What? You mean that degree in gender studies and female studies is worthless? How can you say that? That only means more companies sorely need a Chief Diversity Officer and a Diversity Department!!!1111
Just think: all those people with worthless degrees probably would have gone straight to work after high school or learned a trade, if it weren't for dumbass Boomer and Gen-X parents and guidance counselors blatantly lying to them about how "necessary" a college degree (any college degree) was!
Worse than that, they closed the trade schools and turned them into universities. And companies expect workers to be instantly qualified, there's no apprentices anymore. Even if they ignored the "get a degree" rhetoric, there wasn't any real alternative.
Most kids today have few if any marketable skills and are in piss poor physical shape and are unable to keep up with a demanding work environment.
Sad but true... the current generation is fucking worthless.
What a lazy interpretation. Believe anything so that you don't have to feel empathy, or responsibility, right? Unless you have some real evidence for a generational shift in skill and motivation, I call bullshit. Far more likely that the study is right, the 'current generation' has been royally shafted by previous generations, and it doesn't matter what they do, the system is biased against them.
While Civilization might have better graphics/sounds, that doesn't add much to the "educational" value.
Freeciv is multiplayer, and you can change the rules by changing an XML, which could make things quite interesting.
And of course, it is open source, which could take the educational value to a whole different level.
Maybe the base games, but they're talking about making a specific educational version. Presumably that will have more information / differently structured gameplay to expose particular facet of history / etc. Freeciv doesn't have that.
And anyway, graphics do matter. Firing the imagination is a great motivator for learning, and that's harder to do if your game looks like arse.
Well - you might have noticed that the EU isn't in great shape at the moment, and getting 27 countries to accept another member, even if that's an existing member split up, is still going to be controversial and take a long time. We don't even know what the independent Scotland would look like, or how it would get there, before you can start talking about joining the EU.
Fuck London, go build your multinational utopia somewhere that I don't end up paying for it - e.g. see http://www.theguardian.com/new...
I don't disagree actually - but putting the blame on the EU is the wrong place. It's the government's job to even out the economic benefits, something the last Labour government did barely, and the current one has actively made worse.
If you want a strong UK software development industry then perhaps try training some British graduates instead of hiring fucking EU labour in London.
Would love to, but there aren't enough here to hire.
I think it will survive just fine on its own, it IS the world's 6th largest economy...
I thought 5th... Anyway. When it joined the EEC it was the "sick man of Europe". It grew into that position *while inside the EU*. Who knows what happens outside again.
Ben Riley-Smith @benrileysmith HOW AGES VOTED (YouGov poll) 18-24: 75% Remain 25-49: 56% Remain 50-64: 44% Remain 65+: 39% Remain#EUref 6:24 PM - 23 Jun 2016
If they would have waited some years it would been a remain.
It's very little more than a fucking coup. Those that have made their money and can now sit on it and ride out any problems can have their day. The young, who have been shat on by the previous generations virtually constantly in the recent decades, get fucked over again. They will have to live with the consequences that have been imposed on them, and economic problems will fall far more heavily on them than anyone else.
Not just multinationals, it's great for the small software industry, and I am now very worried about my career future. London has a very large number of smallish software houses that are populated with EU labour, UK doesn't produce enough software developers on its own. They are too small to do visa things to find someone from abroad and bring them over, so are likely to be very badly affected by losing these foreign developers.
Scotland (which recently voted to stay in Great Britain because they were told they would drop out of the EU if they left the UK) and Northern Ireland voted to stay in. England and Wales voted to get out.
So Small Britain, or the United Kingdom of England and Wales, will leave the EU.
Probably, we will see Northern Ireland join the Irish Republic and Scotland to become independent during the next 2 years.
You really don't know what you're talking about, I suspect you know very little about the regions and their preferences, there's far more at play than whether or not they want to be in the EU. The one thing you might be right about is Scotland having another independence vote, and winning - but this won't leave them inside the EU, it doesn't work like that. They'd have to join as a new country.
Why in tech must we call everything old "legacy" and then assume it should go away? Maybe some thing work well enough that they should always be there. Some things are well designed and don't need to be changed. The 3.5mm port is resilient, rotatable, and universally supported, and only slightly bigger than the latest tech now would be able to replace it with.
Just because it is analogue does not make it irrelevant. Your ears are analogue. Why add another level of technology, another thing to charge, putting a digital-to-analogue converter on every pair of earphones rather than just one in the phone...
