So you can buy a cheaper PC and get more overall processing done.
Unless you need that processing done locally for one reason or another, or else the prices being charged by "the cloud" were exorbitant or required subscriptions that essentially cause you to pay for unused cycles.
I'm not yet convinced this is actually the reasoning behind this trend. I suspect PCs are "fast enough" for the majority of the market, and the minority that requires faster PCs is going to end up paying more or possibly be starved.
I think they are deluding themselves. What I read is that their VPN region block has been utterly ineffective, except for a small and inconsequential group of people who don't know how to get around their VPN blockade.
I don't know a single person who was actually stopped by this, but there was a lot of chuckling when it went down.
Unless it breaks, I see no reason to replace my phone.
I read this data driven: people DO this, not they want people to do this. They WANT people to buy a new one every year. So, for one reason or another people choose to replace their smart phone within 3 years. This seems right to me, by the 2nd year most of my smartphones have either been obsolete by OS (orig Moto Droid) or the battery life has decayed into impossibility (My Samsung Galaxy Something, or my wife's LG Google Nexus). My iPhone is going strong after 2 years, but I will probably replace it when iPhone++ comes out because I suspect there will be enough new features to justify, and the GPU is getting dated.
Uber and Amazon are arguably technological advancements, although the former isn't obviously a boon to productivity. Amazon though is the culmination of many technological advancements. At some point if you use enough ingredients in a new way you have a transformative technology on its own, and I think Amazon qualifies. It is a tremendous help to productivity, it comes at a cost, but I don't spend a lot of time driving around town to find things anymore, I type it in a search bar and get presented with 60 different versions of it within 5 seconds. Then a day later I have that thing, and the fact that I can have the thing a day later is itself the product of a few advances.
It's not sexy, you won't be taking it to alpha centauri in 15 minutes, but it lets us do more in less time.
willing to lose the older generation of cinema-goers
We can afford nice home theaters, comfortable furniture and houses. We also can't go to the movies weeknights, often we can't go at all because we can't find a babysitter and leaving our spouse at home is not a good way to stay in her good graces, etc. Millenials are still young and unchained, and don't value their dwellings so much as a good time.
No love, absolutely none, will be lost between labour and management
There is no love, absolutely none, for Verizon management amongst absolutely anyone, anywhere. Bigger sacks of shit do not exist on planet earth, including those found in fertilizer bags, these people if ground up and distributed could put honest, hungry cows out of business. If the employees want gold plated toilets, let them have them.
The issue is whether these companies, who derive a significant amount of money from the present market will be hurt by us closing our sphincter. The answer is obviously yes.
The question you are almost asking is can a business be successful in an isolationist country, and the answer to that is also yes.
The socio-political debate of isolationism versus imperialism, who knows. We're large enough and sheltered enough to pull off isolationism and not be wiped out, perhaps that is the best answer. Is it optimal? I suspect not.
Trump is adamantly against that so he must be taken down.
In fairness, his isolationist viewpoints are probably bad for all American companies that do significant business overseas. Which is an awful lot of large American companies, and why they seem to be throwing in with Hillary. His strengths play significantly into independently wealthy individuals, private american businesses, or those public ones that are necessarily self-contained in the US.
The H-1B thing is just one facet of his world-view, certainly the one that is the most immoral and most in need of fixing, but probably not what is scaring these CEOs. The impacts to international business and trade will cost way more money than all the H-1B's in the world would save.
I don't agree, I don't like Trump, but enough is enough. All this well poisoning that is going on only encourages the kinds of leveraged, shady candidates we ALSO don't like (see also: Hillary Clinton). All these people are using funding from various evils to prop their campaigns. We can't seem to stop that, at least Trumps mechanism is a bit moe honest and straightforward. The real solution is just not to vote for him, to continuously call on his shenanigans, and to make him answer for the things he does in every forum where his name comes up. Also bear in mind that #2 behind Trump is Cruz, so are you cutting off your nose to spite your face? Can you also cripple Cruz's campaign finance?
The real question I have is what is going to happen to Trumps supporters when they realize he is not nearly as conservative as they think he is, and will he be able to control them? Trump is not a dumb man, there's a reason he wants to be president and walls on the border are not it. He has demonstrated he hasn't even thought the logistics through, and he doesn't care. Is whatever that reason is, in line with the best interests of anyone else? I don't see it, I'm not wealthy enough or invested in his empire enough to see why he's my man. I do not think his followers are asking those questions, they're being taken in by the frippery.
