If everyone with an iphone is rich, this is the richest country of fucking retards imaginable
Professional Narcissist and Attention Whore are now paid professions. The 21st Century has doubled down on the fact that wealth has never been a guarantee of intelligence.
"no individual brand is as predictive of being high-income as owning an Apple iPhone in 2016,"
Seriously? Owning a Bentley is a worse predictor of being high-income than owning an Apple iPhone? Are we sure there are no further qualifications here?
Uh, from TFA:
"In 2004, Land O' Lakes butter and Kikkoman soy sauce were predictive of high-income households. In 1992, Grey Poupon mustard was the strongest sign of a rich family."
I've found more useful statistical data from bullshit articles on The Onion, which this might as well be. I sure as hell hope taxpayers aren't funding this "research".
"The secret to the plane's noise-reducing ability is its uniquely shaped structure, designed so that supersonic shockwaves don't build up into powerful sonic booms."
Why did my childish mind translate this as NASAs new Sonic Fart Engine, equipped with titanium SBD valve technology?
(Spectator)"Sir, is this plane fast?"
(Captain Texas, US Air Force) "Quicker than a sonic fart in high wind, yes, Ma'am."
People don't drink actual coffee anymore. They drink iced-mocha-caramel-chocolate fuckuccinos that make sugary sodas look like a fucking green smoothie by comparison. That's how this "works".
Or maybe this "fact" had nothing to do with any of their decision making process.
Back before Google was little more than a tiny search engine and didn't have billions in the bank to blow, I highly doubt their decision to go with Linux and open-source software had nothing to do with cost.
And in business, every fucking decision making process has to do with cost.
Google has RAPED linux and continue to do so (Android).. to claim they support open source is a sad and bad joke... they are EVIL as are Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
No doubt mega-corps ultimately end up doing "evil shit" in the eyes of someone out there, but when you can find a mega-corp that's completely innocent of this, then I'll believe it's somehow not a basic given trait of US Capitalism. There's zero sense in calling some companies out on this when every damn one of them is guilty.
Tux is on the floor bleeding from his little penguin butthole... and has been ever since Android was created.
So don't come here and defend Google and their "dedication to open source"... that is just pure bullshit!
Uh, I was the one calling them cheap bastards. I don't know how the hell that translates to defending them. That being said, can you tell me exactly what the fuck the point of OPEN source software is other than for the masses to USE it? And when I say USE, I mean abuse the shit out of it in any way you want, because that's what being OPEN is all about. One of the consequences of giving something away for FREE is someone coming along and taking advantage of that exact generosity. If people don't like that, then stop giving shit away for free.
As if servers doing down can't happen if you host it yourself.
But then you're in control, instead of having to rely on some amorphous, anonymous monster that only allows communication via automated email.
Control is an illusion. I know this because I've seen many IT people "in control" of their own shit and yet fail to fucking back it up properly and ultimately lose all control.
Speaking of people with no fucking backup plan who lose all control, I read recently about someone who was running a multi-million dollar operation out of Google Cloud who failed to justify the importance of uptime and put redundant solutions into the overall design...
Or maybe this "fact" had nothing to do with any of their decision making process.
Back before Google was little more than a tiny search engine and didn't have billions in the bank to blow, I highly doubt their decision to go with Linux and open-source software had nothing to do with cost.
And in business, every fucking decision making process has to do with cost.
Why do I get the feeling this is less about Google doubling-down on Open Source / Linux, and has more to do with the fact they don't want to be out-done by Microsoft, who is already a Platinum level member. This is just more of a corporate pissing contest.
Google couldn't exist without Linux and open-source software...
Uh, given this fact, Google should have recognized the relationship and upped their membership (and contributions) long ago. Cheap bastards.
IT people are highly paid. If they're not, then they're in the wrong career. Take a few months off between jobs or something. "Burnout" is only a problem if you've got no other options. Otherwise, it's a life choice.
It's good advice, but I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that IT people are that much more wealthy where they can afford to take a 6-month sabbatical with little or no income. Certified Financial Scrooge is not part of an IT certification track, and IT people aren't really any better than the average person in avoiding debt or living paycheck to paycheck, even with a six-figure salary.
