Once the data is collected, it can then be used by others to misconstrue your intentions/character/viability for future opportunities. Forever. The only way to prevent this is to prevent it from being collected in the first place.
Knowing your enemies is only part of it. Having control over information and intellectual process is where the real power is, so, of course, assholes have come out of the woodwork in the last 10-15 years proclaiming privacy as dead/having never existed. Without privacy, such exploration is highly likely to run aground on more powerful/influential organizations that find such new ideas threatening to their existence/power/bottom lines. This is what such organizations want. Of course, this attitude is toxic to individual liberty and civil rights, and is one of the biggest drivers of today's left wing and right wing political dynamics.
relationships where one partner cannot tell the truth for fear of offending the others ego are doomed. in fact, propping up willful ignorance is a compounding stress that will destroy any relationship, not just the personal variety.
um.. having one file per message is a lot more portable than some concatenated mess that needs parsing. directories and files aren't going anywhere. While they might be replaced by database structures....oh wait that's right, filesystems ARE databases.
still more annoying than just having the button there. The justification for removing it was far weaker than the one for keeping it, especially considering it's a standard convention.
What hardware? Tablets? Tablet interfaces are innovations that work great for tablets and tablet workflows. Desktop workflows are different. Compounding the problem by rebuilding applications so they share the same broken interface characteristics makes the situation worse. Forcing adoption by cramming it into places where it doesn't belong for the sake of conformity is never the answer...unless of course the goal is to make tasks more convoluted for people for the sake of ideology.
I realize justifying change for its own sake based on emotional needs is the current trend, but it's led us to interfaces that are frustrating to use for even the most basic tasks. Things like pointless whitespace, huge, low density text, extra clicking/dragging/touching/searching, and long winded, laggy animations and transitions do little but add stress and time to the process of getting things done. For example, what the hell happened to the basic control panel, with simple, logically named areas and which contained the whole sum of just about anything that 99% of users would want to tweak? The windows 2k/xp control panel was nothing to write home about, but compared with the overdesigned crapola that's in vista/7, it's a godsend. This is not better. It's worse.
Perhaps it's time to demote the 'designers' a bit in development hierarchies as these people obviously care more about appearance and bottom barrel 'accessibility' than capability and efficiency. In fact, many of those up and coming people you mentioned have trouble with the new designs as well. It's just that fewer and fewer of them have relevant experience with the traditional menu-in-a-corner+modeless window desktop to compare the two. It's fine to keep the interface simple for fixed function devices like media players or ATMs, but workstations are different as they're used for complex, user-defined workflows. These cannot really be optimized for. Attempts to do so cause more problems than they solve. The people who do want their interfaces on rails really don't need workstations in the first place.
It's not just gnome that suffers from this. Microsoft, apple, and google are guilty as well. In their race to the bottom, they're not differentiating at the top, where innovation happens.
1. having search boxes on menus and windows is just a crutch. the whole point is to see what you're looking for in a graphically intuitive way. Adding search boxes is just admitting the design sucks.
2. Hotkeys easily make window/menu based search boxes redundant, but if you want a keyboard only experience, just dump your gui entirely and run applications from the shell, using xinit when you need a gui application. bash and its brothers are a lot more powerful than some idiotic 'semantic' search box.
exactly nothing when the net connection goes down, leaving said admin with absolutely no influence over the solution besides picking up a phone and bitching. of course management still thinks he does despite its insistence on the remote services in the first place. being held accountable for things one has decreasing amounts of control over is probably the most critical cause of workplace stress, and i ts getting worse.
Yeah, because, historically, our government officials, like the ones using our taxes to fund these badly correlated behavior 'studies', are bastions of rationality, justice, objectivity, and truth. Naturally these selfless, caring, freedom loving people want only the best for us when they say they absolutely 'have' to grow the budget deficit every damn year, punch legal holes in documents designed to protect our rights, and then tell us the reasons and details are a matter of 'national security.'
I really do wonder when the majority will get fed up with this and quit drinking the koolaid so liberally distributed on TV growing up and then on campus during their college years. While it's true that corporates do not give a shit about you, the government bureaucracy doesn't either...not when you're just a collection of bits across 2500+ databases processed into a list socially negative probabilities.
So what's next? Preemptive reincarceration for those flagged, or maybe just monitor/tail/watch them incessantly til they lose it and shoot one of the undercover officers, thereby 'proving' the validity of the 'study'? Those are two probable next steps, right?
