“Capitalism breeds innovation.”
Also capitalism:
One of the biggest lie to keep the current system in place.
Private corporations parasite themselves into R&D paid for by the government and act like they invented the fire again.
The Internet is built on FOSS and got captured to be sold back to us.
Capitalism breeds innovation just like people leave their partner when they finally have enough to be abused.
Competition breeds innovation. Commercial pressure can be one source of such competition, but isn’t the only one.
Capitalism abhors competition. It breeds innovation only if it serves to eliminate competition.
Absolutely correct, Capitalism will incentivize innovation only as long as it’s profitable to do so. Once a company becomes a dominant player in their industry, innovation actually becomes largely unprofitable.
We can see this play out all the time, this is why industry giants almost never try to outcompete smaller start ups by innovating their products and services, instead, they either crush them out of the market via a bunch of different methods. Or they just buy them out, kill off their IP, or if it’s way better, they just brand it as their own, and usually fire most of the old staff.
In a Capitalist system, this actually creates a whole new incentive structure where start ups will try to grow as fast as possible with the sole intention of getting bought out by an industry titan, making the founders of the start up filthy rich.
Capitalism breeds protectionism.
lemmings blaming everything on capitalism
also lemmings: scrolling on their apple iphone that also had a gui decades ahead of its time in the 80s
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a profile with a comment history this bad. Ever stop to ask yourself why you have such unpopular opinions?
No this was capitalism in action. Capitalism bred the innovation in TRON.
Governments getting involved and putting their thumb on the scales to control the economy is the opposite of capitalism.
Say the line!!
“That isn’t REAL captialism”
Lmao
Just like the dumbasses say “the Soviet Union wasn’t REAL communism”?
Except I’m correct. A government implementing protectionist policies to control economic sectors is not capitalist.
Except I never said you were factually incorrect, since that seems to be the most important thing for you to get out of this exchange.
Government tipping the scales to help their capitalist mates seems to be exactly how capitalism works.
And North Korea is definitely a democratic republic 🙄🙄
It is capitalism. It’s all part of the system.
Government getting involved and putting their thumb on the economy is as capitalist as it gets.
South Sea Trading bubble, East India Company, Lake Eyrie Canal, trans continental railroad. Teapot Dome.
The government has ALLWAYS had its thumb on the scale for big business interests and if you think that’s not true I have a bridge in Alaska to sell you.
Right next to some beachfront property in Arizona.
No this was capitalism in action. Capitalism bred the innovation in TRON.
Governments getting involved and putting their thumb on the scales to control the economy is the opposite of capitalism.
did you read the article? TRON was heavily backed by the japanese government.
And once upon a time there were more than three PC graphics card makers. The paranoid schizo US really fucked up scientific and technological progress.
They rose to the top because they were the only country that could still build things after the rest of the world got flattened in World War II. Then the rest of the world rebuilt itself so the only asset the US had left was economic inertia. They then proceeded to spend decades doing everything they could to increase the value of that inertia by using their influence to encourage policies that resulted the rich getting richer.
And when the Eastern Bloc dissolved, government owned corporations got sold off to western ones, for pennies, all to be shut down in a few weeks. If not, usually they got boycotted, because the kids finally could buy western brands, which made you look cool among your peers.
Eastern Europe sold its stuff away mainly because of local corruption. Local factories would get sold as scrap by one wise guy and a couple of his friends in the budding government fresh after a revolution because they could make a quick buck and set themselves up for more similar opportunities. Also “scrap” claim would take a long time to be investigated and never amount to anything.
And now it’s over, well it might take a decade or so but Europe is rebuilt and the USA is shitting its pants(not because they’re scared, just because it seems).
There also were more than two PC platforms (and we barely have two now; Apple was pretty close to going away too). I miss being the Atari ST guy in a circle of people who all had different types of computers. It didn’t last very long but it was way more fun.
have you heard of Macintosh? you’ve heard of Mac’s right.
little company called Apple? lol sheeeesh
Apple only makes garbage
I don’t use apple products, but I understand their M1 chips are good.
That tracks.
The more I learn about American history the more frustrated I become with our species in general. Our country could be so much more livable now, but for a handful of vulgarly wealthy people who only ever cared about number going up at any cost.
