I bought a 24" monitor a few years back for $170, and a 23" last black frideay for $109. Why fuss about such a minor expense? If two monitors make developers 1% more producrtive, or just make developers feel "pampered" then why not?
This is the 100% ridiculous part. If your company is squabbling over standard "coder grade" monitors (that should cost about $150 through a good purchasing program) then you probably need to stop complaining and start looking for a new job. Considering many employees cost this much to keep around for just one day (experienced coders, possibly half a day,) an expense like a monitor that is relatively vital to the workflow of most office types should be an absolute no-brainer. Fire your employer and move on.
People know and understand Windows, and don't have to learn arcane command line syntax or application imcompatibility.
[...] Application incompatibility? There are 200,000 applications in the Android market and many outside of it. \
You are either being disingenuous or you haven't really tried many of those 200,000+ apps... To say that they are all compatible with every Android device is basically absurd; to say that the average user doesn't have to worry about incompatibility is only true if the user limits themselves to email, social media, and perhaps a few games.
The desktop/laptop hardware platform, for all it's flaws, does an undeniably great job of being astoundingly similar on pretty much every device out there (with the exception of some Macs). The exact same OS cd (be it Windows, Linux, etc) can be popped into any one of those devices, from a timeframe of almost a decade) and crank up a basically fully functional system. At the same time, I am lucky if my Android powered phone from 6 months ago can run the latest version of the OS, not to even mention the apps, and the one app I really wanted (Netflix) is locked the **** out.
No. But if gasoline powered cars did not exist and someone invented them today, there is NO WAY they would be approved.
"You want people to zip around at high speeds while carrying ten to twenty gallons of a highly volatile petroleum distillate? With CHILDREN in the car and by the roads? You know this 'gasoline' stuff is extremely flammable, you even use its explosive power to move your vehicle! Are you NUTS?"
DENIED.
Not to mention, its more explosive than dynamite!!! (pound for pound, based on energy density.) And you want a tank full of it piloted by a barely qualified operator? That's INsane!
Don't forget that good for nothing space program, AND the military... Between that, libraries, and fire protection, the government clearly can't get ANYTHING right...
Look at the collection and then try and convince me that our slow rate of progress is due to a lack of technology rather than a lack of imagination.
What the hell does that even mean? Slow rate of progress? Lack of imagination? I'm sure it was beautiful in his head but that thought didn't cross out into the real world all that intact.
Ah HAH! Begging the question! Finally, I have a chance to say "this is what begging the question is"... What slow rate of progress was he talking about? The one where we went from a cd jukebox that was 30 lbs and held 1,000 songs, to a mp3 jukebox that is.3 lbs and holds 10,000 songs in the span of about 10 years? Not fast enough for you, old timer?
About 4 of the 9 Caprica episodes were good (by most standards...) so that makes for an enjoyable 3 hours or so before you come to the conclusion that SyFy is now a zombie cable network feeding off the brains of slow and unsuspecting victims.
Hey, come to think of it, I have a show idea to pitch to them.
Where are the torrent apps that allow for downloading without seeding at all? They seed while you download, so even if you never get to 1:1 up/down you will have *always* uploaded a little bit of that content back to the system before you are done.
Preordained, perhaps, by the namesake of the project, well before motion pictures were even conceived? Remember, that time he flew too close to the sun and his wings fell off and he crashed into the ocean? I mean, why on earth would you want to name your flight-related project that? It's like launching a new cruise ship and calling it the Titanic. Really? Are there not enough Greek heroes whose missions went off without a hitch of which to name these sorts of things after? Was Apollo the only one we could think of?
I was wondering the same thing. Why bother to include a tidbit like "What might be seen in the northern hemisphere isn't always visible from the south" when your stops include... Nothing but places well inside the northern hemisphere?
They copied the idea that anyone with a remotely similar (read: competitive) product must have "copied" or "stolen" all their ideas from them, from Microsoft. Microsoft really ought to file a copycopyright suit.
Seriously, though; I own a Samsung device that is allegedly "copied" from the iPhone. Trust me, if it were ANYTHING like an iPhone, I would NOT own it.
LOL, wooosh! Really? Did it sound anything like the assertion was that Apple (who competes with Android) was unhappy with Intel (who they just sent a boatload of chip business)?
Good to know. Lets see... Quick check... Um no, even with heavy bittorrent activity my usage hasn't topped 200GB/mo. While it stings a little knowing that I "theoretically" get less, hey if it means my Netflix streams are a little bit better (I can still stream 400 some hours of netflix at the highest bitrate) then I am ok with it.
