Current outages demonstrate some of the practical consequences of all the other things you are talking about. When your IoT item starts behaving in a way that can actually cause danger to you (i.e. oven not turning off, creating a fire hazard), it shows that consequences of the things you list are not even considered from the safety perspective, must less others. There's already an existing notion that cloud is reliable enough to be on for the lifetime of the device to tie key functions such as turning the device off and on to it.
Do you even for a second think that more than a tiny minority of consumers uses any such applications on their desktop?
Really?
Because I have land on the moon to sell you if you do. This is an argument for companies. Not consumers/gamers. Win10s horrid backward compatibility breaking games from XP era that work just fine on 7, and in some cases, on initial release of 10 and then getting broken when a patch you can't refuse landed is a great case to point here.
Democracy in context of modern western state is a system of electing political representative based on established ruleset in a democratic fashion.
I'm genuinely confused as to why you think that overwhelming majority of Western nations are "a farce". Most Western states don't actually have a two party system, and have prime minister rather than president as the political top job that leads the country. Which means that these people are elected by far fewer than a quarter of people in the nation.
And there's nothing farcical about it. The best part about Western style liberal democracy is that pluralism of opinions is what results in the outcome, and that whoever gets to the top must secure sufficient support from the political representatives of the populace who are in turn elected in a democratic vote by their constituents.
You should learn from your colleague below, who at least knew where I was from. Internet troll factories aren't paid for failure when their competition is better.
To me it seems that they are basically trying to boil the frog. It needs to be slow enough for people not to overwhelmingly reject it.
GFWL was too fast. Win 10's initial introduction was almost too fast as well (Valve's reaction to it). But it's most definitely moving in that direction. Just at a speed slow enough for most people not to notice.
Valve disagrees with your optimism. See: their linux gaming project that they started the moment they saw win10 and understood what it meant for them.
For now, it seems that they made a deal with microsoft however, which is why it's basically shelved. Remember: boiling the frog needs to be slow enough. It seems that microsoft was a bit too hasty with initial introduction of win10. But they learned and slowed it down.
While keeping the direction intact. Here's a question: do you think that from the point of view of the process, it really matters that much if we arrive in the walled garden five years later?
Difference being that only one of these companies controls the OS. He who controls the OS controls the people. So if you want to sell to the people, you'll have to deal with OS owner. We're seeing this with google and apple and mobile today. And microsoft made no secret of the fact that their strategy is to follow this line on desktop.
This has gone beyond the mere software. Remember the Amazon cloud outage? We had people asking for help with things like their IoT ovens not turning off during it.
Every piece of historic evidence suggests that they will in fact succeed. There are no meaningful alternatives to windows for gaming on PC, and they control the sales of this OS.
It's merely a question of time, and as industry has shown, large companies can afford to have strategies for getting to their goals last a decade or more in a market like this. The only solution here would be an alternative OS that would actually be popular among gamers. And I think "year of linux on desktop" meme has demonstrated very well just how unlikely this is to occur in any reasonable time frame.
And mobile is already even worse. By a very large margin.
The idea of "owning the means to play" was one of the key changes in gaming industry. The entire concept of multiplayer on modern consoles is predicated upon this principle, and with windows 10, PC gaming is headed in the same direction.
Not giving players servers they could control was just one step on this progression.
Sometimes I wonder about the chicken and the egg. Was it progressivism's pathology that came first, or was it actors interested in sowing internal discord in US that actively promote it, such as Russia and Qatar that started it? At least with Russia, it increasingly seems that their expertise lies with exploiting already existing weaknesses, not creating entirely new ones (see - geopolitics of Russia).
One does not need to look beyond Al Jazeera, and especially it's "plus" offering to see everything that is being talked about in the indictment, only taken far, FAR further. And that one has a much wider reach, and enjoys a protected status in politics due to "must not offend muslims" pathology among the same people that are driving the hysteria. Russia doesn't have the same protected status in the eyes of the same people, being predominantly white and Christian. Not to even mention socially conservative, like most states that have significant roots in Asia.
Bigots commonly use a lot of scientific facts and observations to support their bigotry. This does not in any way, shape or form invalidate the scientific facts and observations.
You are lying openly and systematically throughout this thread. The science on biological differences between men and women has been settled for almost half a century now. The screaming by people like you that "evolution ends at the neck, and everything above it is socially constructed", while enacting catholic-grade punishments for breaching your dogma is horrifying and clean cut anti-science.
