That is assuming you still have a direct wired phone. Most people who still have a LAN Line, often will just have a cordless phone. Which doesn't work with the power out anyways.
I remember watching a friends child play with Doll house parts. There was a toy telephone (from the 1990's) her parents coudln't convince her that it was actually a telephone and not an iron.
Not in liquid form, you drink them not snort them in a dry from.
While under snake oil Territory in my book. I expects it has the same health befits as a protein shake, without the sugar. Giving some one who is ill (probably not eating much) a drink with protein and some other nutrients to help them get over the illness a little easier, and like many American Drugs, it has a strong smell which make you feel that it is working. Like eating hot peppers to clear your sinuses, or mint to make your teeth feel clean. Or why a lot of cough syrup has alcohol in it, because the vapors just penetrate your respiratory system so you feel like something is happening.
The real problem is we are expecting some mythical set of pure perfection, anything less then then perfect will be punished.
You could be the best driver in the world, and still get into a car accident. Your automobile may fail even after a properly performed inspection.
Regulators and only look for issues they know about. With a rapidly growing company like Facebook there are new issues that appear and happen before regulators or Facebook even know where to look, and often risks are identified, but no practical solution may be available to mitigated it.
Most of the time we can only fix problems when we know they are problems. Don't blame people for the problem, blame them for repeating the problem. Because we can't live in a perfect world. If we were in a perfect world we wouldn't have millions of people trying to break into our systems or find ways to misuse the data in the first place. But it isn't. For all the brain power we put into stopping bad things, there is also a lot of brain power behind causing bad things. The advantage always goes to the bad person, because they don't need to consider the trade offs of applying such fixes.
I am not arguing your assessment of the quality of windows phone 8 and 10. I knew people who had them and loved them. But I doubt it would be like it is without the iPhone. Apple actually broke the mold with the original iPhone, multi-touch screen as a primary interface, Microsoft would had just made a blackberry clone. That said, By the time the iPhone was released Microsoft was getting a backlash of its dominance. The Zune wasn't bad, but people didn't want a Microsoft Zune, Their PC and Gaming Console was enough. And picking who you hated more Microsoft or Sony was a tough bet.
If the Windows Phone came out before the iPhone, I don't think it would get the same love. Much of the iPhone sales were from Apple Fan Boys until the iPhone 3Gs where normal people started wanting them. There is a much smaller group of Microsoft Fan Boys back in 2007.
I expect it was some old guy where is current phone was broken. Perhaps a flip phone from the 1990's found these as a cheap phone for a replacement. With markdowns like that, it is a good price.
If he is going to be using it to make phone calls, and perhaps some new fancy smart phone thinks like internet browsing, it is probably perfectly fine.
Microsoft actually put some effort into the Windows Phone 8 and 10, vs the old Windows Phone powered by CE which just crammed the desktop UI onto a small phone. While I argue Windows 8 and 10 just crammed the phone interface on the desktop instead.
While the plan is to turn the company around. Sometimes that just can't happen no matter if you got a Zombie Steve Jobs back, Where keeping the course will drive you down, and a rebranding will cause your existing customers to flee, so you don't have the capital to get the new branding out. Sometime the best they can do is layoff a bunch of people and make it a smaller business, hoping to find a new avenue in the future.
In general for driving it is handy, because often road signs are hard to see (Upscale neighborhoods love to make them earth tones, often with flower pots having them hang over them.) , And sometimes are placed rather confusingly Sure the sign for the street is at a right Angle of the street, but your street is approaching it at a 45 degree angle. Or it forks into 2 other streets.
Also things like a major fast food chain, has nice big signs, that you can see a quarter mile away (further if you live in a flat land area) So you know to keep at speed limit until you get close enough to look for the street.
However if you miss a crazy street it would be nice to say if you see this, you probably had missed your turn.
There is a reason why CEO Salary is normally inversely proportional to the success of the company. 1. Its future doesn't look great, so things like stock options arn't that great of a compensation. 2. If you are going to lead a sinking ship, you better be paid more to help compensate the fact that you were CEO of a troubled company, and we get all the negative press that we see now.
