We observe this in people all around. My collegue at work is 23, wears shirts and dress-pants all the time, is part of a influental political think tank and is always called to customer meetings for his calm level-headed and forthcoming handling of clients. He appears 10 years older easyly.
I'm in my mid-40ies, am regularly judged lateish 30 and still feel like I've got a lot to learn in social skills. Experience wise I'm a computer expert and bilingual cosmopolitan, but for instance in the ladies-man-camp I've just outgrown my inner teenager. The human soul and it's device, our brains, are super-complex fascinating things that can, at any stage, show the most fascinating aspects of humanity. Emotional control comes with experience in a given field. Where I might appear as a wise grand-master in one, I will look like a childish n00b in the other.
To me it is quite obvious: HTML/CSS/JS is a convoluted historically grown mess. It is an open, widely used mess, which makes it attractive as a platform, but it's a mess none-the-less. I guess that comes with the nature of its success, because the web and its stakeholders adopted at every corner. The web is way far of from where it began, and this shows everywhere in its technology stack.
Imagine a cleanroom design of a protocols and services and markup and logic to serve up what we are used to and expect today, with some neat features added in, such as encryption, default compression, binary logic and namecoin or some other distributed naming service. Add in native vector GFX technology and multimedia stuff and you have yourself an awesome fast platform.
But as a developer, I know this won't happen and wouldn't be practical. Once it would be finished, the world would have moved on to some other stuff and the new implementation would be a huge monolithic unmaintainable unextendable block.
I suspect once modern HTML/CSS and native gfx rendering have reached widespread use, the browsers will start to optimise and things will fall into place. We see this happening in chrome and safari and we see niche browsers like opera, brave and vivaldi speeding up things by simply filtering out the junk.
I'm - as I suspect most of us are here - your classic nerdy/geeky semi-ADHD/Auspergers type. But generally speaking AFAICT nutrition has been linked to this condition and personality type more than once (look for the book "The LCP Solution"). My mother told me she was practically addicted to licorice during her pregnancy with me. This could have been a "self-medication" attempt of her body to mitigate the lack of vitamin D which she recently noticed. And, fittingly enough, excess licorice consumption during pregnancy is actually in fact one of those rare things that has been found to correlate with ADHD symptoms in the child.
As for vitamin D I haven't had a bloodwork in more than a decade but I'd bet money that I've got a vitamin D deficiency, as any indoor computer expert guy probably has. My mom herself is of the nerd/shut-in/bookworm type and ADHD disposition runs on my mothers side of the family.
I myself don't drink alcohol, eat meat very rarely and live quite healthy aside from the fact that I am basically a sugar-addict. A thing I certainly link to my mothers excess licorice consumption during her pregnancy. I also notice that as soon as I actively curb my sugar addiction and lean towards a more organic balanced, whole & fresh foods diet, my awareness hightens notably and I get cooler/calmer than I usually am. If you're a nerdy type, try it out and go full organic & balanced for 8 weeks. The difference you'll notice is palpable.
I'm coping pretty well and wouldn't call my ADHD a disfunction rather than a disposition... "Hunter/Gatherer in a Farmer/Settler society, Rebel/Adventurer/Leader disposition, etc, jada-jada"... you probably know the evolutionary theories concerning ADHD. That aside I truely believe backed by what I've read and experienced nutrition is the biggest leverage any ADHD/Aspergers candidate has, aside from regular excercise and a diversified daily routine.
Think about the biggest 'disadvantage' of having a squishy penis: Men under stress don't get a hard-on and thus can't reproduce. This could've emphasized and benefited populations with lesser stress and more room to develop higher skillsets to surpass a potential human branch with real boner.
It could also be for 'economic' reasons. Humans are built and optimised towards long-distance running. No other animal can sweat like we do. A bushman (or any other non-obese halfway trained human) can run an antelope to 'death by bodyheat and/or exhaustion'. That is a pretty awesome raw survival skill innate to homo sapiens. I suspect lugging a bone penis dangling between your awesome running legs might actually be quite cumbersome - since it's mostly men doing the running and the ladies nourishing big-headed babies (that need special attendance and culture as extended brain + serious actual brain nutrition) after laboriously squeezing them out of a notably narrow birth canal.
