Portability and lower threshold of effort to start using it would be big ones. I used to feel like I didn't need a laptop for much after leaving college since I had a desktop everywhere I worked, but it's much easier to idly browse or do simple tasks with a tablet you can hold in one hand and use than a laptop you have to set down to use. This is why I might use my phone to look up something even while I am in the house.
Not really a fair comparison. ACM top 10 isn't the be-all and end-all of a nation's educational system, but the population of the countries you list don't even add up to that of the USA. Population USA: 313.9 million Population Germany: 81.8 million Population Canada: 34.48 million Population Australia: 22.32 million Population New Zealand: 4.405 million
Population of California: 38.04 million Population of New York City: 8.245 million
I am not anti-government, but I do think certain parts of it, especially the TSA and FDA, are doing inexcusably terrible jobs. A bad FDA is better than no FDA at all, but in a world where the internet is so prevalant and consumers and constantly asking for more transparency in all aspects of their lives, the FDA's regulations are rife with many loopsholes that allow food and drug to be extraordinarily opaque. Vitamins and supplements are barely regulated at all. And the TSA overspends on ineffective security measure after ineffective security measure, meanwhile trying its very hardest to keep improving public opinion of itself and covering up mistakes, rather than admitting fault when they've earned it and otherwise letting their work speak for itself.
And yes, you can absolutely judge Microsoft for Windows 8, one of their flagship products. Yes, I'd argue that with Windows 8, they have shown a significant problem in their ability to craft a UI people are happy with. Whether or not Microsoft is good at business itself remains to be seen; if Windows 8 is a commercial success, and doesn't adversely affect their future business, then Microsoft did well.
And yes, if you spend $38 million on bomb detectors don't work, when you would have argueably been better of spending the $38 million on flashlights so that at least you aren't fooling people into thinking they are safe when they are not, the government deserves to be criticized.
All those FDA approved food additives are are fine.
The scanners the TSA uses are safe and effective.
Putting millions on subsidized healthcare and ensuring even more of the incidental costs are hidden from consumers will reduce healthcare spending.
There was no coup in Egypt...
One of those, the third one specifically, stands out as not fitting the theme.
You do realise it's the *same government* that has given us the TSA, the FDA, and the many other ruinous mistakes in every area it's involved in that you expect is magically going to take charge of health care and make us all better?
Surely you jest.
This is also the same government that put a lander on Mars with a sky crane and created the internet. And how come the FDA doesn't get credit for making food and drugs in the USA among the safest in the world?
I'm going to need a source on that. Food and drug in the US is pretty messed up. We spend some of the least amount of money per capita on food among developed countries and I have not read anywhere that food and drugs in the USA are among the safest in the world. Of course, food and drug in the US compares favorably to that of nations where widespread poverty is an issue, but I don't think that's a fair comparison. Many of the FDA regulations are heavily influenced by industry: the very people they are supposed to regulate. Meanwhile, I'd argue that similar organizations in Europe are much more rigorous in their approval process.
Do you not understand how science works or something? Do you still think you get sick because of evil spirits? Psychology may be considered one of the "softer" sciences, but don't criticize it when you clearly don't know anything about what that menaas. The conclusions of "child psychology" comes from actual studies and field data, while the thousands of years of experience is also what gave us leeching to remove bad blood, surgeons not washing their hands between patients, and burning witches whenever we couldn't understand something.
Don't try to rationalize your desire to hit a child when you're frustrated that they're not listening to you with the claim that thousands of years of experience backs you up.
It raises the perfectly valid question of, "why can't you go to a single place and shop for multiple brands of cars like you do appliances, electronics, cameras, groceries etc?"
There is absolutely a non-market thing driving the current car-buying process, and it is a bunch of laws in every state that heavily protect car dealerships from the sort of fair competition that merchants in every other industry have to face. Dealers are protected by law from another dealer that wants to open in the same territory, and there are serious restrictions on manufacturers that prevent them from terminating a contract with a bad dealership. So, if you as a customer didn't like how a dealer sold cars, your only option is to drive very far away to the next dealer, or to buy a completely different brand. You can't even buy the car online. This is completely different from buying almost anything else.
You are being pedantic, but you're not even doing it right. Wind and hydro power are just forms of solar, as are coal and oil, though a few more degrees removed. Even geothermal energy is mostly radioactive decay, so yet another form for "nuclear power."
I guess we all need to switch to tidal power. Yay for moon power!
Or have the security on the train itself? Maybe have everyone enter at the front half of the train, process people in a line, and proccess people can board the rear cars?
Then at least you'd be travelling to the plane while you're forced to wait for security.
That is completely wrong. He doesn't have to prove anything. Even as a "criminal," you have rights, and just because there's strong proof that he had CP on one drive it doesn't mean he suddenly loses his rights to not decrypt those drives.
I don't think this is true that there isn't a viable replacement. I don't have a prediction for whether Linux gaming will ever happen, but people are definitely buying more Mac OS X desktops/laptops these days, even without the appeal of gaming. Once you reach a critical mass of gamers who also own Macs, it makes sense to publish games for Mac OS X.
