The brave new world of not having any control at all over your own computers. There are no "major updates", just continuous change without warning.
It has been creeping towards this for quite some time as various things that would seem to be user configurable are not. I have already seen the future and it will be "to do that, simply call your system administrator and have them make those changes in your Active Directory domain". I hear they are even going to put out an Enterprise version where the AD is configurable by the user later this year for those few people that want/need that but don't have volume licenses.
I took a taxi from my hotel to the airport. It was a fairly long drive, maybe 40 minutes, and a good chunk of it was on a 6 lane (each direction) highway. It was maybe around 10:30 AM and since the airport is, like in many major cities, actually fairly far away from the city center and kind of in the middle of nowhere, there weren't a lot of cars on the road at the time. My taxi driver was fine but the other drivers were most assuredly not. I saw people talking on mobile phones and some woman putting on makeup and many cars swerving back and forth between multiple lanes without a care in the world. My driver couldn't speak English and I can't speak Mandarin, but it was obvious that he wasn't happy with what he was seeing either.
So, does that make it right to Make America Mexico? If I wanted to live in Mexico I'd move to Mexico.
Talk to the conservatives who want their cheap labor. We could stop illegal immigration or reduce it with reforms to the SS system to prevent stealing numbers and actual punishments for people who knowingly hire illegals, but that would cut out the cheap labor just like reducing h1b visas would.
People said the same about Europe's Eurofighter Typhoon 5 years ago, and yet it's already having to intercept 4.5th Gen Russian fighters that are infringing European airspace in the Baltic.
Forget your bullshit socio-economic-policital-technobabble explanations. This isn't about cell-phones, or aids, or sex-ed, or work-life balances, or aids, or gender studies, or social media, or tv shows, or Donald fucking Trump!
It's the economy stupid.
Don't buy it, and not just because you're an AC troll. One of the things that teens can do when they are broke and have nothing to do, is fuck. BFE areas in flyover states are famous for this. Kids are poor and there's nothing to do but drink and have sex, so that's what they do. If kids were just broke and bored, that's what they'd be doing.
But then you need to stop importing immigrants to make up for the shortfall or you're just replacing your civilization with a different one.
Well, that's what we've been doing since before founding of the United States. There are several rants by Benjamin Franklin from the 1750's about how German immigrants are ruining the proper anglo-saxon culture as they are unclean, lazy, and fail to socialize to the current culture. The United States has always been about 10% immigrants (there was a dip to 5% in the early 50's). Our economy is based on growing and using cheap labor to do it. We've also complained about every new wave of immigration, claiming it will be the end of our culture, till the next wave comes and the old wave joins in the bitching.
Adblock and NoScript seem to make the web a much nicer, faster, safer, cleaner place.
Very much so. For the last 6-12 months I've noticed Safari on multiple macs crashing, freezing, and failing to load pages at least one a day. I went and installed various ad blockers as an experiment and so far it's been weeks without a single such crash or freeze. I was willing to let ads by but not when they are actively breaking the internet. Ad in fear of third party injection of malware via ads, and now I'll always install an adblocking extension.
You call off the cuff remarks that are often implausible or borderline retarded "working for it"? I see Trump do precious little actual work. He seems almost willfully ignorant of constitutional and legal matters, and seems to be in no hurry to learn any of these things.
And when you consider that the President's main job is to be the public face and representative of the USA and it's people to the governments of the rest of the world and their people, it all seems like electing your drunk uncle to run the family business. He isn't even president yet and I think two countries have considered his entry into their country due to things he's said.
The trigger happy twitter fingers of Trump is what gets the security service guys nervous. He is scheduled to get his first security briefing. There's nothing stopping him from tweeting that information and then blowing up the reaction into another Media Moment for himself.
Hey. Democrats said they wanted a more transparent government when Obama got into office. Maybe the Republicans will actually give it to them.
I really don't think "the Internet" has a lot to do with this, nor do I think it's a "trend." Everybody acts like entrepreneurship was invented in the past couple decades. But how do you think people "got ahead" in previous centuries? How do you think we had a "rise of the middle class" that moved us out of the dark ages of feudalism, then led the charge for the Industrial Revolution, etc.?
