Yawn... Hillary lost the election old news. Because having a madman in charge of the country is much better then a lady who poorly managed her IT.
At this point it isn’t about Clinton or Trump. We had been played for suckers by the Russians. They had shown to push both sides of the political spectrum to be more radicalized just to destabilize the US. So they can wield more power. If Clinton won there would be so much hatred on the right that she would be facing massive battles to push any agenda. Trump is just too stupid to be able to push an agenda even with his party in power.
I thought Microsoft just didn’t want to use bash or sh for their command line interface. I was actually happy for a moment that they got away from the mess that is DOS and Power Shell.
In many ways having public internet available is a big thing and a first step to eliminating such problems. For the homeless access to the internet may be used to help find family and connections to help them out. They are internet apps that point out where pot holes are and where to fix them...
Plus in general it can make sure more services are online, cutting down the expense of government agencies paying for call centers to deal with problems and forms.
It may depend. All in one chips, are often well optimized for what they do. However you may get some power savings if you want just a CPU and a different GPU Chip that may perform less. But it is good for its attended purpose. Other then Laptops these chips go into other Devices where their may not need a full display, but just a standard character LCD Panel. Where the GPU is chewing up power that isn't needed.
Probably. I personally have stopped trying to use science to justify my faith or lack of. Faith in a supernatural entity is outside the realm of science. Because Supernatural is something that cannot be measured or directly observed. It doesn't mean that it cannot be true, but it doesn't prove that it is.
But saying because of God, is a wonderful way of cutting off the exploration of the topic. This Dichotomy of facts that we exist, however mathematically we shouldn't is an interesting aspect that needs to be studied objectively, there could be observations and measurements that we haven't figured out yet. Perhaps there is Matter+Antimatter isn't 100% cancellation but a number so small we are unable to measure it. We could just throw our hands in the air and say a conscious entity had to do this little hack to make the universe possible, or a glitch in the simulation. But that just stops us from digging further.
From my personal bias, I haven't found much of a difference in skills based on what schools they went to. I have found Good engineers who came from small unheard of schools and crummy ones from the big schools in engineering, and vice versa. I have found a trend towards a bigger Ego if they came from a Big name school which needs to be squashed very early in their job, because such an Ego prevents them from actually learning from other people with experience.
There is a bunch of different reasons. 1. They are the Anti-Capitalist who just hate everything that every company does. 2. They are the Millennial haters who want these damn kids to buy there own car. 3. Uber isn't the most progressive company anyways. 4. Uber migrated from a ride sharing (If I were to commute to work, I could pick up 3 other people along the way and help cover travel cost) service to a contracted Taxi service. So the Taxi Company lobby groups have put effort in vilifying these groups. 5. Politics come into play, as this sharing economy and competing against a regulated industry means a lot of people will make a decision for or against weather or not it supporter or detractor has an (R) or (D) next to their name.
Tech stories are a Dime a Dozen in general too. However diversity at the workplace is an important issue for technology.
Technology is one of the few fields that now offer careers that give a Middle Class life style, and generationally it is easier to move from Lower Class to Middle Class then to upper class in 3 generations. America is getting more diverse, laws and attitudes that discourage minorities from advancing will only mean in the next few generations America will be poor as well. Because poor people cannot buy as much stuff, If they cannot buy stuff then companies can't make money selling the stuff, so they lay off people who become poor.
Trickle down doesn't work, because the money will only go into saving money, while infusing the lower class will bring more customers.
So lets say 20% of your engineers are good engineers. and 1% of the minority group engineers are good engineers, then there seems to be a problem. Because your race or gender shouldn't be a major factor in your skills.
Why Yes, there is a problem in the United States where Minority groups will often get less pay, be denied promotions and raises... So by Adjusting salaries, they pay them what their actually work and title deserves.
They are a lot of crazy things that cause this and it isn't always direct discrimination. 1. It is common for a new employer to Ask for your previous salary. So the disadvantaged groups will often report that they had made less at the previous job, if the get the job, they will have a raise, but it may be 10% more then their previous job. So if they are already making less the new job will pay less too.
2. Being that a person is different then the management, it makes it harder for them to buddy up, and make a connection with them, so they are often overlooked.
3. They are representing a whole group of people. One failure of a member of a minority group will affect everyone else in that group. While good actions, are normally just ignored.
These Adjustments and Affirmative action rules are not giving minorities preference at the expense of the majority, but making sure that they are playing on a fair playing field.
