I can see where it would be extremely insulting to be accused of being one of the drone people in that commercial. However, the shoe fits, to a certain extent.
Deal with it. It grows tiresome watching the Apple-zealot song and dance. Until Apple gave up on producing a real and modern operating system and just let NeXT take them over, Mac OS was a running joke to non koolaide drinkers, i.e. the kind of 'the rest of us' who hang out on/..
Cool story Bro. I have to be the strangest Apple zealot around, having mostly other platforms. But hey, if it helps you sleep at night, carry on.
So anyhow - I guess you don't like Unix? If you know your way around MacOS, you know your way around Linux.
And since you and a few others want to dawdle way in that past, let's chat about what an utter piece of shit Microsoft Windows 1 was. Damn, that was a real stinker.
Isn't part of the point of FOSS and open platforms that we can do precisely that without having to reinvent the wheel from scratch?
Besides, I'm theoretically adroit enough to know that checking a solution is probably in a lower complexity class than crafting a solution.
And I like FOSS on my actual computers. Even though I can write for my iPhone, at it's base level, it is like my refrigerator or microwave. It is an appliance. I don't care about FOSS for my Microwave or my Refrigerator.
And I would have the same reaction if I was using an Android phone. Nothing more than a useful appliance.
Sometimes I do write my own apps. I've also written stuff that wouldn't be allowed on the Apple store. Some of these are things that would be popular, although it doesn't need to be popular to be be justified. People who defend Apple in this aspect are corporate slaves. Remember the famous Apple 1984 commercial? That is you, sitting in the audience, saying how great it is that the corporation maintains control and doesn't give it to the individuals who would just mismanage it.
My, pretty condescending a fellow, aintya? Well, if the phone you use is what defines you, then good on ya. It is just another thing that I use. A utility that I expect to work when I want it to work. Anyhow, carry on - as long as the android phone satisfies some deep need, and you are happy, I am happy for you. For me, Android or Apple, it is a mere little phone.
To me it doesn't matter whether the walled garden keeps malware out or not. I'd like to be allowed to determine for myself whether an app is trustworthy or not and not be coddled.
Why don't you write your own apps? Then you will know. What appears to be the typical Android user in Slashdot wants to be known as technically adroit enough to ascertain for certain that their Androis Apps are up to snuff - why don't they simply write their own apps?
According to the article, the appellate court ruled against Apple:
In 2013, a district court in California initially sided with Apple, agreeing that the tech giant was shielded by the Illinois Brick Doctrine. But the plaintiffs appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the lower court's opinion last year.
If only Apple had allowed side-loading apps a long time ago, I might have bought an iPhone.
Sure - but how much do you think they care about you? There are a number of people that like the iPhone because of it's usability. There are some who know what they are doing, but look at their phone as something really important that they must have total control over. And there are some like me, who know what they are doing, and who look at a phone the same way they look at a refrigerator. I want to turn it on, and I want it to work. And if I want to write apps for it, I will. It isn't terribly difficult.
But for me, at it's tippy top best, any and all smartphones are pretty much crippled toy computers.
And a technically adroit person who won't buy one for whatever reason, be it the expense, or the mythical closed garden, just tells us that that particula phone isn't for you.
I actually solve some of the toughest problems when I'm away from my desk.
I concur that this is the way to solve a lot of problems. The mind can get stuck on a path that requires a break in what it is doing. Often the answer is found when the subconscious mind can work it out without the conscious mind interfereing. The answer bubbles up seemingly from nowhere.
Having the planets revolve around the earth is wrong.
Noting the planets orbit the sun as a circle instead of an ellipse is wrong.
Noting the planets orbit in ellipses instead of noticing that due to the gravity of the other planets, they aren't ellipses either is wrong.
The three statements above are wrong on so many levels. If you call them equivalent, you are ignorant.
Who are you arguing with AC? All of the above are examples of the nature of observational science. You observe, and you learn. You fit the math to the facts.
I hope this spreads. Not just for the bats' sake, but because white light (and the blue frequencies in particular) tend to disrupt the sleep patterns of any mammal, including humans. Red lights let us see where we're going without keeping us awake.
