Yeah, and some of us are software engineers and IT admins who understand the technical working of what’s happening and can make informed and reasoned posts (like the one linked), instead of making decisions based off of inaccurate metaphors.
HOW is this blog post still being posted??? It’s debunked literally every single time someone posts this trash.
Google Talk did not kill XMPP. Google Talk had millions of users who wanted to use Google Talk and when Google switched the protocol away from XMPP, it became suddenly apparent that XMPP didn’t actually have many users and that felt like XMPP dying, when in reality Google Talk bringing in their millions of users was the only thing that had kept XMPP alive that long.
Reality is not subjective. One of those things actually happened.
If you read both arguments and think that an obscure open source protocol had a chance in hell of taking on Google Talk when Google was in its heyday of public love, that’s fine, but that takes a lot more faith than believing that Google Char’s millions of users wanted to use Google chat, and weren’t using it because of the server communication protocol it implemented behind the scenes.
On a global scale? Sure, but in the context of a Canadian tech company getting that big again, I want to say unlikely.
Why have we not had any real innovation in this country in almost 20 years?
We’ve had some real innovation, but quite frankly most of the tech world simply isn’t that innovative. Blackberry astutely capitalized on being some of the first to recognize the utility of the Smartphone but that opportunity only really came around once in the past 30 years.
The only other opportunities to make that kind of money and impact, were maybe advertising driven social media like Facebook, and now with the AI boom there’s that level of money but it’s spread between chipmakers like NVidia and ai companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. But even the AI boom isn’t as big of a boom / change as the smartphone was. Maybe with Quantum Computing and a company like D-Wave we’ll see it again, but there simply aren’t going to be that many huge new markets like we witnessed with the birth of smartphones.
And realistically the modern tech and corporate landscape also make it even less likely to have a Canadian success like that. The wealth disparity between the trillion dollar tech titans and new startups mean that virtually every single current Canadian startup’s plan is to get acquired. I’ve interviewed at like 10 different startups and spoken with a bunch of friends at others, and none have the kind of long term thinking or drive to try and turn their company into an empire the way Balsillie did. They’d all rather cash out and accept a massive check from Google or Amazon or whatever. And it’s understandable given the size of payouts and the level of risk and drive it takes to truly build a massive global business, but it also means that I seriously doubt we’ll see anything like RIM again here.
I also just watched the BB movie last night and it was great, but it did make me pretty sad to think about what might have been.
Blackberry controlled 45% of the smartphone market.
The closest comparison today would be Apple and the amount of money that they bring into silicon valley.
OpenText has also arguably done little to no innovation, just packaged up existing technology in regulatory compliant ways and then sold it to governments and large slow moving businesses.
And yet, Linux desktop users insist that it’s a viable consumer OS instead of accepting that they’re using an industrial OS not well suited for the average desktop user.
Most companies allow users to customize their machines however they want outside of a few restricted and locked down settings.
Hell I’m looking at a laptop issued to me by one of the world’s largest automotive companies and I can change any setting I want outside of some specific security settings.
Well aware, but Mint also isn’t broadly consumer ready. It’s ready for power users who don’t mind going into a command line occasionally, or people who have their whole machine locked down and administered by someone else.
What point are you trying to make? That if I can’t customize absolutely everything on it, then being able to customize most things without using the command line isn’t valuable?
I never claimed that Linux was industrial because it can be changed by the end user, I claimed that it’s industrial because there are basic things that any normal power user would want to do that can only be done via command line.
Android’s a pretty big fork of desktop Linux, and it’s not even that usable without Google Play Services, nor is it particularly usable as a desktop operating system.
it absolutely fits the second part of that sentence:
OS not well suited for the average desktop user
You’re literally just getting hung up on the word industrial and making a pointless semantic argument. Android also isn’t a viable consumer OS without the closed source Google Play Services bundle
A non-consumer focused OS. One focused on serving commercial industry.
