Yes, GM was behind the trends. No one wants the vehicles that were being produced at the plants that are closing down. "Cars" have fallen out of favor for truck-like vehicles.
Frankly so much has changed since the 70's that comparisons to them are pointless unless done really well, with a level of analysis beyond Quartz. Armchair comparisons may reflect inflation but do they consider all the other quality of life improvements that many of the US's "poor" have these days?
As stated in the article:
1) Off-brand sucks
2) People are too lazy to think ahead and buy on-line.
Most goods are available cheaper/better on-line, but if you're going to wait until you absolutely need it you will be stuck with whatever local pricing and availability is.
... this doesn't even pertain explicitly to batteries, it is a fact of life about most consumables.
If it hit one of the three I would understand; but this reads as a press release (not news, does not matter) for a company that is not of particular interest to nerds.
You seem to have two arguments:
1) In addition to "out of pocket" and "add supported", "by tax" is a viable way to fund something.
2) $CURRENT_YEAR is finally the year of Linux on the desktop -- because plucky, truly free upstarts take down will-heeled and entrenched behemoths all the time.
I don't know that Chrome uses undocumented API access, all I know is that it is much more responsive than Firefox.
If Chrome isn't "cheating" then that means there is no reason for Firefox to be as slow as it is on Android. There are things I like about FF but the responsiveness is not one of them.
Interesting, but isn't one of the reasons FF has been a memory hog is it was storing long histories of all open tabs in memory? I thought they reduced or otherwise changed this behavior a few years back.
Yeah, so, I should just stop surfing the web from my phone I guess.
Or maybe Firefox could start to approach Chrome's UX on the platform. Yeah, I know: "Google knows teh all", "OMG unfair system access", what ever reason you want to toss out. Maybe Chrome plays dirty and Firefox will never compete on raw performance on Android, but there must be room for improvement.
A realize it is probably a different team but they could spend some time improving the Android version -- it is too damn slow. I really don't have a problem on Windows and if they're trying to eek out milliseconds in UI response there, maybe put the effort to shaving seconds off of the Android interface.
Which is why these discussions do not belong in the workplace.
FTA:
The idea of trying to alter a companyâ(TM)s culture all by yourself is almost as stupid as the myth of meritocracy the tech industry is so in love with
It is a meritocracy, but if your personal foibles overshadow your work then you are worth less as an employee. Now that can be a tricky matrix: a lower-skilled employee that is trouble free may be worth more to the business then a rock star that is constantly causing problems outside the normal scope of their work. But being the best coder/cook/floor moper isn't the only consideration when determining one's worth to a company.
I started spending a lot of time trying to curate my feed -- blocking most third party articles and re-shares. But then I started going directly to friends walls and realized [i]almost everything[/i] was just a re-share.
Fb was a huge time sink and I'm glad to be done with it. Now I can spend more time on the Internet's largest message board for transsexual gun owners.
If you want the news, you know where to find it.
I dropped off fb years ago as my feed was no longer about my friends and what they were doing but about politics and click bait like I Fucking Love Science. I liked my friends a lot more before they started sharing how stupid they are.
The one thing I miss about fb is it reminded me to visit Penny Arcade, which I guess if I was still on these new changes would eliminate that.
Worse, this isn't even a "social media" or "Internet" problem. Are we doing to somehow enforce diversity and equal time for counter arguments at union halls? Fraternal organizations? Bars?
People tend to congregate with the like-minded; unless one makes an effort to seek both sides of an issue then they will only get the one. Information bubbles and confirmation bias existed before the Internet and will exist after.
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Yes, GM was behind the trends. No one wants the vehicles that were being produced at the plants that are closing down. "Cars" have fallen out of favor for truck-like vehicles.
Frankly so much has changed since the 70's that comparisons to them are pointless unless done really well, with a level of analysis beyond Quartz. Armchair comparisons may reflect inflation but do they consider all the other quality of life improvements that many of the US's "poor" have these days?
