Honestly I did but it was the same stuff you'd find anywhere else but in a more migraine-inducing format that requires you to have an account to take part in the conversation. No thanks.
..no, that's not what it's about, it's about T-Mobile and AT&T prioritizing Netflix and DirecTV traffic over all other traffic, or, alternately, slowing all over traffic intentionally in favor of Netflix/DirecTV. It's also about throttling or blocking competitors' traffic as it traverses their networks (i.e. you're a Comcast/Xfinity customer trying to access some site that is hosted by AT&T, and Comcast/Xfinity slows or even blocks access -- or vice-versa). It's also about not allowing ISPs to create the 'Walled Gardens' you've heard mentioned before (i.e. 'tiered service') where you'd have to pay extra to access some areas of the Internet; example: you're a Comcast/Xfinity customer, and you want to watch something on Netflix. You find you can't access it at all unless you pay Comcast/Xfinity extra on your bill every month. That's what Net Neutrality laws are intended to prevent. Essentially, without them, the big ISPs could chop up the Internet. If it was bad enough, they could even break it in significant ways. That's why it's important to stop them from doing that.
Maybe, but overall I found it to be a tangled mess that I didn't feel like wading into. Kind of like someone asking you to help them move, then when you get there you discover he's a hoarder, and hasn't even attempted to pack anything up (or clean anything up; yes, this actually happened to me once). You turn on your heel and walk away because there's just no logical reason to deal with it. Haven't had any problems finding things I wanted to find other places than Reddit so why should I deal with it?
I keep hearing about this 'reddit' and I've been there twice. Both times I found it to be a confusing mess that doesn't seem to offer anything different than anywhere else on the Internet, and most of the people there seem at least as bad as the denizens of the infamous 4chan. Is news like this story a sign that we've reached Peak Internet at some point, and we're on the downhill side of it now?
Ironically, theoretically, you could drop your e-waste (and nuclear waste for that matter) into an undersea subduction zone, and over the next 10000 years it'd be 'recycled' into the interior of the Earth. But just try suggesting that and the environmentalists will literally form a lynch mob.
While it's consumers buying new things instead of repairing existing things, the blame for them doing that falls squarely on the shoulders of the manufacturers and more to the point their marketing departments. First they don't bother making things repairable in any reasonable manner anymore because they can make things smaller and cheaper if they do, so higher profit margin. Then their marketing people indoctrinate everyone that you have to have the NEWEST and SHINIEST things, and that OLD things are OLD and make you look POOR, and who wants to look OLD and POOR? Philosophies need to change or we're going to be living in the world of WALL-E, where the Earth is uninhabitable because it's all been turned into a landfill full of toxic junk.
A better solution would be for those parents to not be parents until they are financially and educationally viable to support a family. For those parents who didn't think before exchanging DNA, this is why your parents told you to not have sex until you were able to support a family. Your life is probably very difficult now, and you have only yourself to blame
You were doing fine right up to that point where you revealed what a complete and total authoritarian asshole you are, who also by the way doesn't have a grip on reality. People have kids when they have kids and if you want to invoke the most violent reaction possible from them, then try to dictate to them when and/or how many kids they can have, because it's nobody's business but their own. No, I don't have kids nor have I ever wanted any so don't EVEN try that crap with me, mister. Your holier-than-thou superior attitiude, I'm sure, makes plenty of people want to punch you in the nose -- and rightly so. Fix your shit.
I'm okay with that concept so long as it's actually a viable concept; if you're saying that people who work at Walmart only work there for a few years then move on to a real job, then that's fine, but I don't have that data.
Also, listen: Pickup trucks have a chassis under them; much more durable. They're also rear-wheel drive, which is easier to work on, as well as higher off the ground, which is also easier to work on. You get in an accident in a unibody vehicle, and more likely than not it's unrepairable because it's tweaked the entire structure of the vehicle too much to be safe anymore. You get in an accident in a pickup truck, it's almost always just sheetmetal work that needs to be done, and even if it's bad enough to tweak the chassis, they can be pulled out straight again. Really, if you get in an accident bad enough to do that it usually means the whole truck is toast anyway. Otherwise, unlike most passenger vehicles, a pickup truck can be rebuilt and refurbished indefinitely. They get me an electric version, and I likely won't ever have to buy another vehicle in my lifetime, due to how little of an electric vehicle actually wears out. Battery packs? Easy. Motor bearings, maybe? Much easier to rebuild an electric motor than it is a gasoline engine. Probably they'll sell complete drop-in rebuilds for the entire drivetrain. Seriously, they can't get here fast enough for me.