Yahoo had its problems before she started. Yahoo Business strategy was poised to go against AOL, not Google and Facebook. While they had their search engine, there was a Yahoo Community and services, and games... Mostly designed to have Yahoo to be a site that you stick to for your internet fix. They still have some popular services. Yahoo Business is still preferred for serious business folks. And Yahoo Answers is still popular. But After AOL got kicked out and Google and Facebook had risen, It pushed Yahoo out of many of its markets.
Could Yahoo have innovated sooner. In retrospect yes. But there were and are a lot of fad competition that get some traffic but just don't hold onto it long enough. However other fads just grew and become more popular.
Back when Google came out. Its simple search engine, vs yahoo with gave you a list of popular categories to help filter down from. Has me using Yahoo for years as my default search engine, until Googles algorithm got smart enough, and they were enough people with dial-up who used google because of its small download size. At the time, yahoo will just figure speed will always get bigger so just keep a lot of content on the front page. And the Google fad will wash out when everyone is at 500kbs speed. It may have worked, but it didn't.
Once technology breaks the 1% market share. It will take a lot of effort to actually kill such technology. They are still people making programs and hardware for the Commodore 64 and other vintage systems such as Apple ][.
The main rule of thumb, if you are making a new site, don't use flash, if you expect the general public to use your existing site, replace flash. However if your site, wasn't flash users, who has flash on Virtual Machines, or legacy systems. Then they will keep it.
All good reasons. But if we are to actually follow the scientific process, such tests should be measured. They were many Hypothesis created on solid thinking, that just didn't show to be true.
The question comes down to numbers. Will UBI be a net benefit or a net burden.
Basic Income seems like an interesting experiment. Which comes down to the a root issue. Do people live to work, or work to live. This article was kinda wimpy about giving us its findings. Just supporters crying that it didn't have enough time. However things I would like to see. For these people on Basic Income, what did they do in their lives? Even if they didn't get jobs, what did they do with their lives? Did they just sit at home watching TV and playing X-Box? Or where they out being active in the community. Volunteering their time and talents to help make things better?
If people live to work. Even if they are not able or unwilling to get traditional jobs, their instincts will still have them being productive member of society, just in ways that Supply and Demand doesn't give a lot of money too.
If people work to live. Then basic income will be negative effect, as having enough to survive is means they are not motivated to do anything else, other then their own benefit.
I expect there is a mixture of these people, but having this targeted at only the unemployed may have found a concentration of the work to live folks vs. people who are on short term job loss, or who are under paid.
How do grades coinside with what they can produce. The grade metric is something that is often sold, or bargained for. The son of a senator may be dumb as a box of rocks, but he gets good grades because the teacher and the school doesn’t want to deal with such a powerful figure. Then he goes to a prestigious school he fails out in a semester, because such a school has so many powerful parents it just doesn’t care about the senator and his tantrums, and has their own resources to turn it around on him. While the poor student getting B and C grades may be able to shine in a college where there are resources they never had.
Most employers don’t look at grades or GPA. They look at experience, length of stay at a job, assets their personality, in terms of education I look at their degree, majors, minors and certification. I find someone boasting a GPA above 3.5 on their resume actually to be a negative because it tells me they are book learned nd may lack out of the box thinking.
There are a lot of factors. Normally a lot of smart low-income students have a harder time getting the grades to get into these schools especially competing with wealthier students. Who can have paid tutelage. Study conditions that allow the child to learn. And just a more stable home environment.
Metrics such as grades. Only work with like students.
He was relevant back when I was a kid and in college. Where I saw my future was bright full of possibilities, where I could easily get a job at one of the Big Open Source Companies, and I can spend my time writing open source software and I get paid big bucks on doing such.
Then the Tech Bubble Popped, many of the Open Source companies needed to find ways to monetize their work, because investors have stopped dumping money in their laps. So the ones that have survived, had found ways to close their code, Remotely Hosting no it was Software as a Service or maybe Cloud Computing, some who had products sufficiently complex can make a ton of money in consulting services. Then other companies just closed their source slowly...
Realizing that with the source open, other companies could compete against us, by stealing the products, and other countries could implement Open Source systems and offer the same services for way less....
RMS ideals combined with his strict view on them, to a point where people have issues with it are just considered bad people in his eyes, vs realizing there are problems with the vision that need adjusting and moderation. RMS is an Academic Bum so he never experienced what it is like to have a family, over all bills to pay, and consequences for not playing by the person who pays the bills rules.
