You aren't right in a technical sense on this at all. It scary what Javascript and WebGL can do and the speed of it, but what is really scary is what a mess Javascript is in 2014 --- makes Perl look like BASIC. No need to obfuscate Javascript in 2014. Also I'm not sure if technologies like NaCL and WebGL should be in the future --- I guess, but it will be coming.
But more to the question, what kind of web is this leading to...
I used Adblock and Flashblock right now just to have a half-way decent experience on the internet to avoid a ghastly internet flash ads from downloading untold GBs of data/video/audio to annoy me without a way to mute it.
The internet is a train to nowhere and no one is driving it, big corporations will turn it into a minefield of advertising (which is FINE, by the way) but rip apart everything good (involuntary flash ads, bandwidth, speed, shitty cross-domain javascript, DRM, turn web standards into circuses) to get there.
Steve Jobs back 3 years did a rant again Flash, which at the time and still now embodies the villanous nature of plug-ins.
And with WebGL and video streaming and DRM in HTML5 --- your internet may get turned into a turdball --- just to waste everyone's bandwidth to show ads you will never click.
Which rights of yours are being assaulted when politicians and 1%ers use Google privacy requests to snuff true information and private dissent under the guise of "privacy".
One man's right to "privacy" is another man's right to control your information.
My "right" to privacy can be used to conceal fraud, criminal activity, bad press and do it with the brute force of government on my side.
And the brute force of government is the power to make you poor, to have you arrested, to put you in jail if you do not comply.
If it floats in water, it is going to get hit by perpetual exposure to UV radiation.
The same way sailors get sun burnt very quickly. UV gets reflected by water, enlarging the exposure. UV tears apart molecular bonds, which is why, for example, the ozone layer is so important.
I had said: Electric cars will have safety recalls.
You said: None of the things you mention are services that necessarily have to be performed by a dealership...
Safety recall fixes have to be done at a dealership. Like when GM issues a recall for the ignition switch that can catch a car on fire.
"Not specifically Tesla, but electric cars don't have alot of things that car dealers make money"
Electric cars need tires. Electric cars need brakes. Electric cars will have safety recalls. Electric cars can be in accidents. Electric cars can be broken into.
I don't claim to know much about electric cars, but if it has moving parts it will be need to be serviced at some point.
Government action and privacy laws are the only solution, which I can't see the government being interested in because they are one of the main perpetrators (NSA spying, etc.).
"Angry posts" didn't stop email spam or telemarketing abuse -- someone complaining on the internet is of no concern to a company that is trying to generate revenue. Both of those were dealt severe blows by laws.
1) Google and advertisers track you + accumulate data. 2) The government does the same 3) Credit reporting agencies and banks selling your debt/credit card transaction data. 4) Employers 5) Insurance companies + on and on
Facebook and Google and LinkedIn are just 3 companies built on invading your privacy and there are tons more.
Short version: You are losing your privacy. "Not liking it", "Angry posts" and the like won't change this.
On the plus side: They really aren't interested in "you". Not in the slightest, they just want to monetize "you".
If you don't like it, create fake awesome information about yourself and spread it all over the internet! Control your brand with utter bullshit!!
>You mean things like banning it on airplane flights, in restaurants
No, I mean very active efforts to slice and dice and causes and solutions and give those venues public funding and awareness campaigns and actually try to solve the problem.
"Smoking" got defeated through social awareness, anti-smoking campaigns, "stop smoking" programs, taxes, and tons of other efforts.
Today, efforts to curb obesity largely involves Michele Obama tinkering with school lunches --- which is a nice gesture, but is merely a gesture.
... the cab fare will be the same except there won't be a human receiving the wages.
Like how a Snickers bar costs $1.25 in a vending machine.
Not that there will be commonplace autonomous cars in the next 20 years, they will remain as common as the flying cars hypothesized in the 1960s... and the reason is simple:
Q) Why won't there be autonomous cars?
A) Because even a car that can handle 99% of normal driving situations is incredibly dangerous in that other 1% scenario. And that 1% scenario --- power is out and stop lights don't work or ad-hoc road construction or a very destructive pothole or severe rain that blunts sensors --- those happen on a very regular basis.
The only autonomous cars will be the ones we already have --- they are called trains! Not that they are "smart", but because their driving conditions are extremely simplified --- yet they STILL have drivers!!!
Much of the idea of wormholes came from the idea that universe might be spherical in topography --- like a hypersphere --- and a wormhole could poke through the hypersphere to create a shorter distance than even a line segment from Point A to Point B.
But measurements are looking like the universe is flat.
