About 95% of the content I consume on YouTube are mostly “influencers” who use Final Cut Pro (or as another YouTuber would sarcastically call it Final Slut Pro) or Adobe’s Premiere. No one from my research uses any versions of Avid. I suspect there are more indie users of ProTools than Media Composer by tenfold.
By no means am I favoring any company in this post, rather to highlight companies back in the 1980s where believe it or not, there was the technology possible to do what you theoretically do on your mobile device. In some ways, the technology back then still kicks the asses of anything modern.
Just as annoying as “aka” in complete cash context, I am fed up, I mean FED UP with the use of “we”…
“We won the 2004 World Series… they lost in the 2005 playoffs!”
referring to the Boston Red Sox fans. This applies to the other New England teams as well.
Boston sports is actually amusing how much “ownership” there is collectively. I don’t hear this in other parts of the local environment. I hear more “we” from technical people. It’s that peer-culture that started to degrade personal responsibility, no one will ever be faulted for any inactions, except when it’s only convenient. It’s almost Orwellian like, not IBM, not Apple’s New World order, but really out of the 1984 playbook; because it’s ironic because the group-think, NewOldspeak in hi tech originated at that same time. Information Technology came around in the late 1980s; and the IBM 5150 and Macintosh came out earlier that decade.
One way to look the appropriate use of “we” is is something ala Live PD, where former or current police personnel who would* be on their panel and say “in this situation, we would [x, y and/or z]”. In this case of using “we”, the professional is providing a realistic context of what the viewer is watching in the one of the best reality series on TV (that’s if you watch it live!)
*the series is currently “suspended” with the 2020 Cancel Culture
In many of the YouTubers, it’s easy to highlight the use of “we”, and it’s not even close to being collective, the “collective-we” There is no rhyme or reason or even rational logic of Krazy Ken having the rights to speak for others or even BBishop* to sound inclusive I can’t even understand it! I am not in Krazy Ken’s basement 10 stories below ground level, how does he know how crazy I am with the ARM replacement on the Macs? Or how would Brandon know I am willing to see if something gets restored?
*despite him living locally, I do not know him
I have felt the technical-heavy use of “we” actually derives from the fake-team culture that we (yes I am using it appropriately) can blame that IT culture that ruined personal responsibility.
What do I mean?
“You!”, “They!” “Us” vs “them”.
Divide and Conquer! When things go wrong, the “we” culture starts the finger-pointing. It also shows vulernabilities if you use peer-centric languages. In teaching ideas and thoughts, it’s highly inappropriate to use “we”, “our”, “us” because if you are teaching me something that I am responsible for, at what point does the line get crossed? Only when it’s convenient for you?
I am guilty of it too! When I did some streams for TMOT, I caught myself using “we” and then redirected. It’s live IPTV, so it’s easy to screw up like ol TV.
I will be working on a series for any strangers that wants a well documented How-To on Cisco IP Telephony. I will show you- yes you – an individual on how to implement a CallManager Express instance for your home, on hardware or software that I do not own. Because I don’t infringe on others, and I take responsibility for my content, there will not be a use of “we” in the multi part series.
Can “we” all agree that the use of “we” as a pronoun to describe an assumed group of emotions and passion has crossed a line, to divide individuals in society? Can we agree that “you”, “I”, and perhaps use “us” and “they” or “them” at times?
In the year 2020, I am a huge skeptic of SSDs or Solid State Drives. There are many applications they are good, such as embedded devices, SD cards, Compact Flash, etc. When it comes to replacing the hard disk drive on computers, I have a lot of doubt, to this day. I break it up below
In today’s narrative, I thought, I’d share my thoughts with this alleged day in one of the largest towns in the state that’s not a city. More on the illegal use of “Election Day” in a few ‘graphs.
I’ve lived in Merrimack, New Hampshire for almost a decade; my family and I moved here for some specific reasons, a large selling value was the proximity of being close to Nashua and other areas east of the River. Merrimack, was historically known as a “big town” with a lower population than say Londonderry, which had one of the highest population centers.
When I relocated, the town’s population in 2000 was hovering around Londonderry, but an estimation in late 2010, put it at nearly 27,000 as a “projected” population count.
The rate of low income housing being built, and more housing, any attempts for open-space has gone out of the wayside.
Certain people in Merrimack have a certain distrust to the government. This is the majority of the town, because other than having a population second or third to Derry or Salem, the population is mostly “townies”. Worse people who have hyper-cynical beliefs that the town government is out to get Joe Doe from 127 Main St (we don’t really have a “Main Street”). In recent years, the anger amongst townies was Comcast. There was no facility for people to drop off dysfunctional set top boxes; and going across the river to just the other side of Hudson on 102 was too much for the people.
