Meanwhile a cat can say more with her tail than some humans who call themselves poets can say in 64 couplets.
I totally agree. Like when a cat backs into your favorite sofa, and shakes her tail back and forth rapidly; that translates into, "Fuck you, asshole! Deal with that smell for a few weeks, bitch!"
If we've learned anything in the last five years or so, it's that's yesterday's wacko conspiracy theory is today's jaw-dropping, fact-checked revelation.
1) How will Development/Engineering design their products without functioning computers, phones, and teleconference software? 2) How will Sales sell a product that Development & Engineering can't develop or engineer because their computers and communications systems don't work. 3) How will C*O's get their reports when their servers don't work (I know they'll say, "Cloud!" [for stupid reasons that make no sense]), their engineers are dead in the water (or inching along, at best), and their sales people have nothing to sell?
Then ask your "wise" friend how much IT services are worth.
Should have included the other half of TFA that explains why the coding camp went out of business.
The article doesn't state why it went out of business, but rather merely states that it couldn't find a sustainable business model.
The real reason is such:
1) Tell everyone that anyone can be a developer. 2) Everyone and anyone signs up for the classes, creating an unsustainable bubble. 3) The vast majority of them find out that developing software requires a particular mindset that they don't, and can't, have. 4) Disappointment sets in, and the word spreads that not anyone and everyone can be a software developer. 5) The bubble bursts. 6) Revenues plummet.
We'll see this cycle repeat again in about 10-15 years.
Students with self-discipline and an interest in academic success perform better than students without self-discipline!
I wish I could mod you up higher than 5, as this seems to be the simple, self-evident fact that far too many people are missing. The laptop is just a tool, like pencil and paper (which are also used to waste time by those who possess low self-discipline). This is in the exact same vein as a poor craftsman blaming his tools for his bad work.
This is yet another opportunity to remind you of the benefits of "The Cloud" (storing your data on other people's servers), one of the stupidest things that people do.
Oh, sure, that'll solve everything. Just got to make everyone else move all at once as well, no problem.
That's not necessary. If I were to use Ring, then the people who wanted to talk to me via video conferencing would install it, too. Eventually, everyone I care to talk to would be using Ring to talk to me. Since Ring is free and Free, they would have nothing to lose; so they would use it for video calls with me.
A city or county would have to decide to build an entire broadband network out of pocket and then force the ISPs to use it. This is insanely expensive---both the actual construction and the inevitable lawsuits.
Ammon, Utah disagrees with you. The cost of building out the broadband network was far less than letting the Internet monopolies do it, there weren't (and won't be) any lawsuits since the City doesn't compete with any service provider, and the local ISP's love it since they get to keep more of their profits. Everyone wins, except for the former Internet monopolies.
There's no need to be so extreme. Google, if they haven't done so already, simply needs to break itself up into national subsidiaries. Each subsidiary serves search results only to and within its political boundary, and is structured such that it can't influence, access, or control any other subdivision.
This is a rough sketch, but the general principle should work to solve the problem of overreaching countries.
Lines of communication and inputs into the systems are both limited and restricted, and thus any vulnerability discovered against XP in the real world will likely be fixed and patched on a ship well before anyone can find a way of getting the exploit onto the ship's systems.
And all it takes is one person plugging a flash drive into ANY Windows computer on the ship to compromise the entire vessel. Windows is unique in the vast scale of its ability to contract malware. It's so-called security has more holes than any other major operating system ever made.
Remember the Yorktown, and learn your lesson about Windows. This is stupid beyond belief, and everyone involved in approving Windows on Warships(R) needs to be fired and never allowed near a military plan ever again.
"honest" is not demoting sites just because they are competing with Google, as the EU has demonstrated they do.
Let's assume for the moment that Google does that. They may or may not, but let's just stipulate to that for the purpose of this discussion.
Who cares?
Nobody is forced to use Google. Unlike Microsoft, Google is not threatening anyone for not using Google. Google's power over me is exactly zero, as I can use any other search engine I want at any time. People use Google because it has the best search results. It has no real competition not because of threats or dirty tactics. It as no real competitors because everyone else sucks by comparison.
