limited time should be viewed with respect to that basis. 25 seems reasonable to me.
Not going to happen in a nation as stupid as america, you're a totally lawless nation and you worship corporations. George carlin said it best about americans.
... the reality is there are billions of people in developing nations whose economies are suddenly irrelevant. Bill is a little too out of touch with reality. Many planners in the american military are planning for full dystopia.
Using a computer and the motivation to be forced how it works are different, if you think back to the original generation of techies they were pretty much forced to learn via how the OS was structured closer to a programming language via command line. Many kids will never learn about 640K memory limits, etc. Nor the history of computing. There's nothing there to force you to learn what is actually going on. As tedious as say early dos and win 3.1 were it forced people to learn or else you couldn't really use a computer it was basically an IQ test. If you were too dumb you couldn't use it. Making computers easy to use does not in any way increase the odds of people being curious or interested to learn how these systems work.
The real nerds will still be real nerds and doing nerdy things. Big companies are just sad most people aren't cut out for coding nor have any genuine interest in technology. That's the reality.
... microsoft has made an idiocracy through getting rid of the command line based section of the OS as it's own thing largely. Old operating systems like MS-dos and other programs like games, etc should be required part of any computer course so they actually learn to trouble shoot computers and actually have a course in computer history. Some enterprising company should really make a whole virtual machine that emulates what it is like to run early computer software and configure a virtual computer inside a vm to teach these kids.
Those of us who grew up to program had to read the dos manual and put in the hours. It wasn't really that hard because it forced you to learn how your computer actually worked to some extent. They didn't need total electrical engineering type knowledge but at least you had a clue what your machine actually did. The fact that "programmers" are becoming idiots may just be a reflection that dumber people are going into programming. Those of us with a genuine interest in computers put in the hours because it was a hobby first long before it became a job.
Our "friends", the antivirus vendors, turned around and sued us, claiming we were blocking their livelihood and abusing our monopoly power! With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Really from the company that's actively pro active in sabatoging privacy and people owning their own software via UWP? So much so that Gabe at Valve wouldn't let the new age of empires onto steam because of the windows store and UWP issue.
That's not quite what happened. The internet undermined the populations ability to hold these organizations accountable. The free market dogma "you have a choice" is a capitalist myth. The game industry is a case in point, pre high speed internet you had control of the game software, they had to give you the entire game if they wanted to get paid because there was no internet to take part of the game files hostage on their servers. After high speed internet penetration became a thing. Game companies pushed mmo's as a trial balloon with massive propaganda to sell people on paying monthly for a game you don't control or own. The problem is there is a constant new stream of kids being born, those irrational kids and their parents, the unintelligent/irrational part of the population voted away the rights of the informed half of the consumer base (aka vote with your wallet). That is why there is such outrage amongst the intelligent, because the stupid voted away our right to control software and we would have stormed their offices if our society was setup to give us the resources to hold them accountable (aka you were paid by the state to be a citizen to go visit them and give them some angry physical proximity). The internet and tech has fundamentally broken and undermined the power of the individual against large organizations because it requires us to be physically located near them in any way have any kind of market power in the relationship.
The problem is the internet is worldwide, aka goes across the globe and across the country, that gave corporations instant access to kids and the dumb half of the population, that dumb half voted against the smart half to remove their rights. AKA many of us didn't pay a thing for these companies but new kids and idiot parents are legion at the bottom of the bell curve. So the internet allowed the unintelligent to vote away the rights of the intelligent. The intelligent half of the population could have prevented it but that would have required our institutions to be setup for us to be paid to be citizens and be mobile so we could storm their offices, that is why the corporations and business community can simply take over society, telecommunications infrastructure undermins the very basis of the free market because the customer has no ability to influence the business.
The internet undermined market power of the individual, that's the reality. There is no market not that it ever really existed, for those of us who are politically informed.
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
DRM undermines peoples privacy and rights to be left alone. It basically undermines basic human rights to your own property (computer) and privacy because it is beyond human ability to know what programs are doing on your machine.
... since they are all in bed with the entertainment industry and are hell bent on a war against computing and people owning and controlling their own software.
The fact Nintendo keeps fucking up their own franchises is proof Nintendo is out of touch. Other M was a disaster and Nintendo's involvement was why, they picked the wrong developer and the original metroid creator boned his own franchise because he has no idea how western gamers see and experience metroid. One can easily just look at the bad game scores to see how wrong you are.
