Stagnation doesn't mean failure. Just look at MacOS 9. Apple took a bunch of shit and glued it together after that thing died. Just goes to prove no one just builds something 100% from scratch. Apple is just good at taking credit for it.
Individual liberty and Freedom did not hardly exist for the entirety of human civilization. Things are far too complicated do fall into your prediction.
We can look at the Industrial Revolution. Obviously there are books on this, but things progressed from kids working in coal mines to the 8 hour work day.
People are becoming more informed on things like AI. And powerful people on all sides are starting to realize we can't have a select few just people spying on other people.
Genetically bred humans in the near future is complete bullshit. That will be a huge debate that will take a century even if we have the technology. Just look at abortion.
We aren't doomed.
Amen. A computer is a computer for the most part. Maybe it's just me but I'm tired of people obsessing over new input/output. I mean, I get it; I like better fidelity and resolution every couple years, but these aren't groundbreaking breakthroughs. This stuff gets overblown because of marketing. Consequently, a lot of the most admirable (non sponsored) posts around here these days are in areas like biology, astronomy, and physics.
Kinda crazy to think it hasn't even been 100 years since technology was used to systematically cull the world of undesirable people through historically unprecedented violent means.
Should have listened to Stallman. I mean seriously it's a sad reflection on society when 100 millions of people just give everything to an unaccountable company and then cry about it later. It's really hard to have sympathy but honestly what where these people thinking? IN 2018 gullibility, peer pressure, and naivety still rule human behavior.
I remember when I was studying my RHCE in a local small college. My instructor & mentor RIP, really great guy had lots of good things to say about lwn when I brought it up once.
He's just saying this because of Apple is not longer dominate to creative people. Linux (industrial proprietary software) and even Windows and Microsoft's hardware is growing impressive. Even wacom is still going strong. Apple pencil is targeted to consumers; Apple is a consumer company. They're not innovating so of course he's taking the hipster marketing route. Steve Jobs chose a good successor that can make you believe what is coming out of his mouth isn't marketing.
The slashdot community has so much bickering in this thread, it's no wonder we still haven't gotten a handle on security. Hardly anyone understands this stuff.
Honest question for someone who dropped Windows decades ago. How do admins even take their security seriously when their tools have these issues. Something similar happened with, I believe it was, ccleaner a couple months ago. I mean what is the rationale behind infosec in Windows shops?
Remember when Apple strived to create an actual worthy hardware from scratch? Stuff like Powerbook that was on par with Dell Precision mobile workstations without the weight and bloat? Remember when Apple iterated on Mac OS in a hard effort of plug-and-play compatibility with all sorts of peripherals from consumer digital cameras to high end production equipment? Printers, scanners, third party devices that you could buy in the B&M Apple store and plug into any of their products and it just worked? A Powerbook with USB and OS X was all you needed and blew the competition out of the water. Granted this is a low effort rant, but my how far we've come.
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Why do people think you can just buy a company then revolutionize the internet?
The argument goes back before all that shit when it was just GNU/Linux.
Stagnation doesn't mean failure. Just look at MacOS 9. Apple took a bunch of shit and glued it together after that thing died. Just goes to prove no one just builds something 100% from scratch. Apple is just good at taking credit for it.
Individual liberty and Freedom did not hardly exist for the entirety of human civilization. Things are far too complicated do fall into your prediction. We can look at the Industrial Revolution. Obviously there are books on this, but things progressed from kids working in coal mines to the 8 hour work day. People are becoming more informed on things like AI. And powerful people on all sides are starting to realize we can't have a select few just people spying on other people. Genetically bred humans in the near future is complete bullshit. That will be a huge debate that will take a century even if we have the technology. Just look at abortion. We aren't doomed.
AI and superhumans is a really awesome EOTWAWKI. Getting tired of zombies personally.
Why hasn't Stallman been in the NYtimes in the past 30 years. It's hard to feel bad for anyone at this point in the these matters.
The whole thing that makes a mathematicianâ(TM)s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. -knuth
I think IRC was probably the best way for large numbers of people to have real-time conversations.
By that time the robots will have taken over or offer enough leverage for Amazon.
They don't care what OS you use as long as they can sniff your packets and restrict your encryption.
You paint an accurate picture. My how things change.
Amen. A computer is a computer for the most part. Maybe it's just me but I'm tired of people obsessing over new input/output. I mean, I get it; I like better fidelity and resolution every couple years, but these aren't groundbreaking breakthroughs. This stuff gets overblown because of marketing. Consequently, a lot of the most admirable (non sponsored) posts around here these days are in areas like biology, astronomy, and physics.
Well yeah if you want to get into details.
Kinda crazy to think it hasn't even been 100 years since technology was used to systematically cull the world of undesirable people through historically unprecedented violent means.
Should have listened to Stallman. I mean seriously it's a sad reflection on society when 100 millions of people just give everything to an unaccountable company and then cry about it later. It's really hard to have sympathy but honestly what where these people thinking? IN 2018 gullibility, peer pressure, and naivety still rule human behavior.
Oh great, so further merging with the feds? It keeps getting better.
Pretty much. Good luck keeping it from the Chinese Government, NSA, or skilled unaffiliated adversaries.
Anonymous Stallman?
There has been angst with the OpenBSD developers too. Seems like they've managed to piss everyone off.
I remember when I was studying my RHCE in a local small college. My instructor & mentor RIP, really great guy had lots of good things to say about lwn when I brought it up once.
He's just saying this because of Apple is not longer dominate to creative people. Linux (industrial proprietary software) and even Windows and Microsoft's hardware is growing impressive. Even wacom is still going strong. Apple pencil is targeted to consumers; Apple is a consumer company. They're not innovating so of course he's taking the hipster marketing route. Steve Jobs chose a good successor that can make you believe what is coming out of his mouth isn't marketing.
The slashdot community has so much bickering in this thread, it's no wonder we still haven't gotten a handle on security. Hardly anyone understands this stuff.
Where can I read about your security setup?
Honest question for someone who dropped Windows decades ago. How do admins even take their security seriously when their tools have these issues. Something similar happened with, I believe it was, ccleaner a couple months ago. I mean what is the rationale behind infosec in Windows shops?
Remember when Apple strived to create an actual worthy hardware from scratch? Stuff like Powerbook that was on par with Dell Precision mobile workstations without the weight and bloat? Remember when Apple iterated on Mac OS in a hard effort of plug-and-play compatibility with all sorts of peripherals from consumer digital cameras to high end production equipment? Printers, scanners, third party devices that you could buy in the B&M Apple store and plug into any of their products and it just worked? A Powerbook with USB and OS X was all you needed and blew the competition out of the water. Granted this is a low effort rant, but my how far we've come.