Times, they are a changin'! For every traditional (lame) job lost like Borders sales agent, a new, higher paying job is created, like Apple customer support agent, or Amazon web developer, for example.
People who yell the loudest that technology "took rrrr jobs!" also yell loudly about imaginary Mexicans who also took rrrrrrr jobs. Keep up, America.
No I don't see it as link bait. And yes, I replied to the wrong person. I assumed your post was a response from the post I was commenting to from LABarrette.
Given your response, combined with his original post, it makes for quite the anti-apple rant. But since you and he are two different people, I take it back.
Again, your own insecurities are biasing your position. You can inject your dislike of Jobs and Apple all you want, but that doesn't support your argument that Flash doesn't suck on Android because....wait for it....the two things are not related.
This "random link bait from infoworld" is just another testament in a long list of technical publications that concur Flash sucks on Android. Then a few slashdotters make the logical conclusion that perhaps, just perhaps, there's more to Steve Jobs' opposition to Flash than some sort of marketing conspiracy, in that it would also suck on iOS.
With that, I think you need to seriously rethink your definition of fanboy, because there seems to be a lot of reputable sources out there you are quickly dismissing into the fanboy category, which seriously diminishes your credibility.
Mr. Nelson seems to think the flaw in current operating systems is in their desktop metaphor. Well, that metaphor has worked quite well for the masses, since, well, it's a good metaphor that is easily understood by most people (with specific western cultural biases, mind you).
Certainly the desktop metaphor may get to the point where people don't understand the metaphor anymore, but that is not happening anytime soon. A current example would be why is there a picture of a floppy disk to save data? Would any 8th grader know what a floppy disk is? If not, how does that icon make any sense at all?
The desktop metaphor, for the most part, still makes perfect sense for most people.
Memory leak...that's that thing that happens on my PC about three to four times a day when Task Manger tells me Outlook is using 800,000k memory, right?
I thought flash was interesting and possibly very useful, then everybody started making these flash monstrosities of websites that became gaudy fairgrounds of useless crap. That's when I swore off flash.
Here in Texas, the "shiny reflective material" is used to help keep electricity costs down in the Summer. I have a 2500 sq. ft. single story home built in 2009 and get WiFi throughout, no problems. I keep my wireless router deep in the walk-in closet of the master bedroom. Something tells me this isn't as big of a problem as the story is letting on to.
Really we need more categories. +1 incoherent +1 too many ellipses +1 imaginative use of mixed case +1 disturbing +1 peculiar +1 could be charlie sheen
Technically he typed three individual periods, not a proper ellipses. And frankly, I thought it was a really good post outside of the incredibly non-standard communication technique.
Yep. My wife already has an undergrad and a grad degree in soft science, and is now back as an undergrad getting a computer science degree. Why? Because where we work, 23 year old recent computer science grads make more than those of us plugging away for the past 20 years as tech writers. It's not unfair, if you think I'm complaining. They actually have a skill that is harder to learn and provides more value to a software company. You can axe the tech writers in tight times, but you can't axe developers because nobody else can do their work.
It also depends where you live. Since a lot of people aren't willing to relocate to urban areas, they miss out on high paying tech jobs.
Good point! Our cheap Dells (redundant, I know) have just been replaced by high end Dells (oxymoron, I know), but so far the tech support issues have fallen of drastically. Probably has more to do with new hardware, but here's to hoping these systems they paid 2-3x more for than the old systems are worth their price.
A bigger problem is when I'm fully willing and able to buy my own high end PC and use it at work, but they won't let me. Even when the computer conforms to all the norms and requirements of the current systems in use. It's not like I'm trying to bring a Mac Pro into my Dell environment, I'm just trying to purchase something like a Dell Optiplex 980 with my own video card so I can actually edit more than 2 seconds of video at a time in After Effects.
I had to give my boss "metrics" of how much time I saved using a second monitor. Nonetheless, I just made a bunch of tick marks that represented "I just saved 30 seconds", whether I saved 30 seconds or not (and inflated the tick marks by about 100 a day). At the end of the trial period I was able to say I saved tens of hours in productivity!
See, you just have to speak their lingo. Facts are for chumps.
Well, it is your job to ensure maximum efficiency for the user at the same time ensuring maximum security for the systems. Not sure why you IT types bitch about this so much.
There isn't anything wrong with Vista? Let me counter your anecdote with mine. Vista sucks.
My customers (mostly government and defense) have skipped Vista altogether, staying on XP and now slowly rolling into Win7. For once the government got good advice from their overpaid consultants.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess most of the negative posts here are made by kiddies who weren't even alive when the C64 was in its heyday.
For those of who owned a C64 as a child, we probably are far along enough in our careers that $500 is not really that big deal for something kinda cool and nostalgic.
Personally I'd rather pay $500 for an original C64 with some working games, but this is pretty cool too.
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Thing is if people stop having jobs they stop being able to buy stuff from Amazon.
Or, you go work for Amazon (or any of the thousands of new companies that spring up because technology is changing the job markets).
These two stories posted back-to-back perfectly frame everything that is wrong with politicians.
Times, they are a changin'! For every traditional (lame) job lost like Borders sales agent, a new, higher paying job is created, like Apple customer support agent, or Amazon web developer, for example.
People who yell the loudest that technology "took rrrr jobs!" also yell loudly about imaginary Mexicans who also took rrrrrrr jobs. Keep up, America.
