What still doesn't make sense to me is I watch a lot of video on my computer. Granted, most isn't high def but some is. And yet I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS! It's impossible to solve in X11? Really?!?! Is the answer to come to my house, take apart my computer and every past iteration of it, see how mine is somehow different and replicate that? I really don't think so. My hardware is rather outdated and I haven't altered any X11 source code! WTF?!?!
I use network transparency. I don't think I should lose my feature but I don' t think you should suffer either. So answer this.. What the hell is tearing? It seems to be brought up every time someone is justifying removing network transparency. I do watch video in Linux, granted, that I do locally, not remotely, mainly because remote audio is still a bear to get working.
I have noticed, as I install updates sometimes one video player works best, sometimes another. Mainly the difference is one will truly go full screen another will not. So... I keep a few installed, mplayer xine and dragon player. Every couple of upgrades I find myself switching which one is my default in order to get back full-screen.
Besides that, once I get full screen the picture is everything I expect it to be regardless of if I were playing it in X, Windows, Mac or watching a Blu-Ray disc!
So.. WTF is tearing????? And why do I have to lose my network transparency to get rid of it?????
I don't know a lot about DRI or specific X extensions. I'm aware of them but only so far as I have needed to be to get X running on various video cards.
I do run X remotely. A lot! I haven't really ran into much that didn't work. Actually I can't specifically remember anything that didn't work although I think I vaguely recall it happening once.
Mostly I run a web browser, various text editors, the Arduino programming envionment, gimp, an instant messenger, occasionally Libre Office and probably a few things I am not thinking of. Even video seems to work ok when I bring up Youtube. I'm not sure if I have done much with mplayer or other video players yet. I'm still working on getting remote audio working correctly.
Maybe these things all fall under your category of 'simple applications'. If so then so what? That's a pretty good group of applications to get things done. The only thing I can think of that I haven't really done much is 3d video games. Although.. I know I did start one once just to see if it would crash and it did not.
I'm no expert in how X works but my understanding was that when running remotely it sends commands like draw a line here, draw a circle there, etc and only falls back on sending bitmaps when necessary. It sounds like Wayland will be the opposite, sending a stream of bitmaps constantly. Did I understand that right?
I thought not sending bitmaps was supposed to be the faster way? Maybe this is a use case. I can understand, if I was mostly just watching videos I would expect sending bitmaps to be the only way. A system that is optimized to do so would be best. What about things that are more based on forms and controls like text editors, file managers, even web browsers (if the page isn't too busy with graphics). Wouldn't those work better the "old" way?
I don't know about others but that is more how I use remote X. If I just wanted a box to watch movies I wouldn't bother with remote display, I would just serve the movie file itself and consume it with a device that has it's own viewer software running locally.
"There is also code in development to create a "wayland network protocol" where clients can generate images (on whatever computer they are running on - which might have a GPU), and then send the (compressed) image over the network to another wayland server where the user actually sits and sees the graphics. This is a kind of "RDP remote desktop" mode - and according to many people will actually out-perform the old X way of doing things, as well as being vastly simpler to implement/maintain."
If this is true then I believe that the Wayland team could defuse a lot of fear by coming out and explaining it. Is this going to work in a rooted or rootless mode? Or both? It really needs to be both. Will it be a simple matter of setting a DISPLAY variable like with X? Or something more convoluted.
Where is it in priority? Maybe the Wayland team are the wrong ones to answer to this but are distros going to start switching to Wayland before it's network protocol is ready? When will we start seeing applications that no longer run on X? At that time will the network protocol be ready?
At first the only answer to this was that it is not within Wayland's scope. That is still the only answer on the Wayland FAQ! That may be true that it IS beyond Wayland's scope. However it is still a major feature that many of us are still relying on for day to day use. Without better answers to these things the Wayland developers should expect to see strong resistance. Even if it our fears are misplaced.
Throwing away features that many users still need is not a good way to fix anything. If X is so broken it must be completely replaced then fine, but the replacement should have all of X's features. Until there is a way to do remote display in a Wayland system both single application at a time and entire desktop then it is not a good solution.