Also, when I read "highly paid" with regards to IT jobs, I wonder exactly what that definition is. A low six figure salary might provide great life options in Nebraska, but it's considered damn near poverty in Silicon Valley.
They're acting like a bunch of whiny cheap-asses who would be willing to spend FAR more money fighting fine-print support bullshit in court than they would simply upgrading their hardware.
Some companies run multi-million dollar hardware/software to control their factory machines. An upgrade will have a multi-million price tag.
The newest Pentium III chips are almost twenty years old now.
You're either smart enough to bake planned obsolescence into your business decisions, or you're stupid and ignorant enough to believe you don't need to.
And what OS are they going to update too? Windows 10??
Windows 7 to Windows 10 isn't exactly an unproven or impossible upgrade path, but ultimately this would depend on the manufacturer. Those who are manufacturing multi-million dollar systems running Windows should also know a thing or two about planned obsolescence and the OS vendor they're reliant on.
If you think any of this is "unintended", you are a complete moron. Unlike them. They aren't morons. They are just evil.
Uh, a default password of password sent over insecure protocols is not "evil". That's just plain stupid, and their only intent in doing so was to save cost.
Hello Time Traveler! Mind if I call your answering machine and leave a message? I have this cool 5-minute recording of random clapping noises. I keep it on a cassette tape labeled Your Shit was Never Secure...
* Large corporations quite specifically are maximizing the life of bought hardware and scheduling software purchased based upon a support cycle. Anything that upsets that can be a massive loss.
Large corporations that are still demanding support for 20-year old systems are not relying on a reasonable support cycle. They're acting like a bunch of whiny cheap-asses who would be willing to spend FAR more money fighting fine-print support bullshit in court than they would simply upgrading their hardware.
Doesn't change the fact that most malware is unknowingly installed by its users, involuntarily, likely because they are logged in with local admin rights that make it rather easy.
FTFY, because you know this. Yes, user error certainly does play a part, but these days it's rather easy to find a browser or plugin exploit, and that was before the browser market started growing and creating multiple vectors. Deception does not validate the use of the term "voluntarily", as no one would happily install malware if they knew what it was.
And that most Pentium III systems are likely running in specific, non-Internet-connected applications.
And probably haven't received patches in quite a long time anyway. A 20-year old PIII-powered system isn't running Windows 7, it's walking it.
Leaving my house requires me to carry three main things; a smartphone, my wallet, and keys. If a solution could eliminate the need for 33% of the tools necessary for survival in a modern world, I'd sure as shit call that problem solving. What are you forced to leave the house with every day? Any reason all locks in your life could not be converted to electronic? (don't pretend those shitty consumer-grade locks really protect you either, a $50 set of bump keys and an hours worth of learn-to-lockpick videos on YouTube would break 90% of society)
And honestly, a continued physical to digital progression in this realm only makes sense, as it eliminates the need for the radio-enabled devices we've been using to unlock and control our vehicles for well over a decade now (keyfobs), which manufacturers have suddenly discovered a need to charge hundreds of dollars for. It's probably cheaper to replace a lost smartphone than it is a lost keyfob.
- Creates new problems all of its very own.
Not least "your battery runs flat, but you need to open it to jump-start it" (so either all the doors open, or you can't get into it at all), "I locked my phone in the car", "Someone sniffed the NFC transaction from across the street- NFC is short-range-powered, but long-range-ordinary-radio-signal", "Every garage has a way to open that car if the system should fail and you can buy the kit to open any car for $20k", "My phone got a virus and now anyone can open my car", "Previous owners of the car can just walk up to it with their phone to unlock it", etc. etc. etc.
Most of these issues already exist today with wireless keyfobs unlocking and controlling cars, along with some of the benefits (keyfob tech I had 10 years ago would not allow me to accidentally lock the keyfob in the car). As I said before, this really doesn't change much other than eliminate the need for the radio-enabled keyfobs we're already carrying around that unlock and control our cars. Not sold as a fan on the proposed solution yet, but I certainly see it's justification.
