There's lots of things that go wrong in a store. A mom&pop grocery store could be in real trouble if the refrigeration fails, for example. This doesn't mean they need to have an expert on that on payroll. Perhaps they have the system inspected annually, and know who they can call for repairs. What they don't expect is someone sneaking in to vandalize the equipment, particularly the guy who is supposed to be inspecting it.
You're talking about malware that runs on W10. Typically, that malware requires some sort of user action to enable, but uses deceit to get the user to make that fateful click. You may recognize this as how W10 got installed in many cases, and if W10 is unwanted and causes problems it's malware. Why do you think it's fine for MS to spread malware and not private parties?
Many businesses rely on software that runs on Windows and nowhere else. Many have communication needs that basically require Microsoft Office. Moving away from MS is not necessarily something a business can do and survive. A business has to make decisions that work for them.
The upgrade may not have been technically forced, but it wasn't necessarily consensual. MS used trickery and misdirection to downgrade people from 7 and 8.1 to 10. If Microsoft was directed by a court to show actual consent for many of these downgrades, they'd be in trouble.
Japanese honor is real, although not universally applied. The last war basically run by samurai, the Russo-Japanese war, was fought very honorably. Inside the Japanese caste system, honor in wartime is pretty much limited to warriors, and arming the lower classes has typically led to atrocities. I hope they've changed that.
Japan did not rape and pillage any part of Asia except Japan for centuries, although you could argue decades in the case of Korea and Okinawa (and while Japanese treatment of them wasn't good, I don't know if it warrants the "rape and pillage" descriptor). Japan was very isolationist until the US and Russia opened up commerce by force in the mid-1800s, and it hasn't been "centuries" since then.
iPhones come in development versions? And you have to buy a more expensive one? Can't you use it while developing on it? If you want to develop, you can run your apps on an emulator. If you want to deploy, you do need something to deploy to. If you want to go commercial, there's far fewer types of iOS devices than Android devices, so your testing can be more exhaustive.
Boot Camp is intended to make sure there's Windows driver support, mostly. I've heard from people who run OSX, Windows, and Linux on their Macs. Apple does make some nice hardware.
All the weapons you can legally purchase will not stop the US military or government, although many people appear to have fantasies to the contrary.
If you think Clinton is one of the two most unscrupulous Presidential candidates in US history, you need to study US history. Looking at actual elected US Presidents in my lifetime, I'd have to rate Johnson and Nixon as more unscrupulous than Clinton. Clinton is arguably the most unfairly maligned in the last century, with people blaming her for things that she's been cleared of, often by political enemies.
You wouldn't know a neo-Communist if he quoted Marx at you and shoved a copy of the Communist Manifesto up your butt. The Democratic Party would be considered right-wing in most European countries (Sanders would be a centrist). What you remember hearing (without confirmation) from one person doesn't generalize to the whole party.
I think we'd be better off without the Second, but it's still part of the Constitution and I still don't like trampling on any Constitutional rights. I think it should be legal to buy a new infantry rifle, and that's been illegal for nearly 30 years.
A long time ago, a magazine (the Progressive?) had an article on how nuclear and thermonuclear weapons worked. They made the mistake of asking the government before publishing, and wound up in a prolonged legal battle that ended with the courts okaying the publication. (It was a pretty good article, too, even if it got a key component of fusion bombs wrong.) There was an article in Analog (a science fiction magazine) detailing how to build a stationary nuke, covering everything except how to get that much weapons-grade U-235. These were protected under the First Amendment.
So we're supposed to believe that instructions on making a frippin' personal firearm are a threat? It's not like there's any secret to it, and it's not like there's places that will sell you stuff you can make a gun out of, as long as you do a little of your own work on it. This ruling is stupid.
Let's also ignore the fact that Australia has no equivalent to the Second Amendment, and therefore the government is a lot freer in restricting guns than ours is.