A few points -
We really want to do whatever we can to keep bats happy and healthy. They eat things that are bad for us.
Blue light, the headlight color du jour, is the absolute worst color for visual acuity. The human eye's lens is a simple convex lens, and doesn't focus all colors exactly. And blue is the worst.
Red focuses pretty fair. If visual acuity is paramount, you would want green.
But keep the bats happy is really good. And keeping them happy will keep the numbers of biting insects down.
In a high-stress office job, I relaxed every couple of hours by grabbing any important-looking file and walking briskly round the factory, looking meaningfully at 'work in progress'. Cleared my head, reminded me what we were all really doing, and also what real WORK looked like.
Yup, that works great. The clipboard effect, and no one will question the person with the clipboard. What's more, the break in line of thought recharges the old personal batteries. Seeing all the different people who do basically what we do is making me think that the studies definition of meditation and motivation are quite different.
What the fuck kind of kindergarten cosmology and astronomy are you doing to not be doing extensive mathematics and computation?! Those are some of the most mathematically-intense fields there are! Calculating and simulating the orbital dynamics of millions of bodies is not mathematically trivial, for example.
Despite your protestations, it is all observational, and those intense mathematics are being updated all the time.
Which by the way, means the old mathematics were quite wrong.
I consider it science, AC's might think otherwise.
Anything that does not have a har number is not science.
I looked that up. The har number is 7,136,291,900. Had to Bing it, though.
Gee, I didn't realize that selling a house was so involved -- I guess they really DO repeat the results.
har har.
But anyhow, My astronomy friends, who are restricted to observing and reporting would be amused that that AC on Slashdot does not consider their work as science.
I find it really hard to call investigations like this 'science' when they're so subjective and impossible to measure in a consistent manner. That's not to say that having numbers helps guarantee that research is 'science'. Look at so-called climate 'science'. Yes, there are numerical measurements of various kinds involved, but they've also been subjected to 'adjustments' that render them untrustworthy. Or these numerical values have been derived in questionable ways, especially for measurements relating to thousands or millions of years ago. Science requires the use of raw, unadjusted, objective numerical measurements in order to be carried out properly.
Let me get this straight - In your view Cosmology is not at all science. Astronomy is not science. Anything that does not have a har number is not science.
As trite as it sounds, I have found that taking a minute to interrupt a stressful work situation with some “mindfulness” activity seems to help me with work - when I remember to take that minute, anyway.
Trite? O hell no! I have long found the need to step back and clear my mind made me more productive. I suppose the computing equivalent might be called a memory leak that needs a reboot. I have to step away, think about something else for a while, then hop right back into the work. There is a similar aspect of meditation when trying to solve problems. Instead of backing away entirely, you just put the problem on subconscious autopilot while you think about whatever calms you.
I suppose if a person did the exact same task every day, and started being mindful, they might figure out their job was crap.
Not only that, if those people had any kind of sense, they would have standardized on a single reasonably modern design ten of fifteen years ago and built at least a few dozens of them by now. Nuclear power is "go big or go home" kind of stuff. No wonder it can't survive in the US when things have been done in a piecemeal fashion in the past.
Golly gosh, a technology that will produce electricity too cheap to meter suddenly going to not being able to exist without Guvmint support.
There is that issue of standardization going on. Okay - first we have to standardize without guvmint involvement.
Yeah - that'll work, eh? The screeching about Thorium reactors is just one of the examples of all of the infighting that would occur. And while its a cool story bro, the idea you subtly worked in that this is somehow the USA's fault is cute. So I guess the rest of the world is 100 percent nuc power now, while we dawdle in the stone age?
And no, 15 years ago wouldn't have worked. The span of time that nuc power had to prove it's worth was in the 50's and 60's.
It was trusted to a certain extent. That might not have been well placed trust.
Before we go any further, I am not actually anti-nuc. But I am very much cognizant of the fact that as long as there are humans involved, it will be incredibly difficult to make it safe.
There is no doubt that reactors can be built that will be quite safe. Not perfectly safe, but close enough for our purposes.
Will the bean counters allow this? No.
Will the project managers allow this? No
Will the politicians allow this? No
Engineering design and construction with an unlimited amount of money and a safety engineer in charge who cannot be influenced, fired, or bribed is all you need.
