"You must be the odd person out or you don't participate in the culture." My wife is a BYU grad and I am in the elders quorum presidency so we are pretty Mormon. Most of the families in my ward have two to three kids which is pretty normal. Some only have one or none and some have four or five. Maybe it is just me but that does not seem to be all that odd from when I was growing up. I am a convert but not a recent one. Sorry that you feel out of place culturally but yes it is bigotry. If you said the same thing about members of the Roman Catholic church or of hispanics or african americans you would have people coming down on you like a ton of bricks. In other words be grateful that the company you work for seems to offer this and maybe you will get to benefit from it also.
Drivers need a stable binary interface. Even with completely open source drivers that ability to package a binary that just works is huge for the makers of hardware.
Really the Echo is really cool hardware but the current API is just too limiting. How about an Echo intercom system? How about using it as a Sonos? I really like my Echo but I know it could do a lot more.
Umm.. I am a Mormon man and I have no kids. Funny how some bigotry gets an easy pass on Slashdot. It is not like members of the LDS church all have large families or are the only people that have kids on the planet.
Way back in the day a company I worked for had done a good job securing our network... Until a developer went to a conference and plugged his network in the hotel network then brought it back inside our firewall. We did catch the problem very quickly and only a few machines where infected but we locked things down even more after that.
I would also add that I do not think it was the screens as much as the ram and address space that where an issue. Going back to the Commodore/Atari days if you have a 320x200x24 bit image it was much larger than the address space of the CPU. Go up to the PC CGA era and you are looking at 640x200x24 or 375k! That is why you saw the limited color pallets and lower resolution back then and not really the displays.
All I found was a chart and an abstract. At no time did I see the actual countries listed. Also how liberal a nation is can be up for debate. For example some nations in the EU have hate speech laws but almost no restriction on sexual content. In the US you will often see age restriction on sexual content but no restriction on political speech. Which is more free or liberal? I would like to to have seen a list of the nations and how they ranked them before I draw any conclusion.
"Sound never really justified its existence on work machines." Actually in some markets it did. I used to work in the Court Reporting software industry. When sound became common we added the ability to record the audio while the court reporter took the testimony on the steno machine. The audio and steno where time stamped so you could go listen to the audio at the location your cursor was on. Today you can use VOIP on the PC to replace a phone on the desk so I would say that sound is now justified on business machines.
Color and sound were considered toys for a long time. You only needed them to play games. Real work was done on Green/Amber Screens. Wireless networking took some time and I remember when everyone was waiting for the year of the network when networking would be commonplace. Heck even cars and aviation where considered toys when new. AI was over hyped as was 4G programing. Don't forget Prolog.
New technology is often unreliable and expensive when compared to new technology. It took over a decade for jet aircraft to take over for piston engined airliners.It took about a decade for microcomputers to take over from the Minicomputer. It took about the same for the GUI if not longer. Until the Model 3 and the Chevy Bolt ship, electric cars are still a toy. That is just the way of the world.
Simply wondering if the graphic nature off the mocking was needed. In fact I would say that the effectiveness of the mocking was decreased by the over the top reply. In other words you reply would not change anyone's mind and puts the original post in a less offensive light in comparison to your reply.
I was not aware of that permission was given. Seems even worse for Apple then. The owner of the device gave permission and Apple still refused to help. There was zero privacy issue in that case.
funny rant but the simple truth is that. 1. There is no real alternative for oil in many areas. Oil is used for transportation, solar and wind are used for electrical production. 2. Oil is not the biggest problem when it comes to CO2. Coal is the real problem.
More to the point. "We will conclude the three-part investigation by showing how corrupt practices have extended deep into Asia and Africa." Doing business in Asia and Africa involves bribes? Shocking I tell you.
"Would it be feasible to bring back the Directory with so many websites out there?" Probably not. In a way it is too bad. I like curation and it is something that I miss. I wonder what all the new sites are about. There not that many new sites for the subjects I am interested in.
