Judge Chamberlain Haller: Uh did you say ‘yutes’?
Vinny Gambini: Yeah, two yutes.
Judge Chamberlain Haller: What is a yute?
Vinny Gambini: Oh, excuse me, your honor
https://youtu.be/K6qGwmXZtsE?t...
I do this for a living, so my answer is somewhat detailed.
Newspapers were using content management systems for this purpose beginning around 1970, before PCs. Previous to that, stories were transmitted electronically, stored on punch tape in a 6-bit format, but edited on paper and re-keyboarded as necessary.
If you wanted to use a story as-is, without editing, you could have a copyboy go find the right punch tape and hand-carry it to the typesetting department.
Computerizing the editing process/approval process allowed written material to be stored, edited on screens, and output directly to electronic typesetters (which were already computerized; a major use of the PDP-8 was automated hyphenation and justification). The story "files" were typically organized in "queues" or "baskets."
The earliest CMS were bespoke, but they quickly became standardized -- "off the shelf" with potentially a great deal of customization, produced by about a dozen companies around the world that often designed and built their own hardware components.
Electronic page layout was pioneered on these systems. One of the first was at the Minneapolis Star and Tribune; the project leader later created founded Aldus, created Pagemaker, and the desktop publishing revolution followed.
As desktop publishing emerged, it displaced bespoke layout systems, and networked PCs displaced proprietary terminals, and SQL databases displaced proprietary storage, but the putting them together into a usable workflow system remained a specialty. In general, the CMS companies got out of the hardware business entirely and focused on software and services.
Photos came later. Keep in mind that the JPEG standard didn't even exist until the 1990s. The first wirephoto storage-and-editing systems were big bespoke monsters that looked like something from a 1950s sci-fi serial, but they were quickly replaced by Mac-based tools, and then the core CMS systems embraced photo management.
Broadcasting trailed all of this in many ways. TV stations actually produce fairly little information in the common sense of the word, and have lighter requirements for handling text, but huge amounts of data in the form of video. When I first worked in TV, video was shot on film, then videotape. As video became digitized and companies like Avid created digital video editors, managing the data became a requirement there as well, and a specialty.
It's now possible to put together a text/image/video workflow system with open source tools. For a single publication, I could do it in a few days with Drupal, and if the Web is the target, it's all pretty straightforward. But the news CMS field is still dominated by specialty vendors.
Print is still a huge driver of revenue, and that means interfacing with advertising workflow and print page layout tools. Adobe InDesign is pretty much the standard there, although I know of one or two systems that have proprietary layout. As a result, a small (and shrinking) number of specialty vendors dominate. They integrate off-the-shelf components, including open source tools and commercial software.
Where I work, writers are using CKEditor, but it's implemented in a proprietary Web-based workflow system that publishes to multiple Drupal sites on the Web and integrates with InDesign for print. Wire service information, agency photos, etc., all come into the CMS.
Because most of the older legacy systems are utterly print-focused, they can be extremely frustrating in a digital world. Some news companies have assemble parallel production systems for the Web, stitching together any number of off-the-shelf components, or writing proprietary code. If you use Django, you should know that it was created at a newspaper company. The Washington Post has created its own system called Arc that it is peddling to other news companies.
Skype was a big deal back in the day. I can remember holding my laptop up to a window in Paris to steal an unsecured wifi signal and phone home. Wowza! But that was ten years ago. I have dozens of VoIP and video conferencing choices. The world has moved on and Microsoft is the backwater, not the mainstream.
I spent a week in Ukraine a few months ago and wound up on a three-hour conference call with work back in the US, using Google Voice. (Whether that's progress or not is open to debate.) But I was not concerned about losing the 10-euro credit on my Skype account when I got an expiration notice from the Borg.
Like the VHS tapes I just hauled off to Goodwill... I just don't need it any more.
When I was in India several years ago, it was not possible to get onto the Internet without proof of identity. In order to use a computer at a cyber cafe, I had to provide my passport, whose number was duly recorded in a register along with the beginning and ending times of my session. Considering the terrorism attacks since then, I would expect that practice to continue.
So how is the Google/RailTel access handled? Do people have to provide proof of identity to establish an account? Is it actually open? Encrypted?
Yes. Google Voice. I've been using it for years. When I travel internationally (outside of T-Mobile's free European roaming), I can call home on a local number with a foreign SIM. "Digits will cost an extra monthly fee...." Don't need it.
The current tablet FireOS predicts what you might want to watch and, if you have plenty of space on your SD card, preloads video content when you're on wifi. You don't have to manage the downloads (they are purged if the space is needed). The external SD integration is actually better than that of Android Marshmallow.
