In the US national anthem "Land of the free and the home of the brave" While commonly used to express military braveness in the face of guns and cannons firing around you. But the quality of our freedom is based on how brave we are as a society. The Space Race which sent a man from the moon, was also being brave enough to allow former enemy Germans into our nation who during the work were world experts in rocketry. We bravely put aside our past history and worked together for greatness.
Today the terrorist won. We no longer want Others into our country where we can learn from them, and they can learn from us. We are too afraid of them, we as a population doesn't want to go further into space we want a well defined borders, and rules on who is the good guy and who are the bad guys. We pine for a simpler time where everything was given to us, and our futures seemed so bright, but we are too afraid to try to make the change.
We have became cowards, afraid of Others, afraid of our neighbor, afraid of the world. This fear causes us to be more oppressed. Either with more laws to make us Safe, or harsher punishment for those who break it. Problems are ignored because it would break our fragile peace with the scary other people.
This isn't just a recent problem under Trump, this was slowly evolving for over a generations. With the end of the cold war, we lost our unified bad guy. Today's bad guys are now complex. As we had spread the US culture to other worlds, they have also shared their cultures with us, this has made everyone unhappy, because of the feeling of general pollution of culture, while it is just growth and understanding. We are too afraid of change, and not willing to stand up and face it, solve the problems rationally. But fight against it, and not think of their side at all.
But what would they study in their 4 year degree? The problem with Liberal Arts, isn't the Liberal Arts degree, it is the bulk of the students who get it. A lot of students go for the degree because it is light on classes that most people find Hard, Math, and Science, mostly because you cannot BS your way to a passing grade, either the answer is correct or it is not. So for students a Liberal Arts degree is the easiest route to a College Degree. However what has happened is these students who just BS their way to a passing grade when they entered the workforce, are not good employees, because they just want to BS their way. Now this is a big discredit to those who took their liberal arts degree seriously, and used it to learn a lot of general knowledge good research and critical thinking skills, who now try to find wok, are classified as the same set of students who they hired before and found to be worthless. The now call STEM majors, take classes where you pass if you learn the information or fail if you don't. When these students get to the workforce, and survivided the rigors of those classes, they tend to be better workers. Now what does this have to do with UBI? If your life is paid for, and you want to get a college degree, there would be a lot of people trying for the easiest way to get a degree, and get the job that will put them above UBI level, but not a lot higher, because it isn't worth the effort.
Or is it you that was brainwashed? Communism was a failed experiment, it falls apart after a few hundred people, and turns into more or a tyrannical system, where we see today, where the leaders exploit the working class even further under the guise of being for the public good. While Capitalism has its problems and we should work on finding these problems and addressing them, vs just calling anyone who states such problems as a communist, it spans well to a larger community, of millions to billions of people. With its own forces more or less naturally keeping things in place.
Now that being said, while unbridled capitalism will work, it isn't optimal, because capitalism is inherently a brutal form of economic system, where paid of failure is the driving force to succeed. That is why appropriate controls and safety needs to be in place.
It was a fine experiment, worth trying out. However if it didn't work then it doesn't work. If Germany is trying, what are they doing different than Finland.
The problem has always been, there is a good portion of the population, will not choose to work if their basic needs are met. There are a lot of jobs that just simply suck, and there isn't too many people with such ambition to do such work. However the sting of capitalism is enough to get them to do whatever job they can do wither they like it or not.
For most of us, even though not living in minimum wage, would be happy with a basic quality of life, but we work extra hard, to make sure we have a safety net for our lives. And the side effect, is because we are working so hard to maintain a quality of life, we work harder to get promoted to up our quality of life. Mostly just because we want to fix our position as to not have to live off your built in safety net.
The idea of UBI is that if people had enough, they would would be more willing to take extra risks, to have their lives above basic income, but so far that doesn't seem the case. I think people value security vs wealth.
