Linux will often not have some of the extra polish that you will see in Windows or in OS X When awaking from sleep, my menu options in Gnome may be garbled. Sometime a task that you would expect to click and drag to fix will not be there. Request for features or improvements will often lead to "You have the source, fix it yourself!" So even if I do fix it myself, perhaps taking hours or days of my work, only for my patch to go away in the next update from the mainline, trying to post my fix to be included in the branch, only to get rejected because they don't like how I handle curly braces, or such feature will slow down something else (that I may not use). Or having to maintain a separate fork of a product, just for one feature disagreement.
If you are big into [choose any topic] and want to do new and interesting things [in such named topic] then then the normal consumer version of [tool used in such topic] is often not well designed in your goal of doing the interesting thing you want to do [in topic]
While we may want a mobile phone that we can modify to to run a company server enabling such features will only cause the general public to install malware and infect the wireless network. They are better off saying these are the Apps you got, so be happy with them. vs. giving them a tool not meant for what they want to do, and opening the door for much more problems with the consumer market.
A Honda Civic isn't a good car if you are interested in racing or offload driving. However it may be a good fit, if you just want to get from point A to point B in basic comfort. A 40 key midi keyboard isn't a good instrument if you are into classical piano. However if you are learning to play, or just want something to tinker with, or are doing some other work such as music editing. Then it may be a better fit. A generic brand hammer isn't good if you are carpenter. However if you just need to get a nail in a block of wood, then you should be fine.
People will often spend a lot of money for "Professional" tools, while they lack the skills to use them, and they are much better off with the consumer version. As they may be designed to be more generically used and require less maintenance, as they have a lower tolerance level for accuracy, but you will never know because you are not an expert.
Back in them olden days the average Joe didn't have access to multiple sources. However what is affecting peoples ability to learn about what is going on, is the media's attempt to simplify the information too much. The headline seem to be the article now. Vs just a title to we know what we are going to read about.
The problem is the energy and agriculture sector is so far apart from the free market. There is so much government subsidies to energy that it makes it more affordable vs the true cost.
True Capitalism would let countries die from starvation and freezing to death, because the supply and cost of materials to survive would exceed the wages of the business, due to excessive human supply.
Glasses are in fashion now. They wern't so 20 years ago.
Glasses use to be for old folks or nerds. If you needed your vision corrected, most people would choose contact lenses or laser surgery just to avoid the stigma.
As someone who was wearing glasses from a time there was a stigma, it has became second nature, and they are so much obtrusive.
Being that people were getting assaulted for wearing google glasses. There is still a lot of work for augmented reality that is needed. VR and AR are nearly the same technology, with the exception of a camera showing you the real world, and display overlapping it, vs. replacing it with something else. Technically you can augment reality so much, that it becomes virtual reality.
As far as investors are concerned, if Satan can get the product out the door and return on their investments they are good with it.
Often what happens is an idea made by a tech guy who has little business experience, tries selling the product for much less then it is worth. To only find that that they can't keep it up. Then a business guy goes in and shoots up the price, but makes the company more stable, however the customers are now annoyed that they will have to pay twice as much as they expected.
Price is more then the cost of labor and materials.
There is too much interaction between these groups. of 150. This would create cultural silos, Where they would be competing against each other vs sharing with each other. If you work for a large business, which works like this, and you find friction between IT vs Finance or HR.
Actually the scores do matter and critics do useful work.
But it isn't an exact science and they can get things wrong. Critics have to watch mountains of stuff all the time, That popular stoner movie may had got such a low review because they had watch 4 other similar ones before. However to the movie goers it was a big hit.
However there is too much stuff for us to view, and reviews and scores help us weed through shows. If there is a show that you want to watch don't like the score affect you, go ahead and watch it. But if you not caring, you might as well sort by review score, chances are you will get something better.
Now the score is only part of the review. If you are going to be critical about watching a show, then you should actually read the review, the actual text on how it is scored may mean the difference if you would want to watch it or not.
