The thousands of things that Star Trek got COMPLETELY WRONG (including the overarching idea of a socialistic state where everyone works for the common good and not for money)."
Fantasy.
How holographic displays have been around since before Star Wars and yet we have never even come close to what is seen in that movie.
&&
Why self-driving cars, which have been experimented with for decades now, have never materialized in production any more than flying cars.
Research.
How the Back to the Future Nikes were actually INSPIRED by the movie, but still don't work anything like those seen in the movie (they DO NOT self-lace)
Self fullfilling prophecy.
Army drones. Are you referring to Terminator-esque robots (which have never materialized), or the glorified RC cars and planes with a missile attached?
Explain this: -Star Trek tablet pc [check]; -Star Trek talk to a computer (Apple's new talk to iPhone 4S) [check]; -Star Trek brain implants (in mice) [check]; -Back to the Future Nike shoes [check]; -Those lenses that can read light focussed realy close to you [check]; -Hitchhikers Gide to the Galaxy device (Wikipedia on your smartphone) [check]; -Self-driving cars in a lot of movies (we have working prototypes) [check]; -Star Wars holographic displays (for some coorporations) [check]; -Cold fusion effect (but then without the cold fusion) [allmost check]; -Army drones (recently on Slashdot) [check]; -What did I miss?
There was once a reason for doing this: people tried to look for a pattern in the number, but figured they needed more digits, because they couldn't find a pattern.
Now we know that at least in a decimal system; there is no pattern.
But for some nerdy reason this "MOAR DIGITZ!" thing continues.
Wasn't that exactly what Hitler did to Germany? Whoopsy...
The secret operations that a government conducts is realy just that, but when a citizen doesn't have the right to know what he/she must/musn't do... Then guess what? The US government is at war with its own citizens.
If the USA was my country, I'd hustle so people on Facebook and go to the streets with an axe. Oh wait... That's 'terrorism'.
You said that user friendlyness will gain Linux ground. Well... User friendlyness has never resulted in anything. Example is BeOS.
Android doesn't prove anything, because its adoption started because Google bought it. That's all there is about it.
And that doesn't address what I said at all.
I'm sorry for not getting what you meant; I still don't.
clearly Android has received plenty of marketing now and that still doesn't explain why some Android phones sell while others don't. The UI and how simple the phone vendor made it to use Android does explain it.
Specs, reviews, price and brand asociation don't?
The UI and how simple the phone vendor made it to use Android does explain it.
I still don't get it. If usability is such a big thing, then why did people use Windows for years? I think it's marketing.
Or continue living in denial, it makes no difference to me.
I'm the kind of guy that really has a strong formed opinion, but that doesn't mean that you can't convince me. Try harder.
Calling non-technical users "sheep" won't help you win anyone over to Linux or KDE.
I'm not here to 'win anyone over'. I'm just hating what I hate and loving what I love. This is/. and I'm here to throw my daily buildup nerdiness, so I don't have to engage in it in RL. I call 99% of all iPod owners sheep because everyone I talked to needed to come up with a reason before they could answer. That means that they have put zero efford into thinking why the hell they bought it in the first place. You typical iPod owner isn't just a sheep because he bought one, but bought one because he/she is a sheep. That doesn't limit itself to electronics; it's clothes, opinions, character style, etc.
I was just pointing out the only viable alternative. If there's any chance of a healthy and stable by nature alternative, ever, than this is it. If a shitload of people protested by saying "Your currency is not going to be adopted" then that will definately be a tiny dent.
As it grows in popularity exponentialy, people will notice, just like Macbooks and Linux (Android).
Either put your money where your mouth is or shut up, protesters...
Social education. Being able to communicate on a social level, rather than an intelectual level.
Knowing about chaos theory, he sure can find out why it is important to be able to deal with what some call stupidity and other call errors and chaos.
If this person (I would insult him calling him a kid) has such a high degree (on an avarage humand scale) that he can do all the above (OP post), then he probably didn't develop a lot of (real world, not/.) social skills at birth.
But he'll be smart enough to figure it out, I'm sure. Autism, in my book, doesn't exist.
very few will claim that KDE is comparable to either Mac OS X or Windows UI. KDE has come a long way, but it is not up to the level of the commercial GUIs.
