Atheists don't (or shouldn't) believe there is any real difference between a Christian and a non-Christian. It's a sliding scale between atheism, agnosticism, casual belief, and fanatical belief. Nor is there any reason to believe that one camp is really better in every possible way.
Lots of fanatical Christians *do* believe there are two camps - the "real" Christians, and everyone else. That's why they play the "No True Scotsman" game - most of them actually believe there is a real difference between "real" Christians, and the rest; and that "real" Christians are morally better in every way. So if a "real" Christian does something (or worse - believes something) they don't agree with, they obviously weren't a "real" Christian.
(OK, that's a bit of a simplification - they still think that "real" Christians do bad things, but then God forgives them and they try not to do it again... but they should certainly all *try* to live by the same moral code, since God is guiding them).
Well, it can't be any harder than building a working space elevator. At which point we can just beam solar power down.:/
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They asked professionals what they wanted. The answer was "Windows 7, fuck another upgrade".
Windows 8 is aimed at consumers, not professionals. It's not even aimed at making consumers happy, it's aimed at training consumers in Microsoft's touch UI, so the consumers will consider getting a Surface Pro / RT, or a Windows phone.
Microsoft realised, after about 10 years of Apple kind its ass, that touch devices are here to stay. So they are trying to leverage their PC dominance to drive the sales of post-PC devices.
Will this upset professionals? Most of them won't upgrade anyway. Windows 7 is good enough for them.
You'd need a lot of reinsurance, because there's a chance a flaw in the system could result in an insurer-bankrupting class action. To get re-insurance, you call up a guy like Warren Buffett (Global Re), who scratches his head, runs the figures, then says "OK, here's the price". He can afford to take the risk.
Every time 2 countries decide to "rationalize" their IP laws, they add their restrictions together, instead of compromising. You tend to end up with the longest term, the lowest bar, and the heaviest penalties.
There's a lot of "privileges" that blacks get, though; and some of those can actually be detrimental. For example, black students are more likely to get the "privilege" of getting remidial classes, even if they don't need them (and would be better off in regular, or even advanced, classes).
MIcrosoft doesn't want to fix their UI. They want to train users in their touch UI.
The tablet space is an attractive market, and Microsoft wants to use their power on the desktop to win the tablet war.
This won't win them any friends in corporate IT, but corporate IT is so tied to Microsoft that they could release the next version with MS Bob as the interface, and businesses would still be forced to buy it when they upgrade. The only reason corporate IT is slow to upgrade now is that XP (and now Windows 7) is good enough, and corporate upgrade cycles are slow. Businesses skipped Vista, and went with 7. They'll skip 8 no matter what. When they are ready to upgrade again, Microsoft can just release a "Pro" version which enables a "classic" interface, and leave regular consumers with an interface that trains them to use MS tablets.
While there's lots of good self-taught musicians, generally educated musicians are better. The same is true for lots of things. People *can* teach themselves, but only if the skill is very easy, or they are hell-bent on learning.
Look at what similar jobs in the area are offering. Then email someone (via linked-in, or a search of the org's website) who's not advertising a position, so they only have 1 resume in front of them. There's a 20% chance that there's a position opening up, but it hasn't gone to HR yet (ass-pull statistic), and it's quite likely that the manager will forego dealing with 200+ mostly useless applicants if they have one solid candidate so you'll get the job with not other competitors.
Illegal aliens don't pay many taxes, rent expensive apartments, buy expensive food, or buy expensive food; because most of them are poor. High skilled immigrants pay lots of taxes, and blow lots of money on expensive things (like hiring maids, dining out, etc). Murica would rather have badly educated kids who are there to serve highly paid immigrants than well educated kids who make money which they can use to pay low-skilled immigrants.
You *could* educated American kids better, but that's a states issue (not a federal one like immigration). OK, the federal government has tried to fix education (with No Child Left Behind), but... maybe it would be better if they found something else to wreck.
Arguably William Shockley too. His parents were American, but he was born in the UK.
