Generally human rights abuses tend to refer to things like imprisonment without a trial merely because you disagree with the government, not someone who has to click an extra button or two before finding porn.
OSX definitely has usability in mind. It's the only laptop I've used that is actually usable. Sure it has flaws, but it makes Windows feel like amateur experiments. Linux UIs though, ugh, even the latest versions feel like a mix of a retro style that you know how to use but is clumsy combined with ultra modern that is obtuse and never does what you want; in some ways like Windows 8/10 with its two incompatible UIs operating at the same time.
Commuting is my time, and I'm not going to waste my time working. Maybe I'll catch up on email while commuting, which mostly is a lot of deleting which is more efficient to do at the office anyway. On a plane flight I'll watch a movie, read a book, try to futilely take a nap. On the commute to work I'll stare out the window. Someone who feels compelled to work is either a workaholic or has deluded themselves into thinking it matters.
They're probably assuming the worst for flying and the best for hyperloop. Ie waiting for boarding, baggage claim, things like that. Their diagram shows the trip from the downtown to the airport which is an amount of time, and then from airport to downtown Stockholm, a much larger chunk of time, distances not included in their hyperloop numbers.
Also helps if bandwidth is lower or spotty. Netflix dynamically adjust quality depending upon the download speed. So if you could pre-download all of it then you could get the highest quality picture even if you're on basic DSL. Or if you like, choose to manually download medium quality (if Netflix adds this option) and so reduce overall bandwidth.
To me number of apps is irrelevant. Apple may have millions of apps but there are only a handful worth getting (even the free ones). There's the business phone, the productivity phone, but everyone's buying the social networking phone.
But that doesn't mean they'll go back to cable. When Netflix runs out of stuff to watch then I'll stop watching TV. If you can get caught up for 2 months out of the year and spend 10 months unsubscribed and not watching TV, then that's a very good thing and not something to be criticized.
What the hell? 32 bit cpus are everywhere. The article is talking about PC builds, x86 clones in other words, only a Wintel person actually thinks that is the only arcthitecture out there. Meanwhile if you look at the Linux kernel it has 29 different architectures it supports.
Except that a smartphone hides much of that screen space when it pops up a touch sensitive keyboard. The blackberry classic actually looks like it has the same amount of screen space that my phone has when sending email. Basically I can't send email on my phone since it lacks a competent textual input device, a reasonable amount of screen space, find control over cursor placement, and so forth. At least with the Blackberry there's actual tactile feed back that you're on the right key so that you're not relying on a bad spell checker to fix up your typos as much.
Of course, other EU members have the same problems. Britain isn't unique here. While there were more rationale reasons for leaving the EU the aftermath of the vote seems to show that a lot of people accepted the simplistic reasons. Similarly all the states in the US are obliged to follow federal rules even when they don't make sense. When a region decides to leave because they don't like more distant rules then where does it stop, does it keep fracturing until there are only city states left, or smaller?
As for globalization as some have said, that's not quite right, it's really about the European neighbors right next door and not about shipping jobs off to third world countries in a different hemisphere. Maybe it's a British thing, since everyone in the world assumes the UK is European except for the British.
The trick is if they can keep the same trading deals that they had while in the EU, otherwise they'll feel the pain of going it alone. They weren't that strong economically before, except for London's financial sector.
Basically there were too things that propelled the Leave vote. First the lie that Brits had no representation in the EU (even some using the phrase "no taxation without representation"), except that the UK had representation in the EU, all member nations do. Sure they don't always get their way but that's true for all unions. Ie, California does not get it's way and is overridden by Washington but it doesn't throw a fit and demand to leave, since part of being a democracy is realizing that you don't always get the majority vote.
Second, a big push was the idea that they'd get rid of all the non-Brits if they left the EU. First off, amazingly racist and there is currently a big surge in racism in the UK. Many of those people with the wrong color were born in the UK, they can't be kicked out and the government will never allow it and will never have a majority "kick out the damn foreigners" faction. Who cares if the department has Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, and Greek staff? Is he really so stupid that the thinks a true blooded Brit would do a better job? No one is firing qualified British doctors to replace them with foreign workers, the foreign workers are getting the jobs because there's a demand for health care professionals that isn't being filled by the locals.
Remember we had garbage collection before Java or C++ ever existed. And yet you see idiots who seem to think that it was invented along with Java despite having such a horrible implementation, and others who seem to think reference counting is the way to do it.
