Besides can't compare building stuff, even if it's as complex as a CPU, to fighting disease, which is a war with an enemy that adapts. He could have compared chip making to the automobile industry and medical research with UI design (where supposedly idiot-proof design deals with better idiots)
Anyway I'm convinced a big reason of the different pace of IT development resides in technology bringing closer the dream of powerful men to be able to control the world by themselves. Never fear the masses they keep in ignorance anymore (don't you feel you're kept in ignorance? the control is presently kept with money, tech and judges: math, science and law; yet lovers of math and science are called nerds and geeks, and the now-impossible task of knowing the law is delegated to lawyers. QED).
Since any theory needs to make prediction, mine says that the society controlled using money is becoming obsolete, so it will be driven to a totalitarian and corrupt status quo, while opposition will give up money for a heavily technology dependent alternative which later on can turn into an authoritarian state by simply changing constraints. Your freedom is going to keep being reduced in either way. If the status quo wins, they win. If the opposition wins, they win.
The upside of this grim perspective is that you stop fearing what's in the book of revelations and the other myths:)
>And it's proof that the RIAA is fundamentally irrational.
I tend to agree, but I am not completely content with irrationality as an explanation, my opinion is that RIAA is most afraid of the P2P internet as a promotional channel, not just as a piracy channel. They want to have a few, big, controlled outlets on the net as they have for radio and tv because they feel more in control. But, since this control actually divides the consumer for his potential fave music and so it hurts sales, I must get my tin foil hat and wonder if they want to retain control because musicians are just propaganda idols, telling youngsters how to behave in a way that doesn't really hurt the system. What if "rebels" stopped getting pierced or stoned and actually did something to change their society?
You forget to account for people living in corrupt places: you could be cut apart because your organs are compatible with some VIP needing a transplant. Hopefully there are so few of those places that it's a somewhat paranoid thought yet it's not a simple matter of laziness and ignorance.
> This is an *insecure* default setting. I don't care if it asks you for an admin password, automatically running things downloaded from the internet shouldn't ever be a "default".
If it asks for a password is not automatic.
Besides, when you have installed enough innocent stuff which windows frowns upon because it's unsigned you are not going to mind the warning dialog anyway. Are you sure that the problem between keyboard and chair will react differently on OSX vs. Windows?
Out of your analogy, can you please make an example where a free software maker came out with an intentionally incompatible format with no functional advantages over a proven design? Because IMO the square wheel perfectly describes MS in his OOXML and vista GUI redesign stunts.
There are countless situations where looking for immediate return is not the right thing to do. Going multiplatform and implementing standards means coding for the 100% of the prospective clients instead of the 90% or less owned by microsoft, and it's not 2x the cost of a windows only solution. I'd say the windows only solution will end up costing more just to keep up with whatever MS execs think about their new versions of the framework and the OS.
So some neurons are be tied to the concept of "three" which is an abstraction. Primates can abstract up to that level and more. So the relation to math seems not so direct, I'd not call it being wired. There might be much math and fuzzy logic goes on in the brain, at a lower level, but it doesn't traslate to powerful math ability at conscience level.
No matter how they act (e.g.? I recall evil moves where they have a monopoly, which makes my point), they have no ways to profit from weaknesses in osx. Especially now.
Microsoft dominance is irrelevant to the cpu that decodes a document..doc and.xls dominance is relevant but mostly cracked in openoffice. So all is left is some obscured xml. Wrong premise. Suicide is warming up the M$ snake you found freezing out the door.
Copying vinyl is a 1x speed operation. Needles wear out, a worn stylus means it digs deeper into the groove ruining the record, and it's difficult to tell when it's worn. Wrong pressure on the needle means skipping and probably distortion if too little, more wear if excessive. Grooves wear out losing hi end detail and increasing noise and distortion, even if you are very careful handling the record. You can ruin vinyl just by keeping it in a car under the sun a little. Vynil is delicate to mail. Heavy to transport.
