There's plenty of people that live in the "real world" and make a fine living working on Linux software and not using MS-ware at all.
If you think you need to compromise that way to "make a living", that's the bargain you've chosen, and you get to suffer the consequences accordingly. Don't complain when things go badly for you, because I for one don't give a shit, and laugh at your suffering. You've chosen this path for yourself. Sure, you by yourself insisting your software vendor make a non-Windows version may not get far, but because *all* their customers are spineless sheep just like you, and don't even bother trying, you're all in the situation you find yourself in now, so you all get the fate you deserve.
Well to be fair he wasn't specific, and was replying to my comment which mentioned both SDcard slots and removable batteries. He's probably thinking that making a phone waterproof somehow makes it impossible to have a removable battery; he may or may not have even been thinking of the SDcard slot. Of course, as I pointed out with my 3-year-old S5, it's entirely feasible to have a waterproof phone that has a removable battery. It's not even hard; the back cover on my phone comes off with a fingernail, and has an internal seal protecting the battery compartment (and SDcard slot too, and the SIM slot as well).
The idea that having a phone be waterproof makes it impossible (or infeasible) to have *any* of these features is plainly contradicted by phones that have been on the market for years.
Your comment makes no sense at all. Why would it set an "ugly precedent"? Why do you think the Electoral College system even exists? If the Founders wanted the voters' will to be followed without question, they wouldn't have come up with the Electoral College at all, they would have just had a popular vote. Instead, they wanted to give more power to smaller states, and to remove the ability of the people to directly choose the President, so they invented the EC system.
If the Electors choose someone else for President, because they think the voters' choice is harmful for the nation, they'll be doing exactly what the Founders intended.
Not only that, but they're most likely just going to pick one of the main candidates anyway. This "we need compulsory voting" is an example of extremely wishful thinking. Forcing people to vote isn't going to force them to get informed or to care about their vote.
Oh please. You're probably right that she wouldn't put a goldman sachs billionaire with zero government experience in as head of the treasury, but not installing a GS alum, I don't buy it. She was good buddies with GS people, and Warren and Sanders had zero pull over Hillary. There's no limit to her tone-deafness; that's why she picked Kaine as VP, she hired DWS right after she resigned after being shown by WikiLeaks to have helped rig things in the DNC against Sanders, and she told Sanders supporters that she didn't need them. Picking a GS alum as her strategist (or some other position) would have been perfectly in-line with her tone-deaf actions.
This is a dumb comment. The AC is not threatening to physically harm anyone in any way, or proposing any kind of punishment for climate deniers to be performed by humans. He's only saying that he'll be happy to see them "hoist by their own petard". There's nothing wrong with feeling satisfaction after watching someone suffer due to their own stupidity and bad decisions, especially when their actions are in fact harmful to the rest of society.
Honestly, at this point, there's nothing we can do to stop massive climate change because of the deplorables and their mouthpieces like Breitbart. We're not going to change their minds; people like this fundamentally do not believe in science. So the next best thing is to just wait for the apocalypse to happen, and then take satisfaction in watching these morons suffer due to it.
That sounds like BS. There's cellphone repair places all over the place; it shouldn't be hard to have one of them order the parts if necessary and schedule an appointment so you minimize your downtime.
If you're in such a rush you need your phone fixed right now and it's currently unusable because of a broken screen, then you have no business buying an expensive phone at all, and should be buying sub-$100 phones so you can just buy a new one when it breaks. There's no shortage of $50-100 Android phones. Or you can buy used phones which take a few days to arrive from Ebay. Or you can buy a nice used (or new) phone and a cheap-o backup phone, and switch your service when you have a problem, while waiting for a nicer replacement to arrive. It takes me all of about 5 minutes to switch my number over to a different Android phone on Ting, just using the website.
iPhones are for rich people, or people who want to believe they're rich. The problem is they suck in a bunch of very-much-not-rich people like my friend and convince them that they *must* have this phone and nothing else will do.
Of course, but there's still an electrical connection to the inside. So the circuitry has to be designed to handle the contacts being immersed in water, which can be conductive (esp. if it's saltwater).
