You're talking about the 'Southern Democrats', a group of reactionaries who blamed the Republicans for the Civil War, the Reconstruction, and equal rights. They voted solidly Democrat until Johnson "betrayed" them by enacting the Civil Rights Act.
Unfortunately, America's two-party system left those emigres nowhere to go but the Republican party, and so the party of civil rights and social liberty from Lincoln to Eisenhower turned into what we see today.
Well, if the alternatives are wearing nothing at all or a $50k medical device your insurance won't cover...
Also, the Apple Watch was useful as a development platform; HealthKit makes it easier to run informal trials and collect medical data from a large number of users. The software they've developed with that data could likely now be ported to other devices.
I suspect more the reverse; it will be a convenient way to deny anything inconvenient.
1. Leader: 'X' 2. Leader: 'I never said X' 3. Opposition: 'But hundreds of people heard you say X' 4. Leader: 'Either they are my enemies, in which case they are liars, or they are my supporters, and know in their heart I didn't say X' 5. Opposition: 'We even have a video of you saying X' 6. Leader: 'And you just made that up, with your computers and things! Enemies! Off with your heads!'
There seems to be a global current these days, away from the principles of Enlightenment and Absolutism, back toward Authoritarianism and the denial of objectivity. When facts become subjective, all viewpoints are equally valid and 'truth' can be determined by vote or decree. Quite Nineteen Eighty-Four (although it predated Orwell by thousands of years).
It's funny how we say Moore's law is dead when it's about the only thing still kicking.
Clock speeds, the x86 architecture, and software design are all more or less stagnant, which means your typical single-threaded business logic is barely running faster year upon year and CPU benchmarks are pretty flat.
But anything parallel and transistor-hungry is improving by leaps and bounds: the 1080Ti is ~70% faster than its predecessor (with 50% more transistors), AMD is offering 8 cores for the price of 4, 32 for their server models, Intel's Phi is at 72... even smartphones are at 8-10 cores. As Moore predicted, dense ICs are packing more transistors every year, and it looks set to continue for the next several years at least.
Who cares? A response doesn't have to be original to be appropriate and sincere.
"My cat died yesterday." "Oh, I'm sorry for your loss." "You're 'sorry.' Everybody's 'sorry!' What kind of generic bullshit sentiment is that?! Make an effort next time, asshole!" "I am no longer sorry."
I don't think the argument is that Trump is himself a racist, it's that he is an amoral narcissistic demagogue who caters to and encourages the worst in his constituency, including racists, sexists, chauvinists, xenophobes, and anti-intellectuals.
Besides, racists tolerate 'lesser races' so long as they occupy lower rungs on the social ladder. Only when racists have to compete with or serve their 'racial inferiors' does the bile start to flow.
Apple has been using USB for 19 years (they were the first major adopter, in fact). They're in the process switching to Type-C ports, but at most you'll need a new cable, adaptor or hub to connect your older devices.
Firewire was never particularly successful, but Apple kept it around for well over a decade, and again you can still buy an adaptor for modern Thunderbolt PCs.
SCSI? Really? We put up the terrible hardware for the speed and protocol improvements over early IDE, but SCSI products were always niche in the consumer world and the writing was on the wall by the mid-90s. But on the off chance you saved all your data on SCSI drives and then hid under a rock for 25 years, you can still pick up a PCI-e SCSI controller (and a PCI-e to Thunderbolt box if you really have to hook it up to your new Mac).
While Apple is relatively aggressive at removing "non-essential" ports and features, USB seems the least likely of all ports to be removed, and even then Apple would sell an adapter to get you through the next decade or more. Past that, you could probably find an aftermarket USB-to-new-whizbang interface for another decade or more. Hell, your Mac can still party like it's 1989 with an ADB adapter and Token Ring bridge; USB will be with us for a long, long time. Even beyond that, you could borrow an older machine to access the data; it's not hard to find a ten- or twenty-year-old PC; most Slashdotters have one in their house.
