I expect it the rate decline, is for the most part internet is accessible to the world now, nothing about the content on what is on it. We are at a point where anyone who wants to be online is online, it isn't something that people are striving to get.
Back when I was a Kid, The "internet" was just across some universities, and government R&D. By the time I was a teenager, it was mostly just for Colleges and Universities, with some businesses using it for email. Some BBS's were using it (such as the FIDO Net) to avoid long distance calls to share message data, as well large businesses were using it for FTP sites. By my late teens, with the World Wide Web becoming popular. More consumer content was out, dial up internet was cheap but slow. However it was a toy for geeks. By my young adult, it became popular for normal users, as well early broadband that isn't thousands of dollars a month. was available. But still it was a first world luxury. Then it just became more common and now it is generally available for anyone around the world. Growth rate now is probably getting close to normal population growth.
Yes Negotiations are long and complex, they take take a long time. At the end of the day there are often some smaller changes where no one is happy.
The Trump administration goes threw this process as well. However during the process he kills what is going on currently, thus putting everyone in pain until the process which would had happened would complete anyways.
When an agreement is made, business connections and contracts are lost. Making going further much more complex. While the inital threat causes a hording instinct, thus inflating short term numbers.
A lot of free software projects are not free, they are coded by individuals at big heartless companies under their payroll, to make sure such products do what they need for their business... However such a product isn't part of their business model and doesn't want to spend resources to try to sell it commercially and it may be part of a greater Open Source project so they don't have full control to make it commercial anyways. For those who are donating their time, probably often will also have "dem high paying tech jobs" so their lifestyle has some extra money to freely share their talents.
Now for UI/UX designers. These people are more like professional artists. And Professional Artists don't work for free, finding work is hard enough, and having people trying to get them to work for free "Exposure" or "Promises of telling their peers" or "We will pay you if we are satisfied" just makes it worse. Most will not volunteer for Open Source solutions because their time and effort can go into paid products. Also there is a good chance that their design will look too much their companies products design (because they are designed by the same person) so they could be in trouble for that.
Granted we all think we are great UI/UX designers. As most of us with some effort can make something that is usable... However the real trick is a UI design built to scale up. I have seen numerous attempts to make Linux look and work like OS X and Windows. Some get rather good, however if you are experienced in these platforms you realize there are many fine points that are missing. I often find a lack of consistency in copy and paste/drag drop support. And focus on features that we harder to program vs features that people use more often.
I think it is more due to Star Wars fatigue. Star Wars really never was a good set of movies. However it was often people first step into the Epic Sci-Fi action flick. So a few movies every 20 years, isn't the big of a problem, because a new generation will come in and enjoy it. But with one every year, The generation is already sick of it. Because they are not getting an new experience from it.
Not too surprising, Depression is suffering, just like if you have a physical illness. Normally when someone is suffering, they want some sort of attention to it. "My Leg Hurts" or "My Left arm is numb" but when you have depression you are suffering, but not in ways that you can identify. There is pain but you can figure out why, so it may be the guy they don't like so "I hate this guy" or the fact that they want someone there "I am lonely". When one is depresses they want to State that they are in pain... However will redirect the pain to different things.
Way more complicated then what people think. When we think global warming we normally think about our Car. Because we have to pay for around 10-20 gallons a week we regularly see thousands of cars, and when the weather get cold we see the exhaust coming from the pipe. The automobile is the symbol of pollution. However it is a major polluter it isn't the biggest one. Even for your personal carbon count. Normally your home is #1 if you are using Oil heat (using that because it is a popular form of heat that is most similar to gasoline) You car may use 1000 gallons a year, while if you live in the north east with oil heat you can burn 1400 gallons of oil a year. Then combine your home electricity your home which most people only use 1/3 of the time. is spewing more carbon then your car.
I have switch my home to wood pellets, and to keep my home warm for the winter I need 4 tons of pellets. Over the year at best I probably have 10 lbs of Ash. the rest is exhausted out of my home and polluting the air.
