I still want a 6 inch laptop with hardware keyboard and trackpoint with phone on the outside (think Nokia Communicator 9500).
I am THIS close to glueing a chinesium Bluetooth keyboard to my phone....
No seriously, If I can work out how to design a hinge that won't snag on my clothing I will make myself a frankenphone that will scare the living daylights out of any iPhone snowflake out there.
Yes, they'll keep getting on our nerves until we start buying those early 80s "mobile" phones that can be used as a self-defense device or a brick to break a car window.
When the first vaccines were brought to market, there seemed to be a lot of questions surrounding the topic. It wasn't all that sure whether the presence of the HP virus was circumstancial... you know correlation versus causation. AND the vaccines seemed to sometimes have dire side-effects.
Does anyone know where science is standing on this topic? And I don't mean pharma. I mean science;).
That's actually an argument that resonates very well with me.
So far I thought "Well, yeah the employer does get what they want but you doing nothing for the money was not the intention behind the contract."
However, you put it very well. Which brings me to another thought: B2B works similar as well. The customer doesn't get to ask for his money back just because the other business provided the service or product with less effort than the customer had previously assumed necessary. In fact, every MBA will congratulate another MBA for a job well done in fattening up the bottom line.
So ethically speaking, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
No income is more or less completely inconceivable to me.
If I lose my job, I will get paid 80% of my current salary for a year and a half.
If I become an invalid, I will receive money.
If I get sick, I cannot just be fired.
There are two adults with above average intelligence in my household and with the time frames we are given to reorient ourselves, I do not fear many situations, especially not for reasons of finances.
And before I starve, I will ask friends and family because I am also there for friends and family should they need me. It's that simple.
Loans from banks don't have vastly better interest rates than my credit cards. Also my credit cards are ready to give me money immediately, whereas with banks I'd have to go do some begging.
The most expensive car, the current one, I have ever bought cost me 16k Swiss Francs.
I'm good. Be scared if you want. I decided not to be. Not anymore.
By law we keep receiving our salary if we get sick. The first three days are on the employer and after that, there's an insurance policy at work.
Yes, we pay these policies out of our salaries, at least partially. Yes, we pay the rest because employers are capable of math, too, and will structure prices of their products accordingly.
Switzerland is having issues with pensions, though I personally believe it's much hyped up to get the voters into the politicians' corners. We could easily afford much more socialism without it truly hurting IMO.
This is actually partially by design. Having cash lying around or worse in a bank does not seem to be a very smart thing to do nowadays.
I am affluent enough to handle unforeseen expenditures like a broken down car over the course of two or three months. That's what credit cards are for and so far each and every last business I've dealt with had no issue with being told that I'd have to split paying the bill over two months or so.
If it's medical: I live in a first world country. I will not go into debt over medical issues.
I have parents and friends that can help me out if worse came to worst.
In the meantime, I'm putting quite a bit of cash into the apartment I own. That is, more or less, saved cash although liquidating wouldn't be all that straight forward.
I don't have enough trust in banks to give them my money anymore. The impact on my life that this money has being spent as it comes in is more valuable to me than a feeling of security a bank account would give me. This is so because I'm just not scared enough in day to day life.
You are not wrong but it also wouldn't be the first time that "the way we've always done it" just isn't the most efficient one. Yes, this is counter intuitive. However, I don't think we'll know for certain whether this works unless we try it on a relevant scale.
Have you ever tried ordering enterprise class hardware from HP, Cisco, Dell, EMC etc.?
Listprices sre ridiculous but just about anyone gets 40 tp 50 percent off. Depending on the size of your order, your account and whether you're close to the end of their quarter, you can manage 60 percent rebate or more.
Yes, well... Is it a surprise when they've tossed all that we've learned about UI making?
Clickable objects are no longer clearly marked as such. Different kinds of content are no longer clearly distinguished from one another. Contectual information on mouse-over or right click or even F1 is hit and miss, but usually miss.
