If you want wysiwyg markdown: on Windows, check out texts.io. On linux, Uberwiter. On Mac... there are probably lots of options besides texts.
If you write fiction, or any book-length texts (a Ph. D. thesis or academic papers, frex), you owe it to yourself to check out Scrivener. It's available for OS X, Windows, and in beta for Linux. Closed software and charged for, but worth it.
"A few dozen terabytes"? Is that per year? My computer is lightly used, imho, and dumpe2fs(8) says Filesystem created: Mon Feb 1 08:50:40 2010 ... Lifetime writes: 87 TB Not an SSD, of course. I want my disks to last a little longer yet.
* Learn to habitually apply critical thinking. Why would Microsoft want "every American student to have the opportunity to learn computer science"--a somewhat advanced branch of mathematics? That's right: it doesn't. It wants an oversupply of employees in "computing occupations". (Quotes from the linked technet blog post).
BUT, don't apply critical thinking out loud at work. That's non-career-advancing. Use it in your meta-employment strategy.
* Learn persuasion and negotiation skills: applied (cod-) psychology topics such as body language, emotional intelligence, rhetoric. Join Toastmasters. Develop a wide circle of acquaintances in lots of different industries and occupations--it's the "weak connections" that get you jobs.
* Learn the elements of employment law.
* Learn how to cooperate effectively with your fellow employees. Which means doing the shit work, at least some of the time, especially at the start.
If you want to become one of the -l-i-z-a-r-d--p-e-o-p-l-e- 1%:-
Unfortunately CS courses are not about teaching software engineering.
Of course not. CS is a branch of mathematics. Software Engineering courses teach software engineering. Totally different disciplines.
They're all about teaching the latest fad in computer language and off you go into the marketplace.
No; as above, computer science is mathematics. Air-quote CS air-quote courses taught in community colleges and the like are misnamed, because "introduction to software construction" doesn't stroke the egos of either the teachers or their students.
[William H. Whyte, author of The Organization Man] saw signs that in the struggle for dominance between the Sociopaths (whom he admired as the ones actually making the organization effective despite itself) and the middle-management Organization Man, the latter was winning. He was wrong, but not in the way you’d think. The Sociopaths defeated the Organization Men and turned them into The Clueless not by reforming the organization, but by creating a meta-culture of Darwinism in the economy: one based on job-hopping, mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, cataclysmic reorganizations, outsourcing, unforgiving start-up ecosystems, and brutal corporate raiding. In this terrifying meta-world of the Titans, the Organization Man became the Clueless Man. Today, any time an organization grows too brittle, bureaucratic and disconnected from reality, it is simply killed, torn apart and cannibalized, rather than reformed. The result is the modern creative-destructive life cycle of the firm [emphasis added]
Six posts in the series, each shedding much light on modern corporate dynamics. TL;DR version is "the executive class has gone feral."
Also worth reading is another post of Venkat's, "You are not an artisan".
But in most countries and states consumers have the right to return products within a short time period after sale.
Sales people hate processing returns. The process is deliberately made awkward and time-consuming, and time spent on them is time spent giving back your commission, and time not selling anything.
Result: salespeople will steer people away from bad products unless they get commission whether or not the sale "sticks", and they don't have to process returns.
So, I doubt many sales people are acting as you describe.
2. Failed to address or prove how this is man made.
Slashdot is missing a moderation, "-1 reading comprehension fail".
The topic of the post was insurance companies' responses to climate change. The linked articles also discussed this topic, briefly in one case. The post provided evidence for its assertions about insurance companies' responses to climate change.
Anonymous congratulations, the best kind. Almost as good as anonymous insults.
Already congratulated them. Good esprit de corps, pity about the project guidance, software, and documentation.
Tried Fedora back when it was still Red Hat, community edition or some such. The installer was good. That was the high point, though. Persevered about two months, and then went back to FreeBSD for a while. I read reviews from time to time, and comments here, check out the web site... and see no reason to try Fedora again.
I know one thing, the recent trend in linux desktops I do not like. I think Ubuntu right before they dived into unity had about the best desktop of ANY operating system. Then they proceeded to fuck it up. The fedora desktop makes unity look.....slightly less shitty.
I agree with all of that.