Now all that said. Moving cars to Electric will not stop global warming or even slow it down, because the extra carbon needed to make them, will offset the normal life of the car. However we have begin to shift the pollution hard to regulate areas (your own stuff) to centralized locations, which can be better regulated, and upgraded over time to more green methods.
No I didn't. A lot of Smart Adults with mature adult thinking can believe in God, but really focus more on the philosophy of their religion then just blindly following it figuring if I just follow these rules I will go to heaven.
Now if someone is an Atheist, following these rules will hold you back, and may seem akin to "Be good or Santa will not give you presents". Vs. a more mature version of understanding the rules and the cultures of the time to gain a good understanding of them. Not to be a Suck Up to God, but understanding the reason and goal of such philosophy. Now an Atheist can just be a follower of the philosophy of the religion without the supernatural stuff.
Also with the State of California (The Top State Economy in the US) carrying most of the country.
The United States is the 3rd most populated country and the 3rd/4th (Depending on how you measure it, and disputed border areas) largest in area country. We really shouldn't just be edging past these countries, we should be near dominate. The only other country with the resources to beat the US Economy would be China, Who is about the same size as the US in area however has a massive population.
For the most part political leanings have no effect on the economy (Unless you are stupid enough to start a trade war). If you have a tax cut then business have more money to spend, if you have higher taxes used towards infrastructure, then business need to pay less for services and repairs. Jobs will shift from the private to public sector and back.
Now the Federal Reserve which is mostly not political has some control on the economy, but still what it can do is limited.
The biggest factor on the economy is if there are customers. If you have people paying you then you are doing better. So you need to make sure you produce enough for your customers to pay you, otherwise you will not have things to sell.
As someone who believes in God, I find your justification for such to be weak. God is a supernatural being. Supernatural means it exists outside of nature. Science is the process of observing nature.
You cannot use Science to prove or disprove God.
We can use science and say God didn't create the world in 7 days. But that isn't disproving God, just an aspect of a particular religion. You can use Science and show areas where our understanding is lacking. But that isn't a proof of a God either, just because it is not understandable it doesn't mean it needed a greater intelligence to create it.
They are many very intelligent people who believe in God, They are also a lot of intelligent people who do not believe in God. We have a lot of stupid people who believe in God, and a lot of Stupid people who Doesn't.
Most of us grow up following a particular faith, this is often just because that is what was passed down to us, or has a lot of pressure from a peer group. And they are people who leave religion because they found the idea of God to be holding them back, and/or needs evidence to show it exists (which there isn't any). They are atheist who become religious, because they feel they need additional meaning, and lack of evidence to show it doesn't exist.
You view on a God doesn't make you smart or stupid. However if you are going to be bible thumpin without understanding the context of such word, then you are probably stupid. If you are going and insulting and belittling people who believe in God you are also not being that wise.
If you are going to have auto-play. The Video should be visible in your window (Not scrolled somewhere past your viewing angle, and on a background tab)
However I would prefer not to have auto-play, at least with sound.
Your number is low. I would figure you would had suffered the browser wars of the 1990's
Where we had Internet Explorer and Netscape fighting tooth and nail to break the standard, and add features that only their browser supports. In hope there will be enough developers who use it so the end user wouldn't use the other browser.
This type of stuff never went away. Every 10 years or so, a browser decides it will support the standard as written. Then it starts adding extra stuff, until there is a functional difference in a website from your browser with an other.
For big companies such large fines rarely if ever get paid, if they do there are tricks to get the people who fined them to pay them for it.
Sure for a normal guy like me a fine of $100,000 would be enough to set me back and lower my standard of living for a long time. But I wouldn't have much recourse, After the verdict is finalized. I either pay a fine or go to jail. However for a company like Google, 5 billion dollars would hurt them a little bit, however they have resources to work around it. Turing a free service to a paid service. Knowing that they are a monopoly because there isn't much competition will just mean they will get paid for a service they use to offer for free.
Market demand. Intel never got into the Mobile Device market. So chances are the 7nm intel chip currently may not perform as well as their 9nm chips and being that they are selling for Servers, Desktops and Laptops, they can afford to have their chips a bit bigger, use more power. But still perform faster.
