Descenders mean you need MORE space for LESS legibility. Try it. I developed what was at the time the ultimate variable-space microfont back in the'80s (just for personal curiosity - I don't know if "microfont" was even a term then) and it was 5px high with 1px between lines. Descenders would have made that impossible. Why not try it instead of bitching all the time about how it's not possible or it doesn't make sense or whatever.
I just wanted to see how much info could be put on a standard screen - it's a LOT if we get rid of lowercase.:-)
So you sue them! Besides, who says you needed a WIRED provider? Or even a provider? For community-based stuff, mesh networks are just fine. No ISP needed.
iPads are a dying market segment, last I looked. Who cares? Apple is in decline - 10% this last year, and a lot of that was smartphones. 8% of the market is pretty safe to ignore, same as it was back in the DOS vs Apple days. History - it repeats itself:-)
First, if there's a market, there is no reason not to make specific applications for various combos of hardware and software - no need to have one size fits all. And that's the beauty of it - you can buy whatever you want. Nobody says you have to buy any particular hardware or operating system.
Also, there is NO reason that today's smartphones need to run a particular OS. That's the thing about general computing - you can always write a different OS if you want. Also, as the Chinese have shown, you can run apps outside of Apple's walled garden without needing to jailbreak the phone. Kind of sucks if you're Apple and you had 90% sales growth in your China app store last year, because that's going to go into reverse soon enough.
The same techniques can also be applied to Android. No walled garden exists forever.
Additionally, Java was just an example.
Besides, the Android manufacturers are getting antsy. There's no reason FreeBSD can't be used as the underpinnings on existing smartphone hardware instead of linux. Or that other runtimes can't replace the ART in their offerings - just that programs will have to be re-written, same as moving from mac to windows to x. So what? This has always been the case, and nobody's died because "OMG we're changing operating systems and some of my old programs won't work any more!!!"
The internet is a failure. We just haven't gotten far enough along to see it - but we're seeing some of the consequences already. The whole "fake news" thing, which now encompasses the government (which was always into fake news), business (advertisers always lied), and the media (who at least used to pretend that they were reporting the facts) has only just begun. Watch.
Agendas mean nothing. Facts mean everything. You're like the crook who gets the whistle blown on them by saying "they're just as bad." You got caught. So sad, too bad. Blaming the messenger doesn't change the facts.
Never said otherwise - just that neither one can legitimately claim that they got the majority of votes - and neither can their mindless smarmy sycophants.
And where is Guy Kawasaki now? It's all been downhill after PepsiCo, same as John Scully in the reverse direction. Still spouting marketing bullshit that he learned working for a company that no longer has anything new or innovative to put fear into the competition because now they worry about "courageous" "innovations" that the customer doesn't want. Sometimes you can be so focused on the trees (the iWatch) that you don't see the forest (that Apple is losing market share because they have no new forests to exploit). iPad? Dying. MacBooks? Behind the times. iPhones? Sales down almost 10% last year. Profit down even more - which means they're eating it at the top end.
That decline in focus, in new product lines, is far from a small detail, and Apple is no longer seen as "excellent", no matter how much they want to believe otherwise.
And what has that got to do with the fact that it WAS a non-aggression pact that included, as part of the deal, dividing up other countries? It's not like this was novel. The US did it too.
More women are attending universities than men. That trend has been going on for a while - since the late '70s (okay, it's more than "a while" - it's a generation or so). Women are also more likely to graduate. Even if we don't look specifically at the US, the same holds true globally (though not quite as much).
The man buying a "penis extender" muscle car or truck isn't going to impress the woman with her Kia Soul. She's picked what she likes, plus she's saved money on both the original purchase and day-to-day expenses. So they guy continually pays a financial penalty for peacocking, for nothing. All he's doing is impressing people with the same values - his bros.
Times have changed. Ever driven a 5-ton truck from the 40's or 50's? Truck-driver then was a man's job because there was no power steering on most trucks. No electric tailgate lifts or palette jiggers. Clutches were DAMN heavy on the leg. So were brakes.
Now? You can't work up a sweat if you try. Power everything, AC in both the truck and at the warehouse and the client, pretty much everything is palettized, shrink-wrapped with 1000' rolls of wrap everywhere so you don't have to worry about loose boxes falling off the palettes, physical strength means pretty much nothing.
At a cost of $50,000 per tire, tire wear on a set of 6 tires on a 400-ton truck is important, and women have been found to cause less tire wear in a mine per tonne hauled then men. Ditto for fuel economy and downtime due to breakage. If they weren't being automated out of jobs, those ultra truck driver jobs would be mostly women today.
