What this kind of paranoid person doesn't understand is that they can already track you to an incredible degree, and there's fuck all you can do about it, so ultimately all you're doing is arguing against having the convenience. Black markets exist anyway, so that's not really an argument either.
If I had my way, you could patent whatever you like about the device, but third-party options for consumables must be available and their use not deliberately prevented or impaired by the device.
True, but the point isn't really "this is right now better in every way than current conventional construction methods", but that this is a significant milestone along the way to being able to put a machine down on a vacant lot, set it going and having a completed house a day or two later. And in practical terms, no residential construction job is ever done with teams working at full tilt around the clock, but this does. And as noted, it's not a huge leap from here to automated systems laying down plumbing and wiring during the process and then painting it.
While generally a valid complaint about the way people talk about operating systems, the article does mention that they're replacing the Linux kernel here.
You are probably thinking about the boss monitoring every movement of his employees in order to punish them later if they take too many breaks. Truth is : the boss doesn't give a shit.
A good boss doesn't give a shit. A bad boss is under the mistaken impression that employees must be going full throttle 100% of the time and tries to find ways to enforce that.
There's a couple of basic problems the submitter and his circle of friends have here that makes it appear that it's not as cool or fun anymore. The first is that they're old enough to start seeing things that are different from how they were in their childhoods as not as good. The second is that they're looking at the designed to be idiot-proof mass market and expecting to see DIY where you can get your hands dirty messing with the inner workings of things.
Games being tied to DRM is an issue, but it can be avoided. It does mean giving up certain games, but that's the reality. If you're a vegetarian, it means living with not eating that steak you'd really like. Otherwise, most of the "basic freedoms" are still there. Use Linux (or BSD, if you prefer) and you can tinker with your software setup to your heart's content. Sure, you don't get these specific de facto standard software suites, but there's by and large a way to do what they do.
The problem that does exist is that everything's more complex, but that doesn't necessarily make things less fun. There's a ton of cool shit that you can do that was simply not possible back then, because you don't have to re-invent the wheel at the lower levels to do anything. If you do want to screw around at that kind of lower level, there are things you can get to do that with, but it's unrealistic to still expect to be able to do that with the same kind of personal computer that everyone else uses to do other stuff with.
It will become very automated, but there will still need to be some degree of human involvement, just like every other industry that has had the absolute shit automated out of it... which is to say just about all of them.
The question of whether or not [industry] will be mostly automated isn't the one we should be asking, because the answer is that it inevitably will be. The question we should be asking is "what is to become of all the people no longer needed to do these jobs?", or better yet "should getting basic necessities to live such as food and housing continue be tied to performing work when increasing automation means that jobs for humans grow fewer while human population grows larger?"
The answer may lie in a universal basic income, or it might lie in adjusting the workforce so each individual works way fewer hours, or possibly some combination of both. And/or something else again. What is for certain is that the "everyone must work 40 hours a week to get by" model is unsustainable.
As a co-worker from Australia said during the last election when someone said they would move their "good luck getting in, immigration is far more controlled where I came from."
And actually traditionally more racist than US immigration, too.
If his interference in the US election campaign is the reason his internet's been cut off, then I'm in favour of it being cut off. I've really not been impressed by all of the Hillary-bashing Wikileaks has been doing lately. If they were exposing the wrongdoing of both candidates, it'd be fine, but they're not saying a damned thing about Trump. And it's pretty fucking unlikely they don't have anything on Trump.
This isn't to say I'm the biggest fan of Hillary, but she is the lesser of the two presented evils by a very large margin.
I did not bribe 7-11 $1 to give me a Big Gulp. My boss does not bribe me to come in to work.
Of course not. That is the normal, expected exchange of money for goods or services.
One does not bribe a horse to gallop faster with a whip.
No, one uses pain/the fear of pain to motivate it to move faster. A more apt animal example would be using treats to encourage behavior while training a dog, and that does qualify as bribery.
Magnetic fields do not bribe a compass needle.
Of course not. That's the effect of a natural phenomenon, which has no will or intelligence, much less reason to influence a piece of metal to act in a way it otherwise would not have.