Also we only need our penis once in a while. Having a lightweight retractable one is generally quite practical from an evolutionary perspective. Also I suspect the squishiness prevents injuries and infections better than a true boner would. Wales float. They don't have to worry about their boner bumping and scraping on the ground or on rocks.
Bottom line: You needn't go to far to get a handle on what's up with the squishy penis - the answer is probably quite simple.
Since it was up to 9 degrees warmer in Siberia (and other tundra-rich locations) earlier during our interglacial, ~8000 years ago, why would the methane suddenly be released now when it (apparently) wasn't then?
Because methane is a biproduct of decaying biomass. You know, that stuff that has been growing in the tundra since the iceage and didn't decay due to freezin' or near-freezing temperatures.
This is quite obvious and has been covered since the days of ancient Greece. I've said it before. Humans need to feel love, a sense of competence and a sense of purpose. The amount of money you get beyond roughly 75 000 Euros per year has near to no influence on your happiness. In fact, if you tie your happiness to riches, you'll get depressed quite soon, even if you don't lose your wealth.
I'd probably work even more if I'd win the lottery. Albeit on projects that I fund myself because I care about them.
Maybe a snow, scate or surfboard or perhaps a climbing harness ( depending on where you live) might be a better present. Maybe its just me, but I think the first world kids today might need encouragement _not_ to sit inside.
Dude, WTF? Wake up.... It's freakin' FACEBOOK! They can and could always do whatever the f*ck they want! With your content, with your data,... they could eben change their TOS to allow them to superimpose everyones portrait on animal porn images and there'd be nothing for you to do about it other than delete your account and and all your data and hope that no one downloaded those images to their computer or other parts of the intarweb.
I'd say FB and Twitter curbing hate-propaganda is actually the lesser evil. People who are dumb enough to post such stuff on FB are probably best kept from doing serious harm. To others *and* themselves.
Capitalism as we know it needs scarcity to function. What CEOs are saying when they say this is basically capitalism as we know it has come to an end. As soon as robots drive us around and build and sow and harvest everything we need, we're moving into a post-scarcity economy with solid utopia potential.
Us sitting at our keyboards and posting on slashdot are basically there already. What needs to happen is for the rest of humanity to follow. But the general premise is true: Technology development is a logarithmic curve that's pointing up. Unless something goes really wrong the post-scarcity economy will continue on its way into society.
I know from personal sources what US intelligence black-ops and their propaganda moves are capable of and have pulled of in the past to manipulate the public, so I'd say it's pretty likely.
Then again, that doesn't make Mr. Putin a nice guy or his regime an oderly one. It's just that the public US debate gives the Russians to much power and their own system to much credibility IMHO.
The answer to this question is quite obvious to me: MakerBot is to Matter Compiling (see "The Diamond Age" from Neal Stephenson) what the C64 is to the Smartphones we carry around with uns today, that resemble some distant spacey science-fition vision of a 19981 Cray 2 supercomputer for your pocket and that cost roughly a days salary of a regular worker today in 2016.
MakerBot marks the beginning of a revolution, not the revolution itself.
Like Commodore is basically just some brandname used on some products no one buys today, it marks for many of use the beginning of commodity computing. We knew what it meant back then, but very very few people outside of the micro computer faszination could even dream about the high-res touchscreens and flat, light, sturdy, long-running and dirt cheap supercomputers we have today.
MakerBot could very well be long dead when, in 25 years or so, when 3D printing a device is better and cheaper than mass-production today and is as common as smartphones are today. It's the way technological developmennt happens.
In a strange way this illustrates perfectly what's wrong with the US. If FB would pay taxes and those taxes would go into proper schools, proper healthcare and feasible housing projects this token gesture of over-f*cking-welming 20 million USD wouldn't be necessary.
I replaced my broken apple MB Air charger 3 years ago. Recently it broke again. I repaired mine this time around, with electric connectors and tape. 85 Euros for a charger is freakin' insane, even by Apple standards. The margin on these things must be higher even than on iPhones. Someone should list their global profit percentage on chargers - that would probably be 99.9% vis-a-vis 91% of all Smartphone profits globally.... One of the reasons I'm actually happy about moving away from Apple computers now.