Um, a reasonable price tag for starters? What good is getting "a replacement on the spot" if it costs a small fortune? I have a friend with an iPhone with a broken screen, who's having all kinds of problems with the thing as a result. Apple isn't going to give her a free replacement on the spot, so she's just suffering with the broken screen. The replacement or repair costs are outside her meager budget, being a single mother and not having a high-paying job. I've tried convincing her to switch to an Android phone, because I can get her a great phone 2 years old for much less than the repair cost for her stupid iPhone. Apple is the brand for people with more money than sense. I'm sure if you can afford a Bentley, you can just go to the Bentley dealer and for a price they'll fix anything that went wrong too. Most people can't afford Bentleys.
In addition to this, when you do need to buy a new Android phone because you broke yours, you don't even have to stick with the same overpriced company. You can easily switch from Samsung to LG if you want, and still retain all your Play Store purchases.
And since the android OEMs just copy even the stupid apple crap like lack of sd cards and removable batteries but the android buyers dutifully buy them anyway
Incorrect. Samsung tried that with the Galaxy S6 (not waterproof, no SDcard slot, no removable battery), and sales were crap. So the S7 brought back the IP68 waterproofness and the SDcard slot (but unfortunately not the removable battery), and sales were a lot better. I'm pretty sure there's other current Android phones with removable batteries too, as well as SDcard slots. With Android, at least you have choices.
and not constantly copy crapple features then maybe we wouldnt see this problem.
When's crapple going to finally copy Samsung's AMOLED screens anyway? Apple's screens are crap by comparison; AMOLED is far better than LCD.
Yep, there are no irrational Android fanboys, in fact Android fans arent even fans of Android because they are completely open and not attached to Android at all and always willing to consider any other alternatives to Android because Android fans are just so pragmatic, not like stupid Apple fans.
Exactly right. Android fans aren't cultists, and when their preferred manufacturer takes a turn they don't like, they either stick with their old phone, or they switch to another Android phone maker. That's the nice thing about Android; it may not be technically the best-engineered OS ever (neither is iOS), but it's not the sole domain of any one manufacturer, so you can easily switch from Samsung to LG or HTC or whatever and still keep all your Play store purchases. You can even use the same charging cable! (For now; they'll probably all switch to USBc before long.)
You make a good point here, but it's always Apple which is pushing the envelope on thinness, and iPhone buyers are very cult-like in their behavior, insisting on buying iPhones no matter what without even looking at alternatives, so they can be blamed for this by enabling Apple and its behavior.
In addition, I've seen Apple cultists online, including here on Slashdot, arguing loudly about how wonderful iPhones are because they're 0.7 mm thinner than the competition (or whatever), as if this is the most important feature. I've never seen Android users argue in favor of thinness. All Android fans seem to really care about is having a nice phone that does what they need, without an unhealthy attachment to any particular brand; this just isn't the case with Apple fans.
That's plainly wrong about the waterproofing. I have a Galaxy S5 which has all those features and is waterproof. The main challenge for waterproofing is the ports; on mine, the USB port is covered by a removable waterproof cover, but the headphone jack is not (except for the cover built into my Otterbox, but that's not from the factory obviously). So I guess they figured out a way to make headphone jacks that are impervious to water. On Sony Experias I've seen, all the ports are covered by removable covers (including the headphone jack). So the requirement for waterproofing should not be a problem, though it might affect cost, but we are talking about "premium phones" here so that shouldn't be a big problem.
Now, if there's any left (my S5 is about 3 years old now), that I can't tell you. I believe someone here mentioned a current LG phone with a removable battery. Anyone want to chime in? But if we don't see phones with all these features much longer, it's not because it can't be done (my S5 proves this), but rather because the stupid manufacturers aren't bothering to make phones like that any more, and the stupid consumers aren't insisting on these features.
I guess I'll have to hang onto my S5, and install CyanogenMod on it.
I stay a little behind the curve; I last had an S4 which I liked a lot, and then I upgraded to an S5 which I use now, and I'll happily show iPhone owners why this phone is so great (easily-replaced battery, SDcard slot, waterproof, etc.).
But the S6 was crap (it eliminated all 3 features!), the S7 brought back two of them but not the battery, and now they want to dump the headphone jack so I can't use my expensive Sennheisers at work or on an airplane? WTF are they thinking? No, I'm not going to use a fucking dongle.
