> The problem often has been that they've had a long history towards pushing proprietary formats and devices. Some of those have been successful, many have failed to catch on, and some were spectacular failures (Betamax).
I mentioned Sony's long line of failures back in 2014.
I've been programming since the early 80's and this is **exactly** what programming is: You are solving a puzzle.
A programmer is no different from a mathematician, scientist, engineer, musician, etc. The mathematician is fascinated about patterns, operations, and the relationship between the two. The Scientist takes delight in learning how the physical universe works. The engineer enjoys building things from the microscopic to the macroscopic. The musician expresses their emotions in a music form ands takes delight that their fans find their creatively resonating with them.
The fact that you can make money at it is just a bonus.
* Some puzzles are hard real-time likes banking software. * Some puzzles are soft real-time (like game development). * Some are pseudo real-time (like OS development) * Some are offline, like "Machine Learning".
At the end day though it is about software solving a problem. If you don't find solving puzzles fun, then find another job. Because doing it for the money will show in your work.
If programming is not fun then you're are doing it wrong -- of the corporate monoculture has sucked the soul out of it. In either case, change jobs, or change careers.
Life is too short to spend the majority of time doing something you hate.
Considering Consciousness doesn't exist according to Science how do you measure something that Scientists are completely clueless about?
Actual Intelligence (a.i.) is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time (i.e. Matter behaves like a Particle, Matter behaves like a Wave) and reason about a way to resolve the paradox by coming to a third, higher perspective.
Artificial Ignorance (A.I) is nothing more then a glorified table lookup.
-- The number of religions on a species' home planet is the fastest way to tell how advanced the species is. 1 == Advanced. >1 == Primitive.
Open your myopic eyes for once in your life instead of ignoring NASA's own evidence
First Contact is going to happen around 2024. No amount of ad hominem attacks is going to change this fact.
You do realize that WE are aliens to them, right?
It would behoove you to follow Mark Twain's advice:
"Better to remain silent and thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt."
But go ahead and keep whining about others who know more then you -- because the rug is about to be pulled from under you in a decade. What will you do then?
-- You can tell how advanced a species is by how many religions their home planet has. 1 are the oldest ones. > 1 are the youngest ones. What about 0? LOL.
In the OS server space things get fuzzy -- are we talking Web Servers? Database Servers? Email servers? Windows be has high as 33% or 20%-- there are no accurate stats.
Let's recap where Linux dominates:
[x] Mobile: Linux [x] Super computers: Linux [x] Servers: Technically *nix, due to BSD and OSX. [ ] PC Gaming Desktop
The only place Windows has a niche in is PC gaming and XBox -- but desktops aren't the only thing anymore.
In the global space MS is slowly becoming irrelevant next to Android, iOS, PS3/4, Servers, Super computers, and Wii/Switch.
Not bad for an OS that "(free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)"
Huh? You mean it not a von Neumann or Harvard architecture because the article doesn't lead me to _that_ conclusion:
The new prototype has 160 TB of shared memory spread across 40 physical nodes, interconnected using a high-performance fabric protocol. It has an optimized Linux-based operating system (OS) running on ThunderX2, Caviumâ(TM)s flagship second generation dual socket capable ARMv8-A workload optimized System on a Chip.
So basically 4 TB / node. Is each node have independent memory or not?
Not a bad analogy but you are leaving out an important point. There is a HUGE a difference between:
* the Canon Digital Rebel jump starting the market selling @ $1,000 and other "prosumer" digital cameras continuing to get cheaper and cheaper and racing towards bottom-of-the-barrel * autonomous vehicles pricing. New cars have never had cut as drastically as digital cameras and that isn't going anytime soon.
Will autonomous vehicles be eventually realized? Yes, but not for another decade or two.
> maybe the answer is to stop pretending that companies can - or should - 'take care' of their employees any more.
That's good in theory, but in practice who is going to pay for it?
I'm not say it is not doable -- but we need to face reality here.
Still, we need to start having these discussions and figure out realistic compromises because the existing system isn't working.
> Still, if you're 'pro business' in this country you're also expected to be 'anti government'. The two don't add up.
That's incorrect. Pro-Business typically entails zero (or minimal) legislation. The mind set is: "We don't need no stink'n gov'nment interfering with our profits and expenses! Especially taxes."
i.e. It is why we have environmentalists -- some company abuses the natural resources and won't lift a finger so the ONLY way to get them to change is to enact more laws.
