Of course the arguable advantage of the model is that if you really want an improvement you can design and implement it yourself.
Indeed. Anyone can do it. And when "anyone" includes the likes of IBM and Oracle and HP, I just fail to see why they never have. Maybe I am wildly mistaken, but it seems that millions of users want nothing really hard, just easy, fast and free access to a few games, a better-than-microsoft IM client, mp3 downloads, etc. Why can't a user experience ease of use in these simple things, is beyond me. Even joe-user-targeted, desktop-focused Ubuntu doesn't come with an easy button for an IM that a teenager who's addicted to msn can quickly get comfy with, and any games better than solitaire. Next step - call me and ask to install "the real" msn messenger. Heck, the kid should have gotten something that kept him entertained talking to his friends for at least *one hour* until he figured out he wasn't running windows.
Indeed everyone that asks me about migrating to Linux is asking about "can I run xyz programs". The answer to that question is generally what matters most. It's not an easy question, there are no easy answers to it, but it's the most relevant.
It's a sinkhole apparently. But even if it *is* a crater with a meteor on the bottom. I don't see what's the great big deal. Big dead rock falls from space and makes big hole. It's common, happens all the time, in bigger or smaller scale. Not much changes. Meteors don't bring unknown elements, biological life forms, or confirmation of nonhuman intelligent life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event There are plenty of more mysterious things to investigate in the natural world than space rocks, with authoritative sources confirming their descriptions, and no easily-found logical explanation.
No the source of the problem is the value of the degree exceeds the value of the courses.
The piece of paper at the end is the important part, the classes leading to that piece of paper are failing to provide sufficient benefit to the students.
Yes, the way schools, education, knowledge transfer and development is structured is all obsolete. Knowledge is not the real value in many schools, paperwork is. If someone studies completely outside of schools and simply learns more than many graduates, most people will say "but you don't have a degree." As if that were the main purpose of study. Thankfully there are a handful of places that don't care, and simply test your knowledge before you are hired.
...what happens once the cheaters get high-ranking positions in the business or political world. That's when the entire economic system turns to shit.
Read any newspapers lately? Heard of Enron, Tyco, Ireland, Greece, Fannie and Freddie?
Is their any way keeping track of the cheaters and blacklisting them from ever managing any sizable projects or organizations?
You could start with the Fortune 500 and extrapolate to any organization with similar accounting and management methods. Um, yes, that's basically just regular accepted business method - lies and obfuscation.
Unfortunately it's actually been falling. It was at 1% but it's been going down. Perhaps Android is going to change that. It's not standard Linux, but then again Linux hardly has much of a standard.
Is there some place that conducts desktop user focus groups, market studies, etc, on how to increase Linux desktop acceptance? Does anyone publish these results. I participated in a few market-study projects, and although I don't really like these techniques for increasing the sales of detergent, I admit they are awfully effective for understanding what the user thinks of and wants. The ideas that guru techs have of user needs are evidently going to be different than the conclusions that direct observation of user comments by usability engineers, psychologists and anthropologists.
What about ANGBAND??? Surely the hours I've poured into that have improved me in some way? Surely???
If you had to read and understand lots of text, it did help you with reading and interpretation. As to the visual, reflexes, etc, I believe playing ball will do the same, with some extra benefits for the rest of the body too. I love games. But I sort of put them aside a bit. I was sad to realize that several of the guys that gather around gaming places do tend to confuse reality and gaming and actually carry the "gaming" attitude into real life, getting into fights rather often.
The only way to combat monopolies is either government legislation, or strong, close coordination among multiple parties who share an opinion. No more-powerful-entity (government) combat, no public coordination, so the emperor's elite guard still holds the fort. Microsoft has created for itself plenty of enemies, but nobody seems to be able to agree on doing anything effective. I can understand a million independent programmers having trouble agreeing, but I really don't understand how or why Apple, Oracle, IBM, HP, Dell, etc haven't been able to coordinate and come up even with more reasonably competitive monopoly-breaking products which is in their strong interest.
I worked with a guy who had owned USD$500,000 in stock options. He had nothing again, both of us were working for no salary on some miserable startup. You don't buy anything with stock options, you know.
Indeed the corporation now wields greater power than the nation-state. I saw an article the other day that Vienna, traditional, old stomping ground of national spies, has lost some of it's importance in that world. Although many of the national-spies now have the company of their new industrial espionage overlords. So indeed corporations now buy nation-state leaders. Presidents and politicians plead for time on the media, who makes them or breaks them. Lobbyists and their money and "favors" exert greater influence on congressmen than voters. Corporations often have greater effect on jobs than government policies. That is the state of the game today. But nothing lasts forever. The global economy teeters ever more often now, and corporations plead for rescue from who? Guess what, one of these days, the answer will be no - you corporate master, you go broke, we people buy your assets, and we own you now.
