I've been working in the software world, at Microsoft as a contractor in the 90s and several other large companies and these kinds of predictions as I look back are almost always wrong.
I remember very clearly, many times, people predicting - "we won't have PCs! It will all be terminal based!" or some other various of the same. The truth? Computers are like rabbits, they are breeding. I have a phone (which is also a computer running an operating system) in my pocket, and several different kinds of computers in my life. Cloud services, for very low latency apps, are still problematic. So let's say I'm starting Photoshop, which I do often. Where is it stored? Locally? Locally on what? Or? Where does the processing for my giant image take place? So when I save an image that's 500 megabytes, it's going to be saved... over TCP/IP? And that super low latency, super high bandwidth stuff is going to be ubiquitous enough by 2025? I don't think so.
I especially love it when people make timeline predictions. Those are the best to look at an say, "THAT'S when they thought THAT STUFF would happen? That's hilarious!" Predicting things like this is almost like prophets of old predicting the end of the World. I'm not sure why people even try to do it.
At several times in the past Linux on the desktop was going to be the next big thing.
Make a list of how you would like whichever specific people to think, act and talk about you. I'll throw mine in too. No one ever told me I was necessarily going to "get thanks" for my efforts for anything in my life and for whatever reason, I don't expect it. When I get it, it doesn't matter. I'm fine with it, but I don't need it. I'm already doing what I want to be doing. If it wasn't what I want to be doing then I wouldn't do it.
If something in your world isn't pleasing to you and it's possible to change it, then that's what a person can do, if they can do it. But never have I thought that I could somehow hope to get others to have a certain attitude towards what I'm doing.
Heroes? You mean like Avenger movies? People in your world are not being good enough to you?
I suffer from manic depression. I've clawed my life back from the jaws of destruction on several occasions. I've lost everything a few times and struggled back. People don't pat me on the back for that. Those victories belong to me, at least. If someone else wants to know about them, I'm glad to tell them.
Defeated? I suspect that the specter of the full force of the feeling of defeat has not been met by what many of the Mint devs. I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking it's not WWI here.
Linux Mint is a fantastic OS, but it's niche. I use Windows. I've used almost all the modern PC (Windows, OS2, Linux, NeXT, etc) and Mac and OSX variants out there. I've been doing this for a long time. I use Windows because I want my hardware to work and I don't want to fight too hard to make it work. I want software that has deeply intuitive UI designs which generally make sense and are not Open Source afterthoughts. If a person chooses to work on Linux Mint, a niche OS for people who frankly are fussy about operating systems, then it would behoove them to expect what a person gets when they work on a niche OS. The fact is, statistically, people aren't paying that much attention to Linux Mint. When it comes to user space, the Linux crowd is the pure, the proud, the isolated.
They did something great, and that's not enough? I'm sorry people feel bad. That's never good. But I can't shake the feeling like "everyone needs to get a gold star." But, that's not life. Not everyone gets a gold star - whether or not they'd really like one.
I knew someone who lost their wonderful son in their early twenties to a horrible accident. I won't tell you the whole story, but suffice to say, the son _suffered_ before he died. My elderly friend John, telling me this story, said, "I learned something from that." I asked, "what was that?"
John looked me in eye with a steel gaze and said, "life ain't fair."
The problem is people. The human race has a good chance of going extinct. Then it won't matter. Then again, maybe the last human that perishes on the last day will say, "wait, did I change that password?" And then die.
The fact that these "genius" think they "know more about people than anyone else," is yet another mind game for the analytical thinkers among us. What does he know, exactly? Can he make reliable sociological predictions with this newfound power? Oh, that's right. No one can. So far they can't feed me ads that are interesting to me. It seems like if they knew who I was, they'd be able to assemble adds that spoke to my interests. There's a lot of unjustified bravado flowing around in Tech. I've been in tech for 22 years. I've seen a lot of unmitigated and unsubstantiated bravado from analytic types in tech in the past.
How about they target their ads so they actually matter to the people they are targeting? I'd even look at the ads if they did that. A few times I have purchased things that very much seemed targeted to my specific interests. Most of the time the ads seem to come from some alternate universe pointed at someone who is not me.