This doesn't mean women are better drivers overall - just that, for those who drive such trucks, they are. Things change.
As for pay inequity, that will also change with time.
Most currencies don't gain or lose almost 30% in 36 hours. As for the stock market, it's been, and continues to be, manipulated by the government to provide the illusion of growth, and paper profits for investors - otherwise the economy would collapse.
The whole nation has been living in la-la land ever since the federal debt hit $10T. Everyone knows that it's now just a case of pushing the day of reckoning further and further down the road via things like artificially inflated bubble stock markets and hoping for unicorns outnumbering black swans.
More than half the population is receiving benefits, less than half the population is working (see here), and it's just going to get worse as more "good quality" jobs disappear.
Until you have ANY evidence that that laptop passed anything to the grid computers via some idiot infecting a USB key using that laptop, and then plugging it into a computer on the electric grid, just fuck off with your stupidity. Stuxnet used an infected USB stick as a vector.
Obviously the people didn't prefer Clinton - the majority did not vote for her. So quit your lying, you butt-hurt Clinton crybaby. And no, I don't like Trump any better - but hey, you're the assholes who picked the candidates - it's just the rest of the world watching and laughing at what was once the most powerful office in the world reduced to a really bad reality show.
We watched Bush2 wage fake wars for profit. Obama continue those policies, and total diplomatic failure with his "inviolable red lines in the sand" that Russia laughed at. Russia sets policy for Europe and the Middle East, not the US. And China does what it wants in the South China Sea, and is buying up influence in Africa.
The Munroe Doctrine is dead - but only because NOBODY covets much in South America, and the US is doing a pretty good job of making Mexico easy pickings in the future - China will be quite happy to start buying up businesses and building infrastructure as the US makes them easy pickings.
But hey - politics as entertainment - complete with fake news from everyone, including the government... it's going to be YUGE!
If management were doing their job, they would have already been aware of the problem and be working to fix it. So if there is a problem, whether it's all in the posters' head or it's someone else, management is incompetent. LEAVE.
Better to tell them you'd like to use them as a reference because you don't want to rock the boat, but you also don't want to work with creepo. This way you're being as reasonable as can be.
I can't parse the phrase "bullies unscheduling things you've scheduled". What does bullies mean in this context. How does one bully an inanimate object or thing? How can something be unscheduled if you've scheduled it?
You shouldn't have given them ALL the passwords. "Sorry, that's all I've got. Jerkface must have deleted the rest. You deal with it." As a famous comedian said, "Always leave them wanting more.":-)
What if the person complaining about being gaslit is actually delusional, paranoid, insecure, and incompetent?
It's usually the person doing the gaslighting who is delusional, paranoid, insecure, and incompetent. The problem is that most people won't believe anyone could actually do the crap they pull, they must be telling the truth... nobody would make up stuff like that...
Leave. Your mental and physical health are more important than misplaced loyalty or a bruised ego.
Bozos like that never sue - even though they like to make all sorts of threats. First, that would cost money - the company sure as hell won't fund it. Second, he's going to need to prove that what you said damaged his reputation - in other words, that his reputation was good until people heard what you wrote or said. Kid of hard if you've got people on your side saying he was an insufferable jerk. Third, good luck setting a dollar amount for damages - the company will never say they fired him (if they do) because of what you said, because that opens them up to an unjust dismissal suit. And if he isn't fired, where's the damages? A demotion? It could be based on job performance - and the company will say that because, again, they don't want to be sued.
No good, because the only way to deal with these types of jerks is for the company to fire both the arsehole causing the problem and the arsehole who hired them. And that's just not going to happen.
Save yourself the aggravation - quit. They'll be cursing bozo out soon enough when things start breaking.
And I think your statement is in itself wish fulfillment. And given that you're probably a man, it's obvious why you see things the way you do.
But let's get to the current generation, since that's what we're talking about. Displays of wealth don't work when women are no longer subservient to men in terms of pay. There are plenty of women who make more than men - obviously they didn't choose the guy because he has money, since he has less in those cases. And it's becoming more frequent as well-paying blue-collar jobs go bye-bye and women graduate at higher rates than men.
Both my daughters make more than the guys they went out with, because they both made more than the average for their age group, and compared to the general population at large.
Why not just read what I wrote. I would be willing to pay $10 a month for the bandwidth so that I can self-host my apps. No 3rd party server whatsoever. No other involvement from any ISP - just a connection with a unique IPv6 block all for me. So yes, you are brain-dead,
Try it again:
We should all be able to self-host whatever we want on our own devices (after all, with IPv6 it's not like we can't all have our own block of IPs), and share whatever we want the way we want.
