If they applied their rules of engagement consistently I'd think it will work out quite well for them. The past years Twitter is burning through a third of their cash reserves just to stay in operation. Any collapse will come no matter who they ban. In one point we do agree, Twitter is like a newspaper, there is no right to have the letter to the editor get published.
Huh? Retweeting derogatory content from a person convicted of hate crimes does not warrant banning? I also wonder which of the lies and misinformation from Trump amounts to "important information"? Especially because world leaders have an "outsized impact on our society" Twitter need to prevent that impact from doing harm. Seems like Twitter is bully, kick those out who cannot send in the lawyers and in case of Trump just fold like a cheap tent. No wonder Twitter is on the brink of financial collapse. If they run their business with the same lack of values then it is no wonder they burn through cash like nothing.
If only his ass was kicked he can count himself lucky. Shows what a coward he is, forces an unpopular decision and then is too afraid to defend it in public.
You are right, but you also need to take into account that one of the core reasons for municipal fiber is municipal use, as in linking all municipal sites together. The city or town has to pay someone else for that service when not rolling their own. Also, many municipal fiber networks are primarily expanded to industrial and business zones with the effect of attracting business and thus increasing tax revenue. That investment will offset expenses long term. Determining true cost will be very difficult, if not impossible.
Cars are a tool, not an investment with positive yield. Anyone who buys cars based on resale value is fooling thenmselves. Buy the car and drive it for at least 15 years, that is how you get your money worth. But...but...but...you may say, your commute to work is an hour each way and you put a huge amount of miles on your car each year. Well....move! That should be rather obvious when your focus is on return on investment. All the time, gas, wear and tear on your vehicle is waste.
There is little public data available that supports the claim of EVs being more environmentally friendly. Especially in the US this might not be the case because a lot of electricity comes from dirty, outdated coal power plants. Manufacturing batteries and disposing of them later is also not a clean business. If it were Europe where more and more power comes from renewables the story might be different, although building and maintaining wind turbines or such has a significant environmental impact. EVs are glorified because the story is told without taking the entire ecobalance into account.
Leasing is great for those who have no money or too much money. The purchase cost for EVs is rather high compared to equivalent gas powered vehicles. That means anyone who is not loaded (and even those) can only afford and EV as a lease. Leasing an EV also circumvents the rather costly battery replacement.
Looks like it. The choice is clear: either have a crippled phone or give Apple more money. I guess folks dumb enough to buy an iPhone will claim that this is awesome customer service.
It is rather clear that Intel screwed up. Intel should recall and replace all processors at no cost to the customers. I sure hope Microsoft and the Linux organisation send a bill to Intel for the damages caused.
How many people were killed by American "alt-right" ? - Plenty!
And where in Germany do you see Antifa storm troopers? If I see anything like those it is typically the hairless kind of what is the alt-right.
Of course it is open to interpretation, but it is up to the social networks to enforce the rules. It is not the government itself. The key point here is to stop giving criminal haters a platform, such as von Storch or those who repost hate speech like Trump.
No wonder that such a comment was posted. This is not the same as censorship! If it was censorship the government wouldn't bother with fines, but instead pass a law that gives police direct access to the servers so that they can control at all times what gets posted. This law is about protecting people from online hate crimes. There is no difference if someone posts a comment online declaring all Germans as Nazis or spraying that on the German embassy building....just to stick with the theme of your prejudice. You may want to review the past 70 years of German history before dropping more comments that clearly show that you lack key information.
The best way to prevent breaches is to start giving a damn. Stop collecting personal data on people, use encryption, run security audits, stay on top with patches, limit access.... all the standard stuff that gets ignored because it might cost a few bucks to hire someone to take care of it. Oh, and for sure making C-level managers personally liable for all damages caused by breaches will fix this issue right away. As soon as they potentially have to sell their helicopters and yachts to pay for damages they instantly will implement better procedures and make smarter decisions.
I stopped making sense of postage rates. Mailing next town over costs as much as mailing to the other end of the continent, and domestic mail is dirt cheap compared to most other countries. I do not know the details of the Amazon deal, but rumor has it that Amazon pays less than the expense incurred by USPS to provide the service. While stupid (can't make up loss per item through volume) it is in line with any other discounted services such as bulk mail rates and to some extend presorted standard. Especially bulk mail rate and large customer prices should be much higher. In return lower package postage and international postage. I used to send packages to Europe on a regular basis, but in the past years the postage is three to four times the value of the content and it is three to four times the postage for the other way around. If anything, mailing internationally should be much cheaper than mailing domestically because the postal service does not have to provide the most expensive part of the service:delivery. The only benefit I see is that I now get packages delivered on Sundays. I rather have lower postage prices.