I think the fact that the software was free, and was able to do this with a low expense to himself. Could possibly saw peoples opinions. If they were a big company who but millions of dollars into this, they may get less sympathy then some redneck who is following the get rich quick scheme of the week. That would be for some people. Me having worked for small businesses want to point out lowlifes like this give small companies a bad name, and reasons for people to shop at the big name store. Sure they will on average get less service, be treated as a number from a big company who sees your business in terms of fractions of a percent. But the reason people go with the big company vs the small one, is the general fear of getting ripped off by a fly by night operation.
If I were to punch someone, I will actually try to block their punch back. Self interests usually overrides the abstract notion of Hypocrisy.
It doesn't mean I have some moral high ground, just that I have some physical advantage. Life isn't fair. Balance and Ying/Yang are just abstract notions. Perhaps the repercussions will bite them in the future. But they will immediately react to their current self interest.
Russia doesn't care they messed with an outer society via the internet, it is their win. Retaliation will be tried to be stopped. If you are going to retaliate, you need to know this and expect it. It isn't like D&D where each country has a list of advantages and disadvantages that balance out.
Contact Lenses are primarily for vanity purposes. So you can correct your vision without the need of noticeable glasses. However having your eyes turn black when it is light outside will make you look rather odd. Sunglasses make you look cool. Black contact lenses make you look like you are on drugs or something is wrong with you.
That is exactly why I don't bother with transition glasses. The main time I need sunglasses is when I am driving, exactly the condition when they don't work. If I had kept with a convertible they would be fine. Also where I live, if I were to explore the outdoors, I would be in the forest where it is rather shady.
Just last night, I was looking up some information, I still head headphones plugged in to my laptop, but I didn't have them in my ears. I went back to working in an other program, then I heard faint voices to my left. I first I thought the neighbors were talking, but it kept on having the voices, and that wasn't the pattern of someone loudly talking. being that the earbuds had fallen in the couch, to my left the most advanced piece of technology was an end-table lamp with a Compact Florescent bulb. My wife who couldn't hear the earbuds was looking at me like I have gone crazy. Until I found the wire going from the couch to my laptop. Then I realized I left by browser open in back of my main windows and it was playing some ad.
There is a degree Narcissism involved if you are going to be a full time content creator. It is a lot of work to do this full time, so stroking ones ego is a form of compensation that helps makes it worth it. This is the same as with many other performers or public facing people. The difference it YouTube is a medium where you don't need to deal the more level headed people who may say "No" or you have gone to far. Or just flat out fire you and retcon in a replacement character. They lack any humility factor. Then combine with the fact how the algorithm ranks videos, controversial/taboo/bold statements will get better views and ranks.
On my YouTube recommended list outside of my subscriptions I have claims such as... Easiest way to remove a tree stump Did Captain archer actually commit genocide? Solving the Most DIFFICULT Lock Puzzle on the Planet!! - LEVEL 10
In 2005 Around $500 was the starting price for a low end Computer. A starting Laptop would be closer to around $700. (Sans service deals like you have to buy 3 years of MSM internet) These were crappy system. A $100 system with an LCD Screen is nearly impossible. Palm Pilots cost more then $100 and they wouldn't be considered worthy of being called a computer due to its limitation.
Today we can get such options, because of Moors Law, and our actual personal computing usage didn't catch up to it. So we can have a sub $100 tablet that is good enough to browse the web, and write papers.
But back in 2005 you needed some CPU Power to render web pages, and word processing had some features such as fonts and spell check which were nearly required.
That is why Microsoft decided not to push the update. It it was 0.1% chance then you would likely have 2 workstations. Or if it were 0.05% then you would have one.
That is why Microsoft evaluated the risk.
However lets say you have 40 work stations you need to fix. And the patch fixes that problem. So you are down to 20. Wouldn't that be a better solution.
The point was the poster was complaining how bad Microsoft is for even considering not holding off the update. My point is there are factors which could allow consecration.
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That is assuming you still have a direct wired phone.
Most people who still have a LAN Line, often will just have a cordless phone. Which doesn't work with the power out anyways.