But this is academic; by then you'd surely have shifted your data onto a newer drive anyway. Drives fail, even when not in use, so if you care about your data you'll be maintaining a few copies on various media and spending a few hours per decade moving that data onto fresh disks. Compatibility should never be a hurdle.
A 'brand' is a stamp of quality, so mixing budget and premium products into one brand is generally a bad thing. HP and Dell make a lot of good high-end computers, but also a lot of poor low-end ones, and the bad reputation earned there bleeds over to their premium lines.
Unless HTC can make their brand stand out, they will be stuck in a race to the bottom with Huawei, Xiaomi, Lenovo, Vivo, Oppo, Oneplus, Elephone, and a million other budget Android products.
Result 1: American company hires more American workers, pays them good wages, everybody lives happily ever after. Result 2: American company hires more American workers, pays them good wages, costs go up, company can't compete with Chinese competitor, shuts down, eliminates many more jobs than H-1Bs. Result 3: American company open foreign campus, shuts down American campus, eliminates many more jobs than H-1Bs.
Things like H-1Bs and outsourcing and illegal immigration are all just symptoms of wealth imbalance in the world. They're like relief valves that equalize pressure between hot and cold economies. Closing them without addressing the underlying issues may not have pleasant results.
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Perhaps, but this administration has raised not giving a fuck about America into an art form.
What changed in that hypothetical future's past that needs to change in our present to make wholesale gathering of our voice comms acceptable?
We're no longer being ruled by the Ferengi.
My car can go off-road, but roads are a much nicer surface to drive on.
You're talking about the 'Southern Democrats', a group of reactionaries who blamed the Republicans for the Civil War, the Reconstruction, and equal rights. They voted solidly Democrat until Johnson "betrayed" them by enacting the Civil Rights Act.
Unfortunately, America's two-party system left those emigres nowhere to go but the Republican party, and so the party of civil rights and social liberty from Lincoln to Eisenhower turned into what we see today.
Imagine if the Michelin Guides were written by the Mafia instead of snobbish Frenchmen.
Well, if the alternatives are wearing nothing at all or a $50k medical device your insurance won't cover...
Also, the Apple Watch was useful as a development platform; HealthKit makes it easier to run informal trials and collect medical data from a large number of users. The software they've developed with that data could likely now be ported to other devices.
Yeah, by 2020 I'll expect no less than superluminal.
Why are they trying to automate Germans? They're efficient enough as-is.
I suspect more the reverse; it will be a convenient way to deny anything inconvenient.
1. Leader: 'X'
2. Leader: 'I never said X'
3. Opposition: 'But hundreds of people heard you say X'
4. Leader: 'Either they are my enemies, in which case they are liars, or they are my supporters, and know in their heart I didn't say X'
5. Opposition: 'We even have a video of you saying X'
6. Leader: 'And you just made that up, with your computers and things! Enemies! Off with your heads!'
There seems to be a global current these days, away from the principles of Enlightenment and Absolutism, back toward Authoritarianism and the denial of objectivity. When facts become subjective, all viewpoints are equally valid and 'truth' can be determined by vote or decree. Quite Nineteen Eighty-Four (although it predated Orwell by thousands of years).
"I've switched to publishing my books under the GPL."
"Oh, they're free?"
"No, the FSF says I can charge as much as I wish. Free as in speech, not beer."
"But at least you include the source?"
"Of course! Each copy includes its own text. It's tucked between the covers."
It's funny how we say Moore's law is dead when it's about the only thing still kicking.
Clock speeds, the x86 architecture, and software design are all more or less stagnant, which means your typical single-threaded business logic is barely running faster year upon year and CPU benchmarks are pretty flat.
But anything parallel and transistor-hungry is improving by leaps and bounds: the 1080Ti is ~70% faster than its predecessor (with 50% more transistors), AMD is offering 8 cores for the price of 4, 32 for their server models, Intel's Phi is at 72... even smartphones are at 8-10 cores. As Moore predicted, dense ICs are packing more transistors every year, and it looks set to continue for the next several years at least.