Let's consider the obvious, all drivers before they start the car should have a clear head and the intention of doing the best job they can as far as being safe. Why? Because they're driving something along that often, at speed, carries the energy of a bomb, can kill them and others, etc, etc. If anything distracts from that? It should eliminated. I'm a musician. I love music. I don't listen to music while I'm driving. Why? Because I get too into it. I start thinking about the music, how it's made, who's playing what and perhaps why. What does that do? It takes away thought cycles from driving. So what do I do? I don't listen to music while I drive. What's the trade off? I don't get to listen to music, and someone might not die because of it. Sounds like a fair trade.
I happen to be lucky enough to walk back and forth from work. Every day on the road, and countless times over the years, I see people staring into their phones at stoplights while people have to honk at them to get them moving. Most of us are addicted to these communication devices to the point of ridiculousness. To the point of risking our lives so we can answer that message asking something that certainly isn't life threatening. Driving cars is life threatening.
I think cell phones should shock users (electrically) who try to use them AT ANY TIME while driving, hands free or not. If we are multitasking (something we are very bad at) and attempting to drive while arguing with a workmate, or our spouse, or talking with anyone, or attempting to message, then this constitutes a danger to themselves and other drivers. "I can handle it," is not a reasonable response. Take a look at a full restaurant sometime. See how many people are beholden to their smartphones. Free yourself from it. And for the sake of everyone, drive in a way that you 1) realize your car is carrying the energy of a bomb, 2) you, and everyone else, cannot multitask worth a shit, and you shouldn't try doing it while driving no matter what you're ego tells you.
Maybe Adobe doesn't spend a lot of time catering to Apple products because the Mac OS has such a small share of the market. You pay more attention to who butters your bread. I'm no economist, but if I was at Adobe, I would say, "spend as little time on Apple as possible."
Like most apps on Linux for the user side compared to closed source apps, all the "calculators" being claimed here are bound to be a mismatch of probably OK code and dev laziness/chaos in user interfaces. I've been at this game for over twenty years now. I've spent years working on Linux and Windows. Long enough to see open source promises by the "crowd" come an go. It appears this crowd can only see this as some kind of joke. It's not a joke. MS is making Windows and the WLS file compatible with the next update. They're doing things. What are you all doing? Looks like you are sitting around with your 2% user market share - that never changes, and complaining. Sure, open source has a lot more calculators, and - almost no one cares.
Sometimes articles make it seem like Facebook or someone else went *out of their way* to advertise Nazi stuff to people. That's most probably not the case. They probably made some algorithm do something like. "if X is interested in Y, then send some Z their way." Sometimes that might mean Nazi stuff. Then this happens and people say, "see! FACEBOOK IS SUPPORTING NAZIS." Sorry folks, but sometimes software robotic automatons are not sensitive to everyone's predilections. The simple software robots we are using at this point do not make moral judgements (unless told to) and every possible situation that might crop up that is negative like this one, cannot, I repeat, cannot be accounted for. There's going to be some roadkill if you drive a bunch of cars down the road, and there's going to be some poorly chosen details if you let the amoral algorithmic robots choose for you. That's the breaks. We should be educating the masses that this will happen, but that we will adjust as we can to avoid these kinds of things in the future.
I'm Release Engineer. I get all my "to dos" through Slack in our company and almost never through email. If you want to get in contact with me, then you go though the channels I frequent. If you think I'm rude because you don't understand how I work? Well, maybe you should talk to me.
That's why I'm in release. Looking at a 2D screen all day and moving characters around in accordance with an imagined framework. Oh, THAT's exciting! It's exciting if you have a severe analytical bent. PUZZLES everyone loves PUZZLES! Right!? No, not everyone. If I'm going to puzzle about something, it's not going to be about which way I should move characters around in my editor. I have a "real life" out here, believe it or not. Telling someone like a Journalist, who actually interacts with humans (remember those?) to "learn to code," is tantamount to telling them to slit their throats in anguish. Who WANTS to code? Analytical puzzle solvers. And they are often not much fun at parties. Who needs to get off their high horse? Coders. You're not the salvation of Earth, you're just moving characters around and when something works.? "YOO HOO! I'm a GOD!" Yeah... you're a god. Sure.
