Thank you 100 times, to compensate for the moderation points I don't have. I have a science background (chemistry, not biotech) and am not particularly afraid of mild GMO (but no triffids etc. etc.). However, I am very afraid of the current governance and the ownership. Monsanto has been absorbed into Bayer now, so it has a chance to restart whatever it's up to (hardly ever 'good' except for the bottom line) without the toxic Monsanto brand.
We already had the 'terminator seed' skirmish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and I'm sure there's more of the same to come. Not entirely the companies 'fault' either, they have a duty towards their stockholders, resulting in the rest of us being told to go to hell.
I left LinkedIn as soon as Microsoft bought it. I'm an extremist in that I don't have Facebook either, just Twitter (which I may dump this year). However I never had a job from it and have always had plenty of offers elsewhere.
So, I'm wondering about all the 'I got a fantastic job from LinkedIn' posts. Most people around me have had the same experience as myself, not a significant sample, I admit.
This kind of thing always leaves me angry. A PC uses a lot of physical resources (metals, water, energy) to make, so planned obsolescence, via 'no patches' or 'version upgrade bloat' (a game that IBM used to play in the 70s and 80s with mainframe software to sell or rent more memory) is ecological vandalism.
Forget that little Billy is 'curing' malaria and thus helping his share portfolio etc., Microsoft is doing a lot of avoidable damage with this, basically to improve revenue and 'shareholder value'.
Happily, my computers are about ten years old and don't use Windows. Yes, I'm a Linux person, not particularly rabid, but also a green person, so I hold the same amount of hatred for Apple's repairable-with-extreme-difficulty hipster toys as well. Computers should last for a generation.
Yes agree, and why does a desktop have to be dumbed down for 'kids'? Most of them understand menus and icons, in some cases better than many adults. But, generally, I give Mint to non-tech people and use it at home for that mythical unicorn the 'Linux Desktop'. It's been several years now, BTW.
"Pikey" or "pikie" is a slang term, which is pejorative and considered by many to be a slur. It is used mainly in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales[1][2] to refer to people who are of the Traveller Community. In a pejorative sense it means "a lower-class person", perhaps 'coarse' or 'disreputable'.
It is not well received among Irish Travellers or Romani, as it is considered an ethnic slur.
'actually transformed into an open source champion', 'wildly popular' etc. etc. No. Microsoft has stopped throwing chairs, issuing Halloween memos and is now burrowing into open source with a view to subverting it since open source is a threat to revenue and shareholder value.
You have to ask yourself, each time, there's some breathy announcement, followed by the shill commentary below it, 'Do I trust Microsoft? For me, the answer is and will remain, 'no'.
Thanks, no mod points but no sure why this is -1? I deleted myself from Facebook years ago and LinkedIn recently when Microsoft bought them. Just align your opinions and ethics with your purchases and non-purchases, simple.
I've been using it as a desktop for the last ten years. The 'lack of special applications' one leaves me with a Windows 7 computer for Logic Pro and music though.
I've done quite a lot of non-profit sector work in the UK, recently, as I'm semi-retired. One of the other big 'blockers' is clearly Access, people love it and it's easy. The other is brand recognition. For example, we built a computer suite for older people with Linux Mint, they were fine because they hadn't absorbed all the spin about the various operating systems, it was 'just a desktop' and a 'thing to use'.
That's my 2c of a Euro, Happy Christmukkah and all other end of year holidays.
I'm 67 and have a 40 year career in computing and I understand it. It's probably not just cohorts, more people who are capable of doing a little cynical (I would say realistic), deeper thinking about feasibility and motives when everything in your house is connected to for-profits that are busy maximising shareholder value.
As for the 'cloud', as someone wisely said, "it's just someone else's computer".
I'm in my late 60s now and still learn new things, there's no 'hard limit' on knowledge, but they probably won't absorb as fast as the kids.
So, if you're really serious and this is not a piece of 'managing out', just take them aside and spent an hour or two discussing the immediate/medium future with them. If you can find something that they'll enjoy learning (and they probably won't both be the same, they are people), the motivation comes as a side effect. I'm an old hippie and a theory Y: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... person though.
This is not just an oxymoron, it is a hydroxymoron or something like that. What are they thinking? As a Brit, I've always felt that our cousins were pretty sane too.
Well then, welcome to your walled garden (tm). Personally I'm not interested in having the whole of my home, grocery ordering, family interactions observed and controlled by a for-profit organisation, however lovely.
You forgot the obligatory 'you insensitive clod'. But seriously, I don't have a smartphone and live quite happily without 'apps' they are insecure, data-thieving, usually badly-written, unnecessary and break the 'universalist' philosophy of the web. As usual, when I comment on this, here's a list of possible permissions:
You probably should do when a) there are no convenient alternative sources for what you want to buy b) they are essentials or near-essentials. I don't mind (well, I do) Uber surge pricing because I have a bicycle and am not afraid to use it.
Not really, Amazon is really big and very 'horizontal', so there may be abuse of dominant position issues (see second bullet point) starting to appear. Of course, I'm a European so very nearly a socialist by definition, even if right-wing.
Also, I'm expecting (fearing) that all the data and computing fire-power will be used for surge pricing, sooner or later. The stockholders would love it.
They hardly pay taxes where I live, but they do use all our infrastructure, our legal system, benefit from policing etc. etc. so, like Starbucks and the others, they're not my favourite company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (aka Cryptozoic also very good). Yes, it took slashdot a week to discover this. Still, he's not a fashionable author now.
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Thank you 100 times, to compensate for the moderation points I don't have. I have a science background (chemistry, not biotech) and am not particularly afraid of mild GMO (but no triffids etc. etc.). However, I am very afraid of the current governance and the ownership. Monsanto has been absorbed into Bayer now, so it has a chance to restart whatever it's up to (hardly ever 'good' except for the bottom line) without the toxic Monsanto brand.
We already had the 'terminator seed' skirmish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and I'm sure there's more of the same to come. Not entirely the companies 'fault' either, they have a duty towards their stockholders, resulting in the rest of us being told to go to hell.
I left LinkedIn as soon as Microsoft bought it. I'm an extremist in that I don't have Facebook either, just Twitter (which I may dump this year). However I never had a job from it and have always had plenty of offers elsewhere.
So, I'm wondering about all the 'I got a fantastic job from LinkedIn' posts. Most people around me have had the same experience as myself, not a significant sample, I admit.
We're doomed by our own stupidity, aren't we?
I don't use a stool, I use chairs.
For example. Just sayin'
It's the next step. You know it makes sense.
This kind of thing always leaves me angry. A PC uses a lot of physical resources (metals, water, energy) to make, so planned obsolescence, via 'no patches' or 'version upgrade bloat' (a game that IBM used to play in the 70s and 80s with mainframe software to sell or rent more memory) is ecological vandalism.
Forget that little Billy is 'curing' malaria and thus helping his share portfolio etc., Microsoft is doing a lot of avoidable damage with this, basically to improve revenue and 'shareholder value'.
Happily, my computers are about ten years old and don't use Windows. Yes, I'm a Linux person, not particularly rabid, but also a green person, so I hold the same amount of hatred for Apple's repairable-with-extreme-difficulty hipster toys as well. Computers should last for a generation.
Nearly posted 'Starshit Troopers'. Do you want to know more?
Yes agree, and why does a desktop have to be dumbed down for 'kids'? Most of them understand menus and icons, in some cases better than many adults. But, generally, I give Mint to non-tech people and use it at home for that mythical unicorn the 'Linux Desktop'. It's been several years now, BTW.
In wikipedia, as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Pikey" or "pikie" is a slang term, which is pejorative and considered by many to be a slur. It is used mainly in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales[1][2] to refer to people who are of the Traveller Community. In a pejorative sense it means "a lower-class person", perhaps 'coarse' or 'disreputable'. It is not well received among Irish Travellers or Romani, as it is considered an ethnic slur.
You may need to explain 'pikey' to the general audience, here you go: https://www.urbandictionary.co...
'actually transformed into an open source champion', 'wildly popular' etc. etc. No. Microsoft has stopped throwing chairs, issuing Halloween memos and is now burrowing into open source with a view to subverting it since open source is a threat to revenue and shareholder value.
You have to ask yourself, each time, there's some breathy announcement, followed by the shill commentary below it, 'Do I trust Microsoft? For me, the answer is and will remain, 'no'.
