It's a nonsensical argument, pay it no mind. The fact is that everyone in China pirates all their software, so forcing everyone to upgrade will only result in a spike in piracy numbers, which will make the guys (allegedly) trying to reduce piracy in China look bad. Looking bad (aka "losing face") is a big deal in most Asian cultures. That's really all that's driving this announcement.
In reality, EOLing XP will make no practical difference in China any time soon. The Chinese love XP. I've sent refurbished laptops with clean installs of Win7 to friends in China, and the first call I get after they get it is "how do I install XP?" Anyone who thinks those people are going to give two shits whether MS continues to support XP or not is nuts.
I agree in principle that it's best for the company to hire promising individuals and train them. In fact, my company does this. The majority of our employees start out as interns, and the ones that work out get hired full time (I was one of those). The thing is, not everyone works out.
Some of them just never seem to get it. Generally it's because their problem solving processes are just too convoluted, and it leaves them unable to organize things intelligibly. We're big on mentoring, and give plenty of second chances, but at some point you have to just cut your loses.
Isn't that kind of like a christian leaving the church only to join up again right away with the caveat that he wants to opt out of the 6th, 7th and 8th commandments? I don't think it works that way.
Well, you're wrong. It does work that way. As proof, I offer every single protestant denomination that has ever existed. Especially the Church of England.
Would you have guessed that helmets and seatbelts could be mandated? Fuel economy?
Sure -- those things don't impose any significant constraints on anyone.
I'm pretty sure that imposing significant restraint on a person is the entire point of seatbelts.
Telling someone they're not allowed to drive anymore, OTOH, would likely piss them off. The ability to drive is seen as a signifier for independence and adulthood.
I don't think it's the actual driving that's important here. I think it's the ability to go where we want to go without having to rely on someone else to get us there that people actually care about. Autonomous cars satisfy that need just fine in the majority of cases.
I'm pretty sure most people won't be as cavalier about death as you are when there is a solution on hand.
I don't recall mentioning my opinion on the topic, only how I think the rest of the population will react.
But don't take my word for it, ask your friends and family whether they would consider a ban on non-automated driving acceptable. I think their responses would be illuminating.
Here, we agree. I'd be perfectly fine with a self-driving car as long as it had a manual mode. I don't have a great deal of confidence in a self-driving car's ability to properly navigate the bumpy dirt road to my mom's house, for example. But, I only make that drive a few times a year. For the other 99.9% of the driving I do, it would be awesome.
Ineffective boycotts are farther than technology has ever gone? No, we've had ineffective boycotts long before then. Remember when Chic-fil-a closed because of the boycott? Neither do I.
How is this an ineffective boycott? The man has issued a public apology before the proposed boycott even had a chance to progress past the suggestion phase. That seems pretty damned effective to me!
So, what you're saying is that the First Amendment protects the rights of hateful bigots to spew their filth in public, but it does not protect my right to call them out on their bullshit? I think you don't fully understand the concept of Freedom of Speech.
It has to be noted though, that if you decide to become a heroin addict, your life will be absolutely dominated by the graving for this substance, probably for the rest of your life.
Actually, several studies in Europe have found that the vast majority of heroin addicts lose interest in the drug and quit using on their own within a decade.
That assumes you can find them. Most of the big trolls are hidden behind so many shell companies, you'll never find them.
Nonsense. Someone's name is on the letter you were sent demanding licensing fees. That person can be found and "convinced" to give you the information necessary to find any other people that might be involved. The shell company game only defends against legal methods of discovery. It will not protect you from someone who is willing to use torture, rape, and arson to find you.
I said nothing at all about preschool. I was addressing your false equivalence of kindergarten with daycare. That should be obvious enough if you bother actually reading what I wrote.
If you really want my post to be about preschool, then feel free to replace all instances of "kindergarten" with "preschool" and all the claims I made will remain just as true.
The only reason that kindergarten isn't considered preschool is that since it is public education and thus free. With it being free, the vast majority of the parents decided to use it as free daycare. With the vast majority of kids being housed in a public schools prior to 1st grade, it started to be considered the 1st year of school.