People and the media are so scared and jumpy of everything, blowing up two balloons on a plane and a video of the reactions could become a terrorist scare.
Honestly is seems rather easy to initiate some sort of terrorism. The fact that these things just don't ever happen to me is evidence that either these people just don't exist or that there is massive surveillance. It could be both. The Beltway sniper, allegedly John Allen Muhammad, and one minor, Lee Boyd Malvo, successfully terrorized the entire DC region. Two guys with a rifle and an old car. Oklahoma City Bombing, supposedly McVeigh - one guy with a truck and fertilizer. In real war people are immensely creative and can figure out several kinds of attacks even against a fully armed, alert and trained army, as Iraq shows anyone. How easy is it to simply scare millions of civilians in the US, who are constantly being warned, scared, and made paranoid by the media and government anyway? I think the fact that it is never done is simply evidence there are no such people. There are no terrorists. What there is, is OIL and money, and a global financial crisis of this system that just does not work, and some excuses to shore up the US Dollar with lots of free oil supplies is desperately needed. This was foreseen long ago, that is why Iraq has been wanted since Bush Sr.
The parallel/black market for IPV4 addresses is already growing. In practice the price of these will start going up. Existing companies/services start running out of IPV4 addresses to hand out to clients of services with strong growth. New projects/companies start having trouble getting blocks of addresses large enough to attend all clients. Some resort to black market, some to NAT.
Yes, i believe you are correct. Obfuscation security is removed. It has to be re-implemented with new IPV6 firewalls if it is desired. The main objective of IPV6 is exatly that however, give everything on the network a public, globally-routable IP address, which is, yes, reachable. That makes it reachable by friend and foe, but there is a possible, rational way for p2p programs, SIP, games, etc to connect, no more wacky port-forwarding and NAT-traversing weird and proprietary code and intermediating servers and lack of connectivity when desired. However the computer is connected directly to the internet, just as any user at home with their router plugged into their computer, and IPV6 implementers have to enable security on each host.
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Of course the arguable advantage of the model is that if you really want an improvement you can design and implement it yourself.
Indeed. Anyone can do it. And when "anyone" includes the likes of IBM and Oracle and HP, I just fail to see why they never have. Maybe I am wildly mistaken, but it seems that millions of users want nothing really hard, just easy, fast and free access to a few games, a better-than-microsoft IM client, mp3 downloads, etc. Why can't a user experience ease of use in these simple things, is beyond me. Even joe-user-targeted, desktop-focused Ubuntu doesn't come with an easy button for an IM that a teenager who's addicted to msn can quickly get comfy with, and any games better than solitaire. Next step - call me and ask to install "the real" msn messenger. Heck, the kid should have gotten something that kept him entertained talking to his friends for at least *one hour* until he figured out he wasn't running windows.
Indeed everyone that asks me about migrating to Linux is asking about "can I run xyz programs". The answer to that question is generally what matters most. It's not an easy question, there are no easy answers to it, but it's the most relevant.
It's a sinkhole apparently. But even if it *is* a crater with a meteor on the bottom. I don't see what's the great big deal. Big dead rock falls from space and makes big hole. It's common, happens all the time, in bigger or smaller scale. Not much changes. Meteors don't bring unknown elements, biological life forms, or confirmation of nonhuman intelligent life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event There are plenty of more mysterious things to investigate in the natural world than space rocks, with authoritative sources confirming their descriptions, and no easily-found logical explanation.
No the source of the problem is the value of the degree exceeds the value of the courses.
The piece of paper at the end is the important part, the classes leading to that piece of paper are failing to provide sufficient benefit to the students.
Yes, the way schools, education, knowledge transfer and development is structured is all obsolete. Knowledge is not the real value in many schools, paperwork is. If someone studies completely outside of schools and simply learns more than many graduates, most people will say "but you don't have a degree." As if that were the main purpose of study. Thankfully there are a handful of places that don't care, and simply test your knowledge before you are hired.
Maybe he was turned down as a speech witer. He obviouly likes to let people know the truth eventually.
...what happens once the cheaters get high-ranking positions in the business or political world. That's when the entire economic system turns to shit.
Read any newspapers lately? Heard of Enron, Tyco, Ireland, Greece, Fannie and Freddie?
Is their any way keeping track of the cheaters and blacklisting them from ever managing any sizable projects or organizations?
You could start with the Fortune 500 and extrapolate to any organization with similar accounting and management methods. Um, yes, that's basically just regular accepted business method - lies and obfuscation.
Unfortunately it's actually been falling. It was at 1% but it's been going down. Perhaps Android is going to change that. It's not standard Linux, but then again Linux hardly has much of a standard.
Is there some place that conducts desktop user focus groups, market studies, etc, on how to increase Linux desktop acceptance? Does anyone publish these results. I participated in a few market-study projects, and although I don't really like these techniques for increasing the sales of detergent, I admit they are awfully effective for understanding what the user thinks of and wants. The ideas that guru techs have of user needs are evidently going to be different than the conclusions that direct observation of user comments by usability engineers, psychologists and anthropologists.
