Yes, exactly. Vast numbers of people have been put out of work by computers. But there are still more people working than ever before, because the computers opened up many new jobs that never existed before.
Automation will eventually put just about everyone 'out of a job'. But they won't care when they own a bunch of robots that can take an asteroid apart and turn it into anything they want to build.
Teen Vogue seems to have become totally SJW-converged since Trump won the election. I presume they're trying to ensure the next generation of female voters will be solidly Democrat.
UBI is utter bollocks that only a desperate lefty who's unable to accept that socialism is about to be tossed into the garbage can of history could still cling to.
"Can someone explain this fool's logic to me how the standard of living would improve when people no longer have any income because they dont have a job?"
The vast majority of people don't work in healthcare. But they all benefit from lower healthcare costs. Particularly in America, where the medical guilds and insurance companies have done everything in their power to make healthcare as expensive as possible.
It's funny to see people complaining about 'putting people out of jobs' on a site that's largely about computing, which has done more than any other invention in human history to 'put people out of jobs'. Just go and watch a few documentaries from the 40s or 50s, and marvel at how few of those jobs still exist, thanks to computers.
This is another problem with government 'unemployment' fantasy numbers. If Joe loses his job as an $100k engineer, but gets a job on minimum wage making coffee, he has no impact on the 'unemployment' figures, but has a heck of an impact on his life.
The other is that the government has been pushing more and more unemployed folks onto disability instead. They get free money for life, and aren't counted as 'unemployed' any more.
And, don't forget, the push to get more and more kids into university, where they won't count as 'unemployed' as they borrow $250,000 to pay fat-cat professors to give them a worthless degree in Diversity Studies.
"someone has to enforce those rules against the small percentage of people who are psychopaths - otherwise the psychopaths will literally murder millions of people."
In a centralized system, the psychopaths end up in charge. Where they do murder millions and millions and millions of people.
Decentralization is the future, because it's impossible to keep pyschopaths out of power in a centralized system.
"It's funny that you put in that way, because that's exactly what we did with our HP/UX installations."
The other day, I was trying to run a program on one of our older Linux systems, which we're currently 'upgrading' to run three servers in VMs on a single real server, instead of the slowly-failing decade-old machines it currently runs on. Because the program wouldn't run, I did a 'file' on it, and discovered it was actually an HP/UX executable from the days when the system used to run on HP/UX, before it was moved to Linux; clearly no-one had bothered to recompile it in the last ten or fifteen years.
(Or, like me, they wanted to recompile it but couldn't find the twenty-year-old source code)
"The IA-64 wasn't planned to be an x86 killer directly, though it would have been a nice bonus if it had worked."
Uh, yes, it was. Everyone was supposed to switch to IA-64 after a few years, with x86 becoming a legacy product.
Problem was, most people and companies ad a lot of x86 software lying around, and it ran like a three-legged dog on IA-64, so they couldn't make the switch.
Well, yes. We can't let anything get in the way of medical monopoly profits, can we?
Better get used to it: wearables are going to get more and more sensors, and will soon be a heck of a lot more effective than a doctor prodding you and trying to figure out what symptoms to look up on Google.
And does it count all the ones where users never actually ran Windows 10 and just installed a different OS?
My current laptop came with Windows 10 installed, and a Windows 7 DVD if you wanted to upgrade... but I just pulled the hard drive out and plugged in an SSD with Linux installed on it.
All that said, we finally replaced our old XP iTunes machine with a Windows 10 machine at the weekend, and it didn't suck as bad as Windows 8. So there does seem to be some progress in Redmond.
Hey, we still have a product written in VB6. We inherited it from a company we bought years ago, and the main organization that still uses it sends us money now and again to add new features.
I don't know what hoops the developers who work on it have to jump through to get it to build and run on modern Windows, though. I think they do the development on VMs running XP.
