The Electoral College is too susceptible to gerrymandering and other such manipulations. Popular vote is simple, straightforward, and hard to misinterpret. The margins are gonna be a lot narrower, but since in the end they don't matter whatsoever, I don't see an issue with it. It'd be more representative of the true wish of the electorate (as representative as winner-takes-all can get, anyway).
1) Trump is a left-of-center conservative who until recently was actually a Democrat. He's not Hitler. He's not going to eat your babies or throw you out of the country because your grandmother was Mexican.
Correction: Mr. Trump was a left-leaning Democrat. President Trump is a wildcard with no real plan or policies aside from building a wall, all backed by an evangelical vice-president and a very troubled Republican party.
2) Trump is a sane human being who has no intention of starting any wars or launching any nukes.
That's not what he said, and what he said is all we have to work off. You're ascribing intent to him that he has never expressed. The real answer is that we don't know.
3) Trump may be inexperienced as a political leader but he's also smart enough to delegate to people who do have experience.
Republican-leaning people, most likely, who can still do significant damage in many areas such as social policies, healthcare, environmental policies, etc. "Experience" can have many definitions and people will still have leanings even with experience.
4) Canada has its own problems. They just elected their own dumb himbo as leader and their economy isn't exactly booming. They also are trying to enact some pretty repressive anti-free-speech laws and continue to be plagued by division between French separatists in Quebec and the English in the rest of the country. Paradise it ain't. If you go there, you're probably in for some harsh awakenings.
Trudeau has yet to show any significant issue, so calling him a "dumb himbo" is really just showing your own biases. Those "repressive anti-free-speech laws" aren't very popular and aren't all that different from what many conservatives want to implement in the US. Finally, separatists, a problem? There hasn't been a majority separatist government in well over a decade. To keep raising that particular specter is completely baseless and farcical.
HAHAHAHAHA! Man that's a great joke. Oh wait, you're serious? Clinton would've been boring business as usual, whatever you neocons seem to think. Trump is a complete wildcard, and with unstable elements like Russia, that's bad.
So in short, people will reinterpret Shit Trump Says to make it palatable and turn it into what they want, hence making Trump appear like their ideal candidate. That's some serious psychological condition right there.
Or none of those things will happen because technology is moving at a much more rapid pace than you seem to think. You sound like a horse carriage driver looking at cars and going "Pah! Those things will never work out!"
The Galaxy J5 is over a year old (June 2015). Had the problem been the same as the Note 7 (not S7), it'd have been widespread a looooong time ago. This is just an isolated incident (as it happens occasionally) that's getting larger media attention than usual because it's Samsung.
Uh, that's not how it works. Microsoft didn't make the decision to exclude players, Activision/Valve did. If you split a group in half and take one half with you, that doesn't mean the other half is at fault for it.
Yeah, it's kinda crazy how the entire comments section is idiotic Windows 10 bashing when this is all on Activision and Valve. They're using Steamworks for multiplayer matchmaking, and Steamworks doesn't work if the game isn't sold on Steam (which is why most stores just sell you a Steam key). Microsoft sells the actual game rather than a key, so in order to work on their platform, Activision stripped out Steamworks and implemented another matchmaking solution, segregating both platforms. Since the Microsoft stores sees far fewer sales, the people who bought it there get shafted.
There's a ton of ways this could've been fixed, but there's no reason to blame Microsoft here. The fact that Steam has such a hegemony on PC gaming is not good, and that's just one example of why.
Yep, I hope as many people who are in this situation as possible engage in "malicious compliance". Do exactly what you're asked to do, but ensure that in doing so you hamper the ability of your (probably incompetent or at least insufficiently trained) replacement to do your job.
But Microsoft did allow hardware makers to make their own handsets running Windows Phone. There has been a few models from each vendor, the problem is that they generally sucked and they all had the same fundamental issue: the OS just came too late to the fight, making it have an insurmountable deficit in its app market compared to Android and iOS. Hell, Android, which trailed iOS in high availability by not very long at all, took years to make up that deficit. Developers get very attached to whatever ecosystem they start off in, and making them switch or branch out seems very difficult.
Microsoft didn't figure out how to entice them, so they had the same chicken and egg problem: phones don't sell because they don't have many apps, but they don't have many apps because since they don't sell, devs don't want to make apps for them. Even trying something like BlackBerry's "hey, we can run Android apps too!" doesn't quite work out. The OS itself, from what I've heard, is actually quite nice, it's just the ecosystem that's lacking (that, and a lot of early phones released for it were rather underwhelming/underperforming).
Biometrics can be insecure if you're being specifically targeted. The most common security breaches for regular users come from phishing, hacks or vulnerabilities in software, and those are non-targeted most of the time and would be significantly hampered by biometrics, since the hackers don't know you and don't specifically care about you.
