In many ways 2001 was the stereotypical pretensions bad art. Normally if the artist will ask you what do YOU THINK it means, is normally a failure in the artist. A lot of the direction from Kubrick hindered from the actual Arthur C. Clark book. It sometimes jumped from A to C where the book had B to explain it. However with the Jump from A to C created confusion, and when such confusion was criticized they just go, you didn't get it.
In the movie the actions didn't make sense. After deactivating HAL, I got no motivation to want to fly the Pod into the monolith. Was it a sense of duty to complete the mission? Was he just trying to kill himself from a mission with no way back? Being that the actors were directed to act near emotionless, there is little understanding on the action, just from the movie alone.
Then you have any lack of closure. Is the freaky baby, at the end symbolic of a next step in our evolution? Or just a new space monster that will kill us? We make a lot of decisions from non-verbal queues, In a book these needs to be explained, in a movie it needs to be acted. Directing the actors to tone down their emotional responses, even if that was in the book, just didn't translate to the movies because we need such queues to get what is going on. I saw this movie as a kid and the ending scared me, as an adult when I know what is going on, it was just directed poorly.
Art is to share ideas, and/or feelings. 2001 failed to show that, because we needed to guess what they were thinking and what they were feeling.
Now I commend Kubrick for trying something new, but that particular combination just didn't work out well. There is going minimalist then going to a John Cage level.
There are too many times I hear people getting frustrated about having put in so much data every time they call in. Ask shouldn't the computer already have this information ready. Or you know where to send the bill, but not to call for follow up information. For most of the information gathers it is used to benefit us. Not spy on us and determine what evil plot we are doing. It is perfect? No. Are their a lot of abuses? Yes.
But RMS is an absolutist. There is rarely any grey area in RMS view on things. Either some things right and when it is right it is pure, or it is wrong and evil. That type of mentality normally will get on watch lists (even before the internet spying on you) because such behaviors can lead to criminal behavior. But this is America and he has freedom of speech, so while his activities may be being watch, he will not get arrested for his views, wither or not I or the government believes in it or not. That is the difference between the USSR and the USA today. There may be more spying, that is because it is easier to get the information. But RMS hasn't mysteriously disappeared yet.
The problem is nationalism. Everyone is trying to show that they are superior to the other because of X. However most innovations are not made in a bubble. Ford didn't invent the Automobile, he mass produced that automobile better then the others at the time. The automobile was made and perfected and changed over hundreds of years, across many countries. Then other countries had picked up Fords ideas and made it better for their needs.
Today with a more global environment it is even harder to say someone invented something, because we are now influenced globally.
They are faster in short bursts, they can't keep the speed up for a long time like Desktop/Laptop chips can.
Good for scanning your face, and interpreting its movements and applying 3d graphics to manipulate it. But not good for a long term game or long term processing.
The iPhone X isn't more powerful then a modern laptop, but it does some things faster then a modern laptop.
There are some cost apple products that have came out. the iPhone 5c, iPhone SE, iMac Mini, iPod mini, iPod shuffle normally come up as an Apple product for people who don't want to pay the for the premium product.
Companies can make sub $100 smart phones, it is just that people don't want them.
The power supply can limit on what hardware you can add to your system though. It self doesn't make the computer faster, but it allows to build a faster computer.
It is like high octane gasoline. It doesn't make your car faster or run better, if you car isn't designed for it, it is just wasting your money. But the car that is designed to use high octane gasoline, can normally run faster then you car can.
Exactly. Normally hardware makers don't make their top of the line products suck. But they may make different design decisions. GPU A may be able to dump out billions more polygons per second then GPU B. But GPU B does more advanced coloring and edge rounding and environmental effects. So GPU A may work better on a higher resolution screen, but on normal resolution screens GPU B gives better results.
Back in the 1990's The key indicator was the Megahertz, So people normally would opt for the 386 25mhz computer over the more expensive 486 25mhz (especially being DOS and windows 3.1 barely supported 32bit support at the time the difference between the two chips were not noticeable) Or between the 486DX 66Mhz and the Pentium 66mhz or the Pentium 200mhz vs the Pentium Pro 200Mhz.
