Yahoo is a company that has had no reason to exist for the last 10+ years. Now that Marissa Mayer has driven the last nails into the coffin and floated away on her golden parachute, Yahoo might as well just be as evil as possible and squeeze out a few extra Shekels while they still can. What have they got to lose?
I would have agreed with you up until Google did away with the iGoogle portal. I'd been using both yahoo and igoogle portals since they started up, and was ready to drop yahoo until suddenly Google decided to drop theirs for no apparent reason, only claiming that everything was available through apps...well, sure it is, but I want it all on one page thank you very much. I've seen nothing else that allows me to put my mail, weather, sports, calendar, news, stocks prices, local movies, etc. all on a single page...that is until yahoo dicked around and removed the calendar, and pissed me off again. With this news, I'm probably going to stop using the email address I've had with them for 20 years...sigh.
Although it is true that the PRC has never really played nice with others (I do remember the SARS kerfuffle), it does not refute the fact that this ridiculous trade war is making a bad situation worse.
That is like you and I getting into a spat about who owes who money, and me pulling out a Glock just daring you to say another word. No, the trade issues should be treated as completely unrelated, and that's all on China.
Unfortunately, our implementation has been twisted by monopolies and lobbyists. We can't fix it by throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Capitalism doesn't work w/o competition, and you don't get competition in a monopoly (or local monopoly...sorry cable companies). You don't get competition when you allow collusion to fix prices...airlines. You don't get competition when there's no cost transparency...hospitals. And you don't get competition when you allow companies to be "people too", twisting the meaning and value of the word to unduly influence the government for their own greed. Greed isn't always bad...greed at the expense of others is evil.
.....or maybe there's a generation of people who don't blindly accept what they're told and question things, apply logic/reason, and think objectively
Neither is accurate. What you're seeing is a pendulum swing, and a result of a generation growing up under the great depression, and being hit with oppressive college debt, no wage growth, no pensions, and looking at socialism as the potential answer.
I'd argue that capitalism isn't a failure, but we've failed to deal with it's down side(s) properly. We need to prevent monopolistic behavior (pharma, major ISPs, Amazon, etc.) because without actual competition, you have no improvement, and society takes it up the ass.
I'm a capitalist, but I differ with many of them who believe that businesses "are people too". That line of thinking that allows corporations to dominate the government agenda needs to be corrected.
Wish I had mod points for you. I'd only like to add that in my opinion, where we've failed to properly deal with the bad part of capitalism is in monopolistic behaviors. Since the break up of AT&T, we haven't busted up monopolies or seriously (except for the failed MS lawsuit) limited companies from dominating markets, nor colluding (pharma...I'm looking at you) screw over the general population and prevent competition.
In your version of history did you fail to include all the people that died due to capitalism as well? Also what is your definition of socialism?
Vs. how many have died due to socialism?...care to lay odds on which has been more deadly?
Also, no need to troll a question on the definition of socialism...how many are there really...is yours different from what you'd find with a google query?
It's called propaganda and the US has the most effective propaganda machine the world has ever known.
That's quite a stretch. It's really nothing more than the DoD marketing campaign. I'll agree with you, in that the pendulum has swung from one extreme to the other, but I'm also just starting to see signs of a turn back toward the middle. Calling every veteran a hero, and all the "thank you for your service" stuff is a bit much for me, and I'm a veteran...one day a year is enough for me, thank you very much.
The foreign aliens working their asses off in poultry processing factories in Arkansas? Or picking lettuce in California? Running small gardening/handyman/home fix-up services out of pick-up truck at Lowe's? Slaving away in restaurants and hotels and not getting paid fair wages because their employers threaten them?
Funny, it worked fine for decades before we had ~30 million of them.
After my own surgery last year (after a serious fall that required ~$50k of plastic surgery), I was able to share data on my resting heart rate change in my resting heart rate with my primary care doc. I was surprised to notice it jump from ~60bpm to just over 80 for about a week before slowly recovering.
At nearly 60 yrs old, I always monitor my own heart rate during exercise to make sure I'm not overexerting.
Um, I have had a a sleep study done. There's nothing about the app on my watch that is pseudoscience in spite of your claim.
I get that you have some kind of hatred for smart watches, which you seem to feel the need to push on everyone else that finds them actually useful. Don't buy one, and we'll all just get along.
Your cell doesn't track your heart rate, and I haven't seen an app that does anything like my fitbit for tracking my sleep, but maybe there is. Many of us with sleep issues can make use of that. I don't have to carry my cell around the house to get my calls or messages either. And, by just turning my wrist, I can see my daily steps, stairs, calories, active minutes, heart rate, date, and time, w/o turning to an app.