The best places for such plants are abandoned coal mines. Also uses the same level of skill of mining jobs. Rather than extend coal mining the mines should be used for energy storage.
Not too long ago taking the family out to the movies was cheap entertainment. These days it is a major investment and if we go we make sure that there is a very high chance of us liking the movie. If it gets any more expensive I will ask for my money back when the movie sucks. It's not the theater's fault, they just resell defective merchandise. They should charge the distributor and film studios.
These days watches have typically two means of fastening the back plate: screws or compression. The watch repair tools are sold in a kit and are not that expensive. For the screws (typically Phillips head) you need a really small screwdriver. The compression caps have one corner with a notch, use a magnifying glass to find it. Then use a tool to pry the cap off (don't use the tiny flat screwdriver, it will ruin it). Replace battery and snap the back on. Rarely I have seen backs that screw on. There is an odd looking tool for that as well. It is a long handle with three round pegs that can be adjusted to fit the size. As far as the gasket is concerned...unless you are dependent on using the watch under water or in wet environments it is not really needed. It broke on my Casio watch and the watch worked fine for years without it. YMMV.
Pocket watches are an excellent design from a different era. Back then the shirt sleeves were closed up tight by the cufflinks. Having a pocket watch attached to a decent chain and parked in a pocket in the vest was the way to go. That also allowed for a larger watch that could not have been strapped to the wrist. We no longer dress like this unless for very special occasions, so the wrist watch is far more practical. I can't think of a current type of clothing where a pocket watch would be suitable.
How much of a text message does a smartwatch display legibly? By design, the screens are tiny. They do have an excellent resolution and such, but they are still tiny. In order to display some decent amount of text on the display the font has to be tiny. Maybe folks with sulphur vision can read it no problem. Stock ticker? And then what? In order to make a buy or sell you have to whip out the smartphone anyway or call up your adviser. Temperature might be interesting, but it likely will not be the ambient temperature of the place you are at, but some measurement from some weather station. Doesn't help to make the point that it is too hot in the office.
Although Casio makes it rather unpleasant to swap out batteries. I had a Waveceptor for years. Loved the watch. First time I surprised the guy at the jewelry store and got it replaced for 15$ which he waved after I had to get the correct battery from the nearby RadioShack. Next time around (which wasn't nearly as long as I expected) the guy asked 40$ for the job. I bought watch repair tools and did it myself...and oh boy, it surely would have been worth the 40$. Battery replacement was easy, getting all the buttons to line up right was a major challenge. I got three of them to work. Next time around I was out of luck and gave up after several hour long tries. Went back to the mechanical automatic watch from my grandfather. It winds itself up through the natural wrist movement and only stops when it isn't worn for a few days.
Plus...smartwatches as well as any other mobile devices have a dismal battery life. At least one a week I pull out my (not so often) used smartphone and that damn battery is empty. Why isn't there battery tech where I need to charge it only every three months for a few hours? Or not at all? There is body heat, there is movement, the solar/light, smartphones are exposed to plenty of source of energy. At lest have it charge to full in a few minutes.
Delete the cookies and vote again. SurveyMonkey makes it far too easy to stuff the ballot box. - That aside, didn't Trump just claim he invented the term "Merry Christmas"? So how could the survey participants know about it? In that sense: Seasons Greetings!
And a year later we know the answer is "No". For me, core reason is not the desktop as such, but interoperability with other systems. Why is setting up Samba such a pain in the you know where and the very few GUI tools for Samba, well, all suck? Add to that the driver issues that are about as bad as those on Win 10 and the rapid dropping of support for older hardware. Oh, and as worse is documentation and decent GUI tool availability. Yea, I want step by step guides and a GUI. It's 2017! The time of manually editing config files in some editor and being told to change a dozen rows of code and the recompile are to be over.
I do enjoy using desktop Linux on my 35$ Pi. As capable as a big PC for light office work and web use.
One day material design is hip, then Metro, then something else. I think it is madness since none of them are particularly better than tool bar on top with a well-structured menu system below, all augmented with keyboard shortcuts. That brings us back to the battleship gray windowed desktop apps or their slightly more modern browser based counterparts. That's it, we are done, all UI issues are resolved! Too bad that customers are not having any of that. All evidence suggests that customers crave more color and big tiles and animated eye candy even if it adds zero benefit. Further, one group of customers demands that navigation should work this way, a different group wants it that way, and that is nothing that yet another group wants. As a UX designer, how do you make them all happy? As far as QA goes, customers keep buying stuff of shoddy quality and are apparently OK with that, at least as long as the stuff solves their need and restarts are fast. Don't think that is how it should be? Then by all means stop buying broken stuff!
