When RedHat went public in August 1999, I recall that many contributors were allocated initial public offering (IPO) shares. It's been awhile, but I believe they were at a discounted issue price.
"It was clear that Red Hat wanted all the open source developers who had made its success possible to participate in its public offering.... Red Hat Director of Technical Projects Donnie Barnes spent three weeks scouring the Internet, digging up all the contributor lists to all the open source projects he could find. Red Hat then had to craft a letter to this list of developers.... The final result was that well over one-fifth of the developers on the list were interested, eligible, and able to participate in the Red Hat IPO."
Maybe you missed the part where this is an optional service. You can still save locally.
Optional, as in it's optional to play Fortnite, which *requires* an internet connection?
This is a Fortnite tax, which is unfortunate for my son as he now has no portable options from the Xbox One when we travel. Whatever happened to the good ole days of being able to own hardware without an ongoing subscription for the right to use it?
So what special exception will they make to kowtow to Intuit, who has steadfastly refused to update their Quicken 2007 locally hosted app. This 11 year old app is still used by many, and made use of Rosetta so its 68K code could run on Intel iron. When Rosetta was retired by Apple, Apple made special dispensation so that lazy intuit could still run this essential financial application on modern Mac OS with little modification, up to today under High Sierra. I have no doubt most of its code is the same 68K code from 2007.
I was an early adopter of Quicken back in 1988 and have 30 years of financial data socked away in it, and do not want all my financial transactions stored by Intuit in the cloud where they will keep it "secure". Yeah, trust Intuit. Quicken Essentials has a more limited feature set. They do not offer a true substitute, which is why so many of Intuit users have been stuck in time running an ancient release.
The Romans had Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman Peace"), which they extended to their conquests. No more wars. Good for society and business.
America should have a Pax Americana, where we extend our hard fought safe working conditions, environmental protections, and living wages to the rest of the world. If you do business with the largest economy, we expect you to abide.
It would be the best gift to the world of the true American dream.
We could *already* get to it, if we really wanted. Dawn has reached a 10 km/s delta-v even with primitive ion thrusters and simple solar panels. With the DS4G thrusters currently in development, you could do twenty times as much.
At some point late in Steve Job's reign, Apple seemed to have purged all the UX expertise, instead allowing graphic designers and developers to do what thy will. In the past, actual usability testing had been used to defined documented user interface standards, and Apple's user interface group was top notch. I've been a Mac user since 1984, an UX designer in the '90-'00's , and have disappointedly watched this roller coaster going from "insanely great" to the "one sheet of glass" designer bullshit of late.
Safari started going downhill as iOS became dominant. Favicons are just part of the problem. In Safari, the Window tab, which lists all open browser windows, used to be sorted spatially. Frontmost browser windows were listed first. This placed windows you were currently using at the top of the list. Several years ago, some idiot decided to change this list to sort order to alphabetical, probably without realizing the original utility. How the %#$@ am I supposed to know what some web page is titled? Page title often changes within a site as the user navigates between pages, so with alpha title sort, the site position on the windows list arbitrarily changes.
Without spatial organization finding one of the dozen pages open in Safari is as difficult as finding an app somewhere on the many app pages in iOS, or trying to find an app to launch on the Watch cluster of similar round icons. It's a cognitive disaster, which reduces usefulness and place form far above function.
This is the decline which has brought us a "professional" laptop whose primary design criteria seem to have been "thinner" and "lighter", instead of the dozen other criteria which actual heavy-daily-users desire.
Ugh. Bring back "insanely great". Now get off my lawn. Argh.
You've got a chance right now, but it means voting while you can and voting for candidates that will take care of those teaming masses before they become some Demagogue's weapon.
Don't forget Tufte's Challenger graph, which provides really the best visualization of the data. He's a master of visual communication.
If the information was presented in his fashion, a no-launch decision would have clearly been a no-brainer. This is why the soft arts are essential for engineers too.
- It's one-sided -- no one posts about the totally uninteresting, crappy boring parts of their lives. Unless you're rich beyond imagination or a celebrity, everyone will have down moments in their lives, periods of disappointment, and very sad things happen to them.