[lawn mode] I remember using fvwm and Nextstep back in the early oughts... Those were the days, when there was so much promise, so much potential in desktop environments. It was all in front of us, still to do. And the people seemed so talented...
It all went wrong in 2010, it seemed. Probably earlier, in reality.
Why doesn't MS bring an inducement to their floundering phone/tablet business by just giving the original XBox gaming catalogue away for free? Right now there is no reason for'consumers to switch over to MS products. When you're barely in the game like they are, you'd best make a bold move now, or kiss away all your possible futures in the phone/tablet game.
They'd do better if they gave people a $300 iTunes gift card...
True, but microsoft gained dominance on the desktop by being dominant at work....
That was in the days when Lotus 123 and WordStar represented the very state of the art in user experience. Normal people had to be paid to use computers in those days. Those were Microsoft's glory days. And for the most part, that experience is what they associate with Microsoft to this day, helped along by BSODs, viruses, and bloatware all over their new computers. Windows: so bad, you have to be paid to use it.
Gaming, yeah, slightly different. But not all that much. MS had one game that was really loved: Flight Simulator. They killed it.
Give corporate the ability to admin them the same as their desktops through existing infrastructure and they'd have grabbed the market that Apple and Droid haven't gone after.
The fact that iDevices cause IT pain and grief is one of the primary motivations for execs to insist on having them. There's a large part of their value right there.
Who is liked even less than Microsoft in your office? That's right: IT, with their stupid, arbitrary, obstructive rules.
Only very slightly, if at all. This post was about the minimum extent, not the maximum. There's not really a material trend in minimum extent of Antarctic sea ice.
See my comment above. All the technologies required for a room-painting robot exist and are being used commercially. They're just rather crude at this point, and no entrepreneur has yet seen the market opportunity given what there is.
As for bathrooms: if the incomes of the middle classes had kept up with productivity, there'd be a market for self-cleaning bathrooms. There are no technological road blocks.
The USA is a bit backward in building technology, though. Check out some of the things the Germans are doing. Premanufactured, self-assembling on site.
Humans now do "supermarket cashier", "health care aide", "truck driver", and "DMV clerk" in far greater numbers than they do "biomedical engineer". (And for many humans, "cashier" is an aspiration rather than an actual job.)
Granted, i"cashier" is better than "cotton picker", but it's now under threat just as cotton picking was. What's next for the cashiers of the world?
George Carlin put it sarcastically: "Think about the average person. Think about how dumb they are. Now realize that half of them are dumber than that."
Various combinations of statistical machine learning, expert systems, object recognition and 3D space mapping, facial expression recognition, conversational speech recognition, proprioception and other sensors, together with good-enough robotics and wireless internet.*... combinations of those technologies are sufficient to do, as the Oxford people say, about 45% of current jobs. (I'm surprised; I'd have said more like 75%.)
Are the cashiers going to get other jobs? Entrepreneurs go where the money is. Right now, that's in replacing humans with machines, helping multinational corporations extract money from governments (taxpayers), and selling fancy, uh, "investments" to rich people.
It's by no means obvious that new jobs will appear...just as it wasn't during the Industrial Revolution. The Economist has a piece out today, with a chart showing how English people's height and expected lifespan (proxies for income) declined for decades in the first half of the Industrial Revolution. They only got back to scratch after 100 years. For fifty years, it was increasing misery.
So yeah, it'll all be good in 2113. How does that help us now?
* Those technologies are all being used commercially, but they aren't very well developed yet, and they're mostly not combined above two or three together. It's just a matter of time and entrepreneurship, though.
Slashdot Mirror
If you want wysiwyg markdown: on Windows, check out texts.io. On linux, Uberwiter. On Mac... there are probably lots of options besides texts.
If you write fiction, or any book-length texts (a Ph. D. thesis or academic papers, frex), you owe it to yourself to check out Scrivener. It's available for OS X, Windows, and in beta for Linux. Closed software and charged for, but worth it.
"A few dozen terabytes"? Is that per year? My computer is lightly used, imho, and dumpe2fs(8) says
...
Filesystem created: Mon Feb 1 08:50:40 2010
Lifetime writes: 87 TB
Not an SSD, of course. I want my disks to last a little longer yet.
I know the feeling.