Gmail was much better. I actually have a gmail, yahoo, company, and outlook accounts. I like to try new stuff and frankly I was really interested in gmail when it came out and I got an invite so I used it. I use my yahoo for throwaway accounts. I use outlook for professional emails. I use gmail now for friends and family. I stopped using Yahoo a lot when they dropped the directory. I used to find it fun to drill down and find interesting websites. Sure now I can do a search but it is not interesting. For example if you search for Estes Model rockets you are not likely to find out about historical makers of model rockets like Centuri. I just went to the Yahoo page for the first time in years... Yea it has problems for sure. Too bad the old yahoo was a lot more interesting.
I just don't get it. I still use the my.yahoo.com custom homepage now and then. Yahoo mail is fine but I moved most of my mail to gmail way back when. Yahoo sports is big. I am pretty sure they are still making a profit so why do people seem to dislike them so? And yes they used to run way too many ads.
What I miss are the older movies. I love movies from the 1930s,40s, 50s, and 60s. The ones that used to be on AMC and TMC. Where are all the old westerns?
Really? Are you nuts? An OSs job is to run applications. Linux for the home users is really lacking in several areas as far as applications and Games are a huge one. OS/X has much the same issue. That is one reason that Windows is still the number one desktop OS. I really like Linux and OS/X but Windows is still winning the desktop and probably will for a long time. Frankly it is not just games but things like CAD and just about every vertical market program on the planet. Linux today is no Ferrari it is more of a Peterbuilt. It is fine as sever, embedded systems, and a desktop for developers but for many other users the lack of applications is holding it back from broader use. All the car metaphors will not change that.
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"You must be the odd person out or you don't participate in the culture."
My wife is a BYU grad and I am in the elders quorum presidency so we are pretty Mormon. Most of the families in my ward have two to three kids which is pretty normal. Some only have one or none and some have four or five. Maybe it is just me but that does not seem to be all that odd from when I was growing up. I am a convert but not a recent one.
Sorry that you feel out of place culturally but yes it is bigotry. If you said the same thing about members of the Roman Catholic church or of hispanics or african americans you would have people coming down on you like a ton of bricks. In other words be grateful that the company you work for seems to offer this and maybe you will get to benefit from it also.
Drivers need a stable binary interface.
Even with completely open source drivers that ability to package a binary that just works is huge for the makers of hardware.
Really the Echo is really cool hardware but the current API is just too limiting.
How about an Echo intercom system? How about using it as a Sonos?
I really like my Echo but I know it could do a lot more.
You live and learn. We started to format and re image all notebooks used on trips after that.
Umm..
I am a Mormon man and I have no kids.
Funny how some bigotry gets an easy pass on Slashdot. It is not like members of the LDS church all have large families or are the only people that have kids on the planet.
Way back in the day a company I worked for had done a good job securing our network...
Until a developer went to a conference and plugged his network in the hotel network then brought it back inside our firewall.
We did catch the problem very quickly and only a few machines where infected but we locked things down even more after that.
I would also add that I do not think it was the screens as much as the ram and address space that where an issue. Going back to the Commodore/Atari days if you have a 320x200x24 bit image it was much larger than the address space of the CPU. Go up to the PC CGA era and you are looking at 640x200x24 or 375k! That is why you saw the limited color pallets and lower resolution back then and not really the displays.
All I found was a chart and an abstract. At no time did I see the actual countries listed.
Also how liberal a nation is can be up for debate.
For example some nations in the EU have hate speech laws but almost no restriction on sexual content.
In the US you will often see age restriction on sexual content but no restriction on political speech. Which is more free or liberal?
I would like to to have seen a list of the nations and how they ranked them before I draw any conclusion.
"Sound never really justified its existence on work machines."
Actually in some markets it did. I used to work in the Court Reporting software industry. When sound became common we added the ability to record the audio while the court reporter took the testimony on the steno machine. The audio and steno where time stamped so you could go listen to the audio at the location your cursor was on.
