My grandpa also hardly ever got sick. Until the lung cancer. Fortunately that didn't kill him. The heart attack he got for his sins took him out first.
I'll happily take a few sick days a year over horrible general health and early death.
Actually you did in 1975. The Metric Conversion Act was signed into law making metric the preferred system for the USA. Unfortunately it also permitted the continued use of USA customary units.
A voluntary law is nothing more than a waste of paper.
Does the CEO need to Tweet about it before they pay attention?
I pointed this out in great detail on the discussions of the governor of Hawaii being unable to alert people that the missile strike was false due to not knowing his twitter login, but yes. Yes this is the world we live in. Journalists have been cut left and right. There's no longer armies of people to send to press conferences. Instead people automatically monitor twitter of key public figures of interest and then post something about the tweet.
It was similar with the tsunami warning in Alaska a few weeks ago. Not a single news outlet covered the story without a link or reference to some tweet. The only thing different here is that for a chance the tweet didn't come out faster than the news conference.
Right now, the ENTIRE WEST puts out less CO2 than what China is adding JUST IN COAL PLANTS over the next 10 years.
Major fucking citation required. The EU+USA emissions alone are higher than that of China. The worst case prediction for China peaking in 2035 shows that the emissions at that time will be only marginally higher than those of the EU+USA and then will fall at a far higher rate than the west will ever achieve as their old coal plants come online.
The rising emissions in China over the next 30 years are predicted to be small compared to the rise between 1995-2010 and China's coal demand is plummeting, something that if you don't believe the emissions charts, then believe the many export miners who's share prices are struggling due to poor demand.
Cite> Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures, World Bank, and the stock market.
That's an interesting graph. Curious that it doesn't show the sudden drop in emissions from China in 2010 that happened due to a mix of economic crisis, lower steel demand and loss of appetite for dirty coal projects. Nor does your graph show that Chinese emissions are growing at almost 1/5th of the rate that they were 10 years ago. Nor do they show that emissions per GDP are plummeting (a sign that dirty industrialization of a 3rd world nation has already peaked).
Until then it doesn't matter what the US, UK and EU do.
Yes because somewhere someone else is producing 1/5th of the emissions per capita of the people in the USA it is all *their* fault and we can't do anything. "America First!... in emissions per capita".
Yes it is. Think about this for a second. Some of the biggest improvements to OSes have come from major re-writes. This isn't a big deal for a software company as much as it is business as usual. Likewise some of the biggest purchases and acquisitions have had zero to do with software. Software is just some code anyone can write. You think a couple of guys in Estonia could do something Microsoft couldn't? The reason Skype was purchased was IP + userbase. This IP+userbase was merged with the existing IP+userbase of the MSN world. Now they have the audience captive including an automatic updater it is trivial to move them onto whatever they want to do next.
If you can't convince your boss that these are solid business decisions (get IP > get users > get platform lock-in > dominate users) then you may want to give your future suggestions to someone else to present to management.
Spoken like someone who's never had the cruel and unusual punishment that is using Verizon's website, or the humanitarian crisis that is attempting to talk to their customer abuse people.
Service.
I meant customer service people. But that's an easy mistake to make.
You're assuming everything I've said is in a literal singular form. It's not. You and I are a community discussing this very thing. A wiki is a forum for exchanging ideas and there's a shitload of horrible wikis out there too.
Regardless, what you've been talking about has very little applicability to the reality.
Really? Even in this meta discussion about communities someone had brought the very real things I've been discussing into the argument (go up in the thread and look to an earlier reply which typifies exactly the kind of stupid shit the linux "community" does).
I'm not sure what reality you live in if you think this doesn't exist.
"already done" is a strange way of describing a single phone making a custom workaround to the Android OS which shown no awareness of anything that may protrude onto the screen.
Linux has very few "platform users" that aren't part of the "community". That is what happens when you effectively become a tech savvy niche market. The platform users start talking to each other. More so the fact that the entire platform is built around the principles of a community.
