The problem with this argument is that it's to do with medians and not individuals. If you pick a random white guy in the USA and compare him to a random woman of any colour, or to a black guy, then the odds are that he will have had more luck in the opportunities presented to him (which, for some reason, we now call 'privilege'). But there are a lot of individual pairs of white guy and black guy for which the converse is true. Do you think Obama had fewer opportunities than a white guy growing up in a trailer park?
I'm a white guy, and I was fortunate to be born to comfortably off parents who valued education enough to send me to a good school and who encouraged my interests in a field that turned out to be in high demand. Every day on the way to work, I cycle past a few white guts who live on the street and have problems with substance abuse. Saying that we both have more power and prestige because we're white is nonsense. Some of us have more power and prestige because we have been really lucky. That correlates strongly with skin colour for various entrenched reasons to do with wealth distribution and social attitudes, but is in no way caused by skin colour.
If you predicted this, then perhaps you can answer this question:
If it's possible to reduce the hours of all of your low-skill workers without impacting your business's competitiveness, then why did so many managers not do so before this? Reducing your labour costs by 9% would have a huge impact on most companies' bottom lines, yet apparently they were happy to waste this money until minimum wage went up.
And, on a related note, why do the managers that were wasting 10% of their payroll on inefficiency (that apparently can be trivially addressed) for years all still have jobs?
The amount that they stole was pretty small. A rational manager (still on the endangered species list), after firing these people, would look at the cost of operating the vending machines, look at the lost productivity when workers have low blood sugar, look at the time wasted interacting with annoying vending machine interfaces, and replace them with a table stocked with snacks and a sign saying 'please help yourself'.
But since this is where everyone is,it takes far less effort to use Facebook for above mentioned benefits then any other alternative. Don't forget, part of that alternative effort, is convincing people to use that alternative.
The converse also holds: Facebook is slightly less convenient for all of your friends if you don't use it. Facebook is a lot less useful for all of your friends if half of your friends don't use it. Since Facebook is so good for organising things, why not try to use it to organise half of your friends to all close their Facebook accounts at the same time?
The spy doesn't need to bring their own computer, they just need to find an exposed USB port and plug in a malicious device smaller than a thumbnail to an device on the ship network. Want to bet that there are exposed USB ports for routine maintenance?
When it was commissioned, Microsoft had publicly stated the EOL for XP was 2009. They pushed it back a few years afterwards when people hated Vista. Designing in an OS that would not be getting security updates by the time the ship was scheduled to launch (even if it hadn't been delayed) was dangerously negligent.
Britain. We've replaced all of our tactical command with machine learning, which has determined that for most of the last thousand years (the training set), the enemy was France, and so any appearance by France of not being the enemy is probably a ruse. After that, it will attack Spain and then Germany.
Indeed. It didn't make sense in 2004, because the EOL for Windows XP was known to be far closer than the expected lifetime of the ship. Would they buy guns or an engine for the ship where the vendor announced that they'll stop making compatible spare parts in under a decade? Off-the-shelf consumer software is entirely inappropriate for this kind of deployment. If the vendor won't give you a support contract for 20 years, it's completely inappropriate (after 20 years, you probably want to do a refit, so can replace the software).
A review that's complaining that an iPad Pro is a bad laptop makes as much sense as one complaining it's a bad smartphone. It is not a laptop. It is not a replacement for a laptop, it is intended as a companion to a Mac. It's the more portable thing that you use when you want to be able to quickly take notes or reply to emails, but don't want a full laptop. I have an older iPad Pro and previously had an ASUS TransformerPad: I actually use the iPad (the Android tablet mostly sat on a shelf) because it isn't trying to replace my laptop and feeling like an inadequate replacement, it's a device that I use when my laptop would be inconvenient.
Google search results are highly dependent on what Google thinks they know about you. For me, also in the UK, the results are:
Google Maps (preview) - hilariously, this one has a robots.txt and so Google isn't allowing Google to spider it.
Google Maps
Google Maps (Android app)
MapQuest (apparently they're still around)
iOS Maps (Apple)
Google Maps (iOS App)
Yahoo Maps (I didn't know they were a thing)
Maps.com
maps.org (multidisciplinary association for psychadelic studies)
Google isn't my default search engine and I don't use any Google services other than YouTube regularly, so they won't have much info about me compared to regular Google users. No mention of any Bing Maps or OpenStreetMap. Are you sure that you're using Google? Your results look very much like the ones I get from DuckDuckGo.