I remember having to have an adapter for headphones on the T-Mobile G1 and old Nokia phones, and it sucked then, and it will suck now. And so what if Apple release lightning headphones. Do we think they make the best headphones? They make crap headphones when compared to actual audio companies.
This Apple apologist doesn't even try to make is sound good, just that Apple are going to do it anyway so you might as well get used to it.
Apple is releasing a new product with little to no changes compared to the previous model, and yet still expects people to shell out hundreds of dollars for the new version? Sounds like they've finally figured out their customer base! Steve Jobs would be so proud...
Nuthin' wrong with making small incremental improvements over an otherwise stable product. Car manufacturers have been doing it for years, they don't even change the model number. And you don't have to but it... who buys every iPhone anyway? Most people I would say wait 2 iterations atleast before upgrading. You don't really want to get into the situation the original Nexus 5 was in, sold for 2 years before it got an update. Yes there was nothing wrong with it but it was a bit weird to buy a new phone that was out-of-date.
Except... that breaks the actual event. Generally artists want their actual fans to be in the audience, more than they want the highest possible ticket price. It makes for a better experience for everyone, the fans appreciate it more, the band get a better reaction. To just sell to the highest bidder means that as an artist gets more successful they end up pricing out the people who made them successful in the first place, and replacing them with rich tourists.
Raising the prices might 'solve' the problem, but it doesn't make things better. This way the artist can retain control over the price, and restrict the ability of middlemen using technological means to change the price. Not entirely convinced it will work or that there aren't better solutions, but pretty sure that hiking the price, while the cleanest solution, would be the worst solution for actual people.
Well, you should really look up definitions for words like "shill" before you throw them around like that.
I don't see how this is possible. Perhaps it is, but since you have provided no evidence, and searching I can see nothing credible, I'm gonna keep believing how I understand the system to work rather than believe someone random on the internet.
As has been said before in this thread, you can't meaningfully duplicate the card using this method, you're missing vital bits of information. So you can't take someone's card details this way and do any buying against it - you can't make another contactless card, and you can't do online stuff because you will fail CVV, address verification and VBV. You could, I suppose, make a swipable card. Nowhere in Europe takes that anymore, and it's considered very suspicious by the bank and will get your card blocked and queried pretty swiftly, at which point you'll get your money refunded.
The best you can do as a "bad guy" is directly charge the card, but the only way you can do this is with a merchant account, which is tracable and reversable, and the banks will (and do) reverse the charge for mistakes (and probably send the police round to someone who's doing it systematically).
They all have it, they brag about it. And worse yet, if someone does manage to clone the card, the bank will insist that it's not possible to do so, and hold you liable for all the fraudulent transactions, after all, the security on the cards is perfect, so you must have authorized it.
So you actually have any examples of this or are you extrapolating from your imagination? The banks claim it to be secure because from your perspective it is, they cover the risk of it being used fraudulently because contactless is only available for small transactions and only by merchant accounts. If any silliness happens they can trace it exactly to the perpetrator, and pull the money back. Contactless cards been in active use in Europe for years now without the world ending like you imagine.
Link for my earlier number: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/educ... That is based on a gov.uk report. I will admit that I remembered the period wrong - should have been 7 years. Point remains the same though.
I won't be applying to rent anywhere anymore so I couldn't care less.
Well exactly. That's very much my point - you don't care. Doesn't affect you, so fuck anyone else. And for information, I'm a bit older than millenial and have managed to get property and consider myself doing fine. Weirdly though, I can though still care about problems that aren't just about me.
As a landlord, I'd welcome any service that lets me vet renters before I enter into a contract with them.
Maybe you'd like to setup cameras in their current house too so you can find out when they're doing something that you disapprove of?
While I get that you'd like to vet people, there's a level of risk that you must take as a landlord to respect the private life of your tenants. This is invasive and wrong.
Don't give it to them, let the landlords that use the service become bankrupt if they insist. It's only because of weaklings that the privacy invasion happens.
Weaklings, or those that NEED FUCKING HOUSING and don't have anywhere else to go. Seriously, can you not take a moment to imagine what it's like to be someone with less purchasing power than you? It's really not that hard. This isn't a case of moral fibre, it's a colossal problem of providing enough housing for people, and the power that that gives those that provide housing.