This Linux vs Microsoft vs Apple thing is like watching three angry old men rant at each other while the kids and their kids have moved on.
Netflix. Hulu. Google Translate. Swype. Google Now. Alexa. Quit thinking of the world as bounded by 20th century desktop computing paradigms and Microsoft/Apple business models. Linux is already everywhere, on phones and watches and TV sets and cameras and devices that don't quite have names yet, and it's running closed-source apps on open-source foundations.
In 1991 I was an Atari ST user. I'd learned C, written some software to connect it to Usenet, and spent most of my time in a command line or MicroEMACS rather than in the graphical interface. At that point it was clear that Atari was headed for oblivion, and I jokingly told some of my friends that I was thinking about kicking it aside for something really crazy -- a PC running Minix, or maybe even that new Linux thing people were talking about.
The following year I used the U of M Gopher system to download SLS Linux (the very first distro) to a handful of floppies, and took them to a computer junk store across from the Minnesota Supercomputer Center. I told the proprietor that if he could bolt something together that would boot SLS, I'd buy it. I went home with a '386 with a 10MB hard drive, a keyboard, and a cheap monochrome monitor, and never looked back.
The big breakthrough was switching from Miniterm to a TCP/IP dialup connection made available by a friend at the university. I downloaded alpha kernel patches from ftp.funet.fi and recompiled about once a week. I hovered over sunsite.unc.edu and wuarchive.wustl.edu. Swapped in a '486 motherboard and I was on a roll. I wound up putting Linux on a spare Pentium at work for the mission-critical functions of file sharing between PCs and Macs and Friday afternoon Quake.
Linux has been a great platform for the elderly for years.
My mother, who also is in her 80s, bought a Toshiba Latitude in 2007. It came with Vista and not enough RAM to run anything other than Solitaire. I installed Ubuntu, which took about 15 minutes, and fixed the sound config, which took about two days, and she's been fine ever since.
But her version of Ubuntu is no longer supported, and rather than try to upgrade -- she lives 12 hours away, so it's not exactly convenient -- we bought her a self-updating Chromebook on Black Friday. So far, so good, although she's going to have to switch to an HTML5 solitaire game instead of AisleRiot, which has been her go-to for the last seven years.
I'm still running Ubuntu on my own laptop, but Cinnamon may lure me away. I need to upgrade, and I am not a fan of what Ubuntu has done to the UI.
I lived through 14 Minnesota winters, and after a similar period in the South, I can say they're really not similar.
Southern pines are spectacular, much taller than those typical in Minnesota, because they can grow for years without being beaten down by the weather. When once in a decade or so they get coated with ice, the result is chaos -- whole trees snapping five feet above ground, crashing through attics into living rooms, tearing down power lines along the way. It sounds like cannon fire echoing through the woods.
The problems of winter hitting the South are not limited to lack of equipment, preparation, or winter driving skills. Nature just isn't ready for it.
The real story, not in this report because the "market" has been artificially restricted to "desktop" visits to websites, is that total Windows usage (ALL versions) has tumbled to a minority position overall because of the rise of mobile/tablet devices. iOS and Android have rebalanced the personal computing world into a heterogenous environment where open standards are more important than corporate fiat. Fanbois call this fragmentation; I call it healthy.
If you're not investing your energy in your personal time in furtherance of your mastery of your craft, you're doomed. The world will swiftly leave you behind and it's nobody's fault but your own. The coding skills you have today are obsolescent in 18 months. It may be wise for your employer to invest in your continuing education and foolish to not do so, but it's not the employer's responsibility. It's yours. You made the choice to be in a line of work where very little is permanent.
If you're not comfortable with that, consider masonry.
I'd shamefully abide if I could figure out how to come anywhere NEAR the usage cap. What on earth are you doing? I consume a lot of streaming media -- Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Xfinity, Youtube, Pandora -- on a Roku, two laptops, a couple of Android and iOS devices, and various family members rotate in and out with whatever toys they bring. I'm using about a quarter of my limit. Hitting the usage cap is probably nature's way of telling you to go outside and look at the real world.
Slashdot Mirror
Because it's much better to have bespoke security holes?
... for you kids who were born too late. A brilliant take on Microsoft's branding genius. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Apparently you're not a T-Mobile customer, or you wouldn't be posting about "india based call centers."
Uninstall Windows.
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Uh did you say ‘yutes’? Vinny Gambini: Yeah, two yutes. Judge Chamberlain Haller: What is a yute? Vinny Gambini: Oh, excuse me, your honor https://youtu.be/K6qGwmXZtsE?t...
