I never got that strategy of releasing a gazillion products all the time in the first place, not for any device. Why does Sony release 100's of more-or-less the same televisions? HP right now has 89 printers on sale, and those are only the current models. You see the same thing with virtually every tech company.
As far as I can see, all it accomplishes is a support nightmare. Why doesn't Dell just sell 3 great laptops, 3 great servers and 3 great desktops? Wouldn't that result in both better products and less costs? It seems like only Apple and the car industry follow the approach of limiting their product range. All other companies seem to think it's better to have a huge collection of only marginally different products in their catalogue. Very strange in my opinion.
Why wouldn't observations or logical conclusions have no relation with reality?
That said, I don't think in a single truth exists per se. And since ongoing progress is made in the form of observations and reason, new evidence and arguments present themselves continuously. So even "the truth" is really "the current truth".
But I do think it is reasonable to assume things backed up by more evidence or argument are more true than things that are backed up by less evidence or argument. And I fail to see why you would accept something as true when no evidence or argument is available at all.
But that's what puberty is for, right? To re-evaluate the things you have accepted as true so far in your life. The transition of a child to an adult largely is exactly that: determining your own values, sorting out how you think the world works and defining the sort of person you are. I get that as a child it is very useful to blindly believe what your parents and teachers tell you, including stuff about God or Santa. But once you enter adulthood, you start to "think for yourself". So even if your parents never told you Santa doesn't exist, you should figure it out by yourself by then. Beyond that phase, I really don't get why you would believe anything for which there is no clear evidence or argument.
I'm not talking about science. I'm talking about any proof. Nobody goes around questioning whether all sorts of random things do or do not exist. So why would you even consider the existence of god until someone actually shows some evidence or argument to support his existence?
I completely miss the point of believing that something is or is not if there is no observation or other hint whatsoever to support either claim. You can call that agnostic, but I think it's just common sense. You don't burden yourself with the question of whether other random things exist or not, so why would you question the existence of god?
But when you look at the top 20, top 100, top whatever you find the same pattern: Apache is by far the most used web server, IIS doesn't even come close.
There is nothing idiotic about making sure you know what's going in IT. Your computer is an essential part of your life and the data on it is vital to your ability to function. You may not like it, but that's the society we've created over the last few decades. You either keep up, or face the pain of a nightmarish migration in the future.
Now of course, Windows XP isn't yet at the point where it's nearly impossible to upgrade to a more modern platform while maintaing your data and workflow. But it is going there at an exponential rate. In another 10 years it will much harder to migrate to the technology of then than it is now, 10 years after that it may not be a realistic option at all.
Keeping backups is only useful if the data you're storing and the media you're storing on aren't deprecated. That's why backups alone are not enough, you also need to keep up with technology to make sure your backups are still compatible.
An Apple II was once a fine piece of equipment which could solve all of your problems effortlessly. So why change a winning team, right? Well, good luck migrating from an Apple II to a more modern platform.
It will typically be easier to stay current than to make the leaps and bounds across more than a decade of changes.
That's all I'm trying to say. Of course you don't need to install every single upgrade that is offered to you. And of course you don't to abandon ship the moment a new platform arrives. But by making sure you keep yourself informed of what is going, you can prevent major changes in the way you work with your computer. That's what I meant with "getting stuck".
A backup is useless if the stuff you're storing is bound to deprecated technology. That's why backing up alone is not enough, you also need to make sure that you keep up with what is going on in IT in order to keep your backups compatible with current technology.
Because you're not going to use a computer just now, you're going to be using a computer the rest of your life. And since just about everything in IT is in continuous motion, it's important to keep up with developments and make sure you abandon dying platforms in time to prevent getting stuck.
Sadly, this view isn't limited to schools. Lots of design shops started doing websites next to their traditional paper offerings (posters, flyers etc). A lot of people seem to think creating an image of software is not so different from actually creating software.
I'm not sad there's 512 MB RAM in a phone, I'm sad that 512 MB in a phone isn't enough to make it perform adequately to be useful. I'm sad that even with 512 MB of RAM in a phone, developers can't get their act together and use that hardware in such a way that a responsive user experience is guaranteed. Of course pretty things are nice, but when they're in the way of decent performance, the priorities are clearly the wrong way around.
It actually is nice of them to provide me with constant updates for over two years. I fully understand they're keeping some features as USPs for their new models, but at least I don't have the feeling I've been abandoned by the maker of my phone right after I bought it.
However, you can really, really feel the fact that the phone only has 512 MB of RAM
I know it's 2011 and the world has moved on since the dark ages of the Commodore 64 and everything, but still a quote like this makes me feel profoundly sad inside.
Actually, my iPhone 3GS has been feeling quite a bit snappier since I upgraded it to iOS 5 a few months ago and the new features are nice as well. And that's a phone which was released a year before the Samsung Galaxy S. Thank your for asking.
So don't put plants with flowers in. What possible harm could a simple orpine do? I mean seriously, we humans are native inhabitants of this planet, right? Why are we so out of sync with our world we can't even tolerate our most basic natural resources? Geez.
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I never got that strategy of releasing a gazillion products all the time in the first place, not for any device. Why does Sony release 100's of more-or-less the same televisions? HP right now has 89 printers on sale, and those are only the current models. You see the same thing with virtually every tech company.