I would not dismiss the internet that easily, nor trends. Social media is certainly a thing, and something that may have existed in some form previously but is now much different and something that many/.ers tend to ignore or make fun of. Many companies have people whose job is to run their social media. It's like a combination of ad copy and public relations. Then there are things like Kickstarter. In the past, a hobbiest or artist might make a few items, perhaps even sell some. With Kickstarter it has become much easier to do so as you can take a small production item without viability in the normal supply chain and actually turn a profit. One friend of mine, who is probably one of the ones being talked about in the article, is making a living by managing Kickstarters for artists and niche products with a one time production run of a few hundred units.
If somoene want to be more 'socially acceptable' then how about not reading texts at all in social situations, how about people, I dunno, pay attention to the people they're with, rather than retreating into their smartphones like some 12-year old who is bored with the adults' after-dinner conversation?
I can tell you've never worked in a position that required being on call.
-the abuse is largely a myth as always has been. the famous "welfare queen" Reagan talked about? a single middle class white woman who was caught and sent to jail. though the image in most conservatives minds is an unmarried black women with a dozen kids (re: racism). in reality, for the reasons state above, she actually isn't like to be receiving any TANF.
Linda Taylor was a white con artist probably posing as more than 80 people who was also into child kidnapping and possibly murder. She has never been convicted of anything if the following internet article can be believed.
ISIS wants to enslave or kill anyone not a Muslim to their standards. Our appeasement strategy will not work no matter how ethical we are.
The only way to end the threat of Islamic takeover of the world, next year or in 20 centuries, is to annihilate Islam root and branch. Turning Iran into a radioactive wasteland would be a good start.
You say you don't want to appease ISIL, but then say we should nuke their main adversary, Iran. Sicne you're not an AC, I'll just assume you're clueless.
The claim isn't that robots have no use or that humans are better for exploration. Strictly speaking it only claims that there is some exploration that only humans can do well.
Yes, we could get lots of science done fairly quickly by putting a couple of people on Mars for a few months. However, it still comes down to that for the resources it would take to do that, we could put hundreds of robots on Mars that could work for years, each doing their own little specialized job, and do more science and get the results sooner.
I hope we do send men to Mars but I seriously think people do not realize how much that will actually take to do and how long it will take. The ISS is the most expensive project mankind has worked on and it hasn't even left orbit. It's resupply missions don't have to leave orbit. It doesn't have to deal with deep space radiation. It doesn't have to support it's own independent landing and launch facilities. etc. etc. etc.
Remember that "on the cloud" just means "on somebody else's server". They may say you'll never lose it, but they have been known to lie, or go under, or change their service. Remember the Sidekick which advertised all your phone data would be in the cloud and backed up so you'd never risk losing it?
Did the person who wrote TFA even look for consistency in their article?
I'm guessing it's just an example of internet outrage journalism. Coming up with supported and well thought out content is hard, takes work, and doesn't get that much viral play. Coming up with something that demeans something else and is essentially wrong, will be posted throughout the interwebs by people ranting about how it is wrong and correcting them. It's just like the days of usenet. Well researched posts will be the only post in a thread and fade to obscurity, while bullshit garbage will result in internet flame wars that will go down in legend. In these days of needing to collect eyes and clicks for advertising, web sites are filling themselves with bullshit garbage because that gets those in spades.
Nowadays, you can build a usable gaming rig out of new parts for $500-ish, and from used parts for what, $250, tops?
Nowadays, for the past ten years even, you just put word out to the people you know and somebody will probably have a suitable computer and give it to you because that's simpler than trying to dispose of electronics otherwise.
The most obvious example in physics is Galileo - whose idea of the sun being the center of the solar system was deemed quite absurd by the orthodoxy of his time - yet turned out to be true.
A better one for the modern age would be anti-matter. It was proposed simply because the math allowed it. A few years later, they had experimental evidence of it.
That is a good point! When I go to the grocery there are anywhere from 8 to 20 varieties of apples depending on season, why can't I have a variety of bananas to choose from?
You can if you go to an asian grocery. Even my neighborhood QFC carries plantains and some other bananas occationally.
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The brave new world of not having any control at all over your own computers. There are no "major updates", just continuous change without warning.
It has been creeping towards this for quite some time as various things that would seem to be user configurable are not. I have already seen the future and it will be "to do that, simply call your system administrator and have them make those changes in your Active Directory domain". I hear they are even going to put out an Enterprise version where the AD is configurable by the user later this year for those few people that want/need that but don't have volume licenses.
What's left? Macs.
