Or how about web developers do their jobs properly and not implement non-open standards? Seems like Apple wants to go the way of IE, and we all know how that turned out. I say let them do as they wish.
probably the best thing is a regular old website for a lot of us.
Exactly. We own our sites and everything on them. We choose how much of our identities we reveal on our websites. We also have absolute control of any trolls on our sites that aim to soil our reputations. For any software developer or tinkerer, it gives us a good excuse to write custom plugins for whatever CMS we want to use, or even build our own sites from scratch. Websites can even enable us to generate our own revenue if we're savvy enough to do so. For software developers, having a website presents the opportunity to attach your whole portfolio on a resume or CV. Building and running a website is infinitely more rewarding, in many ways, than spending time on any social networking site.
And when did I say I ever did eat escargot? I could have simply made a redundant statement if I was a vegan, which I'm not. I haven't tried escargot in actuality, and probably never will, bird's ass/cloaca/orifice or not.
Except when the mobile phone company limits choices. Phone companies limiting our choices is what will happen if Android and MS Windows Mobile becomes the standard.
Not exactly. What limits choice is the model of telecoms distributing subsidized devices in exchange for the user signing a 1, 2 or 3 year contract. With them distributing the devices, they can decide for the consumer how the devices will be used, which ones are available and how soon devices become obsolete, such that a consumer has to break a contract to get the latest device. Apple broke that standard by selling their phones in their own stores, outside of carrier influence, providing some level of competition. Sure, other phones are sold in stores like Best Buy, but these sales are usually directly tied to the carrier. We will see more choice and more robust devices when carriers stop selling them and just become a network/internet provider like they should.
If I was using Python in a professional setting, I definitely wouldn't be using libraries that would bring up child porn warnings (according to TFA) in Google search.
Also, it's nice to have a bit of freedom in naming packages, but if it's at the cost of alienating contributors, then it only hurts open source. I personally wouldn't be comfortable contributing to a package called 'libjigaboo' since that alienates and marginalizes me as a person, but I wouldn't make a hissyfit and quit open source because of that either. There's a reason why we can fork projects after all, it's so we don't have to associate with people who are unproductive to work with.
While it would be helpful if more of us had thicker skin, it is more important to be professional, mature, tactful, and accountable for our actions and inactions. Idiots like Frank Smit set open source back by making us all seem like prepubescent boys. Geeks have enough of an image problem without this douchebag making a royal ass out of himself.
Wasted a lot of time trying to come up with a screenshot solution in browser and finally just explained to the manager it would be easier to store the coordinates and create a link that could place those coordinates back onto the map.
That there sounds more like a developer problem than a management problem. At the beginning of every project, you're supposed to analyze the requirements and research every possible option so that you don't have to waste time implementing an unworkable solution. You also have to, from the beginning, be able to clearly explain to your superiors why their requirements are unworkable AND provide them with a workable alternative. 9 times out of 10, your bosses are not going to shoot themselves in the foot just so they can get their preferred solution implemented instead of the more realistic one... that is if they are not incompetent. Usually I'm on the side of the developer, but if you did happen to screw up this project, you would only have yourself to blame... consider yourself lucky this time and take it as a life/career lesson.
Yeah, come back and talk to me when Wind is nationwide, maybe then I'll retract my statement. Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, and Ottawa isn't even close to being all of Canada. I live in a major city and I've been waiting for Wind since they came to Canada. One more thing I should add is Wind has rural roaming agreements with the big three, so unless you stay in the city your whole life and never leave, you will end up using the services of these providers at some point. It's like me saying, "I don't use Bell, I got MTS!". Think about that one.
I honestly think if something like this becomes mainstream for too long, we will have trained all the empathy out of ourselves. If our primary emotional interaction unconditionally obeys our every whim, it is inevitable that we will expect the same from our flesh and bone counterparts. Since it will be easier to love a machine than a human being, it is not absurd to assume that we may value human life less. The fact that we are exploring human-robot love is a symptom of a much larger problem in that human empathy is decreasing all around. We can see it everywhere nowadays, all we have to do is compare current society to the same 30 years ago, but from a more local POV.
