Interesting, but I don't think that's what's happening here. Look at the numbers in the tfa. The majority of the participants are self taught "designers" with 2-5 years experience mostly working on web scripting. Hipster 20-something hacks of web designers doing their work on overpriced macbooks should surprise no one.
Anyone in the IT industry worth half their salary has been warning of this day for decades. You put all your eggs in one basket, and charge that basket to someone else's care, eventually they're going to drop it on you. What's worse is that the design of these new mobile platforms and the trend towards cloud computing has put us in a position that potentially has far worse consequences than business trusting their computing needs to the traditional Microsoft model.
Well this ever be fixed? Probably not. The world has shown a greater desire to listen to MBAs and business types rather than to engineers and technicians, even when it comes to technology. Business people are taught to be reactive instead of proactive to problems and the nature of these problems is that when they arise it's already too late.
Anyways, I'll be in my cabin in the mountains. Let me know how it all works out.
No, no you're still missing the point. The world has lost its politically correct mind. If this trend continues every generation will be leaving the world less free, more uptight, and more neurotic than they found it. The end result of this incessant desire to extend individual rights to never being offended or feeling uncomfortable is not going to be a good thing for future generations.
I'm confused why this is a good thing. I would personally side with the old guy. Some new age hipster coming in and ocr'ing all books and handing them over to Amazon is not "progress". It's indebting yourself. Email is also anything but secure, and was never meant to be. It's proliferation without real sender security layers existing on top of it are still a problem today. Believe it or not, fax is actually still more secure. That's why most government offices still don't email anything of significance.
I think you're a little confused. As you mentioned, the average user just wants their personal computer to work as a tool for them. So by your own statement they don't specifically want one tool over another.
Where the real fault lies is with the people in the industry. The people who know better and who should be building and maintaining these tools. Not just the developers and creators but the entire IT community including technicians, authors, reviewers, salesman, etc. In a single generation we've gone from a people that will bring a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for bundling their own browser with their os, to not only allowing all operating systems to do that by default, but allow them to distribute all software through their own store, track everything we do through mandatory "cloud" accounts, data mine us, deliver us targeted ads at their leisure, and much more.
This has nothing to do with the attractiveness of other platforms and everything to do with the staggering level of apathy and ignorance present in the instant gratification generation.
Drivers and features are already pretty close (at least with regards to nvidia and Linux) as far as I can tell. Any shortfall is simply caused by feature lag due to the obvious desire to support the most popular platform first. I don't know enough about the differences between directx and opengl to comment much on that, except that valve, creative assembly, projekt red, etc seem to be making AAA games multiplatform. Regardless, again this becomes a chicken and egg problem. Windows has more users because they have better support and features which is because they have more users. The power always lies with the consumer. Your dollar is a vote for how you want something to be.
There's nothing that makes Windows run more games other than the fact that Windows runs more games. If you want to have a real impact, only buy multiplatform games. Demand is the only thing that will change the industry.
It will be complete waste of your time no doubt. The instant gratification generation never gets behind an issue or boycott that actually matters or requires critical thought.
This would be a duplicated effort. The large companies involved and the mindless apathetic user are already doing a pretty good job of ruining the tech industry.
IaaS has uses. All "cloud" products could have potential uses. After all, the term "cloud" is just a dullards way of describing nebulous off-site infrastructure on a network diagram. This is not a new idea. What's new is the profit motivated ideology surrounding it. There's a wide variety of considerations that need to be considered when designing information systems. The least of which should be appealing to current trends, and valuing operating expenditures over all else.
It's my opinion that the continued prevalence of this trend is due to its nature of allowing non-technical people to make technical decisions.
It's not cheaper. Stop buying the lie. I've had managed service companies flat out tell me that since they started reselling cloud over internal infrastructure, their revenues have tripled. The only party this crap is good for is the guys selling it. That's why they always seem so excited about it, and anyone on the business side of things hasn't stopped prattling on about the cloud for over 5 years. The one exception would be in very small business; under 20 people.
You are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. And even if it did, you would still fail.
Opportunity is stifled by barriers. Without barriers, there's no lost opportunity. Remove the barriers and people will sort out what's best for them all on their own.
You can't micromanage the world into your view of a utopia. It has never worked, and will never work. Whenever anyone has tried to over-manage complex social and economic processes they end up creating more problems than originally existed (in this case imaginary ones).