A couple of the Traitorous Eight (who left Shockley's lab, to found Silicon Valley) were immigrants too, including Kleiner. Yes, the one who bankrolled Google (among many other things).
> But haven't Windows tablets been available since the early 90s? What does the Surface bring to the table if you leave out the Metro part? Why would this be more successful then the preceding Windows 7 tablets?
More touch-screen friendly. Cheap (compared to most tablets in the past). Powerful. Good industrial design.
> It's running Win8, which means 90% or corporate IT shops are going to eye it with tremendous suspicion, if not outright hostility, and unless your job title is a TLA starting with "C" and end with "O", odds are you're not even going to get a Surface Pro through the door.
Win8 has a few UI "issues", most of which become benefits when it's on a touch screen device. It still runs virtually all apps fine. There's no real reason to upgrade, and a slight cost of helping users find the login screen, shutdown screen, and desktop; but it's no biggie.
If users *want* a Surface, there's no reason why corporate IT would really care. It's not really hard to support it if.
Try getting a job at the NSA. You'll be security-screened up the wozoo, and then face 10 years in the slammer if you leak. Ask Manning.
There's also a lot of security - no USB drives, no internet (they'll have 2 computers, one of which can only access a LAN where the confidential information is kept), audits, lots of rules, etc. Manning used a CD burner. I'm betting that's going to be a bit harder to do now.
Saying "imperially found to be lower quality" is just bullshit. If you have some study where they have a higher rate of failure, you can always link it. (Their fucking laptop chargers are a joke - I've been through a few and if they don't brick themselves the cord wears out and can't be replaced). But "quality" is way to vague, and just invites a troll war.
Some Apple stuff is OK. Dell and Sony are rarely much cheaper. Asus and Levano may offer better value products, but it's hard to say.
The big problem with Apple is the lack of variety. They don't offer value products, like a 14" laptop (these seem to be the best value) or non-workstation desktops.
I could waste my time justifying the cost of a MBA (the display, speakers, aluminium casing, large touchpad). It used to be streets ahead of the competition, but now there's some competing ultralight laptops with better displays.
The US has decided that the 6th Amendment was a bad idea. That jury trials just aren't worth it. The only way to strip criminals of their rights is by "rewarding" them, by dropping some of the charges. And since dropping reasonable charges will be too soft on criminals, you have to keep increasing sentencing guidelines.
In China, you can go to 4-year college, or 2-year vocational school. 2-year vocational school is where the shit students go, like community college in the US.
Unlike the US, there's a massive stigma at not going to a good school.
This is for a few reasons:
1) The Chinese culture is much more pro-education than the US culture. "Good" kids are ones with good "gaokao" (high school final exam) results, not quarterbacks. I'm not saying that *all* Chinese really value education. Most just pretend to value education, and only care about the attainment of good marks. Sport start in China are not seen as heros, unless they are literally gold medal material.
If you want to deny that US parents are meatheads who just want their boy to play football, you'll probably agre that US parents value a "well rounded" kid over a kid with top marks. That's not the case in China.
2) In the old communist / socialist system, a college degree was a ticket for an "iron rice bowl" job - a cushy government job that you couldn't lose, which guaranteed a pension and lots of perks. There are now *far* more degree holders than government jobs, so it's no longer a meal ticket. But parents still believe in the caste system which communism created, in which a degree was the only way out.
3) Factory work was very low pay. It's gone up, because demand is outstripping supply. But Chinese still think "metal-working degree = peasant going to work in a shit factory".
Obviously, real degrees are still good. But they aren't *as* good as older Chinese think they are.
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"No True Scotsman" is a funny thing.
Atheists don't (or shouldn't) believe there is any real difference between a Christian and a non-Christian. It's a sliding scale between atheism, agnosticism, casual belief, and fanatical belief. Nor is there any reason to believe that one camp is really better in every possible way.
Lots of fanatical Christians *do* believe there are two camps - the "real" Christians, and everyone else. That's why they play the "No True Scotsman" game - most of them actually believe there is a real difference between "real" Christians, and the rest; and that "real" Christians are morally better in every way. So if a "real" Christian does something (or worse - believes something) they don't agree with, they obviously weren't a "real" Christian.