Be careful there. There are many metrics that the Pixel 2 beats the iPhone 8 in (Same CPU as the iPhone X). If you want to say the iPhone is better then the Android you pick the features which it excels in and tout them as important, and dismiss the features it isn't as good in. Or you could do it the other way too. Who knows what problems that iPhone X will have. This is the first Apple Phone with an OLED screen, so it may have the burn in problem too, there are also a bunch of other new features that may not work well in mass produced state. If you are going to get the iPhone X, I would probably recommend the Apple Care, as you may get a bunch of extra problems at first.
Whatever technology platform you choose there will be a mountain of haters ready to troll you. Because they had made an intelligent choice on what preferred technology they want however can't understand that someone else may make an intelligent choice that is different. This choice makes them afraid of the validity of their choice, so they get angry.
I think it is confusing in the sense, that if you were to log in to a KDE Mint system, you wouldn't know the difference between a Kubuntu system. So you may do things the Ubuntu way vs the Mint way, and finding a bunch of packages that you expect are not there and replaced with a bunch that you didn't expect.
But we need a reason to hate Apple Products. Otherwise our decision to pick Android Products will seem less important. And buying something that isn't the best deal, is the most mortal sin that an internet user can do today.
But the new iPhone is going to be released soon, and Google doesn't want it to take the Pixel 2 thunder. While in actuality. If you are an Android User you will get an Android Phone, if you are an iPhone user you will get an iPhone. But articles like this help justify your belief that your purchase was somehow superior and you are the smarter consumer because of it.
Because in order to get people to switch to the other, you really need some major new feature that the other will not have shortly... Or the Other finds a way to really screw it up their next generation product, or fails to keep the product up to date over a long period of time.
Not quite. A shutdown factory is taking unused space, and the emissions will go toward building the new one. In generally you are greener in referbing existing building. But you don't get the shiny new building.
China putting these investments in may cause higher prices for their goods in the short term. However showing environmental consciousness could pay off in the long run. With Many EU countries also getting concerned about the environmental impact of its whole supply chain, China may be a better choice. Causing America to Sadly be left behind, having to change only after it is too late, and would be difficult to gain a food hold in the market they have loss.
The US economy needs more customers not lower costs to grow. Having Trump in the office only means other leaders will be able to be the grownup in the room and push their agenda.
Being that the FBI had a hard time breaking into an older iPhone, that they had the actual system on hand. And Apple had stated that they do not store the information off the phone, And this phone will need to function in areas where there is no cell or network connections. There is little need to store in the cloud, and just a lot of risk if they do. I tend to take Apples word on this. Now they may be sending every time I use the phone, and where I am located, but I doubt they are sending my actual face info over.
Mostly I don't think Face ID is an improvement to the User Experience, but an attempt to maximize screen space. A fingerprint reader takes a lot of space. Just because we have big fingers.
The problem is that News Organization in order to get the Headline over summarize something complex to a point where it is understandable to an 8th grader. Changing an engineering tolerance in a part once in mass production is actually fairly common action. This doesn't mean that they will reduce its accuracy as stated in its engineering specifications, but the lower tolerance would mean the mean of the products would reach the lower end of the tolerance range approved before manufacturing. I expect the problem is on this Dot generator on the iPhone X and they probably have problems reaching the maximum dot level... So other then 10,500 dots, it may have 10,031 Dots while the Specification says it needs to generate more then 10,000 dots. The tolerance level for the QA for the phone may had been 10,250 dots, and they lowered to to 10,000 dots.
This isn't reducing the advertised capabilities, just lowering the tolerance levels for faster production.
Just like the older iPhone are rated waterproof for 1 meter of water for 30 minutes, most of them released actually fair much better.
I like the idea behind Face ID. Being that it is doing a 3d scan of your face, it makes it more secure then a finger print, which is much easier to duplicate. Also while the current Face Emoji are just silly. It does open the technology up to doing more interesting types of more practical work. If you are not looking at the device it could slow down the GPU to save battery. Improve accuracy on speech to text, as it can read your lips in connection on what you are saying. The technology could also be modified further for processing ASL for the hearing impaired. Being that your face information IS NOT sent to the cloud, like how the fingerprint reader doesn't send your finger print to the cloud, I don't the security problem with that.
In some ways it is sad, that we need laws because too many people are just so much jerks who don't care that they are annoying others just for their addiction.
