Technology making human labor worthless isn't the problem. The problem is that we don't have a socialist system where the means of production is collectively owned. As the cost of labor approaches zero, what will most people have to offer to Capitalists in exchange for them producing goods and offering services? The material costs will exceed the value of the labor the workers can offer in exchange. And given that most people have no stock in any important natural resources, there is absolutely nothing that most people can offer to the rich to make them produce.
Take a look at Africa to see the future. They are, for the most part, useless at any skilled labor tasks. They are simply not worth anything to the industrialists. The cost of setting up and maintaining factories in Africa outweigh the benefit of the abundant and cheap labor.
We need to adopt Socialism and some means of population control to ensure sustainability.
The worst thing about Linux and OSS is Miguel de Icaza.
Linux gets shit done for me just fine. The only significant issues I ever face are poor hardware drivers and UI quirks. The former of which can be mitigated by sticking to Linux-friendly hardware. The latter is a no way a productivity stopper. As far as productivity goes, I have found no more productive system than Xubuntu 12.04.
Linux runs everywhere. You more or less have the freedom to choose whatever hardware you like. It's an open platform which allows anyone to go in there and modify it to suit their needs. It's a stable platform written collaboratively by people all over the world. As, as far as a platform to invest on, Linux is a great investment as both a user and a developer because it's not subject to the same market forces as Apple or Microsoft OSes. If Microsoft or Apple were to decide to impose a productivity hindering draconian system, what can you do to stop them? You've invested all of your time and energy mastering their proprietary system. If they make bad decisions, YOU pay for those decisions.
Freedom is why I stick to Linux. Freedom is why companies should build their platform on Linux. Freedom is why Linux is the future of desktop computing. Apple might be sexy now, but it won't last.
"Why would people bother with this when they can just play practically all of (if not actually all of) the same games on the windows PC that they already have?"
Conversion will happen naturally as more and more users and developers start to see the benefits of Linux: free, unencumbered by licensing issues, no Microsoft vendor lock in, and source code is open. There are also many emerging markets outside of the US that haven't been raised the Microsoft way.
What's currently missing is a solid distro. Ubuntu is ambitious and dedicated, but flaky. If they can get the distro into a more reliable state, I really don't see what would be keeping a good chunk of developers and users on Windows.
Steam already takes care of the package distribution problem by creating a directory tree in the users home folder. Specifically, what issues are you talking about? As someone already mentioned, all that the developers need to is distribute their games with the 32-bit or 64-bit libraries that the game depends on, as they already do with Windows.
There may be many distros, but currently Ubuntu is the only distro that's really geared towards novice Linux users. I imagine the users of other distros will be able to take care of themselves.
I love my $400 Lenovo X120e. The AMD E-350 chipset is fantastic. Weighs 3.2 lbs. 6-7 hours battery life. Does pretty much everything I need to do that I would do on a laptop. Before the X120e I owned an EEE which was equally fantastic.
They are abandoning the netbook market because the margins are too slim and the audience too few. Most people are information consumers that are happy with the tablet interface. The others tend to be professionals have the money for expensive powerful laptops with the netbook form factor.
Netbooks are great devices for frugal people that type a lot. If you need to do real work or play, no laptop is going to compete with a desktop.
Agreed. Many people take pride in the work they do and occasionally make mistakes. Publicly outing and humiliating people in front of others that they respect is the FUCKING worst way to deal with an issue that can be resolved with some firm discrete discussion.
Shaming people like this will simply cause them to hide their faults and ignorance better, leading to more problems down the road. If people don't feel comfortable bringing up issues, and gaining knowledge from more advanced team members, this diffusion of competency will not occur. More mistakes will be made, more shaming will occur, until the developers with potential eventually just say "fuck it, I didn't sign up for this bullshit" and leave the project.
And yet, despite being 30% of the population, they are still completely underrepresented in the field of tech. Learn Spanish if you need to communicate with your gardener. They are not the people that will take over in the tech industry. You're better off learning Hindi or Mandarin.
If you've lived in this country for more than 10 years, and haven't had the insatiable urge to go on a GTA style rampage, something is wrong with you. American society doesn't place value on the individual. It's a society of too many different peoples and cultures all competing economically, religiously and culturally over petty material goods.
This country is a battlefield. Nobody gives a shit about anybody else. Everyone around you is a competitor trying to take what you have. So when people want to commit suicide to escape the existential void created by American life they take their competitors with them.
Not really. You can easily kill a bunch of people by driving your SUV into a crowded plaza, by building a bomb out of easy to obtain items, or by starting a fire in a club or theatre and blocking the emergency exits. It's not hard to kill a bunch of people. This man could have very well walked into the school with a samurai sword, a knife, or a shovel and killed those kids one by one.
