The pursuit of thinner, lighter laptops, a trend driven by Apple, coinciding with laptops replacing desktops as our primary devices means we have screwed ourselves out of performance
No, we have not. Electronics in general — and laptops in particular — is a very competitive field. That "invisible hand of the markets", which Illiberals love to mock so much, is at work. The mainstream laptop offerings are exactly, what most of us want. And there also remain offerings for the various minorities — because there is money to be made from satisfying demands of the niches too.
Why are we Ok with lower-powered machines? I guess, that's because improvements in connectivity make it possible to use remote servers for the real heavy-lifting. Personally, I'm happy with an ssh-client on my iPhone — my bluetooth keyboard, which I only need to make typing easier (rather than possible) is still smaller, than the smallest laptop...
Yep, Google let me down — and I didn't read it carefully enough myself, thank you.
This other, more recent link, does confirm my point: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0... nationwide. And I do remember reading something like that much earlier — about 10 years ago — but can't find it now. It is certainly not a new problem...
Emphasising good behaviour in the most difficult to manage
When fines are issued, it is no longer mere "emphasizing", but forcing.
Nor are we talking of "good behavior", but rather of obedience. Manually separating trash, which will be mixed back together, is not "good behavior" — it is a patently stupid one. Only an authoritarian — like yourself — would insist on forcing a known stupidity for the sake of obedience...
What do you suggest
I suggest, the government stops pretending to be a parent, who knows better, and stops punishing people for failing to separate, what will be mixed back together anyway.
then they fix their problem and you get to spend your tax dollars
Oh, wow, a genuine concern for tax dollars. Very simple: when (if!) you fix the problem, then you can start issuing fines again.
This is a known problem in the States too. NYC, in particular, sends over half of its "recyclables" to landfill anyway. But, not to worry, they still fine people for failing to sort their trash — whether it helps environment or not, whatever increases the government's power over the subjects is a good thing, is not it?
Macropods, for example, can hop fast — for long times — because their legs have, essentially, springs inside. This allows them to reuse something like 70% of the energy from hop to hop. That figure human legs is merely in single digits... There is definitely room for improvement.
New York State Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board
Have these people had the insurance premiums deducted from their pay — either explicitly, or otherwise? If not, then it is neither "insurance" nor victory for anyone, other than the rent-seeking government bureaucrats.
But I'm not a phone manufacturer, which is the people that seem to be having problems with Googles behaviour.
Do they?
If a device-maker wants to claim their offering is "Android", then they have to satisfy Google's requirements. They don't have to do it — the OS itself is available (open source, unlike Microsoft's Windows) and they can sell devices with their own version. Amazon, for example, are doing just that.
It seems, EU bureaucrats wanted to control, what Google is allowed to require from those, who wish to market their devices as "Android". No government should be allowed to do this.
Personally, paying 10x ($60cdn vs $600 cdn) as much for an Apple as I paid for my phone is a non-starter.
The $60cdn stuff is so underpowered, it is not worth discussing. It is also subsidized — by the same things EU fines Google for insisting on.
You are demanding, a $60 thing be comparable to a $600 one — dream on.
We can argue for years, whether or not this or that is better — it is all useless. The valid measure is competition. Unless Google is caught sabotaging competitors, such as by producing inferior search-results when "Safari" is found in User-Agent, there is nothing for the governments to do.
Hardly an innovation — the US did just that to Microsoft 20 years ago, EU is decades behind.
Except Microsoft was an actual monopoly in the world of desktop operating systems back then, so deviating from the free market principles may have been justified.
Google is merely a dominant player in the world of smart-phones and has not done anything to unfairly sabotage the second-biggest (Apple) the way Microsoft deliberately sabotaged DR-DOS. Google.com opens just fine in Safari.
If a European user does not like the Android offering, he can by an iPhone instead.
Have you not yet realized that the only valid reason to cite anything in the WaPo is to highlight the problem of incredibly biased reporting that now exists in the US media?
That's not true at all. Though I agree with you, that Washington Post is incredibly biased, that bias alone may help any argument against the interests and policies generally defended by the newspaper: if even WaPo dislikes it (something by someone they'd usually praise), it must be really bad... On top of that, for all their bias, they normally would not outright lie (except by omission). Their coverage is tilted, but whatever they state is fact, usually is a fact.
Besides, I cited two other sources... Now, do you want to discuss the actual argument?
