The complexity of these algorithms and products is what got us into this mess int the first place FFS! The last thing we need is banks doing even more complex calculations that even fewer people understand.
Of course I'm being subjective , so was the OP except he was stating his opinion as fact, I simply said that personally I can think of more interesting places. Whats your point?
The individuals working there might not care , but I care that the organisation has that information and could use it for targeted marketing if it wanted - or worse, lose it to hackers. And don't bother with the "if you've done nothing wrong..." routine. You probably don't do anything illegal in your home but I bet you still have curtains or blinds in your windows for privacy.
"n that case Ireland wasn't a true country for 800 of the last 900 years"
It wasn't. It takes more to make a country than a specific local culture otherwise every tinpot region in europe would be a seperate "country". Is Brittany a seperate country to france? No. Is Bavaria a seperate country to Germany? No.
"yet we have one of the most unique and vibrant cultures in the world"
If you say so. Personally I can think of 101 other more interesting places.
You really have absolutely no clue what you're talking about do you. I'd stop now before you come across as an arrogant buffoon who has never travelled further than the border of his country. If you had ever seen real poverty you'd know how irrelevant laptops or smartphones are to these people.
I'm really getting rather sick of listening to patronising Generation Y'ers that the net is the solution to all day to day transactions and that anyone who doesn't agree is some sort of reactionary luddite.
You know what? If those people want to live their lives online then thats their lookout.
But I actually LIKE going to shops to check out stuff physically before I buy in IT THE SHOP so I have somewhere to take it back to if it fails instead of having to parcel it up and go down the post office and pay money to send it back and then find out it got lost in the post and they never received it.
I LIKE sending cheques instead of using direct debit so *I* can choose on what day I pay, not have the money taken out regardless of how much is left in my account.
I LIKE speaking to a human on the end of a phone, not having to navigate through some feckin useless website which doesn't solve my problem anyway.
I LIKE using cash because I don't want my bank/CC company knowing about every single goddamn transaction I make.
And to sum up , I LIKE not having to be reliant on a sometimes unreliable piece of kit called a computer to run my entire feckin life.
Hmm , not really. A true country has control of its own foreign policy and defense. The US States don't. A federal system is not the same ad a coalition which is what the EU is.
Yeah , online great idea. I mean why bother just putting a disc in a tray and waiting 30 secos for the game to boot when you can wait 48 hours for the 50GB to download first instead.
Even a level is probably quite a large lump of data for modern games and sods law says that just as you're about to do something crucial and the machine needs to download some more level data the broadband connection will go down.
They could use the standard blue ray format but simply use their own encryption on the data it contains. I can't see any good reason for them to spend millions developing a new hardware solution unless they're not confident of their own abilities to encrypt. And even if they did it wouldn't be long before someone plugged the drive into a PC and got it working somehow to be able to get the data off the discs.
Discs will remain as long as broadband speeds make downloading 50 GB (on a blueray, not 30) an irritatingly slow process. Besides which , not everyone wants to rely on always having a net connection just to use a piece of equipment.
""reduce growth" = people freezing to death under highway overpasses"
BS. No growth simply means living conditions remain as they are, which given even the poorest in the west generally have satellite TV and a waistline that would sink the titanic are pretty good compared to truly how poor people live, all things considered.
... the western economic model is a giant ponzi scheme based on getting people to buy more and more crap they don't need - ie growth. One day its going to collapse - badly - but the head in the sand economists just don't want to know.
I don't know about you but I'd rather the earth has its next climate burp in a few thousand years, not in this century thanks to our emissions. Citing natural climate cyles in a vague handwaving style is currently fashionable amongst the Ostriches , as if because something happens naturally that means its excluded from happening due to human intervention. I guess in that case because beavers build dams then there's no way we could have done the same. Or because tree's fall down on their own in a forest then lumberjacks must be some made up invention by the eco-industrial-complex?
The shares cost Apple NOTHING to hand over. And for that NOTHING they got *paid* AND got access to Xerox's research! Whether the shares would be worth a billion by now is irrelevant, they still cost apple NOTHING.
It was a typical Jobs style business deal:
"You give me money and access to all your research and I'll give you this bit of paper which might or might not be worth something in the future".
The point is that apple got paid to use someone elses inventions. Xerox were certainly led by typical BA type know nothing donkeys but that doesn't make Apples behaviour right or the hypocrisy any less.
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The complexity of these algorithms and products is what got us into this mess int the first place FFS! The last thing we need is banks doing even more complex calculations that even fewer people understand.
If these methane deposits extend across the whole of the artic we're in SERIOUS trouble.
Of course I'm being subjective , so was the OP except he was stating his opinion as fact, I simply said that personally I can think of more interesting places. Whats your point?
Yeah , whatever you say Walter Mitty. I think your mum is calling you for dinner.
"They don't care."
