If it works for you, great. Linux does break from time to time too - I was around for the libc5 -> glibc clusterfuck, and I've dealt with kernel upgrades doing retarded shit like changing device probe order so that eth0 because eth1 and vice versa.
Mphhh... of course shit happens.
I was around when an early implementation of the g++ would use memcpy (instead of an implemented/overloaded assgn operator) to copy a return for an "return by value" method; didn't matter for the complex type, but mattered hell of a lot for other cases (it was 1.4.0 or 1.4.1 - I hunted a bug for 5 days writing memory addresses on paper to solve the mystery of "magically transmuted this pointers without calls through destructor").
But what's the relevance for the context? Commercial products aren't immune from blunders. Some recentexamples, the last one extremely irritating because the amount of interruption of my work I had from Mac users.
At work and at home - probably about 10 hours daily. Never had a hitch in the last 2.5 years since I switched jobs and gave up MS.
Because I'm willing to bet that whatever it is you're doing on Linux could be done just as easily on OS X without fucking about maintaining the operating system.
You mean like a couple of weeks ago when all the Mac people in the institute start calling helpdesk accusing that one of Java *desktop* application just stopped working? (because, in their wise mind, the Apple lords decided to disable a version of Java only because the browser plugin had a problem?)
Any management that tries these techniques needs to be fired by the shareholders immediately. The people who leave voluntarily when pushed by these types of harassment are always the most valuable ones, who funnily enough find it easy to get a job elsewhere. The ones you're left with are the ones who are pulling you down in the first place (along with the management team, who are obviously deficient if they think reducing headcount is all that matters in saving their ass).
It bears a name: it's called Dead Sea effect.
After a while, you know for sure which employees you don't want to have: the ones that are still with you... So the best you can do: fire them and close the business.
Not everyone has access to MIT's online classes. Not everyone has access to MIT's in-person classes either.
Let me rephrase in an attempt to also touch the
Colleges considering MOOCs should remember that.
As long as college education is seen as a business, colleges will not have any interest to remember that: after all, people that don't have access to broadband may have little money to pay their "online tuition" (and yes, it's a vicious cycle... the less educated one is, the less chances one has to make a decent living).
The perspective changes at the moment college education is defined as a basic right. Now... is it defined as such?
And IANADPS detective, but I am not without an impressive resume'. I've some perfectly brewed coffee, a mild Investigative Discovery addiction, and I've been reading/. all morning: forty stab wounds is personal. It's a spurned lover.
Or a deranged person with a semi-automatic knife thrower with large capacity clips, person that mistaken the duplex for a school?
Or a flock of angry birds with a slingshot?
Like when mowing a lawn — there I've got nothing else to do and I keep mowing until it's finished
Even simpler suggestion: open a lawn-mowing business... it seems the technology help you there (only half-kidding here. The serious part would be: are you sure computer work/programming is appropriate for you? You seem to be motivated by diversity rather than long stretches on focused work)
If that happens Steam may end up with the equivalent of the ASUS tradeshow lunch with Microsoft after which the CEO of ASUS publicly apologised for linux on netbooks and discontinued selling them. Microsoft probably have Steam by the balls almost as much as they have ASUS.
If it doesn't happen in the next year or so, too late... many gamers will "upgrade" from Win7 to a Linux distro (instead of Win8).
You know? What stops you building your own... or contributing to a kickstarter.
Nothing, but that's not the problem I was talking about. There will be millions of stupid people who buy the Google version, and *my* privacy will be destroyed
Not trying to troll, but... maybe I'm slow today... please detail on how exactly is you privacy destroyed more than it is now? I mean, letting aside CCTV, even now you can be recorded in public by anyone who owns a smartphone.
You only need to RTFA, it is of course mentioned. There's even something more: the effect and time to get back to normal is inverse to the magnitude of the change: for an upside down change, the adaptation is longer but the revert to normal is almost immediate.
Research dating back more than a century helps explain this. In the 1890s, the renowned psychologist George Stratton constructed special glasses that caused him to see the world upside down. The remarkable thing was that after a few days, Stratton’s brain adapted to his topsy-turvy worldview, and he no longer saw the world upside down. You might guess that when he took the inverting glasses off, he would start seeing things upside down again. He didn’t. But his vision had what he called, with Victorian charm, “a bewildering air.”
Through experimentation, I’ve found that the required readjustment period is, strangely, shorter when my brain has adapted to a dramatic distortion, say, reversing things from left to right or turning them upside down. When the distortion is subtle—a slightly offset viewpoint, for example—it takes less time to adapt but longer to recover.
I never said that the Russian culture says the women can be slapped (ironically enough, my example of "slapping as an acceptable behavior" used US).