Why should I have to pay a web hosting company for anything when I don't need their services? Just look at the schmucks who depend on 3rd parties for things like the Google + API, now being killed, same as all those other APIs that 3rd parties hosted and then yanked when they couldn't suck enough incidental ad revenue from them?
You've never seen a word processor? Even the DOS ones supported multi-column pagination and full justification. And all those plain-text editors that supported multiple onscreen windows (multi-edit, for example, or the CUA DOS editor windows in dBASE5 that flowed text based in real time as you dragged to resize the window - part of the OWL text UI toolkit from Borland - and there were plenty others) Or you can get an ebook reader. Or Acrobat - supports multiple columns of arbitrary width just fine. Or if you wanted to look at really old text/gui environments, Microware OS9 - scrolling text windows in both text and graphics mode, multiple windows per screen, multiple virtual screens, real-time multitasking (Flight Sim in one window, Rogue in another, Sub Battle in a 3rd, etc).
We haven't made all that much progress over the decades. Android is basically a stack of 1 or more cards per application. Nowhere near a full Java implementation (or even much of an implementation of anything for that matter). Windows is a hog that continues to spend more time on changing the UI than everything else combined. The various *nixish OSes haven't been real game changers in the way we do things. Word processors have become less, not more, efficient as people waste more time on non-essentials and figuring out how to do stuff instead of just doing it. Email kind of made many of us throw up in our mouths with the advent of "html email wallpaper". then full html support. Why? So that people can now use an emoji of an avocado to represent a penis??? If you think an avocado looks like a penis, you're sick. If your penis DOES look like an avocado, you're really sick.
There was NO justification for emojis. But W3C and unicode, both of which have outlived their usefulness, continue to mutate.
I guess you're still stuck in the previous millennium. You can send voice messages to groups, same as pager messages, emails, sms, whatever. However, you're missing the point because you're picking at details that are now irrelevant - there is no reason everyone can't just have their own ip and host their own services, or communicate directly between any 2 devices without an intervening server relaying the data between the two.
And how often do people turn off their phones nowadays anyway? You get an sms message, email, whatever, doesn't mean you have to look at it immediately - the phone can and does store it.
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Descenders mean you need MORE space for LESS legibility. Try it. I developed what was at the time the ultimate variable-space microfont back in the'80s (just for personal curiosity - I don't know if "microfont" was even a term then) and it was 5px high with 1px between lines. Descenders would have made that impossible. Why not try it instead of bitching all the time about how it's not possible or it doesn't make sense or whatever.
I just wanted to see how much info could be put on a standard screen - it's a LOT if we get rid of lowercase. :-)
So you sue them! Besides, who says you needed a WIRED provider? Or even a provider? For community-based stuff, mesh networks are just fine. No ISP needed.
iPads are a dying market segment, last I looked. Who cares? Apple is in decline - 10% this last year, and a lot of that was smartphones. 8% of the market is pretty safe to ignore, same as it was back in the DOS vs Apple days. History - it repeats itself :-)
First, if there's a market, there is no reason not to make specific applications for various combos of hardware and software - no need to have one size fits all. And that's the beauty of it - you can buy whatever you want. Nobody says you have to buy any particular hardware or operating system.
Also, there is NO reason that today's smartphones need to run a particular OS. That's the thing about general computing - you can always write a different OS if you want. Also, as the Chinese have shown, you can run apps outside of Apple's walled garden without needing to jailbreak the phone. Kind of sucks if you're Apple and you had 90% sales growth in your China app store last year, because that's going to go into reverse soon enough.
The same techniques can also be applied to Android. No walled garden exists forever.
Additionally, Java was just an example.
Besides, the Android manufacturers are getting antsy. There's no reason FreeBSD can't be used as the underpinnings on existing smartphone hardware instead of linux. Or that other runtimes can't replace the ART in their offerings - just that programs will have to be re-written, same as moving from mac to windows to x. So what? This has always been the case, and nobody's died because "OMG we're changing operating systems and some of my old programs won't work any more!!!"
The internet is a failure. We just haven't gotten far enough along to see it - but we're seeing some of the consequences already. The whole "fake news" thing, which now encompasses the government (which was always into fake news), business (advertisers always lied), and the media (who at least used to pretend that they were reporting the facts) has only just begun. Watch.
Agendas mean nothing. Facts mean everything. You're like the crook who gets the whistle blown on them by saying "they're just as bad." You got caught. So sad, too bad. Blaming the messenger doesn't change the facts.
