To make HTML5 work you also requires additional components not specified by HTML5. You hope they're all supplied by default by the browser maker but utlimately all you're getting is one company vetting their video versus a different company vetting a different video. And it's still proprietary.
It also points out there is no equality in justice. You need to be rich to get full access to the legal system. Whether it's a rich person with a grudge or a rich person taking on a righteous case or a rich person providing charity. Meanwhile we have citizens in jail only because they can't afford their court fees.
No one would care about Trump's hair, except that Trump is so incredibly sensitive about it. His defensiveness about the hair causes people to pay more attention to the hair. No one makes fun of Hillary's pantsuits much because she's doesn't become visibly angry when people make fun of her pantsuits. Same with Trump's hands - almost no one would have paid any attention to his hands if he hadn't gone and made a big deal about it when someone reported on it in Spy. It clearly pushed a button with Trump and so human nature means people keep trying to push that button.
Net Neutrality is not necessarily a right vs left or conservative vs liberal issue. The conservatives on the court are not going to reject it merely because a democrat is president. They have managed to have unanimous rulings.
It's HR boilerplate. They know nothing about the technology, but they know that for entry level they want degree plus course work in $X, for junior they want 5 years $X, and for senior they want 10 years $X and $Y. I've read a job description for our group once and showed it to my manager asking what position it was for, and he replied "wait, that's not what I wrote!"
If your job skills expire that fast, maybe you need a better job? My C/C++/assembler still is in demand. I tried Java once but it kept changing faster than I could keep up with it; hopefully it's more standardized these days. But anyone who's a decent programmer can learn a new language quickly; a new API or framework takes longer but you have to relearn all that on every job anyway. Unless of course, you're in a career that makes use of interchangeable monkeys.
Even when I don't code, I spend the majority of the day dealing with other people. Meetings, meetings about meetings, planning meetings, scrum meetings, all hands meetings, etc.
A few things sounded false. No friends at work in 6 years. That's a long time at a job to make no friends, not even work pseudo-friends to have lunch with. I have zero social skills and I make friends. And software QA. Yes you can automate it, but you can't automate it so that it runs for 6 years. New tests have to be written as new bugs and features show up. Even if you automate them all you still have to show up to the meetings to answer what the status of the tests are.
There was no evidence of terrorism, no evidence of any links to terrorist groups, no pledging of any support until just before the attack. You don't lock people up because they know someone who knows someone that the FBI is interested in.
Right, and a catholic who blows up a clinic was taking orders from the Pope? Would a neo-nazi be terrorism coming from Germany? Someone who claims allegiance to a group they've never met or communicated with is not a member of that group.
That's because people have difficulty separating theology from their local group code of conduct. Ie, parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan will have honor killings if a daughter marries someone not approved by the family, but this isn't a Muslim practice as you don't see it in most other predominantly Muslim countries, it is just a practice of those communities. Similarly you'd see Northern Irish catholics never attending mass but willing to plant bombs and blow up the enemy and claim it's because they're defending the religion that they pay lip service to. You see the Christian Identity movement which is essentially a bunch of neo-nazis tying racism to their religious beliefs (and it's not a smokescreen, they honestly believe their religious views).
This is why so many recruits for ISIS or Al Qaeda are not well educated theologically, or have come from certain Islamic schools (which are free) where someone with a distorted ideology can teach the young students whatever they want. Sure there *are* highly educated people in those groups too. The reasons to go and fight are not necessarily religious, but religion can be used as the excuse here. They see a fight in the middle east between the east and the west, they see western invasions, being used as a political game pieces over the centuries, and so forth. And it's easier to get people worked up and excited if it's framed as a war against Islam. Then present that idea to a bunch of young men with no hope of getting a decent job or education and you get the same sort of fervor you saw a century ago in Ireland.
And fundamentalists Buddhists are peaceful people who meditate a lot, until they start killing people with the wrong ethnicity. What happens is that a group identity gets tied up with both ethnicity and religion and it's difficult for people to separate those. "Fundamentalism" is the wrong word really except that it's the word the media likes to use a lot.
But everyone in America except for a tiny minority of native Americans is an immigrant or descended from immigrants. Timothy McVeigh was descended from genocidal immigrants.
I never liked Asimov's laws. It was an interesting plot device, something very unrealistic that you take as face value for the purpose of the story (like faster than light travel). But then it kept being brought back far too often, and readers took it too seriously. If humans are able to program/grow/imbue these laws in the first place then they'd be able to remove those laws as well.
True, it's a good point. They're basically doing what Amazon did, only with a bonus $10 ("no hard feeling!"). Companies with DRM don't eat the cost anymore; that's what customers are for.
Try that at a brick and mortar store. Rogue employee goes and says "all mobile phones free!" I'm pretty sure you can't get away with it, and the police will show up soon enough to make sure you don't insist on any right to steal.
I always thought that the DVR was still valid even for streaming. Except for entitle people who whine when they don't get unlimited bandwidth, most of the world will either have varying amounts of connectivity, or have peak periods that cost more, or other reasons to make the time of viewing different from the time of downloading. At the very least it spreads out the internet traffic over the day instead of having most of it during the evening television viewing hours. However content companies do not like this, the ability to download and then watch later at your own convenience is the equivalent of piracy to them.
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Then I'll stop visiting web sites that don't work with firefox.
To make HTML5 work you also requires additional components not specified by HTML5. You hope they're all supplied by default by the browser maker but utlimately all you're getting is one company vetting their video versus a different company vetting a different video. And it's still proprietary.
