Yes yes yes. But you know what really pissed you off about Microsoft? I'll tell you. If it wasn't for them creating an OS for the average consumer (not computer scientist, programmers, or data entry types) and marketing it in a manor that will sell, the Internet and technology ushered behind its further development and acceptance would quite likely been pushed out another 15+ years later. Perhaps longer. That's what's really making you angry. Admit it!
Just thing about all that has became because of Microsoft Success both directly and indirectly. Faster CPUs, the GPU, online game genres, consoles, web based anything applications including social media... The list goes on and on. To imagine a world without Microsoft today is like trying to imagine an alternate history if WW2 never started.
They might get pissed and finally draft a law that explicitly states all ISP subscribers will be monitored. Any attempt to circumvent this state process will be met with harsh penalties. There is to be no expectation of privacy. Any and all attempts to prevent root access to the accessing client will be viewed as in direct violation. As a precaution for your safety and to ensure innocence, all accessing client devices must have state sponsored monitoring agents running 24/7. Anyone found in direct violation will be sent for training and re-education at their financial expense.
Your support and understanding of this matter is not only important, but mandatory as well. Thank you.
S.M.A.R.T is a joke, but not in implementation. It's a joke because most HDD failures occur on the logic board. It's a known fix in data recovery services to simply swap out the PCB for another of the same vintage make/model/firmware rev. Though I have ran tools such as HD Tune to view out-of-spec metrics and benchmarks. For example, I once had a user that reported that her workstation was running extremely slow. I suspected the drive was at fault and the graphs proved it, but technically it wasn't a failure. S.M.A.R.T would have flagged it if it was mechanical, but it wouldn't have if it was a controller issue. Now that may have changed with newer drives, but that's been my overall experience.
Keynsian is a bullshit method by pushing the problem into the future which only makes it that much worse. Pay now, or pay dearly later. That's because inflation is just a side-band form of taxation. Also, by targeting your budget into the future, you're actually effecting the present which in turn alters the very future you're trying to predict in the first place.
And to make matters more morally cumbersome, you need to address the law of diminishing returns. At some point, you have to say enough is enough or else we all go bankrupt. And then we have to ask "who makes that decision". The patent or a bunch of bureaucrats who live under a different health plan entirely from the rest of us.
One hella'va mess. I see this as an eternal struggle that's never going to go away.
Normally warranties cover just the intended operation. Did it break? That sort of stuff. Applecare goes a level beyond. Items include software technical support beyond reporting or troubleshooting a potential bug. They provide functionality support and education to the customer. Just because apple offers this as an extra paid service, do you agree that EU should force Apple to offer this for free? That doesn't seem fair.
Reality check. Those "intelligent people" were in fact, not intelligent at all.
There are two primary types of people who vote Democrat. 1. Young clueless students who have no historical perspective and are full of dreamy idealism. 2. The 1% elite ruling class that are heavy into politics in order to secure their legacy / dynasty.
The others are blacks (not racist if it's the truth, don't deny) and dead people. Funny thing about zombies is they tend to vote more than once. Fancy that.
Nothing prevents you from walking over to a RTW state either. Which reminds me. Guys and Gals. Please. When flocking to Texas for employment, please leave your political ideology behind that left your previous state in shambles. We don't want your infectious seagull management where you swoop in, shit all over everything, and then fly out leaving us natives to cleanup the mess.
This hockey stick graph speaks volumes. If this proof that Marxism is a complete failure doesn't speak volumes, nothing will outside the confines of any rational human being.
I don't believe China will make it to that point simply by virtual of prosperity. Wealth and power tend to make people more confident and assertive. If there isn't already, there will be a massive schizm among the ruling rank and file. The geopolitical implications of this happening are off-the-chart massive. That is to say, there's know telling what will happen, but the projected view today will not take place into the future.
"...you agree that Apple and its subsidiaries and agents may collect, maintain, process and use diagnostic, technical, usage and related information, including but not limited to information about your iOS Device, computer, system and application software, and peripherals, that is gathered periodically..."
I just love how they sneak that in there. Those four word sandwiched in between makes all others moot. Instead, they should be honest and phrase it as
"You're data is ours and everyone else's we so choose. Bitch! Deal with it!"