Hacking may have been popularized to describe computer hacking, but it means MANY OTHER THINGS TOO.
Your point is completely lost on the fact that most words hold multiple definitions. This is why it often comes down to everyday vernacular. If you hear the word "spam" at work, you can safely assume someone is talking about unwanted email and not shitty canned meat. Every email in the world is not spam, just like making your own lunch instead of buying it is not a hack. And changing a car tire doesn't mean you start calling yourself a mechanic. I drove to work instead of walking; does that mean I "hacked" my commute? Am I a "hacker" now? Give me a fucking break.
We created the term script kiddie to differentiate the idiots from those who actually have computer skills. Perhaps we should come up with a term to describe the life kiddie who thinks every efficiency in life is a hack. Since we're all about generalizing, I say we use "Millennial"...after all, moron probably has too many definitions.
Getting a little bored with the "Science" Says claims, like there's some governing body of authorised scientists that make things official.
I've started replacing that term in my mind with "some random dude claims".
Some "random dudes" from the past were named Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei, whom ironically the latter was almost burned alive for heresy for the science he was reporting at the time. It used to take some serious guts to come forward with claims in society. Threats against the accepted norm were met with punishments ranging from ridicule to death back in the day.
Today is we reward liars. Fake news is still cheap entertainment for the brainless masses, which is enough to make any fact-free bullshit go viral. Are we getting dumber? Dunno. We're certainly getting fatter as a society. When we limit blood flow to the brain by filling our veins with lard, I wonder how many IQ points get choked out.
"Yeah, but...but...we built the internet! We're smarter!"
Uh, just because we now have access to damn near infinite levels of information at our fingertips doesn't meant we're doing a whole hell of a lot of useful shit with it. Only 0.001% of people are getting a degree via YouTube. The other 99.999% of YouTube junkies are becoming the human equivalent of an Uncle John Bathroom Reader; brains filled with a metric fuckload of essentially useless information, refreshed and replaced with a daily ritual that has the logic and moderation of a Hunter S. Thompson drug bender. Should usage surprise us when internet porn is a Founding Father of the information superhighway? I think not.
Bottom line is some people are getting smarter due to technical advancements and access to information, but society as a whole is likely getting a bit dumber. Or at least more dependent on technology to avoid having to learn. Of course, some call this taking advantage of technology. Others label it being utterly and hopelessly dependent on technology.
As a society, we have become obsessed with never-ending growth and progress. It's not good enough that a company provides jobs and turns a profit. It has to show "growth". It's not good enough that a given computer can perform all sorts of useful functions. It has to be reinvented as more powerful every 374 days.
I do agree that a Mac Mini should cost less now than it did over three years ago. But what's wrong with good enough? I recently went shopping for a new TV. I expected that with 4K TVs being common now, I should be able to pickup a 1920x1080 TV for a good price. I was wrong. I ended up making a deal on a 4K TV, even though I almost never watch anything in 4K.
Every other player in the computer hardware industry is capable of demonstrating progress, proving that achieving considerably faster hardware turnover at Apple is very possible. Does it have to be every year? No, probably not. But we also have to see real improvements as well. Taking a MBP, slapping a pointless "touch" bar on it, and stripping every fucking native interface off to replace it with a handful of USB-C ports isn't what most would define as the next generation of laptop hardware.
And how do you make that shitty superficial attempt at progress even worse? Charge twice as much as everyone else for it. That's how.
I want to buy Apple hardware. I've gotten many good years of use out of them. Unfortunately between the lackluster improvements and obscene price tags, they've fallen beyond the point of justification. They just don't care anymore. They still have enough customers who will buy overpriced lackluster hardware simply for the logo.
Well we certainly shouldn't subsidize stupidity, since whenever you subsidize something, you just get more of it.
You were born with a certain level of mental capacity. That capability is at a level compatible with society, hence you succeed and survive.