PC owners were laughing at Apple owners because while their PC's with Pentium 3 were running in the Gigahertz range, The Apple Power PC were only around the 600mhz range. However this is also the point of the problem, Unlike comparing x86 chips with other x86 chips where mhz is a major factor, Comparing different design approaches to chips became much harder. A RISC Chip can perform more operations per mhz then a CISC chip can on average. However a CISC instruction often can do more then an RISC instruction. So the Apple PC of the time was able to crunch a complex Photoshop job faster then a compatible PC. However that PC may crunch a spread sheet much faster.
I know as consumers we want to pick our products on a nice linear line of bad and cheap to best and expensive. But in real life there are more dimensions . If you are making a killer Gaming PC, then the questions is what games do you want to play? Which aspects in these games are important to your gaming. What other hardware are you expecting to be using on it?
I think the point is that Linux at heart is a Server OS. Yes it can be used as a Workstation/Desktop OS, and it can play games without a problem. But being that it was designed and its primary use is a server OS means there is little effort in porting games to it.
Windows on the other hand, is a Workstation/Desktop OS in its core. We have Windows Server but it is really just kinda of an hack on the Desktop OS.
Gaming normally wants to bypass a lot of the OS layer hence the popularity of DirectX in gaming engines. As it bypasses a lot of the the Operating System, and directly controls the hardware. Linux Games are usually a little bit behind (older games getting ported) The new games tend not to be a modern designed as the newest windows games. Because Linux wants to act like a server OS, and not give normal users so much raw access to the hardware. Because a server OS wants to run a lot of small applications and run them at the same time and well. Vs running one big program that uses nearly the full computer.
The thing is, for the most part in price insensitive markets people will be more apt to buy the better phone and not Sacrifice quality or features on a substandard phone even if it is a better overall value.
Also competing on costs is usually a path toward doom. As each version gets cheaper in quality to be cheaper in price. Until we got to the point where people buy a more expensive product because the want a better device.
Gateway back in the early-mid 1990s was know for quality. Then they tried competing on price. Where Dell came in, it cost more but it was better built then by the early 2000’s they started making cheaper products then Apple came in...
For areas where such devices are too expensive a mid range product is needed to compete with the other midrange products. Not shove a premium product at a cheaper price.
Except you phone company. Who has a list of all the times you made a call, who you called and where you called how long you called for. If your texting they probably have the texts too.
Don’t assume obsolescence will make you safe from spying.
Software sales uses to be a big business model. However the issue is they moved to the cloud, for funding, just to fight piracy much easier. The support business model assumes the following. The product is hard/complex to use by a normal user (a normal marketing negative). The product isn't of high quality so it will break a lot and require a lot of fixing.
The Companies like Microsoft and Adobe use use to make their money selling software, had moved to a subscription based cloud offering, where you don't need to pay updates, as you always have the shiny new version. The cost of the software was normally determined by supply and demand, like all other things. Where the supply is based on the number of competitors the software had, and demand was how much people wanted the software.
Am I surprised? No. Apple has a track record of moving across chip lines. Being that they make the OS and the Hardware, the processor isn't that big of a deal, and they have a really good track-record of keeping compatibility across different processor lines. Compared to say Microsoft who barely made the 64bit transition.
That being said. The real question is for the people who duel boot their Macs, or use Virtualization. My biggest fear is if OS X moves to the closed infrastructure that is iOS. I can deal with Apple approved apps for my phone, but for my laptop, I will want to install whatever I feel like.
Well they are not insanely expensive. They are just in the higher end of the price, normally if you are to build a PC with matching specs (on all the specs if you need it or not) then the price is normally fairly darn close. However having a reputation of good build quality, doesn't mean they are perfect. It is still a mass produced product, so there can be problem.
Open Source Software especially the GNU variety, tends to limit on ways people can profit off of GNU Software (Where selling the actual software is near impossible when people can get it legally for free).