I feel like Nintendo should have done something for the Wii U purchasers other than basically say "yup, you shouldn't have bought that".
Nintendo has no understanding of their own customers or gaming culture as a whole, it would never occur to Nintendo for instance that the developers of Freespace 2 (PC) are gods gift to flight/space games and have them make a starfox. Nintendo is seriously out of touch with western gaming audiences and how we game they don't see how global game culture operates from the gamers perspective. AKA people who grew up on the NES also played games like Doom, Civilization, etc, on PC. They don't just game on one platform.
Nintendo is largely stuck in the past and that's part of the reason why they've had problems maintaining the quality of many of their properties like what happened with starfox, Metroid other M and F-zero.
During the gamecube era Nintendo went with their stupid mini-discs instead of going for DVD's, their fear of "piracy" is irrational, they should have done the microsoft strategy and just accepted some piracy for ease of porting so they increase their installed base. They are a technologically backwards company, they think they are a toy company or disney. This is why western game companies have been eating their lunch, third party japanese game developers like dark souls maker From software has finally come around and started releasing their games on PC. I'm glad that many japanese companies like Sega and From software finally get what american game companies were doing forever.
Japanese game companies still haven't released a port of Panzer dragoon for the Xbox or anything like that on PC. The reality is many older gamers wouldn't mind those games but they aren't going to buy consoles to play them and when they look at sales on console they think there is no interest instead of having an awareness that their is an entire generation of 35+ gamers who will simply wait you out by either borrowing from their riends, not play the game. The same goes for RPG's like Xenoblade 2, it would never occur to Nintendo when they said "RPG's don't sell well on their console" that there's a tonne of interest in Xenoblade but not enough for adults to buy a console. They don't seem to get the gamer generation that grew up on the original NES can take or leave games because they are adults. This is lost on a company like Nintendo.
... it combined the gameboy with the console. Without the mobile element I have doubts it would have been as successful. Nintendo was largely saved by the gameboy it allowed their consoles to weather the storm. But they still have tanked some of their own properties like starfox and F-zero stupidily.
... the internet opened the doors to endless entertainment and curiousity, you can really never get bored because you're interacting with other people. Despite all the trolling and awfulness of internet comments the reality is humanity likes a train wreck, even amongst the most intelligent it's hard for those curious primates NOT to look.
... UI design becomes non trivial, if we look at how complex apps who have thousands of functions hidden or burried that even normal UI's can't handle. There's tonnes of stuff in many apps today that most people don't even know exists largely because it's buried in the lookup of the help menu.
UI consistency does matter if your app is simple then you can probably get away with it but you need to be able to read what something does at a glance.
... the way corporate execs see movies or any other media is the problem. The reality is you have new kids and people being born into the world all the time of various degree's of intelligence and education levels. So just because a movie has commercial success doesn't mean it isn't bad. Most people are stupid so movies would tend to reflect the intelligence of the average human being on our planet. It's called lowest common denominator for a reason.
The same way most of us look back on early cartoons of our youth when we are older and can see how media corporations were exploiting the fact we were young and just born yesterday. Every 15-20 years another generation of "born yesterays" appears with no memory of the past, so everything is new and exciting it's part of the reason why movies for average quality because we are a short lived species, older people have had decades of experience to refine their tastes. Those people with refined tastes eventually die and are replaced. So there's and endless wave excellence and mediocrity as generations live and die.
The reality is without critics directors would not be able to maintain any kind of semblance of quality. Since it's usually people who are intelligent that are making movies for audiences less intelligent than themselves.
JPEG isn't just limited by needlessly large file sizes. It's also weak when it comes to supporting a wider range of bright and dark tones, a broader spectrum of colors, and graphic elements like text and logos
Look what it says above, this means the idiot programmers specced the file specs like a dimwit.
It sounds an awful lot like you couldn't code your way out of a wet paper bag.
Stupid fucks like you don't seem to understand the average person now on the internet knows nothing of file formats. AKA that's why their are so many one stop conversion websites to automatically do conversions because the average person is dumb. The fact is programmers program file formats without thinking of transitioning to some future better implementation so they don't design the spec in a way that they can easily change the implementation while using the same filename. So the joke is on you, you dipshit. The exact opposite is true, it's unlikely you can code wroth a damn and suffer from Dunning Kruger.
Bottom line is consumer opinion no longer matters.