I remember watching a friends child play with Doll house parts. There was a toy telephone (from the 1990's) her parents coudln't convince her that it was actually a telephone and not an iron.
Not in liquid form, you drink them not snort them in a dry from.
While under snake oil Territory in my book. I expects it has the same health befits as a protein shake, without the sugar. Giving some one who is ill (probably not eating much) a drink with protein and some other nutrients to help them get over the illness a little easier, and like many American Drugs, it has a strong smell which make you feel that it is working. Like eating hot peppers to clear your sinuses, or mint to make your teeth feel clean. Or why a lot of cough syrup has alcohol in it, because the vapors just penetrate your respiratory system so you feel like something is happening.
Reminds me of the OS/2 Warp vs Windows 95 Advertising.
The real problem is we are expecting some mythical set of pure perfection, anything less then then perfect will be punished.
You could be the best driver in the world, and still get into a car accident. Your automobile may fail even after a properly performed inspection.
Regulators and only look for issues they know about. With a rapidly growing company like Facebook there are new issues that appear and happen before regulators or Facebook even know where to look, and often risks are identified, but no practical solution may be available to mitigated it.
Most of the time we can only fix problems when we know they are problems. Don't blame people for the problem, blame them for repeating the problem. Because we can't live in a perfect world. If we were in a perfect world we wouldn't have millions of people trying to break into our systems or find ways to misuse the data in the first place. But it isn't. For all the brain power we put into stopping bad things, there is also a lot of brain power behind causing bad things. The advantage always goes to the bad person, because they don't need to consider the trade offs of applying such fixes.
I am not arguing your assessment of the quality of windows phone 8 and 10. I knew people who had them and loved them. But I doubt it would be like it is without the iPhone. Apple actually broke the mold with the original iPhone, multi-touch screen as a primary interface, Microsoft would had just made a blackberry clone. That said, By the time the iPhone was released Microsoft was getting a backlash of its dominance. The Zune wasn't bad, but people didn't want a Microsoft Zune, Their PC and Gaming Console was enough. And picking who you hated more Microsoft or Sony was a tough bet.
If the Windows Phone came out before the iPhone, I don't think it would get the same love. Much of the iPhone sales were from Apple Fan Boys until the iPhone 3Gs where normal people started wanting them. There is a much smaller group of Microsoft Fan Boys back in 2007.
I expect it was some old guy where is current phone was broken. Perhaps a flip phone from the 1990's found these as a cheap phone for a replacement. With markdowns like that, it is a good price.
If he is going to be using it to make phone calls, and perhaps some new fancy smart phone thinks like internet browsing, it is probably perfectly fine.
Microsoft actually put some effort into the Windows Phone 8 and 10, vs the old Windows Phone powered by CE which just crammed the desktop UI onto a small phone. While I argue Windows 8 and 10 just crammed the phone interface on the desktop instead.
While the plan is to turn the company around. Sometimes that just can't happen no matter if you got a Zombie Steve Jobs back, Where keeping the course will drive you down, and a rebranding will cause your existing customers to flee, so you don't have the capital to get the new branding out. Sometime the best they can do is layoff a bunch of people and make it a smaller business, hoping to find a new avenue in the future.
In general for driving it is handy, because often road signs are hard to see (Upscale neighborhoods love to make them earth tones, often with flower pots having them hang over them.) , And sometimes are placed rather confusingly Sure the sign for the street is at a right Angle of the street, but your street is approaching it at a 45 degree angle. Or it forks into 2 other streets.
Also things like a major fast food chain, has nice big signs, that you can see a quarter mile away (further if you live in a flat land area) So you know to keep at speed limit until you get close enough to look for the street.
However if you miss a crazy street it would be nice to say if you see this, you probably had missed your turn.
There is a reason why CEO Salary is normally inversely proportional to the success of the company.
1. Its future doesn't look great, so things like stock options arn't that great of a compensation.
2. If you are going to lead a sinking ship, you better be paid more to help compensate the fact that you were CEO of a troubled company, and we get all the negative press that we see now.
Yahoo had its problems before she started. Yahoo Business strategy was poised to go against AOL, not Google and Facebook. While they had their search engine, there was a Yahoo Community and services, and games... Mostly designed to have Yahoo to be a site that you stick to for your internet fix.