What about ANGBAND??? Surely the hours I've poured into that have improved me in some way? Surely???
If you had to read and understand lots of text, it did help you with reading and interpretation. As to the visual, reflexes, etc, I believe playing ball will do the same, with some extra benefits for the rest of the body too. I love games. But I sort of put them aside a bit. I was sad to realize that several of the guys that gather around gaming places do tend to confuse reality and gaming and actually carry the "gaming" attitude into real life, getting into fights rather often.
But see, that's the beauty of corporate accounting. They never actually lie,.
Enron was the master of it. Every company does it. Capitalists are out to kill capitalism. In my view, they will succeed.
The only way to combat monopolies is either government legislation, or strong, close coordination among multiple parties who share an opinion. No more-powerful-entity (government) combat, no public coordination, so the emperor's elite guard still holds the fort. Microsoft has created for itself plenty of enemies, but nobody seems to be able to agree on doing anything effective. I can understand a million independent programmers having trouble agreeing, but I really don't understand how or why Apple, Oracle, IBM, HP, Dell, etc haven't been able to coordinate and come up even with more reasonably competitive monopoly-breaking products which is in their strong interest.
Hah! Poverty in Google Town, that's a good one!
I worked with a guy who had owned USD$500,000 in stock options. He had nothing again, both of us were working for no salary on some miserable startup. You don't buy anything with stock options, you know.
Yes if you are caught watching anything other than "don't be evil" on it.
Indeed the corporation now wields greater power than the nation-state. I saw an article the other day that Vienna, traditional, old stomping ground of national spies, has lost some of it's importance in that world. Although many of the national-spies now have the company of their new industrial espionage overlords. So indeed corporations now buy nation-state leaders. Presidents and politicians plead for time on the media, who makes them or breaks them. Lobbyists and their money and "favors" exert greater influence on congressmen than voters. Corporations often have greater effect on jobs than government policies. That is the state of the game today. But nothing lasts forever. The global economy teeters ever more often now, and corporations plead for rescue from who? Guess what, one of these days, the answer will be no - you corporate master, you go broke, we people buy your assets, and we own you now.
People and the media are so scared and jumpy of everything, blowing up two balloons on a plane and a video of the reactions could become a terrorist scare.
The politics that would come up as a consequence to Israeli-inspired interrogations to all US passengers would be quite an event.
Honestly is seems rather easy to initiate some sort of terrorism. The fact that these things just don't ever happen to me is evidence that either these people just don't exist or that there is massive surveillance. It could be both. The Beltway sniper, allegedly John Allen Muhammad, and one minor, Lee Boyd Malvo, successfully terrorized the entire DC region. Two guys with a rifle and an old car. Oklahoma City Bombing, supposedly McVeigh - one guy with a truck and fertilizer. In real war people are immensely creative and can figure out several kinds of attacks even against a fully armed, alert and trained army, as Iraq shows anyone. How easy is it to simply scare millions of civilians in the US, who are constantly being warned, scared, and made paranoid by the media and government anyway? I think the fact that it is never done is simply evidence there are no such people. There are no terrorists. What there is, is OIL and money, and a global financial crisis of this system that just does not work, and some excuses to shore up the US Dollar with lots of free oil supplies is desperately needed. This was foreseen long ago, that is why Iraq has been wanted since Bush Sr.
not customer facing because that's a much bigger job.
Farmville is giving players free virtual cash for anyone connecting over IPV6. That will get users banging on the ears of the ISP companies.
The parallel/black market for IPV4 addresses is already growing. In practice the price of these will start going up. Existing companies/services start running out of IPV4 addresses to hand out to clients of services with strong growth. New projects/companies start having trouble getting blocks of addresses large enough to attend all clients. Some resort to black market, some to NAT.
A dancing turtle is not enough?!?
I dunno, but I think free beer, porn, games and music downloads would make IPV6 a bit more, well, sexy.
Yes, i believe you are correct. Obfuscation security is removed. It has to be re-implemented with new IPV6 firewalls if it is desired. The main objective of IPV6 is exatly that however, give everything on the network a public, globally-routable IP address, which is, yes, reachable. That makes it reachable by friend and foe, but there is a possible, rational way for p2p programs, SIP, games, etc to connect, no more wacky port-forwarding and NAT-traversing weird and proprietary code and intermediating servers and lack of connectivity when desired. However the computer is connected directly to the internet, just as any user at home with their router plugged into their computer, and IPV6 implementers have to enable security on each host.
Profit motives always ruin things.
The IPv6 Mess.
Seems like a solid critique, but I haven't found any proposed solutions of how it could have been managed more smoothly. Were there any?
We won't run out of addresses on IPv6 for a very long time indeed.
Nobody will ever need more than 640k.
VINT Cerf he is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf