I'm sorry, what? Since when has a solution been required to solve 100% of scenarios to be deemed valid? A product that is attractive to even just 40% of the population would already be immensely successful and have a very large market.
This is specifically because the comparison between the Switch and a regular Apple/Android tablet wouldn't be very favorable to Nintendo. The Switch has modular controller attachments and Nintendo's first-party titles, that's it. Everything else is largely working against them: poor screen, virtually no use case beyond games, poor battery life, not pocketable yet not very large either, no integration with other devices you might have.
Basically, if you want a tablet and a Switch, you need a separate tablet on top of the Switch. Hence, the Switch isn't really a tablet.
The likelihood of humans fostering a strain of resistant bacteria through antibiotics use is orders of magnitude lower than that of simply contracting already resistant bacteria from the environment. If we eliminate antibiotics misuse/overuse in farming and as a preventative or feel-good medication, we'll be fixing the vast majority of the problem. Nothing about this implies that you should suddenly stop taking antibiotics when you need them (though you'd have to take the full dose in the manner prescribed so you don't increase the chances of creating resistant bacteria yourself).
It only takes a cursory search to find this NIH page advising that colloidal silver is toxic and that no health benefits have been confirmed by studies. You're encouraging people to take something that's universally seen as dangerous on the basis of completely unfounded claims of healing effects.
Canada's Competition Act makes it illegal to display an "ordinary price" (i.e. undiscounted) that is not representative of the actual price you'd be paying most of the time. Basically, if that price is only shown for a short time (the product is on sale almost all the time at a different price) or that very very few sales happen at that price (because it's way too high), then it's not considered the ordinary price.
Many many companies were guilty of that sort of stuff, so the regulation helps dealing with that. I know that as an American, you're not really used to consumer protection, but Canadian laws tend to favor the consumer a lot more.
You can do that with streaming too. Have you even used any modern service? You just import your current library (so it knows what you like), then it'll suggest you stuff based on your preferences. You'll get albums, artist repertoires, and "radios" (which tend to just be random tracks from similar artists you may like). And guess what? If you don't like a song, you can skip it. If you like a song, you mark it and it'll help further curate what it's suggesting.
It just feels like you cling onto Shoutcast much like others cling onto IRC. Sure, it works, but it's dated and there are reasons to prefer something more recent. To be unable to understand what makes a new tech appealing versus an old one is the same as being unable to understand why older techs were important or appealing back in the day.
Streaming is superior to internet radio (Shoutcast or otherwise) because you get to pick what you want to listen. If I want one track on repeat, I can just play that. I can create my own playlist without having to own the music and start up a Shoutcast server for it.
Instead of having to pick from the 67,814 stations, you get to select the exact song out of tens of millions that you'd like to listen to right now, and slowly curate your own library to listen to whenever you wish. It's a far more flexible model.
The idea of a human marrying a robot isn't outrageous. It's just plain stupid. Until we get to the point where the robot you're marrying can actually interact with you to the extent of another human being (which probably requires sentience), you'd just be marrying a very elaborate toaster. You can do that right now if you wish, but you're going to be branded as crazy and for good reason.
We're most likely not getting sentient AI in just 35 years.
Wait, you think the CEO of Exxon Mobil is not part of the political elite? You seem to be under the impression that large corporations somehow don't deal in politics, when they in fact tend to deal in politics as much as politicians themselves.
Did you even read beyond the comment title? You can get citizenship in France and any other Western country quite easily (well ok, maybe not the UK in the future). Discrimination on a cultural or ethnic basis is illegal in most of those places as well.
How the fuck do you know what I own, exactly? It's not my problem if you can't look beyond "oh noes it's Microsoft it must suck!" and realize that they've made a pretty sweet piece of hardware.
Alphabet is not so poor that their charitable deeds must go through taking a chunk off their employees' salary. If it mattered that much to the execs, why don't they cut their own salaries for the year to cover it up? They wouldn't even have to slash it by that much to cover the 30M.
The intent of this twisting of words is clear: to make it socially unacceptable to complain about it. It's utter bullshit.
I disagree. The internet is equal parts hardware and software and has defined our current era. Self-driving cars and trucks might well cause a revolution in transportation methods and that's largely software based. A hypothetical sentient AI would probably be the greatest achievement of mankind and would be software.
No, the real reason Musk is seen as a much more inspiring figure is just that what he's working on is far more interesting and ambitious than just creating a site where you can share cat pictures and complain about politics or making a Walmart clone, but on the web. You could make amazing software, but the current trend is to make crappy websites.
The bilingual requirement is only for governments and companies making business in the province of Quebec. It does not force companies to translate anything if they're not going to open shop there. Hell, many governmental institutions outside of Quebec and businesses (both in and outside of Quebec) don't follow those rules and nothing happens. I'm never quite sure why Americans are so quick to hate on bilingualism when there's almost as much Spanish being spoken in the US as French in Canada, proportionally speaking (and Spanish is growing, unlike French). You guys were literally built on immigration, and not all of that came from Britain, far from it.
As for free speech, yes Canadian law is stricter, but it's specifically to protect against libel or hate speech. There has not been any significant change in what courts consider to be "hate speech"; the definition is very narrow and basically covers things like the KKK or Nazism. Libel has to be ruled upon by courts as well, and means that the claims were intended to harm and were not truthful (facts cannot be libel) in the first place: they have no place on an archive anyway.
While I absolutely agree that these issues should be addressed, there aren't "so many postings". There's what, 100? 200? Amazon was at over 200,000 employees in 2015. One complaint per thousand employees isn't particularly unusual, hell I'm pretty sure there are way more than this that just never get out of Amazon.
You say "don't believe the mainstream media!" and recommend going to Breitbart for news? That's so wrong and laughable that I can't even come up with a car analogy for it.
I have the opposite rule: anything under 1k tends to break down in a year or two, while I still have stuff from 4+ years ago that I paid 1-2k for. On top of that, you get appreciably better performance and stronger specs. Cheaping out on your main tool is a bit weird to me.
It appears to actually be a valid use of the word "indiscrete", if rare, according to the Merriam-Webster at least. Note that it is not spelled "indiscreet", which does have a different meaning.
Quantum entanglement does not allow FTL communication. We're still limited by the speed of light, which caps minimum latency to go from one end of the planet to another at around 60 milliseconds. You'd need to go through the Earth to go faster, and even then you'd have minimum 40 milliseconds latency.
Or, you know, Exchange also has a bunch of tools allowing you to do the same thing, but incompetent IT will be incompetent regardless of the tools (or manglement if they overrode IT decisions about it).
Open source can deliver quality, but take open source as a whole rather than by just cherry picking the successful projects and you'll find just as much crap as in closed source projects.
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I'm sorry, what? Since when has a solution been required to solve 100% of scenarios to be deemed valid? A product that is attractive to even just 40% of the population would already be immensely successful and have a very large market.
This is specifically because the comparison between the Switch and a regular Apple/Android tablet wouldn't be very favorable to Nintendo. The Switch has modular controller attachments and Nintendo's first-party titles, that's it. Everything else is largely working against them: poor screen, virtually no use case beyond games, poor battery life, not pocketable yet not very large either, no integration with other devices you might have.
Basically, if you want a tablet and a Switch, you need a separate tablet on top of the Switch. Hence, the Switch isn't really a tablet.
The likelihood of humans fostering a strain of resistant bacteria through antibiotics use is orders of magnitude lower than that of simply contracting already resistant bacteria from the environment. If we eliminate antibiotics misuse/overuse in farming and as a preventative or feel-good medication, we'll be fixing the vast majority of the problem. Nothing about this implies that you should suddenly stop taking antibiotics when you need them (though you'd have to take the full dose in the manner prescribed so you don't increase the chances of creating resistant bacteria yourself).
It only takes a cursory search to find this NIH page advising that colloidal silver is toxic and that no health benefits have been confirmed by studies. You're encouraging people to take something that's universally seen as dangerous on the basis of completely unfounded claims of healing effects.
They could just read the relevant sections of the Competition Act. The criteria used to determine an ordinary price are clearly stated there.
Canada's Competition Act makes it illegal to display an "ordinary price" (i.e. undiscounted) that is not representative of the actual price you'd be paying most of the time. Basically, if that price is only shown for a short time (the product is on sale almost all the time at a different price) or that very very few sales happen at that price (because it's way too high), then it's not considered the ordinary price.
Many many companies were guilty of that sort of stuff, so the regulation helps dealing with that. I know that as an American, you're not really used to consumer protection, but Canadian laws tend to favor the consumer a lot more.
You can do that with streaming too. Have you even used any modern service? You just import your current library (so it knows what you like), then it'll suggest you stuff based on your preferences. You'll get albums, artist repertoires, and "radios" (which tend to just be random tracks from similar artists you may like). And guess what? If you don't like a song, you can skip it. If you like a song, you mark it and it'll help further curate what it's suggesting.
It just feels like you cling onto Shoutcast much like others cling onto IRC. Sure, it works, but it's dated and there are reasons to prefer something more recent. To be unable to understand what makes a new tech appealing versus an old one is the same as being unable to understand why older techs were important or appealing back in the day.
