Your argument is literally "liberals temper the negative consequences of their policies to be the maximum allowable without revolt." It's not a win that the economy is structured that people lack the ability to control their own lives, Hell, you couldn't even move off to live in the woods if you wanted to. You don't get to opt-out of society anymore.
It was all over the news after Obama was elected: an "unprecedented act of bipartisan cooperation" was portrayed for weeks straight with little other in the way of headlines when Obama sent McCain to the mideast to negotiate an arms deal involving millions of dollars in military weapons. The people they were dealing with were the same ones which became ISIS. This was in turn memory-holed, but it happened. ISIS is and always has been a US puppet organization meant to destabilize the mideast and drive oil costs down. Not that it matters, the Saudis funded 9/11 and Vegas, they deserve worse.
The DoD is a MASSIVE client for corporations like Microsoft and Dell. If they are going fully open source then either Microsoft will release an open source version of Windows+Office+SQL Server or the open source toolset will get similarly advanced (which it simply isn't, at least not when you factor in the responsiveness at the user level for Windows, the overwhelming Office+Outlook+Exchange integration compared to all the competition, and the Analysis Server aspect of SQL Server) tools.
I think the filter is based on what you watched and how long you watched it - the recommended prime videos and such get better over time. If you don't watch anything then the prime section probably just tries to throw shit at the wall and check if anything sticks.
A) Ads decrease the run length of shows regardless of whether or not they have ads because content producers tend to tune the length to match.
B) Ads change the presentation of a show because content producers need to insert a stopping point every 10 minutes which detracts from the content.
C) Ads will creep into paid content, just as they did on Cable.
D) Ads are designed to influence your thoughts and get you to do things you wouldn't otherwise, be it buying stupid shit to deflate your bank account or voting for a corrupt politicians - they are tools designed by the most amoral yet highly competent psychologists on Earth and only a fool would subject themselves to them.
Most public sector and utility spaces were among the first adopters of computers and as such invested heavily in automation of paperwork at the least. This means they all have dozens if not hundreds (all the individual clients I've had have had hundreds) of legacy applications with so much business logic it would take millions of dollars in development time (with low budget developers and no PM/QA/test/documentation accounted for) to replace a single one of them - in spite of each and every one looking ludicrously simple to an outside observer. To compound that issue on average 80% of them tie into at least 3 of the others with a spaghetti admixture of SOAP, sockets, databases, file/unix-like sockets, or native Windows IPC routines based on whatever was popular at the time in the shop that was developing them. You can't just cut those things out and drop them on a Linux box, most of them have been maintained by maintenance coders only trying to get it done as quickly and cheaply as possible for so long they barely run on Windows, and certainly won't if you so much as change some obscure network permission some poor bastard forgot to document a decade ago. Even those "web database applications" you work with probably have DLLs people lost the fucking sourcecode to back in the 90's.
And don't make the cloud about "external" hosting.
That's literally all it is though - a marketing gimmick to get lazy people to hand over data for clients they would not otherwise hand over. "The cloud" is a way of saying "let us be your contract hosting company so we can steal your proprietary data and figure out how to move horizontally into your sector."
Email is the one thing Microsoft legitimately has over everyone else. Exchange isn't just about sending/receiving email, it's the seamless calendar, database, and office integration which make it so great. On a Linux client (Evolution, KMail, etc) Exchange is garbage because the individual clients are garbage, but with Outlook you can copy/paste/link a spreadsheet, word document, powerpoint presentation, Skype conversation, etc directly into the email, get visual cues as to which contacts are online via Skype and connect, sync appointments, meetings, room reservation, contact lists, etc seamlessly, get database and server notifications with a simple GUI setup in under a minute for just about anything, sync all that shit with your phone, regardless of the device/OS it is, etc.
Microsoft screws up a lot but email is the one thing they do better than everyone else. You can't even get the same level of integration with open source tools and to get 50% of the way there will take a ruthlessly uncompromising network admin beating users until they go with the tools he dictates while spending months to get the environment set up correctly for it - at which point they're still stuck using outside tools for scheduling and shit out of luck when it comes to adding rich content or IM bindings to emails.
If you want Linux in an office environment (outside of the server room) a fully featured Exchange replacement (which is open source and not some proprietary abomination that gets 25% of the way there then starts catering to their extremely limited userbase) is what is really needed, along with a similarly featured Outlook replacement.
That's a much better topic for Slashdot than Bill Gates' pledge to fight... eh... what was it again?
Pretty sure he's starting a war on sand: first the Arizona property he plans to pave over and now Alzheimers (brain sand.) Incidentally, there's already a drug which eliminates brain sand, so the only real issue is getting people to take it before the stuff destroys their brain.
