The idea that the markets for every other concievable consumer product should be turned into the PC upgrade treadmill from the 90s is hardly a selling point.
That bullsh*t isn't even tolerable on PCs now anymore.
People got tired of it. I doubt anyone wants a return of that crap.
Much like the music industry, video needs format churn to fuel unsustainable growth.
The industry already has a problem convincing people that they need HD. A lot of people don't have the enthusiast sorts of setups where it would really matter. Or rather, most people don't.
A lot of people are skipping 3D too.
The industry got fat off of a forced technology switch. They were on the gravy train for awhile and don't want to go back. It never occured to them that they were experiencing an unsustainable bubble.
Now they want to throw all sorts of nonsense at us in a desperate attempt to keep the gravy train rolling.
4K probably needs a media format to get off the ground. The extra bandwidth required for a 4K broadcast is probably a problem for most cable systems. The extra bandwidth required for streaming will VERY likely be a problem.
Streaming already has to make severe compromises as is.
Although most people probably don't have viewing setups that would benefit from 4K. Many don't have setups that benefit from BD even.
No it isn't. As a Unix MacOS is pretty unrecognizable once you scratch the surface. It's not really a Unix. It's just that the "certification" is so low level that it allows for a level of inconsistency that no Apple fanboy would tolerate (unless it's an Apple product).
Really MacOS is only a Unix for marketing purposes. It's not something that Apple (or the cult) actually wants exposed to the masses. It's just something to tick off the checklist and to point to when Windows and Linux users snicker.
"No. We're not really the product that panders to morons. It's a Unix and everything."
The argument is not stupid. A lot of us actually use multiple Unixen and view the notion that MacOS is one too to be laughable.
> Why do that? Chromebook is already running Linux,
CUPS.
I don't have any interest in every little thing I do on my home network being tied to the Google collective. The same arguments for leaving ChromeOS can be applied equally to removing it and replacing it with Linux.
The term Linux becomes a problem as soon as there is a different user land bolted on top of it. Once Android became popular, the problem of conflating GNU with Linux finally became more than just an academic exercise.
GNU tools were popular before the rise of Linux. They were popular even on non-Unix operating systems. That's the nature of something you are free to recompile anywhere.
The fact that something is Linux/but-not-GNU matters when you try to do something with it not supported but commonplace with Linux/that-is-actually-GNU.
That's kind of what this whole article is about: those of us that get disgusted with ChromeOS and install a proper Linux.
> "fully supported" laptop without any binary blob
You lost me right there. You're already on a religious crusade here. Getting it to work is clearly a distant goal for you. So anything else you have to say on the matter is somewhat suspect.
> I agree. IMO the complaints about the prequels were fueled primarily by nostalgia about the original movies
It's useful to note that The Phantom Menace managed to NOT win the Oscar for special effects that year. It's especially glaring when you're standing in the theater at ILM looking over at R2-D2 wondering why it's not on their little list. It's absence is conspicuous.
It wasn't on that list because The Matrix got the Oscar that year.
I remember the original release of Star Wars. It had a wide appeal even to non-child audiences. While it was a somewhat "childish" concept, Lucas did not treat it in childish manner.
I knew adults that liked Star Wars as much as I did. One couple I knew even had some of the original action figures on display in their living room.
That's in stark contrast to the prequels that managed to bomb with my own kid.
Pandering to kids is ultimately selling them short. It's also likely to annoy adults in the audience. Trying to pretend you understand the mind of kids is likely folly. Just having fun yourself is probably a lot easier and more effective.
Net neutrality is a band aid on a bullet wound that is monopolies.
Net neutrality would not be necessary if government already addressed the problem of monopolies that have already been declared illegal and contrary to the public interest for over 100 years now.
Buy dough? That has to be just about the dumbest possible argument against coding from scratch you possibly could have come up with....especially considering this audience.
> PSS: I doubt it really matters if the ground you're standing on has been "finally tested" when at that point you'll be an ex-student standing in the street, expelled.
It depends. It depends on what social class you belong to and how much access you have to legal representation.
I know of at least one company that views bodies as disposable and interchangeable. They may fire a bunch of people during a lull only to try and hire back some more in the future. It's still a layoff even if it seems abusive and short sighted.
I even know the guy responsible for making those decisions in that particular company. I tend to refer to him as 2-Bobs to others as he's essentially the 2 Bobs.
Seems like it would be simpler to avoid the whole layoff+rehire scenario but clearly Company X thinks otherwise.
John Carmack likely "STILL spends more time learning".
He is likely a better example of that than ANY of us.
