disclaimer: i don't exactly have a dog in the fight, i'm a mac/unix guy. but i do (to the extent that i do) follow the moves Nadella makes and i like it.
this is the right move. it is insanity in this day and age to have to support multiple substantially different versions of an operating system for general population. its unjustifiably expensive and unsustainable.
bottom line, if you feel like whining, i have a piece of advice for you, get over it. either move to unix or upgrade to win10. those are your two choices.
that may be true, but, unlike religion, science will seek out a better theory and adopt it as soon as it proves out to be a better explanation of observed evidence.
if that happens with theory of evolution, fine. there's no scientist who will resist that kind of revision. in fact it has happened many many times.
> According to darwinists, our bodies mutated slowly for millions of years one at a time, so that our genome could have parts that look exactly like viral code from previous infections, because that is the only possible explanation. They were planted there by "evolution" to toy with us.
darwin's theory of evolution says nothing of this kind.
here's what it does say (exactly this and nothing more):
given any system that provides for:
- mutation - heredity - selection
there will be evolution.
and, lastly, you don't "believe" in evolution, or any theories of science for that matter. thats what separates science from religion, belief is neither required nor desired.
There going to be situations when lethal force is the only choice. Thats that that.
Vast majority of situations don't need to be.
And the only way to improve odds of non-violent conflict resolution is training the cops that want to do that right thing and weeding out those that don't.
This isn't an overnight panacea but i'm afraid there simply isn't one.
detectable? yes, but just barely. pictures of "curvature" from that hight are taken with "fisheye" lens and don't represent what a human eye would see.
Alan Shephard flew nearly twice that height and that didn't count as a space flight.. If it did USA probably wouldn't have gone to the moon.
All the training that goes into sending someone to 80K flight indeed does qualify them to be an astronaut but thats still not a space flight. It just isn't.
quite frankly i don't understand what it means for a public company to be "generous". give away investors' money? i dont think so.. thats your and my retirement money.
i'd much rather apple (or anyone else) be successful in creating a revenue-producing platform for artists than be "generous". if that takes a three months wait, well, so be it.
so far from the artist's perspective (who is not Taylor Swift) there is no platform like this.
If we the people want our data safe, we have no choice but to keep ever vigilant about defending against laws that allow the government access to data we don't wish be open.
custodial staff no, but there are plenty of jobs in this space that get outsourced you wouldn't thin are outsourceable. anything from reviewing security footage to internal support helpdesk, sorting through mail (its scanned and then read overseas) etc etc. its pretty crazy how many jobs have been creatively "digitized" this way and outsources.
i like apple as much as the next fanboy but this is not charity or benevolence of these companies, it is free market adjusting to a better cost/value of local workforce compared against consistently rising labor costs in china and india.
we're pretty much at or past the point when a little bit of cost benefit is simply not worth the loss of quality of support.
so.. yes, good development, thank you free market system.
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disclaimer: i don't exactly have a dog in the fight, i'm a mac/unix guy. but i do (to the extent that i do) follow the moves Nadella makes and i like it.
this is the right move. it is insanity in this day and age to have to support multiple substantially different versions of an operating system for general population. its unjustifiably expensive and unsustainable.
bottom line, if you feel like whining, i have a piece of advice for you, get over it. either move to unix or upgrade to win10. those are your two choices.
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..and there's a place in the free market place for icahns.
Susan Blackmore gives definitive explanation of what evolution is all about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
the talk covers it in the first 3 minutes and then goes on to things that are just as fascinating, but i won't spoil that for you :-)
..nuff said.
apples and oranges. here he or she was arguing a "slippery slope" deal.
your example is perfectly valid but is about something else.
quite a jump there, from analyzing code to irradiating people..
if true, even if not definitive would provide useful leads.
here's the thing. evidence doesn't need someone's approval. you needn't "present it to someone".
facts, evidence, reproducible experiment are not up for debate, they're there, full stop.
if evidence is legit, legit scientists _will_ notice.
> Biology needs an Einstein.
that may be true, but, unlike religion, science will seek out a better theory and adopt it as soon as it proves out to be a better explanation of observed evidence.
if that happens with theory of evolution, fine. there's no scientist who will resist that kind of revision. in fact it has happened many many times.
> According to darwinists, our bodies mutated slowly for millions of years one at a time, so that our genome could have parts that look exactly like viral code from previous infections, because that is the only possible explanation. They were planted there by "evolution" to toy with us.
darwin's theory of evolution says nothing of this kind.
here's what it does say (exactly this and nothing more):
and, lastly, you don't "believe" in evolution, or any theories of science for that matter. thats what separates science from religion, belief is neither required nor desired.
USSR exterminated all religions but one, communism-leninism. Same with Cambodia.
Same deal as most other religions, it demanded that people accepted its teachings on insufficient or absent evidence.
There going to be situations when lethal force is the only choice. Thats that that.
Vast majority of situations don't need to be.
And the only way to improve odds of non-violent conflict resolution is training the cops that want to do that right thing and weeding out those that don't.
This isn't an overnight panacea but i'm afraid there simply isn't one.
detectable? yes, but just barely. pictures of "curvature" from that hight are taken with "fisheye" lens and don't represent what a human eye would see.
Alan Shephard flew nearly twice that height and that didn't count as a space flight.. If it did USA probably wouldn't have gone to the moon.
All the training that goes into sending someone to 80K flight indeed does qualify them to be an astronaut but thats still not a space flight. It just isn't.
the flight takes you up to about 110 km, which is barely enough to see curvature of the earth.
what virgin are doing is going to make for a spectacular flight but space flight it is not.
and let it be..
> With regard to 'investors'- fuck off
good luck with that one :)
> There are plenty of other revenue producing platforms than Apple's scheme. It's ridiculous to buy into the Apple Hype.
plenty? name top three.
made you click..
quite frankly i don't understand what it means for a public company to be "generous". give away investors' money? i dont think so.. thats your and my retirement money.
i'd much rather apple (or anyone else) be successful in creating a revenue-producing platform for artists than be "generous". if that takes a three months wait, well, so be it.
so far from the artist's perspective (who is not Taylor Swift) there is no platform like this.
congrats, YOU are poster example of being both, the victim and the culprit of javascript's reputation of "kiddie language".
news flash, its not. it has good parts and bad parts. same as any other language. in some ways its crappy and dumb. in some ways its pretty ingenious.
here's the trick: use the good parts. don't use the bad parts. actually learning the language helps do that.
the alternative is bitching about the hammer that its poor at driving screws. which is basically what you're doing.
thumbs up on the rant though, nicely done.
> JavaScript is a programming language that's easy to pick up
this statement is the single biggest source of damage to the ecosystem of javascript.
..never was, never will be.
If we the people want our data safe, we have no choice but to keep ever vigilant about defending against laws that allow the government access to data we don't wish be open.
Thank you Dr Paul.
custodial staff no, but there are plenty of jobs in this space that get outsourced you wouldn't thin are outsourceable. anything from reviewing security footage to internal support helpdesk, sorting through mail (its scanned and then read overseas) etc etc. its pretty crazy how many jobs have been creatively "digitized" this way and outsources.
i like apple as much as the next fanboy but this is not charity or benevolence of these companies, it is free market adjusting to a better cost/value of local workforce compared against consistently rising labor costs in china and india.
we're pretty much at or past the point when a little bit of cost benefit is simply not worth the loss of quality of support.
so.. yes, good development, thank you free market system.