People will gladly give good reviews to things they haven't even tried out yet. And even if they tried it they probably have no clue how to validate its effectiveness. It's the yelp effect, let someone give a review and they'll jump on board and proclaim "best broccoli beef ever".
One medical product I had worked on had a picture of all the original developers hidden away, to be revealed with certain key presses. Over a decade later and with new grumpy owners, someone discovered this and management insisted it be removed. So the software people poured through the code and inspected things in the debugger but could not find how this was done. And the new owners were not happy about this, especially to see proof of the incompetence and rebellion coming from the acquired staff, and this became high priority to figure out. Eventually the easter egg source was discovered off in a hardware board that injected the picture into the normal data stream.
I was at one ultrasound company and I really really wanted to add a fake picture of an Alien(tm) fetus but never did.
It's survived in large part due to its wits, initiative, and billions and billions of dollars in military aid from the US. The public support in the US to continue this aid is drying up. When you've got a friend with a personal problem that they're not trying to deal with, at some point you just have to stop being an enabler.
Iran threatens to destroy Israel, which gains it some popular support back home. The US threatens to destroy Iran which also gains it popular support back home. Israel threatens to lob some big bombs and thus helps it maintain it's warhawk coalition.
So then, which of these are just political rhetoric and which of these threats are real? Maybe they're all real, or maybe they're all just posing for the voters.
Or maybe we should try to have some peace, it's the last thing our enemies will expect!
Self defense? Self defense is in protecting within your borders, not in expanding them and putting up more and more settlements on occupied land, and self defense is not about sabotaging ever single peace plan that comes along. Build a settlement, wait for the retaliation, then claim that the peace process is off because of the retaliation.
We have also said we want to wipe Iran from the map. Ah, but some say we're not taking it seriously, it's just to gain votes and we don't mean it. But both sides say stupid things they don't mean. Meanwhile, Iran is not building illegal settlements just to gain some support from the hardliners in the elections.
So ya, we claim that Iran has said they want to destroy us. However Iranians remember us singing that stupid song, they've heard the politicians asking to destroy Iran, and they've read all the boneheaded articles on Slashdot wanting to destroy Iran. So at the same time back in Iran they're trying to fan the flames of the hotheads there by saying "See, the US has said they want to eliminate us as a country!"
Risk a conventional war with *everyone* you mean. No one in the region is just going to sit back after Israel does a first strike act of war. The US isn't going to be backing up Israel either, the public support for their shennanigans is drying up.
Insurance companies have been evil lying bastards since the first day they crawled out of the primordial swamp. I'm amazed any politician from any party would support them. But no, they felt that had position Obama's plan as the worst thing ever in American history but claiming things were just great under the old system. In reality Obamacare is not very good at all but it's a helluva lot better than what we had before it.
We just needed to have held out a few days longer... The whole thing with Cuba is 100% political. We have economic ties with Vietnam and we *lost* a war with them, so why treat Cuba as the pariah? It's because Florida can help with political wins, and Florida is chock full of anti-Cuba people (first generation anyway, most of the second generation aren't nearly so rabid). It's like here in California, the older generation of Vietnamese immigrants are quick to call anyone who uses their parking space a dirty communist, but the next generation is much more level headed and have figured out that the war is over.
It's not like Cuba is building settlements on our land or anything.
I've not run across anything on Netflix that didn't have titles. The Netflix subtitles are superior to anything I've seen with close captioning or pirated anime.
Netflix also has captions. They're just noton every single thing available from Netflix. The same applies to Hulu or Amazon Prime as well, as it is an additional expense.
But the built in library discourages the creation of more portable HTML web pages which ultimately harms alternative browsers. You're still stuck in a world where things appear to work better with IE because sites are written that only work with Microsoft's quirks, or sites that use ActiveX, etc.
The point of unbundling Internet Explorer was to allow fair competition. That is, Microsoft's position as a monopoly with the OS should not give an adantage to IE or a disadvantage to other browsers. Thre are other applications that use Microsoft's HTML and rendering DLLs that can't use alternative Chrome or Mozilla DLLs for example. So there's still a built in prejudice, as Microsoft completely controls the rendering and parsing of any HTML used by those other applications; there's still no incentive to have a more portable HTML that works across browsers and ActiveX is still alive and well.
Removing just the IE wrapper around those DLLs was just a cynical attempt to comply with legal rulings while keeping an advantage over the competition.
No, it's funny. You just don't like it and feel compelled through some unknown force to whine about it rather than just look away. The complaints are even more aggravating than bad jokes ever could be. These are the sorts of people who are paid to leave comedy clubs.
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People will gladly give good reviews to things they haven't even tried out yet. And even if they tried it they probably have no clue how to validate its effectiveness. It's the yelp effect, let someone give a review and they'll jump on board and proclaim "best broccoli beef ever".
