I think this has been said, but worth saying again.
A couple of years ago, we replaced a complex (and, clearly, superfluous) CMS setup etc. with a couple of overnight scripts that generated some (pricing, it was financial services) static html. Enough for what was needed and goodbye performance and maintenance problems.
More recently, I used Joomla for something I'm now stuck with, because the users don't know how to administer it. Wordpress would probably have been better.
If you have a couple of pages, to be updated once every six months, then get an html editor or (better) learn a little html your good self. We teach it to 8 year olds.
So the moral of this story, is that there isn't 'one best' and it depends. Like Wargames, the best CMS in certain circumstances may be 'no CMS'. As a really old person, I'm often amazed how the requirements and user analysis stuff is forgotten in an immediate rush for (often inappropriate) tools.
Yes agree. In the UK and Europe TTIP is posing the same problem for us. Negotiations in secret (except probably for lobbyists, Brussels is full of them, I worked there for a decade), lots of spin about 'how good it is' and every leak suggests that it's foul.
Yes agree with this kind of thinking. One of the things I've highlighted in these discussion is 'reaching out', older people, less literate people, poorer people need all this, but they aren't 'power users' or sysadmins. Also, the talking, as with the San Fran current one, is pretty much in a tech/academia bubble. So it'll need to be packaged, this time, hopefully by 'benevolent forces'. Thanks.
Give me a child until seven: https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... 'Interesting' thing about Minecraft, it captures the attention of small children. Then, they're ready to spend the rest of their lives in the loving arms of Microsoft.
Obviously, it's good when the 'big children' start talking about this, in San Francisco, true and only home of the techno-hipster, no less. However, we already had a smaller conference about this, last year, in London: http://redecentralize.org/ and started taking a few modest steps. In spite of my mild snark (I dislike Old Street and Shoreditch as much, it's a privilege of being really, really old) the more, the merrier.
Earlier still, in 2005, we had this: https://www.junes.eu/wsfii-lon... which was more of a 'full stack' and broader discussion including, for example, alternative currencies (ripple, LETS, bitcoin wasn't around). I suggested at that time, semi seriously, that we just say 'goodbye port 80' and set up camp somewhere else away from the crap. Except that crap would eventually/certainly track us down.
This is not to blow trumpets, although I'm proud and happy that we started in on this sometime ago. What it is now, is to find a decentralised way to combine and integrate all these discussions including (one of my favourites) discussion about tools/approaches for platform cooperatives: http://platformcoop.net/, simple sound-bite, alternatives to Uber, Air BnB etc. There's a lot to do, policy, pharmacology (how systems combine well or do not), standards and governance, to start with.
That is, rather than the great and good creating another easily exploitable monolith with a couple of commercial search engines, we need (as Jeff Goldblum said) to make 'a whole lot of brand new mistakes' and hopefully something radically different. For a start, gopher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., anyone? Back to the future.
First of all thanks, I guessed, should have researched. On the second point, depends whether it's steady change or a hockey stick shaped graph. For example, a couple of popular culture figures come out publicly against consumerism, really swinging things round. I'm old but I live in hope.
Yes agree, 'tired of owning crap' is a very positive development, countered by the advertising industry 'selling you crap since 1600, or so'. We really need to think about life goals, the shape of decent societies, circular/repairing economies rather than spending all our free time mooching through shopping malls. Buy nothing day is a start: http://www.buynothingday.co.uk... but we need to go further.
And yes, my suggestions will change the shape of the economy and employment, but the status quo isn't making us that happy either.
These things are a bad, expensive joke and (to some extent) a Microsoft and Google trojan horse. The BBC just had to have its own project rather than being sensible and supporting Pi development and adoption. If £30 odd is too much, then buy an Arduino or a clone, more community etc. etc. And before the troll that attacked me about this last time reappears, I'm a Brit, old, a 40 year industry veteran and a UK schools volunteer.
"Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator."
Songwriters and musicians are really annoying, in that one has to pay them, they have to live somewhere etc., let's automate! I'm not cynical enough to believe that this is/was a primary aim, but someone will inevitably start down this road with the research results.