There are many on this planet who were born with a mental capacity that is not very compatible with any level of society. When you say we shouldn't "subsidize stupidity", I hope you're willing to support the congressional candidate who will properly represent your fuck-em-let-em-die social/welfare policy for the 1 in 10 humans affected by it.
Cashiers rank among the top jobs in the US by numbers employed.
when will they do something about that goddamned water so it doesn't run downhill all the time
you are just bitching, ignorant fool
There's not a damn thing you can really do to prevent water from running downhill, so your analogy is stupid and irrelevant. There is something that can be done to ready ourselves for a considerable shift in human employment. It's called proper planning. And you can bet your ass Greed will bypass any step that gets in the way of making money quickly.
And once again, people should learn from history. We've gone through several revolutions before. What everyone conveniently forgets is none of them were painless and easy transitions for those employed in industries made obsolete. People struggled. Many died. The ignorant fool is the one who fails to learn from this. Not everyone is cut out for higher education or even retraining, and automation and AI are also targeting educated jobs, so the old "go get an education" fallback is also become obsolete, which is the main difference with this revolution.
Microsoft is not in the business of data mining. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, all ISP's, and all credit card companies are. You don't know what you're talking about.
Oh, so all of the telemetry data Microsoft collects is just for fun?
Given US corporations history of data mining, it takes a certain level of blind ignorance to assume Microsoft isn't doing exactly what every one of their competitors is doing, and for the same damn reason.
Cashiers rank among the top jobs in the US by numbers employed. Is Microsoft also working on technology that will eliminate the problems they're planning on creating when they make millions of jobs obsolete? Not to mention the fact that a lot of consumer spending and business revenue depends on millions of people being employable.
Once again, Greed is doing what Greed does best; doing whatever it takes to create revenue quickly without giving two shits about any long term impact.
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If everyone with an iphone is rich, this is the richest country of fucking retards imaginable
Professional Narcissist and Attention Whore are now paid professions. The 21st Century has doubled down on the fact that wealth has never been a guarantee of intelligence.
"no individual brand is as predictive of being high-income as owning an Apple iPhone in 2016," Seriously? Owning a Bentley is a worse predictor of being high-income than owning an Apple iPhone? Are we sure there are no further qualifications here?
Uh, from TFA:
"In 2004, Land O' Lakes butter and Kikkoman soy sauce were predictive of high-income households. In 1992, Grey Poupon mustard was the strongest sign of a rich family."
I've found more useful statistical data from bullshit articles on The Onion, which this might as well be. I sure as hell hope taxpayers aren't funding this "research".
I would spend hours upon hours drooling all over...those wonderful toys that my family could not afford!
I wish that can return!!!
Uh, it did return.
We call that Instagram now. Also known as Lifestyles of the Rich and Narcissistic.
The UK continuing in its steady descent toward a police state.
Uh, unlike a true police state, this system is voluntary.
This "police state", is whatever the citizens make it.
"The secret to the plane's noise-reducing ability is its uniquely shaped structure, designed so that supersonic shockwaves don't build up into powerful sonic booms."
Why did my childish mind translate this as NASAs new Sonic Fart Engine, equipped with titanium SBD valve technology?
(Spectator)"Sir, is this plane fast?"
(Captain Texas, US Air Force) "Quicker than a sonic fart in high wind, yes, Ma'am."
That's how it works.
Let's stop with the bullshit already.
People don't drink actual coffee anymore. They drink iced-mocha-caramel-chocolate fuckuccinos that make sugary sodas look like a fucking green smoothie by comparison. That's how this "works".
Or maybe this "fact" had nothing to do with any of their decision making process.
Back before Google was little more than a tiny search engine and didn't have billions in the bank to blow, I highly doubt their decision to go with Linux and open-source software had nothing to do with cost.
And in business, every fucking decision making process has to do with cost.
Google has RAPED linux and continue to do so (Android).. to claim they support open source is a sad and bad joke... they are EVIL as are Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
No doubt mega-corps ultimately end up doing "evil shit" in the eyes of someone out there, but when you can find a mega-corp that's completely innocent of this, then I'll believe it's somehow not a basic given trait of US Capitalism. There's zero sense in calling some companies out on this when every damn one of them is guilty.
