This has impact on the social fabric. I'm noticing this myself, because as a web developer doing agency stuff you basically are smack-center in the gig economy. Sort of decently paid, yes, but gig economy none-the-less. The Germans have a better term for this "the precariously employed" to describe those working in the gig economy.
The thing is, I think this is also a natural consequence of us all moving into a post-scarcity economy, so by and large this is a good thing happening. But until a society doing something resebling UBI is in place it sucks, because the ones doing the gigs are the onces left without a chair when the music stops.
... the missed opportunities for Apple. 50% of Apple is a premium fashion brand. They would be very stupid to spoil that with lowlife loser masturbation content. Their phones are sexy. People who use their phones are sexy and can get laid for real anytime (at least that's what they need to think). Their stuff needs to be sexy, in order to justify the 50% premium on their price. Pr0n does not fit into that picture.
Cook and Co. couldn't care less about a few bucks extra from pr0nhub deluxe. It would probably even hurt their market cap on a global scale.
... the missed opportunities for Apple. 50% of Apple is a premium fashion brand. They would be very stupid to spoil that with lowlife loser content. Their phones are sexy. People who use their phones are sexy (at least that's what they need to think). Their stuff needs to be sexy, in order to justify the 50% premium on their price. Cook and Co. couldn't care less about a few bucks extra from pr0nhub deluxe. It would probably hurt their market cap on a global scale.
The big question being: Are you really willing to stomach the results? So optimsing school bus usage for highest effciency brings morning schedule out of wack by 2 hours and more for on the far ends of the queue? Gee wizz, what a surprise. Who would've thunk?
In other words: Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.
I'm with Google. I use Android, I'm in the local Google developer group and my last two pieces of hardware I got are Chromebooks. I turn off location most of the time but I don't have a single doubt that the almighty Google knows more about me than anything else ever could.
But if they start pushing ads on me in the most obscure places I'm out faster than you can say "Google Takeout".
It is clear to me that for this exact problem we need an alternative to Android and iOS.
It's a shame that Firefox OS got axed. They went it too big and had to draw out. I don't trust Kai os enough and purisms Linux phone is a tad on the expensive side.
This is a problem we will need to attack sooner or later.
I'm sorry, from here Linux seems like a very very nice guy. Yeah, he gets super-pissed with people who waste his time. Of course he does. He's the effing kernel lead and if you didn't to your homework and keep on harping about the same bullshit although you should know better, especially if you're a paid engineer at a large famous and powerful IC company.
Yes, he uses explitives where he shouldn't and it makes him sound immature and childish and way less sophisticated than it should. Which is why he wants to improve. Kudos to him for that. I'd take Linus as a teamlead over most others anytime. And if he were mad at me if look very carefully into what I delivered that made him made before I get back to him or simply blow it off as Linus being Linus.
I wrote my diploma thesis on an IBM luggable with an orange plasma display on Ami Pro on Windows for Workgroups. We adjusted the font with a font editor to meet the minimal pagesize. Nice to see the old tricks still in place.:-)
... large scale n00bie-style f*ckups by professional companies in the data-security field absolutely bedazzling. Isn't something of this type gross neglect or something and can't they be sued into next wednesday for it?
You're deploying your content to a turing complete device. DRM won't work. It will either be ineffective or so bad it will regularly screw over your most loyal customers. All others will get the rips because it's waaaay less hassle without DRM.
It's a crying shame if you are in the business and haven't gotten that into you thick stupid skull by now.
Forget DRM and offer a good purchasing experience and people will flock to you in droves. Best current example: gog.com.
I bet dollars to doughnuts that Linus is right 99.99% of the time but some wordings in his mails really sound childish. I get that he has to deal with sub-par kernel engineers from company X pushing an agenda and being really stupid and they deserve an ass-chewing, but if I were him I'd wait a day before sending that response and rephrase it in such a way that everyone knows the only douche wide and far is the guy insisting on having crap merged into the kernel.
That would be way more effective and way more embarrasing.
I suspect Linus is going to get some advice on this and then start doing exactly that. It will be a little more work, but finding a secretary in helping him formulate those mails or someone good in wording doing some editing when he needs to publicly push back on non-sense in a steadfast manner shouldn't be to much hassle.
