There are plenty of conspiracy theories that might answer some of that question. Good luck figuring out if any of them are truthful. The rest is emergent social behavior that comes from bureaucratic lordship.
I would say the world is going more lefty, with governments consolidating their power bases and censoring/silencing criticism. It's the left that wants to grow the size of government and have it spy on/manipulate as much of peoples' lives as it can. It does this under the guise of benevolence, of 'caring' about the plight of some group, real or imagined, varying by context. The right wants smaller government and more liberty for the individual. When judging politicians, if they support growing government, they are not right wing, even if they say they are to the right relative to some other party.
In the USA, both democrat and republican parties are pro big government, just for slightly different ideological reasons. Once you get to the most prolific lobbyist groups, there isn't much difference between the two parties. They are both arms of the same beast fronting as two separate entities, taking 40% of citizens paychecks and making the rest of its budget from loans against their future income.
If you are the sort who stalwartly votes party lines, I would strongly suggest you reevaluate your loyalties, democrat or republican. At this point, this is the only way to fight the orwellian lunatics in power now.
searching a path is still a lot faster, and, typically, application icons refer to the full path of the executable anyway. Isn't the point of guis to avoid typing? What's the point of your pretty gui if people have to type into it all the time in order to accomplish remedial tasks? Search does not make up for inflexible, unintuitive guis.
1. argument from authority. Just because redhat is doing it doesn't mean it's the best solution. 2. argument from popularity. Doing what the bonobos do isn't necessarily the best choice just because they make up the majority, especially when they didn't choose at all. They just use what they're given.
It's impossible to design something that is 'agnostic' to everyone as everyone thinks differently and makes different assumptions. Therefore, designers have to make certain assumptions of their own and expect users to stretch out a bit and learn them. Good designers will write reasonable documentation or build intuitive hints into their designs to facilitate this, but going too far makes it difficult to be efficient with the tool. Unfortunately, designs like gnome 3.x, metro, osx, unity, and mobile interfaces clearly show this has become a trend.
While tools that are difficult to use for no good reason aren't great, especially when the task is relatively simple, tools that make too many assumptions about complex tasks under the guise of simplicity often prevent user skill growth and understanding. The inflexibility that comes with this just pisses the experienced users off. It shouldn't take 6 clicks to do something that should take 1, nor does it make sense to remove all the functionality except that which only takes 1 click just to make it less 'confusing' to do easy things. Who is the target user for interfaces like these? bonobos?
Stuff that's designed well doesn't need many updates. I still use XFCE and it works fine. I chose it specifically because it LACKS desktop effects. Thank god. If it's tearing, turn on vsync. If that doesn't work, your drivers are broken. Or do what I do, and turn off the compositor. Problem solved.
Do these chatbots want the law deciding your fate in various contexts based on your skin tone? Your sex? Your orientation? While some of these chatbots would want that done with their religion as the guide, it's the democrat chatbots who have pervasively done this in the name of 'equality', social 'justice', and human 'rights.' the scarequotes denote newspeak use of the terms.
Or, there's just more people using ad hominem attacks, appeals to emotion, and other fallacies as arguments, instead of rationality. Unfortunately, this disease is society-wide and getting worse.
Take a hint. Calling someone a 'hater' doesn't make an argument for or against anything. It is the ultimate dubious complaint.
In other words, they'll pay to teach you how to bullshit like they do and then evaluate whether you're the type who willingly drinks the kultural koolaid no matter how syrupy the mix. If you are, welcome aboard! If not, you're blacklisted. They only want hipster 'politically aware' faux 'smart', but not real intellect. The former type thinks they're smarter than they are, but is really just a joiner with pretensions. Real smart means having to pay more than 137/week and deal with an independent intellect.
Unless you're running 50 of these things in your basement 24/7 I doubt you'll notice enough difference on your power bill to justify picking one over the other. I would think driver quality and performance is much more important as you're not buying the gtx line for power economy.
That's just it you're not in plain view of all, only the people around you at any given point along your journey. Also, your travels aren't being recorded for posterity and monday morning quarterbacking by desperate bureaucrats or law enforcement looking to justify their jobs.
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There are plenty of conspiracy theories that might answer some of that question. Good luck figuring out if any of them are truthful. The rest is emergent social behavior that comes from bureaucratic lordship.
I would say the world is going more lefty, with governments consolidating their power bases and censoring/silencing criticism. It's the left that wants to grow the size of government and have it spy on/manipulate as much of peoples' lives as it can. It does this under the guise of benevolence, of 'caring' about the plight of some group, real or imagined, varying by context. The right wants smaller government and more liberty for the individual. When judging politicians, if they support growing government, they are not right wing, even if they say they are to the right relative to some other party.
