R is for those that want to ESCAPE from reality, and human contact may not be important for that
Remember that he's a marketing droid, note what drives apple: bandwagon sales & largely urban hipsters. Creating a tool that lets people disconnect and avoid one another, while highly, highly desirable for many (including people designing Tim's products, no doubt) is not really helping them make sales.
to evade the fact that their work is pointless junk
I would say in this case, embraced the fact. Honestly if I said no to all pointless junk excreted by marketing, I'd be out of a job (for multiple reasons, perhaps). The trick is to say no often enough to stop a new pet rock, but not so often it looks like laziness. Unfortunately when you work for a company that hires particularly dumb marketing bots, the bar falls rather low...
There are months, maybe years worth of TV shows and what not on there too that Netflix didn't make but probably don't cost a fortune in license fees. Plus Netflix has more, good, original content than say HBO. It's not doing too bad.
Movies I can get via mail if I want them, but increasingly I don't.
At this point it's better to actively sabotage the effort while you look for other employment and then quit. I've fought this battle in a different field, it didn't do anyone any favors to go along with it, including the corporate masters who thought they were saving money. The best policy is subtle sabotage: make enemies, say vague things, give wrong directions when someone talks to you without a paper trail then deny or dissemble. The government has sold you out, unions won't work here, so at this point misbehaving and taking their money for as long as it lasts is the best policy.
Every generation thinks their kids are huge slackers, and nearly every successful person attributes his success to admirable qualities he has only in average quantities, when in fact it's usually a combination of luck and *consistent* work over a long period of time.
Except in my case. I derive my success from a sculpted physique and massive charm and cunning with the opposite sex.
What's wrong with being malleable? All of the choices are terrible, if you're really determined to choose it's not easy to pick the lowest evil.
I've followed his blog enough that I'm not sure if he's serious or just trolling 99% of the time, but this doesn't seem to support that one way the other.
If I were a billionaire, you'd get all my money, while I chanted mournfully: "Roger, one niner. I copy. Over." and sought your approval of my intonation of these sounds and awaited apotheosis.
Except, you know, having forced unity down our throats to begin with. A change we didn't want, for reasons that are still unclear, and which has done nothing but dilute and corrupt the Ubuntu distro.
That's not entirely what "right to work" means, but yes, you can be fired for any reason at all. "right to work" is normally about union suppression, but it has a number of other benefits and drawbacks.
In practice very few people do that, firing can be a messy and expensive process. You can also sue your ex-employer for any kind of bullshit that you or your lawyer thinks they can get to stick. It doesn't work that much, but if you're an employer and you maintain statistics then you can put a dollar value on a firing and make your decision that way. Honestly I'm not sure I would fire an employee that was looking, I'd put good money on that employee being someone I'd have to drop sooner or later anyway. The ones that would worry me are the ones that don't have to look, that are well known and connected and will just disappear one day.
find out that there are NOT other people chomping at the bit to hire you.
Or at least not at higher wages, or this is just a temp thing, or contract to never-hire, or etc..
I've found that no matter how many recruiters are in my inbox, the number of good opportunities are low and rare. It's not a bad thing to look, at the very least you can keep your current boss honest. But until you find something I'm not sure why you would want to advertise what you're doing.
That describes an awful lot of the existing economy, from education, to HR to mass media. Sure, the output of those people is zero, but they spend money on things. It's when the money sits around doing very little that we have problems. Would it be better to spend their money on something that isn't total bullshit? Absolutely.
The best hope though is that some actual scientist talks good pseudoscience bullshit but spends it on real research. Perhaps he's finding a way out of the simulation through a grand unified field theory or something like that.
It works great at telling me what a lazy sloth I am when I think that one time I remembering exercising (sometime during the Carter administration) means that I "exersize all the time". I look through all those 0s and say yeah, I don't exercise very much.
Also, should I exercise again and get on the treadmill with a book and set it to a vigorous walk "up a steep incline" (setting 3/10) that even my carcass won't break 120 bpm after 20 minutes. Regardless how hard I "felt" I worked, it tells me the truth.
