Well that just goes to show you should research your purchases and ensure the devices you buy support standard protocols, instead of buying whatever is cheap at the time... My printer for instance supports Postscript, which ensures it works by default with pretty much anything. And i have a networked scanner which sends jobs via email.
The USPS provides the service of delivering that crap to the companies that produced it... In this instance case you're not the customer. And yes i hate all that crap too, i refuse to buy anything advertised to me through unsolicited channels like that - if i want a particular type of product, i will go and search for it in the usual places. All of the junk that arrives here gets thrown straight back out.
It's actually easier with v6, because each isp will generally only have one very large block instead of hundreds of small ones, then you can correlate the blocks to the regions that isp serves - not many isps serve multiple countries.
By increasing congestion on the minor roads, now others (ie those who need to use those minor roads) will take longer to get anywhere and their cars will get worse mileage.
Taking a minor road to avoid congestion elsewhere only works if not many people are doing it, once you get a significant number of cars on a minor road it will become even more congested than the highway. Highways are designed to carry large numbers of cars, residential streets are not.
In the UK, none of the mobile providers support ipv6, neither do most of the big ISPs... There are a few smaller niche isps that do, and even then you have to explicitly request it.
A good education is only useful when combined with someone who also has a genuine interest in the subject. Teaching someone to perform a task they have no interest in beyond getting their paycheck will generally only produce mediocre results.
If someone has a genuine interest in programming such that they've taught themselves a lot them those are the people who need good education to clear up any rough edges in their methodology.
A "professional" is someone who is paid, it has nothing to do with competence or training... And there's many more reasons for poor code...
Generally the self taught people have an interest in learning, and will spend the time learning different languages or tools if they are more appropriate.. By contrast, someone who has solely been trained but has no real interest in the subject will use the tools they were trained to use even if they are poorly suited to the task at hand. If you want such people to use different tools you generally have to provide training for them, they won't go away and learn about it on their own.
And in either case, it's your own fault if you hired people who aren't proficient in the tools appropriate to the job you hired them for.
A lot of bad code often has nothing to do with the actual developer too, people are under pressure to meet deadlines so they cut corners, they are given poor or constantly changing specs, or are put under constraints about what tools they should use often by people who don't understand the technology.
When i was in school, there were no formal programs for coding... Also in my experience of the IT field as a whole (not just development), those who at least started out being self taught (ie those who have a general interest in the subject and will spend their own time learning such things) are massively better at the job than those who only learned due to formal education (to such people its just a job, they have no real interest in the subject beyond their paycheck).
No because the people selling those products are generally greedy and want to lower costs so they can have fatter margins.
In such a scenario, where most human jobs are replaced with robots, how are these now unemployed humans going to afford even cheap products? If anything the price of goods would go up to target the small percentage who still have jobs...
You'd end up with 1% who own the factories, 4% who have high paying jobs programming and maintaining robots, and 95% who have nothing.
While what you say is true, the alternative is not really any more viable either...
Companies want to reduce their costs and one of the main ways to do this is to automate and reduce the number and cost of their workers, in the short term and in isolation this increases profits but think long term... If only very few people have jobs because most things are automated, then who's going to buy your products? Eventually the current system will collapse, UBI clearly isn't an ideal solution but then what is?
And why would they do that? You used the data, you agreed to pay for data use, you should pay for it. You should have controlled your data use more carefully rather than allowing a rogue program to exceed your cap and you could have asked verizon to cut you off when you use all your allowance instead of charging you overage fees.
OSX only offers to auto install minor updates, to update to a newer version of OSX you have to go into the app store and manually choose to download it.
When something pops up you might be in the middle of typing something, such that you press a couple more keys out of inertia before you've fully registered the popup... I've had that happen on many occasion and it's extremely annoying...
Being open adds value, being proprietary removes value. Wether those values matter to you is down to individual needs. Other values which are unrelated to being open or proprietary may be more important to you.
The same can be said of any OS... Windows often comes preconfigured on hardware with a set of drivers and customisations, if you try to install it yourself using generic rather than oem-supplied install media it can be a huge pain in the ass. OSX is designed specifically for Apple hardware and works very well, but trying to install on a hackintosh can be difficult and unreliable.
The solution to congestion is to reduce the concentration of journeys, not just increase the capacity. Far too many hours are wasted by people travelling to work at the same place and at the same time, and you end up with massive over capacity at all other times. Spread things out more, have workplaces which are closer to where people can actually live, have more people working from home, work different hours.
