Well, for some "moderate" rebellion the band "Eure Mütter" ("Your Mothers") already has a song titled "Der Typ, der bei der GEMA die Titel eintippt, ist ein ganz blöder Penner" ("The guy who enters title data at the GEMA is a very stupid bum")
And the song is basically about how they made the song just that somebody at GEMA has to enter that every time it is played. (They even made it longer than 4 minutes, so that it has to be entered in BOLD);-P
What is common in both technology and business executives is that there is a lot of "discussion" and "argument", even stuff bordering on "fighting" going on. That's pretty normal when people favouring different technical / economical solutions try to push their solutions.
Perhaps minorities then tend to think "Oh, gosh, they shoot down all my proposals, they must be racist / sexist / etc..." and leave. Basically some "self-fulfilling, self-inflicted racism"
When I was a kid the computer "wasn't there" already. (Of course that way about 1980.) There wasn't any in school either.
My parents basically bought me a VIC-20 to make me stop taking apart the household electrical appliances I found in the house or in the garbage. Someone who likes to tinker with technology can't be stopped by not having a ready-made computer around.
I also volunteer in a youth / children centre. There is a HUGE gap between kids that DO stuff and are INTERESTED in stuff, and a large group of "Me, I don't care about anything, do something for me, entertain me...." kids.
An *entrepreneur* can only come from the first group. The others might still be able to get well-paying jobs somewhere, even in programming and/or IT, but the will almost never really *start* something like a company themselves.
That's true. The system we have *now* in most of the world is basically "stone cold capitalism for the people" and "cosy socialism for the corporations"
Well, most of that depends on how "Cloud" and "Mainframe" are defined.
IBM for example is pushing their Mainframes to do Cloud services (zEnterprise etc, as mentioned in the Article or here for example)
"Mainframe" is basically a definition of Hardware/OS for me. "Cloud" on the other hand is more the Network/Software layer.
There is no real reason why http/soap/whaterver "Cloud" services have to be served by Intel hardware, they can just as well be served by mainframes. And just as the "Cloud" connect traditional software and applications from PCs onto mobile phones and more and more different "client" devices, it can also use more and more "server" devices.
Well. There goes one of the reasons you would like to have an App store.
From a normal "store" I would expect when something is sold there that the store owner actually took a look at the thing that is up for sale, and classified it, and put it in the according section with the according keywords.
Any Linux Distro is able to do that with the software that is in their package management. GitHub and Sourceforge are able to do it for the software in their repositories. Mozilla is able to do it for the Firefox extensions and plug ins.
Another area where the "paid for" experience seems to be getting worse than the "free" experience.
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No, but I get trapped in pico and nano every time I accidentally end up in them.
But, hey, this is Google. They probably declare the car a "Beta"-car, and don't really *sell* it, but make it available on a invite-only advertisement-sponsored basis.
The 32'' flat screen that displays the ads can then also be used to display the EULA that tells the driver... eeehhhh. passenger that if something happens, tough luck, he is on his own.
Password protection is a level of protection, that can be used in some circumstances. Just the same way like a padlock is a level of protection that works in some circumstances, but doesn't help when someone comes along with a bolt cutter. That doesn't mean that all padlocks are not needed, it just means if you REALLY want to protect your stuff you have to do something more to secure it.
Of course the whole thing shows how we have given up on software / device quality.
If I sell a device that has a promised functionality, and just works the way it's supposed to, then there would be no real need for "updates".
My old TV ran ~25 years without any update, and I still was able to watch all the new programs, before it broke. My C64 ran ~10 years without any update, and still could run every software sold for the C64, before it broke.
Companies pushing updates all the time don't make me happy, companies that ship a product that I don't need to update do.
( If I calculated the odds correctly, that could win me 100,000 Euro in 20 years. Which might be enough for a coffee and a bagel, POSSIBLY with jam, if I calculated the odds for the Euro collapsing correct )
Of course, then you have 10 auto-driving robot-taxis driving around that the 90% of the population that has been put out of work can't afford to hire any more, so how does the taxi company make any money? By transporting auto-paying robo-customers?
"Keep making money" by cutting jobs basically is the capitalist utopia that will work just as well as the communist utopia did. The only system that works in the long run is a system where workers, capital, consumers and governments are on a somewhat equal basis and don't try to rip each other off.
Usually the gap getting bigger leads to unrest and then a change in society. That change can happen slowly and carefully (the changes in social security / health insurance / etc... that Otto von Bismarck introduced in the 1880s for example, which cut workdays from 10,12,14 hour days down to 8 and so on), and keep societies up and running.
The Czar in Russia on the other hand completely failed to to anything about it, and was swept away by revolution.
Some sort of change in the system by *the people* is inevitable. The longer the current governments drag their feet the worse it will get, and the worse the pendulum will swing *through* the ideal middle ground to the just as bad other side.