Also, you're seemingly assuming that today's biometrics are as good as it gets, which is rather myopic. Fingerprinting will move on to finger vein matching, face recognition will include depth perception and infrared matching, iris scanning will get more popular, etc. It's like saying passwords will always be insecure because 6-character passwords are.
Yes, GPL... version 2. Linux is v2. Android is Apache, not GPL. gcc is GPLv3, which is part of why it's being seriously overtaken by llvm, which is using a custom permissive license.
That's the key: permissive. GPLv2 was relatively permissive, though LGPL is a lot more popular in the industry. Apache is very permissive. GPLv3 is not permissive, and so it's seeing most companies steer waaaay clear of it.
While MagSafe's gone, the Surface line uses the exact same principle in their connectors, providing the same advantages. I think the biggest difference is that they are somewhat bigger and carry more than just power.
The hardware's in the base, not in the screen. The screen is still very thin comparatively to basically any screen you can find out there, and that's in spite of requiring a much stronger structure than a 5" smartphone.
The dial can be used off-screen as basically a wheel of sorts, but the on-screen use adds the ability to show a digital control wheel around it which can be extremely practical. I think it's gonna be a net win over purely off-screen dials.
"Security theater"? Do you even understand the purpose of those things? They're a deterrent so people don't put their phones way up recording shit and distracting everyone. There's no implication of security what so ever. If you're willing to destroy those bags to take pictures, then you're crazy. Just don't go to those shows.
Much as I'm fine with people not willing to go through these motions, you aren't being "sheeple" or "giving up your rights" by doing this. That's ridiculous. You don't have a right to a cellphone, let alone the right to use it in a private property during an artistic performance. This wouldn't be a thing if people weren't being obnoxious with their phones during shows. It's just a bag, you still have your phone on you, you just can't use it during the show (which is basically enforcing with a technical solution what people should naturally do of their own volition, but don't).
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The Electoral College is too susceptible to gerrymandering and other such manipulations. Popular vote is simple, straightforward, and hard to misinterpret. The margins are gonna be a lot narrower, but since in the end they don't matter whatsoever, I don't see an issue with it. It'd be more representative of the true wish of the electorate (as representative as winner-takes-all can get, anyway).
1) Trump is a left-of-center conservative who until recently was actually a Democrat. He's not Hitler. He's not going to eat your babies or throw you out of the country because your grandmother was Mexican.
Correction: Mr. Trump was a left-leaning Democrat. President Trump is a wildcard with no real plan or policies aside from building a wall, all backed by an evangelical vice-president and a very troubled Republican party.
2) Trump is a sane human being who has no intention of starting any wars or launching any nukes.
That's not what he said, and what he said is all we have to work off. You're ascribing intent to him that he has never expressed. The real answer is that we don't know.
3) Trump may be inexperienced as a political leader but he's also smart enough to delegate to people who do have experience.
Republican-leaning people, most likely, who can still do significant damage in many areas such as social policies, healthcare, environmental policies, etc. "Experience" can have many definitions and people will still have leanings even with experience.
4) Canada has its own problems. They just elected their own dumb himbo as leader and their economy isn't exactly booming. They also are trying to enact some pretty repressive anti-free-speech laws and continue to be plagued by division between French separatists in Quebec and the English in the rest of the country. Paradise it ain't. If you go there, you're probably in for some harsh awakenings.
Trudeau has yet to show any significant issue, so calling him a "dumb himbo" is really just showing your own biases. Those "repressive anti-free-speech laws" aren't very popular and aren't all that different from what many conservatives want to implement in the US. Finally, separatists, a problem? There hasn't been a majority separatist government in well over a decade. To keep raising that particular specter is completely baseless and farcical.
If you believe that Trump has said a single truthful thing during this campaign, I have a bridge to sell you.
HAHAHAHAHA! Man that's a great joke. Oh wait, you're serious? Clinton would've been boring business as usual, whatever you neocons seem to think. Trump is a complete wildcard, and with unstable elements like Russia, that's bad.
You appear to be forgetting we're in for at least four years of Mike Pence as VP with a president that has no plan. That, in and of itself, is scary.
So in short, people will reinterpret Shit Trump Says to make it palatable and turn it into what they want, hence making Trump appear like their ideal candidate. That's some serious psychological condition right there.
Or none of those things will happen because technology is moving at a much more rapid pace than you seem to think. You sound like a horse carriage driver looking at cars and going "Pah! Those things will never work out!"
Say it isn't so!
Correlation does not imply causation. The Note 7 is an exception rather than the rule for both removable and non-removable battery phones.