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If they applied their rules of engagement consistently I'd think it will work out quite well for them. The past years Twitter is burning through a third of their cash reserves just to stay in operation. Any collapse will come no matter who they ban. In one point we do agree, Twitter is like a newspaper, there is no right to have the letter to the editor get published.
Huh? Retweeting derogatory content from a person convicted of hate crimes does not warrant banning? I also wonder which of the lies and misinformation from Trump amounts to "important information"? Especially because world leaders have an "outsized impact on our society" Twitter need to prevent that impact from doing harm. Seems like Twitter is bully, kick those out who cannot send in the lawyers and in case of Trump just fold like a cheap tent. No wonder Twitter is on the brink of financial collapse. If they run their business with the same lack of values then it is no wonder they burn through cash like nothing.
If only his ass was kicked he can count himself lucky. Shows what a coward he is, forces an unpopular decision and then is too afraid to defend it in public.
You are right, but you also need to take into account that one of the core reasons for municipal fiber is municipal use, as in linking all municipal sites together. The city or town has to pay someone else for that service when not rolling their own. Also, many municipal fiber networks are primarily expanded to industrial and business zones with the effect of attracting business and thus increasing tax revenue. That investment will offset expenses long term. Determining true cost will be very difficult, if not impossible.
Cars are a tool, not an investment with positive yield. Anyone who buys cars based on resale value is fooling thenmselves. Buy the car and drive it for at least 15 years, that is how you get your money worth. But...but...but...you may say, your commute to work is an hour each way and you put a huge amount of miles on your car each year. Well....move! That should be rather obvious when your focus is on return on investment. All the time, gas, wear and tear on your vehicle is waste.
There is little public data available that supports the claim of EVs being more environmentally friendly. Especially in the US this might not be the case because a lot of electricity comes from dirty, outdated coal power plants. Manufacturing batteries and disposing of them later is also not a clean business. If it were Europe where more and more power comes from renewables the story might be different, although building and maintaining wind turbines or such has a significant environmental impact. EVs are glorified because the story is told without taking the entire ecobalance into account.
Leasing is great for those who have no money or too much money. The purchase cost for EVs is rather high compared to equivalent gas powered vehicles. That means anyone who is not loaded (and even those) can only afford and EV as a lease. Leasing an EV also circumvents the rather costly battery replacement.
Trump already solved this issue. It is all a Chinese hoax. Case closed!
Looks like it. The choice is clear: either have a crippled phone or give Apple more money. I guess folks dumb enough to buy an iPhone will claim that this is awesome customer service.
It is rather clear that Intel screwed up. Intel should recall and replace all processors at no cost to the customers. I sure hope Microsoft and the Linux organisation send a bill to Intel for the damages caused.
How many people were killed by American "alt-right" ? - Plenty! And where in Germany do you see Antifa storm troopers? If I see anything like those it is typically the hairless kind of what is the alt-right.
Of course it is open to interpretation, but it is up to the social networks to enforce the rules. It is not the government itself. The key point here is to stop giving criminal haters a platform, such as von Storch or those who repost hate speech like Trump.
No wonder that such a comment was posted. This is not the same as censorship! If it was censorship the government wouldn't bother with fines, but instead pass a law that gives police direct access to the servers so that they can control at all times what gets posted. This law is about protecting people from online hate crimes. There is no difference if someone posts a comment online declaring all Germans as Nazis or spraying that on the German embassy building....just to stick with the theme of your prejudice. You may want to review the past 70 years of German history before dropping more comments that clearly show that you lack key information.
The best way to prevent breaches is to start giving a damn. Stop collecting personal data on people, use encryption, run security audits, stay on top with patches, limit access.... all the standard stuff that gets ignored because it might cost a few bucks to hire someone to take care of it. Oh, and for sure making C-level managers personally liable for all damages caused by breaches will fix this issue right away. As soon as they potentially have to sell their helicopters and yachts to pay for damages they instantly will implement better procedures and make smarter decisions.
I stopped making sense of postage rates. Mailing next town over costs as much as mailing to the other end of the continent, and domestic mail is dirt cheap compared to most other countries. I do not know the details of the Amazon deal, but rumor has it that Amazon pays less than the expense incurred by USPS to provide the service. While stupid (can't make up loss per item through volume) it is in line with any other discounted services such as bulk mail rates and to some extend presorted standard. Especially bulk mail rate and large customer prices should be much higher. In return lower package postage and international postage. I used to send packages to Europe on a regular basis, but in the past years the postage is three to four times the value of the content and it is three to four times the postage for the other way around. If anything, mailing internationally should be much cheaper than mailing domestically because the postal service does not have to provide the most expensive part of the service:delivery. The only benefit I see is that I now get packages delivered on Sundays. I rather have lower postage prices.