People like you are just unimaginative loons that look for any excuse to blame the problem on guns. If you ban guns you know who you'll stop? The people that need a weapon to defend themselves against the loons. Maybe if there had been a person in the vicinity with a gun this individual may have been stopped sooner.
You liberal cowards make me sick. You're like the perfect prey.
He's targeting the unwashed masses. These people are content consumers, not producers. To be mainstream you have to accept the fact that majority of your consumers are idiots and they require an interface designed to the lowest common denominator.
Look on the positive side. Through the inertia of Ubuntu other areas of Linux will benefit. Hardware manufacturers will pay more attention to drivers. Game companies will consider porting to Linux. It's win, win.
Ubuntu should target the mainstream. They should do what it takes to get the masses on board. Then us hacker types will spin a suitable version for ourselves and life will be good. As long as Ubuntu remains open we all win.
Cyber defense systems which I am sure are paid for by the US.
I've never understand the support for Israel in the US. Frankly, I think most of it is astroturfing. Israel is a country which receives plenty of support from the US. What does the US receive that makes them our Allies? The answer, some intelligence so that we can fight their wars. Now why would any American support sending US tax dollars and support to a country that provides us virtually nothing? Why would any American feel compelled to join the military to fight Israels wars?
Simple. Media and political brainwashing. Your politicians are paid to give your tax dollars to Israel. That is why they are elected. Because Zionists moneybomb all US politicians that serve Israel.
If you're an American supporting Israel you are nothing more than a complete and utter fool.
And yet... despite the fact that Israel has suffered less than 50 casualties from rocket attacks since 2001, they still continue their policies of ethnic cleansing. Yes, it's very great that Israel can defend itself from inaccurate rocket fire that, prior to the missile defense system (paid for by US tax dollars), still killed far fewer people than car accidents (450 deaths a year).
Another Zionist warmongering comment that basically amount to "Our enemy are unapproachable fanatics annd we are peace loving people." All the while they maintain a Warsaw ghetto, kill FAR, FAR MORE Palestinians , and CONTINUALLY steal land.
The real savages are the Israelis. However, their savagery is institutionalized and hidden behind a nice PR wall.
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Technology making human labor worthless isn't the problem. The problem is that we don't have a socialist system where the means of production is collectively owned. As the cost of labor approaches zero, what will most people have to offer to Capitalists in exchange for them producing goods and offering services? The material costs will exceed the value of the labor the workers can offer in exchange. And given that most people have no stock in any important natural resources, there is absolutely nothing that most people can offer to the rich to make them produce.
Take a look at Africa to see the future. They are, for the most part, useless at any skilled labor tasks. They are simply not worth anything to the industrialists. The cost of setting up and maintaining factories in Africa outweigh the benefit of the abundant and cheap labor.
We need to adopt Socialism and some means of population control to ensure sustainability.
The worst thing about Linux and OSS is Miguel de Icaza.
Linux gets shit done for me just fine. The only significant issues I ever face are poor hardware drivers and UI quirks. The former of which can be mitigated by sticking to Linux-friendly hardware. The latter is a no way a productivity stopper. As far as productivity goes, I have found no more productive system than Xubuntu 12.04.
Linux runs everywhere. You more or less have the freedom to choose whatever hardware you like. It's an open platform which allows anyone to go in there and modify it to suit their needs. It's a stable platform written collaboratively by people all over the world. As, as far as a platform to invest on, Linux is a great investment as both a user and a developer because it's not subject to the same market forces as Apple or Microsoft OSes. If Microsoft or Apple were to decide to impose a productivity hindering draconian system, what can you do to stop them? You've invested all of your time and energy mastering their proprietary system. If they make bad decisions, YOU pay for those decisions.
Freedom is why I stick to Linux. Freedom is why companies should build their platform on Linux. Freedom is why Linux is the future of desktop computing. Apple might be sexy now, but it won't last.
A great day for white ethnically-curious females everywhere.
Just like us... Yea, right. They have the mind of apes.
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"Why would people bother with this when they can just play practically all of (if not actually all of) the same games on the windows PC that they already have?"
Conversion will happen naturally as more and more users and developers start to see the benefits of Linux: free, unencumbered by licensing issues, no Microsoft vendor lock in, and source code is open. There are also many emerging markets outside of the US that haven't been raised the Microsoft way.
What's currently missing is a solid distro. Ubuntu is ambitious and dedicated, but flaky. If they can get the distro into a more reliable state, I really don't see what would be keeping a good chunk of developers and users on Windows.
Leave it to a Jew to come up with a system that simultaneously both censors and lines their pockets with $$$.
Steam already takes care of the package distribution problem by creating a directory tree in the users home folder. Specifically, what issues are you talking about? As someone already mentioned, all that the developers need to is distribute their games with the 32-bit or 64-bit libraries that the game depends on, as they already do with Windows.
There may be many distros, but currently Ubuntu is the only distro that's really geared towards novice Linux users. I imagine the users of other distros will be able to take care of themselves.
