Yes, but in how many different versions and variants? Imagine if a tenth of that effort had gone into ONE project - it would have taken over the world already.
Every person with an interesting new idea leaves, tries something new, probably abandons for lack of market. That continual splintering of attention, effort, and involvement is why IMHO Linux keeps not winning. Heck, every time Linux comes out in a mainstream product it's a variant or a fork or a mutant, so even if one could eventually say that Linux-like systems predominate, there's no one consistent winner.
He's not an employer. He's not paying. So the kind of person with enough talent and initiative to change jobs if an employer treated him this way, will CERTAINLY have the initiative to jump ship if there's no reward. This is why Linux will NEVER WIN - because any time it gets near a critical mass of brainpower and talent, it schisms because that brainpower and talent doesn't need to put up with each other, unlike the brainpower and talent that chooses to put up with corporate attitudes in exchange for a paycheck and stock options. In comic books the lone ninjas beat the marching army; in the real world the marching army eventually overruns the ninjas, especially if the ninjas aren't working together and are just as happy to kill each other.
Recent news: Priest in NJ arrested because someone saw him point a musket threatening a child wearing the wrong sports team jersey. Except the priest, and another person in the room, say the "musket" is a replica, never loaded or fired or even usable, and in context of the conversation it was all a joke to everyone involved - other than the person passing by the door and getting an out-of-context "snapshot" view of a man with a weapon just days after a mass shooting elsewhere. Lesson: Even the best people do things that can be misunderstood, and even saints probably looked like assholes now and then.
Mod parent up, if I had any points. I worked on a project where the designer kept insisting that his design was decomposed and structured . . . yes, the little pieces all fit together - like a jigsaw puzzle, only one very specific way. "Structured" implies some kind of consistent interface, like Lego blocks that can be interchanged or moved or reused, not like a jigsaw puzzle.
Multics, on which Unix was based, was in the mid 1960s. OS370 had interprocess communication and multiprocess file access. Believe it or not, there WERE real computer systems before Unix and Linux, and don't let the garbage of DOS and Windows block your awareness of the tremendous amount of research and intelligent thought that had gone into systems before them.
Military. Maritime. Oil drilling. Film-making. Scientific research. Not everyone works in the same comfy chair in the same office every day, and some of them make excellent money - a cousin worked support staff on the Alaska pipeline, spent a 3-month stint each construction season and made a year's worth of money each time. The difference is, it used to mean being out of touch for the whole time you were away, and now you can have *some* contact.
This happened years ago. Information that people were required to give for their car registrations was then sold to marketing firms, and the state in question simply insisted that it was THEIR data to use as they saw fit. Well, yes, it is their data, but it was gathered under requirement (because you can't drive a car without registering it), and was presumed to have some degree of "privilege" (in the attorney-client sense).
Our only hope is that even average non-tech people are waking up to the privacy issues as they encounter fraudulent credit card charges, and the inconvenience of changing their accounts, on a regular basis due to the various data breaches that make the news.
In the workplace, people are supposed to be adult and professional and behave themselves. As a former teenage boy, I can assure you that teenage boys are, in general, jerks.
Some... parents have this attitude, that if their children don't do well in school, there must be a problem with the school. They can't accept that their children just don't do well in (academic subjects).
Maybe the school district has an entrenched jock culture and the sports team members bounce the "nerd" kids off the lockers. Or maybe the school district includes gang types and the school environment is violent. Or maybe the school district includes people whose classroom behavior is disruptive to academics (because they shouldn't be in those subjects or in a normal school, but there's no real alternative in either a serious vocational training sense or a special education sense). I went to a "magnet" high school; my local school district high school led the nation in violent crimes during the years I wasn't there. I'm sure there were people who scored just a few points lower on the entrance exam who wound up staying in their local schools and having to deal with it . . . unless their parents could afford private school.
>>>> The people who are firing those missiles and making those attacks are usually not controlled by Hamas, but... sabotage the peace efforts.
