You're a moron. There aren't any actual efforts to mitigate the issue. In case you haven't noticed, we just elected to decrease regulations on coal and build more coal-fired plants, not nuclear.
What "competition"? There aren't any OSes out there that are 100% compatible with Windows for application software and networking while offering an alternative GUI. Industry provided something people use because they don't have a choice on that one point, it's a take-it-or-leave-it affair, with leaving it meaning changing your entire computing infrastructure.
I don't care about your "facts" and "definitions". I have alternative facts that show the sun rises in the west!! You sound just like one of those know-it-all academics.
Next you'll probably try to convince me that homeopathy isn't real and that it's just water, and that all the people who believe otherwise are wrong.
The sign of utterly incompetent engineering and utterly incompetent management that does not know how to identify and hire good engineers and then let them work.
Doesn't this describe most tech companies these days? The open-plan office is proof of incompetent management.
Oh please. Elian Gonzalez had one surviving parent, his father, who wanted to take him back home. How do you figure that some extended relatives should have a greater say? Just because his mother made a foolhardy trip and got killed in the process? "She gave her life!!!" Emotional arguments like this are useless.
A bunch of people gave their lives in South America a while ago, willingly drinking poisoned Kool-Aid because their leader, Jim Jones, told them to. Does that mean they were right? Or were they just crazy and stupid?
A bunch of ISIS fighters have given their lives fighting, frequently with suicide-bombing, to further their cause. Does that mean they're right? Or were they just stupid and crazy?
Trumpsters seem to be under the illusion there's some magical property making american companies forever american.
People like you just don't get it. Trumpsters aren't simply under some illusion, they completely lack any knowledge about basic macroeconomics at all. Most of them couldn't even find China on a world map. It's really hard for educated people to comprehend the mentality of people with such a lack of education, who will happily believe anything they're told by their uneducated peers or their church pastor.
We can go back to sane copyright laws, sane patent laws, sane gun laws , etc etc etc etc
As an American, I'd like to point out that you're perfectly free to adopt saner laws any time you like (unless maybe you're in a sorta-occupied country like Afghanistan). If you're in Western Europe, there's nothing stopping you from adopting sensible legislation other than your own internal problems. The US has a lot of problems, and some really stupid laws, but it's not to blame for your laws.
You obviously don't get it. Those high tech, high paid workers live in the rich, coastal cities in America, not the "flyover country" and rural places that voted for this stuff. Those people don't care about the "coastal elites", in fact they despise them. If this means the tech industry goes down the tubes and the coastal cities all turn into wastelands, they'll be *happy*. They really do think that Trump can bring back the economy of the 1950s and that old-time manufacturing is going to come back to rural America, and that they'll be able to happily discriminate against gays and minorities again. Your economic arguments are useless: these people simply do not understand modern economics.
The free world has started to look like that dystopian police state future that American movies have been previewing for years.
I recommend "The Running Man", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's really eerie, considering the movie was meant to be over-the-top and silly, not at all an accurate prediction of how things would be in the late 2010s.
Every country which is required to provide the information to enter the US should also do the exact same to people coming from the US. I'll bet a lot of US citizens will start bitching and scream that it would be ridiculous, but then just tell them, "that's exactly what our citizens have to do when they enter your country"..
That won't work. The people who voted for this don't travel internationally. Most of them are lucky if they ever leave their own state.
I as well am Canadian, with a green card, and I'm scared of leaving the country for fear of not being allowed back. And my wife and I, who is also Canadian, have been living in the US for 20 years.
With the way things are going, why are you still here?
This came about because one of our mates is of Indian decent and follows the Sikh religion. Apparently in LA that was indistinguishable from Islam and he spent 4 hours being questioned at length.
Their primary issue, they refused to believe that his job had him travel the amount that he does, he sets up microsoft training conferences all over the world
Well good riddance to that guy then! We don't need him here.
While I don't know what "shivering dandies" are (other than that they apparently live in DC)
I think it has something to do with a small, yellow flower that's usually considered a weed, and perhaps cold temperatures. Maybe these flowers sprouted and then an unexpected cold spell hit? What that has to do with the ease of visiting the US, I have no idea. Very strange.
And quite a lot of the British electorate think that what's going on here is almost as batshit as what's going on in the States
And I'm sure "quite a lot" of the German population wasn't too thrilled about Hitler either. But in a democracy it's irrelevant what a minority thinks. A majority of British voters voted for Brexit; it's that simple.
