Apple is actually a good counter-example in Tesla's favor though, in that when Apple opened their own stores they did NOT undercut all their third-party resellers and put them out of business. It's also a good counter for the "service departments" argument that the dealers are using. Because the Apple stores did not reduce service and support availability at all. In fact, unless you live out in the middle of nowhere where there just isn't one, the Apple store and the Genius Bar is the best and most effective to go for service or support now.
Trump may not exactly be the darling of a certain few prominent members of the republican party. But, as a whole, the GOP as a whole chose him in overwhelming numbers to be their candidate, with 1725 out of 2472 delegates choosing him, for nearly a 70% majority, with the closest contender getting just 484 votes (@ 19.5%). In politics, 70% is a pretty clear mandate. Romney is no longer the republican party. Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and even Reagan are no longer the Republican party. Trump is. And that is the reality of the situation.
Oh, get over yourself. What Clinton did was bog-standard "shadow IT". It's an issue in any and every large organization, and becomes especially prevalent as the company ages. It happens because, as they have to support more and more people with the same resources, IT people tend to become less helpful and more reliant on policies, procedures, and standardized lists of supported hardware and software; and these wind up not adequately fulfilling the needs of the users. And don't imagine you're immune. If you work for anything larger than a small to medium sized startup, you have users somewhere who are doing something that's against "the rulez".
It's like Star Trek movies. The even-numbered service packs range between okay to good. The odd-numbered ones, on the other hand... stay the hell away and treat them like day-old roadkill.
I'm not at all a fan of Fords. I owned one once and I plan never to make that mistake again. But...
REALLY?!?!?
I learned my lesson never to own a Fiat when I was twelve and my uncle owned one. It's possibly the only brand short of Trabant that could have made Chryslers worse than they were before. And actually, my first car ever was a Chrysler... also... never again.
I've never tried it in VirtualBox, but it runs in VMware and Parallels. Mind you, it doesn't run well in either. I don't think either one feeds it the GPU acceleration or memory that it needs. But for basic functionality testing and experimentation, it's adequate. Just don't expect to get much real work done on it.
And you're misrepresenting (intentionally, I suspect) how Uber's algorithm works. Going into surge pricing when demand is high and supply is low is how Uber "activates more drivers". The higher rate means more money fro the driver and incentivizes them to work in the high demand / low supply area.
Even in the military, where "greater than average chance of getting killed" is part of the job description you signed up for, you get extra pay for hazardous duty such as combat, flight, or submarine.
Correction: A single software engineer has been offered up as a scapegoat for VW's emissions cheating. And, unless there's a backroom deal going on where he has agreed to take the fall in exchange for a payout, he will win the fight.
There are plenty of situations where it's perfectly legal to design, or even own, something; but not use it in public. Emissions laws are different in various countries. It's not illegal to write the software for a high-emissions vehicle to be sold in China or India for example. The decision to use that software in the US, however, was most certainly NOT made by this one software engineer who's being blamed for the whole scandal. Even within the US, emissions rules apply only to cars driven on public roads. If you're going to only use your car at the race track; you're perfectly free to pull out the catalytic converter and muffler, and put in a set of straight pipes. And it's perfectly legal to sell the parts to enable someone to do so.
And just how do you suggest the algorithm could be improved to determine the difference between people leaving the area after a bombing and people leaving the area after SantaCon or a pillow fight flash mob or a BLM protest?
So far as I can imagine, it would have to be capable of monitoring and interpreting the news media in order to know, in real time, if people are leaving the area because of an attack, or some benign reason. That's a much more difficult AI problem than supply vs. demand in an area; especially considering that you must also to prevent false positives ID-ing hoaxes, false alarms, or other such trolling as real emergencies.
