... would manufacturers finally please quit this bullshit already. Tablets are thin enough, thank you very much.
Just build one that a) doesn't need an extra hardcase to prevent it from breaking when I drop it and b) has a longer battery life. This is so tedious and annoying.
Today's smartphones and tablets are way more powerful than desktops from 15 years ago. The OS is just a tool, regardless of wether you use it with a touchscreen or a mouse and keyboard.
Why not give the phone away for free? Or as a part of some Google subscription? Google has the power to get rid of carriers and banks, I wonder why they don't take this step into Cyberpunk Megacorp land. Right now I'd rather be ruled by Google than by some Chinese single party government.
- I buy refurbished whenever possible. On the upside: It's not only ethical in more ways than one, it gives you neat bargains aswell. - If I buy new, I see to it that the gear will/could last me 10 years - at least in theory. Point in case: My MB Air is from early 2011 and still is useful. - I always try to buy hardware that I could control or at least can usefully run offline if push comes to shove. With other things equal, I prefer hackable hardware over regular hardware.
I presume this approach will become more important to me in the future (Stallmans "Right to read" comes to mind). There might even come a point in the near future where I stock up on older refurbished electronics in order to be able to control it when things go south.
... directly correlates with my current diet. When I force myself / see to it that I cook myself and eat healthy and ad in an amount of fresh veggies and similar foods and reduce sugar (the only substance I'm addicted to) I am more "awake" than usual. That effect kicks in noticably after a week or so.
The more processed foods are, the more unhealthy you're living. To me that's evident in quite a few ways.
I feel sorry for this guy. And yes I think it's a very bad idea to put all your savings into some unregulated storage, but still. Health is more worth than money and he seems to make the best of it, so good luck to him.
... all broken, slow and bloated websites. Many problems would go away really fast and in a year from now the essential web would suck way less because people would've adjusted with better code and better planning.
Do you want to play super-nice with Google? Or do you need GAs features? Then a corporate account and tie everything concerning your website including analytics to it.
Other than that, use Piwik or whatever it's successor is called these days.
... with all the ups and downs that comes with. Massive legacy systems that no one dares to take down and are a mess and super expensive to maintain, with well paid job guarantees attached. OTOH you have the new kids closing in left, right and center, new technologies for the VM (Kotlin, Scala, Closure, whatnot) and other VMs such as Node and Go, node with it's own massive set of PLs.
Java won't go anywhere anytime soon, that includes it sticking around for another few decades in the places it already dominates.
That's the biggest threat we know for sure exists, i.e. is already out there.
Antbiotics in livestock and CISPR are bound to someday breed a global killer that measurably reduces the global population. I'd expect something like this to perhaps cost 50 to 100 million lives before it can be stopped.
Wave your magic wand and have "access to income and resources" drop off the selection matrix of hetero women for hetero men and the pay gap will go away instantly.
But since that all is due to evolution and it's long term strategy, I doubt this will happen any time soon. As long as Daniel Craig carrying a baby around is "unmanly" and men without career biographies are measurably more unattractive for long term relationships things will stay the way they have been since the dawn of time.
If we can design a Utopia that can cater both to men and women without either feeling discriminated, that would be cool, but that also requires us to accept a certain degree of biological differences. That is present with classic feminism, but not so much with today's hashtag and gender studies camp.
However, I see this more of a fad that will go away soon and have us back on track with reasonable expectations when it comes to equality.
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... would manufacturers finally please quit this bullshit already.
Tablets are thin enough, thank you very much.
Just build one that a) doesn't need an extra hardcase to prevent it from breaking when I drop it and b) has a longer battery life.
This is so tedious and annoying.
Today's smartphones and tablets are way more powerful than desktops from 15 years ago. The OS is just a tool, regardless of wether you use it with a touchscreen or a mouse and keyboard.
Why not give the phone away for free? Or as a part of some Google subscription?
Google has the power to get rid of carriers and banks, I wonder why they don't take this step into Cyberpunk Megacorp land. Right now I'd rather be ruled by Google than by some Chinese single party government.
- I buy refurbished whenever possible. On the upside: It's not only ethical in more ways than one, it gives you neat bargains aswell.
- If I buy new, I see to it that the gear will/could last me 10 years - at least in theory. Point in case: My MB Air is from early 2011 and still is useful.