It will depend on how bad that first episode is. Normally the first few episodes are setting the stage, getting the characters in their spot, and the Universe they live in set. Right now shows with story arch are kinda popular, but still the first few episodes may be, well, episodic, with events not really playing into the next episode as much, a bad guy of the week, a problem that get resolved in a neat little package, this can create some annoying first episodes, but they do make us understand the character and universe. For us to get really hooked on what else is going on.
That said if the first episode completely bores me or worst I get offended by it. I am not going to watch it.
Television has the same problems that books, movies, music, video games... Any art form or media meant for general populations consumption.
The sweet spot for the best coverage is targeting people with a slightly below average IQ (Understandable by people with an 8th grade education) At this level it will not go over peoples head, or seem to complex or preachy, however normally smart enough to stay interesting enough for people with average and above average IQs.
Normally for the people who are nostalgic on how things were so much better, often look back to the Media available back when they are in their early teens. The stuff that came before it which your parents were nostalgic for seemed dated and didn't get with the issues of the time, the stuff after that seems just to be a rehashing of the same story only with the trends that are popular today. The shock value of the stuff when you were a teenage, showed how we started really bucking it to the man, while the stuff today is just gross or stupid stuff you just don't want to watch.
Now I am going to get a boat loads of comments on some one got really interested in some older school media, and learned to love it, and some people who may actually like the newer stuff better then the crap we had at our early teen age years. However as we age and learn to become more selective, for the stuff in the past that is so interesting, you can normally get a collection of a few decades best and brightest stuff into an easily manage collection (The top hits of the 40's, 50's and 60's) Which makes those boomers seem like they were at the golden age. while there is 30 years of crap stuff that wouldn't make it. Then people who are interested in the new stuff their time is more valuable, so if they are not interested in it they just won't watch it.
General media is not a replacement for an education system. Watching the Discovery or History channel will not get you close to getting a PHD. At best it will be a refresher of some of the stuff taught in middle school that you may have forgotten because you didn't work with it.
More to the point. Why are we finding reasons to punish people? We spend billions of dollars to find reasons to be cruel to people. For some things you can just ask the person to stop and they will, you don’t need to make a big deal over it. Just so you can be cruel to the person who made a mistake.
The goal to civilization is too. 1. Keep people alive 2. Keep people productive
We learned to group with other people often with diverse needs and skills to provide protection for the hazards of the world. A mammoth could feed 100 people. A dozen of the strogest and fastest could take a mammoth down. But after that hunt they will be worn out. So we have other people who is foot at prepping the food cooking it. Then you need to feed children who will be needed to replace these roles. Other people will be needed to help create fire, build and maintain structure.... then when they get to a particular size you need people to try to distribute the needs equally...
Today’s culture are extremely advanced. Capitalism and free market is still a good way to manage many aspects of such a culture without micromanage everyone’s lives.
But the days of old where a culture of 100 people can be managed by a chief people were actually treated more equally without money but more of a meritocracy that we seem to strive for. Because the cost of not using people for what they are best at can cause death.
Exactly while development isn’t cheap, it can be made up with volume. But with that volume there is a huge amount of support that will be demanded. We can’t just sell an app for $0.25 expecting to reap in money. Because applications are never done. There are fixes patches security fixes... and people would rather pay a fixed amount or a subscription vs being nickeled and dimed for every fix and second of support.
Stop thinking it’s cost to produce relates to its price. I just got some pork chops for less then $2.00 for my family dinner. Farmers are currently selling pork at a loss, because of trade sanctions. Also I will get things that may cost pennies to make are marked up very high because it may be more difficult to get the skills to make it and sell it.
While the cost of books is cheaper electronically there is a full infrastructure behind keeping that book available.
there is some additional things as well. A modern "Premium" Phone has an HD-4k display So up to 32 Megs can be used just for a background image. Then being a Java like App there is a lot of overhead vs being compiled in a straight Assembly. Because otherwise you LG phone vs your Samsung phone just may not work.
I had it crashed often with a bad floppy was inserted, or a poorly made TSR was in play. Sometimes it would crash if I held down a key for too long, as the keyboard repeat action was faster then what the computer could handle.
However those who didn't have hard disks at the time. Often when running a program after quitting out you will "Insert a disk with command.com" because most of DOS was overwritten by the application.
