This is true, not only in CS but in other fields too. My father takes pride in being able to disassemble and fix his (rather old) car every time he feels something is wrong - I am capable of checking the oil level and replacing a tyre and pretty much that's it.
This thing happens every time a technology matures and market gets saturated - enthusiasts go from majority of users to, say, 5%, and all of a sudden think that 'nobody knows how to do things anymore'.
I second that. As a kid back in early 80s, I was entering code from computer magazines into my Spectrum beacuse there was nothing else to do - games were too few and too simple and not much better than what I could do in a couple of hours typing/improvizing. Today, why bother?
I guess no one expected Episode One to be a festival of good acting or superb storytelling, but I for one hoped we'd get more background to characters involved, as in why & how. Sadly, the movie wasn't neither character, or at least action (like the original), driven, but served as a special effects showcase.
Not in a single moment was I involved in what was happening on the screen; at best I was impressed by CGI, at worst I was plain bored.
My point was that kernel is not the issue as in NT (or BSDs) significantly lacking in features compared to Linux. Myself I prefer a bit of diversity - having NT on one side and Linux on the other is a good thing.
Yeah, right, MS sells software (and establishes a 'monopoly') because of general public ignorance. Claiming that general public has no clue and is not sensitive to choices offered is shortsighted. Maybe the dynamics of change in market penetration of competitors is a bit slow, but the things are the way they are for a reason.
DOS, Windows 3.x and so on won against their respective competitors for different reasons - be it the price, applications available, user experience, backwards compatibility.
People buy Windows because it's the best choice for them, based on their experience and 'general knowledge'. Coming to terms with this can help you figure out how to change it, if you wish so.
The Cold War perspective (yay, another one defected from Evil Empire!) is amusing, but not very insightful. Why would someone of any ambition to leave mark in OS security switch from MS to Amazon? It doesn't even compare. I'd rather say the guy was not very important, was offered more money (i.e. not very important) or was ditched (...) .
I think this will have much less impact on publishing industry than web had; I mean, what's there about ePaper edition that you can't get by just visiting the site? When I think of it, I prefer paper edition of the stuff I do read, exactly because I don't have to waste energy avoiding all the shiny shit, animated ads, windows poping out & so on. This is more of a gimmick. Sure it's nice to have animated papers and stuff, but once you got it, said 'cooool', what do you do? And then you start to think about more practical stuff, like - price, sensitivity, recycling issues. Unless it becomes as cheap as ordinary paper, I don't see it growing significantly in papers/magazines department.
"With ad blocking becoming ever more popular among users, why do you block ads? And with what? Do you view internet ads as different from say, TV ads? What about in a magazine? Do you not buy a magazine because it has too many? I'm specifically talking about the ads in a webpage, but even popup blockers can cause problems with me using a site."
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This is true, not only in CS but in other fields too. My father takes pride in being able to disassemble and fix his (rather old) car every time he feels something is wrong - I am capable of checking the oil level and replacing a tyre and pretty much that's it.
This thing happens every time a technology matures and market gets saturated - enthusiasts go from majority of users to, say, 5%, and all of a sudden think that 'nobody knows how to do things anymore'.
I second that.
As a kid back in early 80s, I was entering code from computer magazines into my Spectrum beacuse there was nothing else to do - games were too few and too simple and not much better than what I could do in a couple of hours typing/improvizing.
Today, why bother?
You don't need to square, you need to multiply by 4.
MP count = width * height
(2 * width) * (2 * height) = 4 MP counts
I guess no one expected Episode One to be a festival of good acting or superb storytelling, but I for one hoped we'd get more background to characters involved, as in why & how. Sadly, the movie wasn't neither character, or at least action (like the original), driven, but served as a special effects showcase.
Not in a single moment was I involved in what was happening on the screen; at best I was impressed by CGI, at worst I was plain bored.
All Episode One had was a bunch of CGI muppets.
My point was that kernel is not the issue as in NT (or BSDs) significantly lacking in features compared to Linux. Myself I prefer a bit of diversity - having NT on one side and Linux on the other is a good thing.
Yeah, right, MS sells software (and establishes a 'monopoly') because of general public ignorance. Claiming that general public has no clue and is not sensitive to choices offered is shortsighted. Maybe the dynamics of change in market penetration of competitors is a bit slow, but the things are the way they are for a reason.
DOS, Windows 3.x and so on won against their respective competitors for different reasons - be it the price, applications available, user experience, backwards compatibility.
People buy Windows because it's the best choice for them, based on their experience and 'general knowledge'.
Coming to terms with this can help you figure out how to change it, if you wish so.
What is so special about Linux kernel compared to NT or, say, [Free/Open]BSD?
Just asking.
That's what occured to me too.
The Cold War perspective (yay, another one defected from Evil Empire!) is amusing, but not very insightful. Why would someone of any ambition to leave mark in OS security switch from MS to Amazon? It doesn't even compare.
I'd rather say the guy was not very important, was offered more money (i.e. not very important) or was ditched (...) .
Talk about the angle... seems BillG is not the only one moving into philanthropy.
Thank you Apple!
They also use a chinese billion which is somewhat smaller than our 'billion'.
I think this will have much less impact on publishing industry than web had; I mean, what's there about ePaper edition that you can't get by just visiting the site? When I think of it, I prefer paper edition of the stuff I do read, exactly because I don't have to waste energy avoiding all the shiny shit, animated ads, windows poping out & so on.
This is more of a gimmick. Sure it's nice to have animated papers and stuff, but once you got it, said 'cooool', what do you do? And then you start to think about more practical stuff, like - price, sensitivity, recycling issues.
Unless it becomes as cheap as ordinary paper, I don't see it growing significantly in papers/magazines department.
"With ad blocking becoming ever more popular among users, why do you block ads? And with what? Do you view internet ads as different from say, TV ads? What about in a magazine? Do you not buy a magazine because it has too many? I'm specifically talking about the ads in a webpage, but even popup blockers can cause problems with me using a site."
I don't see ads at all.
And I do it in hardware.
Say again, what are you selling?