I think more studies should be put into figuring out who we all are as individuals, what types of people exist from a psychological stand point (e.g. introverts vs extroverts, highly sensitive vs low empathetic persons, sane vs insane), how all these different types of people can interact in a more efficient manner, and how to best match people in different settings to reduce unrest. We also need to get rid of ridiculously fabricated categorizations of people (e.g. race, royalty, etc) since the prevalence of psychological traits have similar distribution in most of these situations.
Most humans. There do exist some that can actually handle a true democracy. Unfortunately, these individuals lack the persuasive ability to promote this in any large scale. The majority of the human population just seems to be overly obsessed with trying to convince everyone else how special they are so they can monopolize authoritative influence over others.
Doesn't the current patent system operate like trade secrets then? When a company goes under, it is usually bought by a bigger company along with all their patents, so either way they don't see the light of day. Essentially, no one else can use a company's patents unless they are willing to buy that company and that's usually how patents get passed along. Rarely anything of value is produced nowadays because someone is afraid of getting sued for producing it, or they don't want to pay a competitor huge licencing fees for something they produced. We can definitely learn about inventions and their inner workings today, but that's only if we buy them from one source only and not try to reproduce and improve on them ourselves.
Is this how we're going to get better devices in the future? Companies battling it out to see how many markets they can ban their competitors from and stealing ideas rather than actually innovating? Sometimes I feel like a catastrophic worldwide environmental disaster to wipe the slate clean is in order... sometimes.
"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." -- Albert Einstein
I really honestly don't think your comment deserves to be modded Flamebait. Sometimes, even us nerds need to take a critical look at ourselves to determine if we are needlessly hanging on to pointless ideologies. Sometimes change is good, even if it doesn't seem appealing at first. However, being able to choose change is more important.
Disclaimer: Not 100% it was Einstein who said it given how people love to falsely attribute quotes nowadays but the sentiment still applies.
I personally haven't heard of these since the only work with circuit boards I've done was solder a mod chip in my PSOne. While it's nice to know that these exist for when I start creating my own devices someday, I do agree that this article shouldn't be masquerading as some sort of revolutionary article if these silver pens have existed for decades. A more accurate title would be, "20 years into the making, people discover they can draw boobies with silver pens and make glowing LED nipples"... on second thought, given the demographic of those who would use silver pens, I think even THAT has been done before.
3 out of 4 people are of the "extrovert" archetype whose brains are not physically wired for deep thinking and rely more on rhetoric and impulsive decision making. Computers are a tool that requires a lot of deep thinking to correctly maintain it and foresee possible problems in its operation. In short, this problem isn't going to go away until we ban 3 out of 4 people from using computers.
maybe change their strategy and mix things up to evade capture, the world needs benevolent black/grey hat hackers to dig up dirty laundry on the establishment, let the government & police know that if they do wrong that it will be found out and exposed for all the world to see...
I wouldn't go so far as to say "benevolent" but I prefer to live in a world where the watchers are watched and the tyrants are forced to live in fear.
If such a thing were to exist then there might very well be software hell. Were I a more religious person, I might add that the heaven/hell admission ratio for software would be strikingly similar to that of people... and that's being very generous to people.
This is just the classic case of each side wanting what the other believes they don't deserve. In the end, shareholders and lawyers win as they always seem to do, and we win because we get to laugh at these wastes of space and not have to deal with the crap they do.
The moral of this story is, "Given enough time, those who set out to destroy themselves eventually do."
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The real question is... will those toilets run Crysis?
Or how about web developers do their jobs properly and not implement non-open standards? Seems like Apple wants to go the way of IE, and we all know how that turned out. I say let them do as they wish.
For software developers, having a website presents the opportunity to attach your whole portfolio on a resume or CV
I should add this isn't limited to software developers.
probably the best thing is a regular old website for a lot of us.
