I think the main reason is too much distribution fragmentation. E.g all the RPM Distros need to chuck themselves under a single banner, the same with dpkg based distros and the gentoo ones. At the moment Linux is like 5000+ different OSs and noone can get decent documentation on any of them. You end up having to get a bit of config from arch, a bit of config from debian, a bit from ubuntu and pray that the ductape and glue you use holds together. Also new hardware support is garbage. I'm writing this on a Razerblade Stealth 2017. It was a pain to get the scripts right to use my Razer core with it, and I have to disable a libinput keyboard driver in the config files to get my computer to not crash when capslock is pressed. That took 9 months to figure out as there was no clear documentation anywhere online about it. Just an obscure forum post. I've updated the Debian documentation since, and posted to Razer's forums about it. This is where Linux is super weak. I've been using Linux for 18 years, if I'm struggling with issues like this imagine what the newbies are facing.
Social media is a wasteland where relationships go to die. I was thinking about this just yesterday, the number of times that people say dumb shit online that ruins their chances with a woman they've just met, or when they have a brain explosion in a depressed moment that would have only been shared with one friend in the past, which now blasts out across social media permanently imploding that person's social standing. Facebook especially, is a toxic cesspool where people read and see things about people they never would have in the past. Where both guys and girls stalk each others photos, and past relationships/images of relationships have to be carefully curated to sanitise perceptions. And the social media companies like it that way. They'll never let you easily split your contacts/walls into the streams you actually want e.g close friends/family, and acquaintances with separate feeds for each category. It's now almost a taboo to unfriend people, even though more than half the people in your contact list it'd be generous to call acquaintances. That's before you even get into the clickbait, ads, and other crap behaviours. Oh and they're profiteering from increasing depression/misery through advertising as well.
I kind of agree with this point, I think the thing that always gets lost in this discussion is that individual wealth gets diluted across children/generations and poor investment decisions. The biggest threat to the US economy isn't wealthy individuals (Remember that Jeff Bezos is still a mortal man, and he has four children who will likely split his wealth upon his passing). It's the government sanctioned monopolies such as Amazon which are far more dangerous. How can you allow one company to be more than 50% of online retail, when online retail makes up about 10% of the US Economy. Worse, how can you allow a company to become worth a billion dollars if it relies on government welfare for it's employees to make a living wage? (food stamps). If that happened in Australia the government would shut them down and ban them from trading. One company should never be allowed to be 5% of the entire nation's economy. It's obscene. The RICO act, and the Anti Trust act need to be reinvigorated and enforced. The government departments responsible for enforcing them need to be let loose on America's predatory companies. It's the only way to save the US economy and boost living standards and wages across America.
I'd love it if Microsoft Open Source Caligari TrueSpace. It's about the only product they own I want. Hasn't been supported since 2008, would be lovely to have the code.
Says the nuclear energy nut who won't put a cent into Polywell fusion, despite a working reactor only costing $100 million to get up. Worth the crapshot at this point IMHO.
Pretty sure the answer is to build the wall, so that it funnels people towards controlled immigration points where asylum applications can be processed, and hopefully discouraging many of the illegal non-asylum related border crossings (Such as for drugs/work along the way). Obviously drug trafficking is a harder issue to solve. They should be looking at legalising weed in Mexico and the USA border states to take the cash/violence out of the drug trade. Prohibition just makes billionaire gangster kings.
When can I get a P1 166Mhz on a laptop motherboard with a Voodoo 2, Realtek 8129 LAN port and Soundblaster 16 Audio. That's all I want. Give me a nice 13" DOS/Win98SE gaming laptop for under $500 AUD.
I think the problem is the products themselves, also development is harder than people give credit for. I mean sure there's a lot of standards based me-too products out there. But there's very little innovation. One of the things Steve Jobs was able to do was bring an entire new shape/form factor to market that was almost completely new, or at least so different to what was available for a reasonable price that it seemed completely new. I think start up companies just completely lack the resources to pull that off. Razer is the only company I can think of that recently started putting out new products with original designs. Even they have had to slowly build to that point, first with keyboards/mice which quite frankly are pretty average things. Then using that money to break into the high end laptop space, and finally starting to develop new tech like the Razer core e-GPU chassis, which sure there were some kit bashed ones people had put together but the Core brought it together into a product and made it sexy. I'd like to see someone make a home media server that has a ton of storage, a really sexy case. E.g something that doesn't look like an Apple TV square box. Designed for silence and to look good. I can't imagine anyone designing/building anything like I have in mind. There's just no interest/money to develop a new product from scratch and those with the money to do it definitely don't have the expertise or skillset to pull it off. There just aren't many companies around today that can integrate hardware with software properly.