That feeling means that it's time to retire from IT, and move to a less trend-driven industry. Such as, uh, fashion.
* Learn to habitually apply critical thinking. Why would Microsoft want "every American student to have the opportunity to learn computer science"--a somewhat advanced branch of mathematics? That's right: it doesn't. It wants an oversupply of employees in "computing occupations". (Quotes from the linked technet blog post).
BUT, don't apply critical thinking out loud at work. That's non-career-advancing. Use it in your meta-employment strategy.
* Learn persuasion and negotiation skills: applied (cod-) psychology topics such as body language, emotional intelligence, rhetoric. Join Toastmasters. Develop a wide circle of acquaintances in lots of different industries and occupations--it's the "weak connections" that get you jobs.
* Learn the elements of employment law.
* Learn how to cooperate effectively with your fellow employees. Which means doing the shit work, at least some of the time, especially at the start.
If you want to become one of the -l-i-z-a-r-d--p-e-o-p-l-e- 1%:-
* learn what it takes. Here's a very introductory primer: The Gervais Principle.
Unfortunately CS courses are not about teaching software engineering.
Of course not. CS is a branch of mathematics. Software Engineering courses teach software engineering. Totally different disciplines.
They're all about teaching the latest fad in computer language and off you go into the marketplace.
No; as above, computer science is mathematics. Air-quote CS air-quote courses taught in community colleges and the like are misnamed, because "introduction to software construction" doesn't stroke the egos of either the teachers or their students.
Make 4.1 will be able to read mail.
Apropos which, I found this series of posts fascinating reading.
Sample:
[William H. Whyte, author of The Organization Man] saw signs that in the struggle for dominance between the Sociopaths (whom he admired as the ones actually making the organization effective despite itself) and the middle-management Organization Man, the latter was winning. He was wrong, but not in the way you’d think. The Sociopaths defeated the Organization Men and turned them into The Clueless not by reforming the organization, but by creating a meta-culture of Darwinism in the economy: one based on job-hopping, mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, cataclysmic reorganizations, outsourcing, unforgiving start-up ecosystems, and brutal corporate raiding. In this terrifying meta-world of the Titans, the Organization Man became the Clueless Man. Today, any time an organization grows too brittle, bureaucratic and disconnected from reality, it is simply killed, torn apart and cannibalized, rather than reformed. The result is the modern creative-destructive life cycle of the firm [emphasis added]
Six posts in the series, each shedding much light on modern corporate dynamics. TL;DR version is "the executive class has gone feral."
Also worth reading is another post of Venkat's, "You are not an artisan".
First time I've ever done this, but ... me, too.
But in most countries and states consumers have the right to return products within a short time period after sale.
Sales people hate processing returns. The process is deliberately made awkward and time-consuming, and time spent on them is time spent giving back your commission, and time not selling anything.
Result: salespeople will steer people away from bad products unless they get commission whether or not the sale "sticks", and they don't have to process returns.
So, I doubt many sales people are acting as you describe.
the average government employee is a freeloading scumbag who is to lazy or incompetent to work in the private sector.
...and is teaching your children.
Oh, you mean Federal government? That'd be a soldier. Oh, you want to exclude the armed forces, too? And probably the DHS and FBI as well?
Getting down into the weeds, here... "The average member of the Secret Service is a freeloading scumbag who," etc., perhaps?
The article did two things:
1. Stated that the Climate is changing
2. Failed to address or prove how this is man made.
Slashdot is missing a moderation, "-1 reading comprehension fail".
The topic of the post was insurance companies' responses to climate change. The linked articles also discussed this topic, briefly in one case. The post provided evidence for its assertions about insurance companies' responses to climate change.
Anonymous congratulations, the best kind. Almost as good as anonymous insults.
Already congratulated them. Good esprit de corps, pity about the project guidance, software, and documentation.
Tried Fedora back when it was still Red Hat, community edition or some such. The installer was good. That was the high point, though. Persevered about two months, and then went back to FreeBSD for a while. I read reviews from time to time, and comments here, check out the web site... and see no reason to try Fedora again.
I know one thing, the recent trend in linux desktops I do not like. I think Ubuntu right before they dived into unity had about the best desktop of ANY operating system. Then they proceeded to fuck it up. The fedora desktop makes unity look.....slightly less shitty.