If Millenials weren't so damn eager to tell the whole world and his dog about their tedious lives on social media in the first place this company couldn't exist. Reap what you sow kiddies.
Wow... I mean, is it hard to be that smugly self-satisfied? Do you have to put actual effort into it? This is a serious problem, but yeah, totally use it as an opportunity to take an easy swipe at young people doing something you disapprove of.
Very few people forecast the rise of large data processing, and it's only very recently that this sort of bullshit has started happening. I get that you hate millenials, perhaps you should also consider how catastrophically they've been failed by previous generations, rising debt, lowering salary possibility, massively rising housing costs, as a generation they have been royally fucked over. The average starting salary for a graduate in the UK is the same as it was 15 years ago, 30% lower after inflation. And they now graduate with about £18k of debt to pay off. A bit of vain tweeting is hardly worth mentioning in that context.
You think that claiming you don't have (or even not having) a Facebook account will help you in this situation? No, they'll just see you as a risk and discount you.
It's more than just 'giving a shit' though, the market won't protect people at the bottom of the rung because they can't afford to give a shit. Housing is particularly egregious for this because it's not something you get much choice in alot of the time. Britain is in the middle of a housing crisis at the moment and landlords hold all the cards. This isn't "don't buy a bad product that isn't that important", it's "don't have shelter". There isn't enough housing and the poorer get utterly shafted, and stuff like this just makes it even worse.
Legal protections are necessary - that's the entire point of law, to protect those who the system won't.
voted against AV fearing that if they endorsed that then it would stick forever when what they really wanted to see was more radical change.
This has to be one of the stupidest things I ever heard, but I did hear it lots. Such a insane way to shoot yourself in the foot, striking down an incremental improvement and 'holding out' for a more radical change that will clearly never come about if the smaller change can't be agreed on.
But then there are those that claim they will swing from voting Sanders to Trump, so I suppose some brains defy understanding...
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Just think: all those people with worthless degrees probably would have gone straight to work after high school or learned a trade, if it weren't for dumbass Boomer and Gen-X parents and guidance counselors blatantly lying to them about how "necessary" a college degree (any college degree) was!
Worse than that, they closed the trade schools and turned them into universities. And companies expect workers to be instantly qualified, there's no apprentices anymore. Even if they ignored the "get a degree" rhetoric, there wasn't any real alternative.
Most kids today have few if any marketable skills and are in piss poor physical shape and are unable to keep up with a demanding work environment.
Sad but true... the current generation is fucking worthless.
What a lazy interpretation. Believe anything so that you don't have to feel empathy, or responsibility, right? Unless you have some real evidence for a generational shift in skill and motivation, I call bullshit. Far more likely that the study is right, the 'current generation' has been royally shafted by previous generations, and it doesn't matter what they do, the system is biased against them.
It has 1 use.
Lets you filter your idiot friends, if they ask you to use it, you know they aren't worth knowing!
And reading the techcrunch arse licking, tells me they are not worth reading.
The number 1 problem is it takes over your phone, the nosy facefuckers are grabbing everything....
Must be exhausting being so superior all the time. I'm sure your friends appreciate your constant judgement of them.
While Civilization might have better graphics/sounds, that doesn't add much to the "educational" value.
Freeciv is multiplayer, and you can change the rules by changing an XML, which could make things quite interesting.
And of course, it is open source, which could take the educational value to a whole different level.
Maybe the base games, but they're talking about making a specific educational version. Presumably that will have more information / differently structured gameplay to expose particular facet of history / etc. Freeciv doesn't have that.
And anyway, graphics do matter. Firing the imagination is a great motivator for learning, and that's harder to do if your game looks like arse.
Well - you might have noticed that the EU isn't in great shape at the moment, and getting 27 countries to accept another member, even if that's an existing member split up, is still going to be controversial and take a long time. We don't even know what the independent Scotland would look like, or how it would get there, before you can start talking about joining the EU.
Yeah, and that referendum was about kicking the establishment that was unpopular (Lib Dems) as well...
Fuck London, go build your multinational utopia somewhere that I don't end up paying for it - e.g. see
http://www.theguardian.com/new...
I don't disagree actually - but putting the blame on the EU is the wrong place. It's the government's job to even out the economic benefits, something the last Labour government did barely, and the current one has actively made worse.
If you want a strong UK software development industry then perhaps try training some British graduates instead of hiring fucking EU labour in London.