Now what the cloud did was having this software for free, but who really cares, because you can put it in a server farm data center mega infrastructure, and you just pay for the computing that you use. Sure you can have the software and its source, because chances are you will not have the millions of dollars to implement the massive data center to fully utilize it.
Where a decade back. We were operating with small server farms (normally for a fair size organization) having a couple of racks of servers where each one was doing one or two jobs. Meaning the software sales were important, because people are not going to pay a monthly fee to run it on their servers, when they can buy the software and the servers themselves and run it over a long period of time.
So Open Source is more palatable because it doesn't conflict with their business model.
How can you say that with any hardware vendor? Back in the 1990's and early 2000's I did a lot of work with Sun Micosystems products. Compared to many of the other PC's and other hardware makers, their products had wonderful build quality to them, down to the smooth beveled metal blockers to close off unused expansion ports. That said, they would have a product with a defect, or a part that wore out faster then it should. Then it brought up the question, did Sun start using cheap products, and if I replace it, will it be any better or did I just get a bad batch.
The answer was always 50/50 Some things were just cost saving features, which we needed to live with, and other was just due to a manufacturing mistake.
That USB-C may not had been installed correctly, thus causing extra strain where it shouldn't have happened. And a replacement may outlive the usefulness of the device. Or Apple is just making cheap USB-C. I don't know I havn't had a new Apple Laptop in about a decade now. So I havn't been paying attention to the quality of the USB-C connectors.
We just need an organization with money to backup the product from all the lawsuits that will go against it. Most medical software is closed source, because they need to collect every cent to keep the organization strong enough, to survive, a mountain of legal battles.
A person is very sick and they die. Their family sues the doctor for not spotting the problems, the doctor sues the medical device software for not showing them the problem (or having an error that day). The software company pays the doctor, the doctor pays the family. The software doesn't get fixed, because the company sold 20 more copies during this time. The customer is happy because he got his payment, and normally will recommend the product, even after fighting the legal suit.
Did you spill soda on your keyboard a week ago? Have you asked Apple about your usb-c port?
Sometimes the big evil corporation will be happy to help, and may fix things even if it past its service, just so people stay happy with their products.
Apple knows its hold on us, is tentative. Now if you are abusing the equipment you may not get as much love, but if you using it normally and things are not working, they may (depending on the situation) fix it.
Facebook's business model is selling your information to advertisers and giving you some services. The problem is we do not know what and how much is sold, so we as individuals do not know the actual cost of Facebook's services, so we cannot make informed decisions if we are getting a deal or not. Apples business model is to build products and sell them. They tend to sell their products at a premium, and refuse to get into a race to the bottom with their competitors. Apple has a history of being very insidious in the industry by pushing technology that we may not need or even want and make it common place, and more or less forcing people into paying for premium product in cases where they cannot afford it and will need to suffer, or go without and be at a disadvantage.
Now that being said, you have a way out of Apples services. You do not need Apples products you can go with other companies products which some are just as good if not better. While there are some Apple only protocols they normally have a good enough open protocol so if you are out the ecosystem you are not completely left out. Facebook services is based on the idea that it has nearly all the people on it. So while they are competitors to Facebook, you are left at a disadvantage to the others. But is the disadvantage worth it... We do not know.
But in terms of an OS there need to differentiate between the two. Windows, OS X and Gnome have been focused on personal use, with real work as a side effect. A workstation OS is about being efficient and getting the most out of the computer.
You are suggesting a Unix approach to a Windows problem. Sure it works fine, and you will be better off in the long run and it would be cheaper too. But that isn’t was Windows was designed. You need to buy multiple thousands of dollars on a app to do this. That is often overkill for the need at hand. Because having that app on the resume looks better then a tiny little tool that does the trick.
Unless you are working for a government agency with bosses who don’t want to fund your department.
Backups cost money. Redundant off site hot failover systems cost more. Please explain to the general public on why the city should have computers running in hope you don’t need to use them. When they can use that money to feed the poor.