"it's not even very useful over LAN" I read that from time to time but I really can't understand why. I am using it!
I have a tiny little PC that I think might have been part of a cash register in a past life. It sits on my garage workbench. When I turn it on I get a graphical login box for my main desktop which lives upstairs via XDMCP. It works great! Everything works just the same there as it does locally!
My only complaint is that I can't get applications running on the remote display to automatically route their audio to it. I think PulseAudio is supposed to allow for that. TFM is kind of vague on that issue, it seems like directing audio too/from various mobile devices is more what they want to talk about. I'm thinking of just running some audio wires through the floor/ceiling and forgetting about it.
I have a desktop in the den and a remote X terminal in the garage that connects to it via the LAN. I like living in the brave old future! It serves my needs quite well! I don't want a full OS to babysit on my workbench computer.
The brave new future just seems assinine. It wold only be useful if my main goal was to play Farmville.
X does remote display great for me! Granted, I mostly use it over a LAN.
Wayland scares me because it looks like most distros will eventually switch to it but there doesn't seem to be a straight answer about how to do remote display in a Wayland environment. Answers to that question seem to fit into 4 categories:
1) We don't care. Maybe someone else will implement that later.
2) Just use X on top of Wayland. (No idea how to do this if/when applications stop supporting X)
3) That should be implemented at the toolkit level. (Yeah, ok. Then there can be the QT way to do remote, the GTK way, the SDL way, etc... And that only if/when the developers of those tookits decided to implement it. Programs written in various more rare toolkits... probably never remotable again. Sounds great!)
4) Or my favorite answer... lots of technical terms that may or may not actually answer the question, digging into depths that many a happy remote X user has never had to know.
Hmm... I think anyone who defines a person's loser/winner life status by what games they play most likely are pretty big losers themselves regardless of what games they posess.
I still remember the good old days when EULA's were untested in court and widely considered unenforceable.
So you clicked a button? Big deal. That is hardly tracable like a signature. Who witnessed this button clicking? More importantly some company already accepted your money and handed you the product before you even got it home and put the disc in the drive. If there was some contract they wanted to make part of the agreement then they should have taken care of that before they ever took your cash!
But alas.. a few software companies became more powerful than the courts. (or at least more powerful than some judges' common sense)
"I'd expect them to delete software from my device if they reasonably know that the software will hurt _me_."
This seems to be a common expectation these days. I don't understand why! In the hey day of the desktop I didn't expect (or want) the company I bought my PC from to delete software from it. If I did something stupid and isntalled some sort of malware it was my problem. Sure, not everyone was skilled enough to clean their own computers. But if you weren't able to install+run some scanner yourself there were plenty of places you could take your PC and pay someone to do it. (often the same place you bought it).
Nobody expected Dell, BestBuy, the mom & pop computer shop down the street, etc... to maintain a connection to their machine, know what is isntalled on it and delete things for the good of their users or for themselves. In fact, if someone did do this they could probably expect a lawsuit if not jail time!
Yes, I agree we will reach a point (if we aren't already there) where we do not have enough work to keep everyone going for 40 hours.
I'm not sure what a basic income is. I'm guessing it's an income that everyone gets no matter what. From the government? Please correct me if that isn't it. I don't think we need to gaurantee everyone gets paid even without work. There is always going to be something that needs done, even if all it is is keeping an eye on the 'robots'. We have to incentivize people to do this somehow.
I think there are two ways to look at labor saving technology. By enabling us to produce with less work we can either work less or produce more. I think our current society has been attempting to do the latter. The result is we consume more. We are constantly throwing away things that our parents wouldn't have even dreamed of one day owning so we can get the newsest, slightly better itteration.
The other way to look at is is to work less. Unfortunately our current society doesn't really support this. Even hourly workers cost much more than their hourly wage. (in the first world) At the low end the bigger expense is healthcare, not the hourly wage. It is cheaper to encourage workers to work more hours, even offering doubletime pay than it is to hire more workers. Companies are financially encouraged to thiin our their workers to the minimum they can get by with.
