If the Apartments in question tied somebody's job and/or bonus to the number of likes. Having worked my share of crappy customer service positions where I was given unreasonable performance metrics you'd be surprised some of the... creative ways folks will come up with when they get desperate to meet them. After 40 years of stagnate wages and 6% rent inflation a "bonus" is practically part of your salary...
Besides maybe Ashes of the Singularity does any game use more than 2 cores ( not counting crap like Far Cry 3 where it binds to core 3 for some inexplicable reason)?
Couldn't the administration just pardon him at this point? We might have to jump through some legal gymnastics since he's never been convicted, but it's nothing they couldn't pull off if they were serious.
people (who aren't programmers looking for a Unix that works) buy Mac books because they're a Veblen good. At least that was the reason my college bound kid had when pressed for it.
Since I'm much more likely to just haul off and buy a new phone unless I bought one of those $600+ flagships. In that case I'm probably expecting free updates since I just spent $600 on a phone. Even if I'm not if I buy a high end flagship I can probably count on updates for free from Cyanogen.
Honestly Google is already giving it away for free (more or less) So paid droid updates were always a bit of a non starter.
but that's a mighty fine right wing talking point you've got there. It's also a pretty old one. Now the real question is: are you conscientiously aware that you're repeating it or did the political engine that created the abortion issue as a means of driving a wedge between working class voters manage to sneak it in there as intended?
If you're smoking you at least know damn well you're engaging in dangerous behavior. If you're vaping you have no expectation that the vape pen is going to blow up in your face. The exact opposite actually. You expect it to be safe.
we've got perfectly good laws already and they're going to be enforced. Also you wouldn't be making light of it if you or one of your friends or family was one of those 66.
Now, we might want some new laws that allow small businesses to safely sell vaping gear and equipment. The current laws were all written for big tobacco. They're likely to put mom & pops out of business. I'd like to see a middle ground here. We can start by properly funding the regulatory agencies so that it doesn't take them 2 years and $100 grand to review an application. You don't think this sudden push for enforcing existing laws came out of nowhere do you? Where do you think the political will to get it done came from?
The Judge generally weighs the jury's ruling pretty strongly. I honestly thought the jury would rule against google. Juries tend to be very conservative and they tend to side first with property rights. Oracle had some fairly compelling arguments too. Ars has the slides they showed the jury and their slick as all hell get out. The fact that it was ruled you could copyright declarations kinda sucked too. Oracle now has an uphill fight on their hands.
There's an enormous amount of power to be gained by deciding who does and doesn't get to eat. There's an entire class of individuals with a vested interest in seeing that the problems you described don't get solve. Their high social standing depends on it...
Motorola made phones just fine in America and they were plenty profitable. It's just that they were _more_ profitable when they didn't have to clean up their mess. The solution if tariffs. If countries want to brutally oppress their citizens then I can't compete unless I'm being oppressed to. You know that, you're just uncomfortable with the implications.
Microsoft committed suicide by refusing to give salesmen a spiff for selling Windows phones. Both Apple and Google give the rank and file at most cell carriers that. That's why if you walk into a T-Mobile or AT&T you'll find the Windows phones in the back behind a fence with barb wire, dogs, a moat and panthers.
Instead of just throwing your hands up and declaring defeat. Of course, if you're AT&T and you're making bank off selling a limited resource then that's the last thing you'd want. It's almost as if unfettered capitalism can create perverse incentives
It kept companies from grinding the economy to a halt by hoarding all the cash. If you don't wanna invest it we'd give it to somebody who did. Use it or lose it.
about 75 years of mass unemployment following the industrial revolution. It took decades for technology to catch up and create jobs. In the meantime you had poverty and inequlity of a scale that's hard to imagine. That's sorta the problem. You can't imagine it so you don't believe it'll happen.
So yeah, it's gonna suck when A.I.s and expert systems put another 89% out of work. Your grandkids grandkids will probably be posting the same crap to whatever replaces slashdot in 100 years. In the meantime you and I are in for a rough ride...
the Netflix app on my phone is asking for permission to do in app purchases? I can't imagine Netflix getting to stream many Disney movies for the regular $16 bucks a month I pay. But I could see them doing PPV.
who's not in the military on a nuclear vessel. Honestly, with the really shitty maintenance these ships are famous coupled with the difficulty of enforcing safety regulations when they're in international waters I wouldn't want them running a nuke plant.
Until it's cheaper to run a safe nuke plant than a dangerous one nuke plants won't be safe unless they're run by the gov't.
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If the Apartments in question tied somebody's job and/or bonus to the number of likes. Having worked my share of crappy customer service positions where I was given unreasonable performance metrics you'd be surprised some of the... creative ways folks will come up with when they get desperate to meet them. After 40 years of stagnate wages and 6% rent inflation a "bonus" is practically part of your salary...
