On my case...it gets cold here EVERY FUCKING YEAR. It is a surprise to no one that there will be cold weather and snow. Exactly zero excuses not to be prepared for it.
The US spends billions an billions and billions of dollars every year to provide its youth with an education.
Many of the spit on it. Others you just cannot reach. Still others do nothing with it once they have it. A whole collection of them refuse to work, believing everything should be free.
Today, public schools closed because TEN DEGREES is considered too cold to allow kids to wait a bus stops. What the fuck is that? It is bitchy parents and fear of lawsuits.
That's not the point. The normalization of walled gardens makes them more acceptable to use in future technology, even if it's just updated versions of the existing technology....
Which I don't have a problem with.
Additionally, if there is software that you must use but that is not available on different platforms, you DON'T have a hardware choice. QuickBooks and the entire Adobe professional software suite are major pieces of software in extremely common use that are not available on Linux, not even through Wine.
Oh, but you do. You can use a different software package. And if it doesn't exist, you can write it. And if you can't, you can hire someone to write it. Then you can sell it, to all the people that don't like walled gardens. Then you'll be a BILLIONAIRE!!!
You're also completely ignoring the difference between a computer's administrator choosing to lock the system down vs. the manufacturer locking both users and administrators down. There are zero situations where a walled garden is a good thing. It's called vendor lock-in and you need to do more research on the subject before continuing to advocate for it; it's simply a universally evil action.
Once again - there is always a choice - even if you find it to be an unattractive one.
So, from your own post, people have choices for hardware they can install anything they want on. If that is important to you, buy one of those pieces of hardware and leave the rest of us alone.
They don't play well with corporate networks, they are virtually unserviceable, totally non-upgradeable now, have built-in 2-3 year obsolescence due to the glued-in batteries, and on the whole are a stupid waste of money.
Writing this on my Macbook Pro which is now 6 1/2 years old, and also works just fine on our corporate network, while running the very latest version of Apple's operating system.
It never ceases to amaze me how many mindless Apple zealots will stubbornly defend the abhorrent company who continuously screws them over more and more with each generation, and can't make a quality product without serious manufacturing flaws to save their life
It never ceases to amaze me how much people will bitch about products that they don't even use.
while the other half will be spent on preventing electricity prices from rising
If you are spending money to prevent prices from rising, you need to include that money in the price you are trying to lower.
You can hide the true price of something by subsidizing it so that buyers see a lower price, but that does not mean you are actually lowering the price. You are just obscuring that true cost.
If you take the position that if you do not observe it, it does not exist, that would explain a lot.
As for security...I do not care if phone payments are secure. I have no fraud liability. If I use my phone to pay at Target and someone grabs my credit card info, good for them! I can resolve it pretty quickly with a âoeno, not my chargeâ statement and a replacement credit card.
Speaking of things never observed...I have never had to close a credit card due to fraud.
Screw govt regulations. Since the govt seems to know what is best, we can just have the govt design and build phones, and ban private manufacturing of them.
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On my case...it gets cold here EVERY FUCKING YEAR. It is a surprise to no one that there will be cold weather and snow. Exactly zero excuses not to be prepared for it.
The US spends billions an billions and billions of dollars every year to provide its youth with an education.
Many of the spit on it.
Others you just cannot reach.
Still others do nothing with it once they have it.
A whole collection of them refuse to work, believing everything should be free.
Today, public schools closed because TEN DEGREES is considered too cold to allow kids to wait a bus stops. What the fuck is that? It is bitchy parents and fear of lawsuits.
Right, because guess what? No other company operating legally in Russia can ignore its laws either.
That's not the point. The normalization of walled gardens makes them more acceptable to use in future technology, even if it's just updated versions of the existing technology....
Which I don't have a problem with.
Additionally, if there is software that you must use but that is not available on different platforms, you DON'T have a hardware choice. QuickBooks and the entire Adobe professional software suite are major pieces of software in extremely common use that are not available on Linux, not even through Wine.
Oh, but you do. You can use a different software package. And if it doesn't exist, you can write it. And if you can't, you can hire someone to write it. Then you can sell it, to all the people that don't like walled gardens. Then you'll be a BILLIONAIRE!!!
You're also completely ignoring the difference between a computer's administrator choosing to lock the system down vs. the manufacturer locking both users and administrators down. There are zero situations where a walled garden is a good thing. It's called vendor lock-in and you need to do more research on the subject before continuing to advocate for it; it's simply a universally evil action.
Once again - there is always a choice - even if you find it to be an unattractive one.
User has a choice to buy hardware without such restrictions.
No, the great thing is that people have options and you can choose one with a gatekeeper or not.
What is NOT great is acting like a gatekeeper by not allowing others to have a gatekeeper if they do choose.
So, from your own post, people have choices for hardware they can install anything they want on. If that is important to you, buy one of those pieces of hardware and leave the rest of us alone.
I will suggest you learn the difference between a chord and a cord.
They don't play well with corporate networks, they are virtually unserviceable, totally non-upgradeable now, have built-in 2-3 year obsolescence due to the glued-in batteries, and on the whole are a stupid waste of money.
Writing this on my Macbook Pro which is now 6 1/2 years old, and also works just fine on our corporate network, while running the very latest version of Apple's operating system.
It never ceases to amaze me how many mindless Apple zealots will stubbornly defend the abhorrent company who continuously screws them over more and more with each generation, and can't make a quality product without serious manufacturing flaws to save their life
It never ceases to amaze me how much people will bitch about products that they don't even use.
while the other half will be spent on preventing electricity prices from rising
If you are spending money to prevent prices from rising, you need to include that money in the price you are trying to lower.
You can hide the true price of something by subsidizing it so that buyers see a lower price, but that does not mean you are actually lowering the price. You are just obscuring that true cost.
They think whatever the government tells them to think about it.
If you take the position that if you do not observe it, it does not exist, that would explain a lot.
As for security...I do not care if phone payments are secure. I have no fraud liability. If I use my phone to pay at Target and someone grabs my credit card info, good for them! I can resolve it pretty quickly with a âoeno, not my chargeâ statement and a replacement credit card.
Speaking of things never observed...I have never had to close a credit card due to fraud.
Sure, if you want to.
Right. Because, you know, there is no way to turn a smartphone off and leave it in your coat pocket.
I do not have any millennials, and my life is going just fine as well.
I imagine it is like what I saw when I lived there, only worse now.
Corporations provide virtually everything I want for a comfortable life. Iâ(TM)ll take some shit from them.
European news just consists of detailing fines on American companies anyway.
Well, that and how Europe is destroying its own culture through its guilt-based immigration policies.
Try blocking the government from your life and see how far you get.
The govt gets a lot more of my money than any corporation does.
In the U.S, most roads are built by private contractors, using funds derived by private entities paying taxes.
The government does not build roads, it just acts as a middleman and drives up costs through regulation.
How certain are they that giving algorithms a sense of uncertainty is a good idea?
I donâ(TM)t need to pick two. I donâ(TM)t care about a headphone jack or a user replaceable battery. So Iâ(TM)ll just take the decent performance.
Screw govt regulations. Since the govt seems to know what is best, we can just have the govt design and build phones, and ban private manufacturing of them.
The most remote areas are likely lacking in robot surgeons, operating room facilities and 5G connections.
Hell, I propose a new standard: if you have cell phone connectivity, you are not all that remote.
He is not acting...