Age is an issue here, some brilliant people learn social skills late and social skills improvement isn't a magical overnight fix. Knowing the right answer and knowing the best way to present it to others don't always come at the same time. Of course, knowing who will always be a jerk and who needs time to learn the culture is part of good hiring. Programming a young socially challenged genius may well be easier than reprogramming an older genius who is still trying to work a culture that they are no longer a part of. The best indicator I know of is genuinely catching them being wrong and seeing how they respond. That is hard because they are, by definition here, brilliant. Fortunately it is easiest early when they know the least about the details of the new things they are working on. This means you can spot the fakers and keep them from becoming too integral if you pay attention.
I've been working out this exact solution. The problem so far is the amount of energy I've burned through in these various data centers while searching for the most efficient way to dig the hole.
You, like everyone else so far in this conversation, are making a false equivalence fallacy. The only thing this article points out is adoption rates by users when the software became available to the users. The only actual apples to apples comparison to android would require a by carrier and by device breakdown because that is how android users get updates. What was the adoption rate of Jelly Bean on the Galaxy Nexus on VZ the same amount of time after VZ started pushing it to users? I know my android phone was updated less than 8 hours after its most recent update became available to me. Considering most people just click ok on everything that pops up in front of them I imagine the adoption rate is high, since all it takes to update an android phone is to click ok on the notification and wait 5 minutes for it to do its thing and then reboot. My last iphone took longer to run its updates than my android phones have and it required far more user interaction and effort to get those updates started in the first place.
If I wanted polarized arguments with neither side bothering to think at all I'd go read about politics. It is a statistic, not grounds for a holy war. Why isn't anyone here talking about a technical solution to increase that adoption rate? That is what this real nerd was hoping to see here. I wonder what percentage of those are new devices that shipped with ios6? Did his math account for people with new devices being forced to re-download his app? This clearly doesn't show any indication of software upgrade rates on old hardware, but mathematically they must be lower than overall adoption rates since 100% of new iphones are on ios6.
I have a Ubiquiti RouterStation Pro. I am using a discontinued card but would recommend the SR71-A for wireless. Netgate was my source for mainboard, minipci wireless card, enclosure, jumpers, and power supply. I already had my own 9dbi antennas to use. Running OpenWRT this setup has amazing range, tons of processing power and has NEVER caused any downtime for me since I built it over a year ago.
the LSB has been a huge improvement.
personally I like pacman is best of all of the package managers I have ever used. the only issue with that being standardized across all of linux is that because of the mentality of Arch there is no refined graphical frontend for it. and there really isn't any well supported plan to make one either. honestly I never managed to figure out how rpm became such a force. its improved a lot since red hat 8 when I first started using linux, but it still can't compete with some of the other options.
my stilleto II has a microSD slot. I bought an 8GB card to put in it so I can use it as an mp3 player when I am in places where I don't have reception from the satellites or wifi to get sirius. the MicroSD card I bought came with a SD blank that I can put the microSD card into and it works just like SD in anything that supports SDHC of course due to the large size of my card.
too drunk to write original music! every time I hear them at when out at the bar I go request the dead kennedys. it seems the regular dj at my regular bar has an aversion to much superior original versions of songs.
I would agree with that argument. The wii got me back into gaming after a few year break. I had quit because I was annoyed with games being all about graphics and not being fun enough to actually draw me in.
not sure about freeBSD, but I know openssh came from openBSD. The reputed security there and throughout the rest of the OS can provide great peace of mind to those of us who are paranoid. if my memory serves correctly it was generally more lightweight from a default install than a linux distro would be, I know openBSD is still a very minimal install because I've used it more recently. I overcome the default loaded crap on most linux distros by using arch linux myself. does any one know how much of the network stack optimization that was done in the last major release of openBSD has been ported into linux yet?
I am glad I'm not the only one who found his being on a fully IPv6 link the most interesting part of the article.
I think OS hopping to vista is driven by one of 3 causes, 1. DX10 for gamers, not turning out to be too hot... 2. already dissatisfied with XP. They are more likely to try a third option at this point, notice the boost in mac and linux adoption? 3. it came on their new computer... thats all they know. these people are likely not doing enough for it to make a difference.
I think this particular vista bashing is very poorly done. I didn't read past "It turns out the Facebook issue was not really Microsoft's fault -- facebook had a broken IPv6 record, and Vista defaults to using IPv6". perhaps a better title would have been "facebook sucks". happy linux user and all those other/. stereotypes, I just think if we are mocking vista we should talk about its weaknesses not blame other mistakes on it. I know if someone posted an article claiming it was firefox's fault it didn't correctly render poorly coded web pages it would be received as blasphemy in this community.
now that I have my joke out of the way, thats right mods it was a joke not a trolling attempt. I really think you are probably right about their motive.
you are certainly clever. except... how do you produce it? [step 1] that would be a lot easier to figure out if we were to know a little bit more about it.[step 2] guess at how we could make it.[step 3, maybe that could have gone better if we had done more research on this from a different angle. maybe throw some things around in a partical accelerator to get an idea of its other properties besides the one we thought it up because of? but you defintely wanted to skip that step because you don't like it.] then we need to test to see if it really is what we wanted[step 4].
so far I have proven 2 points. 1. there is enough science to be done to keep us busy for a long time. 2. you should probably leave that science to someone much better at it.
this post being modded insightful bothers me, because it is actually a perfect example of having no insight into the situation.
