Once I have a surface phone running full blown windows, I can have a dock and run my whole environment from one device. I can add an app to the tablet of my choice so it can act as a monitor to my phone, or perhaps MS starts selling dumb screens that run the display wirelessly from a phone. I can have a laptop that is just a screen and keyboard, no brains, that runs wirelessly from my phone. It is all on my phone. I have one device. In that world, Windows wins the same way it has won big in desktop and laptop world.
No, put an inland ocean in the middle of it. Doesn't matter that it is salt water because the evaporated water won't be and the water that seeps into the ground will be mostly filtered of salt. The area will become something better than a desert. We need more vegetation in the world, not less.
Also, it would be pretty cool to make a sand to glass 3d printer. Imaging printing some glass green houses, or just plain houses for that matter.
This article starts off with false statements such as:
"There's a litany of problems with apps."
Is there really? Let's look at the problems this author has mentioned:
1. There is the platform lock-in
This doesn't have to be the case anymore. With Xamarin and other tools, there isn't a platform lock-in. You can code once and deploy to iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, OS X, and Windows Desktop.
2. The space the apps take up on the device.
This is a short term problem that will be resolved by enhanced hardware. In two or four years, we will likely have phones with close to 1TB.
3. Updating apps is a pain that users often ignore, leaving broken or vulnerable versions in use long after they've been allegedly patched.
Really? All my apps auto-update. I get prompted to update ones that require manual updates to re-approve because they are using a new feature. Seems pretty simple to me.
4. Apps are also a lot of work for developers—it's not easy to write native apps to run on both Android and iOS, never mind considering Windows Phone and BlackBerry.
Again, not true. Check out Xamarin and similar tools. If you think html5/CSS/JavaScript is easy in comparison to compiled code, you probably don't have enough experience with the many problems due to different browsers and different devices. Even with standards, the way the standards are implemented are often different.
Microsoft isn't being evil. It realizes that supporting legacy OSes is costly and insecure. It realizes that if everyone moves to Windows 10 faster, then everyone is more secure.
Since MS is giving Windows 10 for free, you can't pull the revenue for license claim
Yes, Microsoft is a for profit business. There are many profits to be had. Shrewd business practices DOES NOT EQUAL evil business practices. MS and the world will get a greater benefit from a quicker move to W10. More similar install bases. Developers can target universal apps and don't have to write code to work with legacy OSes, etc...
Calling Windows 10 for free evil, is pretty lame.
Google Chrome forces updates of itself. Google drops supports of quite recent Android OSes. Apple makes zero effort in backwards compatibility in OS X .
Microsoft has to adapt to keep up with the competition.
But nobody reads the Quran, any more than they read Numbers, or Leviticus, or Acts, or the Book of Mormon (which is a REAL hoot).
You are correct about Numbers. It is is rarely read. Quran, Acts, and the Book of Mormon, you are incorrect.
Mormon's do read the Book the of Mormon. There are only 15 million Mormons but many read the book daily. I'm interested in what you think is a "REAL hoot" about the BOM, though.
Also, most devout Catholics and other Christian religions read the Bible, but I've heard that they stick mostly to Psalms and the New Testament. In fact, on my mission, many Christians had partial Bibles that only contained Psalms and the New Testament. However, Acts is read slightly less than the four gospels, but it is read.
And I have two Muslim coworkers that I've worked with long enough to call friends. Both have the Quran app on their phones and read it often, if not daily. That is not a large enough sample size to make a statistical analysis.
Anyway, other than Numbers, the books you mentioned ARE read.
Also, you might be surprised to find that most of those who are devout, are quite scientific as well. You might be surprised to find out how many scientists are extremely religious.
I find a lot of people who are agnostic or atheist have actually made science their religion. Most aren't even practicing scientists, and instead of looking to the scientific method to teach them new ideas, they have "faith" in theories despite science not yet having proven or disproven them. They use science as their religion not to further science, but to attack religion. Your comments are pretty close to putting you in this bucket.
Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and a handful of others created new memes a few hundred years ago.
Yes, one of them was 'Separation of Church and State'. They carefully chose the word "Church" because they did not wast a 'Separation of God and State.' The wanted all to believe in God, but at the same time, they wanted no organized religion, or church, to have a hold of the government. And even though this meme didn't make it into the constitution, or in even in the Amendment people assume has this meme, the Judicial system has most recently been interpreting laws as if 'Separation of God and State' were in the constitution.
