Except that in both cases it seems to be less a case of sabotage and more a case of not being bothered to test their code in anything other than Chrome.
If Google is to be criticised for anything here it's for only supporting their own browser and ignoring the 30-35% of the market that uses something else.
Firefox's market share is in the mid teens now. Less than Safari. Hard to justify putting a lot of engineering effort into ~15% of the market, most of whom probably also have another browser installed anyway. I've seen it happen at other companies too.
"Illegal immigrant" is a somewhat arbitrary definition, since it depends on what opportunities for legal immigration are available and what things are deemed illegal.
Socialism is "democratic ownership of the means of production".
That's more like Marxism. Socialism is more about the government being an agent of the people, making corporations work for the benefit of the people.
Sometimes the means of production is nationalized as well, e.g. healthcare or water supply, but only when corporations are unable to provide it better than the state can. And by "better" I mean "better for everyone", not "we can provide you with a better hospital but only if you can afford it".
I understand the historical connection of unions to leftist politics, but I've always wondered why no one tried to re-engineer and rebrand them as something that really embodies the free market stuff that the right-wingers are always going on about.
We had that in the UK, called "New Labour". It worked reasonably well for a while, but eventually the financial crash happened and because the banks hadn't been properly regulated we had to bail them out. The legacy of Thatcherism and free-market economics.
To be fair we could have recovered, similar to how the US did, by then pumping money into the economy to stimulate it, but instead we switched to a right-wing party and lost a decade and a generation to austerity.
Dany made several tactical errors with her dragons, but she could be forgiven for them.
Her basic mistake seems to have been to assume that people the ground couldn't do much about attack from the air. Clearly that's not the case. Arrows are common weapons, and it doesn't take much imagination to see the potential for a scaled-up version. But Dany is young and lacks experience of battle, and probably couldn't have predicted that the undead king would have a special magic spear either.
The real blame lies with her advisers who should have warned her to be on the lookout for attack from the ground, and to deal with those threats first. Also why isn't dragon armour a thing?
This is the standard flaw in all undead monsters. They live forever despite not eating to replenish energy lost due to action. You can say it's magic but it applies to zombies too, except in 28 Days Later they are immortal even if they don't eat and somehow even many years later have not rotted away.
In any case, the dragons themselves must be magic because there is no way they could fly with the geometry they have, and they would need to consume so many calories they would be extremely difficult just to keep from starvation in any kind of captivity/pet scenario.
The Volvo V40 is only £23.5k, well under their target price. In fact it's similar to the Kia Niro or Hyundai Kona fossil versions, so add in a similar size battery and ~35k seems perfectly possible.
Also remember that Volvo is owned by Geely and probably has access to Chinese manufacturing for battery packs at very competitive prices. Chinese and Korean battery packs have already overtaken Nissan and Tesla on cost and warranty.
The Polestar 2 is available for ordering now, delivery expected this year. Currently only the expensive version is available, in 2020 a sub â40k version should be available.
Polestar is a Volvo brand, BTW. This car is more interesting to me as it will be affordable. Level 4 autonomy sounds impressive but you can bet it will be expensive.
Socialism is government that works for the people, with an emphasis on fairness, equality and opportunity for all. It's typified by the government providing certain key services, such as healthcare, utilities and infrastructure. Socialist governments build a safety net for individuals who suffer misfortune.
Socialist governments tend towards slightly higher taxation, at least for the well off, on the grounds that government services are fairer and more universal than private ones (e.g. healthcare) and that redistribution of wealth is a good thing.
Libertarian ideology puts more emphasis on small government with low taxation. Light touch regulation allows markets to operate unhindered, in the belief that the market will solve problems in the most efficient way. Personal obligations are kept to a minimum so hat individuals may choose how their income is used and behave as they feel is appropriate, as far as possible.
Chinese fans release subtitles online. From what I can tell they are very high quality, and you can choose to have extras like characters names appear on screen when they are shown for the first time in an episode. I could actually do with that in English sometimes.
I imagine GoT is widely pirated over there. Fibre gigabit internet is fairly common in cities, they haven't been installing any new copper for years.
Actually TV in China, while heavily sanitized for violence and sex (not even cleavage is shown), is strangely horrific.
For example they have a show about the how great the police are, your basic propaganda stuff. One regular feature is where they find people who where kidnapped as children and who are now young adults, and re-unite them with their families. On national TV. The first time they see their parents in maybe two decades and it's in front of an audience of millions. I guess it could be fake but half of them break down and can't even walk down the catwalk to press the button that opens the doors behind which their family is waiting, and the reactions seem pretty real.
