They forget to mention that maps was like the only option that didn't include some form of video ads, so if it were on there was no chance of distraction.
But now we have to wring every last penny out of every aspect of life. Get bombarded with ads or pay to be ad-free.
That's probably the next step in the maps evolution; people will turn the crap off if it becomes too ad-laden. Then they'll offer an ad-free version for a small price...
We don't have to turn everything into a revenue source...
I don't care that anyone would see, via a warrant, the fact that I shop at amazon, read slashdot, write code and sometimes even surf porn.
I'll give you my browser history if you really want to see it. Doesn't mean jack to me.
What I hate though is the creepy advertising. If I go to amazon to look for a blanket, every non-amazon site I visit is going to show me blankets. This creepy feeling that folks are following me around trying to tempt me with something I looked at because I had a need at the time, that's the stuff that I don't want.
I seem to only find this sentiment in developers after the code goes into production.
There's no thought given to the impact of not using a connection pool or not caching retrieved data or whether or not to overarchitect a complex solution with tons of layers for a relatively simple problem...
It's too bad devs aren't trained to consider runtime aspects of their code before they start developing it...
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First time in a long time I wished I had mod points...
Since they can't gather the telemetry from folks not using their crappy browser and crappy search engine, they needed a way to grab it from the competitors.
So here, install this extension to make your windows integration work better, yeah, that's the ticket.
Meanwhile you're just handing over the data to M$ on top of everyone else...
Back in the day on Usenet, you got flamed, you took your lumps, perhaps apologized, and kept on posting. You learned your lesson. You didn't go cry and then subvert the community via the force of a CoC.
Sure, I remember the first time I got flamed. I posted a question about how to do something that was fairly obvious per the documentation I didn't read.
Instead of pointing me to the doco or telling me to RTFM, the responder said "Hey, your answer is here..." and provided a link to goatse.cx
Having not been aware of it, it was quite disturbing; I still feel dirty having seen it.
A different kind of person, with a different background, a different sex, etc. could have found it even more disturbing. Honestly it was an inappropriate response that had nothing to do with the matter at hand and it was uncalled for, but a poor attempt at humor (at best) and an outright personal attack (at worst).
It's behavior like this that CoC's are intended to prevent, not pointing out bad code or bad questions or RTFM and the like.
Let's not conflate the need for a CoC to address bad behavior with the necessary aspects of dealing with code contributions from diverse sources.
Sure, there are extremists on both sides, I wouldn't want to comment on the fringe...
But in general all that is asked for is fairness, equality, freedom and respect. When you are the target of unfairness, inequality, oppression or disrespect, a token gesture such as a CoC offers light in an otherwise dreary state.
Seen from a position that receives more than an equal share of fairness, favor, options and advantage, it is often hard to relate to those on the other side of the equation. From that perspective, CoCs can be seen as a joke because certainly no one can be suffering so badly as to warrant such a foolish statement protecting what the advantaged obviously benefit from.
Will we ever live in a colorblind, sex-blind, country-blind, age-blind, religion-blind world? I doubt it, we seem to prone to prejudice of one sort or another. But should we really challenge those that push for such a world? I mean, after all they would fight just as hard for our freedoms as they do for others...
Since updates are delivered automatically and electronically, any printed manual that would ship with a product is pretty much out of date as soon as it is turned on.
The android example is a good one. First it is not a pure android, so a manual from Google might not even apply (the manufacturer and cell provider can tweak it). Second, it is not a pure product, so a manual from name your hardware vendor here may not even apply (because the cell provider can change it). Your cell provider often has the last say on what is on the device initially, which apps are there, configuration etc., but as configuration they won't have a manual for all of the stuff they don't touch.
And as soon as it is turned on and updated, any manual it might have had may not even resemble what you are looking at in the slightest.
Besides, isn't this more about a relationship anyway? I mean, you'll bond more with a device that is more like a puzzle that you have to figure out than one that comes with a manual. Along the way, you'll want to know more about it, will do research and eventually you'll find and try all of those features you want to find in a manual, but this time you'll have a relationship with it which is more important to the vendors than an actual manual.
Everyone loves to hate on Apple, but their products have no manuals and yet they have a huge list of fans. The missing manual isn't what garners such love from the fans, it is the building of the relationship with apple and the devices that leads to this kind of fanaticism.