1. They look good to the public for being so conscientious. 2. The car comes in and the workers can say: Hey, while your hear, your almost do for a service, or for your special 30k service or .
In the end, the part will be fine on all or most of the cars. But Tesla sales go up and Tesla service division reports a small bump in profit.
My Surface Pro 3 is far superior to the iPad Pro and it is last years model. The iPad Pro isn't even really as good as the first Surface Pro. Add to that the fact that the Kindle is as good as the iPad mini and much, much cheaper, and they just released an even cheaper model that takes an SD Card (you can now by 8 Kindles for the price of an iPad Mini), and you will see a major drop in iPad sales this Christmas.
A mouse is a "requirement" for a Pro device. Failure to see this is the major reason why this first iPad Pro version will fail. The dev work to add all the mouse events into iOS is going to be costly and even then that doesn't guarantee apps will work with a mouse.
So, sure, Apple owns the phone and tablet market, today. But Microsoft already won the hybrid market. The iPad Pro is a disappointing device at best. The iPads are great but over-priced. Fortunately, their drop in sales will not mean a loss for Apple. They will continue to make money because they have a good infrastructure, with existing customers and many of their customers are religiously loyal.
Might get away with it for a short time, but soon, you get f***ed. Calm down. By f***ed I mean "forked" but you knew that right? What did you think I meant? Oh, that. Well, you'll probably get that too if you try this model.
In the United States of America, we have the freedom of speech, yes. But nowhere are we guaranteed freedom from the consequences of speech. There may not be government-imposed consequences, but there are social, political, news/media, and/or market consequences.
If you are a business owner and you make a statement that offends the public, your business might take a hit. The constitution isn't going to force anyone to shop at your store. The constitution guarantees you the right to make the statement without government-imposed consequences.
Also, privacy is not a constitutional right. I am still having an internal debate on whether it should be. But even if privacy were a constitutional right, a person would lose such a right if they shared their opinion publicly on Social media. That opinion is now public and no longer private by the person's own choice. If that person tries to get around this by using an alias account, well, there is no guarantee that the alias will really hide who that person is.
All open source means is that more people "could" look at the code. It doesn't ensure more people "do" look at the code.
Also, "more eyes" are useless for adding security if those eyes have no security knowledge. To make open source more security, you need more security skilled eyes to look at it and find and remove security holes.
Also, there is an argument that secure is a a bool value. You are either secure or your not. If you have 1 remote hole you are just as vulnerable as if you have 10 remote holes. You either have 0 remote holes or you are insecure. However, there is no way to prove 0 remote holes. You can prove a security hole exists, but you can't prove 0 security holes exist because not all possibly security holes are even known.
Wait. Intelligent Design is proven. That intelligent design is possible and happens is proven. We humans have practiced intelligent design. We have changed evolution. Manipulated DNA. Designed new species. Sure, many people are afraid of some of this, such as GMO products, but that doesn't change the fact that we humans are intelligent and we sure do design new life.
Did you mean you don't believe in a perfect supreme being? Because not believing in intelligent design is kind of silly as it is already scientifically proven. I'll buy not believing a perfect supreme being. I believe in God and I don't even believe in a perfect supreme being.
This dang code. It is buggy and crashes at unexpected time. Good thing I didn't write the code, it just evolved over time. Surely this poor code wasn't a result of intelligent design.:-)
Your assumption is flawed: Intelligent design != flawless design
Also, you are mocking God and intelligent design but perhaps you really only meant to mock God. The idea of a perfect flawless being who can do anything and makes no mistakes. Of course the original word that translated to the word "perfect" in the Bible would arguably translate close to "complete".
"The fact that human's can observe evidence of evolution and now can manipulate DNA and change evolution proves that intelligent design couldn't have happened because . . . oh, wait. We humans have proved intelligent design already? We proved it because we have done it? Wow. I didn't know. I was too busy being blinded by my overzealous, religious love of the theory of evolution.
Evidence of evolution only shows that evolution happened. It does not disprove intelligent design. We humans have already used our knowledge of evolution and DNA and a lot of other knowledge to alter evolution. Are human's intelligent? Do we design? Yeah, we've moved beyond the point of proving intelligent design. It is proven. We are now looking to go to Mars. Do you think we will do any intelligent designing there? I do.
