Actually, there HAVE been outbreaks of those diseases. However, those outbreaks appear to be localized in areas where the the anti-vax movement is strongest.
Little companies, yes. Microsoft, no. Their entire history revolved around screwing everyone and everything they could get their hands on, from individual (and little) companies, right up to international standards bodies.
If Google is also preventing Apple, Blackberry, et al, from accessing youtube, then that would be a problem. As far as I know, they're not. They're only refusing Microsoft. Microsoft has yet to do anything that shows they have truely changed their ways (and probably never will as long as Ballmer is in charge), so I have no problem with another company giving them a good hard screwing for a change.
These media conglomerates salivate in their sleep while dreaming of litigating the crap out of anyone they can get away with so that they can maintain a stranglehold on culture.
I am totally in favor of culture biting them in the ass, using the very laws they weas^H^H^H^Hchampioned.
You mean like XMPP, which is an official chatting protocol that allows for virtually every method of communication currently in use today?
Google Talk uses that, but nobody else does, because all these companies like having total control of their messaging networks and have no business interest in playing nice with others.
1Password by agilebits supports all of those except linux, and syncs between them all using a couple different methods including an AES encrypted files on dropbox. If you need it on linux, they have a way that you can do it, but it's not as nice.
I do think it's worse, but not in and of itself. It's a symptom of an increasing amount of general (legal) abuse that corporations are perpetuating on their employees, and society in general.
Yes, I do understand that. And I will concede the point as soon as you can demonstrate that there is a systemic alienation of young people for tech jobs.
Actually, people who work a _ton_ of hours ARE moving backward to the days of yore. As in, the days of serfdom and slavery. The fact that you consider this normal and acceptable tells me that you either don't know jack about history, or you're aiming to be in a position of power (if you're not there already) where you can abuse others.
There's nothing wrong with working long hours. But that should be the exception, not the rule. One good thing unions did for us was establish reasonable limits on what employers should expect of their workforce, so that workers could still have lives.
But this is all being eroded by companies that are doing everything they can to bring down the quality of life for employees. They are driving down wages, while driving up the amount of work to be done, all the while making record profits. You DO realize, that the reason companies favor young workers is NOT because they're better, right? Or that there is somehow something inherently better about working absurdly long hours?
Young single males, as a general demographic: -have the energy to work longer hours, -are willing to tolerate longer hours because they don't have have family pressures, -are cheaper because they work for less (because they don't know any better), -are cheaper because the cumulative results of living unhealthily hasn't yet bit them in the ass
You'll note that nowhere in that list do I state anything resembling quality of work. And I will note that even THAT isn't enough, which is why they're pushing so hard to increase the H1B quotas. Overseas workers arn't necessarily better, skill-wise, than domestic workers. But they work even that much more cheaply, and as a bonus you can just revoke their visa and send them back again when you don't want them anymore, with no repercussions.
And all the above is why I'm applauding Dropcam. Based on the information we have, it sounds like entire *mindset* is different, where they value their employees rather than treat them as cattle, to be used and abused and then tossed aside when they won't put up with the abuse. Which is unlike an increasing number of modern MBA-mangled corporations that, despite their bubbling marketing, treat people (employees AND customers), like meat for their grinders. Fantastic examples include Electronic Arts and Goldman Sachs.
My current employer is such a place. And you know what we have? Employees that are loyal. Employees that *care* about the quality of their work. Employees that work extended hours, when needed, not because they're required to, but because they *want* to.
I'm not sure how you managed to read all that from that one sentence.
I read it as, "We don't want a bunch of inexperienced kids who don't necessarily know how to code, and don't understand anything about what real life is like."
I think this is a great sentiment, especially considering that in silicon valley is undergoing an epidemic of age-ism.
He didn't say anything about discriminating against anyone who doesn't fit some hetero-normative world view. He wants people who actually have a life outside work hours. You know, the kind of people whose lives revolve around more than just pizza, cola, and Call of Duty.