I still remember when Google was a nobody in the early 2000's. At that time, Yahoo and Altavista ruled as search engines, and Webcrawler was gaining slightly in popularity. But we all hated them because their search results were complete shit. Then Google, an unknown search engine with a wierd name, came along and gave us exactly what we were looking for. And so we all switched to it in droves.
Other search engines come and go, but they fail to gain substantial market share because they don't offer anything better than Google. They all fail the basic market test: (B)etter, (F)aster, (D)ifferent. They offered none of those three things, whereas Google nailed all three at the same time.
Other search engines have caught up with Faster, and they certainly provide something Different (but not in a good way), but then absolutely fail to deliver anything even remotely close to Better. This continues to this day, which is why Google still rules the search market.
Don't blame Google for being successful. Blame all the other search engines for sucking, and blame the patent office for allowing software patents. Abolishing either (or, preferably, both) of those two things would easily break Google's market position.
But if I want to use google search to find out about other map providers, I'd like to see them show up in a fair way, and not have google pretend it's the only map provider there is.
I just did such a search, and Wikipedia's article about Unfolding Maps was the very first link, followed by the Wikipedia article on map providers, followed by many non-Google links.
The European antritrust officials are STILL on some powerful Crack. The reason people use Google over (Bing Is Not Google) and Yahoo! (or more appropriate, "Oh No!") and all the rest is because Google sucks the least, by a galactic margin. But these dummies are saying, "you have outclassed your competitors by too much, and have satisfied your users too many times. We are compelling you to make your services suck more so you will sink down to their level."
But Microsoft got off with little more than a stern warning ($300M was trivial to Microsoft), and a requirement to publish documentation, for decades of actual severe damage caused by its actual, as opposed to Google's fictitious, monopoly abuse.
And now, they're going after Google for Android?! What the fuck?! Android isn't the problem. Not by a long shot. If the European Commission wants to open up Mobile competition, then require all manufacturers of Mobile components to publish their specifications, and disallow patents on Mobile devices and software. The problem will solve itself. But instead, they are wasting their time on Google.
Especially with the increasing use of IPv6, which means more and more IoT devices will try to get un-NATed access to the internet (and will probably also get their wish granted).
Good luck trying to firewall that.
That's rather simple to do. Unless device manufacturers are going to provide their own Internet infrastructure, they will still need your Internet connection to do their nefarious deeds.
Simply have a default I/O policy of Deny on your firewall, allow only specific devices to use your connection, and you're done. There is nothing magical about IPv6 in this regard.
That's because there are only a few, massive ISP's in the country that control all Internet access. They all know that we have no other choice (we can only switch from one shitty ISP to, at most, one equally shitty ISP), and that they are a zero-sum oligopoly. Since they no doubt collude with each other to keep prices high, they are essentially a single-minded monopoly.
It's telling that the most loved ISP in the nation is a municipal one. It's more evidence that the model with municipally owned wire and privately run service is the only known model that actually works.
It's far worse than that: The new White House and its new FCC are run by crooks, which is why we can expect the ISPs' request to be approved post-haste.
Microsoft gets fined a few hundred million dollars for causing real, irreparable damage to a critical world industry for decades, but Google gets fined over a billion dollars because some people couldn't be bothered to scroll down a bit? This is mind-boggling stupidity!
...how stupid do you have to be to allow this sort of behaviour in your file format?
Who's stupider: the company that continuously and intentionally programs severe defects into its products, or the people who continuously and intentionally lock themselves into those products despite knowing this?
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Meanwhile a cat can say more with her tail than some humans who call themselves poets can say in 64 couplets.
I totally agree. Like when a cat backs into your favorite sofa, and shakes her tail back and forth rapidly; that translates into, "Fuck you, asshole! Deal with that smell for a few weeks, bitch!"
This just goes to show that the Swedes have a sense of humor that is lacking in Britain.
Except that's conspiracy-theory reasoning.
If we've learned anything in the last five years or so, it's that's yesterday's wacko conspiracy theory is today's jaw-dropping, fact-checked revelation.
