It's one reason why it is important for people to die...true immortality would result in way too much political power in the hands of people who are hopelessly trapped in the past.
That's only true because the ideas that come out are ridiculous and lack wisdom. If anything, the work force holds on to older talent because they avoid or minimize non sense.
Age DOES NOT equal lack of wanting to move forward but youth does equal thinking outside the box because of lack of wisdom. This thinking outside the box is usually well paired with wisdom as crazy ideas can be tamed to idea with large potential.
There are always people that refuse to accept change no matter what age. Every single person I know that owns an electric car is his 50s or 60s. I myself am in my 30s. I don't know one person under the age of 50 with an electric car. Call it coincidence if you want.
I've been saying this for years but the major challenge is allowing the transaction to go forward when that is not available like travelling to another country with roaming off or simply in the middle of nowhere with no access to data all together.
I think there's a way to make this work and considering the big CC companies have plenty of resources at hand I'm surprised things are moving quicker.
Fuck it, if they try to force this in the US, I'll cancel my cards and just do all cash...which I try to do more and more every day anyway.
You being a little drastic. You've already given them far more than your fingerprint and picture so I'm not sure why that's your biggest concern.
As for cancelling the cards. I wish you good luck with dealing everything in cash. Last I checked most online stores require a credit card. You could proceed with a prepaid card but the inconvenience will eventually make you go back.
Let's talk about that "interest collected on savings", shall we? It's so little these days
That's because the interest rates are crap all together. Lenders are lending at 4% - 8% while you get 1$ - 3%. You can't blame the banks for making borrowing affordable.
That means, a big cost savings for the banks
Yes, it is but you forget that the cost of transactions is significantly lower if you compare the average salary from today to 20 years ago.
And why, in most cases, will the bank who owns that ATM *also* add on a $2.00 or more fee for withdrawing the money?
Where do you pull your money from? Those random ATMs in the grocery and convenience stores? As long as I pull my money out of an ATM that is parts of the partner circle for my bank I pay a flat monthly fee of $8 for up to 20 transactions. I rarely go above it.
I would strongly suggest you start looking around. Looks like your bank is screwing you.
Agree to disagree. When a company is showing signs of wanting to improve I can but give them a chance.
They've made a few changes requested by people but nothing that clashes with their goals of trying to turn Windows into a data-gathering system similar to what Android does.
Who's fault is this really? I say the consumer. Advertisement backed products is where we sit right now. People are willing to deal with the nonsense so they don't have to pay. I blame Google for forcing everyone in that direction by leveraging their large share of online advertising. Don't take me wrong, if not Google, it would have been someone else.
The problem is that for those of us who grew up with alphabetic writing systems
How does that help the original menu system. It was categorized, not alphabetic (Except within it's sub menus).
Another problem, IMNSHO, is that the ribbon only has room for a small number of actions, most of which I (and probably you) don't use.
What makes the ribbon powerful is your ability to customize it to look however you want and make it context sensitive. From an end user perspective I can agree that one needs to relearn where things are and most people don't like having to adjust.
Like in Word, everything under the Mailings tab.
Not useful for you but I can assure those features are often used in smaller businesses.
Are assuming too much. You assume that people need to know everything about everything before getting into something. There are plenty of people that drive cars and don't know anything about them. Same goes for this. I can pickup some open source code, start writing on top of it without knowing I need to share it when all is done.
And what business is of theirs what software I'm running and how often I'm using it?
It is their business when their business depends on it. The common complaints users have with Windows have led them there. The large amount of hardware, software variations coupled with the different user types makes it difficult to have something universal that just works 100% of the time.
My only beef with them is that they won't tell us what they collect and what are the triggers. I'm all for letting them grab data on my usage and the condition of my system. After all, it's in my best interest to help them improve the OS.
