I know I'm an old man now, and not technically a millennial (just barely, thank god), but who can possibly use 11 different social media platforms? How do that many even exist? Unless you're counting every random forum a person could ever participate in. Is Slashdot a "social media platform?" I sure as hell don't think so. Do they consider YouTube a social media platform? When I think social media, I think Facebook, Google+, and Twitter (and if I really stretch, Diaspora/GNUSocial). Maybe shit like Instagram can fit in there, but that's just part of Facebook, so doesn't really count. I don't think I'd even count Reddit as social media. All of these are surely "social" apps, but in my mind, "social media" deals specifically with sharing your own, personal content with others that you have connections to, not publishing for mass consumption. I could be wrong.
So true. I'd really like to see a browser that entirely rips out *all* compatibility with anything but strict html5 and ecma2015. Absolutely no compatibility fixes or html4 whatsoever. Google could do this. Their market-share has gotten so out of control, that it would force all the shitty sites to update practically overnight! Let people launch a completely separate "compatibility mode" browser if they that desperately need to access some shitty, old site (or load it dynamically in a tab--whatever). The thing is, compliant markup just isn't that difficult. It always comes down to programmer incompetence.
I'm so ready for Twiiter to die. The whole concept-—reducing all content to 140 character sound bytes suitable for a child's consumption, is insulting and doing real damage to the world and people's ability to communicate. It almost single-handedly allowed the election of a tyrant to the highest office in the world. Its users need to learn how to write in *complete paragraphs*, with spacing, punctuation, and everything else that makes language worth using in the first place.
Dear Developers: Do whatever the fuck you want with your own time. Don't worry about bugs and features unless they are important to YOU. Do what you love—that's what developing open source software is all about. Until the whiners get off their ass and pay you to work on their token issue, ignore them. Most importantly: THANK YOU!
UI flexibility is a great thing. This looks like a nice improvement, particularly in that users can choose what they like best. Unfortunately, what they need most is to redesign those butt-ugly icons! They just ruin the screenshots of the new Muffin UI. This issue has plagued Libre- and OpenOffice for years. I don't understand why it's still an issue. There are so many great graphic designers in the open source community that could help. (Sadly I am not one.) If they put out a call for assistance, I'm sure it would be solved in no time. Unless it's...intentional? I just don't understand it. Looking at those icons makes my eyes bleed.
It's 2016. Why is anyone still running *any* version of Windows outside of some backward, locked-down corporate environment? I know there are little gamer kiddies that are desperate for compatibility with their proprietary software, but outside of that, I honestly don't understand. I don't know anyone who uses Windows myself. The people I know who refuse to use some variant of Linux (including Chrome OS and Android, of course), all use Mac OS. I can only assume this is *still* due to Microsoft's unethical, monopolistic business practises that multiple lawsuits have still failed to put an end to. How much longer are we expected to put up with this?
These comments are so full of ignorance it's not even funny—I thought I had wandered into/r/the_donald or something. The few sensible people posting have pointed out that there seems to be an extreme lack of transparency, and no one is quite sure where all the money is going. This is a fair point and needs to be addressed by the Wikimedia Foundation. This does *not* automatically mean that they are somehow wasting this money, giving its employees lavish salaries, or anything of the sort. It means we do not know. No amount of ridiculous theorising will change that. We need to be able to trust our non-profit organizations in general, and such a great, important organization like Wikimedia in particular. Just because we don't know something doesn't make them this evil villain. If we uncover some impropriety, *then* we can demonize them. Until then, I'm making a (small) donation and also demanding more transparency. I encourage others to do the same.
$2 million/year in hosting fees isn't exactly chump change, and they definitely need to hire good dev ops people to keep one of the busiest sites on the internet running.
Brand licensing deals need to be outlawed. The notion is absolutely ridiculous in the modern age, a world where international boundaries mean little. How are consumers supposed to know that their Blackberry manufactured in India is different from another Blackberry manufactured in China, in fact coming from two entirely different companies? This is absurd. Either sell the entire company, or just let it rest in peace.
Samsung needs to stop spending its customers' money on features the neither need nor want. It's absurd. They have created their own mobile payment, virtual reality, and now AI assistant platforms when all of the above already exist in Android and work just fine. It's ridiculous. This is why I will never purchase a Samsung phone. They are so obscenely expensive for a reason. They have to pay for the development of these features somehow.
if they want to spend that money, it should go into developing *open source* solutions, in collaboration with Google. Samsung is a broken company and will never get back it's (already poor) reputation in the smartphone world.