And to make it worse I’m reading a biography of John D. Rockefeller, so I’m about to hate our species just a tiny bit more.
While you’re in that mood check the documentary Hypernormalization from BBC. Explains a lot.
And when it ends check the year it came our for extra oof.
All of our lives could be so much better. We should stop making dystopian futuristic movies, and start making hopeful ones that help people imagine how much BETTER things could be.
Solarpunk instead of Cyberpunk!
Yeah let me find 20 million dollars to make that movie
It only costs like a few million, the rest is for embezzlement and fraud.
You can just vibe-direct it with AI for the irony! And the lulz!
(/s, please no one do this 😐)
Yeah but nobody would watch it
I would.
One reason why I dont really watch sci-fi anymore is because its all just miserable, world ending, world dying, world dead, explosions, aliens, aliens exploding. Boring.
That Hail Mary movie was okay-ish. At least it had people, and that thing, doing helpful and constructive stuff.
on behalf of humanity, we aint claiming those shitheads
It’s time for other countries to create their own operating systems again
Make other countries create other operating systems again
MOCCOOSA
Bless you
Fish is good to eat
We’ve been doing it for a long time. Linus is from Finland.
Currently, Linux Foundation resides in the US, though.
what counts as an “operating system”? is it enough to just create another linux distro? is it enough to just fork the distro and add a new visual design to it?
(Sign) I just want other countries to create good operating systems again
I’m tired boss
Be honest, you just hope that the sheer amount of resources will lead to some country finally finish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd
Yeah, I just want another decent os
Something similar happened to Slovene Iskra Triglav computer which was quite advanced for the time (capable of running three different CPUs) but then caught in between US-Soviet cold war/embargo while trying to sell them to Soviet Union.
Three CPUs with different architectures on one device sounds crazy. That’s amazing.
Soviets did a lot to harm Eastern Block tech. Bulgarian Pravetz was a clone of Apple ][. Nothing impressive but cheap, functional, domestically produced. Can’t really be exported towards west due to blatant IP violations, but the production capabilities were good enough to produce and export hard drives.
Except the trade deal with Britain was blocked by Soviets because it was seen as a security threat, and an industry died in its infancy.
There’s another future where Yugoslavia is the birthplace of a free software movement, and homebuilt PCs lower the barrier of entry to anybody with some time on their hands, with software distributed by radio and powerline until the advent of internet.
Ah yes, I recently learned about Galaksija, it’s fascinating!
yugoslav.
slovenia wasn’t a country back then
Iskra Delta was a Slovene (republic) company, even within Yugoslavia. But if you nitpick, then technically it would be Yugoslavia as country.
The Socialist Republic of Slovenia was one of the six federal republics forming the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, if you want to be technical about it.
Reminds me of Microsoft killing Nokia and their new Linux phones.
Once again fuck America
I’d say US/USians, as America is more than just the US. America is composed of more countries like Canada, Mexico, Brazil…
You can downvote me all you want, it doesn’t change anything.
The US could mean Mexico though.
How?
Probably referring to Mexico’s official name, Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
Thanks! I never knew it had a longer official name.
People who are adamant about “America is too confusing” are very rarely in agreement with “Afro-Eurasia”, such that if someone says “Colombians are American”, they’re unlikely to say “French people are African” or even “Afro-Eurasian”.
It’s a cultural/language thing, rather than an objective one. There’s no reason that (most) English speakers who don’t call Peruvians “Americans” are any more incorrect than Peruvians who don’t say “Spanish people are Africans” are wrong. But it’s become a whole thing on the internet to say that “USians are dumb and wrong” for not having the same language concepts as other cultures. There are just different numbers of continents taught in different cultures.
But as a tourist, does anyone from outside the US say “I’m American” when they’re asked where they’re from? Canadians at least sure as fuck would never say that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent?useskin=vector#Number
I read a biography of a Brazilian guy who lived in France during the late 19th century/early 20th century. Everyone in Europe called him an American, and he referred to himself an American when he was contrasting Brazil and France. At one point he went off about how hopeful he was about new plane tech coming out, because it would help “unite Americans across our various countries.” However, I think it’s fallen out of fashion to talk this way in recent years, partially because of USA supremacy, which is I think why people are salty about it.
Nobody is saying it’s too confusing. They’re saying “stop claiming that word for yourself”.
