Companies hate that, especially when software is more or less feature complete. I know large (multi-billion euro worth) companies that still use Office 2010, and MS desperately wants to sell a later version or even beter (for them), sell subscriptions.
No, that's what some programmers (and mostly managers) think. People don't want programs that constantly change for change sake. See the reception that windows 8 and 10 got. Most people still run 7. Or for a more modern example, the interface changes in Snapchat, or the changes that FB messanger wants to push on everyone (even to the point where they disabled their own debug interface because some hackers had found out how to disable the "stories" functionality).
As a software developer, I did see more often than I'd like, managers push more and more bloat into programs to the point where they became unusable.As a user I didn't ask for it and I would like the option to NOT pay for a subscription. Then let me run an old version, I'm fine with that.
Then don't upgrade. A lot of apps are "upgraded" but noone asks for that: often functionality is removed, screens are redesigned for the sole purtpose of looking different than before. If I buy the app and don't want upgrades that is now no option at Apple, fortunately I can ignore some app updates on Android.
I will make a decision that does not let companies like Monsanto patent lifeforms and form monopolies on our food. I'm sure it will not be harmfull for my body but it is harmfull for the economy and freedom to grow the crops you want.
Which idiot thinks it's a good idea that cars are always online and send all kinds of data back to their manufacturer and ready to query for all TLA's, reducing privacy to zero.
> But sure keep arguing for spending more and more on ineffective incarceration.
Hey, the US has to get some replacement for the freed slaves to do cheap labour? Otherwise the wages might rise and we wouldn't want _that_, now would we?
> such as the conflict between getting self-driving tech onto the roads sooner to save lives when drivers are half asleep versus delaying it until it is better than those drivers when they are awake.
Or not creating it at all because it will be forced uppon everyone when usable, including tracking of all vehicles and thus removing anonimity and freedom.
is the main problem that I see here. This seems a US specific problem, heavy carrier branding and consumers unwilling to buy carrier free devices. In the EU, where most devices don't have any branding, these problems are much less abundent. And on the 2nd hand carrier branded Sony Android device I bought to replace a defective one I could easily flash a neutral firmware.
Of course, after that I rooted it to remove some of the Sony crapware.
The president of the country that has to rely on the Russians to launch their astronauts to the ISS and failed to get anything working in manned spacecrafts, probably due to the sue him culture where everyone is too affraid to make something that is not absolutely safe.
Tracking analytics is usually only used as a way to find an excuse to drop usefull features and replace them by the latest buzzword that the marketing droids have heard.
I mean, I've never seen a car, not even a camoer, with a shower ort bath. How do these people wash themselves? I wou;d be fired after 2 weeks for smelling so bad that my colleagues would not want to work with me anymore.
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Companies hate that, especially when software is more or less feature complete. I know large (multi-billion euro worth) companies that still use Office 2010, and MS desperately wants to sell a later version or even beter (for them), sell subscriptions.
No, that's what some programmers (and mostly managers) think. People don't want programs that constantly change for change sake. See the reception that windows 8 and 10 got. Most people still run 7. Or for a more modern example, the interface changes in Snapchat, or the changes that FB messanger wants to push on everyone (even to the point where they disabled their own debug interface because some hackers had found out how to disable the "stories" functionality).
As a software developer, I did see more often than I'd like, managers push more and more bloat into programs to the point where they became unusable.As a user I didn't ask for it and I would like the option to NOT pay for a subscription. Then let me run an old version, I'm fine with that.
Then don't upgrade. A lot of apps are "upgraded" but noone asks for that: often functionality is removed, screens are redesigned for the sole purtpose of looking different than before. If I buy the app and don't want upgrades that is now no option at Apple, fortunately I can ignore some app updates on Android.
I will make a decision that does not let companies like Monsanto patent lifeforms and form monopolies on our food. I'm sure it will not be harmfull for my body but it is harmfull for the economy and freedom to grow the crops you want.
Which idiot thinks it's a good idea that cars are always online and send all kinds of data back to their manufacturer and ready to query for all TLA's, reducing privacy to zero.
You mean it has a template library? C++ has that for as long as I can remember.
Not because they vote democrat but because they are heavily infested. with nlggers.
> But sure keep arguing for spending more and more on ineffective incarceration.
Hey, the US has to get some replacement for the freed slaves to do cheap labour? Otherwise the wages might rise and we wouldn't want _that_, now would we?
They want to indoctrinate people with their political ideas too.
If they want employees who don't complain about those things they shouldn't have kicked out the right-wing employees like James Damore.
I could just as well work for some cybercrime syndicate. They pay even better and don't care about morality either.
> such as the conflict between getting self-driving tech onto the roads sooner to save lives when drivers are half asleep versus delaying it until it is better than those drivers when they are awake.
Or not creating it at all because it will be forced uppon everyone when usable, including tracking of all vehicles and thus removing anonimity and freedom.
Just buy a non-carrier branded Android.
is the main problem that I see here. This seems a US specific problem, heavy carrier branding and consumers unwilling to buy carrier free devices. In the EU, where most devices don't have any branding, these problems are much less abundent. And on the 2nd hand carrier branded Sony Android device I bought to replace a defective one I could easily flash a neutral firmware.
Of course, after that I rooted it to remove some of the Sony crapware.
The president of the country that has to rely on the Russians to launch their astronauts to the ISS and failed to get anything working in manned spacecrafts, probably due to the sue him culture where everyone is too affraid to make something that is not absolutely safe.
Not that Google is much different - for example the free-speech social network Gab ( https://gab.ai/ ) is not available in either appstore.
Are the Usanians crying about regime change now that they think they are on the receiving end? How hilarious.
Without men or woman, life would be too short to develop a reliable cloning technology for humans.
Tracking analytics is usually only used as a way to find an excuse to drop usefull features and replace them by the latest buzzword that the marketing droids have heard.
Just install an adblocker and be done with it.
But before they do, please post readable postings.
I mean, I've never seen a car, not even a camoer, with a shower ort bath. How do these people wash themselves? I wou;d be fired after 2 weeks for smelling so bad that my colleagues would not want to work with me anymore.
> . Wheels are reinvented thousands of times over,
That is where Stackoverflow comes to the rescue.
We need more H1B's with fake diploma's to do the work!