Translating his corporate spin into English is pretty easy; subtract the downplay of bad news he was trying to deliver and you basically have this translation:
Yes, Linux is kicking our ass in Azure and we're looking at 75-90% of Linux servers vs Windows servers.
He starts with a premise that "Modern cars work, let’s say for the sake of argument, at 98% of what’s physically possible with the current engine design." and then goes on to lament why software, computers, hardware etc is not at the same 98% level.
But let's be serious - the infrastructure (roads, lights, bridges, signage, "power supply") is not changing on a daily basis. "Current engine design" is mostly based on a decades-old model, and new thinkers and fresh ideas face a mountain of resistance trying to get new concepts launched.
The car manufactures, parts manufactures, labor unions, distribution channels, sales dealerships, govt agencies, international agreements, etc. all have a vested interest in preventing disruption from being introduced let alone getting a foothold. They also have deep enough pockets to either buy&bury ideas or wrap up in expensive litigation and also launch an all-out media blitz to spread FUD.
So sure, if all we had was the old IE as our one and only browser, things would be different. M$ could push its weight around and prevent new browsers from taking hold. Software developers could write all code for IE. We'd use silverlight and ADP and IIS and our stuff would work 98% of the time and what, the world would be better off with all of that stagnation?
That's not the only problem I have with his article, it is just the first of many. Every "issue" he points to, taken by itself and viewed only from his perspective, would seem to have merit. But if you do any further review and apply some critical thinking, his house of cards comes crashing down.
Take the NPM graph. Yes there are a lot of modules from various different sources, all woven together into a working app. Yes there is fragility in that a single update to one of the modules can disrupt the whole. So this is true, but what is the solution? Would NPM be better if the developers coded everything themselves by hand? Is the world really going to be better if every project is 100% home grown so as to not have the same sort of dependency graph?
Or his Docker rant: "we put Docker inside virtual machines, simply because nobody was able to clean up the mess that most programs, languages and their environment produce." Docker isn't popular because of the cruft in programs, languages and environments. While it is true that each Linux distribution has its own take on system layout and admins can further customize, Docker isn't there to cover a mess. Docker provides application isolation from the underlying host, but it also provides host isolation from the applications. Containerization and isolation are good things because of the preventative aspects they provide, not because they are trying to hide messes.
A piece of software is nothing more than a collection of choices. Each choice is typically made individually, and the hope is that making the right individual choices will lead to a solution which represents the best possible outcome. I can choose whether to use commons-lang for a string utility or I can write my own, each side has pros and cons and I will choose the best path based on how the code will be used. If I'm building a generic war, I'm not going to make the same decision that I would if I were targeting an embedded JVM on a piece of hardware. It is easy on the outside to later claim my war is bloated or my embedded solution is lacking some additional useful methods, but those complaints are based upon not appreciating the various choices that were made for the right reasons.
This guy's at odds with himself. If he wants a fast starting mobile phone, there are still carriers that provide flip phones w/ limited app support, features and functionality. They start up really fast, so he should be happy. But he wouldn't be, he'd be lamenting the fact that his phone doesn't have what the others have.
We all get these stupid calls. Indian-based Microsoft support proactively finding a problem on your computer and they have the solution. We heard you suffer from chronic pain, we have things that will help. You've been selected for a free trip to Disneyworld. There's a solution for your creditcard debt. Refinance your student loans to get a lock-in before DeVoss ends the program.
It is all bullshit. We know that.
So why do they keep coming?
Because they freaking work. You get one moron that only goes online once a week on their 56k dialup line at home to check the facebook, they're more than willing to whip out their credit card to take advantage of such a limited time, exclusive offer.
It's that one moron that ruins it for us all. The scammers then make money, the carriers make money, etc., so they are incentivized to call the rest of us looking for more idiots.
What I want to know is whether Zuckerberg and all of the rest of the FB execs have Facebook on their phones.
Akin to The Circle, while maybe not a box office smash, points out how the social network company execs love to have more people join and use their platforms, that often times they know so much about what is going on with the apps and the data that they choose not to participate themselves.
