I don't see how that's different to every other media platform including this one. Controversy attracts eyeballs. Eyeballs attract ads. Ads attract money. etc. Look at the recent CNN controversy where they basically admitted the Russia scandal they've been promoting is fake news.
For any given video, it will recommend a range of other similar videos which by definition must be a bit more radical or a bit less radical. If you keep clicking the more radical ones, of course you will slowly gravitate up the radical tree. How could it be otherwise? I don't consider it radicalising, it's just providing information. For this topic, this is how radical you can go, this is how far you can take it. Anyone interested in a topic enough to keep watching videos is sooner or later going to want to know, how far can I take this? And YouTube has the answer for you.
This is why Richard Stallman insists on signing over copyright to the FSF before taking your code. It always seemed legally very messy that Linux was in the legal hands of thousands of separate developers. This is why that is a bad idea.
I understand the point of a taxi central. One app that can get you a ride anywhere in the world. I just think you need to make a profit doing so. Because it's going to be a highly competitive business you can't put too much weight on recouping losses later.
Just guessing here, but I doubt the compiler makes any difference to speed whatsoever. Why? Because modern javascript browsers are just-in-time compiling the javascript into native code. So the native code is 2 levels removed from the C++, and the code your compiler generated.
If you want that functionality, then the iPad would have to be on, active, listening to everything you said 24x7 and feeding it through the network to Apple's Siri servers. All while it is supposed to be OFF, and not draining battery, not sucking data from your cell plan. That would be dumb. Open the cover, or buy a non-magnet cover if you're baking. Sheesh.
Why don't you move it, or link or alias it to where YOU want it, and dry your tears? I've never felt the need to use it, and no doubt that's why they moved it.
Removing scroll bars seemed weird when it happened (how many years ago now?) But honestly, I don't miss them one bit.
I'm not familiar with the Message thing, but the fact they changed it means they are thinking about it, no? Maybe it's you who doesn't get it.
iOS Preferences all over the place? What does that mean? If you don't have preferences, people whine that you can't customise anything. If you have them and have thousands of them, then organising them coherently is a challenge. Some people expect to find X under one section, other people imagine it should be somewhere else.
I'd be hard pressed to think of anything better about any previous version of mac OS compared to the current one.
Tons of stuff that came out under Steve Jobs was as buggy as fuck. Remember the Mobile Me email that didn't work? Or the early versions of iOS (then called iPhone OS) that took like 6 hours to sync with iTunes? Apple are not magical. As an Apple developer I can tell you that Mac OSX has always been as buggy as fuck to develop for. However, it's still BETTER than most alternatives. Better than Windows, better than Android, better than Linux, better than [WHATEVER]. But it aint magical. Everyone makes mistakes, all software has bugs. Some of those bugs will be facepalming annoying, but it happens to the best of us.
From what you're telling us, you have very modest requirements, albeit not quite modest enough to use a plain old candy bar phone.
Now as a non-tech geek, which is what this profile is screaming, why would you not want to go mainstream? iOS and Android is mainstream. They are readily available. There are tons of resources on how to use them. They have apps available should the need arise. Going out of mainstream is for early adopters, for tech geeks, for people with non-mainstream needs. There's a reason why Android and iOS dominate. THEY WORK FOR MOST PEOPLE.
"featured ads from well-known national brands interspersed with game action"
So what is the problem? The deal is, they provide the football and in exchange we watch the ads. If we watch the ads on youtube, what's the problem exactly?
How is it different to bulldozing down mountains to find gold so you can turn it into gold bars, put in a bank vault and pay people to guard it and keep it safe? Seems the same to me.
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That's one of the reasons this is grossly irresponsible.
Whoever is right or wrong in this shit fest, the west should take note that multiculturalism ends in genocide.
I don't see how that's different to every other media platform including this one. Controversy attracts eyeballs. Eyeballs attract ads. Ads attract money. etc. Look at the recent CNN controversy where they basically admitted the Russia scandal they've been promoting is fake news.
I'm struggling to see how some government committee is going to be able to provide the right answers. If you think that, god help us all.
Whichever race is the most prevalent. That would be Chinese I guess.