New York City and New Jersey are separated by the Hudson River. Imagine what would happen if someone in New Jersey were shooting rockets at New York City; one would expect the various New Jersey law enforcement agencies to try to find and stop them, rather than allowing them to hide their rockets in schools and houses of worship.
Bear in mind that the reason the post office was not allowed to intercept mail was PRECISELY because it was being run by the government, so when it was founded, nobody would trust it without such explicit guarantees. The example of bills and bank records is more complex: are those YOUR records of YOUR private business, or are they the company's records of the company's business with you?
... and consider that a sexbot, which could easily be made stronger than a human, would spend a lot of its time around humans in distracted and/or exhausted condition.
The booby-trap idea makes for a good movie, but consider just letting them have the sexbots gratis. Either the leaders lose control, or they have to get half of their soldiers to shoot the other half.
You're conflating two incompatibilities. Replacing one desktop (or laptop) with another is one thing; getting a tablet is different because nobody expects to plug their accessories or printers into a tablet quite the same way. Plus by the time tablets became common the need for network-attached independently-intelligent devices had become so prevalent that the infrastructure was there. There are still industrial and other control computers out there running XP or 95 or older, which wouldn't be so strange-looking if they were embedded systems with customized OSes that nobody even knew about.
Not that anyone's bothered denying the Moon landing lately; why bother? It's not even old news, it's history. And NASA still insists that people in a space station can't manage their own damn schedule with their own damn alarm clocks. Picture Mal Reynolds waiting for Mission Control to run through a million-point checklist to do anything . . .
I would put that differently: The tighter they squeeze their fist, the more they look exactly like the enemies they're supposedly trying to protect us from.
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Yes, but in how many different versions and variants? Imagine if a tenth of that effort had gone into ONE project - it would have taken over the world already.
Every person with an interesting new idea leaves, tries something new, probably abandons for lack of market. That continual splintering of attention, effort, and involvement is why IMHO Linux keeps not winning. Heck, every time Linux comes out in a mainstream product it's a variant or a fork or a mutant, so even if one could eventually say that Linux-like systems predominate, there's no one consistent winner.
He's not an employer. He's not paying. So the kind of person with enough talent and initiative to change jobs if an employer treated him this way, will CERTAINLY have the initiative to jump ship if there's no reward. This is why Linux will NEVER WIN - because any time it gets near a critical mass of brainpower and talent, it schisms because that brainpower and talent doesn't need to put up with each other, unlike the brainpower and talent that chooses to put up with corporate attitudes in exchange for a paycheck and stock options. In comic books the lone ninjas beat the marching army; in the real world the marching army eventually overruns the ninjas, especially if the ninjas aren't working together and are just as happy to kill each other.
Recent news: Priest in NJ arrested because someone saw him point a musket threatening a child wearing the wrong sports team jersey. Except the priest, and another person in the room, say the "musket" is a replica, never loaded or fired or even usable, and in context of the conversation it was all a joke to everyone involved - other than the person passing by the door and getting an out-of-context "snapshot" view of a man with a weapon just days after a mass shooting elsewhere. Lesson: Even the best people do things that can be misunderstood, and even saints probably looked like assholes now and then.
Mod parent up, if I had any points. I worked on a project where the designer kept insisting that his design was decomposed and structured . . . yes, the little pieces all fit together - like a jigsaw puzzle, only one very specific way. "Structured" implies some kind of consistent interface, like Lego blocks that can be interchanged or moved or reused, not like a jigsaw puzzle.
Multics, on which Unix was based, was in the mid 1960s. OS370 had interprocess communication and multiprocess file access. Believe it or not, there WERE real computer systems before Unix and Linux, and don't let the garbage of DOS and Windows block your awareness of the tremendous amount of research and intelligent thought that had gone into systems before them.
Mod parent up beyond 5. The higher the government official, the better.