As it is, the familiarity bred contempt that destroyed Chernobyl, and the non-technical oversight bad design of Fukushima shows us what the humans and their interests produce.
In the vernacular, Nuc energy power generation puts a metric fuckton of energy in a fairly small place. That much energy density is a genie that wants out of it's bottle, badly. No amount of excel spreadsheets or project deadlines will keep it in the bottle, the best you can hope for is sound engineering. But that is in third place, so that genie is pleased about the pecking order.
Patience, weedhopper, this too shall happen when the time is right. The only uncertainty is whether it be the righteous vengeance of theAlmighty God of the desert, or the insane branch of the atheist. But whoever brings our death wish to us will bring the inevitible fate of humanity to it's conclusion.
Genetic hyper aggression and "us versus them" inbred hate can create an alpha species, but only for a short while.
It's 2018. We've broken through the "stupid enough" barrier.
We've completely demolished it.
Olsoc's rule if killy stuff : If there is a method of killing people, Governments will rush to it like a dog to bacon. The more barbaric, the more bacon.
Olsoc's second rule of killy stuff: Unless people are being killed, there isn't much point of warfare.
Which brings us to Olsoc's third rule of killy stuff:
War robots will be specifically designed to kill people.That is how humans work.
But money laundering is, That's my point. But making hemp illegal is like making money illegal. Hemp does not get you high - there's no point in smoking it. Hops in beer has more of a psychoactive aspect than hemp.
The whole hemp scandal was based on businesses using different substances to make rope, seizing on hemp's relationship to maryjuuwanna in order to get a market edge. The succeeded magnificently, a textbook casse of govenmrent/corporate mutual masturbation in order to put a competitor out of business.
Hemp is not maryjuuwanna, hemp is not psychoactive, certainly less so than tobacco - if a person was foolish enough to smoke hemp, they might consider smoking oregano.
Industrial hemp crops are great cover for growing some of the more psychoactive varieties in between the rows.
Real estate is a great way to launder money too.
Then again the hops in beer are part of the Cannabaceae family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... So let's just make everything illegal while we're at it, amirite?
You need to study up on some history to see why hemp was made illegal in the first place.
I'm a big Mac fan - I've been using them as my main computer since 1993.
With that said, the stagnation got to be too much. I picked up an HP Envy recently that costs about half of what an i7 does on the Mac side, and it has one of the new 15 watt TDP chips in it so it is cool and has decent (but not spectacular) battery life.
Hehe, I have one of the Envy's as well. Have you had any update problems? Solid Laptop that. I have the need for multiple audio outputs, and updates bitch those up more often than not. The latest one was an error that traced out to a Creative Soundblaster dongle that I plugged into the thing once to see if it still worked. The cure was to go to creative and download and install new drivers, but first I had to rummage through junk drawers to find the damn dongle because it wouldn't install the new drivers without the dongle.
Windows problems.
Sure, I die a little every time I need to use Windows 10 - but at the end of the day I just couldn't spend too much money on hardware that seems to be somewhat flaky.
Tangentially, why the hell can't Microsoft figure out high-res displays? Are my choices really teeny-tiny or big-n-fuzzy? Sheesh. And if it were just legacy support, fine - but it's the situation with MS's own bundled apps!
Stockholm Syndrome. Their fans will put up with anything and still sing the All Praise to Redmond song.
In other words, The amount of crap you will willingly put up with is the amount of crap you'll get.
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The Apple '1984' ad was pretty condescending.
I can see where it would be extremely insulting to be accused of being one of the drone people in that commercial. However, the shoe fits, to a certain extent.
Deal with it. It grows tiresome watching the Apple-zealot song and dance. Until Apple gave up on producing a real and modern operating system and just let NeXT take them over, Mac OS was a running joke to non koolaide drinkers, i.e. the kind of 'the rest of us' who hang out on /. .
Cool story Bro. I have to be the strangest Apple zealot around, having mostly other platforms. But hey, if it helps you sleep at night, carry on. So anyhow - I guess you don't like Unix? If you know your way around MacOS, you know your way around Linux. And since you and a few others want to dawdle way in that past, let's chat about what an utter piece of shit Microsoft Windows 1 was. Damn, that was a real stinker.
why don't they simply write their own apps?
