Absolutely. Let me give you an analogy:
You work in a factory. You've added a room in the building without authorization (your server), and are asking for a door to the outside world to be opened (your port 8443).
And now you're asking if the building manager (IT) should have a key (password) to your room.
With that analogy I believe it's clear what's wrong, and if IT should have the password to your server!
So if you know that you have an IQ of 150 and are desperate of joining the police, then you can compute how many errors to make on the test to be within the police limits.
Provided the police publishes it's IQ limits which I doubt they'll do;)
In the private sector, we tend to accept high IQ candidates, and just make them progress faster up the ladder.
isn't there a team that will work on image stabilization?
I mean near space cheap photography has been done many times.
What's really missing is something to get a stable shooting of the images right now, it makes me wanna puke!!!
Then the animation would really be cool!
yeah sure, you mean phone calls I guess.
What I know is when i went abroad in the 70s, I got one phone call from my parents in a 8 week period of time.
Today if my kids go abroad, they email me pictures, chat online with me, etc... We could use skype with webcam for free, etc...
BIG difference!
I don't know how it is Obama's USA, but in France over the years the highways are getting better, speed limits lower, and enforcement of speed limits more scrict year after year.
I have a friend who got a speed ticket for driving at 51 km/h in a 50km/hour zone. Ok, it was the Mont Blanc tunnel where a terrible crash killed 40 people a few years ago, but still...
My parents used to drive at 80 in town and never got a ticket. New law is 50km/h limit in town, and you'd better not be above 53 or 54.
Of course in America the beautiful it may be different. Your mileage may vary as you say!
Highways in most places used to be unlimited speed. Today in the US they are limited to 55mph, in France 130kph.
So yes, we drive slower than before on average
Sure, cars and planes don't go faster in 2011 than in 1980. So what?
But now we have the Internet. With it you can communicate around the world in real time. This is much faster than the fastest rocket you can imagine!
oh yes, new software can be a problem!
my company's software used to run on 256MB of ram machine. I could run a cluster of 2 virtual machines on a 1GB laptop!
Today my company's software needs 8GB of ram, which is fine for production, but not for my usage.
It would be fine if we had 8 or 16GB laptops, but we don't.
And don't tell me about vista, windows 7, office 2010, etc...
I upgraded my 80 GB work laptop with a 160 one a year ago.
I'll probably upgrade it to 500GB when i update to the latest version of Linux in a few weeks.
If I did not do it, I'd still be on a Windows XP 80GB machine...
it does not cost anything to the company, and I'm happy with the machine, so...
the result is those who can afford the least still pay by far the most
My kids have "low resources". Their data plan is like the one described in this post. So they've disabled data access.
In the end they still pay much less than I do for my "high-end mobile plan"
When I was a kid I could live without a computer, a mobile phone and the Internet.
My kids have all of this, except data on the mobile. Should they cry about that?
What I mean is those outrageous data plans can be understood as "no data plans", and not "high prices for the poor".
oh yes!
I remember on the Apple ][ you could copy the rom to ram memory, disassemble it, modify it and run it. We just had the standard software and documentation, no hacking tool, no forum of course, etc....
That machine was really open back then!
I was going to reply that it's not so, but I checked Wikipedia first.
And guess what, my last edit (a page creation with references and everything) has been cited as a candidate for deletion.
So yes, it seems Wikipedia is becoming a closed circle of 60000+ club
Products that cater to the ignorant may find marketing success, but ultimately they do our society a massive disservice.
Sure, the solution is to have computers with black and white text user interface, with everything explained in the man pages.
If it wasn't for easy to use laptops and phones, my parents would only use tv, radio, and newspapers.
And you know what, they would passively believe what they would be told by those media.
I could understand why in the 80s some people where not convinced a UI should be graphical and wysiwyg. But come on, it's 2011 now. Consumer products have evolved, don't stay in the 80s.
I would not have learned the language on a regular computer because it would have meant sitting down in front of a screen, and I do that all day already. I could do it on an Iphone because I could do it while doing sports, driving, etc... (listening to podcasts and live radios, checking a few words in wiktionary or yahoo translate). For this the user interface was great.
There is a time for being a geek and using OpenGL, C++, bash, mysql, and there is a time for using simple tools. My point was that those simple tools such as the iphone, even if they don't require that you have a phd, can still be useful.
For a laptop or server, I'm on the Linux side, command line and everything, but I'm glad my phone is easy to use while providing lots of valuable features.
Do you regret that a piece of paper and a pen is the dumbest possible user interface? do you think it's worthless?
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I've been having doubts myself recently. I'll keep an eye on it
Why some French used 10 is beyond me!
That's because in France we have 10 fingers! Not in the US?
When I look at the picture in the post, I can't help but think that it's still light years away from being on the market.
That's exactly what I'm saying. New software will push to get a new laptop or new small form factor server.
Absolutely. Let me give you an analogy:
You work in a factory. You've added a room in the building without authorization (your server), and are asking for a door to the outside world to be opened (your port 8443).