KDE, in my opinion, is light years ahead of Windows and Mac OS. It's just too much to explain, but here are the big points: -Technologicaly most advance advanced, fully resolution independant OpenGL and SVG, scriptable canvas (KDE Plasma); -Has all the features of both Windows and Mac and many more; -Most comprehensive window management of any window manager on any OS; -Fully consistant UI; -Powered by the best toolkit on the planet (Qt); -Very minimalistic design without sacrificing features; -All icons are non-distractive (Windows and Mac OS have way too much gimmick distractions, especialy Mac OS icons that look like Disneyland); -Most advance framework of any desktip environment.
When Linux has a real new user friendly distro and UI, and when installing software and maintaining it is as effortless as Windows and Mac OS then it will start to gain some ground. Android is evidence of that. The phones that have added a good UI are selling well, other Android phones aren't doing nearly as well. Installing software on Android is relatively simple, but upgrading the OS hasn't been as simple or effortless, and that's been one of the huge complaints about Android phones.
If this was true, then we'd all be running BeOS by now. It's not what you think it is. It is marketing. It is marketing and enless marketing and then some more marketing... Android wasn't getting any attention before Google bought it and guess why? Because it didn't have a Google stamp on it.
People all over the world, even the most horrible techno noobies knew where every feature of their phone was. Apple hasn't changed anything in that regard, even if you think it does.
Here's the real reason Apple's iOS devices sell, they put the user experience first. Not the programmer or tech user, but your average, everyday user who has no particular interest is learning about computers, they just want a device that works and is simple to use and maintain. Until programmers and tech users understand that, all your favorite tech products will lag behind in sales because they don't address what 90% of the market wants; devices that do what the user bought them to do with a minimum of effort and/or technical knowledge required to use and maintain them.
Giving credit where it's due, I can't deny that Apple made some realy slick phone. But then I have to turn around and observe the thousands of screaming "iiiTTTTTUUUUUNNNNEEEESSSS!!!!!! ANSWEEEERR MEEEEE!!!!!!!!" voices in the background. I realy have to disagree and say that the iPhone largely became so popular due to it's iPodness. Thinking about the iPod, I realy have to conclude it's the marketing and the sheep that bought it because everybody else bought it because WWDC.
I stopped giving a shit about advocasy a long time ago, because people never value what's better; people value emotion. It goes like this:
John Dickweed is standing in front of some USB data sticks. Someone tells him that the 64GB model is much faster and has way more storage than the USB stick of John. John's old USB stick is alway full, because all his stuff is on a 256MB data stick and John curses at it, because it never writes his stuff without errors (crappy datarate, corrupted due to age and mostly full)
John doesn't give a shit about 64GB, because he already has a storage device that still somewhat works and the 64GB stick costs money, he doesn't like to spend.
Then some clever guy (for example Steve Jobs), tells him that this 32GB stick can carry enough music to listen to while flying to the moon and back, and he still wouldn't have listened to all the songs on the stick. WOW! Now John wants that shit (emotion) and buys it.
That 32GB stick is Apple, that 64GB stick is Linux and his old 256MB stick is Windows XP.
Excuse me, delusional fanboy, but all the Mac OS X commandline consist of GNU tools, Linux had networked graphics much earlier. We had better window management and workspaces. Where do you think Webkit comes from? What's up with that old and slow performing fixed pipeline graphics framework. Qt is and always been way ahead of Apple's development framework. Apple is even stil using C with classes, while the entire world went C++. We had this 'appstore' thing since the very beginning with repositories. We've had SELinux Mandatory Acces Control dsecutiry much earlier. We had SVG graphics for ages. We had backup solutions way before Time Machine. We've always had much better filesystems and a semantic desktop. We had widgets much earlier. We've had a way more stable OS. Linux has networked multi-channel audio routing. We have a faster and better compiler. Aqua is a total joke compared to KDE4 in terms of technology and resource management. We've had way better publishing due to editor tools that leverage LaTeX and such. currently Linux is catching up with the latest color management, while Apple is still stuck with their '90's implementation. iTunes is nothing compared to Amarok. iMovie is a freaking joke, compared to the leading non-linear video editor on Linux.
