Although the term "psychopath" typically has negative connotations, some of the attributes associated with the disorder can be advantageous in a business setting.
What does this tell us about our economic system?
Well, it's not like the US has a monopoly on psychos. We got's us some darn good ones though.
and China robo factory may make acid rain to in acid downpours
Look for when the Yuan replaces the dollar as the international currency. That'll be the sign that "shit's gonna get real."
Now as much as I dislike their form of government, I'm pretty certain China will clean up their act pretty well. Even a dictatorship won't last if the majority of people aren't being placated.
Around here kids are banned from school(primary and secondary) if they don't have up to date immunization records, or a reasonable reason to why they're not immunized(i.e. severe reactions). Considering the absolute shit that happened a few years back with multiple measles, mumps and rubella, not to mention whooping cough outbreaks, it's nothing but a good option.
Having contracted whooping cough after herd immunity went away, about 8 years ago. I can say with authority that if you can do anything to avoid watching your child whoop, lose consciousness and die right before your eyes of an easily avoidable illness, you better do it. Because if you don't, you're complicit in their death.
Damn near killed me. and the whoops had a nasty tendency to happen when I was all alone. They hit whenyou are at the bottom of a breathing cycle, and the whole world actually turns kinda brown and dark, and fortunately the spasms stopped and I recovered, but I have no patience at all for these child abusers who put their children at risk of death.
That America might not exist in the next industrial Revolution. Even odds that it will collapse in the same manner as 1989 USSR.
Popcorn and Tequila party a-brewing.
I am going to go out on a limb and say it's a cultural thing, but that's still discrimination. I will even be as bold to say that some females discriminate against themselves. They may be very capable of succeeding in the tech industry, but have come to the conclusion that they aren't because they don't fit the stereotype of a tech worker.
So the solution might just be forcing females into jobs to achieve the for some reason correct ratio of male to female, until they discover that they really like the job they weren't interested in?
Perhaps a good question, is what is the harm done by a gender imbalance in the Tech field? Then, what is the harm done by an imbalance in say, veterinary science, where there are almost no males?
I've never been able to get anyone on Slashdot to address that one.
Women are obtaining 61% of the Masters degrees in the US, the majority of which are NOT STEM RELATED!
A problem is arising out of that as well. Mates. As a gender most women want to "marry up" when dealing with men as mates. But the numbers speak for themselves. It becomes a huge issue when her degree is in one of the "fries with that?" degrees like gender studies, where careers are rare. You have a lot of women, and very few guys that meet her demands.
I've been on record after workingg for years to try to get young ladies interested in STEM, and overwhelmingly, they are not. Not interested in the least. And the few that are, just happened to be women who became interested in the traditional way. They just knew.
I do not think that it is outside of logic and common sense to believe that there are some differences in the way male and femal brains work. This is apparently an illegal opinion.
Once again we have pure propaganda creating a false narrative with a single fact where hundreds would need to be analyzed. Do sane people actually have to contemplate why many people call "Leftism" a mental disease?
Ah, I suppose when you take anyone who might disagree with you, and assign to them the furthes left, most radical ideas whether they believe that or not.
There are really not many people who consider third wave feminists as anything but radical kooks. On either side of the middle ground.
It would be like me declaring you a menber of the Ku Klux Klan, and wanting to line up gays and anyone you don'y like and killing them in the name of God, declaring the constitution null and void, and establishing a theocracy, and making everyone convert to it or face the consequences. of their infidelity.
That may seem obvious to us, but remember that the average person doesn't think of it that way. There still isn't much realization that all apps get internet access and many of them spy on you with it.
If people don't understand by this time that "apps" send data to someplace. That if there is data, it must be there for some reason. Then they simply never will. Shall we kill the internet because decades after it's inception that some folks don't and I postulate either can't understand, or just don't care.
People managed to masturbate since there were people, long before the internet. If they think that a special "app" is now needed to jill off, they need to get a grip.
