Perhaps we'll do what we do now — work 50+ hour weeks and actually do 5-10 hours of actual work, and still complain that we're busy all the time. So instead of working shorter days, as has been the dream for over 100 years, we work all day but do very little. You're paid to show up to work, not to do stuff.
I make decent money, so if I could get affordable heath insurance, I would definitely work part-time so I could spend more time on my hobbies and learn some new skills. My current job is killing my social life, and it's just plain difficult to get a new job unless you're willing to put in the hours.
I work the night shift doing blue-collar work, BTW, and tech is just one of my hobbies. This is why I'm especially interested in seeing how these developments in AI robots will pan out.
Variety. Competition. Vertical control. Consistent coding standards. Different ideas. Different priorities.
The BS surrounding IE is politics, not technology. If MS switches to WebKit and the company feels like being evil, they'll find a way to make their branch of WebKit evil. The engine is not the problem. I'd prefer not to have any one entity take over everything, so I don't want Trident to die any more than Gekko or Presto.
I find it very disturbing how many WebKit browsers there are on mobile devices, and how far behind Gekko mobile browsers are. Remember that Google controls both the OS and the browser on the vast majority of mobile devices.
I know people who will pay $400+ for a video card, and then buy a crappy TN panel display on sale for $130. I can't even look at TN panels due to the viewing angle being so narrow, it causes a stereographic effect that makes my eyes blur. Seeing how a display is something that you look at all day and will probably not replace for 8 years, I've always wondered why there's so many cheap, horrible displays on the market.
It's funny. I know very well that nubs work really bad as analog sticks, but when I saw that controller, my first thought was, "Why the hell do gamepads still need a Select and Start button?"
Why even bother looking at the hardware? Consoles sell because of the exclusive titles. That's the way it's been since the days of the 2600 and Coleco Vision.
What killer app is coming to the Ouya? For a long time, people didn't even believe the dev kits would ship at all. Wake me when there's something worth playing.
"We found a clever way to get around a language's limitation" is not the same thing as "It's actually a good language if you do it correctly."
The first time I used Perl, I had a hard time understanding why I had to use a subroutine and shift an array from the default variable, rather than use a function with parameters like every other damn language.
Now, I'm using JavaScript, and I'm wondering why it has a Perl-compatible regex engine but no formatted printing. Truly, a wonderful language to replace both Perl and C++, once you learn how to write it correctly and make code that's perfectly readable.
Why don't we just openly admit that JavaScript is shit, but we use it anyway because every web browser has it? Is that so hard?
Maybe this wouldn't happen if we actually had an operating system company, and a phone company, and a maps company, and a web browser company, and a video technology company, and a company store, and so on.
You just described what the PC industry used to be. You know, the one with endless amounts of vendor crapware, mal-ware gallore, and $500 laptops that self-destructed in 6 months. There's no dispute that the overwhelming majority of OEMs have done a terrible job building products out of the endless pile of building blocks available.
Apple came along with their closed ecosystem and made countless billions. Closed ecosystems are what the market wants, because open ecosystems just don't work very well for the ordinary person.
Given that I build my own Windows machines and almost never have a problem with them, I think the new way of doing things sucks. Nevertheless, people have been given plenty of opportunities to play nice together, and they failed miserably. Hell, even the open-source community doesn't always play nice together. Corporations will do better?
We already did a great job teaching our kids to live in a throwaway society and be easily distracted by the new shiny... and even gave it a convenient diagnosis: ADHD.
The retardation of The Cloud is about as obvious to the new generation as DRM and forced arbitration, which last time I checked, are being accepted by the public alarmingly well.
In what universe, exactly, did this plan make any sense?
The same universe where manufacturers refused to provide Vista drivers for their old devices, thus forcing customers to buy new devices from that same manufacturer.
Yeah, it's not like people would even consider buying a device from another vendor or something.
Compared to UN*X enterprise software, yes. Compared to MacOS, AmigaOS, and other dying, stagnating consumer platforms at the time, Win95 was a massive and welcome improvement.