The Amiga is the Retro PC that everyone wish they had, but never got for practical reasons, such as software availability. An awesome Computer at its time, While your IBM PC did 4 color graphics (16 if you have a composite display, but will suffer from blurry text) The Amiga had 32 colors from 4k pallet of colors to choose from. Granted by the time the 3000 released the PC Compatible has caught up in specs, but the 500 were great gaming PCs at the time. Just too bad not to many games were made for it.
Part of the problem is these spying toys, offer so many features because they are spying. Alexa knows your voice and your buying habits, Netflix can make good suggestions. The more information you give it the better you are at.
Guys like us to try to keep private, we need to suffer via bad suggestions and annoying adds. For some reason YouTube thinks I am a die hard republican. And keeps on showing me adds to support hurting and excluding people, because now that seems to be the popular republican thing
It isn't liking big brother, but the gene is out of the bottle. The problem is these devices which do wonderful things but collect your data, and sell it to anyone willing to pay for it, are cheap. vs. having to pay high prices for a device that may not be as smart (because it can't process off so much data) and more expensive because you are paying for the full device.
If we wanted to fight against privacy parents should had stood up 20 years ago. But then computers were these scary things that were too advance for them to touch. And technology policy was only in the domain of geeky nerds who didn't have anything better to do with their lives.
Well that is normal. Blame will be pointed down until someone can no longer point anywhere, and take the brunt of a systematic problem, where they were just a cog in a broken system.
It will depend on the spin the NYT puts on it. The stuff I do for work would either be saving patients millions of dollars in medical costs, or be an abhorrent violation of their privacy (because they didn't read the HIPAA agreement that they signed) For almost every project that is big, there are trade offs that need to be taken. Such trade offs usually has someone on the loosing side. The goal is to make sure there are more people winning then what is being lost.
Some one with the best of intentions can be posted by the media as being an evil mastermind just by changing the focus on the good to the side effects of every decision made.
I work in a Hospital, but my job isn't Medical. My Job in the hospital didn't exist 30 years ago. They had people who did work that produced most of the same outcome as what my job does, but they wouldn't be able to do my job, if they tried to take my job away and bring back the people who did the same outcome would probably put the Hospital out of business.
Today, Doctors will need to know how to use Electronic Medical Records, Soldiers need to be able to handle computers and electronic Armament, Hotel needs access to electronic reservations and online advertising, Restaurants need electronic ordering of supplies, advance payment options. Hookers need to find a way to only attract customers under the radar.
The work I do today, is different then how I did my work when I started 20 years ago. After School I needed to learn about JavaScript, XML, Ajax, Web Services, Restful Services, JSON, No-SQL... And that is only for part of my Job where I make Web Applications, where I started out just doing CGI web applications, that save data to a file. Luckily my College did teach me how to effectively use CGI to make web applications, this training got me prepped to be adaptable to the changes that has happened in my career. However I have seen other ex students without the correct foundation who struggled in learning these technologies, because their baseline was on standard Windows Form (VB) programming. They had a hard time adapting because they started so far behind the technology curve.
Microsoft doesn't support XP anymore. So Microsoft isn't getting money from china if they choose to put themselves in risk. I remember even further back when Linux was recommended for new state of the art hardware. It was a Free 32bit OS, perfect for your brand new 386 and 486 computers, while the other rubes were running 16bit OS's like DOS with Windows 3.1, you had Linux that was native 32bit, and supported protected memory and real multi-tasking. If someone back in the mid 1990's wanted Linux they had to upgrade their system to a beefy system. There really is a limit to what you can do with old systems, and expect to install a modern OS on them.
I expect it is a problem with support. If you allow and old distribution to be downloaded from your site, you are responsible for some level of support (even if you say it is unsupported) Say Version 2 had a security flaw, you are still allowing people to download it, should you fix that flaw? Because there is still thousands of people downloading it and using it.
Sometime it is easier when it is out of support, to cut it out of your official channel all together, because your responsibility for it has ended.
I havn't had a 32 bit PC for over 12 years, and 2 64bit PC I have retired for being out of date.