There is lots of other disturbing stuff too. They have one show where people basically beg for money. One guy was there with his daughter asking for money to cover her medical bills. He had gone away for work for a few months, leaving her with her mother. Her mother died and no-one noticed, and when he got home is daughter was unconscious from starvation. Apparently allowing them to beg for money on TV is the way they "help" people like that.
And that's not to even mention the "secret news" that gets passed around on social media, which is often very graphic. I saw a photo of a father holding his son, whose head had been half crushed in some kind of traffic accident.
So actually a lot of what happens in GoT, while more graphic than what gets shown on Chinese TV, is actually a lot closer to what sometimes happens in China than most Westerners would ever experience.
In The Last Jedi Rey initially fails to convince Luke to help her, and gets next to no training. She finds out her parents are insignificant and doesn't get the answers she was looking for.
Finally at the end she is able to use the force to move the rocks herself. The message is clear: she is not a Jedi, she has a natural gift and she doesn't need the Jedi training. The Jedi have failed and she is how the Force moves past them.
Rey starts out by crashing the Millennium Falcon into the ground, and doesn't improve all that much from there. Kylo has been shot but still has little difficulty fighting her, and remember that he's not actually trying to hurt her because he wants her as his ally.
Problem is that running for office means getting savaged, so you need first and foremost to be willing and able to put up with that before any other credentials are considered.
As younger politicians come up it will be interesting to see how they deal with having a public internet history. Unfortunately so far it seems to heavily favour post-truth populists whose gimmick is that their supporters know they are full of shit and don't care about that time they called someone the N word.
Of course it's data about you. Many of the signals are using your personal data, in order to determine if the transactor is really you.
This is why you need strong laws like GDPR, which give you an absolute right to view and correct and have that data deleted. In response most companies in Europe have set up special portals where you can get an automated response to most requests, e.g. you can obtain your credit report for free whenever you want.
You may recall that in the first movie he goes from being a country bumpkin shooting at womp rats to piloting a military spacecraft against the best pilots the Empire has, including Vader, and managing to take a shot that the computer couldn't, in the space of about a week.
It's even explicitly stated that Luke is a special Marty Stu in the movie, because the force is strong with him. He's not an ordinary guy who has to work hard to become an ace pilot, he's born to do it.
Merely losing is not enough to prevent someone being a Marty Stu. Rey loses to and injured Ren who isn't even trying to kill her, so if that defence worked it would work for her too. Losing is just how you create some jeopardy and stakes for the Marty Stu to overcome.
Freedom also means not being compelled to give Nazis a platform if you don't want to. USC 230 safe harbour protections do allow for moderation and selecting what kind of content the site wants to host.
(And another annoyance - Torvalds sees Snaps and Flatpaks as the "solution" to the package management/distro issue? Really? Yeah, let's just replicate the userland for each application you install to deal with what was a non-issue.)
That's a great idea. It fixes a lot of problems - shared library version conflicts, tool conflicts, OS variations, filesystem layout variations etc. It also makes the apps nicely self contained and easy to update, without dumping files all over the filesystem. You also get the opportunity to sandbox which is a good thing when so many apps have network functionality these days.
Android has multiple desktops too. You have a choice of launchers, and a choice of skins.
Yet Android is more consistent and predictable.
Take mouse wheel sensitivity on Linux. There is no agreed standard for it. Each app decides how far to scroll per wheel notch. There are hacks to accelerate it but they don't work the same way in every app, if they work at all. In Android scrolling is extremely predictable and consistent, and in Windows there is a single place to configure it that works with every app.
The situation on Linux gets worse when you consider a lot of people are now using touchpads, which need even more work to act intuitively and consistently like people expect them to. Both Windows and MacOS support precise multi-touch trackpad input with acceleration and momentum for scrolling, and because it all uses standard APIs it works in 99% of apps too.
It's interesting that Empire got a similar reaction when it was released. People complained about taking a straightforward fantasy movie and introducing a puppet Jedi master, and then the ridiculous (and now iconic) reveal that the big bad is Marty Stu's dad.
What do you mean by "give everyone a trophy"? The point of that movie, like Empire, is that they lost badly and hit pretty much rock bottom, setting up the third movie. Rose's role was to help Finn transition from just a guy running from the Empire and trying to help his only friend, to someone who has seen the injustice and come to think that the rebellion is worth fighting for. Along with Poe he comes to understand that going out in a blaze of glory for some hopeless cause isn't the point - the rebellion is more than that.
Refreshing that a company would hold up it's hands and say they screwed up badly, although I do wonder if they were lent on by the government for this embarrassing incident.
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Except that in both cases it seems to be less a case of sabotage and more a case of not being bothered to test their code in anything other than Chrome.