Hence the compositor extension. Now you have a choice.. Party like it's 2013 or 1993. some of us like the idea of a fallback so that our gpus aren't lagged by a bunch of desktop bs while in a fullscreen application or game.
how unPC of you.. This is how such words are said in the radiant socia...err I mean radiant corpor...err I mean 21st century.
The European Commission is our friend. Open source is our friend. Acceptance to UEFI is optional, friendly, and secure. The Linux culture is viable and empowered. Prepare to be free, secure, and welcome.
It's getting harder for me to discern the difference between fascism and socialism these days, especially with all the hybrids cropping up in the world.. they definitely contrast with the more traditional socialism seen in North Korea for ex. Whether the power grab originated in the state or in a corporate oligarchy doesn't matter because the net result is the same: one uses the others' encroaching influence on the society to control it.
I wonder which corporations will end up being the 'jennings & rall' of the 2050s that will play the puppet government as our 'friend'?..or maybe we'll end up with a highly centralized state, soviet union style. Today's politics make me concerned that a situation approaching either are both likely outcomes, and that there's little that can be done about it either way.
Well, bad mastering will affect any playback medium, and is a policy issue rather than a technical one. The people dissing digital media do so because they don't understand it.
I agree though. The way top 40 is mangled these days makes it nearly unlistenable, even if the content is desirable to the listener.
then why do most of them use cdjs now... with flash drives? sure sometimes they break out the vinyl for fun and show, but it is not the dominant media anymore.
your appeal to atmosphere (whatever that is) is undefined. up to the nyquist frequency the recording is indistinguishable from the analog source. you get the added benefit of much less noise and no degradation of the media.
if you want that old 'vinyl' sound can listen to period rock with the proper equalization.
tablets are the future..for certain use cases.. Traditional desktops capabilities are a superset of a tablet ui. How does microsoft expect people to create content for all those tablets using newbified interfaces? Touch is NOT better than a mouse for this kind of work. I don't care how much you adore minority report. That kind of interface is worse than useless.
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Once the data is collected, it can then be used by others to misconstrue your intentions/character/viability for future opportunities. Forever. The only way to prevent this is to prevent it from being collected in the first place.
Knowing your enemies is only part of it. Having control over information and intellectual process is where the real power is, so, of course, assholes have come out of the woodwork in the last 10-15 years proclaiming privacy as dead/having never existed. Without privacy, such exploration is highly likely to run aground on more powerful/influential organizations that find such new ideas threatening to their existence/power/bottom lines. This is what such organizations want. Of course, this attitude is toxic to individual liberty and civil rights, and is one of the biggest drivers of today's left wing and right wing political dynamics.
relationships where one partner cannot tell the truth for fear of offending the others ego are doomed. in fact, propping up willful ignorance is a compounding stress that will destroy any relationship, not just the personal variety.
um.. having one file per message is a lot more portable than some concatenated mess that needs parsing. directories and files aren't going anywhere. While they might be replaced by database structures....oh wait that's right, filesystems ARE databases.
blasphemy! if you're going to use a game analogy, make sure you use the right game. shao-khan will collect your geek card and then enslave your soul.
yes, those poor women so 'empowered', yet so oppressed by a simple joke.. the answer to this paradox is to jail every bloke.
look != functionality.
still more annoying than just having the button there. The justification for removing it was far weaker than the one for keeping it, especially considering it's a standard convention.
What hardware? Tablets? Tablet interfaces are innovations that work great for tablets and tablet workflows. Desktop workflows are different. Compounding the problem by rebuilding applications so they share the same broken interface characteristics makes the situation worse. Forcing adoption by cramming it into places where it doesn't belong for the sake of conformity is never the answer...unless of course the goal is to make tasks more convoluted for people for the sake of ideology.
I realize justifying change for its own sake based on emotional needs is the current trend, but it's led us to interfaces that are frustrating to use for even the most basic tasks. Things like pointless whitespace, huge, low density text, extra clicking/dragging/touching/searching, and long winded, laggy animations and transitions do little but add stress and time to the process of getting things done. For example, what the hell happened to the basic control panel, with simple, logically named areas and which contained the whole sum of just about anything that 99% of users would want to tweak? The windows 2k/xp control panel was nothing to write home about, but compared with the overdesigned crapola that's in vista/7, it's a godsend. This is not better. It's worse.
Perhaps it's time to demote the 'designers' a bit in development hierarchies as these people obviously care more about appearance and bottom barrel 'accessibility' than capability and efficiency. In fact, many of those up and coming people you mentioned have trouble with the new designs as well. It's just that fewer and fewer of them have relevant experience with the traditional menu-in-a-corner+modeless window desktop to compare the two. It's fine to keep the interface simple for fixed function devices like media players or ATMs, but workstations are different as they're used for complex, user-defined workflows. These cannot really be optimized for. Attempts to do so cause more problems than they solve. The people who do want their interfaces on rails really don't need workstations in the first place.