Do you want me to continue? Because I can if you want to. But I think I've kinda made my point here?
Well... we have had Windows for ages. It's only until Vista came that the tech side of things was solved and it took Windows 7, along with time, to iron out the horror that we were used to. And during that time there were this OS alternative that was technically really good for that time. It was called Linux and everyone was pissing on it, even though it had far superior capabilities. For example KDE 3.5.x.
Because the general population fscked over the adoption of improvement by going not dumping Winshit, we all had been burried under a great deal of technological pain.
And so now, after all these painful years (purely from a technolocial standpoint), people start adopting alternatives. But what are they adopting? Freaking iCrap!
Each new release it's like hearing "OMG iTHIS IS AWESOME" and you can't help but thing *You FSCKING moron! If you had justed fscking looked at LINUX then (A.) We would have this tech ages ago and (B.) you would realised that this 'Steve Invention' was already under your nose, moron!*.
It's just an instant hate generator. The fact that people are so stupid and then _DARE_ to praise their bullshit in my face just makes me want to smash their teeth in. "Hey Linux is also UNIX, just like Apple"- Well yeah, welcome to 2011, captain obvious...
If we're going on this path, then you're once again horribly wrong, because it doesn't have the exact same design: Three buttons on the front, camera in the back, much slimmer, not antenna's on the side, much slimmer, different size, not glass... etc, etc, etc, et-fscking-cetera.
"Simpleton!" sais the ignorent brain-damaged fanboy.
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Of course it can be based on software, if the OS requires the entire boot sector to be filled to the very last bit with necessary boot logic.
Overwriting even one bit will make the entire OS unbooteable, and with it the rootkit unrunneable.
And stole the designs from Braun.
And the Android drop-down notification and settings menu.
The thousands of things that Star Trek got COMPLETELY WRONG (including the overarching idea of a socialistic state where everyone works for the common good and not for money)."
Fantasy.
How holographic displays have been around since before Star Wars and yet we have never even come close to what is seen in that movie.
&&
Why self-driving cars, which have been experimented with for decades now, have never materialized in production any more than flying cars.
Research.
How the Back to the Future Nikes were actually INSPIRED by the movie, but still don't work anything like those seen in the movie (they DO NOT self-lace)
Self fullfilling prophecy.
Army drones. Are you referring to Terminator-esque robots (which have never materialized), or the glorified RC cars and planes with a missile attached?
No. I mean the onces that can already learn.
You CAN'T predict the future. Deal with it.
Weather.
It eats up most of my 500km/h random-thought-train, leaving me very relaxed indeed.
Explain this:
-Star Trek tablet pc [check];
-Star Trek talk to a computer (Apple's new talk to iPhone 4S) [check];
-Star Trek brain implants (in mice) [check];
-Back to the Future Nike shoes [check];
-Those lenses that can read light focussed realy close to you [check];
-Hitchhikers Gide to the Galaxy device (Wikipedia on your smartphone) [check];
-Self-driving cars in a lot of movies (we have working prototypes) [check];
-Star Wars holographic displays (for some coorporations) [check];
-Cold fusion effect (but then without the cold fusion) [allmost check];
-Army drones (recently on Slashdot) [check];
-What did I miss?
There was once a reason for doing this: people tried to look for a pattern in the number, but figured they needed more digits, because they couldn't find a pattern.
Now we know that at least in a decimal system; there is no pattern.
But for some nerdy reason this "MOAR DIGITZ!" thing continues.
Touché (sort of)...
Wasn't that exactly what Hitler did to Germany? Whoopsy...
The secret operations that a government conducts is realy just that, but when a citizen doesn't have the right to know what he/she must/musn't do... Then guess what? The US government is at war with its own citizens.
If the USA was my country, I'd hustle so people on Facebook and go to the streets with an axe. Oh wait... That's 'terrorism'.
Get it?
Don't worry:
Microsoft crashed stock exchanges twice and they had some source code stolen from them during the hack.
The score is still Linux-Windows: 3-2 :P
I feel for this troll... He can't even make the difference between and OS kernel and a database application...
They hacked a database, not Linux :)
If you troll, then at least get your facts straight. This is just lame.
You said that user friendlyness will gain Linux ground. Well... User friendlyness has never resulted in anything. Example is BeOS.
