What is it going to take for people not to enrol in hamburger flipping degrees like gender-studies or sociology and do something society needs?
Probably fewer companies that give in to the loudmouths and actually create positions like "Equality Officers" that serve no purpose other than actually working people now not only having to prop up useless middle management but even more useless (and expensive) upper management.
Middle management was at least only useless, but these goofballs even create more red tape and busywork.
Well, they must be doing something right, considering that the average high school in Europe teaches at a level some colleges in the US would like to aspire to.
Pretty much this. The only good thing I can say about schools up to university level is that they didn't got more in the way of my education than they absolutely had to.
Why would I use a phone to access the work network? I have a laptop. Complete with a keyboard you can actually use without the growing urge to hurl the device into the next wall.
There is a far better reason for a dual-sim phone: Private + work sims.
I don't want to hand out my private phone number at work. My boss has it for emergencies, and he's fortunately responsible enough to treat it as such. But I have to have a work phone. So what do I have? Two phones that offer no benefit over a single phone with two SIMs.
Essentially, that would be the first actually useful feature in an iPhone in a long, long time.
I admit, the last time I tried to convert to Mint has been about a year ago, maybe by now the drivers have caught up. The software support was pretty good back then already, actually, some of the older titles that refuse to work in Win7 (even on compatibility mode) work perfectly in Wine.
The main argument remains, and I'll make it the only one this time so you're not overtaxed with thinking about too many things at once, that yes, you still need workers, but you need one instead of 30. What do you plan to do with the 29 that now do not have a job anymore?
You need one person to supervise a battery of robot toilets. Yes, you still need workers, but you need very, very few. Instead of 30 people scrubbing, you have one person looking.
And yes, I won't have a robot toilet. But I also don't hire anyone to scrub mine. And neither does anyone else, except maybe the proverbial 1% who can't be assed to clean their own toilet. But then we're back at the problem of having one job for one person, not 30.
Whether you have to update depends on the software you want to run, which in turn depends on the software available in the OS.
Classic example:.net support and, for games at least, DirectX support. So far MS always used both of them to force upgrades onto people. New functions for either were only available for newer OSs. Not because they couldn't be backported, but simply because they can and control those two crucial libraries.
What it comes down to now is whether the makers of software see a large enough market in using the library functions that are exclusive for newer versions, or whether they don't use them because it would mean not selling to those that didn't upgrade. You may rest assured that any software that gets developed in a MS-related studio will depend on those new-library-only functions.
Mmm... I wouldn't walk over that plank yet. I recently, more out of curiosity, installed Steam on one of my Linux machines and was surprised just how many games do actually have Linux support, one way or another. An even bigger surprise that some of the older games that refuse to run on Win7 (even with any kind of compatibility mode) do actually work well in Wine.
Whether the OS runs certain things isn't that important to the user, especially if he doesn't even notice anything of it. That's the developer's problem.
So the larger question is whether what the user actually wants from the OS is dependent on the things that only Windows can offer developers. The things you mention here are all services you find mostly in high level office applications, something few people will need at home. MFC/ATL are great for developing business applications, but I can't think of many consumer grade applications that rely on them so heavily that they MUST be used. Same for VB. Terminal Services are, again, more suitable for office/professional applications and far from consumer grade.
What you omitted here, and what is probably the ONLY thing I could think of that would have an impact on consumer level software is the haphazard support of.net in mono. But even that's at a "good enough" level by now.
What's left is drivers for consumer hardware (multi-button mice, programmable keyboards, dedicated gaming devices) and AAA-games that don't rely on Unity and UE4 for their engines. Aside of this, I can't really identify a lot of things missing for software that private consumers would use.
Actually, for what most users want, the transition is pretty seamless.
Take my dad. He's not the most computer literate person, and he certainly has no interest in becoming one. What he wants is write e-mails and maybe look up some things for his hobby in a browser. That's basically all he really wants out of a computer. And I dare say that this is how it is for many other people, too. Add maybe Facebook or some other antisocial network.
That's something you have to set up once and you're done. No need to install anything, no need to adjust anything, set the updates to automatic and tell him to let it do its magic and don't turn it off whenever the funny window appears until it tells you to do just that.
That's it. That's basically the whole learning curve for most people.
"But setting it up once..."
Yes. Go pay someone ten bucks to do it for you. It's probably heaps less than what you'd pay Microsoft AND on top of that have to install and organize everything.
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What is it going to take for people not to enrol in hamburger flipping degrees like gender-studies or sociology and do something society needs?
Probably fewer companies that give in to the loudmouths and actually create positions like "Equality Officers" that serve no purpose other than actually working people now not only having to prop up useless middle management but even more useless (and expensive) upper management.
Middle management was at least only useless, but these goofballs even create more red tape and busywork.
I no longer wonder why the average American is way less healthy than the average European. Thanks for solving a mystery.
