Tell that to him again if they can't get their head out of their ass and stop making things like the Model X. The luxury market tolerates cool shit that breaks often, but the general public will not.
After all, I don't really know when they'll yank the rug out from under me.
To be fair, this is pretty much why I stopped upgrading things in general, and I acquire physical media as much as possible. The whole industry is like this. Even the open-source community is guilty, as I can't tell you how many times I've tried to update something, only to be greeted with a 404 or have my current workflow get screwed.
Cloud, web-anything, and "apps" can die in a fire.
Well, are people drinking the cheap beverages in the break room? Companies don't up their quality standards voluntarily.
See PC vendors. So many models from which to choose, and all of them are garbage. That includes the Macs, even if they aren't priced like they're garbage.
Just playing devil's advocate here, but can the human body metastasize cesium as well as potassium?
The real danger of radiation is not the dose you get from the environment, but the radioactive material getting inside you and staying there. You can hold an ingot of plutonium in your hand wearing little more than a nitrile glove, but don't dare breathe the dust.
At an airshow, I once sat in a Corvette on display. The door latch will not open the door without battery power, and for some reason the power went out, so I got trapped in the car. An airshow attendant let me out.
Only months later did I learn the emergency latch to open the door was on the floor. There may be an override for safety reasons, but it's not always obvious.
Fun fact: at least one Corvette owner actually died in his car on a hot day since he couldn't figure out how to open the door.
Trouble is, the places that MATTER (i.e. schools which are teaching the children how to use a computer, and banks which are holding your money to ransom if you're anybody) don't give a shit. We're still fighting banks on "but this is more secure" when they make us run closed code in a closed plugin tied into closed sites on a particular browser that's not your normal browser and is - by definition - outdated. It shouldn't be.
No offense, but the biggest problem I've run into over the last year are web sites that use every damn proprietary feature of Chrome and try to itemize workarounds for every other browser. My problem isn't coming across web sites that still push Flash and Java, it's sites that are largely broken in Firefox and IE/Edge, and totally broken in Pale Moon.
Now that Chrome and the Blink engine are the most popular web technologies on the planet, I'm finding it hard to find sites that work in any other web browser that uses HTML5, no matter how up-to-date it is. Web developers need to get their heads out of their asses and make things that actually just work, not support only the absolute latest version of Chrome that was just released tomorrow.
The call for "standards compliance" from the early 2010's isn't fashionable anymore. Nobody gives a shit about HTML5 -- it's stupid, broken, non-standard DOM all the way down.
While I understand your point, there are LOTS of jobs that require the same level of skill as a burger flipper. Fast food employees just get knocked around in analogies a lot more than your typical retail clerk, shelf stocker, dry cleaner, barber, security guard, forklift operator... etc. Hopefully, you don't fall prey to that American axiom that college is a minimum requirement for employment and if you don't have a double master's degree, you're worthless.
Hell, how many stories to we read on Slashdot about thousands of IT people being laid off? Being a geek is apparently in the same supply-demand ball park as fast food. Almost jobs will be, eventually, if the robot/AI overlords become competent enough. Will anyone deserve a wage at that point?
Help them to identify why they perform worse than their peers and try to help them improve
I didn't work for Amazon, but I did work in a warehouse, specifically one that ships medical supplies to hospitals.
In my case, the newfangled voice picking computer couldn't understand my voice (even simple phrases such as "yes" and "no") and the volume of the headset would go berserk for no reason, toggling between whispering and screaming so loud I was scared it would literally damage my hearing. Getting work done was impossible. No matter how much I tried to reason with management that it wasn't my fault, they insisted that the system was working fine for everyone else. I was simply told that my performance was below 87% and I had two weeks to improve my numbers or I'd be terminated. I quit. I had worked there for 10 years, and the voice picking system had been implemented within the last 10 months (with performance numbers being enforced within the last 3 months or so).
Looking back, they were probably bluffing, since almost everyone was below the threshold and also received performance warnings. As such, it wasn't a case of "worse than my peers." However, I had better things to do with my life than be bossed around by a screaming computer for 15 hours a day, just to constantly be told by management I wasn't good enough. The job is basically designed to burn you out.
If the EULA basically translates to, "We do what the fuck we want and we can change our minds at any time and you automatically agree to said changes without even seeing them", then I'm not dealing with such a company.
Apple makes a lot of money that way. What's the problem?
The problem is that if one company makes all the money, it shows that the market is unhealthy, and it's actually quite likely that company isn't making all the money by their own merit.
Even though Apple has a relatively small market share compared to others, they can still drive the entire market, and in many cases, ensure that certain technologies and standards are NOT available to competitors. Remember when multiple manufacturers were introducing e-IPS monitors over a year, and then they suddenly all disappeared and Apple was using e-IPS technology exclusively? How did that happen?
Indeed. I've been using PaleMoon for about a year and it blows away Firefox by a wide margin. I love it.
