A large majority of them are not idiots, they just don't give a flying fk what successive generations have to do deal with... simply not their problem... therefore carry on plundering and wringing every last ounce of life out of the planet. They don't care if it dies after they're dead.
Yea so lets stick to a system that:- * has exterminated half the mammals on the planet within the last 50 years * has filled the oceans with plastic * has depleted fisheries to the point of collapse * has caused the destruction of 20% of the coral reefs on the planet and is endangering the remainder * is radically changing the climate at a rate likely to endanger civilisation as we know it * is creating massive inequity within society and between countries which can only result in war and conflict...lets not change a thing. That makes perfect sense.
By your definition of spyware a software system free of it would have no services connecting it to the internet, no services reporting system faults and issues, no way to receive updates, and the last one.... you want state of the art games, but you want the platform which supports those games to be compatible with every archaic version of windows ever released.
I don't think there's an OS out there like you're talking about. Even linux has these sorts of services, the only difference is that by default their switched on and it's more automated in windows. Linux expects its users to be technically proficient enough to know about security issues and to patch their systems in a timely manner. Windows makes no such assumptions, nor should it.
If you're technically proficient enough to run linux, you should be technically proficient to disable these services on windows and manually activate them when you need them. The links you provided actually explains how to deactivate them.
The point about forced updates is BS, I'm still running a media center box in my living room running windows 7, nothing forced me to update it. I'm still receiving windows updates.
But of course you'd probably find a reason for complaining no matter what.
There has never been a public platform free from moderation, so how would you know if it's dangerous or not?
There have always been laws which create a necessity for censorship. For example... starting a Facebook page for paedophiles and publishing child pornography would clearly be in breach of the laws of most countries on this planet and rightly so. Regardless of what Facebook's stand is on censorship they would be obliged to pull this content. And from they obvious example you can move into more grey areas such as content promoting terrorism, racial hatred etc etc...
I'm absolutely fine with Facebook, Twitter having a system for removal of content which doesn't meet a certain standard for civil discourse. I don't even care what that standard is, as long as it's applied consistently and fairly. If your shit doesn't meet their criteria for civil discourse, simple, find another platform. These companies should be completely free to choose the kind of discourse on their platforms, if people don't like it, they'll move to another platform.
I looked at the list of titles as a list of games I probably need to check out... The last on the list Yo-kai watch... man oh man... that looks like pretty subversive stuff...
So he got the biggest bonus, which was probably based on a percentage of his annual wage. So he was one of the top income earners. It regularly happens in these companies that when they do a cull it's purely based on wages. Using that logic they maximise the amount of money saved per head of staff lost from the company. Also in a company like IBM there's bound to be people in his team ready to step up and do the same job he was doing as well or better and do it for much less pay.
Here's an example of the logic I am talking about.
They simply don't get it. An employer making an announcement to the whole world that they want to hire someone is totally different to you personally soliciting them for the job. When an employer advertises for a role, it's not a personal invitation. It'll come as a shock, but the world is not all about you.
They're totally different scenarios. Advertising and requesting applications for a position is entirely different to making a personal commitment to be at a meeting or committing to a contract and not bothering to terminate it as you were legally obliged to.
Sounds to me you need to give your children better guidance. They need to be proactively contacting employers and monitoring the progress of their applications rather than passively waiting for a result, because you can be guaranteed that they'll be competing against people who will.
Ask yourself whose most likely to get a job the young kid who calls every 2nd day about a job or the kid who sends in an application and then doesn't even bother calling you to see if you have received it and are aware they're actually still interested?
A lot of the comments above are expressing the notion that employers often don't respond the candidates so therefore this sort of behavior is fine.
I'd like to say I strongly disagree. In my experience especially when I was more junior and making applications for jobs in the middle of a recession, I've never had expectations that an employer will personally respond to me.
