A sane person would not. Elon was accused of being insane. I don't happen to agree with that assertion. But it was stated. I believe insanity to be a qualification for president. Current administration being an extreme example. However as another poster pointed out, Elon could not become US president for other reasons, despite the alleged insanity.
> thanks to the video giant's automated captions,
> That certainly sounds impressive -- except when you realize that many of the site's automatically generated captions aren't completely right.
I know robots are taking over jobs. But put those two statements together and this sounds like auto-generated bad lip reading.
Now if someone could only implement all possible bad lip readings, and then auto-rate them for hilarity, we would be onto something.
I watched the development of micro computers in the 1970's. Try re-reading BYTE (and other) magazines of the era. The technology was shockingly primitive. No standardization. The first standardization was around hardware, the 8080 and the S-100 bus. Still no significant software standardization because every system had some cobbled together custom keyboard / display or printer setup. Find a used keyboard from a liquidator, figure out it's circuit board layout, write your own custom interface software, etc. It wasn't until 1977 that the holy trinity arrived (TRS-80, Apple II and Commodore Pet). The first standard off-the-shelf computers. This was where you started to see some commercial software take hold. Just watch the ads in the magazines.
Now to the point.
I am ignoring Unix until a time when it was practical for most people to actually run it. The early 1990's when Linus created Linux was the perfect time. And at that time all of the Unixes were walled off proprietary prison camps and ran on workstations that at that time cost a couple tens of thousands of dollars. Linux ran on a common PC. By the mid to late 90's some people were noticing that you could run Linux on a souped up PC for ten grand and replace a thirty grand Unix box.
If Linux hadn't come along, Unix would be something in obscurity.
Here we are today where you can get Linux on a Raspberry Pi for $35 with 1 GB of ram, gigabytes of SD card storage, 4 core processor, etc. And proprietary unix is relatively obscure.
That makes Linux sure seem innovative to me. It obviously did something VERY right. So much that now Microsoft can no longer ignore it.
To summarize, I think you are saying Linux is not innovative because it is like Unix, which was already around.
Here's the thing. Technical comparisons aside, Linux did something that none of the Unixes could do.
Linux was open source. That caused a huge development kick start which would be the envy of the private fiefdoms of proprietary closed Unix.
Linux then became cross platform. That causes Linux to run anywhere that the C compiler could run. Again, the envy of closed platforms.
Those two things combined make Linux suddenly attractive to anyone needing to build a software system on a non-PC platform. Or even on a PC platform where OS licensing is an issue. Applications like: smart phones. GPS navigators. TV set top DVRs. Streaming internet TV boxes. Digital cameras. Smart TVs. In car entertainment systems. Digital signage and billboard display applications. Chromecast type sticks. Amazon Echo type devices. And the list just goes on and on and on.
So, is Linux innovative? I believe so. And where all those proprietary Unixes? In the proprietary tarpit. Even Microsoft is realizing that it can't avoid operating with open source and Linux. BTW, Wine now runs onWindows Subsystem for Linux.
Which is more beneficial to the world.
1. Perspiring while developing code that is freely donated to anyone, and which has found its way into gadgets and devices all around us.
or
2. Perspiring while doing an insane monkey dance screaming developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS.
Another possible interpretation is the nasty suggestion that Linux improperly contains something stolen. Re-read it in that light and see if that interpretation fits. We've been down that road before with SCO vs IBM which is still not dead yet. Started in March 2003, still wheezing and gasping for breath in Feb 2017.
I have never choked on the other issues, nor do I worry about them when I am thinking of them. And some of those other issues you mention are large indeed. Even though coal or the oxymoronic clean coal may be easier to swallow, it is still an unnatural abomination which needs to be minimized, and hopefully eventually eliminated.
What you suggest is ALREADY happening. It doesn't happen overnight. Like most changes in society it seems to take forever, but the change gradually occurs. See how the automobile displaced the horse and buggy. But not overnight to be sure. Electric cars will gradually become more affordable and have longer range. And please dear God turn the whole idea of dealerships into a smoking crater in the ground in the process.
That said, there still needs to be regulations that choke things that harm everyone. It does no good to preach to me that I should put in a well to get my own clean water when there is a major water polluter in the area that can act with impunity due to lack of regulation. I understand that no analogy is perfect.
Coal NEEDS to choke under regulations before it chokes us all and destroys our climate.
Giving tax breaks to promote future progress is not a bad thing to do.