Don't you believe it... Around where i work, all the over 65s visit the bank during lunchtime, when those of us who have to work are on our lunch break. During the mornings and afternoons the banks are empty, the over 65s generally don't have to work yet for some reason they choose to visit banks during the most congested time, and cause those of us with a short time limited lunch break to waste all of it stood in a queue.
And most of those people don't even try to perform repairs or maintenance on their cars themselves, they hire someone else to do it. They also typically join a breakdown service so if the car fails at an inconvenient location someone else will come and fix or tow it for them. It's also quite difficult to fuck up a modern properly maintained car by using it normally. It's more analogous to something like a chromebook, google performs the maintenance and it's very difficult to fuck it up by accident.
Because a complex general purpose OS is simply not a suitable tool for an average user... They are better off with single purpose devices that are managed by someone else, walled garden tablets, chromebooks, games consoles etc. Complex computing systems were designed by geeks, for geeks, and should still be a niche only used by geeks.
Or it's just trolls who don't support either candidate but are just selecting the most provocative subject for trolling purposes. I doubt any genuine trump supporters would want to associate trump with hitler.
If you demand an audit and the results of the audit find that your accusations were false, the court should be making you pay for the costs of the audit...
But the beauty is its a guaranteed basic income, you can earn to supplement it.. With most current welfare systems you lose the welfare as soon as you start working, so you can often be worse off by working, and then if you stop working again it can take a long time to get your welfare restored. Also if your income is not location dependent, you can find somewhere cheaper to live.
Because people want luxury items which wouldn't be covered by UBI... And besides, there's no reason you'd have to slave all day, you could work part time and share the work with others and you'd still earn some money for buying your luxuries. People can choose the work/life balance that suits them best.
Well that's the whole point, UBI would cover your basic needs so any work you do would be to earn luxuries that you can enjoy... People wouldn't be forced to work long hours just to cover the basic cost of living. I'm sure a great many people would still choose to work, and many would choose to work part time and have more time to enjoy the luxuries they earned.
It would also eliminate the situation which exists in many parts of europe, where people are actually better off remaining on welfare than working, because once they start work their welfare stops but for whatever reason (childcare, only able to do relatively low paid work etc) their income works out lower plus they have less free time.
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Well that just goes to show you should research your purchases and ensure the devices you buy support standard protocols, instead of buying whatever is cheap at the time...
My printer for instance supports Postscript, which ensures it works by default with pretty much anything. And i have a networked scanner which sends jobs via email.
The USPS provides the service of delivering that crap to the companies that produced it... In this instance case you're not the customer.
And yes i hate all that crap too, i refuse to buy anything advertised to me through unsolicited channels like that - if i want a particular type of product, i will go and search for it in the usual places. All of the junk that arrives here gets thrown straight back out.
It's actually easier with v6, because each isp will generally only have one very large block instead of hundreds of small ones, then you can correlate the blocks to the regions that isp serves - not many isps serve multiple countries.
It's not as simple as that...
By increasing congestion on the minor roads, now others (ie those who need to use those minor roads) will take longer to get anywhere and their cars will get worse mileage.
Taking a minor road to avoid congestion elsewhere only works if not many people are doing it, once you get a significant number of cars on a minor road it will become even more congested than the highway. Highways are designed to carry large numbers of cars, residential streets are not.
In the UK, none of the mobile providers support ipv6, neither do most of the big ISPs... There are a few smaller niche isps that do, and even then you have to explicitly request it.
A good education is only useful when combined with someone who also has a genuine interest in the subject. Teaching someone to perform a task they have no interest in beyond getting their paycheck will generally only produce mediocre results.
If someone has a genuine interest in programming such that they've taught themselves a lot them those are the people who need good education to clear up any rough edges in their methodology.
A "professional" is someone who is paid, it has nothing to do with competence or training...
And there's many more reasons for poor code...
Generally the self taught people have an interest in learning, and will spend the time learning different languages or tools if they are more appropriate.. By contrast, someone who has solely been trained but has no real interest in the subject will use the tools they were trained to use even if they are poorly suited to the task at hand. If you want such people to use different tools you generally have to provide training for them, they won't go away and learn about it on their own.
And in either case, it's your own fault if you hired people who aren't proficient in the tools appropriate to the job you hired them for.
A lot of bad code often has nothing to do with the actual developer too, people are under pressure to meet deadlines so they cut corners, they are given poor or constantly changing specs, or are put under constraints about what tools they should use often by people who don't understand the technology.
When i was in school, there were no formal programs for coding...
