If you turn over your employees every 1-2 years, there is nothing there that knows what they do anyways.
Just last year they completely failed a huge project with DHL. Just Google DHL and IBM. The current official estimated loss for DHL is at 345 million Euro.
> Having a crazy-like-a-fox leader has its benefits.
For whom? Winning something abroad (like a war) benefits who, exactly? The veterans? Putin plays the nationalistic card. Nationalism has become somewhat of a religion, I suppose.
> At the very least, it makes the leaders on the other side very nervous because they somply can't predict what you're going to do. Clinton is VERY predictable.
Predictability is good. Countries want to know where they and everyone else stands. Political stability has more benefits than political instability.
> Screw the H1Bs, don't ratify the TPP and TTIP free trade deals that are the perfect way for corporations to both avoid taxes and push a rush to the bottom wrt workers.
Trump is a billionaire who benefits from things like TPP, TTIP, free trade deals and H1Bs, why would he fight those? He says he is in it for his own interest, doesn't he?
You shouldn't accuse Bob and Doug of racism. Most people aren't that racist anymore. Maybe some parts of the Republican party still are, which makes Trump so successful, but that is about it, I think.
> At least with trump, we know what his agenda is.
I thought the opposite was true. I thought Trump is always lying and is not ashamed of lying. So we have no idea what he wants. Could be anything. The only thing he is honest about is that politicians are lying, himself included.
Some still doubt he is even serious about running for president. He could be lying about that, too. I always thought he is bidding for building a barrier between Mexico and the US. That is a huge contract.
Are we talking about state sponsored hacking by North Korea? Because both the article and the summary make every possible hint except for directly saying it.
Or is this one of those "we don't know, could be China, North Korea, anyone, it's the internet" type of situation?
Fairphone attempts to bring more sustainability into smartphone production. And they want to see if it is possible at all. And you can be the judge as to how successful they are so far. They are a lot more transparent than other companies.
You can read everything on their website.
Even if you aren't very excited about the concept of a sustainable word, there is still a lot of interesting things about smartphone production to be found in general.
And of course: Since they are very transparent about what they do, you can also find a lot of things that you don't like. Which is a good reason why companies usually shy away from transparency.
There is little to none professional open source audio software. Yes, there are some notable exceptions, but the visual arts have a lot more open source tools that a professional could fine useful compared to the audible arts. I could speculate all day about the reasons for that. Maybe because to paint you only need a mouse, that a computer has anyways, but for professional audio production you need a lot of expensive hardware making visual computer art a lot more accessible. There could be any number of reasons.
But that's it. Ask any honest open source and audio enthusiast. They will readily admit that there is little in the open source world for you, if you want to be serious about audio.
But if you reduce your requirement to Linux, it becomes another story. More and more companies release their software for Linux as well. But if you rely proprietary software anyways, why limit yourself to Linux? Even as Microsoft alienates their users at a record rate by pushing them onto Windows 10, Mac OSX is a strong alternative. Since professional audio equipment is prohibitively expensive anyways, spending some extra on a Mac doesn't make all the difference, does it?
As an avid open source enthusiast I would like to know what you guys think of LMMS and MuseScore. Is it worth it to invest into learning those?
I think the answer you are looking for is institutionalised sexism. Lots of posts here on Slashdot have confirmed that women aren't deemed worthy, when customers wanted to talk to someone. Either be it "the boss" or someone who knows stuff. We are living in the service industry. Upwards of 80% of people work in the service industry. It doesn't matter how good your product/service is or how high your labor costs are. If you aren't selling your services your business fails. Because of institutionalised sexism, customers demand is for male services. Thus women get paid less and businesses that pay men more for essentially the same work still thrive.
You error is to believe that capitalism is efficient. It isn't. It works better than other systems from time to time. Or less worse. Just because the complete failure that is the ultra partisan Republican Congress the US currently has is worse than the Democrats doesn't make the Democrats saints. It just makes them a little less bad.
IMHO big data and the end of privacy could bring us a much more efficient planning economy like the one in the Soviet Union. Though I am neither sure if that is desirable, nor if we have a choice in the matter, considering what the NSA, Google, Facebook and Amazon keep storing. If they would combine their data, I think we could already have pretty good planning of all demand at least a year into the future.
That being said, capitalism is very inefficient and there is much more to business than what an economist thinks there is. The gender gap isn't about capitalism. It just shows that many decisions are neither rational, nor smart or driven by capitalism.
> Capitalism doesn't care if you're man or woman, gay or straight, black or white, KKK or BLM. It only cares what your value is. It is the ONLY true colorblind system in the world.