The Galaxy J5 is over a year old (June 2015). Had the problem been the same as the Note 7 (not S7), it'd have been widespread a looooong time ago. This is just an isolated incident (as it happens occasionally) that's getting larger media attention than usual because it's Samsung.
Uh, that's not how it works. Microsoft didn't make the decision to exclude players, Activision/Valve did. If you split a group in half and take one half with you, that doesn't mean the other half is at fault for it.
Yeah, it's kinda crazy how the entire comments section is idiotic Windows 10 bashing when this is all on Activision and Valve. They're using Steamworks for multiplayer matchmaking, and Steamworks doesn't work if the game isn't sold on Steam (which is why most stores just sell you a Steam key). Microsoft sells the actual game rather than a key, so in order to work on their platform, Activision stripped out Steamworks and implemented another matchmaking solution, segregating both platforms. Since the Microsoft stores sees far fewer sales, the people who bought it there get shafted.
There's a ton of ways this could've been fixed, but there's no reason to blame Microsoft here. The fact that Steam has such a hegemony on PC gaming is not good, and that's just one example of why.
They should investigate the Ordo Malleus, I hear they do racial cleansing and such. Really nasty stuff.
Yep, I hope as many people who are in this situation as possible engage in "malicious compliance". Do exactly what you're asked to do, but ensure that in doing so you hamper the ability of your (probably incompetent or at least insufficiently trained) replacement to do your job.
But Microsoft did allow hardware makers to make their own handsets running Windows Phone. There has been a few models from each vendor, the problem is that they generally sucked and they all had the same fundamental issue: the OS just came too late to the fight, making it have an insurmountable deficit in its app market compared to Android and iOS. Hell, Android, which trailed iOS in high availability by not very long at all, took years to make up that deficit. Developers get very attached to whatever ecosystem they start off in, and making them switch or branch out seems very difficult.
Microsoft didn't figure out how to entice them, so they had the same chicken and egg problem: phones don't sell because they don't have many apps, but they don't have many apps because since they don't sell, devs don't want to make apps for them. Even trying something like BlackBerry's "hey, we can run Android apps too!" doesn't quite work out. The OS itself, from what I've heard, is actually quite nice, it's just the ecosystem that's lacking (that, and a lot of early phones released for it were rather underwhelming/underperforming).
1) They don't know your password. You should read more before commenting
2) Their benefactor is LogMeIn. To them, LastPass is another tool in their arsenal to court corporations, and corporate LastPass usage is not free.
Biometrics can be insecure if you're being specifically targeted. The most common security breaches for regular users come from phishing, hacks or vulnerabilities in software, and those are non-targeted most of the time and would be significantly hampered by biometrics, since the hackers don't know you and don't specifically care about you.
Also, you're seemingly assuming that today's biometrics are as good as it gets, which is rather myopic. Fingerprinting will move on to finger vein matching, face recognition will include depth perception and infrared matching, iris scanning will get more popular, etc. It's like saying passwords will always be insecure because 6-character passwords are.
Yes, GPL... version 2. Linux is v2. Android is Apache, not GPL. gcc is GPLv3, which is part of why it's being seriously overtaken by llvm, which is using a custom permissive license.
That's the key: permissive. GPLv2 was relatively permissive, though LGPL is a lot more popular in the industry. Apache is very permissive. GPLv3 is not permissive, and so it's seeing most companies steer waaaay clear of it.
While MagSafe's gone, the Surface line uses the exact same principle in their connectors, providing the same advantages. I think the biggest difference is that they are somewhat bigger and carry more than just power.
The hardware's in the base, not in the screen. The screen is still very thin comparatively to basically any screen you can find out there, and that's in spite of requiring a much stronger structure than a 5" smartphone.
The dial can be used off-screen as basically a wheel of sorts, but the on-screen use adds the ability to show a digital control wheel around it which can be extremely practical. I think it's gonna be a net win over purely off-screen dials.
Um... The Mac Pro doesn't come with a screen, which is where the majority of the cost goes here.
Multitasking just means you do a lot of jobs at once, poorly.
"Security theater"? Do you even understand the purpose of those things? They're a deterrent so people don't put their phones way up recording shit and distracting everyone. There's no implication of security what so ever. If you're willing to destroy those bags to take pictures, then you're crazy. Just don't go to those shows.
Much as I'm fine with people not willing to go through these motions, you aren't being "sheeple" or "giving up your rights" by doing this. That's ridiculous. You don't have a right to a cellphone, let alone the right to use it in a private property during an artistic performance. This wouldn't be a thing if people weren't being obnoxious with their phones during shows. It's just a bag, you still have your phone on you, you just can't use it during the show (which is basically enforcing with a technical solution what people should naturally do of their own volition, but don't).