LOL. End of PC era. Can I have what they're smoking?
In a Smithsonian exhibit, I saw a graph of TV ownership
in the US. It was a saturation curve, flattening out in the 1970s, IIRC.
By then, most people had TVs, and it was just gap filling. I saw the PC
ownership curve saturating in the late 90s. By PC, I mean Personal Computer,
including Macs.
The point? Companies like Zenith and Sony made money long after
the "TV revolution" was over. Better models, ergonomic features, add-ons,
incremental refinements, solid state vs. tube, etc.
It's shortsighted to think that we aren't going to continue
to have refinements in the PC other than Moore's law related speedups.
No, companies like Intel won't be driving huge speculative bubbles
anymore; but they won't be going bankrupt either. Just like TV makers,
the differentiator will be how well they run their business. It'll
be things like customer service, cashflow, etc. It'll be boring business
stuff, sorry; but not the end of the world.
Oh, and f*** the cloud. You can have my hard drive when you pry
it from my cold dead fingers. Actually, make that my affordable solid state drive.
See? Plenty of refinements left in the pipeline.
I was actually listening to a totally FREE, CLEAN MP3
from Lala (found by Google search) when I clicked on Slashdot.
Will this cause me to run out and buy Apple products?
H*** no. The only reason I even know that Lala exists, is
because stuff got yanked off YouTube, and I started Googling
for replacements.
Look, I grew up making cassette tapes off the radio.
There's no way I'm going from free to paying. Not gonna
happen.
No, No. Developer cycles are more important
than CPU cycles. We can route strings just fine
with this Ruby script I'll show you. Besides,
I heard they were going to start building nuclear
power plants again. Problem solved. (end sarcasm).
Seriously, Communism was just a reaction to the first great
wave of technology known as "the industrial revolution".
We need original thought, not re-hashed 20th century failed
solutions that arose out of 19th century excess.
As an American I hate to say it, but it seems like the French
have the right idea. Instead of using the excess productivity
gained by technology to drive useless things like war and Facebook,
we should just take more vacations.
That's not to say the French have it perfect--I wager their
beurocracy consumes a lot of time. How about just shorter work
weeks instead? One of the great ironies in this is that Utah,
a state not considered "progressive" instituted shorter work
weeks for state employees.
In other words, technology really did reduce the need for
labor. We just need to find a constructive outlet for the
excess labor. Neither violent revolution, nor wage slavery
in a neoindustrial cubefarm/factory is a constructive outlet.
1. Clean room Drupal
2. Incorporate modules into said clean-roomed version under a proprietary license.
3. ???
4. Profit? Probably not, but a fun time to be had by lawyers perhaps.
Sorry, I actually read it. It got me thinking
of the classic Infocom text games. Yes, there was
an "engine" of sorts. It
was, AFAIK, some kind of scripting language designed for
text games. I bet they tweaked and reused it in every game too.
I believe there are several variations of the license plate
game, but ours was collecting states. Whoever had the most
states won. We weren't quite sure what to do with Canadian
plates, but they were rare. We never got to 50 on any trip.
The coveted Alaska and Hawaii were out there somewhere. I don't
believe it was until I was an adult, just recently in California,
that I actually saw a Hawaii plate. I assume that they are only
on the car for a few months after you get your car shipped.
You could also play the numbes/letters on the plats of course,
or forget about the plates and play car models or colors.
Who was it that said, "You haven't really
succeeded until the Department of Justice comes
knocking on your door"? I seem to recall having
read that back in the 90s, regarding Microsoft.
Anyway, congratulations Google. You've really made
it now.
Yeah, do kids even play the "license plate game" anymore?
They'll never know the reward of hours in the car, and then
the majesty of the Delaware Memorial Bridge looming up on the
horizon. "Daddy, is that the golden gate?" "No. This is Delaware".
I bet they just look up from their gadget and go "hmph" if the
'rents point out the landmarks. Are these kids going to be so
overstimulated that the only thing to turn them on will be something
truly dangerous?
I bet the munitions were dumped far from the monumental
core, in an area the locals thought of as "the sticks".
That doesn't excuse it of course, it just explains it.
Blanket reply here at the end of the thread, because
I don't feel like hanging around for the "slow down cowboy"
thing.
Thanks for pointing out that the data were stale, and
for providing data that were less stale.
As for how the meme got started, I actually think the *AAs
are late comers. We did see a shift from the rust belt to
the non-union South in auto manufacturing. Unions probably
preferred to blame international competition, as opposed to
interstate competition.
Among geekdom, the phrase "music movies
and microcode" dropped out of fiction (the name of the author
escapes me, was that Stephenson?) and people seemed to forget
that it was fiction. Political parties that are
out of power also seem to find the meme useful. Lately, the Tea Party
movement seems to be using it, but others have too.