1. Define the question
2. Gather information and resources (observe)
3. Form hypothesis
4. Perform experiment and collect data
5. Analyze data
6. Interpret data and draw conclusions that serve as a starting point for new hypothesis
7. Publish results
8. Retest (frequently done by other scientists)
taken from wikipedia those are the steps of the scientific method. I remember them from middle school, so I imagine most of this crowd should have been over them at some point. This article is a perfect example of step 3 in my opinion. step 2 is all of the already observed behavior of matter in the universe. here in step three we form a hypothesis about some detail that is unexplained or not understood. step 4, which these people have not gotten too yet, is to figure out a method to perform tests to prove or disprove their hypothesis and perform those tests. then they will analyze the results of their test, step 5. skipping over this step would leave them with no direction to take in their research, so they would probably never figure out anything.
that may take longer than you are guessing. mostly because uptake of smartphones is going to be quicker among the technically elite. judging by slashdot posts that particular crowd seems to dislike the idea of someone tracking where they are all the time. people who jump on this are probably not going to be getting gps phones till the free phone from their carrier has it. or you could go with the assumption that what is posted is likely far from what these people do in their real lives... for example how many of these privacy nuts use gmail?
I have been using xfce for a few months now and really like it. its a little different layout from your typical default gnome/kde/windows desktop but the learning curve is still no harder than memorizing the changed icons. its also very light and fast compared to gnome or kde. and at least on arch and ubuntu its complete right out of the gate unlike most of the *box window manager setups where you need to get your own panel and file manager, which can be daunting for people who are new to that particular desktop environment.
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Age is an issue here, some brilliant people learn social skills late and social skills improvement isn't a magical overnight fix. Knowing the right answer and knowing the best way to present it to others don't always come at the same time. Of course, knowing who will always be a jerk and who needs time to learn the culture is part of good hiring. Programming a young socially challenged genius may well be easier than reprogramming an older genius who is still trying to work a culture that they are no longer a part of. The best indicator I know of is genuinely catching them being wrong and seeing how they respond. That is hard because they are, by definition here, brilliant. Fortunately it is easiest early when they know the least about the details of the new things they are working on. This means you can spot the fakers and keep them from becoming too integral if you pay attention.
I've been working out this exact solution. The problem so far is the amount of energy I've burned through in these various data centers while searching for the most efficient way to dig the hole.
You, like everyone else so far in this conversation, are making a false equivalence fallacy. The only thing this article points out is adoption rates by users when the software became available to the users. The only actual apples to apples comparison to android would require a by carrier and by device breakdown because that is how android users get updates. What was the adoption rate of Jelly Bean on the Galaxy Nexus on VZ the same amount of time after VZ started pushing it to users? I know my android phone was updated less than 8 hours after its most recent update became available to me. Considering most people just click ok on everything that pops up in front of them I imagine the adoption rate is high, since all it takes to update an android phone is to click ok on the notification and wait 5 minutes for it to do its thing and then reboot. My last iphone took longer to run its updates than my android phones have and it required far more user interaction and effort to get those updates started in the first place.
If I wanted polarized arguments with neither side bothering to think at all I'd go read about politics. It is a statistic, not grounds for a holy war. Why isn't anyone here talking about a technical solution to increase that adoption rate? That is what this real nerd was hoping to see here. I wonder what percentage of those are new devices that shipped with ios6? Did his math account for people with new devices being forced to re-download his app? This clearly doesn't show any indication of software upgrade rates on old hardware, but mathematically they must be lower than overall adoption rates since 100% of new iphones are on ios6.
I have a Ubiquiti RouterStation Pro. I am using a discontinued card but would recommend the SR71-A for wireless. Netgate was my source for mainboard, minipci wireless card, enclosure, jumpers, and power supply. I already had my own 9dbi antennas to use. Running OpenWRT this setup has amazing range, tons of processing power and has NEVER caused any downtime for me since I built it over a year ago.
I don't think anyone else is seeing them, must be something wrong with your browser.
because it tastes sour. It is a common additive in many foods and occurs naturally in some fruits.
