Can they be switched to independent contractors too?
Instead of ride-sharing we'd have class-sharing. Teachers bid on showing up to work that day, lowest bidder gets the classroom.
Think of all the money we'd save in the short term, and a generation of shitty educated people we'd have in the long term. Shitty education makes for a reliable voter base with the right propaganda campaigns.
I work for a hardware vendor, and it's kind of a pain in the ass to have additional columns on your test matrix.
Apple is lucky to be in a position where they can break compatibility and have it be a net positive. Sure people might bitch and moan, but more people will upgrade their systems when SW vendors drop support for older systems.
As for 32-bit versus 64-bit, it is possible to do 32-bit pointers in 64-bit long mode. Which eliminates most of the costs for application size. I don't think MacOS supports that yet, but it's been something people have been kicking around on Linux so it is theoretically possible for Apple to add something like that back in. (extremely doubtful if Apple is going to jump into ARM for everything in a few years)
I don't know German but I was able to go through the site and find and compare some of the services. But when I tried to sign up for a free trial of ProMail the redirect didn't work (same goes for the FreeMail sign up). And I don't know enough German to work around it, other than maybe my browser is blocking some cookies from known ad websites.
Displaying lots of information in a sensible way is hard work. And it's the sort of hard work that most UX designers are not equipped to handle. Just because UX design is one discipline of visual communication does not automatically lead to other disciplines like data visualization, at least not without further training.
Any user interface that changes is automatically bad in my opinion. Innovation is a barrier to us mundane computer users that want to do a few basic tasks then move on with our life.
No no. we can only ever do one thing at a time. Please don't confuse matters with your dismissal of false dichotomies when the rest of us feel more comfortable when every choice is a simple either-or black and white decision with no complexities.
Every year a good percentage of computer science and computer engineering undergrads write a small kernel for their coursework. It's not hard to write a kernel that solves a narrow set of requirements. When you have an every expanding scope, like in the Linux world, it gets hard. Linux has to run kiosks, mobile phones, desktops and supercomputers. And it's probably not the best possible kernel for any one of those problems, and certainly more complex than a kernel designed for a single specific purpose.
Why do we need Google Fuchsia? We don't really. But a whole lot of people leverage Little Kernel for their projects (my own company is using LK in 3 totally different ways). I blame LK for projects like Fuschia as it has turned into sort of a DIY Operating System kit.
If Linux and the BSDs are too complicated or you're just looking for some kernel you can hack up to meet your own special needs: * NewOS * Xv6 - a teaching OS. but people have patches for virtual memory and other goodies * LK (little kernel) and for an example of a fork TLK (Trusted Little Kernel). LK is quite a good starting place for an aspiring osdev'r * basekernel - rough starting place for making your own kernel * FUZIX - a UNIX-like kernel geared toward 8-bit CPUs. but can be ported to bigger CPUs (there is a 68K port for example) * TinyOS * Femto OS - a kernel suitable for multitasking on small microcontrollers * PonyOS - a graphical OS for people who love ponies (OMG Ponies). If you're looking for a more serious version see Toaruos.
There are hundreds of these hobby and learning OSes and several more complete and better established ones (like FreeRTOS).
Sure, you can do that, if all goes well. People who think they are characters in a movie, though, are spectacular idiots. Life doesn't have a script.
My Presidents says he can fight gunmen with his bare hands.
Yeah, and put it on the brake. Which is where you should have it when it's not on the accelerator. If you're not doing that, you're not using cruise control correctly.
If you're riding the brakes then your mechanic must really love all the work you create for him. And if you're holding down the gas pedal you can't also have the same foot hovering over the brake, unless you're doing the 2-foot race driver technique. Myself I don't like replacing brake pads, or overheating my brakes to the point where they don't function. (I drive down steep grades a lot, where cruise control is off and I'm just coasting and trying not to overuse my brakes while also keeping my speed down)
In the movies the pilot flips a switch, a red light comes on, and he goes to the back of the plane to fight hijackers or have a smoke.
I think it's a poor choice of terminology because there are so many misconceptions about what autopilot is for aircrafts that it's difficult to shift the metaphor to a car.
Having to hold the wheel and pay attention is less useful than cruise control. At least with cruise control I can take my foot off the gas pedal.
You're encouraging me to mail my political donations anonymously. I'm not sure if a campaign is even allowed to accept an envelope with a $10 bill in it and no return address.
Democracy is fine, I'll participate up to the point it interferes with me being a recluse.
You know that thing where your contract says your information "may be shared with partners" or some such?
Yes. I've always declined. And I'm on the do-not-call list. But these campaign guys still find me, and somehow are exempt from most of the rules that private business must adhere to.
We pay 3 cents per successful record append to turn your voter history (purchased from the State for use only in conjunction with a political campaign) and information into contact info. Name and address go in, phone numbers and e-mails come out. Donor information, social networking profiles, and the like might come along with that, too.
Kind of my point. conceptually no difference, even if you use different mechanisms for the processing and scraping of information.
