The valuable lesson here for everyone is quite simply: Fuck proprietary software. Clearly Microsoft won't support even people supporting their platform so why should anyone go to any effort to promote their garbage? If he'd been wiping/installing Linux on the machines and preloading them with blender/libreoffice/gimp/krita/google chrome. There would have been no issue and he could still be in business and stayed out of jail. Instead now he's doing 15 months because he thought he had the freedom to help people. A great case studying in how doing the morally right thing, but "impacting" on a company gets you screwed.
My housemate uses a Macbook with OSX for work, he's had this exact issue. I run Linux on mine so I avoided it, always annoying when patches break core os functionality.
Meanwhile, I tried it in a KVM instance, got Caligari trueSpace and 3D Studio Max version 3.1 running and it's fast enough to be a usable replacement for a Windows install on my PC. Pretty nifty.
All of this was predicted in the early 90s when trade started to be liberalised. Free Trade doesn't work unless the countries trading are of equal or near equal standards of living. Otherwise the richer countries are outsourcing their wealth/jobs to poorer countries in exchange for more lax environmental/worker protections.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Actually, every time there's a shooting, and the talk of a gun ban increases AR-15 sales skyrocket. So the idea that the NRA is encouraging these massacres while being pretty crazy and overreaching does have a logical component to it. Outrage over massacres, leads to talk of bans which leads to increased sales.
I work inside one of the two largest grocery stores in Australia. I can tell you that the self service checkouts as good as they are, are never going to replace staff. There's multiple reasons for it but theft/loss is one of the big reasons why staff are always going to be there. Minimum wage/staff wages are not the major drivers of these decisions. Any business that thinks they can automate away staff without increasing/improving on service, is going to quickly get crushed by businesses that provide a better customer experience/service.
Just another example of the baby boomer's: "fuck you I got mine" mentality. People are going to remember this as the moment that America stuffed the tech industry.
I work in ICT, I'm male, 32 years old. My boss is ~65 years old and is a sexist pig. It's pretty fucking simple. I have an older sister. I'd hate for her to be treated the way people in my company treat women. It's not ok, and it's not just "boys being boys". We're adults, not fucking 13 year olds. None of our corporate clients would tolerate the shit that goes on in our office. There needs to be a cultural shift and it needs to hurry up.
Gnome is a shit show because it's trying to be a jack of all trades UI, it's fallen into the Trap Microsoft fell into. Completely useless to anyone running 2-3 screens which is most desktop/power users these days. Converged UI is the dumbest idea of the 2000s. Apple wisely avoided it. Microsoft rushed into it so they could force developers into writing for.NET and it's been a complete disaster. Linux stupidly threw out over $200 million in UI research produced by Sun and gifted to the community in a mad quest to conquer the tablet/mobile market, which it failed to make any meaningful inways into. They need to start on Gnome 4 and begin by going back to the Gnome 2 UI and extending it and following the UI guidelines from Sun. Once that's implemented they need to make more apps for creative content producers. This is where Linux is really lacking. Pulseaudio/Systemd/Network-Manager for better or worse are working well enough for daily use now and efforts need to be refocused elsewhere.
Is anyone really surprised by this now? This has been the way of things in America for ages. Democrats aren't even good politicians, just centrist normals. Republicans are so far to the right it's hilariously stupid. America needs a third party and has needed one for years. At least a moderate right party if not a further left party.
The only Google apps most people are using are email, search, address book/contacts and maps. Maps is the hardest one of those to replace well. Addressbook/contacts is just a web database with a table per user that syncs to the phone. Email is obvious, search could be changed to duck duck go/bing/altavista/whatever. Maps is harder, there's open source/data maps but there's no great UI/GPS integration for it at least that I'm aware of, if anyone could jump in with a suggestion....
Good thing I know C/C++ and can write for Gnome/KDE then... The Purism phone will work because it's very easy to refactor gnome/kde interface code so it'll launch with Media player, text editor and other core apps ready to rock and roll.
As of this writing the librem 5 by Purism is $75,000 from being fully funded. It will complete funding later today/early tomorrow and then there will be a fully open source debian based phone.
https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
The US Government always has the option to vote/call for a referendum on repealing the 2nd amendment. Sure it might not pass, but there is always the option for it. The US Government acting alone cannot take away the right to bear arms, but the people of the United States can have the option to choose to do so if their leadership took it to the people in a vote.