I do this for a living, so my answer is somewhat detailed.
Newspapers were using content management systems for this purpose beginning around 1970, before PCs. Previous to that, stories were transmitted electronically, stored on punch tape in a 6-bit format, but edited on paper and re-keyboarded as necessary.
If you wanted to use a story as-is, without editing, you could have a copyboy go find the right punch tape and hand-carry it to the typesetting department.
Computerizing the editing process/approval process allowed written material to be stored, edited on screens, and output directly to electronic typesetters (which were already computerized; a major use of the PDP-8 was automated hyphenation and justification). The story "files" were typically organized in "queues" or "baskets."
The earliest CMS were bespoke, but they quickly became standardized -- "off the shelf" with potentially a great deal of customization, produced by about a dozen companies around the world that often designed and built their own hardware components.
Electronic page layout was pioneered on these systems. One of the first was at the Minneapolis Star and Tribune; the project leader later created founded Aldus, created Pagemaker, and the desktop publishing revolution followed.
As desktop publishing emerged, it displaced bespoke layout systems, and networked PCs displaced proprietary terminals, and SQL databases displaced proprietary storage, but the putting them together into a usable workflow system remained a specialty. In general, the CMS companies got out of the hardware business entirely and focused on software and services.
Photos came later. Keep in mind that the JPEG standard didn't even exist until the 1990s. The first wirephoto storage-and-editing systems were big bespoke monsters that looked like something from a 1950s sci-fi serial, but they were quickly replaced by Mac-based tools, and then the core CMS systems embraced photo management.
Broadcasting trailed all of this in many ways. TV stations actually produce fairly little information in the common sense of the word, and have lighter requirements for handling text, but huge amounts of data in the form of video. When I first worked in TV, video was shot on film, then videotape. As video became digitized and companies like Avid created digital video editors, managing the data became a requirement there as well, and a specialty.
It's now possible to put together a text/image/video workflow system with open source tools. For a single publication, I could do it in a few days with Drupal, and if the Web is the target, it's all pretty straightforward. But the news CMS field is still dominated by specialty vendors.
Print is still a huge driver of revenue, and that means interfacing with advertising workflow and print page layout tools. Adobe InDesign is pretty much the standard there, although I know of one or two systems that have proprietary layout. As a result, a small (and shrinking) number of specialty vendors dominate. They integrate off-the-shelf components, including open source tools and commercial software.
Where I work, writers are using CKEditor, but it's implemented in a proprietary Web-based workflow system that publishes to multiple Drupal sites on the Web and integrates with InDesign for print. Wire service information, agency photos, etc., all come into the CMS.
Because most of the older legacy systems are utterly print-focused, they can be extremely frustrating in a digital world. Some news companies have assemble parallel production systems for the Web, stitching together any number of off-the-shelf components, or writing proprietary code. If you use Django, you should know that it was created at a newspaper company. The Washington Post has created its own system called Arc that it is peddling to other news companies.
Skype was a big deal back in the day. I can remember holding my laptop up to a window in Paris to steal an unsecured wifi signal and phone home. Wowza! But that was ten years ago. I have dozens of VoIP and video conferencing choices. The world has moved on and Microsoft is the backwater, not the mainstream.
I spent a week in Ukraine a few months ago and wound up on a three-hour conference call with work back in the US, using Google Voice. (Whether that's progress or not is open to debate.) But I was not concerned about losing the 10-euro credit on my Skype account when I got an expiration notice from the Borg.
Like the VHS tapes I just hauled off to Goodwill ... I just don't need it any more.
Maybe some big company could make its own version of Android.
When I was in India several years ago, it was not possible to get onto the Internet without proof of identity. In order to use a computer at a cyber cafe, I had to provide my passport, whose number was duly recorded in a register along with the beginning and ending times of my session. Considering the terrorism attacks since then, I would expect that practice to continue.
So how is the Google/RailTel access handled? Do people have to provide proof of identity to establish an account? Is it actually open? Encrypted?
Yes. Google Voice. I've been using it for years. When I travel internationally (outside of T-Mobile's free European roaming), I can call home on a local number with a foreign SIM. "Digits will cost an extra monthly fee...." Don't need it.
The current tablet FireOS predicts what you might want to watch and, if you have plenty of space on your SD card, preloads video content when you're on wifi. You don't have to manage the downloads (they are purged if the space is needed). The external SD integration is actually better than that of Android Marshmallow.
This Linux vs Microsoft vs Apple thing is like watching three angry old men rant at each other while the kids and their kids have moved on.