It serves a lot of purposes, for a lot of people, so it survives.
That said, the more recent chart with multiple years does indeed
show China on the move. That change can have a strong psychological
impact, since it puts us behind if present trends continue.
Please note, I'm not picking on you in particular. You, like
a lot of intelligent people, have come down with a nasty case of memes wrt
to the composition of output in the US economy.
You just reminded me of a certain
person who shall remain nameless for obvious
reasons.
I was standing outside with him, we were
in a position where the building just blocked
out the sun. He pointed out some white streaks
whizzing by near the sun. "Those are UFOs" he said.
"They're traveling at really high velocity".
I thought about it for a few seconds. "Nope. Insects."
This guy, no doubt, had seen some site where they were
talking about UFOs flying near the Sun. It's realy just
anything moving against a background that doesn't supply
perspective cues. You don't get binocular vision at that
distance. The clear blue provides no cues. An insect at 20
feet moving 5 mph looks like a spaceship at 100,000 feet moving
mach 6 (not sure about the math, but you get the idea). They
would both look like specs, with the same angular velocity.
In the moment that I explained that to him, they ceased to
be UFOs.
I'd rather have my machine be a spambot
for an hour than lose my PDFs.
Worst case scenario for being a spambot
is that I get taken off the network for a few
minutes. My PDFs? Maybe it's an archive of
patents I need to review, the instructions
for the fromulator, or my master's thesis. Certainly,
they should all be backed up, and we should all
test our *restore* from backup. That's the
only real security, but I don't want deletion
to happen lightly.
In general, do apps really need delete
permission anyway? How about just giving them
change permission. In other words, something like
a local svn commit. Then, if something funny happens
you can just roll back. I think Macs come with something
like that built in... the name escapes me.
The Federal Reserve is manipulating element 117!
Fools! The six atoms are not even there. We sold
them to China already. Shut off the MSM,
and listen, sheeple. How can you keep
using your worthless paper money? Element 117 is unique,
rare, and unlike fiat can't be crea... oh... wait.
Ummm.... buy my book!
A rhetorical question, but I'll bite: Because the
implementations for all the other "cool" new languages already
speak on C's behalf. Although, there are things like PyPy
now; but it's not exactly mainstream, is it?
The verdict seems like one step towards
common sense. Releasing artificially "impaired"
individuals into society fails to promote the
general welfare. If he can't use a computer, that
causes more problems than it solves for the rest
of us.
A bigger step towards common sense would be
not releasing, true, hardcore sex offendors back
into the general population. "Life in prison" should mean LIFE
IN PRISON, for say, a violent rapist.
The final step towards common sense would be decriminilizing
the mere posession of certain pornography. As it stands,
it's way too easy to frame somebody for mere posession, and you
don't get to the actual source of the problem that way.
I'm not holding my breath on real common sense when
it comes to this part of the law. ZOMG! Children! Quick,
burn stuff and behave irrationally and against your own
best interest!!! If you don't you must be a witch^H^H^H^H^H pedo
yourself.
Redwood City, CA -- dateline. Geek
who's been around for any longer than a couple
years decides not to ignore Slashdot on April 1,
and weed through all the lame jokes looking
for actual, interesting stuff. Haha! April Fools!
Yes, it's one of the issues that tears at the fabric
of two core Democratic Party groups. I've seen polls [citation needed]
where the majority of Blacks support vouchers. Many of their
communities are strongly religious, and that tends to be part
of the reason for the support. Unions, OTOH, know that many
of those small, diverse, competing schools won't sign a contract.
So far, Union money beats Black desire in the Democratic Party.
Said before, and said again, no real progress in the USA until
we break the shackles of entrenched special interests on both the Left
and the Right.
Where did you live that you can recall
"the first time I saw an airplane"? I don't recall
that. I grew up in the Washington DC suburbs. They were always there. They always flew.
The big thing for me was learning not to be afraid
of the loud noise when they flew too close.
So based on my acquired ruleset, "planes fly" is just axiomatic.
Really? IE is my primary browser.
I don't punch the monkey. I disable Active*
on any site that isn't trusted, and I haven't
had problems with it in years. Maybe you
just need to learn more about the settings.
I will grant you that MS has horribly insecure
defaults. I shouldn't have to go through
the settings; but I do, and it works.
In particular, I'd like to personally meet
the person/people responsible for the default
setting of "hide file extensions", and pour
a big heap of wet cow patties on them.
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Recompiled... recompiled... RECOMPILED!! -- (gamer dude wakes up), Oh thank God, it was just a dream.
