I have no love for Hollywood or the publishing industry, but content producers need something to concentrate audience for promotional purposes.
Even more importantly, if we encourage piracy, the person we're ultimately going to harm is the content producer, specifically the independent ones. Big publishing and movie houses will find a way around Google, but the little guy will not.
When that happens, people will stop pursuing content production as a career because they won't be able to survive. This means that the best people will avoid this career.
A person who is popular is perceived to be smart, successful and attractive.
It's like popularity is a "way around" the old fashioned way of being smart, successful and attractive, which actually required you to be smart, successful and attractive.
It's no surprise then that our leaders are morons, our experts are fools and our culture is hogwash. But it's popular, so we pretend not to notice the obvious.
Microsoft Office is better, but LibreOffice has potential to get there eventually.
I think you're correct in noticing that often F/OSS is used as a vehicle for companies to promote their products, like Java. The idea behind OO was as a demonstration of Java superiority. Obviously, that failed. It really should be abandoned and a new project started, but that's another story.
Interesting how you describe Red Hat engaging in a similar strategy. I guess it works. After all, there's still thousands of people out there making new Microsoft Office fans by recommending OO/LO, which as you mention is still a far ways off from being minimally competitive.
Stamp will cost $4, do the same thing that $0.49 stamp does but have stylistic design. If anything goes wrong, you throw the whole letter out and buy a new one based on someone else's refurbished mail. If you mention this bad experience online, ten thousand Steve Jobs fanboys attack your inbox with gay pornography to "open your mind."
We now have two salient facts about our technology:
(a) A constant flow of communication
(b) The ability to monitor it
Someone will do this. It's inevitable that government will want to in order to keep an eye on true threats. Sort of like Echelon, but domestically, as our threats are now domestic more than foreign.
If we don't punish these people, we're going to have more transsexuals and flakeout hipster potheads leaking information every time they have a relationship failure.
I took concerns to my management and said I would not implement their solution and outlined why. Their response was to pull me from the project and put in a yes-man that would do whatever he was told.
Your other option was to play nice like the dummies are advocating, and have a failed project as a black stain on your resume.
You did the right thing. So did they. Good people are incompatible with idiots.
We have trouble making buildings whose internal components like elevators and water pumps last more than a decade before failing. Most of our buildings don't look like they'll last more than 3-4 decades.
The real robotics we're going to put into buildings is smart utilities that track people, sense needs, respond to emergencies and maintain a comfortable environment. In addition, as we overpopulate and thus pollute to toxic levels, they're going to filter all air and water so their occupants don't die of rapid growth cancers.
Google was great when it was small and had shared vision.
Now we're seeing the company both have many more screwups, and be more manipulative, basically by trying to force us all to use GoogleBook (or G+ as they call it).
I don't think they're bad people. I think human organizations, when they get too large, become unstable because shared vision is lost and people start treating it as "just a job."
Obviously, no amount of free soft drinks and stock options can remedy that.
Code is very similar to language. How would it not be?
However, what's being described is entirely different. A narrative relies on both clear expression of the action and a broad context of details to give it resonance.
Code, on the other hand, operates through loops and definitions independent of timeline, so is a better match for architecture and math than the science of communications.
Can you provide a reference for your claim that the ergonomic keyboard produces more stress?
Yes, of course.
Did you know that most people are entirely dependent on rationalistic thinking, which they use to justify their own inclinations by taking selective samples of reality?
You can see it manifested in passive aggressive behavior on the internet. Someone will relate useful data, and immediately people will come out of the woodwork hoping to "disprove" this information by demanding published data, which they full well know doesn't exist.
It's their way of making themselves feel better, don't you think?
Too much "innovation" is appearance only, or the act of making gee-whiz gadgets that look like they might be far out. The clueless buying public falls for it every time.
Back in the 1990s, I used one of those Microsoft ergonomic keyboards for a little while... but then I learned that it was in fact putting more strain my hands. Back to the old tried-and-true 100-year-old typewriter style configuration.
Every time I've tried any kind of tricked out keyboard, the result has been the same. It doesn't work better than the original. For innovation to be actual innovation, it must solve a problem and do so in the context of reality, not merely be a nifty concept or look.
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The reason college degrees were valuable: they revealed extraordinary ability on the part of the student.
Why they're worthless now: everyone has them, and they're easy or at least predictable enough that they have little predictive value.
How to fix this: make high school more challenging, and test problem-solving as opposed to recombinant memorization.
I have no love for Hollywood or the publishing industry, but content producers need something to concentrate audience for promotional purposes.
Even more importantly, if we encourage piracy, the person we're ultimately going to harm is the content producer, specifically the independent ones. Big publishing and movie houses will find a way around Google, but the little guy will not.
When that happens, people will stop pursuing content production as a career because they won't be able to survive. This means that the best people will avoid this career.
See what's already happening to writers:
http://www.theguardian.com/boo...
Sorry, finding new ways to rent out your car through an iPhone app is not any kind of Renaissance.
If anything, it's the decline of computer science from world-changing to trivial amusements for trivial, pointless people.
A person who is popular is perceived to be smart, successful and attractive.
It's like popularity is a "way around" the old fashioned way of being smart, successful and attractive, which actually required you to be smart, successful and attractive.