However the Smoking Ban in buildings in New York State, in general is a good thing, as it greatly reduces the peer pressure kids have to smoke/vape in general. I am willing to Admit that Vaping is good if you are a smoker and you want to switch to a safer habit/addiction. But it shouldn't be the thing that the cool kids do, and be encouraged. If you are going to smoke or vape, and have others ingest your habit as well. Then you should do it outsize and deal with the elements while doing that.
Look at the cool guy, he is standing out there alone in the poring rain on a 40 degree day, just because he needs to feed his addiction.
I think this problem had occurred from the ability for people who tried to "Fix" their beige box PC's.
During the 1990's we had a glut of generic PC's that hit the market, or you can get named brands that were just the same. These devices were given parts of various quality, and "Upgrades" to parts may not have been as dependable as the old part.
So say in 1995 someone got a Brand new 486 Gateway 2000 computer. In 1997 they wanted to get a bigger drive, so they had replaced their quality drive with a Death Star drive, which fails often, this is messing up timing on the system so Windows is BSODing all the time. But because the drive in general is working, but is failing every so often, the user doesn't realize that his fix was the problem, and it must be those people at Gateway 2000 who sold you that POS Computer. So when you get your next computer you will switch to Dell or some other brand.
Apple has a history of keeping its devices locked down and being fairly preventative towards do it yourself repairs. Now this means when your bring your Apple device to get fixed by certified repair places, they use the components that have been vetted correctly. That means the fix more often then not fixes the problem, and you keep the device for the rest of its expected life.
So if I were to open up my iPhone, and replace the battery with a some cheap knockoff battery that happens to fit the form factor, which causes my phone to get on fire, It will get posted on Social Media and go viral about exploding iPhones and how dangerous they are. We had this problem a little while back when some people got a ripoff power brick that in essence just wired the AC current straight to the phone, Causing the phone to catch on fire. This went viral and caused problems for Apple until they found out the truth.
In short, with social media, it is way to easy to spread hate, and fix it yourself, means you can screw up your device, thus make you feel justify spreading hate for the product that YOU had messed up.
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Yawn... Hillary lost the election old news.
Because having a madman in charge of the country is much better then a lady who poorly managed her IT.
At this point it isn’t about Clinton or Trump. We had been played for suckers by the Russians. They had shown to push both sides of the political spectrum to be more radicalized just to destabilize the US. So they can wield more power. If Clinton won there would be so much hatred on the right that she would be facing massive battles to push any agenda. Trump is just too stupid to be able to push an agenda even with his party in power.
I thought Microsoft just didn’t want to use bash or sh for their command line interface.
I was actually happy for a moment that they got away from the mess that is DOS and Power Shell.
In many ways having public internet available is a big thing and a first step to eliminating such problems.
For the homeless access to the internet may be used to help find family and connections to help them out.
They are internet apps that point out where pot holes are and where to fix them...
Plus in general it can make sure more services are online, cutting down the expense of government agencies paying for call centers to deal with problems and forms.
It may depend. All in one chips, are often well optimized for what they do. However you may get some power savings if you want just a CPU and a different GPU Chip that may perform less. But it is good for its attended purpose. Other then Laptops these chips go into other Devices where their may not need a full display, but just a standard character LCD Panel. Where the GPU is chewing up power that isn't needed.
Probably. I personally have stopped trying to use science to justify my faith or lack of.
Faith in a supernatural entity is outside the realm of science. Because Supernatural is something that cannot be measured or directly observed. It doesn't mean that it cannot be true, but it doesn't prove that it is.
But saying because of God, is a wonderful way of cutting off the exploration of the topic. This Dichotomy of facts that we exist, however mathematically we shouldn't is an interesting aspect that needs to be studied objectively, there could be observations and measurements that we haven't figured out yet. Perhaps there is Matter+Antimatter isn't 100% cancellation but a number so small we are unable to measure it. We could just throw our hands in the air and say a conscious entity had to do this little hack to make the universe possible, or a glitch in the simulation. But that just stops us from digging further.
From my personal bias, I haven't found much of a difference in skills based on what schools they went to.
I have found Good engineers who came from small unheard of schools and crummy ones from the big schools in engineering, and vice versa.
I have found a trend towards a bigger Ego if they came from a Big name school which needs to be squashed very early in their job, because such an Ego prevents them from actually learning from other people with experience.