Well, yes... except for the fact that there is actual instruction in kindergarten, and the kids actually learn stuff, unlike any daycare I've ever seen. Oh, and the fact that every study I've ever seen that has looked into the issue has found a significant correlation between kindergarten attendance and long-term academic success; again, unlike daycare.
So, really, once you look at the actual facts, it seems more appropriate to consider kindergarten to be school rather than daycare. Because it is.
Why should he blame the butter knife for being a butter knife? I bet he wouldn't blame the tools, but rather the idiot who selected those tools.
Having worked in construction with a few genuine craftsmen, I can assure you they would do both. But, as a general rule, the better the craftsman the higher the percentage of vitriol would be levelled at the tools, because a good craftsman knows what could be accomplished with better ones.
"Properly processed" is the key. When film scanners reached 1k resolution (aka 1080p) the operators started to notice visual artifacts, which turned out to be the grain of the film. By the time 2k scanners came out, post-scan processing was an absolute necessity to get video of acceptable quality.
At least, that's the story I was told by the engineers when I worked in customer service repair on the Spirit DataCine. So much for my old TV/Film professor's assertions (a mere 7 years earlier) that digital would never equal the resolution of film.
The problem with the fourth amendment argument is that the internet is effectively a public place. The NSA doesn't need a warrant to packet sniff the internet for the same reason a cop doesn't need a warrant to listen in on your conversation while you're waiting in line at Starbucks.
It would certainly be nice if the fourth applied here, but it's not an argument that that's likely to ever prevail in court.
Also if you're doing anything related to games. Graphics, movement, and collision are all linear algebra, of course. But even you aren't an engine guy you'll likely have to write at least one spline editor (their popular in animation and cinematic tools), and it won't be long before some of the more advanced simulation techniques are standard in the industry. Check out the DMM plugin for Maya, which uses finite elements to model material properties, for example.
Actually, we can expect to find much higher concentrations of heavier elements in asteroids and other space debris than we do on Earth, thanks to this thing called "gravity". Neil deGrasse Tyson explains it very well in the conversation he had with Joe Rogan. Look it up on Youtube.
You have a good point if we're talking about fishing in the breakers or picking up driftwood along the beach. 5000 meters down is a much different story. It's not exactly just like picking up a rock from the bottom of the swimming pool, only deeper.
2. Power - In every developing nation I've ever been in, electricity has been an issue for computers. In Bolivia it was rare that we would lose electricity completely (once every couple months), but very common where we would have brown-outs where there just isn't enough electricity in the wires. This is very bad for computers...so we had to hook every computer up to a battery (usually 2-3PCs for to a 1300VA battery). Unfortunately heat is the primary killer of batteries and the tropics is always hot. Over two years we probably spent 50% of the money spent on the lab on the original batteries and their replacements.
This is exactly the issue I was going to bring up, but you've said it better than I would have.
If your local country values Windows for employment more than that is what you should use, because that is what will help/them/ build a future.
Right, because the fact that I learned computing on Commodore Pets and Apple IIes has left me and the rest of my generation irredeemably crippled in the modern world. When will this idiotic meme die?
Having been a Nielsen family years ago, I would say that chance is pretty much nil. It's not like they plop a hipster in your living room who not-so-silently judges everything you do.
There is money to be had: by blackmailing Samsung. "Pay up or we brick you customers laptops." How much do you think it would be worth to Samsung to avoid that PR disaster?
I have a solution: the patent office should do a thorough examination of every patent application, in the order that they are received. If that makes the process too slow, then maybe the big dogs with their gigantic patent warchests should try paying their fucking taxes so we can afford to hire more patent examiners!
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If the street walkers in my neighborhood actually get paid what they claim, sucking dick pays a lot more than Wal-Mart, regardless of how you look.
