For an imperfect analogy: If I loan my volunteer fire department use of my car, I haven't given up title, Nor have I indicated that anyone is now free to abscond the vehicle with impunity.
In fact, Getty not only stole these, by falsely asserting ownership rights, it's as if they took the car from my analogy, and drove it for Uber.
Her images are NOT public domain. They are her copyright, for which she waived license fees for re-use and distribution, via Library of Congress, per her attribution remain.
C'mon. There are a million attackers 24 hours a day, for a network and data center architecture that treats security as an afterthought, and applications that are built as well as the industry standard. (smirk)
Clap your hands everybody If you got what it takes 'Cause I'm Kurtis Blow and I want you to know That these are the breaks
Brakes on a bus brakes on a car Breaks to make you a superstar Breaks to win and breaks to lose But these here breaks will rock your shoes And these are the breaks Break it up break it up break it up!
The book is very plainly about dehumanization. Specifically the dehumanizing vision of "Utopia" as envisioned by technologists on purely rational orientation.
It doesn't take "critical theory" to divine this - it is elementary and self-evident.
You may agree with the book, or not. Picking it apart on quibbles about the functional details of the Utopia are obfuscation. They miss the point altogether. This is the way thought experiments work. Even an absurd proposition serves a useful function for determining intent and outcome.
Actually, ESPECIALLY an absurd proposition. That is almost exactly what defines satire.
100% utilization of disk IO, for non-user activity over reproducible periods, lasting half a day OR MORE? Where the computer takes 4-5 minutes TO LAUNCH A BROWSER?
How much is Microsoft PAYING you, to apologize for this? If they are not, I suggest you begin submitting invoices to Redmond.
Anecdotally, I have had the begging, pleading ask for help by 3 different users in 2 different continents - because their shiny machines now were so aggressively saturated by background activity that they literally could not open a new browser tab, or a second application.
Because I come from security, the friends mentioned each approached because they thought they must "have a virus" or "been hacked".
All 3 cases were taskman and perfmon checked - 100% disk utilization - in one case for hours. Not slouch machines. Each had 8 GB RAM - an amount I find miniscule, but perfectly functional for the other 3 Macs and 2 Ubuntu machines in my household.
Running through and making many services disabled or manual gave relief to two machines. The third, a Celeron-based Toshiba touch-screen all-in-one, required a forklift to 16 GB RAM.
Two main culprits are aggressive Windows Search and ridiculous memory optimization, with dynamic page compression. Superfetch caching seems to be totally counterproductive as well.
The single, most noticeable change was found here:
What fixed it for me is going to settings, system, notifications, and turning off "show me tips about Windows." I believe that was the one causing problems, though I turned all of them off besides the app notifications. System processes went back down after a restart and haven't spiked since.
After this change, 100% disk IO is still a boot-storm issue, and does not quiesce for 8-15 minutes from startup. However, after this point, the systems are usable, if not head-spinningly fast.
You have a system that is blindly trying to optimize a number of hardware and logical subsystems in different silos. The result is excessive taxing of disk, memory and CPU to pre-fetch, cache and compress - at the expense of performance of the shared resources they try to conserve.
This is the path Linux is headed towards. At least it's still 4-5 years behind. SystemDbusEtc... As they once said in Mad Magazine: "Yecccch."
The specifics of the technology are not the themes - merely the context.
Eugenics and social conditioning WAS a context in 1931, per the works of other authors and political philosophers.
The ability to understand abstract meaning, versus implicit information is a critical faculty to employ. Most fights are over details used to illustrate meaning, without these details being intrinsic to the actual, abstracted meaning.
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For an imperfect analogy: If I loan my volunteer fire department use of my car, I haven't given up title, Nor have I indicated that anyone is now free to abscond the vehicle with impunity.
In fact, Getty not only stole these, by falsely asserting ownership rights, it's as if they took the car from my analogy, and drove it for Uber.
Her images are NOT public domain. They are her copyright, for which she waived license fees for re-use and distribution, via Library of Congress, per her attribution remain.
Share and enjoy!
What was he trying to do?
Park the bloody thing?
C'mon. There are a million attackers 24 hours a day, for a network and data center architecture that treats security as an afterthought, and applications that are built as well as the industry standard. (smirk)
"That's what SHE said!"
WINDOWS: 10
Users: ZERO
Hooray! ARBEIT macht FREI, Windows Ten!
By letting you KNOW what we REALLY think and how AWFUL we ACTUALLY behave!
