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As technology companies and governments negotiate for control over digital space, U.S. and Chinese technology giants will operate in one of three geopolitical environments: one in which the state reigns supreme, rewarding the national champions; one in which corporations wrest control from the state over digital space, empowering the globalists; or one in which the state fades away, elevating the techno-utopians.
The Technopolar Moment
foreignaffairs.com
By demystifying Ross and Shawn, I hope to reveal the nature of the critical biases that argue against the notion that the upper middle class can enjoy a genuine, affective, affirming connection with the pieces of literary mass culture marketed to them. Present in both popular and academic criticism, these biases privilege a narrow ideal of cultural agency, articulated either as autonomous artistic production or heroically subversive consumption. Until we are willing to elide the stark divisions between those categories, and to broaden the cramped idea of what counts as “resistance” that arises from them, we will be unable to come to terms with the complex realities of how upper-middle-class men and women make meaning within mass culture.
Project MUSE - What We Talk About; When We Talk About: The New Yorker
muse-jhu-edu.alumniproxy.library.upenn.edu
The reason different distributions use different ranges of numbers for regular users, typically in the range of 500+ or 1000+, is just a matter of preference on the part of the developers. I think it was previously more common to use 500 and up, but over the years most projects have shifted to 1000 and up for new user accounts. This is usually just to give more room for UIDs to be assigned to system services. In years past, when computers had more limited resources, it was pretty common to have each system just run one or two background services. Now powerful machines could run hundreds of services at a time, which I believe was the motivation for some distributions to reserve more space between the UID for root (0) and the UID of the first user account (1000). There isn't anything particularly special about the starting point for UIDs, but 1000 is a nice, round number.
DistroWatch.com: Put the Fun Back Into Computing. Use Linux, BSD.
distrowatch.com
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