You took the reply out of my mouth. UBI is not yet another benefit program. UBI is/will be abundance and wealth by robots and automation spread through the population so we don't have a revolt on our hands.
... as we know it. This is a cold hard fact. Robots are taking over and anything IT is going to be a consulting and/or gig affair running of the cloud provided by that silly stupid team of crazies building a search engine when search was done and over with or that other wacko running an internet bookstore even though everybody knows that books are the one thing you want to by in a nice brick and mortar store.
The direction the world is headed won't pass IBM or any other behemoth of yesteryear by, including Oracle, Microsoft and the lot. That IBM is decommsioning their high-pay workforce down to a new minimum shouldn't surprise anybody.
Age discrimination? Yeah, sure. That exsists but it works both ways. Get a suit and tie and a decent haircut and a neat website and some custom stationary and cash in on your grey hair with consulting is what I would recommend. I'm heading in that direction myself.
... loses its "flair" once it becomes commonplace. Who would've thunk? MD's always was about indulging in something generally regarded as unhealthy and not something to do every day. That was no different in the 70ies when I was a small kid and we'd go there to treat the family to some junk food. Perpetual fast food has turned the US population into a flock of land-whales and the growing counter movement are hipster foodies and minimalist Paleo and quantified self geeks.
That sort of thing only works emotionally if you actually prepare your meals yourself and steer clear of junk food.
The whole point of tango is hugging cute ladies. It started as a whores dance, and it still shows, even though the French turned that into an high art in the 1920ies. I have a diploma in performing arts (mainly dancing) and was into the European tango nomad scene for a few years. It's basically middle to higher education people indulging in self-esteem wars and excess vanity while at the same time compensating their severe shortage of hugs and intimate encounters. Search"tango cynic" on YouTube, he pretty much sums things up.:-)
Linus has contributed more to humanity than just about anybody could hope to. Anybody with a little education and two braincells to rub together knows this. This won't change a single iota because Linus chooses to work on his choice of words. This is not "OMG! SJW controlling Linux!", This is a seasoned professional attacking a problem he sees in a professional manner: "My social interactions need improvement, let's solve the effing problem!".
I do the very same and it always has brought me forward and improved outside perception of me as a seasoned professional (not Linuses league of course, but you get my point).
We are problem solvers. We solve problems. If we apply the strategies to our social life as well, there is no place we can't go. I'm a nerd like most here who'd rather know more things than be poplar. That didn't stop me from systematically training my social skills and double checking the results like with some mission critical code. The results are palpable and sometimes the source of great envy with my buddies. It sure nothing is going to stop Linus from doing the same. If anything his childish rants are most embarrassing to himself more than they are to us. If he'd only wait a night before sending them and force himself to reword them his communications would improve tenfold when he's angry.
I'm pretty sure he'll notice that in 10 days the latest. And then we'll continue to have awesome kernel work done.
It goes the other way around: We've banned child labour and established human rights because as a society as a whole we have decided that these are values worth investing in, especially since we easyly can. There is little point in having 12-year olds working in the mines, since it's way more benefitial to have a few grown men and huge machines do that. And send the children to school, to learn to build and maintain the machines when they grow up.
The benefits far outweight the costs. It will be the same with UBI. Only getting there can be painful.
A friend of mine is hooked. He was in a multi year layoff phase and this summer finally departed from his employer. He got himself a ps4 a few years back and started playing division and WoT. After posting with his employer he's been doing that full time basically.
The thing is I totally get it. A good game and a good clan can keep you hooked for years. It's like surfing, climbing or some other awesome pastime. I was hooked to Argentine tango for 10 years. My life revolved around travelling around and often dancing 5 to 7 times a week, swapping my career for the tango bum life. I met women men usually can only dream of and had the most amazing pr0nstyle sex imaginable. But the big plus of tango that is that it comes with a very special kind of social life, which is why it's so awesome. I also was hooked to unreal tournament back in 2000 and played that for a year or two a few hours per day. But here's where I see addiction: I didn't totally void my social life and - this is the most important thing - didn't feel bad about it. So yea it had qualities off addiction, but I didn't use it to avoid uncomfortable situations. I actually made the active decision to live as a Tango bum and a hardcore gamer and kept up with my non addicted peers. Sort of.