And [citation needed] that the majority don't fit the description. We've been doing nothing but fucking infighting for years now and I'm seeing a lot of forums become more and more elitist and hostile over the past 10 years.
If delivery isn't profitable don't offer delivery is a great strategy in a stable and unchanging climate where people expect there to not be deliveries and instead choose to go to the restaurant and sit down. That is a silly assumption to make. With increase variance in delivery options many people are opting to do it causing you to lose customers.
Your answer is: Offer delivery at the lower profit. - Potentially go bankrupt Lose the customer altogether. - Potentially go bankrupt.
I never understood the appeal of lithium for grid storage, since weight of a stationary battery is not an issue.
When you have a hammer every problem looks like a nail. Tesla with their huge lithium supply chain and huge lithium battery manufacturing capabilities are hardly going to invest significant research into alternatives like vanadium redox. Not unless something forces the hand of the business.
It's worth pointing out that when the CEO made his comments, the response here was less than enthusiastic
This is a key downside for Linux for many reasons:
1) The community has shown to be toxic with constant infighting. 2) The community is highly aggressive to anything which doesn't 100% meet their core values. Create a gaming hardware, good. Open source 99% of the firmware, great. That 1% is a closed source binary blob, BURN DOWN THEIR HEADQUARTERS! 3) The community is small so the cost benefit ratio sucks. 4) The community is fussy and has high standards (see all of the above). 5) The community generally isn't of the hardcore gaming type.
Why would any gaming company chose to support Linux when gamers have shown to be more than happy* to run Windows / stuff around with Wine to play their games.
*And by more than happy I mean they whine less about running Windows for games than the do about something in Linux not being 100% perfect.
Complete indifference. What you think doesn't phase me in the slightest.
I don't give a damn what you think
I know it shows. You have an incredibly short sighted perspective and demonstrate an inability to think about how situations apply to a wider group of people. Fortunately we are all not *you*.
For whom? Some company that provides a service in exchange for your data with the "massive" downside of them building an advertising profile? Woes me!
Why would you want that? Don't even say 'convenience'.
Convenience. You don't get to ask a question while prempting the obvious answer.
Too many of you give up too much for 'convenience'.
Too much is in the eye of the beholder and changes a lot between person and person. Do you live an adulterous homosexual life of freaky fetishes in a country you may be beheaded for doing so? You may be giving up too much. Or maybe you just ask Google / Siri what the weather is outside, and to read you a recipe or play you a tune. Doesn't sound like you're giving up much at all.
Don't presume to know what a person's data is worth to them. Most people aren't giving up anything that these companies don't know about them already.
Well you obviously never fly on smaller regional carriers inside or outside the US.
Well you clearly have no idea. My work takes me from anything from a Luxurious business class Emirates intercontinental, to shitty economy class Delta / United international flights, through low cost carriers in the USA and Europe at crappy airports, all the way down to those shitty flights that even the cheap airlines outsource to local contract agencies on loud and nasty propeller planes.
I've flown aircrafts of every size and every brand on every continent except Antarctica and have worn bluetooth headphones on all but 1 flight for the past 8 years and that's only because of a warranty claim that Bose didn't turn around in time.
it's not certified for Bluetooth. Full stop.
You use the word certified like it means something. It means absolutely nothing. Your initial comment discussed not certification but rather an airline banning something. And in the absence of a written procedure shown to the passenger, or a verbal instruction from the crew, bluetooth headphones aren't "banned" on any flight I have been on.
Many regional airlines will ask you to remove your Bluetooth headphones.
It goes without saying but I'm quoting this for good measure anyway, but : Nope.
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The problem is many employers now lump sick days and vacation together into the same pool.
This is illegal in most of the west.
but probably even the CDC understands that is not a reasonable recommendation
Why not? Every first world country mandates paid sick leave. Sometime the USA should join the first world too.
My grandpa also hardly ever got sick. Until the lung cancer. Fortunately that didn't kill him. The heart attack he got for his sins took him out first.
I'll happily take a few sick days a year over horrible general health and early death.