I still like and buy vinyl. Good for DJs, collectors and audiophiles who wants something that sounds different. Storing data in analog format has some advantages too. But a mass switch back to vinyl is unthinkable.
Then prove your point. Defeat a criminal gang all by yourself. Then try with something more difficult as defeating a bank or an insurance company. It's not like you don't have any where you live, wherever you live.
IMHO the issue is not how much a government is in control of things: the issue is if the government is expression of the people vs. expression of other interests.
Post-soviet but pre-Putin Russia has been for a while a completely deregulated country. Yet it was not a free country because the power was held by people with big capital or mafiosi (not exclusive or) and the ordinary citizen stood not a chance against them.
Since the late eighties in Italy we have a wave of privatization of formerly state owned infrastructure. Electricity, gas, telephony, university, railways, highways. Nothing was done to ensure competition. Ask my fellow countrymen: bills are up, service sucks more (luckily with some exceptions). Theoretically we are in a less authoritarian state, in practice authority has just shifted hands - away from the control of the citizen.
And Court of Cassazione decisions often contradict previous ones, e.g. asserting that a person wearing jeans could be raped as removing the jeans was an impossible operation to perform without the victim's consent. http://tinyurl.com/2vomdd (Italian)
Nevermind that whatever assistant is a distraction. The problem is that our society wants the truth to be masked. So you can dress as (we make) you want, say what (we make) you want, rebel as (we make) you want, as long as you are up against the minions like you. You look tired and older? get your face lifted. Pissed off in an airport? watch out, you're considered a terrorist. Feeling depressed? get drugs first, then we can discuss what makes you feel sad, but the objective is removing your depression so you can get back together with the blissful happy ones. Want to enjoy what your other peers apparently feel fun in a disco? try some pills.
So we disrespect our propaganda-resistant collective memory called "the elders". We feel inadequate while we are fed impossible models and we are presented as an inescapable effect of "progress" the current economy drugged by banking capital which supersedes the older concept of "creating the best product". We consider "natural law of the jungle" the planned lack of improvement of the "human resources" which are ideally disposable drones with the bare minimum of know how to accomplish a task.
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
> most of us, on the other hand, want whatever gets the job done best, most easily, or some combination of those two.
And thats equals to proprietary software in the imaginary world where software makers are competing in a free market to provide the best experience to the user.
It appears most of you have forgotten how a proprietary only ecosystem used to lead to slower, more bloated stuff with arbitrarily redefined UI.
So your requirement leads to a combination of free software and commercial apps competing in the feature/service area and not in the "I patented it" way, if you're really pragmatic. Else you're simply myopic.
I was thinking more like: one server in the office, a colocated or virtual small backup server for emergency, LAMP or equivalent (i prefer postgres and rails) and be done with the google model of "all your data are belong to us".
Still you're not free, until you stop depending on one ISP alone.
> Then how come I'm so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista? Because a linux desktop has the traditional GUI and sometimes even the windows convert in mind while Microsoft needs to redefine the desktop experience in a different way to maintain an edge. They practically would like people to be hostages of the Microsoft way so that linux will look different to them and discourage the switch. Of course in this first period it's the exact opposite, but they have their dominant position to exploit. This opinion is based on the futility of the changes in ie7 UI, but i guess the philosophy is the same for vista.
PS: as a former macOS user I felt towards XP the same WTF attitude people experience in vista today, while Linux is more of a Wow/Damn dichotomy, with a refreshing sense of freedom.
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Besides can't compare building stuff, even if it's as complex as a CPU, to fighting disease, which is a war with an enemy that adapts. He could have compared chip making to the automobile industry and medical research with UI design (where supposedly idiot-proof design deals with better idiots)
:)
Anyway I'm convinced a big reason of the different pace of IT development resides in technology bringing closer the dream of powerful men to be able to control the world by themselves. Never fear the masses they keep in ignorance anymore (don't you feel you're kept in ignorance? the control is presently kept with money, tech and judges: math, science and law; yet lovers of math and science are called nerds and geeks, and the now-impossible task of knowing the law is delegated to lawyers. QED).