LOL. End of PC era. Can I have what they're smoking? In a Smithsonian exhibit, I saw a graph of TV ownership in the US. It was a saturation curve, flattening out in the 1970s, IIRC. By then, most people had TVs, and it was just gap filling. I saw the PC ownership curve saturating in the late 90s. By PC, I mean Personal Computer, including Macs.
The point? Companies like Zenith and Sony made money long after the "TV revolution" was over. Better models, ergonomic features, add-ons, incremental refinements, solid state vs. tube, etc.
It's shortsighted to think that we aren't going to continue to have refinements in the PC other than Moore's law related speedups. No, companies like Intel won't be driving huge speculative bubbles anymore; but they won't be going bankrupt either. Just like TV makers, the differentiator will be how well they run their business. It'll be things like customer service, cashflow, etc. It'll be boring business stuff, sorry; but not the end of the world.
Oh, and f*** the cloud. You can have my hard drive when you pry it from my cold dead fingers. Actually, make that my affordable solid state drive. See? Plenty of refinements left in the pipeline.
I was actually listening to a totally FREE, CLEAN MP3 from Lala (found by Google search) when I clicked on Slashdot.
Will this cause me to run out and buy Apple products? H*** no. The only reason I even know that Lala exists, is because stuff got yanked off YouTube, and I started Googling for replacements.
Look, I grew up making cassette tapes off the radio. There's no way I'm going from free to paying. Not gonna happen.
No, No. Developer cycles are more important than CPU cycles. We can route strings just fine with this Ruby script I'll show you. Besides, I heard they were going to start building nuclear power plants again. Problem solved. (end sarcasm).
All extremists should be shot, LOL.
Seriously, Communism was just a reaction to the first great wave of technology known as "the industrial revolution".
We need original thought, not re-hashed 20th century failed solutions that arose out of 19th century excess.
As an American I hate to say it, but it seems like the French have the right idea. Instead of using the excess productivity gained by technology to drive useless things like war and Facebook, we should just take more vacations.
That's not to say the French have it perfect--I wager their beurocracy consumes a lot of time. How about just shorter work weeks instead? One of the great ironies in this is that Utah, a state not considered "progressive" instituted shorter work weeks for state employees.
In other words, technology really did reduce the need for labor. We just need to find a constructive outlet for the excess labor. Neither violent revolution, nor wage slavery in a neoindustrial cubefarm/factory is a constructive outlet.
1. Clean room Drupal
2. Incorporate modules into said clean-roomed version under a proprietary license.
3. ???
4. Profit? Probably not, but a fun time to be had by lawyers perhaps.
Sorry, I actually read it. It got me thinking of the classic Infocom text games. Yes, there was an "engine" of sorts. It was, AFAIK, some kind of scripting language designed for text games. I bet they tweaked and reused it in every game too.
I believe there are several variations of the license plate game, but ours was collecting states. Whoever had the most states won. We weren't quite sure what to do with Canadian plates, but they were rare. We never got to 50 on any trip. The coveted Alaska and Hawaii were out there somewhere. I don't believe it was until I was an adult, just recently in California, that I actually saw a Hawaii plate. I assume that they are only on the car for a few months after you get your car shipped.
You could also play the numbes/letters on the plats of course, or forget about the plates and play car models or colors.
Who was it that said, "You haven't really succeeded until the Department of Justice comes knocking on your door"? I seem to recall having read that back in the 90s, regarding Microsoft.
Anyway, congratulations Google. You've really made it now.
Yeah, do kids even play the "license plate game" anymore? They'll never know the reward of hours in the car, and then the majesty of the Delaware Memorial Bridge looming up on the horizon. "Daddy, is that the golden gate?" "No. This is Delaware". I bet they just look up from their gadget and go "hmph" if the 'rents point out the landmarks. Are these kids going to be so overstimulated that the only thing to turn them on will be something truly dangerous?
Cows grazed near Georgetown until the WW TWO era.
I bet the munitions were dumped far from the monumental core, in an area the locals thought of as "the sticks". That doesn't excuse it of course, it just explains it.
Blanket reply here at the end of the thread, because I don't feel like hanging around for the "slow down cowboy" thing.
Thanks for pointing out that the data were stale, and for providing data that were less stale.
As for how the meme got started, I actually think the *AAs are late comers. We did see a shift from the rust belt to the non-union South in auto manufacturing. Unions probably preferred to blame international competition, as opposed to interstate competition.
Among geekdom, the phrase "music movies and microcode" dropped out of fiction (the name of the author escapes me, was that Stephenson?) and people seemed to forget that it was fiction. Political parties that are out of power also seem to find the meme useful. Lately, the Tea Party movement seems to be using it, but others have too.
It serves a lot of purposes, for a lot of people, so it survives.