Testing on such an old environment is putting your program into an artificial restriction. The coding that I use to do so the application would run fast on a 8088 XT with 512k of ram and processor speed about 1mhz would not scale well to a modern system, where I would take different approaches to optimize for speed. Other then just Ram and clock speed as the systems progress the bottle necks change and their ratios change as well.
On a single Core CPU multi-threading often added more overhead on your application and normally ran slower then if you coded it as a single thread. Now we have 4+ cores CPU, so the overhead of making multi-threaded is reduced because the CPU can now truly process in parallel, vs just relying on the OS multi-tasking algorithm. If your program dealt with large numbers, you no longer need to split them up into 32bit segments, but deal with one 64 bit segment. Modern Solid State Drives are much faster then before, So with the ability to multi-thread you can have your application get the data from the disk just in time for it to process it and saving it at the same time it use to be able to just read all the data and stuff it into RAM. Making sure your App works well on a decade old system, isn't a good development process, it is just making outdated software. Now it is reasonable to test for low end systems that you may expect people to actually be using your software for, so say a 2nt gen Core i5 CPU. Where it is slower then the new systems, but the architecture is relatively close to what you have now.
If you can get it to compile. I have tried it a decade ago on my Ultra Sparc. I kept on running into problems with a custom compile, as there seems to be a lot of assumptions in the make file that may not be the case for your platform, and the makers failed to make it as a detectable item.
I guess if they were unscrupulous enough to go to a Fortnite cheating page, they probably deserve to get ripped off. Online game cheating, really is just scum of the earth type of stuff. If I wanted to play a game, and I get bested because someone was better then me or just lucky, then I take it as is. I just need to practice more, if I want to get better. However if someone is cheating then that just runes the fun for everyone. Because we are not getting bested due to things we can improve, we are bested because someone cheated. I am not going to be crying over people trying to find a cheat to a game who got scammed.
Do you use your cheep Android Table to make sure your measurement tools are correct? No because you know it is a cheap Android Table, and you don't expect that level of perfection. But if you are going to pay $20 more, for some reason you think you can.
This isn't an Apple apology, just pointing out Apple has put them in a position where people expect demanding quality, at a level higher then anyone really could offer.
Why do all good deeds need to be an altruistic sacrifice? That is a very puritanical view on charity. Give until it hurts then give some more, suffering is the only pathway to God. This is like dropping our spare change in the salvation army bin, we are not going to suffer or go bankrupt from it. But it is still helping a cause.
Back in the old days before Wikipedia we had a collection of 20-26 books called an Encyclopedia. Even back in 7th grade I was taught we couldn't use these Encyclopedias for citation. But as a source to give us general information to help guide us to sources, that we can cite, because they will give us more detailed information.
For many of these Encyclopedias we only had a paragraph or two on most of the topics. While Wikipedia often has far more information it isn't classified as a source for research, but a way to get general knowledge on the topic, thus why a citation from Wikipedia will probably give a failing mark on your paper, because you didn't go to the source material, you just went to an abbreviated summary on the topic.
Also, why should we automatically shy away or discredit an article that has some agenda. We should be smart enough to catch that, and realized that the writer may have a point that is being expressed, and if you disagree with it, then you need to confront the points do your research to show they are invalid or wrong. Not just go in a huff "This information goes against my Uninformed beliefs, so it is wrong!"
I thought Facebook just needed to write off some amount for tax credit. And what better then putting money into a NFP that will keep people glued to their devices, and a swipe, or browser tab away from their service to show adds. It isn't like they are funding a school, which asks the students to put their devices away during class.
That is a problem when you make a product known for its quality, any slight defect become a big problem. About 18 year ago, I had a Sun Ultra Workstation. These things were built with a high degree of quality. However one of the expansion Slots wasn't as cleanly chiseled down to a smooth edge as the others, and that bugged the heck out of me. Even though most of the PC, for their expansion slots you could cut yourself with those. because they just punch a hole in the medal and call it done.