Isn't part of the point of FOSS and open platforms that we can do precisely that without having to reinvent the wheel from scratch?
Besides, I'm theoretically adroit enough to know that checking a solution is probably in a lower complexity class than crafting a solution.
And I like FOSS on my actual computers. Even though I can write for my iPhone, at it's base level, it is like my refrigerator or microwave. It is an appliance. I don't care about FOSS for my Microwave or my Refrigerator.
And I would have the same reaction if I was using an Android phone. Nothing more than a useful appliance.
I have no reason to believe you know what you are doing.
I have no reason to care what you believe.
Sometimes I do write my own apps. I've also written stuff that wouldn't be allowed on the Apple store. Some of these are things that would be popular, although it doesn't need to be popular to be be justified. People who defend Apple in this aspect are corporate slaves. Remember the famous Apple 1984 commercial? That is you, sitting in the audience, saying how great it is that the corporation maintains control and doesn't give it to the individuals who would just mismanage it.
My, pretty condescending a fellow, aintya? Well, if the phone you use is what defines you, then good on ya. It is just another thing that I use. A utility that I expect to work when I want it to work. Anyhow, carry on - as long as the android phone satisfies some deep need, and you are happy, I am happy for you. For me, Android or Apple, it is a mere little phone.
To me it doesn't matter whether the walled garden keeps malware out or not. I'd like to be allowed to determine for myself whether an app is trustworthy or not and not be coddled.
Why don't you write your own apps? Then you will know. What appears to be the typical Android user in Slashdot wants to be known as technically adroit enough to ascertain for certain that their Androis Apps are up to snuff - why don't they simply write their own apps?
According to the article, the appellate court ruled against Apple:
In 2013, a district court in California initially sided with Apple, agreeing that the tech giant was shielded by the Illinois Brick Doctrine. But the plaintiffs appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the lower court's opinion last year.
If only Apple had allowed side-loading apps a long time ago, I might have bought an iPhone.
Sure - but how much do you think they care about you? There are a number of people that like the iPhone because of it's usability. There are some who know what they are doing, but look at their phone as something really important that they must have total control over. And there are some like me, who know what they are doing, and who look at a phone the same way they look at a refrigerator. I want to turn it on, and I want it to work. And if I want to write apps for it, I will. It isn't terribly difficult.
But for me, at it's tippy top best, any and all smartphones are pretty much crippled toy computers.
And a technically adroit person who won't buy one for whatever reason, be it the expense, or the mythical closed garden, just tells us that that particula phone isn't for you.
Obey the President. Anything but total fealty is treason.
I actually solve some of the toughest problems when I'm away from my desk.
I concur that this is the way to solve a lot of problems. The mind can get stuck on a path that requires a break in what it is doing. Often the answer is found when the subconscious mind can work it out without the conscious mind interfereing. The answer bubbles up seemingly from nowhere.
Having the planets revolve around the earth is wrong. Noting the planets orbit the sun as a circle instead of an ellipse is wrong. Noting the planets orbit in ellipses instead of noticing that due to the gravity of the other planets, they aren't ellipses either is wrong. The three statements above are wrong on so many levels. If you call them equivalent, you are ignorant.
Who are you arguing with AC? All of the above are examples of the nature of observational science. You observe, and you learn. You fit the math to the facts.
I hope this spreads. Not just for the bats' sake, but because white light (and the blue frequencies in particular) tend to disrupt the sleep patterns of any mammal, including humans. Red lights let us see where we're going without keeping us awake.
A few points -
We really want to do whatever we can to keep bats happy and healthy. They eat things that are bad for us.
Blue light, the headlight color du jour, is the absolute worst color for visual acuity. The human eye's lens is a simple convex lens, and doesn't focus all colors exactly. And blue is the worst.
Red focuses pretty fair. If visual acuity is paramount, you would want green.
But keep the bats happy is really good. And keeping them happy will keep the numbers of biting insects down.
Oh cripes I long for those Orange lights... The Light pollution has been insane since they switched to the LED's in our area...
