Comment Re:Cloud is dead (Score 1) 142
Sorry, meant to say, unless there is a law.... etc.. rinse and repeast.
Sorry, meant to say, unless there is a law.... etc.. rinse and repeast.
Any law that makes collection of terrestrial citizens information from external sources makes all this pretty much moot. Who says Canada, UK, hell Russia snoops on Americans and sells back Canadian,UK,Russian, etc.. citizen's data back with a swap? The US would turn a blind eye to it if it meant getting around pesky laws and such.
Companies always expand (sometimes to the neglect of their core products) because it feeds investor interest in the possibility that there's still profit growth in the company. If google stopped making cool things and still held like 85% of the ad market, the company's stock performance would in turn be tied pretty solidly with the ad market, which one would assume doesn't grow much above inflation, so not a great investment. So, companies expand into areas where they can convince the market that they're diversifying and growing their revenue centres, etc..
I'd say it sucks to me a minority in any group. Would the guys making lude gestures have made the jokes if you weren't there? Yup. Would the guys make the joke in the company of the company of 90% women? Nope. Is it the men you dislike, or the fact that men are being themselves (as lude and disgusting to one another as that goes)?
I fully believe that there is a tollerance line that no person should have to deal with in the work place, and if you feel that your co-workers have crossed that line (repeatedly) then I'm truely sorry for that. There are HR routes to tackle harassment, but many companies only pay lip service to supporting equality in their workforce.
Just to no single out women, there are plenty of other ethnic, religious, handicapped, etc. folks that get harassed and personally offended by people that either don't know or care if their feelings are being hurt. Its all a matter of compromize, and if one is not willing to put up being the minority (and all the uncomfortable crap that goes along with it), then you have to evaluate if its worth continuing. I assume you have the drive to stick with it since you have all these years, so good luck in not finding the alpha haters who have no interest in respecting your rights.
Gang culture is systemic, has gotten a lot of press in the past, fails to incite the populace to do anything about it, and ultimately ends up on page 5.
Its all very true, but the reverse is also true. Its not just men that aren't hooking up. There are far too many women unable or unwilling to get to know men outside of their comfort zone and will often not connect with the right guys now or ever. They will still date the same douche bag cheating assholes they always have becasuse that's all they've ever dealt with, and maybe they finally get the chance to meet a good guy and either he doesn't meet her impossibly high standards, or else she just thinks he's gay, or weak, or whatever.
Are pooly socialized men bad at dating? YES. Are poorly socialized women bad at dating? YES. Next topic.
Well yes, any C developer (already a minority in the umbrella of 'programmers' these days) can write code for the kernel, but just because one can write software for the kernel doesn't mean they can write anything meaningful to be done in kernel space vs. anywhere else. If you're expecting a slew of new driver hackers reverse engineering chipsets, and implementing better drivers, testing all corner cases (because dev's LOVE testing) I think you're barking up a very small tree, but all the luck to you, becase what's good for Linux is good for me, you, us all.
In my city (Vancouver), trains are basically run automomously under normal circumstances unless there's an interruption, in which case staff at HQ. could manually take control of the vehicles. This is at least somewhat over simplified, as they run on almost entirely isolated railways without much risk of outside risk factors, but a highly advanced car with little more than a GPS (with auto-nav) / stop peddle and an on-star-like communications terminal for emergency stop responses and rescue situations could eventually become a valid and functional road driving system for cities. Even a 'manually driven' option for truly rural areas not covered by the grid could be an option that 'turns off' when entering managed city roads.
I don't see why we couldn't 'have faith' in central city command and control centers which are paid for by road taxpayers to help manage and mitigate risk to public safety. Do you think the added taxes in supporting this would be more or less than the amount lost to accidents/life lost/insurance of a non-managed roadway?
Oh, well, nice dream but I don't see it happening any time soon. Here's hoping I happens before die and..fdsfzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Ultra wide seems lame, but worse case scenario, turn the monitor vertical for ultimately large text editor. My vertical 27 can probably fit around around 200 vertical console lines without being too small to read. That makes it really easy to read code at a glance for instance.
Nah, I couldn't say that. To be perfectly honest, 1080 itself only really shines in very high density panning shots like the first 2 minutes of I am Legend. Most (meaning 90+% of the time), the general public couldn't notice/care about the difference between 720 and 1080 unless you're on a gigantic display or far to close per perceivable pixel DPI scale. 4K will be fine for theatres, most likely pointless for anything smaller for a long time.
The only reason anything good will happen with 4k+ in the future is if displays function to look more like reflected light surfaces and less like flash lights (shining in my eyes). I can walk up to and touch a wall, and there's always more ganularity and clearity to be found. I walk up to a monitor, and I get more washed out and eye sore from the bright contrast bombarding my eye balls.
I've got a couple Dell 27's at 2560x1440, and one is always veritcal and the other is always horizontal. The vertical is great for page reads, and the horizontal is for games and IDE productivity tasks.
Bubble in the sense that a company is given a valuation, and regardless of any 'fundamentals', a given company can expect to earn significantly higher valuation based on recent high value aquisitions. Not to equate fundamentals with an equity, you'll inveitably receive critisism and for good reason. There's alsmost always a disconnect in terms on what one believes is reasonable, and something that people thinks was reasonable 5-10 years into the past.
Is an instant messanger with 125 million users and little revenue 'worth' a billion bucks? Its hard to say in the moment. Was YouTube worth 1 billion? Now you could say yes, its transformed Google, its businesses, and internet video which is a valuable and important internet property. Can we say the same for What's App, or OMG pop (180m)?
This is Google's hedge against increasingly higher costs for peering and neutrality breaking ISP's, so why would they then turn around and be hypocrites by ruining the very reason they're moving intro infrastucture to begin with?
That said, an affirmation that they're peering neutral just seems like a puff piece for what anyone should already assume.
Does anyone have thoughts on Google spinning this out as a not for profit and make public backbones that are truly ubiquitous and marginalized?
Nah, there are hipsters and those who want a Mac because it has an image of cool that they want to emulate. The large majority of Apple users though are those that moved iPod->iPhone->iPad and have been tethered to that ecosystem for the past 15 years (or gathered into it at some point). Mind you, these are also people that have never used Mac's for work and are more or less forced to learn MS tools in high school, university or in the work force.
These factors aren't changing any time soon. Companies (except for hipsters in ghetto POS replacements, cash rich software companies, and graphics industries that are tied to proprietary Mac only products) generally don't invest in Apple for business, and I don't see that changing unless the value proposition changes significantly.
Where does this leave microsoft? I see their business pretty static for the long haul, and frankly, they should just adjust their business expectations. Not all software development companies can/should continually expand into new markets in the hope of increasing shareholder value. If I was MS, I'd secure shareholder value by locking into a holding pattern around product lines that make money while innovating incrementally sustaining their dominant positions in the markets they occupy. Constantly chasing the panacea of everything for everyone is and will continue to hurt their bottom line and errode their value.
Try again MS. You have plenty of cash reserves to burn through, so good luck with that.
On the flip side, I want to say they third party market of tablet add-on's (cases/keyboards) is just horrible. Walk into any consumer electronics store and see 60000 ipad items, maybe 1-2 Samsung specific items, a few MS ones, and literally nothing else for any of the countless Android devices. It just means I don't buy a keyboard or whatever and these companies continue to believe that there's no market for them.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.