No matter how many times people repeat this nonsense on Slashdot, it does not change the simple fact the average people do not understand this. Average people do not realize yet that "internet connected" means "spyware." They still think that they can buy an IoT device, like a vibrator, and use the features in honest privacy. It's a big problem. If we wanted to make the world a better place, we would push for a boycott WeVibe and anyone else caught doing this shit.
The idea that humans are entitled to wander around in blissful ignorance of every damn thing in the universe, that someone else is responsible and that learning about things is somehow the worst possible thing tht anyone can do, is as our friends across the ocean say - utter shite and bollocks.
We've been seeing this sort of inanity where people try to invalidate the laws of physics. Every time there is a snowstorm here in the Northeast, a whole shitload of Einsteins learn but do not learn that you cannot go 85 miles per hour, 3 feet from the person in front of you, on snowy roads in a whiteout. We had a fine 40 some car pileup a week or so ago.
Then after these, one of these geniuses can be found on Television, blaming the weather people, and the road maintenence crews for not knowing exactly where that whiteout would occur. Bullshit in the extreme.
Ignorance is never ever an excuse, except for stupid people who would rather blame all their problems on someone else. The internet was never designed to be secure. If people don't know by now that anything you put there is open, and people will do what they will with that data.
Loneliness is a significant health risk which causes a person's death risk to increase.
There's that old correlation/causation thing again. A depressed and withdrawn person is going to be lonely. But the cause of the lonliness is alomst certainly the depression. A person such as myself functions better and recharges the mental batteries by being alone. Alone != lonely.
Having kids gives you someone to care about, and someone who cares about you, and someone you see on a regular basis. That does a lot to decrease your loneliness.
You're taking your own mental state and insisting it is everyone's. It isn't. Western society at present favors the extrovert, who needs to be around people, and suffers when they aren't. Present day social pressures have made having wife and children extremely risky for men. So it is completely possible to have a rich life without the present day entanglements of a spouse and children.
Must do wonders for your self-esteem to know that you're only getting some because of your bank balance. lol. Each to their own I guess.
Its a hellava hit on the old ego. But yes, men are disposable utilities. You don't think that that bank balance isn't attracting the love of your life soul mate woman? Life is what it is, make the most of it.
As some wag once wrote, "If I had a dollar for every woman that found me unattractive, pretty soon, they'd find me attractive." And on that note: http://beforeitsnews.com/media...
Good thing that at least some of those people who shouldn't raise kids have the sense not to do so.
And it's growing. Many people have done a risk/reward analysis, and marriage and children have become something to avoid rather than do. If you marry, you are very likely to end up divorced, and if you have children, you will end up paying for them through their early 20's, perhaps longer.
And as we've seen from some of the comments, they will resent you.
A lot of sociologist types are kind of worried about this trend. Which is why we are seeing these kind of stories. Next up will be how married men make more money.
I don't know what you mean by that last bit. Do you mean recent graduates consider such jobs to be beneath them? Or do you mean HRtards will sniff and say it's not relevant experience?
In so many cases today, the adult child can stay with mom and dad. Many graduates have never worked a job, and have a wildly distorted idea of how one gets ahead in the world. All of the Millennials I worked with were working their first job. Certainly all but two of the millenials I have worked with had exaggerated ideas about how they were going to move up.
Now it is true that after the big shock of reality immersion, a fair number of those who don't have the moveback option end up having to take those jobs they considered beneath them.
Once again, these adult children are only reacting in the way they were raised.
This is a dumb statement that is neither true, nor should be true.
While you are right, we get wrapped around axles when we try to define it. Is humor that refers to a dark part of a countries past "hate speech"?Bill Maher might need indicted, as well as half of the internetz
Which is to say, can the modern German Government demand that any references to Nazi Germany be removed from Facebook - or that Godwin needs extradited to Munich and be put on trial?.
