Somewhere between the growing totalitarian hell of the US and UK and the apparently overly-respectful approach of the Dutch... Somewhere, is there a sane country where I can live?
The speeding comment of the parent poster is in the same category as complaining about taxes etc. It's not that bad. The Netherlands is a crowded country, heavy traffic, and that means much regulation. That's part of our nature.
The terrible mistakes the police makes occasionally are true, and that happens everywhere. There is much to improve, but all in all it's still good living here.
Now he'll experience a "corporate mandate called $variable" where $variable = { "the cloud" , "Windows 8" , "whatever marketing thinks up next" }
Whatever marketing thinks up next? Marketing at Microsoft is just baffled at the size of the finger they gave to Google. It just showed up, and they're still looking into it with remote desktop.
Which is one reason the system is so fucked up to start with.
Just getting ACCUSED of something can bankrupt you. Guilt doesn't enter it. Just like in the civil court system, big companies mostly use the legal system as a bludgeon, burying opponents in paperwork and attorney's fees regardless of truth or merit of any lawsuit.
Maybe in the US (or should I say: only in the US;-). Seriously - I live in the Netherlands, where we face similar problems with many cases not going to trial, although we normally don't go bankrupt just by being accused. I have a personal insurace for situations like these (about $30/month I believe). I have a job, a normal income, but not loads of money in the bank. When I have a legal problem, depending on the situation, I get legal council, and when I need a lawyer, the insurance pays, and most of the time I get to choose the lawyer. In some cases they can choose to settle it that's cheaper for them, but that is not in criminal cases of course.
I live in the Netherlands. We have two nuclear powerplants here, plus a bunch of them close enough in Belgium and Germany. If one of these plants has a serious accident, it could harm millions of people. And even if it isn't a medical problem, as we might be able to move all those people to safer places, the socio-economic problems will be enormous, and the problems we're facing with Greece now will be small compared to this. Look at Japan, where they considered evacuating Tokyo last year. They didn't make this public until recently, but think about that. What if they had to leave Tokyo and stay out for the next 50 years?
There is no other energy source that can create problems on such scale in such a short time.
Was the smartphone, or tablet, or laptop, or music player revolutionary when apple released it, or was it the device they copied from that was revolutionary.
In the sense that previous attempts at such devices did not in fact create a revolution, while Apple's did, it seems that the answer is obvious.
What many people find difficult to grasp is that Apple creates a product revolution, not by being the first to make a device of a particular type, but by being the first to do it really well. And they do it over and over again. They don't invent the mousetrap, they invent the better mousetrap.
I thought they invented the mouse!!! But hey look how smart they are, now they make mouses as well as mousetraps, but isn't the mighty mouse too smart to get trapped? Does this mean we get a MousetrAppStore as well?
Indeed. After years of enduring networks with servers with tree names or GI Joe character names, when it came for me to come up with names for my servers and other network devices, I came up with functional names that describe physical locations, departments, functions, and so forth. That way I have a descriptive network rather than trying to remember which one of the Power Rangers the last IT guy liked the best.
They can be functional by metaphor. Lake names can be used for storage. Star or planet names or river names for mailservers, etc. OK, given the server name Mercurius, people won't instantly know that it's a mailserver, but once the system is clear, it's quite simple. And occasionally you come across a name that you don't know, which can be educational as well for those interested.
This is actually want impress me the must. My smartphone (HTC Desire) have more computing power, than my PC I used back in 1994 did.
If I were in one of those bad "time traveller" movies, and brought my cellphone, they wouldn't believe I only came from 18 years in the future with the amount of power my cellphone have.
They wouldn't believe you anyway. What can you do with a modern smartphone in 1994? No youtube, twitter, facebook, gmail, no 3G, not even GPRS, no not even GSM, and after three days (because you're battery last 3x longer because you don't use video and 3G) it goes dead because there is no usb to load the battery. The only thing left is to use it to sniff some coke from the smooth touchscreen, but that's it.
The prime insight on this that you need to know is that the European Commission is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
It's not who is first against the wall. It's not even who is last against the wall. It's the bits in between I worry about.
Another bit in the wall.... Wasn't that a number 1 hit in many countries?
$6 trillion of allegedly fake U.S. Treasury bonds in Switzerland.
LOLOLOLOLOL, how reliable is Switzerland and their swisse banks as to don't accepting fake U.S. Treasury bonds? Didn't they check the validity of the money when accepting them? Then, why did they have them fake inside?. LOLOLOLOL.