Like hoovering up more data to Mr. Do No Evil (Central) by, for example, ignoring/overriding those annoying 'app' settings, for example? Thats 'opinionated', the opinions are unethical, but, like Microsoft, one works with what one has. One does. As an old, grumpy person I am obliged (by the old, grumpy person contract) not to use my mobile very much, but I'm waiting patiently for a real Linux based 'freedom phone'.
Do you want remote control via app, via SMS or no remote control?
There isn't a 'cloud', there are several, including a server that you spin up and own
Do you want X10 (ugh, but well-known), Wifi or Bluetooth to communicate or get locked into something proprietary?
What's your skill level for software and/or electronics?
Do you want it to hook up with Echo/Nest and other cloudy components?
So the rest of the misunderstanding in this question is to do with clear-ish requirements and specification. If you want it to hook up with Amazon or Google stuff, you're probably heading for the (one of the) 'commercial clouds' and some lock-in, for example. Personally I'm an anti-lock-in, anti-proprietary-cloud nazi, I do not feel that Amazon, Google and Microsoft are my friends and have my best interests at heart.
Looking at this, and at the current state of the intertubes, I'm ready for 2020 when every computery thing grinds to a halt, submerged by advertising, rapacious cookies, marketing AIs and yet-to-be-imagined commercial interest mechanisms.
User: clicks link or menu item. Computer: Waiting for ads.cloudystuff.porno, waiting for targeted.butuseless.something, ah! Popup: I see you're running a cleaner, have you cleaned your teeth today? Try xxxx.whitestuff.com -> Connection timed out please try again etc. etc.
The only way around this may be islands of 'useful' non-profit intra-tubes with sharp spikey firewalls. Everything else will be commercially saturated.
Yes, agree. My point was phrased badly, I'm against community-less hardware that is built 'specifically for education'. Given (your point) that there's so much 'good' hardware, it's pointless. Another point against Micro:bit here, both Google and Microsoft are pushing programming environments for it. I wonder why they would do that?
And, bonus, Can Do Evil, makes CDE part of (the) Alphabet. I'm using two layers of foil to make my hats now, it's only sensible given the level of ambient conspiracies.
Yes, as a Brit I have a big problem with the Micro:bit too. These things run out of road very quickly and are a path to fragmentation and divided attention. I just finished a year of volunteering in a primary school in London, 60 minutes each week of which 10 getting clunky laptops to boot etc. etc. It would be much more sensible to concentrate on Arduino + clones and Raspberry Pi + clones, especially as the community is good for both. Bottom line, I'm somewhat 'against' hardware that is STEM-only, much better to use real-life hardware with STEM lessons and projects.
Yes. I'm currently using a Pi 3 as my secondary computer, it's as fast as I need. The primary one is a box from a recycler bought in about 2007 running Linux Mint. All this Linux malarkey would be really beneficial to materials use, energy use and recycling if it reached the mainstream. The accelerated product cycles are now part of commerce rather than part of something 'useful'.
Google it, and 'Let me Google that for you' are already embedded in common parlance. So I can now Google something 'more easily', immediately get the results that Google wants me to have and then buy shit, probably from Amazon. Is the world wonderful or am I just old, grumpy and slightly fearful?
My uncle, who lives in the Caribbean, has a generator and power cables toward the house. Rats love to chew on them and, of course, they die and the power goes out. We've stopped this now with armoured cables. But I'm wondering whether this is another instance of 'I must chew on this power cable' behaviour?
Maybe hum or something that is making them really, really attractive to chew on. But, OTOH, I'd expect everything in the collider to be highly shielded?
Soon, it will be unusual to stray outside Google, Amazon, Facebook, eBay etc. unless you are fairly nerdy. This kind of 'product' will keep you where you are 'supposed to be'. As a friend of mine said a couple of years ago 'I used to surf the internet, now I visit sites'. Enough already.
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Will slow it down to a crawl before blue screening. Then we'll be ready for Windows 24 Home Premium Edition. No worries.
I think this has been said, but worth saying again.