They don't seem to invalidate your Win 7 key ( and if your on 8 it can hardly be worse than 10). So it's easy enough to roll back if you want to.
Besides maybe Ashes of the Singularity does any game use more than 2 cores ( not counting crap like Far Cry 3 where it binds to core 3 for some inexplicable reason)?
Couldn't the administration just pardon him at this point? We might have to jump through some legal gymnastics since he's never been convicted, but it's nothing they couldn't pull off if they were serious.
people (who aren't programmers looking for a Unix that works) buy Mac books because they're a Veblen good. At least that was the reason my college bound kid had when pressed for it.
a. Wealthy people fly a lot and they want to know it's safe. Wealthy people matter so we spend billions on the things that matter to them.
b. Airlines want everyone to know it's safe to fly so they won't think twice about flying. And it's not their money that's getting spent.
Since I'm much more likely to just haul off and buy a new phone unless I bought one of those $600+ flagships. In that case I'm probably expecting free updates since I just spent $600 on a phone. Even if I'm not if I buy a high end flagship I can probably count on updates for free from Cyanogen.
Honestly Google is already giving it away for free (more or less) So paid droid updates were always a bit of a non starter.
because nobody has ever threatened lives and even carried through on those threats because of the type of soap I buy.
but that's a mighty fine right wing talking point you've got there. It's also a pretty old one. Now the real question is: are you conscientiously aware that you're repeating it or did the political engine that created the abortion issue as a means of driving a wedge between working class voters manage to sneak it in there as intended?
If you're smoking you at least know damn well you're engaging in dangerous behavior. If you're vaping you have no expectation that the vape pen is going to blow up in your face. The exact opposite actually. You expect it to be safe.
we've got perfectly good laws already and they're going to be enforced. Also you wouldn't be making light of it if you or one of your friends or family was one of those 66.
Now, we might want some new laws that allow small businesses to safely sell vaping gear and equipment. The current laws were all written for big tobacco. They're likely to put mom & pops out of business. I'd like to see a middle ground here. We can start by properly funding the regulatory agencies so that it doesn't take them 2 years and $100 grand to review an application. You don't think this sudden push for enforcing existing laws came out of nowhere do you? Where do you think the political will to get it done came from?
The Judge generally weighs the jury's ruling pretty strongly. I honestly thought the jury would rule against google. Juries tend to be very conservative and they tend to side first with property rights. Oracle had some fairly compelling arguments too. Ars has the slides they showed the jury and their slick as all hell get out. The fact that it was ruled you could copyright declarations kinda sucked too. Oracle now has an uphill fight on their hands.
There's an enormous amount of power to be gained by deciding who does and doesn't get to eat. There's an entire class of individuals with a vested interest in seeing that the problems you described don't get solve. Their high social standing depends on it...
Motorola made phones just fine in America and they were plenty profitable. It's just that they were _more_ profitable when they didn't have to clean up their mess. The solution if tariffs. If countries want to brutally oppress their citizens then I can't compete unless I'm being oppressed to. You know that, you're just uncomfortable with the implications.
Microsoft committed suicide by refusing to give salesmen a spiff for selling Windows phones. Both Apple and Google give the rank and file at most cell carriers that. That's why if you walk into a T-Mobile or AT&T you'll find the Windows phones in the back behind a fence with barb wire, dogs, a moat and panthers.
The streamlining phase.
I'd probably want to change my name and move to another city too.
Instead of just throwing your hands up and declaring defeat. Of course, if you're AT&T and you're making bank off selling a limited resource then that's the last thing you'd want. It's almost as if unfettered capitalism can create perverse incentives
Why we let them do this. You know, we could pass a law and make them stop.
It kept companies from grinding the economy to a halt by hoarding all the cash. If you don't wanna invest it we'd give it to somebody who did. Use it or lose it.
about 75 years of mass unemployment following the industrial revolution. It took decades for technology to catch up and create jobs. In the meantime you had poverty and inequlity of a scale that's hard to imagine. That's sorta the problem. You can't imagine it so you don't believe it'll happen.
So yeah, it's gonna suck when A.I.s and expert systems put another 89% out of work. Your grandkids grandkids will probably be posting the same crap to whatever replaces slashdot in 100 years. In the meantime you and I are in for a rough ride...
the Netflix app on my phone is asking for permission to do in app purchases? I can't imagine Netflix getting to stream many Disney movies for the regular $16 bucks a month I pay. But I could see them doing PPV.
They're fine. It's less a chat app and more a social network with how users approach it. When I see folks migrating off that I might believe.
who's not in the military on a nuclear vessel. Honestly, with the really shitty maintenance these ships are famous coupled with the difficulty of enforcing safety regulations when they're in international waters I wouldn't want them running a nuke plant.
Until it's cheaper to run a safe nuke plant than a dangerous one nuke plants won't be safe unless they're run by the gov't.
or disclosing the extent of what they're going to do they've dropped the request. If they feel threatened they just go to ground.