Amazon will expand to 200 countries, but won't expand to the millions of customers in the US and elsewhere that use Android TV—even though their own video players are based on the platform. That is insanity. I will continue to boycott Amazon and steal its content until it corrects this absurd decision, and I encourage everyone to do the same.
I have such mixed feelings about this issue. On the one hand, worker rights are crucial essential. I don't want any business to be able to operate as a loophole to get around them. On the other, this is a new business model that is still developing, and it's wrong to just shut it down. Uber and its competitors have really revolutionized transportation. Before, I *never* would have taken a taxi in a first world country, as they have always been obscenely expensive. Now I can actually get around when public transportation fails me or is inconvenient.
The burst pricing model is actually quite brilliant, but I do think that Uber dictating the price drivers can charge does really push the argument in the drivers' favour, though. If it were literally just a SAAS app that independent contractors used to find customers, they would have complete control to set their own prices, etc. Maybe this is a change that needs to happen. I'm not sure. What I do know is, we can't deny people the opportunity to work part-time, or however they want, simply because it would require the company to provide them with expensive benefits. That doesn't make sense.
Perhaps a new model of benefits needs to be created for this type of employment. If you argue that a traditional worker should be entitled to 4 weeks of paid holiday per year, then that's 1 hour of holiday per hour worked, right? So, once a person reaches, say, 96 hours (of actual drive time with a customer, on the clock), they would be eligible to receive a bonus of 8 hours (times the minimum wage, I guess?) on their next pay cheque. I'm just brainstorming, and this idea is sounding worse the more I write, so I'll stop. I just think some other kind of ideology needs to be developed.
These are not "illegal downloads." Downloading isn't illegal. *Sharing* and distributing it is (in some jurisdictions). The are also failing to account for those of us who have Amazon Prime subscriptions, but CANNOT VIEW the show because Amazon refuses to make their proprietary player available on Android TV. Amazon is the real criminal here.
Somebody found a bug in a piece of proprietary software. This is news? It happens all the time. Google will fix it soon and we'll all forget about it. Nothing to see here, folks.
Sadly no torrent links to download this thing. Anyone have one? Their download link http://bitly.com/12core641 redirects to Sourceforge of all terrible places.
Why would faster wifi be beneficial to rural communities? This seems flat-out idiotic. If your internet connection doesn't have the bandwidth to utilise it, how is a faster wifi connection even going to be noticeable? All those farmers playing LAN games at their homes? I don't think so...
Is the human eye even capable of perceiving the difference between 1080p and 4k on a desktop/laptop monitor? This just seems so pointless. Of course it makes sense on a large TV, and I realise some people are silly enough to output their PC signal to their TVs instead of getting a dedicated box, but surely they are in the minority. I think I've only used Netflix in a browser a couple of times since I subscribed several years ago, and that was just for testing. What use case am I missing here?
The DRM involved in this is absolutely despicable.
The notion that Google is "abusing" a "monopoly" is the most absurd accusation I've heard in a long time. The fact that Google is pouring money into an open source operating system which benefits *its own *competitors* should make this obvious to anyone. Where's the ruling for Apple, which refuses to release its source code, refuses to allow its software to run on any other hardware aside from its own, and doesn't allow any form of derivative works? Hell, they won't even allow other browser engines to run on their phones! Did Europe forget the great IE monopoly lawsuits? Come on...
> However, humans have biological clocks and the time of day is just one cue your brain uses to determine when to sleep, get up, eat, etc. Going to work at 03:00 UTC on the west coast of the US, and then having that same 03:00 GMT label applied to an 08:00 "human" time would take lots of getting used to.
This is a fallacious argument. Just because YOUR brain has become accustomed to the notion that 08:00 means morning doesn't mean that it can't be trained to use any other number in its place. It is completely, 100% arbitrary. Yes, it would be a major adjustment when you travel somewhere else, but that's already the case due to jetlag, so it really makes no significant difference. The benefits far outweigh the minor inconvenience a few generations would experience until it is the norm.
We've been asking this question for *decades* and the answer has always been a resounding YES. It doesn't matter. People are idiots and this will never change.
