Or those silly rental car counters. And bus / taxi service. Or someone you know having their car in a close-by parking lot. Because none of these things happen thousands of times a day at airports.
Someone should tell the airlines that commercially available passenger flight will never work because of the complete lack of the all-important "last mile" solution.
For what it's worth, the founding of SolarCity with his two cousins have caused a gigawatt of solar to be installed in the last 8 years, and a massive manufacturing plant to be built in Buffalo, NY to create manufacturing jobs in the US, and give China some competition for solar panels.
No, it's not a complete game changer, but it's also not the square root of jack shit.
An amusement park. People pay good money to go on roller coasters, and scraping the speed of sound in a little capsule-tube-thing would be a huge attraction.
Test the tech, and recoup some expense at the same time.
Get over yourself. Even Obama has called it Obamacare. That's what the program is known as in the zeitgeist now, just the same as someone uses a Kleenex, or drinks a Coke rather than facial tissue or cola.
There was also massive changes to the plumbing and wiring that necessitated upgrading in the 14 years previous to XP, where there was almost none in the 14 that came after XP.
The only one that most people are on-board with is 64-bit, and Microsoft made such a hash of that in comparison to the rest of the world that it took them 3 tries to get it right (XP 64-bit, Vista64, Win7 64). Yes, there are other advantages to Windows 7 over XP, which is why most of corporate america built in back-versioning rights into their Microsoft agreements - they want the last version that isn't retarded. So they buy OEM equipment with Win8 stickers on them, and use their Software Assurance to back-license it to Win7.
Not only that, he has people going from Windows 2000 to Windows ME.
In the history of the world, NOBODY would have done that. I didn't even leave Windows 2000 for XP until XP SP2 was released and it actually outperformed Win2K.
You could argue that Google should set an explicit support cutoff date for patches for older versions, but when the handset makers policy on end of life ranges from "until the average contract runs down" to "until the retail store's return period has passed", I'm not sure there's much point.
I do argue that Google's role in this malfeasance is that they haven't contractually obligated handset manufacturers to make updates available for 2+ years after model introduction.
It's absolutely ridiculous that they are selling handsets right now that have known unpatched vulnerabilities, and will never have updates made available without rooting, shitcanning the OEM software stack, and loading a 3rd party community image of some kind, with zero culpability.
"Too fucking bad buy a new phone" is not a proper response for a gaping security flaw. I hold Google accountable, as well as the handset manufacturers.
Bitcoin is still the premier form of currency in the world. Anyone who says otherwise is just afraid that it might destroy their own nation's currency and/or economy.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhaha ha heh. Oh, were you being serious?
When major developed countries start holding Bitcoin in their currency reserves, and commodities / futures / financial instruments are being traded on the open market in Bitcoin instead of USD, then you can lay claim to being the "premier form of currency in the world."
Yeah, just like house flipping seemed like a great way to make money 6 years ago. Then the bottom fell out and everyone lost their shit.
Grass is always greener, and all that. Get good at what you do, and leverage it. If you're only mediocre at what you do, either get better or find something else that you are good at.
I work on a team that is 50% remote, 50% local. I'm in the remote bit.
We have a 3-per-week video standup, and we use Slack to stay in touch. Our development infrastructure is in an Amazon VPC with VPN access, so everyone can connect and check in code and documentation, as well as test on the dev and stage servers.
Part of the team is in Silicon Valley / San Francisco, and then the rest are in Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, and a contractor in Europe.
We've never missed a date, and our team outperforms every other team in the IT shop in the company to the point where we are taking over their systems in 2015.
Remote can work, if you have motivated employees and good management. And, it allows us to recruit from outside of the echo chamber that is Silicon Valley to get quality people that aren't compulsive job-hoppers. There is talent to be had in the midwest, and throwing California salaries at them is a good way to get them and keep them.
The user had to actually tap a button to perform the upgrade, and maybe if they were so concerned to retain legal counsel due to the effects of that action, they should have read a little documentation first. Or, just cabled up to a computer and let iTunes do the upgrade with the hard disk acting as temp storage.
People will try to sue over the stupidest shit these days.
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USB 3.0 and the Mac App Store fixes that.
What with all of those Blu-Ray discs containing 4k content...
Because the iMac is a laptop, and absolutely doesn't have large internal disks available. And absolutely no high-bandwidth storage expansion opportunities.
Get fucking serious.
Yes, it has. I believe it was after the Berlin Wall came down and the USSR broke up.
He's probably under the impression that all Americans are dense, and thus do not float.
He's not that far off.
Disclaimer: I am a citizen of the United States of America, so I can make that joke. Spare me your accusations of European smugness.
Was thinking the same thing. Or Pax Imperia.
Or those silly rental car counters. And bus / taxi service. Or someone you know having their car in a close-by parking lot. Because none of these things happen thousands of times a day at airports.
