Not only will the global middle class grow, and everybody will be richer... But also there will be less food and water available for everybody!
I know that kind of report is an assembly of several different scenarios, that obviously have different characteristics. But it is not very usefull to claim that "In 2030 we'll be all rich, well, unless we are all poor or things stay near the way they are now", "also, a famous personality will die".
It used to be the compatibility champ -- all of its message stores were open format. Now it's all stashed in a binary database.
It uses a "maildir like" exclusive format, but it is textual, not binary, and well, it's maildir like what means that translating into a proper maildir isn't too hard. Now, it would be better if it could use a proper maildir folder, and share it with other readers. But it isn't realy the end of the world.
It used to be blinding quick. Now it takes minutes to switch between one local folder and another.
It was never quick for me.
It used to update flawlessly, but the last couple of upgrades have hosed the previous mail repositories and anything that wasn't backed up offline was gone.
And that is the real show stopper. My experience is that it simply doesn't work anymore.
It's a shame, because KPim was getting great. It was integrating the entire DE with it, that had a lot of potential. But then, at KDE4 they changed their plans.
They are integrated in the same way that email integrates with anything: scheduling is communicated by email.
The problem is, you should be integrating email with "everything", not with "scheduling", and by jumping into a plataform that does the later, you are making it harder to do the former.
You are missing the point. The Fiscal Cliff is an artificial problem that can fixed on paper. If you even can't fix a problem in a piece of paper, there is no hope of fixing something that exists in the complex Real World.
Now, if you are not from the US and know the world is a big place, you may have some hopes about leadership comming from somewhere else. If so, take a look at the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, a completely artifical worldwide problem, with a well known, simple and consensual solution where the benefits are all biased for cooperation, not for playing dirty.
Valve's Steam gets those sales because it ISN'T a CONSOLE.
That's true. Yet, once they put that console out there, two very important things happen:
1 - Game developers will learn OpenGL. Why write a Windows only game, when you can target all the Steam maket with nearly no increased costs by just changing your language? That'll make Linux a better gamming plataform than Windows, destroying one of the MS lockin strategies. (Yeah, there are others, people won't flock into Linux just because it run games.) That'll also remove the X-Box biggest selling point.
2 - People will discover that their console is able to edit office documents, browse the web, read email, play media, well do everything their Windows desktop does. Also, they'll discover that it can edit sound and video, create sites, DVDs, and all kinds of stuff that you must pay $10k each on Windows. That'll make a dent in the Windows marketshare. (But, again, it is just another dent, people won't flock into Linux just because of that.)
You probably doubt everybody that tells you that "this time it's different", and most of the time you are right, things are not different. Yet, there are times that are different, and this one is one of them.
Robots and AI won't just replace a part of of the economy, they are going to completely replace it. Your rationale simply can't handle that kind of situations, your assumptions are wrong. There won't be other jobs waiting for the fired people, robots will be already on them. (And that includes entretainement.)
Some folks also make the claim that the new wealth will be concentrated in too few hands, and most people won't get wealthier. That, too, is false: automation makes things so cheap...
There is you now arguing that things will be different. When in history there was a productivity revolution and most people got wealthier? It always take lots of generations to trickle down... And this time most (if not all) people may not be able to survive until there.
Infinite productivity is a great thing, but the transition is a serious problem. It would be great if we were able to deal with any kind of transition, but we can't. It will be disastrous.
In other words, a steadily declining income as a more or less steady pool of workers are forced to compete for an ever shrinking pool of less desirable jobs.
At the same time, with steadly declining prices of everything that is done by robots. L'Hôpital's rule is your friend.
The best solution I can think to force a peacefull transition is by wealth redistribution done by the governmet. Just stablish a certain proportional tax (say 5% of al income), and redistribute it equaly to all citizens.
