I used to work with a guy in 1998 that had been in IT since the 80's and he always said at the beginning of every year since he got in the industry, techie magazines would print with headlines like "This will be the year of Linux!" and at the end of the year like clockwork they would say "What happened to Linux?". "This year will be the end of the desktop" is basically the same thing. I'm pretty sure I've seen this on Slashdot periodically for at least 10 years when laptops started getting significantly better. There will always be highly resource intense applications like gaming, multimedia, software development, CAD, etc. that will require significantly more powerful machines than what a laptop can offer. The goal post always gets constantly moved too. I wonder if the next article will be: "This is the year everything moves to the cloud!" so we can milk everybody with subscription fees like we've never heard that one before.
Yes, I understand. Understanding the concept of free will and subjective purpose doesn't require a story about a talking snake in a magical garden though.
It always amazes me how the creator of the universe needs such a large sales force with such high pressure sales tactics. You would think an omnipotent, omniscient product would sell itself. But wait it gets better! All said sales people are cursed because one of their ancestors was social engineered by a talking snake into a eating a cursed fruit in a magical garden. They are all doomed to suffer eternally from the Dunning Kruger effect.
Clippy was annoying, but one of the other options was a claymation Einstein. That one was OK. There was also something else, but I don't remember what it was.
The PSTN was never designed with this problem in mind. You have to remember we didn't even have caller ID back in the day. The entire phone system needs to be re-designed to deal with this problem. I suggest we make India pay for it.
I can't speak for other countries but we do know that over the past 10 years in the United States there has been an alarming increase in diagnosed depression and anxiety disorders. Suicide rates have also gone up. We also know that due to deteriorating work conditions largely due to The Great Recession people are sleeping less and less able to take care of their health due to increased "employee productivity".
Agreed, but IMHO this is pushback against companies taking punitive action against employees for doing stuff on their own time. e.g. You post pictures of yourself smoking weed and drinking beer at an evening party on your Facebook account, and your company fires you for it.
Funny you should say this. Did you know Silicon Valley companies are particularly bad offenders of thinking they own people's personal time? I mean heck, they're the ones that came up with the idea that firing someone is "graduation". We want to congratulate Bob for graduating XYZ Silicon Valley startup ABC. We wish him well on his next badass adventure. Talk about a bunch of evil psychological hackery.
A lot of the 1%ers are not white. A lot of the money is in investment firms and the racial diversity is a bit different than you think it is. But keep exercising your free speech to push the false racism narrative I guess.
Wow mod me down for stating facts. I spent YEARS studying all political doctrines and all shades in between. I used to even be more of what we call LIBERAL today until I found my beliefs were inconsistent with my actual experience in life. This caused me to question everything to arrive where I am today intellectually. In order to want to know the truth, you have to be prepared that what you might discover may not be what you want to hear. You have to make a commitment to wanting to truly know without bias. It's not for everyone. I'll take it over fantasy any day of the week though. To quote Neil Peart of RUSH in the song Something for Nothing:
Waiting for the winds of change
To sweep the clouds away
Waiting for the rainbow's end
To cast its gold your way
Countless ways
You pass the days
Waiting for someone to call
And turn your world around
Looking for an answer to
The questions you have found
Looking for
An open door
Oh you don't get something for nothing
You don't get freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be
No you don't get something for nothing
You dcan't have freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dream might be
What you own is your own kingdom
What you do is your own glory
What you love is your own power
What you live is your own story
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your song
Oh you don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free, no
Whoa you don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free
Why can't we at least agree on this? Slashdot has really gone downhill. It's like almost exclusively the far left thinking of Silicon Valley these days. I'm out peeps. It's been fun but I'm done. I hope California becomes its own country so you idiots can run yourselves into the ground. Just go away already. Your values are not what this country was founded on and as such, if you think you're better than everyone else, become your own country and prove everyone else wrong. I'll sit back with a bucket of popcorn.