No thanks, I ate at the Klingon place.
Who cares? A response doesn't have to be original to be appropriate and sincere.
"My cat died yesterday."
"Oh, I'm sorry for your loss."
"You're 'sorry.' Everybody's 'sorry!' What kind of generic bullshit sentiment is that?! Make an effort next time, asshole!"
"I am no longer sorry."
Um...because if your gender determines your role in society, it implies you're not free to make your own choice as an individual.
And how dare you give me a ticket for speeding when there are murderers to catch!
I don't think the argument is that Trump is himself a racist, it's that he is an amoral narcissistic demagogue who caters to and encourages the worst in his constituency, including racists, sexists, chauvinists, xenophobes, and anti-intellectuals.
Besides, racists tolerate 'lesser races' so long as they occupy lower rungs on the social ladder. Only when racists have to compete with or serve their 'racial inferiors' does the bile start to flow.
Apple has been using USB for 19 years (they were the first major adopter, in fact). They're in the process switching to Type-C ports, but at most you'll need a new cable, adaptor or hub to connect your older devices.
Firewire was never particularly successful, but Apple kept it around for well over a decade, and again you can still buy an adaptor for modern Thunderbolt PCs.
SCSI? Really? We put up the terrible hardware for the speed and protocol improvements over early IDE, but SCSI products were always niche in the consumer world and the writing was on the wall by the mid-90s. But on the off chance you saved all your data on SCSI drives and then hid under a rock for 25 years, you can still pick up a PCI-e SCSI controller (and a PCI-e to Thunderbolt box if you really have to hook it up to your new Mac).
While Apple is relatively aggressive at removing "non-essential" ports and features, USB seems the least likely of all ports to be removed, and even then Apple would sell an adapter to get you through the next decade or more. Past that, you could probably find an aftermarket USB-to-new-whizbang interface for another decade or more. Hell, your Mac can still party like it's 1989 with an ADB adapter and Token Ring bridge; USB will be with us for a long, long time. Even beyond that, you could borrow an older machine to access the data; it's not hard to find a ten- or twenty-year-old PC; most Slashdotters have one in their house.
But this is academic; by then you'd surely have shifted your data onto a newer drive anyway. Drives fail, even when not in use, so if you care about your data you'll be maintaining a few copies on various media and spending a few hours per decade moving that data onto fresh disks. Compatibility should never be a hurdle.
...because utilities are natural monopolies?
That's easy: use an external USB controller. You can still buy cheap PATA-USB interfaces, and of course SATA and M.2.
USB has been around 20 years, and it could be another 20 before we lose USB 2.0 / 3.0 compatibility.
I think every state needs to be issued at least one Ron Wyden. Preferably two.
It's like saying the Raspberry Pi comes with a kit that turns a Raspberry Pi into a cardboard box.
hypocracy
I see what you did there.
A 'brand' is a stamp of quality, so mixing budget and premium products into one brand is generally a bad thing. HP and Dell make a lot of good high-end computers, but also a lot of poor low-end ones, and the bad reputation earned there bleeds over to their premium lines.
Unless HTC can make their brand stand out, they will be stuck in a race to the bottom with Huawei, Xiaomi, Lenovo, Vivo, Oppo, Oneplus, Elephone, and a million other budget Android products.
'Intellectual' used to be an admired quality in a leader.
Result 1: American company hires more American workers, pays them good wages, everybody lives happily ever after.
Result 2: American company hires more American workers, pays them good wages, costs go up, company can't compete with Chinese competitor, shuts down, eliminates many more jobs than H-1Bs.
Result 3: American company open foreign campus, shuts down American campus, eliminates many more jobs than H-1Bs.
Things like H-1Bs and outsourcing and illegal immigration are all just symptoms of wealth imbalance in the world. They're like relief valves that equalize pressure between hot and cold economies. Closing them without addressing the underlying issues may not have pleasant results.