I am clearly no astrophysicist, but would it not be more effective to stick 4 or 5 hubble sized optical telescopes working as one large one in the L1 or L2 points? I know that it is more expensive, but with the cost of launches dropping as fast as they are, I should imagine this would be affordable by the time they can actually build the things.. which I guess is at least 10 years. Ideally they would put a research lab there as well.
It is a solid option when you do not get office through your work or want to pay the small monthly fee for the home edition. I would actually consider to use it if it was compatible with all my VBA macros for excel. No work around for these since they are shared with others who use office.
How is that different than every other company in the world? I have worked with and for at a lot of places over the years and one thing is universal, most of the people have no idea at all what they are doing. It is amazing to me that some companies are even able to put products on the market at all. I am not talking only about the small guys either. I was once testing a wireless product for one of the largest companies in Europe for global radio certification (FCC/ISED/CE and many others). Once I got the devices I told them.. hey, thanks a lot for sending these samples, but it would be great if you could send them with a SMA connector so we could test the radios as well. What is a SMA connector, was the response. After explaining it a couple of days went by and they called me up and explained that the guy who knows how to do that quit the company so it would be better if we changed the design for them to make it work. Of course this kind of shit happens ever every company every single day. These are not things which people know about it. So, you can say that 100% of companies are shittier than people on the outside know about.
I was perhaps not clear. I'm calling for the people who designed and implemented a system that was so mistake prone to be sent on permanent vacation. The guy who sent out the alert was just a person making a mistake on fatally flawed software.
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I was not meaning you in particular. Just in general that there is a lot of people calling for that.
What's worse, is that the menu items were right under each other. "Missile alert" and "Missile alert Test". Both items give the same "are you sure" confirmation. While it was certainly a bone headed mistake, it was one what was easily possible for someone in a hurry. As this fellow was just wrapping up his shift, he was clearly trying to get everything done in time.
I don't get the people calling for this guy to get fired. Like none of those assplugs have ever made a mistake on their job. How many know someone in the office that accidentally did reply to all, or forward some email chain to external Eric rather than the internal Eric. Shit happens. Clearly the design of that system isn't the best.
Something you will never hear an American ask themselves.
Generally speaking, when you are buying so much "shit" for so much cheaper than the rest of the world, there is a good chance that this is only possible because a lot of people down the line are being fucked. But hey... cheap tv for you so who give a fuck, am i right?
I am sure I will get flamed for this, but to be honest, Americans deserve to lose their Internet freedom. The vast majority are unwilling to lift a finger to protect it. Most are unwilling to take an active roll in their political system to the point where someone like Donald Freaken Trump got elected to POTUS. I borderline retarded sociopath of a TV personality. That the heck did people think would happen? So, yes, you deserve to lose the internet. You deserve to lose your health care coverage. You deserve to pay higher taxes to the rich can pay less. You deserve to breath poison air and drink poison water after the dismantling of the EPA. Ultimately, this who situation will be good for the world. Europe will finally be forced to get off their asses and take their own destiny into the their hands. Same for Asia. It will shift the balance of power around in a way to create better long term stability. Let's face, politically and socially, America has been on the way down for a long time. I think that only by hitting rock bottom will Americans wake up and say, fuck this shit! Enough and enough!! Then, finally take their country back from the oligarchy which it has become. I do wish Americans every chance to get back on track, because they also deserve that.
Let's hope they do something about the "action scene" special effects. Not sure if anyone caught episode 8 where Saru is "running" and high speed. It was cringe worthy bad. Most of the fighting scenes are also laughably bad. Especially with the Klingons. How is that the the Klingon, a warrior race, are so crap at fighting? Super slow reaction times, apparently no motor skills to speak of and complete lack of technique. I personally hope they ditch the stupid continuum stuff and try to make the show more realistic. They should start by getting rid the the stupid spore drive.
A Sputnik moment implies that the US is in some kind of race. In fact, they are not competing in a race. They are on the field and walking around the track, but they are not aware that there are other runners on the starting line preparing to begin sprinting.