We will sometime buy ourselves a product built beyond the raw utility of it, and will pay extra for it, so a defect even though it doesn't hinder the utility will now be annoying because you paid extra for flawlessness, even though you may not have paid that much more to deserve that level of flawlessness.
It is more rule of the Mob. I have never worked for a business where all the customers were happy, no matter how hard you try, there is always going to be that group of customers who will buy a product with their preceded notions, even if you explain your full intention as truthfully as possible, people will just not read it and get what they think they are getting.
That iPhone X case will not fit on your iPhone 4 or your Samsung Galaxy. But that doesn't stop them from buying it, then hitting your company hard for selling them something that doesn't work with their product. Sometimes you find some one who is both stupid and influential, so in their rage they spur a mob to complain about you. .
Amazon will just follow the mob, and not due process.
The thing that always stops me from relying on my G4 Cell for my primary internet isn't speed, but cost. Each device with a separate plan or at least extra cost per device. Paying for metered amount, or paying a lot more for unlimited. If I could have my devices networked with G4 for less then I am paying for Cable Internet with a Wireless Router. It may make it worth it. But G5 extra speed isn't the issue holding me back. It is coverage and price.
Open Source isn't as free as most people think it is. Free and Open Specifications have far more value then Source Code does. And No Open Source doesn't mean the specifications are Open automatically, There is a lot of ways to hide stuff in source code that would make comprehending the logic far more complex then just a normal reverse engineering of it. There is also a lot of system particular calls which may be the case as well.
For example a lot of old Legacy Applications will save data files by just dumping the memory structure into the file in raw binary format. I can take this code it will compile and work on a different platform but wouldn't be able to read the data files, Because how the system handled memory was different (such a using Big Endian vs Little Endian which is more common today) or just how an integer may be classified 16bit, 32bit, 64bit....
Open Source alone doesn't make it free or open. It just gives you the source code, which you may be able to alter some features without having to do a full rewrite.
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In the US national anthem "Land of the free and the home of the brave" While commonly used to express military braveness in the face of guns and cannons firing around you. But the quality of our freedom is based on how brave we are as a society.
The Space Race which sent a man from the moon, was also being brave enough to allow former enemy Germans into our nation who during the work were world experts in rocketry. We bravely put aside our past history and worked together for greatness.
Today the terrorist won. We no longer want Others into our country where we can learn from them, and they can learn from us. We are too afraid of them, we as a population doesn't want to go further into space we want a well defined borders, and rules on who is the good guy and who are the bad guys. We pine for a simpler time where everything was given to us, and our futures seemed so bright, but we are too afraid to try to make the change.
We have became cowards, afraid of Others, afraid of our neighbor, afraid of the world. This fear causes us to be more oppressed. Either with more laws to make us Safe, or harsher punishment for those who break it. Problems are ignored because it would break our fragile peace with the scary other people.
This isn't just a recent problem under Trump, this was slowly evolving for over a generations. With the end of the cold war, we lost our unified bad guy. Today's bad guys are now complex. As we had spread the US culture to other worlds, they have also shared their cultures with us, this has made everyone unhappy, because of the feeling of general pollution of culture, while it is just growth and understanding. We are too afraid of change, and not willing to stand up and face it, solve the problems rationally. But fight against it, and not think of their side at all.
But what would they study in their 4 year degree?
The problem with Liberal Arts, isn't the Liberal Arts degree, it is the bulk of the students who get it. A lot of students go for the degree because it is light on classes that most people find Hard, Math, and Science, mostly because you cannot BS your way to a passing grade, either the answer is correct or it is not. So for students a Liberal Arts degree is the easiest route to a College Degree.
However what has happened is these students who just BS their way to a passing grade when they entered the workforce, are not good employees, because they just want to BS their way. Now this is a big discredit to those who took their liberal arts degree seriously, and used it to learn a lot of general knowledge good research and critical thinking skills, who now try to find wok, are classified as the same set of students who they hired before and found to be worthless.
The now call STEM majors, take classes where you pass if you learn the information or fail if you don't. When these students get to the workforce, and survivided the rigors of those classes, they tend to be better workers.