Also in my experience of the IT field as a whole (not just development), those who at least started out being self taught (ie those who have a general interest in the subject and will spend their own time learning such things) are massively better at the job than those who only learned due to formal education (to such people its just a job, they have no real interest in the subject beyond their paycheck).
No because the people selling those products are generally greedy and want to lower costs so they can have fatter margins.
In such a scenario, where most human jobs are replaced with robots, how are these now unemployed humans going to afford even cheap products? If anything the price of goods would go up to target the small percentage who still have jobs...
You'd end up with 1% who own the factories, 4% who have high paying jobs programming and maintaining robots, and 95% who have nothing.
While what you say is true, the alternative is not really any more viable either...
Companies want to reduce their costs and one of the main ways to do this is to automate and reduce the number and cost of their workers, in the short term and in isolation this increases profits but think long term... If only very few people have jobs because most things are automated, then who's going to buy your products? Eventually the current system will collapse, UBI clearly isn't an ideal solution but then what is?
And without updates, the laptop would end up getting hacked by worms and used for other bandwidth intensive tasks like ddos, spam, etc...
And why would they do that?
You used the data, you agreed to pay for data use, you should pay for it. You should have controlled your data use more carefully rather than allowing a rogue program to exceed your cap and you could have asked verizon to cut you off when you use all your allowance instead of charging you overage fees.
OSX only offers to auto install minor updates, to update to a newer version of OSX you have to go into the app store and manually choose to download it.
When something pops up you might be in the middle of typing something, such that you press a couple more keys out of inertia before you've fully registered the popup... I've had that happen on many occasion and it's extremely annoying...
Being open adds value, being proprietary removes value.
Wether those values matter to you is down to individual needs. Other values which are unrelated to being open or proprietary may be more important to you.
All else being equal, open is better.
The same can be said of any OS...
Windows often comes preconfigured on hardware with a set of drivers and customisations, if you try to install it yourself using generic rather than oem-supplied install media it can be a huge pain in the ass.
OSX is designed specifically for Apple hardware and works very well, but trying to install on a hackintosh can be difficult and unreliable.
The solution to congestion is to reduce the concentration of journeys, not just increase the capacity.
Far too many hours are wasted by people travelling to work at the same place and at the same time, and you end up with massive over capacity at all other times.
Spread things out more, have workplaces which are closer to where people can actually live, have more people working from home, work different hours.
Don't you believe it...
Around where i work, all the over 65s visit the bank during lunchtime, when those of us who have to work are on our lunch break. During the mornings and afternoons the banks are empty, the over 65s generally don't have to work yet for some reason they choose to visit banks during the most congested time, and cause those of us with a short time limited lunch break to waste all of it stood in a queue.
And most of those people don't even try to perform repairs or maintenance on their cars themselves, they hire someone else to do it. They also typically join a breakdown service so if the car fails at an inconvenient location someone else will come and fix or tow it for them. It's also quite difficult to fuck up a modern properly maintained car by using it normally.
It's more analogous to something like a chromebook, google performs the maintenance and it's very difficult to fuck it up by accident.
Because a complex general purpose OS is simply not a suitable tool for an average user... They are better off with single purpose devices that are managed by someone else, walled garden tablets, chromebooks, games consoles etc. Complex computing systems were designed by geeks, for geeks, and should still be a niche only used by geeks.
Or it's just trolls who don't support either candidate but are just selecting the most provocative subject for trolling purposes.
I doubt any genuine trump supporters would want to associate trump with hitler.
If you demand an audit and the results of the audit find that your accusations were false, the court should be making you pay for the costs of the audit...
But the beauty is its a guaranteed basic income, you can earn to supplement it.. With most current welfare systems you lose the welfare as soon as you start working, so you can often be worse off by working, and then if you stop working again it can take a long time to get your welfare restored.
Also if your income is not location dependent, you can find somewhere cheaper to live.
Because people want luxury items which wouldn't be covered by UBI...
And besides, there's no reason you'd have to slave all day, you could work part time and share the work with others and you'd still earn some money for buying your luxuries. People can choose the work/life balance that suits them best.
Well that's the whole point, UBI would cover your basic needs so any work you do would be to earn luxuries that you can enjoy... People wouldn't be forced to work long hours just to cover the basic cost of living. I'm sure a great many people would still choose to work, and many would choose to work part time and have more time to enjoy the luxuries they earned.
It would also eliminate the situation which exists in many parts of europe, where people are actually better off remaining on welfare than working, because once they start work their welfare stops but for whatever reason (childcare, only able to do relatively low paid work etc) their income works out lower plus they have less free time.