It's like any other hurdle that life can place in your path. You either deal with it and get past it or you whine that you are a victim. There are plenty of people that can manage the former as the latter is actively discouraged in many parts of western culture.
Tolerance of the damsel in distress mentality is far more harmful to women than "misogyny".
It's not really innovation because it's just taking advantage of Moore's Law and it's friends to pack more dense components made by OTHER people into the same old packaging.
Dell is no more an innovator for doing the same thing.
The claim that ARM devices are better due to superior power usage is total nonsense. If you use them as general purpose devices, they will have equally horrible battery life. They have no real advantage over a faster machine.
With a non-ARM device, I can stray off the reservation.
The whole "general purpose" computing concept actually works and isn't effectively sabotaged by the poor performance of the platform.
Your argument ad extremism doesn't alter the fact that Linux is more likely to be supported on old but still useful Macs. This even includes Intel based machines. I had one of those myself.
It was an Apple orphan but Linux still supported it perfectly fine. Windows probably did too.
Not really. Take VLC and turn off the hardware acceleration and watch the your battery levels quickly go to zero. ARM based mobile devices are crap for number crunching on battery power.
>> Indeed, most (even older) Atom CPU's are much faster still compared to ARM cpu's.
> Per joule? Frankly, I'd expect something like that only from the newest ones.
I don't give a damn about that metric. I want to get things done. I don't want to have to outsource things like voice recognition or any other type of app that the SoC designers didn't specifically account for.
The only thing that actually matters is money. If the industry can in fact survive by shunning the crowd that plays expensive old school games, I would be quite surprised.
Most of the "candy crush" crowd contribute ZERO to the bottom line of any company. At best they are "sticky eyeballs" that help contribute to buzz and attract the actual paying customers.
In a different decade they would be called degenerate pirates.
The last panic justified flu outbreak was 100 years ago.
Normally, the flu only kills that many people because you give it a long enough timeline. It's the proverbial turtle. It's nothing like Ebola or even more interesting strains of flu that can kill millions of people in a single outbreak.
You're simply trying to distort the numbers to create a false sense of panic.
Talk about a retard. The flu is a virus and as such is not something that even responds to current forms of medical treatment. You might be able to stop the spread of it with vaccines and extreme isolation but that's about it.
The flu is transmissible BEFORE you manifest symptoms. You can be wandering around infecting friends and coworkers before you even know you are sick.
Ebola is not like that.
The flu also spreads much more easily from person to person.
...and the OS should have promptly informed them that they were about to run a program.
HELL, the OS probably should have informed them that the file was named in a suspicious fashion likely to cause confusion. Something like ".*." should be easy enough to spot and be on the lookout for.
The file is obviously suspicious. It does not require strong AI in order to see this.
This little bit of nonsense has been a problem for so long that Microsoft should have adapted to deal with the situation by now.
It also highlights the stupidity of hiding file extensions.
There should be no problem downloading DATA from the skankiest sources. The very idea that anyone needs to be paranoid about that sort of thing just demonstrates just how badly things have gotten both with platforms and the level of ignorance we expect out of end users.
There should be a clear line between data and programs. Operating systems should enforce it and end users should be aware of it.
I think the last batch of infections around here came from programs masquerading as DATA. These programs masquerading as DATA were "installed" by trying to view the DATA as it came to the user in the platform vendors email program.
This is not quite your Android style Trojan.
Someone chose to blur the line between data and programs and confuse the end user and to seek to keep them ignorant.
DATA (untrusted) being treated as a program is also the essence of the Shellshock bug and is boneheadedly intolerable for the same reasons.
...that it's still cheaper to fly jets like buses for the same kinds of routes a bullet train would cover.
Americans get all excited about this stuff without ever actually experiencing it firsthand. They never see the high prices or how it might be simpler just to rent your own car.
Bullet trains more of a glamour tech item like a Battleship or an Aircraft Carrier. They look good but they aren't nearly as practical as they seem.
If the US wants to act like it's in love with trains again, it would be far better to beef up CARGO capacity. However that's not sexy. No one gets exited about efficient cargo service.
> In what way is a semi automatic rifle with no serial number consistent with a well regulated militia?
"well regulated" doesn't mean what you think it does.
Neither does "militia".
For the original spirit of the 2nd Amendment, it really doesn't matter if your rifle can be used to uniquely identify you or to spy on you after the fact. It only needs to be functionally correct.
