To be treated badly by companies, by accepting such treatment just to keep doing their "dream job".
The whole game development industry seems fueled by the youthful energy of dreamers "just wanting to make games", and accepting crappy bosses, lower salaries, rushed schedules, unpaid overtime and other anomalies, that would drive people away in any other part of the software or media development industries.
Yeah, there's not much one person can do. It's a market offer and demand situation. Lots of software developers and artists get into programming & art because of a childhood desire to make video games.
If you can't take it anymore, you better leave. There always will be more fresh meat to grind, and young rookies perfectly happy to take your place on the meat grinder.
And you could also find you can make a lot more money too, doing a lot less stressful work.
This is only the last leg of the hateful source of leftist thinking: sheer envy.
Marxists said they wanted to fight the rich and force distribution of wealth, because they couldn't accept some people have more than others, but it really was because of their envy of success and wealth, disguising it as virtue with a lot of BS and wishful thinking.
Post-modern leftists say they can't accept any differences of what people can accomplish, blaming any success on privilege. But it's really the same old envy disguised as virtue, as always.
That's why ideologies to comfort the losers, lazy and envious will always be really popular. There is no shortage of them!
Given the ease of planting spyware in modern smartphones and devices with Wifi and GPS (ergo contextual and situational knowledge + access), I'm not sure it is a good idea to trust devices from countries known to deliberately spy and hack sensitive networks in the USA.
If you think NSA accessing Google/Facebook logs is scarier, think again.
All these open source software developers relied on support and deployment revenue, rather than on selling their software licence as traditional companies did.
It worked because software, regardless of its source code availability, is complex and requires expertise to deploy and keep working. Free software wasn't free to deploy and keep working.
But by eventually having mature open source software that 'just works', you can install fresh new instances of it, free from any problems and following a copy-exactly recipe, replicated umpteen times in a virtualized environment. The expertise only needs to be at the time of creating the recipes, and that can be done by a few automation experts inside your company from time to time, not a full company earning money from it.
Amazon, Azure et al have their relatively small automation groups, doing deployment and customization recipes that are then repeated ad infinitum across their infrastructure, making good revenue for them. While the developers of the software saw not a single penny from it.
Going over $1000 USD for a smartphone is just insane.
The things aren't even different in any notorious way from last year's version. Same screen size, shape, storage, etc.
And I don't care if the thing can track how many calories I ate just by taking a selfie while eating or tell some wisecracking jokes while doing web searches. Those new "features" aren't worth going $1000 damn dollars.
They have been going after fan projects for a while. The last I heard of was Pixelmon, a long lived mod for Minecraft that added the little critters and all the commercial game dynamics (like fights) for free.
Nothing of this was for making any money, just the work of dedicated fans with programming skills across several years
Everything is fun and giggles, until someone hacks the hotel and all Alexa records of privately said words and activities (with names and personal info) are sent to a big DB in Ukraine, and then to sites making fun of the adult movie viewing habits of foolish hotel visitors.
Because such things exist. Instead of an intrusive ban on a convenient and sometimes useful item.
My perception here is that the EU politicians seem to be all too happy to simply ban things all over the community, because the activists in Brussels don't like them and because they can.
I already tend to answer a call only if I have the caller number in my contacts.
It's maybe rude but I found out that I'm not missing anything, really.
Anyone I want to potentially contact me has and can use instant messaging apps or even SMS if they're old school.
And I have a fixed phone only because it comes with the Internet access. It's mostly disconnected. There has been too much abuse of it, for really making you want to use the telephone for anything else than calling businesses for making an appointment (as in the article above), or chatting with persons in your circle of acquaintances.
Oh wait, no they aren't. Unless you publicize them or tout them in your user name or your comments.
Really, nobody gives a shit. Also, lots of people are rude jerks with a few are helpful ones. That's why moderation exists.
If you go to any open bulletin board expecting a welcome sign or some accolades because of your publicized personal attributes, you're in for a rude awakening.
These have been rough years for Intel. Almost all their experiments of late, like mobile CPUs, WiMax, mobile platforms, IoT, ended up in failure. Now this.
Even if this last one and the rest aren't technically failures, they're market ones. They bet on the wrong horse or couldn't make them profitable. Which is what matters.
It seems Intel is just too old, big and static to achieve anything they aren't already successful at.
Because their server and desktop products are still very successful, but those categories of products are already invented.
But don't be mistaken: their relevance is gradually eroding despite their best efforts. If they lose the quantum computing bandwagon, they're toast.
The sad truth is that if the USA blocked most non official/commercial Russian and Chinese IP addresses, we would see a big drop on piracy, hacking and political trolling/manipulation.
And why not? they are already doing it with anyone they don't like.
Symmetric communication and open exchange between nations will probably come to be seen as an earned privilege. Those that systematically and officially abuse it should have that privilege removed.
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To be treated badly by companies, by accepting such treatment just to keep doing their "dream job".
The whole game development industry seems fueled by the youthful energy of dreamers "just wanting to make games", and accepting crappy bosses, lower salaries, rushed schedules, unpaid overtime and other anomalies, that would drive people away in any other part of the software or media development industries.
Yeah, there's not much one person can do. It's a market offer and demand situation. Lots of software developers and artists get into programming & art because of a childhood desire to make video games.
If you can't take it anymore, you better leave. There always will be more fresh meat to grind, and young rookies perfectly happy to take your place on the meat grinder.
And you could also find you can make a lot more money too, doing a lot less stressful work.
Yeah, being part of a Fortune 100 company for some years, I can attest they do this regularly.
Some times it is known beforehand and announced.
Some other times the reaper scythe just comes and razes entire groups.
Good companies tend no to do this without warning, but they still are slaves to the quarterly earnings balance spreadsheet.