Then we aren't ruled by capitalism after all. Remember "no negros, no jews"? Businesses do care. They have always cared. Because they aren't run by capitalism, but by people. And people are flawed.
This totally depends. Just because you can't understand all parts of the linux kernel source code, it isn't crap code per se.
Yes, there is beauty in simplicity, but there can also be beauty in complex things. Complex poems with double and triple meaning that might not be obvious at first glance. Or things that you can't understand with background knowledge, simply because you don't share the same background as the author. What if someone writes a beautiful poem about solving a complex programming issue and the joy in that. Can everyone understand that? Is it wrong, because not everyone gets that?
Though lots of people feel like you feel. That is why almost every pop song is about love. Because that is something almost everyone, or at least everyone who buys music, can relate to. Simple and easy to understand is popular. Because it is accessible. Complex and complicated things are not popular. Thus pop songs sell better than operas. Which often is complex music that needs explaining.
Many of the "higher" arts or "fine" arts need some education or can be better enjoyed once you acquire a little background. Or to put it different: An episode of Family Guy is better enjoyed, once you get all the pop culture references. Since they use pop culture, many people get the references and thus Family Guy itself is popular.
I disagree. Email is broken. Not Gmail. Snowden has shown that all email sent through the internet will be archived by at least two government agencies. Others, government or non government, may also save a copy. Email is inherently unsafe.
But if you use the same service on both ends, no one, except for the service itself, will ever see the mail. Or the fact that you send one at all. If you send something from one provider to the other, at least the NSA and two providers will have all the info. In Europe we also have data retention laws, which mandates that the isp will keep copy and make it available to local government agencies.
So sending from Google to Google means there is only one party in the know vs. 3-6 or even more parties. Apart from end to end, which no one uses (which means you can only communicate with yourself), the only way to better privacy and security is to use the same email service your partner is using. So you either keep a bunch of email accounts, or just use Google, since the majority of your contacts already use that.
Most people neither build things (secondary sector), nor make food (primary sector). They provide services or rather work in companies that provides services. Most of them non essential to the survival of the human race. They are either for a better quality of life or simply for fun.
Machines putting people out of work? We are already there. What tipped the balance? The plowshare? The steam machine? Or the automobile?
The only thing that has changed is the speed at which this change is occurring. So people need to find new jobs faster now. Which may be a problem in itself. But a much different one than the one being debated in both the article and the discussion here on/., which is rather silly, IMHO, considering the number of people working in the service industry. Many governments in first world countries provide jobs by passing legislation that provides demand for more bureaucracy, for example. And since people don't want to lose their jobs, they will find any and every reason why their part of the grand bureaucracy needs to exist, once they sit comfortably.
What is much more interesting is the question if we can stop things like the drone war, the drug war or the mass incarceration, because a lot of people work in those jobs. But a lot of humans suffer, because of their existence. Much more than because of Wall Street bankers.
This is actually bad security. It is similar to the Vista UAC debacle. Vista taught a generation of users that they don't need to read security pop ups. By having them pop up way too often and without consequences if you don't read them for most of the time. Even if the user had read them, they wouldn't understand.
The user is the most important part of security, period. Thus teaching the user is more important than anything else, when you want to mitigate risk.
Islamophobia and racism come from fear. Unfounded fear. A huge percentage of babies also comes from uneducated families, because educated women either have children later in life or none at all. What does that mean? Also most Europeans have very little kids. Racism and Islamophobia are a big problem for integration. Thus the fear creates the problem itself. Racism doesn't help. It hurts all sides.
Apart from the points in this article, think about the most basic truth of racism: Racism is first and foremost about the racist, not about the target. If a racist has power over someone they are racist against at some point in time, the target may suffer. But that is a different aspect of racism. The racist has racist thoughts, a racist agenda, etc. etc. Not the Muslim or the black guys. They only experience racism when in contact with a racist. But the origin of racism is the person that is racist. Thus racism itself (not the effects) is not about the race, but about the racist.
We keep having the topic of sexism and misogyny, where strong denial of any existence in the tech community usually meets strong expressions of the above.
And now we have clear racist attitudes towards supposed "Muslims invaders" with higher birthrates somehow "extinguishing" local culture.
Let me get to some facts: 3.8% of the EU population is currently Muslim. Yet as of 2012, Hispanics and Latinos make up about 17% of the total U.S. population. At the current rate, using these arguments, US "superior" culture will be replaced by Hispanic culture long, long before anything changes in Europe. You guys are going to speak Spanish soon. Or not?