Many of the LED lights aren't installed correctly; hanging too low in the fixture. When they hang outside, the glare is incredible.
A streetlight isn't very useful when it looks like a point source so bright it causes your pupils to slam shut.
In a high-stress office job, I relaxed every couple of hours by grabbing any important-looking file and walking briskly round the factory, looking meaningfully at 'work in progress'. Cleared my head, reminded me what we were all really doing, and also what real WORK looked like.
Yup, that works great. The clipboard effect, and no one will question the person with the clipboard. What's more, the break in line of thought recharges the old personal batteries. Seeing all the different people who do basically what we do is making me think that the studies definition of meditation and motivation are quite different.
What the fuck kind of kindergarten cosmology and astronomy are you doing to not be doing extensive mathematics and computation?! Those are some of the most mathematically-intense fields there are! Calculating and simulating the orbital dynamics of millions of bodies is not mathematically trivial, for example.
Despite your protestations, it is all observational, and those intense mathematics are being updated all the time.
Which by the way, means the old mathematics were quite wrong.
I consider it science, AC's might think otherwise.
Anything that does not have a har number is not science.
I looked that up. The har number is 7,136,291,900. Had to Bing it, though. Gee, I didn't realize that selling a house was so involved -- I guess they really DO repeat the results.
har har.
But anyhow, My astronomy friends, who are restricted to observing and reporting would be amused that that AC on Slashdot does not consider their work as science.
I find it really hard to call investigations like this 'science' when they're so subjective and impossible to measure in a consistent manner. That's not to say that having numbers helps guarantee that research is 'science'. Look at so-called climate 'science'. Yes, there are numerical measurements of various kinds involved, but they've also been subjected to 'adjustments' that render them untrustworthy. Or these numerical values have been derived in questionable ways, especially for measurements relating to thousands or millions of years ago. Science requires the use of raw, unadjusted, objective numerical measurements in order to be carried out properly.
Let me get this straight - In your view Cosmology is not at all science. Astronomy is not science. Anything that does not have a har number is not science.
Cool definition bro!
As trite as it sounds, I have found that taking a minute to interrupt a stressful work situation with some “mindfulness” activity seems to help me with work - when I remember to take that minute, anyway.
Trite? O hell no! I have long found the need to step back and clear my mind made me more productive. I suppose the computing equivalent might be called a memory leak that needs a reboot. I have to step away, think about something else for a while, then hop right back into the work. There is a similar aspect of meditation when trying to solve problems. Instead of backing away entirely, you just put the problem on subconscious autopilot while you think about whatever calms you.
I suppose if a person did the exact same task every day, and started being mindful, they might figure out their job was crap.
Not only that, if those people had any kind of sense, they would have standardized on a single reasonably modern design ten of fifteen years ago and built at least a few dozens of them by now. Nuclear power is "go big or go home" kind of stuff. No wonder it can't survive in the US when things have been done in a piecemeal fashion in the past.
Golly gosh, a technology that will produce electricity too cheap to meter suddenly going to not being able to exist without Guvmint support.
There is that issue of standardization going on. Okay - first we have to standardize without guvmint involvement.
Yeah - that'll work, eh? The screeching about Thorium reactors is just one of the examples of all of the infighting that would occur. And while its a cool story bro, the idea you subtly worked in that this is somehow the USA's fault is cute. So I guess the rest of the world is 100 percent nuc power now, while we dawdle in the stone age?
And no, 15 years ago wouldn't have worked. The span of time that nuc power had to prove it's worth was in the 50's and 60's.
It was trusted to a certain extent. That might not have been well placed trust.
Before we go any further, I am not actually anti-nuc. But I am very much cognizant of the fact that as long as there are humans involved, it will be incredibly difficult to make it safe.
There is no doubt that reactors can be built that will be quite safe. Not perfectly safe, but close enough for our purposes.
Will the bean counters allow this? No.
Will the project managers allow this? No
Will the politicians allow this? No
Engineering design and construction with an unlimited amount of money and a safety engineer in charge who cannot be influenced, fired, or bribed is all you need.