Commence with the "they came for the gypsies, and I said nothing, yadda yadda"...
They won't provision ethernet, meaning they wont let you plug whatever ethernet device into the router that you like? You are limited to one computer? What is this, 1998?
I am on Uverse and while they don't cap, I still like to know how much is coming and going from my connection. What can I say, I am addicted to information. Anyway, with a bit of wget and some perl, I pulled the up/down bytes from the web page of the Motorola 2-wire gateway/router/thingy (most any router will offer this in some form) and I pump that into Cacti for storage and graphing. Tada!
Then again, they also struggle to do what seems like basic operational tasks with the same computers. If the goal is to rename 200 files in the same way, I'll do it with a one line script in about 20 seconds, while most younger people I know will sit there for 45 minutes and do it by hand with a GUI file manager. I had once guessed that the generation growing up with personal computing would be proficient at using them, but in virtually every case, I'm the one that ends up helping them with anything that's nontrivial.
"Growing up with computers" != "Growing up with shell scripting"
. . . until you need to deal with lots of forms where no PDF is available but you want to ensure the form is entirely legible, or when you need to complete a form with carbon copies.
For the former, geeks can scan in the form, import it into photoshop or gimp and rotate/align and crop it, then overlay text over the fields. Do you expect the typical administrative assistant to be able to do that?
If a typical administrative assistant can't do that... They had sure as hell at the least posses legible handwriting!
Also, the article is (overgeneralizing and) saying that fully mechanical typewriter production is no more (according to a survey sample of 1) but doesn't mention that electronic typewriters will live a long time, for reasons similar to your concern.
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I bought a 24" monitor a few years back for $170, and a 23" last black frideay for $109. Why fuss about such a minor expense? If two monitors make developers 1% more producrtive, or just make developers feel "pampered" then why not?
This is the 100% ridiculous part. If your company is squabbling over standard "coder grade" monitors (that should cost about $150 through a good purchasing program) then you probably need to stop complaining and start looking for a new job. Considering many employees cost this much to keep around for just one day (experienced coders, possibly half a day,) an expense like a monitor that is relatively vital to the workflow of most office types should be an absolute no-brainer. Fire your employer and move on.
People know and understand Windows, and don't have to learn arcane command line syntax or application imcompatibility.
[...] Application incompatibility? There are 200,000 applications in the Android market and many outside of it. \
You are either being disingenuous or you haven't really tried many of those 200,000+ apps... To say that they are all compatible with every Android device is basically absurd; to say that the average user doesn't have to worry about incompatibility is only true if the user limits themselves to email, social media, and perhaps a few games.
The desktop/laptop hardware platform, for all it's flaws, does an undeniably great job of being astoundingly similar on pretty much every device out there (with the exception of some Macs). The exact same OS cd (be it Windows, Linux, etc) can be popped into any one of those devices, from a timeframe of almost a decade) and crank up a basically fully functional system. At the same time, I am lucky if my Android powered phone from 6 months ago can run the latest version of the OS, not to even mention the apps, and the one app I really wanted (Netflix) is locked the **** out.
OK ok ok, it's as explosive as that thing whooshing over your head right now...
No. But if gasoline powered cars did not exist and someone invented them today, there is NO WAY they would be approved.
"You want people to zip around at high speeds while carrying ten to twenty gallons of a highly volatile petroleum distillate? With CHILDREN in the car and by the roads? You know this 'gasoline' stuff is extremely flammable, you even use its explosive power to move your vehicle! Are you NUTS?"
DENIED.
Not to mention, its more explosive than dynamite!!! (pound for pound, based on energy density.) And you want a tank full of it piloted by a barely qualified operator? That's INsane!
Luckily pure hydrogen is not combustible... Too low or too high and nothing happens.
Too high and nothing happens? Another fusion doubter, have we? Tell it to THE SUN!!!
Yet another government-funded dead end.
Like the Internet? And water treatment plants?
Don't forget that good for nothing space program, AND the military... Between that, libraries, and fire protection, the government clearly can't get ANYTHING right...
Warrantless? Of course there will be a warrant...
CD != CD Jukebox... You missed the point. Try again.
Look at the collection and then try and convince me that our slow rate of progress is due to a lack of technology rather than a lack of imagination.
What the hell does that even mean? Slow rate of progress? Lack of imagination? I'm sure it was beautiful in his head but that thought didn't cross out into the real world all that intact.