The best replacement I have to solve the Fermi paradox is the possibility that the step from prokaryotic to eukaryotic life is very hard, as some biologist suggest,
We still don't know how prokaryotic life appeared, we have no idea how hard it is. Also, there are lots of other things that look like hard steps before this one, like the 3 times we added a base into your protein expressing codons, or how we started to use DNA. There are also still the oxygenation of our athmosphere the apearance of multicelular organisms and the transition of life into dry land, that nobody has any idea about how hard they are.
And, of course, there is the elephant in the room: how hard it is to develop inteligent life. Let's face it, we are near (at a geological timescale) the end of the usefull lifetime of our planet, if we didin't appear there would probably never be nobody else here.
Is it for a web server? Use Drupal (or, if you want to search for alternatives, that kind of software is called "CMS").
SharePoint will give you the worst public facing site of all the options you can get. It is intended to be used at intranets, and only at places where everybody only uses Microsoft's tools (including Internet Explorer). Also, it will certainly take more time to support than what your current site needs to be kept up to date.
New, growing companies just getting into enterprise computing are now fully on notice what to expect if they drink the Microsoft kool-aid. Even if they do not lose many existing customers, they Microsoft may be eating their seed corn here.
Somehow, I doubt it. The backslash will be contained to community sites, like this one. The press won't talk about it, MS's customers won't talk about it. Nobody outside the group that already knows what to expect will ever hear about it.
Somehow, without hardware acceleration my laptop takes a few ms to show, resize or move a window. It's not a long time, it doesn't slow me down, but it's noticeable.
That may be because the laptop is old (I'm planning to upgrade into a faster tablet + keyboard), because I'm using too many effects, or maybe even because there are too many thing running in it.
Fortunately, compositing provides no useful features whatsoever...
It makes my DE faster, and saves battery power at my laptop. But it makes no difference while running a full-screen game, so turning it off at this time won't be a problem at all.
Also, turning compositing off doesn't cripple multitasking. It just changes the way the DE draws the screen.
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Not only will the global middle class grow, and everybody will be richer... But also there will be less food and water available for everybody!
I know that kind of report is an assembly of several different scenarios, that obviously have different characteristics. But it is not very usefull to claim that "In 2030 we'll be all rich, well, unless we are all poor or things stay near the way they are now", "also, a famous personality will die".
Yes, if you care so much about any random site, you should check the URL. People will not put warnings about every possible problem with every link.
It uses a "maildir like" exclusive format, but it is textual, not binary, and well, it's maildir like what means that translating into a proper maildir isn't too hard. Now, it would be better if it could use a proper maildir folder, and share it with other readers. But it isn't realy the end of the world.
It was never quick for me.
And that is the real show stopper. My experience is that it simply doesn't work anymore.
It's a shame, because KPim was getting great. It was integrating the entire DE with it, that had a lot of potential. But then, at KDE4 they changed their plans.
They are integrated in the same way that email integrates with anything: scheduling is communicated by email.
The problem is, you should be integrating email with "everything", not with "scheduling", and by jumping into a plataform that does the later, you are making it harder to do the former.
You are missing the point. The Fiscal Cliff is an artificial problem that can fixed on paper. If you even can't fix a problem in a piece of paper, there is no hope of fixing something that exists in the complex Real World.
Now, if you are not from the US and know the world is a big place, you may have some hopes about leadership comming from somewhere else. If so, take a look at the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, a completely artifical worldwide problem, with a well known, simple and consensual solution where the benefits are all biased for cooperation, not for playing dirty.
Or, in other words... We are fucked.
That's true. Yet, once they put that console out there, two very important things happen:
1 - Game developers will learn OpenGL. Why write a Windows only game, when you can target all the Steam maket with nearly no increased costs by just changing your language? That'll make Linux a better gamming plataform than Windows, destroying one of the MS lockin strategies. (Yeah, there are others, people won't flock into Linux just because it run games.) That'll also remove the X-Box biggest selling point.