So you have a Chinese phone with hardware made to spy on you, hooked to an American Cell Service which will spy on you. Installed with Google Android where Google will spy on you.
Hopefully, like most of us, are not important enough for such places to really care about your data, and will probably just be deleted, except for Googles targeted ads.
Exactly! The Boss only really cares about what features they actively need for the money. Normally they will only care about it until after something happens that hurt them enough to change their thinking about it. A massive Hack due to poor security will then change your bosses mind. However most cases of poor security go by without much consequences.
Strong Security is about having features in it that you hope you never need, but is there in case something happens.
Perhaps. But these things are being implanted on Baby Boomers, That generation made suing people for any sort of damages (Real or imaginary) cool and the trendy thing to do. Granted it is probably a bit better then the old way, where they would just shoot each other.
The problem is no one wants to add 6 additional months to a product to make it much more secure. Then there is getting people who are willing to think about security problems when making such products.
A good security design is much more then a normal checklist of items. It is designing your product in a way that you will assume that any level of your application could be broken into. So you need to make sure that each level once in will need to limit what damage it could do.
These are voter records, not voting history. This is often your name and your address, which polling place you are registered at. Perhaps additional info, such as your age, and perhaps your signature, or picture.
However with this info + with general election results from a polling station. You can probably get a good picture on who to target and with what.
If you live in an area that voted 90% republican in your polling location, and it knows that you voted at that location. Then chances are you had voted republican, and are more acceptable to republican propaganda, vs democrat propaganda. So you will be targeted with words such as patriotism, and freedom. vs targeted words such as responsibility and liberty. They may be pushing the same agenda but will word it in ways that will make you feel more comfortable about it, vs hearing the other way which fills your heart with dread.
Population growth is more cultural. The problem is these "Industrialized Nations" had created an economy where a child is considered an expense vs an asset. Then you combine the fact that people are expected to grow older and get married ave a steady work before having children, otherwise society will outcast you. However this is on the persons individual level. On the grand scheme, more people born in the society, the better the economy (Hence why much of the racist protectionist ideas is just stupid), because we bread more customers, who will need to get job, and buy more things.
Now There is an environmental impact too. Where our population may be too big then what supply can meet. Thus creating High Demand and Low Supply = A lot of trouble.
Even with massive improvements in Space Flight, Earth is going to take the brunt of the population. At best I can only see a space colonies of a few million people. (The size of a large city) On these planets/moons where we cannot survive outside a pressurized container. There will be no suburb or rural area, a colony would be like a City. And like most cities there is a population limit. Because if a City grows too big, it cannot sustain itself. Hence why we a have these "Tri-City" areas. where there are multiple cities formed next to each other, often with some sort of boundary, such as a river. Connected with a different infrastructure, and different governance. But for Big City areas, there is hundreds of miles of agriculture to support such cities.
I would dismantle IE anyways. If your business decided to buy a enterprise system that required IE, then it should suffer the outage for picking a poorly design product. I would also put the vendor on task to upgrade. Because if their business was around an IE Only tool even if it is 20 years old, and you havn't upgraded, you really shouldn't call yourself a tech company.
I am not hating on IE (While I have reasons to do so). But if you have a tool like a web browser where its jobs is to parse and display an open standard. Then you should avoid any "special features" which would deter such product from its intended use.
It would be like having an ANSI terminal program which supported RIPScript. So you write your application that has a RIPScript border around your screen, with ANSI in the middle. Other then some appearence, you had added no value to your program, but limited its length of use.
The problem is Microsoft Antiquated Update Process. Most Linux systems, and OS X. Will determine the state of your system, and give you a comprehensive update patch. Microsoft older system just gives you a list of all the incremental updates, where your system installs each one one by one. And combine with Microsoft inability/unwillingness to stop and restart services which has been updated, causes each update to require a reboot.
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I expect it the rate decline, is for the most part internet is accessible to the world now, nothing about the content on what is on it.
We are at a point where anyone who wants to be online is online, it isn't something that people are striving to get.