So I guess when it's time to move on from my S5, I'll have to look at some other brand, like Moto or LG. Maybe even Huawei or some other Chinese brand; they don't seem to be as stupid about chasing Apple.
From what I can tell, Germany is not easy to emigrate to if you're coming from North America. Also, they seem to be having a lot of trouble with domestic unrest lately because of all the middle eastern immigrants (same goes for France).
That's what you get for not insisting that your software vendor make a version available for other platforms. You've willingly made yourself dependent on that one software vendor (the business application provider), instead of looking for alternatives or making your own, so now you suffer the consequences.
It was easier for smart Germans in the 20s-30s: they could just go to America, or maybe Canada. It was easy to get in, it was industrialized, etc.
Where are smart Americans going to go now? There really aren't a lot of great places to flee to. You could go to Canada, but Canada is basically joined at the hip with America. If America's economy tanks, Canada's goes right with it, and Canada seems like they're usually echoing America's moves. You could go to the UK, but they're even worse: the pay for tech workers there is atrocious (like half of what you get in a decent tech hub here) while the cost of living is insane, and they're busy trying to turn themselves into the place envisioned in "1984". You could go to China, but you'll need to learn Mandarin (no easy feat) and wear a gas mask at all times because the pollution is so horrific. You could go to Japan, but you'll need to learn Japanese (also not easy, but probably easier than Mandarin), and they're really not that welcoming of foreigners, nor are you likely to get a great tech job there. Plus with Trump in charge, America might pull back on their support of Japan and China could end up taking over the whole region. You could go to western Europe, like Germany, where it's not so hard to learn the language, and it'd be easy to adjust to the culture and food, but they don't seem to be that interested in immigration from America for some reason so it's not very easy to get in. Plus they seem to be having a lot of problems with unrest and terrorism lately, and are busy electing their own far-right demagogues that look much worse than Trump.
I do read about American expats living in places like Cambodia, but I can't imagine that places like that have much to offer experienced tech workers. Perhaps Australia?
Citation needed. Your own link says it's only a 6% gap, with some portion of that being attributed to salary negotiation skills. So where's the evidence that this is really as big a problem as you claim it to be?
No, it doesn't need to be ended, and no, it isn't wrong at all.
If you think it's wrong, then stop using products which do this. As long as you continue to use products which do these things you detest, then you are a hypocrite.
MS is free to force spyware on its customers. Its customers are free to find another vendor. If they refuse to do that, then there is absolutely nothing wrong with MS's actions.
I don't see the problem here at all. Gamers should be *happy* to have Windows force an update during one of their games.
I've been hearing for *years* from "gamers" how Windows is the One True Platform for games, and everyone needs to use Windows just because of games. So I'm quite happy to see them getting their games disrupted by Windows Update. Any of them who complain about this are hypocrites, given their steadfast support and advocacy for Microsoft and Windows.
If Windows update doesn't work without telemetry, that is a demonstration of MS incompetence and a very bad design decision.
How is that a bad design decision or incompetence? I think it's quite the opposite. Why should Windows Update work without telemetry? MS gets more profit by having telemetry enabled on all systems, and it doesn't benefit them at all to allow users to disable it. After all, what are disgruntled users going to do? Stop using Windows? Fat chance. MS might as well force them to keep telemetry on, since they're going to use Windows either way.
Yes, Linux doesn't have these issues, but the number of Windows users willing to switch to Linux over telemetry is nearly zero. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, the best argument against computer user competence is a 5-minute conversation with the average user. It doesn't matter how much better or easier Linux is than Windows; people simply will not switch.
I don't see anything wrong with labeling 30% as nationalist nutters, just like I don't see anything wrong with labeling the 30% that voted for Hillary as neoliberal warmongers.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who voted for Trump or Hillary is a deplorable.
Who wants to use a developer machine that connects to 100+ servers owned by another company without any control by the local administrator?
Apparently, most users and developers, judging by how many use Windows and ardently defend it, including on this very site. Most people just don't care about those freedoms, or privacy.
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There's plenty of people that live in the "real world" and make a fine living working on Linux software and not using MS-ware at all.