Exactly. We own our sites and everything on them. We choose how much of our identities we reveal on our websites. We also have absolute control of any trolls on our sites that aim to soil our reputations. For any software developer or tinkerer, it gives us a good excuse to write custom plugins for whatever CMS we want to use, or even build our own sites from scratch. Websites can even enable us to generate our own revenue if we're savvy enough to do so. For software developers, having a website presents the opportunity to attach your whole portfolio on a resume or CV. Building and running a website is infinitely more rewarding, in many ways, than spending time on any social networking site.
And when did I say I ever did eat escargot? I could have simply made a redundant statement if I was a vegan, which I'm not. I haven't tried escargot in actuality, and probably never will, bird's ass/cloaca/orifice or not.
I could say I'm vegan, but that would be a cheap lie, and I'm not sanctimonious enough to be one.
... since I very well could be eating out of a bird's ass.
Except when the mobile phone company limits choices. Phone companies limiting our choices is what will happen if Android and MS Windows Mobile becomes the standard.
Not exactly. What limits choice is the model of telecoms distributing subsidized devices in exchange for the user signing a 1, 2 or 3 year contract. With them distributing the devices, they can decide for the consumer how the devices will be used, which ones are available and how soon devices become obsolete, such that a consumer has to break a contract to get the latest device. Apple broke that standard by selling their phones in their own stores, outside of carrier influence, providing some level of competition. Sure, other phones are sold in stores like Best Buy, but these sales are usually directly tied to the carrier. We will see more choice and more robust devices when carriers stop selling them and just become a network/internet provider like they should.
If I was using Python in a professional setting, I definitely wouldn't be using libraries that would bring up child porn warnings (according to TFA) in Google search.
Also, it's nice to have a bit of freedom in naming packages, but if it's at the cost of alienating contributors, then it only hurts open source. I personally wouldn't be comfortable contributing to a package called 'libjigaboo' since that alienates and marginalizes me as a person, but I wouldn't make a hissyfit and quit open source because of that either. There's a reason why we can fork projects after all, it's so we don't have to associate with people who are unproductive to work with.
While it would be helpful if more of us had thicker skin, it is more important to be professional, mature, tactful, and accountable for our actions and inactions. Idiots like Frank Smit set open source back by making us all seem like prepubescent boys. Geeks have enough of an image problem without this douchebag making a royal ass out of himself.
... but you can't kill an idea. Otherwise, the earth would still be flat.
Wasted a lot of time trying to come up with a screenshot solution in browser and finally just explained to the manager it would be easier to store the coordinates and create a link that could place those coordinates back onto the map.
That there sounds more like a developer problem than a management problem. At the beginning of every project, you're supposed to analyze the requirements and research every possible option so that you don't have to waste time implementing an unworkable solution. You also have to, from the beginning, be able to clearly explain to your superiors why their requirements are unworkable AND provide them with a workable alternative. 9 times out of 10, your bosses are not going to shoot themselves in the foot just so they can get their preferred solution implemented instead of the more realistic one... that is if they are not incompetent. Usually I'm on the side of the developer, but if you did happen to screw up this project, you would only have yourself to blame... consider yourself lucky this time and take it as a life/career lesson.
Yeah, come back and talk to me when Wind is nationwide, maybe then I'll retract my statement. Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, and Ottawa isn't even close to being all of Canada. I live in a major city and I've been waiting for Wind since they came to Canada. One more thing I should add is Wind has rural roaming agreements with the big three, so unless you stay in the city your whole life and never leave, you will end up using the services of these providers at some point. It's like me saying, "I don't use Bell, I got MTS!". Think about that one.
I honestly think if something like this becomes mainstream for too long, we will have trained all the empathy out of ourselves. If our primary emotional interaction unconditionally obeys our every whim, it is inevitable that we will expect the same from our flesh and bone counterparts. Since it will be easier to love a machine than a human being, it is not absurd to assume that we may value human life less. The fact that we are exploring human-robot love is a symptom of a much larger problem in that human empathy is decreasing all around. We can see it everywhere nowadays, all we have to do is compare current society to the same 30 years ago, but from a more local POV.