Capitalism and Free Enterprise is about companies wanting the freedom to do what they want without having to face the consequences. There MUST be a balance:
* Too much freedom and companies abuse the hell out of everything with zero accountability. * Too much bureaucracy and nothing productive is done -- everything is so focused on the red tape of crossing every t and dotting every i that businesses say "Fuck It" and move elsewhere.
> And a weak middle class produces a viscous circle of need for government safety net programs to deal with the carnage.
It is actually much worse then that. The middle class can't _afford_ to save _anything._ They are basically living paycheck-to-paycheck and in turn are basically forced to rely on the tit of the government.
The other problem is that Social Insecurity is dead BROKE. The people expect the government to look after but how can that happen when the government itself is so far in debt it isn't funny??
>> infinite amount of loss. > This is a piece of audiophile bullshit that makes no more sense
Agreed that this is bullshit.
> than the tortoise and the hare "paradox"
There is no paradox.. You DO realize the infinitesimal does NOT physically exist, right?
Reality is Quantized in both Space and Time. That is, Reality is DIGITAL.
i.e. According to Physicists,
* There is NO thing smaller then Planck length approximately 1.616229(38) x 10^-35 m. * There is NO time less then Plank time approximately 5.39 x 10^-44 s.
We have NO idea if anything smaller then Planck length or Planck Time exists and probably never will via Science. The smallest length that has been directly measured is between 10^-18 m (LHC) and 10^-22 m (single electron).
* I don't use X so it doesn't matter for anyone else
Or to use an analogy:
* "I'm blind, so these people who can see are irrelevant."
Get off your fucking high horse already. Your myopic POV isn't valid for everyone so stop pretending it is.
It is obvious:
* you don't play a music instrument such as drums -- mp3s tend to do a lousy job of accurate cymbals -- there is a HUGE difference between 64 kbps, 128 kbps and 320 kbps (Kilo-bits-per-second). * you don't use a DAW. You don't "add".mp3s together -- you work in an uncompressed format to minimize "clipping" and other errors. Storing uncompressed losseless music, such as WAV, is dumb. FLAC solves the problem here.
I usually end up 100 tabs open throughout the days/weeks/months. Usually this is my sign that I need to start closing tabs down and save them for later.
One of the solution is to use a better tab manager: Tabs Outliner
Why?
* It lists ALL your tabs (both open and closed) VERTICALLY in its OWN window. * You can name a tab group * You can close all tabs in a tab group * You can "Garbage" or "X" a tab. The former permanently removes from the tab manager, while X closes it the window but leaves the link in the tab manager.
Chrome is a memory pig -- but I've found being more pro-active with its memory usage stops it from having to restart the app all the time.
To turn it on/off GLOBALLY: Settings > General > Background App Refresh To turn it on/off LOCALLY: Settings > (scroll to very bottom to select app) > Background App Refresh
i.e. Settings, Amazon, Background App Refresh
> turn off location services
To turn it on/off GLOBALLY: Settings > Privacy > Location Services To turn it on/off LOCALLY: Settings > (scroll to very bottom to select app) > Location >
-- Are you ready to be viewed as an alien in 2024 from their perspective?
For client operating systems: 1. Open Control Panel, click Programs, and then click Turn Windows features on or off. 2. In the Windows Features window, clear the SMB1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support checkbox, and then click OK to close the window. 3. Restart the system.
For server operating systems: 1. Open Server Manager and then click the Manage menu and select Remove Roles and Features. 2. In the Features window, clear the SMB1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support check box, and then click OK to close the window. 3. Restart the system.
-- Windows shit. Your mouse has moved. Please reboot. True Story
> given how many exploits target these Microsoft networking protocols (NetBIOS, SMB etc) and given that I dont actually need to use these protocols for anything, is there a way to turn them off so they aren't exposed to the outside world?