"Even with C++, the use of smart pointers is preferred because then time doesn't have to be spent looking for memory leaks"
People who believe that tend to be the same people who write Java code with horrendous memory leaks. Or with essential objects that get garbage collected because they forgot to keep a pointer to them.
"Are you aware that early Java server applications often require a Java front end on the client side?"
Yes. We have a server whose client UI requires installing some archaic version of Java and Firefox on any machine that accesses it because... some reason or other that I can't remember offhand. A newer browser with a newer Java plugin won't run on it, and there's no budget for building a new UI so long as there's a simple workaround.
"Valve has opened their api (openvr), so why not contribute & adopt it?"
Yes, in a rapidly-changing new industry, why wouldn't you want to be locked in to an API controlled and developed by your biggest competitor?
You know it makes sense.
Back in the real world, there'll be a time for standard VR APIs, but it's certainly not today. There's a reason we had Glide and other custom 3D APIs for years before game devs settled on Direct3D and OpenGL and dropped the rest.
BTW, pretty much all Vive games work on the Rift, but some have crappy controls because the Rift controllers have far more features than the Vive's. This makes them a pretty poor experience, and demonstrates why a single API would be a dumb thing to do right now. With such different controls, if you want everyone to have a good experience, you have no choice but to develop two different interfaces in your app regardless of which API you use.
Slashdot Mirror
"Wealth transfer is a facet of civilization, and has been since the beginning. You act as if it's a bad thing."
Crippling the economies of Western nations to make the Chinese rich is certainly a bad thing if you happen to be poor and living in the West.
Why do you hate poor people?
Dude, PHOTOGRAPHS STEAL YOUR SOUL!
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
"You don't get to cherry pick the definitions to suit your agenda."
The left do.
A warm day is Global Warming. A cold day is 'just weather'.
And then they 'adjust' the temperature record to ensure the weather gets warmer.
When someone has been wrong about something a million times before, it's probably not a good idea to bet on them being right this time.
>Old Job types, maybe, but not overall jobs
Yes, exactly. Vast numbers of people have been put out of work by computers. But there are still more people working than ever before, because the computers opened up many new jobs that never existed before.
Automation will eventually put just about everyone 'out of a job'. But they won't care when they own a bunch of robots that can take an asteroid apart and turn it into anything they want to build.
Only lefties think the economy is a zero-sum game. Because if they understood economics, they wouldn't be lefties.
This is why no sane person ever listens to lefties.
Teen Vogue seems to have become totally SJW-converged since Trump won the election. I presume they're trying to ensure the next generation of female voters will be solidly Democrat.
"UBI would be the answer"
UBI is utter bollocks that only a desperate lefty who's unable to accept that socialism is about to be tossed into the garbage can of history could still cling to.
"Can someone explain this fool's logic to me how the standard of living would improve when people no longer have any income because they dont have a job?"
The vast majority of people don't work in healthcare. But they all benefit from lower healthcare costs. Particularly in America, where the medical guilds and insurance companies have done everything in their power to make healthcare as expensive as possible.
It's funny to see people complaining about 'putting people out of jobs' on a site that's largely about computing, which has done more than any other invention in human history to 'put people out of jobs'. Just go and watch a few documentaries from the 40s or 50s, and marvel at how few of those jobs still exist, thanks to computers.
This is another problem with government 'unemployment' fantasy numbers. If Joe loses his job as an $100k engineer, but gets a job on minimum wage making coffee, he has no impact on the 'unemployment' figures, but has a heck of an impact on his life.
The other is that the government has been pushing more and more unemployed folks onto disability instead. They get free money for life, and aren't counted as 'unemployed' any more.
And, don't forget, the push to get more and more kids into university, where they won't count as 'unemployed' as they borrow $250,000 to pay fat-cat professors to give them a worthless degree in Diversity Studies.
"Which explains why the lowest earning 50% of the citizens make so little money that they don't owe any federal income tax each year?"
No, that's so the Democrats can buy their votes whenever they want to increase tax rates. 'Don't worry, it won't affect you.'