This is only the last leg of the hateful source of leftist thinking: sheer envy.
Marxists said they wanted to fight the rich and force distribution of wealth, because they couldn't accept some people have more than others, but it really was because of their envy of success and wealth, disguising it as virtue with a lot of BS and wishful thinking.
Post-modern leftists say they can't accept any differences of what people can accomplish, blaming any success on privilege. But it's really the same old envy disguised as virtue, as always.
That's why ideologies to comfort the losers, lazy and envious will always be really popular. There is no shortage of them!
In the twitterverse, only 1 abuse every 30 seconds?
Damn, I'm surprised how well mannered and respectful Twitter users are.
And have you measured the rate of verbal abuse to males by any chance? no?
Don't worry. I'm sure you will bring balanced and objective reporting. I can wait.
Given the ease of planting spyware in modern smartphones and devices with Wifi and GPS (ergo contextual and situational knowledge + access), I'm not sure it is a good idea to trust devices from countries known to deliberately spy and hack sensitive networks in the USA.
If you think NSA accessing Google/Facebook logs is scarier, think again.
Another alternate solution: rent it as Uber cab for a couple of days.
After that you'll want to thoroughly disinfect it with bleach.
Broke the open source business model.
All these open source software developers relied on support and deployment revenue, rather than on selling their software licence as traditional companies did.
It worked because software, regardless of its source code availability, is complex and requires expertise to deploy and keep working. Free software wasn't free to deploy and keep working.
But by eventually having mature open source software that 'just works', you can install fresh new instances of it, free from any problems and following a copy-exactly recipe, replicated umpteen times in a virtualized environment. The expertise only needs to be at the time of creating the recipes, and that can be done by a few automation experts inside your company from time to time, not a full company earning money from it.
Amazon, Azure et al have their relatively small automation groups, doing deployment and customization recipes that are then repeated ad infinitum across their infrastructure, making good revenue for them. While the developers of the software saw not a single penny from it.
Is discriminatory against your crippling social anxiety.
Can nanny state bring all life and make it happen there?
Make the ungrateful users hunt the moving Chrome icon across the screen!
Or better, hide it somewhere unspecified, under another name and make the user play hide-n-seek with it.
That will surely make them love Edge more.
Going over $1000 USD for a smartphone is just insane.
The things aren't even different in any notorious way from last year's version. Same screen size, shape, storage, etc.
And I don't care if the thing can track how many calories I ate just by taking a selfie while eating or tell some wisecracking jokes while doing web searches. Those new "features" aren't worth going $1000 damn dollars.
As a reward for being such a trouble maker.
They have been going after fan projects for a while. The last I heard of was Pixelmon, a long lived mod for Minecraft that added the little critters and all the commercial game dynamics (like fights) for free.
Nothing of this was for making any money, just the work of dedicated fans with programming skills across several years
But of course, it being free is the problem.
Yep. They are getting inside PC's turf and there their winning mobile platform attributes don't make them insta-winners.
Apple could try and do it better, considering they have a captive market share of luxury/vanity computer users.
But even among those, they won't like if the PC nerds are getting more fps from their uncool but powerful pumped-up PC rigs.
When the amount of published papers become a performance metric.
People will fulfill it, regardless if they are good papers.
Over-hyped products and deceitful marketing failed us again.
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Everything is fun and giggles, until someone hacks the hotel and all Alexa records of privately said words and activities (with names and personal info) are sent to a big DB in Ukraine, and then to sites making fun of the adult movie viewing habits of foolish hotel visitors.
Teen-oriented series?
Uh-oh.
Sounds like the Teen Titans and Thudercats Roar treatment for Star Trek.
Because such things exist. Instead of an intrusive ban on a convenient and sometimes useful item.
My perception here is that the EU politicians seem to be all too happy to simply ban things all over the community, because the activists in Brussels don't like them and because they can.
I already tend to answer a call only if I have the caller number in my contacts.
It's maybe rude but I found out that I'm not missing anything, really.
Anyone I want to potentially contact me has and can use instant messaging apps or even SMS if they're old school.
And I have a fixed phone only because it comes with the Internet access. It's mostly disconnected. There has been too much abuse of it, for really making you want to use the telephone for anything else than calling businesses for making an appointment (as in the article above), or chatting with persons in your circle of acquaintances.
And be truthful with their spam.
Because Chrome was made objectively worse.
Are all visible on the net at first glance?
Oh wait, no they aren't. Unless you publicize them or tout them in your user name or your comments.
Really, nobody gives a shit. Also, lots of people are rude jerks with a few are helpful ones. That's why moderation exists.
If you go to any open bulletin board expecting a welcome sign or some accolades because of your publicized personal attributes, you're in for a rude awakening.
These have been rough years for Intel. Almost all their experiments of late, like mobile CPUs, WiMax, mobile platforms, IoT, ended up in failure. Now this.
Even if this last one and the rest aren't technically failures, they're market ones. They bet on the wrong horse or couldn't make them profitable. Which is what matters.
It seems Intel is just too old, big and static to achieve anything they aren't already successful at.
Because their server and desktop products are still very successful, but those categories of products are already invented.
But don't be mistaken: their relevance is gradually eroding despite their best efforts. If they lose the quantum computing bandwagon, they're toast.
The sad truth is that if the USA blocked most non official/commercial Russian and Chinese IP addresses, we would see a big drop on piracy, hacking and political trolling/manipulation.
And why not? they are already doing it with anyone they don't like.
Symmetric communication and open exchange between nations will probably come to be seen as an earned privilege. Those that systematically and officially abuse it should have that privilege removed.
Poop in the woods?
Yes, this is french statism in all its glory.
And they are very protective of their movie industry, a lot of it depending on public subventions.