Yes. I've had my Antergos (Arch Linux) install crash to a halt if I stream a couple 1080p videos while compiling some source and running a Windows VM. Many times. It really seems like bad resource management to me, but the catalyst of the problem always seems to be the video streaming. Without the video streaming the other CPU applications conflict with one another but result in poor performance with themselves rather than a system hang.
That market is already established. There's very little new entry into that garbage. Either you've "converted" to mobile because generally what you do with computing is of little consequence, or you've tried and binned the idea already.
It's probably CPU. Especially if any of those tabs are running flash or HTML5 video. At least that's been my experience. Flash absolutely murders CPU in linux, and HTML5 video doesn't seem to be much better.
I think for a "free" upgrade it's actually quite bad. Windows 7 outpaced it and that was an upgrade priced at a few hundred dollars. Also, many of those "upgrades" to 10 we're before release. They were offering RTM and beta as a free download long before release. This is probably when most power users, and people in the industry got on board. These people are still evaluating and still chasing the newest shiniest thing. Time will tell what the overall verdict is.
People aren't as excited about this new "free" version of Windows as they should be. The reason: most don't like what Microsoft is shoveling. We don't want "the cloud", we don't care about mobile interfaces, SAAS, IAAS, or any of your other marketing bullshit. We aren't interested in a free "upgrade" that further removes user freedom and attempts to monetize their data. We're not morons. You haven't fooled us.
You haven't done enough to lift them from the burden of societal pressures... obviously. I mean it certainly can't be that your daughters are their own people with their own ideas about what they want to with their lives. That wouldn't fit in the PC vacuum of reality.
So women don't get into coding because of societal pressures? I, quite frankly, find that insulting. Women are not meek little creatures that need you and your SJWs to circle jerk over their cause. They are human beings capable of extraordinary things when you get out of their way, and let them take care of themselves. Just like all other human beings.
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Interesting, but I don't think that's what's happening here. Look at the numbers in the tfa. The majority of the participants are self taught "designers" with 2-5 years experience mostly working on web scripting. Hipster 20-something hacks of web designers doing their work on overpriced macbooks should surprise no one.
Anyone in the IT industry worth half their salary has been warning of this day for decades. You put all your eggs in one basket, and charge that basket to someone else's care, eventually they're going to drop it on you. What's worse is that the design of these new mobile platforms and the trend towards cloud computing has put us in a position that potentially has far worse consequences than business trusting their computing needs to the traditional Microsoft model.
Well this ever be fixed? Probably not. The world has shown a greater desire to listen to MBAs and business types rather than to engineers and technicians, even when it comes to technology. Business people are taught to be reactive instead of proactive to problems and the nature of these problems is that when they arise it's already too late.
Anyways, I'll be in my cabin in the mountains. Let me know how it all works out.
No, no you're still missing the point. The world has lost its politically correct mind. If this trend continues every generation will be leaving the world less free, more uptight, and more neurotic than they found it. The end result of this incessant desire to extend individual rights to never being offended or feeling uncomfortable is not going to be a good thing for future generations.
So that's why we've had such a drastic decline in the quality and design of software. 26.2% of this generations programmers are idiots.
I'm confused why this is a good thing. I would personally side with the old guy. Some new age hipster coming in and ocr'ing all books and handing them over to Amazon is not "progress". It's indebting yourself. Email is also anything but secure, and was never meant to be. It's proliferation without real sender security layers existing on top of it are still a problem today. Believe it or not, fax is actually still more secure. That's why most government offices still don't email anything of significance.
I think you're a little confused. As you mentioned, the average user just wants their personal computer to work as a tool for them. So by your own statement they don't specifically want one tool over another.
Where the real fault lies is with the people in the industry. The people who know better and who should be building and maintaining these tools. Not just the developers and creators but the entire IT community including technicians, authors, reviewers, salesman, etc. In a single generation we've gone from a people that will bring a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for bundling their own browser with their os, to not only allowing all operating systems to do that by default, but allow them to distribute all software through their own store, track everything we do through mandatory "cloud" accounts, data mine us, deliver us targeted ads at their leisure, and much more.
This has nothing to do with the attractiveness of other platforms and everything to do with the staggering level of apathy and ignorance present in the instant gratification generation.
Well it sounds like we can all go fuck ourselves either way, according to Microsoft. This message was brought to you by American Express.