Such a glowing endorsement.
'Macs are the worst form of computer system, except for all the others.'
I took a taxi from my hotel to the airport. It was a fairly long drive, maybe 40 minutes, and a good chunk of it was on a 6 lane (each direction) highway. It was maybe around 10:30 AM and since the airport is, like in many major cities, actually fairly far away from the city center and kind of in the middle of nowhere, there weren't a lot of cars on the road at the time. My taxi driver was fine but the other drivers were most assuredly not. I saw people talking on mobile phones and some woman putting on makeup and many cars swerving back and forth between multiple lanes without a care in the world. My driver couldn't speak English and I can't speak Mandarin, but it was obvious that he wasn't happy with what he was seeing either.
Sounds exactly like my last trip to Dallas.
So, does that make it right to Make America Mexico? If I wanted to live in Mexico I'd move to Mexico.
Talk to the conservatives who want their cheap labor. We could stop illegal immigration or reduce it with reforms to the SS system to prevent stealing numbers and actual punishments for people who knowingly hire illegals, but that would cut out the cheap labor just like reducing h1b visas would.
People said the same about Europe's Eurofighter Typhoon 5 years ago, and yet it's already having to intercept 4.5th Gen Russian fighters that are infringing European airspace in the Baltic.
You should read more news.
Read. My. Lips.
They. Have. No. Money.
Forget your bullshit socio-economic-policital-technobabble explanations. This isn't about cell-phones, or aids, or sex-ed, or work-life balances, or aids, or gender studies, or social media, or tv shows, or Donald fucking Trump!
It's the economy stupid.
Don't buy it, and not just because you're an AC troll. One of the things that teens can do when they are broke and have nothing to do, is fuck. BFE areas in flyover states are famous for this. Kids are poor and there's nothing to do but drink and have sex, so that's what they do. If kids were just broke and bored, that's what they'd be doing.
But then you need to stop importing immigrants to make up for the shortfall or you're just replacing your civilization with a different one.
Well, that's what we've been doing since before founding of the United States. There are several rants by Benjamin Franklin from the 1750's about how German immigrants are ruining the proper anglo-saxon culture as they are unclean, lazy, and fail to socialize to the current culture. The United States has always been about 10% immigrants (there was a dip to 5% in the early 50's). Our economy is based on growing and using cheap labor to do it. We've also complained about every new wave of immigration, claiming it will be the end of our culture, till the next wave comes and the old wave joins in the bitching.
Adblock and NoScript seem to make the web a much nicer, faster, safer, cleaner place.
Very much so. For the last 6-12 months I've noticed Safari on multiple macs crashing, freezing, and failing to load pages at least one a day. I went and installed various ad blockers as an experiment and so far it's been weeks without a single such crash or freeze. I was willing to let ads by but not when they are actively breaking the internet. Ad in fear of third party injection of malware via ads, and now I'll always install an adblocking extension.
You call off the cuff remarks that are often implausible or borderline retarded "working for it"? I see Trump do precious little actual work. He seems almost willfully ignorant of constitutional and legal matters, and seems to be in no hurry to learn any of these things.
And when you consider that the President's main job is to be the public face and representative of the USA and it's people to the governments of the rest of the world and their people, it all seems like electing your drunk uncle to run the family business. He isn't even president yet and I think two countries have considered his entry into their country due to things he's said.
The trigger happy twitter fingers of Trump is what gets the security service guys nervous. He is scheduled to get his first security briefing. There's nothing stopping him from tweeting that information and then blowing up the reaction into another Media Moment for himself.
Hey. Democrats said they wanted a more transparent government when Obama got into office. Maybe the Republicans will actually give it to them.
I really don't think "the Internet" has a lot to do with this, nor do I think it's a "trend." Everybody acts like entrepreneurship was invented in the past couple decades. But how do you think people "got ahead" in previous centuries? How do you think we had a "rise of the middle class" that moved us out of the dark ages of feudalism, then led the charge for the Industrial Revolution, etc.?
I would not dismiss the internet that easily, nor trends. Social media is certainly a thing, and something that may have existed in some form previously but is now much different and something that many /.ers tend to ignore or make fun of. Many companies have people whose job is to run their social media. It's like a combination of ad copy and public relations. Then there are things like Kickstarter. In the past, a hobbiest or artist might make a few items, perhaps even sell some. With Kickstarter it has become much easier to do so as you can take a small production item without viability in the normal supply chain and actually turn a profit. One friend of mine, who is probably one of the ones being talked about in the article, is making a living by managing Kickstarters for artists and niche products with a one time production run of a few hundred units.