The individuals working there might not care , but I care that the organisation has that information and could use it for targeted marketing if it wanted - or worse, lose it to hackers. And don't bother with the "if you've done nothing wrong ..." routine. You probably don't do anything illegal in your home but I bet you still have curtains or blinds in your windows for privacy.
"You should be able to print a postage label for pickup, and the refund should be issued when the package tracking shows that it was lost."
Alternatively I can just take it down the shop and get a replacement on the spot. Somewhat simpler and less hassle.
"n that case Ireland wasn't a true country for 800 of the last 900 years"
It wasn't. It takes more to make a country than a specific local culture otherwise every tinpot region in europe would be a seperate "country". Is Brittany a seperate country to france? No.
Is Bavaria a seperate country to Germany? No.
"yet we have one of the most unique and vibrant cultures in the world"
If you say so. Personally I can think of 101 other more interesting places.
Thats why they still think French is the language of the future and that they're still a world power and the most important nation in the EU.
You really have absolutely no clue what you're talking about do you. I'd stop now before you come across as an arrogant buffoon who has never travelled further than the border of his country. If you had ever seen real poverty you'd know how irrelevant laptops or smartphones are to these people.
So what? Its still europe and Poland and Solvakia are very similar.
I'm really getting rather sick of listening to patronising Generation Y'ers that the net is the solution to all day to day transactions and that anyone who doesn't agree is some sort of reactionary luddite.
You know what? If those people want to live their lives online then thats their lookout.
But I actually LIKE going to shops to check out stuff physically before I buy in IT THE SHOP so I have somewhere to take it back to if it fails instead of having to parcel it up and go down the post office and pay money to send it back and then find out it got lost in the post and they never received it.
I LIKE sending cheques instead of using direct debit so *I* can choose on what day I pay, not have the money taken out regardless of how much is left in my account.
I LIKE speaking to a human on the end of a phone, not having to navigate through some feckin useless website which doesn't solve my problem anyway.
I LIKE using cash because I don't want my bank/CC company knowing about every single goddamn transaction I make.
And to sum up , I LIKE not having to be reliant on a sometimes unreliable piece of kit called a computer to run my entire feckin life.
"but on paper we are still different countries"
Hmm , not really. A true country has control of its own foreign policy and defense. The US States don't. A federal system is not the same ad a coalition which is what the EU is.
Has it? I have family in Ukraine. No broadband in the flats, expensive dial up and a mile walk to the nearest internet cafe. And this is in Kiev.
Yeah , online great idea. I mean why bother just putting a disc in a tray and waiting 30 secos for the game to boot when you can wait 48 hours for the 50GB to download first instead.
Even a level is probably quite a large lump of data for modern games and sods law says that just as you're about to do something crucial and the machine needs to download some more level data the broadband connection will go down.
They could use the standard blue ray format but simply use their own encryption on the data it contains. I can't see any good reason for them to spend millions developing a new hardware solution unless they're not confident of their own abilities to encrypt. And even if they did it wouldn't be long before someone plugged the drive into a PC and got it working somehow to be able to get the data off the discs.
Discs will remain as long as broadband speeds make downloading 50 GB (on a blueray, not 30) an irritatingly slow process. Besides which , not everyone wants to rely on always having a net connection just to use a piece of equipment.
Its been dry all over europe this year. The rhine and danube are at record low levels.
""reduce growth" = people freezing to death under highway overpasses"
BS. No growth simply means living conditions remain as they are, which given even the poorest in the west generally have satellite TV and a waistline that would sink the titanic are pretty good compared to truly how poor people live, all things considered.
Either you replied to the wrong post or you forgot to post AC this time. Whoops.
Sorry if you can't handle criticism but I guess you'll just have to suck it up.
"Jesus fucking H Christ... Sometimes I understand mass murderers..."
Now you're making no sense at all.
... the western economic model is a giant ponzi scheme based on getting people to buy more and more crap they don't need - ie growth. One day its going to collapse - badly - but the head in the sand economists just don't want to know.
I don't know about you but I'd rather the earth has its next climate burp in a few thousand years, not in this century thanks to our emissions. Citing natural climate cyles in a vague handwaving style is currently fashionable amongst the Ostriches , as if because something happens naturally that means its excluded from happening due to human intervention. I guess in that case because beavers build dams then there's no way we could have done the same. Or because tree's fall down on their own in a forest then lumberjacks must be some made up invention by the eco-industrial-complex?
The shares cost Apple NOTHING to hand over. And for that NOTHING they got *paid* AND got access to Xerox's research! Whether the shares would be worth a billion by now is irrelevant, they still cost apple NOTHING.
It was a typical Jobs style business deal:
"You give me money and access to all your research and I'll give you this bit of paper which might or might not be worth something in the future".
The point is that apple got paid to use someone elses inventions. Xerox were certainly led by typical BA type know nothing donkeys but that doesn't make Apples behaviour right or the hypocrisy any less.