An honest to god company that a) doesn't trying to abuse it's workers, b) hires normal people who are decent workers but also have lives outside the office
I don't need a camera. I just want to send them money.
Our fair country Canada Is north of the USA Our Maritimes are lovely And our prairies give us hay You might think you Yankees Are better than us Canucks But we don't need no microchips Inside our hockey pucks
We know that you've got disneyworld and you keep it very clean we dont have Bob Dole and we can drink when were 19 we may watch your TV shows for hours and hours and hours We'll give you Alan Thicke But Shania Twain is ours
We're proud to be Canadian We're awfully nice to strangers, our manners be our curse It's cool in many ways to be Canadian We won't say that we're better, it's just that we're less worse
Your beer is not too tasty and your weather can't be beat We all fly south in the winter time to escape the snow and sleet We're pleased to say that we've enjoyed all your southern charms but we get sun burnt when we exercise the right to bear our arms
We're proud to be Canadian We're awfully nice to strangers, our manners be our curse It's cool in many ways to be Canadian We won't say that we're better, it's just that we're less worse
Alanis Morissette she is our latest pride and joy She used to sing about High school dances and chasing after boys But now she is fed up and about as angry as can be she's got one hand in her pocket and the other's on guard for thee
We're proud to be Canadian(proud to be canadian) We're awfully nice to strangers, our manners be our curse (we're just too darned nice) It's cool in many ways to be Canadian We won't say that we're better (no), it's just that we're less worse (pick it up, pick it up)
We're proud to be Canadian (we're proud to be Canadian) We're awfully nice to strangers, our manners be our curse(can i get the door for u ma'am) It's cool in many ways to be Canadian(its cool cause it's cold up here) We won't say that we're better (noooo), it's just that we're less worse
we wont say that we're better, its just that we're less worse
Unified interfaces are moronic. The UI needs to suit the task at hand. Unified interfaces have never EVER been a good idea.
Apple understood this. OSX is not even remotely suited to a tablet/phone form factor, so they didn't even try. This is why they completely decimated the mobile market, and all the competitors retooled their designs to be similar. (Of course, now they're trying to iOS-ify OSX, but that's a different argument)
And this is why Apple has skyrocketed to an unfathomable level of success, while Microsoft is repeatedly shooting itself in the foot so often that they've worked their way up to their knees.
I have no mod points so I'll just say 'Hear hear'.
I would also like to point out that, even if Windows Phone IS really good, they've mutilated the Windows 8 brand so badly with that abomination of a desktop OS that it is taking the Phone version down with it.
There's a huge difference actually. Microsoft forced their OS onto computers with predatory contracts that penalized computer manufacturers who wanted to sell competing OSes. Thus they created their first monopoly, and then used that to create another one using Web Browsers.
Unless you know of evidence that Google is forcing manufacturers to use Android at the expense of other systems, then no it's not even close to the same thing. Manufacturers are choosing to user Android. That's not Google's fault.
I find it funny that they are claiming Android is all this and that, but it somehow doesn't occur to them at all that maybe, just maybe, manufacturers would be more interested in using Microsoft and Oracle products if they didn't act like predatory douchebags that abuse their partners and their customers.
I'm curious what search terms you used. I just read the article you linked, and I would argue that the article is evidence *against* your point rather than for.
Firstly, it's from 4 years ago. The parent was talking about how stuff is said by republicans continually, and pointed out something from last week.
Secondly, the president reached out by phone to the head of the special olympics, profusely apologizing for the comments. Unless you can point to a more recent article where Obama, or any other Democrat, says something else disparaging then to me this means the comments was a one-time gaff and that the lesson was well learned.
I'm reminded of another discussion where someone pointed out how Democrats like, because one particular Democrat was discussed in a "false truth" article on politifact. However, when you start looking at the sum total of "false truth" articles on politifacts, Republicans outnumber Democrats by a pretty large ratio.
I used to think there was no difference between the Republicans and Democrats apart from who they pander to. But now I think that, while the Democrats arn't the 'good guys', they're the overwhelming lesser of two evils.