It appears a lot of that is due to how the browser is configured, rather than the vintage of the code or rendering engine. Even really old versions of Firefox are slower and more bloated and the latest releases of PaleMoon, and PaleMoon has none of the frequent pausing issues caused by memory management, which have plagued Firefox since version 2.0 -- way before Australis made its debut.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if just a few configuration tweaks would fix all the problems with Firefox. Mozilla just has an agenda and wants to keep all the bloat.
If you want to save your SSD, turn off caching. That stuff is a carry over from the old 56k days when it made pages loader faster. It's not needed anymore.
I'm actually curious as to whether caching even still works these days. I've noticed that if I download a large image (at least a couple megs), if I try to "Save As" to my hard drive, the browser will completely re-download the entire image again. Given that my cache is set to 500MB, shouldn't it just save the damn image it's already downloaded? Apparently not.
Incidentally, PaleMoon is my primary browser, and Firefox is my backup (mostly for HTML5 YouTube). Both browsers have the same cache behavior.
I've found that most programmers are really, really bad teachers.
Actual conversation witnessed on ICQ (not mine):
Newbie: I'm having trouble with the db layer in my code trying to do[blah blah] Pro: Pastebin[doesn't care if newbie has a Pastebin account or not] Newbie: Here you go...[link] Pro: Throw that shit out and read "Learning Python the Hard Way" Newbie: Okay, but do you have any advice on what I'm doing wrong? Pro: I didn't even look at it
I facepalmed pretty hard, especially since Learning Python the Hard Way only teaches you Python syntax, and nothing about programming, let alone database layers
I could write a book about how many problems ATI/AMD drivers have caused me until I finally gave up and went Nvidia a couple years ago, which includes programs outright crashing left and right. After I got an Nvidia card, I could run every game I threw at it except for one... Viper Racing... and that game is about 18 years old.
With that said, I'm happy with these older drivers I'm using now. I think I'll treat my Nvidia drivers like my copy of Windows7 and [backup web browser] Firefox 47.
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What I find amusing is that MS has been collecting telemetry for years, and Windows 8 was the result.
Tell that to him again if they can't get their head out of their ass and stop making things like the Model X. The luxury market tolerates cool shit that breaks often, but the general public will not.
After all, I don't really know when they'll yank the rug out from under me.
To be fair, this is pretty much why I stopped upgrading things in general, and I acquire physical media as much as possible. The whole industry is like this. Even the open-source community is guilty, as I can't tell you how many times I've tried to update something, only to be greeted with a 404 or have my current workflow get screwed.
Cloud, web-anything, and "apps" can die in a fire.
...making relatively minor edits to a few inconsequential posts insulting him...
...is unethical, let alone a "prank."
Well, are people drinking the cheap beverages in the break room? Companies don't up their quality standards voluntarily.
See PC vendors. So many models from which to choose, and all of them are garbage. That includes the Macs, even if they aren't priced like they're garbage.
If only that applied to executives, too.
Oh, right... you said salaries, not bonuses.
People do generally eat fish and other animals that eat the fish, and...
Oh, never mind.
Just playing devil's advocate here, but can the human body metastasize cesium as well as potassium?
The real danger of radiation is not the dose you get from the environment, but the radioactive material getting inside you and staying there. You can hold an ingot of plutonium in your hand wearing little more than a nitrile glove, but don't dare breathe the dust.
math...
You just lost 99% of the population.
The last time I went to a movie a few years ago, there were 3 people (including myself) in a room designed to seat about 200.
I don't have a problem with uncivil patrons, either. I do wonder how that theater stays in business, though.
At an airshow, I once sat in a Corvette on display. The door latch will not open the door without battery power, and for some reason the power went out, so I got trapped in the car. An airshow attendant let me out.
Only months later did I learn the emergency latch to open the door was on the floor. There may be an override for safety reasons, but it's not always obvious.
Fun fact: at least one Corvette owner actually died in his car on a hot day since he couldn't figure out how to open the door.
You can't reproduce with an airbrush.
Trouble is, the places that MATTER (i.e. schools which are teaching the children how to use a computer, and banks which are holding your money to ransom if you're anybody) don't give a shit. We're still fighting banks on "but this is more secure" when they make us run closed code in a closed plugin tied into closed sites on a particular browser that's not your normal browser and is - by definition - outdated. It shouldn't be.
No offense, but the biggest problem I've run into over the last year are web sites that use every damn proprietary feature of Chrome and try to itemize workarounds for every other browser. My problem isn't coming across web sites that still push Flash and Java, it's sites that are largely broken in Firefox and IE/Edge, and totally broken in Pale Moon.
Now that Chrome and the Blink engine are the most popular web technologies on the planet, I'm finding it hard to find sites that work in any other web browser that uses HTML5, no matter how up-to-date it is. Web developers need to get their heads out of their asses and make things that actually just work, not support only the absolute latest version of Chrome that was just released tomorrow.
The call for "standards compliance" from the early 2010's isn't fashionable anymore. Nobody gives a shit about HTML5 -- it's stupid, broken, non-standard DOM all the way down.