And be honest, how often do you go "What kind of moron from Bizarro Land would name this function that and put it there??!!".
Or lists... on one frame, it's exportable on the second it's sortable and on the third you can do multi-selection. But not one of them can do all three.
Not to forget that if whatever you are using happens to have multi-platform apps, GUIs or whatever, you can bet your ass they won't have been developed by the same team. So you not only need to handle each and every single app with a lot of TLC for them to even remotely do what you want, you'll have to learn to do it differently on your MacOS laptop, on your Android phone and on your Windows desktop. If you're especially lucky, the online interface will behave differently depending on the browser too.
And let's be exceptionally frank here, writing a good manual is an artform few have ever mastered. 90% of my use cases I find my answers on some message board online and certainly not in a manual.
OR, as it's the case with our current backup software, the manual is easily 1000 pages. Now, if I were tasked solely with pampering our backup software, you could argue that that is doable and you'd be right. But I also have to pamper the storage environment (with several products, of course), the Cisco UCS, SAN infrastructure and Vmware Virtualization as a cherry on top.
And in order to not kill motherfuckers daily, I strictly adhere to my 8 hour work days, except for emergencies and maintenance tasks that cannot be done on hours.
So imagine this new-fangled dohicky coming along expecting me to forego everything I thought I knew about gadgets and do it their way now because reasons. Yeaaah, no. Go fuck yourself, would you kindly?
I think I just had a StarTrek moment here. The concept is simple and elegant (obviously practical aspects aren't quite as simple but certainly far from undoable) A combination of shit we already knew and already had to do something nobody thought of yet.
I may be in love here to a degree that I wont even ask for when we can expect this to be commercially available;).
And you're sure that those guns come from legally acquired private stock?
Look, right now the Swiss government wants to adopt a EU law that would severely limit our current gun ownership rights. The reasoning is stopping terrorists.
Only problem is,,, no self respecting terrorist ever shot up the place with a small caliber, semi-auto imitation of an AK-47. They have real, full-auto AKs from places like Ex-Yugoslavia.
At the same time, and I shit you not, our government wants to relax rules on arms exports to "problematic" countries.
And still anti-gun people want to tell me I'm overreacting when I say nuh-uh!
In short: I have done everything according to the law to own guns. Now they want to take them away from ME, because some others MIGHT abuse these items (but have never done so in the past). They do this while finding it completely okay to export more efficient killing tools to countries which are rather suspect in the light of human rights and have active terrorist cells running around.
This is like me going you can't have any more pretzels! A US president almost chocked on them! He might have died! He didn't, but just imagine what happens if my imagination runs with the idea and scores of kindergartners died due to pretzels tomorrow! So we'll ban pretzels because if we can even save one life, it'll be worth it!
And I don't give a damn that guns have been invented to kill. It's true! I don't care, however. Guns have been invented mainly to kill with precision. No mass shooter has ever much cared for precision, always going for masses of people (hence the term) where they could have killed just as many or more with pipe bombs or trucks.
And that's exactly what would happen. Instead of trying to secure one potentially dangerous item after the other from rogue elements, let's start asking ourselves why so many young men decide that killing others and then themselves is the way to go.
In my eyes, your society has let down each and every mass shooter and subsequently their victims but not by banning guns but by creating a society that only rewards the winners, yet has rigged the marathon in such a way that some people get a 30km head start...
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H2 I would assume from what little remains of my knowledge of chemistry.
Yes, if they added phone capabilities and a trackpoint. You can't remote access GUIs for shit with a touchscreen...
I did in fact miss that. Follow-up: Can color finally reliably be chosen per app?
I still want a 6 inch laptop with hardware keyboard and trackpoint with phone on the outside (think Nokia Communicator 9500).
I am THIS close to glueing a chinesium Bluetooth keyboard to my phone....
No seriously, If I can work out how to design a hinge that won't snag on my clothing I will make myself a frankenphone that will scare the living daylights out of any iPhone snowflake out there.