I don't consent to political campaigns calling me up during election season. But there are public records and they've been doing this for decades. That you have some right to not have your public information accessed is some new right that currently does not exist in US legal code. Perhaps congress will write a new law, but until then it's a bit premature to get upset over something that we've tolerated for so long. (or at least spread your outrage out among the many marketing and political firms that have done similar things over the decades)
How long do you think it takes to develop and put a product like the iPhone X into production?
logistically 10 months minimum. but typically 16-20months if it's more than just a simple follow on project.
The Essential only went on sale 1 month before the iPhone X
Perhaps. But I've known about things going on in my industry many months before it was announced. I guess it depends on how well Essential kept a lid on things. I don't think you can argue that Apple wouldn't care about Essential because even they don't there is still a big rumor mill in the industry. Even really obscure inconsequential start-ups get discussed in the lunch room and at the bars around Silicon Valley. Because everyone know someone that is working at a start-up and we all talk to each other.
On top of all that, it's very likely that people at Apple are very aware of projects that people like Andy Rubin are involved in. Either intentionally tracking it, or through the usual rumor mill.
I just want a phone that will impress my peer group. Even if that is wafer thin phone with three notches around the screen, and no plugs not even for a charging port.
It is possible, just maybe, that LG copied Apple. Even though Apple copied Essential. I feel a bit like we're running designs through a Xerox multiple times and the quality is lost a little each time.
Apple has been trying to sue Samsung for "slavishly cop[ing] a combination of several elements of the Apple Product Configuration Trade Dress". It's still tied up in courts and apparently LG feels they can sell a lot of phones before this is resolved
And I think "slavish" is fair when you copy the worst features of a device.
Floodgap Gopher proxy is still alive and kicking. And even Veronica-2 is quite usable. There are a few folks who publish their blogs on Gopher (as well as HTTP). And in a weird way the structure of Gopher makes a lot of sense for blog/journal content. (I don't blog, but I'd like to if I could be motivated to write about something)
I wouldn't mind $1000. But I also wouldn't mind stabilized stock prices, which is what dividend paying stocks tend to do.
I'm investing for the long term, not for a get-rich-quick yo-yo economy.
Obviously I'd prefer 1% dividends semi-annually plus 5% growth per year on all my shares. But I won't hold my breath for that kind of payout. (or denigrate anything less as being "fucking nothing")
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Can they be switched to independent contractors too?
Instead of ride-sharing we'd have class-sharing. Teachers bid on showing up to work that day, lowest bidder gets the classroom.
Think of all the money we'd save in the short term, and a generation of shitty educated people we'd have in the long term. Shitty education makes for a reliable voter base with the right propaganda campaigns.
I work for a hardware vendor, and it's kind of a pain in the ass to have additional columns on your test matrix.
Apple is lucky to be in a position where they can break compatibility and have it be a net positive. Sure people might bitch and moan, but more people will upgrade their systems when SW vendors drop support for older systems.
As for 32-bit versus 64-bit, it is possible to do 32-bit pointers in 64-bit long mode. Which eliminates most of the costs for application size. I don't think MacOS supports that yet, but it's been something people have been kicking around on Linux so it is theoretically possible for Apple to add something like that back in. (extremely doubtful if Apple is going to jump into ARM for everything in a few years)
I don't know German but I was able to go through the site and find and compare some of the services. But when I tried to sign up for a free trial of ProMail the redirect didn't work (same goes for the FreeMail sign up). And I don't know enough German to work around it, other than maybe my browser is blocking some cookies from known ad websites.
Displaying lots of information in a sensible way is hard work. And it's the sort of hard work that most UX designers are not equipped to handle. Just because UX design is one discipline of visual communication does not automatically lead to other disciplines like data visualization, at least not without further training.
Any user interface that changes is automatically bad in my opinion. Innovation is a barrier to us mundane computer users that want to do a few basic tasks then move on with our life.
No no. we can only ever do one thing at a time. Please don't confuse matters with your dismissal of false dichotomies when the rest of us feel more comfortable when every choice is a simple either-or black and white decision with no complexities.
Every year a good percentage of computer science and computer engineering undergrads write a small kernel for their coursework. It's not hard to write a kernel that solves a narrow set of requirements. When you have an every expanding scope, like in the Linux world, it gets hard. Linux has to run kiosks, mobile phones, desktops and supercomputers. And it's probably not the best possible kernel for any one of those problems, and certainly more complex than a kernel designed for a single specific purpose.
Why do we need Google Fuchsia? We don't really. But a whole lot of people leverage Little Kernel for their projects (my own company is using LK in 3 totally different ways). I blame LK for projects like Fuschia as it has turned into sort of a DIY Operating System kit.
If Linux and the BSDs are too complicated or you're just looking for some kernel you can hack up to meet your own special needs:
* NewOS
* Xv6 - a teaching OS. but people have patches for virtual memory and other goodies
* LK (little kernel) and for an example of a fork TLK (Trusted Little Kernel). LK is quite a good starting place for an aspiring osdev'r
* basekernel - rough starting place for making your own kernel
* FUZIX - a UNIX-like kernel geared toward 8-bit CPUs. but can be ported to bigger CPUs (there is a 68K port for example)
* TinyOS
* Femto OS - a kernel suitable for multitasking on small microcontrollers
* PonyOS - a graphical OS for people who love ponies (OMG Ponies). If you're looking for a more serious version see Toaruos.