I think we need a healthy combination of both. We should always be striving to produce more, or maybe I should say to produce better. Instead of constantly filling our landfills with 6 month old iPhones and 2 year old televisions how do we incentivize companies to produce things that improve the world in ways that are truly new? Our land based automobile technologies are almost completely optimized versions of what they were 100 years ago. When do we let that go and get our flying cars? Our life spans are decades longer than they recently were. When do we get medicines that allow us to be active and enjoy those extra years?
Still.. with increasing automation I don't think we can get by with just increased production alone. With labor saving devices reducing the NEED for work we should start expecting more free time as individuals. Rather than working massive overtime, trying to get rich it's time to be rich enjoying what we have. We need to fix healthcare and any other problems that incentivize employers to hire fewer people working more hours. Then we need to start shrinking the work week while maintaining wages. If technology is allowing companies to produce more with less then those companies should be able to afford wages which allow people to maintain their lifestyles while working fewer hours. Currently I think these increased profits are being pocketed by the executives who aren't even producing anything.
I'm not sure that we are at the point where we actually begin cutting the work week back to below 40 hours. I do think it is on the horizon as technology removes more and more labor. I also think that the factories of today where people work 60 70 hour weeks are unhealthy, both for society as they don't employee as many people as they should and for the workers themselves who aren't really living their lives.
Unfortunately there is a third option to the problem and that is what I think we are starting to see. The third option" is simply less labor needed = fewer people working and more poverty to go around. So long as we continue to lean on the first solution alone (produce/consume) more without bringing in the second (less work per worker) we are doomed to eventually fall to this third option.
" that simply provides an incentive to better one's self and maybe go back to college"
The problem with this logic is that society needs a certain number of people to work in those low end jobs. Society does not however need 100% of it's individuals to hold college degrees. We already have factories looking for college degrees when they hire line workers. These are jobs where the workers are doing simple repetative tasks like turning screws, inspecting paint as parts go by on a line, etc... all day long. Why? Because they have so many potential workers to chose from and no better way to differentiate between them!
How many years of college will we all need to escape the collar? How much money in student loans? The worse things get in these low-end jobs the more people try to get out of them the higher the bar gets but with no real advantage for society.
Don't get me wrong. I want NASA spending that money on something useful, not a 'tower to nowhere'. I do kind of relate to the senators too. Jobs shouldn't be temporary. I know, a lot of younger people think they are.It can be nice to regularly change things up for a while. Eventually one has to grow out of that. Staying in place is what gets you benefit time, raises, etc... It used to be how one gets a pension too back when they had those. I save a lot in my 401k but I don't see how I am ever going to retire!
This stuff becomes important when one goes to have a family. Even without the family, one day hopefully we all realize that we need to work to live, not live to work. Stay and build up that vacation time!
NASA projects unfortunately aren't stable enough for this kind of life. The problem is every politician has to go and cancel whatever the one before had NASA doing and build their own legacy. Of course they actually have no legacy because the next one will just cancel it anyway but I guess they all expect the next guy to be better than themselves... Meanwhile jobs are created and destroyed. Workers are hired and layed off. At least these porky senators are helping workers have a reason to want to work for NASA. Any organization that wants to do great things like space exploration is going to need to attract the best people. Why would they go to a place that will lay them off every time the whitehouse changes it's curtains?
Of course, a tower to nowhere is still a stupid way to spend taxpayer's money. The real problem isn't the pork, it's the politicians that keep changing the goals!!!
No, I think I spoke to that. I have had the misfotune of taking over many projects which started out a little things some non-programmer thought they could do to make some task easier. Over time it grows and turns into something larger and people depend on it. Well after it went over the head of the non-programmer it finally gets pushed to some programmer. Now it's a huge project where everything was done in the worst possible way to begin with and with no planning. Everything needs redone, the whole thing SHOULD be started over from scratch but it has grown into something in active use and existing users aren't going to appreciate being beta testers on the new one.
When I was a student I used to try a different window manager and/or desktop every day. Then I had a full time job and stuck with KDE. I went along with the changes in KDE4, I really wanted to like it, I tried to for years! If everything "just worked" I might have stuck with it. Recently I decided I was tired of bothering, now I use Ratpoison and TWM. (TWM is for when I am using applications that have lot's of detached windows. Tiling window managers are awesome but not in that case!). I'm not very sold on TWM, I'm looking for a similarly lightweight non-tiled window manager to take it's place but without the funky right-corner resize button thing.