That said, windows would normally run fine just as long as you don't run any application either.
The real problem is everyone is talking but no one is listening. So to be heard they talk louder and try to be more shocking to get attention. The one who gets attention is listed to. But only the most outrageous arguments are being heard, so for those who oppose those ideas will either go as far in the other direction or just not listen causing such escalation. From Free Speech of idea sharing, to trolling.
Free Speech has moved from long conversations of opposing ideas, to bumper sticker slogans. Not all ideas will have a consensus, not all view points are right. But we have fallen into such tribalism we are seeing the opposite party as these evil goblins who are out to kill our way of lives.
Why do we try so hard to try to justify being cruel to other people? People spend years digging in books from recent to thousands of years to come up with a justification to be cruel to that person who is different.
Except the fact that IRC and Usenet was like getting an open firehose of information especially on popular boards. Social Media you just get a garden hose, where can control the nozzle.
1. Not all Apps in Linux are open source. 2. Compiling on slow systems can take a long time. 3. Compiling isn't always easy. 4. Source code doesn't guarantee compatibility. (or be readable enough to be fixed)
"but it's lighter and almost functionally equivalent."
Almost is the key problem. Anyone with any Software development experience knows getting that last 1% of functionality takes 90% of the time and effort. Often a lot of space and resources.
ReactOS also doesn't have the target audience of a general computer user. There are tiny details that can be left out, because it doesn't effect compatibility. The bloat such has to display a file icon while may seem silly for you as the default is good enough. But having upgraded my system with a 4k display, I found the defaults need to be changed to make the screen usable. Having the bloat to properly expand graphics and text so everything fits is important, because otherwise it would be impossible to use the newer system. Without scaling Standard Text with a 10px by 10px character is the size of a pixel on the old CGA-VGA graphics mode of 320x240. Heck with a the extended ASCII Set you can probably in Textmode duplicate 640x480 display.
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So Linux which is known for being a Command Line driven interface, works best on systems that do not have keyboards attached.
Linux will often not have some of the extra polish that you will see in Windows or in OS X
When awaking from sleep, my menu options in Gnome may be garbled. Sometime a task that you would expect to click and drag to fix will not be there. Request for features or improvements will often lead to "You have the source, fix it yourself!"
So even if I do fix it myself, perhaps taking hours or days of my work, only for my patch to go away in the next update from the mainline, trying to post my fix to be included in the branch, only to get rejected because they don't like how I handle curly braces, or such feature will slow down something else (that I may not use). Or having to maintain a separate fork of a product, just for one feature disagreement.
If you are big into [choose any topic] and want to do new and interesting things [in such named topic] then then the normal consumer version of [tool used in such topic] is often not well designed in your goal of doing the interesting thing you want to do [in topic]
While we may want a mobile phone that we can modify to to run a company server enabling such features will only cause the general public to install malware and infect the wireless network. They are better off saying these are the Apps you got, so be happy with them. vs. giving them a tool not meant for what they want to do, and opening the door for much more problems with the consumer market.
A Honda Civic isn't a good car if you are interested in racing or offload driving. However it may be a good fit, if you just want to get from point A to point B in basic comfort.
A 40 key midi keyboard isn't a good instrument if you are into classical piano. However if you are learning to play, or just want something to tinker with, or are doing some other work such as music editing. Then it may be a better fit.
A generic brand hammer isn't good if you are carpenter. However if you just need to get a nail in a block of wood, then you should be fine.
People will often spend a lot of money for "Professional" tools, while they lack the skills to use them, and they are much better off with the consumer version. As they may be designed to be more generically used and require less maintenance, as they have a lower tolerance level for accuracy, but you will never know because you are not an expert.
Back in them olden days the average Joe didn't have access to multiple sources.
However what is affecting peoples ability to learn about what is going on, is the media's attempt to simplify the information too much. The headline seem to be the article now. Vs just a title to we know what we are going to read about.
The problem is the energy and agriculture sector is so far apart from the free market.
There is so much government subsidies to energy that it makes it more affordable vs the true cost.