Then I guess those jobs must be really well paid. You'd be surprised what people are willing to do if the money is right.
Well, they must be doing something right, considering that the average high school in Europe teaches at a level some colleges in the US would like to aspire to.
Pretty much this. The only good thing I can say about schools up to university level is that they didn't got more in the way of my education than they absolutely had to.
Why would I use a phone to access the work network? I have a laptop. Complete with a keyboard you can actually use without the growing urge to hurl the device into the next wall.
In this age of BYOD? If you have more material like that, you could work as a standup.
Have these people set a foot in a school recently?
That's not courageous. Courageous is taking something away, this is adding something.
Apple is losing its way, I tell you...
There is a far better reason for a dual-sim phone: Private + work sims.
I don't want to hand out my private phone number at work. My boss has it for emergencies, and he's fortunately responsible enough to treat it as such. But I have to have a work phone. So what do I have? Two phones that offer no benefit over a single phone with two SIMs.
Essentially, that would be the first actually useful feature in an iPhone in a long, long time.
I admit, the last time I tried to convert to Mint has been about a year ago, maybe by now the drivers have caught up. The software support was pretty good back then already, actually, some of the older titles that refuse to work in Win7 (even on compatibility mode) work perfectly in Wine.
The main argument remains, and I'll make it the only one this time so you're not overtaxed with thinking about too many things at once, that yes, you still need workers, but you need one instead of 30. What do you plan to do with the 29 that now do not have a job anymore?
You need one person to supervise a battery of robot toilets. Yes, you still need workers, but you need very, very few. Instead of 30 people scrubbing, you have one person looking.
And yes, I won't have a robot toilet. But I also don't hire anyone to scrub mine. And neither does anyone else, except maybe the proverbial 1% who can't be assed to clean their own toilet. But then we're back at the problem of having one job for one person, not 30.
And you might have noticed just how this ended for IBM when an alternative was available.
MS should actually know the story, they were the alternative...
Whether you have to update depends on the software you want to run, which in turn depends on the software available in the OS.
Classic example: .net support and, for games at least, DirectX support. So far MS always used both of them to force upgrades onto people. New functions for either were only available for newer OSs. Not because they couldn't be backported, but simply because they can and control those two crucial libraries.
What it comes down to now is whether the makers of software see a large enough market in using the library functions that are exclusive for newer versions, or whether they don't use them because it would mean not selling to those that didn't upgrade. You may rest assured that any software that gets developed in a MS-related studio will depend on those new-library-only functions.
But I'd like to own the hardware that I bought. And decide what to run on it and, even more, what not to.
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Then two distris will sink with this ship.
NEXT!
Mmm... I wouldn't walk over that plank yet. I recently, more out of curiosity, installed Steam on one of my Linux machines and was surprised just how many games do actually have Linux support, one way or another. An even bigger surprise that some of the older games that refuse to run on Win7 (even with any kind of compatibility mode) do actually work well in Wine.
Whether the OS runs certain things isn't that important to the user, especially if he doesn't even notice anything of it. That's the developer's problem.
So the larger question is whether what the user actually wants from the OS is dependent on the things that only Windows can offer developers. The things you mention here are all services you find mostly in high level office applications, something few people will need at home. MFC/ATL are great for developing business applications, but I can't think of many consumer grade applications that rely on them so heavily that they MUST be used. Same for VB. Terminal Services are, again, more suitable for office/professional applications and far from consumer grade.
What you omitted here, and what is probably the ONLY thing I could think of that would have an impact on consumer level software is the haphazard support of .net in mono. But even that's at a "good enough" level by now.
What's left is drivers for consumer hardware (multi-button mice, programmable keyboards, dedicated gaming devices) and AAA-games that don't rely on Unity and UE4 for their engines. Aside of this, I can't really identify a lot of things missing for software that private consumers would use.
This is the best analogy I have heard in a long time.
Actually, for what most users want, the transition is pretty seamless.
Take my dad. He's not the most computer literate person, and he certainly has no interest in becoming one. What he wants is write e-mails and maybe look up some things for his hobby in a browser. That's basically all he really wants out of a computer. And I dare say that this is how it is for many other people, too. Add maybe Facebook or some other antisocial network.
That's something you have to set up once and you're done. No need to install anything, no need to adjust anything, set the updates to automatic and tell him to let it do its magic and don't turn it off whenever the funny window appears until it tells you to do just that.
That's it. That's basically the whole learning curve for most people.
"But setting it up once..."
Yes. Go pay someone ten bucks to do it for you. It's probably heaps less than what you'd pay Microsoft AND on top of that have to install and organize everything.
If I may ask, who does tech support for Windows?
And another happy nodejs user...
When I have to run Chinese software so I can actually be free in my own computer, the transfer to Bizarro-World is complete.