And now you're asking if the building manager (IT) should have a key (password) to your room.
With that analogy I believe it's clear what's wrong, and if IT should have the password to your server!
There are three kinds of people in this world: those that can count and those that can't
Nice, reminds me of this joke: There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those that can count in binary, and those that can't.
So if you know that you have an IQ of 150 and are desperate of joining the police, then you can compute how many errors to make on the test to be within the police limits. ;)
Provided the police publishes it's IQ limits which I doubt they'll do
In the private sector, we tend to accept high IQ candidates, and just make them progress faster up the ladder.
"undo" feature is great too ;)
isn't there a team that will work on image stabilization?
I mean near space cheap photography has been done many times.
What's really missing is something to get a stable shooting of the images
right now, it makes me wanna puke!!! Then the animation would really be cool!
yeah sure, you mean phone calls I guess. What I know is when i went abroad in the 70s, I got one phone call from my parents in a 8 week period of time. ... We could use skype with webcam for free, etc ...
Today if my kids go abroad, they email me pictures, chat online with me, etc
BIG difference!
Mind you, lots of highways are total crap now.
I don't know how it is Obama's USA, but in France over the years the highways are getting better, speed limits lower, and enforcement of speed limits more scrict year after year.
I have a friend who got a speed ticket for driving at 51 km/h in a 50km/hour zone. Ok, it was the Mont Blanc tunnel where a terrible crash killed 40 people a few years ago, but still...
My parents used to drive at 80 in town and never got a ticket. New law is 50km/h limit in town, and you'd better not be above 53 or 54.
Of course in America the beautiful it may be different. Your mileage may vary as you say!
Highways in most places used to be unlimited speed. Today in the US they are limited to 55mph, in France 130kph.
So yes, we drive slower than before on average
Sure, cars and planes don't go faster in 2011 than in 1980. So what?
But now we have the Internet. With it you can communicate around the world in real time. This is much faster than the fastest rocket you can imagine!
by 2020 I suppose someone is going to reinvent the transistor!
would be great if Linux had something as good as this
of course it has. just look at http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/top-linux-monitoring-tools.html
oh yes, new software can be a problem! ...
my company's software used to run on 256MB of ram machine. I could run a cluster of 2 virtual machines on a 1GB laptop!
Today my company's software needs 8GB of ram, which is fine for production, but not for my usage.
It would be fine if we had 8 or 16GB laptops, but we don't. And don't tell me about vista, windows 7, office 2010, etc
have you considered working for another company?
I upgraded my 80 GB work laptop with a 160 one a year ago. ... ...
I'll probably upgrade it to 500GB when i update to the latest version of Linux in a few weeks.
If I did not do it, I'd still be on a Windows XP 80GB machine
it does not cost anything to the company, and I'm happy with the machine, so
the result is those who can afford the least still pay by far the most
My kids have "low resources". Their data plan is like the one described in this post. So they've disabled data access.
In the end they still pay much less than I do for my "high-end mobile plan"
When I was a kid I could live without a computer, a mobile phone and the Internet.
My kids have all of this, except data on the mobile. Should they cry about that?
What I mean is those outrageous data plans can be understood as "no data plans", and not "high prices for the poor".
1 x 1 x 1.5 millimeters in size ... right at the size limit that the human eye can see unaided
Let's be serious here, 1 millimeter is not the limit of what the eye can see.
1/10 mm would be more like it.
You can't wrap fish any more
You can still do it at home. But close the doors and windows first.
oh yes! ....
I remember on the Apple ][ you could copy the rom to ram memory, disassemble it, modify it and run it. We just had the standard software and documentation, no hacking tool, no forum of course, etc
That machine was really open back then!
I was going to reply that it's not so, but I checked Wikipedia first. And guess what, my last edit (a page creation with references and everything) has been cited as a candidate for deletion. So yes, it seems Wikipedia is becoming a closed circle of 60000+ club
Products that cater to the ignorant may find marketing success, but ultimately they do our society a massive disservice.
Sure, the solution is to have computers with black and white text user interface, with everything explained in the man pages.
If it wasn't for easy to use laptops and phones, my parents would only use tv, radio, and newspapers.
And you know what, they would passively believe what they would be told by those media.
I could understand why in the 80s some people where not convinced a UI should be graphical and wysiwyg. But come on, it's 2011 now. Consumer products have evolved, don't stay in the 80s.
I would not have learned the language on a regular computer because it would have meant sitting down in front of a screen, and I do that all day already. I could do it on an Iphone because I could do it while doing sports, driving, etc ... (listening to podcasts and live radios, checking a few words in wiktionary or yahoo translate). For this the user interface was great.
There is a time for being a geek and using OpenGL, C++, bash, mysql, and there is a time for using simple tools. My point was that those simple tools such as the iphone, even if they don't require that you have a phd, can still be useful.
For a laptop or server, I'm on the Linux side, command line and everything, but I'm glad my phone is easy to use while providing lots of valuable features.
Do you regret that a piece of paper and a pen is the dumbest possible user interface? do you think it's worthless?