Branding is not silly. In fact, it is essential to getting a good product of the ground and into widespread use. Those neat Mozilla / Firefox Videoads are at least as important to Firefox acceptance as the newest Adblocker Plugin are. If they need to protect their brand and Debian sees no way of integrating a product called "Firefox" because the FF branding/trademark conflict with Debians rules, then they will have to ditch the brand, even though the product is the same. You could argue that Debian is being silly aswell, but in this case neither are - they just follow different core principles from wich both entities aren't willing to back down, both for very very valid reasons.
I'd say in todays sharing economy, branding is getting more and more important.
In conclusion: Use a FOSS product, but dilute the brand that comes with it, and the key sponsor will come down on you like a pile of bricks. And for good reasons too. In this case Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu have acutally been quite generous. They should start sueing the companies in question and make some noise about why exactly they are doing it.
IIRC Tim Ferriss mentioned throwing in his influence and leverage in the background to advance research and approval of unconventional medication in the area of PTSD treatment. IIRC he specifically mentioned this trial and it might even be prepared under his guidance. (It's in some Tim Ferriss Show podcast somewhere IIRC)
AFAIK he has been doing some brain-drug experimentation himself, having owned a brain-drug company before his success as a bestseller author. He also covers brain drugs in his book "The 4-hour body".
Say what you want, but he actually puts his money where his mouth is and tries to move regulations away from tradition-based misconception about some consciousness-altering drugs and towards an effective treament of PTSD. Doing useful stuff with his money, fame and success. Nice.
In my teens I praticed meditation in general and, more specifically, what is called "astral projection", basically inducing out-of-body-experiences. I practiced it for six years just about every evening. In the end I finally made it, achieving that higher state of mind, where you experience the buzzing and humming, your body shrinking and your soul expanding and see "the tunnel" and such. It's the most intense state of being I've ever experienced and I doubt any drug can push you further. You're basically hyper-awake while it happens. And it's scary. Turns out we don't like to leave our body most of the time.:-)
The difference in state of mind and awareness compared to normal as normal compares to vivid, semi-lucent dreaming. I stopped it after this event, but one effect is that I don't fear death as much as I used to.
I cant say for sure that we are still around after death, like the mystics like to point out, but it sure felt like it.
I added Apple to my hardware selection of Linux boxes back in 2003. I like Apple hardware and the new MB Pro is very neat. The huge touchpad, the awesome keyboard and the retina display are are all very neat things. However, after getting an iBook G4 back in 2003 (cheapes Subnote available at the time), a Mac Mini (cheapest mini PC available at the time) a few years later and an MB Air in 2011 (only ultrabook available at the time (the class "Ultrabook" didn't even exist yet), my new machine will be an generic netbook without any OS preinstalled. I'll install linux on it, as usual with non-Apple hardware.
Why?
While Apple is quite neat, I'm increasingly wary of the Apple golden cage and their lock-in. Apple pay built into the new MB Pros doesn't help. Also, Apple products arent' so stand-alone innovative as they used to be and the prices have risen. My new machine, coming this week, will be a 300 Euro Netbook with a quadcore CPU and 10 hours of battery time. Vis-a-vis a minimum of 1700 Euros for the new MB Pro that's just to huge a gap to justify the expense.
Another prime reason for me to get an OS X machine has disappeared: I used to do professional Flash development. Since Flash is basically dead and it is the first and last prorpietary non-FOSS technology I've ever invested time in, there is no reason for me to keep a system around that runs the Flash IDE. Linux is as flaky and obscure as ever, but it hasn't gotten worse and Java (for my Jetbrains IDE) and Web (for everything I develop today) work just as fine as with macOS.
Homebrew and other FOSS macOS projects such as iTerm are very neat too, but I still trust compling on pure FOSS OSes more. On my MB Air I'm still running Maveriks, and brew starts complaining about the outdated compiler. Since the MB Air is a little to weak for El Capitan, I'm slowly getting stuck between a rock and a hard place with this.
I might get an MB Pro again some time in the future, but it would be more for kicks than anything else. They build nice machines, no doubt, but Linux for Pros and ChromeOS for n00bs cover 99.99% of the markets needs and costs roughly a 5th. And with Linux I'll be in control until the day I die. Or at least longer than I would be with Apples neatly bound hard- and software packages.
