The MBAs essentially get paid to divert attention AWAY from the big investors calling the real shots behind the scenes. Everbody focuses on Jimmy J. Doe or whatever, the asshole MBA CEO who takes a once great software or hardware maker and turns it into a manufacturer of turds. It isn't Jimmy J. Doe the MBA who calls the shots - the really big investors do that behind the scenes. Jimmy J. Doe the MBA gets his salary and bonus for APPEARING to run the company. He doesn't. His job is to keep unhappy customer's eyes attention focused laser-like on him, and keep the INVESTORS who PAY him and call the real shots well out of sight. Most IT failures in the last 15 years are not the result of engineers screwing up. The investors order Jimmy J. Doe to build a shit product, Jimmy J. Doe orders the engineers to build a shit product. If the engineers don't do it, well - "you're fired".
Johnny Mnemonic can't make phonecalls right now, because a Windows 10 forced update related reboot-loop has rendered him incapacitated. He is lying facedown in the street thinking "Strawberries! I smell Strawberries!"
I have a better idea than you. When computer gear or software FUCKS UP as it often does, lets have legislation that lets us get FINANCIAL COMPENSATION directly from the INVESTORS that are behind the company. Example: An Intel CPU flaw lets malware ruin my productivity on a given computer? I get direct compensation from the oil-rich Arab or gas-rich Russian rich person who is responsible for Intel shipping CPUs with eggregious security flaws. See what I did there? Holding the INVESTOR not the PRODUCT ENGINEER responsible for fuckups?
That is because the investor capital that powers the computing industry today comes from feckless investors who don't give a crap whether computing goes downhill or uphill. People keep talking about "Intel, AMD, Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft". It is the ANONYMOUS investors who SUPPLY the MONEY that keeps these supposed powerhouses humming that DO NOT CARE what quality of computing gear or software is provided to the end customer. These guys want to put 5 Billion in, and get 15 Billion out 3 years later. Producing IT stuff that "actually works well" is not something they care about, because it is more expensive and cuts into profits. Then there is also the "sociopathic bevavior disorder" that frequently comes with having a lot of cash-slash-power. Its probably lots of fun for these investors to a) sell shit products to the end user and b) make a lot of extra profit BY VIRTUE of selling shit products to the end user. You eat shit while they buy another hotel chain or budget airline. Seriously, it is the completely INVISIBLE and UNACCOUNTABLE investors behind big IT that call the shots, not product engineers at Intel, Apple, or Microsoft. Name 1 computing science graduate you know who would have afflicted the attrocity that was Windows 8/10 on an end user of their own volition. It is the investors BEHIND the companies that are calling the shots in the 21st Century, not people with CS or EE degrees that actually CARE what they give the end user.
Don't worry. All you'll need in the future will be Elon Musk's new AI brain implant chips. Those will - of course - come with no security vulnerabilities whatsoever. So there is no threat of brain-fucking malware or reality-censoring DRM code ever running amock in your now augmented brain and top-quality malware detection like McAffee BrainCleaner not being able to find it. A little more patience, brother. Soon you will not need to use those swiss-cheese Intel CPUs ever again. (Yes, that was sarcasm... Now where did I put that old copy of Neuromancer???)
Chines students fail on almost all tasks at Western Universities that require critical thinking, creativity or lateral thinking. The Great Firewall does a great job at firewalling them - from their own IQ potential. =)
Do you really think that corporations that wreck your privacy at every turn, even invent an "internet of extremely insecure things" for this very purpose, care whether you get diabetes, or suffer a stroke or a heart attack before you reach 50? They also don't care what happens to your eyesight, or your brain for that matter (hint hint: 5G communications). Oh look - genius Elon Musk shot his Tesla car into space!
Using the ether, as Nikola Tesla described it. By building Wardenclyffe-like electrical towers on multiple continents and using the ether, Microsoft will be able to push Windows 10-like forced updates and reboots anywhere in the world. The device doesn't matter - even your smart TV and smart fridge will now get Windows 10 updates. As the technology matures, Microsoft will even be able to update and reboot human brains, and also push ads into those brains at will. (Runs off to download the new SDK)
Designed by Bruce Lee before his death, and kept in a secret vault since, Dragon Box was capable of turning Hollywood films with American actors into Chinese films with Chinese actors. Its a shame they shut it down. Rumors are that Ghandi, before his death, also designed a similar box. This one turns Hollywood movies into Bollywood action movies as you watch them. Look what the box does to a typical Woody Allen film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
FireFox is a CAPITALIST browser that ELITES use to browse the web. It is even used on Wall Street. I am deeply offended by your insensitivity in praising alternative browsers like FireFox. As for your unwillingness to buy Apple products, you are greatly damaging the oil-rich Arab investors who really own Apple. That too is offensive. (Now I get a Nobel Prize from CNN, and an Academy Award from the European Union!)
