Lets say one day we had gravity reduction devices in our home to make us more comfy. Would that lead to a weaker speices down the road? Some would see the mass production of cars to have had a similar effect on our species.
No, I don't think it would, because only the rich (presumably) could afford them, and the rich have far fewer children than the poor.
Yeah, Jef is a modernist in a post-modern world. Jef obviously wants to be the Le Corbusier of computer user interfaces. Be happy he doesn't demand you wear only the right clothes, style your hair just the right way, and have only the right lighting when you use the computer. This is not about science.
It's frustrating to work for these places. Sometimes degrading, but most of all back breaking. Nothing's ever finished 100%, there's no time for proper design, nor implementation. And sometimes you just have to wonder what the fuck goes on behind the door in those management meetings!!
I see two reasons - one is that our industry has grown basically overnight. In the hypergrowth environment, everything is changing all the time and there is real money to be made. It's all about money, big money. It will be easier when the sharks move to the next hypergrowth industry, because there will be less money to be made in software. Until then, don't expect stability. Sorry.
The other is that people just don't understand software yet - you can't see it, really, you can't easily grasp it. It's invisible. Despite the building-architecture metaphors that have temporarily delayed software innovation, software is not like a building at all. You and I have experienced thousands of buildings, bridges, etc. You know what they should be like. You can watch one being built and see those gigantic cranes and huge land movers and you can see the plumbing and thousands of panes of glass and you can understand that damn, that's a big, tough project. Software is invisible, and it's hard to imagine that what's inside that little box could be as difficult as that huge building. You can't easily compare the Right Way with a shortcut in software. Especially if a kid can almost do it. But I can tell when they aren't using enough screws to put up the drywall in my house, and I can tell when they skimped on the door frames, the insulation, etc. I can hold up the blueprint and compare it against what they built. Despite what people seem to think, there are no software blueprints.
...VHS vs. Beta for the digital generation. Will this become another competition between a) a cheap standard with a large, established base of customers and b) an expensive standard with higher quality but no installed customer base?
Does nobody realize that all of Asia uses Beta? Quit with the VHS v. Beta argument, it's baloney.
I'm so sick and tired of what the next 10 years will bring us.
Right. I think the point is, though, to quote from the article:
The target environment for Farsite is an organization in 2006 with 100,000 computers, 10 billion files and 10 petabytes (10,000TB) of data.
Managing data and applications on that scale with PCs today sucks. Data synchronization is a HUGE issue already. The question futurists ask is what must we change for that to be manageable?
Ted Nelson coined the words hypertext and hypermedia in 1963.
His self-published books are required reading for anyone interested in hypertext, copyright, publishing, and what happens when you don't wanna compromise.
You know I've often wondered how countries can trust US equipment sold to them (or Russian equipment, etc): Who says that the day Saudi Arabia pisses the US off all of their F15s might respond to the "die now" signal and plummet to the ground?
The day that happened, nobody would buy hardware from the US. which reminds me, if hardware (computer) copyright enforcement gets legislated, the slashdot crowd will all be buying smuggled Chinese computers... Hmmm...
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Lets say one day we had gravity reduction devices in our home to make us more comfy. Would that lead to a weaker speices down the road? Some would see the mass production of cars to have had a similar effect on our species.
No, I don't think it would, because only the rich (presumably) could afford them, and the rich have far fewer children than the poor.
Yeah, Jef is a modernist in a post-modern world. Jef obviously wants to be the Le Corbusier of computer user interfaces. Be happy he doesn't demand you wear only the right clothes, style your hair just the right way, and have only the right lighting when you use the computer. This is not about science.
it's a good guess, if you've seen salt water crocodiles (sorry about the geocities link)
If it was available for a fee it wouldn't be Abandonware.
It's frustrating to work for these places. Sometimes degrading, but most of all back breaking. Nothing's ever finished 100%, there's no time for proper design, nor implementation. And sometimes you just have to wonder what the fuck goes on behind the door in those management meetings!!
I see two reasons - one is that our industry has grown basically overnight. In the hypergrowth environment, everything is changing all the time and there is real money to be made. It's all about money, big money. It will be easier when the sharks move to the next hypergrowth industry, because there will be less money to be made in software. Until then, don't expect stability. Sorry.
The other is that people just don't understand software yet - you can't see it, really, you can't easily grasp it. It's invisible. Despite the building-architecture metaphors that have temporarily delayed software innovation, software is not like a building at all. You and I have experienced thousands of buildings, bridges, etc. You know what they should be like. You can watch one being built and see those gigantic cranes and huge land movers and you can see the plumbing and thousands of panes of glass and you can understand that damn, that's a big, tough project. Software is invisible, and it's hard to imagine that what's inside that little box could be as difficult as that huge building. You can't easily compare the Right Way with a shortcut in software. Especially if a kid can almost do it. But I can tell when they aren't using enough screws to put up the drywall in my house, and I can tell when they skimped on the door frames, the insulation, etc. I can hold up the blueprint and compare it against what they built. Despite what people seem to think, there are no software blueprints.
Does nobody realize that all of Asia uses Beta? Quit with the VHS v. Beta argument, it's baloney.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We, the consumers, are the enemy in the game of content control.
I'm so sick and tired of what the next 10 years will bring us.
Right. I think the point is, though, to quote from the article:
The target environment for Farsite is an organization in 2006 with 100,000 computers, 10 billion files and 10 petabytes (10,000TB) of data.
Managing data and applications on that scale with PCs today sucks. Data synchronization is a HUGE issue already. The question futurists ask is what must we change for that to be manageable?
Ted Nelson coined the words hypertext and hypermedia in 1963.
His self-published books are required reading for anyone interested in hypertext, copyright, publishing, and what happens when you don't wanna compromise.
The day that happened, nobody would buy hardware from the US. which reminds me, if hardware (computer) copyright enforcement gets legislated, the slashdot crowd will all be buying smuggled Chinese computers... Hmmm...
The point of war is to defeat the enemy, not to meet on the battlefield and fight.