I've been watching that guy off an on for years and years. Everything is a problem, everything, except what the thinks, is a huge terrible problem. No, he just is built that way. He'd do better if he didn't talk so much.
They've become the whipping boy. Will it last? No. Because it's a complex situation and the preference for whipping boys doesn't last. As far as I can tell, now, Facebook is a spawn of hell. Child of Satan, or maybe SANTA! I still use Facebook, and Fluff Buster Purity to block what I don't want to see. I keep up with family and friends, and pay no attention - at all to ads or political BS. Why? I don't see it. I like Facebook the way I have it set up. Controlled.
CDs, 16 bit/44.1khz. 96db of headroom, 22khz of bandwidth, no wow and flutter, no distortion, completely flat frequency response. Sure you can go up to higher bit rate and frequency if you need to record a gnat having sex on the top of a hydrogen atom. People either do not know, or forget, that more bits does not mean more quality. Nor does "more frequency." Why? Almost no music on earth has a larger dynamic range than 96db, and most producers are compressing and limiting their "music" to death anyway. As far as frequency, hardly any, if any, people on earth can hear past 20khz. I know people say, "oh, well ultrasonic sounds can really make a difference. That's dubious and inconclusive. Well, maybe if an atom bomb goes off near your recording studio and puts a huge amount of ultrasonic sound out... it might creep into the audible range. Even then, you'll be fried.
Apart from the OS debates of this over that, I use Windows 10 for ease of use in the areas that I like. Like recording and using Photoshop (much preferred over the Gimp). People, at least in the Windows world don't understand often that updating an operating system is more important than the level that they are bothered by it. If this gets the updates onto the disk, and gets them on people's machines easier, good for MS.
Slashdot Mirror
Right. I'm getting my moral philosophy from Mr. Torvalds. And, I might be a Chinese Jet Pilot....
Next we are going to make Execs take responsibility for Turing's Halting Problem, and for the correct interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
I've been working in the software world, at Microsoft as a contractor in the 90s and several other large companies and these kinds of predictions as I look back are almost always wrong. I remember very clearly, many times, people predicting - "we won't have PCs! It will all be terminal based!" or some other various of the same. The truth? Computers are like rabbits, they are breeding. I have a phone (which is also a computer running an operating system) in my pocket, and several different kinds of computers in my life. Cloud services, for very low latency apps, are still problematic. So let's say I'm starting Photoshop, which I do often. Where is it stored? Locally? Locally on what? Or? Where does the processing for my giant image take place? So when I save an image that's 500 megabytes, it's going to be saved ... over TCP/IP? And that super low latency, super high bandwidth stuff is going to be ubiquitous enough by 2025? I don't think so.
I especially love it when people make timeline predictions. Those are the best to look at an say, "THAT'S when they thought THAT STUFF would happen? That's hilarious!" Predicting things like this is almost like prophets of old predicting the end of the World. I'm not sure why people even try to do it.
At several times in the past Linux on the desktop was going to be the next big thing.
Make a list of how you would like whichever specific people to think, act and talk about you. I'll throw mine in too. No one ever told me I was necessarily going to "get thanks" for my efforts for anything in my life and for whatever reason, I don't expect it. When I get it, it doesn't matter. I'm fine with it, but I don't need it. I'm already doing what I want to be doing. If it wasn't what I want to be doing then I wouldn't do it. If something in your world isn't pleasing to you and it's possible to change it, then that's what a person can do, if they can do it. But never have I thought that I could somehow hope to get others to have a certain attitude towards what I'm doing. Heroes? You mean like Avenger movies? People in your world are not being good enough to you? I suffer from manic depression. I've clawed my life back from the jaws of destruction on several occasions. I've lost everything a few times and struggled back. People don't pat me on the back for that. Those victories belong to me, at least. If someone else wants to know about them, I'm glad to tell them. Defeated? I suspect that the specter of the full force of the feeling of defeat has not been met by what many of the Mint devs. I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking it's not WWI here. Linux Mint is a fantastic OS, but it's niche. I use Windows. I've used almost all the modern PC (Windows, OS2, Linux, NeXT, etc) and Mac and OSX variants out there. I've been doing this for a long time. I use Windows because I want my hardware to work and I don't want to fight too hard to make it work. I want software that has deeply intuitive UI designs which generally make sense and are not Open Source afterthoughts. If a person chooses to work on Linux Mint, a niche OS for people who frankly are fussy about operating systems, then it would behoove them to expect what a person gets when they work on a niche OS. The fact is, statistically, people aren't paying that much attention to Linux Mint. When it comes to user space, the Linux crowd is the pure, the proud, the isolated. They did something great, and that's not enough? I'm sorry people feel bad. That's never good. But I can't shake the feeling like "everyone needs to get a gold star." But, that's not life. Not everyone gets a gold star - whether or not they'd really like one. I knew someone who lost their wonderful son in their early twenties to a horrible accident. I won't tell you the whole story, but suffice to say, the son _suffered_ before he died. My elderly friend John, telling me this story, said, "I learned something from that." I asked, "what was that?" John looked me in eye with a steel gaze and said, "life ain't fair."