My buddy OTOH won't even open the door for me or answer my texts for 3 months on end. Everyone is worried. His landlord, his brother, his mother, me, my daughter -who's uncle he basically is... And so forth. That's not healthy. AFAIAC he can game for 10 years I a row. He had no family, enough resources and lives alone. Bit out is blatantly obvious that he's in a rut and needs a friendly asskick from his best friend the next the next time I get to see him.
So yeah, divorcing over fortnite? ITotallyGetThat.
My main mail-adresses have all have the trait that they are a) easy to memorise b) easy to pronounce c) easy to understand d) easy to spell out correctly e) compareatively rare/unusual
My last name has the exact same traits and I have a domain that is my last name. On the plus side, I maybe get 5 e-mails per week on my main account that I have had for 18 years now.
So no, I haven't gotten somebody elses email. Maybe once a decade or two back. But generally no. But I do understand that there are people/names/addresses to whom this happens way more often. Obviously.
A shy and timid big guy doing ballgame announcements in high school and college. He learned to break through. We all know the results. They may not be pretty at all times, but they were effective.
Ok, jokes aside. You have speaking anxiety? Quit winning and get some speaking and/or acting classes. I did performing arts and even have a diploma in that and that has helped me to this very day. Highly recommended.
Apple and maybe some others should simply completely deactivate their services in Europe on the day this law takes effect.
Then we would see how consequent the EU Parliament really is. If they say:"well ok then, of Google FB and Co can't comply they really should shut their services off in Europe" then I'd be impressed. But they'd probably backpedal as fast as they humanly could. Cowards.
However, what Google an Co should do right away is deranked/remove all traces of any content provider anywhere as to have them disappear from the interwebs. That'll teach them.
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That's the deal.
This has impact on the social fabric. I'm noticing this myself, because as a web developer doing agency stuff you basically are smack-center in the gig economy. Sort of decently paid, yes, but gig economy none-the-less. The Germans have a better term for this "the precariously employed" to describe those working in the gig economy.
The thing is, I think this is also a natural consequence of us all moving into a post-scarcity economy, so by and large this is a good thing happening. But until a society doing something resebling UBI is in place it sucks, because the ones doing the gigs are the onces left without a chair when the music stops.
My 2 eurocents.
... the missed opportunities for Apple. 50% of Apple is a premium fashion brand. They would be very stupid to spoil that with lowlife loser masturbation content. Their phones are sexy. People who use their phones are sexy and can get laid for real anytime (at least that's what they need to think). Their stuff needs to be sexy, in order to justify the 50% premium on their price. Pr0n does not fit into that picture.
Cook and Co. couldn't care less about a few bucks extra from pr0nhub deluxe. It would probably even hurt their market cap on a global scale.
... the missed opportunities for Apple. 50% of Apple is a premium fashion brand. They would be very stupid to spoil that with lowlife loser content. Their phones are sexy. People who use their phones are sexy (at least that's what they need to think). Their stuff needs to be sexy, in order to justify the 50% premium on their price.
Cook and Co. couldn't care less about a few bucks extra from pr0nhub deluxe. It would probably hurt their market cap on a global scale.
The big question being: Are you really willing to stomach the results? So optimsing school bus usage for highest effciency brings morning schedule out of wack by 2 hours and more for on the far ends of the queue? Gee wizz, what a surprise. Who would've thunk?
In other words: Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.
... went like this:
- 'bladibla without systemd....'
- yeah! Awesome! No systemd! ...
- ' .... bladibla ... optimised for Windows 10 ...'
- 'Oh bummer. Oh well, nevermind.'
I'm with Google. I use Android, I'm in the local Google developer group and my last two pieces of hardware I got are Chromebooks. I turn off location most of the time but I don't have a single doubt that the almighty Google knows more about me than anything else ever could.
But if they start pushing ads on me in the most obscure places I'm out faster than you can say "Google Takeout".
It is clear to me that for this exact problem we need an alternative to Android and iOS.
It's a shame that Firefox OS got axed. They went it too big and had to draw out. I don't trust Kai os enough and purisms Linux phone is a tad on the expensive side.
This is a problem we will need to attack sooner or later.