Being a cynic, however, seeing an active exec on the platform, I would likely assume they had two (or more) devices, one to give the impression they were fully behind the platform and the others to use when they powered down the infected device.
Because we elect representatives and the representatives are bought and paid for by corporations and the rich, things will never be fair. We will never see a UBI because that will never be allowed to come to a vote.
Instead of being a representative democracy, we should change over to a direct democracy. Let the people individually vote on dreamers, gun control, environmental issues, drug laws,... You'll quickly find that things would change, some for the worst, but more for the best. The rich would have to spend their money convincing us to go their way instead of our cheap house and senate representatives.
No one has granted you carte blanche to access our data, our lives, our thoughts.
The big problem here is the effort to prevent a crime vs solving a crime.
The government, the police, the feds, etc. want access to prevent a crime, but that in itself is quite fluid because, as Trump is demonstrating, it can be a "crime" just to say he is a foolish, petulant child. So they want access to everything to "prevent" this kind of thing.
While I might support cracking something open for additional evidence to solve a crime, where at least one or more judges agree that a crime has been committed and where the courts can be used to argue whether or not to force the opening, I would never consent to allowing any so-called authority a pass key to dig around in my stuff in a preventative fishing expedition.
I get significantly better pricing on Amazon, especially w/ Prime shipping. Newegg always rapes me with the separate shipping charges, return charges, restocking fees, etc.
Opt-in is only for the "benefits". Trust me, they are still collecting and selling all of the other stuff w/ the regulation dismantlement by congress regardless of what they are telling us.
Hey, you can let the devices connect to the internet, you're just blocking brain-dead incoming telnet traffic to the device.
Assuming, of course, that you know how to configure routing on your internal network and know what port(s) from the device are needed to support necessary connectivity...
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They forget to mention that maps was like the only option that didn't include some form of video ads, so if it were on there was no chance of distraction.
But now we have to wring every last penny out of every aspect of life. Get bombarded with ads or pay to be ad-free.
That's probably the next step in the maps evolution; people will turn the crap off if it becomes too ad-laden. Then they'll offer an ad-free version for a small price...
We don't have to turn everything into a revenue source...
I don't care that anyone would see, via a warrant, the fact that I shop at amazon, read slashdot, write code and sometimes even surf porn.
I'll give you my browser history if you really want to see it. Doesn't mean jack to me.
What I hate though is the creepy advertising. If I go to amazon to look for a blanket, every non-amazon site I visit is going to show me blankets. This creepy feeling that folks are following me around trying to tempt me with something I looked at because I had a need at the time, that's the stuff that I don't want.
I seem to only find this sentiment in developers after the code goes into production.
There's no thought given to the impact of not using a connection pool or not caching retrieved data or whether or not to overarchitect a complex solution with tons of layers for a relatively simple problem...
It's too bad devs aren't trained to consider runtime aspects of their code before they start developing it...
First time in a long time I wished I had mod points...
His name was O'Tierney, but his mother's name was just Tierney?
Never heard of that before.
Otherwise a loss of another good person...
But you have to pay thru the nose to view it...
Since they can't gather the telemetry from folks not using their crappy browser and crappy search engine, they needed a way to grab it from the competitors.
So here, install this extension to make your windows integration work better, yeah, that's the ticket.
Meanwhile you're just handing over the data to M$ on top of everyone else...
An artificial intelligence, built from science and technology, sharing messages of religion?
Back in the day on Usenet, you got flamed, you took your lumps, perhaps apologized, and kept on posting. You learned your lesson. You didn't go cry and then subvert the community via the force of a CoC.
Sure, I remember the first time I got flamed. I posted a question about how to do something that was fairly obvious per the documentation I didn't read.
Instead of pointing me to the doco or telling me to RTFM, the responder said "Hey, your answer is here..." and provided a link to goatse.cx
Having not been aware of it, it was quite disturbing; I still feel dirty having seen it.
A different kind of person, with a different background, a different sex, etc. could have found it even more disturbing. Honestly it was an inappropriate response that had nothing to do with the matter at hand and it was uncalled for, but a poor attempt at humor (at best) and an outright personal attack (at worst).
It's behavior like this that CoC's are intended to prevent, not pointing out bad code or bad questions or RTFM and the like.
