What they really will do is heavily engineer new combinations of existing flavors to make their products more addictive, but not in the dysfunctional way that drugs are addictive. McDonalds is a good example of this. Their products have a very unique flavor. A very engineered flavor*. It's convenient. It's cheap. It is an example of the corporate dystopia of food-like products. But it is not the only one.
*see the Super Size Me documentary, the "artificial flavor" in strawberry shake is a list of 42 chemicals that would not sound nice if printed on the product ingredients list
Legislate a new law that sets a minimum bounty reward for information that leads to the arrest, conviction and castration of robo callers. The bounty is paid from the convicted robocaller's assets. So the investigation required becomes self funding as long as the minimum bounty is set by law at a high enough reward.
It will create new job opportunities for the people so inclined, and with the right skills to track down these scum.
These books were sold as a magical way to become a programmer in 24 hours.
If you have a decade or more of experience, as you say, then you've already got that ten years that I mentioned should be part of the title of the book.
Echoes old times indeed!. I posted elsewhere here about how it was like this back in 1980. A rush of people who see dollar signs but don't have the skills or the ability to think logically enough to program their way out of a paper bag.
> I swear I saw this exact same thing happening in 1999.
1980 by my recollection.
People rushing to learn about these new fangled computer thingies because you can get paid big money by pushing buttons on these things.
The problem in 1980, as in 1999, as now, is there are plenty of posers who can't program their way out of a paper bag. You could show someone a few statements of a simple programming language, and they could memorize them. But they couldn't put together the logic of a routine to calculate the sum of the numbers from 1 to 1000. Today the FizzBuzz test is a better example as the first-level sieve to weed out the incapable.
I seem to recall the 100 Best Jobs in America and Software Developer was number 1. No surprise unskilled talentless hacks are rushing to it.
Remember those books of the genre: "Learn ${LanguageX} in 24 hours!". How about changing that to Learn LanguageX in only Ten Years!
If news, fake or true, can only be forwarded a fixed number of times, then people will re-describe the news in their own words. Introducing inaccuracies. It's like the game where the first person in a circle whispers a secret to the next person, it is repeated all the way around the circle, and then when the first person is told it, s/he describes how the story changed through being repeated (not retweeted).
You pay that extra bit either way. Either at the cash register, or in loss of personal privacy. Which is less valuable to give up when making the purchase?
How about a law that mandates that the "smart" part of a Smart TV be a distinctly removable and upgradeable module?
Simply removing it changes it into a Dumb TV. So you can get your Dumb TV as the lower price of a Smart TV.
Furthermore, the "smart" part, which becomes obsolete much faster than the "dumb" part can be replaced by simply swapping out modules if that actually becomes necessary.
Extra Credit: require an industry standard interface for how the smart module is connected to the TV so that all smart modules work with all TVs. Third parties (eg, Roku, Apple) could create their own module. Maybe the "industry standard interface" could be something called HDMI ?
Try this: Offer a bounty / reward program for information leading to the arrest of the hackers. If you make it high enough, you will attract the time and attention of people with sufficient expertise to track them down.
Yes, it may sound like outsourcing police work. But if it works, and doesn't require lots of donuts, then I don't see a problem with it.
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Some old white dudes like pepper and especially crushed red pepper (like the stuff you put on pizza).
What they really will do is heavily engineer new combinations of existing flavors to make their products more addictive, but not in the dysfunctional way that drugs are addictive. McDonalds is a good example of this. Their products have a very unique flavor. A very engineered flavor*. It's convenient. It's cheap. It is an example of the corporate dystopia of food-like products. But it is not the only one.
*see the Super Size Me documentary, the "artificial flavor" in strawberry shake is a list of 42 chemicals that would not sound nice if printed on the product ingredients list
> Ublock origin.
No. uMatrix.
It offers much finer grained control for both black and white listing.
There are other more appealing flavors.
There will always be a supply of Soylent Green.
And remember children . . . Delicious Nutritious Soylent Green is made from All Natural Ingredients!
