That industry makes me miss the ability to, as part of any google link, immediately add sites to my blocklist. It used to be built right in to google's search page...
Heh, though one rather clever one that I keep hitting, if you try to interact with it, claims your IP address has been blocked by the admin and supplies an address you can message for further information. I have a feeling it just dumps you into a spam list for sale or something.
No, but explanations and other added value content is. Sounds like people were not just taking facts, but instead duplicating entire pages and just changing the name from the poster to their own. I can actually recall seeing a lot of this type of plagiarism years ago, someone would write a walkthrough or FAQ and it would quickly show up in a number of places with the author's name changed to someone who wanted a little status or traffic.
Actually, I have gone for more then a day without eating, but you make a good point. Though even if we can not accurately picture more extreme versions, we generally _think_ we can. From a few thousand miles away and through the lens of public policy, fundraising, or forum rants, that is close enough.
And agreed, getting people to believe and use it is also one of the problems in the chain of bork, and should not be underestimated.
Keep in mind our population experiences steady linear growth, so expecting the economy to keep pace with that is not unreasonable nor a ponzi scheme. When your resources are increasing it is healthy for your economy to increase too.
Well, actually what we have learned over the last 50 years is you have to balance top down and bottom up, and either of them being too dominant fails. They both have their place and work best when the other is also in play.
Yeah, people tend to forget that this is not a zero sum game, and multiple problems can be worked on at once.
I also suspect that in the first world we find it easier to relate to 'no food' then to 'no communication', so many people latch onto that problem. We have all been hungry off and on, we have all been sick off and on, and we can picture more extreme versions. However mass communication is so utterly embedded in our culture that we do not even think about it, and we pretty much never exist without it being at least one or two degrees away. We take it for granted that knowledge and news will reach us, and that if we want to find something it is pretty much at our fingertips... we can look it up online, we can go to a library, we can ask someone else in our community, it does not even occur to us (for most things we want to know) that there will be no way to find out by virtue of no local person or institution being connected either.
While it is a bit more abstract, lack of access to information is also a huge problem in the 3rd world and figuring out how to propagate medical (and other) data to disconnected populations is as difficult too. Starving kills, sickness kills, but so does ignorance. Just think about how many problems in an average life go through a 'something seemed wrong, so I asked someone and they showed me how to not make it more serious' stage, and how many ailments and situations get worse if you do not know how to handle them.
Advertisers often will pay big bucks to get into emerging markets. Companies will sometimes take a decade of loss in order to ingrain themselves with some new population, or even better make that population dependent on their product while it is still cheap/free (example: free baby formula)
Though what is relevant is the trends in processing over the last few decades. So it is not 'because it is processed' and more 'because how things are generally processed today'... thus it is kinda a shorthand.
So.. there would be no incentive for theft if no one was allowed to have property? While technically true, that really throws the baby out with the bathwater.
I think it dovetails nicely actually. I think one area where many programmers run into perspective issues is that most of them, as the person said, develop custom software for internal use, so their work and livelihood receives nothing but positive benefits from OSS and are often even free to contribute back since it does not impact their job. So sometimes they forget that there are other types of programmers out there that do develop packages for external sale.
'better' is a relative term. A lot of people feed their kids due to being able to sell software. I can agree there is a place for OSS, but to say that it is better for 'all' software to be open demonstrates a very narrow view and inability to see beyond your own lifestyle/community.
The problem with that view of freedom is it overlooks all the things the individual takes from others or the community, or what that individual does to others or the community under some idea that only OTHER people are making them do things they do not want, but all of the things THEY are doing do not count because 'freedom'.
Though with any luck someone will pick up the idea and find a way to make it work. One thing that games like EvE have always really lacked was a good way to actually _build_ thing as opposed to just placing other people's art in space.
Well, it was a bit of both. Minecraft was one of a whole class of games, but a combination of how it was made, community, and luck of getting noticed by some high profile people are what did it. Luck was not the only factor, but it was a big one.
Ahm... lanterns were dropped due to community feedback.
They have had a steady stream of new features and updates the entire time I have been playing, which is close to 4 years now. Any particular feature might not make it in, but that is hardly breaking their promise for adding new stuff.