If Google is to be criticised for anything here it's for only supporting their own browser and ignoring the 30-35% of the market that uses something else.
Firefox's market share is in the mid teens now. Less than Safari. Hard to justify putting a lot of engineering effort into ~15% of the market, most of whom probably also have another browser installed anyway. I've seen it happen at other companies too.
"Illegal immigrant" is a somewhat arbitrary definition, since it depends on what opportunities for legal immigration are available and what things are deemed illegal.
Socialism is "democratic ownership of the means of production".
That's more like Marxism. Socialism is more about the government being an agent of the people, making corporations work for the benefit of the people.
Sometimes the means of production is nationalized as well, e.g. healthcare or water supply, but only when corporations are unable to provide it better than the state can. And by "better" I mean "better for everyone", not "we can provide you with a better hospital but only if you can afford it".
I understand the historical connection of unions to leftist politics, but I've always wondered why no one tried to re-engineer and rebrand them as something that really embodies the free market stuff that the right-wingers are always going on about.
We had that in the UK, called "New Labour". It worked reasonably well for a while, but eventually the financial crash happened and because the banks hadn't been properly regulated we had to bail them out. The legacy of Thatcherism and free-market economics.
To be fair we could have recovered, similar to how the US did, by then pumping money into the economy to stimulate it, but instead we switched to a right-wing party and lost a decade and a generation to austerity.
Dany made several tactical errors with her dragons, but she could be forgiven for them.
Her basic mistake seems to have been to assume that people the ground couldn't do much about attack from the air. Clearly that's not the case. Arrows are common weapons, and it doesn't take much imagination to see the potential for a scaled-up version. But Dany is young and lacks experience of battle, and probably couldn't have predicted that the undead king would have a special magic spear either.
The real blame lies with her advisers who should have warned her to be on the lookout for attack from the ground, and to deal with those threats first. Also why isn't dragon armour a thing?
This is the standard flaw in all undead monsters. They live forever despite not eating to replenish energy lost due to action. You can say it's magic but it applies to zombies too, except in 28 Days Later they are immortal even if they don't eat and somehow even many years later have not rotted away.
In any case, the dragons themselves must be magic because there is no way they could fly with the geometry they have, and they would need to consume so many calories they would be extremely difficult just to keep from starvation in any kind of captivity/pet scenario.
The Volvo V40 is only £23.5k, well under their target price. In fact it's similar to the Kia Niro or Hyundai Kona fossil versions, so add in a similar size battery and ~35k seems perfectly possible.
Also remember that Volvo is owned by Geely and probably has access to Chinese manufacturing for battery packs at very competitive prices. Chinese and Korean battery packs have already overtaken Nissan and Tesla on cost and warranty.
The Polestar 2 is available for ordering now, delivery expected this year. Currently only the expensive version is available, in 2020 a sub â40k version should be available.
Polestar is a Volvo brand, BTW. This car is more interesting to me as it will be affordable. Level 4 autonomy sounds impressive but you can bet it will be expensive.
I'll try, feel free to disagree.
Socialism is government that works for the people, with an emphasis on fairness, equality and opportunity for all. It's typified by the government providing certain key services, such as healthcare, utilities and infrastructure. Socialist governments build a safety net for individuals who suffer misfortune.
Socialist governments tend towards slightly higher taxation, at least for the well off, on the grounds that government services are fairer and more universal than private ones (e.g. healthcare) and that redistribution of wealth is a good thing.
Libertarian ideology puts more emphasis on small government with low taxation. Light touch regulation allows markets to operate unhindered, in the belief that the market will solve problems in the most efficient way. Personal obligations are kept to a minimum so hat individuals may choose how their income is used and behave as they feel is appropriate, as far as possible.
Chinese fans release subtitles online. From what I can tell they are very high quality, and you can choose to have extras like characters names appear on screen when they are shown for the first time in an episode. I could actually do with that in English sometimes.
I imagine GoT is widely pirated over there. Fibre gigabit internet is fairly common in cities, they haven't been installing any new copper for years.
Actually TV in China, while heavily sanitized for violence and sex (not even cleavage is shown), is strangely horrific.
For example they have a show about the how great the police are, your basic propaganda stuff. One regular feature is where they find people who where kidnapped as children and who are now young adults, and re-unite them with their families. On national TV. The first time they see their parents in maybe two decades and it's in front of an audience of millions. I guess it could be fake but half of them break down and can't even walk down the catwalk to press the button that opens the doors behind which their family is waiting, and the reactions seem pretty real.
There is lots of other disturbing stuff too. They have one show where people basically beg for money. One guy was there with his daughter asking for money to cover her medical bills. He had gone away for work for a few months, leaving her with her mother. Her mother died and no-one noticed, and when he got home is daughter was unconscious from starvation. Apparently allowing them to beg for money on TV is the way they "help" people like that.