Does it work at getting me to change any of those behavior? Nope, pass me my ribeye and don't hold back on the fries or whisky.
There is absolutely no good reason to give this person a voice. He is horrible, he didn't even deny it. Then luckily for us, he got arrested. We should instead focus on what to do to prevent his sort of asinine behavior in the future, as we merely got lucky this time.
How exactly are we going to prevent this sort of scum from jacking the price of life saving drugs, particularly those that impact a larger portion of the population. (epipen?)
so true! illicit behavior like logging in to my toddler's Disney Junior account, or transferring money between my bank account and the electric company.
In fairness, while you may use encryption to log in for that, big brother can find out you did it without trying very hard or anyone even challenging their warrant. Very likely others can too.
It's the communications that they can't pull without your knowledge that aren't housed in a framework they can easily extract it from that is being objected to.
Most of us would die, because we could not sustain our current population without this infrastructure. As far as I know we've relied on technology to one degree or another since the first proto-human killed prey with a spear or club.
In terms of "the grid", I don't know how that is defined, but even Greek sized city-states would not have survived without significant civil infrastructure and specialization. Even a small town would collapse in this day without it even if well fed and watered our life expectancy would drop in half just due to lack of basic medical technology.
I think they'd rather you buy AirPods or wireless beats headphones, they make all the profit there. If you won't do wireless, they would rather you buy their headphones and their adapter (which they give you with purchase), they can also claim all profits on those things. They would merely get a piece of this, I don't see the interest being that high: if it was they'd do it themselves not wait for a 3rd party to crowd-fund an ugly hack.
Slashdot Mirror
You are forgetting having all that without the wired tether
R is for those that want to ESCAPE from reality, and human contact may not be important for that
Remember that he's a marketing droid, note what drives apple: bandwagon sales & largely urban hipsters. Creating a tool that lets people disconnect and avoid one another, while highly, highly desirable for many (including people designing Tim's products, no doubt) is not really helping them make sales.
AR is definitely not easier than VR.
to evade the fact that their work is pointless junk
I would say in this case, embraced the fact. Honestly if I said no to all pointless junk excreted by marketing, I'd be out of a job (for multiple reasons, perhaps). The trick is to say no often enough to stop a new pet rock, but not so often it looks like laziness. Unfortunately when you work for a company that hires particularly dumb marketing bots, the bar falls rather low...
There are months, maybe years worth of TV shows and what not on there too that Netflix didn't make but probably don't cost a fortune in license fees. Plus Netflix has more, good, original content than say HBO. It's not doing too bad.
Movies I can get via mail if I want them, but increasingly I don't.
At this point it's better to actively sabotage the effort while you look for other employment and then quit. I've fought this battle in a different field, it didn't do anyone any favors to go along with it, including the corporate masters who thought they were saving money. The best policy is subtle sabotage: make enemies, say vague things, give wrong directions when someone talks to you without a paper trail then deny or dissemble. The government has sold you out, unions won't work here, so at this point misbehaving and taking their money for as long as it lasts is the best policy.
Every generation thinks their kids are huge slackers, and nearly every successful person attributes his success to admirable qualities he has only in average quantities, when in fact it's usually a combination of luck and *consistent* work over a long period of time.
Except in my case. I derive my success from a sculpted physique and massive charm and cunning with the opposite sex.
What's wrong with being malleable? All of the choices are terrible, if you're really determined to choose it's not easy to pick the lowest evil.
I've followed his blog enough that I'm not sure if he's serious or just trolling 99% of the time, but this doesn't seem to support that one way the other.
If I were a billionaire, you'd get all my money, while I chanted mournfully: "Roger, one niner. I copy. Over." and sought your approval of my intonation of these sounds and awaited apotheosis.
Movie theaters are part of Americana.
Movie theaters were part of Americana.
FTFY. Technology has rendered it obsolete, we're basically at hte mercy of arbitrary exclusivity agreements now.
Except, you know, having forced unity down our throats to begin with. A change we didn't want, for reasons that are still unclear, and which has done nothing but dilute and corrupt the Ubuntu distro.