That's the misleading thing about "undereducated" types in programming. They may lack formal education but may have a good deal of practical experience. They may be self taught.
That's different than some schmuck that some day decides they need a career change and ask you how they can get into computing with the least effort possible.
No. Not in my experience. The nurse will just happily go along with what they are told to do because many of them simply aren't that bright or talented. Some aren't even particularly diligent.
If you are someone that is likely to be harmed by more trivial examples of medical malpractice, then you have to fend for yourself.
Beyond that, what will likely protect you from the medical profession is mind numbing levels of procedure control and oversight.
The sociable types that communicate well are also disruptive and help decrease the produtivity of a team. They do this by helping wasting everyone's time. So those "superior communication skills" are a bit of a double edged sword.
It amazes me that anyone puts up with the idea that there are people that can't be managed. Exploiting all kinds of talent should be considered a trivial matter for a competent manager.
Of course management also closely follows Sturgeons Law.
My boss went to one of those "community college" type places and even he doesn't like the kind of workers they produce. Obama is basically demeaning all of those occupations. He's making it sound like you can jump into those things with minimal preparation and it's not really true.
Those "thery heavy" Universities acually prepare their students much better. Although it may also be simply a selection bias.
More serious types may not take the easiest path they can find. They might seek out the most interesting one.
> A video on Windows is a video, accessed through the appropriate API. You don't dynamically link to half a dozen libraries, hope they are there, and crash (or demand installation) when it isn't. You install the codec and now everything can deal with it.
Sounds vaguely how Quicktime is supposed to work on MacOS. I certainly hope that Microsoft's attempt at a knockoff works better than the original does. I tried the original article and it wasn't quite all it was cracked up to be.
This right here demonstrates the "feminine advantage". They are indoctrinated into social politics. So it seems obvious that they would have an advantage once a company grows so large that office politics is more important than anything else.
It doesn't necessarily mean that such entities are more productive. Usually they are much less so.
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The idea that the markets for every other concievable consumer product should be turned into the PC upgrade treadmill from the 90s is hardly a selling point.
That bullsh*t isn't even tolerable on PCs now anymore.
People got tired of it. I doubt anyone wants a return of that crap.
Much like the music industry, video needs format churn to fuel unsustainable growth.
The industry already has a problem convincing people that they need HD. A lot of people don't have the enthusiast sorts of setups where it would really matter. Or rather, most people don't.
A lot of people are skipping 3D too.
The industry got fat off of a forced technology switch. They were on the gravy train for awhile and don't want to go back. It never occured to them that they were experiencing an unsustainable bubble.
Now they want to throw all sorts of nonsense at us in a desperate attempt to keep the gravy train rolling.
Anyone with a space where they can mount a projector will be in a decent enough position to see an improvement with 4K.
Everyone else, not so much.
4K probably needs a media format to get off the ground. The extra bandwidth required for a 4K broadcast is probably a problem for most cable systems. The extra bandwidth required for streaming will VERY likely be a problem.
Streaming already has to make severe compromises as is.
Although most people probably don't have viewing setups that would benefit from 4K. Many don't have setups that benefit from BD even.
No it isn't. As a Unix MacOS is pretty unrecognizable once you scratch the surface. It's not really a Unix. It's just that the "certification" is so low level that it allows for a level of inconsistency that no Apple fanboy would tolerate (unless it's an Apple product).
Really MacOS is only a Unix for marketing purposes. It's not something that Apple (or the cult) actually wants exposed to the masses. It's just something to tick off the checklist and to point to when Windows and Linux users snicker.
"No. We're not really the product that panders to morons. It's a Unix and everything."
The argument is not stupid. A lot of us actually use multiple Unixen and view the notion that MacOS is one too to be laughable.
> Why do that? Chromebook is already running Linux,
CUPS.
I don't have any interest in every little thing I do on my home network being tied to the Google collective. The same arguments for leaving ChromeOS can be applied equally to removing it and replacing it with Linux.
The term Linux becomes a problem as soon as there is a different user land bolted on top of it. Once Android became popular, the problem of conflating GNU with Linux finally became more than just an academic exercise.
GNU tools were popular before the rise of Linux. They were popular even on non-Unix operating systems. That's the nature of something you are free to recompile anywhere.
The fact that something is Linux/but-not-GNU matters when you try to do something with it not supported but commonplace with Linux/that-is-actually-GNU.
That's kind of what this whole article is about: those of us that get disgusted with ChromeOS and install a proper Linux.
No. It's much easier to just start up Steam.
Ditto for dusting off something like Sim City 3000, Kohan, or CivCTP.