Who cares anyways? There is no EU culture anymore anyways. It has been replaced by US culture through massive cultural imperialism. Europe watches US produced TV and US produced movies, listens to US produced music, consumes media and communicates via Android or iOS (or maybe Microsoft), socializes on Facebook and does everything else on Google. Have I missed anything? All relevant culture in Europe is American. Muslims aren't any different. They love their US stuff as well.
But talking about this stuff is boring. Racist alarmism is much more fun.
$500k isn't very much over 3 years, is it? That should be about 2 mid level IT guys salary in the US. Don't you need more personnel to keep ancient stuff running?
Couldn't you just make VMs and run most of that stuff from a single server, because of the sheer perfomance increase over time? Even if you needed to keep some of the old operating systems around for legacy software. VirtualBox, of all systems, supports surprisingly old operating systems. I think they have official support for Windows 2000 and you can run Win 9x on it.
> That dollar that the government spent was removed from the economy before the government spent it.
How is that? If the government buys a tank, they give a dollar to the tank company. Thus introducing a dollar into the economy. The multiplier theory is about the idea that government spending leads to more spending, because the tank company will spend the dollar itself, adding to the economy. Though they also have to pay taxes. Therefore the discussion is about how much is added 'on top'. What you are saying makes absolutely no sense. Though it explains a lot about libertarians.
> Comcast doesn't have a monopoly on Internet access in most places.
The market they operate in is a natural monopoly. And you are saying that "most places" have more than the Comcast option, when it comes to broadband?
> But obviously, people like you do think it's OK to use violence or the threat of violence against individuals in order to achieve economic objectives.
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MS Office 2007 now has more or less Platinum status in Wine 1.8
MS Office 2007 supports both the old MS Office as well as the new XML Office files. And it is very cheap to buy used from Ebay.
I recommend Kubuntu which is due in a couple of weeks.
If you turn over your employees every 1-2 years, there is nothing there that knows what they do anyways.
Just last year they completely failed a huge project with DHL. Just Google DHL and IBM. The current official estimated loss for DHL is at 345 million Euro.
> Having a crazy-like-a-fox leader has its benefits.
For whom? Winning something abroad (like a war) benefits who, exactly? The veterans? Putin plays the nationalistic card. Nationalism has become somewhat of a religion, I suppose.
> At the very least, it makes the leaders on the other side very nervous because they somply can't predict what you're going to do. Clinton is VERY predictable.
Predictability is good. Countries want to know where they and everyone else stands. Political stability has more benefits than political instability.
> Screw the H1Bs, don't ratify the TPP and TTIP free trade deals that are the perfect way for corporations to both avoid taxes and push a rush to the bottom wrt workers.
Trump is a billionaire who benefits from things like TPP, TTIP, free trade deals and H1Bs, why would he fight those? He says he is in it for his own interest, doesn't he?
> what Bob and Doug are saying
You shouldn't accuse Bob and Doug of racism. Most people aren't that racist anymore. Maybe some parts of the Republican party still are, which makes Trump so successful, but that is about it, I think.
> At least with trump, we know what his agenda is.
I thought the opposite was true. I thought Trump is always lying and is not ashamed of lying. So we have no idea what he wants. Could be anything. The only thing he is honest about is that politicians are lying, himself included.
Some still doubt he is even serious about running for president. He could be lying about that, too. I always thought he is bidding for building a barrier between Mexico and the US. That is a huge contract.
All the while the FCC and the EU are working on preventing users from protecting themselves by modifying the routers firmware:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Are we talking about state sponsored hacking by North Korea? Because both the article and the summary make every possible hint except for directly saying it.
Or is this one of those "we don't know, could be China, North Korea, anyone, it's the internet" type of situation?
Fairphone attempts to bring more sustainability into smartphone production. And they want to see if it is possible at all. And you can be the judge as to how successful they are so far. They are a lot more transparent than other companies.
You can read everything on their website.
Even if you aren't very excited about the concept of a sustainable word, there is still a lot of interesting things about smartphone production to be found in general.
And of course: Since they are very transparent about what they do, you can also find a lot of things that you don't like. Which is a good reason why companies usually shy away from transparency.
There is little to none professional open source audio software. Yes, there are some notable exceptions, but the visual arts have a lot more open source tools that a professional could fine useful compared to the audible arts. I could speculate all day about the reasons for that. Maybe because to paint you only need a mouse, that a computer has anyways, but for professional audio production you need a lot of expensive hardware making visual computer art a lot more accessible. There could be any number of reasons.