I generally hate it, when people claim, the US "is just as bad" as some totalitarian shithole and openly compare McCarthy with the likes of Beria. But American colleges are already in the world of next Tuesday, where the "progressives" want the rest of the country to be. Ruining one's "social score" can already cost one a college-admission.
other "extra-curricular" activities, such as, for example, ballroom dancing;
demonstrated leadership abilities — my personal favorite.
These colleges are ostensibly private, so they should be able to do whatever they please... But the same freedom is not afforded to other businesses, and, when politically expedient, even these private colleges have been arm-twisted into compliance with the government's demands.
A proper semantic device — either a human or an artificial intelligence... And even that will not be reliable — for example, humans have struggled to define "porn" (as opposite to "erotic art") for decades, if not millennia.
The best is, probably, to just warn your kids so they are ready — and not let them at the Internet until you are reasonably comfortable.
The joke goes like this: "Damn, the Internet connection is so slow today — either my son is downloading porn, or my daughter is uploading some..."
Strzok sat on evidence incriminating Trump campaign members in connection with Russian election interference
Citation needed.
Where is that wonderful "evidence" — Mueller could certainly use it to do, what he was appointed to do: investigate Trump, instead of accusing Russian military of attacking American interests (duh!)...
The indictment lodged in Washington, D.C., accuses the Russian spies of hacking into the Democratic National Committee and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton [...] The accused also hacked into state boards of elections, secretaries of state, and into companies that provided software used to administer elections
What have the FBI, the NSA, and the rest of our wonderful "intelligence" apparatus been doing, while this was going on?
At least, there is some silver lining to all this in that there is no longer any doubt, Russia is an adversary — if not an outright enemy. A big and welcome change of both long- and short-term trends.
But don't let that distract you from the soccer championship...
Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, Twitter, Google, and Amazon have all released "lite" apps (they usually have fewer features, but are comparatively less resource intensive) for these markets
Both India and Slashdot soundly denounced Facebook's earlier attempts to give a limited "Internet-lite" to users in poor countries for free. Because "net neutrality".
Now they are trying again with a (slightly) different twist... Let's see...
Slashdot Mirror
No, we have not. Electronics in general — and laptops in particular — is a very competitive field. That "invisible hand of the markets", which Illiberals love to mock so much, is at work. The mainstream laptop offerings are exactly, what most of us want. And there also remain offerings for the various minorities — because there is money to be made from satisfying demands of the niches too.
Why are we Ok with lower-powered machines? I guess, that's because improvements in connectivity make it possible to use remote servers for the real heavy-lifting. Personally, I'm happy with an ssh-client on my iPhone — my bluetooth keyboard, which I only need to make typing easier (rather than possible) is still smaller, than the smallest laptop...
Yep, Google let me down — and I didn't read it carefully enough myself, thank you.
This other, more recent link, does confirm my point: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0... nationwide. And I do remember reading something like that much earlier — about 10 years ago — but can't find it now. It is certainly not a new problem...
When fines are issued, it is no longer mere "emphasizing", but forcing.
Nor are we talking of "good behavior", but rather of obedience. Manually separating trash, which will be mixed back together, is not "good behavior" — it is a patently stupid one. Only an authoritarian — like yourself — would insist on forcing a known stupidity for the sake of obedience...
I suggest, the government stops pretending to be a parent, who knows better, and stops punishing people for failing to separate, what will be mixed back together anyway.
Oh, wow, a genuine concern for tax dollars. Very simple: when (if!) you fix the problem, then you can start issuing fines again.
This is a known problem in the States too. NYC, in particular, sends over half of its "recyclables" to landfill anyway. But, not to worry, they still fine people for failing to sort their trash — whether it helps environment or not, whatever increases the government's power over the subjects is a good thing, is not it?
Macropods, for example, can hop fast — for long times — because their legs have, essentially, springs inside. This allows them to reuse something like 70% of the energy from hop to hop. That figure human legs is merely in single digits... There is definitely room for improvement.
Has anybody gone after Uber? The write-up does not mention this, and TFA, which I skimped, is unclear.
The Board has a conflict of interest, though, this is something, independent judiciary ought to decide.
Have these people had the insurance premiums deducted from their pay — either explicitly, or otherwise? If not, then it is neither "insurance" nor victory for anyone, other than the rent-seeking government bureaucrats.