It's a nonsensical argument, pay it no mind. The fact is that everyone in China pirates all their software, so forcing everyone to upgrade will only result in a spike in piracy numbers, which will make the guys (allegedly) trying to reduce piracy in China look bad. Looking bad (aka "losing face") is a big deal in most Asian cultures. That's really all that's driving this announcement.
In reality, EOLing XP will make no practical difference in China any time soon. The Chinese love XP. I've sent refurbished laptops with clean installs of Win7 to friends in China, and the first call I get after they get it is "how do I install XP?" Anyone who thinks those people are going to give two shits whether MS continues to support XP or not is nuts.
I agree in principle that it's best for the company to hire promising individuals and train them. In fact, my company does this. The majority of our employees start out as interns, and the ones that work out get hired full time (I was one of those). The thing is, not everyone works out.
Some of them just never seem to get it. Generally it's because their problem solving processes are just too convoluted, and it leaves them unable to organize things intelligibly. We're big on mentoring, and give plenty of second chances, but at some point you have to just cut your loses.
Isn't that kind of like a christian leaving the church only to join up again right away with the caveat that he wants to opt out of the 6th, 7th and 8th commandments? I don't think it works that way.
Well, you're wrong. It does work that way. As proof, I offer every single protestant denomination that has ever existed. Especially the Church of England.
Would you have guessed that helmets and seatbelts could be mandated? Fuel economy?
Sure -- those things don't impose any significant constraints on anyone.
I'm pretty sure that imposing significant restraint on a person is the entire point of seatbelts.
Telling someone they're not allowed to drive anymore, OTOH, would likely piss them off. The ability to drive is seen as a signifier for independence and adulthood.
I don't think it's the actual driving that's important here. I think it's the ability to go where we want to go without having to rely on someone else to get us there that people actually care about. Autonomous cars satisfy that need just fine in the majority of cases.
I'm pretty sure most people won't be as cavalier about death as you are when there is a solution on hand.
I don't recall mentioning my opinion on the topic, only how I think the rest of the population will react.
But don't take my word for it, ask your friends and family whether they would consider a ban on non-automated driving acceptable. I think their responses would be illuminating.
Here, we agree. I'd be perfectly fine with a self-driving car as long as it had a manual mode. I don't have a great deal of confidence in a self-driving car's ability to properly navigate the bumpy dirt road to my mom's house, for example. But, I only make that drive a few times a year. For the other 99.9% of the driving I do, it would be awesome.
Ineffective boycotts are farther than technology has ever gone? No, we've had ineffective boycotts long before then. Remember when Chic-fil-a closed because of the boycott? Neither do I.
How is this an ineffective boycott? The man has issued a public apology before the proposed boycott even had a chance to progress past the suggestion phase. That seems pretty damned effective to me!
So, what you're saying is that the First Amendment protects the rights of hateful bigots to spew their filth in public, but it does not protect my right to call them out on their bullshit? I think you don't fully understand the concept of Freedom of Speech.
It has to be noted though, that if you decide to become a heroin addict, your life will be absolutely dominated by the graving for this substance, probably for the rest of your life.
Actually, several studies in Europe have found that the vast majority of heroin addicts lose interest in the drug and quit using on their own within a decade.
That assumes you can find them. Most of the big trolls are hidden behind so many shell companies, you'll never find them.
Nonsense. Someone's name is on the letter you were sent demanding licensing fees. That person can be found and "convinced" to give you the information necessary to find any other people that might be involved. The shell company game only defends against legal methods of discovery. It will not protect you from someone who is willing to use torture, rape, and arson to find you.
Wow! Epic reading comprehension failure, there.
I said nothing at all about preschool. I was addressing your false equivalence of kindergarten with daycare. That should be obvious enough if you bother actually reading what I wrote.
If you really want my post to be about preschool, then feel free to replace all instances of "kindergarten" with "preschool" and all the claims I made will remain just as true.
The only reason that kindergarten isn't considered preschool is that since it is public education and thus free. With it being free, the vast majority of the parents decided to use it as free daycare. With the vast majority of kids being housed in a public schools prior to 1st grade, it started to be considered the 1st year of school.