Android doesn't prove anything, because its adoption started because Google bought it. That's all there is about it.
And that doesn't address what I said at all.
I'm sorry for not getting what you meant; I still don't.
clearly Android has received plenty of marketing now and that still doesn't explain why some Android phones sell while others don't. The UI and how simple the phone vendor made it to use Android does explain it.
Specs, reviews, price and brand asociation don't?
The UI and how simple the phone vendor made it to use Android does explain it.
I still don't get it. If usability is such a big thing, then why did people use Windows for years? I think it's marketing.
Or continue living in denial, it makes no difference to me.
I'm the kind of guy that really has a strong formed opinion, but that doesn't mean that you can't convince me. Try harder.
Calling non-technical users "sheep" won't help you win anyone over to Linux or KDE.
I'm not here to 'win anyone over'. I'm just hating what I hate and loving what I love. This is /. and I'm here to throw my daily buildup nerdiness, so I don't have to engage in it in RL. I call 99% of all iPod owners sheep because everyone I talked to needed to come up with a reason before they could answer. That means that they have put zero efford into thinking why the hell they bought it in the first place. You typical iPod owner isn't just a sheep because he bought one, but bought one because he/she is a sheep. That doesn't limit itself to electronics; it's clothes, opinions, character style, etc.
Nope and nope.
I just see a lot of useless whini-er... 'protesters' that appearantly have no solution. That's how I see it.
Who sais that you need to buy it, when you can mine it?
Having trillions of dollars as a debt, because of complex and not-working inflation paper is common sence?
Yes, thank you.
I was just pointing out the only viable alternative. If there's any chance of a healthy and stable by nature alternative, ever, than this is it. If a shitload of people protested by saying "Your currency is not going to be adopted" then that will definately be a tiny dent.
As it grows in popularity exponentialy, people will notice, just like Macbooks and Linux (Android).
Either put your money where your mouth is or shut up, protesters...
And that's exactly why Bitcoins is the only way to get dent in the current financing system.
Want to do something about the current failure of money? Start using Bitcoins. It'll be the biggest protest with the biggest impact in history.
http://www.weusecoins.com/
Social education. Being able to communicate on a social level, rather than an intelectual level.
Knowing about chaos theory, he sure can find out why it is important to be able to deal with what some call stupidity and other call errors and chaos.
If this person (I would insult him calling him a kid) has such a high degree (on an avarage humand scale) that he can do all the above (OP post), then he probably didn't develop a lot of (real world, not /.) social skills at birth.
But he'll be smart enough to figure it out, I'm sure. Autism, in my book, doesn't exist.
very few will claim that KDE is comparable to either Mac OS X or Windows UI. KDE has come a long way, but it is not up to the level of the commercial GUIs.
KDE, in my opinion, is light years ahead of Windows and Mac OS. It's just too much to explain, but here are the big points:
-Technologicaly most advance advanced, fully resolution independant OpenGL and SVG, scriptable canvas (KDE Plasma);
-Has all the features of both Windows and Mac and many more;
-Most comprehensive window management of any window manager on any OS;
-Fully consistant UI;
-Powered by the best toolkit on the planet (Qt);
-Very minimalistic design without sacrificing features;
-All icons are non-distractive (Windows and Mac OS have way too much gimmick distractions, especialy Mac OS icons that look like Disneyland);
-Most advance framework of any desktip environment.
When Linux has a real new user friendly distro and UI, and when installing software and maintaining it is as effortless as Windows and Mac OS then it will start to gain some ground. Android is evidence of that. The phones that have added a good UI are selling well, other Android phones aren't doing nearly as well. Installing software on Android is relatively simple, but upgrading the OS hasn't been as simple or effortless, and that's been one of the huge complaints about Android phones.
If this was true, then we'd all be running BeOS by now. It's not what you think it is. It is marketing. It is marketing and enless marketing and then some more marketing... Android wasn't getting any attention before Google bought it and guess why? Because it didn't have a Google stamp on it.
People all over the world, even the most horrible techno noobies knew where every feature of their phone was. Apple hasn't changed anything in that regard, even if you think it does.