I have done years of consulting and working across many agencies. And for nearly every agency the tech workers are not incompetent, I may disagree with their methods, but they know what they are talking about. The bosses on the other hand especially ones without technical background, see the IT departments as a cost center. So will invest the minimum necessary to keep it running. They don’t realize that their equipment is being attacked constantly and it is only matter of time until something gets across.
Current I work in healthcare and luckily management invest a lot into IT. So when spyware hit we only suffered minor damage and had it restored running with 15 minuets of missing data. After that incident we in the IT area was livid, and doubled our efforts to stop it again.
Throwing people at the problem does work. Only if the company listens to the ideas of those who bring up suggestions and those who brought up suggestions are willing to change their mind if a better one is given. This is a tough haul for any organization.
But also it may be that Siri development is under staffed. A lot of good ideas and designs but just not enough man hours to implement.
No, 2019 is the year of the the end of the desktop. Linux will never be the big desktop OS we have been waiting for. We can hope it will be the Workstation OS of the future. Because we no longer need Desktop PC's. We need Workstations where we can do real work. For the fun stuff we have consoles, and tablets, and mobile devices. Which for most people would be more then enough for their use. A tablet with Office, and a blue tooth keyboard is more then enough for most people.
This is a different condition 10 or 20 years ago, where a PC was needed for nearly any computing event. At that point Linux for the Desktop may had have some real benefit, saving us from countless windows crashes, because pre-xp windows were based off of the MS DOS OS, while XP and up where based off the workstation base NT system. (Windows 2000, wasn't a PC OS but a workstation OS to replace NT 4)
However today we need more serious Linux systems, designed for productivity and taking advantage of the Workstations hardware and graphics, and less trying to appeal to work for grandma, who at this point probably has more computing skills then you do.
Normally the imposed limit is there so you don’t put urls into the spots, or go too far from the main page.
So you are saying url shorteners today are good for sites that need to fix their space requests or you want to be a jerk and abuse the sites formatting standards.
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In many ways 2001 was the stereotypical pretensions bad art. Normally if the artist will ask you what do YOU THINK it means, is normally a failure in the artist.
A lot of the direction from Kubrick hindered from the actual Arthur C. Clark book. It sometimes jumped from A to C where the book had B to explain it. However with the Jump from A to C created confusion, and when such confusion was criticized they just go, you didn't get it.
In the movie the actions didn't make sense. After deactivating HAL, I got no motivation to want to fly the Pod into the monolith. Was it a sense of duty to complete the mission? Was he just trying to kill himself from a mission with no way back? Being that the actors were directed to act near emotionless, there is little understanding on the action, just from the movie alone.
Then you have any lack of closure. Is the freaky baby, at the end symbolic of a next step in our evolution? Or just a new space monster that will kill us?
We make a lot of decisions from non-verbal queues, In a book these needs to be explained, in a movie it needs to be acted. Directing the actors to tone down their emotional responses, even if that was in the book, just didn't translate to the movies because we need such queues to get what is going on. I saw this movie as a kid and the ending scared me, as an adult when I know what is going on, it was just directed poorly.
Art is to share ideas, and/or feelings. 2001 failed to show that, because we needed to guess what they were thinking and what they were feeling.
Now I commend Kubrick for trying something new, but that particular combination just didn't work out well. There is going minimalist then going to a John Cage level.
There are too many times I hear people getting frustrated about having put in so much data every time they call in. Ask shouldn't the computer already have this information ready. Or you know where to send the bill, but not to call for follow up information.
For most of the information gathers it is used to benefit us. Not spy on us and determine what evil plot we are doing.
It is perfect? No. Are their a lot of abuses? Yes.
But RMS is an absolutist. There is rarely any grey area in RMS view on things. Either some things right and when it is right it is pure, or it is wrong and evil.
That type of mentality normally will get on watch lists (even before the internet spying on you) because such behaviors can lead to criminal behavior. But this is America and he has freedom of speech, so while his activities may be being watch, he will not get arrested for his views, wither or not I or the government believes in it or not. That is the difference between the USSR and the USA today. There may be more spying, that is because it is easier to get the information. But RMS hasn't mysteriously disappeared yet.