Never said otherwise - just that neither one can legitimately claim that they got the majority of votes - and neither can their mindless smarmy sycophants.
And where is Guy Kawasaki now? It's all been downhill after PepsiCo, same as John Scully in the reverse direction. Still spouting marketing bullshit that he learned working for a company that no longer has anything new or innovative to put fear into the competition because now they worry about "courageous" "innovations" that the customer doesn't want. Sometimes you can be so focused on the trees (the iWatch) that you don't see the forest (that Apple is losing market share because they have no new forests to exploit). iPad? Dying. MacBooks? Behind the times. iPhones? Sales down almost 10% last year. Profit down even more - which means they're eating it at the top end.
That decline in focus, in new product lines, is far from a small detail, and Apple is no longer seen as "excellent", no matter how much they want to believe otherwise.
And what has that got to do with the fact that it WAS a non-aggression pact that included, as part of the deal, dividing up other countries? It's not like this was novel. The US did it too.
More women are attending universities than men. That trend has been going on for a while - since the late '70s (okay, it's more than "a while" - it's a generation or so). Women are also more likely to graduate. Even if we don't look specifically at the US, the same holds true globally (though not quite as much).
The man buying a "penis extender" muscle car or truck isn't going to impress the woman with her Kia Soul. She's picked what she likes, plus she's saved money on both the original purchase and day-to-day expenses. So they guy continually pays a financial penalty for peacocking, for nothing. All he's doing is impressing people with the same values - his bros.
Times have changed. Ever driven a 5-ton truck from the 40's or 50's? Truck-driver then was a man's job because there was no power steering on most trucks. No electric tailgate lifts or palette jiggers. Clutches were DAMN heavy on the leg. So were brakes.
Now? You can't work up a sweat if you try. Power everything, AC in both the truck and at the warehouse and the client, pretty much everything is palettized, shrink-wrapped with 1000' rolls of wrap everywhere so you don't have to worry about loose boxes falling off the palettes, physical strength means pretty much nothing.
At a cost of $50,000 per tire, tire wear on a set of 6 tires on a 400-ton truck is important, and women have been found to cause less tire wear in a mine per tonne hauled then men. Ditto for fuel economy and downtime due to breakage. If they weren't being automated out of jobs, those ultra truck driver jobs would be mostly women today.
This doesn't mean women are better drivers overall - just that, for those who drive such trucks, they are. Things change.
As for pay inequity, that will also change with time.
Most currencies don't gain or lose almost 30% in 36 hours. As for the stock market, it's been, and continues to be, manipulated by the government to provide the illusion of growth, and paper profits for investors - otherwise the economy would collapse.
The whole nation has been living in la-la land ever since the federal debt hit $10T. Everyone knows that it's now just a case of pushing the day of reckoning further and further down the road via things like artificially inflated bubble stock markets and hoping for unicorns outnumbering black swans.
More than half the population is receiving benefits, less than half the population is working (see here), and it's just going to get worse as more "good quality" jobs disappear.
Until you have ANY evidence that that laptop passed anything to the grid computers via some idiot infecting a USB key using that laptop, and then plugging it into a computer on the electric grid, just fuck off with your stupidity. Stuxnet used an infected USB stick as a vector.
Obviously the people didn't prefer Clinton - the majority did not vote for her. So quit your lying, you butt-hurt Clinton crybaby. And no, I don't like Trump any better - but hey, you're the assholes who picked the candidates - it's just the rest of the world watching and laughing at what was once the most powerful office in the world reduced to a really bad reality show.
We watched Bush2 wage fake wars for profit. Obama continue those policies, and total diplomatic failure with his "inviolable red lines in the sand" that Russia laughed at. Russia sets policy for Europe and the Middle East, not the US. And China does what it wants in the South China Sea, and is buying up influence in Africa.
The Munroe Doctrine is dead - but only because NOBODY covets much in South America, and the US is doing a pretty good job of making Mexico easy pickings in the future - China will be quite happy to start buying up businesses and building infrastructure as the US makes them easy pickings.
But hey - politics as entertainment - complete with fake news from everyone, including the government ... it's going to be YUGE!
If management were doing their job, they would have already been aware of the problem and be working to fix it. So if there is a problem, whether it's all in the posters' head or it's someone else, management is incompetent. LEAVE.
Better to tell them you'd like to use them as a reference because you don't want to rock the boat, but you also don't want to work with creepo. This way you're being as reasonable as can be.
The upside is you'll be able to do some post grad work while spending your time in prison.
The downside is no one will hire you after. Well except maybe Starbucks.
What - the Russians won't? We've been lied to?