Would love to, but there aren't enough here to hire.
It has been part of the EU for 43 years...
I think it will survive just fine on its own, it IS the world's 6th largest economy...
I thought 5th... Anyway. When it joined the EEC it was the "sick man of Europe". It grew into that position *while inside the EU*. Who knows what happens outside again.
Ben Riley-Smith @benrileysmith
HOW AGES VOTED
(YouGov poll)
18-24: 75% Remain
25-49: 56% Remain
50-64: 44% Remain
65+: 39% Remain#EUref
6:24 PM - 23 Jun 2016
If they would have waited some years it would been a remain.
It's very little more than a fucking coup. Those that have made their money and can now sit on it and ride out any problems can have their day. The young, who have been shat on by the previous generations virtually constantly in the recent decades, get fucked over again. They will have to live with the consequences that have been imposed on them, and economic problems will fall far more heavily on them than anyone else.
Not just multinationals, it's great for the small software industry, and I am now very worried about my career future. London has a very large number of smallish software houses that are populated with EU labour, UK doesn't produce enough software developers on its own. They are too small to do visa things to find someone from abroad and bring them over, so are likely to be very badly affected by losing these foreign developers.
Scotland (which recently voted to stay in Great Britain because they were told they would drop out of the EU if they left the UK) and Northern Ireland voted to stay in. England and Wales voted to get out.
So Small Britain, or the United Kingdom of England and Wales, will leave the EU.
Probably, we will see Northern Ireland join the Irish Republic and Scotland to become independent during the next 2 years.
You really don't know what you're talking about, I suspect you know very little about the regions and their preferences, there's far more at play than whether or not they want to be in the EU. The one thing you might be right about is Scotland having another independence vote, and winning - but this won't leave them inside the EU, it doesn't work like that. They'd have to join as a new country.
Why in tech must we call everything old "legacy" and then assume it should go away? Maybe some thing work well enough that they should always be there. Some things are well designed and don't need to be changed. The 3.5mm port is resilient, rotatable, and universally supported, and only slightly bigger than the latest tech now would be able to replace it with.
Just because it is analogue does not make it irrelevant. Your ears are analogue. Why add another level of technology, another thing to charge, putting a digital-to-analogue converter on every pair of earphones rather than just one in the phone...
I remember having to have an adapter for headphones on the T-Mobile G1 and old Nokia phones, and it sucked then, and it will suck now. And so what if Apple release lightning headphones. Do we think they make the best headphones? They make crap headphones when compared to actual audio companies.
This Apple apologist doesn't even try to make is sound good, just that Apple are going to do it anyway so you might as well get used to it.
Apple is releasing a new product with little to no changes compared to the previous model, and yet still expects people to shell out hundreds of dollars for the new version? Sounds like they've finally figured out their customer base! Steve Jobs would be so proud ...
Nuthin' wrong with making small incremental improvements over an otherwise stable product. Car manufacturers have been doing it for years, they don't even change the model number. And you don't have to but it... who buys every iPhone anyway? Most people I would say wait 2 iterations atleast before upgrading. You don't really want to get into the situation the original Nexus 5 was in, sold for 2 years before it got an update. Yes there was nothing wrong with it but it was a bit weird to buy a new phone that was out-of-date.
Except... that breaks the actual event. Generally artists want their actual fans to be in the audience, more than they want the highest possible ticket price. It makes for a better experience for everyone, the fans appreciate it more, the band get a better reaction. To just sell to the highest bidder means that as an artist gets more successful they end up pricing out the people who made them successful in the first place, and replacing them with rich tourists.
Raising the prices might 'solve' the problem, but it doesn't make things better. This way the artist can retain control over the price, and restrict the ability of middlemen using technological means to change the price. Not entirely convinced it will work or that there aren't better solutions, but pretty sure that hiking the price, while the cleanest solution, would be the worst solution for actual people.
Well, you should really look up definitions for words like "shill" before you throw them around like that.
I don't see how this is possible. Perhaps it is, but since you have provided no evidence, and searching I can see nothing credible, I'm gonna keep believing how I understand the system to work rather than believe someone random on the internet.
As has been said before in this thread, you can't meaningfully duplicate the card using this method, you're missing vital bits of information. So you can't take someone's card details this way and do any buying against it - you can't make another contactless card, and you can't do online stuff because you will fail CVV, address verification and VBV. You could, I suppose, make a swipable card. Nowhere in Europe takes that anymore, and it's considered very suspicious by the bank and will get your card blocked and queried pretty swiftly, at which point you'll get your money refunded.
