In capitalism, it is the role of the consumer to buy at the lowest price. Walmart would sell cheap Asian stuff no matter what, because that's what the system conditions people to buy. You can't both say there is no problem with capitalism and then identify a major tenant of capitalism to change.
So why are not all restaurants Taco Bell? There are people who will pay for quality. Capitalisms give us exactly what we demand.
I am taking a stance. I am a Libertarian, and will choose neither Kang nor Kodos. I do not like the status quo, which is what people keep voting for with the Republocrats.
People not wanting to buy cheap crap. Walmart initially became a mega corporation based on selling "Made in USA" products as opposed to the cheap Asian stuff. What changed is that cheap Asian stuff became "good enough" and people started buying based only on price.
It's more like 25% of the population considers one news fake, another 25% considers the opposite news to be fake. Those of us in the middle 50% find all the shenanigans by those on the two extremes to be exasperating, and would be happy to see both their conspiracy theories banned as fake.
I think you have it almost right... 25% consider their "fake news" true. Another 25% consider their "fake news" true. And 50% consider it all fake to some degree or more, and do not want to be around either side with blinders on.
Would y'all please stop? We already have to many of your people in Texas now... This will only bring more of them!;) (Just kidding... Y'all come on. Just remember why you left...)
I'm guessing you're defining "never" to mean "not in my 20 year life time"
Thinking of digging out my old Win95 gaming monster with a per-production Pentium Pro 166, 3DFX Voodoo2 graphics, Barracuda SCSI drives in an InWin case with a real switch on the front!
Just thinking about this, it's really the same question - when you power down your PC/laptop/whatever, do you hold the power button down for five seconds to shut it down or do a "System Shutdown"?
It happens every time Windows decides to update while on batteries...:)
...more than you do. I say this every time someone claims to know better than the OS designer.
As someone who has actually written software and contributed to many projects; No! Do not trust me! I still remember when a major release of my software hit slashdot, and one of the first comments was "Why can't I see any logs?" Yes, I made a stupid build error that hosed logs. I was able to push a new release the next day with that fix, but it took someone not trusting me to find it first.
Also, the Metro Interface proves that the designers are often drinking better stuff than we can afford.
If you haven't written anything to the USB, yes, it's completely safe. Any filesystem that's writing data just because of your passive reading of the disk is a) stupid, b) should have recovery for such, c) shouldn't be writing anything important (e.g. a last access time, maybe?)
That would be windows that by default updates the partition table when it sees a new disk. And while I agree with you, it is still the way it is...
When i loose a file, i lost a few bits. I usually couldn't care less. It might be a photo or mp3 file. It might be a failed backup. Worst case it's a fortune worth of bitcoin. But i won't die from it.
Funny you should say that. When it comes down to it, the biggest killer on this planet is a lack of money. So that loss of bitcoin could kill you if you needed food. Or if you owed the mob. Or if you needed an operation insurance would not cover. Many wars in the world about about nothing more them money.
If money really means nothing to you, you must have quite a bit of it by world standards.
Me: *Tries to eject flash drive.*
Windows: "Cannot eject drive as files are still being used."
Me: *Closes Explorer window that was open to a folder on C and not any folder on the flash drive, and tries to eject again.*
Windows: "Drive can be safely removed."
Me: "WTF?"
Windows: "Windows is applying Updates. Do not turn off your computer."
Apple used to promote the idea that the user is in charge.
Yeah, like cdroms that dont have eject buttons, and if you're old enough to remember that a floppy drive is, same crap there. I more surprised that Apple does not lock the usb-ports so you CANT unplug a thumbdrive without asking for authorisation from the mighty System7...
I remember when a PC power switch was actually a SWITCH and not a software interrupt! It had 4 big mains power wires.
Yes that doesn't work. It's usually blindingly obvious when the student has copied a source (paragraph swapping not withstanding) because 99 times out of 100 the writing is far more coherent.
I think he was saying to use the article for you outline, and write your own text. As organizing your thoughts and presentation can take some time, I can see how this would help. But you would still be writing out the text, and may even have different conclusions... Disclaimer: When I was in school, there was no wikipedia...
I have always considered Wikipedia to be an overview and an index. It does rapidly collect some of the best articles on a given subject. Especially if you look in the history for citations that have been removed!
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In capitalism, it is the role of the consumer to buy at the lowest price. Walmart would sell cheap Asian stuff no matter what, because that's what the system conditions people to buy. You can't both say there is no problem with capitalism and then identify a major tenant of capitalism to change.
So why are not all restaurants Taco Bell? There are people who will pay for quality. Capitalisms give us exactly what we demand.