My only problem with ClassicShell is that it focuses WAY too much on the Start menu. I never use the Start menu, even with ClassicShell. There's a lot of things about Windows7 that annoy me compared to XP, but the only thing that really helps me is how ClassicShell changes how folder attributes are sorted.
I know Win7 is really popular among geeks and people seem to support the new window manager, but I'm still surprised how the OS pretty much declared war on how XP did things.
I agree, but I still wish the chewing would happen one-on-one in the boss's office. The effects of the mistake and end result of disciplinary action could be summarized in a meeting, so everyone knows what happened.
If the boss came out on to the floor and did this in full view of everyone, I'd be pretty pissed to hear it, no matter who was right or wrong.
Engineers are not known for their social skills. That's no excuse not to have them.
You don't even need a mechanical keyboard — just something with a good feel. I use a ten-year-old MS Internet Keyboard Pro and it has the best feel of any membrane keyboard I've ever used, including all new MS keyboards. It's helped my touch typing immensely, and it's silent to boot.
Go to a store and just start tapping on every keyboard they have on display. If the key feel is good, buy it. Granted, you may have to go through a few hundred SKUs or so.
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I just saw a new Lego set that consisted of plenty of specialty molded parts. I was flabbergasted to see that the directions showed how to make a shovel excavator, a damn good Formula One race car, and a dune buggy with an exposed, moving engine, with no parts left over.
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Unfortunately, a lie is usually more effective than, "We don't know."
The more you learn about sociology, the more depressing it gets. Ethical panic control isn't easy.
Perhaps we'll all work 10 hour weeks
Perhaps we'll do what we do now — work 50+ hour weeks and actually do 5-10 hours of actual work, and still complain that we're busy all the time. So instead of working shorter days, as has been the dream for over 100 years, we work all day but do very little. You're paid to show up to work, not to do stuff.
I make decent money, so if I could get affordable heath insurance, I would definitely work part-time so I could spend more time on my hobbies and learn some new skills. My current job is killing my social life, and it's just plain difficult to get a new job unless you're willing to put in the hours.
I work the night shift doing blue-collar work, BTW, and tech is just one of my hobbies. This is why I'm especially interested in seeing how these developments in AI robots will pan out.
Why should Microsoft move to WebKit?
Variety. Competition. Vertical control. Consistent coding standards. Different ideas. Different priorities.
The BS surrounding IE is politics, not technology. If MS switches to WebKit and the company feels like being evil, they'll find a way to make their branch of WebKit evil. The engine is not the problem. I'd prefer not to have any one entity take over everything, so I don't want Trident to die any more than Gekko or Presto.
I find it very disturbing how many WebKit browsers there are on mobile devices, and how far behind Gekko mobile browsers are. Remember that Google controls both the OS and the browser on the vast majority of mobile devices.
My vote goes to monitors.
I know people who will pay $400+ for a video card, and then buy a crappy TN panel display on sale for $130. I can't even look at TN panels due to the viewing angle being so narrow, it causes a stereographic effect that makes my eyes blur. Seeing how a display is something that you look at all day and will probably not replace for 8 years, I've always wondered why there's so many cheap, horrible displays on the market.
the extra time for walk signals
Wait... you mean those little buttons on the walk signal poles actually do something after all?
I agree. However, remove the word "and" from the summary and it loses no information.
It's funny. I know very well that nubs work really bad as analog sticks, but when I saw that controller, my first thought was, "Why the hell do gamepads still need a Select and Start button?"
Why even bother looking at the hardware? Consoles sell because of the exclusive titles. That's the way it's been since the days of the 2600 and Coleco Vision.
What killer app is coming to the Ouya? For a long time, people didn't even believe the dev kits would ship at all. Wake me when there's something worth playing.
"We found a clever way to get around a language's limitation" is not the same thing as "It's actually a good language if you do it correctly."
The first time I used Perl, I had a hard time understanding why I had to use a subroutine and shift an array from the default variable, rather than use a function with parameters like every other damn language.