What I implied is that Russian people are more likely to display a patriarchal type of attitude than the "western" culture. You know: the image of the man as the head of the family, expected to be strong and all that... and any kind of weakness is to be associated with "not being man enough"; this is how I inferred a possible explanation for the use of "emasculation" (by Brin) as a synonym for weakness. Other two points:
1. the language is not the only part of the culture an immigrant brings in the adoptive place (where I'm now, I'm an immigrant myself)
2. now that I think, the association of strength with the male sex is not uncommon even in western countries... e.g. "grow a pair" as a substitute for "have courage/stop whining" and "woman with cojones/balls" for a woman showing a strong character.
Most role models and most regular men you see and meet every day aren't particularly masculine in the traditional sense; if anything, brawn, machismo and physical strength seems a bit anachronistic and a bit negative, much like smoking has become.
One wonders: is this why the movie industry pushes violent movies one after the other - the "Die hard" kind? (i.e. only as a palliative for the today's boys/men venting frustration?)
There are a number of things you can say about a smartphone, but - emasculating? Seriously? Out of what orifice did he pull THAT?
maybe understandable from the perspective of Brin's culture at origins (even if I find hard to accept it):
Brin immigrated to the United States with his family from the Soviet Union at the age of six.
(don't give me the shit with "but he get is education in US". First at all, a good part of the culture comes from the family - I guarantee you even now the Russians have a "man rules" type of culture - just look at Putin. Second... is US better in this regard? E.g. ever wonder how long ago slapping a woman was acceptable as a movie scene? Do you remember "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974)? What about the "Airplane!" (1980)?)
Emasculation is the removal of the genitalia of a male, both the penis and the testicles. Removal of the testicles alone is castration.
By extension, the word has also come to mean to render a male less of a man, or to make a male feel less of a man by humiliation.
Women should be safe from the effect of smart phones
(yes, I understand that the most metaphorical sense would imply weakening in a generalized sexless sense. However... think how well the following expression sounds to you: she felt emasculated by...)
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If it works for you, great. Linux does break from time to time too - I was around for the libc5 -> glibc clusterfuck, and I've dealt with kernel upgrades doing retarded shit like changing device probe order so that eth0 because eth1 and vice versa.
Mphhh... of course shit happens.
I was around when an early implementation of the g++ would use memcpy (instead of an implemented/overloaded assgn operator) to copy a return for an "return by value" method; didn't matter for the complex type, but mattered hell of a lot for other cases (it was 1.4.0 or 1.4.1 - I hunted a bug for 5 days writing memory addresses on paper to solve the mystery of "magically transmuted this pointers without calls through destructor").
But what's the relevance for the context? Commercial products aren't immune from blunders. Some recent examples, the last one extremely irritating because the amount of interruption of my work I had from Mac users.
opensource is now infesting more and more cells of the corporate body, and chemo won't cut it
Well, what's wrong with that?
Freelancing sites are even cheaper.
(grin)
Q: what do you actually "get done" with Linux?
Develop.
Seriously. What is your actual workload?
At work and at home - probably about 10 hours daily. Never had a hitch in the last 2.5 years since I switched jobs and gave up MS.
Because I'm willing to bet that whatever it is you're doing on Linux could be done just as easily on OS X without fucking about maintaining the operating system.
You mean like a couple of weeks ago when all the Mac people in the institute start calling helpdesk accusing that one of Java *desktop* application just stopped working? (because, in their wise mind, the Apple lords decided to disable a version of Java only because the browser plugin had a problem?)
Any management that tries these techniques needs to be fired by the shareholders immediately. The people who leave voluntarily when pushed by these types of harassment are always the most valuable ones, who funnily enough find it easy to get a job elsewhere. The ones you're left with are the ones who are pulling you down in the first place (along with the management team, who are obviously deficient if they think reducing headcount is all that matters in saving their ass).
It bears a name: it's called Dead Sea effect.
After a while, you know for sure which employees you don't want to have: the ones that are still with you... So the best you can do: fire them and close the business.
Not everyone has access to MIT's online classes. Not everyone has access to MIT's in-person classes either.
Let me rephrase in an attempt to also touch the
Colleges considering MOOCs should remember that.
As long as college education is seen as a business, colleges will not have any interest to remember that: after all, people that don't have access to broadband may have little money to pay their "online tuition" (and yes, it's a vicious cycle... the less educated one is, the less chances one has to make a decent living).
The perspective changes at the moment college education is defined as a basic right. Now... is it defined as such?
'The question is, What is the new basic?'
Answer: VB.NET - even if it isn't that new, there's none newer that that. (question is: will it still rot your brain?)
We have learned so much in the last twenty years it makes me wonder if we will ever again see a period of time like this in the future.
We will be dead by when a new "astronomy golden age" will come.... the current one hasn't yet finished.
Who actually fabs the chips and circut boards used by NASA?
"American Components, Russian Components, all the same, all made in Taiwan!"
Lev Andropov - on board of MIR
And IANADPS detective, but I am not without an impressive resume'. I've some perfectly brewed coffee, a mild Investigative Discovery addiction, and I've been reading /. all morning: forty stab wounds is personal. It's a spurned lover.