One medical product I had worked on had a picture of all the original developers hidden away, to be revealed with certain key presses. Over a decade later and with new grumpy owners, someone discovered this and management insisted it be removed. So the software people poured through the code and inspected things in the debugger but could not find how this was done. And the new owners were not happy about this, especially to see proof of the incompetence and rebellion coming from the acquired staff, and this became high priority to figure out. Eventually the easter egg source was discovered off in a hardware board that injected the picture into the normal data stream.
I was at one ultrasound company and I really really wanted to add a fake picture of an Alien(tm) fetus but never did.
It's survived in large part due to its wits, initiative, and billions and billions of dollars in military aid from the US. The public support in the US to continue this aid is drying up. When you've got a friend with a personal problem that they're not trying to deal with, at some point you just have to stop being an enabler.
Iran threatens to destroy Israel, which gains it some popular support back home. The US threatens to destroy Iran which also gains it popular support back home. Israel threatens to lob some big bombs and thus helps it maintain it's warhawk coalition.
So then, which of these are just political rhetoric and which of these threats are real? Maybe they're all real, or maybe they're all just posing for the voters.
Or maybe we should try to have some peace, it's the last thing our enemies will expect!
Don't forget, the US has only rarely upheld a treaty as well. It's evil negotiating with evil here.
Self defense? Self defense is in protecting within your borders, not in expanding them and putting up more and more settlements on occupied land, and self defense is not about sabotaging ever single peace plan that comes along. Build a settlement, wait for the retaliation, then claim that the peace process is off because of the retaliation.
We have also said we want to wipe Iran from the map. Ah, but some say we're not taking it seriously, it's just to gain votes and we don't mean it. But both sides say stupid things they don't mean. Meanwhile, Iran is not building illegal settlements just to gain some support from the hardliners in the elections.
So ya, we claim that Iran has said they want to destroy us. However Iranians remember us singing that stupid song, they've heard the politicians asking to destroy Iran, and they've read all the boneheaded articles on Slashdot wanting to destroy Iran. So at the same time back in Iran they're trying to fan the flames of the hotheads there by saying "See, the US has said they want to eliminate us as a country!"
Wait, I thought the US is the one that's broken most treaties since the day it was formed? Anyone who trusts it hasn't read their history books.
Risk a conventional war with *everyone* you mean. No one in the region is just going to sit back after Israel does a first strike act of war. The US isn't going to be backing up Israel either, the public support for their shennanigans is drying up.
Insurance companies have been evil lying bastards since the first day they crawled out of the primordial swamp. I'm amazed any politician from any party would support them. But no, they felt that had position Obama's plan as the worst thing ever in American history but claiming things were just great under the old system. In reality Obamacare is not very good at all but it's a helluva lot better than what we had before it.
We just needed to have held out a few days longer... The whole thing with Cuba is 100% political. We have economic ties with Vietnam and we *lost* a war with them, so why treat Cuba as the pariah? It's because Florida can help with political wins, and Florida is chock full of anti-Cuba people (first generation anyway, most of the second generation aren't nearly so rabid). It's like here in California, the older generation of Vietnamese immigrants are quick to call anyone who uses their parking space a dirty communist, but the next generation is much more level headed and have figured out that the war is over.
It's not like Cuba is building settlements on our land or anything.
Which ironically will be listed as one of his big successes.
And by money, we mean real money and not RSUs, stock grants, stock purchase plans, etc.
I've not run across anything on Netflix that didn't have titles. The Netflix subtitles are superior to anything I've seen with close captioning or pirated anime.
Netflix also has captions. They're just noton every single thing available from Netflix. The same applies to Hulu or Amazon Prime as well, as it is an additional expense.
You're a relative social butterfly just by having those unused accounts.
I think comparing Facebook to a chainsaw is a more suitable analogy.
What sort of job for someone who hangs out on slashdot would need to have a social networking footprint?
But the built in library discourages the creation of more portable HTML web pages which ultimately harms alternative browsers. You're still stuck in a world where things appear to work better with IE because sites are written that only work with Microsoft's quirks, or sites that use ActiveX, etc.
The point of unbundling Internet Explorer was to allow fair competition. That is, Microsoft's position as a monopoly with the OS should not give an adantage to IE or a disadvantage to other browsers. Thre are other applications that use Microsoft's HTML and rendering DLLs that can't use alternative Chrome or Mozilla DLLs for example. So there's still a built in prejudice, as Microsoft completely controls the rendering and parsing of any HTML used by those other applications; there's still no incentive to have a more portable HTML that works across browsers and ActiveX is still alive and well.
Removing just the IE wrapper around those DLLs was just a cynical attempt to comply with legal rulings while keeping an advantage over the competition.
Haha, people who are cheap don't buy macs...
I also seem to recall that Microsoft caving in to a government was one of the signs of the apocalypse.
No, it's funny. You just don't like it and feel compelled through some unknown force to whine about it rather than just look away. The complaints are even more aggravating than bad jokes ever could be. These are the sorts of people who are paid to leave comedy clubs.
And now it's time for the annual gripes from people with low tolerance for humor.