Why restrict technology names to only 1 alphabet? LaTeX uses Greek letters, also, and requires two paragraphs in the Wikipedia article to explain the name.
Or... Go with the flow? The next time you create open-source software, call it "Garbage"? Or "Feces"? Or maybe "Vomit"? Or, invent a new word. Maybe "Flonorba-gorba"?
There is no way to justify Microsoft managers operating the company like that. If Microsoft had paid $100,000,000 for negative advertising, it wouldn't have gotten such extremely bad results, in my opinion.
"if they were smarter they'd make them add-on bundle products,..."
Exactly! I'm seeing many, many examples of Amazon managers not being smart.
It is VERY important to recognize ALL of the abusiveness of Amazon. Only a small part of that is mentioned here, in this re-post of a former comment, with added information:
My opinion: Jeff Bezos is not a sufficiently capable manager. Evidence: Look at any Amazon web page. As you are researching some product that is interesting, you are often distracted by other products. One fix: Put any distractions at the bottom of the page. There are many other shortcomings of the Amazon web site.
Quote from the Wikipedia page for Jeff Bezos. (Nov. 29, 2018):
"Journalist Nellie Bowles of The New York Times has described the public persona and personality of Bezos as that of 'a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan'. During the 1990s, Bezos earned a reputation for relentlessly pushing Amazon forward, often at the expense of public charity and social welfare."
In my opinion, Bezos is not "briliant". No one who is habitually abusive can be called brilliant; his abusiveness damages the quality of his own life.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns Blue Origin.. Blue Origin does NOT now have the capability of orbiting the earth. Would you fly into space with a company owned by someone who makes huge mistakes and doesn't detect them?
Seems like "getting Windows 10" is like "getting the clap."
The U.S. Association of Clap Germs, USACG, objects to that as an offensive, disrespectful comparison. Clap germs claim to be far nicer than Microsoft.
This was not the first time there has been that kind of objection. Multiple Sclerosis germs have objected to Microsoft sometimes being abbreviated as MS.
"A variety of vegetables have a water composition above 90 percent. Cucumbers and iceberg lettuce contain the highest amount because they're 96 percent water. Ninety-four percent to 95 percent of celery, tomatoes and zucchini consists of water. You can choose from broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, sweet peppers and spinach for vegetables composed of 91 percent to 93 percent water. Carrots are rated as having 87 percent, while green peas are 79 percent water."
Good point. But the article is VERY poorly written.
Instead of:
"... with just 6 percent of Twitter accounts identified as bots responsible for 31 percent of 'low-credibility' content."
It could be:
"Of the 6 percent of Twitter accounts that were identified as bots, 31 percent were responsible for 'low-credibility' content."
When I think about that, I am confused about what could be the underlying meaning. Does that mean 94% of the bots were doing something else besides giving dishonest content? What were the 94% doing? What is "low-credibility" content? Is that content that is only partly dishonest?
The issue is that the article is poorly written, and also that probably no one knows what percentage of Twitter accounts are robots, not reporters or Twitter managers.
Please give an example of Hillary Clinton being intelligent. She handled the 2012 Benghazi attack in an extremely weak manner. People pretended she was responsible, but the head of an organization doesn't know everything that happens in an organization, and is not responsible for everything lower-level people do.
Also, intelligence does not mean knowledge of technology. What benefit would anyone think would come to her for installing a private server?
Obviously she knew enough to hire someone to set one up!
And hired someone to purge emails!
I've been doing technology support for decades. Recently I have wanted to find someone to do some computer hardware maintenance. I contacted an association of computer consultants. I did not find a sufficiently competent person.
Does anyone think Hillary Clinton has ANY ability to understand ANYTHING about technology?
It seems to me that the problems could have been caused by less-than-competent government workers who do not know how to communicate clearly.
It is a HUGE mistake to think that Hillary Clinton or Ivanka Trump know anything about technology.
Hillary Clinton had a "private email server"? Is it sensible to think that a 71-year-old woman, in her late 60s back then, had ANY understanding of email servers?
Microsoft has always been insufficiently and badly managed. But now Microsoft is carrying foolish, self-destructive and other-destructive management much farther than before.
Microsoft menaced with GDPR mega-fines in Europe for 'large scale and covert' gathering of people's info via Office
Telemetry data slurp broke the law, Dutch govt eggheads say
Better:
Microsoft may have to pay huge GDPR fines in Europe for 'large scale and covert' gathering of people's info via Microsoft Office.