Military. Maritime. Oil drilling. Film-making. Scientific research. Not everyone works in the same comfy chair in the same office every day, and some of them make excellent money - a cousin worked support staff on the Alaska pipeline, spent a 3-month stint each construction season and made a year's worth of money each time. The difference is, it used to mean being out of touch for the whole time you were away, and now you can have *some* contact.
Good people go to bed earlier..
But . . . alone?
This happened years ago. Information that people were required to give for their car registrations was then sold to marketing firms, and the state in question simply insisted that it was THEIR data to use as they saw fit. Well, yes, it is their data, but it was gathered under requirement (because you can't drive a car without registering it), and was presumed to have some degree of "privilege" (in the attorney-client sense).
Our only hope is that even average non-tech people are waking up to the privacy issues as they encounter fraudulent credit card charges, and the inconvenience of changing their accounts, on a regular basis due to the various data breaches that make the news.
In the workplace, people are supposed to be adult and professional and behave themselves. As a former teenage boy, I can assure you that teenage boys are, in general, jerks.
The business people want their cut of the cake we made ...
Umm . . . is there ever any other way that "business" people make money? other than by finding a way to package and re-sell other people's creativity?
Mod parent up (if I had mod points at the moment)
Some ... parents have this attitude, that if their children don't do well in school, there must be a problem with the school. They can't accept that their children just don't do well in (academic subjects).
Maybe the school district has an entrenched jock culture and the sports team members bounce the "nerd" kids off the lockers. Or maybe the school district includes gang types and the school environment is violent. Or maybe the school district includes people whose classroom behavior is disruptive to academics (because they shouldn't be in those subjects or in a normal school, but there's no real alternative in either a serious vocational training sense or a special education sense). I went to a "magnet" high school; my local school district high school led the nation in violent crimes during the years I wasn't there. I'm sure there were people who scored just a few points lower on the entrance exam who wound up staying in their local schools and having to deal with it . . . unless their parents could afford private school.
. . . . because "emergency sex robot deployment" sounds like a great concept for a TV series. Or a band name.
>>>> The people who are firing those missiles and making those attacks are usually not controlled by Hamas, but ... sabotage the peace efforts.
New York City and New Jersey are separated by the Hudson River. Imagine what would happen if someone in New Jersey were shooting rockets at New York City; one would expect the various New Jersey law enforcement agencies to try to find and stop them, rather than allowing them to hide their rockets in schools and houses of worship.
The problem is: Is it YOUR record of YOUR business purchasing from them, or is it THEIR record of THEIR business selling to you? It's both.
Bear in mind that the reason the post office was not allowed to intercept mail was PRECISELY because it was being run by the government, so when it was founded, nobody would trust it without such explicit guarantees. The example of bills and bank records is more complex: are those YOUR records of YOUR private business, or are they the company's records of the company's business with you?
... and consider that a sexbot, which could easily be made stronger than a human, would spend a lot of its time around humans in distracted and/or exhausted condition.
The booby-trap idea makes for a good movie, but consider just letting them have the sexbots gratis. Either the leaders lose control, or they have to get half of their soldiers to shoot the other half.
I submit that this is an astroturfing campaign from the SexBot Manufacturers Industry Association!
Ooh yeah. Joss Whedon is my master now.
You're conflating two incompatibilities. Replacing one desktop (or laptop) with another is one thing; getting a tablet is different because nobody expects to plug their accessories or printers into a tablet quite the same way. Plus by the time tablets became common the need for network-attached independently-intelligent devices had become so prevalent that the infrastructure was there. There are still industrial and other control computers out there running XP or 95 or older, which wouldn't be so strange-looking if they were embedded systems with customized OSes that nobody even knew about.
Not that anyone's bothered denying the Moon landing lately; why bother? It's not even old news, it's history. And NASA still insists that people in a space station can't manage their own damn schedule with their own damn alarm clocks. Picture Mal Reynolds waiting for Mission Control to run through a million-point checklist to do anything . . .
I would put that differently: The tighter they squeeze their fist, the more they look exactly like the enemies they're supposedly trying to protect us from.