Hey, not that it's anything unusual, but if you cut corners, expect to be sued for patent infringement by Apple. Or something like that.
In all seriousness, though, if your USERS report bugs, you have a fundamental problem here. Because this is what it should look like:
User defines specification. Programmer codes to spec. QA tests if spec is implemented correctly. Program ships. User finds something he doesn't like? It obviously has to be a change request, because the program does what the user specc'd.
Yes, it is that simple. And yes, I'm fully aware that users don't have the first clue what they actually want. But they will never learn if you keep treating their blunders and imprecise specifications as if it was YOUR fault!
The reason our parents could afford a house on a working class wage and we cannot is simply that we earn less than they did. Yes, I'm not kidding here, in buying power we're worse off than our parents were. Well, most of us at least. A select few are actually better off. Then again, it's that select few that probably don't even notice it.
Our running costs also went up. And I'm not even talking about fluff like that we "need" cell phones and internet. Even if you dump that, we're nowhere near the expense level our parents dealt with. Yes, part of it is convenience. Most of it, though, is planned obsolescence. I do remember my dad repairing our TV, our washing machine and various other electronic devices around the house. Today, when one of them breaks, all you can do is throw it away and buy a new one. And not because you're too stupid to fix it, but because it CANNOT be repaired. Generally, the amount of things you can actually do yourself, build yourself and fix yourself has dwindled into insignificance. I remember my dad actually gathering his buddies and build an extension to our home. Can't do that no more, new building codes and other laws demand that you hire some "professional" to do it.
Professional only means here that he's doing it for money. Not that he has any fucking clue.
The list goes on. It's frustrating to know that you're reduced to being a consumer. And this learned helplessness is branching into other areas of our life. More and more people live by the creed of "can't do it anyway, why bother trying".
That's the question to be asked when you want to know whether something will happen. Can it be monetized? Can someone make money off it? That is the pivotal question.
Why don't we have colonies on the moon, as a lot of people thought in the 60s? No profit. Why don't we have flying cars? No profit. Why don't we live in one of the many utopias that were promised to us? No profit.
Socially, the 20xx years will probably be closer to the 18xx years than the 19xx years, without a Soviet Union that forces us to look like we're the good guys, there is exactly no reason that cutthroat capitalism shouldn't be employed to the full extent that we had in the 1800s. Only far, far more efficiently.
Corporations indeed more and more resemble communist countries. Nobody gives a shit about the corporation, everyone's trying to find out how to abuse company resources for personal gain, which leads to corporate spending more and more resources on internal surveillance, eventually to the point where the surveillance costs more than the corruption did, but that's ok because it can be planned. You have incompetent people being promoted so they can do less damage to the production process, because you can't fire them since they know something that would cause trouble if the west, I mean, the competition would know. Working hard only gets you more work and a disgruntled set of coworkers who blame you for higher expectations from management, so the general consensus is to work the bare minimum to not get sent to Gulag, I mean, to not get fired...
Unfortunately there is no reception where I live. I will of course relocate at company expense, alas I can't afford the rent there. But if corporate covers my rent, we can talk.
In other words, screw you. I work enough hours as it is, if you want more, pay for it.
But we learned from our earlier mistakes. We don't tell the masses how to do this. That way the corporations think that they say where the content goes.
Solar panels unfortunately don't last forever. They slowly lose their ability to convert sunlight and after a few years you're stuck with a fair lot of rather ugly, black tiles covering your home. They'd break even after about 15-20 years, but IIRC their average life time is a bit shorter than that.
But it's getting better. Give it a few years and we're there.
Since I don't know just how good the lawyers of those Vaporware producers are, I will refrain from commenting on the veracity of that claim. I will point out, though, that with a relative humidity of 100% at 25C you can squeeze 0.01ml of water from a liter of air. Or 0.00001 liters per liter of air. So it's easy to see that you'd have to move and FULL dehumidify (which is impossible, but let's fake it, I mean, if they can, why shouldn't we...) over 4 MILLION liters of air for those 42 liters of water. And we're talking about air that is close to condensing because it's so saturated with water. Not dry-as-a-fart desert air.
To give you an idea: 42 million liters is close to a thousand tank trucks.
And we didn't even touch on the problem of that "anchor" and how quickly it heats up yet...