Microsoft spying broke the law, Dutch government officials say.
Apparently, Microsoft's new business model is imitating Google: Collect a lot of information about users, and sell it to any organizations that will pay.
"The ITER project was sold on the basis of a much earlier delivery and much lower cost than predicted today. Now the number of years of work till the first full test is estimated to be the entire length of the scientist's careers. That's very convenient for the scientists, and very inconvenient for the taxpayers who pay every franc and mark."
Slashdot Mirror
"Could cut years off some of the development time for projects."
I understand Rust is excellent software, but why give it a name that sounds degrading. "Rust" is something you don't want to happen.
Other foolish names:
"Lisp" is a speech impediment.
"Gimp" is a person who limps or is lame.
Why restrict technology names to only 1 alphabet? LaTeX uses Greek letters, also, and requires two paragraphs in the Wikipedia article to explain the name.
Or... Go with the flow? The next time you create open-source software, call it "Garbage"? Or "Feces"? Or maybe "Vomit"? Or, invent a new word. Maybe "Flonorba-gorba"?
Remote control over drones can ALWAYS be eliminated or hijacked by radio frequency interference.
Technology ALWAYS has failures, like those at Three Mile Island, Fukushima Daiichi, and Chernobyl.
Amazon drone delivery: nine ways it could go horribly wrong (March 26, 2015)
I don't want drones near where I live. Will drones be allowed near where Jeff Bezos lives?
(Part of a comment I posted 18 months ago.)
"You should check the GOOG chart on NASDAQ."
Yes, but what will be the long-term results?
"Microsoft is a cloud company, ..."
Cloudy thinking?
Microsoft seems to me to be extremely badly managed. Some of the many, many stories:
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)
Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)
Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)
Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)
There is no way to justify Microsoft managers operating the company like that. If Microsoft had paid $100,000,000 for negative advertising, it wouldn't have gotten such extremely bad results, in my opinion.
My observation: In recent years, Google has been, more and more, poorly managed.
"if they were smarter they'd make them add-on bundle products, ..."
Exactly! I'm seeing many, many examples of Amazon managers not being smart.
It is VERY important to recognize ALL of the abusiveness of Amazon. Only a small part of that is mentioned here, in this re-post of a former comment, with added information:
My opinion: Jeff Bezos is not a sufficiently capable manager. Evidence: Look at any Amazon web page. As you are researching some product that is interesting, you are often distracted by other products. One fix: Put any distractions at the bottom of the page. There are many other shortcomings of the Amazon web site.
A few of the stories about Amazon being abusive:
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace. (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015)
Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."
Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)
Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)
Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)
Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)
The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)
Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018)
Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."
Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (bloomberg.com, Feb 19, 2013)
Quote from the Wikipedia page for Jeff Bezos. (Nov. 29, 2018):
"Journalist Nellie Bowles of The New York Times has described the public persona and personality of Bezos as that of 'a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan'. During the 1990s, Bezos earned a reputation for relentlessly pushing Amazon forward, often at the expense of public charity and social welfare."
In my opinion, Bezos is not "briliant". No one who is habitually abusive can be called brilliant; his abusiveness damages the quality of his own life.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns Blue Origin.. Blue Origin does NOT now have the capability of orbiting the earth. Would you fly into space with a company owned by someone who makes huge mistakes and doesn't detect them?
It is my opinion that Microsoft's mis-management and abuse is not reported sufficiently. Joking may help people adjust.
Microsoft is damaging customers and itself.
Some of the many, many stories:
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)
Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)
Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)
Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)
The U.S. Association of Clap Germs, USACG, objects to that as an offensive, disrespectful comparison. Clap germs claim to be far nicer than Microsoft.
This was not the first time there has been that kind of objection. Multiple Sclerosis germs have objected to Microsoft sometimes being abbreviated as MS.
Joke:
You are apparently thinking of Microsoft as a software company.
That's not correct. Microsoft is an ABUSE company. Software is just a method of delivering abuse.
Water in Vegetables
Quote:
"A variety of vegetables have a water composition above 90 percent. Cucumbers and iceberg lettuce contain the highest amount because they're 96 percent water. Ninety-four percent to 95 percent of celery, tomatoes and zucchini consists of water. You can choose from broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, sweet peppers and spinach for vegetables composed of 91 percent to 93 percent water. Carrots are rated as having 87 percent, while green peas are 79 percent water."
True: "What is important is how much misinformation is believed."
Also, it is important how much time is wasted trying to avoid the useless content.
Even more important: We need major social improvements.