It also points out there is no equality in justice. You need to be rich to get full access to the legal system. Whether it's a rich person with a grudge or a rich person taking on a righteous case or a rich person providing charity. Meanwhile we have citizens in jail only because they can't afford their court fees.
No one would care about Trump's hair, except that Trump is so incredibly sensitive about it. His defensiveness about the hair causes people to pay more attention to the hair. No one makes fun of Hillary's pantsuits much because she's doesn't become visibly angry when people make fun of her pantsuits. Same with Trump's hands - almost no one would have paid any attention to his hands if he hadn't gone and made a big deal about it when someone reported on it in Spy. It clearly pushed a button with Trump and so human nature means people keep trying to push that button.
Net Neutrality is not necessarily a right vs left or conservative vs liberal issue. The conservatives on the court are not going to reject it merely because a democrat is president. They have managed to have unanimous rulings.
It's HR boilerplate. They know nothing about the technology, but they know that for entry level they want degree plus course work in $X, for junior they want 5 years $X, and for senior they want 10 years $X and $Y. I've read a job description for our group once and showed it to my manager asking what position it was for, and he replied "wait, that's not what I wrote!"
League of Legends addict, so that adds up to a whole lot of pizza to pay for over the years.
If your job skills expire that fast, maybe you need a better job? My C/C++/assembler still is in demand. I tried Java once but it kept changing faster than I could keep up with it; hopefully it's more standardized these days. But anyone who's a decent programmer can learn a new language quickly; a new API or framework takes longer but you have to relearn all that on every job anyway. Unless of course, you're in a career that makes use of interchangeable monkeys.
Even when I don't code, I spend the majority of the day dealing with other people. Meetings, meetings about meetings, planning meetings, scrum meetings, all hands meetings, etc.
A few things sounded false. No friends at work in 6 years. That's a long time at a job to make no friends, not even work pseudo-friends to have lunch with. I have zero social skills and I make friends.
And software QA. Yes you can automate it, but you can't automate it so that it runs for 6 years. New tests have to be written as new bugs and features show up. Even if you automate them all you still have to show up to the meetings to answer what the status of the tests are.
I'm not saying it was aliens. But... aliens.
There was no evidence of terrorism, no evidence of any links to terrorist groups, no pledging of any support until just before the attack. You don't lock people up because they know someone who knows someone that the FBI is interested in.
Right, and a catholic who blows up a clinic was taking orders from the Pope? Would a neo-nazi be terrorism coming from Germany? Someone who claims allegiance to a group they've never met or communicated with is not a member of that group.
That's because people have difficulty separating theology from their local group code of conduct. Ie, parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan will have honor killings if a daughter marries someone not approved by the family, but this isn't a Muslim practice as you don't see it in most other predominantly Muslim countries, it is just a practice of those communities. Similarly you'd see Northern Irish catholics never attending mass but willing to plant bombs and blow up the enemy and claim it's because they're defending the religion that they pay lip service to. You see the Christian Identity movement which is essentially a bunch of neo-nazis tying racism to their religious beliefs (and it's not a smokescreen, they honestly believe their religious views).
This is why so many recruits for ISIS or Al Qaeda are not well educated theologically, or have come from certain Islamic schools (which are free) where someone with a distorted ideology can teach the young students whatever they want. Sure there *are* highly educated people in those groups too. The reasons to go and fight are not necessarily religious, but religion can be used as the excuse here. They see a fight in the middle east between the east and the west, they see western invasions, being used as a political game pieces over the centuries, and so forth. And it's easier to get people worked up and excited if it's framed as a war against Islam. Then present that idea to a bunch of young men with no hope of getting a decent job or education and you get the same sort of fervor you saw a century ago in Ireland.
And fundamentalists Buddhists are peaceful people who meditate a lot, until they start killing people with the wrong ethnicity. What happens is that a group identity gets tied up with both ethnicity and religion and it's difficult for people to separate those. "Fundamentalism" is the wrong word really except that it's the word the media likes to use a lot.
Depends upon how you define "religion". I know a lot of religious cyclists - they spend all day trying to convert others to become cyclists.
Ideology conflicts with reality and human nature.
But everyone in America except for a tiny minority of native Americans is an immigrant or descended from immigrants. Timothy McVeigh was descended from genocidal immigrants.
I never liked Asimov's laws. It was an interesting plot device, something very unrealistic that you take as face value for the purpose of the story (like faster than light travel). But then it kept being brought back far too often, and readers took it too seriously. If humans are able to program/grow/imbue these laws in the first place then they'd be able to remove those laws as well.
This fails to work if there really are geniuses at the genius bar though.
True, it's a good point. They're basically doing what Amazon did, only with a bonus $10 ("no hard feeling!"). Companies with DRM don't eat the cost anymore; that's what customers are for.
On the other hand, Microsoft would have had to pay Bethesda for the lost revenue, as it's not their game to give away for free even if they wanted to.
It takes someone of low intelligence to assume that the $0 price was real and not just a mistake.
Try that at a brick and mortar store. Rogue employee goes and says "all mobile phones free!" I'm pretty sure you can't get away with it, and the police will show up soon enough to make sure you don't insist on any right to steal.
Or a DVR type device would work too, so it's usable on your TV.
I always thought that the DVR was still valid even for streaming. Except for entitle people who whine when they don't get unlimited bandwidth, most of the world will either have varying amounts of connectivity, or have peak periods that cost more, or other reasons to make the time of viewing different from the time of downloading. At the very least it spreads out the internet traffic over the day instead of having most of it during the evening television viewing hours. However content companies do not like this, the ability to download and then watch later at your own convenience is the equivalent of piracy to them.