That said, the more recent chart with multiple years does indeed show China on the move. That change can have a strong psychological impact, since it puts us behind if present trends continue.
"Nothing gets made in the U.S. and exported anymore BUT movies, music, etc." [citation needed]
Try this for starters.
Please note, I'm not picking on you in particular. You, like a lot of intelligent people, have come down with a nasty case of memes wrt to the composition of output in the US economy.
You just reminded me of a certain person who shall remain nameless for obvious reasons.
I was standing outside with him, we were in a position where the building just blocked out the sun. He pointed out some white streaks whizzing by near the sun. "Those are UFOs" he said. "They're traveling at really high velocity".
I thought about it for a few seconds. "Nope. Insects."
This guy, no doubt, had seen some site where they were talking about UFOs flying near the Sun. It's realy just anything moving against a background that doesn't supply perspective cues. You don't get binocular vision at that distance. The clear blue provides no cues. An insect at 20 feet moving 5 mph looks like a spaceship at 100,000 feet moving mach 6 (not sure about the math, but you get the idea). They would both look like specs, with the same angular velocity.
In the moment that I explained that to him, they ceased to be UFOs.
I'd rather have my machine be a spambot for an hour than lose my PDFs.
Worst case scenario for being a spambot is that I get taken off the network for a few minutes. My PDFs? Maybe it's an archive of patents I need to review, the instructions for the fromulator, or my master's thesis. Certainly, they should all be backed up, and we should all test our *restore* from backup. That's the only real security, but I don't want deletion to happen lightly.
In general, do apps really need delete permission anyway? How about just giving them change permission. In other words, something like a local svn commit. Then, if something funny happens you can just roll back. I think Macs come with something like that built in... the name escapes me.
The Federal Reserve is manipulating element 117! Fools! The six atoms are not even there. We sold them to China already. Shut off the MSM, and listen, sheeple. How can you keep using your worthless paper money? Element 117 is unique, rare, and unlike fiat can't be crea... oh... wait. Ummm.... buy my book!
Why is noone speaking out to defend C
A rhetorical question, but I'll bite: Because the implementations for all the other "cool" new languages already speak on C's behalf. Although, there are things like PyPy now; but it's not exactly mainstream, is it?
couldn't figure out how to search for C
Maybe the Craigslist trick works. Try searching for "letterc".
The verdict seems like one step towards common sense. Releasing artificially "impaired" individuals into society fails to promote the general welfare. If he can't use a computer, that causes more problems than it solves for the rest of us.
A bigger step towards common sense would be not releasing, true, hardcore sex offendors back into the general population. "Life in prison" should mean LIFE IN PRISON, for say, a violent rapist.
The final step towards common sense would be decriminilizing the mere posession of certain pornography. As it stands, it's way too easy to frame somebody for mere posession, and you don't get to the actual source of the problem that way.
I'm not holding my breath on real common sense when it comes to this part of the law. ZOMG! Children! Quick, burn stuff and behave irrationally and against your own best interest!!! If you don't you must be a witch^H^H^H^H^H pedo yourself.
Redwood City, CA -- dateline. Geek who's been around for any longer than a couple years decides not to ignore Slashdot on April 1, and weed through all the lame jokes looking for actual, interesting stuff. Haha! April Fools!
I've never understood why the left
Union, unions, UNIONS! vs. Blacks!
Yes, it's one of the issues that tears at the fabric of two core Democratic Party groups. I've seen polls [citation needed] where the majority of Blacks support vouchers. Many of their communities are strongly religious, and that tends to be part of the reason for the support. Unions, OTOH, know that many of those small, diverse, competing schools won't sign a contract.
So far, Union money beats Black desire in the Democratic Party.
Said before, and said again, no real progress in the USA until we break the shackles of entrenched special interests on both the Left and the Right.
Where did you live that you can recall "the first time I saw an airplane"? I don't recall that. I grew up in the Washington DC suburbs. They were always there. They always flew. The big thing for me was learning not to be afraid of the loud noise when they flew too close.
So based on my acquired ruleset, "planes fly" is just axiomatic.
The former. Neither spellcheck nor my hasty eyes would catch "marked" since it's a perfectly cromulent word. I plainly meant "marketed".
This leads to the question, "Does Clippy really know everything about grammar?".
Well, that pretty much sums it up. You enjoyed it as a kid. Trouble is, it was marked to adults.
Really? IE is my primary browser. I don't punch the monkey. I disable Active* on any site that isn't trusted, and I haven't had problems with it in years. Maybe you just need to learn more about the settings. I will grant you that MS has horribly insecure defaults. I shouldn't have to go through the settings; but I do, and it works.
In particular, I'd like to personally meet the person/people responsible for the default setting of "hide file extensions", and pour a big heap of wet cow patties on them.