Let's not conflate the need for a CoC to address bad behavior with the necessary aspects of dealing with code contributions from diverse sources.
This seems to be a little harsh...
Sure, there are extremists on both sides, I wouldn't want to comment on the fringe...
But in general all that is asked for is fairness, equality, freedom and respect. When you are the target of unfairness, inequality, oppression or disrespect, a token gesture such as a CoC offers light in an otherwise dreary state.
Seen from a position that receives more than an equal share of fairness, favor, options and advantage, it is often hard to relate to those on the other side of the equation. From that perspective, CoCs can be seen as a joke because certainly no one can be suffering so badly as to warrant such a foolish statement protecting what the advantaged obviously benefit from.
Will we ever live in a colorblind, sex-blind, country-blind, age-blind, religion-blind world? I doubt it, we seem to prone to prejudice of one sort or another. But should we really challenge those that push for such a world? I mean, after all they would fight just as hard for our freedoms as they do for others...
Since updates are delivered automatically and electronically, any printed manual that would ship with a product is pretty much out of date as soon as it is turned on.
The android example is a good one. First it is not a pure android, so a manual from Google might not even apply (the manufacturer and cell provider can tweak it). Second, it is not a pure product, so a manual from name your hardware vendor here may not even apply (because the cell provider can change it). Your cell provider often has the last say on what is on the device initially, which apps are there, configuration etc., but as configuration they won't have a manual for all of the stuff they don't touch.
And as soon as it is turned on and updated, any manual it might have had may not even resemble what you are looking at in the slightest.
Besides, isn't this more about a relationship anyway? I mean, you'll bond more with a device that is more like a puzzle that you have to figure out than one that comes with a manual. Along the way, you'll want to know more about it, will do research and eventually you'll find and try all of those features you want to find in a manual, but this time you'll have a relationship with it which is more important to the vendors than an actual manual.
Everyone loves to hate on Apple, but their products have no manuals and yet they have a huge list of fans. The missing manual isn't what garners such love from the fans, it is the building of the relationship with apple and the devices that leads to this kind of fanaticism.
Oh, I see, you're not from the corporate world.
Translating his corporate spin into English is pretty easy; subtract the downplay of bad news he was trying to deliver and you basically have this translation:
Yes, Linux is kicking our ass in Azure and we're looking at 75-90% of Linux servers vs Windows servers.
I really think a lot of it is crap.
He starts with a premise that "Modern cars work, let’s say for the sake of argument, at 98% of what’s physically possible with the current engine design." and then goes on to lament why software, computers, hardware etc is not at the same 98% level.
But let's be serious - the infrastructure (roads, lights, bridges, signage, "power supply") is not changing on a daily basis. "Current engine design" is mostly based on a decades-old model, and new thinkers and fresh ideas face a mountain of resistance trying to get new concepts launched.
The car manufactures, parts manufactures, labor unions, distribution channels, sales dealerships, govt agencies, international agreements, etc. all have a vested interest in preventing disruption from being introduced let alone getting a foothold. They also have deep enough pockets to either buy&bury ideas or wrap up in expensive litigation and also launch an all-out media blitz to spread FUD.
So sure, if all we had was the old IE as our one and only browser, things would be different. M$ could push its weight around and prevent new browsers from taking hold. Software developers could write all code for IE. We'd use silverlight and ADP and IIS and our stuff would work 98% of the time and what, the world would be better off with all of that stagnation?
That's not the only problem I have with his article, it is just the first of many. Every "issue" he points to, taken by itself and viewed only from his perspective, would seem to have merit. But if you do any further review and apply some critical thinking, his house of cards comes crashing down.
Take the NPM graph. Yes there are a lot of modules from various different sources, all woven together into a working app. Yes there is fragility in that a single update to one of the modules can disrupt the whole. So this is true, but what is the solution? Would NPM be better if the developers coded everything themselves by hand? Is the world really going to be better if every project is 100% home grown so as to not have the same sort of dependency graph?
Or his Docker rant: "we put Docker inside virtual machines, simply because nobody was able to clean up the mess that most programs, languages and their environment produce." Docker isn't popular because of the cruft in programs, languages and environments. While it is true that each Linux distribution has its own take on system layout and admins can further customize, Docker isn't there to cover a mess. Docker provides application isolation from the underlying host, but it also provides host isolation from the applications. Containerization and isolation are good things because of the preventative aspects they provide, not because they are trying to hide messes.