I don't have a 'car'. I have a pickup truck. I've had a pickup truck for, what, at least 10 years now? Been able to move myself? Pick up loads of dirty things like mulch and compost? Etc? I had my fill of passenger-only vehicles a long time ago, I like having a pickup truck, it's more appropriate for my lifestyle. So start building plug-in-recharge electric or fuel-cell electric pickups and I'll be in line to get one.;-)
That's nice, Walmart, but I think what people want is to not have both mom and dad working 60 hour work weeks yet still be living paycheck-to-paycheck.
True story: Way back in a previous life, I used to repair coin-op arcade games. I worked for the same guy for years. He was a non-electronics person. In reference to some game PCB that was broken, that I was expressing my doubts as to whether it could be repaired or not, he actually said to me "Can't you just change some chips or something?" like it was all just snap your fingers and it's All Better Now. You can imagine the look I gave him. This is how business people (who are not technical people) think: we make it look easy, they have no idea what it takes to get a job done, so they think it's Not That Hard and we're just sandbagging them. Then some of them get the bright idea that just because someone has a shiny new Bachelors' Degree hanging on their wall, that they Know Everything.
What I do know is you're getting really really defensive over something someone who isn't even using his real name and whom you have never met and never will meet is saying on the Internet; why do you think that is? The simplest answer is you feel guilt because you know you should get more exercise instead of sitting in front of a screen for too many hours when you're not at work, and possibly because you're also not spending time doing active things with your family, and they're spending too much time sitting in front of a TV also. Or would you care to outline for me your weekly exercise routine, and what activities you share with your family?
I see comments on this subject all the time claiming that older tech workers can't keep up with current technology, and that's the reason companies are excluding them and trying to get rid of them. That's not the reason; the real reason is the oldest reason of all: money. Older = more experienced = worth more = demands more pay. I've got more than one friend who works or used to work for a tech company tell me that they're getting rid of older experienced and competent people in favor of young graduates with little to no experience simply because they can pay them peanuts comparatively speaking because they're eager enough to get ANY job that they'll accept low pay. Then there's the workers imported from overseas who likewise will work for peanuts because it's still more than they'd get in their home countries.
As a sidebar to this, you want the real reason the United States is falling behind the curve on innovation? It's because of the above. Get rid of the experienced people and expect a bunch of kids with little to no experience to just, what, absorb 30+ years of experience through osmosis? Yeah sure that'll work (wait, no it doesn't!). It used to be that experience was always greater than any piece of paper hanging on the wall. That doesn't seem to be true anymore and it's hurting everyone.
I've said it before: produce an affordable plug-in electric that recharges overnight (or alternately hydrogen fuel cell) light pickup truck with at least a 300 mile range, and I'll be all over it. Until then I'm not interested in any tiny subcompact unibody two-door sedans with no cargo carrying capability, short range, takes all day to recharge, costs in excess of $50000, and you can't even purchase it outright, you have to lease it.
Wow what a totally smoking-hot refutation of my argument, I'm totally and completely disarmed by your insight, were you the captain of your highschool debate team?
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..okay, I'll bite: why (and how) are they 'aggressively against you browsing their site'?
You a very funny guy. I kill you last.
Honestly I did but it was the same stuff you'd find anywhere else but in a more migraine-inducing format that requires you to have an account to take part in the conversation. No thanks.
Maybe people like you are making it a confusing mess and should stay off the Internet.