(OK, that's a bit of a simplification - they still think that "real" Christians do bad things, but then God forgives them and they try not to do it again ... but they should certainly all *try* to live by the same moral code, since God is guiding them).
Well, it can't be any harder than building a working space elevator. At which point we can just beam solar power down. :/
They asked professionals what they wanted. The answer was "Windows 7, fuck another upgrade".
Windows 8 is aimed at consumers, not professionals. It's not even aimed at making consumers happy, it's aimed at training consumers in Microsoft's touch UI, so the consumers will consider getting a Surface Pro / RT, or a Windows phone.
Microsoft realised, after about 10 years of Apple kind its ass, that touch devices are here to stay. So they are trying to leverage their PC dominance to drive the sales of post-PC devices.
Will this upset professionals? Most of them won't upgrade anyway. Windows 7 is good enough for them.
Wow. That Quora post has a lot of buzzwords.
You'd need a lot of reinsurance, because there's a chance a flaw in the system could result in an insurer-bankrupting class action. To get re-insurance, you call up a guy like Warren Buffett (Global Re), who scratches his head, runs the figures, then says "OK, here's the price". He can afford to take the risk.
This is how IP laws keep growing.
Every time 2 countries decide to "rationalize" their IP laws, they add their restrictions together, instead of compromising. You tend to end up with the longest term, the lowest bar, and the heaviest penalties.
AFAIK, none.
There's a lot of "privileges" that blacks get, though; and some of those can actually be detrimental. For example, black students are more likely to get the "privilege" of getting remidial classes, even if they don't need them (and would be better off in regular, or even advanced, classes).
MIcrosoft doesn't want to fix their UI. They want to train users in their touch UI.
The tablet space is an attractive market, and Microsoft wants to use their power on the desktop to win the tablet war.
This won't win them any friends in corporate IT, but corporate IT is so tied to Microsoft that they could release the next version with MS Bob as the interface, and businesses would still be forced to buy it when they upgrade. The only reason corporate IT is slow to upgrade now is that XP (and now Windows 7) is good enough, and corporate upgrade cycles are slow. Businesses skipped Vista, and went with 7. They'll skip 8 no matter what. When they are ready to upgrade again, Microsoft can just release a "Pro" version which enables a "classic" interface, and leave regular consumers with an interface that trains them to use MS tablets.
While there's lots of good self-taught musicians, generally educated musicians are better. The same is true for lots of things. People *can* teach themselves, but only if the skill is very easy, or they are hell-bent on learning.
That's the great thing about cloud computing. It's always there, like a cloud. Except when it decides to go away. Like a cloud.
Look at what similar jobs in the area are offering. Then email someone (via linked-in, or a search of the org's website) who's not advertising a position, so they only have 1 resume in front of them. There's a 20% chance that there's a position opening up, but it hasn't gone to HR yet (ass-pull statistic), and it's quite likely that the manager will forego dealing with 200+ mostly useless applicants if they have one solid candidate so you'll get the job with not other competitors.
> Tablets can't get real work done without add-on peripherals anyway.
A desktop can't either.
Probably more if you raise your own.
No, it's a good point (if a little ... mercenary).
Illegal aliens don't pay many taxes, rent expensive apartments, buy expensive food, or buy expensive food; because most of them are poor. High skilled immigrants pay lots of taxes, and blow lots of money on expensive things (like hiring maids, dining out, etc). Murica would rather have badly educated kids who are there to serve highly paid immigrants than well educated kids who make money which they can use to pay low-skilled immigrants.
You *could* educated American kids better, but that's a states issue (not a federal one like immigration). OK, the federal government has tried to fix education (with No Child Left Behind), but ... maybe it would be better if they found something else to wreck.
Arguably William Shockley too. His parents were American, but he was born in the UK.