> "fully supported" laptop without any binary blob
You lost me right there. You're already on a religious crusade here. Getting it to work is clearly a distant goal for you. So anything else you have to say on the matter is somewhat suspect.
Dark Horse adapted the Star Wars 1st draft script into a comic miniseries. It really does put things into perspective.
> I agree. IMO the complaints about the prequels were fueled primarily by nostalgia about the original movies
It's useful to note that The Phantom Menace managed to NOT win the Oscar for special effects that year. It's especially glaring when you're standing in the theater at ILM looking over at R2-D2 wondering why it's not on their little list. It's absence is conspicuous.
It wasn't on that list because The Matrix got the Oscar that year.
Bullsh*t.
I remember the original release of Star Wars. It had a wide appeal even to non-child audiences. While it was a somewhat "childish" concept, Lucas did not treat it in childish manner.
I knew adults that liked Star Wars as much as I did. One couple I knew even had some of the original action figures on display in their living room.
That's in stark contrast to the prequels that managed to bomb with my own kid.
Pandering to kids is ultimately selling them short. It's also likely to annoy adults in the audience. Trying to pretend you understand the mind of kids is likely folly. Just having fun yourself is probably a lot easier and more effective.
You lost me at "used".
Net neutrality is a band aid on a bullet wound that is monopolies.
Net neutrality would not be necessary if government already addressed the problem of monopolies that have already been declared illegal and contrary to the public interest for over 100 years now.
Buy dough? That has to be just about the dumbest possible argument against coding from scratch you possibly could have come up with. ...especially considering this audience.
> PSS: I doubt it really matters if the ground you're standing on has been "finally tested" when at that point you'll be an ex-student standing in the street, expelled.
It depends. It depends on what social class you belong to and how much access you have to legal representation.
I know of at least one company that views bodies as disposable and interchangeable. They may fire a bunch of people during a lull only to try and hire back some more in the future. It's still a layoff even if it seems abusive and short sighted.
I even know the guy responsible for making those decisions in that particular company. I tend to refer to him as 2-Bobs to others as he's essentially the 2 Bobs.
Seems like it would be simpler to avoid the whole layoff+rehire scenario but clearly Company X thinks otherwise.
Definitely makes me want to avoid Company X.
That's the way it started. It's only recently that the Ivory Tower types have gotten pretentious about the situation.
Very few people, even "rich" people, can spend money without considering what they are going to get for that.
John Carmack likely "STILL spends more time learning".
He is likely a better example of that than ANY of us.
That's the misleading thing about "undereducated" types in programming. They may lack formal education but may have a good deal of practical experience. They may be self taught.
That's different than some schmuck that some day decides they need a career change and ask you how they can get into computing with the least effort possible.
No. Not in my experience. The nurse will just happily go along with what they are told to do because many of them simply aren't that bright or talented. Some aren't even particularly diligent.
If you are someone that is likely to be harmed by more trivial examples of medical malpractice, then you have to fend for yourself.
Beyond that, what will likely protect you from the medical profession is mind numbing levels of procedure control and oversight.
The sociable types that communicate well are also disruptive and help decrease the produtivity of a team. They do this by helping wasting everyone's time. So those "superior communication skills" are a bit of a double edged sword.
It amazes me that anyone puts up with the idea that there are people that can't be managed. Exploiting all kinds of talent should be considered a trivial matter for a competent manager.
Of course management also closely follows Sturgeons Law.
My boss went to one of those "community college" type places and even he doesn't like the kind of workers they produce. Obama is basically demeaning all of those occupations. He's making it sound like you can jump into those things with minimal preparation and it's not really true.
Those "thery heavy" Universities acually prepare their students much better. Although it may also be simply a selection bias.
More serious types may not take the easiest path they can find. They might seek out the most interesting one.
> A video on Windows is a video, accessed through the appropriate API. You don't dynamically link to half a dozen libraries, hope they are there, and crash (or demand installation) when it isn't. You install the codec and now everything can deal with it.
Sounds vaguely how Quicktime is supposed to work on MacOS. I certainly hope that Microsoft's attempt at a knockoff works better than the original does. I tried the original article and it wasn't quite all it was cracked up to be.
I don't see Microsoft actually doing better.
You seem to be the one with all of the butt hurt and vitriol.
It's rather ironic really.
Clearly you're suffering from an inferiority complex and need to lash out.
This right here demonstrates the "feminine advantage". They are indoctrinated into social politics. So it seems obvious that they would have an advantage once a company grows so large that office politics is more important than anything else.
It doesn't necessarily mean that such entities are more productive. Usually they are much less so.