting into something new will end up taking market share on what #1 makes.
They play it safe and then they will slowly die.
Nokia was the #1 phone maker, because they made good phones for a decent price.
Apple Came along with the iPhone and said. Hey you non-Business users, Check this out, a Smart Phone for you! and look at all these cool features you guys can get for a few hundred dollars more.
Apple took the risk, they could have failed, but they ended up making people to want to pay more for a smarter phone. This gave Apple a 2 year head start. The other phone makers who were trying to compete with Nokia, stopped that plan and started to compete with Apple. So in a few years Samsung, Motorola, etc... Caught up with help of Google's Android OS, which while was originally made for something else, but could quickly be modified to do what Apple does. During this Time Nokia was Happy to be #1 Phone maker, and even some growth as their competitors seem to stop competing with them. Then public opinion fully switched, normal phones seemed very outdated. So Nokia started loosing.
To try to catch up, they figured giving Microsoft OS a try might be enough to make them different enough to stand out. But Microsoft has its own image problem, and lack of apps, didn't work out right.
There are a lot of companies who make similar mistakes they are #1 so they are afraid of not being #1 anymore so they don't change to match demand.
Other examples (And yes there are other factors such as not getting good support from MS for the changes.):
Staying as a DOS application for too long:
Word Perfect, Lotus 123, DBase, FoxPro, Boreland Compilers
Staying stuck on a platform:
Many OS's such as different Unix systems, VMS...
That our enemies are trying to stop or defense systems. My God, this leaked document has cleared my mind to the world!
I though out enemies liked getting bombed from above. Man my world is soo off.
Lets bundle all the unpopular GNU products together to make one really unpopular one and try to make it sound like the greatest thing sense sliced bread.
Exactly,
The USPS is loosing out to the Internet, for all the small stuff that it is really good at shipping to us. Letters, DVDs, and small packages. USPS can ship rather well. However most of these things is stuff the internet can do for less, and much much faster.
So their last breath is to try to make it easier for companies who are shipping media to ship stuff. As to keep their revenues going.
So $0.46 for a million DVDs is better then $1.00 for 25,000 DVDs. If they can keep these DVD sharing companies going strong, they can keep going for longer.
That is for the XBox One, but not for the PS4
1 Hour, Things after a few hours start to move funny
2 Hours, I go for an hour or so, then I doze in and out for the rest of the day
3 Hours, I go a few hours, and blink out for a few minutes every half an hour
4 Hours, I can get threw the day, but I can't do much
5 Hours, I am am at reduced functionally
6 Hours, I can function during the day, but I am tired.
7 Hours, I am fine, however I am kinda grumpy
8 Hours, No problems
9 Hours, A lot of sleep and a LOT of energy
10 Hours, Too much sleep and I am kinda groggy
11 Hours of sleep I get Grumpy again
12 Hour a sleep I wander around like a zombie I spend the day like I just woke up.
When we get warfare type of actions, it is because society for the most part is saying Yes to the act.
The watching man in the sky will stop the individual, not the society. The problems we have is the society of the area is saying Yes to the act, then justifying religion as not to feel bad about it, to make sure the watching invisible man doesn't get angry.
Just as people use Religion to start wars, they use it as a reason to stop too.
It is OK if you don't believe in God, but don't think you are a better person because you do or do not, isn't the case.
So what if people go around thinking there is a God or not. If they are going to be just as crumby anyways.
Heck people will be happy with Geocities again.
People hate change. But people need change.
You tweak any thing on the internet you are going to get a bunch of whiny complainers.
I have gotten complains back in my BBS days.
Why have you switched to using color ANSI, ASCII text was so much faster.
Why have you added an option to use RIP graphics, I don't want to download a new terminal emulator, but I want to see the new graphics.
Your BBS is too slow for me using my 300bps modem.
You have added a new door game, and you changed your menu to show it. Things look different I hate it.