Today you can use VOIP on the PC to replace a phone on the desk so I would say that sound is now justified on business machines.
Color and sound were considered toys for a long time. You only needed them to play games. Real work was done on Green/Amber Screens.
Wireless networking took some time and I remember when everyone was waiting for the year of the network when networking would be commonplace. Heck even cars and aviation where considered toys when new.
AI was over hyped as was 4G programing. Don't forget Prolog.
New technology is often unreliable and expensive when compared to new technology. It took over a decade for jet aircraft to take over for piston engined airliners.It took about a decade for microcomputers to take over from the Minicomputer. It took about the same for the GUI if not longer.
Until the Model 3 and the Chevy Bolt ship, electric cars are still a toy.
That is just the way of the world.
4 if you need height.
Yes.
Simply wondering if the graphic nature off the mocking was needed. In fact I would say that the effectiveness of the mocking was decreased by the over the top reply.
In other words you reply would not change anyone's mind and puts the original post in a less offensive light in comparison to your reply.
I was not aware of that permission was given.
Seems even worse for Apple then. The owner of the device gave permission and Apple still refused to help. There was zero privacy issue in that case.
funny rant but the simple truth is that.
1. There is no real alternative for oil in many areas. Oil is used for transportation, solar and wind are used for electrical production.
2. Oil is not the biggest problem when it comes to CO2. Coal is the real problem.
More to the point.
"We will conclude the three-part investigation by showing how corrupt practices have extended deep into Asia and Africa."
Doing business in Asia and Africa involves bribes? Shocking I tell you.
Wow a wildly inappropriate comment and a wildly inappropriate reply.
Couldn't you just have said, "stop being a bigot" and move on?
"Would it be feasible to bring back the Directory with so many websites out there?"
Probably not.
In a way it is too bad. I like curation and it is something that I miss. I wonder what all the new sites are about. There not that many new sites for the subjects I am interested in.
Actually I believe that they had a court order so this did follow all legal requirements for a search.
Yea the FBI will not say a word.
Gmail was much better.
I actually have a gmail, yahoo, company, and outlook accounts. I like to try new stuff and frankly I was really interested in gmail when it came out and I got an invite so I used it.
I use my yahoo for throwaway accounts.
I use outlook for professional emails.
I use gmail now for friends and family.
I stopped using Yahoo a lot when they dropped the directory. I used to find it fun to drill down and find interesting websites. Sure now I can do a search but it is not interesting. For example if you search for Estes Model rockets you are not likely to find out about historical makers of model rockets like Centuri. I just went to the Yahoo page for the first time in years... Yea it has problems for sure. Too bad the old yahoo was a lot more interesting.
I just don't get it. I still use the my.yahoo.com custom homepage now and then. Yahoo mail is fine but I moved most of my mail to gmail way back when. Yahoo sports is big.
I am pretty sure they are still making a profit so why do people seem to dislike them so?
And yes they used to run way too many ads.
What I miss are the older movies.
I love movies from the 1930s,40s, 50s, and 60s. The ones that used to be on AMC and TMC.
Where are all the old westerns?
Really? Are you nuts?
An OSs job is to run applications. Linux for the home users is really lacking in several areas as far as applications and Games are a huge one. OS/X has much the same issue. That is one reason that Windows is still the number one desktop OS.
I really like Linux and OS/X but Windows is still winning the desktop and probably will for a long time.
Frankly it is not just games but things like CAD and just about every vertical market program on the planet.
Linux today is no Ferrari it is more of a Peterbuilt. It is fine as sever, embedded systems, and a desktop for developers but for many other users the lack of applications is holding it back from broader use. All the car metaphors will not change that.
My wife likes her round a lot as well. I think Pebble is actually a good product but it is suffering from the Apple watch effect.
They are but we still have mainframes but minicomputers with the exception of the IBM System/38,AS400,iSeries have all but become extinct.