I consume probably over $300/month on average from Amazon Video (not accounting for the Prime membership) because I sit at the computer programming most of the day and can put it on a monitor on the side. If I had to have ads playing during shows/movies that would drop to $0/month. I'd prefer getting DVDs for series off of eBay or just not watching anything than sit through marketing filth and allowing it to influence my thoughts in any way.
Unfortunately, we live in an era of cheaters. Cheat programs take all sorts of forms, and are probably one of hte biggest turn-offs in online gaming.
Yeah, no. That's about the lamest excuse for spyware ever conceived. I played Starcraft 1 up through the time they re-released it, it was by far my favorite game. Still not worth putting a Facebook-connected app on my computer which scans and reports on every single thing I have in my computer, the surrounding computers, etc. Starcraft 2 is at this point nothing but spyware for one of the most evil corporations to ever exist, of which both Facebook and Blizzard are now indefensible.
That's even more of a reason to start developing a city like this. Where are you going to find 70 degree weather to live in anymore? Most of the desirable areas are already overpopulated and not affordable for most people. Just because it's not 100% efficient, doesn't mean it should not be pursued.
Why 70 degrees? If you're goal is a city based entirely on computing power then put it in Alaska. Wind can work just as well as solar there and your cooling costs are limited to a fan.
So this city may be a stupid idea for other reasons, but not because of water shortages.
Just envisioning a city designed around data storage and computing in the middle of a desert - that's grade A retardation unless he has some new computer chip which doesn't convert 99.99% of the energy put into it directly into heat or has a much much higher flops:W than we have now.
Every US citizen multiplied by $2,000 would be a pretty good fucking lawsuit to bring them down. Meanwhile they'll just get off with a class action which will amount to a few cents per person automatically opted in even if they don't know it exists.
His 3 viable replacements are Rust, Go, and some language nobody but him and 1 other guy have even heard of? That is beyond fucking retarded, on every point. Rust is garbage. Go is garbage. The third thing nobody has heard is apparently not even fucking done yet. If he's actively trying to raise money for it that third one is probably his own pet project. This thing reeks of marketing dribble without substance.
They literally have Facebook integration, scan all your files, and report back whatever they want from your machine. Starcraft 2 is the data mining of the web, in videogame form.
What I want is irrelevant. We are discussing computer security and there is absolutely no way to have a secure system which you do not physically control. It is a technical impossibility.
No it's not. There is no such thing as data privacy if you lack physical security, the most basic immutable tenant of which is possessing your own data.
Every cloud platform has been hacked at some point, every major company has been hacked at some point, to suggest you can put your data anywhere but a box on your own land and have it be secure is absurd. By extension of this you cannot do the computations outside of hardware you yourself possess and expect it to be secure in any way shape or form. Column-level encryption, SSL, etc are absurd when the endpoint itself can be compromised - they are false senses of security and nothing more.
This of course is all made worse by the fact the companies doing that processing remotely actively auction off the most sensitive parts of your data, though even if they weren't doing that they would still be definitively impossible to accept as secure.
Q was perhaps outlandish, but there was enough not described he could just be a part of a really advanced series with different technology and an ego (per the voyager extrapolation,) the holodesks are based in extrapolations of known physics, as are the replicators. It is conceivable with enough engineering to get from where we are to holodecks and replicators. The magic spores on the other hand are described in great enough detail to make them absolutely absurd and based in no known physics.
All the technologies from TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT have some basis in technology with the exception of some bizarre one-off episodes. The spore drive on the other hand is the central technology of the new series and it is flat out absurd. You might as well replace the ships and artificial gravity with astral projection bubbles and fairies at this point because the sci-fi pretense is absolutely gone. Warp drive was based on some cutting-edge research, and is still a viable future technology, along with replicators, transporters, gravity plating, inertial dampeners, shields, weapons systems, ablative armor, nanotech, biotech, etc. The only real exceptions were the Vulcan mind powers and Kess from VOY, but the vulcan part would at least be plausible with some genetic enhancements amounting to something like bluetooth transceivers under their fingertips.
Magickal spore powered by giant invulnerable telekinetic tardigardes is just fucking dumb and sloppy on the part of the people writing.
All of the tech you described, while fanciful, is conceivable. Spore drives are hand wavy shit by a bunch of writers too dim to real the most recent physics research coming down the pipeline.
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Your argument is literally "liberals temper the negative consequences of their policies to be the maximum allowable without revolt." It's not a win that the economy is structured that people lack the ability to control their own lives, Hell, you couldn't even move off to live in the woods if you wanted to. You don't get to opt-out of society anymore.