MS in has recently shown interest in listening to the community and it's important we keep prying them for that information so that we can eventually feel at ease about what's happening.
but that VCs don't have a clue about open source doesn't surprise me
I've met my share of VCs. I myself have been a VC (on much smaller projects) and I can tell you this: Your VC is only as knowledgeable as the people advising him (usually those getting funding). It's the same as your relationship with your utility. You trust the company to deliver it based on promises made in a contract between you and the utility.
I'm going to back track a bit. VCs aren't all made equal. Some are pioneers in their fields or have a large baggage of knowledge and experience. Really good VCs invest themselves intellectually into the project but that's only a handful and I'd consider them to be the elites regardless of their ROI.
because corporations will happily pay for "commercial support" of critical systems, even if no one actually ever uses it
This critical system support you speak of is why people still buy MS and equivalent competitors. Large businesses that depend on their systems to operate require their suppliers to be accountable. Open source without a support plans = no accountability. For you at home installing OSs because it's fun, that's fine but critical business is exactly that. So the Redhat model is fine. Not all companies can afford to have a top notch Linux Kernel expert, a software developer and whatever else the company needs on staff.
What is wrong with the ribbon? I'll be first to say that their first attempt at the ribbon was messy but as of version 2010 everything is fine. Is the problem conservatism?
Too many variables missing to calculate the difference. The average tree provides you what, 1 - 2 weeks of heating? If your winter is 20 weeks long that's a minimum of 10 trees burned. Include the energy required to cut the tree down, trim it down, cut it in pieces, hack it to manageable pieces, place it in it's storage location and then place it in the fireplace. In addition it produces toxic fumes (yes, wood burning isn't good for humans to inhale. All that aside, I doubt there's enough energy in 50 trees vibrating to keep any house warm for the winter.
Not if their objectives are security. It will cost more money than the licensing itself and probably won't pay for itself in a while but at least they'll have piece of mind. At least until the next hard drive hack by the NSA.
What amazes me is the lack of cooperation between Russia and the US. Bunch of children throwing rocks at each other.
Yes, for these types of plants yes. The future of solar energy is to avoid having plants all together and harnessing local energy (e.g. your home). This is achieve with solar cells WHICH cannot be stored in the same way.
I'm assuming it's not the only source of energy. Solar is not here to replace all forms of energy but if it can sustain a large portion of daily activities (which accounts for more of the power use in North American) then you have a win-win solution. The next step for solar power is storage.
It's also important to note that the technology and materials used are not done improving so panels will get better and the yield per square foot will increase while the cost continues to decrease. This wiki about solar cells tells a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
check cashing places to cash, and incur fees for doing so right off the bat. Then you incur the risk of carrying that much cash around with you everywhere too.
So the bank is supposed to take this risk you don't want to take and guarantee the safety of your money at no cost? The alternative is for you to hire a security company to escort the money to your safe.
Try to make a major purchase and the country flags you as a terrorist suspect the minute you make a large cash payment for it!
Wrong, they flag your transaction for review. Two very different things.
Try to take cash on an airline flight and again
If you are crossing borders that makes absolute sense. If you aren't crossing borders you can carry as much money as you want. You should notify TSA ahead of travels: http://www.airsafe.com/issues/...
since there's no record of you having your name on a savings or checking account or any other real credit history.
Would you loan your money to someone else without a way to check who they are and how reliable they are? Probably not. Borrowing money is not a given right, it's a privilege that's become a standard in our society but that still requires validation.
What did the banks actually do to you to make you hate them OR are you one of the sheeps that flames said entities because it's the popular thing to do?
In my life banks have allowed me to collect interest on savings, build large gains on mutual funds and borrow money at low interest rates. I'm not sure where they screwed me. Are we talking about the $2-$4 / month I get charged for transactions?
If you haven't heard of these people, or how legendary they were, I can't really help you any further. http://www.legendsofamerica.co... [legendsofamerica.com]
I also heard of Hitler. Did you?