Ask your "wise" friend:
1) How will Development/Engineering design their products without functioning computers, phones, and teleconference software?
2) How will Sales sell a product that Development & Engineering can't develop or engineer because their computers and communications systems don't work.
3) How will C*O's get their reports when their servers don't work (I know they'll say, "Cloud!" [for stupid reasons that make no sense]), their engineers are dead in the water (or inching along, at best), and their sales people have nothing to sell?
Then ask your "wise" friend how much IT services are worth.
Should have included the other half of TFA that explains why the coding camp went out of business.
The article doesn't state why it went out of business, but rather merely states that it couldn't find a sustainable business model.
The real reason is such:
1) Tell everyone that anyone can be a developer.
2) Everyone and anyone signs up for the classes, creating an unsustainable bubble.
3) The vast majority of them find out that developing software requires a particular mindset that they don't, and can't, have.
4) Disappointment sets in, and the word spreads that not anyone and everyone can be a software developer.
5) The bubble bursts.
6) Revenues plummet.
We'll see this cycle repeat again in about 10-15 years.
Students with self-discipline and an interest in academic success perform better than students without self-discipline!
I wish I could mod you up higher than 5, as this seems to be the simple, self-evident fact that far too many people are missing. The laptop is just a tool, like pencil and paper (which are also used to waste time by those who possess low self-discipline). This is in the exact same vein as a poor craftsman blaming his tools for his bad work.
They got a real OS onto a phone. A feat that the RIM CEO called impossible and accused them of lying.
IBM got a real operating system onto a watch in 1998.
This is yet another opportunity to remind you of the benefits of "The Cloud" (storing your data on other people's servers), one of the stupidest things that people do.
Oh, sure, that'll solve everything. Just got to make everyone else move all at once as well, no problem.
That's not necessary. If I were to use Ring, then the people who wanted to talk to me via video conferencing would install it, too. Eventually, everyone I care to talk to would be using Ring to talk to me. Since Ring is free and Free, they would have nothing to lose; so they would use it for video calls with me.
That's all that matters.
A city or county would have to decide to build an entire broadband network out of pocket and then force the ISPs to use it. This is insanely expensive---both the actual construction and the inevitable lawsuits.
Ammon, Utah disagrees with you. The cost of building out the broadband network was far less than letting the Internet monopolies do it, there weren't (and won't be) any lawsuits since the City doesn't compete with any service provider, and the local ISP's love it since they get to keep more of their profits. Everyone wins, except for the former Internet monopolies.
So Microsoft is implementing a crippled version of SELinux?
But either way it's pretty obvious the problem is a lack of funding...
And the continued use of the world's most insecure, and expensive, desktop operating system.
There's no need to be so extreme. Google, if they haven't done so already, simply needs to break itself up into national subsidiaries. Each subsidiary serves search results only to and within its political boundary, and is structured such that it can't influence, access, or control any other subdivision.
This is a rough sketch, but the general principle should work to solve the problem of overreaching countries.
"Warship sunk by fat Russian boy on the couch of his mother's basement."
You forgot to end it with, "Sad!"
Lines of communication and inputs into the systems are both limited and restricted, and thus any vulnerability discovered against XP in the real world will likely be fixed and patched on a ship well before anyone can find a way of getting the exploit onto the ship's systems.
And all it takes is one person plugging a flash drive into ANY Windows computer on the ship to compromise the entire vessel. Windows is unique in the vast scale of its ability to contract malware. It's so-called security has more holes than any other major operating system ever made.
Remember the Yorktown, and learn your lesson about Windows. This is stupid beyond belief, and everyone involved in approving Windows on Warships(R) needs to be fired and never allowed near a military plan ever again.
"honest" is not demoting sites just because they are competing with Google, as the EU has demonstrated they do.
Let's assume for the moment that Google does that. They may or may not, but let's just stipulate to that for the purpose of this discussion.
Who cares?
Nobody is forced to use Google. Unlike Microsoft, Google is not threatening anyone for not using Google. Google's power over me is exactly zero, as I can use any other search engine I want at any time. People use Google because it has the best search results. It has no real competition not because of threats or dirty tactics. It as no real competitors because everyone else sucks by comparison.
