So when will we be able to buy one of these? I know my wife is going to be asking for an AC in the house this summer, and I'm sure that the people in places like AZ, NM, and TX will be clamoring to lower their electric bill.
Additionally, will the dessicants (or the filter) have a recycle lifespan, or will it be more like a traditional household AC, using a 'simple' radiator device?
13,600 distinct services seems like nothing to me. Seriously.
In a given month, I personally perform roughly 300 distinct "lines of service"/service items. This is in IT, as an administrator. Yes, I personally perform that many distinctly different tasks for users on a given month (whether they realize it or not).
So why is this such a difficult thing for doctors? I don't get paid a fraction what doctors do, and it's not like they aren't prone to errors in diagnosis - so that's certainly not a valid excuse for the rate difference.
There isn't anything special about a doctor's diagnosis, honestly, unless they're a specialist. More often than not, 20 minutes on the internet will lead you to the solution you need for most common ailments. Usually, it's something routine: you've got a mole that needs removal; you need antibiotics; you have an annual checkup (which is a list that every doctor goes through and is quite standard).
So why is it so damn expensive? Institutionalized education, on top of institutionalized budget abuse at every level of healthcare because "we need it"?
Fifty years ago may have had "poor diagnosis" and what have you, but "take a stiff drink and call me in the morning" did just fine for most of the instances where people would get a 10-day run of antibiotics today. Yes, that's exaggerated, but so is the effectual significance of "modern healthcare" on actually improving the lives of the common man. The "health" improvements we've seen in the last decade+ can largely be chalked up to people returning to healthier natural diets, not the wonders of modern medicine.
The slashdot crowd tends to think of an "open platform" as one unencumbered by binary licensing - and forkable.
Most people seem to think of an open platform as one which is accessible - like a bar or a park. Sure, you don't own it, but you can go there and appreciate it.
By these definitions, Android and Symbian are less 'open' than the old WinMo 6.5. Anyone could write a decent application with a minimum of effort for the platform due to the maturity of the developer tools; the application would also be likely to actually work on a variety of WinMo phones. Android and Symbian are somewhat hemoraged markets, comparably.
That's actually not that far from the truth. Frankly, I'm surprised this wasn't their policy in the first place.
We went for approximately a year trying to get Verizon to block incoming SMS on one of our lines. Apparently someone with many stupid, non-English speaking friends didn't notify any of them of their number change.
Even after we repeatedly asked to block the SMS, they wouldn't do it (saying it wasn't possible). "We can't block incoming SMS" and other such nonsense - but we'll gladly charge you $$$ for the aggregate at the end of the month. Same thing for their so-called "Data plan", which would inadvertently activate by their hardware buttons in the pocket or by pressing the wrong button on the face (no, hitting 'cancel' quickly would not inhibit the data charge).
Now, just to get them to reliably deliver said voicemails and SMS on a timely basis. I just love receiving an important voicemail or SMS two days after it's been made... unfortunately, no other mobile provider is available in the area.
Apparently not literal quotes of text anymore. Searching for precise phrases with quotes (such as what a person might find in a system event log or transcription) turn up lots of stuff completely unrelated, ignoring the quotes outright.
Seriously, this guy's right. Think about it for a second. If I were a common resident of Africa (hardly able to call them 'citizens' in most cases), would I rather:
Have a source of electricity at night to use my electronics (so criminals will be able to see the inviting light, bringing them in for the plunder/rape/murder)
Or....
Have a meal.
That's hardly a difficult choice. Though, given the choice between "a potato you can eat" and "a potato for making electricity", I suspect much of Africa would prefer the 2nd option - so they can sell it for drugs.
OK, so trojans aren't viruses. Likewise, your average drive-by malware isn't a 'virus' in the traditional sense (leveraging design weaknesses instead of infusing itself with executables).
So, OSX implements binary checksumming and all that good stuff, I'm sure. That prevents it from getting viruses, right?
Wrong. I can write a perl or bash script which will do all the various insideous things the typical (and archaic) Windows virus does. Likewise, similar functionality could be implemented which mimics a modern piece of malware. In fact, once the executable is on the system (like in Linux) OSX is an easier target than Windows (in terms of 'available tools to do the job, quickly and easily).
Honestly, using the archaic definition of "virus" doesn't serve anyone here but Apple and Steve Jobs. You're deceiving yourself to believe that a Mac is invulnerable to viruses.