Suicide tends to be an impulse decision, and people frequently change their minds after they start. Lots of people who've jumped off bridges and survived have said they changed their mind before they hit the ground or water, but that was a bit late.
If you give people a quick and easy means of reliable suicide, they're more likely to use it the moment they decide, and it's generally too late to change their minds. Make it harder and slower, giving people chances to change their mind, and you'll likely reduce the suicide rate.
Hi! I had major depressive disorder in the 90s, and have been under continuous treatment since. I currently suffer from dysthymic disorder (basically, chronic depression that isn't too horribly bad). I am therefore diagnosed as mentally ill. While this impairs my enjoyment of life, and has gotten me denied insurance, it doesn't stop me from going around and doing things. Should I be deprived of my Second Amendment rights for this?
The government has been kicking the First Amendment around for a long time. The Alien and Sedition laws come to mind, as well as the "fire in a crowded theater" case that was about protesting the WWI draft. The Supremes later ruled that the First covered such political action, as long as it wasn't incitement of immediate violence.
If they preload an OS, they're going to have to field support questions. Lots of people will get a Linux version without knowing what they're doing, and many of them will call with questions. Dell seems to hide its Linux systems where you won't find them if you're not looking for them, perhaps to avoid this (people who seek out the Linux versions are likely to know what they're doing).
Thing is, once Lenovo ships the computer, they've presumably collected what Microsoft was going to pay them. I really doubt that they get paid depending on anything the end user does with the thing.
If the guy's buying laptops off the shelf as needed, it isn't going to be much of an inconvenience to buy them ahead of time and put them somewhere. They don't take up that much space, and it removes the possibility that whatever the guy buys won't run Linux. I see that as a win. Actually accounting for machine age can be as simple as engraving the purchase date into the case, which may or may not be worthwhile (the idea that you replace the thing when it no longer works satisfactorily works too).
Look at the money flow. Apple makes most of its money off hardware sales. They want you to buy a Mac of some sort. If the ability to triple-boot OSX/Linux/Windows on the computer makes it more attractive to you, you're more likely to buy it and they're more likely to get some of the sweet cash in your pocket.
Do you know anyone whose legal name is "My Master"? Or do you find "Chelsea" personally abhorrent? To repeat, you are refusing to call someone by their legal name, which is completely unobjectionable, and insist on using a name that isn't theirs and which they don't want to be called by. Pull that on me and I'm either going to be ticked off, or just disregard you as a petty annoyance.
They don't necessarily need a ride to the hospital (although there's likely not to be enough ambulances available in a case like that). Some people just need to get home by a certain time, likely because they have children and there will be consequences if they miss the time. In attacks like that, public transportation gets disrupted, so someone who was counting on getting to their kids by subway might have no alternative but Uber, and if prices go way up it's bad for them.
I know that all you need to get into Android is a computer and an Android device (unless there are some that the manufacturers have locked down, which isn't the case for my cheap tablet). I downloaded it and haven't done anything significant with it.
For Apple, unless things have changed since I last looked, they want you to have a Mac (which gets you development tools for free) and a $100/year cost to put stuff on your iPhone or iOS. There are other ways to get a development system; Visual Studio 2013 includes a project template for iOS projects using C#. There are other development systems that work.
This isn't as convenient as Android, but I'm sufficiently old to not sympathize with people complaining about $100/year. Back in the 80s, there were no good free development systems for home computers. I spent significantly more than $100/year on compilers and the like.
What I'm saying about the CNC mills is that the step from being able to do things manually to being able to write basic gcode is very small, and doesn't need exposure to programming.
Also, while being able to do some sort of programming is important in quite a few jobs, there are plenty of jobs where it isn't. Computer science should be made available as an elective, to expose students to programming and give them some idea as to what computers can and cannot do. I don't think it should be required.
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Ever actually dealt with a business?