If you think you need to compromise that way to "make a living", that's the bargain you've chosen, and you get to suffer the consequences accordingly. Don't complain when things go badly for you, because I for one don't give a shit, and laugh at your suffering. You've chosen this path for yourself. Sure, you by yourself insisting your software vendor make a non-Windows version may not get far, but because *all* their customers are spineless sheep just like you, and don't even bother trying, you're all in the situation you find yourself in now, so you all get the fate you deserve.
Well to be fair he wasn't specific, and was replying to my comment which mentioned both SDcard slots and removable batteries. He's probably thinking that making a phone waterproof somehow makes it impossible to have a removable battery; he may or may not have even been thinking of the SDcard slot. Of course, as I pointed out with my 3-year-old S5, it's entirely feasible to have a waterproof phone that has a removable battery. It's not even hard; the back cover on my phone comes off with a fingernail, and has an internal seal protecting the battery compartment (and SDcard slot too, and the SIM slot as well).
The idea that having a phone be waterproof makes it impossible (or infeasible) to have *any* of these features is plainly contradicted by phones that have been on the market for years.
We can't do that when our stupid voters are electing "shitheads" like Hillary and Trump in the primaries.
Your comment makes no sense at all. Why would it set an "ugly precedent"? Why do you think the Electoral College system even exists? If the Founders wanted the voters' will to be followed without question, they wouldn't have come up with the Electoral College at all, they would have just had a popular vote. Instead, they wanted to give more power to smaller states, and to remove the ability of the people to directly choose the President, so they invented the EC system.
If the Electors choose someone else for President, because they think the voters' choice is harmful for the nation, they'll be doing exactly what the Founders intended.
Not only that, but they're most likely just going to pick one of the main candidates anyway. This "we need compulsory voting" is an example of extremely wishful thinking. Forcing people to vote isn't going to force them to get informed or to care about their vote.
Oh please. You're probably right that she wouldn't put a goldman sachs billionaire with zero government experience in as head of the treasury, but not installing a GS alum, I don't buy it. She was good buddies with GS people, and Warren and Sanders had zero pull over Hillary. There's no limit to her tone-deafness; that's why she picked Kaine as VP, she hired DWS right after she resigned after being shown by WikiLeaks to have helped rig things in the DNC against Sanders, and she told Sanders supporters that she didn't need them. Picking a GS alum as her strategist (or some other position) would have been perfectly in-line with her tone-deaf actions.
This is a dumb comment. The AC is not threatening to physically harm anyone in any way, or proposing any kind of punishment for climate deniers to be performed by humans. He's only saying that he'll be happy to see them "hoist by their own petard". There's nothing wrong with feeling satisfaction after watching someone suffer due to their own stupidity and bad decisions, especially when their actions are in fact harmful to the rest of society.
Honestly, at this point, there's nothing we can do to stop massive climate change because of the deplorables and their mouthpieces like Breitbart. We're not going to change their minds; people like this fundamentally do not believe in science. So the next best thing is to just wait for the apocalypse to happen, and then take satisfaction in watching these morons suffer due to it.
That sounds like BS. There's cellphone repair places all over the place; it shouldn't be hard to have one of them order the parts if necessary and schedule an appointment so you minimize your downtime.
If you're in such a rush you need your phone fixed right now and it's currently unusable because of a broken screen, then you have no business buying an expensive phone at all, and should be buying sub-$100 phones so you can just buy a new one when it breaks. There's no shortage of $50-100 Android phones. Or you can buy used phones which take a few days to arrive from Ebay. Or you can buy a nice used (or new) phone and a cheap-o backup phone, and switch your service when you have a problem, while waiting for a nicer replacement to arrive. It takes me all of about 5 minutes to switch my number over to a different Android phone on Ting, just using the website.
iPhones are for rich people, or people who want to believe they're rich. The problem is they suck in a bunch of very-much-not-rich people like my friend and convince them that they *must* have this phone and nothing else will do.
Of course, but there's still an electrical connection to the inside. So the circuitry has to be designed to handle the contacts being immersed in water, which can be conductive (esp. if it's saltwater).