Drivers and features are already pretty close (at least with regards to nvidia and Linux) as far as I can tell. Any shortfall is simply caused by feature lag due to the obvious desire to support the most popular platform first. I don't know enough about the differences between directx and opengl to comment much on that, except that valve, creative assembly, projekt red, etc seem to be making AAA games multiplatform. Regardless, again this becomes a chicken and egg problem. Windows has more users because they have better support and features which is because they have more users. The power always lies with the consumer. Your dollar is a vote for how you want something to be.
There's nothing that makes Windows run more games other than the fact that Windows runs more games. If you want to have a real impact, only buy multiplatform games. Demand is the only thing that will change the industry. It will be complete waste of your time no doubt. The instant gratification generation never gets behind an issue or boycott that actually matters or requires critical thought.
I run into the same thing, except in my case it's 1 in 5.
Not to mention the fact that the minute I turn an ad blocker on I no longer need a top of the line i7 processor just to navigate the web.
This would be a duplicated effort. The large companies involved and the mindless apathetic user are already doing a pretty good job of ruining the tech industry.
IaaS has uses. All "cloud" products could have potential uses. After all, the term "cloud" is just a dullards way of describing nebulous off-site infrastructure on a network diagram. This is not a new idea. What's new is the profit motivated ideology surrounding it. There's a wide variety of considerations that need to be considered when designing information systems. The least of which should be appealing to current trends, and valuing operating expenditures over all else.
It's my opinion that the continued prevalence of this trend is due to its nature of allowing non-technical people to make technical decisions.
It's not cheaper. Stop buying the lie. I've had managed service companies flat out tell me that since they started reselling cloud over internal infrastructure, their revenues have tripled. The only party this crap is good for is the guys selling it. That's why they always seem so excited about it, and anyone on the business side of things hasn't stopped prattling on about the cloud for over 5 years. The one exception would be in very small business; under 20 people.
If you didn't say it I was going to. Oh, the instant gratification generation. We'd give up our own mother if it came with an iPhone.
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I think you're wrong, but I don't have enough knowledge to argue it.
Or nuclear.
You are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. And even if it did, you would still fail.
Opportunity is stifled by barriers. Without barriers, there's no lost opportunity. Remove the barriers and people will sort out what's best for them all on their own. You can't micromanage the world into your view of a utopia. It has never worked, and will never work. Whenever anyone has tried to over-manage complex social and economic processes they end up creating more problems than originally existed (in this case imaginary ones).
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Yes. I've had my Antergos (Arch Linux) install crash to a halt if I stream a couple 1080p videos while compiling some source and running a Windows VM. Many times. It really seems like bad resource management to me, but the catalyst of the problem always seems to be the video streaming. Without the video streaming the other CPU applications conflict with one another but result in poor performance with themselves rather than a system hang.
That market is already established. There's very little new entry into that garbage. Either you've "converted" to mobile because generally what you do with computing is of little consequence, or you've tried and binned the idea already.
It's probably CPU. Especially if any of those tabs are running flash or HTML5 video. At least that's been my experience. Flash absolutely murders CPU in linux, and HTML5 video doesn't seem to be much better.
I think for a "free" upgrade it's actually quite bad. Windows 7 outpaced it and that was an upgrade priced at a few hundred dollars. Also, many of those "upgrades" to 10 we're before release. They were offering RTM and beta as a free download long before release. This is probably when most power users, and people in the industry got on board. These people are still evaluating and still chasing the newest shiniest thing. Time will tell what the overall verdict is.
People aren't as excited about this new "free" version of Windows as they should be. The reason: most don't like what Microsoft is shoveling. We don't want "the cloud", we don't care about mobile interfaces, SAAS, IAAS, or any of your other marketing bullshit. We aren't interested in a free "upgrade" that further removes user freedom and attempts to monetize their data. We're not morons. You haven't fooled us.
You haven't done enough to lift them from the burden of societal pressures... obviously. I mean it certainly can't be that your daughters are their own people with their own ideas about what they want to with their lives. That wouldn't fit in the PC vacuum of reality.
So women don't get into coding because of societal pressures? I, quite frankly, find that insulting. Women are not meek little creatures that need you and your SJWs to circle jerk over their cause. They are human beings capable of extraordinary things when you get out of their way, and let them take care of themselves. Just like all other human beings.