"Embrace, extend, extinguish" isn't something that the Linux crowd just made up to slander Gates and Co. It's Microsoft's own internal policy, made public when documents were released during their trial and conviction. They are on record as considering open source to be equivalent to a cancer to be eradicated. They were found to be funneling money into SCO during their attack against Linux and IBM. And let's not forget the halloween documents. None of this is made-up conspiracy theorist nonsense on the part of the OSS community. It's part of the public record which anyone can reach in five minutes of googling:
I'm not sure about torrent freaks, but TPB and KAT would spawn no end of pop ups and new tabs suggesting you click on their links for free "security scans" and "disk repair tools" of dubious provenance. And Adblock seemed powerless to stop it. No way would I ever take them up on their "generous offers", but I'd bet that many a less savvy or careful user got themselves pwned that way.
> Or, it could be that the parents are harassing the > daughter because she is a twit in a huge game of > one up-manship.
Both could be true. Teenagers can undoubtedly be self-absorbed and obstinate. But there are also, without a doubt, parents who view humiliating their children as something between a sport and a god-given right. In this case, the latter is definitely true. So the only question is whether or not the former is as well.
You should check the law in your state. In California, for example, those clauses are illegal. And, depending on if, or how often, the business has been caught; can return a payout to you starting at $2500, and going up to $10000.
The main job of the CEO isn't the administrative details of market position or business strategy or finance or whatever. The CEO has people to attend to those things for him. The CEO's main job is leadership.
And piss-poor uninspiring leadership is pretty damn obvious to those in the rank and file.
When Apple first launched the iPhone, they did not include the App Store, or any other sanctioned way to run apps besides the defaults. They originally tried to sell people on the idea of HTML5 browser-based web apps as the future. And everyone, including Slashdot and the rest of the tech press, threw a collective hissy fit over it. This, of course, is what launched the jailbreaking community and the Cydia store. The people having spoken, Apple launched a revised iOS plus the App Store with the iPhone 3G. And Google, having watched from the sidelines that first year, launched Android with the Android Marketplace, their own version of the App Store.
You don't get any legitimacy complaining about "apps devouring the open web" when that is exactly what you asked for... demanded even... in the first place.
It's still idiotic at that. The thing that made another 9/11-style attack impossible was not the TSA, DHS, or even the strengthened cockpit doors. It's the fact that post-9/11 a hijacking doesn't mean an inconvenient side trip and valium-laced pizza. It means the plane is going to be flown into a building, killing everybody... unless people onboard stop it. Passengers have already ganged up and *killed* would-be copycats who've tried to break into airplane cockpits.
And it wouldn't matter a whit if the knuckle draggers could stop every single weapon going through security. The 9/11 attackers used box cutters, sure. Well, the last time I flew, I treated myself to a post-security breakfast of steak and eggs. The knife they gave me for my steak was not the best steak knife I've used. But it was perfectly cromulent to the task, would have made for a better weapon than box cutters, and would have been trivial to take from the restaurant and onto the plane. Or what if the terrorist simply had an accomplice get a job working as, say, a janitor post-security. Imagine the two most common cleaning chemicals, mixed, in a closed environment such as an airplane.
Yeah. And it's particularly telling that the TSA goons are the ones who, pre-9/11, couldn't even get the inefficient, untrained, low paid knucklehead security jobs that existed at the time. The TSA quite literally recruits from the labor pool that comprises walmart greeters, fast-food workers, gas-pump jockeys, pizza delivery drivers, and the stoners ordering said pizza:
In the 1990s, McDonalds (The shitty cheeseburger company) started getting a bit sue-happy in the UK wrt/ various businesses with Mc or Mac as part of their name. The Right Honourable Godfrey James Macdonald of Macdonald, 8th Lord Macdonald, Chief of the Name and Arms of Macdonald, High Chief of Clan Donald and 34th hereditary Chief of Clan Donald, was not amused. When the men of the golden arches found themselves about to run head-on into ancient Highland Scots clan law, and possibly some angry Scotsmen, they promptly turned tail and ran. I doubt Intel would fare much better.
