It started falling like a rock when Microsoft stooge Stephen Elop joined as CEO in 2010. It had its problems before then but Elop destroyed the company with a series of poor decisions, allowing Microsoft to buy it for a fraction of what it was worth in 2008. Maemo and its successors might have rejuvenated the company, or Nokia could've been making Android handsets by now but instead the brand was tied to the huge dead weight of Windows Phone and was dragged to its doom as a result. It's sad because Nokia phones were huge in Europe and Microsoft has decided to squander all that goodwill and has put a lot of talented people out of work for a platform that seems to be doomed.
People are generally socialised to be civil to each other but the relative anonymity of the internet leads people to speak to each other in a way they wouldn't dream of doing in person.
The government needs funding for that which, between the tax avoidance and hoarding by the rich and the gradual impoverishment of everyone else, is going to be increasingly hard to come by. Something is going to give. Donald Trump is just the start.
Well yes but not everyone gets the same start in life. That doesn't mean they should starve. That never ends well for them or anyone they come into contact with.
It's an addiction to sugar just like smoking is addiction to nicotine and alcoholism is addiction to alcohol and just like them it can be beaten. Pretending it's ok to be addicted to something is the same denial you get from smokers and drinkers. The difference is that there's no healthy at every black lung or cirrhosis acceptance movement.
Written many cross platform applications that work on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android have you? Which middleware did you use? How did you instantaneously, without user intervention, deploy the latest version to every user's machine?
Web applications are popular because you can deploy them instantly to all your users and they work across multiple platforms including mobile with little tweaking. Good luck doing that with a "proper" application.
I'm talking about how society has become more unequal as a result of deliberate transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. You brought Thatcher into this argument and I'm giving you my point of view as someone who has seen the damage her policies did to my country. As I said before what you and people like you seem to want is some sort of neo-aristocracy where there is very little for the majority and the wealthy hoard it all. Apple et al avoiding taxes using accounting tricks may be legal but in the long run it will wreck the societies we fought so long and hard to build. Luckily for them they have useful idiots like yourself to rise up in their defence when everything falls down.
That doesn't make it right, especially when you're dealing with some of the most toxic elements on the planet. The nuclear industry is mistrusted for good historical reasons. What are they going to do about it?
The more of this shit the less people trust nuclear and the more plants close down. Sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "you're all morons" won't change that fact. The nuclear industry has a serious PR problem and there doesn't seem to be any attempt to improve that. Just more lies, obfuscations and braindead decisions.
If you're talking about Thatcher she did a lot to increase the gap between rich and poor for all the same flawed reasons as Reagan. The UK still in a mess from the economic stupidity she started. Scotland came very close to leaving thanks in part to the appalling way they were treated by her government.
There's no reason whatsoever for Apple and their ilk not to pay into the countries that allow them to make those huge profits in the first place by being stable and having good infrastructure. They'd still be fabulously wealthy. However it seems like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs is the order of the day.
Let's have a new aristocracy then where a few hundred people have all the money and power and the rest of the population are always on the verge of starving. That'll work.
In the good old days when I was a lad working with IBM mainframes (ok they weren't good but they were old) there was this crazy idea that error messages were documented with reasons why they occur. In this brave new world this is too much trouble and you either have to spend hours to days figuring out what some cryptic phrase means or you can Google it and see if someone else has had the problem. I'm guessing you either get as much time as you need on your projects or else have been working on the same technology for a long time.
I use they as an impersonal pronoun since I don't know your gender or sexual orientation and so can't assign a gender specific pronoun to your partner.
Telling kids they shouldn't want what their friends have doesn't mean they'll listen to you. You can look forward to many years of disgruntled children who won't want to wear other children's cast offs and who might actually want to participate in the same kind of activities as their friends.
I think you're underestimating how expensive children are. Is your partner happy to live the same lifestyle as you? Will they feel the same in 10 years. Are your kids going to be happy wearing second hand clothes and doing without the things that other kids have. I think you're in for a rude awakening.
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It started falling like a rock when Microsoft stooge Stephen Elop joined as CEO in 2010. It had its problems before then but Elop destroyed the company with a series of poor decisions, allowing Microsoft to buy it for a fraction of what it was worth in 2008. Maemo and its successors might have rejuvenated the company, or Nokia could've been making Android handsets by now but instead the brand was tied to the huge dead weight of Windows Phone and was dragged to its doom as a result. It's sad because Nokia phones were huge in Europe and Microsoft has decided to squander all that goodwill and has put a lot of talented people out of work for a platform that seems to be doomed.