..no, that's not what it's about, it's about T-Mobile and AT&T prioritizing Netflix and DirecTV traffic over all other traffic, or, alternately, slowing all over traffic intentionally in favor of Netflix/DirecTV. It's also about throttling or blocking competitors' traffic as it traverses their networks (i.e. you're a Comcast/Xfinity customer trying to access some site that is hosted by AT&T, and Comcast/Xfinity slows or even blocks access -- or vice-versa). It's also about not allowing ISPs to create the 'Walled Gardens' you've heard mentioned before (i.e. 'tiered service') where you'd have to pay extra to access some areas of the Internet; example: you're a Comcast/Xfinity customer, and you want to watch something on Netflix. You find you can't access it at all unless you pay Comcast/Xfinity extra on your bill every month. That's what Net Neutrality laws are intended to prevent. Essentially, without them, the big ISPs could chop up the Internet. If it was bad enough, they could even break it in significant ways. That's why it's important to stop them from doing that.
Maybe, but overall I found it to be a tangled mess that I didn't feel like wading into. Kind of like someone asking you to help them move, then when you get there you discover he's a hoarder, and hasn't even attempted to pack anything up (or clean anything up; yes, this actually happened to me once). You turn on your heel and walk away because there's just no logical reason to deal with it. Haven't had any problems finding things I wanted to find other places than Reddit so why should I deal with it?
I keep hearing about this 'reddit' and I've been there twice. Both times I found it to be a confusing mess that doesn't seem to offer anything different than anywhere else on the Internet, and most of the people there seem at least as bad as the denizens of the infamous 4chan. Is news like this story a sign that we've reached Peak Internet at some point, and we're on the downhill side of it now?
Ironically, theoretically, you could drop your e-waste (and nuclear waste for that matter) into an undersea subduction zone, and over the next 10000 years it'd be 'recycled' into the interior of the Earth. But just try suggesting that and the environmentalists will literally form a lynch mob.
While it's consumers buying new things instead of repairing existing things, the blame for them doing that falls squarely on the shoulders of the manufacturers and more to the point their marketing departments. First they don't bother making things repairable in any reasonable manner anymore because they can make things smaller and cheaper if they do, so higher profit margin. Then their marketing people indoctrinate everyone that you have to have the NEWEST and SHINIEST things, and that OLD things are OLD and make you look POOR, and who wants to look OLD and POOR? Philosophies need to change or we're going to be living in the world of WALL-E, where the Earth is uninhabitable because it's all been turned into a landfill full of toxic junk.
A better solution would be for those parents to not be parents until they are financially and educationally viable to support a family. For those parents who didn't think before exchanging DNA, this is why your parents told you to not have sex until you were able to support a family. Your life is probably very difficult now, and you have only yourself to blame
You were doing fine right up to that point where you revealed what a complete and total authoritarian asshole you are, who also by the way doesn't have a grip on reality. People have kids when they have kids and if you want to invoke the most violent reaction possible from them, then try to dictate to them when and/or how many kids they can have, because it's nobody's business but their own. No, I don't have kids nor have I ever wanted any so don't EVEN try that crap with me, mister. Your holier-than-thou superior attitiude, I'm sure, makes plenty of people want to punch you in the nose -- and rightly so. Fix your shit.
I'm okay with that concept so long as it's actually a viable concept; if you're saying that people who work at Walmart only work there for a few years then move on to a real job, then that's fine, but I don't have that data.
Also, listen: Pickup trucks have a chassis under them; much more durable. They're also rear-wheel drive, which is easier to work on, as well as higher off the ground, which is also easier to work on. You get in an accident in a unibody vehicle, and more likely than not it's unrepairable because it's tweaked the entire structure of the vehicle too much to be safe anymore. You get in an accident in a pickup truck, it's almost always just sheetmetal work that needs to be done, and even if it's bad enough to tweak the chassis, they can be pulled out straight again. Really, if you get in an accident bad enough to do that it usually means the whole truck is toast anyway. Otherwise, unlike most passenger vehicles, a pickup truck can be rebuilt and refurbished indefinitely. They get me an electric version, and I likely won't ever have to buy another vehicle in my lifetime, due to how little of an electric vehicle actually wears out. Battery packs? Easy. Motor bearings, maybe? Much easier to rebuild an electric motor than it is a gasoline engine. Probably they'll sell complete drop-in rebuilds for the entire drivetrain. Seriously, they can't get here fast enough for me.