MS has instructions on how to disable SMBv1, SMBv2, and SMBv3 here:
Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 Windows PowerShell 2.0 or a later version of PowerShell
To disable SMBv1 on the SMB server, run the following cmdlet: Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters" SMB1 -Type DWORD -Value 0 -Force To disable SMBv2 and SMBv3 on the SMB server, run the following cmdlet: Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters" SMB2 -Type DWORD -Value 0 -Force To enable SMBv1 on the SMB server, run the following cmdlet: Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters" SMB1 -Type DWORD -Value 1 -Force To enable SMBv2 and SMBv3 on the SMB server, run the following cmdlet: Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters" SMB2 -Type DWORD -Value 1 -Force
1. From the Network and Dial-up Connections icon in Control Panel , select Local Area Connection and right-click Properties . 2. On the General tab, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in the list of components, and click the Properties button. 3. Click the Advanced button. 4. Click the WINS tab. Click Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP .
-- Fuck You Red Cross for hijacking the + operator and the color red in a video game hundreds of years AFTER the Templars first used red crosses.
I listen to the same song again and again. The artist got paid once. I buy CD's used. The artists doesn't get paid there. I share CD's. Guess what -- the artist doesn't get paid.
Quit playing the "starving artist isn't get paid" card -- because there are numerous legal examples.
Maybe you missed the memo that the RIAA are the the biggest thieves -- NOT the consumers.
Google is not different from anyone else. You are conflating the (free) distribution of music on YouTube as if it is the ONLY source of income. This is false. Artists aren't making a living off of YouTube even if ZERO of their music is "pirated."
-- Fuck You Red Cross for hijacking the + operator and the color red hundreds of years AFTER the Templars.
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4.1 Pop up an alert if the user tries to close/cancel the page.
13. Auto-play videos that can't be configured to only start when the user manually clicks play.
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The web was re-invented three times -- first in 1968, 1987, and last in 1993
Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
I didn't realize FCC meant Federal Cock Censors.
I miss George Carlin: Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners
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Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away regardless of how many times Politcal Censorship, aka PC, is tried.
> The problem often has been that they've had a long history towards pushing proprietary formats and devices. Some of those have been successful, many have failed to catch on, and some were spectacular failures (Betamax).
I mentioned Sony's long line of failures back in 2014.
Sony's completelyfailed to understand the importance of buying digital music. Apple's iPod and iTunes wasthe digital walkman.
This is why Apple has a market cap of $800 Billion and why Sony only has a market cap $44.85 billion
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Mod parent +1 informative / insightful.
I've been programming since the early 80's and this is **exactly** what programming is: You are solving a puzzle.
A programmer is no different from a mathematician, scientist, engineer, musician, etc. The mathematician is fascinated about patterns, operations, and the relationship between the two. The Scientist takes delight in learning how the physical universe works. The engineer enjoys building things from the microscopic to the macroscopic. The musician expresses their emotions in a music form ands takes delight that their fans find their creatively resonating with them.
The fact that you can make money at it is just a bonus.
* Some puzzles are hard real-time likes banking software.
* Some puzzles are soft real-time (like game development).
* Some are pseudo real-time (like OS development)
* Some are offline, like "Machine Learning".
At the end day though it is about software solving a problem. If you don't find solving puzzles fun, then find another job. Because doing it for the money will show in your work.
If programming is not fun then you're are doing it wrong -- of the corporate monoculture has sucked the soul out of it. In either case, change jobs, or change careers.
Life is too short to spend the majority of time doing something you hate.
Considering Consciousness doesn't exist according to Science how do you measure something that Scientists are completely clueless about?
Actual Intelligence (a.i.) is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time (i.e. Matter behaves like a Particle, Matter behaves like a Wave) and reason about a way to resolve the paradox by coming to a third, higher perspective.
Artificial Ignorance (A.I) is nothing more then a glorified table lookup.
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The number of religions on a species' home planet is the fastest way to tell how advanced the species is. 1 == Advanced. >1 == Primitive.
De' Nile is not just a river in Egypt.
Open your myopic eyes for once in your life instead of ignoring NASA's own evidence
First Contact is going to happen around 2024. No amount of ad hominem attacks is going to change this fact.
You do realize that WE are aliens to them, right?
It would behoove you to follow Mark Twain's advice:
"Better to remain silent and thought a fool,
then to speak and remove all doubt."
But go ahead and keep whining about others who know more then you -- because the rug is about to be pulled from under you in a decade. What will you do then?
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You can tell how advanced a species is by how many religions their home planet has. 1 are the oldest ones. > 1 are the youngest ones. What about 0? LOL.
> and therefore Linux is NOT going to become the largest market portion any time soon.
Oh really? Try taking off the myopic PC blinders for once.