They still have some popular services. Yahoo Business is still preferred for serious business folks. And Yahoo Answers is still popular. But After AOL got kicked out and Google and Facebook had risen, It pushed Yahoo out of many of its markets.
Could Yahoo have innovated sooner. In retrospect yes. But there were and are a lot of fad competition that get some traffic but just don't hold onto it long enough. However other fads just grew and become more popular.
Back when Google came out. Its simple search engine, vs yahoo with gave you a list of popular categories to help filter down from. Has me using Yahoo for years as my default search engine, until Googles algorithm got smart enough, and they were enough people with dial-up who used google because of its small download size. At the time, yahoo will just figure speed will always get bigger so just keep a lot of content on the front page. And the Google fad will wash out when everyone is at 500kbs speed. It may have worked, but it didn't.
But it is still in business.
Once technology breaks the 1% market share. It will take a lot of effort to actually kill such technology.
They are still people making programs and hardware for the Commodore 64 and other vintage systems such as Apple ][.
The main rule of thumb, if you are making a new site, don't use flash, if you expect the general public to use your existing site, replace flash. However if your site, wasn't flash users, who has flash on Virtual Machines, or legacy systems. Then they will keep it.
All good reasons. But if we are to actually follow the scientific process, such tests should be measured.
They were many Hypothesis created on solid thinking, that just didn't show to be true.
The question comes down to numbers. Will UBI be a net benefit or a net burden.
Basic Income seems like an interesting experiment. Which comes down to the a root issue.
Do people live to work, or work to live.
This article was kinda wimpy about giving us its findings. Just supporters crying that it didn't have enough time.
However things I would like to see.
For these people on Basic Income, what did they do in their lives? Even if they didn't get jobs, what did they do with their lives? Did they just sit at home watching TV and playing X-Box? Or where they out being active in the community. Volunteering their time and talents to help make things better?
If people live to work. Even if they are not able or unwilling to get traditional jobs, their instincts will still have them being productive member of society, just in ways that Supply and Demand doesn't give a lot of money too.
If people work to live. Then basic income will be negative effect, as having enough to survive is means they are not motivated to do anything else, other then their own benefit.
I expect there is a mixture of these people, but having this targeted at only the unemployed may have found a concentration of the work to live folks vs. people who are on short term job loss, or who are under paid.
How do grades coinside with what they can produce.
The grade metric is something that is often sold, or bargained for. The son of a senator may be dumb as a box of rocks, but he gets good grades because the teacher and the school doesn’t want to deal with such a powerful figure. Then he goes to a prestigious school he fails out in a semester, because such a school has so many powerful parents it just doesn’t care about the senator and his tantrums, and has their own resources to turn it around on him.
While the poor student getting B and C grades may be able to shine in a college where there are resources they never had.
Most employers don’t look at grades or GPA. They look at experience, length of stay at a job, assets their personality, in terms of education I look at their degree, majors, minors and certification. I find someone boasting a GPA above 3.5 on their resume actually to be a negative because it tells me they are book learned nd may lack out of the box thinking.
There are a lot of factors.
Normally a lot of smart low-income students have a harder time getting the grades to get into these schools especially competing with wealthier students. Who can have paid tutelage. Study conditions that allow the child to learn. And just a more stable home environment.
Metrics such as grades. Only work with like students.
He was relevant back when I was a kid and in college. Where I saw my future was bright full of possibilities, where I could easily get a job at one of the Big Open Source Companies, and I can spend my time writing open source software and I get paid big bucks on doing such.
Then the Tech Bubble Popped, many of the Open Source companies needed to find ways to monetize their work, because investors have stopped dumping money in their laps. So the ones that have survived, had found ways to close their code, Remotely Hosting no it was Software as a Service or maybe Cloud Computing, some who had products sufficiently complex can make a ton of money in consulting services. Then other companies just closed their source slowly...
Realizing that with the source open, other companies could compete against us, by stealing the products, and other countries could implement Open Source systems and offer the same services for way less....
RMS ideals combined with his strict view on them, to a point where people have issues with it are just considered bad people in his eyes, vs realizing there are problems with the vision that need adjusting and moderation.