Depends on how many is a few. Some of the earlier incarnations of the IRA probably fit the definition of freedom fighters, when Britain was an occupying power, but by the time The Republic of Ireland was an independent country and Norther Ireland had a constitutional right to leave the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and join The Republic of Ireland if a majority voted to do so[1] then they were definitely terrorists.
[1] Note: The Republic of Ireland has no constitutional requirement to let them, which could make this interesting if the south decides that they actually don't want them.
The ARM (iOS) and x86 (macOS) versions of XNU (the kernel) are 99% the same. Apple open sources all of the macOS parts, but not the iOS-specific stuff (which didn't stop a friend in the CoreOS team porting it to run on his RPi - unfortunately he can't release it publicly). You can, nevertheless, see a lot of iOS kernel stuff in the open source releases because they'll release any file that's used in both, and that includes all of the filesystem stuff. Why do you think features from one keep appearing on the other.
It's worse than that. A bunch of companies open offices in India and employ competent people. They're not getting the ones that can't move elsewhere, they're getting the ones that realise that, relative to cost of living, moving to the US and earning 2-3 times as much would not make financial sense. These companies do reasonably well. The problem is the people who think that they can contract an Indian outsourcing company and get some reasonable level of competence. The outsourcing companies get the people that the companies paying a (locale-relative) decent wage and with on-site management who can sift the cruft won't hire. If you've been working at an outsourcing company for a few weeks and doing a good job, it's easy to bounce to a better job.
The definition of a smartphone vs a featurephone is usually that a smartphone can run third-party apps. Most of the Nokia phones had this capability (my N70 and N80 both did, for example), and could run C++ or Java apps. Unless you want to redefine smartphone to mean 'is a Blackberry', in which case RIM had 100% of the smartphone market.
The biggest benefit would be that you could have a separate up and down track: with all of the cars always travelling in the same direction, you can fit a lot more of them in a circuit. In the space of three conventional elevators (one up track, one down track, and one waiting space between them) you could potentially have three cars per floor (in practice, congestion would make the optimal number a lot less than this).
there is a lot of user base, which wishes android was more open (not from the source licence, but from the development process and restrictions like locked bootloaders
How many of these are unhappy with LineageOS? I use it, with a stripped-down version of Google Apps that installs the Play store (for the two apps that I actually use from there) and nothing else. Almost all of the apps I use come from F-Droid. Why would I prefer an Ubuntu phone over this?
When the iPhone shipped, other phones supported apps. There were a bunch of things that the iPhone couldn't do that existing Nokia phones did out of the box (SIP calls over WiFi, contact and calendar sync over Bluetooth, for example), but installing third-party apps was not one of the ones that users cared about. I'd installed a few apps on my phone when the iPhone came out, but I didn't actually use any of them (not even the Doom port) on a regular basis and the process for installing them was sufficiently annoying that most users didn't even try. There were basically no successful companies making smartphone apps and selling directly to end users.
The world has changed. Smartphone app development is a large sector of the software market and most smartphone users have several third-party apps installed. One of the most common reasons for being locked into iOS or Android is the use of an app with no direct port on the other platform. That's a very different market to be entering than the one Apple found with the first iPhone.
Or, to put it another way: The first iPhone (even with updated hardware) wouldn't stand a chance of competing against a modern iPhone or Android phone.
Nope, he's right. You need a computer to scan it, what you don't need is a computer owned by a third party in a jurisdiction with weak data protection regulations and a commercial interest in using that to build a psychological manipulation, sorry, advertising, profile of you scanning it.
Microsoft has been a lot better in this market so far. They're willing to negotiate a custom deal with various privacy restrictions (including restrictions on where the data can be hosted) with largish deployments. Google's attitude has been a one-size-fits-all take-it-or-leave-it deal. TFS is also somewhat misleading: for at least some of their customers they've got in trouble in the past because they didn't disable scanning for the educational customers, they only disabled showing the ads. They were still building behaviour models.
You can still require the OS to be signed, just provide a mechanism to sign it for a device that you own, once it's no longer receiving security updates. As part of the unlocking process, you install a new signing key generated for that user.
More seriously, this is meaningless for any consumer electronics that depend on software without an unlockable bootloader. The major requirement that I'd love to see is that vendors must release a tool to unlock bootloaders and documentation for all hardware once they stop providing security updates. Any iPhone older than an iPhone 5 is now effectively useless - you can't safely use it connected to a network and you can't install a third-party OS on it. My partner has a Nokia Lumina 1020 from 2013, which still has pretty decent hardware in comparison to midrange modern phone (and a better camera than I've found on any other device), but it runs Windows Phone 8.1 and there's no way of installing anything else on it. In contrast, my cheap (first-gen) Moto G is happily getting software updates from LineageOS, long after the original vendor stopped caring about it.