There are hundreds of these hobby and learning OSes and several more complete and better established ones (like FreeRTOS).
The sudden lane changes will make that scene much more dramatic.
Sure, you can do that, if all goes well. People who think they are characters in a movie, though, are spectacular idiots. Life doesn't have a script.
My Presidents says he can fight gunmen with his bare hands.
Yeah, and put it on the brake. Which is where you should have it when it's not on the accelerator. If you're not doing that, you're not using cruise control correctly.
If you're riding the brakes then your mechanic must really love all the work you create for him. And if you're holding down the gas pedal you can't also have the same foot hovering over the brake, unless you're doing the 2-foot race driver technique. Myself I don't like replacing brake pads, or overheating my brakes to the point where they don't function. (I drive down steep grades a lot, where cruise control is off and I'm just coasting and trying not to overuse my brakes while also keeping my speed down)
In the movies the pilot flips a switch, a red light comes on, and he goes to the back of the plane to fight hijackers or have a smoke.
I think it's a poor choice of terminology because there are so many misconceptions about what autopilot is for aircrafts that it's difficult to shift the metaphor to a car.
Having to hold the wheel and pay attention is less useful than cruise control. At least with cruise control I can take my foot off the gas pedal.
large, for me, is more than one unsolicited call per year. Ideal would be less than 1 per decade.
You're encouraging me to mail my political donations anonymously. I'm not sure if a campaign is even allowed to accept an envelope with a $10 bill in it and no return address.
Democracy is fine, I'll participate up to the point it interferes with me being a recluse.
You know that thing where your contract says your information "may be shared with partners" or some such?
Yes. I've always declined. And I'm on the do-not-call list. But these campaign guys still find me, and somehow are exempt from most of the rules that private business must adhere to.
We pay 3 cents per successful record append to turn your voter history (purchased from the State for use only in conjunction with a political campaign) and information into contact info. Name and address go in, phone numbers and e-mails come out. Donor information, social networking profiles, and the like might come along with that, too.
Kind of my point. conceptually no difference, even if you use different mechanisms for the processing and scraping of information.
I don't consent to political campaigns calling me up during election season. But there are public records and they've been doing this for decades. That you have some right to not have your public information accessed is some new right that currently does not exist in US legal code. Perhaps congress will write a new law, but until then it's a bit premature to get upset over something that we've tolerated for so long. (or at least spread your outrage out among the many marketing and political firms that have done similar things over the decades)
I'm not Jewish, but all people are cousins if you go back far enough. And that's good enough for me.
Maybe you don't know what the definition of hate speech is and have chosen to take the two words you do know as literally as possible?
How long do you think it takes to develop and put a product like the iPhone X into production?
logistically 10 months minimum. but typically 16-20months if it's more than just a simple follow on project.
The Essential only went on sale 1 month before the iPhone X
Perhaps. But I've known about things going on in my industry many months before it was announced. I guess it depends on how well Essential kept a lid on things. I don't think you can argue that Apple wouldn't care about Essential because even they don't there is still a big rumor mill in the industry. Even really obscure inconsequential start-ups get discussed in the lunch room and at the bars around Silicon Valley. Because everyone know someone that is working at a start-up and we all talk to each other.
On top of all that, it's very likely that people at Apple are very aware of projects that people like Andy Rubin are involved in. Either intentionally tracking it, or through the usual rumor mill.
I just want a phone that will impress my peer group. Even if that is wafer thin phone with three notches around the screen, and no plugs not even for a charging port.
It is possible, just maybe, that LG copied Apple. Even though Apple copied Essential. I feel a bit like we're running designs through a Xerox multiple times and the quality is lost a little each time.
Apple has been trying to sue Samsung for "slavishly cop[ing] a combination of several elements of the Apple Product Configuration Trade Dress". It's still tied up in courts and apparently LG feels they can sell a lot of phones before this is resolved
And I think "slavish" is fair when you copy the worst features of a device.
There are reasons, even if none of them apply to your own situations.
Floodgap Gopher proxy is still alive and kicking. And even Veronica-2 is quite usable. There are a few folks who publish their blogs on Gopher (as well as HTTP). And in a weird way the structure of Gopher makes a lot of sense for blog/journal content. (I don't blog, but I'd like to if I could be motivated to write about something)
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and many others wish to end the hobbyist Internet.
FTP lacks cookies to track views. And FTP is hard for search engines to index with useful metadata for advertisers.
I wouldn't mind $1000. But I also wouldn't mind stabilized stock prices, which is what dividend paying stocks tend to do.
I'm investing for the long term, not for a get-rich-quick yo-yo economy.
Obviously I'd prefer 1% dividends semi-annually plus 5% growth per year on all my shares. But I won't hold my breath for that kind of payout. (or denigrate anything less as being "fucking nothing")
One important fact left out - Amazon currently does not pay out dividends to its stockholders.
Which is why I'd like them to pay them out.
If you're looking for a counter example, NVDA does pay dividends and they are frequently the technology leader in their market.