A few employees quit, big deal. They were clearly entitled and apparently do not mind not having a job.
In my experience, when a company makes a move that's likely to drive it bankrupt, the first to leave are the ones smart enough to see it coming. They know they can easily get another job somewhere else.
If I'm making 100k, and my cubicle neighbor goes from 35k to 70k, that doesn't have any impact on me whatsoever*. Why complain?
Of course it does.
If I'm working a stressful 60 hours a week to take home $100k, and the company suddenly starts paying the janitor $70k, I'm quitting and becoming a janitor.
You'll have to elaborate if you want anyone to see your point. There's very few people who are both literary and masochistic enough to have read Atlas Shrugged (or anything by Ayn Rand).
Not really. In the military, for example, no matter what your speciality is, you are paid the same. Based upon rank, time in service and time in grade.
And this company is doing the equivalent of paying a private on his first day the same as a Colonel who's been in the army for ten years.
But a simple core (think of an embedded Arm core) could do all this, using in chip Ram, and hardly bothering the main Cpu. Why does Smm code even need the main Cpu to run?
The problem is, if they push an update to my phone that breaks it, I'm in the shit.
If my PC doesn't work, I can live without it for a few days, or reinstall the OS. If my phone doesn't work, I can... not get urgent messages when I'm on call.
This is why I avoided getting a smartphone until I no longer had a real choice (I need to run some app to generate login passwords).
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Japan was trying to surrender. It just wasn't willing to surrender unconditionally, which is what the US government demanded.
But, in general, I agree. Nuclear weapons have probably been the best thing ever invented for bringing relative peace to the world. Of course, one day, they'll be used again and millions will die, but, until then, they've probably been more beneficial than harmful.
And expect mountains of returns from idiots who plug them in and return them when they don't work instantly.
Big Micro SD cards already fail to work in many devices, because they're not FAT-formatted by default. My dashcams, for example, just say 'card error' until I use the menu to reformat it to FAT.
What about the disastrous SwiftKey vulnerability? It makes Samsung Android systems vulnerable too. Samsung said they'd fix it back in June, but we still have no patch.
Didn't they block it with a security policy update until the patch was available?
It's hard to tell, since there doesn't seem to be any way to figure out which changes are in which policy updates.
No, nobody remembers that time. I remember when Windows couldn't run more than a few days without crashing.
That's what you get for buying cheap crap. In that same era, the first time I rebooted my Sun was for a CPU upgrade... but it cost at least 5x as much as a Windows PC.
Somewhat. My Sun workstation ran for years with no software updates. It had bugs, but nothing that required a new operating system or application software.
The big difference was that it was behind a firewall and a 19.2k modem, so there wasn't much anyone could do to attack the--probably numerous--security holes.
Windows Phone actually made sense for Nokia: they needed a software stack that let them differentiate themselves (and no one else seemed to be using WP)
There's no point in 'differentiating yourself' by trying to sell something no-one wants to buy. You won't make your new burger store a great success by using turds in your burgers instead of beef, but you'd certainly differentiate yourself by doing so.
Insurance will suddenly drop to $5. Then how are the insurance companies supposed to pay out when someone uses a media player exploit to make all Google cars that were declared unsupported before they received Android Zebra crash into a bus full of nuns?
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Yeah, everything is going to be automated in the near future! Idiot.
No, it's true. I read it on Slashdot.
'Red Shirts' as a movie anyone?
They already shot it twenty years ago. It was called 'Galaxy Quest' back then.
Still, maybe it is time for a reimaginabootmake.
A few employees quit, big deal. They were clearly entitled and apparently do not mind not having a job.
In my experience, when a company makes a move that's likely to drive it bankrupt, the first to leave are the ones smart enough to see it coming. They know they can easily get another job somewhere else.
You're not the only one. Pretty much every superhero movie now seems the same to me; I can't even keep track of which ones I've watched.
If I'm making 100k, and my cubicle neighbor goes from 35k to 70k, that doesn't have any impact on me whatsoever*. Why complain?
Of course it does.
If I'm working a stressful 60 hours a week to take home $100k, and the company suddenly starts paying the janitor $70k, I'm quitting and becoming a janitor.