We never went metric in the US
Actually you did in 1975. The Metric Conversion Act was signed into law making metric the preferred system for the USA. Unfortunately it also permitted the continued use of USA customary units.
A voluntary law is nothing more than a waste of paper.
Does the CEO need to Tweet about it before they pay attention?
I pointed this out in great detail on the discussions of the governor of Hawaii being unable to alert people that the missile strike was false due to not knowing his twitter login, but yes. Yes this is the world we live in. Journalists have been cut left and right. There's no longer armies of people to send to press conferences. Instead people automatically monitor twitter of key public figures of interest and then post something about the tweet.
It was similar with the tsunami warning in Alaska a few weeks ago. Not a single news outlet covered the story without a link or reference to some tweet. The only thing different here is that for a chance the tweet didn't come out faster than the news conference.
Right now, the ENTIRE WEST puts out less CO2 than what China is adding JUST IN COAL PLANTS over the next 10 years.
Major fucking citation required. The EU+USA emissions alone are higher than that of China. The worst case prediction for China peaking in 2035 shows that the emissions at that time will be only marginally higher than those of the EU+USA and then will fall at a far higher rate than the west will ever achieve as their old coal plants come online.
The rising emissions in China over the next 30 years are predicted to be small compared to the rise between 1995-2010 and China's coal demand is plummeting, something that if you don't believe the emissions charts, then believe the many export miners who's share prices are struggling due to poor demand.
Cite> Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures, World Bank, and the stock market.
That's an interesting graph. Curious that it doesn't show the sudden drop in emissions from China in 2010 that happened due to a mix of economic crisis, lower steel demand and loss of appetite for dirty coal projects. Nor does your graph show that Chinese emissions are growing at almost 1/5th of the rate that they were 10 years ago. Nor do they show that emissions per GDP are plummeting (a sign that dirty industrialization of a 3rd world nation has already peaked).
Until then it doesn't matter what the US, UK and EU do.
Yes because somewhere someone else is producing 1/5th of the emissions per capita of the people in the USA it is all *their* fault and we can't do anything. ... in emissions per capita".
"America First!
Hahahahaha nice job
Yes it is. Think about this for a second. Some of the biggest improvements to OSes have come from major re-writes. This isn't a big deal for a software company as much as it is business as usual.
Likewise some of the biggest purchases and acquisitions have had zero to do with software. Software is just some code anyone can write. You think a couple of guys in Estonia could do something Microsoft couldn't? The reason Skype was purchased was IP + userbase. This IP+userbase was merged with the existing IP+userbase of the MSN world. Now they have the audience captive including an automatic updater it is trivial to move them onto whatever they want to do next.
If you can't convince your boss that these are solid business decisions (get IP > get users > get platform lock-in > dominate users) then you may want to give your future suggestions to someone else to present to management.
If you can't fix the issue then let us have the option to remove the POS.
Ever considered uninstalling it?
I'm not sure if you think you're being witty or just don't understand what we're talking about.
way of your impotent ramps, guys
Spoken like someone who's never had the cruel and unusual punishment that is using Verizon's website, or the humanitarian crisis that is attempting to talk to their customer abuse people.
Service.
I meant customer service people. But that's an easy mistake to make.
when that is precisely what I am doing!
By generalising you are doing precisely the opposite of thinking.
You're assuming everything I've said is in a literal singular form. It's not. You and I are a community discussing this very thing. A wiki is a forum for exchanging ideas and there's a shitload of horrible wikis out there too.
Regardless, what you've been talking about has very little applicability to the reality.
Really? Even in this meta discussion about communities someone had brought the very real things I've been discussing into the argument (go up in the thread and look to an earlier reply which typifies exactly the kind of stupid shit the linux "community" does).
I'm not sure what reality you live in if you think this doesn't exist.
Only if you don't read past the first two words I wrote.
"already done" is a strange way of describing a single phone making a custom workaround to the Android OS which shown no awareness of anything that may protrude onto the screen.
I wonder how Google will handle this.
I really hope they handle it by throwing in the towel and relegating those ugly notches to the dustbin of history where they belong.