And Samsung did not attempt to bribe an unfortunate phone owner.
So when have you ever been unable to run whatever software you want in Windows? Use what ever hardware you want?
For software, my mum wanted to play an earlier version of FreeCell on Windows 10. Windows outright refused to run it, no matter what we did. For hardware, my spare PC has a sound card that will not work in Windows 7 or later, but works just fine with Linux.
And, as always, they don't make a good enough copy to actually work properly. Steve Jobs managed to convince at least some people that his version of reality was true, no-one believes this.
Australia has changed completely to chip cards. Mag swipe is no longer accepted.
Not strictly true; it does still exist as a fallback if chip and contactless fail, and there are still cards out there that lack chips. Australian cards that lack chips are getting much rarer, but I still see a fair few foreign cards that are mag swipe only.
And I'm not sure how you can reduce a label to 80% and have it still work, though I'm admittedly somewhat ignorant on barcode standards. Do the labels still even scan?
I do know a thing or two about barcodes. They're not based on absolute measurements of line thickness, they're proportional. Look at any random half dozen different items with barcodes on the packaging, odds are they'll all be the same standard and there'll be at least three different sizes represented. A barcode reader that can only read one specific size of barcode would be fucking useless.
Therefore, as long as the scaling is fairly precise, you can shrink (or grow) just about any given barcode and still reasonably expect it to scan. Allowing for how precise with small print or how wide an area the average barcode reader can handle, of course.
Besides which, if memory serves, the DMCA requires that the host take down the content, and it's up to whoever posted the content to dispute it. But I am not a lawyer, so take with a grain of salt.
Indeed. Barter works if you can easily find someone who has what you want and doesn't want it for himself, wants what you have and you don't want it for yourself, and you both agree that they have more-or-less the same value. Utterly unworkable for sustaining a society of any meaningful size on its own.
This bothers me because I have found most SJW types to be arrogant, offensive jackasses
Some are, but in my experiences the people who complain about "SJW"s tend to be worse.
and I think the majority of the public would agree with me.
You can think that. I suspect the reality is closer to a small amount really agreeing, a small amount really disagreeing, and the majority not much caring one way or the other.
If I watch a video from a channel I'm subscribed to, it's almost always because I like the content and view that content in a positive way. And if I view the content in a positive way, even if it's "offensive" to someone else, I will also view the sponsor in a positive way.
And that would be fine, and the end of the discussion, if all of the advertising world was focused on selling to you and only you. But it's not, and if you view the content in a positive way but ten other people are offended by it and boycott whoever was sponsoring it, they lose more than they gain from you viewing the sponsor positively.
Naturally, it's all a bit more complex than that, but the point is that when the sponsor views something in a negative way, it's usually relating to how much of their target audience they're expecting to view it negatively enough to cost them.
I'm not sure how active desktop development needs to be for a single *nix desktop environment.
Back in the day, it was the difference between useful and soon to be useless, but these days not very.
It's also not really that vital that all the applications I use are the ones provided by my desktop environment. So Konqueror hasn't really kept up? Big deal, I mostly use a mix of Firefox and Chromium anyway. KMail old and ugly? Doesn't matter, I never use an email client these days. And if I did, it would likely be Thunderbird anyway.
So all I truly need from a desktop environment is that it looks and behaves the way I like. KDE is, and has been for a long time, the best at that for me. Will I some day want some features from my desktop environment that KDE doesn't provide? Possibly. But until that day comes, I don't much care how actively KDE is developed, as long as it continues to work.
The RCMP (who btw are not entitled to the "Royal TItle" in any way whatsoever)
How do you figure? Canada is still a part of the British Commonwealth, and it was given the Royal title by King Edward VII. It doesn't really get any more entitled to being called Royal than the fucking King calling it Royal.
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What this kind of paranoid person doesn't understand is that they can already track you to an incredible degree, and there's fuck all you can do about it, so ultimately all you're doing is arguing against having the convenience. Black markets exist anyway, so that's not really an argument either.
