Your line of reasoning has nothing to do with the reality the submitter points out. They are simply not tech savvy, period. If you work with teachers and administration you will find that, just like most people in an office setting, they just get by. They don't learn anything new, they do not train themselves, and they have no intention of ever doing so. In universities you will find forward thinking and technological efficiency from time to time, but it is scarce. I've heard professors say that they "did not want to learn anything else (software, tech...)," straight to my face. This was in a college setting where they would fly off the handle if a student uttered such words. Trust me, if they were into it and going full-steam ahead, they wouldn't give tow shits about the poor people who couldn't participate.
Our society is truly fucked up if you can't send a stranger a text message without being labeled a creep. Seriously. Having come across this conversation, a lot of this is not making sense once I think about it. When I was a teenager I used to search female profiles on AOL and send text messages to strangers. No one thought it was creepy, and I even met one of my girlfriends like that (nice girl). We didn't even have profile pics back then. WTF! Now there is a total fucked up paranoia about everything. Why have all this social media crap if we cannot meet new people for fuck's sake!!! Boring. Let's wall everyone off into our own little corner of the world where we only talk to the people we know. It just seems to be the opposite of ideal and makes no sense that the technology is going to prevent us from forming new relationships or breaking the boundary of our isolated regions or locales. No wonder I hate Facebook--the reasons are becoming apparent. Instead of FB bombarding us with people we might know, why don't they facilitate connections with people we do not know who are interested in the same things that we are? The people I know are that simply because we were born in the same area and ran in to each other. I guess it makes sense that the technology continues to model this lame reality.
Indeed, the power requirements are miniscule compared to modern processors and they run cool. In addition the supporting hardware requirements are lower. Hell, the old Motorola 32bit processors are still being churned out as well.
Indeed, I do not accept the notion that OS/2 failed. Hell, it has binary compatibility with Windows APIs and it is still in use! IBM failed at this endevour and couldn't even see the advantage that they had regardless of the short-term situation. Now the two products are so divergent it is nearly impossible to leverage the binary compatibility.
Copyright protects the characters and story arch as well. You can't just pop something called Star Trek with their characters and story line and think it is going to be OK.
If all they cared about was money they would just go into banking. I presume they have a passion for the art with money being an afterthought.....but what do I know?
The latest FF is buggy. If I leave tabs open for a day or two and the system goes to sleep (and reawakens) I often experience latent sluggish performance and I have to restart the browser. When I'm programming, restarting is major pain in the ass.
I noticed that when the majority of my website traffic was global that Firefox was the easy winner. But when my search rankings improved and I started getting most of my search traffic from the US IE is the clear winner, hardly any other browser even registers.
No, Android has regular, everyday people. Apple has the people who don't flash a second thought at dropping $1000 on something trivial, or those poor saps who can't afford it but desperately want to belong. Blackberry is and has been a pariah.
corporate culture and suit and ties - what young consumer wants to be a part of that?
Several years ago I looked into becoming a Blackberry developer. I noticed their site was terribly unprofessional and it reminded me of a mom-and-pop shop at times. Just from visiting their site and wading through the developers section I decided to forgo wasting my time on their platform since it was obvious their management had serious problems. I think the principles made out like bandits many years ago and really just stopped caring all that much. They milked it for what they could, and now you see the end. RIM has been dead for years.
Yes, a lot of people want to be good at computers, or be a master pianist. Without the work involved to get there of course. People say they want skills all the time. If they really wanted those skills they would work for it. Hell, with computers it's a Google and click away--barely work.
Dude, I know enough not to milk a yak. The laughing would really pick up once your wrists got sore. Of course, if I was hungry I could probably become proficient at yak milking. Not really a skill you pick up out of curiosity.
It is not about firing up Eclipse or compiling a Kernel. It is about curiosity and having the decency to become aware of the world around you. The problem is that people have no idea how incompetent they are. It only takes someone who is curious enough to learn and become half-way proficient in a basic tool like a computer to show up most of the people in their department. People are scared. The same reason they can't, or will not, learn trig is the same reason they will not become acquainted with the basic functionality of a computer. I'm not talking about them becoming firmware hacking assembler geeks, I'm talking about learning the fucking basics like file management (where is my shit?), setting up an email account, or perhaps not using Excel to conduct word processing.
It was, then the whole fucking thing up-ended. Ubuntu 10.10 caused me to switch to Linux and 11 caused my to switch to Windows. It wasn't just the buggy interface, there were other problems with the 64bit distro on top of the train-wreck UI and graphical anomalies, and disappearing menus.....
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Your line of reasoning has nothing to do with the reality the submitter points out. They are simply not tech savvy, period. If you work with teachers and administration you will find that, just like most people in an office setting, they just get by. They don't learn anything new, they do not train themselves, and they have no intention of ever doing so. In universities you will find forward thinking and technological efficiency from time to time, but it is scarce. I've heard professors say that they "did not want to learn anything else (software, tech...)," straight to my face. This was in a college setting where they would fly off the handle if a student uttered such words. Trust me, if they were into it and going full-steam ahead, they wouldn't give tow shits about the poor people who couldn't participate.