Google achieved 2 Billion devices with Linux in 9 years what Microsoft WinCE couldn't do even in 20 years
MS may have 96% of the gamer's PC desktop but that ignores all the servers and virtual machines running non-Windows, let alone consoles.
MS is a total joke on the Top 500 super computers.
Hell, even 33% of Azure runs Linux
In the OS server space things get fuzzy -- are we talking Web Servers? Database Servers? Email servers? Windows be has high as 33% or 20%-- there are no accurate stats.
Let's recap where Linux dominates:
[x] Mobile: Linux
[x] Super computers: Linux
[x] Servers: Technically *nix, due to BSD and OSX.
[ ] PC Gaming Desktop
The only place Windows has a niche in is PC gaming and XBox -- but desktops aren't the only thing anymore.
In the global space MS is slowly becoming irrelevant next to Android, iOS, PS3/4, Servers, Super computers, and Wii/Switch.
Not bad for an OS that "(free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)"
> Well, sometimes. "Make like a tree and get out of here!"
Source:
right
"Make like a tree and leave"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
> it could require a whole new kind of software.
Huh? You mean it not a von Neumann or Harvard architecture because the article doesn't lead me to _that_ conclusion:
So basically 4 TB / node. Is each node have independent memory or not?
Not a bad analogy but you are leaving out an important point. There is a HUGE a difference between:
* the Canon Digital Rebel jump starting the market selling @ $1,000 and other "prosumer" digital cameras continuing to get cheaper and cheaper and racing towards bottom-of-the-barrel
* autonomous vehicles pricing. New cars have never had cut as drastically as digital cameras and that isn't going anytime soon.
Will autonomous vehicles be eventually realized? Yes, but not for another decade or two.
> maybe the answer is to stop pretending that companies can - or should - 'take care' of their employees any more.
That's good in theory, but in practice who is going to pay for it?
I'm not say it is not doable -- but we need to face reality here.
Still, we need to start having these discussions and figure out realistic compromises because the existing system isn't working.
> Still, if you're 'pro business' in this country you're also expected to be 'anti government'. The two don't add up.
That's incorrect. Pro-Business typically entails zero (or minimal) legislation. The mind set is: "We don't need no stink'n gov'nment interfering with our profits and expenses! Especially taxes."
i.e. It is why we have environmentalists -- some company abuses the natural resources and won't lift a finger so the ONLY way to get them to change is to enact more laws.
Capitalism and Free Enterprise is about companies wanting the freedom to do what they want without having to face the consequences. There MUST be a balance:
* Too much freedom and companies abuse the hell out of everything with zero accountability.
* Too much bureaucracy and nothing productive is done -- everything is so focused on the red tape of crossing every t and dotting every i that businesses say "Fuck It" and move elsewhere.
> And a weak middle class produces a viscous circle of need for government safety net programs to deal with the carnage.
It is actually much worse then that. The middle class can't _afford_ to save _anything._ They are basically living paycheck-to-paycheck and in turn are basically forced to rely on the tit of the government.
The other problem is that Social Insecurity is dead BROKE. The people expect the government to look after but how can that happen when the government itself is so far in debt it isn't funny??
America is completely fucked in 20 years.
>> infinite amount of loss.
> This is a piece of audiophile bullshit that makes no more sense
Agreed that this is bullshit.
> than the tortoise and the hare "paradox"
There is no paradox.. You DO realize the infinitesimal does NOT physically exist, right?
Reality is Quantized in both Space and Time. That is, Reality is DIGITAL.
i.e. According to Physicists,
* There is NO thing smaller then Planck length approximately 1.616229(38) x 10^-35 m.
* There is NO time less then Plank time approximately 5.39 x 10^-44 s.
We have NO idea if anything smaller then Planck length or Planck Time exists and probably never will via Science. The smallest length that has been directly measured is between 10^-18 m (LHC) and 10^-22 m (single electron).
* What is the smallest length scale ever measure
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Stack Overflow RETARDS: "Fixed compilation errors by adding missing headers" is NOT "more accurate or more accessible." WTF?!
I know, I know, don't feed the trolls ...
Ah, the fallacious argument of:
* I don't use X so it doesn't matter for anyone else
Or to use an analogy:
* "I'm blind, so these people who can see are irrelevant."