Evolution is only a theory with very strong evidence. Intelligent Design is proven by humans practicing intelligent design.
100% of the species we know have that have enough knowledge to practice intelligence design, do practice intelligent design. Sure it is a small sample size. But until we have a greater sample size, it is all we've got.
How is it that you jump to believe something that is only a scientific theory. But you fail to believe in something that has moved beyond a theory and is actually proven? It kind of makes you look foolish.
Personally, I believe God setup teeth for us to learn from. Let me give you some teeth. Then let me give you a second set. God thought: "Giving you a third set is easy but I'm not going to. Once you advanced in science and technology, I want to see you genetically create a 3rd set yourself. It will make you more "complete." I know. Your welcome.:-)"
Maybe our Intellgent Designers come back every few thousand years to improve our race. Hasn't science found evidence of evolutionary jumps? Why yes, yes they have.
Actually that is exactly how it panned out. If it didn't pan out for you that way, then you must be doing something wrong. I don't even take calls anymore from numbers I don't recognize because I get about 1 to 3 recruiting calls and two to five recruiting emails daily.
Are you reading outside in the daylight on your device? If so, you need an e-ink e-reader to see the screen. If you only read inside or in the evening, any regular tablet screen will do.
Amazon is completely aware the market for e-ink is for those who read outside in the day and that is about it. But the market for their Fire line is far larger.
If you have to enter the data into the vendors system, it is not secure. You have to swipe the card. You have to use their equipment at their Point of Sale to enter the pin. So if they add software that stores the card data and stores the pin, the card has just been compromised. Perhaps the chip is harder to fake than a strip?
To really make this more secure, you should swipe the card/insert card to have chip read, and then receive an instant request from the bank, not the vendor, to approve the expense. This could be done with phone call, text message, email, or app push notification. Of course the vendor could wait for you to approve before letting you out of the store with their goods.
That way, the pin is never delivered to the vendor.
I am still waiting for photo recognition. If you buy something with a card, it should take a picture of your face and send that in with the transaction request. People will cry privacy, which is a silly argument. If you want privacy, pay with cash.
The jobs are being created as fast as they are going away. But the difference is the complexity of those new jobs is increasing. So not 'just anybody' can fill those jobs. When one industry is automated, the manually laborer jobs are gone.
People need to adjust by making a choice of how to earn money. There are 500,000 IT jobs in America unclaimed and this number is rising fast, not shrinking. Health Care is also big and gets bigger each day as the population increases each day. The jobs are there. PLENTY OF THEM. Most people are just too lazy to put the effort in that it takes to learn an IT skill. It is hard. It takes time. It takes brain muscle instead of back muscle.
If you lose your job and get help for a few months, fine. But hand outs are never good for the majority of people. They cause laziness. They cause entitlement. Spoiled brat syndrome. Fat couch potato syndrome. etc... Handouts only rarely work out well. For everyone that used the hand out to start their own business and become a successful entrepreneur there are hundreds that did nothing but collect the money and sit around.
If you lose your job, don't go sit on your ass. Take a moment and look at the world. Look at the different industries and their job markets. Work hard, study hard, and move into a new rising job market. There are so many jobs in IT and health care that the really is no excuse.
I planned to buy the Fire phone as my next phone. My Samsung Galaxy S4 is still good so maybe I am a year away from buying. My family has three kindles and Amazon prime and we subscribe to the kids free time. There really isn't another solution for young kids that comes even close.
1. California is building multiple desalinization plants to be ready by 2016. How many will the world have by 2040? 2. Recycling water is improving. 3. What if we put a pipe between the ocean and Death Valley. It is hot. The water would evaporate fast and a previous desert could become a giant inland see. 4. Pump water from ocean to Great Salt Lake in North America and Dead Sea. Keep them full and they will provide natural desalination by evaporation and rain. 5. Evaporation aids. Technology to cause more evaporation and thus more rain.
I live in Utah. I think I'll be OK. Elevation 4,327 feet. A 4000 foot wave would stop before reaching my house. I feel safe unless there is a cataclysm so great that mountains are reformed. Of course, the Yellow Stone volcano could take out the entire Western United States. I do like the Florida oranges so I would miss them. If we are lucky, the Death Valley will fill up with Ocean water and we can have a shorter drive when vacationing to the beach.
