At work we have the opposite problem. Windows 10 downloaded to all the desktops but the crashes when it tries to start. Every single time.
So we have a hunch of Windows 7 machines that can't accept the upgrade. Not the end of the world as your software is all on the server Which Everyone remote desktops into. Easy to manage and even easier to replace desktop when needed.
The problem with basic income is that it comes with inflation if manufacturers can't meet demand properly.
Our balance is horrible but it is self balancing based on skills for the most part. Also fixing the work week means that deadlines and thing will get missed.
For a system as complicated as human society you do not want fixed variables. For techies think of those limits like hard coded ad!in passwords. It never ends well even if it works for a while.
Society needs to be flexible. Do not hard code variables. Even limits can be troublesome.
Is it political correctness or Social correctness? If being nice to someone who is different from you for no other reason than they live differently from you is political correctness then what do you call enforced social correctness?
If just 1% of the population is gay. That means there are 3.3 million gay people in just the USA alone. That is similar to the number of people in Boston, Massachusetts.
The same goes for every other group. A tiny fraction still represents thousands of people. Who are you to tell a thousand people they are wrong about themselves?
In the USA women were only started to be treated as equals to men in the late 1960's. Women were denied credit on gender alone as recently as the late 70's.
It takes several generations to change how people treat others in general. Our children will pay the price for our grandparents arrogance. Let your grandchildren and great grandchildren live in a better world and take the responsibility.
especially in companies that are just starting up cash flow is a big friggin deal.
The cheapest solution no matter how badly conceived is always the best solution as long as it is functional.
This is the difference between tech guys and business guys. business guys always think about the money and cash flow first. We have $X,XXX dollars we need something that can do HHHHH. to do HHHH properly will cost $XX,XXX. yea but we can't afford that so we have to make do with this.
remember just about every business robs peter to pay their debt to paul. it is about the cash flow. once you get that incoming and stable you can do things the right way.
The problem is obivousness. The patent office will not only grant a patent on peeling a pear with a knife but using a knife horizatanally instead of vertically, of fixing to knife to a stand and turning the pear around, of using a handle to make spinning the pear easier, of using two knives to core the pear at the same time as peeling it, of using a refrigerator to make the pear cold to make it easier to cut, of using different types of blades to achieve different cutting effect, repeat all the above with different blades to achieve different cuts. Of replacing the metal blade with a cermanic blade. Of using a belt to load the pears onto the device above. Of using a computer to control it all.
And I could go on. The patent office would rubber stamp all of them.
part of that was HDMI, and part of it is that TV's should last you a decade or more, and the TV manufacturers want you to buy a new tv every 3-4 years.
early HD tv's didn't have HDMI, or only had one HDMI port. so you could watch HD dvd, or HD cable but not both without swapping cables.
in the early 2000's they finally got wise and adjusted the spec to allow tv's to have more than one hdmi input.
I had a point to all this but my tablet submitted it before I finished. damn android.
managers, salespeople, etc may not exactly know what they want the software to do. software is only getting to the point where it makes sense for people. Knowing what the software can do, what you need it to do, and how it does it is very difficult.
My personal favorite example is a rube goldberg machine. think of software like that. flashy, pretty, distracting, and a few WTF. if you break it all down it makes sense but why would you put it together that way?
design work is very difficult to get right though. software basically becomes the business paperwork process. So which parts get automated, which parts need manual adjustment, which parts the users see, and which parts they don't know about is sometimes very hard to figure out and 30 years later we are just starting to sort through it to do it right.
I took over some roles of the our previous finance guy. just basic reporting, information updating etc. Every month he had to manually calculate out specific tax information for the state and federal governments. He created a report that outputted the raw data into a spreadsheet and each month manually added it up. By manually I mean he looked at the numbers and typed them into a calculator. The first time I did it. I wrote down the process, and then I created a spreadsheet where a simple import would auto calculate everything i needed for the month. with pretty labels, and history showing the previous months numbers.
I automated a task in 30 minutes that he spent 20 minutes doing every month. He had a dozen different things like that.
Now our ERP software wasn't designed to automate it. if you were good or paid them money they would show you how but it wasn't a standard feature. However it was designed to export raw data easily. with that everything else is easy peasy.
inflation has gone up so much that you need two incomes to compensate for it. When women started working people suddenly had extra income. which they then spent on things. businesses expanded, which hired more workers, and the situation pushed farther and farther. now you need two incomes to survive.