Your examples are incorrect. The equivalent would be if France was called The United States of Europe, and used the word Europeans to refer exclusively to themselves.
Then, naturally, Germans would stop using the word European to refer to themselves because others would think they were referring to France (The United States of Europe in this example).
South America, North America, and North North America
No idea why you’re getting downvoted for this very valid point.
Because it’s pedantry. Check every dictionary for america or american. Or just type “america” on whatever search engine. First thing is always the US or its citizens. If anyone ever means to refer to the continent they usually say north/south America or “the Americas”.
Go to any country other than the US and ask a local “Are you american?”. They’re all gonna say the same thing. “No, I’m Mexican/Canadian/Chilean/etc.”
Whenever a word has multiple meanings, you’re supposed to use context to figure out which one is being used. Well, the article title mentions the US government. It’s also a very common phrase with a well established meaning. Check out Green day’s american idiot, for example.
Really doesn’t take a genius to understand what op meant.
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of this guy? 
That’s reminded me, I should watch steamboy again…
I doubt it would’ve won anyway. There were loads of OS’s at that time, most not having the issue of the US government intervening, and none of them won either.
Had the japenese not been spooked by the sugestion it waa a threat(which was cleared up as not being one) it totally could have been adopted nationwide, as it was ready to deploy to their schools.
And today we have BSD as the basis of Apples OS.
Microsoft has gone from say 85% market share down to the 60s now I think.
Maybe we will see a day MS loses to Linux since that hit 10% use last month, and has over 15% use in India.
MS certainly is not helping themselves win lately.
Could have? Maybe. Likely would have? No.
Based on what?
Are you assuming a threshold moment, would happen the same under different circumstances?
You’re including Android, server, and embedded numbers for Linux right?
No Desktop only. There were articles about the 10% recently. India has been 15% for a while. Steam Deck and SteamOS seems to have given a boost to Linux adoption in the last 2-3 years
replaced the tree-structured directory hierarchy with an arbitrary directed graph.
TBH that sounds like a total nightmare
Yeah this OS would suck as soon as the 00s hit with the global Internet. This OS seems completely incompatible with how the world actually works and would probably collapse under its own design by the year 2010. A file is an arbitrary string of bytes. Removing the ability for the user to handle them like this is so obtuse. The reason why we can poke modern OSes the way we can is to prevent requiring a man-year of work every time we need a major new feature.
The idea was that every layer, from silicon to user interface, would be designed together, with no compatibility debt to existing platforms.
…which makes compatability debt between it and literally everything else.
A file is an arbitrary string of bytes. Removing the ability for the user to handle them like this is so obtuse.
Per the article:
According to the BTRON3 specification, the first two halfwords of an application ID are the data type it applies to, and only the third distinguishes rival handlers for the same type. When a document contained writing, a table, and a figure, opening those parts made the system launch each one’s registered handler to draw its own content inside the parent document’s window. If no handler exists, or the handler fails to draw, the system strikes a diagonal line through the region where the content should have been.
That’s a window manager with application/file associations, with the ‘window’ that the application draws to being embedded within a hypertext document. So, you’d be able to attach arbitrary hypertext to a file and when you open it the window manager presents that information along with the application window. That’s not any less flexible or more limited than any other desktop OS.
EDIT: now, it sounds like you could embed multiple ‘windows’ within the same document, and maybe do something with transclusion, but I haven’t read enough about how BTRON worked to say much about that. Still, that doesn’t fundamentally change what I wrote above.
That sounds like hell. The .DS_store problem but 100 times worse.
Every single mainstream operating system has metadata and index stores associated with its files and applications.
Linux has locatedb and .desktop files, and many other files that determine how content is presented to you in a desktop environment.
Windows has NTFS alternate data streams, the registry, multiple appdata folders, and a bunch of other kludges.
I dunno, I kinda fw it. Like having a tag-based system for grouping files instead of nested folders does give me less anxiety in organizing everything, and it lessens the bloat due to duplicates
Look up what a hard link is
A hard link is an ugly hack compared to this.
So you’re saying the US saved the world from Japan for a second time?
Japan tried to walk where Terry Davis was running laps
I’d encourage everyone to read the article. It paints a far more nuanced picture than the headline suggests.