The switch to getting as much clean energy as possible won't be cheap, and won't happen over night. And other forms of energy will have to be available when clean sources may be unable to produce. But every bit helps.
We've tackled other huge projects. Rural electrification. Roads to support modern cars replacing horse and buggy. The interstate highway project. Electric street lighting and traffic signals literally everywhere -- and these things are friggin' expensive. But it was worth it for the benefits we collectively get from it.
It is inevitable that we will use electric cars. It is inevitable that we will stop using fossil fuels as they become ever harder to find. Coal isn't going to make our environment any better, so we should be minimizing its use to the extent possible. New technologies bring new jobs.
I definitely was a potential iPhone buyer at one point. What probably delayed my first purchase of a smart phone was that an iPhone needed iTunes , and ITunes didn't run on Linux. I might be an iPhone developer today if it had.
I probably would not buy one now. However I probably am representative of a smart phone buyer. Every couple of years, I shop for a new one. I find what I want. The style, size, battery life, features, colors, price range, manufacturer and other factors influence my choice. I always get a high end phone. And lately I pay for it up front, unlocked. Factors such as battery life are important, and thickness is a factor, but less so. I would take a slightly thicker phone for a boost in battery life.
At this point, I am probably committed to Android. All of my cloud data backed up on Google. It works no matter what new brand of phone I use. But being on Android probably means I'm not a potential Apple buyer. Remember, I did say I was once a huge Apple fan. And I'll add long time classic Mac developer in 80's and up to late 90's. Apple was amazing back then.
As for Android development, all my development tools are free. And run on all platforms. I don't have to pay for the privilege to develop. I don't have to get anyone's approval or permission to put my own app onto my own device.
This is a great idea that would assist both companies with obtaining additional personal information about their users. If only they can get past those pesky telecom privacy regulations. Both companies cannot currently be accused of not listening to their users, in their homes. Echo currently already has a mic / mute button to alert Amazon that you're about to talk about something especially interesting.
I would pick a slightly thicker phone with significantly more battery life over an excessively thin phone with poor battery life that is just for pure fashion. Function BEFORE Form. If you're doing it the other way, then it is wrong.
Seriously, I don't care who thinks what of my phone. I didn't buy it to make everyone around me happy. Its purpose is to improve MY LIFE. Make ME more productive. Instant access to information. Entertainment. Etc.
Apple used to be a great company back in the day. (80's and most of 90's) I was a card carrying Apple fanboy. The "user friendly" that started in 1982 and saw some realization with the 1983 Lisa and 1984 Mac was about empowering people. Making ordinary people more productive and empowered. It was NOT NOT NOT about fashion. Apple has lost its way. And its mind.
What that says is that from 2015 to 2016 only Android had any growth and everything else lost market share. I doubt that in the last year that trend has reversed. Less than a year ago, Android was a stone's throw from having 90 % of the market.
As for "now you don't see anyone with a phone that isn't made by Apple anymore", I would argue that you don't see a anyone with a phone that isn't Android anymore. Made by all non-Apple manufacturers. In every size, shape, color, style, feature set and price range that you can imagine. Not the extremely limited product line made by Apple. When I see someone get out a smart phone, it is inevitably Android, seldom Apple. And this is in the real world. On vacation. Traveling for work. In every day life. Dr's office. Library. Grocery store. Etc. I don't think I live in an "Android bubble". So if you really see such a large number of iPhone users, I wonder if you are in some kind of "Apple bubble" or if it is a genuine phenomena in some region where you live, or what?
As for companies engaging in litigation when they start to circle the drain, I agree completely.
In other news Apple will fight "right to repair" laws. This makes me like Apple even less. Not only would I not ever buy their overpriced products, but they are going to try to prevent me from being able to repair my non-Apple products.
While the current assistant, Cortana is a little bitter, they made it so you can't fully turn it off. The avatar needs to have horns and a forked tongue.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe Slashdot is what was used for beta testing auto generated comments.
A sane person would not. Elon was accused of being insane. I don't happen to agree with that assertion. But it was stated. I believe insanity to be a qualification for president. Current administration being an extreme example. However as another poster pointed out, Elon could not become US president for other reasons, despite the alleged insanity.
Exactly what I was joking about.
> thanks to the video giant's automated captions, > That certainly sounds impressive -- except when you realize that many of the site's automatically generated captions aren't completely right.
I know robots are taking over jobs. But put those two statements together and this sounds like auto-generated bad lip reading.
Now if someone could only implement all possible bad lip readings, and then auto-rate them for hilarity, we would be onto something.