Here's the real reason Apple's iOS devices sell, they put the user experience first. Not the programmer or tech user, but your average, everyday user who has no particular interest is learning about computers, they just want a device that works and is simple to use and maintain. Until programmers and tech users understand that, all your favorite tech products will lag behind in sales because they don't address what 90% of the market wants; devices that do what the user bought them to do with a minimum of effort and/or technical knowledge required to use and maintain them.
Giving credit where it's due, I can't deny that Apple made some realy slick phone. But then I have to turn around and observe the thousands of screaming "iiiTTTTTUUUUUNNNNEEEESSSS!!!!!! ANSWEEEERR MEEEEE!!!!!!!!" voices in the background. I realy have to disagree and say that the iPhone largely became so popular due to it's iPodness. Thinking about the iPod, I realy have to conclude it's the marketing and the sheep that bought it because everybody else bought it because WWDC.
I stopped giving a shit about advocasy a long time ago, because people never value what's better; people value emotion. It goes like this:
John Dickweed is standing in front of some USB data sticks. Someone tells him that the 64GB model is much faster and has way more storage than the USB stick of John. John's old USB stick is alway full, because all his stuff is on a 256MB data stick and John curses at it, because it never writes his stuff without errors (crappy datarate, corrupted due to age and mostly full)
John doesn't give a shit about 64GB, because he already has a storage device that still somewhat works and the 64GB stick costs money, he doesn't like to spend.
Then some clever guy (for example Steve Jobs), tells him that this 32GB stick can carry enough music to listen to while flying to the moon and back, and he still wouldn't have listened to all the songs on the stick. WOW! Now John wants that shit (emotion) and buys it.
That 32GB stick is Apple, that 64GB stick is Linux and his old 256MB stick is Windows XP.
Excuse me, delusional fanboy, but all the Mac OS X commandline consist of GNU tools, Linux had networked graphics much earlier. We had better window management and workspaces. Where do you think Webkit comes from? What's up with that old and slow performing fixed pipeline graphics framework. Qt is and always been way ahead of Apple's development framework. Apple is even stil using C with classes, while the entire world went C++. We had this 'appstore' thing since the very beginning with repositories. We've had SELinux Mandatory Acces Control dsecutiry much earlier. We had SVG graphics for ages. We had backup solutions way before Time Machine. We've always had much better filesystems and a semantic desktop. We had widgets much earlier. We've had a way more stable OS. Linux has networked multi-channel audio routing. We have a faster and better compiler. Aqua is a total joke compared to KDE4 in terms of technology and resource management. We've had way better publishing due to editor tools that leverage LaTeX and such. currently Linux is catching up with the latest color management, while Apple is still stuck with their '90's implementation. iTunes is nothing compared to Amarok. iMovie is a freaking joke, compared to the leading non-linear video editor on Linux.
Do you want me to continue? Because I can if you want to. But I think I've kinda made my point here?
Why so negative?
Well... we have had Windows for ages. It's only until Vista came that the tech side of things was solved and it took Windows 7, along with time, to iron out the horror that we were used to. And during that time there were this OS alternative that was technically really good for that time. It was called Linux and everyone was pissing on it, even though it had far superior capabilities. For example KDE 3.5.x.
Because the general population fscked over the adoption of improvement by going not dumping Winshit, we all had been burried under a great deal of technological pain.
And so now, after all these painful years (purely from a technolocial standpoint), people start adopting alternatives. But what are they adopting? Freaking iCrap!
Each new release it's like hearing "OMG iTHIS IS AWESOME" and you can't help but thing *You FSCKING moron! If you had justed fscking looked at LINUX then (A.) We would have this tech ages ago and (B.) you would realised that this 'Steve Invention' was already under your nose, moron!*.
It's just an instant hate generator. The fact that people are so stupid and then _DARE_ to praise their bullshit in my face just makes me want to smash their teeth in. "Hey Linux is also UNIX, just like Apple"- Well yeah, welcome to 2011, captain obvious...
If we're going on this path, then you're once again horribly wrong, because it doesn't have the exact same design:
Three buttons on the front, camera in the back, much slimmer, not antenna's on the side, much slimmer, different size, not glass... etc, etc, etc, et-fscking-cetera.
"Simpleton!" sais the ignorent brain-damaged fanboy.