Maybe Russia and China should ban Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Intel, etc., because "Their source of truth is that those companies are bad due to involvement with USA, which in itself can be considered obvious and given the ties to USA also be considered self evident."
The same retarded reasoning goes both ways, you see.
Oh, there's proof? ZTE was proven to break embargo laws, and banning it was fine (that is, until Trump reversed it because why the fuck not), but Kaspersky was never proven to be spying. Paranoia isn't proof, FYI.
Interestingly I was considered a troll, despite being honest, as an EU citizen. When the EU decides to ban a company based on say-so and "trust me I know", they've gone mad. I have no love for Russia, with my country having lived under its (well the USSR) heel for 45 years, but what the EU and the USA are doing (e.g. banning Kaspersky just because) is equally insane. Extremism is extremism, no matter which side of the balance it lays on.
Relax dude, I haven't attacked you personally. We either discuss the subject or not at all. Go punch a pillow if you feel angry. What I'm saying is: this kind of things happen. The world evolves. If "you" (generically) can't evolve with it for some reason, the world won't stop for you, won't give you special attention, it would simply move on, leaving you behind. Does it suck? Yes, if you're one of the 0.22% (in this case) being left behind. So you have 6 months to get back on track, by buying a newer Windows license and/or upgrading your hardware, which was long overdue anyway.
It is how things roll. A small percentage of the crowd will always be negatively affected. Feel free to protest, and in the meantime my advice is: deal with it.
Same for that old PC. They're not going to come to your house and smash it to pieces. They'll just stop supporting it. Just like analogue TV stopped being supported in some countries. You have a 30 year old TV? Tough luck. Get a digitally-compliant one.
No, it's not unreasonable. Upgrading your source of entertainment once a decade is not unreasonable at all. In terms of computing, a machine older than a decade is ancient history.
Sure, "support forever" is a wet dream. Keep having it. I choose realism.
Exactly what happened in my country. But the more important aspect is competition. Here, competition is really tough, with at least 4-5 different (large) ISPs fighting over customers.
In many parts of the world, that's already standard. I got gigabit fiber to my home for cheap in a 3rd world country. So as far as me and my countrymen are concerned, we're good, even for 4K@60fps.
Gambling is regulated. Cryptomarket isn't. In other words, cambling is covered by law, cryptomarket isn't. Banks would happily ban people from gambling with their credit cards, but my guess is it's illegal for banks to do so.
Maybe you can. I can't. I can't pay utilities, which is weird, and I can't transfer money from my credit card account to my debit card account. All that if my balance is negative, of course.
I can, however, buy crypto:) which I have tried once, spent the equivalent of 5 EUR just to check.
Still, buying cryptocurrency is very risky and "thou shalt not spend money you can't afford to lose".
As someone who's interested in the crypto market and believes it does gave future, I applaud this decision. Generating debt by buying cryptocurrencies is stupid.
I live in the EU. Here, most returned items are being resold at lower prices. I've had some amazing deals on practically brand-new stuff, hardware indistinguishable from the full price one, with the exception of damaged box, for example, which who in their right mind would care about?
Which users? I've had Yahoo Messenger since... man, I can't even remember. Its birth, I guess. At my peak usage of it, I had over 500 contacts in it, of which 350-ish were online (active, idling, away, etc). They gradually left the platforrm (most of them going to Facebook and then WhatsApp too) and now I just looked them up... four people online.
Luke tried to emulate them but made the same mistakes, resulting in Kylo Ren. Then he meets Rey and sees that she doesn't fear the dark side, to her it's all just the Force and a part of her. Luke realizes that the Jedi order was the problem, as does Yoda, and that Rey and Kylo Ren are the future, free from all that baggage and liberated to do the right thing.
The new trilogy has so far mirrored the first one to an extent, but this is where it really diverges. Rey isn't descended from some great bloodline, Kylo Ren isn't a Sith. Ren killed his master not to save someone he cared about, for his own personal gain. The resolution won't be the return of the Jedi, it will be the end of the Jedi and something new taking their place and starting with Rey.
All that shit being based on what Disney made up, after totally pissing on the original Expanded Universe, renamed by Disney as "Legends" and which by the way contains all those ideas you talked about, but in much nicer form, on a more epic scale. Look up Yuuzhan Vong series of books, you'll see what I'm talking about.
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What the hell have you been drinking?
Maybe Russia and China should ban Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Intel, etc., because "Their source of truth is that those companies are bad due to involvement with USA, which in itself can be considered obvious and given the ties to USA also be considered self evident."
The same retarded reasoning goes both ways, you see.
Oh, there's proof? ZTE was proven to break embargo laws, and banning it was fine (that is, until Trump reversed it because why the fuck not), but Kaspersky was never proven to be spying. Paranoia isn't proof, FYI.