I can't parse the phrase "bullies unscheduling things you've scheduled". What does bullies mean in this context. How does one bully an inanimate object or thing? How can something be unscheduled if you've scheduled it?
Read the man page for "at". Special attention to "atrm" or "at -d"
You shouldn't have given them ALL the passwords. "Sorry, that's all I've got. Jerkface must have deleted the rest. You deal with it." As a famous comedian said, "Always leave them wanting more." :-)
What if the person complaining about being gaslit is actually delusional, paranoid, insecure, and incompetent?
It's usually the person doing the gaslighting who is delusional, paranoid, insecure, and incompetent. The problem is that most people won't believe anyone could actually do the crap they pull, they must be telling the truth ... nobody would make up stuff like that ...
Leave. Your mental and physical health are more important than misplaced loyalty or a bruised ego.
Bozos like that never sue - even though they like to make all sorts of threats. First, that would cost money - the company sure as hell won't fund it. Second, he's going to need to prove that what you said damaged his reputation - in other words, that his reputation was good until people heard what you wrote or said. Kid of hard if you've got people on your side saying he was an insufferable jerk. Third, good luck setting a dollar amount for damages - the company will never say they fired him (if they do) because of what you said, because that opens them up to an unjust dismissal suit. And if he isn't fired, where's the damages? A demotion? It could be based on job performance - and the company will say that because, again, they don't want to be sued.
No good, because the only way to deal with these types of jerks is for the company to fire both the arsehole causing the problem and the arsehole who hired them. And that's just not going to happen.
Save yourself the aggravation - quit. They'll be cursing bozo out soon enough when things start breaking.
If it lost 28% in two days like it did in 2 days in the first week of 2017, it's far from stable.
And I think your statement is in itself wish fulfillment. And given that you're probably a man, it's obvious why you see things the way you do.
But let's get to the current generation, since that's what we're talking about. Displays of wealth don't work when women are no longer subservient to men in terms of pay. There are plenty of women who make more than men - obviously they didn't choose the guy because he has money, since he has less in those cases. And it's becoming more frequent as well-paying blue-collar jobs go bye-bye and women graduate at higher rates than men.
Both my daughters make more than the guys they went out with, because they both made more than the average for their age group, and compared to the general population at large.
Try it again:
We should all be able to self-host whatever we want on our own devices (after all, with IPv6 it's not like we can't all have our own block of IPs), and share whatever we want the way we want.
Why should I have to pay a web hosting company for anything when I don't need their services? Just look at the schmucks who depend on 3rd parties for things like the Google + API, now being killed, same as all those other APIs that 3rd parties hosted and then yanked when they couldn't suck enough incidental ad revenue from them?
You've never seen a word processor? Even the DOS ones supported multi-column pagination and full justification. And all those plain-text editors that supported multiple onscreen windows (multi-edit, for example, or the CUA DOS editor windows in dBASE5 that flowed text based in real time as you dragged to resize the window - part of the OWL text UI toolkit from Borland - and there were plenty others) Or you can get an ebook reader. Or Acrobat - supports multiple columns of arbitrary width just fine. Or if you wanted to look at really old text/gui environments, Microware OS9 - scrolling text windows in both text and graphics mode, multiple windows per screen, multiple virtual screens, real-time multitasking (Flight Sim in one window, Rogue in another, Sub Battle in a 3rd, etc).
We haven't made all that much progress over the decades. Android is basically a stack of 1 or more cards per application. Nowhere near a full Java implementation (or even much of an implementation of anything for that matter). Windows is a hog that continues to spend more time on changing the UI than everything else combined. The various *nixish OSes haven't been real game changers in the way we do things. Word processors have become less, not more, efficient as people waste more time on non-essentials and figuring out how to do stuff instead of just doing it. Email kind of made many of us throw up in our mouths with the advent of "html email wallpaper". then full html support. Why? So that people can now use an emoji of an avocado to represent a penis??? If you think an avocado looks like a penis, you're sick. If your penis DOES look like an avocado, you're really sick.
There was NO justification for emojis. But W3C and unicode, both of which have outlived their usefulness, continue to mutate.
I guess you're still stuck in the previous millennium. You can send voice messages to groups, same as pager messages, emails, sms, whatever. However, you're missing the point because you're picking at details that are now irrelevant - there is no reason everyone can't just have their own ip and host their own services, or communicate directly between any 2 devices without an intervening server relaying the data between the two.
And how often do people turn off their phones nowadays anyway? You get an sms message, email, whatever, doesn't mean you have to look at it immediately - the phone can and does store it.