>"You're the product, not the customer." basically says that an ad funded company is expected to act as evilly as possible, just because of the way it's funded.
Of course Google isn't acting as evil as possible. Google is nice to us. The same way a hunter is nice to the game by not scaring it off by making a ruckus in the woods, or a fisherman will never splash around in the water, and even thrown in a couple of nice yummy bait bits before putting the fishing rod in.
Of course the MAIN reason why there are no flying cars, personal rockets, commuting to the moon, etc... is because the energy required to do that stuff is too expensive.
A personal rocket would cost not much more ( perhaps 2-10 times ) than a personal aircraft, if the propulsion to get it out of the gravitational well wouldn't be so much more expensive. SpaceShipOne can get "to space" pretty cheaply, but it is unable to get enough velocity to even go into orbit. Using chemical propulsion, a pretty much millennia old idea, will definitely never get us anywhere on a planetary scale. (it might get *some* astronauts *somewhere* whenever there is a nation or organization willing to sink enough money into a prestige project, though)
So the main obstacle there is basically also something that will solve a lot of problems right here on earth: Getting a reliable new "source" of energy.
Of course the ONLY value these parts have up there is that they are already up there. Bringing them back would make absolutely no sense at all, since that would destroy the only value they have.
Well, a lawn gnome works basically just as well on a desk top as Gnome 3 (gets in the way when you put it on there, and annoys the heck out of, and everybody seeing it goes "what the hell is that"), so yeah, I would say it counts.
Because any other project might actually be interested in why people DON'T use it, so that they can find out what the biggest mistakes are.
But since it's GNOME they all have they head stuck up the "We do it the right way, anyone not agreeing with our way must be wrong" place, which again shows in the survey.
And it was experimented with even earlier. Anaglyph red/green was done since 1915 a few times. A "shutter glass" type system (Teleview) was done in 1922, although only one movie (The Man From M.A.R.S.) was filmed and shown using that technology.
When one sees that all OTHER advancements (sound, colour) to the moving picture became a success quite fast, in a couple of years at last, even though they were not perfect in the beginning, 3D seems to go nowhere big even 100 years after it started.
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Well, for some "moderate" rebellion the band "Eure Mütter" ("Your Mothers") already has a song titled "Der Typ, der bei der GEMA die Titel eintippt, ist ein ganz blöder Penner" ("The guy who enters title data at the GEMA is a very stupid bum")
And the song is basically about how they made the song just that somebody at GEMA has to enter that every time it is played. (They even made it longer than 4 minutes, so that it has to be entered in BOLD) ;-P
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On your points 3 and 4:
What is common in both technology and business executives is that there is a lot of "discussion" and "argument", even stuff bordering on "fighting" going on. That's pretty normal when people favouring different technical / economical solutions try to push their solutions.
Perhaps minorities then tend to think "Oh, gosh, they shoot down all my proposals, they must be racist / sexist / etc ..." and leave. Basically some "self-fulfilling, self-inflicted racism"
When I was a kid the computer "wasn't there" already. (Of course that way about 1980.) There wasn't any in school either.
My parents basically bought me a VIC-20 to make me stop taking apart the household electrical appliances I found in the house or in the garbage. Someone who likes to tinker with technology can't be stopped by not having a ready-made computer around.
I also volunteer in a youth / children centre. There is a HUGE gap between kids that DO stuff and are INTERESTED in stuff, and a large group of "Me, I don't care about anything, do something for me, entertain me...." kids.
An *entrepreneur* can only come from the first group. The others might still be able to get well-paying jobs somewhere, even in programming and/or IT, but the will almost never really *start* something like a company themselves.
That's true. The system we have *now* in most of the world is basically "stone cold capitalism for the people" and "cosy socialism for the corporations"
Well, most of that depends on how "Cloud" and "Mainframe" are defined.
IBM for example is pushing their Mainframes to do Cloud services (zEnterprise etc, as mentioned in the Article or here for example)
"Mainframe" is basically a definition of Hardware/OS for me. "Cloud" on the other hand is more the Network/Software layer.
There is no real reason why http/soap/whaterver "Cloud" services have to be served by Intel hardware, they can just as well be served by mainframes. And just as the "Cloud" connect traditional software and applications from PCs onto mobile phones and more and more different "client" devices, it can also use more and more "server" devices.
Mainly because we mostly hear about stuff when they break down/don't work.
And also because a lot of them have been re-labeled to "cloud" to make them buzzword compliant.
One feature from that old AltaVista I still miss today:
The search for two or more words that were NEAR another (inside 10 or 20 words of each other if I remember correctly).
For those times you know 2-3 words of a phrase/product/code fragment etc... but don't know the exact phrase.
Well. There goes one of the reasons you would like to have an App store.
From a normal "store" I would expect when something is sold there that the store owner actually took a look at the thing that is up for sale, and classified it, and put it in the according section with the according keywords.