I don't have a 'car'. I have a pickup truck. I've had a pickup truck for, what, at least 10 years now? Been able to move myself? Pick up loads of dirty things like mulch and compost? Etc? I had my fill of passenger-only vehicles a long time ago, I like having a pickup truck, it's more appropriate for my lifestyle. So start building plug-in-recharge electric or fuel-cell electric pickups and I'll be in line to get one. ;-)
That's nice, Walmart, but I think what people want is to not have both mom and dad working 60 hour work weeks yet still be living paycheck-to-paycheck.
People, however, are still increasing the amount of time they spend online.
That's not something to celebrate. :-(
China continues to lead the rest of the world in mobile payment adoption
Sure. One more way to track their citizens.
Voice-controlled products like Amazon Echo are taking off.
Sure. One more way to track our citizens. :-(
Tech companies are facing a "privacy paradox." They're caught between using data to enhance their profits and violating consumer privacy.
Fixed that for you. :-(
True story: Way back in a previous life, I used to repair coin-op arcade games. I worked for the same guy for years. He was a non-electronics person. In reference to some game PCB that was broken, that I was expressing my doubts as to whether it could be repaired or not, he actually said to me "Can't you just change some chips or something?" like it was all just snap your fingers and it's All Better Now. You can imagine the look I gave him. This is how business people (who are not technical people) think: we make it look easy, they have no idea what it takes to get a job done, so they think it's Not That Hard and we're just sandbagging them. Then some of them get the bright idea that just because someone has a shiny new Bachelors' Degree hanging on their wall, that they Know Everything.
What I do know is you're getting really really defensive over something someone who isn't even using his real name and whom you have never met and never will meet is saying on the Internet; why do you think that is? The simplest answer is you feel guilt because you know you should get more exercise instead of sitting in front of a screen for too many hours when you're not at work, and possibly because you're also not spending time doing active things with your family, and they're spending too much time sitting in front of a TV also. Or would you care to outline for me your weekly exercise routine, and what activities you share with your family?
You apparently couldn't be bothered to read everything. I don't want some shitty two-door unibody sedan, I want a pickup truck.
Sounds to me like you need to lighten up. Try going outside more yourself, the fresh air is full of negative ions, which have a calming effect. xD
Sounds like (You) all need to go outside more. xD
I see comments on this subject all the time claiming that older tech workers can't keep up with current technology, and that's the reason companies are excluding them and trying to get rid of them. That's not the reason; the real reason is the oldest reason of all: money. Older = more experienced = worth more = demands more pay. I've got more than one friend who works or used to work for a tech company tell me that they're getting rid of older experienced and competent people in favor of young graduates with little to no experience simply because they can pay them peanuts comparatively speaking because they're eager enough to get ANY job that they'll accept low pay. Then there's the workers imported from overseas who likewise will work for peanuts because it's still more than they'd get in their home countries.
As a sidebar to this, you want the real reason the United States is falling behind the curve on innovation? It's because of the above. Get rid of the experienced people and expect a bunch of kids with little to no experience to just, what, absorb 30+ years of experience through osmosis? Yeah sure that'll work (wait, no it doesn't!). It used to be that experience was always greater than any piece of paper hanging on the wall. That doesn't seem to be true anymore and it's hurting everyone.
I've said it before: produce an affordable plug-in electric that recharges overnight (or alternately hydrogen fuel cell) light pickup truck with at least a 300 mile range, and I'll be all over it. Until then I'm not interested in any tiny subcompact unibody two-door sedans with no cargo carrying capability, short range, takes all day to recharge, costs in excess of $50000, and you can't even purchase it outright, you have to lease it.
Americans are still watching more than 7 hours and 50 minutes per household per day.
FFS I didn't even watch that much the last time I was unemployed. People need to cut the other cord: the power cord to the TV, and GO OUTSIDE.
Are you a politician? If not you should be, you just used an entire paragraph to say basically nothing.
Wow what a totally smoking-hot refutation of my argument, I'm totally and completely disarmed by your insight, were you the captain of your highschool debate team?