If you want to talk about campaign finance reform, great, we need a better way of getting viable candidates funded than taking glorified bribes or being independently wealthy. But poisoning the well is at least as anti-democratic as being funded by greedy business interests.
IF they want my original content I should be paid.
Turning this around, it appears that the only people who reliably post (at least in my circles) are people who want to use the site as a foundation for their business. They spend a lot of time with phony posts and what not designed to pump up their views. The number of posts I even SEE from people who I care about (i.e. not people's business) have dropped. I can go look at walls to see that they are happening from time to time, but they never show up on my timeline anymore, just the paid stuff.
I am a professional developer, I get paid to develop hardware and software for large companies that you've heard of.
I would never use MS tools when I could use GNU or especially LLVM. I can't even grok anyone who likes MS tools except people who only develop for windows, in which case... it's the only game in town.
best development tools on the market to attract all the new developers
Are you serious or trolling? Their tools are awful, everything about them from build system to libraries is non-portable, often not even compliant to language specification or API that normal people use... Isn't this the true motivation for putting bash in Windows 10? They finally admit that wow, they really have screwed up.
I'm not a unix guru from 1970 either, I learned to program on DOS/Win3.1, using either MS tools or Borland tools, the latter of which were actually pretty good for the time. But I don't recall a time when MS has had the better tools. They just have critical mass: they were the cheap option when cheap mattered, now they're the larger market share.
iOS is a bad example, it's the OS for fixed function devices and casual use.
OS X, however, provides a fairly good picture of how a modern unix based operating system could work, that can keep power users and idiots alike happy. It starts however with good hardware utilization and a good compositor. I have sixteen terminals open right now, a browser, text editor and a bunch of other junk required for corporate survival. I can move any window anywhere on each of my cinema displays without tearing, redrawing, graphics glitches, or unexplained behavior. Each window updates continuously while I move it: my organization is decoupled from the application i am mucking with. There is good remote desktop functionality built in, I can resize the windows easily from any point on their frame and my mouse cursor reflects that ability appropriately and quickly. I cannot imagine why any neckbeard does not want this, or why they would clean to some outdated, decrepit system wherein that does not happen. Unless they are working on a server, in which case, not a desktop. I have yet to get this kind of responsiveness on Linux or even Windows for that matter, albeit for different reasons.
Then there's the higher level API stuff: drag and drop, cut and paste, widgets, styles, etc. This is where OS X falls next to Linux: you kind of have to live with their shit. This is also the realm of holy wars and religious crusades, no one is ever going to agree on the right style, and perhaps they should not have to. I don't personally like the OS X UI, Windows always felt better except where windows wastes more space with window frames and unnecessary title bars. In Linux I see neckbeards really caring here: we want to configure it the way WE want, not the way some panzy in skinny jeans and spectator shoes wants it. But, for people who aren't picky or just barely know computers: a good default needs to exist. However there needs to be some set of reasonable and common underlying protocols for things like drag and drop, a cut/paste buffer that make sense and is somewhat consistent from app to app, etc. I long ago gave up tallying the various personality and behavioral differences that various applications and DEs had, there should have been a reasonable default, with options for those that feel passionately to go change. And the defaults should look like Windows, if not that then OS X, as these represent the majority of the market, like it or not.
Unfortunately none of this is the status quo on Linux right now, and it doesn't seem like it will change soon.
I took his point to mean, he never *had* to compile a driver, by which he means the one he wanted was there and good enough or else it was compiled behind the scenes and he didn't know about it. These days that is very normal, and it's great.
It was not that long ago that compiling a kernel was not just an advanced user activity, we all had to do it or else live with whatever bare bones support happened to be built into the kernel we were given. I considered that the higher tier of masochism as I preferred text mode to 16 bit vga X-Windows.
A horrible example of countries that are both liberal and, I suppose, repressive. Of course you can make your point without using offensive terms in most of those places and probably just get ejected from whatever venue you were haunting so my heart does not personally bleed for thee, but the point exists that one can be both liberal and authoritarian, witness Hillary Clinton.
On network infrastructure. I'm not sure they envisioned such wildly insecure and widespread endpoints, even within government (and military!) walls. They envisioned bombs taking out data-centers. They clearly didn't envision the low orbit ion cannon.
Yes you should. I would not however, even ignoring USB-C. A lot of systems have absolutely no current limiter between the PSU/Battery and that 5V pin, short of the PSU current limit itself or the voltage regulator they have producing 5V (which itself may blow and leave that port non-functional).