Well actually, it was more like a single wide mobile home. As for the sofa, I have no idea. It was already there when I arrived to visit her mother for the first time.
You dated my ex-gf didn't you? No joke! Her mother was your typical trailer trash alcoholic with a chain smoking habit. She was also bit wonky in the head. One day as my ex and I were sitting down on the sofa, I asked if her TV was broke or something. It's because she would cover the unit with a table cloth. Her response.
"When I watch TV, they are watching me."
The answer was in a serious tone. Talk about being ahead of her time. Not too far off.
Exactly. Why buy a PS4 when I can purchase an Apple TV (v4) that might be let me play all my previous iDevice games right on the big screen. Apple controllers and all.
Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft. You are all so about to get 0wned if you're not careful. Get your shit together. That cat is about to pounce and go right for the jugular!
The problem with BOYD in a large fortune 500 is that a local IT department doesn't have the control at the level the executives want. Primarily to keep corporate espionage, leaks, and thefts to a minimum. Yet, the BOYD crowd throws a fit when they can't get Exchange setup properly when clearly the generic setup parameters have been verified to work properly.
Working in an internal IT department sucks these days. If you're not outsourced, you're being pulled in a tug-of-war between executive policies and what the employees and their managers demand. Forget getting the executives and managers to duke it out. That apparently is your job.
Because the managers had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits – a common practice at the time to prevent pilferage and unauthorized breaks – many of the workers who could not escape the burning building jumped from the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors to the streets below.
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Second most deadliest industrial event in NY history at the time. I'm sorry, but forming a Union wouldn't have prevented that unless these girls knew of the dangers ahead of time. For something that is a -common practice-, this would be considered to be a freak accident based on that baseline and general acceptance. Or to put it another way, that's like blaming the World Trade Center building administration for not having mounted missile technology and parachutes available on each floor enough for every person to jump out of breakable windows.
If it sounds absurd, it should. It also proves my point. You're armcharing after the fact is way out of line to associate this freak accident with workers rights. The major safety improvements happen unfortunately because someone died to pave way for legislated safety reforms and enforcement. That is to say, horrific precedents must take place with the loss of life before such legislation can have an example to go by. Take it too far, and you end up with nanny-state oppression.
Or to put it another way. Living life is deadly, it's not without risk!
involuntary is where you're being forced by some other person or group with threats of reprisal. Involuntary work is brutal slavery at worst and indentured servitude at best. In either case, the individual has no legal standing to be allowed to walk away from situation or break the contract on his/her own behest.
By this logic slaves can also just walk away.
You fail at reading comprehension! Read read that again for your own edification.
This is a teachable moment as to why it's important to have a democratic government people that truly represents the voice of the people. From transparency to civil rights such as the freedom of assembly (ability to form Unions). But until the Chinese deal with it, Apple is providing them and society the means by which to live an improved quality of life. Relative to their previous agrarian occupation that is. Please, get some perspective first. Then you'll understand why the Chinese are flocking in droves to be "abused". To them, this level of work making Apple products is a path of least resistance.
Words mean things. And yes, it's absolutely voluntary. People have to work to live however the "conditions" may be. Whether you're hunting on foot with a spear or hacking away at code for enough money to purchase food at the local super market, it's all voluntary.
Involuntary is where you're being forced by some other person or group with threats of reprisal. Involuntary work is brutal slavery at worst and indentured servitude at best. In either case, the individual has no legal standing to be allowed to walk away from situation or break the contract on his/her own behest.
Just a thought. But what if empowering the local Chinese with more wealth and work advancement opportunities provided enough societal confidence for political change? Would new-found freedom from governmental reform be worth it? I'm just asking...
Honestly, I think the outsourcing would have happened regardless. Unions just happened to have accelerated this process via a positive feedback loop. But to be fair about, I wouldn't put the blame squarely on the Unions. They didn't start the process by their mere existence. Of course, they certainly wouldn't have stopped it either.
Finger pointing aside, the reality of globalism is that it exposes one absolute fact about the Western world. We (and thus our currency) is over valued in the market. Our fucked up Federal Gov decided to run up massive debt thinking our GDP would be sustained enough to pull us out of it. It's not. We are losing jobs AND are left holding the bag. Not good.