Oh come now, the solution to your rabbit problem is obvious: more and larger snakes. You don't even need to introduce anything foreign. Just whip up a hybrid with the right traits. It's not like you don't have a wide variety to start from and use as breeding stock.
If you and I were having an informal discussion and I corrected you on a "begs vs. raises the question" or how you "could care less" colloquialism, I'd be kind of a dick*. The writing and editorial staff of a publication are something else. They're paid to get it right. It's their job, amongst other things, to use correct spelling and grammar, and to hold to a more educated and formal style in general. And it's entirely right to take them to task over it when they cock it up.
*Unless of course you pronounce "espresso" with an "x", in which case you're an uncultured heathen who should be held under the steam wand as punishment.
It's especially silly because, in a healthy adult, Zika amounts to "flu-like" symptoms plus a rash. BFD. Compared to other mosquito-borne diseases like malaria, dengue, yellow fever, and any of a half-dozen variants of encephalitis, Zika is weak sauce. But, as you say, it's new to the US so OMFG panic!
You're missing the point. Ireland doesn't WANT the taxes. Ireland is perfectly happy with what they have. Ireland doesn't think Apple owes them anything beyond what they've already paid.
Tim Cook is completely right. This is nothing more than a spiteful political attack, coming from the "un-cool tech nerds are destroying culture" narrative in general, and bias against US tech companies in the EU in general. And don't think it will stop at Apple. France has been on the warpath against Google for a few years now. Germany has its sights set on Facebook. The UK slammed Amazon a few years back.
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Apple is actually a good counter-example in Tesla's favor though, in that when Apple opened their own stores they did NOT undercut all their third-party resellers and put them out of business. It's also a good counter for the "service departments" argument that the dealers are using. Because the Apple stores did not reduce service and support availability at all. In fact, unless you live out in the middle of nowhere where there just isn't one, the Apple store and the Genius Bar is the best and most effective to go for service or support now.
Trump may not exactly be the darling of a certain few prominent members of the republican party. But, as a whole, the GOP as a whole chose him in overwhelming numbers to be their candidate, with 1725 out of 2472 delegates choosing him, for nearly a 70% majority, with the closest contender getting just 484 votes (@ 19.5%). In politics, 70% is a pretty clear mandate. Romney is no longer the republican party. Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and even Reagan are no longer the Republican party. Trump is. And that is the reality of the situation.
Oh, get over yourself. What Clinton did was bog-standard "shadow IT". It's an issue in any and every large organization, and becomes especially prevalent as the company ages. It happens because, as they have to support more and more people with the same resources, IT people tend to become less helpful and more reliant on policies, procedures, and standardized lists of supported hardware and software; and these wind up not adequately fulfilling the needs of the users. And don't imagine you're immune. If you work for anything larger than a small to medium sized startup, you have users somewhere who are doing something that's against "the rulez".
It's like Star Trek movies. The even-numbered service packs range between okay to good. The odd-numbered ones, on the other hand... stay the hell away and treat them like day-old roadkill.
> Better FIAT than Ford
I'm not at all a fan of Fords. I owned one once and I plan never to make that mistake again. But...
REALLY?!?!?
I learned my lesson never to own a Fiat when I was twelve and my uncle owned one. It's possibly the only brand short of Trabant that could have made Chryslers worse than they were before. And actually, my first car ever was a Chrysler... also... never again.
> Lets put it this way, they don't make daily drivers.
Unless, of course, you're Russ Hanneman, aka Mark Cuban, aka the "radio on internet" guy.
I've never tried it in VirtualBox, but it runs in VMware and Parallels. Mind you, it doesn't run well in either. I don't think either one feeds it the GPU acceleration or memory that it needs. But for basic functionality testing and experimentation, it's adequate. Just don't expect to get much real work done on it.