The problem is nationalism. Everyone is trying to show that they are superior to the other because of X.
However most innovations are not made in a bubble.
Ford didn't invent the Automobile, he mass produced that automobile better then the others at the time. The automobile was made and perfected and changed over hundreds of years, across many countries. Then other countries had picked up Fords ideas and made it better for their needs.
Today with a more global environment it is even harder to say someone invented something, because we are now influenced globally.
They are faster in short bursts, they can't keep the speed up for a long time like Desktop/Laptop chips can.
Good for scanning your face, and interpreting its movements and applying 3d graphics to manipulate it. But not good for a long term game or long term processing.
The iPhone X isn't more powerful then a modern laptop, but it does some things faster then a modern laptop.
There are some cost apple products that have came out.
the iPhone 5c, iPhone SE, iMac Mini, iPod mini, iPod shuffle normally come up as an Apple product for people who don't want to pay the for the premium product.
Companies can make sub $100 smart phones, it is just that people don't want them.
The power supply can limit on what hardware you can add to your system though. It self doesn't make the computer faster, but it allows to build a faster computer.
It is like high octane gasoline. It doesn't make your car faster or run better, if you car isn't designed for it, it is just wasting your money. But the car that is designed to use high octane gasoline, can normally run faster then you car can.
Exactly. Normally hardware makers don't make their top of the line products suck. But they may make different design decisions.
GPU A may be able to dump out billions more polygons per second then GPU B. But GPU B does more advanced coloring and edge rounding and environmental effects. So GPU A may work better on a higher resolution screen, but on normal resolution screens GPU B gives better results.
Back in the 1990's The key indicator was the Megahertz, So people normally would opt for the 386 25mhz computer over the more expensive 486 25mhz (especially being DOS and windows 3.1 barely supported 32bit support at the time the difference between the two chips were not noticeable)
Or between the 486DX 66Mhz and the Pentium 66mhz or the Pentium 200mhz vs the Pentium Pro 200Mhz.
PC owners were laughing at Apple owners because while their PC's with Pentium 3 were running in the Gigahertz range, The Apple Power PC were only around the 600mhz range.
However this is also the point of the problem, Unlike comparing x86 chips with other x86 chips where mhz is a major factor, Comparing different design approaches to chips became much harder. A RISC Chip can perform more operations per mhz then a CISC chip can on average. However a CISC instruction often can do more then an RISC instruction. So the Apple PC of the time was able to crunch a complex Photoshop job faster then a compatible PC. However that PC may crunch a spread sheet much faster.
I know as consumers we want to pick our products on a nice linear line of bad and cheap to best and expensive. But in real life there are more dimensions . If you are making a killer Gaming PC, then the questions is what games do you want to play? Which aspects in these games are important to your gaming. What other hardware are you expecting to be using on it?
I think the point is that Linux at heart is a Server OS. Yes it can be used as a Workstation/Desktop OS, and it can play games without a problem. But being that it was designed and its primary use is a server OS means there is little effort in porting games to it.
Windows on the other hand, is a Workstation/Desktop OS in its core. We have Windows Server but it is really just kinda of an hack on the Desktop OS.
Gaming normally wants to bypass a lot of the OS layer hence the popularity of DirectX in gaming engines. As it bypasses a lot of the the Operating System, and directly controls the hardware. Linux Games are usually a little bit behind (older games getting ported) The new games tend not to be a modern designed as the newest windows games. Because Linux wants to act like a server OS, and not give normal users so much raw access to the hardware. Because a server OS wants to run a lot of small applications and run them at the same time and well. Vs running one big program that uses nearly the full computer.
The thing is, for the most part in price insensitive markets people will be more apt to buy the better phone and not Sacrifice quality or features on a substandard phone even if it is a better overall value.
Also competing on costs is usually a path toward doom. As each version gets cheaper in quality to be cheaper in price. Until we got to the point where people buy a more expensive product because the want a better device.