Dear Apple and Microsoft users. Maybe if you care about freedoms, you should be supporting platforms which respect you as a user and support your right to privacy and freedom. Sincerely, someone who doesn't compromise their integrity by using systems which are broken by design. All of this was foretold, all of this was preventable, and yet people chose to vote against their own interests with their wallets, and they now reap what they have sown.
This is so true, every time I go online and search for something to buy, the next six weeks are a constant stream of nothing but what I already bought. If I'm searching for it online it means I'm buying in the next five minutes. Not the next 6 weeks. These idiots haven't figured that out yet. Also, I'm still waiting for the Ad-Rapture where my feeds get filled with space games and Linux games. Hasn't happened yet and I won't be holding my breath. Online advertising is a total sham industry.
This is why we should all be moving off oil. Let the Arab princes fight in their crappy sandpit. They can do it without our money and without our support. We can go back to working on more worthwhile pursuits like space travel.
Technology in general is almost becoming too complex to resolve this on the side of user freedom. Clearly what's needed is an open source computer design. Everything from BIOS/FIRMWARE/CPU/GPU/NETWORK/SOUND needs to be open source/open spec. I doubt it'll ever happen though. There's just not enough money/demand in it. Everyone wants an open computer platform with the caveat that it runs at 3-4ghz speed and runs x86 software. This is always going to be a fatal hindrance to it existing. x86 is locked up so tight by Intel and AMD noone is ever going to break that dominance unless China pulls off some sort of miracle, but then the CCP will probably build their own controls in.
I remember reading some articles a few years ago talking about "hypertext" *Note that this is NOT HTML. Hypertext was an attempt at creating a universal referencing system that would allow all the information on the internet to be linked and referenced and most critically monetised, no matter what got shifted/changed. Blockchain sort of sounds like something very similar to what was proposed with hypertext. A universal way to track information and ensure payments are made to authors. I know it began of course as a ledger to verify bitcoin payments but it sounds like it might be possible to extend it to a universal payment platform for information/attribution on the internet.
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The valuable lesson here for everyone is quite simply: Fuck proprietary software. Clearly Microsoft won't support even people supporting their platform so why should anyone go to any effort to promote their garbage? If he'd been wiping/installing Linux on the machines and preloading them with blender/libreoffice/gimp/krita/google chrome. There would have been no issue and he could still be in business and stayed out of jail. Instead now he's doing 15 months because he thought he had the freedom to help people. A great case studying in how doing the morally right thing, but "impacting" on a company gets you screwed.
My housemate uses a Macbook with OSX for work, he's had this exact issue. I run Linux on mine so I avoided it, always annoying when patches break core os functionality.
Meanwhile, I tried it in a KVM instance, got Caligari trueSpace and 3D Studio Max version 3.1 running and it's fast enough to be a usable replacement for a Windows install on my PC. Pretty nifty.
All of this was predicted in the early 90s when trade started to be liberalised. Free Trade doesn't work unless the countries trading are of equal or near equal standards of living. Otherwise the richer countries are outsourcing their wealth/jobs to poorer countries in exchange for more lax environmental/worker protections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why? you guys are on $5/hour, my hourly wage is $30/hour. From where I sit in Australia, an American phone would be pretty cheap.
The User Interface doesn't constantly chop and change with the wind. (caveat, this is only really true since MATE came out).
Actually, every time there's a shooting, and the talk of a gun ban increases AR-15 sales skyrocket. So the idea that the NRA is encouraging these massacres while being pretty crazy and overreaching does have a logical component to it. Outrage over massacres, leads to talk of bans which leads to increased sales.
heh you just described literally every other country in the western world.
I work inside one of the two largest grocery stores in Australia. I can tell you that the self service checkouts as good as they are, are never going to replace staff. There's multiple reasons for it but theft/loss is one of the big reasons why staff are always going to be there. Minimum wage/staff wages are not the major drivers of these decisions. Any business that thinks they can automate away staff without increasing/improving on service, is going to quickly get crushed by businesses that provide a better customer experience/service.
Kicks ass on twitter!
Just another example of the baby boomer's: "fuck you I got mine" mentality. People are going to remember this as the moment that America stuffed the tech industry.
I work in ICT, I'm male, 32 years old. My boss is ~65 years old and is a sexist pig. It's pretty fucking simple. I have an older sister. I'd hate for her to be treated the way people in my company treat women. It's not ok, and it's not just "boys being boys". We're adults, not fucking 13 year olds. None of our corporate clients would tolerate the shit that goes on in our office. There needs to be a cultural shift and it needs to hurry up.