I'm sorry, from here Linux seems like a very very nice guy. Yeah, he gets super-pissed with people who waste his time. Of course he does. He's the effing kernel lead and if you didn't to your homework and keep on harping about the same bullshit although you should know better, especially if you're a paid engineer at a large famous and powerful IC company.
Yes, he uses explitives where he shouldn't and it makes him sound immature and childish and way less sophisticated than it should. Which is why he wants to improve. Kudos to him for that.
I'd take Linus as a teamlead over most others anytime. And if he were mad at me if look very carefully into what I delivered that made him made before I get back to him or simply blow it off as Linus being Linus.
I wrote my diploma thesis on an IBM luggable with an orange plasma display on Ami Pro on Windows for Workgroups. We adjusted the font with a font editor to meet the minimal pagesize. Nice to see the old tricks still in place. :-)
... large scale n00bie-style f*ckups by professional companies in the data-security field absolutely bedazzling. Isn't something of this type gross neglect or something and can't they be sued into next wednesday for it?
This is un-fucking-believable.
You're deploying your content to a turing complete device. DRM won't work. It will either be ineffective or so bad it will regularly screw over your most loyal customers. All others will get the rips because it's waaaay less hassle without DRM.
It's a crying shame if you are in the business and haven't gotten that into you thick stupid skull by now.
Forget DRM and offer a good purchasing experience and people will flock to you in droves. Best current example: gog.com.
... they wrote a complicated version of "We will all try hard not to be assholes."
Great. Awesome. I am over-effing-welmed.
Can we now get on with improving the kernels power management on laptops? Thanks.
I bet dollars to doughnuts that Linus is right 99.99% of the time but some wordings in his mails really sound childish. I get that he has to deal with sub-par kernel engineers from company X pushing an agenda and being really stupid and they deserve an ass-chewing, but if I were him I'd wait a day before sending that response and rephrase it in such a way that everyone knows the only douche wide and far is the guy insisting on having crap merged into the kernel.
That would be way more effective and way more embarrasing.
I suspect Linus is going to get some advice on this and then start doing exactly that. It will be a little more work, but finding a secretary in helping him formulate those mails or someone good in wording doing some editing when he needs to publicly push back on non-sense in a steadfast manner shouldn't be to much hassle.
You took the reply out of my mouth. UBI is not yet another benefit program. UBI is/will be abundance and wealth by robots and automation spread through the population so we don't have a revolt on our hands.
... as we know it. This is a cold hard fact. Robots are taking over and anything IT is going to be a consulting and/or gig affair running of the cloud provided by that silly stupid team of crazies building a search engine when search was done and over with or that other wacko running an internet bookstore even though everybody knows that books are the one thing you want to by in a nice brick and mortar store.
The direction the world is headed won't pass IBM or any other behemoth of yesteryear by, including Oracle, Microsoft and the lot. That IBM is decommsioning their high-pay workforce down to a new minimum shouldn't surprise anybody.
Age discrimination? Yeah, sure. That exsists but it works both ways.
Get a suit and tie and a decent haircut and a neat website and some custom stationary and cash in on your grey hair with consulting is what I would recommend.
I'm heading in that direction myself.
My 2 eurocents.
... loses its "flair" once it becomes commonplace. Who would've thunk? MD's always was about indulging in something generally regarded as unhealthy and not something to do every day. That was no different in the 70ies when I was a small kid and we'd go there to treat the family to some junk food.
Perpetual fast food has turned the US population into a flock of land-whales and the growing counter movement are hipster foodies and minimalist Paleo and quantified self geeks.
That sort of thing only works emotionally if you actually prepare your meals yourself and steer clear of junk food.
By and large this is a good thing IMHO.
The whole point of tango is hugging cute ladies. It started as a whores dance, and it still shows, even though the French turned that into an high art in the 1920ies. :-)
I have a diploma in performing arts (mainly dancing) and was into the European tango nomad scene for a few years. It's basically middle to higher education people indulging in self-esteem wars and excess vanity while at the same time compensating their severe shortage of hugs and intimate encounters. Search"tango cynic" on YouTube, he pretty much sums things up.