I am taking a stance. I am a Libertarian, and will choose neither Kang nor Kodos. I do not like the status quo, which is what people keep voting for with the Republocrats.
People not wanting to buy cheap crap. Walmart initially became a mega corporation based on selling "Made in USA" products as opposed to the cheap Asian stuff. What changed is that cheap Asian stuff became "good enough" and people started buying based only on price.
It's more like 25% of the population considers one news fake, another 25% considers the opposite news to be fake. Those of us in the middle 50% find all the shenanigans by those on the two extremes to be exasperating, and would be happy to see both their conspiracy theories banned as fake.
I think you have it almost right... 25% consider their "fake news" true. Another 25% consider their "fake news" true. And 50% consider it all fake to some degree or more, and do not want to be around either side with blinders on.
Kinda... But what about customers they drive away? I do not support shady companies.
Sure you can. TPB
New Francisco... ;)
What? They are supposed to stay in Austin. That was the agreement. Maybe y'all need a wall. ;)
Why do you think we have Austin? I was a place to keep them away from the rest of us for decades!
Would y'all please stop? We already have to many of your people in Texas now... This will only bring more of them! ;) (Just kidding... Y'all come on. Just remember why you left...)
I'm guessing you're defining "never" to mean "not in my 20 year life time"
Thinking of digging out my old Win95 gaming monster with a per-production Pentium Pro 166, 3DFX Voodoo2 graphics, Barracuda SCSI drives in an InWin case with a real switch on the front!
Just thinking about this, it's really the same question - when you power down your PC/laptop/whatever, do you hold the power button down for five seconds to shut it down or do a "System Shutdown"?
It happens every time Windows decides to update while on batteries... :)
You mean making them work like CD-Rom drives?
You mean where the button ignores you and does not eject the disk. Or starts to and teases you and then closes again? Like that?
...more than you do. I say this every time someone claims to know better than the OS designer.
As someone who has actually written software and contributed to many projects; No! Do not trust me! I still remember when a major release of my software hit slashdot, and one of the first comments was "Why can't I see any logs?" Yes, I made a stupid build error that hosed logs. I was able to push a new release the next day with that fix, but it took someone not trusting me to find it first.
Also, the Metro Interface proves that the designers are often drinking better stuff than we can afford.
Pulling it out: doesn't work for data safety, doesn't work for contraception either.
But which one is the average slashdot user going to be doing daily?
It is. It is called "The Cloud!" It has all new bad design!
operating systems that don't (windows by default)
Which windows? That default changed with the versions...
If you haven't written anything to the USB, yes, it's completely safe. Any filesystem that's writing data just because of your passive reading of the disk is a) stupid, b) should have recovery for such, c) shouldn't be writing anything important (e.g. a last access time, maybe?)
That would be windows that by default updates the partition table when it sees a new disk. And while I agree with you, it is still the way it is...
When i loose a file, i lost a few bits. I usually couldn't care less. It might be a photo or mp3 file. It might be a failed backup. Worst case it's a fortune worth of bitcoin. But i won't die from it.
Funny you should say that. When it comes down to it, the biggest killer on this planet is a lack of money. So that loss of bitcoin could kill you if you needed food. Or if you owed the mob. Or if you needed an operation insurance would not cover. Many wars in the world about about nothing more them money.
If money really means nothing to you, you must have quite a bit of it by world standards.
Why is it doing background operation without notifying the user?
Because the data-mining is supposed to be a secret!
Time for the skinny elephants...
Me: *Tries to eject flash drive.*
Windows: "Cannot eject drive as files are still being used."
Me: *Closes Explorer window that was open to a folder on C and not any folder on the flash drive, and tries to eject again.*
Windows: "Drive can be safely removed."
Me: "WTF?"
Windows: "Windows is applying Updates. Do not turn off your computer."
Apple used to promote the idea that the user is in charge.
Yeah, like cdroms that dont have eject buttons, and if you're old enough to remember that a floppy drive is, same crap there. I more surprised that Apple does not lock the usb-ports so you CANT unplug a thumbdrive without asking for authorisation from the mighty System7...
I remember when a PC power switch was actually a SWITCH and not a software interrupt! It had 4 big mains power wires.
Yes that doesn't work. It's usually blindingly obvious when the student has copied a source (paragraph swapping not withstanding) because 99 times out of 100 the writing is far more coherent.
I think he was saying to use the article for you outline, and write your own text. As organizing your thoughts and presentation can take some time, I can see how this would help. But you would still be writing out the text, and may even have different conclusions... Disclaimer: When I was in school, there was no wikipedia...
I have always considered Wikipedia to be an overview and an index. It does rapidly collect some of the best articles on a given subject. Especially if you look in the history for citations that have been removed!