Full encryption does not mean some one is already doing bad things.
Valid non-illegal uses for encryption:
1. What if the full disk encryption is to protect communication from a wife to a spouse. There is nothing wrong. Even for the religious, it is husband and wife, so not a sin.
One could argue that they shouldn't create a video at all. But maybe the video is made by the wife of someone in the armed forces. She sent her spouse a 10 minute video so he would have something while gone for over a year. She does all kinds of funky on the video. Nobody has the right to see that but her husband.
They aren't doing anything wrong. But yes, they need encryption.
2. Starting a technology critical business. You have the specs to create a new product that will be a billion dollar product. If corporate espionage occurred. Apple/Google/Microsoft releases the product, not you. Encryption is very important.
3. You use your phone to store all you business finance, bank statements, and tax documents. Your business doesn't need a computer. So you keep it all on your phone encrypted.
There are many more reasons for encryption. It should NOT have a back door. If it does, the encryption is inadequate and should be replaced.
Wait, when did CSS start actually solving layout issues? That is news to me.
From my experience, (including recent html5 experience) layout is still unsolved (at least by Html and css), unless you use tables. I can usually make CSS mimic a simple table layout, but it usually takes twice the markup.
Where are my layout controls. Neither HTML or CSS has layout controls. Where is my Grid layout? My Flow layout? The entire layout of html and css is so broken and we are just dealing with it and have been for two decades.
LANDESK made a really good asset tracking software called Asset Lifecycle Manager (ALM)? Unfortunately, they had no idea how to sell and market it and are now trying to focus on IT assets, so they don't really have ALM front and center on the web page anymore, but if you called a sales rep, I bet you could get a demo.
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Once I have a surface phone running full blown windows, I can have a dock and run my whole environment from one device.
I can add an app to the tablet of my choice so it can act as a monitor to my phone, or perhaps MS starts selling dumb screens that run the display wirelessly from a phone.
I can have a laptop that is just a screen and keyboard, no brains, that runs wirelessly from my phone. It is all on my phone. I have one device. In that world, Windows wins the same way it has won big in desktop and laptop world.
No, put an inland ocean in the middle of it. Doesn't matter that it is salt water because the evaporated water won't be and the water that seeps into the ground will be mostly filtered of salt. The area will become something better than a desert. We need more vegetation in the world, not less.
Also, it would be pretty cool to make a sand to glass 3d printer. Imaging printing some glass green houses, or just plain houses for that matter.
This article starts off with false statements such as:
"There's a litany of problems with apps."
Is there really? Let's look at the problems this author has mentioned:
1. There is the platform lock-in
This doesn't have to be the case anymore. With Xamarin and other tools, there isn't a platform lock-in. You can code once and deploy to iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, OS X, and Windows Desktop.
2. The space the apps take up on the device.
This is a short term problem that will be resolved by enhanced hardware. In two or four years, we will likely have phones with close to 1TB.
3. Updating apps is a pain that users often ignore, leaving broken or vulnerable versions in use long after they've been allegedly patched.
Really? All my apps auto-update. I get prompted to update ones that require manual updates to re-approve because they are using a new feature. Seems pretty simple to me.
4. Apps are also a lot of work for developers—it's not easy to write native apps to run on both Android and iOS, never mind considering Windows Phone and BlackBerry.
Again, not true. Check out Xamarin and similar tools. If you think html5/CSS/JavaScript is easy in comparison to compiled code, you probably don't have enough experience with the many problems due to different browsers and different devices. Even with standards, the way the standards are implemented are often different.
There are a lot of whiners and complainers.
Microsoft isn't being evil. It realizes that supporting legacy OSes is costly and insecure. It realizes that if everyone moves to Windows 10 faster, then everyone is more secure.
Since MS is giving Windows 10 for free, you can't pull the revenue for license claim
Yes, Microsoft is a for profit business. There are many profits to be had. Shrewd business practices DOES NOT EQUAL evil business practices. MS and the world will get a greater benefit from a quicker move to W10. More similar install bases. Developers can target universal apps and don't have to write code to work with legacy OSes, etc...
