Comment Re:More technoligcal solutions (Score 1) 161
If we give it a couple generations, evolution could take care of that.
If we give it a couple generations, evolution could take care of that.
It's not critical to my daily workflow. That's the problem. Case in point, the snapshot program. I need it whenever I find something worth reporting and need to do a screenshot. What's its name? I know it's in the "graphics" program submenu, and I remember the color of its icon, but what was its name? Somethingshot. But what was that something, because search for "shot" sure won't produce what I'm looking for. What colorful name did their marketing department come up that really made a lot of sense in the mind of a coke-fuelled markedroid's head but certainly won't in a normal mind?
With Microsoft continuing to play target practice with its own two feet, I expect Linux to become an even more viable alternative. LibreOffice is quite usable and games are quite playable using Lutris and Steam. I've been free from Windows for a year and a half now. Everything I do on both my laptop and desktop is now on Arch Linux using the Cinnamon Desktop Environment. There's no need for me to go back. I can even edit photos with GIMP. GIMP will do roughly 90% of what Photoshop will do.
If I searched my posting history, I'm sure I could find a
My point? I don't really have one, except that these sorts of predictions have a long history of proving to be wrong. Hence the forever meme "Next year is the year of desktop Linux!".
That said, I dumped Windows in early 2002 and I've never looked back and never regretted it, so Linux is and has been a completely viable platform for a long time.
Americans cost too much. It's more profitable to buy politicians and get foreigners to do the work.
Google pays the foreigners the same as it pays Americans. Maybe a little bit more, if you count the free immigration attorney work.
How about you train-up some American talent?
If just anyone could be trained up, that might make sense, but there's a big element of native talent and intelligence needed, and the US only has about 4% of the world's population. It makes a lot of business sense to look into the other 96% to see what you can find there. And its the moral thing to do, too. Kids in the US are already massively advantaged by their lucky break of being born here. Why not give others a chance?
Go to high schools, like the car makers used to, pick the most talented / gifted / hardworking students, and see if you can make something of them?
Google actually does that except they start a little bit later, with college freshmen and sophomores.
Why hire American when you can bring someone to America, pay them minimum wage, claim they're tipped to bring that down even further, and if they complain, fire them and let the State Department deport 'em?
Google pays its H1-B workers the same as US citizens, or green card holders, etc. There's no cost savings to be had there.
My key problem with this is that I know WHERE my program is in the program menu, but I don't know what it's called. Care to tell me how to search for a program you don't know the exact name of?
And frankly, with more and more programs coming up with more and more esoteric names...
The only application I "need" that I couldn't find a suitable Linux replacement for was Autodesk 360. And that runs fine in a VM.
What else would I need that I can't get on Linux?
We could end up with a future where Apple allows sideloading everywhere but China...
Why hire American when you can bring someone to America, pay them minimum wage, claim they're tipped to bring that down even further, and if they complain, fire them and let the State Department deport 'em?
Well, that approach certainly creates the indentured servitude like system with all the requisite atmosphere of anxiety and fear that modern executives seem consider is essential to the smooth running of a modern corporation.
We run our own (huge) data center, so convincing our people that we should stay "at home" was easier, especially since we have our own cloud service (with blackjack. And hookers) so they can placate marketing with "yes, yes, we are doing this in the cloud" without even lying, but even here, some felt that urge to move stuff into AWS.
And yes, now we're having severe headaches.
The expense isn't in the infrastructure. That's peanuts. Quite frankly, the metal you need to haul your data back into the data center is pocket change. What really puts the money boot on your back is adaptation of your software, services, processes and of course the manpower you now suddenly need for maintenance.
The alternatives to the cloud are certainly not free. Actually, cloud services do have their niche. When I need sudden spikes of processing power, Lambda services beat on-prem server farms in pretty much any aspect. If I just need to try something out and need to spin up a machine quickly, a cloud container sure is easier to get with less overhead than even an on-prem VM.
But for anything where you have a constant base load, especially if you're large enough to warrant the staff for maintenance, the costs for cloud services quickly spin out of whack compared to on-prem systems.
Cloud systems are a tool. Not a silver bullet. They are not the hammer and your problems are not all nails.
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