But that's it. Ask any honest open source and audio enthusiast. They will readily admit that there is little in the open source world for you, if you want to be serious about audio.
But if you reduce your requirement to Linux, it becomes another story. More and more companies release their software for Linux as well. But if you rely proprietary software anyways, why limit yourself to Linux? Even as Microsoft alienates their users at a record rate by pushing them onto Windows 10, Mac OSX is a strong alternative. Since professional audio equipment is prohibitively expensive anyways, spending some extra on a Mac doesn't make all the difference, does it?
As an avid open source enthusiast I would like to know what you guys think of LMMS and MuseScore. Is it worth it to invest into learning those?
I think the answer you are looking for is institutionalised sexism. Lots of posts here on Slashdot have confirmed that women aren't deemed worthy, when customers wanted to talk to someone. Either be it "the boss" or someone who knows stuff. We are living in the service industry. Upwards of 80% of people work in the service industry. It doesn't matter how good your product/service is or how high your labor costs are. If you aren't selling your services your business fails. Because of institutionalised sexism, customers demand is for male services. Thus women get paid less and businesses that pay men more for essentially the same work still thrive.
You error is to believe that capitalism is efficient. It isn't. It works better than other systems from time to time. Or less worse. Just because the complete failure that is the ultra partisan Republican Congress the US currently has is worse than the Democrats doesn't make the Democrats saints. It just makes them a little less bad.
IMHO big data and the end of privacy could bring us a much more efficient planning economy like the one in the Soviet Union. Though I am neither sure if that is desirable, nor if we have a choice in the matter, considering what the NSA, Google, Facebook and Amazon keep storing. If they would combine their data, I think we could already have pretty good planning of all demand at least a year into the future.
That being said, capitalism is very inefficient and there is much more to business than what an economist thinks there is. The gender gap isn't about capitalism. It just shows that many decisions are neither rational, nor smart or driven by capitalism.
> Capitalism doesn't care if you're man or woman, gay or straight, black or white, KKK or BLM. It only cares what your value is. It is the ONLY true colorblind system in the world.
Then we aren't ruled by capitalism after all. Remember "no negros, no jews"? Businesses do care. They have always cared. Because they aren't run by capitalism, but by people. And people are flawed.
This totally depends. Just because you can't understand all parts of the linux kernel source code, it isn't crap code per se.
Yes, there is beauty in simplicity, but there can also be beauty in complex things. Complex poems with double and triple meaning that might not be obvious at first glance. Or things that you can't understand with background knowledge, simply because you don't share the same background as the author. What if someone writes a beautiful poem about solving a complex programming issue and the joy in that. Can everyone understand that? Is it wrong, because not everyone gets that?
Though lots of people feel like you feel. That is why almost every pop song is about love. Because that is something almost everyone, or at least everyone who buys music, can relate to. Simple and easy to understand is popular. Because it is accessible. Complex and complicated things are not popular. Thus pop songs sell better than operas. Which often is complex music that needs explaining.
Many of the "higher" arts or "fine" arts need some education or can be better enjoyed once you acquire a little background. Or to put it different: An episode of Family Guy is better enjoyed, once you get all the pop culture references. Since they use pop culture, many people get the references and thus Family Guy itself is popular.
I disagree. Email is broken. Not Gmail. Snowden has shown that all email sent through the internet will be archived by at least two government agencies. Others, government or non government, may also save a copy. Email is inherently unsafe.
But if you use the same service on both ends, no one, except for the service itself, will ever see the mail. Or the fact that you send one at all. If you send something from one provider to the other, at least the NSA and two providers will have all the info. In Europe we also have data retention laws, which mandates that the isp will keep copy and make it available to local government agencies.
So sending from Google to Google means there is only one party in the know vs. 3-6 or even more parties. Apart from end to end, which no one uses (which means you can only communicate with yourself), the only way to better privacy and security is to use the same email service your partner is using. So you either keep a bunch of email accounts, or just use Google, since the majority of your contacts already use that.
Hasn't this already happened?
Currently most people in developed countries work in the service sector:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Most people neither build things (secondary sector), nor make food (primary sector). They provide services or rather work in companies that provides services. Most of them non essential to the survival of the human race. They are either for a better quality of life or simply for fun.
Machines putting people out of work? We are already there. What tipped the balance? The plowshare? The steam machine? Or the automobile?