I watched the development of micro computers in the 1970's. Try re-reading BYTE (and other) magazines of the era. The technology was shockingly primitive. No standardization. The first standardization was around hardware, the 8080 and the S-100 bus. Still no significant software standardization because every system had some cobbled together custom keyboard / display or printer setup. Find a used keyboard from a liquidator, figure out it's circuit board layout, write your own custom interface software, etc. It wasn't until 1977 that the holy trinity arrived (TRS-80, Apple II and Commodore Pet). The first standard off-the-shelf computers. This was where you started to see some commercial software take hold. Just watch the ads in the magazines.
Now to the point.
I am ignoring Unix until a time when it was practical for most people to actually run it. The early 1990's when Linus created Linux was the perfect time. And at that time all of the Unixes were walled off proprietary prison camps and ran on workstations that at that time cost a couple tens of thousands of dollars. Linux ran on a common PC. By the mid to late 90's some people were noticing that you could run Linux on a souped up PC for ten grand and replace a thirty grand Unix box.
If Linux hadn't come along, Unix would be something in obscurity.
Here we are today where you can get Linux on a Raspberry Pi for $35 with 1 GB of ram, gigabytes of SD card storage, 4 core processor, etc. And proprietary unix is relatively obscure.
That makes Linux sure seem innovative to me. It obviously did something VERY right. So much that now Microsoft can no longer ignore it.
I would have said Microsoft instead of the penguin.
To summarize, I think you are saying Linux is not innovative because it is like Unix, which was already around.
Here's the thing. Technical comparisons aside, Linux did something that none of the Unixes could do.
Linux was open source. That caused a huge development kick start which would be the envy of the private fiefdoms of proprietary closed Unix.
Linux then became cross platform. That causes Linux to run anywhere that the C compiler could run. Again, the envy of closed platforms.
Those two things combined make Linux suddenly attractive to anyone needing to build a software system on a non-PC platform. Or even on a PC platform where OS licensing is an issue. Applications like: smart phones. GPS navigators. TV set top DVRs. Streaming internet TV boxes. Digital cameras. Smart TVs. In car entertainment systems. Digital signage and billboard display applications. Chromecast type sticks. Amazon Echo type devices. And the list just goes on and on and on.
So, is Linux innovative? I believe so. And where all those proprietary Unixes? In the proprietary tarpit. Even Microsoft is realizing that it can't avoid operating with open source and Linux. BTW, Wine now runs on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Which is more beneficial to the world.
1. Perspiring while developing code that is freely donated to anyone, and which has found its way into gadgets and devices all around us.
or
2. Perspiring while doing an insane monkey dance screaming developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS.
You decide.
Another possible interpretation is the nasty suggestion that Linux improperly contains something stolen. Re-read it in that light and see if that interpretation fits. We've been down that road before with SCO vs IBM which is still not dead yet. Started in March 2003, still wheezing and gasping for breath in Feb 2017.
That instantly disqualifies him for management or political office.
Can I use my Android phone in the tunnel?
When you're in a hole, keep digging.
Thank you for pointing out that Elon is now qualified to run for president.
You mean like Apple and its amazing innovations in the last few years? /s
I have never choked on the other issues, nor do I worry about them when I am thinking of them. And some of those other issues you mention are large indeed. Even though coal or the oxymoronic clean coal may be easier to swallow, it is still an unnatural abomination which needs to be minimized, and hopefully eventually eliminated.
What you suggest is ALREADY happening. It doesn't happen overnight. Like most changes in society it seems to take forever, but the change gradually occurs. See how the automobile displaced the horse and buggy. But not overnight to be sure. Electric cars will gradually become more affordable and have longer range. And please dear God turn the whole idea of dealerships into a smoking crater in the ground in the process.
That said, there still needs to be regulations that choke things that harm everyone. It does no good to preach to me that I should put in a well to get my own clean water when there is a major water polluter in the area that can act with impunity due to lack of regulation. I understand that no analogy is perfect.
I laughed out loud the first time I heard Trump say "clean" coal.
Coal NEEDS to choke under regulations before it chokes us all and destroys our climate.
Giving tax breaks to promote future progress is not a bad thing to do.
The switch to getting as much clean energy as possible won't be cheap, and won't happen over night. And other forms of energy will have to be available when clean sources may be unable to produce. But every bit helps.
We've tackled other huge projects. Rural electrification. Roads to support modern cars replacing horse and buggy. The interstate highway project. Electric street lighting and traffic signals literally everywhere -- and these things are friggin' expensive. But it was worth it for the benefits we collectively get from it.
