We spent NINETEEN BILLION DOLLARS on a chat program.
We spent the GDP of Macedonia on a chat program.
We're Facebook. We're a chat program company, and we spent the price of a brand new aircraft carrier on a chat program with enough left over to buy every man, woman and child in America a pizza with everything.
Those with the cash will control the flow of cash. Taxes, tariffs, laws, etc. mean nothing. If some agency or politician tries to do something about it, they're simply outspent by those with the cash.
When you're done with your fatalistic douchebag routine, look up Standard Oil.
Because the low wage immigrants were not able to do the same job for less pay. Right?
Name three new, non-game commercial retail software titles for the PC released as 1.0 applications in the last five years that were not remakes, re-releases, upgrades or clones of existing software.
I'll save you the trouble. There were zero. Why? Because the immigrants were not able to do the same job at all. The pay didn't even matter.
The U6 unemployment rate only counts engineers who are currently looking for work, and ignores those who are employed outside their field, underemployed or who have given up entirely on finding a job.
You seem unusually emotional about the iPad. Why are you so invested in making iPads replacements for the PC?
Let me save you some energy. iPads, tablets, phablets, whatever, will never replace the PC. The tactile keyboard is the correct interface for human hands. It has been refined for almost 500 years to feel right. A keyboard provides precise control, which is necessary when a human being is interacting with a complex piece of equipment.
This is also why there will never be touch screens in fighter jets.
Typing on a flat, physically unresponsive surface is the wrong interface for a human being. It confuses people. A bigger screen further away is better than a small screen up close. iPads are useful for mobile viewing of books and videos. They are not PCs. They will never be PCs. They are expensive coloring books for toddlers and a way for Apple to control developers. Simple as that.
not understanding tablets are suitable for creation
Because they weren't designed for it. They were designed for three-year-olds to watch cartoons on. Creating anything on an iPad is like trying to do plumbing repairs with nothing but a pair of pliers.
After that, the question becomes why is it so important to Apple, et al. to take computing away from their customers? They didn't (and still don't) do it on the Mac. Why are they so insistent that it be taken away on mobile?
And it's not costs, because it costs more to lock the machine down than it does to leave it open.
Why was everyone so quick to toss the PC overboard? Why is everyone so quick to toss the web overboard? Simple. They can't control them. But they can control the phone, and that's why they want you to prefer it: so they can control you.
What operating system stole PCs away from Microsoft Windows?
The web.
Microsoft would have had to have lost control over PCs
Microsoft never had control of the PC. That's why the platform gave birth to things like the web and Linux and subsequently to Apache, Python, Java, etc.
Apple and Google have iron-fisted control of the smartphone. Therefore it is a technological obstacle. Not a conduit for growth.
Second, what programming languages?
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're serious. Javascript, Actionscript, Flex, Python, Perl, Bash, Java, PHP, Smalltalk, LISP.
Most all serious software written for Windows is in some flavor of Visual Basic by at least three orders of magnitude.
So you can carry it around with you and take pictures with it. Essentially you're paying $600 down and $40 a month for a camera that makes you think you're Johnny Sokko.
Whatever spins your propeller. Just don't try to sell the idea that its a replacement for a PC, because it isn't and it never will be.
You are relentlessly confusing my comparison. I am squarely comparing the PC to the smartphone. Not phones to other phones.
Your primary excuse seems to be that a smartphone, which is slower and less advanced than a PC, is "good enough." If that were true, then the PC would have stopped advancing in 1998.
Your other excuse is that "people are buying them" therefore they are good, which is pure dumbass.
When the smartphone was invented, there were more than one billion PCs on the planet. The notion that normal people weren't using computers before smartphones is also pure dumbass.
I vehemently disagree with the idea that smartphones are computers. Smartphones are elaborate televisions, and the "software" they make available is simply repeated attempts at building a channel-changing interface.
That is not making computing more available to the normal user. Education makes computing more available.
Smartphones do not allow users to compute anything. They cannot create or build anything. They cannot think with the aid of a smartphone. They simply point and grunt and a new picture appears. They are screens upon which are displayed colorful, annoying ads. Nothing more.
First, big software decided that the PC needed to become a television. Otherwise they would fail in their attempts to get your ass back on the couch.
By then, the PC was too far gone, because the heathens were actually building their own operating systems and programming languages! The horror! We might lose control of the demographics!
They needed a replacement for the PC, so they invented the smartphone. The smartphone is inferior to the PC in almost every way:
1. Slower processor 2. Less memory 3. Almost no storage 4. Slow, shitty, unreliable web access 5. Can't be physically networked with anything at all ever 6. Smaller screen 7. Atrocious, shitty, primitive, clumsy touch interface 8. Can't easily make use of any existing peripheral: printer, mouse, larger monitor, external storage, network 9. Fuckall battery life 10. Massively expensive on a capability-to-price ratio 11. Annoying royal pain-in-the-ass noisemaker 12. Makes everyone look like a jackass staring at it
Naturally, the general public, after being fed a thin gruel of third-rate marketing hype, decided to pitch 30 years of advancement overboard and charge-card their new tamagotchis by the Chinese freighter-load. They gleefully accepted the shitty web browsing, shitty interface and shitty battery life because they could compile monuments of narcissism in the form of 1000-entry selfie albums.