Our society is truly fucked up if you can't send a stranger a text message without being labeled a creep. Seriously. Having come across this conversation, a lot of this is not making sense once I think about it. When I was a teenager I used to search female profiles on AOL and send text messages to strangers. No one thought it was creepy, and I even met one of my girlfriends like that (nice girl). We didn't even have profile pics back then. WTF! Now there is a total fucked up paranoia about everything. Why have all this social media crap if we cannot meet new people for fuck's sake!!! Boring. Let's wall everyone off into our own little corner of the world where we only talk to the people we know. It just seems to be the opposite of ideal and makes no sense that the technology is going to prevent us from forming new relationships or breaking the boundary of our isolated regions or locales. No wonder I hate Facebook--the reasons are becoming apparent. Instead of FB bombarding us with people we might know, why don't they facilitate connections with people we do not know who are interested in the same things that we are? The people I know are that simply because we were born in the same area and ran in to each other. I guess it makes sense that the technology continues to model this lame reality.
Wouldn't it be great if the community could band together to create a new OS?! Oh. Yeah. Never mind.
Indeed, the power requirements are miniscule compared to modern processors and they run cool. In addition the supporting hardware requirements are lower. Hell, the old Motorola 32bit processors are still being churned out as well.
Indeed, I do not accept the notion that OS/2 failed. Hell, it has binary compatibility with Windows APIs and it is still in use! IBM failed at this endevour and couldn't even see the advantage that they had regardless of the short-term situation. Now the two products are so divergent it is nearly impossible to leverage the binary compatibility.
Yet to see an ad douchebag.
They used Dragon Warrior!! My favorite RPG of all time (well, besides WOW).
Copyright protects the characters and story arch as well. You can't just pop something called Star Trek with their characters and story line and think it is going to be OK.
If all they cared about was money they would just go into banking. I presume they have a passion for the art with money being an afterthought.....but what do I know?
Then they get sued by the cable company
download shitty Nicolas Cage movies,
LMAO! Seriously.....in other news....next year he plans to bring broadband internet to rural America.
We're Americans, we're not going to READ the bill.
No, if they can't agree on the name, the bill should not progress.
Lucky bastard.
The latest FF is buggy. If I leave tabs open for a day or two and the system goes to sleep (and reawakens) I often experience latent sluggish performance and I have to restart the browser. When I'm programming, restarting is major pain in the ass.
I noticed that when the majority of my website traffic was global that Firefox was the easy winner. But when my search rankings improved and I started getting most of my search traffic from the US IE is the clear winner, hardly any other browser even registers.
No, Android has regular, everyday people. Apple has the people who don't flash a second thought at dropping $1000 on something trivial, or those poor saps who can't afford it but desperately want to belong. Blackberry is and has been a pariah.
corporate culture and suit and ties - what young consumer wants to be a part of that?
A lot of them.
Several years ago I looked into becoming a Blackberry developer. I noticed their site was terribly unprofessional and it reminded me of a mom-and-pop shop at times. Just from visiting their site and wading through the developers section I decided to forgo wasting my time on their platform since it was obvious their management had serious problems. I think the principles made out like bandits many years ago and really just stopped caring all that much. They milked it for what they could, and now you see the end. RIM has been dead for years.
That is freaking hilarious! I love PHP, but damn that is funny. It must be true.
That is a mighty big hammer you have there.
Yes, a lot of people want to be good at computers, or be a master pianist. Without the work involved to get there of course. People say they want skills all the time. If they really wanted those skills they would work for it. Hell, with computers it's a Google and click away--barely work.
Dude, I know enough not to milk a yak. The laughing would really pick up once your wrists got sore. Of course, if I was hungry I could probably become proficient at yak milking. Not really a skill you pick up out of curiosity.
It is not about firing up Eclipse or compiling a Kernel. It is about curiosity and having the decency to become aware of the world around you. The problem is that people have no idea how incompetent they are. It only takes someone who is curious enough to learn and become half-way proficient in a basic tool like a computer to show up most of the people in their department. People are scared. The same reason they can't, or will not, learn trig is the same reason they will not become acquainted with the basic functionality of a computer. I'm not talking about them becoming firmware hacking assembler geeks, I'm talking about learning the fucking basics like file management (where is my shit?), setting up an email account, or perhaps not using Excel to conduct word processing.
1) It costs money
2) You have to fiddle with PHP to get it to work right
That is enough for me to stick it in the POS category....you need more?
It was, then the whole fucking thing up-ended. Ubuntu 10.10 caused me to switch to Linux and 11 caused my to switch to Windows. It wasn't just the buggy interface, there were other problems with the 64bit distro on top of the train-wreck UI and graphical anomalies, and disappearing menus.....