You'll have to elaborate if you want anyone to see your point. There's very few people who are both literary and masochistic enough to have read Atlas Shrugged (or anything by Ayn Rand).
Admit it. You just didn't get the jokes.
Not really. In the military, for example, no matter what your speciality is, you are paid the same. Based upon rank, time in service and time in grade.
And this company is doing the equivalent of paying a private on his first day the same as a Colonel who's been in the army for ten years.
Who could have guessed that would cause problems?
But a simple core (think of an embedded Arm core) could do all this, using in chip Ram, and hardly bothering the main Cpu. Why does Smm code even need the main Cpu to run?
'Cause it saves $0.25 per system shipped?
Why does Chrome have one? It's a web browser. The same questions apply.
Hipsters.
The problem is, if they push an update to my phone that breaks it, I'm in the shit.
If my PC doesn't work, I can live without it for a few days, or reinstall the OS. If my phone doesn't work, I can... not get urgent messages when I'm on call.
This is why I avoided getting a smartphone until I no longer had a real choice (I need to run some app to generate login passwords).
Japan was trying to surrender. It just wasn't willing to surrender unconditionally, which is what the US government demanded.
But, in general, I agree. Nuclear weapons have probably been the best thing ever invented for bringing relative peace to the world. Of course, one day, they'll be used again and millions will die, but, until then, they've probably been more beneficial than harmful.
And expect mountains of returns from idiots who plug them in and return them when they don't work instantly.
Big Micro SD cards already fail to work in many devices, because they're not FAT-formatted by default. My dashcams, for example, just say 'card error' until I use the menu to reformat it to FAT.
What security risk is that? Is there anything specific that live tiles can do that can't be accomplish while the app is running?
Display a slideshow of your pr0n stash to anyone walking past the machine?
They're just more stupid hipster shit.
What about the disastrous SwiftKey vulnerability? It makes Samsung Android systems vulnerable too. Samsung said they'd fix it back in June, but we still have no patch.
Didn't they block it with a security policy update until the patch was available?
It's hard to tell, since there doesn't seem to be any way to figure out which changes are in which policy updates.
No, nobody remembers that time. I remember when Windows couldn't run more than a few days without crashing.
That's what you get for buying cheap crap. In that same era, the first time I rebooted my Sun was for a CPU upgrade... but it cost at least 5x as much as a Windows PC.
Has software ever "just worked"?
Somewhat. My Sun workstation ran for years with no software updates. It had bugs, but nothing that required a new operating system or application software.
The big difference was that it was behind a firewall and a 19.2k modem, so there wasn't much anyone could do to attack the--probably numerous--security holes.
I'm curious how they'll "encourage" users to upgrade to the latest shiny if the slightly tarnished shiny is still up-to-date...
Android's hardware requirements grow more than fast enough to encourage users to upgrade every couple of years.
Now tell me again why I shouldn't block ads...
Yes because switching to Android has led to nothing but riches for HTC, Motorola, LG, Sony, etc.
Whereas Windows phone manufacturers are just raking in the cash.
Oh, wait...
If Windows ever gets a significant market share on smartphones, it will be because Google doesn't fix Android's security and lack of updates.
Windows Phone actually made sense for Nokia: they needed a software stack that let them differentiate themselves (and no one else seemed to be using WP)
There's no point in 'differentiating yourself' by trying to sell something no-one wants to buy. You won't make your new burger store a great success by using turds in your burgers instead of beef, but you'd certainly differentiate yourself by doing so.
....because you've already taken the problem into your hands and reduced your carbon output.
Yes, we have. We've reduced 'carbon output' in the West by shipping manufacturing to China, where it's less efficient and far more polluting.
And why, why, why is the DOM trusted to know this?
Hipsters.
Insurance will suddenly drop to $5. Then how are the insurance companies supposed to pay out when someone uses a media player exploit to make all Google cars that were declared unsupported before they received Android Zebra crash into a bus full of nuns?
A trained rocket scientist couldn't open a word processor?
Have you ever watched people try to start Notepad on Window 8?
'WTF? I thought this was Windows? Where's the Start Menu?'
... to give away a free new version of Windows that forces users into their own browser and apps, again.
Yeah, but no-one can be forced to use Windows any more. There are far too many alternatives.