Is that LED crap on the back usable for notifications? If no, go fuck yourself Razer.
...Google has been testing driverless cars for years now?
So were the young women being turned into vegetables mere media hype?
Yes, they'll keep getting on our nerves until we start buying those early 80s "mobile" phones that can be used as a self-defense device or a brick to break a car window.
When the first vaccines were brought to market, there seemed to be a lot of questions surrounding the topic. It wasn't all that sure whether the presence of the HP virus was circumstancial... you know correlation versus causation. AND the vaccines seemed to sometimes have dire side-effects.
Does anyone know where science is standing on this topic? And I don't mean pharma. I mean science ;).
I'm SO glad I'm not alone in my cranky old codger ways...
I think I'll perform a happy dance the day the sell a smartphone with hardware keyboard and trackpoint...
...kind of marketing drivel is this?
That's actually an argument that resonates very well with me.
So far I thought "Well, yeah the employer does get what they want but you doing nothing for the money was not the intention behind the contract."
However, you put it very well. Which brings me to another thought: B2B works similar as well. The customer doesn't get to ask for his money back just because the other business provided the service or product with less effort than the customer had previously assumed necessary. In fact, every MBA will congratulate another MBA for a job well done in fattening up the bottom line.
So ethically speaking, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
No income is more or less completely inconceivable to me.
If I lose my job, I will get paid 80% of my current salary for a year and a half.
If I become an invalid, I will receive money.
If I get sick, I cannot just be fired.
There are two adults with above average intelligence in my household and with the time frames we are given to reorient ourselves, I do not fear many situations, especially not for reasons of finances.
And before I starve, I will ask friends and family because I am also there for friends and family should they need me. It's that simple.
Loans from banks don't have vastly better interest rates than my credit cards. Also my credit cards are ready to give me money immediately, whereas with banks I'd have to go do some begging.
The most expensive car, the current one, I have ever bought cost me 16k Swiss Francs.
I'm good. Be scared if you want. I decided not to be. Not anymore.
By law we keep receiving our salary if we get sick. The first three days are on the employer and after that, there's an insurance policy at work.
Yes, we pay these policies out of our salaries, at least partially. Yes, we pay the rest because employers are capable of math, too, and will structure prices of their products accordingly.
Switzerland is having issues with pensions, though I personally believe it's much hyped up to get the voters into the politicians' corners. We could easily afford much more socialism without it truly hurting IMO.
I live paycheck to paycheck.
This is actually partially by design. Having cash lying around or worse in a bank does not seem to be a very smart thing to do nowadays.
I am affluent enough to handle unforeseen expenditures like a broken down car over the course of two or three months. That's what credit cards are for and so far each and every last business I've dealt with had no issue with being told that I'd have to split paying the bill over two months or so.
If it's medical: I live in a first world country. I will not go into debt over medical issues.
I have parents and friends that can help me out if worse came to worst.
In the meantime, I'm putting quite a bit of cash into the apartment I own. That is, more or less, saved cash although liquidating wouldn't be all that straight forward.
I don't have enough trust in banks to give them my money anymore. The impact on my life that this money has being spent as it comes in is more valuable to me than a feeling of security a bank account would give me. This is so because I'm just not scared enough in day to day life.
Dude, German is my mother tongue...
Am I the only one thoroughly enjoying the fracturing that is happening in this movement?
The only thing that makes me sad here is that people who are truly fighting for us being decent to each other get a bad rep by proxy...
You want people to understand what "Esports ist Scheisse" means but you don't dare spell it out? Like, whu..?
I live among a horde of weak, pathetic fools...
You are not wrong but it also wouldn't be the first time that "the way we've always done it" just isn't the most efficient one. Yes, this is counter intuitive. However, I don't think we'll know for certain whether this works unless we try it on a relevant scale.
Have you ever tried ordering enterprise class hardware from HP, Cisco, Dell, EMC etc.?