Now what does this have to do with UBI?
If your life is paid for, and you want to get a college degree, there would be a lot of people trying for the easiest way to get a degree, and get the job that will put them above UBI level, but not a lot higher, because it isn't worth the effort.
Or is it you that was brainwashed?
Communism was a failed experiment, it falls apart after a few hundred people, and turns into more or a tyrannical system, where we see today, where the leaders exploit the working class even further under the guise of being for the public good.
While Capitalism has its problems and we should work on finding these problems and addressing them, vs just calling anyone who states such problems as a communist, it spans well to a larger community, of millions to billions of people. With its own forces more or less naturally keeping things in place.
Now that being said, while unbridled capitalism will work, it isn't optimal, because capitalism is inherently a brutal form of economic system, where paid of failure is the driving force to succeed. That is why appropriate controls and safety needs to be in place.
It was a fine experiment, worth trying out. However if it didn't work then it doesn't work. If Germany is trying, what are they doing different than Finland.
The problem has always been, there is a good portion of the population, will not choose to work if their basic needs are met. There are a lot of jobs that just simply suck, and there isn't too many people with such ambition to do such work. However the sting of capitalism is enough to get them to do whatever job they can do wither they like it or not.
For most of us, even though not living in minimum wage, would be happy with a basic quality of life, but we work extra hard, to make sure we have a safety net for our lives. And the side effect, is because we are working so hard to maintain a quality of life, we work harder to get promoted to up our quality of life. Mostly just because we want to fix our position as to not have to live off your built in safety net.
The idea of UBI is that if people had enough, they would would be more willing to take extra risks, to have their lives above basic income, but so far that doesn't seem the case. I think people value security vs wealth.
The Amiga is the Retro PC that everyone wish they had, but never got for practical reasons, such as software availability.
An awesome Computer at its time,
While your IBM PC did 4 color graphics (16 if you have a composite display, but will suffer from blurry text) The Amiga had 32 colors from 4k pallet of colors to choose from.
Granted by the time the 3000 released the PC Compatible has caught up in specs, but the 500 were great gaming PCs at the time. Just too bad not to many games were made for it.
Part of the problem is these spying toys, offer so many features because they are spying. Alexa knows your voice and your buying habits, Netflix can make good suggestions. The more information you give it the better you are at.
Guys like us to try to keep private, we need to suffer via bad suggestions and annoying adds. For some reason YouTube thinks I am a die hard republican. And keeps on showing me adds to support hurting and excluding people, because now that seems to be the popular republican thing
It isn't liking big brother, but the gene is out of the bottle. The problem is these devices which do wonderful things but collect your data, and sell it to anyone willing to pay for it, are cheap. vs. having to pay high prices for a device that may not be as smart (because it can't process off so much data) and more expensive because you are paying for the full device.
If we wanted to fight against privacy parents should had stood up 20 years ago. But then computers were these scary things that were too advance for them to touch. And technology policy was only in the domain of geeky nerds who didn't have anything better to do with their lives.
Well that is normal. Blame will be pointed down until someone can no longer point anywhere, and take the brunt of a systematic problem, where they were just a cog in a broken system.
It will depend on the spin the NYT puts on it.
The stuff I do for work would either be saving patients millions of dollars in medical costs, or be an abhorrent violation of their privacy (because they didn't read the HIPAA agreement that they signed)
For almost every project that is big, there are trade offs that need to be taken. Such trade offs usually has someone on the loosing side. The goal is to make sure there are more people winning then what is being lost.
Some one with the best of intentions can be posted by the media as being an evil mastermind just by changing the focus on the good to the side effects of every decision made.
I work in a Hospital, but my job isn't Medical. My Job in the hospital didn't exist 30 years ago. They had people who did work that produced most of the same outcome as what my job does, but they wouldn't be able to do my job, if they tried to take my job away and bring back the people who did the same outcome would probably put the Hospital out of business.