The problem is people. The human race has a good chance of going extinct. Then it won't matter. Then again, maybe the last human that perishes on the last day will say, "wait, did I change that password?" And then die.
No OS with "Disco" in it's name will ever be install on any computer equipment I am associated with.
The fact that these "genius" think they "know more about people than anyone else," is yet another mind game for the analytical thinkers among us. What does he know, exactly? Can he make reliable sociological predictions with this newfound power? Oh, that's right. No one can. So far they can't feed me ads that are interesting to me. It seems like if they knew who I was, they'd be able to assemble adds that spoke to my interests. There's a lot of unjustified bravado flowing around in Tech. I've been in tech for 22 years. I've seen a lot of unmitigated and unsubstantiated bravado from analytic types in tech in the past.
We're talking about gaming, right?
What if a person smokes enough pot every day to kill a horse? What does that do?
How about they target their ads so they actually matter to the people they are targeting? I'd even look at the ads if they did that. A few times I have purchased things that very much seemed targeted to my specific interests. Most of the time the ads seem to come from some alternate universe pointed at someone who is not me.
Let's consider the obvious, all drivers before they start the car should have a clear head and the intention of doing the best job they can as far as being safe. Why? Because they're driving something along that often, at speed, carries the energy of a bomb, can kill them and others, etc, etc. If anything distracts from that? It should eliminated. I'm a musician. I love music. I don't listen to music while I'm driving. Why? Because I get too into it. I start thinking about the music, how it's made, who's playing what and perhaps why. What does that do? It takes away thought cycles from driving. So what do I do? I don't listen to music while I drive. What's the trade off? I don't get to listen to music, and someone might not die because of it. Sounds like a fair trade. I happen to be lucky enough to walk back and forth from work. Every day on the road, and countless times over the years, I see people staring into their phones at stoplights while people have to honk at them to get them moving. Most of us are addicted to these communication devices to the point of ridiculousness. To the point of risking our lives so we can answer that message asking something that certainly isn't life threatening. Driving cars is life threatening. I think cell phones should shock users (electrically) who try to use them AT ANY TIME while driving, hands free or not. If we are multitasking (something we are very bad at) and attempting to drive while arguing with a workmate, or our spouse, or talking with anyone, or attempting to message, then this constitutes a danger to themselves and other drivers. "I can handle it," is not a reasonable response. Take a look at a full restaurant sometime. See how many people are beholden to their smartphones. Free yourself from it. And for the sake of everyone, drive in a way that you 1) realize your car is carrying the energy of a bomb, 2) you, and everyone else, cannot multitask worth a shit, and you shouldn't try doing it while driving no matter what you're ego tells you.
Maybe Adobe doesn't spend a lot of time catering to Apple products because the Mac OS has such a small share of the market. You pay more attention to who butters your bread. I'm no economist, but if I was at Adobe, I would say, "spend as little time on Apple as possible."
We should stop now.