A liter a day is your "invisible" water loss, due to respiration and perspiration. If it's not too hot and you're sweating like a pig.
Urine accounts for 1.5 - 2.5 liters a day, depending on circumstances. If you're dehydrated and your body notices it should be conserving fluids, you're closer to 1.5, but that's not good for your kidneys if carried on for too long.
So we're closer to 2-3 liters a day that you need to survive. And your didn't brush your teeth, wash yourself or cook food yet.
Let's put it that way: I know how much water my air condition condenses in 12 hours. Yes, 2-3 liters in half a day is very possible. In a sweltering atmosphere with a humidity that reaches the 80% easily, 100F and an air condition with 8000 btu.
There have been a few, let's say, shady promises about extracting water from air, mostly coupled with crowdfunding campaigns (gee, why could that be?). Those that actually delivered a product were mostly ridiculous, provided you were not one of those duped into backing it. Then it was more a reason for anger and disappointment.
Most actually never delivered. Which reminds me, wasn't Fontus due to deliver right now in April? Any backers here, did they actually deliver? Because, let's put it careful, I'd really, really love to see that!
So don't get me wrong when I don't hold my breath. I have been promised easy water from thin air before. And what has been delivered so far, if anything, was ridiculous. Either it didn't work, didn't scale past proof-of-concept scale or only worked if the humidity was high enough that rain was more the rule than the exception, rendering a system that extracts water from the air redundant: A bucket would do.
If your drug habit cuts into your performance, yes, I do care about it. If you somehow manage to be fully functional while high as a kite, I don't give a fuck what you inject, snort, inhale or pump into your ass.
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Hey, not that it's anything unusual, but if you cut corners, expect to be sued for patent infringement by Apple. Or something like that.
In all seriousness, though, if your USERS report bugs, you have a fundamental problem here. Because this is what it should look like:
User defines specification. Programmer codes to spec. QA tests if spec is implemented correctly. Program ships. User finds something he doesn't like? It obviously has to be a change request, because the program does what the user specc'd.
Yes, it is that simple. And yes, I'm fully aware that users don't have the first clue what they actually want. But they will never learn if you keep treating their blunders and imprecise specifications as if it was YOUR fault!
The reason our parents could afford a house on a working class wage and we cannot is simply that we earn less than they did. Yes, I'm not kidding here, in buying power we're worse off than our parents were. Well, most of us at least. A select few are actually better off. Then again, it's that select few that probably don't even notice it.
Our running costs also went up. And I'm not even talking about fluff like that we "need" cell phones and internet. Even if you dump that, we're nowhere near the expense level our parents dealt with. Yes, part of it is convenience. Most of it, though, is planned obsolescence. I do remember my dad repairing our TV, our washing machine and various other electronic devices around the house. Today, when one of them breaks, all you can do is throw it away and buy a new one. And not because you're too stupid to fix it, but because it CANNOT be repaired. Generally, the amount of things you can actually do yourself, build yourself and fix yourself has dwindled into insignificance. I remember my dad actually gathering his buddies and build an extension to our home. Can't do that no more, new building codes and other laws demand that you hire some "professional" to do it.
Professional only means here that he's doing it for money. Not that he has any fucking clue.
The list goes on. It's frustrating to know that you're reduced to being a consumer. And this learned helplessness is branching into other areas of our life. More and more people live by the creed of "can't do it anyway, why bother trying".
In all aspects of their life.
That's the question to be asked when you want to know whether something will happen. Can it be monetized? Can someone make money off it? That is the pivotal question.
Why don't we have colonies on the moon, as a lot of people thought in the 60s? No profit. Why don't we have flying cars? No profit. Why don't we live in one of the many utopias that were promised to us? No profit.
Socially, the 20xx years will probably be closer to the 18xx years than the 19xx years, without a Soviet Union that forces us to look like we're the good guys, there is exactly no reason that cutthroat capitalism shouldn't be employed to the full extent that we had in the 1800s. Only far, far more efficiently.
Corporations indeed more and more resemble communist countries. Nobody gives a shit about the corporation, everyone's trying to find out how to abuse company resources for personal gain, which leads to corporate spending more and more resources on internal surveillance, eventually to the point where the surveillance costs more than the corruption did, but that's ok because it can be planned. You have incompetent people being promoted so they can do less damage to the production process, because you can't fire them since they know something that would cause trouble if the west, I mean, the competition would know. Working hard only gets you more work and a disgruntled set of coworkers who blame you for higher expectations from management, so the general consensus is to work the bare minimum to not get sent to Gulag, I mean, to not get fired...