Well yes, but I meant specifically under the maniac mansion banner. Grim Fandango was good. Didn't like Monkey Island so much. It was mostly the wackiness I liked. But it doesn't matter at this point. I'm lucky if I can squeeze in enough time to launch a couple of pissed-off pigeons, never mind play an entire game.
Christianity is a belief, nothing more. If someone says they are Christian, then they are Christian.
If a Christian does an unchristian thing, then you can accuse them that they are behaving in an unchristian manner, but you do NOT have the privilege of claiming that they are not Christian.
Whether they go to church or not is immaterial. I know someone who attends regularly and is such an asshat that I am embarrassed just to be in his presence.
I grew up Christian. One of the reasons I became Athiest was because whenever I looked around, I was so offended by the behaviour of so called Christians that I could no longer accept that it was a legitimate institution. And I'm not talking about the easy targets like Westboro. I'm talking about almost weekly newspaper reports of yet another priest discovered raping children, all the way up to the supposedly uber-mega-holy pope. Or the supposedly wonder St. Valentine, that brutally slaughtered countless celts in order to crush their culture. Or the Salem witch trials.
The history of Christianity is just as bloody and brutal as the muslims, or the jews, or any other major religion.
The only difference between Christianity and Islam today is that Islam is at least honest about their rabid bigotry and hate, killing people outright.
Christians are passive-agressive jerks prefer to collectively make their targets lives so miserable that they end up committing suicide. The result is the same, but this way Christians can pretend that their hands are clean.
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Actually, there HAVE been outbreaks of those diseases. However, those outbreaks appear to be localized in areas where the the anti-vax movement is strongest.
It must be a conspiracy!
I wonder how long it will be before they start paying people to spy on their neighbours?
Little companies, yes. Microsoft, no. Their entire history revolved around screwing everyone and everything they could get their hands on, from individual (and little) companies, right up to international standards bodies.
If Google is also preventing Apple, Blackberry, et al, from accessing youtube, then that would be a problem. As far as I know, they're not. They're only refusing Microsoft. Microsoft has yet to do anything that shows they have truely changed their ways (and probably never will as long as Ballmer is in charge), so I have no problem with another company giving them a good hard screwing for a change.
When this is exactly what Microsoft has been doing to everyone else for the past 20 years? Yes, I do fail to see this as a problem.
Karma's a bitch.
The very same. I wish the prosecution good luck.
These media conglomerates salivate in their sleep while dreaming of litigating the crap out of anyone they can get away with so that they can maintain a stranglehold on culture.
I am totally in favor of culture biting them in the ass, using the very laws they weas^H^H^H^Hchampioned.
You mean like XMPP, which is an official chatting protocol that allows for virtually every method of communication currently in use today?
Google Talk uses that, but nobody else does, because all these companies like having total control of their messaging networks and have no business interest in playing nice with others.
1Password by agilebits supports all of those except linux, and syncs between them all using a couple different methods including an AES encrypted files on dropbox. If you need it on linux, they have a way that you can do it, but it's not as nice.
I do think it's worse, but not in and of itself. It's a symptom of an increasing amount of general (legal) abuse that corporations are perpetuating on their employees, and society in general.
I don't want to repeat, but here's a comment I just wrote in reply to someone else:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3677925&cid=43546149
Yes, I do understand that. And I will concede the point as soon as you can demonstrate that there is a systemic alienation of young people for tech jobs.
Actually, people who work a _ton_ of hours ARE moving backward to the days of yore. As in, the days of serfdom and slavery. The fact that you consider this normal and acceptable tells me that you either don't know jack about history, or you're aiming to be in a position of power (if you're not there already) where you can abuse others.
There's nothing wrong with working long hours. But that should be the exception, not the rule. One good thing unions did for us was establish reasonable limits on what employers should expect of their workforce, so that workers could still have lives.