Nuanced yes, but it largely being driven by a Japanese guy who wanted to sell US software and US companies who didn’t want to compete by actually selling compatible hardware is no less damning
Yeah. That guys “nuance” comment made me read the article, and I’m glad I did, but the end result was my expectation going in; the profit motive of capitalism killed a FOSS OS that could have nullified Americas tech dominance before it even started.
There’s no way to know how it would’ve played out, but I could see Bill Gates’ connected family greasing the wheels of geopolitics to scare the Japanese out of implementing it, or being the catalyst promoting exclusive US proprietary tech rights to Japanese capitalists, or the CIA/NSA arguing that a Japanese controlled FOSS OS would make it harder for them to influence tech standards. Basically, like most things I’ve learned about history, it’s likely that morally and ethically bankrupt, sociopathic, criminals had their hands balls deep in the clusterfuck of a horror show, in many more ways than one.
It would have been a completely rigged game for a US company to try and sell and TRON products in the Japanese market.
This is exactly why it was protectionism and could have caught trade sanctions had it been more widely adopted.
It gives more details, but it doesn’t particularly make the US not look like a bunch of dickholes whose definition of “free market” changes to shape whatever suits them from one moment to the next.
Japan: We are not a vassal state (no really they say this in an argument with the Japanese Communist Party).
Meanwhile Japan:
Is it available on the internet archive or a computer museum site to try out the UI?
I know web design isn’t really related to what the article is about, but if modern Japanese web design is anything to go by, good. Here’s some random product (a phone case) I clicked on from the biggest Japanese online store (Rakuten), roughly the equivalent of amazon. Let me know if the product info seems well organized and easy to read, and tell me how long it takes to find the section that you can choose a different color and model (hint: it’s not at the top or bottom of the page).
Japanese customers genuinely do like it like that. Rakuten do A/B testing up the wazoo just like every other big ecommerce company.
I dunno, amazon japan doesn’t look anything like that and I’m sure they do just as much testing.
It looks exactly the same as Amazon in every other country. That’s a not a good counterpoint.
So amazon doesn’t do extensive testing in countries other than the US?
see now you’re just being argumentative and indulging in petty pedantic point-scoring mental gymnastics for its own sake.
how
ed: Allow me to expand: you think rakuten, a company with billions in revenue, does testing in the Japanese market, but amazon, another company with billions in revenue, refuses to do so? Who’s doing mental gymnastics here to preserve their idealized image of Japan?
No the point is that a Japanese focused company can optimise for a design that works best in Japan without having to consider how other people would interact with it.
A multinational like Amazon has to balance what works best in a particular market with retaining a consistent identity across markets and having shared functionality between different locations.
It’s almost like they have another culture than North American or European…
And that culture is “random shit thrown all over webpages”? Japan still used a lot of faxes up until about 10 years ago. Maybe it’s just that old people are mostly in charge of things and the society is still largely catering to the whims of random old men who aged into their positions rather than earning them.
I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say, here. Why does Japanese preference for web marketing bother you that much?
What do you mean by “web marketing”? In most countries they’ve moved onto web 2.0, but Japan is still mostly stuck in the past and lots of their sites look worse than random angelfire webpages from 30 years ago.
Have you considered that Japanese consumers like it that way?
Have you considered that they don’t? Microsoft and google are all about anti consumer in service of ad revenue and selling user date in their products these days, but not many people are arguing that US consumers enjoy spyware and less functionality than we had 20 years ago.
Did someone ruin your day or something? What is your problem with web pages from another country? Why do you care?
I dont speak Japanese. is it this?
Yeah that’s it. They like to put it in the middle of the page for some reason.
If you view it on mobile its right at the top under the price
Yeah on mobile I think it’s okay. Still a bit overloaded but a far cry from what Japanese web pages can be like on desktop browsers. Sometimes they’re like web design stopped in 1999 and since then all they did was add more blinky banners around the actual content.
Every other Japanese site I’ve looked at had a lot more information density than this. Looks like they’ve been plenty affected by crappy modern design.
As a Japanese guy with a Western upbringing, the Japanese website bother me too, but it obviously doesn’t bother people here enough that the companies need to change it. They just grew up with a different way of processing visual info.
After dealing with MS’s shit UX all day, that looks pretty good. It seems pretty average for a shopping site.