But that's not the best part!
You see, now that the manufacturers have TOTAL CONTROL of the platform (which is something they desperately wanted with the PC but couldn't engineer, despite Microsoft's roaring campaign of evil in the 1990s) they can tell you what programming language to use, what kind of apps to write and how much money you can make from them.
They have won. If you make apps, you are a defacto unpaid employee of Apple and/or Google doing exactly what you are told under pain of being kicked off the platform forever.
The rest of you spend all day staring at a 2x3 screen. I think we know what that makes you.
The results were rather predictable. Real programming and real programming languages have been largely exterminated. The idea of writing C on a development-centered operating system with a full suite of modern capabilities is dismissed by ignorant immature amateurs in favor of some kind of flimsy broken scripting language or worse.
Programmers have no real access to the hardware. Your code is trapped forever, and is useless anywhere else, since its built only for that platform's API. Its also pretty much guaranteed to be obsolete in three years because there will be no hardware to run it.
So we've made the software, the hardware and the developers disposable, and all the money goes to the phone makers, who are the only ones allowed to make anything of any real value.
The whole country staring at a screen which only displays what they want it to display. (The Internet is next)
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We spent NINETEEN BILLION DOLLARS on a chat program.
We spent the GDP of Macedonia on a chat program.
We're Facebook. We're a chat program company, and we spent the price of a brand new aircraft carrier on a chat program with enough left over to buy every man, woman and child in America a pizza with everything.
Short Facebook.
How about if you assholes retrain the 3000 people for the 3000 open positions?
Assholes.
The burden of proof is not on me to justify the safety of biological reproduction.
Supremely selfish and cruel thing to do without even the remotest understanding of the potential consequences.
What if this leaves the child diseased or crippled with some kind of birth defect? Or that child's children?
Experimenting on human beings who have no say in the procedure in order to satisfy some ambitious ego is nothing more than an expression of pure evil.
(Yes I realize this is high blasphemy against the holy church of science and that it will be modded -1 "Heathen" I don't care. It needs to be said)
How Bitcoin starts gaining a bit of traction and then goes straight to hell in a week.
Those with the cash will control the flow of cash. Taxes, tariffs, laws, etc. mean nothing. If some agency or politician tries to do something about it, they're simply outspent by those with the cash.
When you're done with your fatalistic douchebag routine, look up Standard Oil.
Are you being an ass on purpose or is this your day-to-day attitude?
Because the low wage immigrants were not able to do the same job for less pay. Right?
Name three new, non-game commercial retail software titles for the PC released as 1.0 applications in the last five years that were not remakes, re-releases, upgrades or clones of existing software.
I'll save you the trouble. There were zero. Why? Because the immigrants were not able to do the same job at all. The pay didn't even matter.
The U6 unemployment rate only counts engineers who are currently looking for work, and ignores those who are employed outside their field, underemployed or who have given up entirely on finding a job.
The real unemployment rate for engineers is probably closer to 15%.
I apologize for interrupting the partial truth with the whole truth.
Which site would you recommend for grown-up adults who used to visit Slashdot and who want to talk about computers, GNU/Linux and technology?
You can drop the smug attempt at acting cooler than the room. Nobody is impressed little hipster.
Settle down, Timmy.
Who ever claimed a smartphone was a replacement for a PC?
Have you seen any form of advertising in the last eight years?
About the only place they overlap is for email and some web browsing.
No shit?
You seem unusually emotional about the iPad. Why are you so invested in making iPads replacements for the PC?
Let me save you some energy. iPads, tablets, phablets, whatever, will never replace the PC. The tactile keyboard is the correct interface for human hands. It has been refined for almost 500 years to feel right. A keyboard provides precise control, which is necessary when a human being is interacting with a complex piece of equipment.
This is also why there will never be touch screens in fighter jets.
Typing on a flat, physically unresponsive surface is the wrong interface for a human being. It confuses people. A bigger screen further away is better than a small screen up close. iPads are useful for mobile viewing of books and videos. They are not PCs. They will never be PCs. They are expensive coloring books for toddlers and a way for Apple to control developers. Simple as that.
Have a nice day.
It runs on iOS, therefore it's an IOS app
Not until its approved by Apple.
not understanding tablets are suitable for creation
Because they weren't designed for it. They were designed for three-year-olds to watch cartoons on. Creating anything on an iPad is like trying to do plumbing repairs with nothing but a pair of pliers.
That would be an apt analogy if we owned the truck and were renting the car.
No
Then it's not a computer. It's a television.
After that, the question becomes why is it so important to Apple, et al. to take computing away from their customers? They didn't (and still don't) do it on the Mac. Why are they so insistent that it be taken away on mobile?