Also back then medical expenses where cheap yes but then so was the care. no mri, no cat scans, more people died on the table than lived. etc. medical expenses are sky rocketing because we have old people who need constant care, but can't pay for it. however if we take away that care they get pissy. try it. in the USA our budget is easily broken down into 30% for medicare, 30% for SS and 30% for military with he balance for every thing else.
not once will you hear any political talk about cutting SS down sharply to pay for the ever growing debt.
now back to inflation. yes officially the USA government puts it 2% a year more or less, however it all secondary markets (not food, gas, etc) it goes up on average 5%. with some goods like TV's or dishwashers actually going down -2%. that is why new tv's keep coming out, and why refrigerators are still $500-$1000 the same price they were 30 years ago. Car however keep going up. with base models of basic cars used to $12k in 2000, it is closer to $18k for the same model(mostly) now.
lastly before medicare. 60% of the population didn't have any health care. doctors are for the rich after all. that is your moto is it not? Currently 30% of the population doesn't have decent medical care. I can't afford visits to my primary care doctor. I can't afford the co-pay even with health care. I don't have an extra $100 per visit to spend.
Correct the mod system is fine but unicode is definitely needed.
What really gets me is the new website doesn't maintain logins beyond one page click.
mobile.slashdot.org won't let me stay logged in. overtime I click a link it logs me back out.
I generally use classic.slashdot.org on mobile devices to maintain a log in but as of this morning that isn't working anymore either. I tried posting this from chrome on android and slashdot would log me out every single time and would refuse to let me log in . however if I opened a new tab and went to slashdot.org I was logged in automatically. This has been an on again off again issue for years. maybe one day they will fix it.
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Not really. the younger generations are staying away from Facebook and twitter. As myspace died before them, so will go Facebook.(replaced by snapchat, instagram, and whatsapp, among others)
The cycle is stretching out finally, no longer is this done by the year but by the decade. Facebook will stick around but their numbers have basically stopped growing in another 10 years like world of warcraft it will be shrinking. trying to expand again.
of course not technology is replacing the simple jobs. manufacturing, farming, secretaries, etc all the low skilled jobs will vanish.
when they build a lawyer robot, that is when the shit will hit the fan. because after lawyer robots will come political robots. Once we automate the political process (will bribing a robot politicians include giving it more electricity?) then we can finally achieve the dream world were we can kill all the lawyers.
Android has a life expectancy of 2 years at best, and often 1 year or less. most android device never receive security updates, let alone OS updates.
The very fact have iOS 9 supports iPhone 4s at all puts IOS and Apple ten times better than android.
my 2 year old 2013 nexus 7 tablet is obsolete, and isn't slated to receive any updates after android 6. The only reason it is receiving those updates is because it is a nexus device.
lawyers are trained to be in a state of cognitive dissonance. it is the only way you can defend a rapist, or other piece of junk human being.
corporate lawyers have to do the same thing. telling their clients how to avoid legal penalties while doing things that should be illegal by the spirit of the law. (how to hide and shuffle money around legally so you don't pay taxes on it)
What incentive does the average minimum wage worker have to not screw up? The answer is none. $0.10 an hour raise isn't a huge incentive to make burgers faster.
What incentive does anyone earning less than 50k a year have to do a good job. Answe nothing. Their bonus? Is maybe $200 a year.
Most people don't get a bonus equal to 20% of their paycheck. Or like banks they don't get bonuses even if the company declares bankruptcy.
True, but you can also assign those people to all the menial task jobs, street cleaners, park and rec workers, road work crews, politicians, secretaries etc
The types of jobs where intelligence doesn't matter.
even the empire strikes back wasn't directed by Lucas, which is why it was good too.
let me put it this way. unlike the prequel, there wasn't a scene in which the acting felt stiff, the interactions felt forced, and the jokes felt pushed in by a lame comedian.
So yes it is a good star wars film. even with the lead "bad" guy being a ****************** (spoiler tag, highlight and copy to your clipboard to reveal)
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At work we have the opposite problem. Windows 10 downloaded to all the desktops but the crashes when it tries to start. Every single time.
So we have a hunch of Windows 7 machines that can't accept the upgrade. Not the end of the world as your software is all on the server Which Everyone remote desktops into. Easy to manage and even easier to replace desktop when needed.
The problem with basic income is that it comes with inflation if manufacturers can't meet demand properly.
Our balance is horrible but it is self balancing based on skills for the most part. Also fixing the work week means that deadlines and thing will get missed.
