It is, however, important that when I tell my mother to google search your product, she gets results pertaining to your product rather than fetish clothing. If she's going to get fetish clothing, I think I'll just tell her to use paint.net
I would opine that anyone who refers to the field of software development as "software writing" hasn't had much to do with the development industry at any point in their life and wouldn't really know how science literate most developers are.
I know how my parents would have dealt with that: they'd have had a locked cabinet, and we'd be told to put the tablets in the cabinet, and when we wanted to do our homework we should let them know, and they'd get the tablet for us, and do it with us.
As much as "45 minutes on the computer" grated when I was a child, as an adult I think it was actually a sensible idea.
Jobs are not a limited resource. Jobs are dependent on things we need to get done.
Our capacity to get things done is increasing in leaps and bounds.
1 farmer today can do the work of a 20 farmers from 200 years ago. Yes, he does it using machines which took a thousand people to design and build, but those machines are made in one factory and used by 10 thousand farmers nationwide.
So 11,000 people today are doing the work of 200,000 from 200 years ago.
Our efficiency is going through the roof. We are already at the break even point in western nations. Unemployment rates are indicative of a society where there is less work than people. We could have everyone working two days a week. Yes that would introduce extra overheads, but we have the excess manpower to manage them, so why not?
This could be a cause for celebration, it's what mankind has always wanted, but here we are with people like you, who can't let go of the 40 hours work week, and you're pushing people into poverty because of it.
The desktop is increasingly unimportant, or mostly an adjunct to where people do their primary computing which is portables.
Maybe my viewpoint is skewed by overexposure to the real world where people need to get stuff done, but when people have work to do, they use laptops or desktops.
Right now is the perfect time for linux (or BSD) to attack desktop exactly because everyone else is attacking portable. Apple is a side case, having never taken the desktop world either, but Microsoft is making a strategic blunder that we've sadly already need from another actor in the last decade: Blackberry.
Microsoft owns business. They don't own server, they don't own portable, they don't own entertainment, but they damn sure own productivity.
That's not new, or jazzy, or flashy. However, it is profitable. Businesses have pockets. The last time I needed a license for visual studio, my employer said "as long as you're going through the acquisition process, get three copies so we have some spares and don't have to do this next time we want one". Business, people. It's where the money is.
Blackberry had that, once. They owned the phone you use when you're on a deadline. They used to be the only phone company whos devices had certification to be used by the USDoD, because although they lacked myspace integration, they did have strong disk encryption.
But then do you know what they did? They lost it. To Apple, of all people. Apple got the encryption certification, and now only iPhones can be used by the USDoD, no Blackberrys allowed. Blackberry spent so much time trying to be a competitor to Apple and Android in the "phone you use all the time" field, they neglected a key business feature that gave them total monopoly over a department with nearly bottomless pockets, and now they have nothing because newsflash, Blackberry isn't apple and never will be.
Microsoft is now busy doing the same thing. Turns out that voice recognition software that listens to and uploads everything in case you talk to it and file uploading software that syncs everything in your my documents folder without asking aren't features that the business world wants. I'm sure consumers want them, but consumers have never been the mainstay of Microsofts income.
If Microsoft had any brains, they'd take a leaf from Adobes book. They'd return to boring and invisible, but comfortable and indispensable, totally ignore piracy by individuals (or better yet, free for non-commercial & non-educational use) for all their software, and aim to sell exclusively to businesses. Photoshop is the premiere editing suite because everyone knows how to use it because it's freely available on torrent website and Adobe never bothers to crack down on it, so all the tutorials are for Photoshop. BAM, lock-in.
As it stands, it's looking increasingly likely that businesses will start moving to Apple, because Linux is still too hard for most people, but Microsoft is compromising business needs. I'm already beginning to see the transition happening.
You know you can use steam chat for talking about things other than video games, right?
For your rationale to be even slightly credible of consideration, valve would have to not censor torrent links about movies, ebooks and TV shows since they don't sell them.
All modern operating systems put restrictions on what software can run on them and what it can do.
No, they don't.
For the following platforms, I can write a hello world, compile it and distribute it and it will Just Work: Windows 7 Windows 8.1 OSX POSIX Android (with non-market apps ticked)
For the following platforms, I have to contact the platform owner and get permission before distributing my hello world: iOS Windows Phone
Here's the deal: Your platform, without my software, is worthless. I, the developer, expect to be enticed to your platform, in order to add value to it.
iOS did this successfully back in the day. Windows phone did not. Witness the difference.