Calling Windows 10 for free evil, is pretty lame.
Google Chrome forces updates of itself.
Google drops supports of quite recent Android OSes.
Apple makes zero effort in backwards compatibility in OS X .
Microsoft has to adapt to keep up with the competition.
But nobody reads the Quran, any more than they read Numbers, or Leviticus, or Acts, or the Book of Mormon (which is a REAL hoot).
You are correct about Numbers. It is is rarely read. Quran, Acts, and the Book of Mormon, you are incorrect.
Mormon's do read the Book the of Mormon. There are only 15 million Mormons but many read the book daily. I'm interested in what you think is a "REAL hoot" about the BOM, though.
Also, most devout Catholics and other Christian religions read the Bible, but I've heard that they stick mostly to Psalms and the New Testament. In fact, on my mission, many Christians had partial Bibles that only contained Psalms and the New Testament. However, Acts is read slightly less than the four gospels, but it is read.
And I have two Muslim coworkers that I've worked with long enough to call friends. Both have the Quran app on their phones and read it often, if not daily. That is not a large enough sample size to make a statistical analysis.
Anyway, other than Numbers, the books you mentioned ARE read.
Also, you might be surprised to find that most of those who are devout, are quite scientific as well. You might be surprised to find out how many scientists are extremely religious.
I find a lot of people who are agnostic or atheist have actually made science their religion. Most aren't even practicing scientists, and instead of looking to the scientific method to teach them new ideas, they have "faith" in theories despite science not yet having proven or disproven them. They use science as their religion not to further science, but to attack religion. Your comments are pretty close to putting you in this bucket.
Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and a handful of others created new memes a few hundred years ago.
Yes, one of them was 'Separation of Church and State'. They carefully chose the word "Church" because they did not wast a 'Separation of God and State.' The wanted all to believe in God, but at the same time, they wanted no organized religion, or church, to have a hold of the government. And even though this meme didn't make it into the constitution, or in even in the Amendment people assume has this meme, the Judicial system has most recently been interpreting laws as if 'Separation of God and State' were in the constitution.
1. They look good to the public for being so conscientious.
2. The car comes in and the workers can say: Hey, while your hear, your almost do for a service, or for your special 30k service or .
In the end, the part will be fine on all or most of the cars. But Tesla sales go up and Tesla service division reports a small bump in profit.
My Surface Pro 3 is far superior to the iPad Pro and it is last years model. The iPad Pro isn't even really as good as the first Surface Pro. Add to that the fact that the Kindle is as good as the iPad mini and much, much cheaper, and they just released an even cheaper model that takes an SD Card (you can now by 8 Kindles for the price of an iPad Mini), and you will see a major drop in iPad sales this Christmas.
A mouse is a "requirement" for a Pro device. Failure to see this is the major reason why this first iPad Pro version will fail. The dev work to add all the mouse events into iOS is going to be costly and even then that doesn't guarantee apps will work with a mouse.
So, sure, Apple owns the phone and tablet market, today. But Microsoft already won the hybrid market. The iPad Pro is a disappointing device at best. The iPads are great but over-priced. Fortunately, their drop in sales will not mean a loss for Apple. They will continue to make money because they have a good infrastructure, with existing customers and many of their customers are religiously loyal.
Might get away with it for a short time, but soon, you get f***ed. Calm down. By f***ed I mean "forked" but you knew that right? What did you think I meant? Oh, that. Well, you'll probably get that too if you try this model.
In the United States of America, we have the freedom of speech, yes. But nowhere are we guaranteed freedom from the consequences of speech. There may not be government-imposed consequences, but there are social, political, news/media, and/or market consequences.
If you are a business owner and you make a statement that offends the public, your business might take a hit. The constitution isn't going to force anyone to shop at your store. The constitution guarantees you the right to make the statement without government-imposed consequences.
Also, privacy is not a constitutional right. I am still having an internal debate on whether it should be. But even if privacy were a constitutional right, a person would lose such a right if they shared their opinion publicly on Social media. That opinion is now public and no longer private by the person's own choice. If that person tries to get around this by using an alias account, well, there is no guarantee that the alias will really hide who that person is.
Fallacy: Open source has more eyes and security
All open source means is that more people "could" look at the code. It doesn't ensure more people "do" look at the code.