Honestly I'm not sure any of this is ideal. I think I might like a 'classic' interface, something with a task bar, start button and desktop that displays shortcuts/files in a desktop folder. But... also give it a tiling mode and lot's of keyboard shortcuts so it works well with or without the mouse.
Hmmmm... I may have to start learning about coding desktop managers....
I am all for teaching people and enabling those who want to do something to do so. But why make a movement out of teaching every kid to program? How will the world be a better place if everyone knows some programming?
I see two things coming from this: more amateur programmers more professional programmers
Are more amateur programmers a good thing? If you are a programmer, ask yourself this. Have you ever had to take over a large project which was begun by an amateur programmer? Have you had to make the decision between continuing to patch crappy unplanned spaghetti code or take time you don't have to start from scratch on something that already has heavy use and needs fixes and / or new features yesterday?
Are more professional programmers a good thing? Many businesses seem to claim so as they push for laxer rules in bringing in cheap foreign labor. Is that anything more than BS though? How many colleges are there out there graduating whole classes of CS majors every semester? Yes, I understand, they want people with experience. There can't be anyone with experience until someone hires somebody without it though. This isn't an exclusive problem for computer programming, it is true for any profession that requires any experience. If companies can get more experienced employees by bringing them in from foreign lands then answer this... where are the foreigners getting their experience? Who hired them first?
What will more professional programmers really mean? Just more competition for programming jobs. Before smuggly thinking "that's ok I am really good" remember this... that may be true but you are still replaceable. More competition means you are more replaceable. That means you will work longer hours for less money and benefits. You will do it because if you don't someone else will! You didn't like money did you? You didn't want to have a life did you? Surely you don't expect to retire some day!
Please don't get me wrong. I'm not really selfish enough to want to discourage people from learning to program. I want to live in a world where everyone has a chance to do what they want to do and someone is willing to teach them to do it. I just don't like the idea of making it a required class that every child must take. I also don't think computer programming should be acceptable as a replacement for foreign language as the two have NOTHING to do with one another and while programming does help one develop their thinking skils such as logic, math and planning it does NOT help one develop the same kind of thinking skills that a foreign language provides. They are entirely different animals!/rant
I agree, it does send a message that tips aren't apreciated.
Sure, running bitcoind is pretty easy. But.. you can just get an online wallet if you don't want to run it yourself. As for waiting for it to grow, you don't have to turn it into fiat if you don't want to. Just make a wallet and move it there every now and then.
About the email address read access thing... is there any reason it has to be your regular address? Free email accounts are all over the net.
Up through the S3 my wife had the same phones that I did. She loves her Strat and her S3.
My Strat was great for about 2 days then it sucked. It seemed like I couldn't install much of anything on it or it would slow down to a crawl. I wasn't installing anything sketchy either, almost no games (I think I did have angry birds). Some health related stuff that my wife had too (hers worked well) and some ham radio apps. There was nothing that was likely to be infected plus on my previous phone (a Motorola Droid) the same apps caused no problems.
Frequent restores and re-installation of everything did make the Strat work ok but come on, who wants to do that? We also had a friend with the same phone, his experience was similar to mine. Reviews on the internet seemed to be more similar to my experience than my wife's.
Then we got the S3s. She still loves hers. Mine stopped working after about a week. It just turned off and would not turn back on. Google tells me this is a common problem. Not a universal problem, many people have no problems with their S3s but it is common enough that I found plenty of 'me toos' online.
I think maybe I was unlucky with two lemons in a row. Maybe it IS just luck. But.. Out of the 4 Android phones I have had 2 Motorolas that worked great and 2 Samsungs that were total disapointments. (I now have a Bionic and love my lapdock)
After 2 years of angry cursing at my phone I will tell people not to buy Samsung any chance I get!