Well, yes... except for the fact that there is actual instruction in kindergarten, and the kids actually learn stuff, unlike any daycare I've ever seen. Oh, and the fact that every study I've ever seen that has looked into the issue has found a significant correlation between kindergarten attendance and long-term academic success; again, unlike daycare.
So, really, once you look at the actual facts, it seems more appropriate to consider kindergarten to be school rather than daycare. Because it is.
Why should he blame the butter knife for being a butter knife? I bet he wouldn't blame the tools, but rather the idiot who selected those tools.
Having worked in construction with a few genuine craftsmen, I can assure you they would do both. But, as a general rule, the better the craftsman the higher the percentage of vitriol would be levelled at the tools, because a good craftsman knows what could be accomplished with better ones.
No, fascism = capitalism + nationalism. Maybe it's time for you to step away from the Glenn Beck and pick up a fucking dictionary.
All this rhetoric about giving what you expect to get leaves out the very important fact that a worker and his boss are NOT equals in the first place.
This is true. A boss needs workers. Workers don't necessarily need a boss.
"Properly processed" is the key. When film scanners reached 1k resolution (aka 1080p) the operators started to notice visual artifacts, which turned out to be the grain of the film. By the time 2k scanners came out, post-scan processing was an absolute necessity to get video of acceptable quality.
At least, that's the story I was told by the engineers when I worked in customer service repair on the Spirit DataCine. So much for my old TV/Film professor's assertions (a mere 7 years earlier) that digital would never equal the resolution of film.
The problem with the fourth amendment argument is that the internet is effectively a public place. The NSA doesn't need a warrant to packet sniff the internet for the same reason a cop doesn't need a warrant to listen in on your conversation while you're waiting in line at Starbucks.
It would certainly be nice if the fourth applied here, but it's not an argument that that's likely to ever prevail in court.
Guest speakers from local companies that do stuff that your members might be interested in. That was the main thing that kept me interested, anyway.
Also if you're doing anything related to games. Graphics, movement, and collision are all linear algebra, of course. But even you aren't an engine guy you'll likely have to write at least one spline editor (their popular in animation and cinematic tools), and it won't be long before some of the more advanced simulation techniques are standard in the industry. Check out the DMM plugin for Maya, which uses finite elements to model material properties, for example.
Actually, we can expect to find much higher concentrations of heavier elements in asteroids and other space debris than we do on Earth, thanks to this thing called "gravity". Neil deGrasse Tyson explains it very well in the conversation he had with Joe Rogan. Look it up on Youtube.
You have a good point if we're talking about fishing in the breakers or picking up driftwood along the beach. 5000 meters down is a much different story. It's not exactly just like picking up a rock from the bottom of the swimming pool, only deeper.
2. Power - In every developing nation I've ever been in, electricity has been an issue for computers. In Bolivia it was rare that we would lose electricity completely (once every couple months), but very common where we would have brown-outs where there just isn't enough electricity in the wires. This is very bad for computers...so we had to hook every computer up to a battery (usually 2-3PCs for to a 1300VA battery). Unfortunately heat is the primary killer of batteries and the tropics is always hot. Over two years we probably spent 50% of the money spent on the lab on the original batteries and their replacements.
This is exactly the issue I was going to bring up, but you've said it better than I would have.
If your local country values Windows for employment more than that is what you should use, because that is what will help /them/ build a future.
Right, because the fact that I learned computing on Commodore Pets and Apple IIes has left me and the rest of my generation irredeemably crippled in the modern world. When will this idiotic meme die?
Having been a Nielsen family years ago, I would say that chance is pretty much nil. It's not like they plop a hipster in your living room who not-so-silently judges everything you do.
There is money to be had: by blackmailing Samsung. "Pay up or we brick you customers laptops." How much do you think it would be worth to Samsung to avoid that PR disaster?
I have a solution: the patent office should do a thorough examination of every patent application, in the order that they are received. If that makes the process too slow, then maybe the big dogs with their gigantic patent warchests should try paying their fucking taxes so we can afford to hire more patent examiners!