Considering citric acid is used to make one particular explosive I would bet that was the one on his gum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexamethylene_triperoxide_diamine
what about the descolada from Enders Saga?
the LSB has been a huge improvement. personally I like pacman is best of all of the package managers I have ever used. the only issue with that being standardized across all of linux is that because of the mentality of Arch there is no refined graphical frontend for it. and there really isn't any well supported plan to make one either. honestly I never managed to figure out how rpm became such a force. its improved a lot since red hat 8 when I first started using linux, but it still can't compete with some of the other options.
my stilleto II has a microSD slot. I bought an 8GB card to put in it so I can use it as an mp3 player when I am in places where I don't have reception from the satellites or wifi to get sirius. the MicroSD card I bought came with a SD blank that I can put the microSD card into and it works just like SD in anything that supports SDHC of course due to the large size of my card.
too drunk to write original music! every time I hear them at when out at the bar I go request the dead kennedys. it seems the regular dj at my regular bar has an aversion to much superior original versions of songs.
I would agree with that argument. The wii got me back into gaming after a few year break. I had quit because I was annoyed with games being all about graphics and not being fun enough to actually draw me in.
not sure about freeBSD, but I know openssh came from openBSD. The reputed security there and throughout the rest of the OS can provide great peace of mind to those of us who are paranoid. if my memory serves correctly it was generally more lightweight from a default install than a linux distro would be, I know openBSD is still a very minimal install because I've used it more recently. I overcome the default loaded crap on most linux distros by using arch linux myself. does any one know how much of the network stack optimization that was done in the last major release of openBSD has been ported into linux yet?
I am glad I'm not the only one who found his being on a fully IPv6 link the most interesting part of the article.
I think OS hopping to vista is driven by one of 3 causes,
1. DX10 for gamers, not turning out to be too hot...
2. already dissatisfied with XP. They are more likely to try a third option at this point, notice the boost in mac and linux adoption?
3. it came on their new computer... thats all they know. these people are likely not doing enough for it to make a difference.
*the preceding list was in no particular order.
I think this particular vista bashing is very poorly done. I didn't read past "It turns out the Facebook issue was not really Microsoft's fault -- facebook had a broken IPv6 record, and Vista defaults to using IPv6". perhaps a better title would have been "facebook sucks". happy linux user and all those other /. stereotypes, I just think if we are mocking vista we should talk about its weaknesses not blame other mistakes on it. I know if someone posted an article claiming it was firefox's fault it didn't correctly render poorly coded web pages it would be received as blasphemy in this community.
why are you planning to wait another 172 years before switching?
well thats where it all falls down of course.
of course they will, how else would you be able to watch your rich uncles comedy work?
now that I have my joke out of the way, thats right mods it was a joke not a trolling attempt. I really think you are probably right about their motive.
I thought "improvements and enhancements" was MS marketing speak for "newly-introduced instability".
damnit, now my coworkers are going to wonder why I'm singing to myself about hitler all day.
you are certainly clever. except... how do you produce it? [step 1] that would be a lot easier to figure out if we were to know a little bit more about it.[step 2] guess at how we could make it.[step 3, maybe that could have gone better if we had done more research on this from a different angle. maybe throw some things around in a partical accelerator to get an idea of its other properties besides the one we thought it up because of? but you defintely wanted to skip that step because you don't like it.] then we need to test to see if it really is what we wanted[step 4].
so far I have proven 2 points.
1. there is enough science to be done to keep us busy for a long time.
2. you should probably leave that science to someone much better at it.
"I have an idea, but have no clue how to test it yet" is a perfect time to spread the word that you are looking for anyone with an idea how to test.
this post being modded insightful bothers me, because it is actually a perfect example of having no insight into the situation.
1. Define the question
2. Gather information and resources (observe)
3. Form hypothesis
4. Perform experiment and collect data
5. Analyze data
6. Interpret data and draw conclusions that serve as a starting point for new hypothesis
7. Publish results
8. Retest (frequently done by other scientists)
taken from wikipedia those are the steps of the scientific method. I remember them from middle school, so I imagine most of this crowd should have been over them at some point. This article is a perfect example of step 3 in my opinion. step 2 is all of the already observed behavior of matter in the universe. here in step three we form a hypothesis about some detail that is unexplained or not understood. step 4, which these people have not gotten too yet, is to figure out a method to perform tests to prove or disprove their hypothesis and perform those tests. then they will analyze the results of their test, step 5. skipping over this step would leave them with no direction to take in their research, so they would probably never figure out anything.
that may take longer than you are guessing. mostly because uptake of smartphones is going to be quicker among the technically elite. judging by slashdot posts that particular crowd seems to dislike the idea of someone tracking where they are all the time. people who jump on this are probably not going to be getting gps phones till the free phone from their carrier has it. or you could go with the assumption that what is posted is likely far from what these people do in their real lives... for example how many of these privacy nuts use gmail?
I have been using xfce for a few months now and really like it. its a little different layout from your typical default gnome/kde/windows desktop but the learning curve is still no harder than memorizing the changed icons. its also very light and fast compared to gnome or kde. and at least on arch and ubuntu its complete right out of the gate unlike most of the *box window manager setups where you need to get your own panel and file manager, which can be daunting for people who are new to that particular desktop environment.