Most of GTK is great, the only big issue GTK has is the support for auto-connecting signal handlers to class methods in C++. AKA it can't do it. This makes GTK useless for object oriented programming. Also who the fuck wants to muck around with strings in C? talk about pulling teeth. Even if you just program C++ in C style and only use the string classes from C++ it's a massive step up in usability. Until GTK is useful in other languages than C and Vala it will never be a great tool. QT/KDE has one of the worst looking UIs/widget sets ever. GTK nailed the visual design but blew it on usability in code. What we actually need is a lightweight API like GTK that integrates well into C++ code and has a decent wysiwyg editor for quickly bashing together UI layouts. Glade is almost that tool. The QT equivalent sucks. I've used both. The GTK UIs always come out looking nicer.
Does this mean we'll finally get IRIX running on a new system? It'd be cool to get IRIX running on a laptop form factor. Not overly useful but hey Photoshop 3.0 and Maya 6.0 are pretty cool. Plus we can all pretend to be artiste's with Power Animator.
Anyone else remember running Laplink on a Null-printer cable to link two PCs together? I remember using it for Terminal Velocity and Wing Commander Armada. Way back in like 1996/1997.
Aka, we have an opportunity to improve our processes to improve safety and financial stability.
"underpaid, and overhyped characters in a well-managed fiction story" who "use emotional guile to sell products" Sounds like most employees to be honest.
Or... you're an idiot who doesn't know anything about it? I'm 6' 3" and I weigh under 92kg. I constantly sleep with my mouth open because my nose is so badly blocked (most likely a deviated septum, which affects ~80% of the population) Sleep Apnea isn't always weight related and often has the same symptoms as ADHD.
And Fuck the Australian government for not protecting one of our own. Vote Independant next Federal election and turf these assholes out. Labor is making deals with China's Belt and Road and the Liberals are just scum. None of them deserve government.
Try moving cities. I was in a position like that when I was living in the town where I grew up. I moved interstate and things were a lot better. Sometimes you have to break yourself out of the mindset/culture of the location you're in to find success. That might mean moving to a larger city with greater choice/range, or downsizing to a city that's smaller/more intimate.
I develop for open source projects. I also make my bread and butter from Cisco Call Manager. Call Manager btw is a Linux based PBX. Linux' success is my success. I have no reason to stop contributing to open source in my spare time as I see fit.
Ace Combat 7, Battlefront VR Demo, Astrobot Rescue and Battlezone. Now why are these the best games? None of them require you to get off your ass to play them. The entire idea of VR as this magical land thing where gamers are going to be elite athletes is total bullshit. Most of the VR games being developed are either shovel-ware (99% of the crap out there) or unrealistic attempts at VR FPS. The killer genres for VR were always Space Flight and Flight sims. Helicopter sims in particular are a massively underserved market. There should be a push for Wing Commander 1/2/3/4 remakes in VR, as well as getting Freespace 2 to have VR support. PSVR nailed the ease of use factor. Just get your game running at 60FPS and a hardware doubler gets it to 120fps which is fine for presence and head turning. The killer application is looking around cockpits simulating real aircraft experiences that most people couldn't afford to have in reality.
Where the fuck is Star Wars X-Wing VR? The VR Demo from Battlefront is the only great VR experience and at 15 minutes long is pathetically short. Hell at least a FreeSpace 2 Port to VR should have happened by now. Dickhead obsession with "presence" and high framerate content is what's killed VR. Sony nailed it. Use a hardware framerate doubler, so devs just have to get 60FPS to the hardware. All the other VR systems require crazy spec computers and don't really work properly. Sony should have thrown $20 million at EA/Disney to get Star Wars VR made.
First thing is abandon the 120hz bullshit. Just aim for 60FPS at maximum resolution and use a hardware framerate doubler like the PSVR does. Trying to render high framerate high resolution scenes was always doomed to failure. You just need to trick the eye. Get the High Resolution working first then worry about frame/scene performance. I own PSVR and I understand where it fails hardest. It's the resolution, not the head tracking and framerate that are most annoying.
How obvious it is that a monopoly on magnetic tape is a bad thing, and yet the USA allow monopolies over all kinds of things involving last mile infrastructure and other critical services. But this one costs the tech companies so it's OK for the government to intervene but anywhere else and "IT'S TOO MUCH REGULATION".
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I think the main reason is too much distribution fragmentation. E.g all the RPM Distros need to chuck themselves under a single banner, the same with dpkg based distros and the gentoo ones. At the moment Linux is like 5000+ different OSs and noone can get decent documentation on any of them. You end up having to get a bit of config from arch, a bit of config from debian, a bit from ubuntu and pray that the ductape and glue you use holds together. Also new hardware support is garbage. I'm writing this on a Razerblade Stealth 2017. It was a pain to get the scripts right to use my Razer core with it, and I have to disable a libinput keyboard driver in the config files to get my computer to not crash when capslock is pressed. That took 9 months to figure out as there was no clear documentation anywhere online about it. Just an obscure forum post. I've updated the Debian documentation since, and posted to Razer's forums about it. This is where Linux is super weak. I've been using Linux for 18 years, if I'm struggling with issues like this imagine what the newbies are facing.
Social media is a wasteland where relationships go to die. I was thinking about this just yesterday, the number of times that people say dumb shit online that ruins their chances with a woman they've just met, or when they have a brain explosion in a depressed moment that would have only been shared with one friend in the past, which now blasts out across social media permanently imploding that person's social standing. Facebook especially, is a toxic cesspool where people read and see things about people they never would have in the past. Where both guys and girls stalk each others photos, and past relationships/images of relationships have to be carefully curated to sanitise perceptions. And the social media companies like it that way. They'll never let you easily split your contacts/walls into the streams you actually want e.g close friends/family, and acquaintances with separate feeds for each category. It's now almost a taboo to unfriend people, even though more than half the people in your contact list it'd be generous to call acquaintances. That's before you even get into the clickbait, ads, and other crap behaviours. Oh and they're profiteering from increasing depression/misery through advertising as well.
I kind of agree with this point, I think the thing that always gets lost in this discussion is that individual wealth gets diluted across children/generations and poor investment decisions. The biggest threat to the US economy isn't wealthy individuals (Remember that Jeff Bezos is still a mortal man, and he has four children who will likely split his wealth upon his passing). It's the government sanctioned monopolies such as Amazon which are far more dangerous. How can you allow one company to be more than 50% of online retail, when online retail makes up about 10% of the US Economy. Worse, how can you allow a company to become worth a billion dollars if it relies on government welfare for it's employees to make a living wage? (food stamps). If that happened in Australia the government would shut them down and ban them from trading. One company should never be allowed to be 5% of the entire nation's economy. It's obscene. The RICO act, and the Anti Trust act need to be reinvigorated and enforced. The government departments responsible for enforcing them need to be let loose on America's predatory companies. It's the only way to save the US economy and boost living standards and wages across America.
I'd love it if Microsoft Open Source Caligari TrueSpace. It's about the only product they own I want. Hasn't been supported since 2008, would be lovely to have the code.
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They should get Marcia in to edit. She was the real genius.
Time to found Faro industries and name my firstborn Ted. Maybe work on getting Project Zero Dawn created before we go about destroying ourselves?
Says the nuclear energy nut who won't put a cent into Polywell fusion, despite a working reactor only costing $100 million to get up. Worth the crapshot at this point IMHO.
Pretty sure the answer is to build the wall, so that it funnels people towards controlled immigration points where asylum applications can be processed, and hopefully discouraging many of the illegal non-asylum related border crossings (Such as for drugs/work along the way). Obviously drug trafficking is a harder issue to solve. They should be looking at legalising weed in Mexico and the USA border states to take the cash/violence out of the drug trade. Prohibition just makes billionaire gangster kings.
When can I get a P1 166Mhz on a laptop motherboard with a Voodoo 2, Realtek 8129 LAN port and Soundblaster 16 Audio. That's all I want. Give me a nice 13" DOS/Win98SE gaming laptop for under $500 AUD.
I think the problem is the products themselves, also development is harder than people give credit for. I mean sure there's a lot of standards based me-too products out there. But there's very little innovation. One of the things Steve Jobs was able to do was bring an entire new shape/form factor to market that was almost completely new, or at least so different to what was available for a reasonable price that it seemed completely new. I think start up companies just completely lack the resources to pull that off. Razer is the only company I can think of that recently started putting out new products with original designs. Even they have had to slowly build to that point, first with keyboards/mice which quite frankly are pretty average things. Then using that money to break into the high end laptop space, and finally starting to develop new tech like the Razer core e-GPU chassis, which sure there were some kit bashed ones people had put together but the Core brought it together into a product and made it sexy. I'd like to see someone make a home media server that has a ton of storage, a really sexy case. E.g something that doesn't look like an Apple TV square box. Designed for silence and to look good. I can't imagine anyone designing/building anything like I have in mind. There's just no interest/money to develop a new product from scratch and those with the money to do it definitely don't have the expertise or skillset to pull it off. There just aren't many companies around today that can integrate hardware with software properly.