Or a deranged person with a semi-automatic knife thrower with large capacity clips, person that mistaken the duplex for a school?
Or a flock of angry birds with a slingshot?
Like when mowing a lawn — there I've got nothing else to do and I keep mowing until it's finished
Even simpler suggestion: open a lawn-mowing business... it seems the technology help you there (only half-kidding here. The serious part would be: are you sure computer work/programming is appropriate for you? You seem to be motivated by diversity rather than long stretches on focused work)
Whatever your taste in crime, there's an app for that.
Texas.
For the frying pan into the fire: sinkholes too.
If that happens Steam may end up with the equivalent of the ASUS tradeshow lunch with Microsoft after which the CEO of ASUS publicly apologised for linux on netbooks and discontinued selling them. Microsoft probably have Steam by the balls almost as much as they have ASUS.
If it doesn't happen in the next year or so, too late... many gamers will "upgrade" from Win7 to a Linux distro (instead of Win8).
Keep the fingers crossed for EOMA68 (plus whatever boards you like): seems like an all-open hardware and software stack.
Remember: they are after you anyway, no matter if you are paranoid or not.
(grin)
You know? What stops you building your own... or contributing to a kickstarter.
Nothing, but that's not the problem I was talking about. There will be millions of stupid people who buy the Google version, and *my* privacy will be destroyed
Not trying to troll, but... maybe I'm slow today... please detail on how exactly is you privacy destroyed more than it is now? I mean, letting aside CCTV, even now you can be recorded in public by anyone who owns a smartphone.
Research dating back more than a century helps explain this. In the 1890s, the renowned psychologist George Stratton constructed special glasses that caused him to see the world upside down. The remarkable thing was that after a few days, Stratton’s brain adapted to his topsy-turvy worldview, and he no longer saw the world upside down. You might guess that when he took the inverting glasses off, he would start seeing things upside down again. He didn’t. But his vision had what he called, with Victorian charm, “a bewildering air.”
Through experimentation, I’ve found that the required readjustment period is, strangely, shorter when my brain has adapted to a dramatic distortion, say, reversing things from left to right or turning them upside down. When the distortion is subtle—a slightly offset viewpoint, for example—it takes less time to adapt but longer to recover.
From CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/25/tech/innovation/google-glass-privacy-andrew-keen
#ifihadglass ... might be the end of privacy as we knew it. Does anyone doubt this will be used as yet another way for Google to harvest our data?
You know? What stops you building your own... or contributing to a kickstarter.
So, what's his view on POV porn on these devices?
I'd say... augmented? You now, with an overlay of arrows and directions and labels and what not, how else?
To be clear, to be clear...
I never said that the Russian culture says the women can be slapped (ironically enough, my example of "slapping as an acceptable behavior" used US).
What I implied is that Russian people are more likely to display a patriarchal type of attitude than the "western" culture. You know: the image of the man as the head of the family, expected to be strong and all that... and any kind of weakness is to be associated with "not being man enough"; this is how I inferred a possible explanation for the use of "emasculation" (by Brin) as a synonym for weakness. Other two points:
1. the language is not the only part of the culture an immigrant brings in the adoptive place (where I'm now, I'm an immigrant myself)
2. now that I think, the association of strength with the male sex is not uncommon even in western countries... e.g. "grow a pair" as a substitute for "have courage/stop whining" and "woman with cojones/balls" for a woman showing a strong character.
Of course, I may be wrong in any or all the above
Most role models and most regular men you see and meet every day aren't particularly masculine in the traditional sense; if anything, brawn, machismo and physical strength seems a bit anachronistic and a bit negative, much like smoking has become.
One wonders: is this why the movie industry pushes violent movies one after the other - the "Die hard" kind? (i.e. only as a palliative for the today's boys/men venting frustration?)
There are a number of things you can say about a smartphone, but - emasculating? Seriously? Out of what orifice did he pull THAT?
maybe understandable from the perspective of Brin's culture at origins (even if I find hard to accept it):
Brin immigrated to the United States with his family from the Soviet Union at the age of six.
(don't give me the shit with "but he get is education in US". First at all, a good part of the culture comes from the family - I guarantee you even now the Russians have a "man rules" type of culture - just look at Putin. Second... is US better in this regard? E.g. ever wonder how long ago slapping a woman was acceptable as a movie scene? Do you remember "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974)? What about the "Airplane!" (1980)?)
Emasculation is the removal of the genitalia of a male, both the penis and the testicles. Removal of the testicles alone is castration.
By extension, the word has also come to mean to render a male less of a man, or to make a male feel less of a man by humiliation.
Women should be safe from the effect of smart phones
(yes, I understand that the most metaphorical sense would imply weakening in a generalized sexless sense. However... think how well the following expression sounds to you: she felt emasculated by...)