Good point. But the article is VERY poorly written.
Instead of:
"... with just 6 percent of Twitter accounts identified as bots responsible for 31 percent of 'low-credibility' content."
It could be:
"Of the 6 percent of Twitter accounts that were identified as bots, 31 percent were responsible for 'low-credibility' content."
When I think about that, I am confused about what could be the underlying meaning. Does that mean 94% of the bots were doing something else besides giving dishonest content? What were the 94% doing? What is "low-credibility" content? Is that content that is only partly dishonest?
The issue is that the article is poorly written, and also that probably no one knows what percentage of Twitter accounts are robots, not reporters or Twitter managers.
From the article: "Twitter has removed tens of millions of accounts in 2018."
"just 6 percent of Twitter accounts"
Bad choice of wording: Could be "ONLY 6 percent of Twitter accounts". There is nothing "just" about it.
Bad choice of underlying idea: Should be "A HUGE number of Twitter accounts, 6 percent", are robots spreading dishonest information.
You said, "Hilary is very, very intelligent."
Please give an example of Hillary Clinton being intelligent. She handled the 2012 Benghazi attack in an extremely weak manner. People pretended she was responsible, but the head of an organization doesn't know everything that happens in an organization, and is not responsible for everything lower-level people do.
Also, intelligence does not mean knowledge of technology. What benefit would anyone think would come to her for installing a private server?
I've been doing technology support for decades. Recently I have wanted to find someone to do some computer hardware maintenance. I contacted an association of computer consultants. I did not find a sufficiently competent person.
Does anyone think Hillary Clinton has ANY ability to understand ANYTHING about technology?
It seems to me that the problems could have been caused by less-than-competent government workers who do not know how to communicate clearly.
It is a HUGE mistake to think that Hillary Clinton or Ivanka Trump know anything about technology.
Hillary Clinton had a "private email server"? Is it sensible to think that a 71-year-old woman, in her late 60s back then, had ANY understanding of email servers?
Microsoft has always been insufficiently and badly managed. But now Microsoft is carrying foolish, self-destructive and other-destructive management much farther than before.
One of the many, many articles:
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)
A previous comment of mine:
Microsoft is damaging customers and itself. (Oct. 22, 2018)
The Register story title and headline:
Microsoft menaced with GDPR mega-fines in Europe for 'large scale and covert' gathering of people's info via Office
Telemetry data slurp broke the law, Dutch govt eggheads say
Better:
Microsoft may have to pay huge GDPR fines in Europe for 'large scale and covert' gathering of people's info via Microsoft Office.
Microsoft spying broke the law, Dutch government officials say.
Spying should not be called "Telemetry".
Definitely, people will stop using Microsoft mail. There will be more damage to Microsoft's reputation.
Microsoft has always been badly managed in some ways, in my opinion. But now the management is FAR worse.
"He seems to have the mental age of a two-year-old. Make an irrational decision, then find some vague reason to back it up." (Fixed)
This Slashdot article, and this other one today seem to indicate a mental breakdown:
Facebook Reportedly Hired a PR Firm That Wrote Negative Articles About Rivals, Pushed George Soros Conspiracy Theory
That kind of breakdown indicates a very poor childhood, in my opinion.
Microsoft "Promises Quality Changes".
It seems to me that the fundamental issue is that Microsoft managers don't have the social ability to be good managers.
The huge number of major problems with Windows 10 have damaged Microsoft's reputation.
Apparently Microsoft is internally very disorganized. A previous comment of mine:
Microsoft is poorly managed? Plenty of evidence. (Oct. 20, 2018)
Apparently, Microsoft's new business model is imitating Google: Collect a lot of information about users, and sell it to any organizations that will pay.
Microsoft is poorly managed? Plenty of evidence. (Oct. 20, 2018)
That business model is not going well:
A watchdog group pretended to be Russian and bought 'divisive' Google ads -- now, Google is blasting the group for its ties to Oracle. (Sep. 4, 2018)
Facebook discloses possible election meddling by Russia, foreign actors on eve of midterms. (Nov. 5, 2018)
We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians. Here's what we found. (May 13, 2018)
Slashdot comment in 2010: ITER will be one of the many Tokamaks.
From 2009: Mismanagement? Quote:
"The ITER project was sold on the basis of a much earlier delivery and much lower cost than predicted today. Now the number of years of work till the first full test is estimated to be the entire length of the scientist's careers. That's very convenient for the scientists, and very inconvenient for the taxpayers who pay every franc and mark."