Normally when employers advertise for work, very often they get a lot of applications, as a candidate I've always expected this and never had any expectation that the employer would personally respond to let me know that I hadn't been selected. Occasionally they did and I always thought it exceedingly polite, but when they it never occurred to me to be slighted by the act. Furthermore, I've expected that when I'm applying for a position, if I haven't heard from the employer within a few days that I need to touch base with them and confirm that they actually have received my application, then if they have ask them if they're still interested in my candidacy and if not ask for feedback on why.
Very often I believe being proactive and periodically contacting the employer whilst they're in the middle of their recruitment process is actually quite influential and often be the deciding factor on the success of a job application.
Considering the reverse... being offered a position or job interview and then simply not responding or turning up is extremely unprofessional. There's a major difference between these two things that most in this discussion don't seem to understand. An employer advertising a position and requesting applications for a job is very different to you making a personal commitment or signing contract with an employer. These are two completely different things and come with totally different etiquette, obligations and responsibilities, I don't see how they're interchangeable in any way at all. Such behaviour is disrespectful to the other candidates for the job as well as towards all the people who would have been put out at the company when you didn't show.
Easier said than done. Cloud Services provided by companies such as Google, Amazon and Micosoft's often come with proprietary API and sdk to access cheaper, more virtualised services, that provide redundancy and automatically scale on demand. For most people that's the whole point of "The Cloud" is the ability to create cheap proof of concept applications and then be able to spin up a global enterprise scale service out of that with a flick of a switch. The concept seems simple and is pretty sexy and seductive, but it tends to lock you into the vendor. If you're just creating VMs and hosting them in cloud space instead of hosting them locally that's another story, but many would say you're missing the whole point of "The Cloud"... especially if they work for Google, Amazon or Microsoft.
The out of sight out of mind policies of 1st world countries, off loading their environmental responsibilities on to countries that are least able to deal with it has to stop, it's an hypocrisy the world's ecosystem can no longer afford
I think you're confusing their mission. I would say the boys at Space Force (if it's ever actually a thing other than a DJT brain fart) are going to be the primary contributors of space debris
When a party is that far to the left or right, does it matter which?
They both have an overriding attribute which is that they're bat shit crazy!
That being said yes I think calling the Nazis leftists is inaccurate, they governed a system of corporate fiefdoms that served the state and reduced humanity to being nothing more than resources to be utilised however it was needed and tossed into ovens when it was not.
I think you'll find this is Wage not Age discrimination.
Typically in these huge companies, when they decide to make a round of layoffs there's no analysis done on who is meat and fat in the company (trimming only the fat). The process goes usually....
Big exec goes.... hmmm I need to cut half a billion from the payroll? Easy !
Ring ring...
Exec: hey DBguy (in the payroll office) can you do a quick query for me?
DBguy: Sure....
Exec: if you take the highest paying employee in every department excluding top execs and sum their wages what do you get?
Dbguy..ummm............. 100M....
Exec: ok how about the top 3....
DbGuy: 350M...
Exec: hmmm with the top 4....
DbGuy: 490M....
Exec: Bingo! Thanks DBguy! (hangs up)....
DBguy thinks: hmmmm... yikes... better give myself a paycut for a month or two.
My thoughts exactly. Smokers aren't most people though, as far as self integrity goes I'd say they're low on the scale. Every time they smoke they're lying to themselves about the consequences, which I think is a far bigger lie than one that earns you $600
They're using human drivers to move freight within cities and autonomous vehicles to transport them between cities to depots at the out skirts of the city where human drivers pick them up.
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A large majority of them are not idiots, they just don't give a flying fk what successive generations have to do deal with... simply not their problem... therefore carry on plundering and wringing every last ounce of life out of the planet. They don't care if it dies after they're dead.
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Yea so lets stick to a system that:- ...lets not change a thing. That makes perfect sense.
* has exterminated half the mammals on the planet within the last 50 years
* has filled the oceans with plastic
* has depleted fisheries to the point of collapse
* has caused the destruction of 20% of the coral reefs on the planet and is endangering the remainder
* is radically changing the climate at a rate likely to endanger civilisation as we know it
* is creating massive inequity within society and between countries which can only result in war and conflict
What a load
By your definition of spyware a software system free of it would have no services connecting it to the internet, no services reporting system faults and issues, no way to receive updates, and the last one.... you want state of the art games, but you want the platform which supports those games to be compatible with every archaic version of windows ever released.