BUT WILL WE?!? srsly, that is probably the most useless comment ever
Bloomberg helping Trump? Really? That is highly unlikely.
As stated in the article:
... this doesn't even pertain explicitly to batteries, it is a fact of life about most consumables.
1) Off-brand sucks
2) People are too lazy to think ahead and buy on-line.
Most goods are available cheaper/better on-line, but if you're going to wait until you absolutely need it you will be stuck with whatever local pricing and availability is.
If it hit one of the three I would understand; but this reads as a press release (not news, does not matter) for a company that is not of particular interest to nerds.
Not two minutes ago I got spam'ed offering to add Hulu for $3 a month -- $12.99 for both seems like a good deal.
This is hardly "news", isn't for "nerds", and doesn't "matter". Slow news day, eh?
AC is correct. Laws are not the answer, action is; do business with those that do not track you.
Exactly. "If it protects one idiot" is why we have so many laws to begin with.
And this is the apt analogy. No one said FB didn't "care" about it's users, just that their users are the [i]product being sold[/i].
You seem to have two arguments: 1) In addition to "out of pocket" and "add supported", "by tax" is a viable way to fund something. 2) $CURRENT_YEAR is finally the year of Linux on the desktop -- because plucky, truly free upstarts take down will-heeled and entrenched behemoths all the time.
tenuous
AEnema, more precisely. I have a suggestion to keep you all occupied: learn to swim
AC is right, you know.
I don't know that Chrome uses undocumented API access, all I know is that it is much more responsive than Firefox.
If Chrome isn't "cheating" then that means there is no reason for Firefox to be as slow as it is on Android. There are things I like about FF but the responsiveness is not one of them.
Interesting, but isn't one of the reasons FF has been a memory hog is it was storing long histories of all open tabs in memory? I thought they reduced or otherwise changed this behavior a few years back.
Yeah, so, I should just stop surfing the web from my phone I guess.
Or maybe Firefox could start to approach Chrome's UX on the platform. Yeah, I know: "Google knows teh all", "OMG unfair system access", what ever reason you want to toss out. Maybe Chrome plays dirty and Firefox will never compete on raw performance on Android, but there must be room for improvement.
A realize it is probably a different team but they could spend some time improving the Android version -- it is too damn slow. I really don't have a problem on Windows and if they're trying to eek out milliseconds in UI response there, maybe put the effort to shaving seconds off of the Android interface.
Good guy. I'm his body guard.
Which is why these discussions do not belong in the workplace.
FTA:
It is a meritocracy, but if your personal foibles overshadow your work then you are worth less as an employee. Now that can be a tricky matrix: a lower-skilled employee that is trouble free may be worth more to the business then a rock star that is constantly causing problems outside the normal scope of their work. But being the best coder/cook/floor moper isn't the only consideration when determining one's worth to a company.
Worse, it is the end of the end.
Yes, BSD is finally dead.
:-(
I completely agree, yet that was one of the first features they started tweaking away in order to get more paid crap in your news feed.
I started spending a lot of time trying to curate my feed -- blocking most third party articles and re-shares. But then I started going directly to friends walls and realized [i]almost everything[/i] was just a re-share.
Fb was a huge time sink and I'm glad to be done with it. Now I can spend more time on the Internet's largest message board for transsexual gun owners.
If you want the news, you know where to find it. I dropped off fb years ago as my feed was no longer about my friends and what they were doing but about politics and click bait like I Fucking Love Science. I liked my friends a lot more before they started sharing how stupid they are. The one thing I miss about fb is it reminded me to visit Penny Arcade, which I guess if I was still on these new changes would eliminate that.
Worse, this isn't even a "social media" or "Internet" problem. Are we doing to somehow enforce diversity and equal time for counter arguments at union halls? Fraternal organizations? Bars?
People tend to congregate with the like-minded; unless one makes an effort to seek both sides of an issue then they will only get the one. Information bubbles and confirmation bias existed before the Internet and will exist after.