If the game packages sold there actually contained the BLOODY INSTALL DISCS. Steam has ushered in a nasty era where you walk into a bricks and mortar shop, plop down 60 bucks for a game, and get a plastic box with only a download code and a little flyer inside. What ever happened to putting actual install DVDs inside a game case? Of course people will not buy at meatspace retailers any more. There isn't much point to paying money for a plastic game box with literally nothing inside it. Now if someone managed to make dirt-cheap 40GB ROM chips for distributing software from physical stores, that might change things quite a bit. In many countries, broadband speeds are so bad that games take hours to download. A lot of people may prefer walking over to a physical game retailer and picking up a little ROM cartridge with a full game on it.
That depends on how you MEASURE it, you see?. Completely Scientific Example: Microsoft Windows 10 is actually Windows NT 6.0. But it is also Windows 10, kind of like wave-particle duality in optics. Thus Internet Explorer 10 must be IE NT 6.0. So it kind of went to 6 only, but at the same time went to 10 as well. Kind of like wave-particale duality in optics. Now the question is, what would happen if either IE or Windows had gone up to ELEVEN? Nothing good obviously, so Microsoft TERMINATES products that TRY to go above 10. (What did I just write?)
No. It has been TERMINATED along with every other browser that ever existed. Executive order from Redmond. You will be browsing the web from the Command Line from now on. Until Microsoft TERMINATES the Internet too, of course.
What you wrote is deeply offensive to completely computer illiterate people who liked using the greatest clusterfuck of a web browser ever made. You should be more Politically Correct the next time. You should also buy and use some Apple gear, so you can better understand and empathize with the cognitive impairments completely computer illiterate people have to live with every day. The more people understand each other, the nicer a world we will all inhabit. =) Can I get my Nobel Prize from CNN now?
Boomark me if you wantz to live... (On a side note, how come Skynet didn't update and reboot itself randomly, given that it was almost certainly built by Micro... erm... Cyberdyne?)
...effectively means that 10 years from now you won't be able to walk down a street anywhere in the world without a Chinese satellite overhead tracking you. Thank God nobody uses Chinese any made consumer electronics or telecomms infrastructure tech, because then the Chinese really would know everything about everybody everywhere. Oh, wait... (In Chinese 21st Century, you ALWAYS live in China, even if you don't!)
Maduro and Chavez are/were near the Communist-end of the Socialist political spectrum, where Chomsky also likes to hang out. What you get in Scandinavian countries is not Venezuelan "Commu-Socialism" but rather just mixed economies - some stuff in Scandinavia runs on pure Capitalism with strong regulation (e.g. their flagship corporations and banks), and some on Socialism (e.g. healthcare, welfare state). Compared to the United States, of course, Scandinavia is more left-Socialist. What Venezuela did was to disregard the most basic rules of running an economy in the 21st Century (or any Century), slide into Wishful-Thinking-Commu-Socialism with a good dose of "The Politbureau Knows Best", and wreck their economy in the process. One could call that "VenezuSocialism" I suppose. Or a failed attempt at 21st Century Communism if one wants to be more blunt. Either way, Venezuelan's don't quite live in the "Socialist Paradise" their populist leaders baited them with. Scandinavia works economically, because they know where and when to be Capitalist and where and when to be Socialist.
Seriously, who watches media with Windows Media Player when free players like MPC offer a much superior experience? MPC can even run custom HLSL pixel shaders on GPU, allowing videos to be enhanced in realtime on GPU (e.g. realtime sharpening, upconversion). You can even write your own.hlsl GPU pixel shader, hit CTRL+S, and MPC applies the custom pixel shader to video immediately. Windows Media Player is not capable of any such feats.