You do realise we are not looking it you in admiration or respect. We're actually either laughing at you
Maybe you should look in the mirror first before laughing at us. You're the ones who voted for Brexit. It's not just the US that's nuts.
No, humans can't fix it. Humans elected the politicians who say it isn't a problem, and humans (even here, or should I say "especially here" as this site is a far-right-wing haven) will argue till they're blue in the face that climate change is a "hoax".
I understand wanting to blame things on the people at the top, I really do. But this is unfair and counterproductive here. The "climate deniers" are everyday, regular people all across America, people who just elected our new President and stuffed Congress with Republicans. The problem isn't a few people at the top, it's most of the population (the non-Republican voters also deserve blame for choosing horribly).
No, there is no difference at all. It's lunacy to think that the rightwingnuts are going anywhere any time soon, and in fact, we just elected them into power here in the US.
We just need to get used to it, and figure out how we (some of us, not the rightwingnuts) can deal with the effects during our lifetimes.
This is basically the way I feel about it now. It's pointless to worry about it or fight it; we're just fucked, and that's it. There's nothing we can do, because we're simply too stupid as a species to fix the problem in time. Some small well-managed countries full of smart people should probably work on anticipating the effects and working proactively to mitigate them, but the rest of us are screwed.
For example, just look at all of the colleges that still teach UML, despite industry having tried it and rejected it almost two decades ago now.
Two points:
The defense industry actually uses UML. Of course, the defense industry has paid $400 billion for a crappy fighter jet that can't dogfight...
"Industry" came up with the Windows 8/10 "Metro" UI, and the current flat-UI fad, with frameworks upon frameworks and web pages that take forever to load because they're loading many megabytes of crap so they can display a little bit of text. The computer industry these days is a complete disaster on the software side.
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You're a moron. There aren't any actual efforts to mitigate the issue. In case you haven't noticed, we just elected to decrease regulations on coal and build more coal-fired plants, not nuclear.
What "competition"? There aren't any OSes out there that are 100% compatible with Windows for application software and networking while offering an alternative GUI. Industry provided something people use because they don't have a choice on that one point, it's a take-it-or-leave-it affair, with leaving it meaning changing your entire computing infrastructure.
I don't care about your "facts" and "definitions". I have alternative facts that show the sun rises in the west!! You sound just like one of those know-it-all academics.
Next you'll probably try to convince me that homeopathy isn't real and that it's just water, and that all the people who believe otherwise are wrong.
I don't have to do that on most other sites.
If you think proof-reading before posting is important, then I suggest you disable your backspace key and learn to type without making any mistakes.
The sign of utterly incompetent engineering and utterly incompetent management that does not know how to identify and hire good engineers and then let them work.
Doesn't this describe most tech companies these days? The open-plan office is proof of incompetent management.
Oh please. Elian Gonzalez had one surviving parent, his father, who wanted to take him back home. How do you figure that some extended relatives should have a greater say? Just because his mother made a foolhardy trip and got killed in the process? "She gave her life!!!" Emotional arguments like this are useless.
A bunch of people gave their lives in South America a while ago, willingly drinking poisoned Kool-Aid because their leader, Jim Jones, told them to. Does that mean they were right? Or were they just crazy and stupid?
A bunch of ISIS fighters have given their lives fighting, frequently with suicide-bombing, to further their cause. Does that mean they're right? Or were they just stupid and crazy?
Trumpsters seem to be under the illusion there's some magical property making american companies forever american.
People like you just don't get it. Trumpsters aren't simply under some illusion, they completely lack any knowledge about basic macroeconomics at all. Most of them couldn't even find China on a world map. It's really hard for educated people to comprehend the mentality of people with such a lack of education, who will happily believe anything they're told by their uneducated peers or their church pastor.
We can go back to sane copyright laws, sane patent laws, sane gun laws , etc etc etc etc
As an American, I'd like to point out that you're perfectly free to adopt saner laws any time you like (unless maybe you're in a sorta-occupied country like Afghanistan). If you're in Western Europe, there's nothing stopping you from adopting sensible legislation other than your own internal problems. The US has a lot of problems, and some really stupid laws, but it's not to blame for your laws.
You obviously don't get it. Those high tech, high paid workers live in the rich, coastal cities in America, not the "flyover country" and rural places that voted for this stuff. Those people don't care about the "coastal elites", in fact they despise them. If this means the tech industry goes down the tubes and the coastal cities all turn into wastelands, they'll be *happy*. They really do think that Trump can bring back the economy of the 1950s and that old-time manufacturing is going to come back to rural America, and that they'll be able to happily discriminate against gays and minorities again. Your economic arguments are useless: these people simply do not understand modern economics.