Back when I was a Kid, The "internet" was just across some universities, and government R&D. By the time I was a teenager, it was mostly just for Colleges and Universities, with some businesses using it for email. Some BBS's were using it (such as the FIDO Net) to avoid long distance calls to share message data, as well large businesses were using it for FTP sites.
By my late teens, with the World Wide Web becoming popular. More consumer content was out, dial up internet was cheap but slow. However it was a toy for geeks.
By my young adult, it became popular for normal users, as well early broadband that isn't thousands of dollars a month. was available. But still it was a first world luxury.
Then it just became more common and now it is generally available for anyone around the world. Growth rate now is probably getting close to normal population growth.
Yes Negotiations are long and complex, they take take a long time. At the end of the day there are often some smaller changes where no one is happy.
The Trump administration goes threw this process as well. However during the process he kills what is going on currently, thus putting everyone in pain until the process which would had happened would complete anyways.
When an agreement is made, business connections and contracts are lost. Making going further much more complex. While the inital threat causes a hording instinct, thus inflating short term numbers.
Trump is winning sprints, in a marathon run.
A lot of free software projects are not free, they are coded by individuals at big heartless companies under their payroll, to make sure such products do what they need for their business... However such a product isn't part of their business model and doesn't want to spend resources to try to sell it commercially and it may be part of a greater Open Source project so they don't have full control to make it commercial anyways.
For those who are donating their time, probably often will also have "dem high paying tech jobs" so their lifestyle has some extra money to freely share their talents.
Now for UI/UX designers. These people are more like professional artists. And Professional Artists don't work for free, finding work is hard enough, and having people trying to get them to work for free "Exposure" or "Promises of telling their peers" or "We will pay you if we are satisfied" just makes it worse. Most will not volunteer for Open Source solutions because their time and effort can go into paid products. Also there is a good chance that their design will look too much their companies products design (because they are designed by the same person) so they could be in trouble for that.
Granted we all think we are great UI/UX designers. As most of us with some effort can make something that is usable... However the real trick is a UI design built to scale up. I have seen numerous attempts to make Linux look and work like OS X and Windows. Some get rather good, however if you are experienced in these platforms you realize there are many fine points that are missing. I often find a lack of consistency in copy and paste/drag drop support. And focus on features that we harder to program vs features that people use more often.
I think it is more due to Star Wars fatigue. Star Wars really never was a good set of movies. However it was often people first step into the Epic Sci-Fi action flick. So a few movies every 20 years, isn't the big of a problem, because a new generation will come in and enjoy it. But with one every year, The generation is already sick of it. Because they are not getting an new experience from it.
Not too surprising, Depression is suffering, just like if you have a physical illness. Normally when someone is suffering, they want some sort of attention to it. "My Leg Hurts" or "My Left arm is numb" but when you have depression you are suffering, but not in ways that you can identify. There is pain but you can figure out why, so it may be the guy they don't like so "I hate this guy" or the fact that they want someone there "I am lonely". When one is depresses they want to State that they are in pain... However will redirect the pain to different things.
I know the GOP Russians Trolls don't like research. But here is some data anyways
Way more complicated then what people think.
When we think global warming we normally think about our Car. Because we have to pay for around 10-20 gallons a week we regularly see thousands of cars, and when the weather get cold we see the exhaust coming from the pipe. The automobile is the symbol of pollution.
However it is a major polluter it isn't the biggest one. Even for your personal carbon count. Normally your home is #1 if you are using Oil heat (using that because it is a popular form of heat that is most similar to gasoline) You car may use 1000 gallons a year, while if you live in the north east with oil heat you can burn 1400 gallons of oil a year. Then combine your home electricity your home which most people only use 1/3 of the time. is spewing more carbon then your car.
I have switch my home to wood pellets, and to keep my home warm for the winter I need 4 tons of pellets. Over the year at best I probably have 10 lbs of Ash. the rest is exhausted out of my home and polluting the air.
Now all that said. Moving cars to Electric will not stop global warming or even slow it down, because the extra carbon needed to make them, will offset the normal life of the car. However we have begin to shift the pollution hard to regulate areas (your own stuff) to centralized locations, which can be better regulated, and upgraded over time to more green methods.