Since any theory needs to make prediction, mine says that the society controlled using money is becoming obsolete, so it will be driven to a totalitarian and corrupt status quo, while opposition will give up money for a heavily technology dependent alternative which later on can turn into an authoritarian state by simply changing constraints. Your freedom is going to keep being reduced in either way. If the status quo wins, they win. If the opposition wins, they win.
The upside of this grim perspective is that you stop fearing what's in the book of revelations and the other myths
>And it's proof that the RIAA is fundamentally irrational.
I tend to agree, but I am not completely content with irrationality as an explanation, my opinion is that RIAA is most afraid of the P2P internet as a promotional channel, not just as a piracy channel. They want to have a few, big, controlled outlets on the net as they have for radio and tv because they feel more in control. But, since this control actually divides the consumer for his potential fave music and so it hurts sales, I must get my tin foil hat and wonder if they want to retain control because musicians are just propaganda idols, telling youngsters how to behave in a way that doesn't really hurt the system. What if "rebels" stopped getting pierced or stoned and actually did something to change their society?
You forget to account for people living in corrupt places: you could be cut apart because your organs are compatible with some VIP needing a transplant. Hopefully there are so few of those places that it's a somewhat paranoid thought yet it's not a simple matter of laziness and ignorance.
> This is an *insecure* default setting. I don't care if it asks you for an admin password, automatically running things downloaded from the internet shouldn't ever be a "default".
If it asks for a password is not automatic.
Besides, when you have installed enough innocent stuff which windows frowns upon because it's unsigned you are not going to mind the warning dialog anyway. Are you sure that the problem between keyboard and chair will react differently on OSX vs. Windows?
I'd ask "what's google" next.
Out of your analogy, can you please make an example where a free software maker came out with an intentionally incompatible format with no functional advantages over a proven design? Because IMO the square wheel perfectly describes MS in his OOXML and vista GUI redesign stunts.
> Was the point of OLPC to provide low cost computers to needy children...
or trapping them into a software ecosystem controlled by a single corporation?
There are countless situations where looking for immediate return is not the right thing to do.
Going multiplatform and implementing standards means coding for the 100% of the prospective clients instead of the 90% or less owned by microsoft, and it's not 2x the cost of a windows only solution. I'd say the windows only solution will end up costing more just to keep up with whatever MS execs think about their new versions of the framework and the OS.
So some neurons are be tied to the concept of "three" which is an abstraction. Primates can abstract up to that level and more. So the relation to math seems not so direct, I'd not call it being wired. There might be much math and fuzzy logic goes on in the brain, at a lower level, but it doesn't traslate to powerful math ability at conscience level.
No matter how they act (e.g.? I recall evil moves where they have a monopoly, which makes my point), they have no ways to profit from weaknesses in osx. Especially now.
Microsoft dominance is irrelevant to the cpu that decodes a document. .doc and .xls dominance is relevant but mostly cracked in openoffice.
So all is left is some obscured xml.
Wrong premise. Suicide is warming up the M$ snake you found freezing out the door.
"defective by design" makes no sense if you're not a monopoly.
Copying vinyl is a 1x speed operation. Needles wear out, a worn stylus means it digs deeper into the groove ruining the record, and it's difficult to tell when it's worn. Wrong pressure on the needle means skipping and probably distortion if too little, more wear if excessive.
Grooves wear out losing hi end detail and increasing noise and distortion, even if you are very careful handling the record. You can ruin vinyl just by keeping it in a car under the sun a little. Vynil is delicate to mail. Heavy to transport.
I still like and buy vinyl. Good for DJs, collectors and audiophiles who wants something that sounds different. Storing data in analog format has some advantages too. But a mass switch back to vinyl is unthinkable.