The same goes for the Brits who voted "leave".
The free world has started to look like that dystopian police state future that American movies have been previewing for years.
I recommend "The Running Man", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's really eerie, considering the movie was meant to be over-the-top and silly, not at all an accurate prediction of how things would be in the late 2010s.
Every country which is required to provide the information to enter the US should also do the exact same to people coming from the US. I'll bet a lot of US citizens will start bitching and scream that it would be ridiculous, but then just tell them, "that's exactly what our citizens have to do when they enter your country"..
That won't work. The people who voted for this don't travel internationally. Most of them are lucky if they ever leave their own state.
Good luck with that plan.
Cool, so we're not worse than North Korea or Iran? Great! I guess everything's hunky-dory then.
I as well am Canadian, with a green card, and I'm scared of leaving the country for fear of not being allowed back. And my wife and I, who is also Canadian, have been living in the US for 20 years.
With the way things are going, why are you still here?
This came about because one of our mates is of Indian decent and follows the Sikh religion. Apparently in LA that was indistinguishable from Islam and he spent 4 hours being questioned at length.
Their primary issue, they refused to believe that his job had him travel the amount that he does, he sets up microsoft training conferences all over the world
Well good riddance to that guy then! We don't need him here.
While I don't know what "shivering dandies" are (other than that they apparently live in DC)
I think it has something to do with a small, yellow flower that's usually considered a weed, and perhaps cold temperatures. Maybe these flowers sprouted and then an unexpected cold spell hit? What that has to do with the ease of visiting the US, I have no idea. Very strange.
And quite a lot of the British electorate think that what's going on here is almost as batshit as what's going on in the States
And I'm sure "quite a lot" of the German population wasn't too thrilled about Hitler either. But in a democracy it's irrelevant what a minority thinks. A majority of British voters voted for Brexit; it's that simple.
You do realise we are not looking it you in admiration or respect. We're actually either laughing at you
Maybe you should look in the mirror first before laughing at us. You're the ones who voted for Brexit. It's not just the US that's nuts.
Sorry, I meant AutoTune.
Stupid Slashdot, when are they going to join the modern world and allow editing?
Mostly true. There's been some good music made more recently though, but it was by bands that were big in the 80s.
But yeah, overall, music has been complete shit since the mid-90s. I think AutoSync has something to do with it.
No, humans can't fix it. Humans elected the politicians who say it isn't a problem, and humans (even here, or should I say "especially here" as this site is a far-right-wing haven) will argue till they're blue in the face that climate change is a "hoax".
I understand wanting to blame things on the people at the top, I really do. But this is unfair and counterproductive here. The "climate deniers" are everyday, regular people all across America, people who just elected our new President and stuffed Congress with Republicans. The problem isn't a few people at the top, it's most of the population (the non-Republican voters also deserve blame for choosing horribly).
No, there is no difference at all. It's lunacy to think that the rightwingnuts are going anywhere any time soon, and in fact, we just elected them into power here in the US.
We just need to get used to it, and figure out how we (some of us, not the rightwingnuts) can deal with the effects during our lifetimes.
This is basically the way I feel about it now. It's pointless to worry about it or fight it; we're just fucked, and that's it. There's nothing we can do, because we're simply too stupid as a species to fix the problem in time. Some small well-managed countries full of smart people should probably work on anticipating the effects and working proactively to mitigate them, but the rest of us are screwed.
For example, just look at all of the colleges that still teach UML, despite industry having tried it and rejected it almost two decades ago now.
Two points:
The defense industry actually uses UML. Of course, the defense industry has paid $400 billion for a crappy fighter jet that can't dogfight...
"Industry" came up with the Windows 8/10 "Metro" UI, and the current flat-UI fad, with frameworks upon frameworks and web pages that take forever to load because they're loading many megabytes of crap so they can display a little bit of text. The computer industry these days is a complete disaster on the software side.
the ones that say east are right. the ones that say west are drooling morons and need to be told so loudly and in public for all to hear.
You sound like an elitist. The opinions of those who say west is just as valid. Who are you to tell them they're wrong?
Again, bullshit. You're being pedantic. Stop it. The device is bricked when it cannot function. Fuck your pedantry.
"Bricking" has a specific meaning that the device firm/software no longer functions
Yes, it DOESN'T FUNCTION without the server side. Therefore, it is BRICKED.