No I didn't.
A lot of Smart Adults with mature adult thinking can believe in God, but really focus more on the philosophy of their religion then just blindly following it figuring if I just follow these rules I will go to heaven.
Now if someone is an Atheist, following these rules will hold you back, and may seem akin to "Be good or Santa will not give you presents".
Vs. a more mature version of understanding the rules and the cultures of the time to gain a good understanding of them. Not to be a Suck Up to God, but understanding the reason and goal of such philosophy. Now an Atheist can just be a follower of the philosophy of the religion without the supernatural stuff.
Also with the State of California (The Top State Economy in the US) carrying most of the country.
The United States is the 3rd most populated country and the 3rd/4th (Depending on how you measure it, and disputed border areas) largest in area country. We really shouldn't just be edging past these countries, we should be near dominate. The only other country with the resources to beat the US Economy would be China, Who is about the same size as the US in area however has a massive population.
For the most part political leanings have no effect on the economy (Unless you are stupid enough to start a trade war). If you have a tax cut then business have more money to spend, if you have higher taxes used towards infrastructure, then business need to pay less for services and repairs. Jobs will shift from the private to public sector and back.
Now the Federal Reserve which is mostly not political has some control on the economy, but still what it can do is limited.
The biggest factor on the economy is if there are customers. If you have people paying you then you are doing better. So you need to make sure you produce enough for your customers to pay you, otherwise you will not have things to sell.
As someone who believes in God, I find your justification for such to be weak.
God is a supernatural being. Supernatural means it exists outside of nature.
Science is the process of observing nature.
You cannot use Science to prove or disprove God.
We can use science and say God didn't create the world in 7 days. But that isn't disproving God, just an aspect of a particular religion.
You can use Science and show areas where our understanding is lacking. But that isn't a proof of a God either, just because it is not understandable it doesn't mean it needed a greater intelligence to create it.
They are many very intelligent people who believe in God, They are also a lot of intelligent people who do not believe in God. We have a lot of stupid people who believe in God, and a lot of Stupid people who Doesn't.
Most of us grow up following a particular faith, this is often just because that is what was passed down to us, or has a lot of pressure from a peer group. And they are people who leave religion because they found the idea of God to be holding them back, and/or needs evidence to show it exists (which there isn't any). They are atheist who become religious, because they feel they need additional meaning, and lack of evidence to show it doesn't exist.
You view on a God doesn't make you smart or stupid. However if you are going to be bible thumpin without understanding the context of such word, then you are probably stupid. If you are going and insulting and belittling people who believe in God you are also not being that wise.
Or he believes in nothing at all.
Unless there is reincarnation then who knows what he would be believing currently.
If you are going to have auto-play. The Video should be visible in your window (Not scrolled somewhere past your viewing angle, and on a background tab)
However I would prefer not to have auto-play, at least with sound.
Your number is low. I would figure you would had suffered the browser wars of the 1990's
Where we had Internet Explorer and Netscape fighting tooth and nail to break the standard, and add features that only their browser supports. In hope there will be enough developers who use it so the end user wouldn't use the other browser.
This type of stuff never went away. Every 10 years or so, a browser decides it will support the standard as written. Then it starts adding extra stuff, until there is a functional difference in a website from your browser with an other.
For big companies such large fines rarely if ever get paid, if they do there are tricks to get the people who fined them to pay them for it.
Sure for a normal guy like me a fine of $100,000 would be enough to set me back and lower my standard of living for a long time. But I wouldn't have much recourse, After the verdict is finalized. I either pay a fine or go to jail.
However for a company like Google, 5 billion dollars would hurt them a little bit, however they have resources to work around it. Turing a free service to a paid service. Knowing that they are a monopoly because there isn't much competition will just mean they will get paid for a service they use to offer for free.
Market demand.
Intel never got into the Mobile Device market. So chances are the 7nm intel chip currently may not perform as well as their 9nm chips and being that they are selling for Servers, Desktops and Laptops, they can afford to have their chips a bit bigger, use more power. But still perform faster.