BTW,even if it wasn't for shell and perl scripts, there's still AppleScript, which allows for hooking every which way into the UI. This is trivial to do (using the thoughtfully considered and included Automator). These scripts can then be included inline with perl or vice versa, or sourced by a shell script.
At the end of the day, OSX has as many practical avenues for exploit as Windows does (if not more, due to documented design flaws). Downloading warez with poisoned payloads, cracks, or even font installers - whatever. It happens, just not nearly as often with Windows due to nobody really caring about Macs.
That's hardly comforting. OK: so they didn't try to deceive customers in this scenario. They're just incompetent.
Not announcing something this significant in an update (ie as part of the changelog, whatever) is incompetence/negligence or malice. Really, how hard is it to document a simple change like this?
Well, I've run into several covert Apple "pushes" in the (thankfully) short period of time I've had to deal with their cobbled system. I seem to recall two stealth pushes of Java in particular which broke the platform we were using: anyone watching upstream would see security issues being discovered (and fixed), but Apple made no such disclosure and just installed them. That's really nice on a server. (Microsoft, you're an ass for doing same with 'new' packages like the latest version of IE, even when SUS has things set to require authentication prior to install.)
Note: OS X itself isn't bad, from a design perspective. Neither are the BSDs. It's the user utility/ability in being able to control the platform once you've got it (without painful regressions, downtime, etc.).
Who's to say the PhD folks won't get the other (yes, other) chasers killed? Just because you've got a fancy truck with fancy equipment (and the knowledge to use it) doesn't mean you're more important, less likely to fuck up, or more useful at the time in hand.
Honestly, the PhD types are less important, short term. It's frequently storm chasers who provide information on things like wind speeds, tornado class, damage, direction, videos, etc. to news agencies. These news agencies then report on these things immediately, helping save lives.
The PhDs can get stuffed: they're getting in the way of preventative emergency volunteer work with their silly long-term goals. They're like someone reading a barometer during a flood.
Yeah, except it's quite possible to make a good film for less than even that.
If you RTFA'd, you'd see their finished film intends to have 135,000 frames. So, $135,000 budget. That's not unreasonable.
Consider that the biggest costs with film production these days is CG/special effects, actors, marketing, and distribution. The technology for doing something with film is cheap - and mature - enough to put the bar for entry at around $1500, give or take.
This film looks like it might be an action/horror/thriller film. If they've got their sets (looks like they may be filming 'on location' and paying a negligible fee for doing so), and their actors are working for free (not implausible - they'd surely be able to find some suitable talent in a city like Sidney willing to do so), their biggest costs will likely be in costumes and makeup.
Nope. This is just "typical" behavior - in the same way that Jack Thompson's behavior was typical of one side of the US business spectrum.
Unlike Pakistan, we don't have a monoculture, and we allow political and religious disagreement; this results in quite a range of crazies, but allows for us normals to have liberties yet unheard of in history.
Note: the Koran also makes it clear that the whole of the planet is under their jurisdiction, on account of Allah owning it. As such, everyone who meets a Mohammedan must submit to the will of Allah (convert) or die. Enter over 1500 years of near-perpetual expansionist warfare.
And the US gets a bad rap for one war every 10 years...
The "extremist" government of Saudi Arabia gets most of its money from oil. The US is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the only consumer of said oil.
There were crazy Islamists (sorry for the redundancy) in Pakistan, etc. a long before the US was even on the scene. Look up India's history with said Mohammedans and their invasions, and what they did about it: hint, they (what we now know as ghurkas) fought like sons-of-bitches. The result of their failure is Pakistan.
It might hurt Zuckerberg. There's this thing called a fatwah; it's somewhat like putting a hit out against someone, but instead of for rational existential reasons it's for thought and speech crimes against their Allah.
For a Windows user, there is a LOT you can do with a WinMo 5-6.5 device with little/no effort - no need for custom (and very expensive) vendored products.
For instance, hooking up an RFID scanner to a WinMo phone or PDA, and automagically putting your data into a (desktop) Office-compatible spreadsheet, running totals, adding input, etc. as you go is dead simple (particularly if you've got an older, better non-capacitive screen). You can then just copy the file back over to your desktop, macros and all, and work on it there unchanged.
If you've got area wireless, you could also just edit the files directly.
There is no competition in the other PDA/phone vendors in this realm. You will pay thousands for this ability on anything else. I, and many others, are very happy to see this possible announcement; many non-business people were upset to see the diminished utility in WP7.