Are you kidding? One of the primary reasons I cannot stomach Facebook is the endless parade of food posts, selfies, religious quotes and other masterbatory re-posts which are the "totally uninteresting, crappy boring parts of their lives". Not everyone needs a bullhorn to inform the world what they had for lunch. It reminds me of that bumper sticker "I pooped today!". And. Yes. So has every healthy person on the planet.
I would be very interested to see an analysis of what kinds of posts these "depressed" people are making on all these networks, because unless they are a misunderstood fount of insightful wisdom, I'm betting that that they are in an echo chamber of loneliness: They feel alone so they post something meh. No one responds. They post more. ("This is what the celebrity's post, why do I not have a million followers"). (crickets) They post more. Rinse, lather, depression.
Some say it's fascinating that we created technology that puts the knowledge of the world at your fingertips just for the asking, but it's largely ignored. Can't be bothered to fact check! Forward that truthy email! It's common sense!
An ironic corollary is that we have created networks which allow anyone to communicate with vast populations, yet its primarily used as a mouthpiece for demagogues and as a playground for narcissists.
Would someone please think of the poor suffering narcissists!
He misspoke. ApplePay is a substitute for physical credit cards, not cash.
Those damn chip cards take almost 10 seconds to do whatever validation they require. Used to be: whip out card, swipe, sign and go. Now I find myself standing there waiting the additional time for the damn card to be approved.
ApplePay w iWatch is now faster than swiping a card. It only takes a second or two to validate and you are done, with the added bonus of not needing the dig out your wallet at all. It's faster and easier. It's convenient.
I wouldn't go out and buy a Watch for this purpose, but it's a slick value add.
Cash is not about convenience. You have to get it, carry it, make change with it. Cash is a different tool.
It's nice that GE is thinking about this now, but this is far from a new idea.
Predictive maintenance was a new thing 25 years ago. Companies like Computational Systems Inc (CSI), which was later acquired by Emerson, pioneered this technology.
CSI's first product line used accelerometers placed on each axis to analyze vibrations, which was then graphed and analyzed by software. Based on vibrations, they were able to tell when ball bearings were wearing out so that they may be replaced as part of scheduled line maintenance and avoiding downtime often rated in the $100Ks per hour.
They branched off into other products such as oil analysis, where they magnetically detected metal in engine oil to determine wear. Etc.
Very interesting stuff. (Disclosure: I worked for them in the early 90s.)
Epiphenomenalism -- An approach to the mind-body problem that is a form of dualism and one-way interactionism (1), assuming as it does that mental experiences are real but are merely trivial by-products or epiphenomena of one particular class of physical brain processes, real but incidental, like the smoke rising above a factory, so that physical processes can cause mental experiences but not vice versa. Compare psychophysical parallelism. [From Greek epi on + phainein to show + -ismos indicating a state or condition]
If you make sex bots that look too realistic, and this causes men to objectify women, then perhaps this would carry over into how they treat real women.
It's more important to be useful and productive than to be formally trained.
This is not an excuse for lack of depth. It's as important to understand your own limitations and to seek expert advice (or to more adequately research) when you know that you do not know the best implementation.
There are very few experts, even among those who claim to understand a technology. Joke: There is a special name given to the person who graduates bottom of their class in medical school: doctor.
It's turtles all the way down. Know your limitations. Embrace your ignorance. Use that knowledge to extend your knowledge, whilst providing usable solutions.
It hurts me to watch/. slowly die like this. Used to be only the editors sucked, but I never came here for the articles but for the discussion. Used to be, there would be a zillion well thought and documented responses illustrating all angles of a topic. I found this site to be an excellent forum to expand my understanding of issues surrounding a topic through informed, rational discourse. But the quality over the last few years has just trended ever lower and lately the quality of comments have just gone through the floor. If anyone knows where all the smart contributors went please consider throwing me a link. I'll keep it a secret from all these bigoted morons.
OSx server is a ~$20 upgrade to OSx, which offers ever-decreasing (yeah, simplicity?) UI based tools to run your own mail, web, chat, calendar &etc server. You'll need a static ip and a dyndns.com backup MX account. Setup secure services. Enjoy your privacy.