USB is wildly popular, but it is insanely weak on compliance. It has been out of control for a long time, but like so many things in the PC world it works "good enough" for most people, and is so cheap, that they just throw out the junk. I don't like this model, but I'm both American and a hardware engineer. On a global scale that makes me a spoiled brat who won't use anything that isn't perfect, and will pay "too much" for it.
So back in the day when I did motherboard design, the biggest headache we had during our automated testing was USB keys and USB hard disks that had bad FW such that they would randomly disconnect, or otherwise hang up host-side code. MS Windows is least tolerant of this, and would often blue-screen. It seems every generation during our testing we'd get either blue-screens or BIOS lockups with some of these devices, have to go on a 2-3 week crusade of signal integrity analysis and measurements to prove that electrically nothing was wrong. Then inevitably we'd hook up a protocol analyzer and see things that just plain didn't make sense: the disconnects happened for NO reason. They happened with some vendors and not others, or certain devices from one vendor but not others.
Lots of money spent, lots of time wasted, but it turns out that that cheap overseas shit we all love so much doesn't always work so great. The bottom line is if you are going to have a standard you have to have some way of keeping people from sticking your logo on it if they cannot meet the requirements. It's great this Google engineer took up the mantle of shaming bad products, but the problem is more widespread than mere cables.
Those of us who want to already have, except wherein game developers only release games for the windows platform. So we have a system that is powered off 20/24 hours a day that just plays games. Part of that is because of bad console design: underpwoered, no keyboard/mouse. Meanwhile all the real work gets done on Linux or OS X.
Meanwhile I can now write applications that focus on POSIX, ignore windows entirely and Windows people can run it, allowing me to NEVER use windows and skip the issues cygwin has. So it encourages me to stop targetting Windows at all. In some cases this might be a win for all other OSes, as we can hope users will realize they actually do not need Windows for anything and shed it like excess skin.
I'm not sure how this helps MS any, and certainly does nothing to take their OS out of 3rd place.
Slashdot Mirror
I can also get access to illegal activities. Google.com is part of a criminal conspiracy!
So you can buy a cheaper PC and get more overall processing done.
Unless you need that processing done locally for one reason or another, or else the prices being charged by "the cloud" were exorbitant or required subscriptions that essentially cause you to pay for unused cycles.
I'm not yet convinced this is actually the reasoning behind this trend. I suspect PCs are "fast enough" for the majority of the market, and the minority that requires faster PCs is going to end up paying more or possibly be starved.
I want a 4K display that has ONE input, that I will then connect to whatever multimedia system I choose
Why one? Unless you don't have any consoles and are willing to drop all legacy support, they almost can't give me enough inputs.
But I agree the built in stuff is trash that can't be trusted.
it's small and inconsequential
I think they are deluding themselves. What I read is that their VPN region block has been utterly ineffective, except for a small and inconsequential group of people who don't know how to get around their VPN blockade.
I don't know a single person who was actually stopped by this, but there was a lot of chuckling when it went down.
Why?
Unless it breaks, I see no reason to replace my phone.
I read this data driven: people DO this, not they want people to do this. They WANT people to buy a new one every year. So, for one reason or another people choose to replace their smart phone within 3 years. This seems right to me, by the 2nd year most of my smartphones have either been obsolete by OS (orig Moto Droid) or the battery life has decayed into impossibility (My Samsung Galaxy Something, or my wife's LG Google Nexus). My iPhone is going strong after 2 years, but I will probably replace it when iPhone++ comes out because I suspect there will be enough new features to justify, and the GPU is getting dated.
Uber and Amazon are arguably technological advancements, although the former isn't obviously a boon to productivity. Amazon though is the culmination of many technological advancements. At some point if you use enough ingredients in a new way you have a transformative technology on its own, and I think Amazon qualifies. It is a tremendous help to productivity, it comes at a cost, but I don't spend a lot of time driving around town to find things anymore, I type it in a search bar and get presented with 60 different versions of it within 5 seconds. Then a day later I have that thing, and the fact that I can have the thing a day later is itself the product of a few advances.
It's not sexy, you won't be taking it to alpha centauri in 15 minutes, but it lets us do more in less time.
willing to lose the older generation of cinema-goers
We can afford nice home theaters, comfortable furniture and houses. We also can't go to the movies weeknights, often we can't go at all because we can't find a babysitter and leaving our spouse at home is not a good way to stay in her good graces, etc. Millenials are still young and unchained, and don't value their dwellings so much as a good time.