I do not believe that the US is capable in this moment to have any sort of "moon shot" program in any area. Back in the 50's and 60's, most Americans trusted their government and they trusted American business to "do the right thing". Those days are over. These days a deep mistrust exists between the population and their governmental and corporate masters, and rightfully so. My personal opinion, any perhaps you disagree, is that in the current climate, it is simply unthinkable to pour treasure into massive national "science" type programs. American only has enough money to support the war machine... not to increase the knowledge base of the betterment of all. Hell, there are loads of Americans who actively oppose the government spending any money on research or science in general. I suppose that is not a surprise given the rise of people in the US who do not "believe" in global warming and the damn scientists are just after those fat research grants. How much money to those morons think the average scientist makes? Because...it is not a lot.
What she should be getting is a feature phone and a butt so soar she can't sit for a week. Then the stockings can all be filled with a note saying, "Sorry, no Christmas this year because your sister thought it would be fun to make a video to get daddy fired and now we have no money. Also, you better study hard since we can't pay for your collage."
He is lucks they only fired him. Apple is extremely aggressive when it comes to this type of thing. He is also lucky that he is out now. My current company, and many others would never hire someone from Apple who was there for more than 5 years and they are most like a person who was a heave coolaid drinker and thinks they are better than everyone else.
I worked for an Apple "Partner" in the past. My God, the hoops they had us jump through were insane. We eventually told them, thanks, but no thanks. The experience of dealing with Apple is the reason while to this day, I refuse to buy Apple branded anything. Biggest bunch of self righteous smug motherfuckers I have ever met in my professional career.
This is the type of device that I have been waiting for. For my job, I need to take a lot of notes. I often need to sketch out things like simplified pulse trains for my customers so they can understand what they need to change on their radio. This is something which "could" be done on something like a surface, but I find writing on a normal laptop screen to be very uncomfortable and unnatural. It tends to make everything I write or draw look like I was doing some finger painting. Large and crappy. I have tried that sony e-paper doodad which you can write on. That really did "feel" like I was writing on a paper, but the software and overall usability was supremely bad. Definitely not something which I could live with as a productivity device. If MS could get the feel and accuracy of the writing to be at least very close to pen and paper, I would buy it. I often use onenote anyhow, and it would be really great to have a dedicated program to manage all my handwritten notes. I would prefer that it not try to convert my writing to typed text, but if it were still searchable...that would be fantastic. Normally, I would assume MS would F it up, as they always do with HW, but in the last couple of years, their notebooks have actually been pretty damn good. So.. I hope they pull it off.
I actually know a geologist who worked on that project. Was a German fellow, so he didn't care too much about the politics of the situation. His take was that the site is and will continue to be geologically stable for many 1000's of years. The big concern was that the rock which makes up the thing is hard and has many fractures. This allows a relatively rapid transfer or rain water to seep through to the aquifer below. The containers themselves by regulation must last between 300-1000 years. Of course in 100 years, the company that made them will be long, long, long out of business so if they should fail at 250 or even 299 years, it's not like anyone would be around spank them. Statistically, it is likely we would see at least 1 or two barrels which will fail at the lower end of the spectrum and start leaking. Do these things break catastrophically? I have no clue. I would assume they just develop small leaks which increase over time as the base material gets exposed to the radioactive elements and moisture. If you are not an expert, it is down to who you believe. The DOE says, hey...everything is fine and even when the containers fail (and they will) it will take a super long time to pollute the water and even then, we think it is an acceptable level of pollution. The NV State scientists say, no no no, due to the properties of the underlying rock, we calculate that should a barrel leak, the ground water will be polluted to a deadly level in about 1000 years.
I have no idea who is actually correct. In general though, humans are pretty crap about thinking 10 years into the future let alone 1000. I could imagine that many folks would say..meh...that's like 1000 years from now! For sure we will have thought of something to fix it by then. Maybe we will have. Maybe we wont. Maybe we will have been killed off by then. If that's the case, I hope all the barrels leaks and kills who ever takes over the planet.