So in other words not accessible to everyone.
That's because there's a lot of modern feminist writing that does just that or dismisses our problems because "we" rule the world.
People are generally socialised to be civil to each other but the relative anonymity of the internet leads people to speak to each other in a way they wouldn't dream of doing in person.
The government needs funding for that which, between the tax avoidance and hoarding by the rich and the gradual impoverishment of everyone else, is going to be increasingly hard to come by. Something is going to give. Donald Trump is just the start.
As if that's going to happen.
How about a way to stop idiots blasting terrible music from their phones and annoying everyone else on the train/bus.
Well yes but not everyone gets the same start in life. That doesn't mean they should starve. That never ends well for them or anyone they come into contact with.
A 350lb body does not promote any kind of health. It's just as bad as the 100lb starving ones.
It's an addiction to sugar just like smoking is addiction to nicotine and alcoholism is addiction to alcohol and just like them it can be beaten. Pretending it's ok to be addicted to something is the same denial you get from smokers and drinkers. The difference is that there's no healthy at every black lung or cirrhosis acceptance movement.
Written many cross platform applications that work on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android have you? Which middleware did you use? How did you instantaneously, without user intervention, deploy the latest version to every user's machine?
Web applications are popular because you can deploy them instantly to all your users and they work across multiple platforms including mobile with little tweaking. Good luck doing that with a "proper" application.
I'm talking about how society has become more unequal as a result of deliberate transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. You brought Thatcher into this argument and I'm giving you my point of view as someone who has seen the damage her policies did to my country. As I said before what you and people like you seem to want is some sort of neo-aristocracy where there is very little for the majority and the wealthy hoard it all. Apple et al avoiding taxes using accounting tricks may be legal but in the long run it will wreck the societies we fought so long and hard to build. Luckily for them they have useful idiots like yourself to rise up in their defence when everything falls down.
That doesn't make it right, especially when you're dealing with some of the most toxic elements on the planet. The nuclear industry is mistrusted for good historical reasons. What are they going to do about it?
The more of this shit the less people trust nuclear and the more plants close down. Sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "you're all morons" won't change that fact. The nuclear industry has a serious PR problem and there doesn't seem to be any attempt to improve that. Just more lies, obfuscations and braindead decisions.
If you're talking about Thatcher she did a lot to increase the gap between rich and poor for all the same flawed reasons as Reagan. The UK still in a mess from the economic stupidity she started. Scotland came very close to leaving thanks in part to the appalling way they were treated by her government.
There's no reason whatsoever for Apple and their ilk not to pay into the countries that allow them to make those huge profits in the first place by being stable and having good infrastructure. They'd still be fabulously wealthy. However it seems like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs is the order of the day.
No matter how good the technology, it's run by people and they lie, don't tell the whole truth and cut corners to save money.
Let's have a new aristocracy then where a few hundred people have all the money and power and the rest of the population are always on the verge of starving. That'll work.
Starting with you.
Android boomed because it was a cheaper way of doing what the iPhone could do.
In the good old days when I was a lad working with IBM mainframes (ok they weren't good but they were old) there was this crazy idea that error messages were documented with reasons why they occur. In this brave new world this is too much trouble and you either have to spend hours to days figuring out what some cryptic phrase means or you can Google it and see if someone else has had the problem. I'm guessing you either get as much time as you need on your projects or else have been working on the same technology for a long time.
I use they as an impersonal pronoun since I don't know your gender or sexual orientation and so can't assign a gender specific pronoun to your partner.
Telling kids they shouldn't want what their friends have doesn't mean they'll listen to you. You can look forward to many years of disgruntled children who won't want to wear other children's cast offs and who might actually want to participate in the same kind of activities as their friends.
I think you're underestimating how expensive children are. Is your partner happy to live the same lifestyle as you? Will they feel the same in 10 years. Are your kids going to be happy wearing second hand clothes and doing without the things that other kids have. I think you're in for a rude awakening.
That's awesome for you. Are you planning to stay single and childless for the rest of your life? Most people aren't.
Thank you for your condescension. It means a lot to me.