Gateway back in the early-mid 1990s was know for quality. Then they tried competing on price. Where Dell came in, it cost more but it was better built then by the early 2000’s they started making cheaper products then Apple came in...
For areas where such devices are too expensive a mid range product is needed to compete with the other midrange products. Not shove a premium product at a cheaper price.
Except you phone company. Who has a list of all the times you made a call, who you called and where you called how long you called for. If your texting they probably have the texts too.
Don’t assume obsolescence will make you safe from spying.
Software sales uses to be a big business model. However the issue is they moved to the cloud, for funding, just to fight piracy much easier.
The support business model assumes the following. The product is hard/complex to use by a normal user (a normal marketing negative). The product isn't of high quality so it will break a lot and require a lot of fixing.
The Companies like Microsoft and Adobe use use to make their money selling software, had moved to a subscription based cloud offering, where you don't need to pay updates, as you always have the shiny new version. The cost of the software was normally determined by supply and demand, like all other things. Where the supply is based on the number of competitors the software had, and demand was how much people wanted the software.
Am I surprised? No.
Apple has a track record of moving across chip lines. Being that they make the OS and the Hardware, the processor isn't that big of a deal, and they have a really good track-record of keeping compatibility across different processor lines. Compared to say Microsoft who barely made the 64bit transition.
That being said. The real question is for the people who duel boot their Macs, or use Virtualization. My biggest fear is if OS X moves to the closed infrastructure that is iOS. I can deal with Apple approved apps for my phone, but for my laptop, I will want to install whatever I feel like.
Well they are not insanely expensive. They are just in the higher end of the price, normally if you are to build a PC with matching specs (on all the specs if you need it or not) then the price is normally fairly darn close. However having a reputation of good build quality, doesn't mean they are perfect. It is still a mass produced product, so there can be problem.
Open Source Software especially the GNU variety, tends to limit on ways people can profit off of GNU Software (Where selling the actual software is near impossible when people can get it legally for free).
Now what the cloud did was having this software for free, but who really cares, because you can put it in a server farm data center mega infrastructure, and you just pay for the computing that you use. Sure you can have the software and its source, because chances are you will not have the millions of dollars to implement the massive data center to fully utilize it.
Where a decade back. We were operating with small server farms (normally for a fair size organization) having a couple of racks of servers where each one was doing one or two jobs. Meaning the software sales were important, because people are not going to pay a monthly fee to run it on their servers, when they can buy the software and the servers themselves and run it over a long period of time.
So Open Source is more palatable because it doesn't conflict with their business model.
How can you say that with any hardware vendor?
Back in the 1990's and early 2000's I did a lot of work with Sun Micosystems products. Compared to many of the other PC's and other hardware makers, their products had wonderful build quality to them, down to the smooth beveled metal blockers to close off unused expansion ports. That said, they would have a product with a defect, or a part that wore out faster then it should. Then it brought up the question, did Sun start using cheap products, and if I replace it, will it be any better or did I just get a bad batch.
The answer was always 50/50 Some things were just cost saving features, which we needed to live with, and other was just due to a manufacturing mistake.
That USB-C may not had been installed correctly, thus causing extra strain where it shouldn't have happened. And a replacement may outlive the usefulness of the device. Or Apple is just making cheap USB-C.
I don't know I havn't had a new Apple Laptop in about a decade now. So I havn't been paying attention to the quality of the USB-C connectors.
We just need an organization with money to backup the product from all the lawsuits that will go against it.
Most medical software is closed source, because they need to collect every cent to keep the organization strong enough, to survive, a mountain of legal battles.
A person is very sick and they die. Their family sues the doctor for not spotting the problems, the doctor sues the medical device software for not showing them the problem (or having an error that day). The software company pays the doctor, the doctor pays the family. The software doesn't get fixed, because the company sold 20 more copies during this time. The customer is happy because he got his payment, and normally will recommend the product, even after fighting the legal suit.
Did you spill soda on your keyboard a week ago?
Have you asked Apple about your usb-c port?