Tux is on the floor bleeding from his little penguin butthole ... and has been ever since Android was created.
So don't come here and defend Google and their "dedication to open source"... that is just pure bullshit!
Uh, I was the one calling them cheap bastards. I don't know how the hell that translates to defending them. That being said, can you tell me exactly what the fuck the point of OPEN source software is other than for the masses to USE it? And when I say USE, I mean abuse the shit out of it in any way you want, because that's what being OPEN is all about. One of the consequences of giving something away for FREE is someone coming along and taking advantage of that exact generosity. If people don't like that, then stop giving shit away for free.
As if servers doing down can't happen if you host it yourself.
But then you're in control, instead of having to rely on some amorphous, anonymous monster that only allows communication via automated email.
Control is an illusion. I know this because I've seen many IT people "in control" of their own shit and yet fail to fucking back it up properly and ultimately lose all control.
Speaking of people with no fucking backup plan who lose all control, I read recently about someone who was running a multi-million dollar operation out of Google Cloud who failed to justify the importance of uptime and put redundant solutions into the overall design...
Or maybe this "fact" had nothing to do with any of their decision making process.
Back before Google was little more than a tiny search engine and didn't have billions in the bank to blow, I highly doubt their decision to go with Linux and open-source software had nothing to do with cost.
And in business, every fucking decision making process has to do with cost.
Why do I get the feeling this is less about Google doubling-down on Open Source / Linux, and has more to do with the fact they don't want to be out-done by Microsoft, who is already a Platinum level member. This is just more of a corporate pissing contest.
Google couldn't exist without Linux and open-source software...
Uh, given this fact, Google should have recognized the relationship and upped their membership (and contributions) long ago. Cheap bastards.
Bitcoin mining is certainly one creative way to help justify for the cost of a supercomputer...
IT people are highly paid. If they're not, then they're in the wrong career. Take a few months off between jobs or something. "Burnout" is only a problem if you've got no other options. Otherwise, it's a life choice.
It's good advice, but I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that IT people are that much more wealthy where they can afford to take a 6-month sabbatical with little or no income. Certified Financial Scrooge is not part of an IT certification track, and IT people aren't really any better than the average person in avoiding debt or living paycheck to paycheck, even with a six-figure salary.
Also, when I read "highly paid" with regards to IT jobs, I wonder exactly what that definition is. A low six figure salary might provide great life options in Nebraska, but it's considered damn near poverty in Silicon Valley.
They're acting like a bunch of whiny cheap-asses who would be willing to spend FAR more money fighting fine-print support bullshit in court than they would simply upgrading their hardware.
Some companies run multi-million dollar hardware/software to control their factory machines. An upgrade will have a multi-million price tag.
The newest Pentium III chips are almost twenty years old now.
You're either smart enough to bake planned obsolescence into your business decisions, or you're stupid and ignorant enough to believe you don't need to.
And what OS are they going to update too? Windows 10??
Windows 7 to Windows 10 isn't exactly an unproven or impossible upgrade path, but ultimately this would depend on the manufacturer. Those who are manufacturing multi-million dollar systems running Windows should also know a thing or two about planned obsolescence and the OS vendor they're reliant on.
If you think any of this is "unintended", you are a complete moron. Unlike them. They aren't morons. They are just evil.
Uh, a default password of password sent over insecure protocols is not "evil". That's just plain stupid, and their only intent in doing so was to save cost.
...or just install a Clapper...
Hello Time Traveler! Mind if I call your answering machine and leave a message? I have this cool 5-minute recording of random clapping noises. I keep it on a cassette tape labeled Your Shit was Never Secure...
* Large corporations quite specifically are maximizing the life of bought hardware and scheduling software purchased based upon a support cycle. Anything that upsets that can be a massive loss.
Large corporations that are still demanding support for 20-year old systems are not relying on a reasonable support cycle. They're acting like a bunch of whiny cheap-asses who would be willing to spend FAR more money fighting fine-print support bullshit in court than they would simply upgrading their hardware.