For a system as complicated as human society you do not want fixed variables. For techies think of those limits like hard coded ad!in passwords. It never ends well even if it works for a while.
Society needs to be flexible. Do not hard code variables. Even limits can be troublesome.
At least the frosty piss/ first post meme finally died.
Is it political correctness or Social correctness? If being nice to someone who is different from you for no other reason than they live differently from you is political correctness then what do you call enforced social correctness?
If just 1% of the population is gay. That means there are 3.3 million gay people in just the USA alone. That is similar to the number of people in Boston, Massachusetts.
The same goes for every other group. A tiny fraction still represents thousands of people. Who are you to tell a thousand people they are wrong about themselves?
In the USA women were only started to be treated as equals to men in the late 1960's. Women were denied credit on gender alone as recently as the late 70's.
It takes several generations to change how people treat others in general. Our children will pay the price for our grandparents arrogance. Let your grandchildren and great grandchildren live in a better world and take the responsibility.
You missed a vital clue.
especially in companies that are just starting up cash flow is a big friggin deal.
The cheapest solution no matter how badly conceived is always the best solution as long as it is functional.
This is the difference between tech guys and business guys. business guys always think about the money and cash flow first. We have $X,XXX dollars we need something that can do HHHHH. to do HHHH properly will cost $XX,XXX. yea but we can't afford that so we have to make do with this.
remember just about every business robs peter to pay their debt to paul. it is about the cash flow. once you get that incoming and stable you can do things the right way.
It gets better. most of the planets discovered to date, have orbits of their star that is closer to venus than earth.
The problem is obivousness. The patent office will not only grant a patent on peeling a pear with a knife but using a knife horizatanally instead of vertically, of fixing to knife to a stand and turning the pear around, of using a handle to make spinning the pear easier, of using two knives to core the pear at the same time as peeling it, of using a refrigerator to make the pear cold to make it easier to cut, of using different types of blades to achieve different cutting effect, repeat all the above with different blades to achieve different cuts. Of replacing the metal blade with a cermanic blade. Of using a belt to load the pears onto the device above. Of using a computer to control it all.
And I could go on. The patent office would rubber stamp all of them.
At 2 cents per base than is how many millions per plague cell?
Exactly I use 5ghz in my apartment for that reasoning. I don't need a signal 100 feet away. I just want bandwidth.
Frosty lawyers?
Of course if Lawyers can be replaced by machines then their rates will go down.
part of that was HDMI, and part of it is that TV's should last you a decade or more, and the TV manufacturers want you to buy a new tv every 3-4 years.
early HD tv's didn't have HDMI, or only had one HDMI port. so you could watch HD dvd, or HD cable but not both without swapping cables.
in the early 2000's they finally got wise and adjusted the spec to allow tv's to have more than one hdmi input.
damn straight Microsoft has to give spyware away. but making your customers purchase it. Genius!!!!
It is easy to test for, and easy to cure. A round of antibiotics will kill it.
I had a point to all this but my tablet submitted it before I finished. damn android.
managers, salespeople, etc may not exactly know what they want the software to do. software is only getting to the point where it makes sense for people. Knowing what the software can do, what you need it to do, and how it does it is very difficult.
My personal favorite example is a rube goldberg machine. think of software like that. flashy, pretty, distracting, and a few WTF. if you break it all down it makes sense but why would you put it together that way?
design work is very difficult to get right though. software basically becomes the business paperwork process. So which parts get automated, which parts need manual adjustment, which parts the users see, and which parts they don't know about is sometimes very hard to figure out and 30 years later we are just starting to sort through it to do it right.
I took over some roles of the our previous finance guy. just basic reporting, information updating etc. Every month he had to manually calculate out specific tax information for the state and federal governments. He created a report that outputted the raw data into a spreadsheet and each month manually added it up. By manually I mean he looked at the numbers and typed them into a calculator. The first time I did it. I wrote down the process, and then I created a spreadsheet where a simple import would auto calculate everything i needed for the month. with pretty labels, and history showing the previous months numbers.
I automated a task in 30 minutes that he spent 20 minutes doing every month. He had a dozen different things like that.
Now our ERP software wasn't designed to automate it. if you were good or paid them money they would show you how but it wasn't a standard feature. However it was designed to export raw data easily. with that everything else is easy peasy.
wow talk about taking things out of context.
inflation has gone up so much that you need two incomes to compensate for it. When women started working people suddenly had extra income. which they then spent on things. businesses expanded, which hired more workers, and the situation pushed farther and farther. now you need two incomes to survive.