Also, "more eyes" are useless for adding security if those eyes have no security knowledge. To make open source more security, you need more security skilled eyes to look at it and find and remove security holes.
Also, there is an argument that secure is a a bool value. You are either secure or your not. If you have 1 remote hole you are just as vulnerable as if you have 10 remote holes. You either have 0 remote holes or you are insecure. However, there is no way to prove 0 remote holes. You can prove a security hole exists, but you can't prove 0 security holes exist because not all possibly security holes are even known.
Wait. Intelligent Design is proven. That intelligent design is possible and happens is proven. We humans have practiced intelligent design. We have changed evolution. Manipulated DNA. Designed new species. Sure, many people are afraid of some of this, such as GMO products, but that doesn't change the fact that we humans are intelligent and we sure do design new life.
Did you mean you don't believe in a perfect supreme being? Because not believing in intelligent design is kind of silly as it is already scientifically proven. I'll buy not believing a perfect supreme being. I believe in God and I don't even believe in a perfect supreme being.
This dang code. It is buggy and crashes at unexpected time. Good thing I didn't write the code, it just evolved over time. Surely this poor code wasn't a result of intelligent design. :-)
Your assumption is flawed: Intelligent design != flawless design
Also, you are mocking God and intelligent design but perhaps you really only meant to mock God. The idea of a perfect flawless being who can do anything and makes no mistakes. Of course the original word that translated to the word "perfect" in the Bible would arguably translate close to "complete".
"The fact that human's can observe evidence of evolution and now can manipulate DNA and change evolution proves that intelligent design couldn't have happened because . . . oh, wait. We humans have proved intelligent design already? We proved it because we have done it? Wow. I didn't know. I was too busy being blinded by my overzealous, religious love of the theory of evolution.
Evidence of evolution only shows that evolution happened. It does not disprove intelligent design. We humans have already used our knowledge of evolution and DNA and a lot of other knowledge to alter evolution. Are human's intelligent? Do we design? Yeah, we've moved beyond the point of proving intelligent design. It is proven. We are now looking to go to Mars. Do you think we will do any intelligent designing there? I do.
Evolution is only a theory with very strong evidence. Intelligent Design is proven by humans practicing intelligent design.
100% of the species we know have that have enough knowledge to practice intelligence design, do practice intelligent design. Sure it is a small sample size. But until we have a greater sample size, it is all we've got.
How is it that you jump to believe something that is only a scientific theory. But you fail to believe in something that has moved beyond a theory and is actually proven? It kind of makes you look foolish.
Personally, I believe God setup teeth for us to learn from. Let me give you some teeth. Then let me give you a second set. God thought: "Giving you a third set is easy but I'm not going to. Once you advanced in science and technology, I want to see you genetically create a 3rd set yourself. It will make you more "complete." I know. Your welcome. :-)"
Maybe our Intellgent Designers come back every few thousand years to improve our race. Hasn't science found evidence of evolutionary jumps? Why yes, yes they have.
Actually that is exactly how it panned out. If it didn't pan out for you that way, then you must be doing something wrong. I don't even take calls anymore from numbers I don't recognize because I get about 1 to 3 recruiting calls and two to five recruiting emails daily.
Are you reading outside in the daylight on your device? If so, you need an e-ink e-reader to see the screen. If you only read inside or in the evening, any regular tablet screen will do.
Amazon is completely aware the market for e-ink is for those who read outside in the day and that is about it. But the market for their Fire line is far larger.
How does chip and pin work?
If you have to enter the data into the vendors system, it is not secure. You have to swipe the card. You have to use their equipment at their Point of Sale to enter the pin. So if they add software that stores the card data and stores the pin, the card has just been compromised. Perhaps the chip is harder to fake than a strip?
To really make this more secure, you should swipe the card/insert card to have chip read, and then receive an instant request from the bank, not the vendor, to approve the expense. This could be done with phone call, text message, email, or app push notification. Of course the vendor could wait for you to approve before letting you out of the store with their goods.
That way, the pin is never delivered to the vendor.
I am still waiting for photo recognition. If you buy something with a card, it should take a picture of your face and send that in with the transaction request. People will cry privacy, which is a silly argument. If you want privacy, pay with cash.
This is a load of crap.