Sometimes the big evil corporation will be happy to help, and may fix things even if it past its service, just so people stay happy with their products.
Apple knows its hold on us, is tentative. Now if you are abusing the equipment you may not get as much love, but if you using it normally and things are not working, they may (depending on the situation) fix it.
Facebook's business model is selling your information to advertisers and giving you some services. The problem is we do not know what and how much is sold, so we as individuals do not know the actual cost of Facebook's services, so we cannot make informed decisions if we are getting a deal or not.
Apples business model is to build products and sell them. They tend to sell their products at a premium, and refuse to get into a race to the bottom with their competitors. Apple has a history of being very insidious in the industry by pushing technology that we may not need or even want and make it common place, and more or less forcing people into paying for premium product in cases where they cannot afford it and will need to suffer, or go without and be at a disadvantage.
Now that being said, you have a way out of Apples services. You do not need Apples products you can go with other companies products which some are just as good if not better. While there are some Apple only protocols they normally have a good enough open protocol so if you are out the ecosystem you are not completely left out.
Facebook services is based on the idea that it has nearly all the people on it. So while they are competitors to Facebook, you are left at a disadvantage to the others. But is the disadvantage worth it... We do not know.
But in terms of an OS there need to differentiate between the two. Windows, OS X and Gnome have been focused on personal use, with real work as a side effect. A workstation OS is about being efficient and getting the most out of the computer.
Audits usually check for the bare minimum. And they may fail some aspects and pass others. So they get a good enough score to stay certified.
You are suggesting a Unix approach to a Windows problem.
Sure it works fine, and you will be better off in the long run and it would be cheaper too. But that isn’t was Windows was designed. You need to buy multiple thousands of dollars on a app to do this. That is often overkill for the need at hand. Because having that app on the resume looks better then a tiny little tool that does the trick.
Unless you are working for a government agency with bosses who don’t want to fund your department.
Backups cost money. Redundant off site hot failover systems cost more.
Please explain to the general public on why the city should have computers running in hope you don’t need to use them. When they can use that money to feed the poor.
I have done years of consulting and working across many agencies. And for nearly every agency the tech workers are not incompetent, I may disagree with their methods, but they know what they are talking about. The bosses on the other hand especially ones without technical background, see the IT departments as a cost center. So will invest the minimum necessary to keep it running. They don’t realize that their equipment is being attacked constantly and it is only matter of time until something gets across.
Current I work in healthcare and luckily management invest a lot into IT. So when spyware hit we only suffered minor damage and had it restored running with 15 minuets of missing data. After that incident we in the IT area was livid, and doubled our efforts to stop it again.
Throwing people at the problem does work. Only if the company listens to the ideas of those who bring up suggestions and those who brought up suggestions are willing to change their mind if a better one is given.
This is a tough haul for any organization.
But also it may be that Siri development is under staffed. A lot of good ideas and designs but just not enough man hours to implement.
No, 2019 is the year of the the end of the desktop.
Linux will never be the big desktop OS we have been waiting for. We can hope it will be the Workstation OS of the future. Because we no longer need Desktop PC's. We need Workstations where we can do real work. For the fun stuff we have consoles, and tablets, and mobile devices. Which for most people would be more then enough for their use. A tablet with Office, and a blue tooth keyboard is more then enough for most people.
This is a different condition 10 or 20 years ago, where a PC was needed for nearly any computing event. At that point Linux for the Desktop may had have some real benefit, saving us from countless windows crashes, because pre-xp windows were based off of the MS DOS OS, while XP and up where based off the workstation base NT system. (Windows 2000, wasn't a PC OS but a workstation OS to replace NT 4)
However today we need more serious Linux systems, designed for productivity and taking advantage of the Workstations hardware and graphics, and less trying to appeal to work for grandma, who at this point probably has more computing skills then you do.
Normally the imposed limit is there so you don’t put urls into the spots, or go too far from the main page.
So you are saying url shorteners today are good for sites that need to fix their space requests or you want to be a jerk and abuse the sites formatting standards.