I don't think there's an OS out there like you're talking about. Even linux has these sorts of services, the only difference is that by default their switched on and it's more automated in windows. Linux expects its users to be technically proficient enough to know about security issues and to patch their systems in a timely manner. Windows makes no such assumptions, nor should it.
If you're technically proficient enough to run linux, you should be technically proficient to disable these services on windows and manually activate them when you need them. The links you provided actually explains how to deactivate them.
The point about forced updates is BS, I'm still running a media center box in my living room running windows 7, nothing forced me to update it. I'm still receiving windows updates.
But of course you'd probably find a reason for complaining no matter what.
There has never been a public platform free from moderation, so how would you know if it's dangerous or not?
There have always been laws which create a necessity for censorship. For example... starting a Facebook page for paedophiles and publishing child pornography would clearly be in breach of the laws of most countries on this planet and rightly so. Regardless of what Facebook's stand is on censorship they would be obliged to pull this content. And from they obvious example you can move into more grey areas such as content promoting terrorism, racial hatred etc etc...
I'm absolutely fine with Facebook, Twitter having a system for removal of content which doesn't meet a certain standard for civil discourse. I don't even care what that standard is, as long as it's applied consistently and fairly. If your shit doesn't meet their criteria for civil discourse, simple, find another platform. These companies should be completely free to choose the kind of discourse on their platforms, if people don't like it, they'll move to another platform.
This garbage article isn't news that matters.
I looked at the list of titles as a list of games I probably need to check out... The last on the list Yo-kai watch... man oh man... that looks like pretty subversive stuff...
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
So the three sizes are big, a bit bigger, and a bit bigger again.
I don't know why they bother.
Is it just me or is there anyone else out there wondering why in this day and age it's impossible to buy a small phone?
So he got the biggest bonus, which was probably based on a percentage of his annual wage. So he was one of the top income earners. It regularly happens in these companies that when they do a cull it's purely based on wages. Using that logic they maximise the amount of money saved per head of staff lost from the company. Also in a company like IBM there's bound to be people in his team ready to step up and do the same job he was doing as well or better and do it for much less pay.
Here's an example of the logic I am talking about.
They simply don't get it. An employer making an announcement to the whole world that they want to hire someone is totally different to you personally soliciting them for the job. When an employer advertises for a role, it's not a personal invitation. It'll come as a shock, but the world is not all about you.
They're totally different scenarios. Advertising and requesting applications for a position is entirely different to making a personal commitment to be at a meeting or committing to a contract and not bothering to terminate it as you were legally obliged to.
Sounds to me you need to give your children better guidance. They need to be proactively contacting employers and monitoring the progress of their applications rather than passively waiting for a result, because you can be guaranteed that they'll be competing against people who will.
Ask yourself whose most likely to get a job the young kid who calls every 2nd day about a job or the kid who sends in an application and then doesn't even bother calling you to see if you have received it and are aware they're actually still interested?
A lot of the comments above are expressing the notion that employers often don't respond the candidates so therefore this sort of behavior is fine.
I'd like to say I strongly disagree. In my experience especially when I was more junior and making applications for jobs in the middle of a recession, I've never had expectations that an employer will personally respond to me.
Normally when employers advertise for work, very often they get a lot of applications, as a candidate I've always expected this and never had any expectation that the employer would personally respond to let me know that I hadn't been selected. Occasionally they did and I always thought it exceedingly polite, but when they it never occurred to me to be slighted by the act. Furthermore, I've expected that when I'm applying for a position, if I haven't heard from the employer within a few days that I need to touch base with them and confirm that they actually have received my application, then if they have ask them if they're still interested in my candidacy and if not ask for feedback on why.
Very often I believe being proactive and periodically contacting the employer whilst they're in the middle of their recruitment process is actually quite influential and often be the deciding factor on the success of a job application.