It's no surprise then that our leaders are morons, our experts are fools and our culture is hogwash. But it's popular, so we pretend not to notice the obvious.
This looks cool:
http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
Visual demonstration on page.
I think you're correct in noticing that often F/OSS is used as a vehicle for companies to promote their products, like Java. The idea behind OO was as a demonstration of Java superiority. Obviously, that failed. It really should be abandoned and a new project started, but that's another story.
Interesting how you describe Red Hat engaging in a similar strategy. I guess it works. After all, there's still thousands of people out there making new Microsoft Office fans by recommending OO/LO, which as you mention is still a far ways off from being minimally competitive.
Stamp will cost $4, do the same thing that $0.49 stamp does but have stylistic design. If anything goes wrong, you throw the whole letter out and buy a new one based on someone else's refurbished mail. If you mention this bad experience online, ten thousand Steve Jobs fanboys attack your inbox with gay pornography to "open your mind."
You heard it here first.
We now have two salient facts about our technology:
(a) A constant flow of communication
(b) The ability to monitor it
Someone will do this. It's inevitable that government will want to in order to keep an eye on true threats. Sort of like Echelon, but domestically, as our threats are now domestic more than foreign.
Every time I use OO/LO, I'm reminded of how inexpensive Microsoft Office is in the long run.
These excruciating pieces of software seem to be developed by people who have never used the equivalent products.
Looks like we need more rope.
If we don't punish these people, we're going to have more transsexuals and flakeout hipster potheads leaking information every time they have a relationship failure.
These people are neurotics, not heroes.
Your other option was to play nice like the dummies are advocating, and have a failed project as a black stain on your resume.
You did the right thing. So did they. Good people are incompatible with idiots.
Surely we don't need to be so extreme in our expression.
I think we can do all the damage we need to with a simple statement:
"It looks like Windows 8.1 as a web site."
No, not everyone should learn to code, for two vital reasons:
1. People have skills in different areas. They should develop those.
2. Coding is about to be obsolete. There are no mysteries anymore, and it is being automated.
In another dozen years, this bubble -- the coder bubble -- will have popped.
Telling people to learn to code now is not only bad advice, but potentially damaging advice.
If you can detect early signs of petulance, entitlement, ironism and PBR overdose, you've got it all covered.
We have trouble making buildings whose internal components like elevators and water pumps last more than a decade before failing. Most of our buildings don't look like they'll last more than 3-4 decades.
The real robotics we're going to put into buildings is smart utilities that track people, sense needs, respond to emergencies and maintain a comfortable environment. In addition, as we overpopulate and thus pollute to toxic levels, they're going to filter all air and water so their occupants don't die of rapid growth cancers.
Do you have freedom?
There are ideas that get you thrown out of your job, ostracized by others and possibly arrested or publically censured.
If you don't toe the line and you lose your job, you probably don't have the money to hold out for long.
We have the same totalitarian state as the Soviets, we just found a decentralized method to control it.
Google was great when it was small and had shared vision.
Now we're seeing the company both have many more screwups, and be more manipulative, basically by trying to force us all to use GoogleBook (or G+ as they call it).
I don't think they're bad people. I think human organizations, when they get too large, become unstable because shared vision is lost and people start treating it as "just a job."
Obviously, no amount of free soft drinks and stock options can remedy that.
Snowden took American national secrets and gave them to the Russians, our enemies.
Since when is that not an act worthy of being classified as a traitorous spy?
He's this generation's Kim Philby, but he found a better way to "justify" his actions.
Still doesn't make them right.
A whistleblower goes up the chain of command to the person above the obstruction; a traitor goes to the enemy.
You criticize Obama, it's probably because you're a racist.
Approval ratings prove it:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/w...
The only reason Obama is hated is because he is a black man.
At least, that's what my television tells me.
Code is very similar to language. How would it not be?
However, what's being described is entirely different. A narrative relies on both clear expression of the action and a broad context of details to give it resonance.
Code, on the other hand, operates through loops and definitions independent of timeline, so is a better match for architecture and math than the science of communications.
What did I do that was rude?
I consider passive-aggression the #1 problem of this society today.
It's akin to you posting child porn and no one else has pointed that fact out.
Yes, of course.
Did you know that most people are entirely dependent on rationalistic thinking, which they use to justify their own inclinations by taking selective samples of reality?
You can see it manifested in passive aggressive behavior on the internet. Someone will relate useful data, and immediately people will come out of the woodwork hoping to "disprove" this information by demanding published data, which they full well know doesn't exist.
It's their way of making themselves feel better, don't you think?
Too much "innovation" is appearance only, or the act of making gee-whiz gadgets that look like they might be far out. The clueless buying public falls for it every time.
Back in the 1990s, I used one of those Microsoft ergonomic keyboards for a little while... but then I learned that it was in fact putting more strain my hands. Back to the old tried-and-true 100-year-old typewriter style configuration.
Every time I've tried any kind of tricked out keyboard, the result has been the same. It doesn't work better than the original. For innovation to be actual innovation, it must solve a problem and do so in the context of reality, not merely be a nifty concept or look.
So you don't think liberals form a type that, because of a shared ideology/psychology, tends to respond in similar ways to similar stimulus?
Oh, OK.