Seriously, I cannot think of too many circumstances where I would like to hold a giant screen in front of my face for a bit before I can use it. Even a phone for that matter. Driving, taking the phone out of the holder to hold it in front of your face whilst driving since the screen locked in the meantime? Nope, seems like a bad idea. Seems like pressing your finger to that little button facing you and within easy reach is a bit better.
Sure, I get it. Hipsters will have an amazing excuse to keep their iPhones and iPad Pros at eye level so everyone around can see that they are using an iSomething, but for "normals" it seems pretty freaking retarded. It seems like a gimmick to me and not a very useful one. It would be fine if the finger print scanner was still there, but it's not. So, I guess I will leave this one to the hipsters.
This issue is nothing particular to IBM. It is simply the way of Globalization. It is a predictable and repeating pattern. A company leaves an area with high standards of living for a 2nd or 3rd world country in order to save money and increase their profit margins. Other companies do the same. 2nd world economy grows, wages increase, standard of living increases. Company moves to the next 2nd or 3rd world country since the current one is too expensive. After a few cycles, the wages and standard of living in the original country should have reduced enough due to goods no longer being produced there that the company can relocate back to country 1 and start the whole thing over again. They are basically locusts. Moving from place to place until they have taken every ounce of profit they can.
Perhaps the end of the cold war has a lot to do with it. Truthfully, I have no idea.
I suspect a lot of the current issues stem from the increase in difficultly of obtaining secondary education coupled with the decrease in quality for primary education. There is a growing rift between the educated and the under educated. Indeed, there is a growing tread of people taking pride in their under-education to the point of scorning those who have gone to university. I believe this is part of "the plan". I believe that those in power do seek to keep the people divided. To limit their access to education and thus reduce the number of people with critical thinking skills. A population which is not educated is very easy to manipulate with religion and populist messages, which is what we are seeing now. Look at how the republican party has turned their base against the "evil scientists" who are only after that research money. I am sure many of us on this board know at least one scientist. These are normally folks who are out to become rich. I don't want this to turn into a discussion about the rigors of the scientific method so I digress.
Hmm, the government and private companies putting together a list of sites they consider "prates" and blocking them from your view. Certainly no potential for abuse here.
I was, no doubt like many fellow/.'s a child of the 70's/80's. After hearing about the posted story a couple of days ago, I was trying to remember back to my youth. Was America like when I was young? Was our government actively and openly doing things contrary to the interests of her people? Perhaps I wear the rose colored glasses of those who look upon the past, but I don't recall that being he case. Sure, we still had a ton of racist. Especially where I grew up in "the valley". But America, in general term, was something to look up to. I had many pen pals from Europe as a child. Every one of them expressed the sentiment of wanting some day to go to America since so many wonderful things were happening there. Amazing technology, exciting movies and television shows, a government who protects smaller countries from bullies and all the rest of it. One of the pen pals is living in America. He got a green card in the green card lottery. Clever guy. Got his doctorate in applied physics. He has been in the US, geez... 12 years now. During our last phone call, he mentioned he was starting to look for something back in Germany. Things, as he put it, are just not the same.
It makes me sad to think about the direction our country is headed. A government given to more and more excess, a population more and more introverted and xenophobic. The stead rise of populism and religious extremism.
Even on this forum, which should be normally "thinking people" you can see it. People willing to defend every insane thing the government does with "well Bush did it first" or Obama did it first". People who treat their political party like their favorite sports team or even like a religion. It's insane! Do people truly believe that any party gives a single fuck about them? Because they don't. Both parties care about 1 thing. Power. Staying in power and expanding their power. Nothing else.
So tell me follow/.'s, how the fuck did we get here?
Seriously, what the actual fuck are you talking about? Have you ever worked with a Taiwanese company? I am guess not. I have worked with several over the year. And yes, even HTC. From both US (California) and Europe. They are extremely demanding and extremely "into the details". In fact, at one point our mother company brought in one guy to act as our COO from one of our Taiwan locations with the idea that the team in CA should adapt towards the Taiwanese working style. The end result was 30% of the employees quit due to the ridiculous expectations which were being placed on them. The larger companies in Taiwan have zero work/life balance relative to the US and European companies. To say that Taiwan's culture is "Meh" as you put it, is ignorant at best and willfully racist at worst. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are just some ignorant fuck ball who never left their mom's basement and not a casually racist prick.