Streaming is superior to internet radio (Shoutcast or otherwise) because you get to pick what you want to listen. If I want one track on repeat, I can just play that. I can create my own playlist without having to own the music and start up a Shoutcast server for it.
Instead of having to pick from the 67,814 stations, you get to select the exact song out of tens of millions that you'd like to listen to right now, and slowly curate your own library to listen to whenever you wish. It's a far more flexible model.
The idea of a human marrying a robot isn't outrageous. It's just plain stupid. Until we get to the point where the robot you're marrying can actually interact with you to the extent of another human being (which probably requires sentience), you'd just be marrying a very elaborate toaster. You can do that right now if you wish, but you're going to be branded as crazy and for good reason.
We're most likely not getting sentient AI in just 35 years.
Wait, you think the CEO of Exxon Mobil is not part of the political elite? You seem to be under the impression that large corporations somehow don't deal in politics, when they in fact tend to deal in politics as much as politicians themselves.
Did you even read beyond the comment title? You can get citizenship in France and any other Western country quite easily (well ok, maybe not the UK in the future). Discrimination on a cultural or ethnic basis is illegal in most of those places as well.
How the fuck do you know what I own, exactly? It's not my problem if you can't look beyond "oh noes it's Microsoft it must suck!" and realize that they've made a pretty sweet piece of hardware.
The R7000 (which I own) supports DD-WRT very well, so it's just a matter of installing that.
Alphabet is not so poor that their charitable deeds must go through taking a chunk off their employees' salary. If it mattered that much to the execs, why don't they cut their own salaries for the year to cover it up? They wouldn't even have to slash it by that much to cover the 30M.
The intent of this twisting of words is clear: to make it socially unacceptable to complain about it. It's utter bullshit.
I disagree. The internet is equal parts hardware and software and has defined our current era. Self-driving cars and trucks might well cause a revolution in transportation methods and that's largely software based. A hypothetical sentient AI would probably be the greatest achievement of mankind and would be software.
No, the real reason Musk is seen as a much more inspiring figure is just that what he's working on is far more interesting and ambitious than just creating a site where you can share cat pictures and complain about politics or making a Walmart clone, but on the web. You could make amazing software, but the current trend is to make crappy websites.
Does it really matter when the courts seem to be entirely ready to ignore the constitution anyway?
The bilingual requirement is only for governments and companies making business in the province of Quebec. It does not force companies to translate anything if they're not going to open shop there. Hell, many governmental institutions outside of Quebec and businesses (both in and outside of Quebec) don't follow those rules and nothing happens. I'm never quite sure why Americans are so quick to hate on bilingualism when there's almost as much Spanish being spoken in the US as French in Canada, proportionally speaking (and Spanish is growing, unlike French). You guys were literally built on immigration, and not all of that came from Britain, far from it.
As for free speech, yes Canadian law is stricter, but it's specifically to protect against libel or hate speech. There has not been any significant change in what courts consider to be "hate speech"; the definition is very narrow and basically covers things like the KKK or Nazism. Libel has to be ruled upon by courts as well, and means that the claims were intended to harm and were not truthful (facts cannot be libel) in the first place: they have no place on an archive anyway.
While I absolutely agree that these issues should be addressed, there aren't "so many postings". There's what, 100? 200? Amazon was at over 200,000 employees in 2015. One complaint per thousand employees isn't particularly unusual, hell I'm pretty sure there are way more than this that just never get out of Amazon.
You say "don't believe the mainstream media!" and recommend going to Breitbart for news? That's so wrong and laughable that I can't even come up with a car analogy for it.
I have the opposite rule: anything under 1k tends to break down in a year or two, while I still have stuff from 4+ years ago that I paid 1-2k for. On top of that, you get appreciably better performance and stronger specs. Cheaping out on your main tool is a bit weird to me.
It appears to actually be a valid use of the word "indiscrete", if rare, according to the Merriam-Webster at least. Note that it is not spelled "indiscreet", which does have a different meaning.
Quantum entanglement does not allow FTL communication. We're still limited by the speed of light, which caps minimum latency to go from one end of the planet to another at around 60 milliseconds. You'd need to go through the Earth to go faster, and even then you'd have minimum 40 milliseconds latency.
Or, you know, Exchange also has a bunch of tools allowing you to do the same thing, but incompetent IT will be incompetent regardless of the tools (or manglement if they overrode IT decisions about it).
So his supporters basically reinterpreted his words to please themselves? You know that that's generally not how that works, right?
Open source can deliver quality, but take open source as a whole rather than by just cherry picking the successful projects and you'll find just as much crap as in closed source projects.