It has nothing to do with consumer opinion it's that the internet undermins consumer power, pre internet they had to physically give you the software if they wanted to get paid, post internet they can simply hold part of the software hostage and extract money from the serfs. Basically SaaS is fraud. The only reason it exists is because the average person is ignorant of how technology works. If the elite market participants were geographically close enough to influence the business then their anger would compel management to make user controlled software again.
... of fake news. I love this bullshit that mainstream media has been pushing. The reality is the elites have lost control of the public mind and don't like it.
You're not taking reality into account, most people of intelligence have lives and just asking people to do it for free means there was already intellectual interest it would have been done long ago. The reality is if the problem is hard or non trivial then it's genuinely work.
... then programmers need to get a clue and write an interpreter that becomes widespread AND also write a format that allows it to be read by legacy JPEG codecs that are now in use - i.e. at first jpegs will not reduce in file size because you're implementing backwards compatibility so people can make the transition to the new format.
We can benefit from technology without giving ourselves and our data over to corporations.
Sorry to tell ya, you're living in fantasy land. In a post internet age, most products people buy have some software component and most people are technology illiterate. They are incapable of making rational decisions regarding technology.
Consider silicon valley and the videogame industry has always wanted to take control of software on their customers computers, during the 90's PC game boom video game companies were trying to deal with growing costs of making PC RPG's so they decided to try to see how stupid the average person was and they rebadged single player rpg's with a multiplayer component "MMO". This lead to the normalization of paying for software you don't own or control and seeing it as acceptable. They got a generation of stupid nerds and adults to literally give up their rights to own the software they buy. That's the level of stupid we're dealing with on this planet.
Theoretically in some alternate reality you'd be correct, but human beings are predatory apes. So that means the side of humanity that is capable of engaging in trade peacefully and the ones that aren't are in conflict with each other. The predatory members of our species are shareholders and people in the miltiary and government at this time in history, that's a fact and reality.
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket....It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23] "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of traumatised soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
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limited time should be viewed with respect to that basis. 25 seems reasonable to me.
Not going to happen in a nation as stupid as america, you're a totally lawless nation and you worship corporations. George carlin said it best about americans.
Carlin
US distribution of wealth
https://imgur.com/a/FShfb
Wealth in america
... the reality is there are billions of people in developing nations whose economies are suddenly irrelevant. Bill is a little too out of touch with reality. Many planners in the american military are planning for full dystopia.
Pentagon video warns of our dystopian future
Microsoft did?
Everyone did, but microsoft was a follower, after apple, amiga, etc
Microsoft is the dominant OS, and for most programmers you'd be programming on or for a microsoft OS.
Using a computer and the motivation to be forced how it works are different, if you think back to the original generation of techies they were pretty much forced to learn via how the OS was structured closer to a programming language via command line. Many kids will never learn about 640K memory limits, etc. Nor the history of computing. There's nothing there to force you to learn what is actually going on. As tedious as say early dos and win 3.1 were it forced people to learn or else you couldn't really use a computer it was basically an IQ test. If you were too dumb you couldn't use it. Making computers easy to use does not in any way increase the odds of people being curious or interested to learn how these systems work.
The real nerds will still be real nerds and doing nerdy things. Big companies are just sad most people aren't cut out for coding nor have any genuine interest in technology. That's the reality.
... microsoft has made an idiocracy through getting rid of the command line based section of the OS as it's own thing largely. Old operating systems like MS-dos and other programs like games, etc should be required part of any computer course so they actually learn to trouble shoot computers and actually have a course in computer history. Some enterprising company should really make a whole virtual machine that emulates what it is like to run early computer software and configure a virtual computer inside a vm to teach these kids.
Those of us who grew up to program had to read the dos manual and put in the hours. It wasn't really that hard because it forced you to learn how your computer actually worked to some extent. They didn't need total electrical engineering type knowledge but at least you had a clue what your machine actually did. The fact that "programmers" are becoming idiots may just be a reflection that dumber people are going into programming. Those of us with a genuine interest in computers put in the hours because it was a hobby first long before it became a job.
Why the hell is it that values that Americans seems to cherish are left at the entrance when they go to work? Fucking disgraceful.
Because americans are fucking spoiled hypocritical children.
From article:
Our "friends", the antivirus vendors, turned around and sued us, claiming we were blocking their livelihood and abusing our monopoly power! With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Really from the company that's actively pro active in sabatoging privacy and people owning their own software via UWP? So much so that Gabe at Valve wouldn't let the new age of empires onto steam because of the windows store and UWP issue.
The War is already over. You lost.