Distorting technology in order to make the job of law enforcement easier really isn't in scope here.
> Do you somehow find yourself aggrieved by not being able to carry a sword with you? Is it ruining your cyberpunk look or something?
Some parts of suburbia contain enough vibrant vegetation that carrying around a short sword is not such a bad idea really.
You gotta wonder sometimes if all of these nanny state types have never been anywhere and don't pay enough attention to the news to have some remote clue about how things are elsewhere.
You might want to get something resembling a clue before trying to make public policy for the rest of us.
If I want something I can pay for it. If my life is on the line, I don't have to worry about how much it costs. I already know two people who have benefited from very expensive life saving procedures. I am sure that when I need something like that, it will at least be there.
I'm not so sure of near-communist countries where beaurocrats are in charge of these things.
This guy from Liberia is already getting the best care available anywhere. He might even pull through because of our "inferior" system.
A lot of work is so old by now that it should be in the public domain. Copyright was never meant to be a new form of property or a means to extract tolls from end users until the end of time.
The point of both copyright and patents is to encourage the creation of ideas/inventions that EVERYONE can use.
"copying the work" is the intended ultimate result.
No. He just doesn't take Lemming trolls at face value.
Most people whining about GIMP and putting Photoshop on a pedestal are amateurs and consumers that would never actually pay for a copy of Photoshop ever.
Photoshop is a lot of cost for questionable marginal benefit.
> "fraudulent" is quite an accusation. If you try to outlaw market crashes/corrections, you will kill the market, and then what of your retirement savings?
If you allow market crashes caused by rampant fraud, you won't have to worry about retirement savings. You probably won't live that long.
This stuff is nothing new. People just like to ignore history.
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It's like any other hurdle that life can place in your path. You either deal with it and get past it or you whine that you are a victim. There are plenty of people that can manage the former as the latter is actively discouraged in many parts of western culture.
Tolerance of the damsel in distress mentality is far more harmful to women than "misogyny".
It's not really innovation because it's just taking advantage of Moore's Law and it's friends to pack more dense components made by OTHER people into the same old packaging.
Dell is no more an innovator for doing the same thing.
You are confusing someone who calls themselves a conservative with someone who actually is a conservative.
Nobody cares about the pedantic definitions. No one follows them.
The claim that ARM devices are better due to superior power usage is total nonsense. If you use them as general purpose devices, they will have equally horrible battery life. They have no real advantage over a faster machine.
With a non-ARM device, I can stray off the reservation.
The whole "general purpose" computing concept actually works and isn't effectively sabotaged by the poor performance of the platform.
...then you use an older version of Linux.
Your argument ad extremism doesn't alter the fact that Linux is more likely to be supported on old but still useful Macs. This even includes Intel based machines. I had one of those myself.
It was an Apple orphan but Linux still supported it perfectly fine. Windows probably did too.
Not really. Take VLC and turn off the hardware acceleration and watch the your battery levels quickly go to zero. ARM based mobile devices are crap for number crunching on battery power.
>> Indeed, most (even older) Atom CPU's are much faster still compared to ARM cpu's.
> Per joule? Frankly, I'd expect something like that only from the newest ones.
I don't give a damn about that metric. I want to get things done. I don't want to have to outsource things like voice recognition or any other type of app that the SoC designers didn't specifically account for.
This is an industry we're talking about here.
The only thing that actually matters is money. If the industry can in fact survive by shunning the crowd that plays expensive old school games, I would be quite surprised.
Most of the "candy crush" crowd contribute ZERO to the bottom line of any company. At best they are "sticky eyeballs" that help contribute to buzz and attract the actual paying customers.
In a different decade they would be called degenerate pirates.
> How is misogyny a "non-issue?"
It's a word with no real meaning trotted out when someone with an obviously extreme agenda wants to meddle in other people's choices.
The last panic justified flu outbreak was 100 years ago.
Normally, the flu only kills that many people because you give it a long enough timeline. It's the proverbial turtle. It's nothing like Ebola or even more interesting strains of flu that can kill millions of people in a single outbreak.
You're simply trying to distort the numbers to create a false sense of panic.
The (1st) missionary doctor that contracted Ebola because he was treating people in Africa is from Texas. Although he's feeling much better now.
He's been giving blood so that serum can be made from it.
Talk about a retard. The flu is a virus and as such is not something that even responds to current forms of medical treatment. You might be able to stop the spread of it with vaccines and extreme isolation but that's about it.