"someone has to enforce those rules against the small percentage of people who are psychopaths - otherwise the psychopaths will literally murder millions of people."
In a centralized system, the psychopaths end up in charge. Where they do murder millions and millions and millions of people.
Decentralization is the future, because it's impossible to keep pyschopaths out of power in a centralized system.
"It's funny that you put in that way, because that's exactly what we did with our HP/UX installations."
The other day, I was trying to run a program on one of our older Linux systems, which we're currently 'upgrading' to run three servers in VMs on a single real server, instead of the slowly-failing decade-old machines it currently runs on. Because the program wouldn't run, I did a 'file' on it, and discovered it was actually an HP/UX executable from the days when the system used to run on HP/UX, before it was moved to Linux; clearly no-one had bothered to recompile it in the last ten or fifteen years.
(Or, like me, they wanted to recompile it but couldn't find the twenty-year-old source code)
"The IA-64 wasn't planned to be an x86 killer directly, though it would have been a nice bonus if it had worked."
Uh, yes, it was. Everyone was supposed to switch to IA-64 after a few years, with x86 becoming a legacy product.
Problem was, most people and companies ad a lot of x86 software lying around, and it ran like a three-legged dog on IA-64, so they couldn't make the switch.
Well, yes. We can't let anything get in the way of medical monopoly profits, can we?
Better get used to it: wearables are going to get more and more sensors, and will soon be a heck of a lot more effective than a doctor prodding you and trying to figure out what symptoms to look up on Google.
Admit it: you just get all hot and sweaty when you imagine yourself in charge of a Death Panel, don't you?
Like I said, you always double down.
"Windows is still the 100lbs gorilla in the computer world."
Windows is a tiny niche product in the computer world.
Most phones and tablets run BSD or Linux. Most servers run Linux. Only the legacy desktop market is still a big win for Microsoft.
And does it count all the ones where users never actually ran Windows 10 and just installed a different OS?
My current laptop came with Windows 10 installed, and a Windows 7 DVD if you wanted to upgrade... but I just pulled the hard drive out and plugged in an SSD with Linux installed on it.
All that said, we finally replaced our old XP iTunes machine with a Windows 10 machine at the weekend, and it didn't suck as bad as Windows 8. So there does seem to be some progress in Redmond.
SJWs always double-down on the stupid.
I've run all across Skyrim in VR, dude.
Hey, we still have a product written in VB6. We inherited it from a company we bought years ago, and the main organization that still uses it sends us money now and again to add new features.
I don't know what hoops the developers who work on it have to jump through to get it to build and run on modern Windows, though. I think they do the development on VMs running XP.
"Even with C++, the use of smart pointers is preferred because then time doesn't have to be spent looking for memory leaks"
People who believe that tend to be the same people who write Java code with horrendous memory leaks. Or with essential objects that get garbage collected because they forgot to keep a pointer to them.
"Are you aware that early Java server applications often require a Java front end on the client side?"
Yes. We have a server whose client UI requires installing some archaic version of Java and Firefox on any machine that accesses it because... some reason or other that I can't remember offhand. A newer browser with a newer Java plugin won't run on it, and there's no budget for building a new UI so long as there's a simple workaround.
"Valve has opened their api (openvr), so why not contribute & adopt it?"
Yes, in a rapidly-changing new industry, why wouldn't you want to be locked in to an API controlled and developed by your biggest competitor?
You know it makes sense.
Back in the real world, there'll be a time for standard VR APIs, but it's certainly not today. There's a reason we had Glide and other custom 3D APIs for years before game devs settled on Direct3D and OpenGL and dropped the rest.
BTW, pretty much all Vive games work on the Rift, but some have crappy controls because the Rift controllers have far more features than the Vive's. This makes them a pretty poor experience, and demonstrates why a single API would be a dumb thing to do right now. With such different controls, if you want everyone to have a good experience, you have no choice but to develop two different interfaces in your app regardless of which API you use.