The best places for such plants are abandoned coal mines. Also uses the same level of skill of mining jobs. Rather than extend coal mining the mines should be used for energy storage.
Not too long ago taking the family out to the movies was cheap entertainment. These days it is a major investment and if we go we make sure that there is a very high chance of us liking the movie. If it gets any more expensive I will ask for my money back when the movie sucks. It's not the theater's fault, they just resell defective merchandise. They should charge the distributor and film studios.
These days watches have typically two means of fastening the back plate: screws or compression. The watch repair tools are sold in a kit and are not that expensive. For the screws (typically Phillips head) you need a really small screwdriver. The compression caps have one corner with a notch, use a magnifying glass to find it. Then use a tool to pry the cap off (don't use the tiny flat screwdriver, it will ruin it). Replace battery and snap the back on. Rarely I have seen backs that screw on. There is an odd looking tool for that as well. It is a long handle with three round pegs that can be adjusted to fit the size. As far as the gasket is concerned...unless you are dependent on using the watch under water or in wet environments it is not really needed. It broke on my Casio watch and the watch worked fine for years without it. YMMV.
Pocket watches are an excellent design from a different era. Back then the shirt sleeves were closed up tight by the cufflinks. Having a pocket watch attached to a decent chain and parked in a pocket in the vest was the way to go. That also allowed for a larger watch that could not have been strapped to the wrist. We no longer dress like this unless for very special occasions, so the wrist watch is far more practical. I can't think of a current type of clothing where a pocket watch would be suitable.
How much of a text message does a smartwatch display legibly? By design, the screens are tiny. They do have an excellent resolution and such, but they are still tiny. In order to display some decent amount of text on the display the font has to be tiny. Maybe folks with sulphur vision can read it no problem. Stock ticker? And then what? In order to make a buy or sell you have to whip out the smartphone anyway or call up your adviser. Temperature might be interesting, but it likely will not be the ambient temperature of the place you are at, but some measurement from some weather station. Doesn't help to make the point that it is too hot in the office.
Although Casio makes it rather unpleasant to swap out batteries. I had a Waveceptor for years. Loved the watch. First time I surprised the guy at the jewelry store and got it replaced for 15$ which he waved after I had to get the correct battery from the nearby RadioShack. Next time around (which wasn't nearly as long as I expected) the guy asked 40$ for the job. I bought watch repair tools and did it myself...and oh boy, it surely would have been worth the 40$. Battery replacement was easy, getting all the buttons to line up right was a major challenge. I got three of them to work. Next time around I was out of luck and gave up after several hour long tries. Went back to the mechanical automatic watch from my grandfather. It winds itself up through the natural wrist movement and only stops when it isn't worn for a few days.
Plus...smartwatches as well as any other mobile devices have a dismal battery life. At least one a week I pull out my (not so often) used smartphone and that damn battery is empty. Why isn't there battery tech where I need to charge it only every three months for a few hours? Or not at all? There is body heat, there is movement, the solar/light, smartphones are exposed to plenty of source of energy. At lest have it charge to full in a few minutes.
Delete the cookies and vote again. SurveyMonkey makes it far too easy to stuff the ballot box. - That aside, didn't Trump just claim he invented the term "Merry Christmas"? So how could the survey participants know about it? In that sense: Seasons Greetings!
And a year later we know the answer is "No". For me, core reason is not the desktop as such, but interoperability with other systems. Why is setting up Samba such a pain in the you know where and the very few GUI tools for Samba, well, all suck? Add to that the driver issues that are about as bad as those on Win 10 and the rapid dropping of support for older hardware. Oh, and as worse is documentation and decent GUI tool availability. Yea, I want step by step guides and a GUI. It's 2017! The time of manually editing config files in some editor and being told to change a dozen rows of code and the recompile are to be over.
I do enjoy using desktop Linux on my 35$ Pi. As capable as a big PC for light office work and web use.
One day material design is hip, then Metro, then something else. I think it is madness since none of them are particularly better than tool bar on top with a well-structured menu system below, all augmented with keyboard shortcuts. That brings us back to the battleship gray windowed desktop apps or their slightly more modern browser based counterparts. That's it, we are done, all UI issues are resolved! Too bad that customers are not having any of that. All evidence suggests that customers crave more color and big tiles and animated eye candy even if it adds zero benefit. Further, one group of customers demands that navigation should work this way, a different group wants it that way, and that is nothing that yet another group wants. As a UX designer, how do you make them all happy? As far as QA goes, customers keep buying stuff of shoddy quality and are apparently OK with that, at least as long as the stuff solves their need and restarts are fast. Don't think that is how it should be? Then by all means stop buying broken stuff!