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I know I'm an old man now, and not technically a millennial (just barely, thank god), but who can possibly use 11 different social media platforms? How do that many even exist? Unless you're counting every random forum a person could ever participate in. Is Slashdot a "social media platform?" I sure as hell don't think so. Do they consider YouTube a social media platform? When I think social media, I think Facebook, Google+, and Twitter (and if I really stretch, Diaspora/GNUSocial). Maybe shit like Instagram can fit in there, but that's just part of Facebook, so doesn't really count. I don't think I'd even count Reddit as social media. All of these are surely "social" apps, but in my mind, "social media" deals specifically with sharing your own, personal content with others that you have connections to, not publishing for mass consumption. I could be wrong.
So true. I'd really like to see a browser that entirely rips out *all* compatibility with anything but strict html5 and ecma2015. Absolutely no compatibility fixes or html4 whatsoever. Google could do this. Their market-share has gotten so out of control, that it would force all the shitty sites to update practically overnight! Let people launch a completely separate "compatibility mode" browser if they that desperately need to access some shitty, old site (or load it dynamically in a tab--whatever). The thing is, compliant markup just isn't that difficult. It always comes down to programmer incompetence.
I'm so ready for Twiiter to die. The whole concept-—reducing all content to 140 character sound bytes suitable for a child's consumption, is insulting and doing real damage to the world and people's ability to communicate. It almost single-handedly allowed the election of a tyrant to the highest office in the world. Its users need to learn how to write in *complete paragraphs*, with spacing, punctuation, and everything else that makes language worth using in the first place.
Dear Developers: Do whatever the fuck you want with your own time. Don't worry about bugs and features unless they are important to YOU. Do what you love—that's what developing open source software is all about. Until the whiners get off their ass and pay you to work on their token issue, ignore them. Most importantly: THANK YOU!
UI flexibility is a great thing. This looks like a nice improvement, particularly in that users can choose what they like best. Unfortunately, what they need most is to redesign those butt-ugly icons! They just ruin the screenshots of the new Muffin UI. This issue has plagued Libre- and OpenOffice for years. I don't understand why it's still an issue. There are so many great graphic designers in the open source community that could help. (Sadly I am not one.) If they put out a call for assistance, I'm sure it would be solved in no time. Unless it's...intentional? I just don't understand it. Looking at those icons makes my eyes bleed.
It's 2016. Why is anyone still running *any* version of Windows outside of some backward, locked-down corporate environment? I know there are little gamer kiddies that are desperate for compatibility with their proprietary software, but outside of that, I honestly don't understand. I don't know anyone who uses Windows myself. The people I know who refuse to use some variant of Linux (including Chrome OS and Android, of course), all use Mac OS. I can only assume this is *still* due to Microsoft's unethical, monopolistic business practises that multiple lawsuits have still failed to put an end to. How much longer are we expected to put up with this?
These comments are so full of ignorance it's not even funny—I thought I had wandered into /r/the_donald or something. The few sensible people posting have pointed out that there seems to be an extreme lack of transparency, and no one is quite sure where all the money is going. This is a fair point and needs to be addressed by the Wikimedia Foundation. This does *not* automatically mean that they are somehow wasting this money, giving its employees lavish salaries, or anything of the sort. It means we do not know. No amount of ridiculous theorising will change that. We need to be able to trust our non-profit organizations in general, and such a great, important organization like Wikimedia in particular. Just because we don't know something doesn't make them this evil villain. If we uncover some impropriety, *then* we can demonize them. Until then, I'm making a (small) donation and also demanding more transparency. I encourage others to do the same.
$2 million/year in hosting fees isn't exactly chump change, and they definitely need to hire good dev ops people to keep one of the busiest sites on the internet running.
Proofreading is a thing. "Sent from my phone" is no excuse for your sloppiness.
Brand licensing deals need to be outlawed. The notion is absolutely ridiculous in the modern age, a world where international boundaries mean little. How are consumers supposed to know that their Blackberry manufactured in India is different from another Blackberry manufactured in China, in fact coming from two entirely different companies? This is absurd. Either sell the entire company, or just let it rest in peace.
Samsung needs to stop spending its customers' money on features the neither need nor want. It's absurd. They have created their own mobile payment, virtual reality, and now AI assistant platforms when all of the above already exist in Android and work just fine. It's ridiculous. This is why I will never purchase a Samsung phone. They are so obscenely expensive for a reason. They have to pay for the development of these features somehow.
if they want to spend that money, it should go into developing *open source* solutions, in collaboration with Google. Samsung is a broken company and will never get back it's (already poor) reputation in the smartphone world.
I'd like to see you try to install the Amazon Store on my Nexus Player. Or on a Mi Box. Go ahead, try. I'll wait...