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The problem with this argument is that it's to do with medians and not individuals. If you pick a random white guy in the USA and compare him to a random woman of any colour, or to a black guy, then the odds are that he will have had more luck in the opportunities presented to him (which, for some reason, we now call 'privilege'). But there are a lot of individual pairs of white guy and black guy for which the converse is true. Do you think Obama had fewer opportunities than a white guy growing up in a trailer park?
I'm a white guy, and I was fortunate to be born to comfortably off parents who valued education enough to send me to a good school and who encouraged my interests in a field that turned out to be in high demand. Every day on the way to work, I cycle past a few white guts who live on the street and have problems with substance abuse. Saying that we both have more power and prestige because we're white is nonsense. Some of us have more power and prestige because we have been really lucky. That correlates strongly with skin colour for various entrenched reasons to do with wealth distribution and social attitudes, but is in no way caused by skin colour.
If you predicted this, then perhaps you can answer this question:
If it's possible to reduce the hours of all of your low-skill workers without impacting your business's competitiveness, then why did so many managers not do so before this? Reducing your labour costs by 9% would have a huge impact on most companies' bottom lines, yet apparently they were happy to waste this money until minimum wage went up.
And, on a related note, why do the managers that were wasting 10% of their payroll on inefficiency (that apparently can be trivially addressed) for years all still have jobs?
Of course, this is not consumer XP, I suspect there's a way to get extended support if you can afford it.
The UK government was paying (a huge amount) for that, but Microsoft would only offer it for one year and it's expired.
The amount that they stole was pretty small. A rational manager (still on the endangered species list), after firing these people, would look at the cost of operating the vending machines, look at the lost productivity when workers have low blood sugar, look at the time wasted interacting with annoying vending machine interfaces, and replace them with a table stocked with snacks and a sign saying 'please help yourself'.
But since this is where everyone is,it takes far less effort to use Facebook for above mentioned benefits then any other alternative. Don't forget, part of that alternative effort, is convincing people to use that alternative.
The converse also holds: Facebook is slightly less convenient for all of your friends if you don't use it. Facebook is a lot less useful for all of your friends if half of your friends don't use it. Since Facebook is so good for organising things, why not try to use it to organise half of your friends to all close their Facebook accounts at the same time?
The spy doesn't need to bring their own computer, they just need to find an exposed USB port and plug in a malicious device smaller than a thumbnail to an device on the ship network. Want to bet that there are exposed USB ports for routine maintenance?
When it was commissioned, Microsoft had publicly stated the EOL for XP was 2009. They pushed it back a few years afterwards when people hated Vista. Designing in an OS that would not be getting security updates by the time the ship was scheduled to launch (even if it hadn't been delayed) was dangerously negligent.
Britain. We've replaced all of our tactical command with machine learning, which has determined that for most of the last thousand years (the training set), the enemy was France, and so any appearance by France of not being the enemy is probably a ruse. After that, it will attack Spain and then Germany.
Indeed. It didn't make sense in 2004, because the EOL for Windows XP was known to be far closer than the expected lifetime of the ship. Would they buy guns or an engine for the ship where the vendor announced that they'll stop making compatible spare parts in under a decade? Off-the-shelf consumer software is entirely inappropriate for this kind of deployment. If the vendor won't give you a support contract for 20 years, it's completely inappropriate (after 20 years, you probably want to do a refit, so can replace the software).
They do, but not the build environment, and their license does not permit them to compile it.
How do you download and store your email on a tablet?
IMAP
How do you archive them and zip them up?
IMAP. Or hit the backup button in iTunes.
A review that's complaining that an iPad Pro is a bad laptop makes as much sense as one complaining it's a bad smartphone. It is not a laptop. It is not a replacement for a laptop, it is intended as a companion to a Mac. It's the more portable thing that you use when you want to be able to quickly take notes or reply to emails, but don't want a full laptop. I have an older iPad Pro and previously had an ASUS TransformerPad: I actually use the iPad (the Android tablet mostly sat on a shelf) because it isn't trying to replace my laptop and feeling like an inadequate replacement, it's a device that I use when my laptop would be inconvenient.
Google isn't my default search engine and I don't use any Google services other than YouTube regularly, so they won't have much info about me compared to regular Google users. No mention of any Bing Maps or OpenStreetMap. Are you sure that you're using Google? Your results look very much like the ones I get from DuckDuckGo.
[1] Note: The Republic of Ireland has no constitutional requirement to let them, which could make this interesting if the south decides that they actually don't want them.