I started at the university in 81, and even back then there was immense pressure for companies to turn themselves into mere trade schools. They wanted graduates who had entry level oriented skills. They complained that the intro level course taught in Pascal for instance. And this has been going on continually ever since. They think that only the senior level people need to know the smart stuff but then fail to understand that senior people all start out as junior people.
Well, we have catering. The old folks love it. I don't think that's a millenial feature, just a nice feature that makes sure people are in the office and spend a half hour for lunch versus everyone vanishing for two hours while they go out hunting for places to eat.
The problem is that the young'uns think they know everything. They refuse to learn anything else. So they reinvent the wheel because they refuse to acknowledge that it was already done. Or if a different young'un invents it, the other young'uns will applaud them and call it a wonderful thing and fail to notice that everyone's been using that technique for fifty years. And then they go about bragging about all the classes they skipped, all the classes that were a waste of time, and that they learned everything they know in a couple months while on the beach in Belize.
The employers never say that want anyone to work more than 40 hours, that's illegal. What I see are employees voluntarily doing this because they are misled or mislead themselves into believing they must work longer. Older workers have more experience to realize when they're being conned.
When the jobs actually require experience then the older workers get the jobs at a much higher rate. When the jobs require tedious repetition and simplistic programmer/engineering, or is a job with thousands applying for the one open spot, then the younger workers get the jobs. Best bet is to specialize in something that most people don't do rather than be a cookie cutter clone who only knows the fashionable fads of the day.
There was nothing wrong with that scenario though. Microsoft however seems to feel that their convenience is more important than the user's convenience. After all, being a monopoly means you should be able to kick the customer in the nads and the customer will apologize for getting in the foot's way.
I think they were planning a virus that formed a big "Get Windows 10 Now" rash on your chest that you would read in the mirror every time you got out of the shower, but they stopped development on it when all their QA team were hospitalized.
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Generally human rights abuses tend to refer to things like imprisonment without a trial merely because you disagree with the government, not someone who has to click an extra button or two before finding porn.
OSX definitely has usability in mind. It's the only laptop I've used that is actually usable. Sure it has flaws, but it makes Windows feel like amateur experiments. Linux UIs though, ugh, even the latest versions feel like a mix of a retro style that you know how to use but is clumsy combined with ultra modern that is obtuse and never does what you want; in some ways like Windows 8/10 with its two incompatible UIs operating at the same time.
The same list of "lacks" that Trump as too. It's really getting harder to figure out the less of the two evils these days.
Commuting is my time, and I'm not going to waste my time working. Maybe I'll catch up on email while commuting, which mostly is a lot of deleting which is more efficient to do at the office anyway. On a plane flight I'll watch a movie, read a book, try to futilely take a nap. On the commute to work I'll stare out the window. Someone who feels compelled to work is either a workaholic or has deluded themselves into thinking it matters.
The plan is that if it stops being profitable then Microsoft will buy it out.
They're probably assuming the worst for flying and the best for hyperloop. Ie waiting for boarding, baggage claim, things like that. Their diagram shows the trip from the downtown to the airport which is an amount of time, and then from airport to downtown Stockholm, a much larger chunk of time, distances not included in their hyperloop numbers.
Also helps if bandwidth is lower or spotty. Netflix dynamically adjust quality depending upon the download speed. So if you could pre-download all of it then you could get the highest quality picture even if you're on basic DSL. Or if you like, choose to manually download medium quality (if Netflix adds this option) and so reduce overall bandwidth.
Also the difference between "can" and "can legally".
To me number of apps is irrelevant. Apple may have millions of apps but there are only a handful worth getting (even the free ones). There's the business phone, the productivity phone, but everyone's buying the social networking phone.
Neither blinked but their eyes got so dried out that they couldn't see what they were signing anymore.
But that doesn't mean they'll go back to cable. When Netflix runs out of stuff to watch then I'll stop watching TV. If you can get caught up for 2 months out of the year and spend 10 months unsubscribed and not watching TV, then that's a very good thing and not something to be criticized.
What the hell? 32 bit cpus are everywhere. The article is talking about PC builds, x86 clones in other words, only a Wintel person actually thinks that is the only arcthitecture out there. Meanwhile if you look at the Linux kernel it has 29 different architectures it supports.