Wow, MS, not so fast. Impressive abition, but first:
FOSS Windows, NTFS and stuff and start an open system development, then we're talking. Until then it's Linux or the occasional macOS for those of us who've got extra cash and less time to fiddle.
Good teams usually mitigate the hype effect, because they are diverse in setup and bring along multiple perspectives.
I myself have fallen for hype a few times, as I guess we all have. I remember using Cake 1.2 beta, because "New Features!".... Bad idea. Blew up in our face twice a week and delayed the project way too much. even discouraged from the core team. Typo3 was more of a local hype of German-speaking countries, but following that a little bit was more of a neccesity than hype.
I clearly remember consciously avoiding Ruby on Rails and smelling the hype from 10 miles away. Looking at how things turned out I'm glad I did. I have the habit of pondering for years about some new tool or toolkit. By then what to expect and what not has usually played out. Roughly once every 5 years I make a larger technology decision, and then only after having weighed the odds for and against it.
I'm currently doing this for Node & serverside JS vis-a-vis LAMP, my current breadmaker technology. I'm toying with the thought of moving to NodeJS and ditching LAMP, but I'm still not sure about it.... We'll see.
This is why FOSS / Creative Commons is better than public domain. Had she released her images under a appropriate CC license, she could've sued Getty into next wednesday as she attempted. With the images only being public domain, none of her rights were infringed expect for the unjustified bill.
I feel sorry for her. We should collect some donations. This is one of the reasons I hate big-ass foundries, be it font or images. And the same reason I love CC and the artists creating things for a reasonable price.
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Who is surprised?
We observe this in people all around. My collegue at work is 23, wears shirts and dress-pants all the time, is part of a influental political think tank and is always called to customer meetings for his calm level-headed and forthcoming handling of clients. He appears 10 years older easyly.
I'm in my mid-40ies, am regularly judged lateish 30 and still feel like I've got a lot to learn in social skills. Experience wise I'm a computer expert and bilingual cosmopolitan, but for instance in the ladies-man-camp I've just outgrown my inner teenager. The human soul and it's device, our brains, are super-complex fascinating things that can, at any stage, show the most fascinating aspects of humanity. Emotional control comes with experience in a given field. Where I might appear as a wise grand-master in one, I will look like a childish n00b in the other.
And it will show in my brain.
No surprise here.
Slashdot is quite bad, but Facebook is vastly worse.
Amen, brother, amen.
Facebook is not a social network. Facebook is a global mental illness.
To me it is quite obvious: HTML/CSS/JS is a convoluted historically grown mess. It is an open, widely used mess, which makes it attractive as a platform, but it's a mess none-the-less. I guess that comes with the nature of its success, because the web and its stakeholders adopted at every corner.
The web is way far of from where it began, and this shows everywhere in its technology stack.
Imagine a cleanroom design of a protocols and services and markup and logic to serve up what we are used to and expect today, with some neat features added in, such as encryption, default compression, binary logic and namecoin or some other distributed naming service. Add in native vector GFX technology and multimedia stuff and you have yourself an awesome fast platform.
But as a developer, I know this won't happen and wouldn't be practical. Once it would be finished, the world would have moved on to some other stuff and the new implementation would be a huge monolithic unmaintainable unextendable block.
I suspect once modern HTML/CSS and native gfx rendering have reached widespread use, the browsers will start to optimise and things will fall into place. We see this happening in chrome and safari and we see niche browsers like opera, brave and vivaldi speeding up things by simply filtering out the junk.
"Ooooh, yess, YuCuddlyWubblyLiddlThing ..."
Sound pretty brain-altered to me. :-))
I'm - as I suspect most of us are here - your classic nerdy/geeky semi-ADHD/Auspergers type. But generally speaking AFAICT nutrition has been linked to this condition and personality type more than once (look for the book "The LCP Solution"). My mother told me she was practically addicted to licorice during her pregnancy with me. This could have been a "self-medication" attempt of her body to mitigate the lack of vitamin D which she recently noticed. And, fittingly enough, excess licorice consumption during pregnancy is actually in fact one of those rare things that has been found to correlate with ADHD symptoms in the child.