There's lots of things that go wrong in a store. A mom&pop grocery store could be in real trouble if the refrigeration fails, for example. This doesn't mean they need to have an expert on that on payroll. Perhaps they have the system inspected annually, and know who they can call for repairs. What they don't expect is someone sneaking in to vandalize the equipment, particularly the guy who is supposed to be inspecting it.
You're talking about malware that runs on W10. Typically, that malware requires some sort of user action to enable, but uses deceit to get the user to make that fateful click. You may recognize this as how W10 got installed in many cases, and if W10 is unwanted and causes problems it's malware. Why do you think it's fine for MS to spread malware and not private parties?
Many businesses rely on software that runs on Windows and nowhere else. Many have communication needs that basically require Microsoft Office. Moving away from MS is not necessarily something a business can do and survive. A business has to make decisions that work for them.
The upgrade may not have been technically forced, but it wasn't necessarily consensual. MS used trickery and misdirection to downgrade people from 7 and 8.1 to 10. If Microsoft was directed by a court to show actual consent for many of these downgrades, they'd be in trouble.
So what you're saying is that the companies being victimized should have kept their knees together?
Japanese honor is real, although not universally applied. The last war basically run by samurai, the Russo-Japanese war, was fought very honorably. Inside the Japanese caste system, honor in wartime is pretty much limited to warriors, and arming the lower classes has typically led to atrocities. I hope they've changed that.
Japan did not rape and pillage any part of Asia except Japan for centuries, although you could argue decades in the case of Korea and Okinawa (and while Japanese treatment of them wasn't good, I don't know if it warrants the "rape and pillage" descriptor). Japan was very isolationist until the US and Russia opened up commerce by force in the mid-1800s, and it hasn't been "centuries" since then.
iPhones come in development versions? And you have to buy a more expensive one? Can't you use it while developing on it? If you want to develop, you can run your apps on an emulator. If you want to deploy, you do need something to deploy to. If you want to go commercial, there's far fewer types of iOS devices than Android devices, so your testing can be more exhaustive.
Boot Camp is intended to make sure there's Windows driver support, mostly. I've heard from people who run OSX, Windows, and Linux on their Macs. Apple does make some nice hardware.
As an extreme liberal who doesn't own guns, I agree with you. I don't see lawful gun owners causing problems.
I'm not aware offhand of anti-male legislation. I am aware of unequal treatment throughout the justice system.
All the weapons you can legally purchase will not stop the US military or government, although many people appear to have fantasies to the contrary.
If you think Clinton is one of the two most unscrupulous Presidential candidates in US history, you need to study US history. Looking at actual elected US Presidents in my lifetime, I'd have to rate Johnson and Nixon as more unscrupulous than Clinton. Clinton is arguably the most unfairly maligned in the last century, with people blaming her for things that she's been cleared of, often by political enemies.
True, but that doesn't mean it's no longer law.
You wouldn't know a neo-Communist if he quoted Marx at you and shoved a copy of the Communist Manifesto up your butt. The Democratic Party would be considered right-wing in most European countries (Sanders would be a centrist). What you remember hearing (without confirmation) from one person doesn't generalize to the whole party.
I think we'd be better off without the Second, but it's still part of the Constitution and I still don't like trampling on any Constitutional rights. I think it should be legal to buy a new infantry rifle, and that's been illegal for nearly 30 years.
A long time ago, a magazine (the Progressive?) had an article on how nuclear and thermonuclear weapons worked. They made the mistake of asking the government before publishing, and wound up in a prolonged legal battle that ended with the courts okaying the publication. (It was a pretty good article, too, even if it got a key component of fusion bombs wrong.) There was an article in Analog (a science fiction magazine) detailing how to build a stationary nuke, covering everything except how to get that much weapons-grade U-235. These were protected under the First Amendment.
So we're supposed to believe that instructions on making a frippin' personal firearm are a threat? It's not like there's any secret to it, and it's not like there's places that will sell you stuff you can make a gun out of, as long as you do a little of your own work on it. This ruling is stupid.