No I don't see it as link bait. And yes, I replied to the wrong person. I assumed your post was a response from the post I was commenting to from LABarrette.
Given your response, combined with his original post, it makes for quite the anti-apple rant. But since you and he are two different people, I take it back.
Again, your own insecurities are biasing your position. You can inject your dislike of Jobs and Apple all you want, but that doesn't support your argument that Flash doesn't suck on Android because....wait for it....the two things are not related.
This "random link bait from infoworld" is just another testament in a long list of technical publications that concur Flash sucks on Android. Then a few slashdotters make the logical conclusion that perhaps, just perhaps, there's more to Steve Jobs' opposition to Flash than some sort of marketing conspiracy, in that it would also suck on iOS.
With that, I think you need to seriously rethink your definition of fanboy, because there seems to be a lot of reputable sources out there you are quickly dismissing into the fanboy category, which seriously diminishes your credibility.
Xanadu, eh? He's actually just a huge Olivia Newton John fan, evidently.
Mr. Nelson seems to think the flaw in current operating systems is in their desktop metaphor. Well, that metaphor has worked quite well for the masses, since, well, it's a good metaphor that is easily understood by most people (with specific western cultural biases, mind you).
Certainly the desktop metaphor may get to the point where people don't understand the metaphor anymore, but that is not happening anytime soon. A current example would be why is there a picture of a floppy disk to save data? Would any 8th grader know what a floppy disk is? If not, how does that icon make any sense at all?
The desktop metaphor, for the most part, still makes perfect sense for most people.
Memory leak...that's that thing that happens on my PC about three to four times a day when Task Manger tells me Outlook is using 800,000k memory, right?
Flash works very well on my android phone.
Given the evidence to the contrary, I'm beginning to wonder who the real fanboy is...
I thought flash was interesting and possibly very useful, then everybody started making these flash monstrosities of websites that became gaudy fairgrounds of useless crap. That's when I swore off flash.
You could just swear off gaudy web sites.
Here in Texas, the "shiny reflective material" is used to help keep electricity costs down in the Summer. I have a 2500 sq. ft. single story home built in 2009 and get WiFi throughout, no problems. I keep my wireless router deep in the walk-in closet of the master bedroom. Something tells me this isn't as big of a problem as the story is letting on to.
Really we need more categories.
+1 incoherent
+1 too many ellipses
+1 imaginative use of mixed case
+1 disturbing
+1 peculiar
+1 could be charlie sheen
Technically he typed three individual periods, not a proper ellipses. And frankly, I thought it was a really good post outside of the incredibly non-standard communication technique.
Yep. My wife already has an undergrad and a grad degree in soft science, and is now back as an undergrad getting a computer science degree. Why? Because where we work, 23 year old recent computer science grads make more than those of us plugging away for the past 20 years as tech writers. It's not unfair, if you think I'm complaining. They actually have a skill that is harder to learn and provides more value to a software company. You can axe the tech writers in tight times, but you can't axe developers because nobody else can do their work.
It also depends where you live. Since a lot of people aren't willing to relocate to urban areas, they miss out on high paying tech jobs.
That would be great if only our companies would let us do that. Most won't, even at our own expense.
Good point! Our cheap Dells (redundant, I know) have just been replaced by high end Dells (oxymoron, I know), but so far the tech support issues have fallen of drastically. Probably has more to do with new hardware, but here's to hoping these systems they paid 2-3x more for than the old systems are worth their price.
A bigger problem is when I'm fully willing and able to buy my own high end PC and use it at work, but they won't let me. Even when the computer conforms to all the norms and requirements of the current systems in use. It's not like I'm trying to bring a Mac Pro into my Dell environment, I'm just trying to purchase something like a Dell Optiplex 980 with my own video card so I can actually edit more than 2 seconds of video at a time in After Effects.
I had to give my boss "metrics" of how much time I saved using a second monitor. Nonetheless, I just made a bunch of tick marks that represented "I just saved 30 seconds", whether I saved 30 seconds or not (and inflated the tick marks by about 100 a day). At the end of the trial period I was able to say I saved tens of hours in productivity!
See, you just have to speak their lingo. Facts are for chumps.
Well, it is your job to ensure maximum efficiency for the user at the same time ensuring maximum security for the systems. Not sure why you IT types bitch about this so much.
There isn't anything wrong with Vista? Let me counter your anecdote with mine. Vista sucks.
My customers (mostly government and defense) have skipped Vista altogether, staying on XP and now slowly rolling into Win7. For once the government got good advice from their overpaid consultants.
This would also allow a geology teacher to discuss the controversies related to the widely-discredited-by-Scripture "Round Earth" theory.
I'm more of a "Spherical Earth" believer myself.
So the 47th and 36th ranked states in K-12 education are the two leading proponents for this. Say no more.
It was awful...for you. I was busy cranking out 3-channel music tracks that I couldn't do on other consumer level devices for years to come.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess most of the negative posts here are made by kiddies who weren't even alive when the C64 was in its heyday.
For those of who owned a C64 as a child, we probably are far along enough in our careers that $500 is not really that big deal for something kinda cool and nostalgic.
Personally I'd rather pay $500 for an original C64 with some working games, but this is pretty cool too.
1. It is too expensive for Nostalgia.
You underestimate the power of nostalgia.
States put those statutes on the books. Does not mean they are constitutional, however.
STATES RIIIIGHTS!!!!! Deeeeeerp!
(I'm from Texas, sorry. I couldn't help myself.)