I’ve been home since March 16th, except for several “essential” shopping. My birthday was the Thursday before, and things even before a shutdown was ordered was very quiet, in Southern NH and Middlesex County, Massachusetts, where it was the epicenter of the novel virus had occurred.
It wasn’t till the following night (March 13th) where I found out more disturbing information (at the time) about COVID19. It was clearly like oh shit, and that point I made a critical decision to #StayTheFuckHome till at least April 3rd at the earliest (assuming the date would get pushed out.)
Apple’s flagship product for the longest time, the Mac or Macintosh is heading to a different direction. Given that Sir. Jonny Ive has left the company and Apple really insistent to give users a uniform and seamless experiences of two completely different technological platforms, the Mac will most likely not use Intel CPUs after 2021. Apple will most likely use their own chips which means the Mac will be more of an appliance again just like it was in 1984 when the original Macintosh came to market…
My commentary is midway through this live stream last night.
What does this mean to the Creative Professionals? Well if you ported yourself to a PC already, that speaks volumes. OS X since El Crapitan (opps macOS Sierra) has become a joke. High Sierra is completely a joke, and any apps made between Snow Leopard and El Crapitan does not work well, so does a serious Mac user use Catalina? Of course not! Unless you’re some YT Influencer.
Just like this writer gave up on Avaya in 2014 indefinitely, I’m giving up on the Macs in the long run. Where am I going? I have no clue, but of course, no transition does not mean a complete overnight format into say Linux because that would be ill responsible. I’ll cave in to Windows 10 probably by next year for minimal uses.
Part of an ongoing series on questioning modern day capitalism policies
“Let’s Break Up Facebook like the Feds did to AT&T! We were so better off than having that pesky Ma Bell. So what if the markets would price them out? The free market failed anyways!” – Stereotypical American Consumer
The Too Big To Fail industry of Silicon Valley is going to pop and will most likely explode in the next several years. This industry began really around the time AT&T was broken up in the mid 1980s, and while many think the breakup of AT&T was a smart move, where is the same anger against companies like Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other big companies?
Does anyone realize that Mark Zuckerberg feels like he’s richer than God or that he own platform acts a service to their own employees? How are employees there? Do they feel valued? Are they being abused or mistreated? Research shows that Millennials aren’t verse in retirement, how can they build that if the companies don’t support them? Where the hell is HR?
AT&T was not a perfect company but had good-faith intentions to serve the customer, and while older episodes of Saturday Night Live often mocked Ma Bell, if your internet goes down, whose going to come to your house on Christmas to restore it? Whose going to be there during a hurricane? Oh right, the techs insist to be like corporate employees so they can have all their time off when the people they claim they serve is entitled to have the same holidays like everyone else.
Nobody want’s to bust their ass anymore. I blame excessive capitalism. Things cheap, easy to purchase, easy to break, and whine about the quality and not following an age ol American norm of “personal responsibility” or “caveat emptor: let the buyer beware”. Sadly anyone trying to reason “the American Consumer”, will have no luck to teach them basic supply and demand and the cost of running a business without hoarding cash. The public believes acting like high school students hazing each other for your hard earned dollar is what kept this economy flowing. It’s not to say those enterprises were perfect or government intervention came in.
What drove AT&T’s prices down was unfortunately a system to make reliable telephones that one had to lease and rent, and in fact to keep maintaince cost down to those ol rotaries, was to make them bullet proof. Perhaps it was shady, but what was wrong with that? After some disruption via FCC policy, AT&T did get some competition. The phone service was so reliable, it was the envy of the world, people who made telephones and equipment had a job. It was made mostly in America. Where is that anger?
I sometimes mock them, but sometimes I wonder if I am mocking myself. I have a hard time understanding people. but yet I can’t figure myself out. I have an autistic condition, many do not. I work my ass off, but they don’t.
Maybe that’s where the line gets crossed between accepting them, and not trusting them.
I am talking about the generation born around 1981/82 to the mid 1990s. Sometimes known as Gen Y, many prefer to call them Millennials.
In the last year, there was a move to make sure the local area network or LAN to run at least have a four-nine reliability, meaning it will fail at least a couple years annually, or a several minutes monthly, or a few hours weekly, to a couple minutes daily; excluding scheduled outages on a monthly or quarterly basis for maintenance windows. Continue reading →