And that's not to even mention the "secret news" that gets passed around on social media, which is often very graphic. I saw a photo of a father holding his son, whose head had been half crushed in some kind of traffic accident.
So actually a lot of what happens in GoT, while more graphic than what gets shown on Chinese TV, is actually a lot closer to what sometimes happens in China than most Westerners would ever experience.
In The Last Jedi Rey initially fails to convince Luke to help her, and gets next to no training. She finds out her parents are insignificant and doesn't get the answers she was looking for.
Finally at the end she is able to use the force to move the rocks herself. The message is clear: she is not a Jedi, she has a natural gift and she doesn't need the Jedi training. The Jedi have failed and she is how the Force moves past them.
Rey starts out by crashing the Millennium Falcon into the ground, and doesn't improve all that much from there. Kylo has been shot but still has little difficulty fighting her, and remember that he's not actually trying to hurt her because he wants her as his ally.
Problem is that running for office means getting savaged, so you need first and foremost to be willing and able to put up with that before any other credentials are considered.
As younger politicians come up it will be interesting to see how they deal with having a public internet history. Unfortunately so far it seems to heavily favour post-truth populists whose gimmick is that their supporters know they are full of shit and don't care about that time they called someone the N word.
Of course it's data about you. Many of the signals are using your personal data, in order to determine if the transactor is really you.
This is why you need strong laws like GDPR, which give you an absolute right to view and correct and have that data deleted. In response most companies in Europe have set up special portals where you can get an automated response to most requests, e.g. you can obtain your credit report for free whenever you want.
You may recall that in the first movie he goes from being a country bumpkin shooting at womp rats to piloting a military spacecraft against the best pilots the Empire has, including Vader, and managing to take a shot that the computer couldn't, in the space of about a week.
It's even explicitly stated that Luke is a special Marty Stu in the movie, because the force is strong with him. He's not an ordinary guy who has to work hard to become an ace pilot, he's born to do it.
Merely losing is not enough to prevent someone being a Marty Stu. Rey loses to and injured Ren who isn't even trying to kill her, so if that defence worked it would work for her too. Losing is just how you create some jeopardy and stakes for the Marty Stu to overcome.
Being stuck in the Ecuadorian embassy for years will not have improved his health, mental or physical.
Freedom also means not being compelled to give Nazis a platform if you don't want to. USC 230 safe harbour protections do allow for moderation and selecting what kind of content the site wants to host.
(And another annoyance - Torvalds sees Snaps and Flatpaks as the "solution" to the package management/distro issue? Really? Yeah, let's just replicate the userland for each application you install to deal with what was a non-issue.)
That's a great idea. It fixes a lot of problems - shared library version conflicts, tool conflicts, OS variations, filesystem layout variations etc. It also makes the apps nicely self contained and easy to update, without dumping files all over the filesystem. You also get the opportunity to sandbox which is a good thing when so many apps have network functionality these days.
Android has multiple desktops too. You have a choice of launchers, and a choice of skins.
Yet Android is more consistent and predictable.
Take mouse wheel sensitivity on Linux. There is no agreed standard for it. Each app decides how far to scroll per wheel notch. There are hacks to accelerate it but they don't work the same way in every app, if they work at all. In Android scrolling is extremely predictable and consistent, and in Windows there is a single place to configure it that works with every app.
The situation on Linux gets worse when you consider a lot of people are now using touchpads, which need even more work to act intuitively and consistently like people expect them to. Both Windows and MacOS support precise multi-touch trackpad input with acceleration and momentum for scrolling, and because it all uses standard APIs it works in 99% of apps too.
It's interesting that Empire got a similar reaction when it was released. People complained about taking a straightforward fantasy movie and introducing a puppet Jedi master, and then the ridiculous (and now iconic) reveal that the big bad is Marty Stu's dad.
What do you mean by "give everyone a trophy"? The point of that movie, like Empire, is that they lost badly and hit pretty much rock bottom, setting up the third movie. Rose's role was to help Finn transition from just a guy running from the Empire and trying to help his only friend, to someone who has seen the injustice and come to think that the rebellion is worth fighting for. Along with Poe he comes to understand that going out in a blaze of glory for some hopeless cause isn't the point - the rebellion is more than that.
My guess is that "the Skywalker" in the title refers to a new force using order to replace the Jedi, based on Luke's philosophy.
It sucked so badly that they have Rian Johnson a trilogy of Star Wars films as punishment!
Refreshing that a company would hold up it's hands and say they screwed up badly, although I do wonder if they were lent on by the government for this embarrassing incident.