I still remember when Google was a nobody in the early 2000's. At that time, Yahoo and Altavista ruled as search engines, and Webcrawler was gaining slightly in popularity. But we all hated them because their search results were complete shit. Then Google, an unknown search engine with a wierd name, came along and gave us exactly what we were looking for. And so we all switched to it in droves.
Other search engines come and go, but they fail to gain substantial market share because they don't offer anything better than Google. They all fail the basic market test: (B)etter, (F)aster, (D)ifferent. They offered none of those three things, whereas Google nailed all three at the same time.
Other search engines have caught up with Faster, and they certainly provide something Different (but not in a good way), but then absolutely fail to deliver anything even remotely close to Better. This continues to this day, which is why Google still rules the search market.
Don't blame Google for being successful. Blame all the other search engines for sucking, and blame the patent office for allowing software patents. Abolishing either (or, preferably, both) of those two things would easily break Google's market position.
Train yourself to look for it, and then choose to reject it.
But Right-Wingers won't do it. Sad!
But if I want to use google search to find out about other map providers, I'd like to see them show up in a fair way, and not have google pretend it's the only map provider there is.
I just did such a search, and Wikipedia's article about Unfolding Maps was the very first link, followed by the Wikipedia article on map providers, followed by many non-Google links.
The European antritrust officials are STILL on some powerful Crack. The reason people use Google over (Bing Is Not Google) and Yahoo! (or more appropriate, "Oh No!") and all the rest is because Google sucks the least, by a galactic margin. But these dummies are saying, "you have outclassed your competitors by too much, and have satisfied your users too many times. We are compelling you to make your services suck more so you will sink down to their level."
But Microsoft got off with little more than a stern warning ($300M was trivial to Microsoft), and a requirement to publish documentation, for decades of actual severe damage caused by its actual, as opposed to Google's fictitious, monopoly abuse.
And now, they're going after Google for Android?! What the fuck?! Android isn't the problem. Not by a long shot. If the European Commission wants to open up Mobile competition, then require all manufacturers of Mobile components to publish their specifications, and disallow patents on Mobile devices and software. The problem will solve itself. But instead, they are wasting their time on Google.
Good job, you dumb fucks.
Especially with the increasing use of IPv6, which means more and more IoT devices will try to get un-NATed access to the internet (and will probably also get their wish granted).
Good luck trying to firewall that.
That's rather simple to do. Unless device manufacturers are going to provide their own Internet infrastructure, they will still need your Internet connection to do their nefarious deeds.
Simply have a default I/O policy of Deny on your firewall, allow only specific devices to use your connection, and you're done. There is nothing magical about IPv6 in this regard.
They all rank the worst.
That's because there are only a few, massive ISP's in the country that control all Internet access. They all know that we have no other choice (we can only switch from one shitty ISP to, at most, one equally shitty ISP), and that they are a zero-sum oligopoly. Since they no doubt collude with each other to keep prices high, they are essentially a single-minded monopoly.
It's telling that the most loved ISP in the nation is a municipal one. It's more evidence that the model with municipally owned wire and privately run service is the only known model that actually works.
[Major ISP's] are crooks.
It's far worse than that: The new White House and its new FCC are run by crooks, which is why we can expect the ISPs' request to be approved post-haste.
The company is taking that generosity one step further....
Or put another way: the Mob enforcer generously allowed your broken leg to partially heal before he broke the other one.
Microsoft and generosity do not mix.
Microsoft gets fined a few hundred million dollars for causing real, irreparable damage to a critical world industry for decades, but Google gets fined over a billion dollars because some people couldn't be bothered to scroll down a bit? This is mind-boggling stupidity!
...and to not be beholden to a drug is a remarkably freeing feeling.
That's how I felt when I stopped using Windows.
...how stupid do you have to be to allow this sort of behaviour in your file format?
Who's stupider: the company that continuously and intentionally programs severe defects into its products, or the people who continuously and intentionally lock themselves into those products despite knowing this?