I started on computers before the mouse and back then the popular word processor was Wordstar and it had it's own set of Ctrl- keys for navigation and many functions. Many of the app's of the day and games copied the Wordstar navigation keys and once you learned them you could move around faster than with a mouse. Even when GUI's started appearing many app's the key to working fast was knowing the keyboard commands, it's a lot faster leaving your hands on the keyboard than always having to grab a mouse especially for menu commands. Now all this touch screen stuff and even more time and moving about than even a mouse. Keeping your hands on the keyboard with app's putting keyboard equivalents of menu commands is fast way to work as far as I'm concerned.
The subway in L.A. was held up for decades because the rich Beverly Hills residents didn't want to be disturbed by the building of it. So the intelligent route couldn't be used, the one the old L.A. Red Line had, so the L.A. subway skirts Beverly Hills. Now Elton want to build his tunnel and the bozos in the rich areas of the Westside get it stopped. Plutarchy in action just like the whole Trump administration is all about.
This is the new era business model, they don't want people to own anything, but to subscribe to everything they can. Actually it started a long time ago with computer software and the licenses changed so you weren't buying the software you were leasing it. Now music, movies, books, magazines, TV, radio, cars and other goods, they want a guaranteed monthly payment. I've read where grocery stores are looking into a model like this where you pay for base monthly food, then buy extras. Your quality of life will be based on how much a month your can afford and you own nothing physical if life changes your finances. Everyone will be a pawn of the mega corporations.
I got one of these so I wouldn't have to put together another sound system in my bedroom, for that purpose it's been inexpensive and sound is good enough. But it is far from smart sometimes I have to say the name of the artist or playlist I want multiple times before it gets it. Some of the playlists I make are because it can't understand the artists name so I make a list with a simpler name. So if it want to listen to my farts in my sleep enjoy. I does have a microphone off, and just unpluging the power is just as easy. It is spooky how much it does pickup, I can be in my other room and tell it to shut off and it hears me.
Last I find myself using less as time goes by. At first it was fun checking news, weather, and Yankees scores, but now I stopped most of that and even don't listen to it at night as much. So the novelty is wearing off and the fact it does hear (and probably misinterprets) what I say I don't foresee myself using it long time.
I wanted to retire and start enjoy have time to do what I want to do. I had been working since I was 10 YO always in school or work. Spent many years in music business (many aspects) and most of the last 30 plus years in programming and then SysAdmin. So situations came together to make it work so I left. Actually the last job was the worst run and managed place of any and that was a motivation. They begged me to stay another six months, but I knew it was so they could fire others that needed the job and dump their work on me, so I said no. I'm five years later I'm the happiest I've ever been.
The professional reviews are usually way off base loving or hating a film. I go by the public's reviews for a better idea if movie is worth my money. Even then you have to factor in the fanboy effect that will sway the numbers for the first day or even first weekend. Fanboy's are worse than the critics they like anything by . For fanboys its a competition more than if it's good or not like whole Marvel vs DC crowd the Star War fans versus the masses.
I say ignore the professional critics check the reviews of the masses, but factor in if they have a fanboy following.
This was all predicted decades ago by many futurist writers, but what they didn't foresee is the greed of the 1% saying no we want it all screw everyone else. That's what all this global far right movement is all about. the rich trying to get the commoner to kill each other off, reduce burden on natural resources. It's the 1% form of population reduction.
"Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!"
The non-rich the artcle refer to typically can't get full time so companies don't have to pay for health benefits. Most the poor have more than one job, so add up the hours. This article is the fantasy the rich tell themselves.
I remember when I worked for Borland we used to joke that we were Microsoft's training site they poached so many people. From what I understand in one of the MS/Borland lawsuits Borland got no-poaching added as part of the settlement.
vi and vim have been around for decades becasue they fullfil a need of a text editor that can be found on every Unix box you might have to work on. They have a command set most know enough to use even if they prefer other editors. It has enough features to use as an development editor and most important there are tons of other editors to choose from.
Don't screw with vim you want to make you idea of a better vim fine just leave the original alone!!!!
The GOP's favorite word privatization in other word how to take our taxes and give them to their big corporate buddies. Look at how much of the miliatary is privatized now. Not only can the private milatary avoid the law they charge big $$$. Cut school budgets and give vouchers to give our taxes to big business. And on and on.
I agree Chromebook is excellent choice for anyone who just wants email and web browser and on rare occasion a bit more. I know even younger users (in 50's and 60's) tired of tweaking computers or expensive Apple devices have happily moved to Chromebooks.
What's the saying any problem can be solved by adding another layer of indirection. Guess they can't figure out how to monitize contributing coding resources to address the issue.
There is nothing they can't monitor and collect these days, the only thing in our favor is ability to analyze the mountain of raw data they have already.
Apples and oranges comparison brick building is manual labor task. My grandfather was a brick mason and he learned the skill, and worked his way thru the ranks apprentice and journeyman, etc. If a wall started falling apart it was probably bad bricks, or the mortar wasn't mixed right. Two thing out of his control on a construction job with a team of brick masons. Last if the person hired didn't have the skills.