A couple of the Traitorous Eight (who left Shockley's lab, to found Silicon Valley) were immigrants too, including Kleiner. Yes, the one who bankrolled Google (among many other things).
Don't like it? Move to China. Then they'll sell you it for cheaper, because you are so poor.
> But haven't Windows tablets been available since the early 90s? What does the Surface bring to the table if you leave out the Metro part? Why would this be more successful then the preceding Windows 7 tablets?
More touch-screen friendly. Cheap (compared to most tablets in the past). Powerful. Good industrial design.
> It's running Win8, which means 90% or corporate IT shops are going to eye it with tremendous suspicion, if not outright hostility, and unless your job title is a TLA starting with "C" and end with "O", odds are you're not even going to get a Surface Pro through the door.
Win8 has a few UI "issues", most of which become benefits when it's on a touch screen device. It still runs virtually all apps fine. There's no real reason to upgrade, and a slight cost of helping users find the login screen, shutdown screen, and desktop; but it's no biggie.
If users *want* a Surface, there's no reason why corporate IT would really care. It's not really hard to support it if.
They can't kill VPN, unless they only allow https on whitelisted sites, or MITM all non-whitelisted SSL.
> mobile vendors.
Apple is the best mobile vendor. Well, MS probably does a good job, but they aren't a big player.
We are comparing iOS to Android; not OSX to Windows.
Try getting a job at the NSA. You'll be security-screened up the wozoo, and then face 10 years in the slammer if you leak. Ask Manning.
There's also a lot of security - no USB drives, no internet (they'll have 2 computers, one of which can only access a LAN where the confidential information is kept), audits, lots of rules, etc. Manning used a CD burner. I'm betting that's going to be a bit harder to do now.
Obvious troll is obvious. Why is this upvoted?
Saying "imperially found to be lower quality" is just bullshit. If you have some study where they have a higher rate of failure, you can always link it. (Their fucking laptop chargers are a joke - I've been through a few and if they don't brick themselves the cord wears out and can't be replaced). But "quality" is way to vague, and just invites a troll war.
Some Apple stuff is OK. Dell and Sony are rarely much cheaper. Asus and Levano may offer better value products, but it's hard to say.
The big problem with Apple is the lack of variety. They don't offer value products, like a 14" laptop (these seem to be the best value) or non-workstation desktops.
I could waste my time justifying the cost of a MBA (the display, speakers, aluminium casing, large touchpad). It used to be streets ahead of the competition, but now there's some competing ultralight laptops with better displays.
Or the Mac Pro is about to go EOL, so there's no point changing it.
It's how the plea bargaining system is.
The US has decided that the 6th Amendment was a bad idea. That jury trials just aren't worth it. The only way to strip criminals of their rights is by "rewarding" them, by dropping some of the charges. And since dropping reasonable charges will be too soft on criminals, you have to keep increasing sentencing guidelines.
In China, you can go to 4-year college, or 2-year vocational school. 2-year vocational school is where the shit students go, like community college in the US.
Unlike the US, there's a massive stigma at not going to a good school.
This is for a few reasons:
1) The Chinese culture is much more pro-education than the US culture. "Good" kids are ones with good "gaokao" (high school final exam) results, not quarterbacks. I'm not saying that *all* Chinese really value education. Most just pretend to value education, and only care about the attainment of good marks. Sport start in China are not seen as heros, unless they are literally gold medal material.
If you want to deny that US parents are meatheads who just want their boy to play football, you'll probably agre that US parents value a "well rounded" kid over a kid with top marks. That's not the case in China.
2) In the old communist / socialist system, a college degree was a ticket for an "iron rice bowl" job - a cushy government job that you couldn't lose, which guaranteed a pension and lots of perks. There are now *far* more degree holders than government jobs, so it's no longer a meal ticket. But parents still believe in the caste system which communism created, in which a degree was the only way out.
3) Factory work was very low pay. It's gone up, because demand is outstripping supply. But Chinese still think "metal-working degree = peasant going to work in a shit factory".
Obviously, real degrees are still good. But they aren't *as* good as older Chinese think they are.