As for vitamin D I haven't had a bloodwork in more than a decade but I'd bet money that I've got a vitamin D deficiency, as any indoor computer expert guy probably has. My mom herself is of the nerd/shut-in/bookworm type and ADHD disposition runs on my mothers side of the family.
I myself don't drink alcohol, eat meat very rarely and live quite healthy aside from the fact that I am basically a sugar-addict. A thing I certainly link to my mothers excess licorice consumption during her pregnancy. I also notice that as soon as I actively curb my sugar addiction and lean towards a more organic balanced, whole & fresh foods diet, my awareness hightens notably and I get cooler/calmer than I usually am. If you're a nerdy type, try it out and go full organic & balanced for 8 weeks. The difference you'll notice is palpable.
I'm coping pretty well and wouldn't call my ADHD a disfunction rather than a disposition ... "Hunter/Gatherer in a Farmer/Settler society, Rebel/Adventurer/Leader disposition, etc, jada-jada" ... you probably know the evolutionary theories concerning ADHD. That aside I truely believe backed by what I've read and experienced nutrition is the biggest leverage any ADHD/Aspergers candidate has, aside from regular excercise and a diversified daily routine.
My 2 cents.
I think it's a different selector.
Think about the biggest 'disadvantage' of having a squishy penis: Men under stress don't get a hard-on and thus can't reproduce. This could've emphasized and benefited populations with lesser stress and more room to develop higher skillsets to surpass a potential human branch with real boner.
It could also be for 'economic' reasons. Humans are built and optimised towards long-distance running. No other animal can sweat like we do. A bushman (or any other non-obese halfway trained human) can run an antelope to 'death by bodyheat and/or exhaustion'. That is a pretty awesome raw survival skill innate to homo sapiens. I suspect lugging a bone penis dangling between your awesome running legs might actually be quite cumbersome - since it's mostly men doing the running and the ladies nourishing big-headed babies (that need special attendance and culture as extended brain + serious actual brain nutrition) after laboriously squeezing them out of a notably narrow birth canal.
Also we only need our penis once in a while. Having a lightweight retractable one is generally quite practical from an evolutionary perspective. Also I suspect the squishiness prevents injuries and infections better than a true boner would. Wales float. They don't have to worry about their boner bumping and scraping on the ground or on rocks.
Bottom line:
You needn't go to far to get a handle on what's up with the squishy penis - the answer is probably quite simple.
Since it was up to 9 degrees warmer in Siberia (and other tundra-rich locations) earlier during our interglacial, ~8000 years ago, why would the methane suddenly be released now when it (apparently) wasn't then?
Because methane is a biproduct of decaying biomass.
You know, that stuff that has been growing in the tundra since the iceage and didn't decay due to freezin' or near-freezing temperatures.
You're welcome. Glad I could help.
This is quite obvious and has been covered since the days of ancient Greece.
I've said it before.
Humans need to feel love, a sense of competence and a sense of purpose.
The amount of money you get beyond roughly 75 000 Euros per year has near to no influence on your happiness.
In fact, if you tie your happiness to riches, you'll get depressed quite soon, even if you don't lose your wealth.
I'd probably work even more if I'd win the lottery.
Albeit on projects that I fund myself because I care about them.
Maybe a snow, scate or surfboard or perhaps a climbing harness ( depending on where you live) might be a better present. Maybe its just me, but I think the first world kids today might need encouragement _not_ to sit inside.
My 2 cents.
they'll censor whatever the fuck they want to.
Dude, WTF? Wake up. ... It's freakin' FACEBOOK! They can and could always do whatever the f*ck they want! With your content, with your data, ... they could eben change their TOS to allow them to superimpose everyones portrait on animal porn images and there'd be nothing for you to do about it other than delete your account and and all your data and hope that no one downloaded those images to their computer or other parts of the intarweb.
I'd say FB and Twitter curbing hate-propaganda is actually the lesser evil. People who are dumb enough to post such stuff on FB are probably best kept from doing serious harm. To others *and* themselves.
Capitalism as we know it needs scarcity to function. What CEOs are saying when they say this is basically capitalism as we know it has come to an end. As soon as robots drive us around and build and sow and harvest everything we need, we're moving into a post-scarcity economy with solid utopia potential.