As it is, the familiarity bred contempt that destroyed Chernobyl, and the non-technical oversight bad design of Fukushima shows us what the humans and their interests produce.
In the vernacular, Nuc energy power generation puts a metric fuckton of energy in a fairly small place. That much energy density is a genie that wants out of it's bottle, badly. No amount of excel spreadsheets or project deadlines will keep it in the bottle, the best you can hope for is sound engineering. But that is in third place, so that genie is pleased about the pecking order.
Maybe someone should raise the bar ?
It really isn't in our nature. The violent and aggressive will quickly kill anyone who isn't
let's play global thermonuclear war!
Patience, weedhopper, this too shall happen when the time is right. The only uncertainty is whether it be the righteous vengeance of theAlmighty God of the desert, or the insane branch of the atheist. But whoever brings our death wish to us will bring the inevitible fate of humanity to it's conclusion.
Genetic hyper aggression and "us versus them" inbred hate can create an alpha species, but only for a short while.
It's 2018. We've broken through the "stupid enough" barrier.
We've completely demolished it.
Olsoc's rule if killy stuff : If there is a method of killing people, Governments will rush to it like a dog to bacon. The more barbaric, the more bacon.
Olsoc's second rule of killy stuff: Unless people are being killed, there isn't much point of warfare.
Which brings us to Olsoc's third rule of killy stuff: War robots will be specifically designed to kill people.That is how humans work.
Real estate is a great way to launder money too.
Neither real estate nor money is illegal.
But money laundering is, That's my point. But making hemp illegal is like making money illegal. Hemp does not get you high - there's no point in smoking it. Hops in beer has more of a psychoactive aspect than hemp.
The whole hemp scandal was based on businesses using different substances to make rope, seizing on hemp's relationship to maryjuuwanna in order to get a market edge. The succeeded magnificently, a textbook casse of govenmrent/corporate mutual masturbation in order to put a competitor out of business.
Hemp is not maryjuuwanna, hemp is not psychoactive, certainly less so than tobacco - if a person was foolish enough to smoke hemp, they might consider smoking oregano.
Industrial hemp crops are great cover for growing some of the more psychoactive varieties in between the rows.
Real estate is a great way to launder money too.
Then again the hops in beer are part of the Cannabaceae family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... So let's just make everything illegal while we're at it, amirite?
You need to study up on some history to see why hemp was made illegal in the first place.
like we were fucking Navi'is.
I guess that's a rule 34 thing there?
Wow, that's a lot! 42 km of solar panels.
Of course, a lot depends on how WIDE that 42 km of solar panels it is....
In other words, would it be too much to ask the editors to actually, you know, edit?
Remember they are editors, not the people writing the story. The writer, one Emily Price, wrote that they were using 42,000 meters of solar panels.
You have to go back to the actual announcement from Samsung to see the itty bitty superscript 2 next to the meters https://news.samsung.com/globa...
See what you made me do though? You made me stand up for the editors at Slashdot. I need a drink.
I'm a big Mac fan - I've been using them as my main computer since 1993.
With that said, the stagnation got to be too much. I picked up an HP Envy recently that costs about half of what an i7 does on the Mac side, and it has one of the new 15 watt TDP chips in it so it is cool and has decent (but not spectacular) battery life.
Hehe, I have one of the Envy's as well. Have you had any update problems? Solid Laptop that. I have the need for multiple audio outputs, and updates bitch those up more often than not. The latest one was an error that traced out to a Creative Soundblaster dongle that I plugged into the thing once to see if it still worked. The cure was to go to creative and download and install new drivers, but first I had to rummage through junk drawers to find the damn dongle because it wouldn't install the new drivers without the dongle.
Windows problems.
Sure, I die a little every time I need to use Windows 10 - but at the end of the day I just couldn't spend too much money on hardware that seems to be somewhat flaky.
Tangentially, why the hell can't Microsoft figure out high-res displays? Are my choices really teeny-tiny or big-n-fuzzy? Sheesh. And if it were just legacy support, fine - but it's the situation with MS's own bundled apps!
Stockholm Syndrome. Their fans will put up with anything and still sing the All Praise to Redmond song.
In other words, The amount of crap you will willingly put up with is the amount of crap you'll get.