And they say there is no demand for netbooks.
I love my $400 Lenovo X120e. The AMD E-350 chipset is fantastic. Weighs 3.2 lbs. 6-7 hours battery life. Does pretty much everything I need to do that I would do on a laptop. Before the X120e I owned an EEE which was equally fantastic.
They are abandoning the netbook market because the margins are too slim and the audience too few. Most people are information consumers that are happy with the tablet interface. The others tend to be professionals have the money for expensive powerful laptops with the netbook form factor.
Netbooks are great devices for frugal people that type a lot. If you need to do real work or play, no laptop is going to compete with a desktop.
People just don't want a computing device that can do 99% of the daily activities for under $400.
Agreed. Many people take pride in the work they do and occasionally make mistakes. Publicly outing and humiliating people in front of others that they respect is the FUCKING worst way to deal with an issue that can be resolved with some firm discrete discussion.
Shaming people like this will simply cause them to hide their faults and ignorance better, leading to more problems down the road. If people don't feel comfortable bringing up issues, and gaining knowledge from more advanced team members, this diffusion of competency will not occur. More mistakes will be made, more shaming will occur, until the developers with potential eventually just say "fuck it, I didn't sign up for this bullshit" and leave the project.
Right. Because so many of the worlds great scientists and mathematicians are potheads.
And yet, despite being 30% of the population, they are still completely underrepresented in the field of tech. Learn Spanish if you need to communicate with your gardener. They are not the people that will take over in the tech industry. You're better off learning Hindi or Mandarin.
Guns don't kill people. America kills people.
If you've lived in this country for more than 10 years, and haven't had the insatiable urge to go on a GTA style rampage, something is wrong with you. American society doesn't place value on the individual. It's a society of too many different peoples and cultures all competing economically, religiously and culturally over petty material goods.
This country is a battlefield. Nobody gives a shit about anybody else. Everyone around you is a competitor trying to take what you have. So when people want to commit suicide to escape the existential void created by American life they take their competitors with them.
It's very simple.
They really should ban murder so stuff like this doesn't happen.
Not really. You can easily kill a bunch of people by driving your SUV into a crowded plaza, by building a bomb out of easy to obtain items, or by starting a fire in a club or theatre and blocking the emergency exits. It's not hard to kill a bunch of people. This man could have very well walked into the school with a samurai sword, a knife, or a shovel and killed those kids one by one.
People like you are just unimaginative loons that look for any excuse to blame the problem on guns. If you ban guns you know who you'll stop? The people that need a weapon to defend themselves against the loons. Maybe if there had been a person in the vicinity with a gun this individual may have been stopped sooner.
You liberal cowards make me sick. You're like the perfect prey.
The world can't screw with NK. Their whole country is one well-disciplined army.
He's targeting the unwashed masses. These people are content consumers, not producers. To be mainstream you have to accept the fact that majority of your consumers are idiots and they require an interface designed to the lowest common denominator.
Look on the positive side. Through the inertia of Ubuntu other areas of Linux will benefit. Hardware manufacturers will pay more attention to drivers. Game companies will consider porting to Linux. It's win, win.
Ubuntu should target the mainstream. They should do what it takes to get the masses on board. Then us hacker types will spin a suitable version for ourselves and life will be good. As long as Ubuntu remains open we all win.
Cyber defense systems which I am sure are paid for by the US.
I've never understand the support for Israel in the US. Frankly, I think most of it is astroturfing. Israel is a country which receives plenty of support from the US. What does the US receive that makes them our Allies? The answer, some intelligence so that we can fight their wars. Now why would any American support sending US tax dollars and support to a country that provides us virtually nothing? Why would any American feel compelled to join the military to fight Israels wars?
Simple. Media and political brainwashing. Your politicians are paid to give your tax dollars to Israel. That is why they are elected. Because Zionists moneybomb all US politicians that serve Israel.
If you're an American supporting Israel you are nothing more than a complete and utter fool.
And yet... despite the fact that Israel has suffered less than 50 casualties from rocket attacks since 2001, they still continue their policies of ethnic cleansing. Yes, it's very great that Israel can defend itself from inaccurate rocket fire that, prior to the missile defense system (paid for by US tax dollars), still killed far fewer people than car accidents (450 deaths a year).
Another Zionist warmongering comment that basically amount to "Our enemy are unapproachable fanatics annd we are peace loving people." All the while they maintain a Warsaw ghetto, kill FAR, FAR MORE Palestinians , and CONTINUALLY steal land.
The real savages are the Israelis. However, their savagery is institutionalized and hidden behind a nice PR wall.
You make me sick.
We were forced to take Ethnic Studies (White Guilt Programming 101).
And protest the government allowing in more Muslims.
Is too heavy.
The people would go crazy if they were exposed to the truth of what keeps empires alive.