I've had the opposite experience with Windows 10 updates. I might check the update control before heading home for the day and it'll saying something like "An update is scheduled for 3:00 am tomorrow". I'll finish whatever I'm doing and leave. When I come in the next morning I'm expecting an updated system, but no. It's in the exact same state I left it in. Even the window saying that it'll update at 3:00 am tomorrow.
why do you think that you can't have both a reasonable standard set of defaults for those people, while at the same time allowing others to customize to their hearts delight?
Point of diminishing returns. At some point, creating an infrastructure for customizing something, outweighs the desire of the customer to customize something. Given the massively large percentage who don't want the customizability, that point is reached very quickly.
Remember how the web was originally designed. Text mark up would declare that some text should be a Header1, or emphasized, or whatever, and it would up the browser, and possibly even the end user, to determine what that should look like. The idea is that everyone could customize the web to fit their preferences. Non-nerds hate that. A website looking one way in one browser, and looking another way in another browser, is a bug, not a feature.
People would prefer to have professionals decide, what buttons and controls should be taking up their screen space. The only customizability that the masses want is to be able to set backgrounds to pictures of their families. Beyond that, they trust that the professionals have done the right thing.
Think of the consistency of Facebook pages, back in the day, vs MySpace pages.
Who will teach the librarians to code well enough so that they can pass on that knowledge to the kids?
That should have been happening decades ago when the librarians were in school. To prevent the same problem occurring in the future, we should start teaching our children now.
Why is it the government's or society's responsibility to support those that refuse to support themselves?
What happens when everyone with capitol has no desire to hire any humans because they have AI that always meets their requests? No one will be employed.
The problem with 'Globalization' is that it is intended to strip away environmental, health, safety, and labor laws; which is why it must be stopped.
Wouldn't the TPP count as Globalization, and doesn't it have a lot of environmental, health, safety and labor laws which override the signatory countries local laws?
The operation of the oversight and accountability mechanisms...are all kept firmly out of sight
So there are still oversight and accountability mechanisms? Phew, I was worried there for a second that there wouldn't be. There must be nothing to see here, moving along.
We still want business to happen between the election, and the beginning of the new session. Now we're just paying the bureaucrats to sit around and nothing for two months.
I don't think that they should work on the fake news problem for political stories. What I think they need to do for political stories is break down the echo chamber. If they can detect that certain stories are political in nature, stop silo-ing off people to only see what they will like. If someone is following politics, make them see stories from both sides.
Any fake news, that's seen by people outside of the echo chamber should get called out. Which hopefully will prevent it from spreading. Or if it does spread, cause significantly less damage.
Why is it sexist when anybody votes for Trump but voting for Hillary for the purposes of having a non-functional set of gonads being president is OK?
Because Trump was constantly making sexist remarks; and to a shockingly high degree for a public figure. Clinton, on the other hand, hardly brought gender up, beyond that they should be treated equally in many different situations.
It's very possible that it has a mostly non-measurable impact. I remember reading a blog a while back where they were talking the influence of Barbie, or Saturday Morning cartoons, or something like that, on how they set their expectations in life. One off hand sentence they had went something like "And if you're not the type of person who felt influenced by such things, what are you doing on this blog?" And that was every eye opening to me. Because I'm someone who can't think of a single programming role model, yet still became a programmer. And I can't think of any "reading between the lines" kind of influence on me (so it was kind of odd that I was reading that blog). There are people who pick up on non-existent signals about gender roles, etc from toys and media, and there are other people who don't. And I'm sure there are lots of people who fit into the range between the extremes.
I believe that boys/men are much more likely to not pick up on even the most blatant messages about expectations, than girls/women are. The result is that you get the Slashdot type who will read these articles about ideas on encouraging others, and since there wasn't anything even close to that in their own experience, they don't see what all of the fuss is about. The flip side are other people who will only go where they're granted permission to go. And knowing that both types of personalities exist is important.
T-Mobile made it pretty clear, this is what they did when signing up. I think it's a better solution than exorbitant fees, when you're unaware you crossed a threshold.
Tips are a non-advertised hidden cost to a good or service, and make an excuse for an employer to not pay their employees higher wages. I would be much happier if they were eliminated all together.
Bigotry in general is more about the systems that society has in place that combine to make it so that people with certain backgrounds are disadvantaged with respect to others. These systems are extremely varied and reinforced by a variety of societal traditions, personal prejudices, business practices, government practices, and more.
At an individual level, bigotry involves supporting and continuing those systems of oppression, whether consciously or unconsciously.
I will agree with that. But sometimes it feels like in the effort to remove bigotry (which I'm all for), some legitimate differences between groups of people (which aren't in place due to society) are getting covered over, even to our detriment.
Slashdot Mirror
If it involves an arm it's slow enough to prevent the kind of mass fraud this is designed to defeat.
it will wipe out any unsaved changes
I'm curious, what applications are you using which don't have some sort of auto save feature?
I've had the opposite experience with Windows 10 updates. I might check the update control before heading home for the day and it'll saying something like "An update is scheduled for 3:00 am tomorrow". I'll finish whatever I'm doing and leave. When I come in the next morning I'm expecting an updated system, but no. It's in the exact same state I left it in. Even the window saying that it'll update at 3:00 am tomorrow.
why do you think that you can't have both a reasonable standard set of defaults for those people, while at the same time allowing others to customize to their hearts delight?