In Quantum Mechanics, $100'000 is an infinitesimal measurement value that is 99.9999% statistically undetectable respecting to the current relative totality of the current U.S. debt of >$13'000'000'000'000.00
Obama bought much plutonium under his bribery, and at same time, he did forbid to the Iran's president Ahmadinejad to fabricate its own plutonium. Period.
In the obscurity's underground of Obama, he did prepare many ICBMs with plutonium's warheads for the comming World War III in this Spring 2012 announced precipitatedly by Israel & U.S..
During this coming spring, instead of breaking out flowers, they will sprout nuclear mushrooms. What why is that?.
JCPM: my/our arrow is into GRID of Quantum SAT solvers.
My poor brain. What did I just read?
I zhink ze lulz are taking over ze zlazzzhhhdod mahn! My dear!
I think you might be wrong. If you have a website that has multiple Google ads on top, and you find this website via Google search, you probably click away. Promoting websites like this is shortsided, even if it means that they will earn a little more money. In the long run the user starts to distrust Google and will try something else. So it is in Google's interest to do this for all sites, no matter if they have Google ads or not.
What interests me is that you obviously don't own your own phone according to the gospel of Jobs. This is why I moved from Apple. Unless Apple Inc. wishes to give me a free phone, I OWN THE DAMN THING.
Apache and nginx are both used for plenty of high traffic websites...
Not so long ago MS were also paying large domain registrars to host their parked sites (ie empty sites, but lots of them) on IIS to artificially inflate the netcraft stats.
And apparently MS has stopped paying them, so now they use Apache or maybe even Nginx and the inflation has backfired.
Some of those use cases are of course a little far fetched, but essentially what you want is a rich and flexible way to interact with your computer. Neither CLIs nor GUIs really provide that and both of them don't really mix well (i.e. double clicking on the output of 'ls' should allow you to open a file).
Some simple examples that do stuff like this, although this is clearly not as advanced as what you suggest:
* OSX Finder: drag file into Terminal, and the filename including the path is copied to the terminal * Ubuntu Nautilus: press CTRL-L and the path turns into an textfield with the complete path, which you can copy and edit
In the server case, MS is embracing CLI with more and more Powershell instrumentation. In the *nix world we've had it since the inception of the platform, but MS admins are getting very enthusiastic about a CLI now that they are given it.
For the desktop end-user, the traditional CLI may not usually apply, but in many ways all the search dialogs in various places end up serving the role of a CLI,
I really like the UNIX-way, where almost everything is CLI-based, and for most of these commands, there is a GUI available as well. That GUI does usually not have all the options or has them in such a way that they still are inaccessible, but it does the job for anyone not familiar with those commands. And that's the way it should be. OSX and Ubuntu do this really well (which are the two systems I use on a regular basis) for OS-stuff.
But take Photoshop (the non-OS-stuff), if I take a selection or apply a color-correction, I think it would be great if I could push a button, and a small window pops up with the command for that filter in it. Of course it should be a readable command, so you could edit it and apply it again. I read about Maya, which does something like this.
Maybe the creators of Linux (and naturally the various flavours of Unix it comes from) also thought about users, but simply had a different subset of users in mind?
About 1% of the population is capable of multitasking. Only they can focus on their gadget and the road. The rest should stay as far away from that as possible.
According to published studies, those who are actually good at multitasking generally consider themselves bad at it, and tend to avoid it. On the other hand, those who consider themselves good at multitasking are rather bad at it. Yet another manifestation of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
The more you know, the more you realise that there is so much more that you will never know.
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Somewhere between the growing totalitarian hell of the US and UK and the apparently overly-respectful approach of the Dutch... Somewhere, is there a sane country where I can live?
The speeding comment of the parent poster is in the same category as complaining about taxes etc. It's not that bad. The Netherlands is a crowded country, heavy traffic, and that means much regulation. That's part of our nature.
The terrible mistakes the police makes occasionally are true, and that happens everywhere. There is much to improve, but all in all it's still good living here.
So he moved back to Microsoft? Huh? Don't get it.
Now he'll experience a "corporate mandate called $variable"
where $variable = { "the cloud" , "Windows 8" , "whatever marketing thinks up next" }
Whatever marketing thinks up next? Marketing at Microsoft is just baffled at the size of the finger they gave to Google. It just showed up, and they're still looking into it with remote desktop.