It is inevitable that we will use electric cars. It is inevitable that we will stop using fossil fuels as they become ever harder to find. Coal isn't going to make our environment any better, so we should be minimizing its use to the extent possible. New technologies bring new jobs.
I definitely was a potential iPhone buyer at one point. What probably delayed my first purchase of a smart phone was that an iPhone needed iTunes , and ITunes didn't run on Linux. I might be an iPhone developer today if it had.
I probably would not buy one now. However I probably am representative of a smart phone buyer. Every couple of years, I shop for a new one. I find what I want. The style, size, battery life, features, colors, price range, manufacturer and other factors influence my choice. I always get a high end phone. And lately I pay for it up front, unlocked. Factors such as battery life are important, and thickness is a factor, but less so. I would take a slightly thicker phone for a boost in battery life.
At this point, I am probably committed to Android. All of my cloud data backed up on Google. It works no matter what new brand of phone I use. But being on Android probably means I'm not a potential Apple buyer. Remember, I did say I was once a huge Apple fan. And I'll add long time classic Mac developer in 80's and up to late 90's. Apple was amazing back then.
As for Android development, all my development tools are free. And run on all platforms. I don't have to pay for the privilege to develop. I don't have to get anyone's approval or permission to put my own app onto my own device.
This is a great idea that would assist both companies with obtaining additional personal information about their users. If only they can get past those pesky telecom privacy regulations. Both companies cannot currently be accused of not listening to their users, in their homes. Echo currently already has a mic / mute button to alert Amazon that you're about to talk about something especially interesting.
I would pick a slightly thicker phone with significantly more battery life over an excessively thin phone with poor battery life that is just for pure fashion. Function BEFORE Form. If you're doing it the other way, then it is wrong.
Seriously, I don't care who thinks what of my phone. I didn't buy it to make everyone around me happy. Its purpose is to improve MY LIFE. Make ME more productive. Instant access to information. Entertainment. Etc.
Apple used to be a great company back in the day. (80's and most of 90's) I was a card carrying Apple fanboy. The "user friendly" that started in 1982 and saw some realization with the 1983 Lisa and 1984 Mac was about empowering people. Making ordinary people more productive and empowered. It was NOT NOT NOT about fashion. Apple has lost its way. And its mind.
> Apple took over the whole market.
> Now you dont see anyone with a phone that isnt made by Apple anymore.
You lost me right there. Alternate facts?
With trivial Googling, I came up with this. Now that is data from 2nd quarter 2016. But it was the first quick thing I found.
Market share for 2nd Q 2015: Android 82.2 %, iOS 14.6 %, Windows 2.5 %, Blackberry 0.3 %, others 0.4 %.
Market share for 2nd Q 2016: Android 86.2 %, iOS 12.9 %, Windows 0.6 %, Blackberry 0.1 %, others 0.2 %.
What that says is that from 2015 to 2016 only Android had any growth and everything else lost market share. I doubt that in the last year that trend has reversed. Less than a year ago, Android was a stone's throw from having 90 % of the market.
As for "now you don't see anyone with a phone that isn't made by Apple anymore", I would argue that you don't see a anyone with a phone that isn't Android anymore. Made by all non-Apple manufacturers. In every size, shape, color, style, feature set and price range that you can imagine. Not the extremely limited product line made by Apple. When I see someone get out a smart phone, it is inevitably Android, seldom Apple. And this is in the real world. On vacation. Traveling for work. In every day life. Dr's office. Library. Grocery store. Etc. I don't think I live in an "Android bubble". So if you really see such a large number of iPhone users, I wonder if you are in some kind of "Apple bubble" or if it is a genuine phenomena in some region where you live, or what?
As for companies engaging in litigation when they start to circle the drain, I agree completely.
In other news Apple will fight "right to repair" laws. This makes me like Apple even less. Not only would I not ever buy their overpriced products, but they are going to try to prevent me from being able to repair my non-Apple products.
While the current assistant, Cortana is a little bitter, they made it so you can't fully turn it off. The avatar needs to have horns and a forked tongue.
There is a simple test. It applies not only to the kernel but to all Microsoft products.
If the splash screen looks great, then the code is great. Ship it. Customers will send in beta test issues.
Even under Obama care a child can only remain on its parent's health insurance until age 26. At which point they hopefully become an adult.
Hey, how about lets raise the drinking age to 26 !