The same thing happened with our phones. Once our phone became fast enough to play games, people made games for our phones.
I think he's arguing that it hasn't been growing in market share. Microsoft may be losing market share in a lot of areas, but most of it isn't to Linux (or at least to Linux in a way that help gamers who want to run Linux on their gaming PCs).
People also pay to watch people pretend to be other people every week. I don't see anyone questioning TV actors and actresses getting paid.
And marketing is a finickey science. I may not buy something simply because a pro endorsed it, but I could easily see why associating a player/actor I like with a product could make it stand out among a line of 10 other ones. Then, when I go consider which one to buy, it's quite likely that it would be one of the 3-5 products I consider (as I probably won't compare all 10 products). If the product is good, an endorsement could certainly bring it the exposure it needs to succeed over another quality product.
While we're using made-up science far beyond the realm of our technology, why not just open a warp tunnel near the asteroid and teleport the thing somewhere safer?
In the US, I believe most packaging does in fact have both measurements (oz, then g). If you try to buy a liter (litres don't exist here) of beer, though you're out of luck. Soda comes in 2-liter bottles for some reason even though all other liquids are generally measured in pints, quarts, and gallons. And we definitely don't use stones for weight; people lose or put on pounds. Even thought almost everything has both Imperial and Metric markings, we use almost exclusively Imperial in everyday conversation.
Also, if you go climbing around here, your routes are measured in feet, but your ropes in meters. So try to remember that your 60-meter rope can't get you back down anything much higher than 100 feet.
That doesn't make it not price fixing. If the only way to get the digital versions is to pay $100 more, and clearly it doesn't cost the publishers that amount to make the books (since the dead-tree versions somehow sell for less), it's still price fixing.
I knew Chicago politicians had a reputation, but that is deeply disturbing, although it furthers my point that gun control is probably not what is causing the high crime rate.
Er, no. That's what HR is for. If you think you have a valid complaint and you're afraid of speaking to someone in a way that is supposed to be confidential, your workplace is very unhealthy.
Hit a nerve? Seems like you're one of the senior programmers who can't take criticisms very well. It's quite obvious that OP never painted senior programmres as a waste of space, but rather complains that this one programmer is screwing up the entire workflow and it's because he won't consider the input of someone more junior than himself.
Seems like you have the same problem with listening before taking offense youself.
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Portability and lower threshold of effort to start using it would be big ones. I used to feel like I didn't need a laptop for much after leaving college since I had a desktop everywhere I worked, but it's much easier to idly browse or do simple tasks with a tablet you can hold in one hand and use than a laptop you have to set down to use. This is why I might use my phone to look up something even while I am in the house.
Well, if you want to market classes in Scheme, just mention that all the top-teir universities are doing the same thing.
Not really a fair comparison. ACM top 10 isn't the be-all and end-all of a nation's educational system, but the population of the countries you list don't even add up to that of the USA.
Population USA: 313.9 million
Population Germany: 81.8 million
Population Canada: 34.48 million
Population Australia: 22.32 million
Population New Zealand: 4.405 million
Population of California: 38.04 million
Population of New York City: 8.245 million
I am not anti-government, but I do think certain parts of it, especially the TSA and FDA, are doing inexcusably terrible jobs. A bad FDA is better than no FDA at all, but in a world where the internet is so prevalant and consumers and constantly asking for more transparency in all aspects of their lives, the FDA's regulations are rife with many loopsholes that allow food and drug to be extraordinarily opaque. Vitamins and supplements are barely regulated at all. And the TSA overspends on ineffective security measure after ineffective security measure, meanwhile trying its very hardest to keep improving public opinion of itself and covering up mistakes, rather than admitting fault when they've earned it and otherwise letting their work speak for itself.
And yes, you can absolutely judge Microsoft for Windows 8, one of their flagship products. Yes, I'd argue that with Windows 8, they have shown a significant problem in their ability to craft a UI people are happy with. Whether or not Microsoft is good at business itself remains to be seen; if Windows 8 is a commercial success, and doesn't adversely affect their future business, then Microsoft did well.
And yes, if you spend $38 million on bomb detectors don't work, when you would have argueably been better of spending the $38 million on flashlights so that at least you aren't fooling people into thinking they are safe when they are not, the government deserves to be criticized.
All those FDA approved food additives are are fine.
The scanners the TSA uses are safe and effective.
Putting millions on subsidized healthcare and ensuring even more of the incidental costs are hidden from consumers will reduce healthcare spending.
There was no coup in Egypt ...
One of those, the third one specifically, stands out as not fitting the theme.
You do realise it's the *same government* that has given us the TSA, the FDA, and the many other ruinous mistakes in every area it's involved in that you expect is magically going to take charge of health care and make us all better?
Surely you jest.
This is also the same government that put a lander on Mars with a sky crane and created the internet. And how come the FDA doesn't get credit for making food and drugs in the USA among the safest in the world?
