That Keynes bloke didn't figure into his calculations that one of the main reasons we will never achieve a 15 hour working week is because of human greed.
Along with large population of people who do not have enough income to live decently, and are therefore subject to "the grind", there are also many many examples where the person is making/has made lots, but still works for more. This is human greed. I think the average greedy person would rather make 2-3 times as much in a week, rather than buying their time back.
It starts at human need for low income, and then ends up as human greed, as income gets higher.
Although it would be nice, I'm not sure there will ever be a world where we all kick back and relax to enjoy the benefits of past generations. Some would call that forward progress. As you say, it seems the other way around and we are making things worse. Perhaps our individualistic quest for an easy life is contributing to that.
I think the common sense approach would dictate that a persons motive would need to have been shown to be nefarious for criminal proceedings to have any chance. Ie. Intent. Without intent, I struggle to see any court move with this, but I'm no lawyer - just an engineer!
Awesome and congrats! - Can I ask - How do you (intend to) deal with tax from sales generated overseas? Would you outsource this, or manage it yourself? I intend to release also, but I'm not quite at the release stage. My mind is full of these non-software related questions...thanks in advance.
Yep, for the moment its Windows only, however, the vast majority of the core code is platform agnostic, so after the initial Windows release, we shall be targeting Mac and Linux.
Performance is great on single thread/single CPU, but performance is even better when doing multi-threaded for most scenarios.
In terms of development, we prefer developing on lesser hardware so that we can be sure that Pixolage will run super smooth for most setups (although long compile waits can be frustrating).
For scalability, nothing beats multi-process. (Due to the way the OS manages communications between GPU driver<->process using the GPU).
Completely agree - Picasa is/was a great application!
We are working on a multi-process GPU accelerated image viewer with the ability to seamlessly browse and organise through hundreds of thousands of photos. Although it is multi process, all applications are embedded in a container application. The processes communicate using 127.0.0.1. All done locally.
It was specifically designed to handles hundreds of thousands of images and is in the final stages of release.
We have a little bit more information and screenshots on the website: https://www.pixolage.com and would be grateful for any community feedback (or beta testers!).
When pondering whether I should be grumpled about this situation or accept it as "just how it goes", I wonder if Intel would be OK with me giving them up to 30% less money after agreeing to 100% before walking out the Intel shop without prejudice.
I think it was meant that a normal application does not utilise the CPU all the time, which can be seen by looking at the task manager CPU usage % = X. Any extra processing needed to fix this bug will have to come out of the remaining 100-X%. This is OK as long as you have enough spare %, and can afford the extra power usage for that processing.
Along with large population of people who do not have enough income to live decently, and are therefore subject to "the grind", there are also many many examples where the person is making/has made lots, but still works for more. This is human greed. I think the average greedy person would rather make 2-3 times as much in a week, rather than buying their time back.
It starts at human need for low income, and then ends up as human greed, as income gets higher.
Although it would be nice, I'm not sure there will ever be a world where we all kick back and relax to enjoy the benefits of past generations. Some would call that forward progress. As you say, it seems the other way around and we are making things worse. Perhaps our individualistic quest for an easy life is contributing to that.