- I always try to buy hardware that I could control or at least can usefully run offline if push comes to shove. With other things equal, I prefer hackable hardware over regular hardware.
I presume this approach will become more important to me in the future (Stallmans "Right to read" comes to mind). There might even come a point in the near future where I stock up on older refurbished electronics in order to be able to control it when things go south.
... directly correlates with my current diet. When I force myself / see to it that I cook myself and eat healthy and ad in an amount of fresh veggies and similar foods and reduce sugar (the only substance I'm addicted to) I am more "awake" than usual. That effect kicks in noticably after a week or so.
The more processed foods are, the more unhealthy you're living. To me that's evident in quite a few ways.
... assembling iPhones somewhere in WangTang where killing yourself seems to be an attractive option.
... spam you with ads as much as other services so.
I feel sorry for this guy. And yes I think it's a very bad idea to put all your savings into some unregulated storage, but still.
Health is more worth than money and he seems to make the best of it, so good luck to him.
... that never happened and it never will.
You're welcome.
... all broken, slow and bloated websites.
Many problems would go away really fast and in a year from now the essential web would suck way less because people would've adjusted with better code and better planning.
I see so many ways in which slack could get worse and only a few in which it maintains it's quality.
Let's see how well this goes.
Do you want to play super-nice with Google? Or do you need GAs features? Then a corporate account and tie everything concerning your website including analytics to it.
Other than that, use Piwik or whatever it's successor is called these days.
... with all the ups and downs that comes with.
Massive legacy systems that no one dares to take down and are a mess and super expensive to maintain, with well paid job guarantees attached.
OTOH you have the new kids closing in left, right and center, new technologies for the VM (Kotlin, Scala, Closure, whatnot) and other VMs such as Node and Go, node with it's own massive set of PLs.
Java won't go anywhere anytime soon, that includes it sticking around for another few decades in the places it already dominates.
My 2 cents.
"US comic fan utterly amazed at the concept of a comic without superheroes."
"Are US marvel and DC fans finally discovering how shitty, bland, boring, overpriced and repetitive their favorite comics are?"
"DC comic readers head explodes from overload after catching glimpse of Franco-Belgian hardcover by Vance & van Hamme"
"Marvel enthusiast dies of heart attack and endorphine overdose after repeatedly masturbating to French Milo Manara album."
"US Superhero fan sells all belongings, moves to southern Europe after enchanting read of Coseys "A trip to Italy" comic"
"Euro comic shipment arrives at US borders. Marvel & DC stock plummets."
You're welcome.
I'm on the Distant Worlds 2 expedition. ... Guess I'll have to turn off my wireless and unhook my Xbone from the LAN if I fire it up tonight.
This insight has been around for two decades or so.
That's the biggest threat we know for sure exists, i.e. is already out there.
Antbiotics in livestock and CISPR are bound to someday breed a global killer that measurably reduces the global population. I'd expect something like this to perhaps cost 50 to 100 million lives before it can be stopped.
They should've joined Mozilla and not Google. They'll notice in two years and then it will be too late.
Well I say Mr. Microsoft can go f*ck himself. How about that?
... your brain is slower when on drugs.
I don't need a research paper to see that. I just have to watch people trippin'.
My cheap ass fallback feature phone beats any iphone hands down in minimalism. And battery time.
I'm a seasoned senior dev and even I am just doing maintenance 95% of the time.
And most of that I can do because I got mad *nix and CLI skills.
... didn't you? The hype will be over in two years once agian and the market will be cleaned once again.
I however, will continue to program, CS degree or not, Job-Hype or not.
Wave your magic wand and have "access to income and resources" drop off the selection matrix of hetero women for hetero men and the pay gap will go away instantly.
But since that all is due to evolution and it's long term strategy, I doubt this will happen any time soon. As long as Daniel Craig carrying a baby around is "unmanly" and men without career biographies are measurably more unattractive for long term relationships things will stay the way they have been since the dawn of time.
If we can design a Utopia that can cater both to men and women without either feeling discriminated, that would be cool, but that also requires us to accept a certain degree of biological differences. That is present with classic feminism, but not so much with today's hashtag and gender studies camp.
However, I see this more of a fad that will go away soon and have us back on track with reasonable expectations when it comes to equality.