Some things are obvious. Death threats or threats of violence should be obvious. How about disparging remarks about a country's leaders? How about saying you hate someone. That is the very definition of hate speech.
Next, do we then remove all content that anyone anywhere finds hateful? I get annoyed as hell about some of my relatives postings, and they sure as hell hate who they are posting about.
This is not hacking a smartphone. This is A) 'biasing output' or making it look like one has put in more steps for the day, and B) 'controlling output' or spelling a word with the graph of acceleration/time using tight sound manipulation of an accelerometer.
Our headlines have been getting more hyperbolic, with this and the "Rogue Robot" killing it's handler.
Next we'll be hearing about how O'Bama wiretapped Trump Tower or how he did it with Microwave ovens.......
If you can execute arbitrary code on a target machine it's not a whole lot of steps further to have it "play a song" that pipes out a stream representing your personal (or other private) information. That'd let you "hack into" even an air-gapped machine.
As long as you wear a tinfoil hat, you should be safe.
I hear this year after year about how college grads have a hard time finding jobs. When I got out of college, I was already well into my second decade of coding experience, and nobody wanted to hire me because nobody wants to hire a n00b with no professional experience. But I stuck to it and I took a few lousy jobs to build up my resume and get some experience. Years later, I make good money now as a dev, and I have no shortage of job offers. I feel like each generation goes through this, was there ever a group of kids that got instantly hired up fresh out of college without any effort?
This! Exactly this. My first jobs were as a pizza cook, a flower delivery person, a lifeguard, then I got a shit job as a Technician. After that, it was movin' on up. But I started pretty low on the food chain. This apparently will not do today.
Sad, the millenials, having been taught by their parents and teachers that they are the center of the universe, expect extremely rapid promotions if they aren't hired right into management.
I don't blame them, but their parents. But now that they are getting a dose of real life, they have to get on with it.
This isn't remotely new. But more to the point, at some point, every damn problem in the world has to stop being the fault of teh evil Boomers.
We might ask why the child only got 4 interviews out of 250 resumes submitted. As well, the number of resumes submitted means nothing in theis day of internet jobsites. I know a fellow who has a degree in Aerospace engineering, but is working as a waiter. You ask why, and there is often na answer in the reply. Sometimes it's not wanting to move to where the jobs are, sometimes and attitude problem, sometimes someone wanting to start out at the top, and sometimes not being all that endowed with energy or drive. Especially drive.
Unfortunately, millennials have been badly served by their parents, and a school system that wants to hand out participation trophies for last place finishes.
It was shocking at work to watch the millennials show up at work so utterly unprepared for adult life. On a snowy day, they were no where to be found. They had unrealistic expectations of their place in the workplace. And yes, Mommy got phone calls because the boss was mean. Then boss got phone calls. Then HR got to explain to the kids that they were the employees, not mommy. I had some tell me they wouldn't answer my phone calls, that I had to text them. As they say, that shit don't flush. And with 2 exceptions in my workplace, the millennials burnt out and left.
Angering, but I temper it with the bad hand they were dealt in protecting them fmor everything in life.
Unfortunately, in their parent's demands to shield them from any adversity, and to occupy them 24/7, and teachers going on the wild-ass experiment of inculcating them with high self esteem without any accomplishments to merit it, the millenials were so fucked over that they might be in their late 40's by the time they recover to be high functioning members of society. And heaven help the young ladies who have been inculcated with the idea that everyone on earth wants to screw them, and that men are 100 percent evil.
But - all that being said, no one gives us a free ride through life. I didn't have the most wonderful upbringing, yet I quickly figured out what the price of success was. I also figured out that if I was to be successful, I was going to have to make myself fit success, not make the world fit me. That might be the hardest lessonfor people that have been taught that they are the most important people in the whole world, and that it revolves around them.
I sure wish the Surface Pro and Surface Book would run under OS X. Neat hardware but the OS just annoys me too much.