So no, I'm not being unreasonable. Mozilla needs me. I will not beg them for permission to make their platform better. If there is a security problem with their addon system, that I damn well expect them to fix that issue without making it my problem.
If they make it my problem, I'll develop for Chromium, and leave Mozilla to develop their own damn plugins. See if I give a shit, it's not like I'm selling the thing.
I'd like to express my personal dislike to you as a developer for any process where I must acquire your approval in any fashion to develop for your platform.
I'm doing you a favor mate, the least you can do is not make doing that favor harder than it need be.
Have they fixed the issue where other software transitioning to fill screen mode sometimes causes VLC to crash? Pretty sure I've been reporting that crash for about 5 years now.
I'd advocate a deliberate attempt to fill any and all surveillance systems with so much bullshit it becomes impossible to use, and thus the standard practice for sensible engineers to say "there's no point trying to log that, it'll just be filled with garbage". I encourage people to emit white noise as much as they can.
Simple things help: Every time I order pizza from pizza hut, I put in a bullshit name and address. If their database got one new entry entry per pizza ordered for every pizza ordered, they'd stop recording your details. When I order stuff from internet retailers, I always fill the phone number in as 88888888. If they want to contact me, they can use my email address, that's what it's for. I've started refusing to partake in any service that requires me to make a new account. It's actually not painful in the least.
More complex things might also help. For a while I've been wondering about a browser plugin that takes all the nonsecure web page requests you make and has other peoples computers quietly and collectively replicate them millions of times, filling everyone's surveillance history with everyone elses surveillance history.
Other people have been uploading and tagging me whether I like it or not, despite my not having an account.
So fuck you it's not been my decision, but I'll be copping the consequences. If I could burn down every data center facebook owned I'd do it in a second, no hesitation.
And conclude that when someone moves overseas they're likely to be an "Australian resident for tax purposes" for the first financial year, and have to pay tax, including on their Australian income from before they moved and probably on their overseas income as well, but after that if they are living overseas full time they'll be a "foreign resident for tax purposes" and only be taxed on income in Australia.
Let me know if you think I'm wrong, it's super-important to me!
The fantastic thing about a general purpose computer is that if you want these features, you can simply install them. There is no need to ship them as if we are reading the OS off a reel to reel tape that has to seek through 20m of tape to find the new software. You've been able to get voice assistants for windows for years.
Microsoft has even done this in the past with things like the media bonus pack. Why not just have the "cloud bonus pack", bundle it on the CD and offer (but not mandate) it's install along with the rest of the OS, plus have it for download if people want to install it later?
The answer, I suspect, is that microsoft smells the death of their business model, and wants to move to a profiles-and-ads model like google. That's why they want you to have an account on your desktop OS, that's why they want you uploading your documents unencrypted, and that's why they want you using a voice assistant.
They want a firehose of data on you so they can funnel "relevant ads" at you as fast as they can find purchasers.
The problem is, I don't want that. Unfortunately, the choice is often taken away from me. Earlier this year, I was told by my new employer to make a google account so I could access company google docs. I told them I didn't want a google account, and was told "tough, it's company policy".
Does my boss have the legal right to force me to make a contractual agreement with an unrelated third party? I'm betting no, but this is the real world and I couldn't afford to be fired.
Imagine how I will feel in 5 years time when my boss insists I use windows 10. This isn't star trek, it's ENCOM from the start of TRON:Legacy.
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My internet privacy and security suite consists of:
AdBlock Edge
Self Destructing Cookies
No Script
HTTPS Everywhere
Privacy Badger
Ghostery
Don't ride the information superhighway without them kiddies!
It is, however, important that when I tell my mother to google search your product, she gets results pertaining to your product rather than fetish clothing. If she's going to get fetish clothing, I think I'll just tell her to use paint.net
I would opine that anyone who refers to the field of software development as "software writing" hasn't had much to do with the development industry at any point in their life and wouldn't really know how science literate most developers are.
I know how my parents would have dealt with that: they'd have had a locked cabinet, and we'd be told to put the tablets in the cabinet, and when we wanted to do our homework we should let them know, and they'd get the tablet for us, and do it with us.