Like most apps on Linux for the user side compared to closed source apps, all the "calculators" being claimed here are bound to be a mismatch of probably OK code and dev laziness/chaos in user interfaces. I've been at this game for over twenty years now. I've spent years working on Linux and Windows. Long enough to see open source promises by the "crowd" come an go. It appears this crowd can only see this as some kind of joke. It's not a joke. MS is making Windows and the WLS file compatible with the next update. They're doing things. What are you all doing? Looks like you are sitting around with your 2% user market share - that never changes, and complaining. Sure, open source has a lot more calculators, and - almost no one cares.
Sometimes articles make it seem like Facebook or someone else went *out of their way* to advertise Nazi stuff to people. That's most probably not the case. They probably made some algorithm do something like. "if X is interested in Y, then send some Z their way." Sometimes that might mean Nazi stuff. Then this happens and people say, "see! FACEBOOK IS SUPPORTING NAZIS." Sorry folks, but sometimes software robotic automatons are not sensitive to everyone's predilections. The simple software robots we are using at this point do not make moral judgements (unless told to) and every possible situation that might crop up that is negative like this one, cannot, I repeat, cannot be accounted for. There's going to be some roadkill if you drive a bunch of cars down the road, and there's going to be some poorly chosen details if you let the amoral algorithmic robots choose for you. That's the breaks. We should be educating the masses that this will happen, but that we will adjust as we can to avoid these kinds of things in the future.
I'm Release Engineer. I get all my "to dos" through Slack in our company and almost never through email. If you want to get in contact with me, then you go though the channels I frequent. If you think I'm rude because you don't understand how I work? Well, maybe you should talk to me.
Wait... is there a Slashdot unsend?
That's why I'm in release. Looking at a 2D screen all day and moving characters around in accordance with an imagined framework. Oh, THAT's exciting! It's exciting if you have a severe analytical bent. PUZZLES everyone loves PUZZLES! Right!? No, not everyone. If I'm going to puzzle about something, it's not going to be about which way I should move characters around in my editor. I have a "real life" out here, believe it or not. Telling someone like a Journalist, who actually interacts with humans (remember those?) to "learn to code," is tantamount to telling them to slit their throats in anguish. Who WANTS to code? Analytical puzzle solvers. And they are often not much fun at parties. Who needs to get off their high horse? Coders. You're not the salvation of Earth, you're just moving characters around and when something works.? "YOO HOO! I'm a GOD!" Yeah... you're a god. Sure.
I've been watching that guy off an on for years and years. Everything is a problem, everything, except what the thinks, is a huge terrible problem. No, he just is built that way. He'd do better if he didn't talk so much.
They've become the whipping boy. Will it last? No. Because it's a complex situation and the preference for whipping boys doesn't last. As far as I can tell, now, Facebook is a spawn of hell. Child of Satan, or maybe SANTA! I still use Facebook, and Fluff Buster Purity to block what I don't want to see. I keep up with family and friends, and pay no attention - at all to ads or political BS. Why? I don't see it. I like Facebook the way I have it set up. Controlled.
CDs, 16 bit/44.1khz. 96db of headroom, 22khz of bandwidth, no wow and flutter, no distortion, completely flat frequency response. Sure you can go up to higher bit rate and frequency if you need to record a gnat having sex on the top of a hydrogen atom. People either do not know, or forget, that more bits does not mean more quality. Nor does "more frequency." Why? Almost no music on earth has a larger dynamic range than 96db, and most producers are compressing and limiting their "music" to death anyway. As far as frequency, hardly any, if any, people on earth can hear past 20khz. I know people say, "oh, well ultrasonic sounds can really make a difference. That's dubious and inconclusive. Well, maybe if an atom bomb goes off near your recording studio and puts a huge amount of ultrasonic sound out... it might creep into the audible range. Even then, you'll be fried.
There's no reason to comply.
Is it going to focus on hipsters everywhere, 24/7?
Well, I'm sure they have people watching employees all the time and none of the files ever escape. Right?
Apart from the OS debates of this over that, I use Windows 10 for ease of use in the areas that I like. Like recording and using Photoshop (much preferred over the Gimp). People, at least in the Windows world don't understand often that updating an operating system is more important than the level that they are bothered by it. If this gets the updates onto the disk, and gets them on people's machines easier, good for MS.