This is just my opinion, but I believe the only reason most people are willing to shell out several hundred bucks for Office is because they are either too cowardly to learn new software or wealthy enough to afford the higher quality that it offers. Strictly speaking, I don't think the vast majority of people who use office actually need MS Office because of some critical or irreplaceable feature it has.
Nope. They buy it because MS Office keeps its file format incompatible, and it's easier/more polite to use the files from your customer without asking them to "Save As to Excel 97 xls format". Not using MS is barrier to commerce, and until that changes MS will keep its grip.
What I HATE about this reboot is that they failed to re imagine the series in a modern context.
What does a post-economic earth look like? With transporter technology anything can be immediately manufactured. How did this transform earth and people? This is the Trek universe. Minds engage.
If I wanted some dumb action adventure movie I have a zillion options. I expect more from Trek.
Owning 4 shares in a company gives me about as much say as a voter in an election. No I don;t get to decide who the senator of my state is, but I do have influence over it, even if that influence is small. All the voters added up completely determines the outcome. It's not important that the smallest shareholder always affects the outcome of every decision, it only matters that this is possible. Just like I don't need to cast the deciding vote in an election for my vote to count.
Have you ever actually voted your proxy? It does not work like a government election.
You can vote or withhold your vote for a select list of directors. They are more often than not the current board of directors. You do not get to choose between contenders for the same board seat. Since the directors on the ballot are nominated by shareholders with far more shares than you, your vote is mostly symbolic and meaningless.
Unless you are CALPERS, manage a large trust or investment fund, or are otherwise a.1%-er with a heavy stake, you cannot dictate board nominees, and therefore have no say in oversight.
Bottom line: You can vote for or against, but do not get to choose your oligarchs.
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Everyone is soooo overthinking this.
Maybe the pilot let a friend fly who reversed his Z axis settings.
That's forced me to quit out, reset, and respawn many a time. /s
When RedHat went public in August 1999, I recall that many contributors were allocated initial public offering (IPO) shares. It's been awhile, but I believe they were at a discounted issue price.
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/34...
My point is that RedHat *was* interested in rewarding the original source developers.
Maybe you missed the part where this is an optional service. You can still save locally.
Optional, as in it's optional to play Fortnite, which *requires* an internet connection?
This is a Fortnite tax, which is unfortunate for my son as he now has no portable options from the Xbox One when we travel. Whatever happened to the good ole days of being able to own hardware without an ongoing subscription for the right to use it?
I'm still waiting for my "peace dividend" from the end of the cold war...
"Cars don't kill people.
People kill people."
It was an open and shut case of suicide. /s
Is there even such a thing as a "secret army base"?
Can't the enemy can see huge areas surrounded by HESCOs from several miles away?
What is a HESCO?
Per wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So what special exception will they make to kowtow to Intuit, who has steadfastly refused to update their Quicken 2007 locally hosted app. This 11 year old app is still used by many, and made use of Rosetta so its 68K code could run on Intel iron. When Rosetta was retired by Apple, Apple made special dispensation so that lazy intuit could still run this essential financial application on modern Mac OS with little modification, up to today under High Sierra. I have no doubt most of its code is the same 68K code from 2007.
I was an early adopter of Quicken back in 1988 and have 30 years of financial data socked away in it, and do not want all my financial transactions stored by Intuit in the cloud where they will keep it "secure". Yeah, trust Intuit. Quicken Essentials has a more limited feature set. They do not offer a true substitute, which is why so many of Intuit users have been stuck in time running an ancient release.
The Romans had Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman Peace"), which they extended to their conquests. No more wars. Good for society and business.
America should have a Pax Americana, where we extend our hard fought safe working conditions, environmental protections, and living wages to the rest of the world. If you do business with the largest economy, we expect you to abide.
It would be the best gift to the world of the true American dream.
We could *already* get to it, if we really wanted. Dawn has reached a 10 km/s delta-v even with primitive ion thrusters and simple solar panels. With the DS4G thrusters currently in development, you could do twenty times as much.
Sounds like a job for Tony Stark aka Elon Musk!
