The dumbest thing Americans do is assume that consumers act rationally, never-mind should be expected to act rationally.
Yes, people never make the choices *I* think they should make, so I want the government to *force* MY choices on everyone else with the threat of imprisonment or death to back it up.
Health care is an insurance product that you want everyone to be forced to pay into...
Ain't Fascism great?
Strat
You do realize that this is how it works in most west world countries that actually have functioning health care systems? Would you say that the Nordic countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, with completely free health care, are fascist countries??
Do you have a practical example of anywhere in the world where this works??
Because all west world countries that have working health care systems have the exact opposite of what you suggest. I live in Sweden with completely free health care. There's no $100 aspirin here.
Samsung had stuck with the removable batteries of the Note 3 and Note 4 (which I own and love) this problem would not have occurred as the removable plastic back side would have allowed the battery to expand. This is also the same reason that I stopped buying the Note-series of Phones: No removable battery. So lose-lose:(
You sound a bit like Trump: If I lose, it's due to the corruption of the voting process. If the economy goes belly-upp: It's due to a pre-existing bubble, not due to the decisions the Republicans make
I wonder what kind of culture exists with Samsung.
I bet that at some point one of these two tings have been brought up by engineers within the company:
- The Note 7 battery has too high a capacity for the space that it occupies. Or serious missgivings about some other technical aspect.
- The Note 7 battery testing has not been through enough or performed long enough to ensure 100% stability.
Why was this information not passed on? What manager didn't react to it?
This goes way beyond a simple hardware issue.
I'm not American but as I understand it your laws that let you have guns were drafted when there were indians, wild animals and other dangers that made then necessary. After some sort of incident that requires the use of bunkers, our civilization may go back to a state where guns are needed. What doesn't make sense is why you have all those guns NOW.
If I were planning to run Linux on a computer, I probably would have done a few quick searches on driver support beforehand. And I wouldn't be buying it at Best Buy.
I don't really agree with you. I think that a customer should take it for granted that he could install any operating system once he has purchased the hardware. He shouldn't have to search the internet to find a list of computers that allow it vs the ones that don't.
I'll give you the European standpoint on this: Yes, there is a lesser of two evils here. It's the one who doesn't start a third world war. Hillary will play her political games and get things done the way american politicians have always done. Trump, however, is likely to start a third world war with buffoonery about "carpet bombing" countries and racist remarks about groups of millions of people.
I live in Sweden: If ONE person here was found to have tried to bring a gun aboard a plane it would be such a sensation that it would be all over the news.
By your logic then americans "know less shit about finances" that people in most other western countries? Because America leads the the wealth inequality chart by quite a fair margin.
Same thing with small action cameras; Everyone refers to them as "GoPro", regardless of what brand it is. I think people just like to simplify their world
Ideally, for most high level applications, the programmer doesn't have to use a programming language that forces him or her to do manual memory management. The programmer can use a language like Python or Java where memory management happens in the background. And that is how it's supposed to be. There are more relevant problems to deal with.
Now, on the other hand, let's say that the project is writing some sort of device driver or real time software. Perhaps something operating close to the 'core' and in an environment with limited resources. Then that programmer will have to use a language like C or C++ and do their own memory management.
It's a good thing that we have an education system that produces both these types of programmers. However, I think that most programmers, during their career, learn to do both these types of programming. For me: I started out programming in C/C++ and I've since moved on to Python and Java, because that's the kind of projects that I usually get these days. Now, if someone hired me to work on an application that required tight resource management. Well, then I would use C/C++ and do memory management myself
From the article: "C#: Microsoft created C# about 15 years ago as a new kind of programming language similar to Java; since then, the platform has grown several times over. "
So to summarize: From the creation of C#, when it had close to 0 users, the platform/language has grown "several times over"...
Okay so spying to safeguard national security makes sense. Even if it means stepping on the toes of your allies... perhaps? Now we hear of NSA involved in industrial espionage. For the good of US companies so that makes sense. How far away is spying for political gain? Spying for the party currently in power against political opponents?
By biking you get into better shape and thereby become healthier (lose weight, less risk of heart disease and so on...). So that's one aspect that should be weighed against the danger of biking. There's no such health benefit with other forms of commuting (unless you're jogging to work).
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The dumbest thing Americans do is assume that consumers act rationally, never-mind should be expected to act rationally.
Yes, people never make the choices *I* think they should make, so I want the government to *force* MY choices on everyone else with the threat of imprisonment or death to back it up.