2 - People will discover that their console is able to edit office documents, browse the web, read email, play media, well do everything their Windows desktop does. Also, they'll discover that it can edit sound and video, create sites, DVDs, and all kinds of stuff that you must pay $10k each on Windows. That'll make a dent in the Windows marketshare. (But, again, it is just another dent, people won't flock into Linux just because of that.)
Yeah, and that means that all the other big publishers are fucked up.
MS doesn't play nice, and they already showed that developers are they target on this iteration.
Depends if you count solitary as a game.
LOL. Shouldn't you add Sharepoint and Silverlight to that list?
find -name desktop -del
Launching a new bash process and executing rm for each file is slow. That will be much faster and harder to make an error.
I don't know if it is specific of GNU.
You probably doubt everybody that tells you that "this time it's different", and most of the time you are right, things are not different. Yet, there are times that are different, and this one is one of them.
Robots and AI won't just replace a part of of the economy, they are going to completely replace it. Your rationale simply can't handle that kind of situations, your assumptions are wrong. There won't be other jobs waiting for the fired people, robots will be already on them. (And that includes entretainement.)
There is you now arguing that things will be different. When in history there was a productivity revolution and most people got wealthier? It always take lots of generations to trickle down... And this time most (if not all) people may not be able to survive until there.
Infinite productivity is a great thing, but the transition is a serious problem. It would be great if we were able to deal with any kind of transition, but we can't. It will be disastrous.
At the same time, with steadly declining prices of everything that is done by robots. L'Hôpital's rule is your friend.
The best solution I can think to force a peacefull transition is by wealth redistribution done by the governmet. Just stablish a certain proportional tax (say 5% of al income), and redistribute it equaly to all citizens.
At least their HR policies make sense.
We still don't know how prokaryotic life appeared, we have no idea how hard it is. Also, there are lots of other things that look like hard steps before this one, like the 3 times we added a base into your protein expressing codons, or how we started to use DNA. There are also still the oxygenation of our athmosphere the apearance of multicelular organisms and the transition of life into dry land, that nobody has any idea about how hard they are.
And, of course, there is the elephant in the room: how hard it is to develop inteligent life. Let's face it, we are near (at a geological timescale) the end of the usefull lifetime of our planet, if we didin't appear there would probably never be nobody else here.
Yeap, but here in Earth helium is quite rare. It has a tendency of going away once it reaches the atmosphere.
5. We develop the weapons, and attack only if they attack us.
MAD doesn't stop working just because the targets are far away.
Is it for a web server? Use Drupal (or, if you want to search for alternatives, that kind of software is called "CMS").
SharePoint will give you the worst public facing site of all the options you can get. It is intended to be used at intranets, and only at places where everybody only uses Microsoft's tools (including Internet Explorer). Also, it will certainly take more time to support than what your current site needs to be kept up to date.
The funny thing is that this isn't true at all. The mood of the cattle (yeah, real cattle) can make or break a farm.
Somehow, I doubt it. The backslash will be contained to community sites, like this one. The press won't talk about it, MS's customers won't talk about it. Nobody outside the group that already knows what to expect will ever hear about it.
Rational managers should be most willing to cut costs when the margins are thin and the economy is down.
Somehow, without hardware acceleration my laptop takes a few ms to show, resize or move a window. It's not a long time, it doesn't slow me down, but it's noticeable.
That may be because the laptop is old (I'm planning to upgrade into a faster tablet + keyboard), because I'm using too many effects, or maybe even because there are too many thing running in it.
That was a joke. You made a typo at your original post.
It makes my DE faster, and saves battery power at my laptop. But it makes no difference while running a full-screen game, so turning it off at this time won't be a problem at all.
Also, turning compositing off doesn't cripple multitasking. It just changes the way the DE draws the screen.
That's why I use a distro that doesn't relocate config files and won't automaticaly replace them once I make a change.
What, 45 floppies? Software isn't that small since the 90's. That's 10% of a CD-ROM!