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Comment Re:Art or just Stopping to Smell the Roses (Score 2) 59

I believe your brain is always active w.r.t. sensory input. For example, round stones become "roundness"  then a 3-d metric ... yellow flowers become "yellowness"  then components of a Fourier Transform etcetc. Human  brains just "mess" with every sensory input ... and we call that "creativity".

Comment Re:META is doing this to make them quit (Score 2) 91

You're quite correct ...  employees have become optional. As numerous /. posters have observed Western industry   moved from post-modern capitalism to a Neo-feudal structure. REM// medevil surfs were not so much employees of the local lord/duke/baron , but rather part of the lands-holding itself. The peasant could not freely move from the land, and the lord rarely borrowed money to improve land/peasant production. The Lord DID borrow money to fight wars and extend castle infrastructure . The surf was not so much  enshitified  as  "turned" into topsoil ... kinda like social  media companies turn users into ad-targets.

Comment capital and labor (Score 1) 22

An entire generation of owners has matured that do not believe  the definition of markets: capital employees labor to generate products. Capitalists not only find money,  but they also judge employees. Employees are not only available, but they also build products. That capitalist  model  is no Johny-come-lately ... from 16-th Century Silesian coal miners to 21-st Century computer architects.   I believe it's fundamental. When capitalists no longer choose employees ... and employees no longer build product ... that's the new model. A dystopian future equivalent to OR --> XOR in all electronic logic circuits ! The sky is falling ... don't let the cloud-burst catch you without an umbrella.

Comment tool vs product (Score 3, Insightful) 91

Why would an employer use tool-activity as a metric, when the worker is paid to output "product" ?  Unless the worker uses only one tool ( a very low level employee ) such a metric misses the point. It encourages unproductive focus on maximizing one type of task no matter how irrelevant to market-worthy output.

Submission + - Data factories dump costs to citizens (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by noshellswill
noshellswill writes: Rather than pay for build-out of supporting electric power infrastructure, data-centers try passing that cost off to taxpayers. And the pass-off cost is not proportional to use as Maryland taxpayers discover.

Comment Re:Screens don't teach. (Score 1) 75

What can be done and what is nominally done are two different matters. Books and paper have smell, taste and texture ... and weight. And contingency ... that is a student may place a book or paper on her desk ... change  its position or remove it. In schools the computer  screen becomes a permanent  necessary part of the environment, over which the student has no agency except to remove themselves. Small beans? Not really; it's the difference between OR & XOR logic and the deficit is being trained into very young children.

Comment Re:Diversifying supply chain from single source (Score 1) 28

by noshellswill (#66135004) Attached to: Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
Free markets seek out peaks in the cost / benefit landscape. Those peaks are points of unstable equilibrium.  A robust, risk-intolerant culture finds that financial behavior undesirable. Too many black swan events leading to financial/cultural disruption. A crafts/guild based system speaks to that desired stability. OTOH a slave or sociopath  culture might find the adrenaline rush of financial panics fulfilling, while a militaristic nation sees hope in rapid weapons development.

Comment Re:This is a systemic problem, not an isolated one (Score 0) 43

by noshellswill (#66134970) Attached to: The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
**Government shouldn't be funding private enterprise.**  Since when ?  Egyptian pyramid builders were private contractors, paid by pharaoh. Who do you think owned the Athenian navy? Tax collectors were private enterprises, financed by the Roman government that took its cut of revenue. Dutch city-states where merchants literally owned the government? Brit East India Company.  USA railroad expansion in the West was financed by "generous" government set-asides of (Indian) land for company shareholders. Please advise me of a serious governmental system that did NOT pay private enterprise.

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