There is a bunch of different reasons.
1. They are the Anti-Capitalist who just hate everything that every company does.
2. They are the Millennial haters who want these damn kids to buy there own car.
3. Uber isn't the most progressive company anyways.
4. Uber migrated from a ride sharing (If I were to commute to work, I could pick up 3 other people along the way and help cover travel cost) service to a contracted Taxi service. So the Taxi Company lobby groups have put effort in vilifying these groups.
5. Politics come into play, as this sharing economy and competing against a regulated industry means a lot of people will make a decision for or against weather or not it supporter or detractor has an (R) or (D) next to their name.
Tech stories are a Dime a Dozen in general too. However diversity at the workplace is an important issue for technology.
Technology is one of the few fields that now offer careers that give a Middle Class life style, and generationally it is easier to move from Lower Class to Middle Class then to upper class in 3 generations. America is getting more diverse, laws and attitudes that discourage minorities from advancing will only mean in the next few generations America will be poor as well. Because poor people cannot buy as much stuff, If they cannot buy stuff then companies can't make money selling the stuff, so they lay off people who become poor.
Trickle down doesn't work, because the money will only go into saving money, while infusing the lower class will bring more customers.
So lets say 20% of your engineers are good engineers.
and 1% of the minority group engineers are good engineers, then there seems to be a problem. Because your race or gender shouldn't be a major factor in your skills.
Why Yes, there is a problem in the United States where Minority groups will often get less pay, be denied promotions and raises...
So by Adjusting salaries, they pay them what their actually work and title deserves.
They are a lot of crazy things that cause this and it isn't always direct discrimination.
1. It is common for a new employer to Ask for your previous salary. So the disadvantaged groups will often report that they had made less at the previous job, if the get the job, they will have a raise, but it may be 10% more then their previous job. So if they are already making less the new job will pay less too.
2. Being that a person is different then the management, it makes it harder for them to buddy up, and make a connection with them, so they are often overlooked.
3. They are representing a whole group of people. One failure of a member of a minority group will affect everyone else in that group. While good actions, are normally just ignored.
These Adjustments and Affirmative action rules are not giving minorities preference at the expense of the majority, but making sure that they are playing on a fair playing field.
Be careful there. There are many metrics that the Pixel 2 beats the iPhone 8 in (Same CPU as the iPhone X). If you want to say the iPhone is better then the Android you pick the features which it excels in and tout them as important, and dismiss the features it isn't as good in. Or you could do it the other way too. Who knows what problems that iPhone X will have. This is the first Apple Phone with an OLED screen, so it may have the burn in problem too, there are also a bunch of other new features that may not work well in mass produced state. If you are going to get the iPhone X, I would probably recommend the Apple Care, as you may get a bunch of extra problems at first.
Whatever technology platform you choose there will be a mountain of haters ready to troll you. Because they had made an intelligent choice on what preferred technology they want however can't understand that someone else may make an intelligent choice that is different. This choice makes them afraid of the validity of their choice, so they get angry.
I think it is confusing in the sense, that if you were to log in to a KDE Mint system, you wouldn't know the difference between a Kubuntu system. So you may do things the Ubuntu way vs the Mint way, and finding a bunch of packages that you expect are not there and replaced with a bunch that you didn't expect.
Translation: I hate all new technology, so I post on technology websites.
But we need a reason to hate Apple Products. Otherwise our decision to pick Android Products will seem less important. And buying something that isn't the best deal, is the most mortal sin that an internet user can do today.
But the new iPhone is going to be released soon, and Google doesn't want it to take the Pixel 2 thunder.
While in actuality. If you are an Android User you will get an Android Phone, if you are an iPhone user you will get an iPhone. But articles like this help justify your belief that your purchase was somehow superior and you are the smarter consumer because of it.
Because in order to get people to switch to the other, you really need some major new feature that the other will not have shortly... Or the Other finds a way to really screw it up their next generation product, or fails to keep the product up to date over a long period of time.
You got to put your spin on it somehow.
Not quite. A shutdown factory is taking unused space, and the emissions will go toward building the new one. In generally you are greener in referbing existing building. But you don't get the shiny new building.
Putting America First, means being last globally.
China putting these investments in may cause higher prices for their goods in the short term. However showing environmental consciousness could pay off in the long run. With Many EU countries also getting concerned about the environmental impact of its whole supply chain, China may be a better choice. Causing America to Sadly be left behind, having to change only after it is too late, and would be difficult to gain a food hold in the market they have loss.