I think more studies should be put into figuring out who we all are as individuals, what types of people exist from a psychological stand point (e.g. introverts vs extroverts, highly sensitive vs low empathetic persons, sane vs insane), how all these different types of people can interact in a more efficient manner, and how to best match people in different settings to reduce unrest. We also need to get rid of ridiculously fabricated categorizations of people (e.g. race, royalty, etc) since the prevalence of psychological traits have similar distribution in most of these situations.
Not only are we at parity for the dollar, we are now at parity for corporate telecom monopolies! Canada and USA, BFFs for life!
I think I ruptured my spleen from all the excessive sarcasm...
Must be we humans are wired that way.
Most humans. There do exist some that can actually handle a true democracy. Unfortunately, these individuals lack the persuasive ability to promote this in any large scale. The majority of the human population just seems to be overly obsessed with trying to convince everyone else how special they are so they can monopolize authoritative influence over others.
Doesn't the current patent system operate like trade secrets then? When a company goes under, it is usually bought by a bigger company along with all their patents, so either way they don't see the light of day. Essentially, no one else can use a company's patents unless they are willing to buy that company and that's usually how patents get passed along. Rarely anything of value is produced nowadays because someone is afraid of getting sued for producing it, or they don't want to pay a competitor huge licencing fees for something they produced. We can definitely learn about inventions and their inner workings today, but that's only if we buy them from one source only and not try to reproduce and improve on them ourselves.
Is this how we're going to get better devices in the future? Companies battling it out to see how many markets they can ban their competitors from and stealing ideas rather than actually innovating? Sometimes I feel like a catastrophic worldwide environmental disaster to wipe the slate clean is in order... sometimes.
Here's one:
"Internet Explorer: the only single platform web browser in existence."
Actually, not a selling point, but many people would take the above as something good anyway.
"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." -- Albert Einstein
I really honestly don't think your comment deserves to be modded Flamebait. Sometimes, even us nerds need to take a critical look at ourselves to determine if we are needlessly hanging on to pointless ideologies. Sometimes change is good, even if it doesn't seem appealing at first. However, being able to choose change is more important.
Disclaimer: Not 100% it was Einstein who said it given how people love to falsely attribute quotes nowadays but the sentiment still applies.
I personally haven't heard of these since the only work with circuit boards I've done was solder a mod chip in my PSOne. While it's nice to know that these exist for when I start creating my own devices someday, I do agree that this article shouldn't be masquerading as some sort of revolutionary article if these silver pens have existed for decades. A more accurate title would be, "20 years into the making, people discover they can draw boobies with silver pens and make glowing LED nipples"... on second thought, given the demographic of those who would use silver pens, I think even THAT has been done before.
3 out of 4 people are of the "extrovert" archetype whose brains are not physically wired for deep thinking and rely more on rhetoric and impulsive decision making. Computers are a tool that requires a lot of deep thinking to correctly maintain it and foresee possible problems in its operation. In short, this problem isn't going to go away until we ban 3 out of 4 people from using computers.
maybe change their strategy and mix things up to evade capture, the world needs benevolent black/grey hat hackers to dig up dirty laundry on the establishment, let the government & police know that if they do wrong that it will be found out and exposed for all the world to see...
I wouldn't go so far as to say "benevolent" but I prefer to live in a world where the watchers are watched and the tyrants are forced to live in fear.
Rational people know not to strive for a Pyrrhic victory.
If such a thing were to exist then there might very well be software hell. Were I a more religious person, I might add that the heaven/hell admission ratio for software would be strikingly similar to that of people... and that's being very generous to people.
This is just the classic case of each side wanting what the other believes they don't deserve. In the end, shareholders and lawyers win as they always seem to do, and we win because we get to laugh at these wastes of space and not have to deal with the crap they do.
The moral of this story is, "Given enough time, those who set out to destroy themselves eventually do."