We don't have EFTPOS facilities that are anywhere near reliable enough for cashless to be realistic.
If I had my way, you could patent whatever you like about the device, but third-party options for consumables must be available and their use not deliberately prevented or impaired by the device.
True, but the point isn't really "this is right now better in every way than current conventional construction methods", but that this is a significant milestone along the way to being able to put a machine down on a vacant lot, set it going and having a completed house a day or two later. And in practical terms, no residential construction job is ever done with teams working at full tilt around the clock, but this does. And as noted, it's not a huge leap from here to automated systems laying down plumbing and wiring during the process and then painting it.
While generally a valid complaint about the way people talk about operating systems, the article does mention that they're replacing the Linux kernel here.
You are probably thinking about the boss monitoring every movement of his employees in order to punish them later if they take too many breaks. Truth is : the boss doesn't give a shit.
A good boss doesn't give a shit. A bad boss is under the mistaken impression that employees must be going full throttle 100% of the time and tries to find ways to enforce that.
Because unions are COMMUNISM, and that's UN-AMERICAN!
There's a couple of basic problems the submitter and his circle of friends have here that makes it appear that it's not as cool or fun anymore. The first is that they're old enough to start seeing things that are different from how they were in their childhoods as not as good. The second is that they're looking at the designed to be idiot-proof mass market and expecting to see DIY where you can get your hands dirty messing with the inner workings of things.
Games being tied to DRM is an issue, but it can be avoided. It does mean giving up certain games, but that's the reality. If you're a vegetarian, it means living with not eating that steak you'd really like. Otherwise, most of the "basic freedoms" are still there. Use Linux (or BSD, if you prefer) and you can tinker with your software setup to your heart's content. Sure, you don't get these specific de facto standard software suites, but there's by and large a way to do what they do.
The problem that does exist is that everything's more complex, but that doesn't necessarily make things less fun. There's a ton of cool shit that you can do that was simply not possible back then, because you don't have to re-invent the wheel at the lower levels to do anything. If you do want to screw around at that kind of lower level, there are things you can get to do that with, but it's unrealistic to still expect to be able to do that with the same kind of personal computer that everyone else uses to do other stuff with.
It will become very automated, but there will still need to be some degree of human involvement, just like every other industry that has had the absolute shit automated out of it... which is to say just about all of them.
The question of whether or not [industry] will be mostly automated isn't the one we should be asking, because the answer is that it inevitably will be. The question we should be asking is "what is to become of all the people no longer needed to do these jobs?", or better yet "should getting basic necessities to live such as food and housing continue be tied to performing work when increasing automation means that jobs for humans grow fewer while human population grows larger?"
The answer may lie in a universal basic income, or it might lie in adjusting the workforce so each individual works way fewer hours, or possibly some combination of both. And/or something else again. What is for certain is that the "everyone must work 40 hours a week to get by" model is unsustainable.
As a co-worker from Australia said during the last election when someone said they would move their "good luck getting in, immigration is far more controlled where I came from."
And actually traditionally more racist than US immigration, too.
That's why it should be accompanied by reform of the system such that votes aren't considered worthless.
Getting rid of the Electoral College would be a nice start, but what's really needed is a complete overhaul of the electoral system.
If his interference in the US election campaign is the reason his internet's been cut off, then I'm in favour of it being cut off. I've really not been impressed by all of the Hillary-bashing Wikileaks has been doing lately. If they were exposing the wrongdoing of both candidates, it'd be fine, but they're not saying a damned thing about Trump. And it's pretty fucking unlikely they don't have anything on Trump.
This isn't to say I'm the biggest fan of Hillary, but she is the lesser of the two presented evils by a very large margin.
The pedantry is strong with this one...
I did not bribe 7-11 $1 to give me a Big Gulp. My boss does not bribe me to come in to work.
Of course not. That is the normal, expected exchange of money for goods or services.
One does not bribe a horse to gallop faster with a whip.
No, one uses pain/the fear of pain to motivate it to move faster. A more apt animal example would be using treats to encourage behavior while training a dog, and that does qualify as bribery.