The US economy needs more customers not lower costs to grow. Having Trump in the office only means other leaders will be able to be the grownup in the room and push their agenda.
Being that the FBI had a hard time breaking into an older iPhone, that they had the actual system on hand. And Apple had stated that they do not store the information off the phone, And this phone will need to function in areas where there is no cell or network connections. There is little need to store in the cloud, and just a lot of risk if they do. I tend to take Apples word on this.
Now they may be sending every time I use the phone, and where I am located, but I doubt they are sending my actual face info over.
Mostly I don't think Face ID is an improvement to the User Experience, but an attempt to maximize screen space. A fingerprint reader takes a lot of space. Just because we have big fingers.
The problem is that News Organization in order to get the Headline over summarize something complex to a point where it is understandable to an 8th grader.
Changing an engineering tolerance in a part once in mass production is actually fairly common action. This doesn't mean that they will reduce its accuracy as stated in its engineering specifications, but the lower tolerance would mean the mean of the products would reach the lower end of the tolerance range approved before manufacturing. I expect the problem is on this Dot generator on the iPhone X and they probably have problems reaching the maximum dot level... So other then 10,500 dots, it may have 10,031 Dots while the Specification says it needs to generate more then 10,000 dots. The tolerance level for the QA for the phone may had been 10,250 dots, and they lowered to to 10,000 dots.
This isn't reducing the advertised capabilities, just lowering the tolerance levels for faster production.
Just like the older iPhone are rated waterproof for 1 meter of water for 30 minutes, most of them released actually fair much better.
I like the idea behind Face ID. Being that it is doing a 3d scan of your face, it makes it more secure then a finger print, which is much easier to duplicate.
Also while the current Face Emoji are just silly. It does open the technology up to doing more interesting types of more practical work. If you are not looking at the device it could slow down the GPU to save battery. Improve accuracy on speech to text, as it can read your lips in connection on what you are saying. The technology could also be modified further for processing ASL for the hearing impaired.
Being that your face information IS NOT sent to the cloud, like how the fingerprint reader doesn't send your finger print to the cloud, I don't the security problem with that.
In some ways it is sad, that we need laws because too many people are just so much jerks who don't care that they are annoying others just for their addiction.
However the Smoking Ban in buildings in New York State, in general is a good thing, as it greatly reduces the peer pressure kids have to smoke/vape in general. I am willing to Admit that Vaping is good if you are a smoker and you want to switch to a safer habit/addiction. But it shouldn't be the thing that the cool kids do, and be encouraged. If you are going to smoke or vape, and have others ingest your habit as well. Then you should do it outsize and deal with the elements while doing that.
Look at the cool guy, he is standing out there alone in the poring rain on a 40 degree day, just because he needs to feed his addiction.
I think this problem had occurred from the ability for people who tried to "Fix" their beige box PC's.
During the 1990's we had a glut of generic PC's that hit the market, or you can get named brands that were just the same. These devices were given parts of various quality, and "Upgrades" to parts may not have been as dependable as the old part.
So say in 1995 someone got a Brand new 486 Gateway 2000 computer. In 1997 they wanted to get a bigger drive, so they had replaced their quality drive with a Death Star drive, which fails often, this is messing up timing on the system so Windows is BSODing all the time. But because the drive in general is working, but is failing every so often, the user doesn't realize that his fix was the problem, and it must be those people at Gateway 2000 who sold you that POS Computer. So when you get your next computer you will switch to Dell or some other brand.
Apple has a history of keeping its devices locked down and being fairly preventative towards do it yourself repairs. Now this means when your bring your Apple device to get fixed by certified repair places, they use the components that have been vetted correctly. That means the fix more often then not fixes the problem, and you keep the device for the rest of its expected life.
So if I were to open up my iPhone, and replace the battery with a some cheap knockoff battery that happens to fit the form factor, which causes my phone to get on fire, It will get posted on Social Media and go viral about exploding iPhones and how dangerous they are. We had this problem a little while back when some people got a ripoff power brick that in essence just wired the AC current straight to the phone, Causing the phone to catch on fire. This went viral and caused problems for Apple until they found out the truth.
In short, with social media, it is way to easy to spread hate, and fix it yourself, means you can screw up your device, thus make you feel justify spreading hate for the product that YOU had messed up.