While I understand your point, there are LOTS of jobs that require the same level of skill as a burger flipper. Fast food employees just get knocked around in analogies a lot more than your typical retail clerk, shelf stocker, dry cleaner, barber, security guard, forklift operator... etc. Hopefully, you don't fall prey to that American axiom that college is a minimum requirement for employment and if you don't have a double master's degree, you're worthless.
Hell, how many stories to we read on Slashdot about thousands of IT people being laid off? Being a geek is apparently in the same supply-demand ball park as fast food. Almost jobs will be, eventually, if the robot/AI overlords become competent enough. Will anyone deserve a wage at that point?
Help them to identify why they perform worse than their peers and try to help them improve
I didn't work for Amazon, but I did work in a warehouse, specifically one that ships medical supplies to hospitals.
In my case, the newfangled voice picking computer couldn't understand my voice (even simple phrases such as "yes" and "no") and the volume of the headset would go berserk for no reason, toggling between whispering and screaming so loud I was scared it would literally damage my hearing. Getting work done was impossible. No matter how much I tried to reason with management that it wasn't my fault, they insisted that the system was working fine for everyone else. I was simply told that my performance was below 87% and I had two weeks to improve my numbers or I'd be terminated. I quit. I had worked there for 10 years, and the voice picking system had been implemented within the last 10 months (with performance numbers being enforced within the last 3 months or so).
Looking back, they were probably bluffing, since almost everyone was below the threshold and also received performance warnings. As such, it wasn't a case of "worse than my peers." However, I had better things to do with my life than be bossed around by a screaming computer for 15 hours a day, just to constantly be told by management I wasn't good enough. The job is basically designed to burn you out.
Policies are for the little people... like you.
If the EULA basically translates to, "We do what the fuck we want and we can change our minds at any time and you automatically agree to said changes without even seeing them", then I'm not dealing with such a company.
Apple makes a lot of money that way. What's the problem?
The problem is that if one company makes all the money, it shows that the market is unhealthy, and it's actually quite likely that company isn't making all the money by their own merit.
Even though Apple has a relatively small market share compared to others, they can still drive the entire market, and in many cases, ensure that certain technologies and standards are NOT available to competitors. Remember when multiple manufacturers were introducing e-IPS monitors over a year, and then they suddenly all disappeared and Apple was using e-IPS technology exclusively? How did that happen?
Nah. What really did it for me was product activation.
Nothing really stops being fun until someone else is in a position to stop you from having fun.
Indeed. I've been using PaleMoon for about a year and it blows away Firefox by a wide margin. I love it.
It appears a lot of that is due to how the browser is configured, rather than the vintage of the code or rendering engine. Even really old versions of Firefox are slower and more bloated and the latest releases of PaleMoon, and PaleMoon has none of the frequent pausing issues caused by memory management, which have plagued Firefox since version 2.0 -- way before Australis made its debut.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if just a few configuration tweaks would fix all the problems with Firefox. Mozilla just has an agenda and wants to keep all the bloat.
If you want to save your SSD, turn off caching. That stuff is a carry over from the old 56k days when it made pages loader faster. It's not needed anymore.
I'm actually curious as to whether caching even still works these days. I've noticed that if I download a large image (at least a couple megs), if I try to "Save As" to my hard drive, the browser will completely re-download the entire image again. Given that my cache is set to 500MB, shouldn't it just save the damn image it's already downloaded? Apparently not.
Incidentally, PaleMoon is my primary browser, and Firefox is my backup (mostly for HTML5 YouTube). Both browsers have the same cache behavior.
I've found that most programmers are really, really bad teachers.
Actual conversation witnessed on ICQ (not mine):
Newbie: I'm having trouble with the db layer in my code trying to do [blah blah]
Pro: Pastebin [doesn't care if newbie has a Pastebin account or not]
Newbie: Here you go... [link]
Pro: Throw that shit out and read "Learning Python the Hard Way"
Newbie: Okay, but do you have any advice on what I'm doing wrong?
Pro: I didn't even look at it
I facepalmed pretty hard, especially since Learning Python the Hard Way only teaches you Python syntax, and nothing about programming, let alone database layers
I could write a book about how many problems ATI/AMD drivers have caused me until I finally gave up and went Nvidia a couple years ago, which includes programs outright crashing left and right. After I got an Nvidia card, I could run every game I threw at it except for one... Viper Racing... and that game is about 18 years old.
With that said, I'm happy with these older drivers I'm using now. I think I'll treat my Nvidia drivers like my copy of Windows7 and [backup web browser] Firefox 47.
Good for him, and I appreciate what he does.
But, I'm not naive, and I still think a person with his responsibility deserves to be under a magnifying glass.
Probably the same technicality as always: indexes of your data and the data itself are separate things.
They're totally not collecting all your personal information! They're just... interpreting it.
When a company gets to be as big and rich as Apple, never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.