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What still doesn't make sense to me is I watch a lot of video on my computer. Granted, most isn't high def but some is. And yet I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS! It's impossible to solve in X11? Really?!?! Is the answer to come to my house, take apart my computer and every past iteration of it, see how mine is somehow different and replicate that? I really don't think so. My hardware is rather outdated and I haven't altered any X11 source code! WTF?!?!
I use network transparency. I don't think I should lose my feature but I don' t think you should suffer either. So answer this.. What the hell is tearing? It seems to be brought up every time someone is justifying removing network transparency. I do watch video in Linux, granted, that I do locally, not remotely, mainly because remote audio is still a bear to get working.
I have noticed, as I install updates sometimes one video player works best, sometimes another. Mainly the difference is one will truly go full screen another will not. So... I keep a few installed, mplayer xine and dragon player. Every couple of upgrades I find myself switching which one is my default in order to get back full-screen.
Besides that, once I get full screen the picture is everything I expect it to be regardless of if I were playing it in X, Windows, Mac or watching a Blu-Ray disc!
So.. WTF is tearing????? And why do I have to lose my network transparency to get rid of it?????
I don't know a lot about DRI or specific X extensions. I'm aware of them but only so far as I have needed to be to get X running on various video cards.
I do run X remotely. A lot! I haven't really ran into much that didn't work. Actually I can't specifically remember anything that didn't work although I think I vaguely recall it happening once.
Mostly I run a web browser, various text editors, the Arduino programming envionment, gimp, an instant messenger, occasionally Libre Office and probably a few things I am not thinking of. Even video seems to work ok when I bring up Youtube. I'm not sure if I have done much with mplayer or other video players yet. I'm still working on getting remote audio working correctly.
Maybe these things all fall under your category of 'simple applications'. If so then so what? That's a pretty good group of applications to get things done. The only thing I can think of that I haven't really done much is 3d video games. Although.. I know I did start one once just to see if it would crash and it did not.
I'm no expert in how X works but my understanding was that when running remotely it sends commands like draw a line here, draw a circle there, etc and only falls back on sending bitmaps when necessary. It sounds like Wayland will be the opposite, sending a stream of bitmaps constantly. Did I understand that right?
I thought not sending bitmaps was supposed to be the faster way? Maybe this is a use case. I can understand, if I was mostly just watching videos I would expect sending bitmaps to be the only way. A system that is optimized to do so would be best. What about things that are more based on forms and controls like text editors, file managers, even web browsers (if the page isn't too busy with graphics). Wouldn't those work better the "old" way?
I don't know about others but that is more how I use remote X. If I just wanted a box to watch movies I wouldn't bother with remote display, I would just serve the movie file itself and consume it with a device that has it's own viewer software running locally.
"There is also code in development to create a "wayland network protocol" where clients can generate images (on whatever computer they are running on - which might have a GPU), and then send the (compressed) image over the network to another wayland server where the user actually sits and sees the graphics. This is a kind of "RDP remote desktop" mode - and according to many people will actually out-perform the old X way of doing things, as well as being vastly simpler to implement/maintain."
If this is true then I believe that the Wayland team could defuse a lot of fear by coming out and explaining it. Is this going to work in a rooted or rootless mode? Or both? It really needs to be both. Will it be a simple matter of setting a DISPLAY variable like with X? Or something more convoluted.
Where is it in priority? Maybe the Wayland team are the wrong ones to answer to this but are distros going to start switching to Wayland before it's network protocol is ready? When will we start seeing applications that no longer run on X? At that time will the network protocol be ready?
At first the only answer to this was that it is not within Wayland's scope. That is still the only answer on the Wayland FAQ! That may be true that it IS beyond Wayland's scope. However it is still a major feature that many of us are still relying on for day to day use. Without better answers to these things the Wayland developers should expect to see strong resistance. Even if it our fears are misplaced.
Throwing away features that many users still need is not a good way to fix anything. If X is so broken it must be completely replaced then fine, but the replacement should have all of X's features. Until there is a way to do remote display in a Wayland system both single application at a time and entire desktop then it is not a good solution.
"it's not even very useful over LAN"
I read that from time to time but I really can't understand why. I am using it!
I have a tiny little PC that I think might have been part of a cash register in a past life. It sits on my garage workbench. When I turn it on I get a graphical login box for my main desktop which lives upstairs via XDMCP. It works great! Everything works just the same there as it does locally!