My Ionic charges once every 4-5 days in under 20 mins. I bought a cradle for it on Amazon for about $8 that works perfectly. It's much more than a piece of jewelry. I have jewelry watches...this is not one of them.
I don't know how "very old" AbRASION is, but I'm nearly 60. I wear a Fitbit Ionic that allows me to pick from a huge variety of faces...extremely basic to information overload. The screen is normally dark unless I turn my wrist up to view it, then it automatically lights up...nothing "gaudy" about it, and yet it looks nice enough to have on with formal wear. My primary reason for having it is tracking exercise, and sleep...I typically only get 4 hrs, and am an apnea sufferer. As far as charging is concerned, I have a cradle on my desk at the office, and one at home that it can charge on in about 15-20 mins once ever 4-5 days. While some don't want the interruptions, I have mine notify me with texts and calls (since my cell is often out of reach at home, and always on vibrate).
Exactly this. Why the hell do we need updates to things like MS Word and Excel? They worked fine ages ago, and all I see with each new version is MS moving shit around to places where you can't find the function you used to use anymore. Stop changing things that aren't broken.
While I'll agree that the idea is flawed, I'll disagree with you on the reason. SCA could easily be done because you know where you put the bugs. That info should get passed along to any/all reviewers, just not outside the company/dev group. That said, I'd agree that these fake bugs could and likely would introduce actual flaws, and are most likely just a waste of valuable resources that should be busy finding/fixing actual issues.
This isn't anything new. This is what's been done on Wall St. for decades. Why would anyone be surprised that it's now being done on something else that's traded???
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Ditto. I've had my Yahoo account for ~20 years, and use it now primarily for accounts and anyone who I don't want to give my main email to.
Yahoo is a company that has had no reason to exist for the last 10+ years. Now that Marissa Mayer has driven the last nails into the coffin and floated away on her golden parachute, Yahoo might as well just be as evil as possible and squeeze out a few extra Shekels while they still can. What have they got to lose?
I would have agreed with you up until Google did away with the iGoogle portal. I'd been using both yahoo and igoogle portals since they started up, and was ready to drop yahoo until suddenly Google decided to drop theirs for no apparent reason, only claiming that everything was available through apps...well, sure it is, but I want it all on one page thank you very much. I've seen nothing else that allows me to put my mail, weather, sports, calendar, news, stocks prices, local movies, etc. all on a single page...that is until yahoo dicked around and removed the calendar, and pissed me off again. With this news, I'm probably going to stop using the email address I've had with them for 20 years...sigh.
Although it is true that the PRC has never really played nice with others (I do remember the SARS kerfuffle), it does not refute the fact that this ridiculous trade war is making a bad situation worse.
That is like you and I getting into a spat about who owes who money, and me pulling out a Glock just daring you to say another word. No, the trade issues should be treated as completely unrelated, and that's all on China.
Which is basically everywhere inside our borders because the interpretation is that airports count as borders.
Unfortunately, our implementation has been twisted by monopolies and lobbyists. We can't fix it by throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Capitalism doesn't work w/o competition, and you don't get competition in a monopoly (or local monopoly...sorry cable companies). You don't get competition when you allow collusion to fix prices...airlines. You don't get competition when there's no cost transparency...hospitals. And you don't get competition when you allow companies to be "people too", twisting the meaning and value of the word to unduly influence the government for their own greed. Greed isn't always bad...greed at the expense of others is evil.
.....or maybe there's a generation of people who don't blindly accept what they're told and question things, apply logic/reason, and think objectively
Neither is accurate. What you're seeing is a pendulum swing, and a result of a generation growing up under the great depression, and being hit with oppressive college debt, no wage growth, no pensions, and looking at socialism as the potential answer.
I'd argue that capitalism isn't a failure, but we've failed to deal with it's down side(s) properly. We need to prevent monopolistic behavior (pharma, major ISPs, Amazon, etc.) because without actual competition, you have no improvement, and society takes it up the ass.
I'm a capitalist, but I differ with many of them who believe that businesses "are people too". That line of thinking that allows corporations to dominate the government agenda needs to be corrected.
FWIW, I spent six years working with the military to help defend the ROK. You sir, know jack about Korean history.