Really? That just shows how ignorant you are about the values of Libertarianism. It values "Liberty" aka personal freedoom, aka:
- Land of the FREE, home of the brave
- Sweet land of LIBERTY
- With LIBERTY and justice for all
- Life, LIBERTY and the pursuit of happiness
Liberty baked into all the founding doctrines, songs and pledges of this country thanks to people like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. You should be thankful for Thomas Jefferson otherwise you might currently be in another Theocratic Collective like the one we ran from except this time founded on the values of the Quakers and the Puritans. How fun would that be? You remember why we fled England (more specifically the Church of England) right?
Before you go bashing a system of thought, at least educate yourself on what the belief system really is instead of just regurgitating memes about it. Then, if you still are still critical of things like freedom and liberty and think the state should control everything or some other form of collectivism, at least we can have a rational, logical and factual conversation about it.
Nice, you just contradicted yourself and probably don't even realize it. Carry on though.:) Can't have a rational conversation with folks that don't mind holding contradictory ideas in their heads...
Slashdot Mirror
When facts conflict with beliefs (especially politically), which do you think will win?
Especially when we are talking politically the answer is clearly beliefs. How else do you explain Trump and Brexit?
You forgot liberal postmodernism and religion. It explains that too.
I ran XP forever without any issues. What issues are you referring to? Something that was fixed in SP3??
Soooo... you don't use an IDE?
I'm not making fun of you. I code in a minimal text editor. Code completion drives me up the wall. But almost nobody else does that.
vim/emacs - it's only way to get LEGIT nerd street cred. Word.
It is also the year of the Linux desktop!
I used to work with a guy in 1998 that had been in IT since the 80's and he always said at the beginning of every year since he got in the industry, techie magazines would print with headlines like "This will be the year of Linux!" and at the end of the year like clockwork they would say "What happened to Linux?". "This year will be the end of the desktop" is basically the same thing. I'm pretty sure I've seen this on Slashdot periodically for at least 10 years when laptops started getting significantly better. There will always be highly resource intense applications like gaming, multimedia, software development, CAD, etc. that will require significantly more powerful machines than what a laptop can offer. The goal post always gets constantly moved too. I wonder if the next article will be: "This is the year everything moves to the cloud!" so we can milk everybody with subscription fees like we've never heard that one before.
Yes, I understand. Understanding the concept of free will and subjective purpose doesn't require a story about a talking snake in a magical garden though.
It always amazes me how the creator of the universe needs such a large sales force with such high pressure sales tactics. You would think an omnipotent, omniscient product would sell itself. But wait it gets better! All said sales people are cursed because one of their ancestors was social engineered by a talking snake into a eating a cursed fruit in a magical garden. They are all doomed to suffer eternally from the Dunning Kruger effect.
Yeah, Google is like the car salesman who shows you a sedan right after you told him you're shopping for your next pickup truck.
But but but, what about the Cult of Steve Jobs? Reality distortion fields really do work! *smirk*
Clippy was annoying, but one of the other options was a claymation Einstein. That one was OK. There was also something else, but I don't remember what it was.
Microsoft Bob
...to not bring Clippy back? Eager signer here.
You can't begin to stop them while you're not enforcing laws to do exactly that.
You can't! Most of the calls are coming from countries where the laws aren't enforced.
The PSTN was never designed with this problem in mind. You have to remember we didn't even have caller ID back in the day. The entire phone system needs to be re-designed to deal with this problem. I suggest we make India pay for it.
Studies show obfuscation of the truth is good for company reputations
I can't speak for other countries but we do know that over the past 10 years in the United States there has been an alarming increase in diagnosed depression and anxiety disorders. Suicide rates have also gone up. We also know that due to deteriorating work conditions largely due to The Great Recession people are sleeping less and less able to take care of their health due to increased "employee productivity".
Agreed, but IMHO this is pushback against companies taking punitive action against employees for doing stuff on their own time. e.g. You post pictures of yourself smoking weed and drinking beer at an evening party on your Facebook account, and your company fires you for it.