As far as I can see, all it accomplishes is a support nightmare. Why doesn't Dell just sell 3 great laptops, 3 great servers and 3 great desktops? Wouldn't that result in both better products and less costs? It seems like only Apple and the car industry follow the approach of limiting their product range. All other companies seem to think it's better to have a huge collection of only marginally different products in their catalogue. Very strange in my opinion.
So why do most cars sold in Europe and Japan get an NCAP-rating of 5 stars for safety, without compromising on mileage at all?
Cool, thanks for sharing this stuff.
Why wouldn't observations or logical conclusions have no relation with reality?
That said, I don't think in a single truth exists per se. And since ongoing progress is made in the form of observations and reason, new evidence and arguments present themselves continuously. So even "the truth" is really "the current truth".
But I do think it is reasonable to assume things backed up by more evidence or argument are more true than things that are backed up by less evidence or argument. And I fail to see why you would accept something as true when no evidence or argument is available at all.
But that's what puberty is for, right? To re-evaluate the things you have accepted as true so far in your life. The transition of a child to an adult largely is exactly that: determining your own values, sorting out how you think the world works and defining the sort of person you are. I get that as a child it is very useful to blindly believe what your parents and teachers tell you, including stuff about God or Santa. But once you enter adulthood, you start to "think for yourself". So even if your parents never told you Santa doesn't exist, you should figure it out by yourself by then. Beyond that phase, I really don't get why you would believe anything for which there is no clear evidence or argument.
I'm not talking about science. I'm talking about any proof. Nobody goes around questioning whether all sorts of random things do or do not exist. So why would you even consider the existence of god until someone actually shows some evidence or argument to support his existence?
I completely miss the point of believing that something is or is not if there is no observation or other hint whatsoever to support either claim. You can call that agnostic, but I think it's just common sense. You don't burden yourself with the question of whether other random things exist or not, so why would you question the existence of god?
What do you mean by "proven"?
I simply mean sufficient evidence or argument for the truth of a proposition. Lots of things can be proven.
Sadly, except for some native English speakers, nobody will notice the difference between LAMP and LEMP.
But when you look at the top 20, top 100, top whatever you find the same pattern: Apache is by far the most used web server, IIS doesn't even come close.
Since when do you need faith to *not* believe something? Why would you believe anything until it has been proven to be so?
So what happened to Voyager I then?
There is nothing idiotic about making sure you know what's going in IT. Your computer is an essential part of your life and the data on it is vital to your ability to function. You may not like it, but that's the society we've created over the last few decades. You either keep up, or face the pain of a nightmarish migration in the future.
Now of course, Windows XP isn't yet at the point where it's nearly impossible to upgrade to a more modern platform while maintaing your data and workflow. But it is going there at an exponential rate. In another 10 years it will much harder to migrate to the technology of then than it is now, 10 years after that it may not be a realistic option at all.
Keeping backups is only useful if the data you're storing and the media you're storing on aren't deprecated. That's why backups alone are not enough, you also need to keep up with technology to make sure your backups are still compatible.
An Apple II was once a fine piece of equipment which could solve all of your problems effortlessly. So why change a winning team, right? Well, good luck migrating from an Apple II to a more modern platform.
It will typically be easier to stay current than to make the leaps and bounds across more than a decade of changes.
That's all I'm trying to say. Of course you don't need to install every single upgrade that is offered to you. And of course you don't to abandon ship the moment a new platform arrives. But by making sure you keep yourself informed of what is going, you can prevent major changes in the way you work with your computer. That's what I meant with "getting stuck".
A backup is useless if the stuff you're storing is bound to deprecated technology. That's why backing up alone is not enough, you also need to make sure that you keep up with what is going on in IT in order to keep your backups compatible with current technology.
If you anticipate on what is changing, you can prevent getting in a situation where your computer can't solve your problems. That's all I'm saying.
Because you're not going to use a computer just now, you're going to be using a computer the rest of your life. And since just about everything in IT is in continuous motion, it's important to keep up with developments and make sure you abandon dying platforms in time to prevent getting stuck.
Hacking into those feeds sounds like a lot of fun indeed!
Sadly, this view isn't limited to schools. Lots of design shops started doing websites next to their traditional paper offerings (posters, flyers etc). A lot of people seem to think creating an image of software is not so different from actually creating software.
I'm not sad there's 512 MB RAM in a phone, I'm sad that 512 MB in a phone isn't enough to make it perform adequately to be useful. I'm sad that even with 512 MB of RAM in a phone, developers can't get their act together and use that hardware in such a way that a responsive user experience is guaranteed. Of course pretty things are nice, but when they're in the way of decent performance, the priorities are clearly the wrong way around.
It actually is nice of them to provide me with constant updates for over two years. I fully understand they're keeping some features as USPs for their new models, but at least I don't have the feeling I've been abandoned by the maker of my phone right after I bought it.
However, you can really, really feel the fact that the phone only has 512 MB of RAM
I know it's 2011 and the world has moved on since the dark ages of the Commodore 64 and everything, but still a quote like this makes me feel profoundly sad inside.
Actually, my iPhone 3GS has been feeling quite a bit snappier since I upgraded it to iOS 5 a few months ago and the new features are nice as well. And that's a phone which was released a year before the Samsung Galaxy S. Thank your for asking.
So don't put plants with flowers in. What possible harm could a simple orpine do? I mean seriously, we humans are native inhabitants of this planet, right? Why are we so out of sync with our world we can't even tolerate our most basic natural resources? Geez.