But this is all being eroded by companies that are doing everything they can to bring down the quality of life for employees. They are driving down wages, while driving up the amount of work to be done, all the while making record profits. You DO realize, that the reason companies favor young workers is NOT because they're better, right? Or that there is somehow something inherently better about working absurdly long hours?
Young single males, as a general demographic:
-have the energy to work longer hours,
-are willing to tolerate longer hours because they don't have have family pressures,
-are cheaper because they work for less (because they don't know any better),
-are cheaper because the cumulative results of living unhealthily hasn't yet bit them in the ass
You'll note that nowhere in that list do I state anything resembling quality of work. And I will note that even THAT isn't enough, which is why they're pushing so hard to increase the H1B quotas. Overseas workers arn't necessarily better, skill-wise, than domestic workers. But they work even that much more cheaply, and as a bonus you can just revoke their visa and send them back again when you don't want them anymore, with no repercussions.
And all the above is why I'm applauding Dropcam. Based on the information we have, it sounds like entire *mindset* is different, where they value their employees rather than treat them as cattle, to be used and abused and then tossed aside when they won't put up with the abuse. Which is unlike an increasing number of modern MBA-mangled corporations that, despite their bubbling marketing, treat people (employees AND customers), like meat for their grinders. Fantastic examples include Electronic Arts and Goldman Sachs.
My current employer is such a place. And you know what we have? Employees that are loyal. Employees that *care* about the quality of their work. Employees that work extended hours, when needed, not because they're required to, but because they *want* to.
I'm not sure how you managed to read all that from that one sentence.
I read it as, "We don't want a bunch of inexperienced kids who don't necessarily know how to code, and don't understand anything about what real life is like."
I think this is a great sentiment, especially considering that in silicon valley is undergoing an epidemic of age-ism.
He didn't say anything about discriminating against anyone who doesn't fit some hetero-normative world view. He wants people who actually have a life outside work hours. You know, the kind of people whose lives revolve around more than just pizza, cola, and Call of Duty.
An honest to god company that
a) doesn't trying to abuse it's workers,
b) hires normal people who are decent workers but also have lives outside the office
I don't need a camera. I just want to send them money.
Our fair country Canada
Is north of the USA
Our Maritimes are lovely
And our prairies give us hay
You might think you Yankees
Are better than us Canucks
But we don't need no microchips
Inside our hockey pucks
We know that you've got disneyworld
and you keep it very clean
we dont have Bob Dole
and we can drink when were 19
we may watch your TV shows for hours and hours and hours
We'll give you Alan Thicke
But Shania Twain is ours
We're proud to be Canadian
We're awfully nice to strangers, our manners be our curse
It's cool in many ways to be Canadian
We won't say that we're better, it's just that we're less worse
Your beer is not too tasty
and your weather can't be beat
We all fly south in the winter time
to escape the snow and sleet
We're pleased to say that
we've enjoyed all your southern charms
but we get sun burnt
when we exercise the right to bear our arms
We're proud to be Canadian
We're awfully nice to strangers, our manners be our curse
It's cool in many ways to be Canadian
We won't say that we're better, it's just that we're less worse
Alanis Morissette
she is our latest pride and joy
She used to sing about High school dances
and chasing after boys
But now she is fed up
and about as angry as can be
she's got one hand in her pocket
and the other's on guard for thee
We're proud to be Canadian(proud to be canadian)
We're awfully nice to strangers,
our manners be our curse (we're just too darned nice)
It's cool in many ways to be Canadian
We won't say that we're better (no), it's just that we're less worse (pick it up, pick it up)
We're proud to be Canadian (we're proud to be Canadian)
We're awfully nice to strangers, our manners be our curse(can i get the door for u ma'am)
It's cool in many ways to be Canadian(its cool cause it's cold up here)
We won't say that we're better (noooo), it's just that we're less worse
we wont say that we're better, its just that we're less worse
Unified interfaces are moronic. The UI needs to suit the task at hand. Unified interfaces have never EVER been a good idea.