RMS is an Academic Bum so he never experienced what it is like to have a family, over all bills to pay, and consequences for not playing by the person who pays the bills rules.
I think the fact that the software was free, and was able to do this with a low expense to himself. Could possibly saw peoples opinions.
If they were a big company who but millions of dollars into this, they may get less sympathy then some redneck who is following the get rich quick scheme of the week.
That would be for some people. Me having worked for small businesses want to point out lowlifes like this give small companies a bad name, and reasons for people to shop at the big name store. Sure they will on average get less service, be treated as a number from a big company who sees your business in terms of fractions of a percent. But the reason people go with the big company vs the small one, is the general fear of getting ripped off by a fly by night operation.
No, they don't.
If I were to punch someone, I will actually try to block their punch back. Self interests usually overrides the abstract notion of Hypocrisy.
It doesn't mean I have some moral high ground, just that I have some physical advantage. Life isn't fair. Balance and Ying/Yang are just abstract notions. Perhaps the repercussions will bite them in the future. But they will immediately react to their current self interest.
Russia doesn't care they messed with an outer society via the internet, it is their win. Retaliation will be tried to be stopped. If you are going to retaliate, you need to know this and expect it. It isn't like D&D where each country has a list of advantages and disadvantages that balance out.
It got past the Ad Blocker. Hence why it bothered me so. It was just so unexpected.
Contact Lenses are primarily for vanity purposes. So you can correct your vision without the need of noticeable glasses.
However having your eyes turn black when it is light outside will make you look rather odd.
Sunglasses make you look cool.
Black contact lenses make you look like you are on drugs or something is wrong with you.
That is exactly why I don't bother with transition glasses. The main time I need sunglasses is when I am driving, exactly the condition when they don't work. If I had kept with a convertible they would be fine. Also where I live, if I were to explore the outdoors, I would be in the forest where it is rather shady.
Just last night, I was looking up some information, I still head headphones plugged in to my laptop, but I didn't have them in my ears. I went back to working in an other program, then I heard faint voices to my left. I first I thought the neighbors were talking, but it kept on having the voices, and that wasn't the pattern of someone loudly talking. being that the earbuds had fallen in the couch, to my left the most advanced piece of technology was an end-table lamp with a Compact Florescent bulb. My wife who couldn't hear the earbuds was looking at me like I have gone crazy. Until I found the wire going from the couch to my laptop. Then I realized I left by browser open in back of my main windows and it was playing some ad.
There is a degree Narcissism involved if you are going to be a full time content creator. It is a lot of work to do this full time, so stroking ones ego is a form of compensation that helps makes it worth it. This is the same as with many other performers or public facing people. The difference it YouTube is a medium where you don't need to deal the more level headed people who may say "No" or you have gone to far. Or just flat out fire you and retcon in a replacement character. They lack any humility factor. Then combine with the fact how the algorithm ranks videos, controversial/taboo/bold statements will get better views and ranks.
On my YouTube recommended list outside of my subscriptions I have claims such as...
Easiest way to remove a tree stump
Did Captain archer actually commit genocide?
Solving the Most DIFFICULT Lock Puzzle on the Planet!! - LEVEL 10
A lot of absolutes in these titles.
In 2005 Around $500 was the starting price for a low end Computer. A starting Laptop would be closer to around $700. (Sans service deals like you have to buy 3 years of MSM internet)
These were crappy system.
A $100 system with an LCD Screen is nearly impossible.
Palm Pilots cost more then $100 and they wouldn't be considered worthy of being called a computer due to its limitation.
Today we can get such options, because of Moors Law, and our actual personal computing usage didn't catch up to it. So we can have a sub $100 tablet that is good enough to browse the web, and write papers.
But back in 2005 you needed some CPU Power to render web pages, and word processing had some features such as fonts and spell check which were nearly required.
That is why Microsoft decided not to push the update.
It it was 0.1% chance then you would likely have 2 workstations. Or if it were 0.05% then you would have one.
That is why Microsoft evaluated the risk.
However lets say you have 40 work stations you need to fix. And the patch fixes that problem. So you are down to 20. Wouldn't that be a better solution.
The point was the poster was complaining how bad Microsoft is for even considering not holding off the update. My point is there are factors which could allow consecration.