Doesn't change the fact that most malware is unknowingly installed by its users, involuntarily, likely because they are logged in with local admin rights that make it rather easy.
FTFY, because you know this. Yes, user error certainly does play a part, but these days it's rather easy to find a browser or plugin exploit, and that was before the browser market started growing and creating multiple vectors. Deception does not validate the use of the term "voluntarily", as no one would happily install malware if they knew what it was.
And that most Pentium III systems are likely running in specific, non-Internet-connected applications.
And probably haven't received patches in quite a long time anyway. A 20-year old PIII-powered system isn't running Windows 7, it's walking it.
- Doesn't solve any existing problem.
Really?
Leaving my house requires me to carry three main things; a smartphone, my wallet, and keys. If a solution could eliminate the need for 33% of the tools necessary for survival in a modern world, I'd sure as shit call that problem solving. What are you forced to leave the house with every day? Any reason all locks in your life could not be converted to electronic? (don't pretend those shitty consumer-grade locks really protect you either, a $50 set of bump keys and an hours worth of learn-to-lockpick videos on YouTube would break 90% of society)
And honestly, a continued physical to digital progression in this realm only makes sense, as it eliminates the need for the radio-enabled devices we've been using to unlock and control our vehicles for well over a decade now (keyfobs), which manufacturers have suddenly discovered a need to charge hundreds of dollars for. It's probably cheaper to replace a lost smartphone than it is a lost keyfob.
- Creates new problems all of its very own.
Not least "your battery runs flat, but you need to open it to jump-start it" (so either all the doors open, or you can't get into it at all), "I locked my phone in the car", "Someone sniffed the NFC transaction from across the street- NFC is short-range-powered, but long-range-ordinary-radio-signal", "Every garage has a way to open that car if the system should fail and you can buy the kit to open any car for $20k", "My phone got a virus and now anyone can open my car", "Previous owners of the car can just walk up to it with their phone to unlock it", etc. etc. etc.
Most of these issues already exist today with wireless keyfobs unlocking and controlling cars, along with some of the benefits (keyfob tech I had 10 years ago would not allow me to accidentally lock the keyfob in the car). As I said before, this really doesn't change much other than eliminate the need for the radio-enabled keyfobs we're already carrying around that unlock and control our cars. Not sold as a fan on the proposed solution yet, but I certainly see it's justification.
Hacking may have been popularized to describe computer hacking, but it means MANY OTHER THINGS TOO.
Your point is completely lost on the fact that most words hold multiple definitions. This is why it often comes down to everyday vernacular. If you hear the word "spam" at work, you can safely assume someone is talking about unwanted email and not shitty canned meat. Every email in the world is not spam, just like making your own lunch instead of buying it is not a hack. And changing a car tire doesn't mean you start calling yourself a mechanic. I drove to work instead of walking; does that mean I "hacked" my commute? Am I a "hacker" now? Give me a fucking break.
We created the term script kiddie to differentiate the idiots from those who actually have computer skills. Perhaps we should come up with a term to describe the life kiddie who thinks every efficiency in life is a hack. Since we're all about generalizing, I say we use "Millennial"...after all, moron probably has too many definitions.
Getting a little bored with the "Science" Says claims, like there's some governing body of authorised scientists that make things official.
I've started replacing that term in my mind with "some random dude claims".
Some "random dudes" from the past were named Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei, whom ironically the latter was almost burned alive for heresy for the science he was reporting at the time. It used to take some serious guts to come forward with claims in society. Threats against the accepted norm were met with punishments ranging from ridicule to death back in the day.
Today is we reward liars. Fake news is still cheap entertainment for the brainless masses, which is enough to make any fact-free bullshit go viral. Are we getting dumber? Dunno. We're certainly getting fatter as a society. When we limit blood flow to the brain by filling our veins with lard, I wonder how many IQ points get choked out.
"Yeah, but...but...we built the internet! We're smarter!"