Gnome is a shit show because it's trying to be a jack of all trades UI, it's fallen into the Trap Microsoft fell into. Completely useless to anyone running 2-3 screens which is most desktop/power users these days. Converged UI is the dumbest idea of the 2000s. Apple wisely avoided it. Microsoft rushed into it so they could force developers into writing for .NET and it's been a complete disaster. Linux stupidly threw out over $200 million in UI research produced by Sun and gifted to the community in a mad quest to conquer the tablet/mobile market, which it failed to make any meaningful inways into. They need to start on Gnome 4 and begin by going back to the Gnome 2 UI and extending it and following the UI guidelines from Sun. Once that's implemented they need to make more apps for creative content producers. This is where Linux is really lacking. Pulseaudio/Systemd/Network-Manager for better or worse are working well enough for daily use now and efforts need to be refocused elsewhere.
Is anyone really surprised by this now? This has been the way of things in America for ages. Democrats aren't even good politicians, just centrist normals. Republicans are so far to the right it's hilariously stupid. America needs a third party and has needed one for years. At least a moderate right party if not a further left party.
The only Google apps most people are using are email, search, address book/contacts and maps. Maps is the hardest one of those to replace well. Addressbook/contacts is just a web database with a table per user that syncs to the phone. Email is obvious, search could be changed to duck duck go/bing/altavista/whatever. Maps is harder, there's open source/data maps but there's no great UI/GPS integration for it at least that I'm aware of, if anyone could jump in with a suggestion....
Good thing I know C/C++ and can write for Gnome/KDE then... The Purism phone will work because it's very easy to refactor gnome/kde interface code so it'll launch with Media player, text editor and other core apps ready to rock and roll.
As of this writing the librem 5 by Purism is $75,000 from being fully funded. It will complete funding later today/early tomorrow and then there will be a fully open source debian based phone. https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
The US Government always has the option to vote/call for a referendum on repealing the 2nd amendment. Sure it might not pass, but there is always the option for it. The US Government acting alone cannot take away the right to bear arms, but the people of the United States can have the option to choose to do so if their leadership took it to the people in a vote.
Dear Apple and Microsoft users. Maybe if you care about freedoms, you should be supporting platforms which respect you as a user and support your right to privacy and freedom. Sincerely, someone who doesn't compromise their integrity by using systems which are broken by design. All of this was foretold, all of this was preventable, and yet people chose to vote against their own interests with their wallets, and they now reap what they have sown.
This is so true, every time I go online and search for something to buy, the next six weeks are a constant stream of nothing but what I already bought. If I'm searching for it online it means I'm buying in the next five minutes. Not the next 6 weeks. These idiots haven't figured that out yet. Also, I'm still waiting for the Ad-Rapture where my feeds get filled with space games and Linux games. Hasn't happened yet and I won't be holding my breath. Online advertising is a total sham industry.
I hope they're mining Litecoin... Bitcoin seems to be so ridiculously hard to mine for these days.
That's a neat idea, but it was the conservative Right who banned LSD and all the other psychedelic substances that enhance creativity.
This is why we should all be moving off oil. Let the Arab princes fight in their crappy sandpit. They can do it without our money and without our support. We can go back to working on more worthwhile pursuits like space travel.
Technology in general is almost becoming too complex to resolve this on the side of user freedom. Clearly what's needed is an open source computer design. Everything from BIOS/FIRMWARE/CPU/GPU/NETWORK/SOUND needs to be open source/open spec. I doubt it'll ever happen though. There's just not enough money/demand in it. Everyone wants an open computer platform with the caveat that it runs at 3-4ghz speed and runs x86 software. This is always going to be a fatal hindrance to it existing. x86 is locked up so tight by Intel and AMD noone is ever going to break that dominance unless China pulls off some sort of miracle, but then the CCP will probably build their own controls in.
I remember reading some articles a few years ago talking about "hypertext" *Note that this is NOT HTML. Hypertext was an attempt at creating a universal referencing system that would allow all the information on the internet to be linked and referenced and most critically monetised, no matter what got shifted/changed. Blockchain sort of sounds like something very similar to what was proposed with hypertext. A universal way to track information and ensure payments are made to authors. I know it began of course as a ledger to verify bitcoin payments but it sounds like it might be possible to extend it to a universal payment platform for information/attribution on the internet.