Get off your fucking high horse already. Your myopic POV isn't valid for everyone so stop pretending it is.
It is obvious:
* you don't play a music instrument such as drums -- mp3s tend to do a lousy job of accurate cymbals -- there is a HUGE difference between 64 kbps, 128 kbps and 320 kbps (Kilo-bits-per-second). .mp3s together -- you work in an uncompressed format to minimize "clipping" and other errors. Storing uncompressed losseless music, such as WAV, is dumb. FLAC solves the problem here.
* you don't use a DAW. You don't "add"
> audiophiles that need to buy monster cables.
Audiophiles don't buy monster cables. They buy cheap 16-gauge speaker wire for $11.
IDIOTs buy over-priced Monster Cables.
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"Better to remain silent and thought a fool,
Then to speak and remove all doubt."
I usually end up 100 tabs open throughout the days/weeks/months. Usually this is my sign that I need to start closing tabs down and save them for later.
One of the solution is to use a better tab manager: Tabs Outliner
Why?
* It lists ALL your tabs (both open and closed) VERTICALLY in its OWN window.
* You can name a tab group
* You can close all tabs in a tab group
* You can "Garbage" or "X" a tab. The former permanently removes from the tab manager, while X closes it the window but leaves the link in the tab manager.
Chrome is a memory pig -- but I've found being more pro-active with its memory usage stops it from having to restart the app all the time.
> Turn off background app refresh for each app
To turn it on/off GLOBALLY: Settings > General > Background App Refresh
To turn it on/off LOCALLY: Settings > (scroll to very bottom to select app) > Background App Refresh
i.e.
Settings, Amazon, Background App Refresh
> turn off location services
To turn it on/off GLOBALLY: Settings > Privacy > Location Services
To turn it on/off LOCALLY: Settings > (scroll to very bottom to select app) > Location >
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Are you ready to be viewed as an alien in 2024 from their perspective?
At least in the open source you a) KNOW about the bugs, and b) can fix them.
In closed source bugs can remain hidden for DECADES.
i.e. The WMF bug was fixed in 2006 but has existed since the Windows 3.x days (1990).
Daniel Kish was BORN blind.
Yes, Daniel Kish for one.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
* http://www.sciencemag.org/news...
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Fuck You Red Cross for hijacking the + operator and the color red in a video game hundreds of years AFTER the Templars first used red crosses.
Specifically,
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Windows shit. Your mouse has moved. Please reboot. True Story
> given how many exploits target these Microsoft networking protocols (NetBIOS, SMB etc) and given that I dont actually need to use these protocols for anything, is there a way to turn them off so they aren't exposed to the outside world?
MS has instructions on how to disable SMBv1, SMBv2, and SMBv3 here:
* https://support.microsoft.com/...
You can disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP:
* https://technet.microsoft.com/...
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Fuck You Red Cross for hijacking the + operator and the color red in a video game hundreds of years AFTER the Templars first used red crosses.
WinCE was released in November 16, 1996 ... and yet they STILL couldn't do what Android did in 6 years: 2+ Billion devices.
So is MS finally comfortable with being a FAILURE in the mobile space?
Because that's all they have ever been, and ever will be.
Memo to MS: Keep your crappy Windows software off mobiles phones -- because you don't know what the fuck you are doing.
I listen to the same song again and again. The artist got paid once.
I buy CD's used. The artists doesn't get paid there.
I share CD's. Guess what -- the artist doesn't get paid.
Quit playing the "starving artist isn't get paid" card -- because there are numerous legal examples.
Maybe you missed the memo that the RIAA are the the biggest thieves -- NOT the consumers.
People who pirate regularly spend MORE on films and BUY more.
Google is not different from anyone else. You are conflating the (free) distribution of music on YouTube as if it is the ONLY source of income. This is false. Artists aren't making a living off of YouTube even if ZERO of their music is "pirated."
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Fuck You Red Cross for hijacking the + operator and the color red hundreds of years AFTER the Templars.
I did that as well. One word: Quake.
Went from 386SX16 to Pentium 100, to Pentium Pro 200 (was 180 MHz overclocked.)
AMD was doing their 40 MHz, and 80 MHz thing, while Intel was doing the 33 MHz and 66 MHz. The 486 was bit a clusterfuck era.
That should read:
Martial-Art teachers first demonstrate a move or counter-move ... and then get the students to replicate it.