As much as "45 minutes on the computer" grated when I was a child, as an adult I think it was actually a sensible idea.
I'm leaving the country just in time, and I shan't be back.
Thanks for the education!
Jobs are not a limited resource. Jobs are dependent on things we need to get done.
Our capacity to get things done is increasing in leaps and bounds.
1 farmer today can do the work of a 20 farmers from 200 years ago. Yes, he does it using machines which took a thousand people to design and build, but those machines are made in one factory and used by 10 thousand farmers nationwide.
So 11,000 people today are doing the work of 200,000 from 200 years ago.
Our efficiency is going through the roof. We are already at the break even point in western nations. Unemployment rates are indicative of a society where there is less work than people. We could have everyone working two days a week. Yes that would introduce extra overheads, but we have the excess manpower to manage them, so why not?
This could be a cause for celebration, it's what mankind has always wanted, but here we are with people like you, who can't let go of the 40 hours work week, and you're pushing people into poverty because of it.
Madness.
The desktop is increasingly unimportant, or mostly an adjunct to where people do their primary computing which is portables.
Maybe my viewpoint is skewed by overexposure to the real world where people need to get stuff done, but when people have work to do, they use laptops or desktops.
Right now is the perfect time for linux (or BSD) to attack desktop exactly because everyone else is attacking portable. Apple is a side case, having never taken the desktop world either, but Microsoft is making a strategic blunder that we've sadly already need from another actor in the last decade: Blackberry.
Microsoft owns business. They don't own server, they don't own portable, they don't own entertainment, but they damn sure own productivity.
That's not new, or jazzy, or flashy. However, it is profitable. Businesses have pockets. The last time I needed a license for visual studio, my employer said "as long as you're going through the acquisition process, get three copies so we have some spares and don't have to do this next time we want one". Business, people. It's where the money is.
Blackberry had that, once. They owned the phone you use when you're on a deadline. They used to be the only phone company whos devices had certification to be used by the USDoD, because although they lacked myspace integration, they did have strong disk encryption.
But then do you know what they did? They lost it. To Apple, of all people. Apple got the encryption certification, and now only iPhones can be used by the USDoD, no Blackberrys allowed. Blackberry spent so much time trying to be a competitor to Apple and Android in the "phone you use all the time" field, they neglected a key business feature that gave them total monopoly over a department with nearly bottomless pockets, and now they have nothing because newsflash, Blackberry isn't apple and never will be.
Microsoft is now busy doing the same thing. Turns out that voice recognition software that listens to and uploads everything in case you talk to it and file uploading software that syncs everything in your my documents folder without asking aren't features that the business world wants. I'm sure consumers want them, but consumers have never been the mainstay of Microsofts income.
If Microsoft had any brains, they'd take a leaf from Adobes book. They'd return to boring and invisible, but comfortable and indispensable, totally ignore piracy by individuals (or better yet, free for non-commercial & non-educational use) for all their software, and aim to sell exclusively to businesses. Photoshop is the premiere editing suite because everyone knows how to use it because it's freely available on torrent website and Adobe never bothers to crack down on it, so all the tutorials are for Photoshop. BAM, lock-in.
As it stands, it's looking increasingly likely that businesses will start moving to Apple, because Linux is still too hard for most people, but Microsoft is compromising business needs. I'm already beginning to see the transition happening.
It would be more accurate to say "most pirated games are cracked using a steam services crack".
That's not surprising since "most boxed games now have steam as a requirement" is also true.
In fact, the only thing you can really say for sure is "steam is everywhere in games these days".
If you removed that feature tomorrow it would have no noticeable impact on their business model.
Steam is not based on user supplied pirated content.
You know you can use steam chat for talking about things other than video games, right?
For your rationale to be even slightly credible of consideration, valve would have to not censor torrent links about movies, ebooks and TV shows since they don't sell them.
Almost 100% of pirated games aren't sold, what are you talking about?
Steam is not based on user supplied pirated content.
Fair enough. Would you enact a law allowing UPS to examine everyones goods and redact any references to other postal/courier services?
A more accurate comparison:
Would you enact a law allowing the USPS to examine everyones letters and redact any references to other postal services?
Maybe they made 17 different versions and picked the best one? vOv
All modern operating systems put restrictions on what software can run on them and what it can do.
No, they don't.