A couple of years ago, we replaced a complex (and, clearly, superfluous) CMS setup etc. with a couple of overnight scripts that generated some (pricing, it was financial services) static html. Enough for what was needed and goodbye performance and maintenance problems.
More recently, I used Joomla for something I'm now stuck with, because the users don't know how to administer it. Wordpress would probably have been better.
If you have a couple of pages, to be updated once every six months, then get an html editor or (better) learn a little html your good self. We teach it to 8 year olds.
So the moral of this story, is that there isn't 'one best' and it depends. Like Wargames, the best CMS in certain circumstances may be 'no CMS'. As a really old person, I'm often amazed how the requirements and user analysis stuff is forgotten in an immediate rush for (often inappropriate) tools.
Yes agree. In the UK and Europe TTIP is posing the same problem for us. Negotiations in secret (except probably for lobbyists, Brussels is full of them, I worked there for a decade), lots of spin about 'how good it is' and every leak suggests that it's foul.
Yes agree with this kind of thinking. One of the things I've highlighted in these discussion is 'reaching out', older people, less literate people, poorer people need all this, but they aren't 'power users' or sysadmins. Also, the talking, as with the San Fran current one, is pretty much in a tech/academia bubble. So it'll need to be packaged, this time, hopefully by 'benevolent forces'. Thanks.
Give me a child until seven: https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... 'Interesting' thing about Minecraft, it captures the attention of small children. Then, they're ready to spend the rest of their lives in the loving arms of Microsoft.
Obviously, it's good when the 'big children' start talking about this, in San Francisco, true and only home of the techno-hipster, no less. However, we already had a smaller conference about this, last year, in London: http://redecentralize.org/ and started taking a few modest steps. In spite of my mild snark (I dislike Old Street and Shoreditch as much, it's a privilege of being really, really old) the more, the merrier.
Earlier still, in 2005, we had this: https://www.junes.eu/wsfii-lon... which was more of a 'full stack' and broader discussion including, for example, alternative currencies (ripple, LETS, bitcoin wasn't around). I suggested at that time, semi seriously, that we just say 'goodbye port 80' and set up camp somewhere else away from the crap. Except that crap would eventually/certainly track us down.
This is not to blow trumpets, although I'm proud and happy that we started in on this sometime ago. What it is now, is to find a decentralised way to combine and integrate all these discussions including (one of my favourites) discussion about tools/approaches for platform cooperatives: http://platformcoop.net/, simple sound-bite, alternatives to Uber, Air BnB etc. There's a lot to do, policy, pharmacology (how systems combine well or do not), standards and governance, to start with.
That is, rather than the great and good creating another easily exploitable monolith with a couple of commercial search engines, we need (as Jeff Goldblum said) to make 'a whole lot of brand new mistakes' and hopefully something radically different. For a start, gopher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., anyone? Back to the future.
First of all thanks, I guessed, should have researched. On the second point, depends whether it's steady change or a hockey stick shaped graph. For example, a couple of popular culture figures come out publicly against consumerism, really swinging things round. I'm old but I live in hope.
Quite correct. That's a problem in nearly every big urban area. Terrible here in London.
Yes agree, 'tired of owning crap' is a very positive development, countered by the advertising industry 'selling you crap since 1600, or so'. We really need to think about life goals, the shape of decent societies, circular/repairing economies rather than spending all our free time mooching through shopping malls. Buy nothing day is a start: http://www.buynothingday.co.uk... but we need to go further.
And yes, my suggestions will change the shape of the economy and employment, but the status quo isn't making us that happy either.
These things are a bad, expensive joke and (to some extent) a Microsoft and Google trojan horse. The BBC just had to have its own project rather than being sensible and supporting Pi development and adoption. If £30 odd is too much, then buy an Arduino or a clone, more community etc. etc. And before the troll that attacked me about this last time reappears, I'm a Brit, old, a 40 year industry veteran and a UK schools volunteer.
Songwriters and musicians are really annoying, in that one has to pay them, they have to live somewhere etc., let's automate! I'm not cynical enough to believe that this is/was a primary aim, but someone will inevitably start down this road with the research results.