The flu is transmissible BEFORE you manifest symptoms. You can be wandering around infecting friends and coworkers before you even know you are sick.
Ebola is not like that.
The flu also spreads much more easily from person to person.
Two entirely different situations.
...and the OS should have promptly informed them that they were about to run a program.
HELL, the OS probably should have informed them that the file was named in a suspicious fashion likely to cause confusion. Something like ".*." should be easy enough to spot and be on the lookout for.
The file is obviously suspicious. It does not require strong AI in order to see this.
This little bit of nonsense has been a problem for so long that Microsoft should have adapted to deal with the situation by now.
It also highlights the stupidity of hiding file extensions.
There should be no problem downloading DATA from the skankiest sources. The very idea that anyone needs to be paranoid about that sort of thing just demonstrates just how badly things have gotten both with platforms and the level of ignorance we expect out of end users.
There should be a clear line between data and programs. Operating systems should enforce it and end users should be aware of it.
I think the last batch of infections around here came from programs masquerading as DATA. These programs masquerading as DATA were "installed" by trying to view the DATA as it came to the user in the platform vendors email program.
This is not quite your Android style Trojan.
Someone chose to blur the line between data and programs and confuse the end user and to seek to keep them ignorant.
DATA (untrusted) being treated as a program is also the essence of the Shellshock bug and is boneheadedly intolerable for the same reasons.
...that it's still cheaper to fly jets like buses for the same kinds of routes a bullet train would cover.
Americans get all excited about this stuff without ever actually experiencing it firsthand. They never see the high prices or how it might be simpler just to rent your own car.
Bullet trains more of a glamour tech item like a Battleship or an Aircraft Carrier. They look good but they aren't nearly as practical as they seem.
If the US wants to act like it's in love with trains again, it would be far better to beef up CARGO capacity. However that's not sexy. No one gets exited about efficient cargo service.
> A democracy is all fun and games, until you get shot in the head,
+ ...by a cop.
...except we did actually enact "strict but sane gun laws".
The mass shootings didn't stop.
Banning scary ugly weapons didn't really help. That law came and went and nothing really changed.
In both cases, the "strict but sane gun laws" probably had ZERO influence on both outcomes.
Gun control is a childish fantasy for people that have graduated from the tooth fairy.
> In what way is a semi automatic rifle with no serial number consistent with a well regulated militia?
"well regulated" doesn't mean what you think it does.
Neither does "militia".
For the original spirit of the 2nd Amendment, it really doesn't matter if your rifle can be used to uniquely identify you or to spy on you after the fact. It only needs to be functionally correct.
Distorting technology in order to make the job of law enforcement easier really isn't in scope here.
> Do you somehow find yourself aggrieved by not being able to carry a sword with you? Is it ruining your cyberpunk look or something?
Some parts of suburbia contain enough vibrant vegetation that carrying around a short sword is not such a bad idea really.
You gotta wonder sometimes if all of these nanny state types have never been anywhere and don't pay enough attention to the news to have some remote clue about how things are elsewhere.
You might want to get something resembling a clue before trying to make public policy for the rest of us.
If I want something I can pay for it. If my life is on the line, I don't have to worry about how much it costs. I already know two people who have benefited from very expensive life saving procedures. I am sure that when I need something like that, it will at least be there.
I'm not so sure of near-communist countries where beaurocrats are in charge of these things.
This guy from Liberia is already getting the best care available anywhere. He might even pull through because of our "inferior" system.
> This isn't the 1800s where the army and the individual have the same weapons.
Clearly you've never been to Texas. Individuals are better armed, have better equipment, and are better at using it.
A lot of work is so old by now that it should be in the public domain. Copyright was never meant to be a new form of property or a means to extract tolls from end users until the end of time.
The point of both copyright and patents is to encourage the creation of ideas/inventions that EVERYONE can use.
"copying the work" is the intended ultimate result.
No. He just doesn't take Lemming trolls at face value.
Most people whining about GIMP and putting Photoshop on a pedestal are amateurs and consumers that would never actually pay for a copy of Photoshop ever.
Photoshop is a lot of cost for questionable marginal benefit.
> "fraudulent" is quite an accusation. If you try to outlaw market crashes/corrections, you will kill the market, and then what of your retirement savings?
If you allow market crashes caused by rampant fraud, you won't have to worry about retirement savings. You probably won't live that long.
This stuff is nothing new. People just like to ignore history.