And you're misrepresenting (intentionally, I suspect) how Uber's algorithm works. Going into surge pricing when demand is high and supply is low is how Uber "activates more drivers". The higher rate means more money fro the driver and incentivizes them to work in the high demand / low supply area.
Even in the military, where "greater than average chance of getting killed" is part of the job description you signed up for, you get extra pay for hazardous duty such as combat, flight, or submarine.
Correction: A single software engineer has been offered up as a scapegoat for VW's emissions cheating. And, unless there's a backroom deal going on where he has agreed to take the fall in exchange for a payout, he will win the fight.
There are plenty of situations where it's perfectly legal to design, or even own, something; but not use it in public. Emissions laws are different in various countries. It's not illegal to write the software for a high-emissions vehicle to be sold in China or India for example. The decision to use that software in the US, however, was most certainly NOT made by this one software engineer who's being blamed for the whole scandal. Even within the US, emissions rules apply only to cars driven on public roads. If you're going to only use your car at the race track; you're perfectly free to pull out the catalytic converter and muffler, and put in a set of straight pipes. And it's perfectly legal to sell the parts to enable someone to do so.
And just how do you suggest the algorithm could be improved to determine the difference between people leaving the area after a bombing and people leaving the area after SantaCon or a pillow fight flash mob or a BLM protest?
So far as I can imagine, it would have to be capable of monitoring and interpreting the news media in order to know, in real time, if people are leaving the area because of an attack, or some benign reason. That's a much more difficult AI problem than supply vs. demand in an area; especially considering that you must also to prevent false positives ID-ing hoaxes, false alarms, or other such trolling as real emergencies.
> Java and HTML standards and last time I checked
> those were roaring successes!
The fact that Microsoft failed when they tried in those two cases does not absolve them of the responsibility and blame for their actions.
Seriously?
"Embrace, extend, extinguish" isn't something that the Linux crowd just made up to slander Gates and Co. It's Microsoft's own internal policy, made public when documents were released during their trial and conviction. They are on record as considering open source to be equivalent to a cancer to be eradicated. They were found to be funneling money into SCO during their attack against Linux and IBM. And let's not forget the halloween documents. None of this is made-up conspiracy theorist nonsense on the part of the OSS community. It's part of the public record which anyone can reach in five minutes of googling:
https://www.justice.gov/sites/...
http://techrights.org/2009/06/...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://archive.is/201207112333...
http://www.catb.org/esr/hallow...
Microsoft is not a good-faith actor, and never has been. I see no reason to trust them, no matter their Github numbers.
I'm not sure about torrent freaks, but TPB and KAT would spawn no end of pop ups and new tabs suggesting you click on their links for free "security scans" and "disk repair tools" of dubious provenance. And Adblock seemed powerless to stop it. No way would I ever take them up on their "generous offers", but I'd bet that many a less savvy or careful user got themselves pwned that way.
> Or, it could be that the parents are harassing the
> daughter because she is a twit in a huge game of
> one up-manship.
Both could be true. Teenagers can undoubtedly be self-absorbed and obstinate. But there are also, without a doubt, parents who view humiliating their children as something between a sport and a god-given right. In this case, the latter is definitely true. So the only question is whether or not the former is as well.
You should check the law in your state. In California, for example, those clauses are illegal. And, depending on if, or how often, the business has been caught; can return a payout to you starting at $2500, and going up to $10000.
The main job of the CEO isn't the administrative details of market position or business strategy or finance or whatever. The CEO has people to attend to those things for him. The CEO's main job is leadership.
And piss-poor uninspiring leadership is pretty damn obvious to those in the rank and file.
My, how we forget history.
When Apple first launched the iPhone, they did not include the App Store, or any other sanctioned way to run apps besides the defaults. They originally tried to sell people on the idea of HTML5 browser-based web apps as the future. And everyone, including Slashdot and the rest of the tech press, threw a collective hissy fit over it. This, of course, is what launched the jailbreaking community and the Cydia store. The people having spoken, Apple launched a revised iOS plus the App Store with the iPhone 3G. And Google, having watched from the sidelines that first year, launched Android with the Android Marketplace, their own version of the App Store.