...that's not what "progressives" want.
That's funny, because it's the sum of their policies.
It was all over the news after Obama was elected: an "unprecedented act of bipartisan cooperation" was portrayed for weeks straight with little other in the way of headlines when Obama sent McCain to the mideast to negotiate an arms deal involving millions of dollars in military weapons. The people they were dealing with were the same ones which became ISIS. This was in turn memory-holed, but it happened. ISIS is and always has been a US puppet organization meant to destabilize the mideast and drive oil costs down. Not that it matters, the Saudis funded 9/11 and Vegas, they deserve worse.
The DoD is a MASSIVE client for corporations like Microsoft and Dell. If they are going fully open source then either Microsoft will release an open source version of Windows+Office+SQL Server or the open source toolset will get similarly advanced (which it simply isn't, at least not when you factor in the responsiveness at the user level for Windows, the overwhelming Office+Outlook+Exchange integration compared to all the competition, and the Analysis Server aspect of SQL Server) tools.
I think the filter is based on what you watched and how long you watched it - the recommended prime videos and such get better over time. If you don't watch anything then the prime section probably just tries to throw shit at the wall and check if anything sticks.
A) Ads decrease the run length of shows regardless of whether or not they have ads because content producers tend to tune the length to match.
B) Ads change the presentation of a show because content producers need to insert a stopping point every 10 minutes which detracts from the content.
C) Ads will creep into paid content, just as they did on Cable.
D) Ads are designed to influence your thoughts and get you to do things you wouldn't otherwise, be it buying stupid shit to deflate your bank account or voting for a corrupt politicians - they are tools designed by the most amoral yet highly competent psychologists on Earth and only a fool would subject themselves to them.
Most public sector and utility spaces were among the first adopters of computers and as such invested heavily in automation of paperwork at the least. This means they all have dozens if not hundreds (all the individual clients I've had have had hundreds) of legacy applications with so much business logic it would take millions of dollars in development time (with low budget developers and no PM/QA/test/documentation accounted for) to replace a single one of them - in spite of each and every one looking ludicrously simple to an outside observer. To compound that issue on average 80% of them tie into at least 3 of the others with a spaghetti admixture of SOAP, sockets, databases, file/unix-like sockets, or native Windows IPC routines based on whatever was popular at the time in the shop that was developing them. You can't just cut those things out and drop them on a Linux box, most of them have been maintained by maintenance coders only trying to get it done as quickly and cheaply as possible for so long they barely run on Windows, and certainly won't if you so much as change some obscure network permission some poor bastard forgot to document a decade ago. Even those "web database applications" you work with probably have DLLs people lost the fucking sourcecode to back in the 90's.
And don't make the cloud about "external" hosting.
That's literally all it is though - a marketing gimmick to get lazy people to hand over data for clients they would not otherwise hand over. "The cloud" is a way of saying "let us be your contract hosting company so we can steal your proprietary data and figure out how to move horizontally into your sector."
Email is the one thing Microsoft legitimately has over everyone else. Exchange isn't just about sending/receiving email, it's the seamless calendar, database, and office integration which make it so great. On a Linux client (Evolution, KMail, etc) Exchange is garbage because the individual clients are garbage, but with Outlook you can copy/paste/link a spreadsheet, word document, powerpoint presentation, Skype conversation, etc directly into the email, get visual cues as to which contacts are online via Skype and connect, sync appointments, meetings, room reservation, contact lists, etc seamlessly, get database and server notifications with a simple GUI setup in under a minute for just about anything, sync all that shit with your phone, regardless of the device/OS it is, etc.
Microsoft screws up a lot but email is the one thing they do better than everyone else. You can't even get the same level of integration with open source tools and to get 50% of the way there will take a ruthlessly uncompromising network admin beating users until they go with the tools he dictates while spending months to get the environment set up correctly for it - at which point they're still stuck using outside tools for scheduling and shit out of luck when it comes to adding rich content or IM bindings to emails.
If you want Linux in an office environment (outside of the server room) a fully featured Exchange replacement (which is open source and not some proprietary abomination that gets 25% of the way there then starts catering to their extremely limited userbase) is what is really needed, along with a similarly featured Outlook replacement.
That's how it starts, but if you give filthy marketing types an inch they'll never give it back and demand another.
That's a much better topic for Slashdot than Bill Gates' pledge to fight... eh... what was it again?
Pretty sure he's starting a war on sand: first the Arizona property he plans to pave over and now Alzheimers (brain sand.) Incidentally, there's already a drug which eliminates brain sand, so the only real issue is getting people to take it before the stuff destroys their brain.