Then prove your point. Defeat a criminal gang all by yourself. Then try with something more difficult as defeating a bank or an insurance company. It's not like you don't have any where you live, wherever you live.
IMHO the issue is not how much a government is in control of things: the issue is if the government is expression of the people vs. expression of other interests.
Post-soviet but pre-Putin Russia has been for a while a completely deregulated country. Yet it was not a free country because the power was held by people with big capital or mafiosi (not exclusive or) and the ordinary citizen stood not a chance against them.
Since the late eighties in Italy we have a wave of privatization of formerly state owned infrastructure. Electricity, gas, telephony, university, railways, highways. Nothing was done to ensure competition. Ask my fellow countrymen: bills are up, service sucks more (luckily with some exceptions). Theoretically we are in a less authoritarian state, in practice authority has just shifted hands - away from the control of the citizen.
> Then to meet my scanning needs AND my ethical needs, I'd have to go to Windows.
That's ok, Darl. But what about the rest of us?
A canon LIDE scanner on ubuntu linux outputs at the very same quality of XP, and the scanner motors run faster under linux when doing previews.
And Court of Cassazione decisions often contradict previous ones, e.g. asserting that a person wearing jeans could be raped as removing the jeans was an impossible operation to perform without the victim's consent.
http://tinyurl.com/2vomdd (Italian)
Nevermind that whatever assistant is a distraction.
The problem is that our society wants the truth to be masked. So you can dress as (we make) you want, say what (we make) you want, rebel as (we make) you want, as long as you are up against the minions like you.
You look tired and older? get your face lifted.
Pissed off in an airport? watch out, you're considered a terrorist.
Feeling depressed? get drugs first, then we can discuss what makes you feel sad, but the objective is removing your depression so you can get back together with the blissful happy ones.
Want to enjoy what your other peers apparently feel fun in a disco? try some pills.
So we disrespect our propaganda-resistant collective memory called "the elders". We feel inadequate while we are fed impossible models and we are presented as an inescapable effect of "progress" the current economy drugged by banking capital which supersedes the older concept of "creating the best product". We consider "natural law of the jungle" the planned lack of improvement of the "human resources" which are ideally disposable drones with the bare minimum of know how to accomplish a task.
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
> At least give a link to the Wikipedia entry on "girlfriend".
A girlfriend is a girl that wants to be just friend. Every girl a slashdotter encounters is like that, no need to hit wikipedia for that.
Oh, now I finally understand. It was a feature requested long ago, see:
# aptitude foo
Unknown command "foo"
(...)
This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers.
> most of us, on the other hand, want whatever gets the job done best, most easily, or some combination of those two.
And thats equals to proprietary software in the imaginary world where software makers are competing in a free market to provide the best experience to the user.
It appears most of you have forgotten how a proprietary only ecosystem used to lead to slower, more bloated stuff with arbitrarily redefined UI.
So your requirement leads to a combination of free software and commercial apps competing in the feature/service area and not in the "I patented it" way, if you're really pragmatic. Else you're simply myopic.
I was thinking more like: one server in the office, a colocated or virtual small backup server for emergency, LAMP or equivalent (i prefer postgres and rails) and be done with the google model of "all your data are belong to us".
Still you're not free, until you stop depending on one ISP alone.
> Then how come I'm so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista?
Because a linux desktop has the traditional GUI and sometimes even the windows convert in mind while Microsoft needs to redefine the desktop experience in a different way to maintain an edge. They practically would like people to be hostages of the Microsoft way so that linux will look different to them and discourage the switch. Of course in this first period it's the exact opposite, but they have their dominant position to exploit. This opinion is based on the futility of the changes in ie7 UI, but i guess the philosophy is the same for vista.
PS: as a former macOS user I felt towards XP the same WTF attitude people experience in vista today, while Linux is more of a Wow/Damn dichotomy, with a refreshing sense of freedom.
Aren't you forgetting about Carbon?