Now, I'm using JavaScript, and I'm wondering why it has a Perl-compatible regex engine but no formatted printing. Truly, a wonderful language to replace both Perl and C++, once you learn how to write it correctly and make code that's perfectly readable.
Why don't we just openly admit that JavaScript is shit, but we use it anyway because every web browser has it? Is that so hard?
Maybe this wouldn't happen if we actually had an operating system company, and a phone company, and a maps company, and a web browser company, and a video technology company, and a company store, and so on.
You just described what the PC industry used to be. You know, the one with endless amounts of vendor crapware, mal-ware gallore, and $500 laptops that self-destructed in 6 months. There's no dispute that the overwhelming majority of OEMs have done a terrible job building products out of the endless pile of building blocks available.
Apple came along with their closed ecosystem and made countless billions. Closed ecosystems are what the market wants, because open ecosystems just don't work very well for the ordinary person.
Given that I build my own Windows machines and almost never have a problem with them, I think the new way of doing things sucks. Nevertheless, people have been given plenty of opportunities to play nice together, and they failed miserably. Hell, even the open-source community doesn't always play nice together. Corporations will do better?
you know the person that has to open the bag and checks sure as hell doesnt want to open up a bag and find a vibrator.
Uh... people who's job it is to screen for dangerous stuff... are afraid of vibrators?
Maybe not, but my grammar certainly is.
Your plan intrigues me. Is it possible to invest can invest in death futures?
I presume God is too big to fail, yes?
we'd all be using phones made by Apple or running Windows
I trust companies that are good, not companies that are better than the worst.
My first experience with Chrome and Google Earth let me know right away that Google is better, but not by much.
Wait... am I still on Slashdot?
Replace violence with gambling? What filth!
We already did a great job teaching our kids to live in a throwaway society and be easily distracted by the new shiny... and even gave it a convenient diagnosis: ADHD.
The retardation of The Cloud is about as obvious to the new generation as DRM and forced arbitration, which last time I checked, are being accepted by the public alarmingly well.
In what universe, exactly, did this plan make any sense?
The same universe where manufacturers refused to provide Vista drivers for their old devices, thus forcing customers to buy new devices from that same manufacturer.
Yeah, it's not like people would even consider buying a device from another vendor or something.
Replace "games" with "Arduino projects" and Slashdot would mod you troll in a heartbeat.
Subjective, indeed.
Compared to UN*X enterprise software, yes. Compared to MacOS, AmigaOS, and other dying, stagnating consumer platforms at the time, Win95 was a massive and welcome improvement.
My only problem with ClassicShell is that it focuses WAY too much on the Start menu. I never use the Start menu, even with ClassicShell. There's a lot of things about Windows7 that annoy me compared to XP, but the only thing that really helps me is how ClassicShell changes how folder attributes are sorted.
I know Win7 is really popular among geeks and people seem to support the new window manager, but I'm still surprised how the OS pretty much declared war on how XP did things.
I agree, but I still wish the chewing would happen one-on-one in the boss's office. The effects of the mistake and end result of disciplinary action could be summarized in a meeting, so everyone knows what happened.
If the boss came out on to the floor and did this in full view of everyone, I'd be pretty pissed to hear it, no matter who was right or wrong.
Engineers are not known for their social skills. That's no excuse not to have them.
You don't even need a mechanical keyboard — just something with a good feel. I use a ten-year-old MS Internet Keyboard Pro and it has the best feel of any membrane keyboard I've ever used, including all new MS keyboards. It's helped my touch typing immensely, and it's silent to boot.
Go to a store and just start tapping on every keyboard they have on display. If the key feel is good, buy it. Granted, you may have to go through a few hundred SKUs or so.
It's too bad you didn't keep at least the first and last letters of each word correct. People might not have noticed!
I just saw a new Lego set that consisted of plenty of specialty molded parts. I was flabbergasted to see that the directions showed how to make a shovel excavator, a damn good Formula One race car, and a dune buggy with an exposed, moving engine, with no parts left over.
Hats off to the designers at Lego.