More like Google Goggles. Or just Googgles?

Especially if the music is 'nonsense'. I listen to Technobase.fm all day long. It's one constant song spun by some DJs in Germany. There are no breaks and songs just flow one to the another. When the DJ does come on he's speaking German so tune him out and since they're matching beats there is almost always a constant beat that I use to type to.

Meh I don't give a shit about groupthink, anybody who has read any of my posts see i call it like it is and don't give a shit about moderation. So far I've been told i'm a sekret ninja for MSFT, Comodo, AMD, Apple (still haven't figured that one out yet, I don't even own an iPod) Oracle and pretty much any company that some basement dweller might not like. but I call a spade a spade and bullshit is bullshit.

And as for that article i'd say it gets right to the heart of the matter why linux sucks on a desktop. I mean you can't even do the biannual upgrade without drivers crapping on themselves, and we're not talking some weird drivers either, we're talking AMD, Intel, Realtek, SiS, the same bog standard hardware that is in more than 80% of the machines out there, why? because by trying to control EVERYTHING the devs have simply spread themselves so damned thin that QA has become a bad joke. you simply can't have a handful of guys do QA on 100,000 drivers, not to mention a couple of hundred thousand packages, its simply impossible.

So I have to agree with him, make an appstore style model for software with a sandbox so that its not "all or nothing" when it comes to software installs, have a hardware ABI (which to this day you see zealots scream about even though after 20 years the damned driver model in Linux is STILL crap, it would be like MSFT sticking with VXD drivers all this time) so that those that actually make the hardware can write the drivers, and instead of spreading themselves out so thin just concentrate on the core OS and making sure that its a rock solid foundation for everyone else to build on. As he points out it would make the platform even freer than it is now while at the same time increasing QA and improving quality.

THIS, this right here, is why I can't understand all the MS office hate. I give LO to my home users but would never think of giving it to my business customers or those with college students, why? because its simply not made for that use case!

Google docs and LO are fine and dandy if all you need to do is make some basic word docs. for that they are fine, great, not a problem in the least. But when you start messing with headers and footers and tables and embedded graphics and change tracking...they just suck! And why shouldn't they? Its not the use case it was designed for! it would be like bitching that economy car can't haul a boat, well duh! Its not made to! Oh and before someone pipes in with "herp derp use PDF" that is a good way to get an F in a class or have your work file 13ed friend, NOBODY takes PDF except printers.

So I honestly don't see why there is any argument here, its like arguing that a screwdriver and a wrench should be used interchangeably. if all you are doing is basic word processing with minimum formatting then frankly you shouldn't be using MS Office, you are just wasting your money when Google Docs or LO will do just as good. But if on the other hand you are dealing with large complex docs then you would be nuts NOT to use MS Office, because Google Docs and LO simply isn't designed for that use case. its really that simple.

The difference is that the USA manufacturing industry is up to the task of building a Falcon 9 Heavy launcher, while building a new Saturn V exemplar is right out. (Tooling lost, skills lost, experience lost, blueprints (possibly?) incomplete etc.)

Not to mention kids today simply can't delve in deeply like we could in the 80s. Hell I contacted Commodore and they gave me the full specs, diagrams, and opcodes for the CPU so I could pretty much do anything with that VIC. Today you are seeing the rise of these locked down pad style devices, tablets, cell phones, game handhelds and consoles, that while they have more power than we could have dreamed of when we were hacking Commodores and Trash 80s they simply can't do anything with these devices except consume media as the builders intended.

Kinda sad really, as most of the last gen consoles and handhelds have more than enough power to still do cool stuff but they are so locked down its just not worth messing with. Frankly as much as I enjoy this hexacore PC I built myself i don't think I'd trade my childhood experience for theirs, as theirs is just one walled garden after another.

A license that does not allow commercial use would not meet the definition of free or open source software (Freedom 0: the freedom to use the software for any purpose), so his restriction would effectively make it impossible for anyone to incorporate his code into a larger project, open or proprietary.

To me the sad part is instead of the free market working as intended, which would be to raise salaries and lower worker abuse instead they'll just drag some poor bastards in from India that they can work like dogs and treat like dogshit.

I have NEVER in my life seen ANY branch of a corporation treated with such hatred and contempt as I've seen IT treated. they act like they are nothing but glorified Geek Squad workers and give them less respect than a checkout girl at the local Wally World. EVERY need for resources is treated as a waste, EVERY need for action treated as an undue expense, EVERY suggestion treated like its coming from the mouth of a retard, I wouldn't take that fucking job again for all the tea in China!

I don't think his point was that they should always buy fancy, expensive entertainment. I think it was that self-rewarding is psychologically necessary for consistent, reliable productivity if your job environment is not rewarding in itself. Without consistent, reliable productivity you have no hope for promotion and likely no hope to keep your job.

"I can still shoot them, but no one will call it 'self defense'..."

There are a considerable number of people who might indeed call it that.

"I can't defend against 'evil government' by refusing anything--I'll be dead."

That's what's called a "barrier to entry". If you are serious, you might do a "Joe Stack" and take some with you. If that's too inconvenient, then you get what you get, but you do have a choice.

From burning monks who took out themselves, to Jihadist kamikaze bombers who want company in "paradise", plenty of folks have said "no".

I'm personally too comfortable to bother with that level of self-sacrifice for a public I hold in contempt.

YMMV.