BLAME RUSSIA!
Clap your hands everybody
If you got what it takes
'Cause I'm Kurtis Blow and I want you to know
That these are the breaks
Brakes on a bus brakes on a car
Breaks to make you a superstar
Breaks to win and breaks to lose
But these here breaks will rock your shoes
And these are the breaks
Break it up break it up break it up!
Apple doesn't make differentiated models for different geo markets.
So? Bullshit.
The sound isn't mandatory.
I have my phone in silent mode, all the time.
Never hear the shutter at all.
NOW?!
If they are spending several hundred on a user to go to Windows 10, what make you thing there's ANYTHING to your advantage in doing so?
"Take our Futching Trojan Horse operating system, kiddo! It's not JUST FREE, we will PAY YOU to take it!"
This is not good. Trust me. It's not good at all.
Having left Europe, Britain is on the brink of leaving reality!
Certainly, of leaving the worlds of banking, finance and digital subscriber transactions.
The book is very plainly about dehumanization. Specifically the dehumanizing vision of "Utopia" as envisioned by technologists on purely rational orientation.
It doesn't take "critical theory" to divine this - it is elementary and self-evident.
You may agree with the book, or not. Picking it apart on quibbles about the functional details of the Utopia are obfuscation. They miss the point altogether. This is the way thought experiments work. Even an absurd proposition serves a useful function for determining intent and outcome.
Actually, ESPECIALLY an absurd proposition. That is almost exactly what defines satire.
Don't be thick.
100% utilization of disk IO, for non-user activity over reproducible periods, lasting half a day OR MORE? Where the computer takes 4-5 minutes TO LAUNCH A BROWSER?
How much is Microsoft PAYING you, to apologize for this? If they are not, I suggest you begin submitting invoices to Redmond.
They were no longer human, capable of failure, actualization, self-realization or possibly enlightenment.
The trade-off is people rationally segmented according to a consciously determined system - ignorant of the unconscious.
Savage still has access to this - and it's also why he is so messy.
Thank you fir understanding that I was explicitly referencing "Breakfast of Champions".
THIS is an ANUS:
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THIS is an ANUS on SLASHDOT:
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Utmost is more than I deserve, by far.
Why a man who wears two watches was ever reading "Chips'nDips", I'll never know.
Anecdotally, I have had the begging, pleading ask for help by 3 different users in 2 different continents - because their shiny machines now were so aggressively saturated by background activity that they literally could not open a new browser tab, or a second application.
Because I come from security, the friends mentioned each approached because they thought they must "have a virus" or "been hacked".
All 3 cases were taskman and perfmon checked - 100% disk utilization - in one case for hours. Not slouch machines. Each had 8 GB RAM - an amount I find miniscule, but perfectly functional for the other 3 Macs and 2 Ubuntu machines in my household.
Running through and making many services disabled or manual gave relief to two machines. The third, a Celeron-based Toshiba touch-screen all-in-one, required a forklift to 16 GB RAM.
Two main culprits are aggressive Windows Search and ridiculous memory optimization, with dynamic page compression. Superfetch caching seems to be totally counterproductive as well.
The single, most noticeable change was found here:
What fixed it for me is going to settings, system, notifications, and turning off "show me tips about Windows." I believe that was the one causing problems, though I turned all of them off besides the app notifications. System processes went back down after a restart and haven't spiked since.
https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/3h4wjg/windows_10_high_disk_usage_100_ive_seen_a_thread/
I kid you f-ing not.
After this change, 100% disk IO is still a boot-storm issue, and does not quiesce for 8-15 minutes from startup. However, after this point, the systems are usable, if not head-spinningly fast.
You have a system that is blindly trying to optimize a number of hardware and logical subsystems in different silos. The result is excessive taxing of disk, memory and CPU to pre-fetch, cache and compress - at the expense of performance of the shared resources they try to conserve.
This is the path Linux is headed towards. At least it's still 4-5 years behind. SystemDbusEtc... As they once said in Mad Magazine: "Yecccch."
:-)
Very kind.
Bruce Perens is lower.
Usually has more to offer, too. ;-)
The specifics of the technology are not the themes - merely the context.
Eugenics and social conditioning WAS a context in 1931, per the works of other authors and political philosophers.
The ability to understand abstract meaning, versus implicit information is a critical faculty to employ. Most fights are over details used to illustrate meaning, without these details being intrinsic to the actual, abstracted meaning.