That's not quite what happened. The internet undermined the populations ability to hold these organizations accountable. The free market dogma "you have a choice" is a capitalist myth. The game industry is a case in point, pre high speed internet you had control of the game software, they had to give you the entire game if they wanted to get paid because there was no internet to take part of the game files hostage on their servers. After high speed internet penetration became a thing. Game companies pushed mmo's as a trial balloon with massive propaganda to sell people on paying monthly for a game you don't control or own. The problem is there is a constant new stream of kids being born, those irrational kids and their parents, the unintelligent/irrational part of the population voted away the rights of the informed half of the consumer base (aka vote with your wallet). That is why there is such outrage amongst the intelligent, because the stupid voted away our right to control software and we would have stormed their offices if our society was setup to give us the resources to hold them accountable (aka you were paid by the state to be a citizen to go visit them and give them some angry physical proximity). The internet and tech has fundamentally broken and undermined the power of the individual against large organizations because it requires us to be physically located near them in any way have any kind of market power in the relationship.
The problem is the internet is worldwide, aka goes across the globe and across the country, that gave corporations instant access to kids and the dumb half of the population, that dumb half voted against the smart half to remove their rights. AKA many of us didn't pay a thing for these companies but new kids and idiot parents are legion at the bottom of the bell curve. So the internet allowed the unintelligent to vote away the rights of the intelligent. The intelligent half of the population could have prevented it but that would have required our institutions to be setup for us to be paid to be citizens and be mobile so we could storm their offices, that is why the corporations and business community can simply take over society, telecommunications infrastructure undermins the very basis of the free market because the customer has no ability to influence the business.
The internet undermined market power of the individual, that's the reality. There is no market not that it ever really existed, for those of us who are politically informed.
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
DRM undermines peoples privacy and rights to be left alone. It basically undermines basic human rights to your own property (computer) and privacy because it is beyond human ability to know what programs are doing on your machine.
... since they are all in bed with the entertainment industry and are hell bent on a war against computing and people owning and controlling their own software.
The coming war on General computing and software freedom
Except that's not the case, anyone with any design sense can see having space battles like this inside a starfox game would be awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhAR8rWPluQ
The fact Nintendo keeps fucking up their own franchises is proof Nintendo is out of touch. Other M was a disaster and Nintendo's involvement was why, they picked the wrong developer and the original metroid creator boned his own franchise because he has no idea how western gamers see and experience metroid. One can easily just look at the bad game scores to see how wrong you are.
I feel like Nintendo should have done something for the Wii U purchasers other than basically say "yup, you shouldn't have bought that".
Nintendo has no understanding of their own customers or gaming culture as a whole, it would never occur to Nintendo for instance that the developers of Freespace 2 (PC) are gods gift to flight/space games and have them make a starfox. Nintendo is seriously out of touch with western gaming audiences and how we game they don't see how global game culture operates from the gamers perspective. AKA people who grew up on the NES also played games like Doom, Civilization, etc, on PC. They don't just game on one platform.
Nintendo is largely stuck in the past and that's part of the reason why they've had problems maintaining the quality of many of their properties like what happened with starfox, Metroid other M and F-zero.
During the gamecube era Nintendo went with their stupid mini-discs instead of going for DVD's, their fear of "piracy" is irrational, they should have done the microsoft strategy and just accepted some piracy for ease of porting so they increase their installed base. They are a technologically backwards company, they think they are a toy company or disney. This is why western game companies have been eating their lunch, third party japanese game developers like dark souls maker From software has finally come around and started releasing their games on PC. I'm glad that many japanese companies like Sega and From software finally get what american game companies were doing forever.
Japanese game companies still haven't released a port of Panzer dragoon for the Xbox or anything like that on PC. The reality is many older gamers wouldn't mind those games but they aren't going to buy consoles to play them and when they look at sales on console they think there is no interest instead of having an awareness that their is an entire generation of 35+ gamers who will simply wait you out by either borrowing from their riends, not play the game. The same goes for RPG's like Xenoblade 2, it would never occur to Nintendo when they said "RPG's don't sell well on their console" that there's a tonne of interest in Xenoblade but not enough for adults to buy a console. They don't seem to get the gamer generation that grew up on the original NES can take or leave games because they are adults. This is lost on a company like Nintendo.
... it combined the gameboy with the console. Without the mobile element I have doubts it would have been as successful. Nintendo was largely saved by the gameboy it allowed their consoles to weather the storm. But they still have tanked some of their own properties like starfox and F-zero stupidily.