The jobs are being created as fast as they are going away. But the difference is the complexity of those new jobs is increasing. So not 'just anybody' can fill those jobs. When one industry is automated, the manually laborer jobs are gone.
People need to adjust by making a choice of how to earn money. There are 500,000 IT jobs in America unclaimed and this number is rising fast, not shrinking. Health Care is also big and gets bigger each day as the population increases each day. The jobs are there. PLENTY OF THEM. Most people are just too lazy to put the effort in that it takes to learn an IT skill. It is hard. It takes time. It takes brain muscle instead of back muscle.
If you lose your job and get help for a few months, fine. But hand outs are never good for the majority of people. They cause laziness. They cause entitlement. Spoiled brat syndrome. Fat couch potato syndrome. etc... Handouts only rarely work out well. For everyone that used the hand out to start their own business and become a successful entrepreneur there are hundreds that did nothing but collect the money and sit around.
If you lose your job, don't go sit on your ass. Take a moment and look at the world. Look at the different industries and their job markets. Work hard, study hard, and move into a new rising job market. There are so many jobs in IT and health care that the really is no excuse.
You are responsible for you!
I planned to buy the Fire phone as my next phone. My Samsung Galaxy S4 is still good so maybe I am a year away from buying. My family has three kindles and Amazon prime and we subscribe to the kids free time. There really isn't another solution for young kids that comes even close.
By 2040, it will be solved.
1. California is building multiple desalinization plants to be ready by 2016. How many will the world have by 2040?
2. Recycling water is improving.
3. What if we put a pipe between the ocean and Death Valley. It is hot. The water would evaporate fast and a previous desert could become a giant inland see.
4. Pump water from ocean to Great Salt Lake in North America and Dead Sea. Keep them full and they will provide natural desalination by evaporation and rain.
5. Evaporation aids. Technology to cause more evaporation and thus more rain.
I live in Utah. I think I'll be OK. Elevation 4,327 feet.
A 4000 foot wave would stop before reaching my house.
I feel safe unless there is a cataclysm so great that mountains are reformed.
Of course, the Yellow Stone volcano could take out the entire Western United States.
I do like the Florida oranges so I would miss them.
If we are lucky, the Death Valley will fill up with Ocean water and we can have a shorter drive when vacationing to the beach.
NLP has come a long way. However, take a look at how far away it actually is and you will not be so worried for quite some time.
Full encryption does not mean some one is already doing bad things.
Valid non-illegal uses for encryption:
1. What if the full disk encryption is to protect communication from a wife to a spouse. There is nothing wrong. Even for the religious, it is husband and wife, so not a sin.
One could argue that they shouldn't create a video at all. But maybe the video is made by the wife of someone in the armed forces. She sent her spouse a 10 minute video so he would have something while gone for over a year. She does all kinds of funky on the video. Nobody has the right to see that but her husband.
They aren't doing anything wrong. But yes, they need encryption.
2. Starting a technology critical business. You have the specs to create a new product that will be a billion dollar product. If corporate espionage occurred. Apple/Google/Microsoft releases the product, not you. Encryption is very important.
3. You use your phone to store all you business finance, bank statements, and tax documents. Your business doesn't need a computer. So you keep it all on your phone encrypted.
There are many more reasons for encryption. It should NOT have a back door. If it does, the encryption is inadequate and should be replaced.
Wait, when did CSS start actually solving layout issues? That is news to me.
From my experience, (including recent html5 experience) layout is still unsolved (at least by Html and css), unless you use tables. I can usually make CSS mimic a simple table layout, but it usually takes twice the markup.
Where are my layout controls. Neither HTML or CSS has layout controls. Where is my Grid layout? My Flow layout? The entire layout of html and css is so broken and we are just dealing with it and have been for two decades.
I prefer the two or three clause BSD license.
I'm not going to rewrite why as I've already written about why here: http://www.rhyous.com/2010/04/...
LANDESK made a really good asset tracking software called Asset Lifecycle Manager (ALM)? Unfortunately, they had no idea how to sell and market it and are now trying to focus on IT assets, so they don't really have ALM front and center on the web page anymore, but if you called a sales rep, I bet you could get a demo.
FYI, I didn't proofread my post. I know, I know, I have an English degree. That doesn't help me avoid typos if I don't proofread. :-)