The only thing that has changed is the speed at which this change is occurring. So people need to find new jobs faster now. Which may be a problem in itself. But a much different one than the one being debated in both the article and the discussion here on /., which is rather silly, IMHO, considering the number of people working in the service industry. Many governments in first world countries provide jobs by passing legislation that provides demand for more bureaucracy, for example. And since people don't want to lose their jobs, they will find any and every reason why their part of the grand bureaucracy needs to exist, once they sit comfortably.
What is much more interesting is the question if we can stop things like the drone war, the drug war or the mass incarceration, because a lot of people work in those jobs. But a lot of humans suffer, because of their existence. Much more than because of Wall Street bankers.
I have been waiting for something like this forever. This is awsome. Thanks again guys, you are awsome!!
This is actually bad security. It is similar to the Vista UAC debacle. Vista taught a generation of users that they don't need to read security pop ups. By having them pop up way too often and without consequences if you don't read them for most of the time. Even if the user had read them, they wouldn't understand.
The user is the most important part of security, period. Thus teaching the user is more important than anything else, when you want to mitigate risk.
Google is making the web a lot unsafer with this.
For those of you who don't know who that may be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
> If you say that all European culture is American, then you know nothing. Culture is not what you see on the TV or on your phone!
What is culture?
And what do you spend your time doing.
I bet most of the culture you are engaging is American. I would bet a beer it is above 70%. At least.
Islamophobia and racism come from fear. Unfounded fear. A huge percentage of babies also comes from uneducated families, because educated women either have children later in life or none at all. What does that mean? Also most Europeans have very little kids. Racism and Islamophobia are a big problem for integration. Thus the fear creates the problem itself. Racism doesn't help. It hurts all sides.
There is no such thing as race anyways. Going by your definition that racism has to be about race, racism doesn't exist.
So you are denying the whole thing. No racism exists. That is really what you are saying?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Apart from the points in this article, think about the most basic truth of racism: Racism is first and foremost about the racist, not about the target. If a racist has power over someone they are racist against at some point in time, the target may suffer. But that is a different aspect of racism. The racist has racist thoughts, a racist agenda, etc. etc. Not the Muslim or the black guys. They only experience racism when in contact with a racist. But the origin of racism is the person that is racist. Thus racism itself (not the effects) is not about the race, but about the racist.
Oh please. My point was simply that there is tons of racism on Slashdot. Because of the whole denial thing.
And your answer?
"Muslims blow themselves up"
Dude, wtf?
We keep having the topic of sexism and misogyny, where strong denial of any existence in the tech community usually meets strong expressions of the above.
And now we have clear racist attitudes towards supposed "Muslims invaders" with higher birthrates somehow "extinguishing" local culture.
Let me get to some facts: 3.8% of the EU population is currently Muslim. Yet as of 2012, Hispanics and Latinos make up about 17% of the total U.S. population. At the current rate, using these arguments, US "superior" culture will be replaced by Hispanic culture long, long before anything changes in Europe. You guys are going to speak Spanish soon. Or not?
Who cares anyways? There is no EU culture anymore anyways. It has been replaced by US culture through massive cultural imperialism. Europe watches US produced TV and US produced movies, listens to US produced music, consumes media and communicates via Android or iOS (or maybe Microsoft), socializes on Facebook and does everything else on Google. Have I missed anything? All relevant culture in Europe is American. Muslims aren't any different. They love their US stuff as well.
But talking about this stuff is boring. Racist alarmism is much more fun.
$500k isn't very much over 3 years, is it? That should be about 2 mid level IT guys salary in the US. Don't you need more personnel to keep ancient stuff running?
Couldn't you just make VMs and run most of that stuff from a single server, because of the sheer perfomance increase over time? Even if you needed to keep some of the old operating systems around for legacy software. VirtualBox, of all systems, supports surprisingly old operating systems. I think they have official support for Windows 2000 and you can run Win 9x on it.
> That dollar that the government spent was removed from the economy before the government spent it.
How is that? If the government buys a tank, they give a dollar to the tank company. Thus introducing a dollar into the economy. The multiplier theory is about the idea that government spending leads to more spending, because the tank company will spend the dollar itself, adding to the economy. Though they also have to pay taxes. Therefore the discussion is about how much is added 'on top'. What you are saying makes absolutely no sense. Though it explains a lot about libertarians.
> Comcast doesn't have a monopoly on Internet access in most places.
The market they operate in is a natural monopoly. And you are saying that "most places" have more than the Comcast option, when it comes to broadband?
> But obviously, people like you do think it's OK to use violence or the threat of violence against individuals in order to achieve economic objectives.
That is exactly why I wrote crazy libertarians.