You just managed to prove my point perfectly. YOU are the community I just described.
target the platform users instead
Linux has very few "platform users" that aren't part of the "community". That is what happens when you effectively become a tech savvy niche market. The platform users start talking to each other. More so the fact that the entire platform is built around the principles of a community.
And [citation needed] that the majority don't fit the description. We've been doing nothing but fucking infighting for years now and I'm seeing a lot of forums become more and more elitist and hostile over the past 10 years.
If delivery isn't profitable don't offer delivery is a great strategy in a stable and unchanging climate where people expect there to not be deliveries and instead choose to go to the restaurant and sit down. That is a silly assumption to make. With increase variance in delivery options many people are opting to do it causing you to lose customers.
Your answer is:
Offer delivery at the lower profit. - Potentially go bankrupt
Lose the customer altogether. - Potentially go bankrupt.
I never understood the appeal of lithium for grid storage, since weight of a stationary battery is not an issue.
When you have a hammer every problem looks like a nail. Tesla with their huge lithium supply chain and huge lithium battery manufacturing capabilities are hardly going to invest significant research into alternatives like vanadium redox. Not unless something forces the hand of the business.
It's worth pointing out that when the CEO made his comments, the response here was less than enthusiastic
This is a key downside for Linux for many reasons:
1) The community has shown to be toxic with constant infighting.
2) The community is highly aggressive to anything which doesn't 100% meet their core values. Create a gaming hardware, good. Open source 99% of the firmware, great. That 1% is a closed source binary blob, BURN DOWN THEIR HEADQUARTERS!
3) The community is small so the cost benefit ratio sucks.
4) The community is fussy and has high standards (see all of the above).
5) The community generally isn't of the hardcore gaming type.
Why would any gaming company chose to support Linux when gamers have shown to be more than happy* to run Windows / stuff around with Wine to play their games.
*And by more than happy I mean they whine less about running Windows for games than the do about something in Linux not being 100% perfect.
How do you feel about that?
Complete indifference. What you think doesn't phase me in the slightest.
I don't give a damn what you think
I know it shows. You have an incredibly short sighted perspective and demonstrate an inability to think about how situations apply to a wider group of people. Fortunately we are all not *you*.
the product Google created to compete with Apple’s
Interesting. Which one has been on the market for half a year already?
Just spies on you anyway.
For whom? Some company that provides a service in exchange for your data with the "massive" downside of them building an advertising profile? Woes me!
Why would you want that? Don't even say 'convenience'.
Convenience. You don't get to ask a question while prempting the obvious answer.
Too many of you give up too much for 'convenience'.
Too much is in the eye of the beholder and changes a lot between person and person. Do you live an adulterous homosexual life of freaky fetishes in a country you may be beheaded for doing so? You may be giving up too much. Or maybe you just ask Google / Siri what the weather is outside, and to read you a recipe or play you a tune. Doesn't sound like you're giving up much at all.
Don't presume to know what a person's data is worth to them. Most people aren't giving up anything that these companies don't know about them already.
Well you obviously never fly on smaller regional carriers inside or outside the US.
Well you clearly have no idea. My work takes me from anything from a Luxurious business class Emirates intercontinental, to shitty economy class Delta / United international flights, through low cost carriers in the USA and Europe at crappy airports, all the way down to those shitty flights that even the cheap airlines outsource to local contract agencies on loud and nasty propeller planes.
I've flown aircrafts of every size and every brand on every continent except Antarctica and have worn bluetooth headphones on all but 1 flight for the past 8 years and that's only because of a warranty claim that Bose didn't turn around in time.
it's not certified for Bluetooth. Full stop.
You use the word certified like it means something. It means absolutely nothing. Your initial comment discussed not certification but rather an airline banning something. And in the absence of a written procedure shown to the passenger, or a verbal instruction from the crew, bluetooth headphones aren't "banned" on any flight I have been on.
Many regional airlines will ask you to remove your Bluetooth headphones.
It goes without saying but I'm quoting this for good measure anyway, but : Nope.