Of course, if Apple continues on it's current path, the annoyance level of OS X^HmacOS and Windows 12 will converge sometime during Trump's second term.
But by then I'll be spending too much on healthcare to care about computers......
Looks like the meds are wearing off again. Time for a refill.
Hey - I give you credit for a real mashup of subjects - that's pretty cool.
Anyhow, NyQuil and an AlkaSeltzer Plus will work in a pinch.
[My Mac] has some software I must use that is not available on the Windows platform.
For future reference, what might that happen to be? I mentioned Xcode because it's probably the most salient example of such to Slashdot users.
I do use Xcode some, Final Cut and it's audio support programs. The amount of time spent learning the PC vid programs which I've tried is not financially sensible, and aren't as good, IMO. I might save a couple hundred on a computer, and spend 50K on the learning curve. In addition, the Windows machines are the least reliable, breaking fairly often on updates.
Side note - I'm probably not all that typical of a Slashdot user. I'm not really a programmer, just know enough to get by, or mainly to keep from being bullshitted by programmers. My forte' is video and photo work, and RF communications as related to computers. Weird mashup, and no doubt. The computer part came about from being pressed into service as support when the Suits I work with couldn't get support from the people who were supposed to be doing it. Most of the IT staff were afraid of the suits, and were too nervous to think, which was plain odd. So that is probably why I piss off some people here - I have a different perspective
There are people out there who look at the purchase cost of a computer, and that is the Alpha and Omega. Nothing else matters. Some of us aren't built that way. My computers, Mac, PC, or Linux are simply tools that allow me to do my work. The cost of that computer is insignificant compared to professional software and labor costs.
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What does this tell us about our economic system?
Well, it's not like the US has a monopoly on psychos. We got's us some darn good ones though.
and China robo factory may make acid rain to in acid downpours
Look for when the Yuan replaces the dollar as the international currency. That'll be the sign that "shit's gonna get real."
Now as much as I dislike their form of government, I'm pretty certain China will clean up their act pretty well. Even a dictatorship won't last if the majority of people aren't being placated.
You do realize that the fall of the Roman Empire threw Europe into what is commonly known as the dark ages, right?
"Surviving the fall" is always a lot more pleasant from the perspective of a few hundred or more years.
Around here kids are banned from school(primary and secondary) if they don't have up to date immunization records, or a reasonable reason to why they're not immunized(i.e. severe reactions). Considering the absolute shit that happened a few years back with multiple measles, mumps and rubella, not to mention whooping cough outbreaks, it's nothing but a good option.
Having contracted whooping cough after herd immunity went away, about 8 years ago. I can say with authority that if you can do anything to avoid watching your child whoop, lose consciousness and die right before your eyes of an easily avoidable illness, you better do it. Because if you don't, you're complicit in their death.
Damn near killed me. and the whoops had a nasty tendency to happen when I was all alone. They hit whenyou are at the bottom of a breathing cycle, and the whole world actually turns kinda brown and dark, and fortunately the spasms stopped and I recovered, but I have no patience at all for these child abusers who put their children at risk of death.
That America might not exist in the next industrial Revolution. Even odds that it will collapse in the same manner as 1989 USSR. Popcorn and Tequila party a-brewing.
I am going to go out on a limb and say it's a cultural thing, but that's still discrimination. I will even be as bold to say that some females discriminate against themselves. They may be very capable of succeeding in the tech industry, but have come to the conclusion that they aren't because they don't fit the stereotype of a tech worker.
So the solution might just be forcing females into jobs to achieve the for some reason correct ratio of male to female, until they discover that they really like the job they weren't interested in? Perhaps a good question, is what is the harm done by a gender imbalance in the Tech field? Then, what is the harm done by an imbalance in say, veterinary science, where there are almost no males?
I've never been able to get anyone on Slashdot to address that one.
Women are obtaining 61% of the Masters degrees in the US, the majority of which are NOT STEM RELATED!