No love, absolutely none, will be lost between labour and management
There is no love, absolutely none, for Verizon management amongst absolutely anyone, anywhere. Bigger sacks of shit do not exist on planet earth, including those found in fertilizer bags, these people if ground up and distributed could put honest, hungry cows out of business. If the employees want gold plated toilets, let them have them.
s/Verizon/Any Telecom/g
The issue is whether these companies, who derive a significant amount of money from the present market will be hurt by us closing our sphincter. The answer is obviously yes.
The question you are almost asking is can a business be successful in an isolationist country, and the answer to that is also yes.
The socio-political debate of isolationism versus imperialism, who knows. We're large enough and sheltered enough to pull off isolationism and not be wiped out, perhaps that is the best answer. Is it optimal? I suspect not.
Trump is adamantly against that so he must be taken down.
In fairness, his isolationist viewpoints are probably bad for all American companies that do significant business overseas. Which is an awful lot of large American companies, and why they seem to be throwing in with Hillary. His strengths play significantly into independently wealthy individuals, private american businesses, or those public ones that are necessarily self-contained in the US.
The H-1B thing is just one facet of his world-view, certainly the one that is the most immoral and most in need of fixing, but probably not what is scaring these CEOs. The impacts to international business and trade will cost way more money than all the H-1B's in the world would save.
I don't agree, I don't like Trump, but enough is enough. All this well poisoning that is going on only encourages the kinds of leveraged, shady candidates we ALSO don't like (see also: Hillary Clinton). All these people are using funding from various evils to prop their campaigns. We can't seem to stop that, at least Trumps mechanism is a bit moe honest and straightforward. The real solution is just not to vote for him, to continuously call on his shenanigans, and to make him answer for the things he does in every forum where his name comes up. Also bear in mind that #2 behind Trump is Cruz, so are you cutting off your nose to spite your face? Can you also cripple Cruz's campaign finance?
The real question I have is what is going to happen to Trumps supporters when they realize he is not nearly as conservative as they think he is, and will he be able to control them? Trump is not a dumb man, there's a reason he wants to be president and walls on the border are not it. He has demonstrated he hasn't even thought the logistics through, and he doesn't care. Is whatever that reason is, in line with the best interests of anyone else? I don't see it, I'm not wealthy enough or invested in his empire enough to see why he's my man. I do not think his followers are asking those questions, they're being taken in by the frippery.
If you want to talk about campaign finance reform, great, we need a better way of getting viable candidates funded than taking glorified bribes or being independently wealthy. But poisoning the well is at least as anti-democratic as being funded by greedy business interests.
IF they want my original content I should be paid.
Turning this around, it appears that the only people who reliably post (at least in my circles) are people who want to use the site as a foundation for their business. They spend a lot of time with phony posts and what not designed to pump up their views. The number of posts I even SEE from people who I care about (i.e. not people's business) have dropped. I can go look at walls to see that they are happening from time to time, but they never show up on my timeline anymore, just the paid stuff.
So kind of Facebook has ruined itself.
I am a professional developer, I get paid to develop hardware and software for large companies that you've heard of.
I would never use MS tools when I could use GNU or especially LLVM. I can't even grok anyone who likes MS tools except people who only develop for windows, in which case... it's the only game in town.
best development tools on the market to attract all the new developers
Are you serious or trolling? Their tools are awful, everything about them from build system to libraries is non-portable, often not even compliant to language specification or API that normal people use... Isn't this the true motivation for putting bash in Windows 10? They finally admit that wow, they really have screwed up.
I'm not a unix guru from 1970 either, I learned to program on DOS/Win3.1, using either MS tools or Borland tools, the latter of which were actually pretty good for the time. But I don't recall a time when MS has had the better tools. They just have critical mass: they were the cheap option when cheap mattered, now they're the larger market share.
iOS is a bad example, it's the OS for fixed function devices and casual use.
OS X, however, provides a fairly good picture of how a modern unix based operating system could work, that can keep power users and idiots alike happy. It starts however with good hardware utilization and a good compositor. I have sixteen terminals open right now, a browser, text editor and a bunch of other junk required for corporate survival. I can move any window anywhere on each of my cinema displays without tearing, redrawing, graphics glitches, or unexplained behavior. Each window updates continuously while I move it: my organization is decoupled from the application i am mucking with. There is good remote desktop functionality built in, I can resize the windows easily from any point on their frame and my mouse cursor reflects that ability appropriately and quickly. I cannot imagine why any neckbeard does not want this, or why they would clean to some outdated, decrepit system wherein that does not happen. Unless they are working on a server, in which case, not a desktop. I have yet to get this kind of responsiveness on Linux or even Windows for that matter, albeit for different reasons.