At some point late in Steve Job's reign, Apple seemed to have purged all the UX expertise, instead allowing graphic designers and developers to do what thy will. In the past, actual usability testing had been used to defined documented user interface standards, and Apple's user interface group was top notch. I've been a Mac user since 1984, an UX designer in the '90-'00's , and have disappointedly watched this roller coaster going from "insanely great" to the "one sheet of glass" designer bullshit of late.
Safari started going downhill as iOS became dominant. Favicons are just part of the problem. In Safari, the Window tab, which lists all open browser windows, used to be sorted spatially. Frontmost browser windows were listed first. This placed windows you were currently using at the top of the list. Several years ago, some idiot decided to change this list to sort order to alphabetical, probably without realizing the original utility. How the %#$@ am I supposed to know what some web page is titled? Page title often changes within a site as the user navigates between pages, so with alpha title sort, the site position on the windows list arbitrarily changes.
Without spatial organization finding one of the dozen pages open in Safari is as difficult as finding an app somewhere on the many app pages in iOS, or trying to find an app to launch on the Watch cluster of similar round icons. It's a cognitive disaster, which reduces usefulness and place form far above function.
This is the decline which has brought us a "professional" laptop whose primary design criteria seem to have been "thinner" and "lighter", instead of the dozen other criteria which actual heavy-daily-users desire.
Ugh. Bring back "insanely great".
Now get off my lawn. Argh.
Did they find the money? If not, he is most likely a fall guy.
If there was enough money in-play, an ignorant patsy and a few corrupt cops would be a clever insurance policy, albeit evil.
You've got a chance right now, but it means voting while you can and voting for candidates that will take care of those teaming masses before they become some Demagogue's weapon.
Trump won. Get over it. /s
Don't forget Tufte's Challenger graph, which provides really the best visualization of the data. He's a master of visual communication.
If the information was presented in his fashion, a no-launch decision would have clearly been a no-brainer. This is why the soft arts are essential for engineers too.
https://groups.nceas.ucsb.edu/...
- It's one-sided -- no one posts about the totally uninteresting, crappy boring parts of their lives. Unless you're rich beyond imagination or a celebrity, everyone will have down moments in their lives, periods of disappointment, and very sad things happen to them.
Are you kidding? One of the primary reasons I cannot stomach Facebook is the endless parade of food posts, selfies, religious quotes and other masterbatory re-posts which are the "totally uninteresting, crappy boring parts of their lives". Not everyone needs a bullhorn to inform the world what they had for lunch. It reminds me of that bumper sticker "I pooped today!". And. Yes. So has every healthy person on the planet.
I would be very interested to see an analysis of what kinds of posts these "depressed" people are making on all these networks, because unless they are a misunderstood fount of insightful wisdom, I'm betting that that they are in an echo chamber of loneliness: They feel alone so they post something meh. No one responds. They post more. ("This is what the celebrity's post, why do I not have a million followers"). (crickets) They post more. Rinse, lather, depression.
Some say it's fascinating that we created technology that puts the knowledge of the world at your fingertips just for the asking, but it's largely ignored. Can't be bothered to fact check! Forward that truthy email! It's common sense!
An ironic corollary is that we have created networks which allow anyone to communicate with vast populations, yet its primarily used as a mouthpiece for demagogues and as a playground for narcissists.
Would someone please think of the poor suffering narcissists!
He misspoke.
ApplePay is a substitute for physical credit cards, not cash.
Those damn chip cards take almost 10 seconds to do whatever validation they require. Used to be: whip out card, swipe, sign and go. Now I find myself standing there waiting the additional time for the damn card to be approved.
ApplePay w iWatch is now faster than swiping a card. It only takes a second or two to validate and you are done, with the added bonus of not needing the dig out your wallet at all. It's faster and easier. It's convenient.
I wouldn't go out and buy a Watch for this purpose, but it's a slick value add.
Cash is not about convenience. You have to get it, carry it, make change with it. Cash is a different tool.
It's nice that GE is thinking about this now, but this is far from a new idea.
Predictive maintenance was a new thing 25 years ago. Companies like Computational Systems Inc (CSI), which was later acquired by Emerson, pioneered this technology.