Us sitting at our keyboards and posting on slashdot are basically there already. What needs to happen is for the rest of humanity to follow.
But the general premise is true: Technology development is a logarithmic curve that's pointing up. Unless something goes really wrong the post-scarcity economy will continue on its way into society.
I know from personal sources what US intelligence black-ops and their propaganda moves are capable of and have pulled of in the past to manipulate the public, so I'd say it's pretty likely.
Then again, that doesn't make Mr. Putin a nice guy or his regime an oderly one. It's just that the public US debate gives the Russians to much power and their own system to much credibility IMHO.
Purism is a relatively new company that builds Linux-centric hardware with an emphasis on open hardware. They have a small but nice lineup.
As far as modern Linux laptops go, I'd suspect you can't do any better.
The answer to this question is quite obvious to me: MakerBot is to Matter Compiling (see "The Diamond Age" from Neal Stephenson) what the C64 is to the Smartphones we carry around with uns today, that resemble some distant spacey science-fition vision of a 19981 Cray 2 supercomputer for your pocket and that cost roughly a days salary of a regular worker today in 2016.
MakerBot marks the beginning of a revolution, not the revolution itself.
Like Commodore is basically just some brandname used on some products no one buys today, it marks for many of use the beginning of commodity computing. We knew what it meant back then, but very very few people outside of the micro computer faszination could even dream about the high-res touchscreens and flat, light, sturdy, long-running and dirt cheap supercomputers we have today.
MakerBot could very well be long dead when, in 25 years or so, when 3D printing a device is better and cheaper than mass-production today and is as common as smartphones are today. It's the way technological developmennt happens.
My 2 cents.
In a strange way this illustrates perfectly what's wrong with the US. If FB would pay taxes and those taxes would go into proper schools, proper healthcare and feasible housing projects this token gesture of over-f*cking-welming 20 million USD wouldn't be necessary.
My 2 Eurocents.
I replaced my broken apple MB Air charger 3 years ago. Recently it broke again. I repaired mine this time around, with electric connectors and tape. 85 Euros for a charger is freakin' insane, even by Apple standards. The margin on these things must be higher even than on iPhones. Someone should list their global profit percentage on chargers - that would probably be 99.9% vis-a-vis 91% of all Smartphone profits globally. ...
One of the reasons I'm actually happy about moving away from Apple computers now.
Facebook watches over you.
Everybody loves Facebook.
Trust Facebook.
Branding is not silly. In fact, it is essential to getting a good product of the ground and into widespread use. Those neat Mozilla / Firefox Videoads are at least as important to Firefox acceptance as the newest Adblocker Plugin are. If they need to protect their brand and Debian sees no way of integrating a product called "Firefox" because the FF branding/trademark conflict with Debians rules, then they will have to ditch the brand, even though the product is the same. You could argue that Debian is being silly aswell, but in this case neither are - they just follow different core principles from wich both entities aren't willing to back down, both for very very valid reasons.
I'd say in todays sharing economy, branding is getting more and more important.
In conclusion:
Use a FOSS product, but dilute the brand that comes with it, and the key sponsor will come down on you like a pile of bricks. And for good reasons too. In this case Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu have acutally been quite generous. They should start sueing the companies in question and make some noise about why exactly they are doing it.
IIRC Tim Ferriss mentioned throwing in his influence and leverage in the background to advance research and approval of unconventional medication in the area of PTSD treatment. IIRC he specifically mentioned this trial and it might even be prepared under his guidance. (It's in some Tim Ferriss Show podcast somewhere IIRC)
AFAIK he has been doing some brain-drug experimentation himself, having owned a brain-drug company before his success as a bestseller author. He also covers brain drugs in his book "The 4-hour body".
Say what you want, but he actually puts his money where his mouth is and tries to move regulations away from tradition-based misconception about some consciousness-altering drugs and towards an effective treament of PTSD. Doing useful stuff with his money, fame and success. Nice.
