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Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 220

If they had any principles they wouldnt be using an apple device.

Not always for example my father has to have a iPhone because the vendor that provides the automation platform his business depends on only releases their app for remote manegment on iOS and WIndows phone with an Android one in development supposedly for the last 4 years or so. So he had choice between a Windows phone 7 and iPhone. Neither are good options, so he picked the less shitty of the two.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 163

You're not thinking like someone who has to deal with the general public.

People who read slashdot can easily rattle off some semi-accurate estimates for how much bandwidth a particular online activity consumes. Load BBC News? Less than 1mb (I hope). Listen to a streamed MP3 of a pop hit? Probably 3-4mb. Watch a 40 second video? Maybe 5-8 megabytes. Windows update? Errrmm ..... maybe 20-30? Stream a full TV episode. Multiple gigabytes.

In my experience a episode of 20 minutes at 720p is about 700mb and 480p of same length it 350mb but varies with format and encoding.

Comment Re:Dupe (Score 1) 840

My "actual data" would of course entail my relatives and friends, who indeed can "fix shit", while the current generation is mostly useless in that regard. Can't solder, can't crimp, can't change an oil filter or even headlight bulb, can't measure nor cut nor fasten lumber, etc. etc.

And for every millennial who can't change an oil filter or fasten lumber there is a 50 year old who can't program their digital clock or reconfigure their new cellphone without waiting for their kids to come home for the holidays. Different generations have different skills, and they usually align with the skills that were useful to them in their early life.

I think it depends on what people in that generation they look at, for example even though I am a member the described generation I can and have soldered electronics back to working order and spliced electrical cables, I can do minor car maintenance/repair and do complete teardowns of small engines (lawn mower, chainsaws etc) and fix them, I can build cabinetry and have roofed a building including making new trusses from scratch. I also know a number of survival/primitive skills, (rope making, fishing, trapping, fire building (sans matches and lighter) edible pants, etc. But then again I had parent that made me go into a scouts like groups and insisted that I take some practical classes in high school like small engines and made me learn to replace all of the fluids, spark plugs distributer and such before I could learn to drive. Then I have friends that look at everything as a magic black box that does things for the; then they take them to repair shoppes or buy new one when it stops. The big problem I see is people that have aren't taught the skills not because they are incompetent or uninterested but because then never were put it a situation to learn how and the up front cost to learn now it much higher because classes aren't free after high school and all there time is taken up working when classes are available.

Comment Re:Windows (Score 2) 203

Depends sometimes I just use it as a proxy using proxychains and, or i will mount the filesystem and use local copies of programs to work on the remote files in both cases I don't have to use the remote app the forwarding X is not a issue. If I do use app remotely its on my server where I just use a no frills low eye-candy desktop environment and enable compression on my ssh session besides nano, elinks and emacs don require X.

Comment Re:Exactly this. (Score 1) 294

Remote work is great for competent people. That last part is what's missing.

Why would anyone in their right mind go into STEM when an MBA gets you twice the money for less work?

Because they would rather not sell their soul and work in HR and don't want to have the prerequisite lobotomy for management and sales requires you to be a reptilian?

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 272

Even with current technology we could theoretically make a 16 ly journey in somewhere around 1,000 years.

No, we couldn't. We don't have the technology right now to build a multi-generational ship. We don't even have the technology right now to send an unmanned probe that would still be powered by the time it got there. We don't even have the technology right now to build an unmanned probe that would shut itself down and bring itself back up after 1000 years. Hell, it's hard to find a motherboard from the 80's that doesn't need capacitors replaced before it can be booted up again.

Who knows what kind of technology we'll have in 300,000 years, though. And the closest the destination, the more likely something can actually get there.

We probably could but it might take devoting the entire worlds GDP for a decade or so and there is noway that would happen. We need the technological advances so that it would approach affordability.

Comment Re:Joe is not rudimentary! (Score 1) 31

No self respecting old timer would admit to using Joe as their editor. How the hell do you plan on getting the VI vs. EMACS flames fanned with such a claim you insensitive clod?

Ed is the standard text editor.
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

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