And now that I don't go to public school why should I have to pay for it?
I think this one line perfectly sums up both your position, and why your opinion should be ignored. It also adds evidence as to the effectiveness of your supposed home "schooling", and why people typically speak the term with derision. Your inability to think past your own selfish interests, to the greater good, is just breathtaking. I'm guessing that you must be a libertarian.
You pay for public school so that you won't be surrounded by people even more stupid than they are already. If everyone followed that same "I don't use it therefor why should I pay for it?" mentality, then society would fucking collapse and we'd be back in the age of robber-barons where you either are rich and wealthy, or you're scraping mud just to survive.
Only a small portion of society needs school at any given time. That means there wouldn't be enough people to fund public school for everyone. Same with things like fire services, police, etc. The US medical system is a complete clusterfuck and is looked upon with shock and scorn by ALL wealthy nations, because it's a perfect example of what happens with your "If I'm not using it, why should I pay for it?" mentality. What's the result? People go without treatment because they have to choose between being sick, and becoming financially fucked for the rest of their lives. Now imagine how it would look if all of society ran like the barbaric US medical system?
So yeah, I'm not even going to bother touching the rest of the post because the rest of it is just the kind of talking points that Bill O'Reilly makes during his wet dreams.
If you don't like how taxes are being spent, that's one thing. To say that taxes shouldn't be paid at all, and everything should be based on a user-pays system? That's flat out idiotic and you know it.
I'm not trying to. Quality of governence is a different issue entirely. My point was in reference to the parent, that claimed that they don't use these services and therefor he shouldn't pay taxes, and that the IRS is illegal.
There's no such thing, short of going off on your own into the forest with nothing more than a belt knife.
Government is a as necessary for human existence as the air we breath. The question is, what kind of government will it be, and how well will it be run? The only thing that can decide that is the combined effort of the people.... which, unfortunately, is also why most governments are crap. We need government, but the overwhelming majority of people suck as governing.
Really? You didn't go to school? You don't walk on sidewalks and drive on roads? You weren't protected by the nations military? You don't shower? The amount of infrastructure required for everyone to live the most basic elements of their lives is virtually endless.
People like you piss me off to no end, because you MUST be actively choosing to be willfully blind to everything that those tax dollars do for you.
It's like we're living that one scene from Monty Python, "What have the Romans ever done for us?"
IMO Apple should have waited one more iteration, because Bluetooth 5 is just around the corner and will have HD audio as part of the spec and there would be less issues, better compatibility with other device.... Wait, nevermind. I see what they did there.
Just imagine, if Lennart Poettering was alive 74 years ago he would have been strangling Jews with his bare hands.
Interesting tactic. Skipping over the whole systemd/pulseaudio thing and going straight for Godwin's Law is definitely more efficient. Saves on ramp up time.
Quick everyone, lets flood the forums with complains about using systemd and about not using systemd is.
Also, a new distro story is never complete with out arguments over bout how crappy gnome is, or kde, or unity, and oh, I dunno, lets throw twm in there too. I haven't seen complains about twm for quite a while now.
The last thing I wanna read about are the genuine efforts of the distro maintainers to improve their operating system!
People will figure out IT training is important, when they realize that they can't make stupid statement like "IT training" as if it means something.
What even IS I.T.?
Are you talking about server management? Network Managment? DevOps? What skill sets do you need?
It's like saying we need more brain surgeons, so we need MOAR BIOLOGY TRAINING!
MBAs, or people in general, will never appreciate just how complex some work can be, because of Dunning-Kruger. They don't know or understand how complex IT is, therefore they are unable to *appreciate* how complex IT is. Just like they are unable to appreciate anything else that is complicated, whether it's medicine, physics, etc.
Why does a watch device need to be high performance? It's a freaking *watch*.
Heaven forbid Apple actually did something useful and, say, increase the battery life so that the bloody thing lasts for more than a day between charges.
A conventional watch can go months, if not years, on a single battery. There's no excuse to put out a watch-like device that can't go less than a couple weeks between charges.
Having worked several times with these outsourcing companies, I can say fairly definitively that it isn't. These people are so breathtakingly inept that it boggles the imagination.
The decision to oursource is *always* made by pointy-haired MBAs who are unable to make the connection between cost of labour and quality of labour.
Either that, or they forgot the appropriate command in their AT init string, and forgot to enable compression. AT%C2 should bump that puppy up to 57.6kbps if you have a clean line.:)
Considering that cheap low-quality knockoffs are so utterly prolific, even if the batteries *were* $100, I'd probably still buy OEM to reduce the chances of a bad battery destroying my device, and possibly me as well.