You never know what scientific discoveries the distant future could hold, but at the moment it looks bleak for the concept of wormholes since the universe doesn't seem to be a hypersphere at all.
You didn't provide a link to an existing Mac OS X application that uses Qt. My challenge was name a single one that anyone has heard of.
You didn't. My point has been made, I don't give a crap about your IDE of preference --- my statement is that no mainstream Mac OS X applications using Qt even exist.
And they don't. You can use whatever compiler you like, but in practice there are no such applications that even exist --- none --- and that was my point.
Did you provide a link to any OS X mainstream application? No you did not.
You might have provided some nifty rhetoric to someone OS X illiterate -- which is all fine and good --- but I as pointed out, there are no mainstream applications for OS X that use Qt. Zero = None = They Don't Exist.
Not only did you not provide one, no one else did either.
The scientific method is providing proof --- rhetoric and hot air is great, but science is providing evidence -- there is not any evidence of any mainstream application that has ever been made for Mac OS X and there is still none.
A claim of cross-platform is one thing. But in practice I know of no significant apps using Qt that exist in the wild that work on OS X.
Please provide a link to any mainstream working application for Mac OS X that uses Qt. I don't know of a single one because Qt's support for XCode is incredibly poor.
(And if I wrong, I will free accept it and eat my post, but I have yet to see one and I have actively looked. Qt's support for OS X is pretty, really bad but admitted I haven't tried it the last 18 months to see if anything changed).
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You aren't right in a technical sense on this at all. It scary what Javascript and WebGL can do and the speed of it, but what is really scary is what a mess Javascript is in 2014 --- makes Perl look like BASIC. No need to obfuscate Javascript in 2014. Also I'm not sure if technologies like NaCL and WebGL should be in the future --- I guess, but it will be coming.
...
But more to the question, what kind of web is this leading to
I used Adblock and Flashblock right now just to have a half-way decent experience on the internet to avoid a ghastly internet flash ads from downloading untold GBs of data/video/audio to annoy me without a way to mute it.
The internet is a train to nowhere and no one is driving it, big corporations will turn it into a minefield of advertising (which is FINE, by the way) but rip apart everything good (involuntary flash ads, bandwidth, speed, shitty cross-domain javascript, DRM, turn web standards into circuses) to get there.
Steve Jobs back 3 years did a rant again Flash, which at the time and still now embodies the villanous nature of plug-ins.
And with WebGL and video streaming and DRM in HTML5 --- your internet may get turned into a turdball --- just to waste everyone's bandwidth to show ads you will never click.
Which rights of yours are being assaulted when politicians and 1%ers use Google privacy requests to snuff true information and private dissent under the guise of "privacy".
One man's right to "privacy" is another man's right to control your information.
My "right" to privacy can be used to conceal fraud, criminal activity, bad press and do it with the brute force of government on my side.
And the brute force of government is the power to make you poor, to have you arrested, to put you in jail if you do not comply.
That.
UFOs, Bigfoot, Ghosts!
...
You would think the modern age of cameras in everyone's phones would produce evidence-a-plenty of these kinds of things.
But reality is far less interesting than we want it to be
No magic, no supernatural stuff --- and sadly no bigfoots or aliens that bother to come here and snatch cows.
If it floats in water, it is going to get hit by perpetual exposure to UV radiation.
The same way sailors get sun burnt very quickly. UV gets reflected by water, enlarging the exposure. UV tears apart molecular bonds, which is why, for example, the ozone layer is so important.
YouTube video has developer labouring away making an XXX app ...
Thanks for the detailed information.
I had said: Electric cars will have safety recalls.
You said: None of the things you mention are services that necessarily have to be performed by a dealership...
Safety recall fixes have to be done at a dealership. Like when GM issues a recall for the ignition switch that can catch a car on fire.
"Not specifically Tesla, but electric cars don't have alot of things that car dealers make money"
Electric cars need tires. Electric cars need brakes. Electric cars will have safety recalls. Electric cars can be in accidents. Electric cars can be broken into.
I don't claim to know much about electric cars, but if it has moving parts it will be need to be serviced at some point.
I don't think you thought your post through.
> probably cheaper to buy blackberry than develop a phone from scratch
If Blackberry can't market their own phones, how could a non-phone company like Amazon do so?
What is your advice on when to use semi-colons?
>So, what do you think WILL change it?
Government action and privacy laws are the only solution, which I can't see the government being interested in because they are one of the main perpetrators (NSA spying, etc.).
"Angry posts" didn't stop email spam or telemarketing abuse -- someone complaining on the internet is of no concern to a company that is trying to generate revenue. Both of those were dealt severe blows by laws.
Privacy, sadly, is a losing proposition.