I consume probably over $300/month on average from Amazon Video (not accounting for the Prime membership) because I sit at the computer programming most of the day and can put it on a monitor on the side. If I had to have ads playing during shows/movies that would drop to $0/month. I'd prefer getting DVDs for series off of eBay or just not watching anything than sit through marketing filth and allowing it to influence my thoughts in any way.
Unfortunately, we live in an era of cheaters. Cheat programs take all sorts of forms, and are probably one of hte biggest turn-offs in online gaming.
Yeah, no. That's about the lamest excuse for spyware ever conceived. I played Starcraft 1 up through the time they re-released it, it was by far my favorite game. Still not worth putting a Facebook-connected app on my computer which scans and reports on every single thing I have in my computer, the surrounding computers, etc. Starcraft 2 is at this point nothing but spyware for one of the most evil corporations to ever exist, of which both Facebook and Blizzard are now indefensible.
That's even more of a reason to start developing a city like this. Where are you going to find 70 degree weather to live in anymore? Most of the desirable areas are already overpopulated and not affordable for most people. Just because it's not 100% efficient, doesn't mean it should not be pursued.
Why 70 degrees? If you're goal is a city based entirely on computing power then put it in Alaska. Wind can work just as well as solar there and your cooling costs are limited to a fan.
So this city may be a stupid idea for other reasons, but not because of water shortages.
Just envisioning a city designed around data storage and computing in the middle of a desert - that's grade A retardation unless he has some new computer chip which doesn't convert 99.99% of the energy put into it directly into heat or has a much much higher flops:W than we have now.
Every US citizen multiplied by $2,000 would be a pretty good fucking lawsuit to bring them down. Meanwhile they'll just get off with a class action which will amount to a few cents per person automatically opted in even if they don't know it exists.
His 3 viable replacements are Rust, Go, and some language nobody but him and 1 other guy have even heard of? That is beyond fucking retarded, on every point. Rust is garbage. Go is garbage. The third thing nobody has heard is apparently not even fucking done yet. If he's actively trying to raise money for it that third one is probably his own pet project. This thing reeks of marketing dribble without substance.
If you guys keep bitching like this for the next 7 years we're going to have a national crisis trying to find a place to store all the salt.
Blizzard? Intrusive DRM scheme?
They literally have Facebook integration, scan all your files, and report back whatever they want from your machine. Starcraft 2 is the data mining of the web, in videogame form.
What I want is irrelevant. We are discussing computer security and there is absolutely no way to have a secure system which you do not physically control. It is a technical impossibility.
No it's not. There is no such thing as data privacy if you lack physical security, the most basic immutable tenant of which is possessing your own data.
Every cloud platform has been hacked at some point, every major company has been hacked at some point, to suggest you can put your data anywhere but a box on your own land and have it be secure is absurd. By extension of this you cannot do the computations outside of hardware you yourself possess and expect it to be secure in any way shape or form. Column-level encryption, SSL, etc are absurd when the endpoint itself can be compromised - they are false senses of security and nothing more.
This of course is all made worse by the fact the companies doing that processing remotely actively auction off the most sensitive parts of your data, though even if they weren't doing that they would still be definitively impossible to accept as secure.
Q was perhaps outlandish, but there was enough not described he could just be a part of a really advanced series with different technology and an ego (per the voyager extrapolation,) the holodesks are based in extrapolations of known physics, as are the replicators. It is conceivable with enough engineering to get from where we are to holodecks and replicators. The magic spores on the other hand are described in great enough detail to make them absolutely absurd and based in no known physics.
All the technologies from TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT have some basis in technology with the exception of some bizarre one-off episodes. The spore drive on the other hand is the central technology of the new series and it is flat out absurd. You might as well replace the ships and artificial gravity with astral projection bubbles and fairies at this point because the sci-fi pretense is absolutely gone. Warp drive was based on some cutting-edge research, and is still a viable future technology, along with replicators, transporters, gravity plating, inertial dampeners, shields, weapons systems, ablative armor, nanotech, biotech, etc. The only real exceptions were the Vulcan mind powers and Kess from VOY, but the vulcan part would at least be plausible with some genetic enhancements amounting to something like bluetooth transceivers under their fingertips.
Magickal spore powered by giant invulnerable telekinetic tardigardes is just fucking dumb and sloppy on the part of the people writing.
All of the tech you described, while fanciful, is conceivable. Spore drives are hand wavy shit by a bunch of writers too dim to real the most recent physics research coming down the pipeline.