It's not just gnome that suffers from this. Microsoft, apple, and google are guilty as well. In their race to the bottom, they're not differentiating at the top, where innovation happens.
1. having search boxes on menus and windows is just a crutch. the whole point is to see what you're looking for in a graphically intuitive way. Adding search boxes is just admitting the design sucks.
2. Hotkeys easily make window/menu based search boxes redundant, but if you want a keyboard only experience, just dump your gui entirely and run applications from the shell, using xinit when you need a gui application. bash and its brothers are a lot more powerful than some idiotic 'semantic' search box.
exactly nothing when the net connection goes down, leaving said admin with absolutely no influence over the solution besides picking up a phone and bitching. of course management still thinks he does despite its insistence on the remote services in the first place. being held accountable for things one has decreasing amounts of control over is probably the most critical cause of workplace stress, and i ts getting worse.
Yeah, because, historically, our government officials, like the ones using our taxes to fund these badly correlated behavior 'studies', are bastions of rationality, justice, objectivity, and truth. Naturally these selfless, caring, freedom loving people want only the best for us when they say they absolutely 'have' to grow the budget deficit every damn year, punch legal holes in documents designed to protect our rights, and then tell us the reasons and details are a matter of 'national security.'
I really do wonder when the majority will get fed up with this and quit drinking the koolaid so liberally distributed on TV growing up and then on campus during their college years. While it's true that corporates do not give a shit about you, the government bureaucracy doesn't either...not when you're just a collection of bits across 2500+ databases processed into a list socially negative probabilities.
So what's next? Preemptive reincarceration for those flagged, or maybe just monitor/tail/watch them incessantly til they lose it and shoot one of the undercover officers, thereby 'proving' the validity of the 'study'? Those are two probable next steps, right?
Hence the compositor extension. Now you have a choice.. Party like it's 2013 or 1993. some of us like the idea of a fallback so that our gpus aren't lagged by a bunch of desktop bs while in a fullscreen application or game.
how unPC of you.. This is how such words are said in the radiant socia...err I mean radiant corpor...err I mean 21st century.
The European Commission is our friend. Open source is our friend. Acceptance to UEFI is optional, friendly, and secure. The Linux culture is viable and empowered. Prepare to be free, secure, and welcome.
sums up my thoughts exactly. It's really too bad. Computing in the 80s-90s was about indvidual empowerment.. Now it's about intellectual enslavement.
My point was that any attempt to build such a thing inevitably leads to dictatorship.
It's nowhere near that simple, and there are plenty of counterexamples. Both ideologies enslave..
It's getting harder for me to discern the difference between fascism and socialism these days, especially with all the hybrids cropping up in the world.. they definitely contrast with the more traditional socialism seen in North Korea for ex. Whether the power grab originated in the state or in a corporate oligarchy doesn't matter because the net result is the same: one uses the others' encroaching influence on the society to control it.
I wonder which corporations will end up being the 'jennings & rall' of the 2050s that will play the puppet government as our 'friend'? ..or maybe we'll end up with a highly centralized state, soviet union style. Today's politics make me concerned that a situation approaching either are both likely outcomes, and that there's little that can be done about it either way.
Well, bad mastering will affect any playback medium, and is a policy issue rather than a technical one. The people dissing digital media do so because they don't understand it.
I agree though. The way top 40 is mangled these days makes it nearly unlistenable, even if the content is desirable to the listener.
people skills are overrated.. i dont care someone's attitude as long as their facts and conclusions are correct.
just like your analog recording....only with less noise, wow, flutter, intermod distortion and media degradation.
then why do most of them use cdjs now... with flash drives? sure sometimes they break out the vinyl for fun and show, but it is not the dominant media anymore.
your appeal to atmosphere (whatever that is) is undefined. up to the nyquist frequency the recording is indistinguishable from the analog source. you get the added benefit of much less noise and no degradation of the media.
if you want that old 'vinyl' sound can listen to period rock with the proper equalization.
Stop justifying design deficits with accusations of user failure.
tablets are the future..for certain use cases.. Traditional desktops capabilities are a superset of a tablet ui. How does microsoft expect people to create content for all those tablets using newbified interfaces? Touch is NOT better than a mouse for this kind of work. I don't care how much you adore minority report. That kind of interface is worse than useless.