My only complaint is that I can't get applications running on the remote display to automatically route their audio to it. I think PulseAudio is supposed to allow for that. TFM is kind of vague on that issue, it seems like directing audio too/from various mobile devices is more what they want to talk about. I'm thinking of just running some audio wires through the floor/ceiling and forgetting about it.
I have a desktop in the den and a remote X terminal in the garage that connects to it via the LAN. I like living in the brave old future! It serves my needs quite well! I don't want a full OS to babysit on my workbench computer.
The brave new future just seems assinine. It wold only be useful if my main goal was to play Farmville.
X does remote display great for me! Granted, I mostly use it over a LAN.
Wayland scares me because it looks like most distros will eventually switch to it but there doesn't seem to be a straight answer about how to do remote display in a Wayland environment. Answers to that question seem to fit into 4 categories:
1) We don't care. Maybe someone else will implement that later.
2) Just use X on top of Wayland. (No idea how to do this if/when applications stop supporting X)
3) That should be implemented at the toolkit level. (Yeah, ok. Then there can be the QT way to do remote, the GTK way, the SDL way, etc... And that only if/when the developers of those tookits decided to implement it. Programs written in various more rare toolkits... probably never remotable again. Sounds great!)
4) Or my favorite answer... lots of technical terms that may or may not actually answer the question, digging into depths that many a happy remote X user has never had to know.
Hmm... I think anyone who defines a person's loser/winner life status by what games they play most likely are pretty big losers themselves regardless of what games they posess.
I still remember the good old days when EULA's were untested in court and widely considered unenforceable.
So you clicked a button? Big deal. That is hardly tracable like a signature. Who witnessed this button clicking? More importantly some company already accepted your money and handed you the product before you even got it home and put the disc in the drive. If there was some contract they wanted to make part of the agreement then they should have taken care of that before they ever took your cash!
But alas.. a few software companies became more powerful than the courts. (or at least more powerful than some judges' common sense)
"I'd expect them to delete software from my device if they reasonably know that the software will hurt _me_."
This seems to be a common expectation these days. I don't understand why! In the hey day of the desktop I didn't expect (or want) the company I bought my PC from to delete software from it. If I did something stupid and isntalled some sort of malware it was my problem. Sure, not everyone was skilled enough to clean their own computers. But if you weren't able to install+run some scanner yourself there were plenty of places you could take your PC and pay someone to do it. (often the same place you bought it).
Nobody expected Dell, BestBuy, the mom & pop computer shop down the street, etc... to maintain a connection to their machine, know what is isntalled on it and delete things for the good of their users or for themselves. In fact, if someone did do this they could probably expect a lawsuit if not jail time!
Yes, I agree we will reach a point (if we aren't already there) where we do not have enough work to keep everyone going for 40 hours.
I'm not sure what a basic income is. I'm guessing it's an income that everyone gets no matter what. From the government? Please correct me if that isn't it. I don't think we need to gaurantee everyone gets paid even without work. There is always going to be something that needs done, even if all it is is keeping an eye on the 'robots'. We have to incentivize people to do this somehow.
I think there are two ways to look at labor saving technology. By enabling us to produce with less work we can either work less or produce more. I think our current society has been attempting to do the latter. The result is we consume more. We are constantly throwing away things that our parents wouldn't have even dreamed of one day owning so we can get the newsest, slightly better itteration.
The other way to look at is is to work less. Unfortunately our current society doesn't really support this. Even hourly workers cost much more than their hourly wage. (in the first world) At the low end the bigger expense is healthcare, not the hourly wage. It is cheaper to encourage workers to work more hours, even offering doubletime pay than it is to hire more workers. Companies are financially encouraged to thiin our their workers to the minimum they can get by with.
I think we need a healthy combination of both. We should always be striving to produce more, or maybe I should say to produce better. Instead of constantly filling our landfills with 6 month old iPhones and 2 year old televisions how do we incentivize companies to produce things that improve the world in ways that are truly new? Our land based automobile technologies are almost completely optimized versions of what they were 100 years ago. When do we let that go and get our flying cars? Our life spans are decades longer than they recently were. When do we get medicines that allow us to be active and enjoy those extra years?