Let's also ignore the fact that Australia has no equivalent to the Second Amendment, and therefore the government is a lot freer in restricting guns than ours is.
Suicide tends to be an impulse decision, and people frequently change their minds after they start. Lots of people who've jumped off bridges and survived have said they changed their mind before they hit the ground or water, but that was a bit late.
If you give people a quick and easy means of reliable suicide, they're more likely to use it the moment they decide, and it's generally too late to change their minds. Make it harder and slower, giving people chances to change their mind, and you'll likely reduce the suicide rate.
Hi! I had major depressive disorder in the 90s, and have been under continuous treatment since. I currently suffer from dysthymic disorder (basically, chronic depression that isn't too horribly bad). I am therefore diagnosed as mentally ill. While this impairs my enjoyment of life, and has gotten me denied insurance, it doesn't stop me from going around and doing things. Should I be deprived of my Second Amendment rights for this?
The government has been kicking the First Amendment around for a long time. The Alien and Sedition laws come to mind, as well as the "fire in a crowded theater" case that was about protesting the WWI draft. The Supremes later ruled that the First covered such political action, as long as it wasn't incitement of immediate violence.
If they preload an OS, they're going to have to field support questions. Lots of people will get a Linux version without knowing what they're doing, and many of them will call with questions. Dell seems to hide its Linux systems where you won't find them if you're not looking for them, perhaps to avoid this (people who seek out the Linux versions are likely to know what they're doing).
Thing is, once Lenovo ships the computer, they've presumably collected what Microsoft was going to pay them. I really doubt that they get paid depending on anything the end user does with the thing.
If the guy's buying laptops off the shelf as needed, it isn't going to be much of an inconvenience to buy them ahead of time and put them somewhere. They don't take up that much space, and it removes the possibility that whatever the guy buys won't run Linux. I see that as a win. Actually accounting for machine age can be as simple as engraving the purchase date into the case, which may or may not be worthwhile (the idea that you replace the thing when it no longer works satisfactorily works too).
Look at the money flow. Apple makes most of its money off hardware sales. They want you to buy a Mac of some sort. If the ability to triple-boot OSX/Linux/Windows on the computer makes it more attractive to you, you're more likely to buy it and they're more likely to get some of the sweet cash in your pocket.
This might fly in the US, but I don't see the EU allowing it.
Do you know anyone whose legal name is "My Master"? Or do you find "Chelsea" personally abhorrent? To repeat, you are refusing to call someone by their legal name, which is completely unobjectionable, and insist on using a name that isn't theirs and which they don't want to be called by. Pull that on me and I'm either going to be ticked off, or just disregard you as a petty annoyance.
They don't necessarily need a ride to the hospital (although there's likely not to be enough ambulances available in a case like that). Some people just need to get home by a certain time, likely because they have children and there will be consequences if they miss the time. In attacks like that, public transportation gets disrupted, so someone who was counting on getting to their kids by subway might have no alternative but Uber, and if prices go way up it's bad for them.
I know that all you need to get into Android is a computer and an Android device (unless there are some that the manufacturers have locked down, which isn't the case for my cheap tablet). I downloaded it and haven't done anything significant with it.
For Apple, unless things have changed since I last looked, they want you to have a Mac (which gets you development tools for free) and a $100/year cost to put stuff on your iPhone or iOS. There are other ways to get a development system; Visual Studio 2013 includes a project template for iOS projects using C#. There are other development systems that work.
This isn't as convenient as Android, but I'm sufficiently old to not sympathize with people complaining about $100/year. Back in the 80s, there were no good free development systems for home computers. I spent significantly more than $100/year on compilers and the like.
What I'm saying about the CNC mills is that the step from being able to do things manually to being able to write basic gcode is very small, and doesn't need exposure to programming.
Also, while being able to do some sort of programming is important in quite a few jobs, there are plenty of jobs where it isn't. Computer science should be made available as an elective, to expose students to programming and give them some idea as to what computers can and cannot do. I don't think it should be required.