In my teens I praticed meditation in general and, more specifically, what is called "astral projection", basically inducing out-of-body-experiences. I practiced it for six years just about every evening. In the end I finally made it, achieving that higher state of mind, where you experience the buzzing and humming, your body shrinking and your soul expanding and see "the tunnel" and such. It's the most intense state of being I've ever experienced and I doubt any drug can push you further. You're basically hyper-awake while it happens. And it's scary. Turns out we don't like to leave our body most of the time. :-)
The difference in state of mind and awareness compared to normal as normal compares to vivid, semi-lucent dreaming. I stopped it after this event, but one effect is that I don't fear death as much as I used to.
I cant say for sure that we are still around after death, like the mystics like to point out, but it sure felt like it.
My 2 cents.
Humans didn't evolve in zero gravity.
Tough, but true.
I added Apple to my hardware selection of Linux boxes back in 2003.
I like Apple hardware and the new MB Pro is very neat. The huge touchpad, the awesome keyboard and the retina display are are all very neat things. However, after getting an iBook G4 back in 2003 (cheapes Subnote available at the time), a Mac Mini (cheapest mini PC available at the time) a few years later and an MB Air in 2011 (only ultrabook available at the time (the class "Ultrabook" didn't even exist yet), my new machine will be an generic netbook without any OS preinstalled. I'll install linux on it, as usual with non-Apple hardware.
Why?
While Apple is quite neat, I'm increasingly wary of the Apple golden cage and their lock-in. Apple pay built into the new MB Pros doesn't help. Also, Apple products arent' so stand-alone innovative as they used to be and the prices have risen. My new machine, coming this week, will be a 300 Euro Netbook with a quadcore CPU and 10 hours of battery time. Vis-a-vis a minimum of 1700 Euros for the new MB Pro that's just to huge a gap to justify the expense.
Another prime reason for me to get an OS X machine has disappeared: I used to do professional Flash development. Since Flash is basically dead and it is the first and last prorpietary non-FOSS technology I've ever invested time in, there is no reason for me to keep a system around that runs the Flash IDE. Linux is as flaky and obscure as ever, but it hasn't gotten worse and Java (for my Jetbrains IDE) and Web (for everything I develop today) work just as fine as with macOS.
Homebrew and other FOSS macOS projects such as iTerm are very neat too, but I still trust compling on pure FOSS OSes more. On my MB Air I'm still running Maveriks, and brew starts complaining about the outdated compiler. Since the MB Air is a little to weak for El Capitan, I'm slowly getting stuck between a rock and a hard place with this.
I might get an MB Pro again some time in the future, but it would be more for kicks than anything else. They build nice machines, no doubt, but Linux for Pros and ChromeOS for n00bs cover 99.99% of the markets needs and costs roughly a 5th. And with Linux I'll be in control until the day I die. Or at least longer than I would be with Apples neatly bound hard- and software packages.
My 2 cents.
Wow, MS, not so fast. Impressive abition, but first:
FOSS Windows, NTFS and stuff and start an open system development, then we're talking. Until then it's Linux or the occasional macOS for those of us who've got extra cash and less time to fiddle.
Glad' we could clear that up.
Good teams usually mitigate the hype effect, because they are diverse in setup and bring along multiple perspectives.
I myself have fallen for hype a few times, as I guess we all have. I remember using Cake 1.2 beta, because "New Features!". ... Bad idea. Blew up in our face twice a week and delayed the project way too much. even discouraged from the core team. Typo3 was more of a local hype of German-speaking countries, but following that a little bit was more of a neccesity than hype.
I clearly remember consciously avoiding Ruby on Rails and smelling the hype from 10 miles away. Looking at how things turned out I'm glad I did. I have the habit of pondering for years about some new tool or toolkit. By then what to expect and what not has usually played out. Roughly once every 5 years I make a larger technology decision, and then only after having weighed the odds for and against it.
I'm currently doing this for Node & serverside JS vis-a-vis LAMP, my current breadmaker technology. I'm toying with the thought of moving to NodeJS and ditching LAMP, but I'm still not sure about it. ... We'll see.
This is why FOSS / Creative Commons is better than public domain.
Had she released her images under a appropriate CC license, she could've sued Getty into next wednesday as she attempted.
With the images only being public domain, none of her rights were infringed expect for the unjustified bill.
I feel sorry for her. We should collect some donations.
This is one of the reasons I hate big-ass foundries, be it font or images. And the same reason I love CC and the artists creating things for a reasonable price.