Seriously, these asshole politicians encouraged everyone to get rid of their old cars and get new diesel cars. They did that with huge price differences between the cost of petrol and diesel as well as other tax breaks. Now, some years later, when so many people spent 30k of their hard earned money, propping up the auto industry, they say oh... you idiots bought the wrong car. You cannot drive that in our city. Also, you have to pay more tax because you chose to buy a "dirty" car. You had better buy a new "super clean" electric car which we do not have the power plants in place to charge if you want to come in to our city. These guys need to be lined up and shot in the face, one by one. And like every 3rd shot will be a dud, just to increase the tension. Assholes! BTW, diesel is still 30% cheaper to buy in Europe and on average gets 20% fuel economy. So... which one should I buy?
It is hard to imagine a time where MS is offering Office for Linux. For me, and no doubt plenty of others, this is the reason I do not use Linux as a primary OS. For my work Office is required. Not something which "sort of" works with office documents either. Part of my work includes making vba macros for several of our sites, all of which are on office 16. This of course works only with excel and nothing else. A few years ago, gaming was also the reason I still used Windows. I do still game from time to time, but not enough that I really care if I have it or not. So, I do hope that office gets a release for linux some day. Sure, a few years ago it was always a pain to use linux as you needed to love to tinker with the OS. I hate wasting my time to tinker with the OS these days, but I have heard that linux more or less just works now. So...let's see.
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I am clearly no astrophysicist, but would it not be more effective to stick 4 or 5 hubble sized optical telescopes working as one large one in the L1 or L2 points?
I know that it is more expensive, but with the cost of launches dropping as fast as they are, I should imagine this would be affordable by the time they can actually build the things.. which I guess is at least 10 years.
Ideally they would put a research lab there as well.
It is a solid option when you do not get office through your work or want to pay the small monthly fee for the home edition.
I would actually consider to use it if it was compatible with all my VBA macros for excel. No work around for these since they are shared with others who use office.
Still, for free.. It is "fine".
I am sure that the government would never turn over all personal information without a warrant to the ... government.
Sounds like Lenin's wet dream. A conduct for for all information which the government has total control over. What could possibly go wrong?
How is that different than every other company in the world? I have worked with and for at a lot of places over the years and one thing is universal, most of the people have no idea at all what they are doing.
It is amazing to me that some companies are even able to put products on the market at all. I am not talking only about the small guys either.
I was once testing a wireless product for one of the largest companies in Europe for global radio certification (FCC/ISED/CE and many others). Once I got the devices I told them.. hey, thanks a lot for sending these samples, but it would be great if you could send them with a SMA connector so we could test the radios as well.
What is a SMA connector, was the response. After explaining it a couple of days went by and they called me up and explained that the guy who knows how to do that quit the company so it would be better if we changed the design for them to make it work.
Of course this kind of shit happens ever every company every single day. These are not things which people know about it.
So, you can say that 100% of companies are shittier than people on the outside know about.
I was perhaps not clear. I'm calling for the people who designed and implemented a system that was so mistake prone to be sent on permanent vacation. The guy who sent out the alert was just a person making a mistake on fatally flawed software.
I was not meaning you in particular. Just in general that there is a lot of people calling for that.
What's worse, is that the menu items were right under each other. "Missile alert" and "Missile alert Test". Both items give the same "are you sure" confirmation.
While it was certainly a bone headed mistake, it was one what was easily possible for someone in a hurry. As this fellow was just wrapping up his shift, he was clearly trying to get everything done in time.
I don't get the people calling for this guy to get fired. Like none of those assplugs have ever made a mistake on their job. How many know someone in the office that accidentally did reply to all, or forward some email chain to external Eric rather than the internal Eric.