And it's not costs, because it costs more to lock the machine down than it does to leave it open.
Why was everyone so quick to toss the PC overboard? Why is everyone so quick to toss the web overboard? Simple. They can't control them. But they can control the phone, and that's why they want you to prefer it: so they can control you.
Can those iOS languages be used to build an iOS app and run it on the iPhone like an "official" app?
What operating system stole PCs away from Microsoft Windows?
The web.
Microsoft would have had to have lost control over PCs
Microsoft never had control of the PC. That's why the platform gave birth to things like the web and Linux and subsequently to Apache, Python, Java, etc.
Apple and Google have iron-fisted control of the smartphone. Therefore it is a technological obstacle. Not a conduit for growth.
Second, what programming languages?
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're serious. Javascript, Actionscript, Flex, Python, Perl, Bash, Java, PHP, Smalltalk, LISP.
Most all serious software written for Windows is in some flavor of Visual Basic by at least three orders of magnitude.
So you can carry it around with you and take pictures with it. Essentially you're paying $600 down and $40 a month for a camera that makes you think you're Johnny Sokko.
Whatever spins your propeller. Just don't try to sell the idea that its a replacement for a PC, because it isn't and it never will be.
You are relentlessly confusing my comparison. I am squarely comparing the PC to the smartphone. Not phones to other phones.
Your primary excuse seems to be that a smartphone, which is slower and less advanced than a PC, is "good enough." If that were true, then the PC would have stopped advancing in 1998.
Your other excuse is that "people are buying them" therefore they are good, which is pure dumbass.
When the smartphone was invented, there were more than one billion PCs on the planet. The notion that normal people weren't using computers before smartphones is also pure dumbass.
I vehemently disagree with the idea that smartphones are computers. Smartphones are elaborate televisions, and the "software" they make available is simply repeated attempts at building a channel-changing interface.
That is not making computing more available to the normal user. Education makes computing more available.
Smartphones do not allow users to compute anything. They cannot create or build anything. They cannot think with the aid of a smartphone. They simply point and grunt and a new picture appears. They are screens upon which are displayed colorful, annoying ads. Nothing more.
There's a technical term for that: television.
First, big software decided that the PC needed to become a television. Otherwise they would fail in their attempts to get your ass back on the couch.
By then, the PC was too far gone, because the heathens were actually building their own operating systems and programming languages! The horror! We might lose control of the demographics!
They needed a replacement for the PC, so they invented the smartphone. The smartphone is inferior to the PC in almost every way:
1. Slower processor
2. Less memory
3. Almost no storage
4. Slow, shitty, unreliable web access
5. Can't be physically networked with anything at all ever
6. Smaller screen
7. Atrocious, shitty, primitive, clumsy touch interface
8. Can't easily make use of any existing peripheral: printer, mouse, larger monitor, external storage, network
9. Fuckall battery life
10. Massively expensive on a capability-to-price ratio
11. Annoying royal pain-in-the-ass noisemaker
12. Makes everyone look like a jackass staring at it
Naturally, the general public, after being fed a thin gruel of third-rate marketing hype, decided to pitch 30 years of advancement overboard and charge-card their new tamagotchis by the Chinese freighter-load. They gleefully accepted the shitty web browsing, shitty interface and shitty battery life because they could compile monuments of narcissism in the form of 1000-entry selfie albums.
But that's not the best part!
You see, now that the manufacturers have TOTAL CONTROL of the platform (which is something they desperately wanted with the PC but couldn't engineer, despite Microsoft's roaring campaign of evil in the 1990s) they can tell you what programming language to use, what kind of apps to write and how much money you can make from them.
They have won. If you make apps, you are a defacto unpaid employee of Apple and/or Google doing exactly what you are told under pain of being kicked off the platform forever.
The rest of you spend all day staring at a 2x3 screen. I think we know what that makes you.
The results were rather predictable. Real programming and real programming languages have been largely exterminated. The idea of writing C on a development-centered operating system with a full suite of modern capabilities is dismissed by ignorant immature amateurs in favor of some kind of flimsy broken scripting language or worse.
Programmers have no real access to the hardware. Your code is trapped forever, and is useless anywhere else, since its built only for that platform's API. Its also pretty much guaranteed to be obsolete in three years because there will be no hardware to run it.
So we've made the software, the hardware and the developers disposable, and all the money goes to the phone makers, who are the only ones allowed to make anything of any real value.
The whole country staring at a screen which only displays what they want it to display. (The Internet is next)
Exactly the way they wanted it.
It's the next big thing. How dare you question the next big thing!
The Federal Government has no constitutional authority to set education standards. It's a state issue.
Oh so this is some kind of fundamentalist atheist straw man? Figures.
Post-scarcity doesn't make literacy moot.
Can we spend our time and energy on reality? How about better e-book software? How about decent Internet speeds? How about teaching people to read?
We can't even feed ourselves reliably yet. Let's solve the basics before we start coming up with imaginary solutions to non-problems.