There was nothing discriminatory or bigoted about the memo. Damore was asked what to do about the problem of too few women at Google. Like a proper engineer he broke the problem down based on scientific facts, and then made suggestions.
And like folks like Galilei and Copernicus, he ran afoul the religious fanatics such as yourself, who are at the reigns of power in today's world and have no qualms in using societal punishment to silence anyone who dares to challenge their dogmatic anti-scientific beliefs.
This is a popular misunderstanding. In reality, no amount of money will design and construct a factory in short term. These are long-term commitments. This is especially true for very sensitive equipment like GPU dies and memory dies.
Building more production capacity is a function of both resources AND time. Cryptocurrency boom has only lasted a few months. Even a very optimistic estimation of construction speed of a factory capable of producing GPUs and memory for them is measured in years.
Your last six replies to my posts have been characterised by the following traits:
1. Intentional/unintentional obtuseness. 2. Denigration of my english. 3. Denigration of my intelligence. 4. Demonstration of utter lack of understanding of the topic, while pretending really hard to have expertise in it. 5. Borderline dyslexic interpretations of my texts where some understanding can be seen.
You have problems. I cannot help you with them. Seek professional help for them please.
Quite a few countries including mine have a legal clause that employee must be loyal to the company. There's nothing controversial about it. It's natural to expect employee to have loyalty for the entity that funds their livelihood in exchange for their work.
In this case, the problem is in working ethic + contractual obligations vs interest of the company. A choice that every manager in a meaningful position needs to make quite a lot. In this case, the manager clearly made a wrong choice and tanked the company.
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Current outages demonstrate some of the practical consequences of all the other things you are talking about. When your IoT item starts behaving in a way that can actually cause danger to you (i.e. oven not turning off, creating a fire hazard), it shows that consequences of the things you list are not even considered from the safety perspective, must less others. There's already an existing notion that cloud is reliable enough to be on for the lifetime of the device to tie key functions such as turning the device off and on to it.
Do you even for a second think that more than a tiny minority of consumers uses any such applications on their desktop?
Really?
Because I have land on the moon to sell you if you do. This is an argument for companies. Not consumers/gamers. Win10s horrid backward compatibility breaking games from XP era that work just fine on 7, and in some cases, on initial release of 10 and then getting broken when a patch you can't refuse landed is a great case to point here.
It must be a sad existence, to be talking about computer games and to not understand how fun it is to poke the trolls.
Democracy in context of modern western state is a system of electing political representative based on established ruleset in a democratic fashion.
I'm genuinely confused as to why you think that overwhelming majority of Western nations are "a farce". Most Western states don't actually have a two party system, and have prime minister rather than president as the political top job that leads the country. Which means that these people are elected by far fewer than a quarter of people in the nation.
And there's nothing farcical about it. The best part about Western style liberal democracy is that pluralism of opinions is what results in the outcome, and that whoever gets to the top must secure sufficient support from the political representatives of the populace who are in turn elected in a democratic vote by their constituents.
You should learn from your colleague below, who at least knew where I was from. Internet troll factories aren't paid for failure when their competition is better.
Get cracking.
You know you're successful in your political arguments when what seems to be paid trolls actually know which small country you come from.
Thank for you for motivating me to continue arguing in the same vein as I did before.
To me it seems that they are basically trying to boil the frog. It needs to be slow enough for people not to overwhelmingly reject it.
GFWL was too fast. Win 10's initial introduction was almost too fast as well (Valve's reaction to it). But it's most definitely moving in that direction. Just at a speed slow enough for most people not to notice.
Valve disagrees with your optimism. See: their linux gaming project that they started the moment they saw win10 and understood what it meant for them.
For now, it seems that they made a deal with microsoft however, which is why it's basically shelved. Remember: boiling the frog needs to be slow enough. It seems that microsoft was a bit too hasty with initial introduction of win10. But they learned and slowed it down.
While keeping the direction intact. Here's a question: do you think that from the point of view of the process, it really matters that much if we arrive in the walled garden five years later?
Difference being that only one of these companies controls the OS. He who controls the OS controls the people. So if you want to sell to the people, you'll have to deal with OS owner. We're seeing this with google and apple and mobile today. And microsoft made no secret of the fact that their strategy is to follow this line on desktop.
And Linux on desktop is a meme for a reason.
This argument applies to android as well.
And android demonstrates just how pointless your argument is.