Which is one reason the system is so fucked up to start with.
Just getting ACCUSED of something can bankrupt you. Guilt doesn't enter it. Just like in the civil court system, big companies mostly use the legal system as a bludgeon, burying opponents in paperwork and attorney's fees regardless of truth or merit of any lawsuit.
Maybe in the US (or should I say: only in the US ;-). Seriously - I live in the Netherlands, where we face similar problems with many cases not going to trial, although we normally don't go bankrupt just by being accused. I have a personal insurace for situations like these (about $30/month I believe). I have a job, a normal income, but not loads of money in the bank. When I have a legal problem, depending on the situation, I get legal council, and when I need a lawyer, the insurance pays, and most of the time I get to choose the lawyer. In some cases they can choose to settle it that's cheaper for them, but that is not in criminal cases of course.
Stop being afraid of nuclear.
Deaths per terawatt-hour for all energy sources
I live in the Netherlands. We have two nuclear powerplants here, plus a bunch of them close enough in Belgium and Germany. If one of these plants has a serious accident, it could harm millions of people. And even if it isn't a medical problem, as we might be able to move all those people to safer places, the socio-economic problems will be enormous, and the problems we're facing with Greece now will be small compared to this. Look at Japan, where they considered evacuating Tokyo last year. They didn't make this public until recently, but think about that. What if they had to leave Tokyo and stay out for the next 50 years?
There is no other energy source that can create problems on such scale in such a short time.
In the sense that previous attempts at such devices did not in fact create a revolution, while Apple's did, it seems that the answer is obvious.
What many people find difficult to grasp is that Apple creates a product revolution, not by being the first to make a device of a particular type, but by being the first to do it really well. And they do it over and over again. They don't invent the mousetrap, they invent the better mousetrap.
I thought they invented the mouse!!! But hey look how smart they are, now they make mouses as well as mousetraps, but isn't the mighty mouse too smart to get trapped? Does this mean we get a MousetrAppStore as well?
Indeed. After years of enduring networks with servers with tree names or GI Joe character names, when it came for me to come up with names for my servers and other network devices, I came up with functional names that describe physical locations, departments, functions, and so forth. That way I have a descriptive network rather than trying to remember which one of the Power Rangers the last IT guy liked the best.
They can be functional by metaphor. Lake names can be used for storage. Star or planet names or river names for mailservers, etc. OK, given the server name Mercurius, people won't instantly know that it's a mailserver, but once the system is clear, it's quite simple. And occasionally you come across a name that you don't know, which can be educational as well for those interested.
Why haven't these police officers been arrested?
Arrested by who? Their peers who do not want to be videotaped either?
By metacops, naturally.
But who metas the metacops?
Robocop metas the metacops of course. He obeys the directives of the robots.txt, by following the metatags.
My royalty payment is in an envelope, just behind my SUV.
In Suviet Union, envelops pay you - in your royal behind.
Comparing a shitware-loaded OEM Windows version to a Mac is apples and oranges.
It's not apples and oranges, it's windows and apples, and the apples are really good for throwing at those windows. And see how they break...
This is actually want impress me the must.
My smartphone (HTC Desire) have more computing power, than my PC I used back in 1994 did.
If I were in one of those bad "time traveller" movies, and brought my cellphone, they wouldn't believe I only came from 18 years in the future with the amount of power my cellphone have.
They wouldn't believe you anyway. What can you do with a modern smartphone in 1994? No youtube, twitter, facebook, gmail, no 3G, not even GPRS, no not even GSM, and after three days (because you're battery last 3x longer because you don't use video and 3G) it goes dead because there is no usb to load the battery. The only thing left is to use it to sniff some coke from the smooth touchscreen, but that's it.
The prime insight on this that you need to know is that the European Commission is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
It's not who is first against the wall. It's not even who is last against the wall. It's the bits in between I worry about.
Another bit in the wall.... Wasn't that a number 1 hit in many countries?
LOLOLOLOLOL, how reliable is Switzerland and their swisse banks as to don't accepting fake U.S. Treasury bonds? Didn't they check the validity of the money when accepting them? Then, why did they have them fake inside?. LOLOLOLOL.
In Quantum Mechanics, $100'000 is an infinitesimal measurement value that is 99.9999% statistically undetectable respecting to the current relative totality of the current U.S. debt of >$13'000'000'000'000.00
Obama bought much plutonium under his bribery, and at same time, he did forbid to the Iran's president Ahmadinejad to fabricate its own plutonium. Period.