Listprices sre ridiculous but just about anyone gets 40 tp 50 percent off. Depending on the size of your order, your account and whether you're close to the end of their quarter, you can manage 60 percent rebate or more.
This company has only slighty better chances at being Tesla's rival as I.
Man, I hate the news these days...
Yes, well... Is it a surprise when they've tossed all that we've learned about UI making?
Clickable objects are no longer clearly marked as such. Different kinds of content are no longer clearly distinguished from one another. Contectual information on mouse-over or right click or even F1 is hit and miss, but usually miss.
And be honest, how often do you go "What kind of moron from Bizarro Land would name this function that and put it there??!!".
Or lists... on one frame, it's exportable on the second it's sortable and on the third you can do multi-selection. But not one of them can do all three.
Not to forget that if whatever you are using happens to have multi-platform apps, GUIs or whatever, you can bet your ass they won't have been developed by the same team. So you not only need to handle each and every single app with a lot of TLC for them to even remotely do what you want, you'll have to learn to do it differently on your MacOS laptop, on your Android phone and on your Windows desktop. If you're especially lucky, the online interface will behave differently depending on the browser too.
And let's be exceptionally frank here, writing a good manual is an artform few have ever mastered. 90% of my use cases I find my answers on some message board online and certainly not in a manual.
OR, as it's the case with our current backup software, the manual is easily 1000 pages. Now, if I were tasked solely with pampering our backup software, you could argue that that is doable and you'd be right. But I also have to pamper the storage environment (with several products, of course), the Cisco UCS, SAN infrastructure and Vmware Virtualization as a cherry on top.
And in order to not kill motherfuckers daily, I strictly adhere to my 8 hour work days, except for emergencies and maintenance tasks that cannot be done on hours.
So imagine this new-fangled dohicky coming along expecting me to forego everything I thought I knew about gadgets and do it their way now because reasons. Yeaaah, no. Go fuck yourself, would you kindly?
I think I just had a StarTrek moment here. The concept is simple and elegant (obviously practical aspects aren't quite as simple but certainly far from undoable) A combination of shit we already knew and already had to do something nobody thought of yet.
I may be in love here to a degree that I wont even ask for when we can expect this to be commercially available ;).
...I'd say its days are numbered.
And you're sure that those guns come from legally acquired private stock?
Look, right now the Swiss government wants to adopt a EU law that would severely limit our current gun ownership rights. The reasoning is stopping terrorists.
Only problem is,,, no self respecting terrorist ever shot up the place with a small caliber, semi-auto imitation of an AK-47. They have real, full-auto AKs from places like Ex-Yugoslavia.
At the same time, and I shit you not, our government wants to relax rules on arms exports to "problematic" countries.
And still anti-gun people want to tell me I'm overreacting when I say nuh-uh!
In short: I have done everything according to the law to own guns. Now they want to take them away from ME, because some others MIGHT abuse these items (but have never done so in the past). They do this while finding it completely okay to export more efficient killing tools to countries which are rather suspect in the light of human rights and have active terrorist cells running around.
This is like me going you can't have any more pretzels! A US president almost chocked on them! He might have died! He didn't, but just imagine what happens if my imagination runs with the idea and scores of kindergartners died due to pretzels tomorrow! So we'll ban pretzels because if we can even save one life, it'll be worth it!
And I don't give a damn that guns have been invented to kill. It's true! I don't care, however. Guns have been invented mainly to kill with precision. No mass shooter has ever much cared for precision, always going for masses of people (hence the term) where they could have killed just as many or more with pipe bombs or trucks.
And that's exactly what would happen. Instead of trying to secure one potentially dangerous item after the other from rogue elements, let's start asking ourselves why so many young men decide that killing others and then themselves is the way to go.
In my eyes, your society has let down each and every mass shooter and subsequently their victims but not by banning guns but by creating a society that only rewards the winners, yet has rigged the marathon in such a way that some people get a 30km head start...