For any given video, it will recommend a range of other similar videos which by definition must be a bit more radical or a bit less radical. If you keep clicking the more radical ones, of course you will slowly gravitate up the radical tree. How could it be otherwise? I don't consider it radicalising, it's just providing information. For this topic, this is how radical you can go, this is how far you can take it. Anyone interested in a topic enough to keep watching videos is sooner or later going to want to know, how far can I take this? And YouTube has the answer for you.
Why can't they just give Germany the middle finger? What are they going to do about it? Send gun boats?
This is why Richard Stallman insists on signing over copyright to the FSF before taking your code. It always seemed legally very messy that Linux was in the legal hands of thousands of separate developers. This is why that is a bad idea.
I understand the point of a taxi central. One app that can get you a ride anywhere in the world. I just think you need to make a profit doing so. Because it's going to be a highly competitive business you can't put too much weight on recouping losses later.
Just guessing here, but I doubt the compiler makes any difference to speed whatsoever. Why? Because modern javascript browsers are just-in-time compiling the javascript into native code. So the native code is 2 levels removed from the C++, and the code your compiler generated.
I can see the similarities, why can't you?
What are you talking about, it's years since I saw any glitch along these lines on iOS.
I'm sympathetic to the idea that the touch bar is not super interesting. But why do you think it was an out and out "bad idea"?
If you want that functionality, then the iPad would have to be on, active, listening to everything you said 24x7 and feeding it through the network to Apple's Siri servers. All while it is supposed to be OFF, and not draining battery, not sucking data from your cell plan. That would be dumb. Open the cover, or buy a non-magnet cover if you're baking. Sheesh.
Why don't you move it, or link or alias it to where YOU want it, and dry your tears? I've never felt the need to use it, and no doubt that's why they moved it.
Removing scroll bars seemed weird when it happened (how many years ago now?) But honestly, I don't miss them one bit.
I'm not familiar with the Message thing, but the fact they changed it means they are thinking about it, no? Maybe it's you who doesn't get it.
iOS Preferences all over the place? What does that mean? If you don't have preferences, people whine that you can't customise anything. If you have them and have thousands of them, then organising them coherently is a challenge. Some people expect to find X under one section, other people imagine it should be somewhere else.
I'd be hard pressed to think of anything better about any previous version of mac OS compared to the current one.
iPhone X ? Airport ? Ceramic Apple Watch?
Tons of stuff that came out under Steve Jobs was as buggy as fuck. Remember the Mobile Me email that didn't work? Or the early versions of iOS (then called iPhone OS) that took like 6 hours to sync with iTunes? Apple are not magical. As an Apple developer I can tell you that Mac OSX has always been as buggy as fuck to develop for. However, it's still BETTER than most alternatives. Better than Windows, better than Android, better than Linux, better than [WHATEVER]. But it aint magical. Everyone makes mistakes, all software has bugs. Some of those bugs will be facepalming annoying, but it happens to the best of us.
As an iPhone user, what is this app/spyware hell of which you speak?
From what you're telling us, you have very modest requirements, albeit not quite modest enough to use a plain old candy bar phone.
Now as a non-tech geek, which is what this profile is screaming, why would you not want to go mainstream? iOS and Android is mainstream. They are readily available. There are tons of resources on how to use them. They have apps available should the need arise. Going out of mainstream is for early adopters, for tech geeks, for people with non-mainstream needs. There's a reason why Android and iOS dominate. THEY WORK FOR MOST PEOPLE.
"featured ads from well-known national brands interspersed with game action"
So what is the problem? The deal is, they provide the football and in exchange we watch the ads. If we watch the ads on youtube, what's the problem exactly?
I question whether patents are actual property, despite the term "intellectual property".This hasn't been tested in the supreme court has it?
Unless.... you happen to work at a shopping centre where there is a super charger. In which case it's money for nothing, and your chicks for free.
How is it different to bulldozing down mountains to find gold so you can turn it into gold bars, put in a bank vault and pay people to guard it and keep it safe? Seems the same to me.
There's one guy who repaired his own Telsa and cost him about $6k and it still worked with the free charging stations. So not necessarily $100K.