The feature complete requirement for beta only really applies to waterfall release models. For products that are on a constant iterative release schedule, once the core product is ready, it is a bit of a useless term. Minecraft alpha was not in 'alpha' in the traditional software development sense.
Well, rights are not really a fundamental thing, they are a human construct, so the answer is whatever a culture says it is. Even within that though, the problem is what counts as 'harming others'. Very little that we do impacts one's self and only one's self, and once you throw in family and other connections even things that you would think are only 'self harm' impact others.
Freedom is a complicated issue... there is a constant back and forth between 'right to' and 'right from', and of course balancing the more systemic issues where individual actions, spread out across a large population, have population level effects.
Yeah, but it would have been more expensive, and 'lower taxes' has been a major rallying cry over the last half century. Not to mention the idea of planning has become pretty demonized, with the magical 'the market will fix it' becoming increasingly dominant. So public patience for thought out infrastructure that will be in place for decades is pretty thin. Short term fixes are hot, and busses fit into that mold pretty well.
What is even worse then predicting usage patterns is predicting political currents. Much of the relative state between air, road, and rail today is a product of the political situation each of those industries exist in.
Hrm.... this technique could probably be applied to those silly business meetings that eat up so much travel. Just close my eyes and imagine that the other stakeholders gave me all the resources and go-aheads I was wanting. mmmmm
Looking over the list of things that did not happen, many seemed to depend on other areas of technology coming up with cost effective solutions for infrastructure. So once you have the special roads/tunnels/rails built the tech makes sense, but even building regular roads/tunnels/rails is expensive. Granted those things have gotten a lot of improvements over the years, but there is a real chicken and egg thing going on there since process improvements tend to show up after something is already being done a lot.
Social message aside, a BS/BA is pretty much mandatory for getting through HR for most jobs now. Tech people are in a bit better shape, but now pretty much any office job (that you apply for, not 'know someone') will not even look at a resume without a degree.
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Hey now, I explained very clearly that was my evil twin Skippy.
That industry makes me miss the ability to, as part of any google link, immediately add sites to my blocklist. It used to be built right in to google's search page...
Heh, though one rather clever one that I keep hitting, if you try to interact with it, claims your IP address has been blocked by the admin and supplies an address you can message for further information. I have a feeling it just dumps you into a spam list for sale or something.
No, but explanations and other added value content is. Sounds like people were not just taking facts, but instead duplicating entire pages and just changing the name from the poster to their own. I can actually recall seeing a lot of this type of plagiarism years ago, someone would write a walkthrough or FAQ and it would quickly show up in a number of places with the author's name changed to someone who wanted a little status or traffic.
Actually, I have gone for more then a day without eating, but you make a good point. Though even if we can not accurately picture more extreme versions, we generally _think_ we can. From a few thousand miles away and through the lens of public policy, fundraising, or forum rants, that is close enough.
And agreed, getting people to believe and use it is also one of the problems in the chain of bork, and should not be underestimated.
Plenty of problems to go around ^_^
Keep in mind our population experiences steady linear growth, so expecting the economy to keep pace with that is not unreasonable nor a ponzi scheme. When your resources are increasing it is healthy for your economy to increase too.
Well, actually what we have learned over the last 50 years is you have to balance top down and bottom up, and either of them being too dominant fails. They both have their place and work best when the other is also in play.
Yeah, people tend to forget that this is not a zero sum game, and multiple problems can be worked on at once.
I also suspect that in the first world we find it easier to relate to 'no food' then to 'no communication', so many people latch onto that problem. We have all been hungry off and on, we have all been sick off and on, and we can picture more extreme versions. However mass communication is so utterly embedded in our culture that we do not even think about it, and we pretty much never exist without it being at least one or two degrees away. We take it for granted that knowledge and news will reach us, and that if we want to find something it is pretty much at our fingertips... we can look it up online, we can go to a library, we can ask someone else in our community, it does not even occur to us (for most things we want to know) that there will be no way to find out by virtue of no local person or institution being connected either.