In the USA, both democrat and republican parties are pro big government, just for slightly different ideological reasons. Once you get to the most prolific lobbyist groups, there isn't much difference between the two parties. They are both arms of the same beast fronting as two separate entities, taking 40% of citizens paychecks and making the rest of its budget from loans against their future income.
If you are the sort who stalwartly votes party lines, I would strongly suggest you reevaluate your loyalties, democrat or republican. At this point, this is the only way to fight the orwellian lunatics in power now.
I guess.. I mean today's welfare state is a large negative consequence of too much fucking. The overpopulation of the planet is another, bigger one.
searching a path is still a lot faster, and, typically, application icons refer to the full path of the executable anyway. Isn't the point of guis to avoid typing? What's the point of your pretty gui if people have to type into it all the time in order to accomplish remedial tasks? Search does not make up for inflexible, unintuitive guis.
1. argument from authority. Just because redhat is doing it doesn't mean it's the best solution.
2. argument from popularity. Doing what the bonobos do isn't necessarily the best choice just because they make up the majority, especially when they didn't choose at all. They just use what they're given.
It's 'do you HAVE...' get it right bungwipe.. huhuhuh
Yes, after all, costtarded OS's have excellent track records.
It's so easy to use, no wonder it's number 1! You just point....and click! No wait..that's not it! damn!
Newer is not automatically better either. If you 'like' everything, perhaps the real reason is that you're not a complex user.
It's impossible to design something that is 'agnostic' to everyone as everyone thinks differently and makes different assumptions. Therefore, designers have to make certain assumptions of their own and expect users to stretch out a bit and learn them. Good designers will write reasonable documentation or build intuitive hints into their designs to facilitate this, but going too far makes it difficult to be efficient with the tool. Unfortunately, designs like gnome 3.x, metro, osx, unity, and mobile interfaces clearly show this has become a trend.
While tools that are difficult to use for no good reason aren't great, especially when the task is relatively simple, tools that make too many assumptions about complex tasks under the guise of simplicity often prevent user skill growth and understanding. The inflexibility that comes with this just pisses the experienced users off. It shouldn't take 6 clicks to do something that should take 1, nor does it make sense to remove all the functionality except that which only takes 1 click just to make it less 'confusing' to do easy things. Who is the target user for interfaces like these? bonobos?
Stuff that's designed well doesn't need many updates. I still use XFCE and it works fine. I chose it specifically because it LACKS desktop effects. Thank god. If it's tearing, turn on vsync. If that doesn't work, your drivers are broken. Or do what I do, and turn off the compositor. Problem solved.
Have you heard of a search engine?
Do these chatbots want the law deciding your fate in various contexts based on your skin tone? Your sex? Your orientation? While some of these chatbots would want that done with their religion as the guide, it's the democrat chatbots who have pervasively done this in the name of 'equality', social 'justice', and human 'rights.' the scarequotes denote newspeak use of the terms.
an email address is likely very low entropy.. Shouldn't both key halves be as random as possible?
Or, there's just more people using ad hominem attacks, appeals to emotion, and other fallacies as arguments, instead of rationality. Unfortunately, this disease is society-wide and getting worse.
Take a hint. Calling someone a 'hater' doesn't make an argument for or against anything. It is the ultimate dubious complaint.
mmm.. nope. The days of full ram checks during POST on typical consumer machines are long gone.. Today's 'check' takes a few seconds at most.
He's talking about a server oriented distro. Users shouldn't run RHEL and expect a smooth desktop experience.
In other words, they'll pay to teach you how to bullshit like they do and then evaluate whether you're the type who willingly drinks the kultural koolaid no matter how syrupy the mix. If you are, welcome aboard! If not, you're blacklisted. They only want hipster 'politically aware' faux 'smart', but not real intellect. The former type thinks they're smarter than they are, but is really just a joiner with pretensions. Real smart means having to pay more than 137/week and deal with an independent intellect.
Unless you're running 50 of these things in your basement 24/7 I doubt you'll notice enough difference on your power bill to justify picking one over the other. I would think driver quality and performance is much more important as you're not buying the gtx line for power economy.
Technology is always changing. Whatever is today's commodity storage device will be tomorrow's rare anachronism.
I agree.. we're rapidly approaching diminishing returns the same way a pressure cooker reaches the edge of its containment abilities.
That's just it you're not in plain view of all, only the people around you at any given point along your journey. Also, your travels aren't being recorded for posterity and monday morning quarterbacking by desperate bureaucrats or law enforcement looking to justify their jobs.
Traffic cams are also part of the problem.
Facts, correct or not, don't care what the reader 'views' or feels is undesirable.
Nah.. not the technology. the fucktards in charge who will use it..
Leaving your cell at home doesn't cost you your career or income.