Interestingly I was considered a troll, despite being honest, as an EU citizen.
When the EU decides to ban a company based on say-so and "trust me I know", they've gone mad.
I have no love for Russia, with my country having lived under its (well the USSR) heel for 45 years, but what the EU and the USA are doing (e.g. banning Kaspersky just because) is equally insane. Extremism is extremism, no matter which side of the balance it lays on.
Yes, interesting article. I suck at math, though :)
Why do they HAVE to commit to DevOps methodology?
Personally I think the EU has gone mad.
Relax dude, I haven't attacked you personally. We either discuss the subject or not at all. Go punch a pillow if you feel angry.
What I'm saying is: this kind of things happen. The world evolves. If "you" (generically) can't evolve with it for some reason, the world won't stop for you, won't give you special attention, it would simply move on, leaving you behind. Does it suck? Yes, if you're one of the 0.22% (in this case) being left behind. So you have 6 months to get back on track, by buying a newer Windows license and/or upgrading your hardware, which was long overdue anyway.
It is how things roll. A small percentage of the crowd will always be negatively affected. Feel free to protest, and in the meantime my advice is: deal with it.
Same for that old PC. They're not going to come to your house and smash it to pieces. They'll just stop supporting it.
Just like analogue TV stopped being supported in some countries. You have a 30 year old TV? Tough luck. Get a digitally-compliant one.
Not really, no. It's like saying you have unlimited data, just not on that 15 year old phone.
Is your 60s IT equipment still supported?
None of your examples are in the same ballpark as IT equipment, from a lifecycle perspective. Your comparisons are flawed.
They DO offer support forever, just not on old machines. That's the unreasonable part.
Me too. Amazing, there's two super humans in the world. Now we should fight for supremacy.
No, it's not unreasonable.
Upgrading your source of entertainment once a decade is not unreasonable at all. In terms of computing, a machine older than a decade is ancient history.
Sure, "support forever" is a wet dream. Keep having it. I choose realism.
Exactly what happened in my country. But the more important aspect is competition. Here, competition is really tough, with at least 4-5 different (large) ISPs fighting over customers.
In many parts of the world, that's already standard. I got gigabit fiber to my home for cheap in a 3rd world country.
So as far as me and my countrymen are concerned, we're good, even for 4K@60fps.
Gambling is regulated. Cryptomarket isn't.
In other words, cambling is covered by law, cryptomarket isn't.
Banks would happily ban people from gambling with their credit cards, but my guess is it's illegal for banks to do so.
Maybe you can. I can't. I can't pay utilities, which is weird, and I can't transfer money from my credit card account to my debit card account. All that if my balance is negative, of course.
I can, however, buy crypto :) which I have tried once, spent the equivalent of 5 EUR just to check.
Still, buying cryptocurrency is very risky and "thou shalt not spend money you can't afford to lose".
As someone who's interested in the crypto market and believes it does gave future, I applaud this decision.
Generating debt by buying cryptocurrencies is stupid.
I live in the EU. Here, most returned items are being resold at lower prices. I've had some amazing deals on practically brand-new stuff, hardware indistinguishable from the full price one, with the exception of damaged box, for example, which who in their right mind would care about?
Which users?
I've had Yahoo Messenger since... man, I can't even remember. Its birth, I guess. At my peak usage of it, I had over 500 contacts in it, of which 350-ish were online (active, idling, away, etc). They gradually left the platforrm (most of them going to Facebook and then WhatsApp too) and now I just looked them up... four people online.
I, on the other hand, am not.
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. I personally loved those books.
Luke tried to emulate them but made the same mistakes, resulting in Kylo Ren. Then he meets Rey and sees that she doesn't fear the dark side, to her it's all just the Force and a part of her. Luke realizes that the Jedi order was the problem, as does Yoda, and that Rey and Kylo Ren are the future, free from all that baggage and liberated to do the right thing.
The new trilogy has so far mirrored the first one to an extent, but this is where it really diverges. Rey isn't descended from some great bloodline, Kylo Ren isn't a Sith. Ren killed his master not to save someone he cared about, for his own personal gain. The resolution won't be the return of the Jedi, it will be the end of the Jedi and something new taking their place and starting with Rey.
All that shit being based on what Disney made up, after totally pissing on the original Expanded Universe, renamed by Disney as "Legends" and which by the way contains all those ideas you talked about, but in much nicer form, on a more epic scale. Look up Yuuzhan Vong series of books, you'll see what I'm talking about.
They can create a new Science fiction universe Like Star Trek or Star Wars, but base it off what is current.
The hundred dollar question is: CAN THEY?
My guess is... no, not anymore, they can't.
The Force is Weak.