So anyway, what’s your point exactly?
I’ve never once been able to setup a Linux distro, and walk through my normal steps of customizing settings the way I’d like and installing the basic programs I need to do office work, without at some point running into instructions that tell you to use the command line. I’m a professional programmer and have no issue with that, but I’m also someone capable of understanding where the average human being is at technology wise and recognize that would be a non-starter for them.
And the rest of society is tired of nerds saying garbage like “why doesn’t every single consumer spend a week taking a training course to learn how to use my crappy UX” instead of spending the time to make an intuitive UX that doesn’t need a week long training course.
I gave up on Starfield to try Cyberpunk again with the new fixes and I’m now probably 150 hours in and I think I’ve only fast travelled once? Maybe three or four times if you count the mid mission moments where you’re riding in a car with someone.
It’s kind of wild that Neon had to be split in half by a loading screen, but you can go from one end of Night City to the other with none, and Night City is way more detailed, and quite frankly probably has more unique geometry to load and render than Neon + entire surrounding planet.
I honestly don’t think so. NMS sky started from a rock solid space exploration engine, but that was basically it, and has then layered on most of the other parts of a space sim on top since then, but most of Starfield’s biggest issues seem to be because their game engine can’t handle the scales needed for seamless space exploration.
So at this point Starfield devs have spent a ton of time and effort building a space sim game on an engine not suited for it, and that means that every cut scene and animation and scripted event is built around this engine, making it really time consuming just to bug test, let alone fix any problems that arise from changing or upgrading that engine, let alone designing the old missions and stuff to work with more continuous travel.
I have more faith that 5 years from now NMS will be fleshed out into a really rich and full story driven game, then that Starfield will have fixed it’s fundamental exploration / loading screen problems.
Traversal is technically possible yes, but it’s not possible to traverse at a speed which would be feasible or fun, indicating that their engine isn’t capable of unloading and loading new assets in fast enough as you move around. Probably the same reason that even Neon needs to be hard split in half instead of just unloading the assets from the part of the city you’re not at at the moment.
And bruh blaming the S with no information is asinine when not a single other game struggles with traversal on it, including massive open world’s like GTAV, Cyberpunk, Flight Simulator and even other space sims like NMS.
Given that this game also chose to procedurally spawn the same bases over and over again, I think their issues are firmly routed in their development process, not hardware limitations.
Because Larian specifically struggles with local co-op, not with loading new sections of the map.
As I’ve said, Cyberpunk runs perfectly fine on the S while loading in more geometry faster on the fly, and it’s far from alone in that. Starfield’s limitations are clearly a result of Bethesda’s ancient engine and not hardware limitations since other devs using different engines can accomplish what they failed at on the same hardware.
Hersh’s story is ridiculed for a reason, it relies on a single unidentified source. I.e. he could have literally made it all up, or, that source could be an intelligence agent for who knows what country, or just some guy on an ego trip, or it could be legitimate, but there’s no evidence anywhere else that corroborates any part of his story. Good journalists usually corroborate a source’s story rather than publishing it on blind faith.
This is a really dumb rant with no information in it.
Just a guy ranting about how the US must have done it, and even now that it’s clear that it was a Ukrainian spec ops team, it obviously must still be the US training and directing them.
Like honestly, this guy is dumb for being so confident given that he has the exact same information as the rest of us.
The Democracy of the founding fathers was Greek Democracy, predicated upon a slave society, and restricted to only the elite. This is the society we live in today, even with our reforms towards direct representation. The system is inherently biased towards the election of elites and against the representation of the masses....
The only part of this statement that is flawed is the part that states that the only course of action is to dismantle the system. It is also possible to reform the system so that it doesn’t produce It’s previous flaws.
Quite frankly, first of all, that’s not the statement being discussed.
The statement in the meme is that if a system deprives people of something necessary for life it should be dismantled. Doesn’t even mention capitalism.