Yes, they have a lot in common...
Unfortunately there is no reception where I live. I will of course relocate at company expense, alas I can't afford the rent there. But if corporate covers my rent, we can talk.
In other words, screw you. I work enough hours as it is, if you want more, pay for it.
Best friend? I was under the impression that my job's done by blowing a load of snot into some bitch.
Yes, IIRC pretty much every window manager has that on Linux. Including support for terminal windows.
Then again, the MP/RIAA have to remain relevant *somehow*, no?
Do we got to vote on that?
I let you in on a secret: No one can interfere.
But we learned from our earlier mistakes. We don't tell the masses how to do this. That way the corporations think that they say where the content goes.
So... they're unions of corporations?
In my country we call those "cartels".
Solar panels unfortunately don't last forever. They slowly lose their ability to convert sunlight and after a few years you're stuck with a fair lot of rather ugly, black tiles covering your home. They'd break even after about 15-20 years, but IIRC their average life time is a bit shorter than that.
But it's getting better. Give it a few years and we're there.
It could, technically. The solar panels to do so would probably black out the Sahara, but technically...
Since I don't know just how good the lawyers of those Vaporware producers are, I will refrain from commenting on the veracity of that claim. I will point out, though, that with a relative humidity of 100% at 25C you can squeeze 0.01ml of water from a liter of air. Or 0.00001 liters per liter of air. So it's easy to see that you'd have to move and FULL dehumidify (which is impossible, but let's fake it, I mean, if they can, why shouldn't we...) over 4 MILLION liters of air for those 42 liters of water. And we're talking about air that is close to condensing because it's so saturated with water. Not dry-as-a-fart desert air.
To give you an idea: 42 million liters is close to a thousand tank trucks.
And we didn't even touch on the problem of that "anchor" and how quickly it heats up yet...
Rich people have the weirdest fetishes...
A liter a day is your "invisible" water loss, due to respiration and perspiration. If it's not too hot and you're sweating like a pig.
Urine accounts for 1.5 - 2.5 liters a day, depending on circumstances. If you're dehydrated and your body notices it should be conserving fluids, you're closer to 1.5, but that's not good for your kidneys if carried on for too long.
So we're closer to 2-3 liters a day that you need to survive. And your didn't brush your teeth, wash yourself or cook food yet.
Let's put it that way: I know how much water my air condition condenses in 12 hours. Yes, 2-3 liters in half a day is very possible. In a sweltering atmosphere with a humidity that reaches the 80% easily, 100F and an air condition with 8000 btu.
There have been a few, let's say, shady promises about extracting water from air, mostly coupled with crowdfunding campaigns (gee, why could that be?). Those that actually delivered a product were mostly ridiculous, provided you were not one of those duped into backing it. Then it was more a reason for anger and disappointment.
Most actually never delivered. Which reminds me, wasn't Fontus due to deliver right now in April? Any backers here, did they actually deliver? Because, let's put it careful, I'd really, really love to see that!
So don't get me wrong when I don't hold my breath. I have been promised easy water from thin air before. And what has been delivered so far, if anything, was ridiculous. Either it didn't work, didn't scale past proof-of-concept scale or only worked if the humidity was high enough that rain was more the rule than the exception, rendering a system that extracts water from the air redundant: A bucket would do.
After all, if even the big boss says "Grab her by the pussy", you gotta follow.
Fall in line and toe the party line, damn commies!
Maybe then people will stop using part of their body as an authentication tool.
Finally an insightful message and me lacking modpoints.
You have NO idea how hard it is to get this piece of information into management skulls.
Nothing. Did you expect them to grow a beard or something?
Yeah, but she's faking it.
The people you describe as workaholics here are actually only interested in money. If they could get it easier otherwise, they wouldn't work.
War is like porn. I know it when I see it. Call it what you want, but painting shit white won't make it smell like roses.
If your drug habit cuts into your performance, yes, I do care about it. If you somehow manage to be fully functional while high as a kite, I don't give a fuck what you inject, snort, inhale or pump into your ass.