Considering the reverse... being offered a position or job interview and then simply not responding or turning up is extremely unprofessional. There's a major difference between these two things that most in this discussion don't seem to understand. An employer advertising a position and requesting applications for a job is very different to you making a personal commitment or signing contract with an employer. These are two completely different things and come with totally different etiquette, obligations and responsibilities, I don't see how they're interchangeable in any way at all. Such behaviour is disrespectful to the other candidates for the job as well as towards all the people who would have been put out at the company when you didn't show.
Easier said than done. Cloud Services provided by companies such as Google, Amazon and Micosoft's often come with proprietary API and sdk to access cheaper, more virtualised services, that provide redundancy and automatically scale on demand. For most people that's the whole point of "The Cloud" is the ability to create cheap proof of concept applications and then be able to spin up a global enterprise scale service out of that with a flick of a switch. The concept seems simple and is pretty sexy and seductive, but it tends to lock you into the vendor. If you're just creating VMs and hosting them in cloud space instead of hosting them locally that's another story, but many would say you're missing the whole point of "The Cloud"... especially if they work for Google, Amazon or Microsoft.
A comment almost completely devoid of information, probably because you'd rather not get it wrong yourself and look like a dick...
OK so attempt 2...
775 Mtoe = 9 013 250 GWh
according to
https://www.iea.org/statistics...
So to get GWh from a 100GW power station...
100GW x 24 x 365 = 876 000GWh
100 * 876,000 / 9,013,250 = 9%
which is still not 23%
Also the article states India curently already has 24.4GW of solar, so again (100GW + 24.4GW) / 24.4GW does not equal 23% / 2.89%....
From your own link it says "Total primary energy use of 775 Mtoe in 2013"
775 Mtoe = 9013250 Gw
100 * 100 / 9013250 = 0.001%
If solving the world's plastic problems meant dumping it in the Yangtze river thank god!
The out of sight out of mind policies of 1st world countries, off loading their environmental responsibilities on to countries that are least able to deal with it has to stop, it's an hypocrisy the world's ecosystem can no longer afford
I think you're confusing their mission. I would say the boys at Space Force (if it's ever actually a thing other than a DJT brain fart) are going to be the primary contributors of space debris
When a party is that far to the left or right, does it matter which?
They both have an overriding attribute which is that they're bat shit crazy!
That being said yes I think calling the Nazis leftists is inaccurate, they governed a system of corporate fiefdoms that served the state and reduced humanity to being nothing more than resources to be utilised however it was needed and tossed into ovens when it was not.
I think you'll find this is Wage not Age discrimination.
Typically in these huge companies, when they decide to make a round of layoffs there's no analysis done on who is meat and fat in the company (trimming only the fat). The process goes usually....
Big exec goes.... hmmm I need to cut half a billion from the payroll? Easy !
Ring ring...
Exec: hey DBguy (in the payroll office) can you do a quick query for me?
DBguy: Sure....
Exec: if you take the highest paying employee in every department excluding top execs and sum their wages what do you get?
Dbguy..ummm... ....... ... 100M....
Exec: ok how about the top 3....
DbGuy: 350M...
Exec: hmmm with the top 4....
DbGuy: 490M....
Exec: Bingo! Thanks DBguy! (hangs up)....
DBguy thinks: hmmmm... yikes... better give myself a paycut for a month or two.
Read more about it here...
https://www.pravda.ru/news/wor...
or the google translated version for the comrades you can't speak russian here...
https://translate.google.com/t...
My thoughts exactly. Smokers aren't most people though, as far as self integrity goes I'd say they're low on the scale. Every time they smoke they're lying to themselves about the consequences, which I think is a far bigger lie than one that earns you $600
The worm is the spice the spice is the worm!
Let me know when these little guys get big enough to ride.
Uber is already doing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They're using human drivers to move freight within cities and autonomous vehicles to transport them between cities to depots at the out skirts of the city where human drivers pick them up.