Today, Doctors will need to know how to use Electronic Medical Records, Soldiers need to be able to handle computers and electronic Armament, Hotel needs access to electronic reservations and online advertising, Restaurants need electronic ordering of supplies, advance payment options. Hookers need to find a way to only attract customers under the radar.
The work I do today, is different then how I did my work when I started 20 years ago. After School I needed to learn about JavaScript, XML, Ajax, Web Services, Restful Services, JSON, No-SQL... And that is only for part of my Job where I make Web Applications, where I started out just doing CGI web applications, that save data to a file.
Luckily my College did teach me how to effectively use CGI to make web applications, this training got me prepped to be adaptable to the changes that has happened in my career. However I have seen other ex students without the correct foundation who struggled in learning these technologies, because their baseline was on standard Windows Form (VB) programming. They had a hard time adapting because they started so far behind the technology curve.
Microsoft doesn't support XP anymore. So Microsoft isn't getting money from china if they choose to put themselves in risk.
I remember even further back when Linux was recommended for new state of the art hardware. It was a Free 32bit OS, perfect for your brand new 386 and 486 computers, while the other rubes were running 16bit OS's like DOS with Windows 3.1, you had Linux that was native 32bit, and supported protected memory and real multi-tasking. If someone back in the mid 1990's wanted Linux they had to upgrade their system to a beefy system.
There really is a limit to what you can do with old systems, and expect to install a modern OS on them.
I expect it is a problem with support. If you allow and old distribution to be downloaded from your site, you are responsible for some level of support (even if you say it is unsupported) Say Version 2 had a security flaw, you are still allowing people to download it, should you fix that flaw? Because there is still thousands of people downloading it and using it.
Sometime it is easier when it is out of support, to cut it out of your official channel all together, because your responsibility for it has ended.
I havn't had a 32 bit PC for over 12 years, and 2 64bit PC I have retired for being out of date.
Testing on such an old environment is putting your program into an artificial restriction. The coding that I use to do so the application would run fast on a 8088 XT with 512k of ram and processor speed about 1mhz would not scale well to a modern system, where I would take different approaches to optimize for speed.
Other then just Ram and clock speed as the systems progress the bottle necks change and their ratios change as well.
On a single Core CPU multi-threading often added more overhead on your application and normally ran slower then if you coded it as a single thread. Now we have 4+ cores CPU, so the overhead of making multi-threaded is reduced because the CPU can now truly process in parallel, vs just relying on the OS multi-tasking algorithm. If your program dealt with large numbers, you no longer need to split them up into 32bit segments, but deal with one 64 bit segment. Modern Solid State Drives are much faster then before, So with the ability to multi-thread you can have your application get the data from the disk just in time for it to process it and saving it at the same time it use to be able to just read all the data and stuff it into RAM.
Making sure your App works well on a decade old system, isn't a good development process, it is just making outdated software. Now it is reasonable to test for low end systems that you may expect people to actually be using your software for, so say a 2nt gen Core i5 CPU. Where it is slower then the new systems, but the architecture is relatively close to what you have now.
If you can get it to compile.
I have tried it a decade ago on my Ultra Sparc. I kept on running into problems with a custom compile, as there seems to be a lot of assumptions in the make file that may not be the case for your platform, and the makers failed to make it as a detectable item.
I guess if they were unscrupulous enough to go to a Fortnite cheating page, they probably deserve to get ripped off.
Online game cheating, really is just scum of the earth type of stuff. If I wanted to play a game, and I get bested because someone was better then me or just lucky, then I take it as is. I just need to practice more, if I want to get better. However if someone is cheating then that just runes the fun for everyone. Because we are not getting bested due to things we can improve, we are bested because someone cheated.
I am not going to be crying over people trying to find a cheat to a game who got scammed.
Still $1.25 US = 1 British Pound is not great, back pre-prexit it was $1.70 US for Pound. Then it dropped right after the Brexit vote.
Do you use your cheep Android Table to make sure your measurement tools are correct?
No because you know it is a cheap Android Table, and you don't expect that level of perfection.