Most of GTK is great, the only big issue GTK has is the support for auto-connecting signal handlers to class methods in C++. AKA it can't do it. This makes GTK useless for object oriented programming. Also who the fuck wants to muck around with strings in C? talk about pulling teeth. Even if you just program C++ in C style and only use the string classes from C++ it's a massive step up in usability. Until GTK is useful in other languages than C and Vala it will never be a great tool. QT/KDE has one of the worst looking UIs/widget sets ever. GTK nailed the visual design but blew it on usability in code. What we actually need is a lightweight API like GTK that integrates well into C++ code and has a decent wysiwyg editor for quickly bashing together UI layouts. Glade is almost that tool. The QT equivalent sucks. I've used both. The GTK UIs always come out looking nicer.
Does this mean we'll finally get IRIX running on a new system? It'd be cool to get IRIX running on a laptop form factor. Not overly useful but hey Photoshop 3.0 and Maya 6.0 are pretty cool. Plus we can all pretend to be artiste's with Power Animator.
Anyone else remember running Laplink on a Null-printer cable to link two PCs together? I remember using it for Terminal Velocity and Wing Commander Armada. Way back in like 1996/1997.
Aka, we have an opportunity to improve our processes to improve safety and financial stability. "underpaid, and overhyped characters in a well-managed fiction story" who "use emotional guile to sell products" Sounds like most employees to be honest.
Or... you're an idiot who doesn't know anything about it? I'm 6' 3" and I weigh under 92kg. I constantly sleep with my mouth open because my nose is so badly blocked (most likely a deviated septum, which affects ~80% of the population) Sleep Apnea isn't always weight related and often has the same symptoms as ADHD.
And Fuck the Australian government for not protecting one of our own. Vote Independant next Federal election and turf these assholes out. Labor is making deals with China's Belt and Road and the Liberals are just scum. None of them deserve government.
Try moving cities. I was in a position like that when I was living in the town where I grew up. I moved interstate and things were a lot better. Sometimes you have to break yourself out of the mindset/culture of the location you're in to find success. That might mean moving to a larger city with greater choice/range, or downsizing to a city that's smaller/more intimate.
I develop for open source projects. I also make my bread and butter from Cisco Call Manager. Call Manager btw is a Linux based PBX. Linux' success is my success. I have no reason to stop contributing to open source in my spare time as I see fit.
I guess this means that we're completely fucked now. The worst case Methane release mass extinction event is more likely than ever.
Ace Combat 7, Battlefront VR Demo, Astrobot Rescue and Battlezone. Now why are these the best games? None of them require you to get off your ass to play them. The entire idea of VR as this magical land thing where gamers are going to be elite athletes is total bullshit. Most of the VR games being developed are either shovel-ware (99% of the crap out there) or unrealistic attempts at VR FPS. The killer genres for VR were always Space Flight and Flight sims. Helicopter sims in particular are a massively underserved market. There should be a push for Wing Commander 1/2/3/4 remakes in VR, as well as getting Freespace 2 to have VR support. PSVR nailed the ease of use factor. Just get your game running at 60FPS and a hardware doubler gets it to 120fps which is fine for presence and head turning. The killer application is looking around cockpits simulating real aircraft experiences that most people couldn't afford to have in reality.
Where the fuck is Star Wars X-Wing VR? The VR Demo from Battlefront is the only great VR experience and at 15 minutes long is pathetically short. Hell at least a FreeSpace 2 Port to VR should have happened by now. Dickhead obsession with "presence" and high framerate content is what's killed VR. Sony nailed it. Use a hardware framerate doubler, so devs just have to get 60FPS to the hardware. All the other VR systems require crazy spec computers and don't really work properly. Sony should have thrown $20 million at EA/Disney to get Star Wars VR made.
First thing is abandon the 120hz bullshit. Just aim for 60FPS at maximum resolution and use a hardware framerate doubler like the PSVR does. Trying to render high framerate high resolution scenes was always doomed to failure. You just need to trick the eye. Get the High Resolution working first then worry about frame/scene performance. I own PSVR and I understand where it fails hardest. It's the resolution, not the head tracking and framerate that are most annoying.
How obvious it is that a monopoly on magnetic tape is a bad thing, and yet the USA allow monopolies over all kinds of things involving last mile infrastructure and other critical services. But this one costs the tech companies so it's OK for the government to intervene but anywhere else and "IT'S TOO MUCH REGULATION".
Dad's gonna bump off some time soon. Someone has to ensure the trust fund stays full of cash.