I'm going to need a source on that. Food and drug in the US is pretty messed up. We spend some of the least amount of money per capita on food among developed countries and I have not read anywhere that food and drugs in the USA are among the safest in the world. Of course, food and drug in the US compares favorably to that of nations where widespread poverty is an issue, but I don't think that's a fair comparison. Many of the FDA regulations are heavily influenced by industry: the very people they are supposed to regulate. Meanwhile, I'd argue that similar organizations in Europe are much more rigorous in their approval process.
Do you not understand how science works or something? Do you still think you get sick because of evil spirits? Psychology may be considered one of the "softer" sciences, but don't criticize it when you clearly don't know anything about what that menaas. The conclusions of "child psychology" comes from actual studies and field data, while the thousands of years of experience is also what gave us leeching to remove bad blood, surgeons not washing their hands between patients, and burning witches whenever we couldn't understand something.
Don't try to rationalize your desire to hit a child when you're frustrated that they're not listening to you with the claim that thousands of years of experience backs you up.
NPR did a radio show on why Buying a Car is always so terrible: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-buying-a-car-never-changes
It raises the perfectly valid question of, "why can't you go to a single place and shop for multiple brands of cars like you do appliances, electronics, cameras, groceries etc?"
There is absolutely a non-market thing driving the current car-buying process, and it is a bunch of laws in every state that heavily protect car dealerships from the sort of fair competition that merchants in every other industry have to face. Dealers are protected by law from another dealer that wants to open in the same territory, and there are serious restrictions on manufacturers that prevent them from terminating a contract with a bad dealership. So, if you as a customer didn't like how a dealer sold cars, your only option is to drive very far away to the next dealer, or to buy a completely different brand. You can't even buy the car online. This is completely different from buying almost anything else.
No... obviously that's what my laptop is for.
I think you just explained Windows 8.
You are being pedantic, but you're not even doing it right. Wind and hydro power are just forms of solar, as are coal and oil, though a few more degrees removed. Even geothermal energy is mostly radioactive decay, so yet another form for "nuclear power."
I guess we all need to switch to tidal power. Yay for moon power!
You don't seem to have a good understanding of how rights work nor of the legal process in general.
Or have the security on the train itself? Maybe have everyone enter at the front half of the train, process people in a line, and proccess people can board the rear cars?
Then at least you'd be travelling to the plane while you're forced to wait for security.
That is completely wrong. He doesn't have to prove anything. Even as a "criminal," you have rights, and just because there's strong proof that he had CP on one drive it doesn't mean he suddenly loses his rights to not decrypt those drives.
I don't think this is true that there isn't a viable replacement. I don't have a prediction for whether Linux gaming will ever happen, but people are definitely buying more Mac OS X desktops/laptops these days, even without the appeal of gaming. Once you reach a critical mass of gamers who also own Macs, it makes sense to publish games for Mac OS X.
The same thing happened with our phones. Once our phone became fast enough to play games, people made games for our phones.
I think he's arguing that it hasn't been growing in market share. Microsoft may be losing market share in a lot of areas, but most of it isn't to Linux (or at least to Linux in a way that help gamers who want to run Linux on their gaming PCs).
People also pay to watch people pretend to be other people every week. I don't see anyone questioning TV actors and actresses getting paid.
And marketing is a finickey science. I may not buy something simply because a pro endorsed it, but I could easily see why associating a player/actor I like with a product could make it stand out among a line of 10 other ones. Then, when I go consider which one to buy, it's quite likely that it would be one of the 3-5 products I consider (as I probably won't compare all 10 products). If the product is good, an endorsement could certainly bring it the exposure it needs to succeed over another quality product.
While we're using made-up science far beyond the realm of our technology, why not just open a warp tunnel near the asteroid and teleport the thing somewhere safer?
This just highlights the weakness in our counting system. We need to start a petition to switch from decimal to hexidecimal!
In the US, I believe most packaging does in fact have both measurements (oz, then g). If you try to buy a liter (litres don't exist here) of beer, though you're out of luck. Soda comes in 2-liter bottles for some reason even though all other liquids are generally measured in pints, quarts, and gallons. And we definitely don't use stones for weight; people lose or put on pounds. Even thought almost everything has both Imperial and Metric markings, we use almost exclusively Imperial in everyday conversation.
Also, if you go climbing around here, your routes are measured in feet, but your ropes in meters. So try to remember that your 60-meter rope can't get you back down anything much higher than 100 feet.
That doesn't make it not price fixing. If the only way to get the digital versions is to pay $100 more, and clearly it doesn't cost the publishers that amount to make the books (since the dead-tree versions somehow sell for less), it's still price fixing.
Nope, that was me making a mistake. Good catch.
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"The United States is comprised of citizens."
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I knew Chicago politicians had a reputation, but that is deeply disturbing, although it furthers my point that gun control is probably not what is causing the high crime rate.
Er, no. That's what HR is for. If you think you have a valid complaint and you're afraid of speaking to someone in a way that is supposed to be confidential, your workplace is very unhealthy.
Hit a nerve? Seems like you're one of the senior programmers who can't take criticisms very well. It's quite obvious that OP never painted senior programmres as a waste of space, but rather complains that this one programmer is screwing up the entire workflow and it's because he won't consider the input of someone more junior than himself.
Seems like you have the same problem with listening before taking offense youself.