1) Google and advertisers track you + accumulate data.
2) The government does the same
3) Credit reporting agencies and banks selling your debt/credit card transaction data.
4) Employers
5) Insurance companies + on and on
Facebook and Google and LinkedIn are just 3 companies built on invading your privacy and there are tons more.
Short version: You are losing your privacy. "Not liking it", "Angry posts" and the like won't change this.
On the plus side: They really aren't interested in "you". Not in the slightest, they just want to monetize "you".
If you don't like it, create fake awesome information about yourself and spread it all over the internet! Control your brand with utter bullshit!!
>You mean things like banning it on airplane flights, in restaurants
No, I mean very active efforts to slice and dice and causes and solutions and give those venues public funding and awareness campaigns and actually try to solve the problem.
"Smoking" got defeated through social awareness, anti-smoking campaigns, "stop smoking" programs, taxes, and tons of other efforts.
Today, efforts to curb obesity largely involves Michele Obama tinkering with school lunches --- which is a nice gesture, but is merely a gesture.
>Once autonomous vehicles are approved for use
... and the reason is simple:
... the cab fare will be the same except there won't be a human receiving the wages.
Like how a Snickers bar costs $1.25 in a vending machine.
Not that there will be commonplace autonomous cars in the next 20 years, they will remain as common as the flying cars hypothesized in the 1960s
Q) Why won't there be autonomous cars?
A) Because even a car that can handle 99% of normal driving situations is incredibly dangerous in that other 1% scenario. And that 1% scenario --- power is out and stop lights don't work or ad-hoc road construction or a very destructive pothole or severe rain that blunts sensors --- those happen on a very regular basis.
The only autonomous cars will be the ones we already have --- they are called trains! Not that they are "smart", but because their driving conditions are extremely simplified --- yet they STILL have drivers!!!
And governments should be looking for ways to curb/eliminate obesity (as incredibly hard as this is).
I expect governments to do the opposite, however, and not fight against obesity and instead grant it privledges (special park spaces, etc.) and such.
Bloomberg was one of the few politicians willing to stick his neck out and implement common sense reforms.
Obesity needs the treatment that smoking was given.
This game must make you angry and frustrated in order to use the functionality.
Please list out a list of activities that this game has to achieve the anger?
So glass loves water and anything else prone to Van der Waals forces.
Good luck with scaling rock or wood or metal.
Much of the idea of wormholes came from the idea that universe might be spherical in topography --- like a hypersphere --- and a wormhole could poke through the hypersphere to create a shorter distance than even a line segment from Point A to Point B.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question35.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe
But measurements are looking like the universe is flat.
You never know what scientific discoveries the distant future could hold, but at the moment it looks bleak for the concept of wormholes since the universe doesn't seem to be a hypersphere at all.
Never heard of it. Not even the GNU ever HERD of it.
Awesome post. And yet post #50 of a diatribe that fails to cite a single Mac OS X of significance that uses Qt.
My point isn't that *I am right*, but that what I point out *IS RIGHT*.
You can write any screed you like, but the facts are no Qt applications of any significance exist on Mac OS X.
You didn't provide a link to an existing Mac OS X application that uses Qt. My challenge was name a single one that anyone has heard of.
You didn't. My point has been made, I don't give a crap about your IDE of preference --- my statement is that no mainstream Mac OS X applications using Qt even exist.
And they don't. You can use whatever compiler you like, but in practice there are no such applications that even exist --- none --- and that was my point.
Did you provide a link to any OS X mainstream application? No you did not.
You might have provided some nifty rhetoric to someone OS X illiterate -- which is all fine and good --- but I as pointed out, there are no mainstream applications for OS X that use Qt. Zero = None = They Don't Exist.
Not only did you not provide one, no one else did either.
The scientific method is providing proof --- rhetoric and hot air is great, but science is providing evidence -- there is not any evidence of any mainstream application that has ever been made for Mac OS X and there is still none.
When Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, Cisco owned the trademark to iPhone as I recall. And he didn't care.
Apple has enough $$$ to payoff for virtually any name they set their mind to, just like what they did with the iPhone.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/01/27/apple-cisco-iphone-trademark/
No this is NOT a troll, please read.
A claim of cross-platform is one thing. But in practice I know of no significant apps using Qt that exist in the wild that work on OS X.
Please provide a link to any mainstream working application for Mac OS X that uses Qt. I don't know of a single one because Qt's support for XCode is incredibly poor.
(And if I wrong, I will free accept it and eat my post, but I have yet to see one and I have actively looked. Qt's support for OS X is pretty, really bad but admitted I haven't tried it the last 18 months to see if anything changed).