True Capitalism would let countries die from starvation and freezing to death, because the supply and cost of materials to survive would exceed the wages of the business, due to excessive human supply.
Glasses are in fashion now. They wern't so 20 years ago.
Glasses use to be for old folks or nerds. If you needed your vision corrected, most people would choose contact lenses or laser surgery just to avoid the stigma.
As someone who was wearing glasses from a time there was a stigma, it has became second nature, and they are so much obtrusive.
I see a quite of few Testla on the road. Testla problem is trying to meet demand, that is far from a failure.
Being that people were getting assaulted for wearing google glasses. There is still a lot of work for augmented reality that is needed. VR and AR are nearly the same technology, with the exception of a camera showing you the real world, and display overlapping it, vs. replacing it with something else. Technically you can augment reality so much, that it becomes virtual reality.
As far as investors are concerned, if Satan can get the product out the door and return on their investments they are good with it.
Often what happens is an idea made by a tech guy who has little business experience, tries selling the product for much less then it is worth. To only find that that they can't keep it up. Then a business guy goes in and shoots up the price, but makes the company more stable, however the customers are now annoyed that they will have to pay twice as much as they expected.
Price is more then the cost of labor and materials.
There is too much interaction between these groups. of 150. This would create cultural silos, Where they would be competing against each other vs sharing with each other. If you work for a large business, which works like this, and you find friction between IT vs Finance or HR.
Actually the scores do matter and critics do useful work.
But it isn't an exact science and they can get things wrong.
Critics have to watch mountains of stuff all the time, That popular stoner movie may had got such a low review because they had watch 4 other similar ones before. However to the movie goers it was a big hit.
However there is too much stuff for us to view, and reviews and scores help us weed through shows. If there is a show that you want to watch don't like the score affect you, go ahead and watch it. But if you not caring, you might as well sort by review score, chances are you will get something better.
Now the score is only part of the review. If you are going to be critical about watching a show, then you should actually read the review, the actual text on how it is scored may mean the difference if you would want to watch it or not.
It will depend on how bad that first episode is. Normally the first few episodes are setting the stage, getting the characters in their spot, and the Universe they live in set.
Right now shows with story arch are kinda popular, but still the first few episodes may be, well, episodic, with events not really playing into the next episode as much, a bad guy of the week, a problem that get resolved in a neat little package, this can create some annoying first episodes, but they do make us understand the character and universe. For us to get really hooked on what else is going on.
That said if the first episode completely bores me or worst I get offended by it. I am not going to watch it.
Television has the same problems that books, movies, music, video games... Any art form or media meant for general populations consumption.
The sweet spot for the best coverage is targeting people with a slightly below average IQ (Understandable by people with an 8th grade education)
At this level it will not go over peoples head, or seem to complex or preachy, however normally smart enough to stay interesting enough for people with average and above average IQs.
Normally for the people who are nostalgic on how things were so much better, often look back to the Media available back when they are in their early teens. The stuff that came before it which your parents were nostalgic for seemed dated and didn't get with the issues of the time, the stuff after that seems just to be a rehashing of the same story only with the trends that are popular today. The shock value of the stuff when you were a teenage, showed how we started really bucking it to the man, while the stuff today is just gross or stupid stuff you just don't want to watch.
Now I am going to get a boat loads of comments on some one got really interested in some older school media, and learned to love it, and some people who may actually like the newer stuff better then the crap we had at our early teen age years. However as we age and learn to become more selective, for the stuff in the past that is so interesting, you can normally get a collection of a few decades best and brightest stuff into an easily manage collection (The top hits of the 40's, 50's and 60's) Which makes those boomers seem like they were at the golden age. while there is 30 years of crap stuff that wouldn't make it. Then people who are interested in the new stuff their time is more valuable, so if they are not interested in it they just won't watch it.
General media is not a replacement for an education system. Watching the Discovery or History channel will not get you close to getting a PHD. At best it will be a refresher of some of the stuff taught in middle school that you may have forgotten because you didn't work with it.
More to the point. Why are we finding reasons to punish people?
We spend billions of dollars to find reasons to be cruel to people.