For the following platforms, I can write a hello world, compile it and distribute it and it will Just Work:
Windows 7
Windows 8.1
OSX
POSIX
Android (with non-market apps ticked)
For the following platforms, I have to contact the platform owner and get permission before distributing my hello world:
iOS
Windows Phone
Here's the deal: Your platform, without my software, is worthless. I, the developer, expect to be enticed to your platform, in order to add value to it.
iOS did this successfully back in the day. Windows phone did not. Witness the difference.
So no, I'm not being unreasonable. Mozilla needs me. I will not beg them for permission to make their platform better. If there is a security problem with their addon system, that I damn well expect them to fix that issue without making it my problem.
If they make it my problem, I'll develop for Chromium, and leave Mozilla to develop their own damn plugins. See if I give a shit, it's not like I'm selling the thing.
I'd like to express my personal dislike to you as a developer for any process where I must acquire your approval in any fashion to develop for your platform.
I'm doing you a favor mate, the least you can do is not make doing that favor harder than it need be.
Have they fixed the issue where other software transitioning to fill screen mode sometimes causes VLC to crash? Pretty sure I've been reporting that crash for about 5 years now.
I'm rather curious how the driver finds your front door with a made-up address...?
It's pickup, not delivery. They still insist I put in a full address for pickup.
I'd advocate a deliberate attempt to fill any and all surveillance systems with so much bullshit it becomes impossible to use, and thus the standard practice for sensible engineers to say "there's no point trying to log that, it'll just be filled with garbage". I encourage people to emit white noise as much as they can.
Simple things help: Every time I order pizza from pizza hut, I put in a bullshit name and address. If their database got one new entry entry per pizza ordered for every pizza ordered, they'd stop recording your details. When I order stuff from internet retailers, I always fill the phone number in as 88888888. If they want to contact me, they can use my email address, that's what it's for. I've started refusing to partake in any service that requires me to make a new account. It's actually not painful in the least.
More complex things might also help. For a while I've been wondering about a browser plugin that takes all the nonsecure web page requests you make and has other peoples computers quietly and collectively replicate them millions of times, filling everyone's surveillance history with everyone elses surveillance history.
No, I didn't.
Other people have been uploading and tagging me whether I like it or not, despite my not having an account.
So fuck you it's not been my decision, but I'll be copping the consequences. If I could burn down every data center facebook owned I'd do it in a second, no hesitation.
Actually, as far as I am aware that advice (calories in - calories out = weight change) was first pushed by an engineer, not a scientist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As an Aussie about to move abroad...you got a citation on that?
I combine this:
https://www.ato.gov.au/Individ...
With this:
https://www.ato.gov.au/Individ...
And conclude that when someone moves overseas they're likely to be an "Australian resident for tax purposes" for the first financial year, and have to pay tax, including on their Australian income from before they moved and probably on their overseas income as well, but after that if they are living overseas full time they'll be a "foreign resident for tax purposes" and only be taxed on income in Australia.
Let me know if you think I'm wrong, it's super-important to me!
There is no functional difference between imprisoning someone for 20 years and killing them.
The fantastic thing about a general purpose computer is that if you want these features, you can simply install them. There is no need to ship them as if we are reading the OS off a reel to reel tape that has to seek through 20m of tape to find the new software. You've been able to get voice assistants for windows for years.
Microsoft has even done this in the past with things like the media bonus pack. Why not just have the "cloud bonus pack", bundle it on the CD and offer (but not mandate) it's install along with the rest of the OS, plus have it for download if people want to install it later?
The answer, I suspect, is that microsoft smells the death of their business model, and wants to move to a profiles-and-ads model like google. That's why they want you to have an account on your desktop OS, that's why they want you uploading your documents unencrypted, and that's why they want you using a voice assistant.
They want a firehose of data on you so they can funnel "relevant ads" at you as fast as they can find purchasers.
The problem is, I don't want that. Unfortunately, the choice is often taken away from me. Earlier this year, I was told by my new employer to make a google account so I could access company google docs. I told them I didn't want a google account, and was told "tough, it's company policy".
Does my boss have the legal right to force me to make a contractual agreement with an unrelated third party? I'm betting no, but this is the real world and I couldn't afford to be fired.
Imagine how I will feel in 5 years time when my boss insists I use windows 10. This isn't star trek, it's ENCOM from the start of TRON:Legacy.