CSI's first product line used accelerometers placed on each axis to analyze vibrations, which was then graphed and analyzed by software. Based on vibrations, they were able to tell when ball bearings were wearing out so that they may be replaced as part of scheduled line maintenance and avoiding downtime often rated in the $100Ks per hour.
They branched off into other products such as oil analysis, where they magnetically detected metal in engine oil to determine wear. Etc.
Very interesting stuff. (Disclosure: I worked for them in the early 90s.)
Seems to me this finding supports:
Epiphenomenalism --
An approach to the mind-body problem that is a form of dualism and one-way interactionism (1), assuming as it does that mental experiences are real but are merely trivial by-products or epiphenomena of one particular class of physical brain processes, real but incidental, like the smoke rising above a factory, so that physical processes can cause mental experiences but not vice versa. Compare psychophysical parallelism. [From Greek epi on + phainein to show + -ismos indicating a state or condition]
http://oxfordindex.oup.com/vie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you make sex bots that look too realistic, and this causes men to objectify women, then perhaps this would carry over into how they treat real women.
Can sexbots fetch beer and make sandwiches?
It's more important to be useful and productive than to be formally trained.
This is not an excuse for lack of depth. It's as important to understand your own limitations and to seek expert advice (or to more adequately research) when you know that you do not know the best implementation.
There are very few experts, even among those who claim to understand a technology.
Joke: There is a special name given to the person who graduates bottom of their class in medical school: doctor.
It's turtles all the way down.
Know your limitations. Embrace your ignorance. Use that knowledge to extend your knowledge, whilst providing usable solutions.
It hurts me to watch /. slowly die like this. Used to be only the editors sucked, but I never came here for the articles but for the discussion. Used to be, there would be a zillion well thought and documented responses illustrating all angles of a topic. I found this site to be an excellent forum to expand my understanding of issues surrounding a topic through informed, rational discourse. But the quality over the last few years has just trended ever lower and lately the quality of comments have just gone through the floor. If anyone knows where all the smart contributors went please consider throwing me a link. I'll keep it a secret from all these bigoted morons.
OSx server is a ~$20 upgrade to OSx, which offers ever-decreasing (yeah, simplicity?) UI based tools to run your own mail, web, chat, calendar &etc server. You'll need a static ip and a dyndns.com backup MX account. Setup secure services. Enjoy your privacy.
Mod parent UP!
This is just my opinion, but I believe the only reason most people are willing to shell out several hundred bucks for Office is because they are either too cowardly to learn new software or wealthy enough to afford the higher quality that it offers. Strictly speaking, I don't think the vast majority of people who use office actually need MS Office because of some critical or irreplaceable feature it has.
Nope.
They buy it because MS Office keeps its file format incompatible, and it's easier/more polite to use the files from your customer without asking them to "Save As to Excel 97 xls format". Not using MS is barrier to commerce, and until that changes MS will keep its grip.
Best summation yet.
What I HATE about this reboot is that they failed to re imagine the series in a modern context.
What does a post-economic earth look like? With transporter technology anything can be immediately manufactured. How did this transform earth and people? This is the Trek universe. Minds engage.
If I wanted some dumb action adventure movie I have a zillion options. I expect more from Trek.
Owning 4 shares in a company gives me about as much say as a voter in an election. No I don;t get to decide who the senator of my state is, but I do have influence over it, even if that influence is small. All the voters added up completely determines the outcome. It's not important that the smallest shareholder always affects the outcome of every decision, it only matters that this is possible. Just like I don't need to cast the deciding vote in an election for my vote to count.
Have you ever actually voted your proxy? It does not work like a government election.
You can vote or withhold your vote for a select list of directors. They are more often than not the current board of directors. You do not get to choose between contenders for the same board seat. Since the directors on the ballot are nominated by shareholders with far more shares than you, your vote is mostly symbolic and meaningless.
Unless you are CALPERS, manage a large trust or investment fund, or are otherwise a .1%-er with a heavy stake, you cannot dictate board nominees, and therefore have no say in oversight.
Bottom line: You can vote for or against, but do not get to choose your oligarchs.