The best you can do as a "bad guy" is directly charge the card, but the only way you can do this is with a merchant account, which is tracable and reversable, and the banks will (and do) reverse the charge for mistakes (and probably send the police round to someone who's doing it systematically).
Maybe the PCI should just start listening to security professionals and do away with these things?
Yeah, they should totally listen to an AC that hasn't actually looked up how these things really work.
They all have it, they brag about it. And worse yet, if someone does manage to clone the card, the bank will insist that it's not possible to do so, and hold you liable for all the fraudulent transactions, after all, the security on the cards is perfect, so you must have authorized it.
So you actually have any examples of this or are you extrapolating from your imagination? The banks claim it to be secure because from your perspective it is, they cover the risk of it being used fraudulently because contactless is only available for small transactions and only by merchant accounts. If any silliness happens they can trace it exactly to the perpetrator, and pull the money back. Contactless cards been in active use in Europe for years now without the world ending like you imagine.
You assume there's even a single photo of me on either website.
Yeah, he was using photos as an analogy, not literally saying there's photos of you... Ach, nevermind...
Link for my earlier number: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/educ...
That is based on a gov.uk report. I will admit that I remembered the period wrong - should have been 7 years. Point remains the same though.
I won't be applying to rent anywhere anymore so I couldn't care less.
Well exactly. That's very much my point - you don't care. Doesn't affect you, so fuck anyone else.
And for information, I'm a bit older than millenial and have managed to get property and consider myself doing fine. Weirdly though, I can though still care about problems that aren't just about me.
As a landlord, I'd welcome any service that lets me vet renters before I enter into a contract with them.
Maybe you'd like to setup cameras in their current house too so you can find out when they're doing something that you disapprove of?
While I get that you'd like to vet people, there's a level of risk that you must take as a landlord to respect the private life of your tenants. This is invasive and wrong.
Don't give it to them, let the landlords that use the service become bankrupt if they insist. It's only because of weaklings that the privacy invasion happens.
Weaklings, or those that NEED FUCKING HOUSING and don't have anywhere else to go. Seriously, can you not take a moment to imagine what it's like to be someone with less purchasing power than you? It's really not that hard. This isn't a case of moral fibre, it's a colossal problem of providing enough housing for people, and the power that that gives those that provide housing.
If Millenials weren't so damn eager to tell the whole world and his dog about their tedious lives on social media in the first place this company couldn't exist. Reap what you sow kiddies.
Wow... I mean, is it hard to be that smugly self-satisfied? Do you have to put actual effort into it? This is a serious problem, but yeah, totally use it as an opportunity to take an easy swipe at young people doing something you disapprove of.
Very few people forecast the rise of large data processing, and it's only very recently that this sort of bullshit has started happening. I get that you hate millenials, perhaps you should also consider how catastrophically they've been failed by previous generations, rising debt, lowering salary possibility, massively rising housing costs, as a generation they have been royally fucked over. The average starting salary for a graduate in the UK is the same as it was 15 years ago, 30% lower after inflation. And they now graduate with about £18k of debt to pay off. A bit of vain tweeting is hardly worth mentioning in that context.
You think that claiming you don't have (or even not having) a Facebook account will help you in this situation? No, they'll just see you as a risk and discount you.
It's more than just 'giving a shit' though, the market won't protect people at the bottom of the rung because they can't afford to give a shit. Housing is particularly egregious for this because it's not something you get much choice in alot of the time. Britain is in the middle of a housing crisis at the moment and landlords hold all the cards. This isn't "don't buy a bad product that isn't that important", it's "don't have shelter". There isn't enough housing and the poorer get utterly shafted, and stuff like this just makes it even worse.
Legal protections are necessary - that's the entire point of law, to protect those who the system won't.
voted against AV fearing that if they endorsed that then it would stick forever when what they really wanted to see was more radical change.
This has to be one of the stupidest things I ever heard, but I did hear it lots. Such a insane way to shoot yourself in the foot, striking down an incremental improvement and 'holding out' for a more radical change that will clearly never come about if the smaller change can't be agreed on.
But then there are those that claim they will swing from voting Sanders to Trump, so I suppose some brains defy understanding...