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The MBAs essentially get paid to divert attention AWAY from the big investors calling the real shots behind the scenes. Everbody focuses on Jimmy J. Doe or whatever, the asshole MBA CEO who takes a once great software or hardware maker and turns it into a manufacturer of turds. It isn't Jimmy J. Doe the MBA who calls the shots - the really big investors do that behind the scenes. Jimmy J. Doe the MBA gets his salary and bonus for APPEARING to run the company. He doesn't. His job is to keep unhappy customer's eyes attention focused laser-like on him, and keep the INVESTORS who PAY him and call the real shots well out of sight. Most IT failures in the last 15 years are not the result of engineers screwing up. The investors order Jimmy J. Doe to build a shit product, Jimmy J. Doe orders the engineers to build a shit product. If the engineers don't do it, well - "you're fired".
Johnny Mnemonic can't make phonecalls right now, because a Windows 10 forced update related reboot-loop has rendered him incapacitated. He is lying facedown in the street thinking "Strawberries! I smell Strawberries!"
I have a better idea than you. When computer gear or software FUCKS UP as it often does, lets have legislation that lets us get FINANCIAL COMPENSATION directly from the INVESTORS that are behind the company. Example: An Intel CPU flaw lets malware ruin my productivity on a given computer? I get direct compensation from the oil-rich Arab or gas-rich Russian rich person who is responsible for Intel shipping CPUs with eggregious security flaws. See what I did there? Holding the INVESTOR not the PRODUCT ENGINEER responsible for fuckups?
That is because the investor capital that powers the computing industry today comes from feckless investors who don't give a crap whether computing goes downhill or uphill. People keep talking about "Intel, AMD, Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft". It is the ANONYMOUS investors who SUPPLY the MONEY that keeps these supposed powerhouses humming that DO NOT CARE what quality of computing gear or software is provided to the end customer. These guys want to put 5 Billion in, and get 15 Billion out 3 years later. Producing IT stuff that "actually works well" is not something they care about, because it is more expensive and cuts into profits. Then there is also the "sociopathic bevavior disorder" that frequently comes with having a lot of cash-slash-power. Its probably lots of fun for these investors to a) sell shit products to the end user and b) make a lot of extra profit BY VIRTUE of selling shit products to the end user. You eat shit while they buy another hotel chain or budget airline. Seriously, it is the completely INVISIBLE and UNACCOUNTABLE investors behind big IT that call the shots, not product engineers at Intel, Apple, or Microsoft. Name 1 computing science graduate you know who would have afflicted the attrocity that was Windows 8/10 on an end user of their own volition. It is the investors BEHIND the companies that are calling the shots in the 21st Century, not people with CS or EE degrees that actually CARE what they give the end user.
Don't worry. All you'll need in the future will be Elon Musk's new AI brain implant chips. Those will - of course - come with no security vulnerabilities whatsoever. So there is no threat of brain-fucking malware or reality-censoring DRM code ever running amock in your now augmented brain and top-quality malware detection like McAffee BrainCleaner not being able to find it. A little more patience, brother. Soon you will not need to use those swiss-cheese Intel CPUs ever again. (Yes, that was sarcasm... Now where did I put that old copy of Neuromancer???)
Chines students fail on almost all tasks at Western Universities that require critical thinking, creativity or lateral thinking. The Great Firewall does a great job at firewalling them - from their own IQ potential. =)
Reddit censors everything. Anything right-of-left gets downvoted to zero there. Slashdot does not.
Do you really think that corporations that wreck your privacy at every turn, even invent an "internet of extremely insecure things" for this very purpose, care whether you get diabetes, or suffer a stroke or a heart attack before you reach 50? They also don't care what happens to your eyesight, or your brain for that matter (hint hint: 5G communications). Oh look - genius Elon Musk shot his Tesla car into space!
Using the ether, as Nikola Tesla described it. By building Wardenclyffe-like electrical towers on multiple continents and using the ether, Microsoft will be able to push Windows 10-like forced updates and reboots anywhere in the world. The device doesn't matter - even your smart TV and smart fridge will now get Windows 10 updates. As the technology matures, Microsoft will even be able to update and reboot human brains, and also push ads into those brains at will. (Runs off to download the new SDK)
Designed by Bruce Lee before his death, and kept in a secret vault since, Dragon Box was capable of turning Hollywood films with American actors into Chinese films with Chinese actors. Its a shame they shut it down. Rumors are that Ghandi, before his death, also designed a similar box. This one turns Hollywood movies into Bollywood action movies as you watch them. Look what the box does to a typical Woody Allen film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
FireFox is a CAPITALIST browser that ELITES use to browse the web. It is even used on Wall Street. I am deeply offended by your insensitivity in praising alternative browsers like FireFox. As for your unwillingness to buy Apple products, you are greatly damaging the oil-rich Arab investors who really own Apple. That too is offensive. (Now I get a Nobel Prize from CNN, and an Academy Award from the European Union!)