If they were really trolling us, it would have been a creepy clown.
That's not entirely what "right to work" means, but yes, you can be fired for any reason at all. "right to work" is normally about union suppression, but it has a number of other benefits and drawbacks.
In practice very few people do that, firing can be a messy and expensive process. You can also sue your ex-employer for any kind of bullshit that you or your lawyer thinks they can get to stick. It doesn't work that much, but if you're an employer and you maintain statistics then you can put a dollar value on a firing and make your decision that way. Honestly I'm not sure I would fire an employee that was looking, I'd put good money on that employee being someone I'd have to drop sooner or later anyway. The ones that would worry me are the ones that don't have to look, that are well known and connected and will just disappear one day.
find out that there are NOT other people chomping at the bit to hire you.
Or at least not at higher wages, or this is just a temp thing, or contract to never-hire, or etc..
I've found that no matter how many recruiters are in my inbox, the number of good opportunities are low and rare. It's not a bad thing to look, at the very least you can keep your current boss honest. But until you find something I'm not sure why you would want to advertise what you're doing.
That describes an awful lot of the existing economy, from education, to HR to mass media. Sure, the output of those people is zero, but they spend money on things. It's when the money sits around doing very little that we have problems. Would it be better to spend their money on something that isn't total bullshit? Absolutely.
The best hope though is that some actual scientist talks good pseudoscience bullshit but spends it on real research. Perhaps he's finding a way out of the simulation through a grand unified field theory or something like that.
If it gets billionaires to spend money on science and technology willingly, who cares? It beats the alternative: paying politicians for favors.
It works great at telling me what a lazy sloth I am when I think that one time I remembering exercising (sometime during the Carter administration) means that I "exersize all the time". I look through all those 0s and say yeah, I don't exercise very much.
Also, should I exercise again and get on the treadmill with a book and set it to a vigorous walk "up a steep incline" (setting 3/10) that even my carcass won't break 120 bpm after 20 minutes. Regardless how hard I "felt" I worked, it tells me the truth.
Does it work at getting me to change any of those behavior? Nope, pass me my ribeye and don't hold back on the fries or whisky.
There is absolutely no good reason to give this person a voice. He is horrible, he didn't even deny it. Then luckily for us, he got arrested. We should instead focus on what to do to prevent his sort of asinine behavior in the future, as we merely got lucky this time.
How exactly are we going to prevent this sort of scum from jacking the price of life saving drugs, particularly those that impact a larger portion of the population. (epipen?)
A1 posts are that important.
Sounds like HTC did the design:
Managed by Google Marketing Dolts in California, USA
Designed by HTC in Taiwan
Built by slaves in Foxconn
I am thinking Apple hasn't been paying its media extortion money lately, there's been a lot of nonsense like this.
What is this, a Crazy Eddie commercial?
That is a very insensitive comment. You can no longer call Eddie crazy, you must refer to him by the less negative adjective "Presidential".
"At Presidential Eddie, our prices are so low, they're conGRESSIONal."
so true! illicit behavior like logging in to my toddler's Disney Junior account, or transferring money between my bank account and the electric company.
In fairness, while you may use encryption to log in for that, big brother can find out you did it without trying very hard or anyone even challenging their warrant. Very likely others can too.
It's the communications that they can't pull without your knowledge that aren't housed in a framework they can easily extract it from that is being objected to.
Without such technology we would die
Most of us would die, because we could not sustain our current population without this infrastructure. As far as I know we've relied on technology to one degree or another since the first proto-human killed prey with a spear or club.
In terms of "the grid", I don't know how that is defined, but even Greek sized city-states would not have survived without significant civil infrastructure and specialization. Even a small town would collapse in this day without it even if well fed and watered our life expectancy would drop in half just due to lack of basic medical technology.
I think they'd rather you buy AirPods or wireless beats headphones, they make all the profit there. If you won't do wireless, they would rather you buy their headphones and their adapter (which they give you with purchase), they can also claim all profits on those things. They would merely get a piece of this, I don't see the interest being that high: if it was they'd do it themselves not wait for a 3rd party to crowd-fund an ugly hack.