For some things you can just ask the person to stop and they will, you don’t need to make a big deal over it. Just so you can be cruel to the person who made a mistake.
The goal to civilization is too.
1. Keep people alive
2. Keep people productive
We learned to group with other people often with diverse needs and skills to provide protection for the hazards of the world.
A mammoth could feed 100 people.
A dozen of the strogest and fastest could take a mammoth down. But after that hunt they will be worn out. So we have other people who is foot at prepping the food cooking it. Then you need to feed children who will be needed to replace these roles. Other people will be needed to help create fire, build and maintain structure.... then when they get to a particular size you need people to try to distribute the needs equally...
Today’s culture are extremely advanced. Capitalism and free market is still a good way to manage many aspects of such a culture without micromanage everyone’s lives.
But the days of old where a culture of 100 people can be managed by a chief people were actually treated more equally without money but more of a meritocracy that we seem to strive for. Because the cost of not using people for what they are best at can cause death.
Exactly while development isn’t cheap, it can be made up with volume. But with that volume there is a huge amount of support that will be demanded. We can’t just sell an app for $0.25 expecting to reap in money. Because applications are never done. There are fixes patches security fixes... and people would rather pay a fixed amount or a subscription vs being nickeled and dimed for every fix and second of support.
Stop thinking it’s cost to produce relates to its price.
I just got some pork chops for less then $2.00 for my family dinner. Farmers are currently selling pork at a loss, because of trade sanctions.
Also I will get things that may cost pennies to make are marked up very high because it may be more difficult to get the skills to make it and sell it.
While the cost of books is cheaper electronically there is a full infrastructure behind keeping that book available.
there is some additional things as well. A modern "Premium" Phone has an HD-4k display So up to 32 Megs can be used just for a background image. Then being a Java like App there is a lot of overhead vs being compiled in a straight Assembly. Because otherwise you LG phone vs your Samsung phone just may not work.
I had it crashed often with a bad floppy was inserted, or a poorly made TSR was in play.
Sometimes it would crash if I held down a key for too long, as the keyboard repeat action was faster then what the computer could handle.
However those who didn't have hard disks at the time. Often when running a program after quitting out you will
"Insert a disk with command.com" because most of DOS was overwritten by the application.
That said, windows would normally run fine just as long as you don't run any application either.
The real problem is everyone is talking but no one is listening. So to be heard they talk louder and try to be more shocking to get attention. The one who gets attention is listed to. But only the most outrageous arguments are being heard, so for those who oppose those ideas will either go as far in the other direction or just not listen causing such escalation. From Free Speech of idea sharing, to trolling.
Free Speech has moved from long conversations of opposing ideas, to bumper sticker slogans.
Not all ideas will have a consensus, not all view points are right. But we have fallen into such tribalism we are seeing the opposite party as these evil goblins who are out to kill our way of lives.
Heck if he just shut up I bet his approval ratings would go up 10 points.
Why do we try so hard to try to justify being cruel to other people?
People spend years digging in books from recent to thousands of years to come up with a justification to be cruel to that person who is different.
Except the fact that IRC and Usenet was like getting an open firehose of information especially on popular boards. Social Media you just get a garden hose, where can control the nozzle.
1. Not all Apps in Linux are open source.
2. Compiling on slow systems can take a long time.
3. Compiling isn't always easy.
4. Source code doesn't guarantee compatibility. (or be readable enough to be fixed)
"but it's lighter and almost functionally equivalent."
Almost is the key problem. Anyone with any Software development experience knows getting that last 1% of functionality takes 90% of the time and effort. Often a lot of space and resources.
ReactOS also doesn't have the target audience of a general computer user. There are tiny details that can be left out, because it doesn't effect compatibility. The bloat such has to display a file icon while may seem silly for you as the default is good enough. But having upgraded my system with a 4k display, I found the defaults need to be changed to make the screen usable. Having the bloat to properly expand graphics and text so everything fits is important, because otherwise it would be impossible to use the newer system. Without scaling Standard Text with a 10px by 10px character is the size of a pixel on the old CGA-VGA graphics mode of 320x240. Heck with a the extended ASCII Set you can probably in Textmode duplicate 640x480 display.