Edge is too edgy for an old fart like me. I think Firefox strikes the right balance between being boring and being boring.
In the even of a crash, it can be advantageous to claim that it was "the stock that drove", not you. Kind of like what Uber did a while ago...
If the game packages sold there actually contained the BLOODY INSTALL DISCS. Steam has ushered in a nasty era where you walk into a bricks and mortar shop, plop down 60 bucks for a game, and get a plastic box with only a download code and a little flyer inside. What ever happened to putting actual install DVDs inside a game case? Of course people will not buy at meatspace retailers any more. There isn't much point to paying money for a plastic game box with literally nothing inside it. Now if someone managed to make dirt-cheap 40GB ROM chips for distributing software from physical stores, that might change things quite a bit. In many countries, broadband speeds are so bad that games take hours to download. A lot of people may prefer walking over to a physical game retailer and picking up a little ROM cartridge with a full game on it.
That depends on how you MEASURE it, you see?. Completely Scientific Example: Microsoft Windows 10 is actually Windows NT 6.0. But it is also Windows 10, kind of like wave-particle duality in optics. Thus Internet Explorer 10 must be IE NT 6.0. So it kind of went to 6 only, but at the same time went to 10 as well. Kind of like wave-particale duality in optics. Now the question is, what would happen if either IE or Windows had gone up to ELEVEN? Nothing good obviously, so Microsoft TERMINATES products that TRY to go above 10. (What did I just write?)
No. It has been TERMINATED along with every other browser that ever existed. Executive order from Redmond. You will be browsing the web from the Command Line from now on. Until Microsoft TERMINATES the Internet too, of course.
What you wrote is deeply offensive to completely computer illiterate people who liked using the greatest clusterfuck of a web browser ever made. You should be more Politically Correct the next time. You should also buy and use some Apple gear, so you can better understand and empathize with the cognitive impairments completely computer illiterate people have to live with every day. The more people understand each other, the nicer a world we will all inhabit. =) Can I get my Nobel Prize from CNN now?
**** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 ***** 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE. READY.
But IE6 ran so well on my Commodore 128. I even managed to get it to load a GIF with FLOYD-STEINBERG DITHERING once.
Boomark me if you wantz to live... (On a side note, how come Skynet didn't update and reboot itself randomly, given that it was almost certainly built by Micro... erm... Cyberdyne?)
(Cries) How will I browse the Internets now? (Cries louder) DAMN YOU for terminating the BEST browser in ALL history!!!
...effectively means that 10 years from now you won't be able to walk down a street anywhere in the world without a Chinese satellite overhead tracking you. Thank God nobody uses Chinese any made consumer electronics or telecomms infrastructure tech, because then the Chinese really would know everything about everybody everywhere. Oh, wait... (In Chinese 21st Century, you ALWAYS live in China, even if you don't!)
Maduro and Chavez are/were near the Communist-end of the Socialist political spectrum, where Chomsky also likes to hang out. What you get in Scandinavian countries is not Venezuelan "Commu-Socialism" but rather just mixed economies - some stuff in Scandinavia runs on pure Capitalism with strong regulation (e.g. their flagship corporations and banks), and some on Socialism (e.g. healthcare, welfare state). Compared to the United States, of course, Scandinavia is more left-Socialist. What Venezuela did was to disregard the most basic rules of running an economy in the 21st Century (or any Century), slide into Wishful-Thinking-Commu-Socialism with a good dose of "The Politbureau Knows Best", and wreck their economy in the process. One could call that "VenezuSocialism" I suppose. Or a failed attempt at 21st Century Communism if one wants to be more blunt. Either way, Venezuelan's don't quite live in the "Socialist Paradise" their populist leaders baited them with. Scandinavia works economically, because they know where and when to be Capitalist and where and when to be Socialist.
Seriously, who watches media with Windows Media Player when free players like MPC offer a much superior experience? MPC can even run custom HLSL pixel shaders on GPU, allowing videos to be enhanced in realtime on GPU (e.g. realtime sharpening, upconversion). You can even write your own .hlsl GPU pixel shader, hit CTRL+S, and MPC applies the custom pixel shader to video immediately. Windows Media Player is not capable of any such feats.
Probably even financed by the same investors. No regard for anyone.