A problem is arising out of that as well. Mates. As a gender most women want to "marry up" when dealing with men as mates. But the numbers speak for themselves. It becomes a huge issue when her degree is in one of the "fries with that?" degrees like gender studies, where careers are rare. You have a lot of women, and very few guys that meet her demands.
I've been on record after workingg for years to try to get young ladies interested in STEM, and overwhelmingly, they are not. Not interested in the least. And the few that are, just happened to be women who became interested in the traditional way. They just knew.
I do not think that it is outside of logic and common sense to believe that there are some differences in the way male and femal brains work. This is apparently an illegal opinion.
Once again we have pure propaganda creating a false narrative with a single fact where hundreds would need to be analyzed. Do sane people actually have to contemplate why many people call "Leftism" a mental disease?
Ah, I suppose when you take anyone who might disagree with you, and assign to them the furthes left, most radical ideas whether they believe that or not.
There are really not many people who consider third wave feminists as anything but radical kooks. On either side of the middle ground. It would be like me declaring you a menber of the Ku Klux Klan, and wanting to line up gays and anyone you don'y like and killing them in the name of God, declaring the constitution null and void, and establishing a theocracy, and making everyone convert to it or face the consequences. of their infidelity.
So are you?
That may seem obvious to us, but remember that the average person doesn't think of it that way. There still isn't much realization that all apps get internet access and many of them spy on you with it.
If people don't understand by this time that "apps" send data to someplace. That if there is data, it must be there for some reason. Then they simply never will. Shall we kill the internet because decades after it's inception that some folks don't and I postulate either can't understand, or just don't care.
People managed to masturbate since there were people, long before the internet. If they think that a special "app" is now needed to jill off, they need to get a grip.
No matter how many times people repeat this nonsense on Slashdot, it does not change the simple fact the average people do not understand this. Average people do not realize yet that "internet connected" means "spyware." They still think that they can buy an IoT device, like a vibrator, and use the features in honest privacy. It's a big problem. If we wanted to make the world a better place, we would push for a boycott WeVibe and anyone else caught doing this shit.
The idea that humans are entitled to wander around in blissful ignorance of every damn thing in the universe, that someone else is responsible and that learning about things is somehow the worst possible thing tht anyone can do, is as our friends across the ocean say - utter shite and bollocks.
We've been seeing this sort of inanity where people try to invalidate the laws of physics. Every time there is a snowstorm here in the Northeast, a whole shitload of Einsteins learn but do not learn that you cannot go 85 miles per hour, 3 feet from the person in front of you, on snowy roads in a whiteout. We had a fine 40 some car pileup a week or so ago.
Then after these, one of these geniuses can be found on Television, blaming the weather people, and the road maintenence crews for not knowing exactly where that whiteout would occur. Bullshit in the extreme.
Ignorance is never ever an excuse, except for stupid people who would rather blame all their problems on someone else. The internet was never designed to be secure. If people don't know by now that anything you put there is open, and people will do what they will with that data.
Who's writing these Slashdot headlines anyhow?
In this case it was an editor at CNBC.
That explains much
Loneliness is a significant health risk which causes a person's death risk to increase.
There's that old correlation/causation thing again. A depressed and withdrawn person is going to be lonely. But the cause of the lonliness is alomst certainly the depression. A person such as myself functions better and recharges the mental batteries by being alone. Alone != lonely.
Having kids gives you someone to care about, and someone who cares about you, and someone you see on a regular basis. That does a lot to decrease your loneliness.
You're taking your own mental state and insisting it is everyone's. It isn't. Western society at present favors the extrovert, who needs to be around people, and suffers when they aren't. Present day social pressures have made having wife and children extremely risky for men. So it is completely possible to have a rich life without the present day entanglements of a spouse and children.
Must do wonders for your self-esteem to know that you're only getting some because of your bank balance. lol. Each to their own I guess.
