It could be a technical issue (i.e., they are targeting simplicity). Hooking up 1 TB of SSDs involves 4 SATA cables, hooking up an additional terabyte of RAM involves finding special widgets that hold as much RAM as possible, and the parts to make them talk to the nodes.
None of them are particularly likely to be an attractive nuisance. Popularity brings its own problems.
If I were going to write blogging software, there is a dangerous possibility that it would render static html, which I would have to laboriously rsync to the server. But maybe that isn't blogging software anymore.
You are conflating things. I am not (hypothetically here) raging at the Linux community to fix flash, I am simply not experimenting with Linux because I care about flash working reasonably well, and apparently, it doesn't. The underlying reason isn't particularly relevant if I care about having flash.
So again, the point isn't that I will capriciously blame anyone and everyone for anything, the point is that if I see a problem that prevents me from doing something I want to do day-to-day, I'm not even going to try. That the community bears the brunt of Adobe's lack of interest is unfortunate, but there you go.
Sure, but I think that is a more reasonable interpretation of the comic than "teh Linux is the suck" (some AC linked the actual comic page, rather than the image, and the alt text implies that Mr. Monroe uses Linux anyway, which alters the message quite a bit).
There certainly are people in the Linux community concerned about desktop adoption, and eventually, they are going to have to start working on finding ways to improve things that are out of their control.
I think part of the idea behind the comment is that if more people were interested in buying their phones up front, the carriers would have more reason to offer cheaper services, with less tie up. As it stands, they have convinced the American consumer that the appropriate cell phone plan is the one that they never fully use, and agree to for an extended period of time.
Flashblock (or noscript) does a pretty good job at this; most of the flash content that you want to run is also flash content that the creator cares about debugging well (as opposed to advertisements and such).
Very few of the cars destroyed were worth more than $4500 (think about it for a few minutes). And only the drive train needed to be destroyed, junk yards were free to strip other parts from the vehicles (and even the drive train was almost certainly sold as scrap, not buried in the ground).
I'm doubtful that the program accomplished a great deal (It seems clear that it is a great way to do Keynesian stimulus, but it isn't as clear if that is a good idea), but if you didn't like cash for clunkers, you should be outraged by government programs that pay people, directly, for replacing their windows (with modern energy efficient windows).
The hardest part about long term waste storage is getting people to give it as little thought as they give the millions of tons of material pumped into the atmosphere by coal power plants (and it is becoming clear that they actually put more radiation into the environment than nuclear, so it isn't just a matter of the potential problems associated with the CO2).
The idea of creating institutions that need to stand for thousands of years is a little scary, but I'm a lot more scared of turning off the lights.
It's only frightening when operating a quantum computer becomes trivial. Until then, it really isn't that big a deal to send your credit card details to Amazon.com. So when there are 5 powerful quantum computers running, there will probably still be a year or two to fix things. Even then, I'm not sure people will be running quantum computers against the vast majority of communication (so it really only sucks for the people who are trying to secure something worth getting at, us gmail https users aren't out much).
My concern centers on how reliable 'usually' is, and on the fact that while my camera was cheap, it was from an era where 5 megapixels was being paired with decent optics and marketed at an msrp of $250-$300 (so it made sense to put at least decent optics in it), whereas now, $100 cameras from ABC Warehouse supposedly take 10 megapixel images.
I can't imagine that making the optics got that much cheaper in 5 years.
I prefer using mental jujitsu on he problem; it isn't completely insane to separate pain and suffering based on the idea that suffering is the act of taking offense at pain, so a thing like a cattle doesn't really suffer, it reacts instinctively to organic damage (making noise at pain has the evolutionary advantage of alerting the herd...).
I have trouble coming up with an argument that the above is more offensive than the proposal from the article.
I guess I leave aside humans who take offense on behalf of the cattle, but I don't really care about what they think either.
There are all sorts of physical phenomena that defy intuition and do not exist in our day to day environment. That you cannot intuit their existence doesn't change the fact of their existence.
Neutron stars are somewhat less abstract than these monopoles appear to be (the stars are reasonably explained using high school physics), but they aren't exactly something that can compared to day to day macroscopic physical reality.
Productivity gains have to come from somewhere. I have a theory that most of the time, the gains come from someone noticing someone doing some stupid shit, and telling them to stop.
I also think this is one of the reasons why a sterile megacorp like Walmart does so well at crushing the competition, one of their key behaviors is standardizing their stores, so in effect, they have institutionalized not doing stupid shit.
This is also (part of the reason) why there is jargon like 'business case', there are people working in businesses who have to be spoon fed the notion that they are supposed to be doing things that are productive, they are not there to continue high school.
I'm endlessly frustrated at the prospect of replacing my cheapo 5 megapixel camera, I see pointlessly big files in my future. I currently have it set to take 3 megapixel images (which probably won't even be full screen in 5 years, but they will still be plenty viewable).
As yes, gif-ugly, where the new format is simply concatenated to the end of the gif file (yes, someone would propose this, and they would call it 'elegant').
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It could be a technical issue (i.e., they are targeting simplicity). Hooking up 1 TB of SSDs involves 4 SATA cables, hooking up an additional terabyte of RAM involves finding special widgets that hold as much RAM as possible, and the parts to make them talk to the nodes.
None of them are particularly likely to be an attractive nuisance. Popularity brings its own problems.