Um, a reasonable price tag for starters? What good is getting "a replacement on the spot" if it costs a small fortune? I have a friend with an iPhone with a broken screen, who's having all kinds of problems with the thing as a result. Apple isn't going to give her a free replacement on the spot, so she's just suffering with the broken screen. The replacement or repair costs are outside her meager budget, being a single mother and not having a high-paying job. I've tried convincing her to switch to an Android phone, because I can get her a great phone 2 years old for much less than the repair cost for her stupid iPhone. Apple is the brand for people with more money than sense. I'm sure if you can afford a Bentley, you can just go to the Bentley dealer and for a price they'll fix anything that went wrong too. Most people can't afford Bentleys.
In addition to this, when you do need to buy a new Android phone because you broke yours, you don't even have to stick with the same overpriced company. You can easily switch from Samsung to LG if you want, and still retain all your Play Store purchases.
And since the android OEMs just copy even the stupid apple crap like lack of sd cards and removable batteries but the android buyers dutifully buy them anyway
Incorrect. Samsung tried that with the Galaxy S6 (not waterproof, no SDcard slot, no removable battery), and sales were crap. So the S7 brought back the IP68 waterproofness and the SDcard slot (but unfortunately not the removable battery), and sales were a lot better. I'm pretty sure there's other current Android phones with removable batteries too, as well as SDcard slots. With Android, at least you have choices.
and not constantly copy crapple features then maybe we wouldnt see this problem.
When's crapple going to finally copy Samsung's AMOLED screens anyway? Apple's screens are crap by comparison; AMOLED is far better than LCD.
Yep, there are no irrational Android fanboys, in fact Android fans arent even fans of Android because they are completely open and not attached to Android at all and always willing to consider any other alternatives to Android because Android fans are just so pragmatic, not like stupid Apple fans.
Exactly right. Android fans aren't cultists, and when their preferred manufacturer takes a turn they don't like, they either stick with their old phone, or they switch to another Android phone maker. That's the nice thing about Android; it may not be technically the best-engineered OS ever (neither is iOS), but it's not the sole domain of any one manufacturer, so you can easily switch from Samsung to LG or HTC or whatever and still keep all your Play store purchases. You can even use the same charging cable! (For now; they'll probably all switch to USBc before long.)
You make a good point here, but it's always Apple which is pushing the envelope on thinness, and iPhone buyers are very cult-like in their behavior, insisting on buying iPhones no matter what without even looking at alternatives, so they can be blamed for this by enabling Apple and its behavior.
In addition, I've seen Apple cultists online, including here on Slashdot, arguing loudly about how wonderful iPhones are because they're 0.7 mm thinner than the competition (or whatever), as if this is the most important feature. I've never seen Android users argue in favor of thinness. All Android fans seem to really care about is having a nice phone that does what they need, without an unhealthy attachment to any particular brand; this just isn't the case with Apple fans.
That's plainly wrong about the waterproofing. I have a Galaxy S5 which has all those features and is waterproof. The main challenge for waterproofing is the ports; on mine, the USB port is covered by a removable waterproof cover, but the headphone jack is not (except for the cover built into my Otterbox, but that's not from the factory obviously). So I guess they figured out a way to make headphone jacks that are impervious to water. On Sony Experias I've seen, all the ports are covered by removable covers (including the headphone jack). So the requirement for waterproofing should not be a problem, though it might affect cost, but we are talking about "premium phones" here so that shouldn't be a big problem.
Now, if there's any left (my S5 is about 3 years old now), that I can't tell you. I believe someone here mentioned a current LG phone with a removable battery. Anyone want to chime in? But if we don't see phones with all these features much longer, it's not because it can't be done (my S5 proves this), but rather because the stupid manufacturers aren't bothering to make phones like that any more, and the stupid consumers aren't insisting on these features.
I guess I'll have to hang onto my S5, and install CyanogenMod on it.
Exactly! Who ARE theses consumers demanding thinner phones?
iPhone buyers.
The problem is assuming that all smartphone purchasers think like iPhone buyers. They don't.
No removable battery or SDcard slot.
I stay a little behind the curve; I last had an S4 which I liked a lot, and then I upgraded to an S5 which I use now, and I'll happily show iPhone owners why this phone is so great (easily-replaced battery, SDcard slot, waterproof, etc.).