A system that deprives people of what they need was say the healthcare system, but it was reformed to better provide people what they need instead of being dismantled. In the abstract, the idea that every broken system, or system producing a non-perfect outcome needs to be dismantled is one rooted in simple minded black and white thinking, instead of understanding the system at play.
If you want to make a separate argument that capitalism is a system that resists change and that it thus cannot be changed or reformed to produce the outcomes you want, then you can make that argument, but ‘no one has done it yet’ after a generation or two of half hearted trying, is not a convincing argument that it’s an impossible task.
It’s been around for four centuries as the dominant form of resource allocation and is thus also responsible for most of the western world’s relatively high standard of living, and increasingly the rest of the world.
Im not defending it whole hog, but it’s absurd to not be able to understand it’s appeal.
Because you’re a human being capable of empathizing with other human beings.
Or conversely if you don’t, why should anyone care about you if you find yourself in a shitty situation?
The answer: because a human adult who’s no longer in their 20s understands the frailty of life and how utterly dependent we all are on each other to function and thrive, and that only happens if we mutually care about each other.
I do understand what you’re saying, but it’s kind of hard to call it “better hardware” in light of how difficult it was to actually develop for.
Someone had to develop a chip for the next video game console. That console didn’t provide any value in itself, but was a platform to enable actual game studios to create immersive games for users. The chip design they chose hindered developers from doing that to the point that they were regularly outperformed by a far cheaper chipset.
I have a lot of respect for the nerdy details of the cell processor, and why it’s an interesting processor architecture, but in the sum total context of what it was designed to do I would push back a little on calling it ‘better’.
Lol no one cares about rrod. It sucked for the first year of 360 buyers, they all got new consoles and that was basically that.
Xbox 360 was fairly dominant compared to the PS3 everywhere but Japan, and it’s a testament to the failure of Xbox leadership at the time how much the One launch flipped the tables.
Launching an always online, living room webcam / microphone in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations was wildly bad timing, on top of a lot of poor decisions to focus too much on tv and entertainment instead of gaming and you ended up with a gamer revolt. Then you had the utterly absurd failed launch of their core franchise on the console, which just hammered home their lack of focus on gaming, and it was never going to recover.
But the key is that you have to push the stool over to the desk and get the flag, which you can use to unscrew the shelf, dropping the books to the floor, and then you just have to read all those books, use that knowledge to get into a college guild, complete years of education, then find a professional sponsor, and then they’ll give you access to a medicine cabinet, after waiting a three month probationary period of course…
Healthcare in america is real bitch of a fromsoft puzzle.
UBI is a separate concern from copyright being a dumb way of rewarding intellectual property.
Everyone should get UBI to reduce poverty and houselessness.
And separately, artists should get paid for their work, when it’s valuable, regardless of whether or not UBI is in place.
And sometimes that value is immediately recognized at the time by the masses and can be measured in clicks and streams.
Sometimes it’s only recognized by professional contemporaries and critics in how it influences the industry.
Sometimes it’s not recognized until long after them and their contemporaries are dead.
Given computers and the internet, there is no technical reason that every single individual on the planet couldn’t have access to all digital art at all times.
All of these things can be true, and their sum total makes copyright look like an asinine system for rewarding artists. It’s literally spending billions of dollars and countless countless useless hours in business deals, legal arguments, and software drm and walled gardens, all just to create a system of artificial scarcity, when all of those billions could instead be paying people to do literally anything else, including producing art.
Hell, paying all those lawyers 80k a year to produce shitty art and live a comfortable life would be a better use of societal resources then paying them 280k a year to deprive people of access to it.
"We know, particularly as technology and societal expectations change, that our policies must continually evolve and
What a piece of shit victim blaming response.
Whoever said that should be forced to eat airline food for a decade for suggesting that this is an expectations problem caused by people suddenly expecting airlines not to treat people with disabilities like shit.
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