Shit happens. Clearly the design of that system isn't the best.
Something you will never hear an American ask themselves.
Generally speaking, when you are buying so much "shit" for so much cheaper than the rest of the world, there is a good chance that this is only possible because a lot of people down the line are being fucked.
But hey... cheap tv for you so who give a fuck, am i right?
me too... I just sold mine.
nothing like injecting some good old fashion casual racism to really drive your point home... Good job!
I am sure I will get flamed for this, but to be honest, Americans deserve to lose their Internet freedom. The vast majority are unwilling to lift a finger to protect it. Most are unwilling to take an active roll in their political system to the point where someone like Donald Freaken Trump got elected to POTUS. I borderline retarded sociopath of a TV personality.
That the heck did people think would happen?
So, yes, you deserve to lose the internet. You deserve to lose your health care coverage. You deserve to pay higher taxes to the rich can pay less. You deserve to breath poison air and drink poison water after the dismantling of the EPA.
Ultimately, this who situation will be good for the world.
Europe will finally be forced to get off their asses and take their own destiny into the their hands. Same for Asia. It will shift the balance of power around in a way to create better long term stability.
Let's face, politically and socially, America has been on the way down for a long time. I think that only by hitting rock bottom will Americans wake up and say, fuck this shit! Enough and enough!! Then, finally take their country back from the oligarchy which it has become.
I do wish Americans every chance to get back on track, because they also deserve that.
Let's hope they do something about the "action scene" special effects.
Not sure if anyone caught episode 8 where Saru is "running" and high speed. It was cringe worthy bad.
Most of the fighting scenes are also laughably bad. Especially with the Klingons. How is that the the Klingon, a warrior race, are so crap at fighting? Super slow reaction times, apparently no motor skills to speak of and complete lack of technique.
I personally hope they ditch the stupid continuum stuff and try to make the show more realistic. They should start by getting rid the the stupid spore drive.
A Sputnik moment implies that the US is in some kind of race. In fact, they are not competing in a race. They are on the field and walking around the track, but they are not aware that there are other runners on the starting line preparing to begin sprinting.
I do not believe that the US is capable in this moment to have any sort of "moon shot" program in any area. Back in the 50's and 60's, most Americans trusted their government and they trusted American business to "do the right thing". Those days are over. These days a deep mistrust exists between the population and their governmental and corporate masters, and rightfully so.
My personal opinion, any perhaps you disagree, is that in the current climate, it is simply unthinkable to pour treasure into massive national "science" type programs.
American only has enough money to support the war machine... not to increase the knowledge base of the betterment of all.
Hell, there are loads of Americans who actively oppose the government spending any money on research or science in general. I suppose that is not a surprise given the rise of people in the US who do not "believe" in global warming and the damn scientists are just after those fat research grants.
How much money to those morons think the average scientist makes? Because...it is not a lot.
What she should be getting is a feature phone and a butt so soar she can't sit for a week.
Then the stockings can all be filled with a note saying, "Sorry, no Christmas this year because your sister thought it would be fun to make a video to get daddy fired and now we have no money. Also, you better study hard since we can't pay for your collage."
He is lucks they only fired him. Apple is extremely aggressive when it comes to this type of thing. He is also lucky that he is out now. My current company, and many others would never hire someone from Apple who was there for more than 5 years and they are most like a person who was a heave coolaid drinker and thinks they are better than everyone else.
I worked for an Apple "Partner" in the past. My God, the hoops they had us jump through were insane. We eventually told them, thanks, but no thanks.
The experience of dealing with Apple is the reason while to this day, I refuse to buy Apple branded anything. Biggest bunch of self righteous smug motherfuckers I have ever met in my professional career.
This is the type of device that I have been waiting for.
For my job, I need to take a lot of notes. I often need to sketch out things like simplified pulse trains for my customers so they can understand what they need to change on their radio. This is something which "could" be done on something like a surface, but I find writing on a normal laptop screen to be very uncomfortable and unnatural. It tends to make everything I write or draw look like I was doing some finger painting. Large and crappy.