Still.. with increasing automation I don't think we can get by with just increased production alone. With labor saving devices reducing the NEED for work we should start expecting more free time as individuals. Rather than working massive overtime, trying to get rich it's time to be rich enjoying what we have. We need to fix healthcare and any other problems that incentivize employers to hire fewer people working more hours. Then we need to start shrinking the work week while maintaining wages. If technology is allowing companies to produce more with less then those companies should be able to afford wages which allow people to maintain their lifestyles while working fewer hours. Currently I think these increased profits are being pocketed by the executives who aren't even producing anything.
I'm not sure that we are at the point where we actually begin cutting the work week back to below 40 hours. I do think it is on the horizon as technology removes more and more labor. I also think that the factories of today where people work 60 70 hour weeks are unhealthy, both for society as they don't employee as many people as they should and for the workers themselves who aren't really living their lives.
Unfortunately there is a third option to the problem and that is what I think we are starting to see. The third option" is simply less labor needed = fewer people working and more poverty to go around. So long as we continue to lean on the first solution alone (produce/consume) more without bringing in the second (less work per worker) we are doomed to eventually fall to this third option.
Well, we already knew he has a mental illness.
" that simply provides an incentive to better one's self and maybe go back to college"
The problem with this logic is that society needs a certain number of people to work in those low end jobs. Society does not however need 100% of it's individuals to hold college degrees. We already have factories looking for college degrees when they hire line workers. These are jobs where the workers are doing simple repetative tasks like turning screws, inspecting paint as parts go by on a line, etc... all day long. Why? Because they have so many potential workers to chose from and no better way to differentiate between them!
How many years of college will we all need to escape the collar? How much money in student loans? The worse things get in these low-end jobs the more people try to get out of them the higher the bar gets but with no real advantage for society.
Can't you at least let one thing continue to be manufactured down here?!?!?
Don't get me wrong. I want NASA spending that money on something useful, not a 'tower to nowhere'. I do kind of relate to the senators too. Jobs shouldn't be temporary. I know, a lot of younger people think they are.It can be nice to regularly change things up for a while. Eventually one has to grow out of that. Staying in place is what gets you benefit time, raises, etc... It used to be how one gets a pension too back when they had those. I save a lot in my 401k but I don't see how I am ever going to retire!
This stuff becomes important when one goes to have a family. Even without the family, one day hopefully we all realize that we need to work to live, not live to work. Stay and build up that vacation time!
NASA projects unfortunately aren't stable enough for this kind of life. The problem is every politician has to go and cancel whatever the one before had NASA doing and build their own legacy. Of course they actually have no legacy because the next one will just cancel it anyway but I guess they all expect the next guy to be better than themselves... Meanwhile jobs are created and destroyed. Workers are hired and layed off. At least these porky senators are helping workers have a reason to want to work for NASA. Any organization that wants to do great things like space exploration is going to need to attract the best people. Why would they go to a place that will lay them off every time the whitehouse changes it's curtains?
Of course, a tower to nowhere is still a stupid way to spend taxpayer's money. The real problem isn't the pork, it's the politicians that keep changing the goals!!!
No, I think I spoke to that. I have had the misfotune of taking over many projects which started out a little things some non-programmer thought they could do to make some task easier. Over time it grows and turns into something larger and people depend on it. Well after it went over the head of the non-programmer it finally gets pushed to some programmer. Now it's a huge project where everything was done in the worst possible way to begin with and with no planning. Everything needs redone, the whole thing SHOULD be started over from scratch but it has grown into something in active use and existing users aren't going to appreciate being beta testers on the new one.
When I was a student I used to try a different window manager and/or desktop every day. Then I had a full time job and stuck with KDE. I went along with the changes in KDE4, I really wanted to like it, I tried to for years! If everything "just worked" I might have stuck with it. Recently I decided I was tired of bothering, now I use Ratpoison and TWM. (TWM is for when I am using applications that have lot's of detached windows. Tiling window managers are awesome but not in that case!). I'm not very sold on TWM, I'm looking for a similarly lightweight non-tiled window manager to take it's place but without the funky right-corner resize button thing.