So you have a Chinese phone with hardware made to spy on you, hooked to an American Cell Service which will spy on you. Installed with Google Android where Google will spy on you.
Hopefully, like most of us, are not important enough for such places to really care about your data, and will probably just be deleted, except for Googles targeted ads.
You can setup SSH Port forwarding on the client.
That is the cheap, quick and dirty way secure systems, that cannot be encrypted by its poor design.
Exactly!
The Boss only really cares about what features they actively need for the money. Normally they will only care about it until after something happens that hurt them enough to change their thinking about it.
A massive Hack due to poor security will then change your bosses mind. However most cases of poor security go by without much consequences.
Strong Security is about having features in it that you hope you never need, but is there in case something happens.
Perhaps. But these things are being implanted on Baby Boomers, That generation made suing people for any sort of damages (Real or imaginary) cool and the trendy thing to do.
Granted it is probably a bit better then the old way, where they would just shoot each other.
The problem is no one wants to add 6 additional months to a product to make it much more secure.
Then there is getting people who are willing to think about security problems when making such products.
A good security design is much more then a normal checklist of items. It is designing your product in a way that you will assume that any level of your application could be broken into. So you need to make sure that each level once in will need to limit what damage it could do.
These are voter records, not voting history.
This is often your name and your address, which polling place you are registered at. Perhaps additional info, such as your age, and perhaps your signature, or picture.
However with this info + with general election results from a polling station. You can probably get a good picture on who to target and with what.
If you live in an area that voted 90% republican in your polling location, and it knows that you voted at that location. Then chances are you had voted republican, and are more acceptable to republican propaganda, vs democrat propaganda. So you will be targeted with words such as patriotism, and freedom. vs targeted words such as responsibility and liberty. They may be pushing the same agenda but will word it in ways that will make you feel more comfortable about it, vs hearing the other way which fills your heart with dread.
Population growth is more cultural. The problem is these "Industrialized Nations" had created an economy where a child is considered an expense vs an asset. Then you combine the fact that people are expected to grow older and get married ave a steady work before having children, otherwise society will outcast you.
However this is on the persons individual level.
On the grand scheme, more people born in the society, the better the economy (Hence why much of the racist protectionist ideas is just stupid), because we bread more customers, who will need to get job, and buy more things.
Now There is an environmental impact too. Where our population may be too big then what supply can meet. Thus creating High Demand and Low Supply = A lot of trouble.
Even with massive improvements in Space Flight, Earth is going to take the brunt of the population. At best I can only see a space colonies of a few million people. (The size of a large city)
On these planets/moons where we cannot survive outside a pressurized container. There will be no suburb or rural area, a colony would be like a City. And like most cities there is a population limit. Because if a City grows too big, it cannot sustain itself. Hence why we a have these "Tri-City" areas. where there are multiple cities formed next to each other, often with some sort of boundary, such as a river. Connected with a different infrastructure, and different governance. But for Big City areas, there is hundreds of miles of agriculture to support such cities.
I would dismantle IE anyways. If your business decided to buy a enterprise system that required IE, then it should suffer the outage for picking a poorly design product. I would also put the vendor on task to upgrade. Because if their business was around an IE Only tool even if it is 20 years old, and you havn't upgraded, you really shouldn't call yourself a tech company.
I am not hating on IE (While I have reasons to do so). But if you have a tool like a web browser where its jobs is to parse and display an open standard. Then you should avoid any "special features" which would deter such product from its intended use.
It would be like having an ANSI terminal program which supported RIPScript. So you write your application that has a RIPScript border around your screen, with ANSI in the middle. Other then some appearence, you had added no value to your program, but limited its length of use.
The problem is Microsoft Antiquated Update Process.
Most Linux systems, and OS X. Will determine the state of your system, and give you a comprehensive update patch.
Microsoft older system just gives you a list of all the incremental updates, where your system installs each one one by one. And combine with Microsoft inability/unwillingness to stop and restart services which has been updated, causes each update to require a reboot.