I have tried that sony e-paper doodad which you can write on. That really did "feel" like I was writing on a paper, but the software and overall usability was supremely bad. Definitely not something which I could live with as a productivity device.
If MS could get the feel and accuracy of the writing to be at least very close to pen and paper, I would buy it.
I often use onenote anyhow, and it would be really great to have a dedicated program to manage all my handwritten notes.
I would prefer that it not try to convert my writing to typed text, but if it were still searchable...that would be fantastic.
Normally, I would assume MS would F it up, as they always do with HW, but in the last couple of years, their notebooks have actually been pretty damn good.
So.. I hope they pull it off.
I actually know a geologist who worked on that project. Was a German fellow, so he didn't care too much about the politics of the situation.
His take was that the site is and will continue to be geologically stable for many 1000's of years.
The big concern was that the rock which makes up the thing is hard and has many fractures. This allows a relatively rapid transfer or rain water to seep through to the aquifer below.
The containers themselves by regulation must last between 300-1000 years. Of course in 100 years, the company that made them will be long, long, long out of business so if they should fail at 250 or even 299 years, it's not like anyone would be around spank them.
Statistically, it is likely we would see at least 1 or two barrels which will fail at the lower end of the spectrum and start leaking. Do these things break catastrophically? I have no clue. I would assume they just develop small leaks which increase over time as the base material gets exposed to the radioactive elements and moisture.
If you are not an expert, it is down to who you believe.
The DOE says, hey...everything is fine and even when the containers fail (and they will) it will take a super long time to pollute the water and even then, we think it is an acceptable level of pollution.
The NV State scientists say, no no no, due to the properties of the underlying rock, we calculate that should a barrel leak, the ground water will be polluted to a deadly level in about 1000 years.
I have no idea who is actually correct. In general though, humans are pretty crap about thinking 10 years into the future let alone 1000. I could imagine that many folks would say..meh...that's like 1000 years from now! For sure we will have thought of something to fix it by then.
Maybe we will have. Maybe we wont. Maybe we will have been killed off by then. If that's the case, I hope all the barrels leaks and kills who ever takes over the planet.
Wow! They figured out that using more of an addictive chemical makes you want the addictive chemical more? That is simply shocking.
Seriously, I cannot think of too many circumstances where I would like to hold a giant screen in front of my face for a bit before I can use it.
Even a phone for that matter.
Driving, taking the phone out of the holder to hold it in front of your face whilst driving since the screen locked in the meantime? Nope, seems like a bad idea. Seems like pressing your finger to that little button facing you and within easy reach is a bit better.
Sure, I get it. Hipsters will have an amazing excuse to keep their iPhones and iPad Pros at eye level so everyone around can see that they are using an iSomething, but for "normals" it seems pretty freaking retarded.
It seems like a gimmick to me and not a very useful one. It would be fine if the finger print scanner was still there, but it's not.
So, I guess I will leave this one to the hipsters.
This issue is nothing particular to IBM. It is simply the way of Globalization.
It is a predictable and repeating pattern.
A company leaves an area with high standards of living for a 2nd or 3rd world country in order to save money and increase their profit margins.
Other companies do the same.
2nd world economy grows, wages increase, standard of living increases.
Company moves to the next 2nd or 3rd world country since the current one is too expensive.
After a few cycles, the wages and standard of living in the original country should have reduced enough due to goods no longer being produced there that the company can relocate back to country 1 and start the whole thing over again.
They are basically locusts. Moving from place to place until they have taken every ounce of profit they can.
Perhaps the end of the cold war has a lot to do with it. Truthfully, I have no idea.
I suspect a lot of the current issues stem from the increase in difficultly of obtaining secondary education coupled with the decrease in quality for primary education.
There is a growing rift between the educated and the under educated. Indeed, there is a growing tread of people taking pride in their under-education to the point of scorning those who have gone to university.
I believe this is part of "the plan". I believe that those in power do seek to keep the people divided. To limit their access to education and thus reduce the number of people with critical thinking skills.