Magnetic fields do not bribe a compass needle.
Of course not. That's the effect of a natural phenomenon, which has no will or intelligence, much less reason to influence a piece of metal to act in a way it otherwise would not have.
And Samsung did not attempt to bribe an unfortunate phone owner.
Yes, they bloody well did.
So when have you ever been unable to run whatever software you want in Windows? Use what ever hardware you want?
For software, my mum wanted to play an earlier version of FreeCell on Windows 10. Windows outright refused to run it, no matter what we did. For hardware, my spare PC has a sound card that will not work in Windows 7 or later, but works just fine with Linux.
And, as always, they don't make a good enough copy to actually work properly. Steve Jobs managed to convince at least some people that his version of reality was true, no-one believes this.
Australia has changed completely to chip cards. Mag swipe is no longer accepted.
Not strictly true; it does still exist as a fallback if chip and contactless fail, and there are still cards out there that lack chips. Australian cards that lack chips are getting much rarer, but I still see a fair few foreign cards that are mag swipe only.
There is no country on Earth more stubbornly refusing to modernise than the US.
And I'm not sure how you can reduce a label to 80% and have it still work, though I'm admittedly somewhat ignorant on barcode standards. Do the labels still even scan?
I do know a thing or two about barcodes. They're not based on absolute measurements of line thickness, they're proportional. Look at any random half dozen different items with barcodes on the packaging, odds are they'll all be the same standard and there'll be at least three different sizes represented. A barcode reader that can only read one specific size of barcode would be fucking useless.
Therefore, as long as the scaling is fairly precise, you can shrink (or grow) just about any given barcode and still reasonably expect it to scan. Allowing for how precise with small print or how wide an area the average barcode reader can handle, of course.
Besides which, if memory serves, the DMCA requires that the host take down the content, and it's up to whoever posted the content to dispute it. But I am not a lawyer, so take with a grain of salt.
Indeed. Barter works if you can easily find someone who has what you want and doesn't want it for himself, wants what you have and you don't want it for yourself, and you both agree that they have more-or-less the same value. Utterly unworkable for sustaining a society of any meaningful size on its own.
This bothers me because I have found most SJW types to be arrogant, offensive jackasses
Some are, but in my experiences the people who complain about "SJW"s tend to be worse.
and I think the majority of the public would agree with me.
You can think that. I suspect the reality is closer to a small amount really agreeing, a small amount really disagreeing, and the majority not much caring one way or the other.
If I watch a video from a channel I'm subscribed to, it's almost always because I like the content and view that content in a positive way. And if I view the content in a positive way, even if it's "offensive" to someone else, I will also view the sponsor in a positive way.
And that would be fine, and the end of the discussion, if all of the advertising world was focused on selling to you and only you. But it's not, and if you view the content in a positive way but ten other people are offended by it and boycott whoever was sponsoring it, they lose more than they gain from you viewing the sponsor positively.
Naturally, it's all a bit more complex than that, but the point is that when the sponsor views something in a negative way, it's usually relating to how much of their target audience they're expecting to view it negatively enough to cost them.
I'm not sure how active desktop development needs to be for a single *nix desktop environment.
Back in the day, it was the difference between useful and soon to be useless, but these days not very.
It's also not really that vital that all the applications I use are the ones provided by my desktop environment. So Konqueror hasn't really kept up? Big deal, I mostly use a mix of Firefox and Chromium anyway. KMail old and ugly? Doesn't matter, I never use an email client these days. And if I did, it would likely be Thunderbird anyway.
So all I truly need from a desktop environment is that it looks and behaves the way I like. KDE is, and has been for a long time, the best at that for me. Will I some day want some features from my desktop environment that KDE doesn't provide? Possibly. But until that day comes, I don't much care how actively KDE is developed, as long as it continues to work.
The RCMP (who btw are not entitled to the "Royal TItle" in any way whatsoever)
How do you figure? Canada is still a part of the British Commonwealth, and it was given the Royal title by King Edward VII. It doesn't really get any more entitled to being called Royal than the fucking King calling it Royal.