Wish I had mod points for you. I'd only like to add that in my opinion, where we've failed to properly deal with the bad part of capitalism is in monopolistic behaviors. Since the break up of AT&T, we haven't busted up monopolies or seriously (except for the failed MS lawsuit) limited companies from dominating markets, nor colluding (pharma...I'm looking at you) screw over the general population and prevent competition.
In your version of history did you fail to include all the people that died due to capitalism as well? Also what is your definition of socialism?
Vs. how many have died due to socialism?...care to lay odds on which has been more deadly?
Also, no need to troll a question on the definition of socialism...how many are there really...is yours different from what you'd find with a google query?
It's called propaganda and the US has the most effective propaganda machine the world has ever known.
That's quite a stretch. It's really nothing more than the DoD marketing campaign. I'll agree with you, in that the pendulum has swung from one extreme to the other, but I'm also just starting to see signs of a turn back toward the middle. Calling every veteran a hero, and all the "thank you for your service" stuff is a bit much for me, and I'm a veteran...one day a year is enough for me, thank you very much.
The foreign aliens working their asses off in poultry processing factories in Arkansas? Or picking lettuce in California? Running small gardening/handyman/home fix-up services out of pick-up truck at Lowe's? Slaving away in restaurants and hotels and not getting paid fair wages because their employers threaten them?
Funny, it worked fine for decades before we had ~30 million of them.
After my own surgery last year (after a serious fall that required ~$50k of plastic surgery), I was able to share data on my resting heart rate change in my resting heart rate with my primary care doc. I was surprised to notice it jump from ~60bpm to just over 80 for about a week before slowly recovering.
At nearly 60 yrs old, I always monitor my own heart rate during exercise to make sure I'm not overexerting.
Um, I have had a a sleep study done. There's nothing about the app on my watch that is pseudoscience in spite of your claim.
I get that you have some kind of hatred for smart watches, which you seem to feel the need to push on everyone else that finds them actually useful. Don't buy one, and we'll all just get along.
Funny maybe but no NSFW tag is evil to your fellow slashdotters. Some of us need to keep our jobs.
Your cell doesn't track your heart rate, and I haven't seen an app that does anything like my fitbit for tracking my sleep, but maybe there is. Many of us with sleep issues can make use of that. I don't have to carry my cell around the house to get my calls or messages either. And, by just turning my wrist, I can see my daily steps, stairs, calories, active minutes, heart rate, date, and time, w/o turning to an app.
My Ionic charges once every 4-5 days in under 20 mins. I bought a cradle for it on Amazon for about $8 that works perfectly. It's much more than a piece of jewelry. I have jewelry watches...this is not one of them.
I don't know how "very old" AbRASION is, but I'm nearly 60. I wear a Fitbit Ionic that allows me to pick from a huge variety of faces...extremely basic to information overload. The screen is normally dark unless I turn my wrist up to view it, then it automatically lights up...nothing "gaudy" about it, and yet it looks nice enough to have on with formal wear. My primary reason for having it is tracking exercise, and sleep...I typically only get 4 hrs, and am an apnea sufferer. As far as charging is concerned, I have a cradle on my desk at the office, and one at home that it can charge on in about 15-20 mins once ever 4-5 days. While some don't want the interruptions, I have mine notify me with texts and calls (since my cell is often out of reach at home, and always on vibrate).
Exactly this. Why the hell do we need updates to things like MS Word and Excel? They worked fine ages ago, and all I see with each new version is MS moving shit around to places where you can't find the function you used to use anymore. Stop changing things that aren't broken.
And watch the cost of code shoot through the roof, along with the time it takes to bring things to market....over night my ass.
While I'll agree that the idea is flawed, I'll disagree with you on the reason. SCA could easily be done because you know where you put the bugs. That info should get passed along to any/all reviewers, just not outside the company/dev group. That said, I'd agree that these fake bugs could and likely would introduce actual flaws, and are most likely just a waste of valuable resources that should be busy finding/fixing actual issues.
this works great until a decoy bug becomes a real bug. programmerâ(TM)s famous last words: âoeit wasnâ(TM)t supposed to do thatâ
I see you planted a couple in your sentence.
No, No, No. Nope, nope, no no no no no! NO! No.
That's a duodecuple (12) negative, so yes?
You're mistaking NN as a Left v. Right issue. It's not, and I'm saying so from the right.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Yeah, but that's correct through inaction. This was surprisingly correct and due to unexpected action taken.
And tomorrow the sun will rise at dawn.
This isn't anything new. This is what's been done on Wall St. for decades. Why would anyone be surprised that it's now being done on something else that's traded???