Apple understood this. OSX is not even remotely suited to a tablet/phone form factor, so they didn't even try. This is why they completely decimated the mobile market, and all the competitors retooled their designs to be similar. (Of course, now they're trying to iOS-ify OSX, but that's a different argument)
And this is why Apple has skyrocketed to an unfathomable level of success, while Microsoft is repeatedly shooting itself in the foot so often that they've worked their way up to their knees.
I have no mod points so I'll just say 'Hear hear'.
I would also like to point out that, even if Windows Phone IS really good, they've mutilated the Windows 8 brand so badly with that abomination of a desktop OS that it is taking the Phone version down with it.
Before you can do anything, you need to become acquainted with some basics about the land snails.
Conveniently, someone provided an excellent summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTV23B5gBsQ
There's a huge difference actually. Microsoft forced their OS onto computers with predatory contracts that penalized computer manufacturers who wanted to sell competing OSes. Thus they created their first monopoly, and then used that to create another one using Web Browsers.
Unless you know of evidence that Google is forcing manufacturers to use Android at the expense of other systems, then no it's not even close to the same thing. Manufacturers are choosing to user Android. That's not Google's fault.
I find it funny that they are claiming Android is all this and that, but it somehow doesn't occur to them at all that maybe, just maybe, manufacturers would be more interested in using Microsoft and Oracle products if they didn't act like predatory douchebags that abuse their partners and their customers.
I'm curious what search terms you used. I just read the article you linked, and I would argue that the article is evidence *against* your point rather than for.
Firstly, it's from 4 years ago. The parent was talking about how stuff is said by republicans continually, and pointed out something from last week.
Secondly, the president reached out by phone to the head of the special olympics, profusely apologizing for the comments. Unless you can point to a more recent article where Obama, or any other Democrat, says something else disparaging then to me this means the comments was a one-time gaff and that the lesson was well learned.
I'm reminded of another discussion where someone pointed out how Democrats like, because one particular Democrat was discussed in a "false truth" article on politifact. However, when you start looking at the sum total of "false truth" articles on politifacts, Republicans outnumber Democrats by a pretty large ratio.
I used to think there was no difference between the Republicans and Democrats apart from who they pander to. But now I think that, while the Democrats arn't the 'good guys', they're the overwhelming lesser of two evils.
Well yes, but I meant specifically under the maniac mansion banner. Grim Fandango was good. Didn't like Monkey Island so much. It was mostly the wackiness I liked. But it doesn't matter at this point. I'm lucky if I can squeeze in enough time to launch a couple of pissed-off pigeons, never mind play an entire game.
Star Wars: Clone Wars 2: Rise of the Disney Princesses.
I remember absolutely loving Day of the Tentacle.
I had always hoped they would bring out more such games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Christianity is a belief, nothing more. If someone says they are Christian, then they are Christian.
If a Christian does an unchristian thing, then you can accuse them that they are behaving in an unchristian manner, but you do NOT have the privilege of claiming that they are not Christian.
Whether they go to church or not is immaterial. I know someone who attends regularly and is such an asshat that I am embarrassed just to be in his presence.
I grew up Christian. One of the reasons I became Athiest was because whenever I looked around, I was so offended by the behaviour of so called Christians that I could no longer accept that it was a legitimate institution. And I'm not talking about the easy targets like Westboro. I'm talking about almost weekly newspaper reports of yet another priest discovered raping children, all the way up to the supposedly uber-mega-holy pope. Or the supposedly wonder St. Valentine, that brutally slaughtered countless celts in order to crush their culture. Or the Salem witch trials.
The history of Christianity is just as bloody and brutal as the muslims, or the jews, or any other major religion.
The only difference between Christianity and Islam today is that Islam is at least honest about their rabid bigotry and hate, killing people outright.
Christians are passive-agressive jerks prefer to collectively make their targets lives so miserable that they end up committing suicide. The result is the same, but this way Christians can pretend that their hands are clean.
Nothing worse than a crying rectum.
My level of politeness is in inverse proportion to the body count.