Oh? This is new information for me. I didn't realize that that happens when the microphone is active. I will have to look into that brand. Could you give a specific model? Also, do you know if it supports Siri?
So it sounds like they may well be trying to go their own way. So... I guess getting themselves fucked is exactly what they're aiming for.:P
Guess I definitely won't be getting an iPhone 7. Maybe they'll pull their head out by the time the iPhone 8 comes around, but I won't be holding my breath.
Unless you can also tell me where on my mobile device I can explicitly set the bluetooth profile you specify, your comment is basically useless.
Most devices don't give you that level of control, or may well not provide that profile at all, so claiming that someone is "doing it wrong", whether developer or end user, is pointlessly hostile.
They probably mean "Paving the way for wireless headphones that are ginormous piles of crap".
Honestly, Stereo bluetooth sounds like crap. It's adequate if you're listening to music in a noisy environment so you would be able to identify details anyway, or if you just don't care... The compression used in Bluetooth is so severe that it not only ruins music, but even makes the majority of VOIP codec's unusable. I tried setting up a VOIP system on a tablet, and the only way I could make it work was to use a codec that did minimal compression (and so was very bandwidth intensive). Anything else made it sound like a Cylon being pushed feet-first into a Blendtec Blender.
There are some devices out there that use aptX for higher fidelity audio, but that's a proprietary codec that has very tiny market penetration.
The next major version of Bluetooth, which should be available "soon", is supposed to have a new profile specifically for high quality audio, and I'm setting my hopes on that.
Also, it's not unusual for Apple to get certain technology before anyone else (ie: thunderbolt), so I'm hoping that they are doing what they are doing with the iPhone 7 because they have got some kind of exclusivity agreement with someone for their silicon, and so the audio should sound amazing. If they don't... well... I expect Apple's phone division will probably have a bad time this year.
It's cute how you just automatically assume that I'm not in the "real business world", just because you were lucky enough to have a trouble-free Lync experience.
We have a client that uses Lync. The number of issues I have seen have basically guaranteed that I will *never ever* use Lync. Between connection drops, not being able to connect at all when people are on different networks, to screensharing not working right... and woe is you if you have to use the Mac version. They've dropped the ball so badly on the Mac version that they haven't even gotten around to renaming it like they did with the Windows version.
So if it's working for you, then all the power to you. I don't know what your environment is like, but having seen how it behaves across a widely distributed team across multiple offices, networks, and countries, it would be faster and less frustrating to record your voice into a WAV file, put that file on a USB drive and physically mail that key to it's destination, than to try to make Lync work flawlessly.
If lync were just some gimmicky consumer-level tool, then I would be less critical of it. But it's marketed as a mission critical business tool. That means I expect it to work, flawlessly, every friggin' time, with no fuss and no excuses. The only thing that should prevent it from working is if our whole backend is up in flames.
Robotic systems to do lethal harm... a Terminator without a conscience."
How is this any different from the current situation. Between the US bombing anyone that so much as looks at them funny, to a significant part of the population that thinks a raving narcissistic lunatic would make a suitable leader for one of the most powerful countries on earth, (never mind the psychos running various other countries around the world) I think it's safe to say that having actual Robot Overlords would actually be an improvement.
No thank you. Between their wanktastic Lync/Skype For Business product, butchering Skype, their barely functional netmeeting, and their original Access product that was so terrible that they gave up and re-used the name for their equally bad database product, Microsoft has a long and cherished history of putting out collaboration software that makes fingerpainting in a bucket filled with phlegm, vomit, and diarrhea, a viable alternative.
I love it! IMO Windows 2000 was the pinnacle of windows GUIs. Everything since then has just been fisher-price inspired nonsense.
Gimma a GUI that gets the f__k out of my way and lets me focus on what I'm doing, and I'm a happy camper. If your job benefits from you having shiny translucent windows, then your job isn't very difficult to begin with. Windows 8/10 is a step in the right direction, but I think reverting to Windows 2.0 styling, overshot the mark by a smidge.
Hell, even on my Mac, which is nowhere near as overkill with the special effects as Aero is, I still disable all the extraneous transparency effects cause they serve no purpose other than to make things harder to look at.
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And now that I don't go to public school why should I have to pay for it?
I think this one line perfectly sums up both your position, and why your opinion should be ignored. It also adds evidence as to the effectiveness of your supposed home "schooling", and why people typically speak the term with derision. Your inability to think past your own selfish interests, to the greater good, is just breathtaking. I'm guessing that you must be a libertarian.