Its a hellava hit on the old ego. But yes, men are disposable utilities. You don't think that that bank balance isn't attracting the love of your life soul mate woman? Life is what it is, make the most of it.
As some wag once wrote, "If I had a dollar for every woman that found me unattractive, pretty soon, they'd find me attractive." And on that note: http://beforeitsnews.com/media...
I don't understand. Were you born an adult?
This is Slashdot. Many here were born knowing everything already..
Good thing that at least some of those people who shouldn't raise kids have the sense not to do so.
And it's growing. Many people have done a risk/reward analysis, and marriage and children have become something to avoid rather than do. If you marry, you are very likely to end up divorced, and if you have children, you will end up paying for them through their early 20's, perhaps longer.
And as we've seen from some of the comments, they will resent you.
A lot of sociologist types are kind of worried about this trend. Which is why we are seeing these kind of stories. Next up will be how married men make more money.
Says someone who's clearly never had Facetime sex.
Very, very, clearly.
I don't know what you mean by that last bit. Do you mean recent graduates consider such jobs to be beneath them? Or do you mean HRtards will sniff and say it's not relevant experience?
In so many cases today, the adult child can stay with mom and dad. Many graduates have never worked a job, and have a wildly distorted idea of how one gets ahead in the world. All of the Millennials I worked with were working their first job. Certainly all but two of the millenials I have worked with had exaggerated ideas about how they were going to move up.
Now it is true that after the big shock of reality immersion, a fair number of those who don't have the moveback option end up having to take those jobs they considered beneath them.
Once again, these adult children are only reacting in the way they were raised.
"All speech should be legal."
This is a dumb statement that is neither true, nor should be true.
While you are right, we get wrapped around axles when we try to define it. Is humor that refers to a dark part of a countries past "hate speech"?Bill Maher might need indicted, as well as half of the internetz
Which is to say, can the modern German Government demand that any references to Nazi Germany be removed from Facebook - or that Godwin needs extradited to Munich and be put on trial?.
Some things are obvious. Death threats or threats of violence should be obvious. How about disparging remarks about a country's leaders? How about saying you hate someone. That is the very definition of hate speech.
Next, do we then remove all content that anyone anywhere finds hateful? I get annoyed as hell about some of my relatives postings, and they sure as hell hate who they are posting about.
Hey Germans, what ever happened to "nie wieder"?
They gassed it.
Does anyone think that a person who would use a Internet of things Dildo would are about being tracked? Might even be a form of exhibitionism.
This is not hacking a smartphone. This is A) 'biasing output' or making it look like one has put in more steps for the day, and B) 'controlling output' or spelling a word with the graph of acceleration/time using tight sound manipulation of an accelerometer. Our headlines have been getting more hyperbolic, with this and the "Rogue Robot" killing it's handler.
Next we'll be hearing about how O'Bama wiretapped Trump Tower or how he did it with Microwave ovens.......
Oh - wait.
Who's writing these Slashdot headlines anyhow?
If you can execute arbitrary code on a target machine it's not a whole lot of steps further to have it "play a song" that pipes out a stream representing your personal (or other private) information. That'd let you "hack into" even an air-gapped machine.
As long as you wear a tinfoil hat, you should be safe.
I hear this year after year about how college grads have a hard time finding jobs. When I got out of college, I was already well into my second decade of coding experience, and nobody wanted to hire me because nobody wants to hire a n00b with no professional experience. But I stuck to it and I took a few lousy jobs to build up my resume and get some experience. Years later, I make good money now as a dev, and I have no shortage of job offers. I feel like each generation goes through this, was there ever a group of kids that got instantly hired up fresh out of college without any effort?
This! Exactly this. My first jobs were as a pizza cook, a flower delivery person, a lifeguard, then I got a shit job as a Technician. After that, it was movin' on up. But I started pretty low on the food chain. This apparently will not do today.
Sad, the millenials, having been taught by their parents and teachers that they are the center of the universe, expect extremely rapid promotions if they aren't hired right into management.