Ah HAH! Begging the question! Finally, I have a chance to say "this is what begging the question is"... What slow rate of progress was he talking about? The one where we went from a cd jukebox that was 30 lbs and held 1,000 songs, to a mp3 jukebox that is .3 lbs and holds 10,000 songs in the span of about 10 years? Not fast enough for you, old timer?
About 4 of the 9 Caprica episodes were good (by most standards...) so that makes for an enjoyable 3 hours or so before you come to the conclusion that SyFy is now a zombie cable network feeding off the brains of slow and unsuspecting victims.
Hey, come to think of it, I have a show idea to pitch to them.
Ahem... 23,000 * 50 = 1,150,000
Where are the torrent apps that allow for downloading without seeding at all? They seed while you download, so even if you never get to 1:1 up/down you will have *always* uploaded a little bit of that content back to the system before you are done.
Preordained, perhaps, by the namesake of the project, well before motion pictures were even conceived? Remember, that time he flew too close to the sun and his wings fell off and he crashed into the ocean? I mean, why on earth would you want to name your flight-related project that? It's like launching a new cruise ship and calling it the Titanic. Really? Are there not enough Greek heroes whose missions went off without a hitch of which to name these sorts of things after? Was Apollo the only one we could think of?
I was wondering the same thing. Why bother to include a tidbit like "What might be seen in the northern hemisphere isn't always visible from the south" when your stops include... Nothing but places well inside the northern hemisphere?
Tell me, who else liked to degrade his opponents by relating them to simians?
Do you have those scripts posted anywhere? Sounds like it would be useful to have with the AT&T caps starting
Why not, right? http://jeff55.typepad.com/blog/2011/05/tracking-bandwidth-usage-on-att-uverse.html
They copied the idea that anyone with a remotely similar (read: competitive) product must have "copied" or "stolen" all their ideas from them, from Microsoft. Microsoft really ought to file a copycopyright suit.
Seriously, though; I own a Samsung device that is allegedly "copied" from the iPhone. Trust me, if it were ANYTHING like an iPhone, I would NOT own it.
LOL, wooosh! Really? Did it sound anything like the assertion was that Apple (who competes with Android) was unhappy with Intel (who they just sent a boatload of chip business)?
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/14/1444213/ATampT-To-Introduce-Broadband-Caps
Good to know. Lets see... Quick check... Um no, even with heavy bittorrent activity my usage hasn't topped 200GB/mo. While it stings a little knowing that I "theoretically" get less, hey if it means my Netflix streams are a little bit better (I can still stream 400 some hours of netflix at the highest bitrate) then I am ok with it.
Commence with the "they came for the gypsies, and I said nothing, yadda yadda"...
They won't provision ethernet, meaning they wont let you plug whatever ethernet device into the router that you like? You are limited to one computer? What is this, 1998?
I am on Uverse and while they don't cap, I still like to know how much is coming and going from my connection. What can I say, I am addicted to information. Anyway, with a bit of wget and some perl, I pulled the up/down bytes from the web page of the Motorola 2-wire gateway/router/thingy (most any router will offer this in some form) and I pump that into Cacti for storage and graphing. Tada!
Maybe if Communism actually worked I'd consider doing something like this.
It is my personal observation that Communism works well in a small group, like a tribe. More than a few hundred people and you need a tyrant.
I believe the more accurate observation is: More than a few hundred people and you *get* a tyrant.
Then again, they also struggle to do what seems like basic operational tasks with the same computers. If the goal is to rename 200 files in the same way, I'll do it with a one line script in about 20 seconds, while most younger people I know will sit there for 45 minutes and do it by hand with a GUI file manager. I had once guessed that the generation growing up with personal computing would be proficient at using them, but in virtually every case, I'm the one that ends up helping them with anything that's nontrivial.
"Growing up with computers" != "Growing up with shell scripting"
Oh, there I go again...
. . . until you need to deal with lots of forms where no PDF is available but you want to ensure the form is entirely legible, or when you need to complete a form with carbon copies.
For the former, geeks can scan in the form, import it into photoshop or gimp and rotate/align and crop it, then overlay text over the fields. Do you expect the typical administrative assistant to be able to do that?
If a typical administrative assistant can't do that... They had sure as hell at the least posses legible handwriting!
Also, the article is (overgeneralizing and) saying that fully mechanical typewriter production is no more (according to a survey sample of 1) but doesn't mention that electronic typewriters will live a long time, for reasons similar to your concern.
"which linux distro releases patches for 10 year old releases, I'm curious.."
If you installed a 10 year old release of Debian you could likely update it to the current release version with no problems.
Been there, failed at that... Support for jumping revs of glibc is NOT as good as it could be.