Any Linux Distro is able to do that with the software that is in their package management. GitHub and Sourceforge are able to do it for the software in their repositories. Mozilla is able to do it for the Firefox extensions and plug ins.
Another area where the "paid for" experience seems to be getting worse than the "free" experience.
No, but I get trapped in pico and nano every time I accidentally end up in them.
But, hey, this is Google. They probably declare the car a "Beta"-car, and don't really *sell* it, but make it available on a invite-only advertisement-sponsored basis.
The 32'' flat screen that displays the ads can then also be used to display the EULA that tells the driver... eeehhhh. passenger that if something happens, tough luck, he is on his own.
Password protection is a level of protection, that can be used in some circumstances. Just the same way like a padlock is a level of protection that works in some circumstances, but doesn't help when someone comes along with a bolt cutter. That doesn't mean that all padlocks are not needed, it just means if you REALLY want to protect your stuff you have to do something more to secure it.
Of course the whole thing shows how we have given up on software / device quality.
If I sell a device that has a promised functionality, and just works the way it's supposed to, then there would be no real need for "updates".
My old TV ran ~25 years without any update, and I still was able to watch all the new programs, before it broke.
My C64 ran ~10 years without any update, and still could run every software sold for the C64, before it broke.
Companies pushing updates all the time don't make me happy, companies that ship a product that I don't need to update do.
.. will contact them shortly claiming prior art.
>c) It's bigger.
Pshawwwww, .....
Hasn't 99% of the "technological progress" hailed by the media in the last decades been:
c) It's smaller.
Will Google still be around in 20 years?
I bet 10 Euro on "no".
( If I calculated the odds correctly, that could win me 100,000 Euro in 20 years. Which might be enough for a coffee and a bagel, POSSIBLY with jam, if I calculated the odds for the Euro collapsing correct )
Of course, then you have 10 auto-driving robot-taxis driving around that the 90% of the population that has been put out of work can't afford to hire any more, so how does the taxi company make any money? By transporting auto-paying robo-customers?
"Keep making money" by cutting jobs basically is the capitalist utopia that will work just as well as the communist utopia did. The only system that works in the long run is a system where workers, capital, consumers and governments are on a somewhat equal basis and don't try to rip each other off.
Usually the gap getting bigger leads to unrest and then a change in society. That change can happen slowly and carefully (the changes in social security / health insurance / etc... that Otto von Bismarck introduced in the 1880s for example, which cut workdays from 10,12,14 hour days down to 8 and so on), and keep societies up and running.
The Czar in Russia on the other hand completely failed to to anything about it, and was swept away by revolution.
Some sort of change in the system by *the people* is inevitable. The longer the current governments drag their feet the worse it will get, and the worse the pendulum will swing *through* the ideal middle ground to the just as bad other side.
>"You're the product, not the customer." basically says that an ad funded company is expected to act as evilly as possible, just because of the way it's funded.
Of course Google isn't acting as evil as possible. Google is nice to us. The same way a hunter is nice to the game by not scaring it off by making a ruckus in the woods, or a fisherman will never splash around in the water, and even thrown in a couple of nice yummy bait bits before putting the fishing rod in.
Of course the MAIN reason why there are no flying cars, personal rockets, commuting to the moon, etc... is because the energy required to do that stuff is too expensive.
A personal rocket would cost not much more ( perhaps 2-10 times ) than a personal aircraft, if the propulsion to get it out of the gravitational well wouldn't be so much more expensive. SpaceShipOne can get "to space" pretty cheaply, but it is unable to get enough velocity to even go into orbit. Using chemical propulsion, a pretty much millennia old idea, will definitely never get us anywhere on a planetary scale. (it might get *some* astronauts *somewhere* whenever there is a nation or organization willing to sink enough money into a prestige project, though)
So the main obstacle there is basically also something that will solve a lot of problems right here on earth: Getting a reliable new "source" of energy.
Well, if you want control over your password then considering Office365 at all would be pretty moot
Of course the ONLY value these parts have up there is that they are already up there. Bringing them back would make absolutely no sense at all, since that would destroy the only value they have.
Too close to "Hoaxel"
Well, a lawn gnome works basically just as well on a desk top as Gnome 3 (gets in the way when you put it on there, and annoys the heck out of, and everybody seeing it goes "what the hell is that"), so yeah, I would say it counts.
Because any other project might actually be interested in why people DON'T use it, so that they can find out what the biggest mistakes are.
But since it's GNOME they all have they head stuck up the "We do it the right way, anyone not agreeing with our way must be wrong" place, which again shows in the survey.
And it was experimented with even earlier. Anaglyph red/green was done since 1915 a few times. A "shutter glass" type system (Teleview) was done in 1922, although only one movie (The Man From M.A.R.S.) was filmed and shown using that technology.
When one sees that all OTHER advancements (sound, colour) to the moving picture became a success quite fast, in a couple of years at last, even though they were not perfect in the beginning, 3D seems to go nowhere big even 100 years after it started.