If I were going to write blogging software, there is a dangerous possibility that it would render static html, which I would have to laboriously rsync to the server. But maybe that isn't blogging software anymore.
Hey, he can't spend all day on the toilet.
You are conflating things. I am not (hypothetically here) raging at the Linux community to fix flash, I am simply not experimenting with Linux because I care about flash working reasonably well, and apparently, it doesn't. The underlying reason isn't particularly relevant if I care about having flash.
So again, the point isn't that I will capriciously blame anyone and everyone for anything, the point is that if I see a problem that prevents me from doing something I want to do day-to-day, I'm not even going to try. That the community bears the brunt of Adobe's lack of interest is unfortunate, but there you go.
Sure, but I think that is a more reasonable interpretation of the comic than "teh Linux is the suck" (some AC linked the actual comic page, rather than the image, and the alt text implies that Mr. Monroe uses Linux anyway, which alters the message quite a bit).
There certainly are people in the Linux community concerned about desktop adoption, and eventually, they are going to have to start working on finding ways to improve things that are out of their control.
As someone who uses Windows but has an open mind, I don't care who is at fault.
I think part of the idea behind the comment is that if more people were interested in buying their phones up front, the carriers would have more reason to offer cheaper services, with less tie up. As it stands, they have convinced the American consumer that the appropriate cell phone plan is the one that they never fully use, and agree to for an extended period of time.
The N800 and the like are a better comparison here, and they are reasonably open (they are a better comparison because they share the platform...).
It means Schrödinger's cat is stuck up a tree.
Flashblock (or noscript) does a pretty good job at this; most of the flash content that you want to run is also flash content that the creator cares about debugging well (as opposed to advertisements and such).
It's not their fault that blonds are more fun.
Very few of the cars destroyed were worth more than $4500 (think about it for a few minutes). And only the drive train needed to be destroyed, junk yards were free to strip other parts from the vehicles (and even the drive train was almost certainly sold as scrap, not buried in the ground).
I'm doubtful that the program accomplished a great deal (It seems clear that it is a great way to do Keynesian stimulus, but it isn't as clear if that is a good idea), but if you didn't like cash for clunkers, you should be outraged by government programs that pay people, directly, for replacing their windows (with modern energy efficient windows).
The hardest part about long term waste storage is getting people to give it as little thought as they give the millions of tons of material pumped into the atmosphere by coal power plants (and it is becoming clear that they actually put more radiation into the environment than nuclear, so it isn't just a matter of the potential problems associated with the CO2).
The idea of creating institutions that need to stand for thousands of years is a little scary, but I'm a lot more scared of turning off the lights.
It's only frightening when operating a quantum computer becomes trivial. Until then, it really isn't that big a deal to send your credit card details to Amazon.com. So when there are 5 powerful quantum computers running, there will probably still be a year or two to fix things. Even then, I'm not sure people will be running quantum computers against the vast majority of communication (so it really only sucks for the people who are trying to secure something worth getting at, us gmail https users aren't out much).
My concern centers on how reliable 'usually' is, and on the fact that while my camera was cheap, it was from an era where 5 megapixels was being paired with decent optics and marketed at an msrp of $250-$300 (so it made sense to put at least decent optics in it), whereas now, $100 cameras from ABC Warehouse supposedly take 10 megapixel images.
I can't imagine that making the optics got that much cheaper in 5 years.
I prefer using mental jujitsu on he problem; it isn't completely insane to separate pain and suffering based on the idea that suffering is the act of taking offense at pain, so a thing like a cattle doesn't really suffer, it reacts instinctively to organic damage (making noise at pain has the evolutionary advantage of alerting the herd...).
I have trouble coming up with an argument that the above is more offensive than the proposal from the article.
I guess I leave aside humans who take offense on behalf of the cattle, but I don't really care about what they think either.
It's a conspiracy of the many. People see the word 'vector' and respond 'durrrrrr-what?'.
He has a rather healthy case of Dunning-Kruger.
There are all sorts of physical phenomena that defy intuition and do not exist in our day to day environment. That you cannot intuit their existence doesn't change the fact of their existence.
Neutron stars are somewhat less abstract than these monopoles appear to be (the stars are reasonably explained using high school physics), but they aren't exactly something that can compared to day to day macroscopic physical reality.
Productivity gains have to come from somewhere. I have a theory that most of the time, the gains come from someone noticing someone doing some stupid shit, and telling them to stop.
I also think this is one of the reasons why a sterile megacorp like Walmart does so well at crushing the competition, one of their key behaviors is standardizing their stores, so in effect, they have institutionalized not doing stupid shit.
This is also (part of the reason) why there is jargon like 'business case', there are people working in businesses who have to be spoon fed the notion that they are supposed to be doing things that are productive, they are not there to continue high school.
I'm endlessly frustrated at the prospect of replacing my cheapo 5 megapixel camera, I see pointlessly big files in my future. I currently have it set to take 3 megapixel images (which probably won't even be full screen in 5 years, but they will still be plenty viewable).
As yes, gif-ugly, where the new format is simply concatenated to the end of the gif file (yes, someone would propose this, and they would call it 'elegant').
The key was "if we can get them that [western middle class] lifestyle".
I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
Only by 0.01 percent or so. I'm not sure that would even be considered a dent.