This has gone beyond the mere software. Remember the Amazon cloud outage? We had people asking for help with things like their IoT ovens not turning off during it.
Every piece of historic evidence suggests that they will in fact succeed. There are no meaningful alternatives to windows for gaming on PC, and they control the sales of this OS.
It's merely a question of time, and as industry has shown, large companies can afford to have strategies for getting to their goals last a decade or more in a market like this. The only solution here would be an alternative OS that would actually be popular among gamers. And I think "year of linux on desktop" meme has demonstrated very well just how unlikely this is to occur in any reasonable time frame.
And mobile is already even worse. By a very large margin.
The idea of "owning the means to play" was one of the key changes in gaming industry. The entire concept of multiplayer on modern consoles is predicated upon this principle, and with windows 10, PC gaming is headed in the same direction.
Not giving players servers they could control was just one step on this progression.
Actually people came out to vote in droves. Just not for your candidate.
It's called democracy.
He had a clear cut motivation to overstate the problem. And history showed that in many cases, he clearly did.
Sometimes I wonder about the chicken and the egg. Was it progressivism's pathology that came first, or was it actors interested in sowing internal discord in US that actively promote it, such as Russia and Qatar that started it? At least with Russia, it increasingly seems that their expertise lies with exploiting already existing weaknesses, not creating entirely new ones (see - geopolitics of Russia).
One does not need to look beyond Al Jazeera, and especially it's "plus" offering to see everything that is being talked about in the indictment, only taken far, FAR further. And that one has a much wider reach, and enjoys a protected status in politics due to "must not offend muslims" pathology among the same people that are driving the hysteria. Russia doesn't have the same protected status in the eyes of the same people, being predominantly white and Christian. Not to even mention socially conservative, like most states that have significant roots in Asia.
Bigots commonly use a lot of scientific facts and observations to support their bigotry. This does not in any way, shape or form invalidate the scientific facts and observations.
You are lying openly and systematically throughout this thread. The science on biological differences between men and women has been settled for almost half a century now. The screaming by people like you that "evolution ends at the neck, and everything above it is socially constructed", while enacting catholic-grade punishments for breaching your dogma is horrifying and clean cut anti-science.
There was nothing discriminatory or bigoted about the memo. Damore was asked what to do about the problem of too few women at Google. Like a proper engineer he broke the problem down based on scientific facts, and then made suggestions.
And like folks like Galilei and Copernicus, he ran afoul the religious fanatics such as yourself, who are at the reigns of power in today's world and have no qualms in using societal punishment to silence anyone who dares to challenge their dogmatic anti-scientific beliefs.
Not "agreement". A state law. If you get a job in Finland, state requires you to be loyal to your employer.
As far as I know, this is a very common legal interpretation. It's specifically designed to criminalize things like industrial espionage.
I still remember F-Secure's Hyppönen's joke.
"Not all hackers are Russians. Some are Ukrainians".
Granted he's actually talking about private criminal enterprises, and not the state actor hacking BS story that keeps on rumbling in certain circles.
Which results in severe long term contraction of their main market, and after crypto boom ends, long term contraction for the company itself.
This is a popular misunderstanding. In reality, no amount of money will design and construct a factory in short term. These are long-term commitments. This is especially true for very sensitive equipment like GPU dies and memory dies.
Building more production capacity is a function of both resources AND time. Cryptocurrency boom has only lasted a few months. Even a very optimistic estimation of construction speed of a factory capable of producing GPUs and memory for them is measured in years.
Your last six replies to my posts have been characterised by the following traits:
1. Intentional/unintentional obtuseness.
2. Denigration of my english.
3. Denigration of my intelligence.
4. Demonstration of utter lack of understanding of the topic, while pretending really hard to have expertise in it.
5. Borderline dyslexic interpretations of my texts where some understanding can be seen.
You have problems. I cannot help you with them. Seek professional help for them please.
Pretty sure gaben has no need for cartoon boobs. He has a pair of his own that is sufficient for all of his boob needs.
Quite a few countries including mine have a legal clause that employee must be loyal to the company. There's nothing controversial about it. It's natural to expect employee to have loyalty for the entity that funds their livelihood in exchange for their work.
In this case, the problem is in working ethic + contractual obligations vs interest of the company. A choice that every manager in a meaningful position needs to make quite a lot. In this case, the manager clearly made a wrong choice and tanked the company.
Which is reality of doing business.