Is it not the most talked about villain of all times? Does that mean people admire him? ABSOLUTELLY NOT!
This reminds me though of how Bank Robbers always shared this mythical celebrity status with a big portion of the population
References please because I don't believe it. Up until your money was secured by the bank or the government itself, very few appreciated bank robbers because it meant they lost money.
I went and looked at dozens of recent bank robberies stories and nobody in the comment was putting them on a pedestal. They were quick at calling them lazy and scum though!
In 2016 the banks are still screwing the population over at a much faster rate, yet you never hear of hackers being heroes to any but a select few.
That's a matter of perception isn't it? You say the banks screw you, yet you leave your money with them. You have no obligations to do so. Keeping the same train of though, most people know that the cost of theft will directly affect them in one way or another.
Point is it's not a few missing apps that are killing Windows phone, it's articles like this and retail stores refusing to give them a chance. In the end it's MS's fault for not working more with the partners or lack of partners. It's very hard to convince people to change from what they know to what they don't. I just experienced this first hand with trying to switch engineers to a WebGL based CAD program instead of the Windows based autocad. The cloud version meets all the needs and more. All this for less money and more convenience. They found every excuse in the book to not move forward all because it's different.
The same phenomenon is true of cars. Did you know the Volt has 292ft/lb of torque? That's more than most cars yet most people believe the car to be sluggish and they miss understand that the cars is not only electric. So miss information and bad publicity slow the progress towards electric motor driven cars which is easily attainable at this exact moment.
My experience with most people using my Windows phone is: "WOW, this is so much easier than Apple". I personally felt that way but to hear other people say the same thing was astonishing to me. I took a chance with Windows phone because I was curious and figured being a C# developer it would fall right into my cradle which it did.
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Trust me when I say it DOES NOT!
Just travelling up north between towns you lose signal for kilometers.
That's hackable. The other solution has codes generated by the servers. I think it's safer.
That's a great idea!
It's one reason why it is important for people to die...true immortality would result in way too much political power in the hands of people who are hopelessly trapped in the past.
That's only true because the ideas that come out are ridiculous and lack wisdom. If anything, the work force holds on to older talent because they avoid or minimize non sense.
Age DOES NOT equal lack of wanting to move forward but youth does equal thinking outside the box because of lack of wisdom. This thinking outside the box is usually well paired with wisdom as crazy ideas can be tamed to idea with large potential.
There are always people that refuse to accept change no matter what age. Every single person I know that owns an electric car is his 50s or 60s. I myself am in my 30s. I don't know one person under the age of 50 with an electric car. Call it coincidence if you want.
I've been saying this for years but the major challenge is allowing the transaction to go forward when that is not available like travelling to another country with roaming off or simply in the middle of nowhere with no access to data all together.
I think there's a way to make this work and considering the big CC companies have plenty of resources at hand I'm surprised things are moving quicker.
Fuck it, if they try to force this in the US, I'll cancel my cards and just do all cash...which I try to do more and more every day anyway.
You being a little drastic. You've already given them far more than your fingerprint and picture so I'm not sure why that's your biggest concern.
As for cancelling the cards. I wish you good luck with dealing everything in cash. Last I checked most online stores require a credit card. You could proceed with a prepaid card but the inconvenience will eventually make you go back.
Let's talk about that "interest collected on savings", shall we? It's so little these days
That's because the interest rates are crap all together. Lenders are lending at 4% - 8% while you get 1$ - 3%. You can't blame the banks for making borrowing affordable.
That means, a big cost savings for the banks
Yes, it is but you forget that the cost of transactions is significantly lower if you compare the average salary from today to 20 years ago.
And why, in most cases, will the bank who owns that ATM *also* add on a $2.00 or more fee for withdrawing the money?
Where do you pull your money from? Those random ATMs in the grocery and convenience stores? As long as I pull my money out of an ATM that is parts of the partner circle for my bank I pay a flat monthly fee of $8 for up to 20 transactions. I rarely go above it.