You pay for public school so that you won't be surrounded by people even more stupid than they are already. If everyone followed that same "I don't use it therefor why should I pay for it?" mentality, then society would fucking collapse and we'd be back in the age of robber-barons where you either are rich and wealthy, or you're scraping mud just to survive.
Only a small portion of society needs school at any given time. That means there wouldn't be enough people to fund public school for everyone.
Same with things like fire services, police, etc. The US medical system is a complete clusterfuck and is looked upon with shock and scorn by ALL wealthy nations, because it's a perfect example of what happens with your "If I'm not using it, why should I pay for it?" mentality. What's the result? People go without treatment because they have to choose between being sick, and becoming financially fucked for the rest of their lives. Now imagine how it would look if all of society ran like the barbaric US medical system?
So yeah, I'm not even going to bother touching the rest of the post because the rest of it is just the kind of talking points that Bill O'Reilly makes during his wet dreams.
If you don't like how taxes are being spent, that's one thing. To say that taxes shouldn't be paid at all, and everything should be based on a user-pays system? That's flat out idiotic and you know it.
I'm not trying to. Quality of governence is a different issue entirely. My point was in reference to the parent, that claimed that they don't use these services and therefor he shouldn't pay taxes, and that the IRS is illegal.
Opt out of what? Not having a government?
There's no such thing, short of going off on your own into the forest with nothing more than a belt knife.
Government is a as necessary for human existence as the air we breath. The question is, what kind of government will it be, and how well will it be run? The only thing that can decide that is the combined effort of the people.... which, unfortunately, is also why most governments are crap. We need government, but the overwhelming majority of people suck as governing.
Really? You didn't go to school? You don't walk on sidewalks and drive on roads? You weren't protected by the nations military? You don't shower? The amount of infrastructure required for everyone to live the most basic elements of their lives is virtually endless.
People like you piss me off to no end, because you MUST be actively choosing to be willfully blind to everything that those tax dollars do for you.
It's like we're living that one scene from Monty Python, "What have the Romans ever done for us?"
IMO Apple should have waited one more iteration, because Bluetooth 5 is just around the corner and will have HD audio as part of the spec and there would be less issues, better compatibility with other device.... Wait, nevermind. I see what they did there.
Just imagine, if Lennart Poettering was alive 74 years ago he would have been strangling Jews with his bare hands.
Interesting tactic. Skipping over the whole systemd/pulseaudio thing and going straight for Godwin's Law is definitely more efficient. Saves on ramp up time.
Oh look, a new version of a distro has come out!
Quick everyone, lets flood the forums with complains about using systemd and about not using systemd is.
Also, a new distro story is never complete with out arguments over bout how crappy gnome is, or kde, or unity, and oh, I dunno, lets throw twm in there too. I haven't seen complains about twm for quite a while now.
The last thing I wanna read about are the genuine efforts of the distro maintainers to improve their operating system!
Good luck, Bruce Willis!
People will figure out IT training is important, when they realize that they can't make stupid statement like "IT training" as if it means something.
What even IS I.T.?
Are you talking about server management? Network Managment? DevOps? What skill sets do you need?
It's like saying we need more brain surgeons, so we need MOAR BIOLOGY TRAINING!
MBAs, or people in general, will never appreciate just how complex some work can be, because of Dunning-Kruger. They don't know or understand how complex IT is, therefore they are unable to *appreciate* how complex IT is. Just like they are unable to appreciate anything else that is complicated, whether it's medicine, physics, etc.
What could Google possibly need with Comandeer Keen? Are they working on next generation google doodles?
Why does a watch device need to be high performance? It's a freaking *watch*.
Heaven forbid Apple actually did something useful and, say, increase the battery life so that the bloody thing lasts for more than a day between charges.
A conventional watch can go months, if not years, on a single battery. There's no excuse to put out a watch-like device that can't go less than a couple weeks between charges.
Having worked several times with these outsourcing companies, I can say fairly definitively that it isn't. These people are so breathtakingly inept that it boggles the imagination.
The decision to oursource is *always* made by pointy-haired MBAs who are unable to make the connection between cost of labour and quality of labour.
Let the eugenics wars commence!
I'm seriously laughing at how Pokemon Go on the iWatch actually warranted a bullet point. The fad has already started it's downhill slide.