Also back then medical expenses where cheap yes but then so was the care. no mri, no cat scans, more people died on the table than lived. etc. medical expenses are sky rocketing because we have old people who need constant care, but can't pay for it. however if we take away that care they get pissy. try it. in the USA our budget is easily broken down into 30% for medicare, 30% for SS and 30% for military with he balance for every thing else.
not once will you hear any political talk about cutting SS down sharply to pay for the ever growing debt.
now back to inflation. yes officially the USA government puts it 2% a year more or less, however it all secondary markets (not food, gas, etc) it goes up on average 5%. with some goods like TV's or dishwashers actually going down -2%. that is why new tv's keep coming out, and why refrigerators are still $500-$1000 the same price they were 30 years ago. Car however keep going up. with base models of basic cars used to $12k in 2000, it is closer to $18k for the same model(mostly) now.
lastly before medicare. 60% of the population didn't have any health care. doctors are for the rich after all. that is your moto is it not? Currently 30% of the population doesn't have decent medical care. I can't afford visits to my primary care doctor. I can't afford the co-pay even with health care. I don't have an extra $100 per visit to spend.
Correct the mod system is fine but unicode is definitely needed.
What really gets me is the new website doesn't maintain logins beyond one page click.
mobile.slashdot.org won't let me stay logged in. overtime I click a link it logs me back out.
I generally use classic.slashdot.org on mobile devices to maintain a log in but as of this morning that isn't working anymore either. I tried posting this from chrome on android and slashdot would log me out every single time and would refuse to let me log in . however if I opened a new tab and went to slashdot.org I was logged in automatically. This has been an on again off again issue for years. maybe one day they will fix it.
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Not really. the younger generations are staying away from Facebook and twitter. As myspace died before them, so will go Facebook.(replaced by snapchat, instagram, and whatsapp, among others)
The cycle is stretching out finally, no longer is this done by the year but by the decade. Facebook will stick around but their numbers have basically stopped growing in another 10 years like world of warcraft it will be shrinking. trying to expand again.
of course not technology is replacing the simple jobs. manufacturing, farming, secretaries, etc all the low skilled jobs will vanish.
when they build a lawyer robot, that is when the shit will hit the fan. because after lawyer robots will come political robots. Once we automate the political process (will bribing a robot politicians include giving it more electricity?) then we can finally achieve the dream world were we can kill all the lawyers.
Android has a life expectancy of 2 years at best, and often 1 year or less. most android device never receive security updates, let alone OS updates.
The very fact have iOS 9 supports iPhone 4s at all puts IOS and Apple ten times better than android.
my 2 year old 2013 nexus 7 tablet is obsolete, and isn't slated to receive any updates after android 6. The only reason it is receiving those updates is because it is a nexus device.
lawyers are trained to be in a state of cognitive dissonance. it is the only way you can defend a rapist, or other piece of junk human being.
corporate lawyers have to do the same thing. telling their clients how to avoid legal penalties while doing things that should be illegal by the spirit of the law. (how to hide and shuffle money around legally so you don't pay taxes on it)
that is the sort of person politicians come from.
What incentive does the average minimum wage worker have to not screw up? The answer is none. $0.10 an hour raise isn't a huge incentive to make burgers faster.
What incentive does anyone earning less than 50k a year have to do a good job. Answe nothing. Their bonus? Is maybe $200 a year.
Most people don't get a bonus equal to 20% of their paycheck. Or like banks they don't get bonuses even if the company declares bankruptcy.
I left OSnews 10 years ago because it became thom howler bitch blog, and sometimes OS news.
I find several other websites have OS news up with actual in depth coverage long before OSnews does a comment and a link to those same articles.
Every once in a while I go back, and see the same article, usually thom bitching about apple while buying their products.
in that case yes OSnews hasn't strayed from their path.
True, but you can also assign those people to all the menial task jobs, street cleaners, park and rec workers, road work crews, politicians, secretaries etc
The types of jobs where intelligence doesn't matter.
no Lucas. so yes he did see a star wars movie.
even the empire strikes back wasn't directed by Lucas, which is why it was good too.
let me put it this way. unlike the prequel, there wasn't a scene in which the acting felt stiff, the interactions felt forced, and the jokes felt pushed in by a lame comedian.
So yes it is a good star wars film. even with the lead "bad" guy being a ****************** (spoiler tag, highlight and copy to your clipboard to reveal)