In the obscurity's underground of Obama, he did prepare many ICBMs with plutonium's warheads for the comming World War III in this Spring 2012 announced precipitatedly by Israel & U.S..
During this coming spring, instead of breaking out flowers, they will sprout nuclear mushrooms. What why is that?.
JCPM: my/our arrow is into GRID of Quantum SAT solvers.
My poor brain. What did I just read?
I zhink ze lulz are taking over ze zlazzzhhhdod mahn! My dear!
It would be entertaining if it exhibited pack behavior. 30 or 40 of them running around together would be pretty interesting to see.
You mean like this, but then on the ground.
Wannabes. The religious hipster cool kids have been getting their media via STONE TABLET for several millenniums now.
Stone tablet... the really cool kids have been using the walls of caves.
Tsss, The really cool kids are fossils themselves.
Not many, but there are some. Moving it to Mogadishu, for instance.
I think Alcatraz beats Mogadishu.
Presumably not punishing google ads
(ducks)
I think you might be wrong. If you have a website that has multiple Google ads on top, and you find this website via Google search, you probably click away. Promoting websites like this is shortsided, even if it means that they will earn a little more money. In the long run the user starts to distrust Google and will try something else. So it is in Google's interest to do this for all sites, no matter if they have Google ads or not.
What interests me is that you obviously don't own your own phone according to the gospel of Jobs. This is why I moved from Apple. Unless Apple Inc. wishes to give me a free phone, I OWN THE DAMN THING.
In Jobiet Russia, the phone owns you!
Apache and nginx are both used for plenty of high traffic websites...
Not so long ago MS were also paying large domain registrars to host their parked sites (ie empty sites, but lots of them) on IIS to artificially inflate the netcraft stats.
And apparently MS has stopped paying them, so now they use Apache or maybe even Nginx and the inflation has backfired.
Some of those use cases are of course a little far fetched, but essentially what you want is a rich and flexible way to interact with your computer. Neither CLIs nor GUIs really provide that and both of them don't really mix well (i.e. double clicking on the output of 'ls' should allow you to open a file).
Some simple examples that do stuff like this, although this is clearly not as advanced as what you suggest:
* OSX Finder: drag file into Terminal, and the filename including the path is copied to the terminal
* Ubuntu Nautilus: press CTRL-L and the path turns into an textfield with the complete path, which you can copy and edit
In the server case, MS is embracing CLI with more and more Powershell instrumentation. In the *nix world we've had it since the inception of the platform, but MS admins are getting very enthusiastic about a CLI now that they are given it.
For the desktop end-user, the traditional CLI may not usually apply, but in many ways all the search dialogs in various places end up serving the role of a CLI,
I really like the UNIX-way, where almost everything is CLI-based, and for most of these commands, there is a GUI available as well. That GUI does usually not have all the options or has them in such a way that they still are inaccessible, but it does the job for anyone not familiar with those commands. And that's the way it should be. OSX and Ubuntu do this really well (which are the two systems I use on a regular basis) for OS-stuff.
But take Photoshop (the non-OS-stuff), if I take a selection or apply a color-correction, I think it would be great if I could push a button, and a small window pops up with the command for that filter in it. Of course it should be a readable command, so you could edit it and apply it again. I read about Maya, which does something like this.
Maybe the creators of Linux (and naturally the various flavours of Unix it comes from) also thought about users, but simply had a different subset of users in mind?
Like ducks?
Google + Mozilla = Gozilla
Wrong! As you could know, it is Godzilla, which is final proof that Google is God.
Surfing porn all day does not make one an internet expert.
Hush. I put it on my resume and my employer bought it.
He bought your resumé? At what price? If you can sell that, you're in the wrong business.
About 1% of the population is capable of multitasking. Only they can focus on their gadget and the road. The rest should stay as far away from that as possible.
According to published studies, those who are actually good at multitasking generally consider themselves bad at it, and tend to avoid it. On the other hand, those who consider themselves good at multitasking are rather bad at it. Yet another manifestation of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
The more you know, the more you realise that there is so much more that you will never know.
The Bad Astronomer writes
Bad is quite the understatement here, considering that this story is over 2000 years old.
Yeah and I suppose it's duped about a quadrillion times in those parallel universes.