But if you are going to pay $20 more, for some reason you think you can.
This isn't an Apple apology, just pointing out Apple has put them in a position where people expect demanding quality, at a level higher then anyone really could offer.
Why do all good deeds need to be an altruistic sacrifice?
That is a very puritanical view on charity. Give until it hurts then give some more, suffering is the only pathway to God.
This is like dropping our spare change in the salvation army bin, we are not going to suffer or go bankrupt from it. But it is still helping a cause.
Back in the old days before Wikipedia we had a collection of 20-26 books called an Encyclopedia. Even back in 7th grade I was taught we couldn't use these Encyclopedias for citation. But as a source to give us general information to help guide us to sources, that we can cite, because they will give us more detailed information.
For many of these Encyclopedias we only had a paragraph or two on most of the topics. While Wikipedia often has far more information it isn't classified as a source for research, but a way to get general knowledge on the topic, thus why a citation from Wikipedia will probably give a failing mark on your paper, because you didn't go to the source material, you just went to an abbreviated summary on the topic.
Also, why should we automatically shy away or discredit an article that has some agenda. We should be smart enough to catch that, and realized that the writer may have a point that is being expressed, and if you disagree with it, then you need to confront the points do your research to show they are invalid or wrong. Not just go in a huff "This information goes against my Uninformed beliefs, so it is wrong!"
I thought Facebook just needed to write off some amount for tax credit. And what better then putting money into a NFP that will keep people glued to their devices, and a swipe, or browser tab away from their service to show adds.
It isn't like they are funding a school, which asks the students to put their devices away during class.
That is a problem when you make a product known for its quality, any slight defect become a big problem.
About 18 year ago, I had a Sun Ultra Workstation. These things were built with a high degree of quality. However one of the expansion Slots wasn't as cleanly chiseled down to a smooth edge as the others, and that bugged the heck out of me. Even though most of the PC, for their expansion slots you could cut yourself with those. because they just punch a hole in the medal and call it done.
We will sometime buy ourselves a product built beyond the raw utility of it, and will pay extra for it, so a defect even though it doesn't hinder the utility will now be annoying because you paid extra for flawlessness, even though you may not have paid that much more to deserve that level of flawlessness.
It is more rule of the Mob. I have never worked for a business where all the customers were happy, no matter how hard you try, there is always going to be that group of customers who will buy a product with their preceded notions, even if you explain your full intention as truthfully as possible, people will just not read it and get what they think they are getting.
That iPhone X case will not fit on your iPhone 4 or your Samsung Galaxy. But that doesn't stop them from buying it, then hitting your company hard for selling them something that doesn't work with their product. Sometimes you find some one who is both stupid and influential, so in their rage they spur a mob to complain about you. .
Amazon will just follow the mob, and not due process.
I am sure such professionalism will make the company pay attention to you and thrive to change their ways.
The thing that always stops me from relying on my G4 Cell for my primary internet isn't speed, but cost.
Each device with a separate plan or at least extra cost per device. Paying for metered amount, or paying a lot more for unlimited.
If I could have my devices networked with G4 for less then I am paying for Cable Internet with a Wireless Router. It may make it worth it. But G5 extra speed isn't the issue holding me back. It is coverage and price.
Open Source isn't as free as most people think it is.
Free and Open Specifications have far more value then Source Code does.
And No Open Source doesn't mean the specifications are Open automatically, There is a lot of ways to hide stuff in source code that would make comprehending the logic far more complex then just a normal reverse engineering of it. There is also a lot of system particular calls which may be the case as well.
For example a lot of old Legacy Applications will save data files by just dumping the memory structure into the file in raw binary format. I can take this code it will compile and work on a different platform but wouldn't be able to read the data files, Because how the system handled memory was different (such a using Big Endian vs Little Endian which is more common today) or just how an integer may be classified 16bit, 32bit, 64bit....
Open Source alone doesn't make it free or open. It just gives you the source code, which you may be able to alter some features without having to do a full rewrite.