You don't get any legitimacy complaining about "apps devouring the open web" when that is exactly what you asked for... demanded even... in the first place.
It's still idiotic at that. The thing that made another 9/11-style attack impossible was not the TSA, DHS, or even the strengthened cockpit doors. It's the fact that post-9/11 a hijacking doesn't mean an inconvenient side trip and valium-laced pizza. It means the plane is going to be flown into a building, killing everybody... unless people onboard stop it. Passengers have already ganged up and *killed* would-be copycats who've tried to break into airplane cockpits.
And it wouldn't matter a whit if the knuckle draggers could stop every single weapon going through security. The 9/11 attackers used box cutters, sure. Well, the last time I flew, I treated myself to a post-security breakfast of steak and eggs. The knife they gave me for my steak was not the best steak knife I've used. But it was perfectly cromulent to the task, would have made for a better weapon than box cutters, and would have been trivial to take from the restaurant and onto the plane. Or what if the terrorist simply had an accomplice get a job working as, say, a janitor post-security. Imagine the two most common cleaning chemicals, mixed, in a closed environment such as an airplane.
Yeah. And it's particularly telling that the TSA goons are the ones who, pre-9/11, couldn't even get the inefficient, untrained, low paid knucklehead security jobs that existed at the time. The TSA quite literally recruits from the labor pool that comprises walmart greeters, fast-food workers, gas-pump jockeys, pizza delivery drivers, and the stoners ordering said pizza:
http://federalnewsradio.com/ma...
Except in the UK in general and Scotland in particular, where the lord of Clan Macdonald has your back.
McAfee should set up shop in Scotland.
In the 1990s, McDonalds (The shitty cheeseburger company) started getting a bit sue-happy in the UK wrt/ various businesses with Mc or Mac as part of their name. The Right Honourable Godfrey James Macdonald of Macdonald, 8th Lord Macdonald, Chief of the Name and Arms of Macdonald, High Chief of Clan Donald and 34th hereditary Chief of Clan Donald, was not amused. When the men of the golden arches found themselves about to run head-on into ancient Highland Scots clan law, and possibly some angry Scotsmen, they promptly turned tail and ran. I doubt Intel would fare much better.
Oh come now, the solution to your rabbit problem is obvious: more and larger snakes. You don't even need to introduce anything foreign. Just whip up a hybrid with the right traits. It's not like you don't have a wide variety to start from and use as breeding stock.
The difference is context.
If you and I were having an informal discussion and I corrected you on a "begs vs. raises the question" or how you "could care less" colloquialism, I'd be kind of a dick*. The writing and editorial staff of a publication are something else. They're paid to get it right. It's their job, amongst other things, to use correct spelling and grammar, and to hold to a more educated and formal style in general. And it's entirely right to take them to task over it when they cock it up.
*Unless of course you pronounce "espresso" with an "x", in which case you're an uncultured heathen who should be held under the steam wand as punishment.
It's especially silly because, in a healthy adult, Zika amounts to "flu-like" symptoms plus a rash. BFD. Compared to other mosquito-borne diseases like malaria, dengue, yellow fever, and any of a half-dozen variants of encephalitis, Zika is weak sauce. But, as you say, it's new to the US so OMFG panic!
You're missing the point. Ireland doesn't WANT the taxes. Ireland is perfectly happy with what they have. Ireland doesn't think Apple owes them anything beyond what they've already paid.
Tim Cook is completely right. This is nothing more than a spiteful political attack, coming from the "un-cool tech nerds are destroying culture" narrative in general, and bias against US tech companies in the EU in general. And don't think it will stop at Apple. France has been on the warpath against Google for a few years now. Germany has its sights set on Facebook. The UK slammed Amazon a few years back.