... the internet opened the doors to endless entertainment and curiousity, you can really never get bored because you're interacting with other people. Despite all the trolling and awfulness of internet comments the reality is humanity likes a train wreck, even amongst the most intelligent it's hard for those curious primates NOT to look.
... UI design becomes non trivial, if we look at how complex apps who have thousands of functions hidden or burried that even normal UI's can't handle. There's tonnes of stuff in many apps today that most people don't even know exists largely because it's buried in the lookup of the help menu.
UI consistency does matter if your app is simple then you can probably get away with it but you need to be able to read what something does at a glance.
... the way corporate execs see movies or any other media is the problem. The reality is you have new kids and people being born into the world all the time of various degree's of intelligence and education levels. So just because a movie has commercial success doesn't mean it isn't bad. Most people are stupid so movies would tend to reflect the intelligence of the average human being on our planet. It's called lowest common denominator for a reason.
The same way most of us look back on early cartoons of our youth when we are older and can see how media corporations were exploiting the fact we were young and just born yesterday. Every 15-20 years another generation of "born yesterays" appears with no memory of the past, so everything is new and exciting it's part of the reason why movies for average quality because we are a short lived species, older people have had decades of experience to refine their tastes. Those people with refined tastes eventually die and are replaced. So there's and endless wave excellence and mediocrity as generations live and die.
The reality is without critics directors would not be able to maintain any kind of semblance of quality. Since it's usually people who are intelligent that are making movies for audiences less intelligent than themselves.
Did you even RTFA?
JPEG isn't just limited by needlessly large file sizes. It's also weak when it comes to supporting a wider range of bright and dark tones, a broader spectrum of colors, and graphic elements like text and logos
Look what it says above, this means the idiot programmers specced the file specs like a dimwit.
"programmers" should get a clue?
It sounds an awful lot like you couldn't code your way out of a wet paper bag.
Stupid fucks like you don't seem to understand the average person now on the internet knows nothing of file formats. AKA that's why their are so many one stop conversion websites to automatically do conversions because the average person is dumb. The fact is programmers program file formats without thinking of transitioning to some future better implementation so they don't design the spec in a way that they can easily change the implementation while using the same filename. So the joke is on you, you dipshit. The exact opposite is true, it's unlikely you can code wroth a damn and suffer from Dunning Kruger.
Bottom line is consumer opinion no longer matters.
It has nothing to do with consumer opinion it's that the internet undermins consumer power, pre internet they had to physically give you the software if they wanted to get paid, post internet they can simply hold part of the software hostage and extract money from the serfs. Basically SaaS is fraud. The only reason it exists is because the average person is ignorant of how technology works. If the elite market participants were geographically close enough to influence the business then their anger would compel management to make user controlled software again.
... of fake news. I love this bullshit that mainstream media has been pushing. The reality is the elites have lost control of the public mind and don't like it.
You're not taking reality into account, most people of intelligence have lives and just asking people to do it for free means there was already intellectual interest it would have been done long ago. The reality is if the problem is hard or non trivial then it's genuinely work.
... then programmers need to get a clue and write an interpreter that becomes widespread AND also write a format that allows it to be read by legacy JPEG codecs that are now in use - i.e. at first jpegs will not reduce in file size because you're implementing backwards compatibility so people can make the transition to the new format.
... he should just hire some people to do so.
We can benefit from technology without giving ourselves and our data over to corporations.
Sorry to tell ya, you're living in fantasy land. In a post internet age, most products people buy have some software component and most people are technology illiterate. They are incapable of making rational decisions regarding technology.
Consider silicon valley and the videogame industry has always wanted to take control of software on their customers computers, during the 90's PC game boom video game companies were trying to deal with growing costs of making PC RPG's so they decided to try to see how stupid the average person was and they rebadged single player rpg's with a multiplayer component "MMO". This lead to the normalization of paying for software you don't own or control and seeing it as acceptable. They got a generation of stupid nerds and adults to literally give up their rights to own the software they buy. That's the level of stupid we're dealing with on this planet.
Making money is not 'wicked'.
Theoretically in some alternate reality you'd be correct, but human beings are predatory apes. So that means the side of humanity that is capable of engaging in trade peacefully and the ones that aren't are in conflict with each other. The predatory members of our species are shareholders and people in the miltiary and government at this time in history, that's a fact and reality.
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23] "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of traumatised soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/