While it is a bit more abstract, lack of access to information is also a huge problem in the 3rd world and figuring out how to propagate medical (and other) data to disconnected populations is as difficult too. Starving kills, sickness kills, but so does ignorance. Just think about how many problems in an average life go through a 'something seemed wrong, so I asked someone and they showed me how to not make it more serious' stage, and how many ailments and situations get worse if you do not know how to handle them.
Advertisers often will pay big bucks to get into emerging markets. Companies will sometimes take a decade of loss in order to ingrain themselves with some new population, or even better make that population dependent on their product while it is still cheap/free (example: free baby formula)
Though what is relevant is the trends in processing over the last few decades. So it is not 'because it is processed' and more 'because how things are generally processed today'... thus it is kinda a shorthand.
So.. there would be no incentive for theft if no one was allowed to have property? While technically true, that really throws the baby out with the bathwater.
I think it dovetails nicely actually. I think one area where many programmers run into perspective issues is that most of them, as the person said, develop custom software for internal use, so their work and livelihood receives nothing but positive benefits from OSS and are often even free to contribute back since it does not impact their job. So sometimes they forget that there are other types of programmers out there that do develop packages for external sale.
'better' is a relative term. A lot of people feed their kids due to being able to sell software. I can agree there is a place for OSS, but to say that it is better for 'all' software to be open demonstrates a very narrow view and inability to see beyond your own lifestyle/community.
The problem with that view of freedom is it overlooks all the things the individual takes from others or the community, or what that individual does to others or the community under some idea that only OTHER people are making them do things they do not want, but all of the things THEY are doing do not count because 'freedom'.
Though with any luck someone will pick up the idea and find a way to make it work. One thing that games like EvE have always really lacked was a good way to actually _build_ thing as opposed to just placing other people's art in space.
Well, it was a bit of both. Minecraft was one of a whole class of games, but a combination of how it was made, community, and luck of getting noticed by some high profile people are what did it. Luck was not the only factor, but it was a big one.
Ahm... lanterns were dropped due to community feedback.
They have had a steady stream of new features and updates the entire time I have been playing, which is close to 4 years now. Any particular feature might not make it in, but that is hardly breaking their promise for adding new stuff.
The feature complete requirement for beta only really applies to waterfall release models. For products that are on a constant iterative release schedule, once the core product is ready, it is a bit of a useless term. Minecraft alpha was not in 'alpha' in the traditional software development sense.
It was feature complete for 1.0. It has simply gotten upgrades since.
Well, rights are not really a fundamental thing, they are a human construct, so the answer is whatever a culture says it is. Even within that though, the problem is what counts as 'harming others'. Very little that we do impacts one's self and only one's self, and once you throw in family and other connections even things that you would think are only 'self harm' impact others.
Freedom is a complicated issue... there is a constant back and forth between 'right to' and 'right from', and of course balancing the more systemic issues where individual actions, spread out across a large population, have population level effects.
Yeah, but it would have been more expensive, and 'lower taxes' has been a major rallying cry over the last half century. Not to mention the idea of planning has become pretty demonized, with the magical 'the market will fix it' becoming increasingly dominant. So public patience for thought out infrastructure that will be in place for decades is pretty thin. Short term fixes are hot, and busses fit into that mold pretty well.
What is even worse then predicting usage patterns is predicting political currents. Much of the relative state between air, road, and rail today is a product of the political situation each of those industries exist in.
Hrm.... this technique could probably be applied to those silly business meetings that eat up so much travel. Just close my eyes and imagine that the other stakeholders gave me all the resources and go-aheads I was wanting. mmmmm
Looking over the list of things that did not happen, many seemed to depend on other areas of technology coming up with cost effective solutions for infrastructure. So once you have the special roads/tunnels/rails built the tech makes sense, but even building regular roads/tunnels/rails is expensive. Granted those things have gotten a lot of improvements over the years, but there is a real chicken and egg thing going on there since process improvements tend to show up after something is already being done a lot.
I was thinking it looked a lot like a modern cruise liner.
Social message aside, a BS/BA is pretty much mandatory for getting through HR for most jobs now. Tech people are in a bit better shape, but now pretty much any office job (that you apply for, not 'know someone') will not even look at a resume without a degree.