A population which is not educated is very easy to manipulate with religion and populist messages, which is what we are seeing now.
Look at how the republican party has turned their base against the "evil scientists" who are only after that research money.
I am sure many of us on this board know at least one scientist. These are normally folks who are out to become rich. I don't want this to turn into a discussion about the rigors of the scientific method so I digress.
Hmm, the government and private companies putting together a list of sites they consider "prates" and blocking them from your view.
Certainly no potential for abuse here.
I was, no doubt like many fellow /.'s a child of the 70's/80's. After hearing about the posted story a couple of days ago, I was trying to remember back to my youth.
Was America like when I was young? Was our government actively and openly doing things contrary to the interests of her people?
Perhaps I wear the rose colored glasses of those who look upon the past, but I don't recall that being he case.
Sure, we still had a ton of racist. Especially where I grew up in "the valley". But America, in general term, was something to look up to.
I had many pen pals from Europe as a child. Every one of them expressed the sentiment of wanting some day to go to America since so many wonderful things were happening there. Amazing technology, exciting movies and television shows, a government who protects smaller countries from bullies and all the rest of it.
One of the pen pals is living in America. He got a green card in the green card lottery. Clever guy. Got his doctorate in applied physics. He has been in the US, geez... 12 years now. During our last phone call, he mentioned he was starting to look for something back in Germany. Things, as he put it, are just not the same.
It makes me sad to think about the direction our country is headed. A government given to more and more excess, a population more and more introverted and xenophobic. The stead rise of populism and religious extremism.
Even on this forum, which should be normally "thinking people" you can see it. People willing to defend every insane thing the government does with "well Bush did it first" or Obama did it first". People who treat their political party like their favorite sports team or even like a religion. It's insane!
Do people truly believe that any party gives a single fuck about them? Because they don't. Both parties care about 1 thing. Power. Staying in power and expanding their power. Nothing else.
So tell me follow /.'s, how the fuck did we get here?
Seriously, what the actual fuck are you talking about?
Have you ever worked with a Taiwanese company? I am guess not. I have worked with several over the year. And yes, even HTC. From both US (California) and Europe.
They are extremely demanding and extremely "into the details".
In fact, at one point our mother company brought in one guy to act as our COO from one of our Taiwan locations with the idea that the team in CA should adapt towards the Taiwanese working style. The end result was 30% of the employees quit due to the ridiculous expectations which were being placed on them.
The larger companies in Taiwan have zero work/life balance relative to the US and European companies.
To say that Taiwan's culture is "Meh" as you put it, is ignorant at best and willfully racist at worst. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are just some ignorant fuck ball who never left their mom's basement and not a casually racist prick.
Seriously, these asshole politicians encouraged everyone to get rid of their old cars and get new diesel cars. They did that with huge price differences between the cost of petrol and diesel as well as other tax breaks.
Now, some years later, when so many people spent 30k of their hard earned money, propping up the auto industry, they say oh... you idiots bought the wrong car. You cannot drive that in our city. Also, you have to pay more tax because you chose to buy a "dirty" car. You had better buy a new "super clean" electric car which we do not have the power plants in place to charge if you want to come in to our city.
These guys need to be lined up and shot in the face, one by one. And like every 3rd shot will be a dud, just to increase the tension. Assholes!
BTW, diesel is still 30% cheaper to buy in Europe and on average gets 20% fuel economy. So... which one should I buy?
It is hard to imagine a time where MS is offering Office for Linux. For me, and no doubt plenty of others, this is the reason I do not use Linux as a primary OS. For my work Office is required. Not something which "sort of" works with office documents either. Part of my work includes making vba macros for several of our sites, all of which are on office 16. This of course works only with excel and nothing else.
A few years ago, gaming was also the reason I still used Windows. I do still game from time to time, but not enough that I really care if I have it or not.
So, I do hope that office gets a release for linux some day. Sure, a few years ago it was always a pain to use linux as you needed to love to tinker with the OS. I hate wasting my time to tinker with the OS these days, but I have heard that linux more or less just works now. So...let's see.