I don't blame them, but their parents. But now that they are getting a dose of real life, they have to get on with it.
The boomers say: "Sorry, eh".
Boomers say "Work hard, hosers!"
This isn't remotely new. But more to the point, at some point, every damn problem in the world has to stop being the fault of teh evil Boomers.
We might ask why the child only got 4 interviews out of 250 resumes submitted. As well, the number of resumes submitted means nothing in theis day of internet jobsites. I know a fellow who has a degree in Aerospace engineering, but is working as a waiter. You ask why, and there is often na answer in the reply. Sometimes it's not wanting to move to where the jobs are, sometimes and attitude problem, sometimes someone wanting to start out at the top, and sometimes not being all that endowed with energy or drive. Especially drive. Unfortunately, millennials have been badly served by their parents, and a school system that wants to hand out participation trophies for last place finishes.
It was shocking at work to watch the millennials show up at work so utterly unprepared for adult life. On a snowy day, they were no where to be found. They had unrealistic expectations of their place in the workplace. And yes, Mommy got phone calls because the boss was mean. Then boss got phone calls. Then HR got to explain to the kids that they were the employees, not mommy. I had some tell me they wouldn't answer my phone calls, that I had to text them. As they say, that shit don't flush. And with 2 exceptions in my workplace, the millennials burnt out and left.
Angering, but I temper it with the bad hand they were dealt in protecting them fmor everything in life.
Unfortunately, in their parent's demands to shield them from any adversity, and to occupy them 24/7, and teachers going on the wild-ass experiment of inculcating them with high self esteem without any accomplishments to merit it, the millenials were so fucked over that they might be in their late 40's by the time they recover to be high functioning members of society. And heaven help the young ladies who have been inculcated with the idea that everyone on earth wants to screw them, and that men are 100 percent evil.
But - all that being said, no one gives us a free ride through life. I didn't have the most wonderful upbringing, yet I quickly figured out what the price of success was. I also figured out that if I was to be successful, I was going to have to make myself fit success, not make the world fit me. That might be the hardest lessonfor people that have been taught that they are the most important people in the whole world, and that it revolves around them.
I sure wish the Surface Pro and Surface Book would run under OS X. Neat hardware but the OS just annoys me too much.
Of course, if Apple continues on it's current path, the annoyance level of OS X^HmacOS and Windows 12 will converge sometime during Trump's second term.
But by then I'll be spending too much on healthcare to care about computers. .....
Looks like the meds are wearing off again. Time for a refill.
Hey - I give you credit for a real mashup of subjects - that's pretty cool.
Anyhow, NyQuil and an AlkaSeltzer Plus will work in a pinch.
[My Mac] has some software I must use that is not available on the Windows platform.
For future reference, what might that happen to be? I mentioned Xcode because it's probably the most salient example of such to Slashdot users.
I do use Xcode some, Final Cut and it's audio support programs. The amount of time spent learning the PC vid programs which I've tried is not financially sensible, and aren't as good, IMO. I might save a couple hundred on a computer, and spend 50K on the learning curve. In addition, the Windows machines are the least reliable, breaking fairly often on updates.
Side note - I'm probably not all that typical of a Slashdot user. I'm not really a programmer, just know enough to get by, or mainly to keep from being bullshitted by programmers. My forte' is video and photo work, and RF communications as related to computers. Weird mashup, and no doubt. The computer part came about from being pressed into service as support when the Suits I work with couldn't get support from the people who were supposed to be doing it. Most of the IT staff were afraid of the suits, and were too nervous to think, which was plain odd. So that is probably why I piss off some people here - I have a different perspective
There are people out there who look at the purchase cost of a computer, and that is the Alpha and Omega. Nothing else matters. Some of us aren't built that way. My computers, Mac, PC, or Linux are simply tools that allow me to do my work. The cost of that computer is insignificant compared to professional software and labor costs.