I would strongly suggest you start looking around. Looks like your bank is screwing you.
I agree.
Option 1: Deal with our data collection
Option 2: Pay up
Also, they pretend they listen.
Agree to disagree. When a company is showing signs of wanting to improve I can but give them a chance.
They've made a few changes requested by people but nothing that clashes with their goals of trying to turn Windows into a data-gathering system similar to what Android does.
Who's fault is this really? I say the consumer. Advertisement backed products is where we sit right now. People are willing to deal with the nonsense so they don't have to pay. I blame Google for forcing everyone in that direction by leveraging their large share of online advertising. Don't take me wrong, if not Google, it would have been someone else.
People have to understand that FREE is not FREE.
The problem is that for those of us who grew up with alphabetic writing systems
How does that help the original menu system. It was categorized, not alphabetic (Except within it's sub menus).
Another problem, IMNSHO, is that the ribbon only has room for a small number of actions, most of which I (and probably you) don't use.
What makes the ribbon powerful is your ability to customize it to look however you want and make it context sensitive. From an end user perspective I can agree that one needs to relearn where things are and most people don't like having to adjust.
Like in Word, everything under the Mailings tab.
Not useful for you but I can assure those features are often used in smaller businesses.
Are assuming too much. You assume that people need to know everything about everything before getting into something. There are plenty of people that drive cars and don't know anything about them. Same goes for this. I can pickup some open source code, start writing on top of it without knowing I need to share it when all is done.
And what business is of theirs what software I'm running and how often I'm using it?
It is their business when their business depends on it. The common complaints users have with Windows have led them there. The large amount of hardware, software variations coupled with the different user types makes it difficult to have something universal that just works 100% of the time.
My only beef with them is that they won't tell us what they collect and what are the triggers. I'm all for letting them grab data on my usage and the condition of my system. After all, it's in my best interest to help them improve the OS.
MS in has recently shown interest in listening to the community and it's important we keep prying them for that information so that we can eventually feel at ease about what's happening.
but that VCs don't have a clue about open source doesn't surprise me
I've met my share of VCs. I myself have been a VC (on much smaller projects) and I can tell you this: Your VC is only as knowledgeable as the people advising him (usually those getting funding). It's the same as your relationship with your utility. You trust the company to deliver it based on promises made in a contract between you and the utility.
I'm going to back track a bit. VCs aren't all made equal. Some are pioneers in their fields or have a large baggage of knowledge and experience. Really good VCs invest themselves intellectually into the project but that's only a handful and I'd consider them to be the elites regardless of their ROI.
because corporations will happily pay for "commercial support" of critical systems, even if no one actually ever uses it
This critical system support you speak of is why people still buy MS and equivalent competitors. Large businesses that depend on their systems to operate require their suppliers to be accountable. Open source without a support plans = no accountability. For you at home installing OSs because it's fun, that's fine but critical business is exactly that. So the Redhat model is fine. Not all companies can afford to have a top notch Linux Kernel expert, a software developer and whatever else the company needs on staff.
What is wrong with the ribbon? I'll be first to say that their first attempt at the ribbon was messy but as of version 2010 everything is fine. Is the problem conservatism?
The resistance from the collector outweighs the gain.
Too many variables missing to calculate the difference. The average tree provides you what, 1 - 2 weeks of heating? If your winter is 20 weeks long that's a minimum of 10 trees burned. Include the energy required to cut the tree down, trim it down, cut it in pieces, hack it to manageable pieces, place it in it's storage location and then place it in the fireplace. In addition it produces toxic fumes (yes, wood burning isn't good for humans to inhale. All that aside, I doubt there's enough energy in 50 trees vibrating to keep any house warm for the winter.
Not if their objectives are security. It will cost more money than the licensing itself and probably won't pay for itself in a while but at least they'll have piece of mind. At least until the next hard drive hack by the NSA.