If "gay marriage" is marriage, if "meatless meatballs" are meatballs and "vegiburger" — a burger, why should not "almond milk" be milk?
Do they?
If a device-maker wants to claim their offering is "Android", then they have to satisfy Google's requirements. They don't have to do it — the OS itself is available (open source, unlike Microsoft's Windows) and they can sell devices with their own version. Amazon, for example, are doing just that.
It seems, EU bureaucrats wanted to control, what Google is allowed to require from those, who wish to market their devices as "Android". No government should be allowed to do this.
The $60cdn stuff is so underpowered, it is not worth discussing. It is also subsidized — by the same things EU fines Google for insisting on.
You are demanding, a $60 thing be comparable to a $600 one — dream on.
We can argue for years, whether or not this or that is better — it is all useless. The valid measure is competition. Unless Google is caught sabotaging competitors, such as by producing inferior search-results when "Safari" is found in User-Agent, there is nothing for the governments to do.
Hardly an innovation — the US did just that to Microsoft 20 years ago, EU is decades behind.
Except Microsoft was an actual monopoly in the world of desktop operating systems back then, so deviating from the free market principles may have been justified.
Google is merely a dominant player in the world of smart-phones and has not done anything to unfairly sabotage the second-biggest (Apple) the way Microsoft deliberately sabotaged DR-DOS. Google.com opens just fine in Safari.
If a European user does not like the Android offering, he can by an iPhone instead.
Presidents do not appoint Attorney Generals (nor Deputies), they nominate them. That's a technical inaccuracy, but not a lie.
Trump did nominate Rosenstein — and the Senate confirmed him.
That's not true at all. Though I agree with you, that Washington Post is incredibly biased, that bias alone may help any argument against the interests and policies generally defended by the newspaper: if even WaPo dislikes it (something by someone they'd usually praise), it must be really bad... On top of that, for all their bias, they normally would not outright lie (except by omission). Their coverage is tilted, but whatever they state is fact, usually is a fact.
Besides, I cited two other sources... Now, do you want to discuss the actual argument?
I generally hate it, when people claim, the US "is just as bad" as some totalitarian shithole and openly compare McCarthy with the likes of Beria. But American colleges are already in the world of next Tuesday, where the "progressives" want the rest of the country to be. Ruining one's "social score" can already cost one a college-admission.
Routinely, getting into a good college in the US today — especially for some racial minorities — requires some combination of:
These colleges are ostensibly private, so they should be able to do whatever they please... But the same freedom is not afforded to other businesses, and, when politically expedient, even these private colleges have been arm-twisted into compliance with the government's demands.
No links... Khm... Probably, because it never happened.
A proper semantic device — either a human or an artificial intelligence... And even that will not be reliable — for example, humans have struggled to define "porn" (as opposite to "erotic art") for decades, if not millennia.
The best is, probably, to just warn your kids so they are ready — and not let them at the Internet until you are reasonably comfortable.
The joke goes like this: "Damn, the Internet connection is so slow today — either my son is downloading porn, or my daughter is uploading some..."
Citations?
You lie, boy. Is that it?
Khm, this is the second time in this thread that the homophobic slur is used by a faaaar-Left anonymous coward...
Gotta love Trump for triggering his haters into exposing their ugly inner thoughts like this...
Citation needed.
Where is that wonderful "evidence" — Mueller could certainly use it to do, what he was appointed to do: investigate Trump, instead of accusing Russian military of attacking American interests (duh!)...
At least, dissent is patriotic again now...
No one indicted so far needed the Special Counsel to be indicted... None of the indictments implicate Trump in any wrong-doing either.
That you are biased is obvious. That you are so biased, the above truths aren't clear to you, is rare...
What have the FBI, the NSA, and the rest of our wonderful "intelligence" apparatus been doing, while this was going on?
Oh, yeah, they were busy trying to sabotage Trump...
At least, there is some silver lining to all this in that there is no longer any doubt, Russia is an adversary — if not an outright enemy. A big and welcome change of both long- and short-term trends.
But don't let that distract you from the soccer championship...
Both India and Slashdot soundly denounced Facebook's earlier attempts to give a limited "Internet-lite" to users in poor countries for free. Because "net neutrality".
Now they are trying again with a (slightly) different twist... Let's see...
http://thepeoplescube.com/peop...
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