The ARM (iOS) and x86 (macOS) versions of XNU (the kernel) are 99% the same. Apple open sources all of the macOS parts, but not the iOS-specific stuff (which didn't stop a friend in the CoreOS team porting it to run on his RPi - unfortunately he can't release it publicly). You can, nevertheless, see a lot of iOS kernel stuff in the open source releases because they'll release any file that's used in both, and that includes all of the filesystem stuff. Why do you think features from one keep appearing on the other.
It's worse than that. A bunch of companies open offices in India and employ competent people. They're not getting the ones that can't move elsewhere, they're getting the ones that realise that, relative to cost of living, moving to the US and earning 2-3 times as much would not make financial sense. These companies do reasonably well. The problem is the people who think that they can contract an Indian outsourcing company and get some reasonable level of competence. The outsourcing companies get the people that the companies paying a (locale-relative) decent wage and with on-site management who can sift the cruft won't hire. If you've been working at an outsourcing company for a few weeks and doing a good job, it's easy to bounce to a better job.
The definition of a smartphone vs a featurephone is usually that a smartphone can run third-party apps. Most of the Nokia phones had this capability (my N70 and N80 both did, for example), and could run C++ or Java apps. Unless you want to redefine smartphone to mean 'is a Blackberry', in which case RIM had 100% of the smartphone market.
The biggest benefit would be that you could have a separate up and down track: with all of the cars always travelling in the same direction, you can fit a lot more of them in a circuit. In the space of three conventional elevators (one up track, one down track, and one waiting space between them) you could potentially have three cars per floor (in practice, congestion would make the optimal number a lot less than this).
there is a lot of user base, which wishes android was more open (not from the source licence, but from the development process and restrictions like locked bootloaders
How many of these are unhappy with LineageOS? I use it, with a stripped-down version of Google Apps that installs the Play store (for the two apps that I actually use from there) and nothing else. Almost all of the apps I use come from F-Droid. Why would I prefer an Ubuntu phone over this?
When the iPhone shipped, other phones supported apps. There were a bunch of things that the iPhone couldn't do that existing Nokia phones did out of the box (SIP calls over WiFi, contact and calendar sync over Bluetooth, for example), but installing third-party apps was not one of the ones that users cared about. I'd installed a few apps on my phone when the iPhone came out, but I didn't actually use any of them (not even the Doom port) on a regular basis and the process for installing them was sufficiently annoying that most users didn't even try. There were basically no successful companies making smartphone apps and selling directly to end users.
The world has changed. Smartphone app development is a large sector of the software market and most smartphone users have several third-party apps installed. One of the most common reasons for being locked into iOS or Android is the use of an app with no direct port on the other platform. That's a very different market to be entering than the one Apple found with the first iPhone.
Or, to put it another way: The first iPhone (even with updated hardware) wouldn't stand a chance of competing against a modern iPhone or Android phone.
Remember when blackberry owned 100% of the smartphone market?
Nope, I remember Nokia owning 76% of the smartphone market and Blackberry having most of the high-end corporate segment.
Nope, he's right. You need a computer to scan it, what you don't need is a computer owned by a third party in a jurisdiction with weak data protection regulations and a commercial interest in using that to build a psychological manipulation, sorry, advertising, profile of you scanning it.
Microsoft has been a lot better in this market so far. They're willing to negotiate a custom deal with various privacy restrictions (including restrictions on where the data can be hosted) with largish deployments. Google's attitude has been a one-size-fits-all take-it-or-leave-it deal. TFS is also somewhat misleading: for at least some of their customers they've got in trouble in the past because they didn't disable scanning for the educational customers, they only disabled showing the ads. They were still building behaviour models.
You can still require the OS to be signed, just provide a mechanism to sign it for a device that you own, once it's no longer receiving security updates. As part of the unlocking process, you install a new signing key generated for that user.
More seriously, this is meaningless for any consumer electronics that depend on software without an unlockable bootloader. The major requirement that I'd love to see is that vendors must release a tool to unlock bootloaders and documentation for all hardware once they stop providing security updates. Any iPhone older than an iPhone 5 is now effectively useless - you can't safely use it connected to a network and you can't install a third-party OS on it. My partner has a Nokia Lumina 1020 from 2013, which still has pretty decent hardware in comparison to midrange modern phone (and a better camera than I've found on any other device), but it runs Windows Phone 8.1 and there's no way of installing anything else on it. In contrast, my cheap (first-gen) Moto G is happily getting software updates from LineageOS, long after the original vendor stopped caring about it.