...of California's high tax, high cost, high regulation, anti-growth, and radical environmental environment. It's a great place to live if you're rich, and virtually impossible to live if you're middle class or poor.
Critics have been noting these problems for at least two decades, and California becoming a single-party Democratic state with outsized input from public employee unions has only accelerated the trend...
Closed source was always safer.
One word for you: Microsoft. Maybe two: Adobe.
THIS! It's funny how Microsoft has all the issues that they do, and yet when a problem shows up in anything else, the fanbois instantly ejaculate LOOK!! SEE???
Sorry kids, Windows has a many year legacy of needing constant security updates, way too many for you to be braying about this, as proof of the bankruptcy of FOSS.We get it, But Redmond products have a lead that will never be equaled.
From TFS: "You can see how it would be viewed with skepticism; after all, these are the individuals who will give Watch Dogs a review score, which many gamers rely on to help them make a purchasing decision."
Come on, we're all adults here. We all know the industry gives perks to reviewers in exchange for favorable reviews. This is just more blatant than most.
"The problem here is that people have been using the argument that Open Source is better because these issues can't happen "because" of the visibility."
No, just no. No one with any sort of a clue ever argued these issues cannot happen with Free Software.
No, they haven't made that claim in so many words. But they've sure as hell implied it for years now. That's the whole line of thought that Raymond's statement (quoted in TFS) is based on.
The amount of backpedaling and smoke blowing in this discussion awesome.
And the likelihood of such a vote is ABOUT THE SAME as the odds of TX actually voting to join Mexico.
TX would go independent about 1000x more than join Mexico.
The problem is herd immunity.
If those people are within our "herd" and one of their kids gets infected with ebola-marburg-plague-mumps-pox, then they become a disease transmission vector to the rest of the herd.
And in that case, everyone who comes in contact with them becomes exposed to it and those who have not yet been immunized against ebola-marburg-plague-mumps-pox, run the risk of getting infected.
Now, if that was polio, you get crippled and paralyzed.
Agree 100 percent azav. I'm going to launce int a rant here soon, I just want yo to know it isn't directed at you.
Let's add whooping cough to that mix. About the time of McCartyism 2's height, I contracted Whooping cough as an adult. I have no proof of course, but I suspect that it was a herd immunity issue. Back when we were not batshit crazy and stupid, and relied on scientist for our science and not people who are famous for taking their clothes off and nothing else, we didn't need recurring pertussis vaccines. Now we do because foolish and stupid assholes listen to McCarthyism 2.
Folks, you do not want your child to contract whooping cough under any circumstances. The initial "cold" stage comes and goes pretty quickly, but the coughing fits - a little longer. Oh, and the fun begins.....
The couhh starts oddly enough at the bottom of a breathing cycle. You try to catch a breath, but it's a weird whooping sort of spasm. As you struggle to breathe, the world starts to go brown, red and squiggly. Several times I thought I bought the farm. fortunately, about the time I was blacking out, the spasms relaxed. Not all are as "lucky".
But allow McCarthyism to give you your marching orders, anti vaxxers, You'll be just as responsible as she is if your child dies from an easily preventable illness. In a world where Jenny McCarthy is respected and admired, and where researchers and scientists are reviled, you'll eventually reap the rewards of your stupidity.
That's the OP's point - you're missing my point, which is that it's not really so unfathomable at all. By 1981, we'd already in less than a decade gone from pocket calculators being expensive rarities to being practically given away in breakfast cereal. LORAN was already widely available in a compact box. Etc... etc... By 1981, the accelerating pace of technology was already clearly visible to anyone who was looking. (Which I was at the time.)
What I missed/didn't grasp the full import of is that between 1981 (the year of my high school graduation) and 1991 (the year of Desert Shield/Storm) GPS went from being a highly classified piece of military hardware to a handheld commercial unit. There were actually more units in the civilian world than in the Army. (Folks were actually buying handheld GPS units at sporting goods stores and sending them to soldiers in the field because there was a shortage of officially available and issued GPS units!) But given the rapid advance of IC's into the civilian/commercial world, I shouldn't have been surprised at all. (OTOH, the full story of the DOD's role in developing IC's wasn't fully known/grasped at the time.)
I always thought the most unlikely technological development in my lifetime was the handheld GPS device. It would be "most unlikely" because it required tremendous, simultaneous, and largely unforeseen advances in several different technologies, each of which was hard to predict in 1981.
Yes... and no. In 1981, the pieces and precursors of pretty much everything on your list was already in place. Very little of it was available down at Radio Shack, granted, but much of it was already in use (at a minimum) by the military.
Especially when you consider, science has a hard time predicting future trends and technologies, yet Science Fiction seems to have been fairly accurate in predicting, if not outright influencing, future technological trends.
Certainly, if you cherry pick the hell out of the (tens of?) thousands of "predictions" made across the last century or so... science fiction seems remarkably prescient. In reality, the picture is much bleaker. In reality, science fiction is not much better at predicting the future than a million monkeys pounding away on typewriters.
As Ike mentioned in his speech widely remembered for the line 'military-industrial complex':
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
The pernicious influence of this 'Federal technical complex' has led to an entire generation of scientists who believe that the only credible source of funding must be the federal government.
It is absolutely certain that there are some HUGE projects that need the resources of government, no doubt. But you know what? Not every bloody thing *needs to be researched*, nor does that research need taxpayer dollars.
I know, the idea that research needs to demonstrably benefit the taxpayer to be federally funded sounds like an idea that would come from (shudder) Republicans, but when we're overspending our budget by 30%+ every year to the tune of nearly $1 trillion, we can't afford everything we want, only what we clearly need.
Bennnet? Why not just post under your own name?
...you need to choose your relatives more carefully.
Let's say hypothetically a slashditor (let's call him "Supnezmas"), when not posting duplicate articles from 2 days before, has a major erection for some web commenter (let's call him "Notlesah, Ttenneb").
How could I edit my settings so that worthless shit articles from "Supnezmas" referencing this "Notlesah, Ttenneb" were somehow downrated to oblivion so I don't see them anymore, ever? Is there a filter I can apply?
Can I "foe" an editor based on context?
All foolishness aside, this does go to the fundamental purpose of language, both written and spoken. The purpose that the vast majority of society expects language to fulfill is to provide a medium for communication. Up to the early 20th century, words were spelled phonetically,
Even moreso, these young punks today are speaking a corruption and society destroying version of what they foolishly call "English"
Join hands with me folks, and offer this prayer, in the hopes that we can reverse the damage already done, and return us to the proper spelling and pronunciation of English
Fæder ure ðu ðe eart on heofenum
si ðin nama gehalgod to-becume ðin rice
geweore ðin willa on eorðan swa swa on heofenum.
Urne ge dæghwamlican hlaf syle us to-deag
and forgyf us ure gyltas
swa swa we forgifa urum gyltendum
ane ne gelæde ðu us on costnunge
ac alys us of yfle
The Lord's prayer, in correct old English, with proper spelling.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