But the S6 was crap (it eliminated all 3 features!), the S7 brought back two of them but not the battery, and now they want to dump the headphone jack so I can't use my expensive Sennheisers at work or on an airplane? WTF are they thinking? No, I'm not going to use a fucking dongle.
So I guess when it's time to move on from my S5, I'll have to look at some other brand, like Moto or LG. Maybe even Huawei or some other Chinese brand; they don't seem to be as stupid about chasing Apple.
From what I can tell, Germany is not easy to emigrate to if you're coming from North America. Also, they seem to be having a lot of trouble with domestic unrest lately because of all the middle eastern immigrants (same goes for France).
That's what you get for not insisting that your software vendor make a version available for other platforms. You've willingly made yourself dependent on that one software vendor (the business application provider), instead of looking for alternatives or making your own, so now you suffer the consequences.
So where are they going?
It was easier for smart Germans in the 20s-30s: they could just go to America, or maybe Canada. It was easy to get in, it was industrialized, etc.
Where are smart Americans going to go now? There really aren't a lot of great places to flee to. You could go to Canada, but Canada is basically joined at the hip with America. If America's economy tanks, Canada's goes right with it, and Canada seems like they're usually echoing America's moves. You could go to the UK, but they're even worse: the pay for tech workers there is atrocious (like half of what you get in a decent tech hub here) while the cost of living is insane, and they're busy trying to turn themselves into the place envisioned in "1984". You could go to China, but you'll need to learn Mandarin (no easy feat) and wear a gas mask at all times because the pollution is so horrific. You could go to Japan, but you'll need to learn Japanese (also not easy, but probably easier than Mandarin), and they're really not that welcoming of foreigners, nor are you likely to get a great tech job there. Plus with Trump in charge, America might pull back on their support of Japan and China could end up taking over the whole region. You could go to western Europe, like Germany, where it's not so hard to learn the language, and it'd be easy to adjust to the culture and food, but they don't seem to be that interested in immigration from America for some reason so it's not very easy to get in. Plus they seem to be having a lot of problems with unrest and terrorism lately, and are busy electing their own far-right demagogues that look much worse than Trump.
I do read about American expats living in places like Cambodia, but I can't imagine that places like that have much to offer experienced tech workers. Perhaps Australia?
Citation needed. Your own link says it's only a 6% gap, with some portion of that being attributed to salary negotiation skills. So where's the evidence that this is really as big a problem as you claim it to be?
No, it doesn't need to be ended, and no, it isn't wrong at all.
If you think it's wrong, then stop using products which do this. As long as you continue to use products which do these things you detest, then you are a hypocrite.
MS is free to force spyware on its customers. Its customers are free to find another vendor. If they refuse to do that, then there is absolutely nothing wrong with MS's actions.
I don't see the problem here at all. Gamers should be *happy* to have Windows force an update during one of their games.
I've been hearing for *years* from "gamers" how Windows is the One True Platform for games, and everyone needs to use Windows just because of games. So I'm quite happy to see them getting their games disrupted by Windows Update. Any of them who complain about this are hypocrites, given their steadfast support and advocacy for Microsoft and Windows.
If Windows update doesn't work without telemetry, that is a demonstration of MS incompetence and a very bad design decision.
How is that a bad design decision or incompetence? I think it's quite the opposite. Why should Windows Update work without telemetry? MS gets more profit by having telemetry enabled on all systems, and it doesn't benefit them at all to allow users to disable it. After all, what are disgruntled users going to do? Stop using Windows? Fat chance. MS might as well force them to keep telemetry on, since they're going to use Windows either way.
Yes, Linux doesn't have these issues, but the number of Windows users willing to switch to Linux over telemetry is nearly zero. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, the best argument against computer user competence is a 5-minute conversation with the average user. It doesn't matter how much better or easier Linux is than Windows; people simply will not switch.
I don't see anything wrong with labeling 30% as nationalist nutters, just like I don't see anything wrong with labeling the 30% that voted for Hillary as neoliberal warmongers.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who voted for Trump or Hillary is a deplorable.
Who wants to use a developer machine that connects to 100+ servers owned by another company without any control by the local administrator?
Apparently, most users and developers, judging by how many use Windows and ardently defend it, including on this very site. Most people just don't care about those freedoms, or privacy.