Except that a smartphone hides much of that screen space when it pops up a touch sensitive keyboard. The blackberry classic actually looks like it has the same amount of screen space that my phone has when sending email. Basically I can't send email on my phone since it lacks a competent textual input device, a reasonable amount of screen space, find control over cursor placement, and so forth. At least with the Blackberry there's actual tactile feed back that you're on the right key so that you're not relying on a bad spell checker to fix up your typos as much.
Of course, other EU members have the same problems. Britain isn't unique here. While there were more rationale reasons for leaving the EU the aftermath of the vote seems to show that a lot of people accepted the simplistic reasons. Similarly all the states in the US are obliged to follow federal rules even when they don't make sense. When a region decides to leave because they don't like more distant rules then where does it stop, does it keep fracturing until there are only city states left, or smaller?
As for globalization as some have said, that's not quite right, it's really about the European neighbors right next door and not about shipping jobs off to third world countries in a different hemisphere. Maybe it's a British thing, since everyone in the world assumes the UK is European except for the British.
The trick is if they can keep the same trading deals that they had while in the EU, otherwise they'll feel the pain of going it alone. They weren't that strong economically before, except for London's financial sector.
British representatives are chosen by elected representatives.
If it's not a matter of race then why is there a sudden upsurge in racism in the UK? Coincidence?
Basically there were too things that propelled the Leave vote. First the lie that Brits had no representation in the EU (even some using the phrase "no taxation without representation"), except that the UK had representation in the EU, all member nations do. Sure they don't always get their way but that's true for all unions. Ie, California does not get it's way and is overridden by Washington but it doesn't throw a fit and demand to leave, since part of being a democracy is realizing that you don't always get the majority vote.
Second, a big push was the idea that they'd get rid of all the non-Brits if they left the EU. First off, amazingly racist and there is currently a big surge in racism in the UK. Many of those people with the wrong color were born in the UK, they can't be kicked out and the government will never allow it and will never have a majority "kick out the damn foreigners" faction. Who cares if the department has Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, and Greek staff? Is he really so stupid that the thinks a true blooded Brit would do a better job? No one is firing qualified British doctors to replace them with foreign workers, the foreign workers are getting the jobs because there's a demand for health care professionals that isn't being filled by the locals.
Remember we had garbage collection before Java or C++ ever existed. And yet you see idiots who seem to think that it was invented along with Java despite having such a horrible implementation, and others who seem to think reference counting is the way to do it.
I started at the university in 81, and even back then there was immense pressure for companies to turn themselves into mere trade schools. They wanted graduates who had entry level oriented skills. They complained that the intro level course taught in Pascal for instance. And this has been going on continually ever since. They think that only the senior level people need to know the smart stuff but then fail to understand that senior people all start out as junior people.
Well, we have catering. The old folks love it. I don't think that's a millenial feature, just a nice feature that makes sure people are in the office and spend a half hour for lunch versus everyone vanishing for two hours while they go out hunting for places to eat.
The problem is that the young'uns think they know everything. They refuse to learn anything else. So they reinvent the wheel because they refuse to acknowledge that it was already done. Or if a different young'un invents it, the other young'uns will applaud them and call it a wonderful thing and fail to notice that everyone's been using that technique for fifty years. And then they go about bragging about all the classes they skipped, all the classes that were a waste of time, and that they learned everything they know in a couple months while on the beach in Belize.
Anyone with a brain should refuse to work longer than is allowed by law. Meanwhile we have engineers taking paternity leave at the moment.
The employers never say that want anyone to work more than 40 hours, that's illegal. What I see are employees voluntarily doing this because they are misled or mislead themselves into believing they must work longer. Older workers have more experience to realize when they're being conned.
When the jobs actually require experience then the older workers get the jobs at a much higher rate. When the jobs require tedious repetition and simplistic programmer/engineering, or is a job with thousands applying for the one open spot, then the younger workers get the jobs. Best bet is to specialize in something that most people don't do rather than be a cookie cutter clone who only knows the fashionable fads of the day.
There was nothing wrong with that scenario though. Microsoft however seems to feel that their convenience is more important than the user's convenience. After all, being a monopoly means you should be able to kick the customer in the nads and the customer will apologize for getting in the foot's way.
The explanation making sense to me is that they're being run by morons, just like most corporations in the world.
I think they were planning a virus that formed a big "Get Windows 10 Now" rash on your chest that you would read in the mirror every time you got out of the shower, but they stopped development on it when all their QA team were hospitalized.
Geeks don't need gadgets. A true geek would look at a tablet and shun it with disdain as something only useful for teenagers on social media.