Funny you should say this. Did you know Silicon Valley companies are particularly bad offenders of thinking they own people's personal time? I mean heck, they're the ones that came up with the idea that firing someone is "graduation". We want to congratulate Bob for graduating XYZ Silicon Valley startup ABC. We wish him well on his next badass adventure. Talk about a bunch of evil psychological hackery.
Whoda thunk a bunch of rich white 1%ers
A lot of the 1%ers are not white. A lot of the money is in investment firms and the racial diversity is a bit different than you think it is. But keep exercising your free speech to push the false racism narrative I guess.
And had it been Obama, we'd be talking about how visionary and forward looking and all that he must be ...
Only the sheeple that can't think for themselves, i.e. most people.
Gee the second top article on that site is the BuzzFeed article that was proven to not be credible. Liberal bias much Slashdot?
I have some swamp land to sell you
Wow mod me down for stating facts. I spent YEARS studying all political doctrines and all shades in between. I used to even be more of what we call LIBERAL today until I found my beliefs were inconsistent with my actual experience in life. This caused me to question everything to arrive where I am today intellectually. In order to want to know the truth, you have to be prepared that what you might discover may not be what you want to hear. You have to make a commitment to wanting to truly know without bias. It's not for everyone. I'll take it over fantasy any day of the week though. To quote Neil Peart of RUSH in the song Something for Nothing:
Waiting for the winds of change
To sweep the clouds away
Waiting for the rainbow's end
To cast its gold your way
Countless ways
You pass the days
Waiting for someone to call
And turn your world around
Looking for an answer to
The questions you have found
Looking for
An open door
Oh you don't get something for nothing
You don't get freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be
No you don't get something for nothing
You dcan't have freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dream might be
What you own is your own kingdom
What you do is your own glory
What you love is your own power
What you live is your own story
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your song
Oh you don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free, no
Whoa you don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free
Why can't we at least agree on this? Slashdot has really gone downhill. It's like almost exclusively the far left thinking of Silicon Valley these days. I'm out peeps. It's been fun but I'm done. I hope California becomes its own country so you idiots can run yourselves into the ground. Just go away already. Your values are not what this country was founded on and as such, if you think you're better than everyone else, become your own country and prove everyone else wrong. I'll sit back with a bucket of popcorn.
What we're seeing now is the market acting rationally in re-pricing a company with so little actual real value.
You must be new to investing. A lot of it is fueled by hype or as they say, speculation. Facebook IPO had hype in spades.
It's actually worse than that now. Yahoo finance is showing an 18.23% drop right now
Really? That just shows how ignorant you are about the values of Libertarianism. It values "Liberty" aka personal freedoom, aka:
- Land of the FREE, home of the brave
- Sweet land of LIBERTY
- With LIBERTY and justice for all
- Life, LIBERTY and the pursuit of happiness
Liberty baked into all the founding doctrines, songs and pledges of this country thanks to people like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. You should be thankful for Thomas Jefferson otherwise you might currently be in another Theocratic Collective like the one we ran from except this time founded on the values of the Quakers and the Puritans. How fun would that be? You remember why we fled England (more specifically the Church of England) right?
Before you go bashing a system of thought, at least educate yourself on what the belief system really is instead of just regurgitating memes about it. Then, if you still are still critical of things like freedom and liberty and think the state should control everything or some other form of collectivism, at least we can have a rational, logical and factual conversation about it.
No, here's a thought.
These things are going to heat up to like a jillion degrees and some dude's dick is going to catch fire. Apple's plan all along? You decide.
So what you're saying is, Apple is involved in a Liberal Feminist conspiracy?
Nope, we're talking about QoS. It is a platform agnostic network feature/pattern.
Nice, you just contradicted yourself and probably don't even realize it. Carry on though. :) Can't have a rational conversation with folks that don't mind holding contradictory ideas in their heads...