Your old Galaxy 2+ is not an Android TV device. Do you have *any* Android TV devices? Can you read?
Please cancel your Amazon Prime subscription and tell them why. It's the only hope we have to get them to change their minds.
Amazon will expand to 200 countries, but won't expand to the millions of customers in the US and elsewhere that use Android TV—even though their own video players are based on the platform. That is insanity. I will continue to boycott Amazon and steal its content until it corrects this absurd decision, and I encourage everyone to do the same.
I have such mixed feelings about this issue. On the one hand, worker rights are crucial essential. I don't want any business to be able to operate as a loophole to get around them. On the other, this is a new business model that is still developing, and it's wrong to just shut it down. Uber and its competitors have really revolutionized transportation. Before, I *never* would have taken a taxi in a first world country, as they have always been obscenely expensive. Now I can actually get around when public transportation fails me or is inconvenient.
The burst pricing model is actually quite brilliant, but I do think that Uber dictating the price drivers can charge does really push the argument in the drivers' favour, though. If it were literally just a SAAS app that independent contractors used to find customers, they would have complete control to set their own prices, etc. Maybe this is a change that needs to happen. I'm not sure. What I do know is, we can't deny people the opportunity to work part-time, or however they want, simply because it would require the company to provide them with expensive benefits. That doesn't make sense.
Perhaps a new model of benefits needs to be created for this type of employment. If you argue that a traditional worker should be entitled to 4 weeks of paid holiday per year, then that's 1 hour of holiday per hour worked, right? So, once a person reaches, say, 96 hours (of actual drive time with a customer, on the clock), they would be eligible to receive a bonus of 8 hours (times the minimum wage, I guess?) on their next pay cheque. I'm just brainstorming, and this idea is sounding worse the more I write, so I'll stop. I just think some other kind of ideology needs to be developed.
These are not "illegal downloads." Downloading isn't illegal. *Sharing* and distributing it is (in some jurisdictions). The are also failing to account for those of us who have Amazon Prime subscriptions, but CANNOT VIEW the show because Amazon refuses to make their proprietary player available on Android TV. Amazon is the real criminal here.
Please, for the love of god. No one wants to hear about their proprietary garbage.
Somebody found a bug in a piece of proprietary software. This is news? It happens all the time. Google will fix it soon and we'll all forget about it. Nothing to see here, folks.
Sadly no torrent links to download this thing. Anyone have one? Their download link http://bitly.com/12core641 redirects to Sourceforge of all terrible places.
Why would faster wifi be beneficial to rural communities? This seems flat-out idiotic. If your internet connection doesn't have the bandwidth to utilise it, how is a faster wifi connection even going to be noticeable? All those farmers playing LAN games at their homes? I don't think so...
Is the human eye even capable of perceiving the difference between 1080p and 4k on a desktop/laptop monitor? This just seems so pointless. Of course it makes sense on a large TV, and I realise some people are silly enough to output their PC signal to their TVs instead of getting a dedicated box, but surely they are in the minority. I think I've only used Netflix in a browser a couple of times since I subscribed several years ago, and that was just for testing. What use case am I missing here?
The DRM involved in this is absolutely despicable.
The notion that Google is "abusing" a "monopoly" is the most absurd accusation I've heard in a long time. The fact that Google is pouring money into an open source operating system which benefits *its own *competitors* should make this obvious to anyone. Where's the ruling for Apple, which refuses to release its source code, refuses to allow its software to run on any other hardware aside from its own, and doesn't allow any form of derivative works? Hell, they won't even allow other browser engines to run on their phones! Did Europe forget the great IE monopoly lawsuits? Come on...
> However, humans have biological clocks and the time of day is just one cue your brain uses to determine when to sleep, get up, eat, etc. Going to work at 03:00 UTC on the west coast of the US, and then having that same 03:00 GMT label applied to an 08:00 "human" time would take lots of getting used to.
This is a fallacious argument. Just because YOUR brain has become accustomed to the notion that 08:00 means morning doesn't mean that it can't be trained to use any other number in its place. It is completely, 100% arbitrary. Yes, it would be a major adjustment when you travel somewhere else, but that's already the case due to jetlag, so it really makes no significant difference. The benefits far outweigh the minor inconvenience a few generations would experience until it is the norm.
We've been asking this question for *decades* and the answer has always been a resounding YES. It doesn't matter. People are idiots and this will never change.