Point of diminishing returns. At some point, creating an infrastructure for customizing something, outweighs the desire of the customer to customize something. Given the massively large percentage who don't want the customizability, that point is reached very quickly.
Web designers need to let go of their fascination with precisely scripted layouts.
That's hard to do when their job description is "Make this look the same on my browser as it does on my mom's browser."
Remember how the web was originally designed. Text mark up would declare that some text should be a Header1, or emphasized, or whatever, and it would up the browser, and possibly even the end user, to determine what that should look like. The idea is that everyone could customize the web to fit their preferences. Non-nerds hate that. A website looking one way in one browser, and looking another way in another browser, is a bug, not a feature.
People would prefer to have professionals decide, what buttons and controls should be taking up their screen space. The only customizability that the masses want is to be able to set backgrounds to pictures of their families. Beyond that, they trust that the professionals have done the right thing.
Think of the consistency of Facebook pages, back in the day, vs MySpace pages.
He mentioned in On The Wealth of Nations that the price for an unskilled laborers education should be proportional to how much that person will make.
Who will teach the librarians to code well enough so that they can pass on that knowledge to the kids?
That should have been happening decades ago when the librarians were in school. To prevent the same problem occurring in the future, we should start teaching our children now.
Why is it the government's or society's responsibility to support those that refuse to support themselves?
What happens when everyone with capitol has no desire to hire any humans because they have AI that always meets their requests? No one will be employed.
The problem with 'Globalization' is that it is intended to strip away environmental, health, safety, and labor laws; which is why it must be stopped.
Wouldn't the TPP count as Globalization, and doesn't it have a lot of environmental, health, safety and labor laws which override the signatory countries local laws?
I'll just sit here and wait for the Nazi sex robot to evolve again.
It won't happen again, without your contribution.
So there are still oversight and accountability mechanisms? Phew, I was worried there for a second that there wouldn't be. There must be nothing to see here, moving along.
We still want business to happen between the election, and the beginning of the new session. Now we're just paying the bureaucrats to sit around and nothing for two months.
I don't think that they should work on the fake news problem for political stories. What I think they need to do for political stories is break down the echo chamber. If they can detect that certain stories are political in nature, stop silo-ing off people to only see what they will like. If someone is following politics, make them see stories from both sides.
Any fake news, that's seen by people outside of the echo chamber should get called out. Which hopefully will prevent it from spreading. Or if it does spread, cause significantly less damage.
Why is it sexist when anybody votes for Trump but voting for Hillary for the purposes of having a non-functional set of gonads being president is OK?
Because Trump was constantly making sexist remarks; and to a shockingly high degree for a public figure. Clinton, on the other hand, hardly brought gender up, beyond that they should be treated equally in many different situations.
I like how the electoral college forces that the President has to appeal to citizens from many places. Not just the most amount of citizens.
Once Google delisted the evidence, they figured that prosecutors won't be able to find it now.
I found the final sentance a little confusing. Does this affect all versions of Windows, or just older ones?
I'm sure it would have no impact at all on you.
It's very possible that it has a mostly non-measurable impact. I remember reading a blog a while back where they were talking the influence of Barbie, or Saturday Morning cartoons, or something like that, on how they set their expectations in life. One off hand sentence they had went something like "And if you're not the type of person who felt influenced by such things, what are you doing on this blog?" And that was every eye opening to me. Because I'm someone who can't think of a single programming role model, yet still became a programmer. And I can't think of any "reading between the lines" kind of influence on me (so it was kind of odd that I was reading that blog). There are people who pick up on non-existent signals about gender roles, etc from toys and media, and there are other people who don't. And I'm sure there are lots of people who fit into the range between the extremes.
I believe that boys/men are much more likely to not pick up on even the most blatant messages about expectations, than girls/women are. The result is that you get the Slashdot type who will read these articles about ideas on encouraging others, and since there wasn't anything even close to that in their own experience, they don't see what all of the fuss is about. The flip side are other people who will only go where they're granted permission to go. And knowing that both types of personalities exist is important.
I haven't noticed this at all.
Countless websites on the internet totally break if you block google IPs.
True, but only in good ways.
T-Mobile made it pretty clear, this is what they did when signing up. I think it's a better solution than exorbitant fees, when you're unaware you crossed a threshold.
than just pay sticker price from the car factory direct.
And how does one go about doing that? I thought most states made that illegal in the same of supporting local businesses.
Tips are a non-advertised hidden cost to a good or service, and make an excuse for an employer to not pay their employees higher wages. I would be much happier if they were eliminated all together.
Bigotry in general is more about the systems that society has in place that combine to make it so that people with certain backgrounds are disadvantaged with respect to others. These systems are extremely varied and reinforced by a variety of societal traditions, personal prejudices, business practices, government practices, and more.
At an individual level, bigotry involves supporting and continuing those systems of oppression, whether consciously or unconsciously.
I will agree with that. But sometimes it feels like in the effort to remove bigotry (which I'm all for), some legitimate differences between groups of people (which aren't in place due to society) are getting covered over, even to our detriment.