Either that, or they forgot the appropriate command in their AT init string, and forgot to enable compression. AT%C2 should bump that puppy up to 57.6kbps if you have a clean line. :)
Considering that cheap low-quality knockoffs are so utterly prolific, even if the batteries *were* $100, I'd probably still buy OEM to reduce the chances of a bad battery destroying my device, and possibly me as well.
Oh? This is new information for me. I didn't realize that that happens when the microphone is active. I will have to look into that brand. Could you give a specific model? Also, do you know if it supports Siri?
I just came across this article, farther down in the list:
https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...
So it sounds like they may well be trying to go their own way. So... I guess getting themselves fucked is exactly what they're aiming for. :P
Guess I definitely won't be getting an iPhone 7. Maybe they'll pull their head out by the time the iPhone 8 comes around, but I won't be holding my breath.
Unless you can also tell me where on my mobile device I can explicitly set the bluetooth profile you specify, your comment is basically useless.
Most devices don't give you that level of control, or may well not provide that profile at all, so claiming that someone is "doing it wrong", whether developer or end user, is pointlessly hostile.
They probably mean "Paving the way for wireless headphones that are ginormous piles of crap".
Honestly, Stereo bluetooth sounds like crap. It's adequate if you're listening to music in a noisy environment so you would be able to identify details anyway, or if you just don't care... The compression used in Bluetooth is so severe that it not only ruins music, but even makes the majority of VOIP codec's unusable. I tried setting up a VOIP system on a tablet, and the only way I could make it work was to use a codec that did minimal compression (and so was very bandwidth intensive). Anything else made it sound like a Cylon being pushed feet-first into a Blendtec Blender.
There are some devices out there that use aptX for higher fidelity audio, but that's a proprietary codec that has very tiny market penetration.
The next major version of Bluetooth, which should be available "soon", is supposed to have a new profile specifically for high quality audio, and I'm setting my hopes on that.
Also, it's not unusual for Apple to get certain technology before anyone else (ie: thunderbolt), so I'm hoping that they are doing what they are doing with the iPhone 7 because they have got some kind of exclusivity agreement with someone for their silicon, and so the audio should sound amazing. If they don't... well... I expect Apple's phone division will probably have a bad time this year.
It's cute how you just automatically assume that I'm not in the "real business world", just because you were lucky enough to have a trouble-free Lync experience.
We have a client that uses Lync. The number of issues I have seen have basically guaranteed that I will *never ever* use Lync. Between connection drops, not being able to connect at all when people are on different networks, to screensharing not working right... and woe is you if you have to use the Mac version. They've dropped the ball so badly on the Mac version that they haven't even gotten around to renaming it like they did with the Windows version.
So if it's working for you, then all the power to you. I don't know what your environment is like, but having seen how it behaves across a widely distributed team across multiple offices, networks, and countries, it would be faster and less frustrating to record your voice into a WAV file, put that file on a USB drive and physically mail that key to it's destination, than to try to make Lync work flawlessly.
If lync were just some gimmicky consumer-level tool, then I would be less critical of it. But it's marketed as a mission critical business tool. That means I expect it to work, flawlessly, every friggin' time, with no fuss and no excuses. The only thing that should prevent it from working is if our whole backend is up in flames.
Hey, don't look at me! I voted for Krag!
Robotic systems to do lethal harm... a Terminator without a conscience."
How is this any different from the current situation. Between the US bombing anyone that so much as looks at them funny, to a significant part of the population that thinks a raving narcissistic lunatic would make a suitable leader for one of the most powerful countries on earth, (never mind the psychos running various other countries around the world) I think it's safe to say that having actual Robot Overlords would actually be an improvement.
No thank you. Between their wanktastic Lync/Skype For Business product, butchering Skype, their barely functional netmeeting, and their original Access product that was so terrible that they gave up and re-used the name for their equally bad database product, Microsoft has a long and cherished history of putting out collaboration software that makes fingerpainting in a bucket filled with phlegm, vomit, and diarrhea, a viable alternative.
I'll stick with Slack, TYVM.
I love it! IMO Windows 2000 was the pinnacle of windows GUIs. Everything since then has just been fisher-price inspired nonsense.
Gimma a GUI that gets the f__k out of my way and lets me focus on what I'm doing, and I'm a happy camper. If your job benefits from you having shiny translucent windows, then your job isn't very difficult to begin with. Windows 8/10 is a step in the right direction, but I think reverting to Windows 2.0 styling, overshot the mark by a smidge.
Hell, even on my Mac, which is nowhere near as overkill with the special effects as Aero is, I still disable all the extraneous transparency effects cause they serve no purpose other than to make things harder to look at.