Linus has contributed more to humanity than just about anybody could hope to. Anybody with a little education and two braincells to rub together knows this. This won't change a single iota because Linus chooses to work on his choice of words. This is not "OMG! SJW controlling Linux!", This is a seasoned professional attacking a problem he sees in a professional manner: "My social interactions need improvement, let's solve the effing problem!".
I do the very same and it always has brought me forward and improved outside perception of me as a seasoned professional (not Linuses league of course, but you get my point).
We are problem solvers. We solve problems. If we apply the strategies to our social life as well, there is no place we can't go. I'm a nerd like most here who'd rather know more things than be poplar. That didn't stop me from systematically training my social skills and double checking the results like with some mission critical code. The results are palpable and sometimes the source of great envy with my buddies. It sure nothing is going to stop Linus from doing the same. If anything his childish rants are most embarrassing to himself more than they are to us. If he'd only wait a night before sending them and force himself to reword them his communications would improve tenfold when he's angry.
I'm pretty sure he'll notice that in 10 days the latest. And then we'll continue to have awesome kernel work done.
It goes the other way around:
We've banned child labour and established human rights because as a society as a whole we have decided that these are values worth investing in, especially since we easyly can. There is little point in having 12-year olds working in the mines, since it's way more benefitial to have a few grown men and huge machines do that. And send the children to school, to learn to build and maintain the machines when they grow up.
The benefits far outweight the costs. It will be the same with UBI. Only getting there can be painful.
A friend of mine is hooked. He was in a multi year layoff phase and this summer finally departed from his employer. He got himself a ps4 a few years back and started playing division and WoT. After posting with his employer he's been doing that full time basically.
The thing is I totally get it. A good game and a good clan can keep you hooked for years. It's like surfing, climbing or some other awesome pastime. I was hooked to Argentine tango for 10 years. My life revolved around travelling around and often dancing 5 to 7 times a week, swapping my career for the tango bum life. I met women men usually can only dream of and had the most amazing pr0nstyle sex imaginable. But the big plus of tango that is that it comes with a very special kind of social life, which is why it's so awesome.
I also was hooked to unreal tournament back in 2000 and played that for a year or two a few hours per day.
But here's where I see addiction: I didn't totally void my social life and - this is the most important thing - didn't feel bad about it. So yea it had qualities off addiction, but I didn't use it to avoid uncomfortable situations. I actually made the active decision to live as a Tango bum and a hardcore gamer and kept up with my non addicted peers. Sort of.
My buddy OTOH won't even open the door for me or answer my texts for 3 months on end. Everyone is worried. His landlord, his brother, his mother, me, my daughter -who's uncle he basically is ... And so forth. That's not healthy. AFAIAC he can game for 10 years I a row. He had no family, enough resources and lives alone. Bit out is blatantly obvious that he's in a rut and needs a friendly asskick from his best friend the next the next time I get to see him.
So yeah, divorcing over fortnite? ITotallyGetThat.
My main mail-adresses have all have the trait that they are
a) easy to memorise
b) easy to pronounce
c) easy to understand
d) easy to spell out correctly
e) compareatively rare/unusual
My last name has the exact same traits and I have a domain that is my last name.
On the plus side, I maybe get 5 e-mails per week on my main account that I have had for 18 years now.
So no, I haven't gotten somebody elses email. Maybe once a decade or two back. But generally no.
But I do understand that there are people/names/addresses to whom this happens way more often. Obviously.
A shy and timid big guy doing ballgame announcements in high school and college. He learned to break through. We all know the results. They may not be pretty at all times, but they were effective.
Next up: Water wet! Pope catholic!
Ok, jokes aside. You have speaking anxiety? Quit winning and get some speaking and/or acting classes.
I did performing arts and even have a diploma in that and that has helped me to this very day. Highly recommended.
Apple and maybe some others should simply completely deactivate their services in Europe on the day this law takes effect.
Then we would see how consequent the EU Parliament really is. If they say:"well ok then, of Google FB and Co can't comply they really should shut their services off in Europe" then I'd be impressed. But they'd probably backpedal as fast as they humanly could. Cowards.
However, what Google an Co should do right away is deranked/remove all traces of any content provider anywhere as to have them disappear from the interwebs. That'll teach them.
... f*ck itself.
... yields great success in skimming a few extra beans.
Who woulda thunk?
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