Then there's the higher level API stuff: drag and drop, cut and paste, widgets, styles, etc. This is where OS X falls next to Linux: you kind of have to live with their shit. This is also the realm of holy wars and religious crusades, no one is ever going to agree on the right style, and perhaps they should not have to. I don't personally like the OS X UI, Windows always felt better except where windows wastes more space with window frames and unnecessary title bars. In Linux I see neckbeards really caring here: we want to configure it the way WE want, not the way some panzy in skinny jeans and spectator shoes wants it. But, for people who aren't picky or just barely know computers: a good default needs to exist. However there needs to be some set of reasonable and common underlying protocols for things like drag and drop, a cut/paste buffer that make sense and is somewhat consistent from app to app, etc. I long ago gave up tallying the various personality and behavioral differences that various applications and DEs had, there should have been a reasonable default, with options for those that feel passionately to go change. And the defaults should look like Windows, if not that then OS X, as these represent the majority of the market, like it or not.
Unfortunately none of this is the status quo on Linux right now, and it doesn't seem like it will change soon.
I took his point to mean, he never *had* to compile a driver, by which he means the one he wanted was there and good enough or else it was compiled behind the scenes and he didn't know about it. These days that is very normal, and it's great.
It was not that long ago that compiling a kernel was not just an advanced user activity, we all had to do it or else live with whatever bare bones support happened to be built into the kernel we were given. I considered that the higher tier of masochism as I preferred text mode to 16 bit vga X-Windows.
I think this story runs once a year, choir having been preached to, problem continues.
A horrible example of countries that are both liberal and, I suppose, repressive. Of course you can make your point without using offensive terms in most of those places and probably just get ejected from whatever venue you were haunting so my heart does not personally bleed for thee, but the point exists that one can be both liberal and authoritarian, witness Hillary Clinton.
centralized attack and outages.
On network infrastructure. I'm not sure they envisioned such wildly insecure and widespread endpoints, even within government (and military!) walls. They envisioned bombs taking out data-centers. They clearly didn't envision the low orbit ion cannon.
You may be thinking of retail stores, and 50% is very low for some of those.
or one they already use, like AirPlay?
Yes you should. I would not however, even ignoring USB-C. A lot of systems have absolutely no current limiter between the PSU/Battery and that 5V pin, short of the PSU current limit itself or the voltage regulator they have producing 5V (which itself may blow and leave that port non-functional).
USB is wildly popular, but it is insanely weak on compliance. It has been out of control for a long time, but like so many things in the PC world it works "good enough" for most people, and is so cheap, that they just throw out the junk. I don't like this model, but I'm both American and a hardware engineer. On a global scale that makes me a spoiled brat who won't use anything that isn't perfect, and will pay "too much" for it.
Put it in the devices where it belongs.
So back in the day when I did motherboard design, the biggest headache we had during our automated testing was USB keys and USB hard disks that had bad FW such that they would randomly disconnect, or otherwise hang up host-side code. MS Windows is least tolerant of this, and would often blue-screen. It seems every generation during our testing we'd get either blue-screens or BIOS lockups with some of these devices, have to go on a 2-3 week crusade of signal integrity analysis and measurements to prove that electrically nothing was wrong. Then inevitably we'd hook up a protocol analyzer and see things that just plain didn't make sense: the disconnects happened for NO reason. They happened with some vendors and not others, or certain devices from one vendor but not others.
Lots of money spent, lots of time wasted, but it turns out that that cheap overseas shit we all love so much doesn't always work so great. The bottom line is if you are going to have a standard you have to have some way of keeping people from sticking your logo on it if they cannot meet the requirements. It's great this Google engineer took up the mantle of shaming bad products, but the problem is more widespread than mere cables.
Just take the plunge and drop Windows 10.
Those of us who want to already have, except wherein game developers only release games for the windows platform. So we have a system that is powered off 20/24 hours a day that just plays games. Part of that is because of bad console design: underpwoered, no keyboard/mouse. Meanwhile all the real work gets done on Linux or OS X.
Meanwhile I can now write applications that focus on POSIX, ignore windows entirely and Windows people can run it, allowing me to NEVER use windows and skip the issues cygwin has. So it encourages me to stop targetting Windows at all. In some cases this might be a win for all other OSes, as we can hope users will realize they actually do not need Windows for anything and shed it like excess skin.
I'm not sure how this helps MS any, and certainly does nothing to take their OS out of 3rd place.
Problem solved - Be it resolved as of today, February 29, 2016, the Dark Net is officially dead.
For all your criminal and paranoid needs, please use Unicorn Net, now with 5 extra rainbows out its ass.