Netflix. Hulu. Google Translate. Swype. Google Now. Alexa. Quit thinking of the world as bounded by 20th century desktop computing paradigms and Microsoft/Apple business models. Linux is already everywhere, on phones and watches and TV sets and cameras and devices that don't quite have names yet, and it's running closed-source apps on open-source foundations.
In 1991 I was an Atari ST user. I'd learned C, written some software to connect it to Usenet, and spent most of my time in a command line or MicroEMACS rather than in the graphical interface. At that point it was clear that Atari was headed for oblivion, and I jokingly told some of my friends that I was thinking about kicking it aside for something really crazy -- a PC running Minix, or maybe even that new Linux thing people were talking about.
The following year I used the U of M Gopher system to download SLS Linux (the very first distro) to a handful of floppies, and took them to a computer junk store across from the Minnesota Supercomputer Center. I told the proprietor that if he could bolt something together that would boot SLS, I'd buy it. I went home with a '386 with a 10MB hard drive, a keyboard, and a cheap monochrome monitor, and never looked back.
The big breakthrough was switching from Miniterm to a TCP/IP dialup connection made available by a friend at the university. I downloaded alpha kernel patches from ftp.funet.fi and recompiled about once a week. I hovered over sunsite.unc.edu and wuarchive.wustl.edu. Swapped in a '486 motherboard and I was on a roll. I wound up putting Linux on a spare Pentium at work for the mission-critical functions of file sharing between PCs and Macs and Friday afternoon Quake.
Now I run Linux on my wristwatch.
I figure the lottery is a tax on stupidity. And if it goes to $500 million I'm easily ten bucks' worth of stupid.
"But then some clever kid discovered he could get JavaScript running on the server. "
Really clever kid. We had this in 1994.
Apple has a patent on chips that are rectangular.
Linux has been a great platform for the elderly for years.
My mother, who also is in her 80s, bought a Toshiba Latitude in 2007. It came with Vista and not enough RAM to run anything other than Solitaire. I installed Ubuntu, which took about 15 minutes, and fixed the sound config, which took about two days, and she's been fine ever since.
But her version of Ubuntu is no longer supported, and rather than try to upgrade -- she lives 12 hours away, so it's not exactly convenient -- we bought her a self-updating Chromebook on Black Friday. So far, so good, although she's going to have to switch to an HTML5 solitaire game instead of AisleRiot, which has been her go-to for the last seven years.
I'm still running Ubuntu on my own laptop, but Cinnamon may lure me away. I need to upgrade, and I am not a fan of what Ubuntu has done to the UI.
Drupal 6 does not use the affected abstraction layer.
And there's where I stopped reading.
And also where you stopped thinking.
I lived through 14 Minnesota winters, and after a similar period in the South, I can say they're really not similar.
Southern pines are spectacular, much taller than those typical in Minnesota, because they can grow for years without being beaten down by the weather. When once in a decade or so they get coated with ice, the result is chaos -- whole trees snapping five feet above ground, crashing through attics into living rooms, tearing down power lines along the way. It sounds like cannon fire echoing through the woods.
The problems of winter hitting the South are not limited to lack of equipment, preparation, or winter driving skills. Nature just isn't ready for it.
The real story, not in this report because the "market" has been artificially restricted to "desktop" visits to websites, is that total Windows usage (ALL versions) has tumbled to a minority position overall because of the rise of mobile/tablet devices. iOS and Android have rebalanced the personal computing world into a heterogenous environment where open standards are more important than corporate fiat. Fanbois call this fragmentation; I call it healthy.
If you're not investing your energy in your personal time in furtherance of your mastery of your craft, you're doomed. The world will swiftly leave you behind and it's nobody's fault but your own. The coding skills you have today are obsolescent in 18 months. It may be wise for your employer to invest in your continuing education and foolish to not do so, but it's not the employer's responsibility. It's yours. You made the choice to be in a line of work where very little is permanent.
If you're not comfortable with that, consider masonry.
Story is about website traffic, not network bytecount.
I'd shamefully abide if I could figure out how to come anywhere NEAR the usage cap. What on earth are you doing? I consume a lot of streaming media -- Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Xfinity, Youtube, Pandora -- on a Roku, two laptops, a couple of Android and iOS devices, and various family members rotate in and out with whatever toys they bring. I'm using about a quarter of my limit. Hitting the usage cap is probably nature's way of telling you to go outside and look at the real world.
There are occasionally exceptions where people *need* to remain anonymous for fear of lawsuits or termination from their jobs
This is not nearly so rare as you imagine.