I don't think they've ever lead the market in features; they've led the market in quality.
You've got that completely backwards - at least for the past >=5 years.
Firefox was first awesome because, compared to the alternative, it was fast - damn fast - and lightweight. It also used modern standards, which could certainly be considered a 'feature'.
Then Firefox dominated amongst geeks due to the extensions - the very large, typically high quality extensions. The extension API was a non-trivial part of this - ie, a "feature".
As for quality? Have you given Chrome/Chromium a fair shake? I switched from Firefox about a year ago because I was sick and tired of Firefox quality problem: even with minimal extensions (Adblock and Flashblock), and the Flash plugin used for occasional things, it was unstable. It was horribly unstable, crashing upwards of once or twice a day. If it wasn't Flash causing the problem, it was Javascript itself. Yes, I disabled extensions trying to find the problem, tried different versions, etc., but I'm pretty sure it was just Firefox design issues.
I switched to Chromium as soon as there was a semblance of ad blocking (hiding) and didn't look back. The speed difference on a per-tab basis is significant, nevermind when you've got a dozen or more tabs open at once: Chromium is noticeably faster on a single core system, nevermind a multicore.
Yeah, there were other charges which he plea bargained away: assault. If I recall the picnic properly, she attacked him with a frying pan, backed him against a fence, and he hit her. She called the cops. This led to her deciding to not press charges until later, and then getting the restraining order...
As I understand things, this is fairly typical. I don't care if you're gotten for aggravated assault, personally: 8 years for a first-time offense is insane, short of life-impacting grievous harm to another individual.
Furthermore, what are rapists/pedophiles/molesters/gang members doing on the streets after being arrested for a crime?
These are the kinds of people you lock up and throw away the key, nevermind parole. Parole is for relatively minor offenses, near the end of their term.
Meanwhile, my uncle just got out of prison: he was in San Quintin for 8 years. Why? He violated a restraining order (he had not even been made aware of) against him by his ex-wife. She got the order, then invited him over to see his daughter (with a *wink wink*). He arrived to find several police offers at the door, who promptly took him to jail.
California is all sorts of fucked: in the first place for putting people like my uncle in prison at all, but likewise for this crazy bullshit of letting their most dangerous types out. You don't let these people out. It's like a septic tank: if it's full, you flush it properly; you don't drain it into the municipal water.
You see this kind of shit in IT all the time: $boss gives you $new_shiny but does not give you the human resources to manage said $new_shiny, resulting in $new_shiny not being effectively used. Result: $boss jumps on your ass for not utilizing $new_shiny, even though you didn't ask for it (or asked for it with the necessary addition of more humans).
Only difference in this case is that it's cops not IT people.
I suspect that information inundation has something to do with it, too: how many parolees are there who are violating their parole? If it's more than a scant few, chances are they don't have the force numbers to pay attention to the alerts, never mind actually act on them.
Watch: after finding out that Ozzie's DNA has decayed to only slightly-worse-than-average they get permission to dig up his mom and dad and sequence their DNA. The result will be astounding: they'll be from out of this world.
The secret to human evolution, it will seem, may have been drug abuse.
On one hand, arresting/prosecuting the scientists is stupid. On the other hand, we'd get rid of all the politicians. Am I willing to sacrifice the scientists to get rid of the politicians?
People "buy" porn? When did they start doing that again?
Porn is free for those who look, and has been for the better part of the last decade. It's so prevailant that it's difficult to avoid. The market is, for all intents and purposes, "saturated".
Porn is not like books, because books cost money to produce and can be sold for only so much. There are publisher controls on how many get printed each year, and so on, so as to not overwhelm customers and create a glut of supply.
Will the amount of porn go down? God no. But it is likely that the quality of "good" porn will go down as the amateurs take over with free, ad-supported content.
The good thing about working for her is that she didn't understand what I did, and didn't particularly care to learn. She didn't bother asking questions as to what I was up to, just assumed that I was doing a good job, and gave me great reviews every year. The flip side of that is that she didn't understand why we needed things like new equipment, new software, or training... which left me running the entire development department on 6 year old refurbished equipment that I could "borrow" from other departments.
Hey, that sounds like one of my old bosses! Minus the good reviews, part. And she was the IT Manager.
And an alcohol problem. I don't know if that was related to her hormone problem resulting in a mustache, though.
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So when will we be able to buy one of these? I know my wife is going to be asking for an AC in the house this summer, and I'm sure that the people in places like AZ, NM, and TX will be clamoring to lower their electric bill.
Additionally, will the dessicants (or the filter) have a recycle lifespan, or will it be more like a traditional household AC, using a 'simple' radiator device?
13,600 distinct services seems like nothing to me. Seriously.
In a given month, I personally perform roughly 300 distinct "lines of service"/service items. This is in IT, as an administrator. Yes, I personally perform that many distinctly different tasks for users on a given month (whether they realize it or not).
So why is this such a difficult thing for doctors? I don't get paid a fraction what doctors do, and it's not like they aren't prone to errors in diagnosis - so that's certainly not a valid excuse for the rate difference.
There isn't anything special about a doctor's diagnosis, honestly, unless they're a specialist. More often than not, 20 minutes on the internet will lead you to the solution you need for most common ailments. Usually, it's something routine: you've got a mole that needs removal; you need antibiotics; you have an annual checkup (which is a list that every doctor goes through and is quite standard).
So why is it so damn expensive? Institutionalized education, on top of institutionalized budget abuse at every level of healthcare because "we need it"?
Fifty years ago may have had "poor diagnosis" and what have you, but "take a stiff drink and call me in the morning" did just fine for most of the instances where people would get a 10-day run of antibiotics today. Yes, that's exaggerated, but so is the effectual significance of "modern healthcare" on actually improving the lives of the common man. The "health" improvements we've seen in the last decade+ can largely be chalked up to people returning to healthier natural diets, not the wonders of modern medicine.
Open has a variety of definitions to people.
The slashdot crowd tends to think of an "open platform" as one unencumbered by binary licensing - and forkable.
Most people seem to think of an open platform as one which is accessible - like a bar or a park. Sure, you don't own it, but you can go there and appreciate it.
By these definitions, Android and Symbian are less 'open' than the old WinMo 6.5. Anyone could write a decent application with a minimum of effort for the platform due to the maturity of the developer tools; the application would also be likely to actually work on a variety of WinMo phones. Android and Symbian are somewhat hemoraged markets, comparably.
That's actually not that far from the truth. Frankly, I'm surprised this wasn't their policy in the first place.
We went for approximately a year trying to get Verizon to block incoming SMS on one of our lines. Apparently someone with many stupid, non-English speaking friends didn't notify any of them of their number change.
Even after we repeatedly asked to block the SMS, they wouldn't do it (saying it wasn't possible). "We can't block incoming SMS" and other such nonsense - but we'll gladly charge you $$$ for the aggregate at the end of the month. Same thing for their so-called "Data plan", which would inadvertently activate by their hardware buttons in the pocket or by pressing the wrong button on the face (no, hitting 'cancel' quickly would not inhibit the data charge).
Now, just to get them to reliably deliver said voicemails and SMS on a timely basis. I just love receiving an important voicemail or SMS two days after it's been made... unfortunately, no other mobile provider is available in the area.
Almost anything?
Apparently not literal quotes of text anymore. Searching for precise phrases with quotes (such as what a person might find in a system event log or transcription) turn up lots of stuff completely unrelated, ignoring the quotes outright.
Seriously, this guy's right. Think about it for a second. If I were a common resident of Africa (hardly able to call them 'citizens' in most cases), would I rather:
Have a source of electricity at night to use my electronics (so criminals will be able to see the inviting light, bringing them in for the plunder/rape/murder)
Or....
Have a meal.
That's hardly a difficult choice. Though, given the choice between "a potato you can eat" and "a potato for making electricity", I suspect much of Africa would prefer the 2nd option - so they can sell it for drugs.
OK, so trojans aren't viruses. Likewise, your average drive-by malware isn't a 'virus' in the traditional sense (leveraging design weaknesses instead of infusing itself with executables).
So, OSX implements binary checksumming and all that good stuff, I'm sure. That prevents it from getting viruses, right?
Wrong. I can write a perl or bash script which will do all the various insideous things the typical (and archaic) Windows virus does. Likewise, similar functionality could be implemented which mimics a modern piece of malware. In fact, once the executable is on the system (like in Linux) OSX is an easier target than Windows (in terms of 'available tools to do the job, quickly and easily).
Honestly, using the archaic definition of "virus" doesn't serve anyone here but Apple and Steve Jobs. You're deceiving yourself to believe that a Mac is invulnerable to viruses.
BTW,even if it wasn't for shell and perl scripts, there's still AppleScript, which allows for hooking every which way into the UI. This is trivial to do (using the thoughtfully considered and included Automator). These scripts can then be included inline with perl or vice versa, or sourced by a shell script.
At the end of the day, OSX has as many practical avenues for exploit as Windows does (if not more, due to documented design flaws). Downloading warez with poisoned payloads, cracks, or even font installers - whatever. It happens, just not nearly as often with Windows due to nobody really caring about Macs.
That's hardly comforting. OK: so they didn't try to deceive customers in this scenario. They're just incompetent.
Not announcing something this significant in an update (ie as part of the changelog, whatever) is incompetence/negligence or malice. Really, how hard is it to document a simple change like this?
Well, I've run into several covert Apple "pushes" in the (thankfully) short period of time I've had to deal with their cobbled system. I seem to recall two stealth pushes of Java in particular which broke the platform we were using: anyone watching upstream would see security issues being discovered (and fixed), but Apple made no such disclosure and just installed them. That's really nice on a server. (Microsoft, you're an ass for doing same with 'new' packages like the latest version of IE, even when SUS has things set to require authentication prior to install.)
Note: OS X itself isn't bad, from a design perspective. Neither are the BSDs. It's the user utility/ability in being able to control the platform once you've got it (without painful regressions, downtime, etc.).
Get the PhD folks killed?
Who's to say the PhD folks won't get the other (yes, other) chasers killed? Just because you've got a fancy truck with fancy equipment (and the knowledge to use it) doesn't mean you're more important, less likely to fuck up, or more useful at the time in hand.
Honestly, the PhD types are less important, short term. It's frequently storm chasers who provide information on things like wind speeds, tornado class, damage, direction, videos, etc. to news agencies. These news agencies then report on these things immediately, helping save lives.
The PhDs can get stuffed: they're getting in the way of preventative emergency volunteer work with their silly long-term goals. They're like someone reading a barometer during a flood.
Yeah, except it's quite possible to make a good film for less than even that.
If you RTFA'd, you'd see their finished film intends to have 135,000 frames. So, $135,000 budget. That's not unreasonable.
Consider that the biggest costs with film production these days is CG/special effects, actors, marketing, and distribution. The technology for doing something with film is cheap - and mature - enough to put the bar for entry at around $1500, give or take.
This film looks like it might be an action/horror/thriller film. If they've got their sets (looks like they may be filming 'on location' and paying a negligible fee for doing so), and their actors are working for free (not implausible - they'd surely be able to find some suitable talent in a city like Sidney willing to do so), their biggest costs will likely be in costumes and makeup.
Nope. This is just "typical" behavior - in the same way that Jack Thompson's behavior was typical of one side of the US business spectrum.
Unlike Pakistan, we don't have a monoculture, and we allow political and religious disagreement; this results in quite a range of crazies, but allows for us normals to have liberties yet unheard of in history.
Note: the Koran also makes it clear that the whole of the planet is under their jurisdiction, on account of Allah owning it. As such, everyone who meets a Mohammedan must submit to the will of Allah (convert) or die. Enter over 1500 years of near-perpetual expansionist warfare.
And the US gets a bad rap for one war every 10 years...
The "extremist" government of Saudi Arabia gets most of its money from oil. The US is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the only consumer of said oil.
There were crazy Islamists (sorry for the redundancy) in Pakistan, etc. a long before the US was even on the scene. Look up India's history with said Mohammedans and their invasions, and what they did about it: hint, they (what we now know as ghurkas) fought like sons-of-bitches. The result of their failure is Pakistan.
It might hurt Zuckerberg. There's this thing called a fatwah; it's somewhat like putting a hit out against someone, but instead of for rational existential reasons it's for thought and speech crimes against their Allah.
For a Windows user, there is a LOT you can do with a WinMo 5-6.5 device with little/no effort - no need for custom (and very expensive) vendored products.
For instance, hooking up an RFID scanner to a WinMo phone or PDA, and automagically putting your data into a (desktop) Office-compatible spreadsheet, running totals, adding input, etc. as you go is dead simple (particularly if you've got an older, better non-capacitive screen). You can then just copy the file back over to your desktop, macros and all, and work on it there unchanged.
If you've got area wireless, you could also just edit the files directly.
There is no competition in the other PDA/phone vendors in this realm. You will pay thousands for this ability on anything else.
I, and many others, are very happy to see this possible announcement; many non-business people were upset to see the diminished utility in WP7.
Not so... back in the day, such a slashdotting was quite regular. Surely you remember that.
I don't think they've ever lead the market in features; they've led the market in quality.
You've got that completely backwards - at least for the past >=5 years.
Firefox was first awesome because, compared to the alternative, it was fast - damn fast - and lightweight. It also used modern standards, which could certainly be considered a 'feature'.
Then Firefox dominated amongst geeks due to the extensions - the very large, typically high quality extensions. The extension API was a non-trivial part of this - ie, a "feature".
As for quality? Have you given Chrome/Chromium a fair shake? I switched from Firefox about a year ago because I was sick and tired of Firefox quality problem: even with minimal extensions (Adblock and Flashblock), and the Flash plugin used for occasional things, it was unstable. It was horribly unstable, crashing upwards of once or twice a day. If it wasn't Flash causing the problem, it was Javascript itself. Yes, I disabled extensions trying to find the problem, tried different versions, etc., but I'm pretty sure it was just Firefox design issues.
I switched to Chromium as soon as there was a semblance of ad blocking (hiding) and didn't look back. The speed difference on a per-tab basis is significant, nevermind when you've got a dozen or more tabs open at once: Chromium is noticeably faster on a single core system, nevermind a multicore.
Yeah, there were other charges which he plea bargained away: assault. If I recall the picnic properly, she attacked him with a frying pan, backed him against a fence, and he hit her. She called the cops. This led to her deciding to not press charges until later, and then getting the restraining order...
As I understand things, this is fairly typical. I don't care if you're gotten for aggravated assault, personally: 8 years for a first-time offense is insane, short of life-impacting grievous harm to another individual.
Furthermore, what are rapists/pedophiles/molesters/gang members doing on the streets after being arrested for a crime?
These are the kinds of people you lock up and throw away the key, nevermind parole. Parole is for relatively minor offenses, near the end of their term.
Meanwhile, my uncle just got out of prison: he was in San Quintin for 8 years. Why? He violated a restraining order (he had not even been made aware of) against him by his ex-wife. She got the order, then invited him over to see his daughter (with a *wink wink*). He arrived to find several police offers at the door, who promptly took him to jail.
California is all sorts of fucked: in the first place for putting people like my uncle in prison at all, but likewise for this crazy bullshit of letting their most dangerous types out. You don't let these people out. It's like a septic tank: if it's full, you flush it properly; you don't drain it into the municipal water.
You see this kind of shit in IT all the time: $boss gives you $new_shiny but does not give you the human resources to manage said $new_shiny, resulting in $new_shiny not being effectively used. Result: $boss jumps on your ass for not utilizing $new_shiny, even though you didn't ask for it (or asked for it with the necessary addition of more humans).
Only difference in this case is that it's cops not IT people.
I suspect that information inundation has something to do with it, too: how many parolees are there who are violating their parole? If it's more than a scant few, chances are they don't have the force numbers to pay attention to the alerts, never mind actually act on them.
Watch: after finding out that Ozzie's DNA has decayed to only slightly-worse-than-average they get permission to dig up his mom and dad and sequence their DNA. The result will be astounding: they'll be from out of this world.
The secret to human evolution, it will seem, may have been drug abuse.
Wait, now I'm conflicted.
On one hand, arresting/prosecuting the scientists is stupid. On the other hand, we'd get rid of all the politicians. Am I willing to sacrifice the scientists to get rid of the politicians?
Yes. Yes I am.
People "buy" porn? When did they start doing that again?
Porn is free for those who look, and has been for the better part of the last decade. It's so prevailant that it's difficult to avoid. The market is, for all intents and purposes, "saturated".
Porn is not like books, because books cost money to produce and can be sold for only so much. There are publisher controls on how many get printed each year, and so on, so as to not overwhelm customers and create a glut of supply.
Will the amount of porn go down? God no. But it is likely that the quality of "good" porn will go down as the amateurs take over with free, ad-supported content.
The good thing about working for her is that she didn't understand what I did, and didn't particularly care to learn. She didn't bother asking questions as to what I was up to, just assumed that I was doing a good job, and gave me great reviews every year. The flip side of that is that she didn't understand why we needed things like new equipment, new software, or training... which left me running the entire development department on 6 year old refurbished equipment that I could "borrow" from other departments.
Hey, that sounds like one of my old bosses! Minus the good reviews, part. And she was the IT Manager.
And an alcohol problem. I don't know if that was related to her hormone problem resulting in a mustache, though.