Health care is an insurance product that you want everyone to be forced to pay into...
Ain't Fascism great?
Strat
You do realize that this is how it works in most west world countries that actually have functioning health care systems? Would you say that the Nordic countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, with completely free health care, are fascist countries??
Do you have a practical example of anywhere in the world where this works?? Because all west world countries that have working health care systems have the exact opposite of what you suggest. I live in Sweden with completely free health care. There's no $100 aspirin here.
Samsung had stuck with the removable batteries of the Note 3 and Note 4 (which I own and love) this problem would not have occurred as the removable plastic back side would have allowed the battery to expand. This is also the same reason that I stopped buying the Note-series of Phones: No removable battery. So lose-lose :(
You sound a bit like Trump: If I lose, it's due to the corruption of the voting process. If the economy goes belly-upp: It's due to a pre-existing bubble, not due to the decisions the Republicans make
I bet that at some point one of these two tings have been brought up by engineers within the company:
Why was this information not passed on? What manager didn't react to it?
This goes way beyond a simple hardware issue.
That in 20 years you can sell to a collector for about a grand.
It costs almost a grand today!!
He didn't mention currency... Pesos?
I'm not American but as I understand it your laws that let you have guns were drafted when there were indians, wild animals and other dangers that made then necessary. After some sort of incident that requires the use of bunkers, our civilization may go back to a state where guns are needed. What doesn't make sense is why you have all those guns NOW.
If I were planning to run Linux on a computer, I probably would have done a few quick searches on driver support beforehand. And I wouldn't be buying it at Best Buy.
I don't really agree with you. I think that a customer should take it for granted that he could install any operating system once he has purchased the hardware. He shouldn't have to search the internet to find a list of computers that allow it vs the ones that don't.
Try to pull that bullshit (organized religion) here in Sweden and you'll fail miserably
I wonder if Donald Trump sits down and thinks: "So, the Russians want me to win. I wonder why...?"
What super powers did he gain from the whole experience?
I'll give you the European standpoint on this: Yes, there is a lesser of two evils here. It's the one who doesn't start a third world war. Hillary will play her political games and get things done the way american politicians have always done. Trump, however, is likely to start a third world war with buffoonery about "carpet bombing" countries and racist remarks about groups of millions of people.
I live in Sweden: If ONE person here was found to have tried to bring a gun aboard a plane it would be such a sensation that it would be all over the news.
By your logic then americans "know less shit about finances" that people in most other western countries? Because America leads the the wealth inequality chart by quite a fair margin.
How can you write an article like that and not even mention how long the bridge would be??
I'd buy it if it had the old (non-chiclet) keyboard!
We should make this a Slashdot poll:
1. I like Snowden
2. I dislike Snowden
Nothing will change until someone at the bribing company is personally held responsible and faces the danger of jail time
Same thing with small action cameras; Everyone refers to them as "GoPro", regardless of what brand it is. I think people just like to simplify their world
Ideally, for most high level applications, the programmer doesn't have to use a programming language that forces him or her to do manual memory management. The programmer can use a language like Python or Java where memory management happens in the background. And that is how it's supposed to be. There are more relevant problems to deal with.
Now, on the other hand, let's say that the project is writing some sort of device driver or real time software. Perhaps something operating close to the 'core' and in an environment with limited resources. Then that programmer will have to use a language like C or C++ and do their own memory management.
It's a good thing that we have an education system that produces both these types of programmers. However, I think that most programmers, during their career, learn to do both these types of programming. For me: I started out programming in C/C++ and I've since moved on to Python and Java, because that's the kind of projects that I usually get these days. Now, if someone hired me to work on an application that required tight resource management. Well, then I would use C/C++ and do memory management myself
From the article: "C#: Microsoft created C# about 15 years ago as a new kind of programming language similar to Java; since then, the platform has grown several times over. "
So to summarize: From the creation of C#, when it had close to 0 users, the platform/language has grown "several times over"...
If we go there we could find the cure for cancer... or, well, at least melanoma
I would pay for a news source with no economic or political agenda... You know. an unbiased news site.
Okay so spying to safeguard national security makes sense. Even if it means stepping on the toes of your allies... perhaps? Now we hear of NSA involved in industrial espionage. For the good of US companies so that makes sense. How far away is spying for political gain? Spying for the party currently in power against political opponents?
By biking you get into better shape and thereby become healthier (lose weight, less risk of heart disease and so on...). So that's one aspect that should be weighed against the danger of biking. There's no such health benefit with other forms of commuting (unless you're jogging to work).