I agree with all of that.
[lawn mode] I remember using fvwm and Nextstep back in the early oughts... Those were the days, when there was so much promise, so much potential in desktop environments. It was all in front of us, still to do. And the people seemed so talented...
It all went wrong in 2010, it seemed. Probably earlier, in reality.
[lawn mode off]
(posting ac because I modded you up)
Why doesn't MS bring an inducement to their floundering phone/tablet business by just giving the original XBox gaming catalogue away for free? Right now there is no reason for'consumers to switch over to MS products. When you're barely in the game like they are, you'd best make a bold move now, or kiss away all your possible futures in the phone/tablet game.
They'd do better if they gave people a $300 iTunes gift card...
(Only half sarcastic.)
True, but microsoft gained dominance on the desktop by being dominant at work. ...
That was in the days when Lotus 123 and WordStar represented the very state of the art in user experience. Normal people had to be paid to use computers in those days. Those were Microsoft's glory days. And for the most part, that experience is what they associate with Microsoft to this day, helped along by BSODs, viruses, and bloatware all over their new computers. Windows: so bad, you have to be paid to use it.
Gaming, yeah, slightly different. But not all that much. MS had one game that was really loved: Flight Simulator. They killed it.
Give corporate the ability to admin them the same as their desktops through existing infrastructure and they'd have grabbed the market that Apple and Droid haven't gone after.
The fact that iDevices cause IT pain and grief is one of the primary motivations for execs to insist on having them. There's a large part of their value right there.
Who is liked even less than Microsoft in your office? That's right: IT, with their stupid, arbitrary, obstructive rules.
Thanks for this. I like your characterisation of the mark...er, client.
I commend the Fedora project for sustaining and growing the popularity... of Arch Linux, Linux Mint, and Debian. Good community spirit, people!
Only very slightly, if at all. This post was about the minimum extent, not the maximum. There's not really a material trend in minimum extent of Antarctic sea ice.
2080 plus or minus 20 years, according to most climatologists.
2040 plus or minus 10 years, according to climatologists specialising in the Arctic.
2028 plus or minus 7-ish years (for under 1 million square kilometers of ice area at minimum), according to the trend.
* Absurd questions demand surreal answers, and the surreal answer to every question is "a fish".
A fish.
You forgot a word: yet.
See my comment above. All the technologies required for a room-painting robot exist and are being used commercially. They're just rather crude at this point, and no entrepreneur has yet seen the market opportunity given what there is.
As for bathrooms: if the incomes of the middle classes had kept up with productivity, there'd be a market for self-cleaning bathrooms. There are no technological road blocks.
Good point.
The USA is a bit backward in building technology, though. Check out some of the things the Germans are doing. Premanufactured, self-assembling on site.
Humans now do "supermarket cashier", "health care aide", "truck driver", and "DMV clerk" in far greater numbers than they do "biomedical engineer". (And for many humans, "cashier" is an aspiration rather than an actual job.)
Granted, i"cashier" is better than "cotton picker", but it's now under threat just as cotton picking was. What's next for the cashiers of the world?
George Carlin put it sarcastically: "Think about the average person. Think about how dumb they are. Now realize that half of them are dumber than that."
Various combinations of statistical machine learning, expert systems, object recognition and 3D space mapping, facial expression recognition, conversational speech recognition, proprioception and other sensors, together with good-enough robotics and wireless internet.* ... combinations of those technologies are sufficient to do, as the Oxford people say, about 45% of current jobs. (I'm surprised; I'd have said more like 75%.)
Are the cashiers going to get other jobs? Entrepreneurs go where the money is. Right now, that's in replacing humans with machines, helping multinational corporations extract money from governments (taxpayers), and selling fancy, uh, "investments" to rich people.
It's by no means obvious that new jobs will appear...just as it wasn't during the Industrial Revolution. The Economist has a piece out today, with a chart showing how English people's height and expected lifespan (proxies for income) declined for decades in the first half of the Industrial Revolution. They only got back to scratch after 100 years. For fifty years, it was increasing misery.
So yeah, it'll all be good in 2113. How does that help us now?
* Those technologies are all being used commercially, but they aren't very well developed yet, and they're mostly not combined above two or three together. It's just a matter of time and entrepreneurship, though.