Software development a person can be unqualified for the job, so you don't want them fixing things. Then most real world app's are large team projects and side effects for other people's code is part of the process so who fixed what? Then bugs or code not functioning as expected just part of developing code for a project and that has to be factored in to the time and cost of development. I a company told me to fix bugs on my time (which they usually have a chunk of anyway) I'd be looking for another gig. Only time I would fix bugs on my own if I was sick or distracted and knew I wasn't working up to par. Unless its one of those bosses who says "sick or not get in here" then its their fault I raised the red flag and they ignored it.
Actually Dell started about the same time as the Mac, the orignal name of the company was PC Limited and they later changed their name to Michael Dell's name.
The last place I worked had open office plan and I hated it. Noisy, no sense of my area to feel comforatable in. Just rows of tables not eveb desks. The owner and managers were a big part of making it feel so uptight, they discouraaged conversation, that SCRUM or meetings were time to exchange ideas. Development and SysAdmin involves sharing of problems, solutions, and communication is the key.
I like having cubes and co-workers would come by to disuss work, or there would be group talks outside of the cubes. What would appear to some as people just hanging out was a very creative enviromnet.
What I could see working is a mixed open area and then cubes for people that want to get away to think. Options are good.
Blame IBM for killing off OS/2. I worked for one of the major banks and years after OS/2 died they were still running it because the main teller software ran on OS/2 and the company that created it rufused to port it to anything else.
The govenment monitors the banking banks and if someone came up with Linix ATM software that could pass govenment regulations and a ease migration path you'd probably see a mass move from XP to Linux. Because the banks what one does most the other do.
It happened to me I ordered a accessory from an online music store, then they sent me a dozen of what I ordered. I emailed their Customer Service by (no phone # on thier site) of what happened and I'd be glad to return if they make shipping arrangements. A week goes by and no response so I send a second email and again no reply. After that I kept copies of the emails I send and kept the merchadise. I had no use for the extrass so couple years later I donated them to a local music program for kids.
Thru a buddy I got a mini tour of JBL's research lab and they had an anechoic chamber to test speaker designs. I got to spend a few minutes in the anechoic chamber and it was strange but cool sensation. First the floor was a suspended wire mesh so almost like floating, then when door was closed I starting to hear my own body and nothing else, excellent. I'd love to have an anechoic chamber or a float tank to zone out in.
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I started on computers before the mouse and back then the popular word processor was Wordstar and it had it's own set of Ctrl- keys for navigation and many functions. Many of the app's of the day and games copied the Wordstar navigation keys and once you learned them you could move around faster than with a mouse. Even when GUI's started appearing many app's the key to working fast was knowing the keyboard commands, it's a lot faster leaving your hands on the keyboard than always having to grab a mouse especially for menu commands. Now all this touch screen stuff and even more time and moving about than even a mouse. Keeping your hands on the keyboard with app's putting keyboard equivalents of menu commands is fast way to work as far as I'm concerned.
The subway in L.A. was held up for decades because the rich Beverly Hills residents didn't want to be disturbed by the building of it. So the intelligent route couldn't be used, the one the old L.A. Red Line had, so the L.A. subway skirts Beverly Hills. Now Elton want to build his tunnel and the bozos in the rich areas of the Westside get it stopped. Plutarchy in action just like the whole Trump administration is all about.
This is the new era business model, they don't want people to own anything, but to subscribe to everything they can. Actually it started a long time ago with computer software and the licenses changed so you weren't buying the software you were leasing it. Now music, movies, books, magazines, TV, radio, cars and other goods, they want a guaranteed monthly payment. I've read where grocery stores are looking into a model like this where you pay for base monthly food, then buy extras. Your quality of life will be based on how much a month your can afford and you own nothing physical if life changes your finances. Everyone will be a pawn of the mega corporations.
I got one of these so I wouldn't have to put together another sound system in my bedroom, for that purpose it's been inexpensive and sound is good enough. But it is far from smart sometimes I have to say the name of the artist or playlist I want multiple times before it gets it. Some of the playlists I make are because it can't understand the artists name so I make a list with a simpler name. So if it want to listen to my farts in my sleep enjoy. I does have a microphone off, and just unpluging the power is just as easy. It is spooky how much it does pickup, I can be in my other room and tell it to shut off and it hears me.
Last I find myself using less as time goes by. At first it was fun checking news, weather, and Yankees scores, but now I stopped most of that and even don't listen to it at night as much. So the novelty is wearing off and the fact it does hear (and probably misinterprets) what I say I don't foresee myself using it long time.
I wanted to retire and start enjoy have time to do what I want to do. I had been working since I was 10 YO always in school or work. Spent many years in music business (many aspects) and most of the last 30 plus years in programming and then SysAdmin. So situations came together to make it work so I left. Actually the last job was the worst run and managed place of any and that was a motivation. They begged me to stay another six months, but I knew it was so they could fire others that needed the job and dump their work on me, so I said no. I'm five years later I'm the happiest I've ever been.