A piece of software is nothing more than a collection of choices. Each choice is typically made individually, and the hope is that making the right individual choices will lead to a solution which represents the best possible outcome. I can choose whether to use commons-lang for a string utility or I can write my own, each side has pros and cons and I will choose the best path based on how the code will be used. If I'm building a generic war, I'm not going to make the same decision that I would if I were targeting an embedded JVM on a piece of hardware. It is easy on the outside to later claim my war is bloated or my embedded solution is lacking some additional useful methods, but those complaints are based upon not appreciating the various choices that were made for the right reasons.
This guy's at odds with himself. If he wants a fast starting mobile phone, there are still carriers that provide flip phones w/ limited app support, features and functionality. They start up really fast, so he should be happy. But he wouldn't be, he'd be lamenting the fact that his phone doesn't have what the others have.
We all get these stupid calls. Indian-based Microsoft support proactively finding a problem on your computer and they have the solution. We heard you suffer from chronic pain, we have things that will help. You've been selected for a free trip to Disneyworld. There's a solution for your creditcard debt. Refinance your student loans to get a lock-in before DeVoss ends the program.
It is all bullshit. We know that.
So why do they keep coming?
Because they freaking work. You get one moron that only goes online once a week on their 56k dialup line at home to check the facebook, they're more than willing to whip out their credit card to take advantage of such a limited time, exclusive offer.
It's that one moron that ruins it for us all. The scammers then make money, the carriers make money, etc., so they are incentivized to call the rest of us looking for more idiots.
Nuf said.
See, it is running hot so it can take advantage of the HTS!
Kurkure is absolutely made from plastic. Its why all of their shit tastes the same.
This is exactly the reasons this will not get used.
I don't use mobile apps because of the tracking, location and otherwise. F*cking vampires want all of your blood, not just what you agree to share.
Exactly.
I would prefer if I had to unlock to plug it in or use car mode or anything else using the Lightning cable.
What I want to know is whether Zuckerberg and all of the rest of the FB execs have Facebook on their phones.
Akin to The Circle, while maybe not a box office smash, points out how the social network company execs love to have more people join and use their platforms, that often times they know so much about what is going on with the apps and the data that they choose not to participate themselves.
Being a cynic, however, seeing an active exec on the platform, I would likely assume they had two (or more) devices, one to give the impression they were fully behind the platform and the others to use when they powered down the infected device.
Because we elect representatives and the representatives are bought and paid for by corporations and the rich, things will never be fair. We will never see a UBI because that will never be allowed to come to a vote.
Instead of being a representative democracy, we should change over to a direct democracy. Let the people individually vote on dreamers, gun control, environmental issues, drug laws, ... You'll quickly find that things would change, some for the worst, but more for the best. The rich would have to spend their money convincing us to go their way instead of our cheap house and senate representatives.
Nobody said your job was going to be easy.
No one has granted you carte blanche to access our data, our lives, our thoughts.
The big problem here is the effort to prevent a crime vs solving a crime.
The government, the police, the feds, etc. want access to prevent a crime, but that in itself is quite fluid because, as Trump is demonstrating, it can be a "crime" just to say he is a foolish, petulant child. So they want access to everything to "prevent" this kind of thing.
While I might support cracking something open for additional evidence to solve a crime, where at least one or more judges agree that a crime has been committed and where the courts can be used to argue whether or not to force the opening, I would never consent to allowing any so-called authority a pass key to dig around in my stuff in a preventative fishing expedition.
I get significantly better pricing on Amazon, especially w/ Prime shipping. Newegg always rapes me with the separate shipping charges, return charges, restocking fees, etc.
Opt-in is only for the "benefits". Trust me, they are still collecting and selling all of the other stuff w/ the regulation dismantlement by congress regardless of what they are telling us.
Hey, you can let the devices connect to the internet, you're just blocking brain-dead incoming telnet traffic to the device.
Assuming, of course, that you know how to configure routing on your internal network and know what port(s) from the device are needed to support necessary connectivity...