Honestly I'm not sure any of this is ideal. I think I might like a 'classic' interface, something with a task bar, start button and desktop that displays shortcuts/files in a desktop folder. But... also give it a tiling mode and lot's of keyboard shortcuts so it works well with or without the mouse.
Hmmmm... I may have to start learning about coding desktop managers....
He's not. He's a lawyer. Read it again!
I am all for teaching people and enabling those who want to do something to do so. But why make a movement out of teaching every kid to program? How will the world be a better place if everyone knows some programming?
I see two things coming from this:
more amateur programmers
more professional programmers
Are more amateur programmers a good thing? If you are a programmer, ask yourself this. Have you ever had to take over a large project which was begun by an amateur programmer? Have you had to make the decision between continuing to patch crappy unplanned spaghetti code or take time you don't have to start from scratch on something that already has heavy use and needs fixes and / or new features yesterday?
Are more professional programmers a good thing? Many businesses seem to claim so as they push for laxer rules in bringing in cheap foreign labor. Is that anything more than BS though? How many colleges are there out there graduating whole classes of CS majors every semester? Yes, I understand, they want people with experience. There can't be anyone with experience until someone hires somebody without it though. This isn't an exclusive problem for computer programming, it is true for any profession that requires any experience. If companies can get more experienced employees by bringing them in from foreign lands then answer this... where are the foreigners getting their experience? Who hired them first?
What will more professional programmers really mean? Just more competition for programming jobs. Before smuggly thinking "that's ok I am really good" remember this... that may be true but you are still replaceable. More competition means you are more replaceable. That means you will work longer hours for less money and benefits. You will do it because if you don't someone else will! You didn't like money did you? You didn't want to have a life did you? Surely you don't expect to retire some day!
Please don't get me wrong. I'm not really selfish enough to want to discourage people from learning to program. I want to live in a world where everyone has a chance to do what they want to do and someone is willing to teach them to do it. I just don't like the idea of making it a required class that every child must take. I also don't think computer programming should be acceptable as a replacement for foreign language as the two have NOTHING to do with one another and while programming does help one develop their thinking skils such as logic, math and planning it does NOT help one develop the same kind of thinking skills that a foreign language provides. They are entirely different animals! /rant
Well... Detroit had Kwame Kilpatrick for a while...
Digg and redit are too big of time syncs. If I go there I'm "stuck" for way to long, too much to see. Slashdot is more the right size for me.
I agree, it does send a message that tips aren't apreciated.
Sure, running bitcoind is pretty easy. But.. you can just get an online wallet if you don't want to run it yourself.
As for waiting for it to grow, you don't have to turn it into fiat if you don't want to. Just make a wallet and move it there every now and then.
About the email address read access thing... is there any reason it has to be your regular address? Free email accounts are all over the net.
Up through the S3 my wife had the same phones that I did. She loves her Strat and her S3.
My Strat was great for about 2 days then it sucked. It seemed like I couldn't install much of anything on it or it would slow down to a crawl. I wasn't installing anything sketchy either, almost no games (I think I did have angry birds). Some health related stuff that my wife had too (hers worked well) and some ham radio apps. There was nothing that was likely to be infected plus on my previous phone (a Motorola Droid) the same apps caused no problems.
Frequent restores and re-installation of everything did make the Strat work ok but come on, who wants to do that? We also had a friend with the same phone, his experience was similar to mine. Reviews on the internet seemed to be more similar to my experience than my wife's.
Then we got the S3s. She still loves hers. Mine stopped working after about a week. It just turned off and would not turn back on. Google tells me this is a common problem. Not a universal problem, many people have no problems with their S3s but it is common enough that I found plenty of 'me toos' online.
I think maybe I was unlucky with two lemons in a row. Maybe it IS just luck. But.. Out of the 4 Android phones I have had 2 Motorolas that worked great and 2 Samsungs that were total disapointments. (I now have a Bionic and love my lapdock)
After 2 years of angry cursing at my phone I will tell people not to buy Samsung any chance I get!