Like hoovering up more data to Mr. Do No Evil (Central) by, for example, ignoring/overriding those annoying 'app' settings, for example? Thats 'opinionated', the opinions are unethical, but, like Microsoft, one works with what one has. One does. As an old, grumpy person I am obliged (by the old, grumpy person contract) not to use my mobile very much, but I'm waiting patiently for a real Linux based 'freedom phone'.
Digging deeper, it depends:
So the rest of the misunderstanding in this question is to do with clear-ish requirements and specification. If you want it to hook up with Amazon or Google stuff, you're probably heading for the (one of the) 'commercial clouds' and some lock-in, for example. Personally I'm an anti-lock-in, anti-proprietary-cloud nazi, I do not feel that Amazon, Google and Microsoft are my friends and have my best interests at heart.
The golden rule has just operated perfectly, to wit: those who have the gold make the rules.
Looking at this, and at the current state of the intertubes, I'm ready for 2020 when every computery thing grinds to a halt, submerged by advertising, rapacious cookies, marketing AIs and yet-to-be-imagined commercial interest mechanisms.
User: clicks link or menu item. Computer: Waiting for ads.cloudystuff.porno, waiting for targeted.butuseless.something, ah! Popup: I see you're running a cleaner, have you cleaned your teeth today? Try xxxx.whitestuff.com -> Connection timed out please try again etc. etc.
The only way around this may be islands of 'useful' non-profit intra-tubes with sharp spikey firewalls. Everything else will be commercially saturated.
Yes, agree. My point was phrased badly, I'm against community-less hardware that is built 'specifically for education'. Given (your point) that there's so much 'good' hardware, it's pointless. Another point against Micro:bit here, both Google and Microsoft are pushing programming environments for it. I wonder why they would do that?
And, bonus, Can Do Evil, makes CDE part of (the) Alphabet. I'm using two layers of foil to make my hats now, it's only sensible given the level of ambient conspiracies.
You know how this ends. The little robot swallows the battery but gets a bit lost. Then another robot-seeking-swallowing-robot is prescribed. Then...
Yes, as a Brit I have a big problem with the Micro:bit too. These things run out of road very quickly and are a path to fragmentation and divided attention. I just finished a year of volunteering in a primary school in London, 60 minutes each week of which 10 getting clunky laptops to boot etc. etc. It would be much more sensible to concentrate on Arduino + clones and Raspberry Pi + clones, especially as the community is good for both. Bottom line, I'm somewhat 'against' hardware that is STEM-only, much better to use real-life hardware with STEM lessons and projects.
Yes. I'm currently using a Pi 3 as my secondary computer, it's as fast as I need. The primary one is a box from a recycler bought in about 2007 running Linux Mint. All this Linux malarkey would be really beneficial to materials use, energy use and recycling if it reached the mainstream. The accelerated product cycles are now part of commerce rather than part of something 'useful'.
I hope, and also, IBM had huge dominance in the mainframe era. My main worry is that things are getting sewn together in Googlezon + Facebay etc.
Google it, and 'Let me Google that for you' are already embedded in common parlance. So I can now Google something 'more easily', immediately get the results that Google wants me to have and then buy shit, probably from Amazon. Is the world wonderful or am I just old, grumpy and slightly fearful?
Start building a decent sized pyramid and then, instead of stopping, carry on. Easy.
My uncle, who lives in the Caribbean, has a generator and power cables toward the house. Rats love to chew on them and, of course, they die and the power goes out. We've stopped this now with armoured cables. But I'm wondering whether this is another instance of 'I must chew on this power cable' behaviour?
Maybe hum or something that is making them really, really attractive to chew on. But, OTOH, I'd expect everything in the collider to be highly shielded?
Soon, it will be unusual to stray outside Google, Amazon, Facebook, eBay etc. unless you are fairly nerdy. This kind of 'product' will keep you where you are 'supposed to be'. As a friend of mine said a couple of years ago 'I used to surf the internet, now I visit sites'. Enough already.