Thanks, no mod points but no sure why this is -1? I deleted myself from Facebook years ago and LinkedIn recently when Microsoft bought them. Just align your opinions and ethics with your purchases and non-purchases, simple.
I've been using it as a desktop for the last ten years. The 'lack of special applications' one leaves me with a Windows 7 computer for Logic Pro and music though.
I've done quite a lot of non-profit sector work in the UK, recently, as I'm semi-retired. One of the other big 'blockers' is clearly Access, people love it and it's easy. The other is brand recognition. For example, we built a computer suite for older people with Linux Mint, they were fine because they hadn't absorbed all the spin about the various operating systems, it was 'just a desktop' and a 'thing to use'.
That's my 2c of a Euro, Happy Christmukkah and all other end of year holidays.
I'm 67 and have a 40 year career in computing and I understand it. It's probably not just cohorts, more people who are capable of doing a little cynical (I would say realistic), deeper thinking about feasibility and motives when everything in your house is connected to for-profits that are busy maximising shareholder value.
As for the 'cloud', as someone wisely said, "it's just someone else's computer".
I'm in my late 60s now and still learn new things, there's no 'hard limit' on knowledge, but they probably won't absorb as fast as the kids.
So, if you're really serious and this is not a piece of 'managing out', just take them aside and spent an hour or two discussing the immediate/medium future with them. If you can find something that they'll enjoy learning (and they probably won't both be the same, they are people), the motivation comes as a side effect. I'm an old hippie and a theory Y: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... person though.
Well, they had good teachers, when they were younger.
This is not just an oxymoron, it is a hydroxymoron or something like that. What are they thinking? As a Brit, I've always felt that our cousins were pretty sane too.
Well then, welcome to your walled garden (tm). Personally I'm not interested in having the whole of my home, grocery ordering, family interactions observed and controlled by a for-profit organisation, however lovely.
You forgot the obligatory 'you insensitive clod'. But seriously, I don't have a smartphone and live quite happily without 'apps' they are insecure, data-thieving, usually badly-written, unnecessary and break the 'universalist' philosophy of the web. As usual, when I comment on this, here's a list of possible permissions:
ACCESS_LOCATION_EXTRA_COMMANDS ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE ACCESS_NOTIFICATION_POLICY ACCESS_WIFI_STATE BLUETOOTH BLUETOOTH_ADMIN BROADCAST_STICKY CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE CHANGE_WIFI_STATE DISABLE_KEYGUARD EXPAND_STATUS_BAR GET_PACKAGE_SIZE INSTALL_SHORTCUT INTERNET KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS NFC READ_SYNC_SETTINGS READ_SYNC_STATS RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED REORDER_TASKS REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES SET_ALARM SET_TIME_ZONE SET_WALLPAPER SET_WALLPAPER_HINTS TRANSMIT_IR UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT USE_FINGERPRINT VIBRATE WAKE_LOCK WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGS
and 'Dangerous' permissions :
READ_CALENDAR WRITE_CALENDAR CAMERA READ_CONTACTS WRITE_CONTACTS GET_ACCOUNTS ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION RECORD_AUDIO READ_PHONE_STATE CALL_PHONE READ_CALL_LOG WRITE_CALL_LOG ADD_VOICEMAIL USE_SIP PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS BODY_SENSORS SEND_SMS RECEIVE_SMS READ_SMS RECEIVE_WAP_PUSH RECEIVE_MMS READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
Of course, all apps programmers are really careful with all these.
You probably should do when a) there are no convenient alternative sources for what you want to buy b) they are essentials or near-essentials. I don't mind (well, I do) Uber surge pricing because I have a bicycle and am not afraid to use it.
Not really, Amazon is really big and very 'horizontal', so there may be abuse of dominant position issues (see second bullet point) starting to appear. Of course, I'm a European so very nearly a socialist by definition, even if right-wing.
Also, I'm expecting (fearing) that all the data and computing fire-power will be used for surge pricing, sooner or later. The stockholders would love it.
They hardly pay taxes where I live, but they do use all our infrastructure, our legal system, benefit from policing etc. etc. so, like Starbucks and the others, they're not my favourite company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (aka Cryptozoic also very good). Yes, it took slashdot a week to discover this. Still, he's not a fashionable author now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
HELLO, I'M ON THE MOON. Going to be a little late in, this morning. Etc. etc.