The professional reviews are usually way off base loving or hating a film. I go by the public's reviews for a better idea if movie is worth my money. Even then you have to factor in the fanboy effect that will sway the numbers for the first day or even first weekend. Fanboy's are worse than the critics they like anything by . For fanboys its a competition more than if it's good or not like whole Marvel vs DC crowd the Star War fans versus the masses.
I say ignore the professional critics check the reviews of the masses, but factor in if they have a fanboy following.
This was all predicted decades ago by many futurist writers, but what they didn't foresee is the greed of the 1% saying no we want it all screw everyone else. That's what all this global far right movement is all about. the rich trying to get the commoner to kill each other off, reduce burden on natural resources. It's the 1% form of population reduction.
That why I just use my Mac for work, and everything elses on my Linux box.
"Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!"
The non-rich the artcle refer to typically can't get full time so companies don't have to pay for health benefits. Most the poor have more than one job, so add up the hours. This article is the fantasy the rich tell themselves.
I remember when I worked for Borland we used to joke that we were Microsoft's training site they poached so many people. From what I understand in one of the MS/Borland lawsuits Borland got no-poaching added as part of the settlement.
vi and vim have been around for decades becasue they fullfil a need of a text editor that can be found on every Unix box you might have to work on. They have a command set most know enough to use even if they prefer other editors. It has enough features to use as an development editor and most important there are tons of other editors to choose from.
Don't screw with vim you want to make you idea of a better vim fine just leave the original alone!!!!
From the people who mentor Karl Rove, Fox News, and Clear Channel. History our way.
The GOP's favorite word privatization in other word how to take our taxes and give them to their big corporate buddies. Look at how much of the miliatary is privatized now. Not only can the private milatary avoid the law they charge big $$$. Cut school budgets and give vouchers to give our taxes to big business. And on and on.
I agree Chromebook is excellent choice for anyone who just wants email and web browser and on rare occasion a bit more. I know even younger users (in 50's and 60's) tired of tweaking computers or expensive Apple devices have happily moved to Chromebooks.
What's the saying any problem can be solved by adding another layer of indirection. Guess they can't figure out how to monitize contributing coding resources to address the issue.
Exactly.
There is nothing they can't monitor and collect these days, the only thing in our favor is ability to analyze the mountain of raw data they have already.
Apples and oranges comparison brick building is manual labor task. My grandfather was a brick mason and he learned the skill, and worked his way thru the ranks apprentice and journeyman, etc. If a wall started falling apart it was probably bad bricks, or the mortar wasn't mixed right. Two thing out of his control on a construction job with a team of brick masons. Last if the person hired didn't have the skills.
Software development a person can be unqualified for the job, so you don't want them fixing things. Then most real world app's are large team projects and side effects for other people's code is part of the process so who fixed what? Then bugs or code not functioning as expected just part of developing code for a project and that has to be factored in to the time and cost of development. I a company told me to fix bugs on my time (which they usually have a chunk of anyway) I'd be looking for another gig. Only time I would fix bugs on my own if I was sick or distracted and knew I wasn't working up to par. Unless its one of those bosses who says "sick or not get in here" then its their fault I raised the red flag and they ignored it.
Start getting your resume out.
That's sucks I was hoping to go skin diving and see Scully and Mulder.
Actually Dell started about the same time as the Mac, the orignal name of the company was PC Limited and they later changed their name to Michael Dell's name.
The last place I worked had open office plan and I hated it. Noisy, no sense of my area to feel comforatable in. Just rows of tables not eveb desks. The owner and managers were a big part of making it feel so uptight, they discouraaged conversation, that SCRUM or meetings were time to exchange ideas. Development and SysAdmin involves sharing of problems, solutions, and communication is the key.
I like having cubes and co-workers would come by to disuss work, or there would be group talks outside of the cubes. What would appear to some as people just hanging out was a very creative enviromnet.
What I could see working is a mixed open area and then cubes for people that want to get away to think. Options are good.
Blame IBM for killing off OS/2. I worked for one of the major banks and years after OS/2 died they were still running it because the main teller software ran on OS/2 and the company that created it rufused to port it to anything else.
The govenment monitors the banking banks and if someone came up with Linix ATM software that could pass govenment regulations and a ease migration path you'd probably see a mass move from XP to Linux. Because the banks what one does most the other do.
It happened to me I ordered a accessory from an online music store, then they sent me a dozen of what I ordered. I emailed their Customer Service by (no phone # on thier site) of what happened and I'd be glad to return if they make shipping arrangements. A week goes by and no response so I send a second email and again no reply. After that I kept copies of the emails I send and kept the merchadise. I had no use for the extrass so couple years later I donated them to a local music program for kids.
Seem like idea of build Private Cloud should start increasing.
What was always taught about security if they have physical access they have you. So with commerical clouds you're giving physical acess to ???????
Thru a buddy I got a mini tour of JBL's research lab and they had an anechoic chamber to test speaker designs. I got to spend a few minutes in the anechoic chamber and it was strange but cool sensation. First the floor was a suspended wire mesh so almost like floating, then when door was closed I starting to hear my own body and nothing else, excellent. I'd love to have an anechoic chamber or a float tank to zone out in.