Don't worry systemd will be ported to Windows soon.
Ported to? Where do you think it was ported from?
If somoene want to be more 'socially acceptable' then how about not reading texts at all in social situations, how about people, I dunno, pay attention to the people they're with, rather than retreating into their smartphones like some 12-year old who is bored with the adults' after-dinner conversation?
I can tell you've never worked in a position that required being on call.
smaller is better
Thats what she.....wait, no she didn't say that
It's just what she tells him because she respects his feelings.
-the abuse is largely a myth as always has been. the famous "welfare queen" Reagan talked about? a single middle class white woman who was caught and sent to jail. though the image in most conservatives minds is an unmarried black women with a dozen kids (re: racism). in reality, for the reasons state above, she actually isn't like to be receiving any TANF.
Linda Taylor was a white con artist probably posing as more than 80 people who was also into child kidnapping and possibly murder. She has never been convicted of anything if the following internet article can be believed.
Shouldn't that be 1023 (not including yourself)?
I'm sure they thinks they are the original.
ISIS wants to enslave or kill anyone not a Muslim to their standards. Our appeasement strategy will not work no matter how ethical we are.
The only way to end the threat of Islamic takeover of the world, next year or in 20 centuries, is to annihilate Islam root and branch. Turning Iran into a radioactive wasteland would be a good start.
You say you don't want to appease ISIL, but then say we should nuke their main adversary, Iran. Sicne you're not an AC, I'll just assume you're clueless.
...the democrats to get on the air quickly and start advocating for Banning ALL Assault Trucks immediately!!
I believe the Brits are already talking about trying to limit "truck crime".
The claim isn't that robots have no use or that humans are better for exploration. Strictly speaking it only claims that there is some exploration that only humans can do well.
Yes, we could get lots of science done fairly quickly by putting a couple of people on Mars for a few months. However, it still comes down to that for the resources it would take to do that, we could put hundreds of robots on Mars that could work for years, each doing their own little specialized job, and do more science and get the results sooner.
I hope we do send men to Mars but I seriously think people do not realize how much that will actually take to do and how long it will take. The ISS is the most expensive project mankind has worked on and it hasn't even left orbit. It's resupply missions don't have to leave orbit. It doesn't have to deal with deep space radiation. It doesn't have to support it's own independent landing and launch facilities. etc. etc. etc.
Conservative doesn't mean wacko like in the US
And it's high time conservatives reclaim the title from the wackos
That might happen if Trump wins the election in November.
+1 Funny
Remember that "on the cloud" just means "on somebody else's server". They may say you'll never lose it, but they have been known to lie, or go under, or change their service. Remember the Sidekick which advertised all your phone data would be in the cloud and backed up so you'd never risk losing it?
Did the person who wrote TFA even look for consistency in their article?
I'm guessing it's just an example of internet outrage journalism. Coming up with supported and well thought out content is hard, takes work, and doesn't get that much viral play. Coming up with something that demeans something else and is essentially wrong, will be posted throughout the interwebs by people ranting about how it is wrong and correcting them. It's just like the days of usenet. Well researched posts will be the only post in a thread and fade to obscurity, while bullshit garbage will result in internet flame wars that will go down in legend. In these days of needing to collect eyes and clicks for advertising, web sites are filling themselves with bullshit garbage because that gets those in spades.
Nowadays, you can build a usable gaming rig out of new parts for $500-ish, and from used parts for what, $250, tops?
Nowadays, for the past ten years even, you just put word out to the people you know and somebody will probably have a suitable computer and give it to you because that's simpler than trying to dispose of electronics otherwise.
The most obvious example in physics is Galileo - whose idea of the sun being the center of the solar system was deemed quite absurd by the orthodoxy of his time - yet turned out to be true.
A better one for the modern age would be anti-matter. It was proposed simply because the math allowed it. A few years later, they had experimental evidence of it.
That is a good point! When I go to the grocery there are anywhere from 8 to 20 varieties of apples depending on season, why can't I have a variety of bananas to choose from?
You can if you go to an asian grocery. Even my neighborhood QFC carries plantains and some other bananas occationally.