Someone should tell the airlines that commercially available passenger flight will never work because of the complete lack of the all-important "last mile" solution.
That's been solved already, long ago.
For what it's worth, the founding of SolarCity with his two cousins have caused a gigawatt of solar to be installed in the last 8 years, and a massive manufacturing plant to be built in Buffalo, NY to create manufacturing jobs in the US, and give China some competition for solar panels.
No, it's not a complete game changer, but it's also not the square root of jack shit.
An amusement park. People pay good money to go on roller coasters, and scraping the speed of sound in a little capsule-tube-thing would be a huge attraction.
Test the tech, and recoup some expense at the same time.
how about:
if [ ! -z "$STEAMROOT" ]
then...
Get over yourself. Even Obama has called it Obamacare. That's what the program is known as in the zeitgeist now, just the same as someone uses a Kleenex, or drinks a Coke rather than facial tissue or cola.
Oh, so what everyone suggested they do with 8 during the preview / leaks.
Sounds like they're a couple years late to what was completely obvious.
I use ClassicShell here at home. That being said,I sure wouldn't want to support 10,000+ installs of a hack like that. That's asking for a nightmare.
Yeah, this is also an acceptable response for the ~1 BILLION devices out there, and all their users.
Idiot.
There was also massive changes to the plumbing and wiring that necessitated upgrading in the 14 years previous to XP, where there was almost none in the 14 that came after XP.
The only one that most people are on-board with is 64-bit, and Microsoft made such a hash of that in comparison to the rest of the world that it took them 3 tries to get it right (XP 64-bit, Vista64, Win7 64). Yes, there are other advantages to Windows 7 over XP, which is why most of corporate america built in back-versioning rights into their Microsoft agreements - they want the last version that isn't retarded. So they buy OEM equipment with Win8 stickers on them, and use their Software Assurance to back-license it to Win7.
Not only that, he has people going from Windows 2000 to Windows ME.
In the history of the world, NOBODY would have done that. I didn't even leave Windows 2000 for XP until XP SP2 was released and it actually outperformed Win2K.
You could argue that Google should set an explicit support cutoff date for patches for older versions, but when the handset makers policy on end of life ranges from "until the average contract runs down" to "until the retail store's return period has passed", I'm not sure there's much point.
I do argue that Google's role in this malfeasance is that they haven't contractually obligated handset manufacturers to make updates available for 2+ years after model introduction.
It's absolutely ridiculous that they are selling handsets right now that have known unpatched vulnerabilities, and will never have updates made available without rooting, shitcanning the OEM software stack, and loading a 3rd party community image of some kind, with zero culpability.
Cite the fucking law, if it's so mandated by law.
Because if you're right, then Apple has a few hundred million counts of breaking that law.
And somehow this is an acceptable situation?
"Too fucking bad buy a new phone" is not a proper response for a gaping security flaw. I hold Google accountable, as well as the handset manufacturers.
Bitcoin is still the premier form of currency in the world. Anyone who says otherwise is just afraid that it might destroy their own nation's currency and/or economy.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhaha ha heh. Oh, were you being serious?
When major developed countries start holding Bitcoin in their currency reserves, and commodities / futures / financial instruments are being traded on the open market in Bitcoin instead of USD, then you can lay claim to being the "premier form of currency in the world."
Bitcoin isn't even in the top 5. Are you cracked?
Yeah, just like house flipping seemed like a great way to make money 6 years ago. Then the bottom fell out and everyone lost their shit.
Grass is always greener, and all that. Get good at what you do, and leverage it. If you're only mediocre at what you do, either get better or find something else that you are good at.
Nobody pays well for mediocre.
I work on a team that is 50% remote, 50% local. I'm in the remote bit.
We have a 3-per-week video standup, and we use Slack to stay in touch. Our development infrastructure is in an Amazon VPC with VPN access, so everyone can connect and check in code and documentation, as well as test on the dev and stage servers.
Part of the team is in Silicon Valley / San Francisco, and then the rest are in Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, and a contractor in Europe.
We've never missed a date, and our team outperforms every other team in the IT shop in the company to the point where we are taking over their systems in 2015.
Remote can work, if you have motivated employees and good management. And, it allows us to recruit from outside of the echo chamber that is Silicon Valley to get quality people that aren't compulsive job-hoppers. There is talent to be had in the midwest, and throwing California salaries at them is a good way to get them and keep them.
Looks like their last cheap phone for kids, with a layout change.
There is no auto update.
The user had to actually tap a button to perform the upgrade, and maybe if they were so concerned to retain legal counsel due to the effects of that action, they should have read a little documentation first. Or, just cabled up to a computer and let iTunes do the upgrade with the hard disk acting as temp storage.
People will try to sue over the stupidest shit these days.