Uh, just because we now have access to damn near infinite levels of information at our fingertips doesn't meant we're doing a whole hell of a lot of useful shit with it. Only 0.001% of people are getting a degree via YouTube. The other 99.999% of YouTube junkies are becoming the human equivalent of an Uncle John Bathroom Reader; brains filled with a metric fuckload of essentially useless information, refreshed and replaced with a daily ritual that has the logic and moderation of a Hunter S. Thompson drug bender. Should usage surprise us when internet porn is a Founding Father of the information superhighway? I think not.
Bottom line is some people are getting smarter due to technical advancements and access to information, but society as a whole is likely getting a bit dumber. Or at least more dependent on technology to avoid having to learn. Of course, some call this taking advantage of technology. Others label it being utterly and hopelessly dependent on technology.
As a society, we have become obsessed with never-ending growth and progress. It's not good enough that a company provides jobs and turns a profit. It has to show "growth". It's not good enough that a given computer can perform all sorts of useful functions. It has to be reinvented as more powerful every 374 days.
I do agree that a Mac Mini should cost less now than it did over three years ago. But what's wrong with good enough? I recently went shopping for a new TV. I expected that with 4K TVs being common now, I should be able to pickup a 1920x1080 TV for a good price. I was wrong. I ended up making a deal on a 4K TV, even though I almost never watch anything in 4K.
Every other player in the computer hardware industry is capable of demonstrating progress, proving that achieving considerably faster hardware turnover at Apple is very possible. Does it have to be every year? No, probably not. But we also have to see real improvements as well. Taking a MBP, slapping a pointless "touch" bar on it, and stripping every fucking native interface off to replace it with a handful of USB-C ports isn't what most would define as the next generation of laptop hardware.
And how do you make that shitty superficial attempt at progress even worse? Charge twice as much as everyone else for it. That's how.
I want to buy Apple hardware. I've gotten many good years of use out of them. Unfortunately between the lackluster improvements and obscene price tags, they've fallen beyond the point of justification. They just don't care anymore. They still have enough customers who will buy overpriced lackluster hardware simply for the logo.
Well we certainly shouldn't subsidize stupidity, since whenever you subsidize something, you just get more of it.
You were born with a certain level of mental capacity. That capability is at a level compatible with society, hence you succeed and survive.
There are many on this planet who were born with a mental capacity that is not very compatible with any level of society. When you say we shouldn't "subsidize stupidity", I hope you're willing to support the congressional candidate who will properly represent your fuck-em-let-em-die social/welfare policy for the 1 in 10 humans affected by it.
Cashiers rank among the top jobs in the US by numbers employed.
when will they do something about that goddamned water so it doesn't run downhill all the time
you are just bitching, ignorant fool
There's not a damn thing you can really do to prevent water from running downhill, so your analogy is stupid and irrelevant. There is something that can be done to ready ourselves for a considerable shift in human employment. It's called proper planning. And you can bet your ass Greed will bypass any step that gets in the way of making money quickly.
And once again, people should learn from history. We've gone through several revolutions before. What everyone conveniently forgets is none of them were painless and easy transitions for those employed in industries made obsolete. People struggled. Many died. The ignorant fool is the one who fails to learn from this. Not everyone is cut out for higher education or even retraining, and automation and AI are also targeting educated jobs, so the old "go get an education" fallback is also become obsolete, which is the main difference with this revolution.
Microsoft is not in the business of data mining. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, all ISP's, and all credit card companies are. You don't know what you're talking about.
Oh, so all of the telemetry data Microsoft collects is just for fun?
Given US corporations history of data mining, it takes a certain level of blind ignorance to assume Microsoft isn't doing exactly what every one of their competitors is doing, and for the same damn reason.
Cashiers rank among the top jobs in the US by numbers employed. Is Microsoft also working on technology that will eliminate the problems they're planning on creating when they make millions of jobs obsolete? Not to mention the fact that a lot of consumer spending and business revenue depends on millions of people being employable.
Once again, Greed is doing what Greed does best; doing whatever it takes to create revenue quickly without giving two shits about any long term impact.