I immediately read the same thing but thought: Taco Bellyache.
Legislate a new law that sets a minimum bounty reward for information that leads to the arrest, conviction and castration of robo callers. The bounty is paid from the convicted robocaller's assets. So the investigation required becomes self funding as long as the minimum bounty is set by law at a high enough reward.
It will create new job opportunities for the people so inclined, and with the right skills to track down these scum.
These books were sold as a magical way to become a programmer in 24 hours.
If you have a decade or more of experience, as you say, then you've already got that ten years that I mentioned should be part of the title of the book.
Dear Mr. Ballmer, closed source software will not cure baldness. Nor will it cure impotence.
But did they get a check from Microsoft? And did it clear the bank?
Remember back in 2016 when Microsoft acquired The Linux Foundation? The world did not end.
You can't stop open source.
Okay, I get it. You don't like socializing everything. But if you capitalize everything then PEOPLE WILL ACCUSE YOU OF SHOUTING.
Trying to destroy open source is like trying to stop the incoming ocean tide with your hands.
Echoes old times indeed!. I posted elsewhere here about how it was like this back in 1980. A rush of people who see dollar signs but don't have the skills or the ability to think logically enough to program their way out of a paper bag.
> I swear I saw this exact same thing happening in 1999.
1980 by my recollection.
People rushing to learn about these new fangled computer thingies because you can get paid big money by pushing buttons on these things.
The problem in 1980, as in 1999, as now, is there are plenty of posers who can't program their way out of a paper bag. You could show someone a few statements of a simple programming language, and they could memorize them. But they couldn't put together the logic of a routine to calculate the sum of the numbers from 1 to 1000. Today the FizzBuzz test is a better example as the first-level sieve to weed out the incapable.
I seem to recall the 100 Best Jobs in America and Software Developer was number 1. No surprise unskilled talentless hacks are rushing to it.
Remember those books of the genre: "Learn ${LanguageX} in 24 hours!". How about changing that to Learn LanguageX in only Ten Years!
Trump has a plan to get his stupid wall, and it might work.
Is it lies or is it delusions of adequacy?
I just realized. It still has a screen and camera. So it's not the ultimate in courage.
Only if you're an Apple user.
If news, fake or true, can only be forwarded a fixed number of times, then people will re-describe the news in their own words. Introducing inaccuracies. It's like the game where the first person in a circle whispers a secret to the next person, it is repeated all the way around the circle, and then when the first person is told it, s/he describes how the story changed through being repeated (not retweeted).
You pay that extra bit either way. Either at the cash register, or in loss of personal privacy. Which is less valuable to give up when making the purchase?
How about a law that mandates that the "smart" part of a Smart TV be a distinctly removable and upgradeable module?
Simply removing it changes it into a Dumb TV. So you can get your Dumb TV as the lower price of a Smart TV.
Furthermore, the "smart" part, which becomes obsolete much faster than the "dumb" part can be replaced by simply swapping out modules if that actually becomes necessary.
Extra Credit: require an industry standard interface for how the smart module is connected to the TV so that all smart modules work with all TVs. Third parties (eg, Roku, Apple) could create their own module. Maybe the "industry standard interface" could be something called HDMI ?
Just because Microsoft in the 90's was trying to be the most evil company ever imagined does not mean they had to let other companies be that evil.
> $100 says those exact same people will soon be complaining . . .
> Another $50 that they all get modded up to +5
One thousand quatloos that both sides will complain about google no matter what google does.
I for one, hate just how much google knows about me . . . . um . . . hey google can you recommend a movie that I might like?
The icon looks real to me.
I'm sure the marketing department worked very hard on it.
Nevertheless I will want until the 6G icon comes out before buying.
Try this: Offer a bounty / reward program for information leading to the arrest of the hackers. If you make it high enough, you will attract the time and attention of people with sufficient expertise to track them down.
Yes, it may sound like outsourcing police work. But if it works, and doesn't require lots of donuts, then I don't see a problem with it.