What amazes me is the lack of cooperation between Russia and the US. Bunch of children throwing rocks at each other.
Yes, for these types of plants yes. The future of solar energy is to avoid having plants all together and harnessing local energy (e.g. your home). This is achieve with solar cells WHICH cannot be stored in the same way.
I'm assuming it's not the only source of energy. Solar is not here to replace all forms of energy but if it can sustain a large portion of daily activities (which accounts for more of the power use in North American) then you have a win-win solution. The next step for solar power is storage.
It's also important to note that the technology and materials used are not done improving so panels will get better and the yield per square foot will increase while the cost continues to decrease. This wiki about solar cells tells a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
check cashing places to cash, and incur fees for doing so right off the bat. Then you incur the risk of carrying that much cash around with you everywhere too.
So the bank is supposed to take this risk you don't want to take and guarantee the safety of your money at no cost?
The alternative is for you to hire a security company to escort the money to your safe.
Try to make a major purchase and the country flags you as a terrorist suspect the minute you make a large cash payment for it!
Wrong, they flag your transaction for review. Two very different things.
Try to take cash on an airline flight and again
If you are crossing borders that makes absolute sense. If you aren't crossing borders you can carry as much money as you want. You should notify TSA ahead of travels: http://www.airsafe.com/issues/...
since there's no record of you having your name on a savings or checking account or any other real credit history.
Would you loan your money to someone else without a way to check who they are and how reliable they are? Probably not. Borrowing money is not a given right, it's a privilege that's become a standard in our society but that still requires validation.
What did the banks actually do to you to make you hate them OR are you one of the sheeps that flames said entities because it's the popular thing to do?
In my life banks have allowed me to collect interest on savings, build large gains on mutual funds and borrow money at low interest rates. I'm not sure where they screwed me. Are we talking about the $2-$4 / month I get charged for transactions?
If you haven't heard of these people, or how legendary they were, I can't really help you any further. http://www.legendsofamerica.co... [legendsofamerica.com]
I also heard of Hitler. Did you?
Is it not the most talked about villain of all times? Does that mean people admire him? ABSOLUTELLY NOT!
This reminds me though of how Bank Robbers always shared this mythical celebrity status with a big portion of the population
References please because I don't believe it. Up until your money was secured by the bank or the government itself, very few appreciated bank robbers because it meant they lost money.
I went and looked at dozens of recent bank robberies stories and nobody in the comment was putting them on a pedestal. They were quick at calling them lazy and scum though!
In 2016 the banks are still screwing the population over at a much faster rate, yet you never hear of hackers being heroes to any but a select few.
That's a matter of perception isn't it? You say the banks screw you, yet you leave your money with them. You have no obligations to do so.
Keeping the same train of though, most people know that the cost of theft will directly affect them in one way or another.
Point is it's not a few missing apps that are killing Windows phone, it's articles like this and retail stores refusing to give them a chance. In the end it's MS's fault for not working more with the partners or lack of partners. It's very hard to convince people to change from what they know to what they don't. I just experienced this first hand with trying to switch engineers to a WebGL based CAD program instead of the Windows based autocad. The cloud version meets all the needs and more. All this for less money and more convenience. They found every excuse in the book to not move forward all because it's different.
The same phenomenon is true of cars. Did you know the Volt has 292ft/lb of torque? That's more than most cars yet most people believe the car to be sluggish and they miss understand that the cars is not only electric. So miss information and bad publicity slow the progress towards electric motor driven cars which is easily attainable at this exact moment.
My experience with most people using my Windows phone is: "WOW, this is so much easier than Apple". I personally felt that way but to hear other people say the same thing was astonishing to me. I took a chance with Windows phone because I was curious and figured being a C# developer it would fall right into my cradle which it did.
It's available on my app store. I'm using a BLU HD with the latest version of Windows Phone 8.