Basically, we're going to have to wait for the rest of able-bodied world to become expensive before it's no longer cost effective to outsource. Who know how long that will take.
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Yes yes yes. But you know what really pissed you off about Microsoft? I'll tell you. If it wasn't for them creating an OS for the average consumer (not computer scientist, programmers, or data entry types) and marketing it in a manor that will sell, the Internet and technology ushered behind its further development and acceptance would quite likely been pushed out another 15+ years later. Perhaps longer. That's what's really making you angry. Admit it!
Just thing about all that has became because of Microsoft Success both directly and indirectly. Faster CPUs, the GPU, online game genres, consoles, web based anything applications including social media... The list goes on and on. To imagine a world without Microsoft today is like trying to imagine an alternate history if WW2 never started.
For now.
They might get pissed and finally draft a law that explicitly states all ISP subscribers will be monitored. Any attempt to circumvent this state process will be met with harsh penalties. There is to be no expectation of privacy. Any and all attempts to prevent root access to the accessing client will be viewed as in direct violation. As a precaution for your safety and to ensure innocence, all accessing client devices must have state sponsored monitoring agents running 24/7. Anyone found in direct violation will be sent for training and re-education at their financial expense.
Your support and understanding of this matter is not only important, but mandatory as well. Thank you.
Ya, right. That could never happen...
S.M.A.R.T is a joke, but not in implementation. It's a joke because most HDD failures occur on the logic board. It's a known fix in data recovery services to simply swap out the PCB for another of the same vintage make/model/firmware rev. Though I have ran tools such as HD Tune to view out-of-spec metrics and benchmarks. For example, I once had a user that reported that her workstation was running extremely slow. I suspected the drive was at fault and the graphs proved it, but technically it wasn't a failure. S.M.A.R.T would have flagged it if it was mechanical, but it wouldn't have if it was a controller issue. Now that may have changed with newer drives, but that's been my overall experience.
Basically same thing nVidia did to 3Dfx. Purchase the company for its IP.
Keynsian is a bullshit method by pushing the problem into the future which only makes it that much worse. Pay now, or pay dearly later. That's because inflation is just a side-band form of taxation. Also, by targeting your budget into the future, you're actually effecting the present which in turn alters the very future you're trying to predict in the first place.
And to make matters more morally cumbersome, you need to address the law of diminishing returns. At some point, you have to say enough is enough or else we all go bankrupt. And then we have to ask "who makes that decision". The patent or a bunch of bureaucrats who live under a different health plan entirely from the rest of us.
One hella'va mess. I see this as an eternal struggle that's never going to go away.
Yup. It's just a fancy gyrocycle. Though I must admit, I would love to fly one of these things.
Normally warranties cover just the intended operation. Did it break? That sort of stuff. Applecare goes a level beyond. Items include software technical support beyond reporting or troubleshooting a potential bug. They provide functionality support and education to the customer. Just because apple offers this as an extra paid service, do you agree that EU should force Apple to offer this for free? That doesn't seem fair.
The Taliban have no qualms about using instruments of evil to fight evil. Technology being an instrument of evil and all.
Reality check. Those "intelligent people" were in fact, not intelligent at all.
There are two primary types of people who vote Democrat.
1. Young clueless students who have no historical perspective and are full of dreamy idealism.
2. The 1% elite ruling class that are heavy into politics in order to secure their legacy / dynasty.
The others are blacks (not racist if it's the truth, don't deny) and dead people. Funny thing about zombies is they tend to vote more than once. Fancy that.
Nothing prevents you from walking over to a RTW state either. Which reminds me. Guys and Gals. Please. When flocking to Texas for employment, please leave your political ideology behind that left your previous state in shambles. We don't want your infectious seagull management where you swoop in, shit all over everything, and then fly out leaving us natives to cleanup the mess.
This hockey stick graph speaks volumes. If this proof that Marxism is a complete failure doesn't speak volumes, nothing will outside the confines of any rational human being.
I don't believe China will make it to that point simply by virtual of prosperity. Wealth and power tend to make people more confident and assertive. If there isn't already, there will be a massive schizm among the ruling rank and file. The geopolitical implications of this happening are off-the-chart massive. That is to say, there's know telling what will happen, but the projected view today will not take place into the future.
"...you agree that Apple and its subsidiaries and agents may collect, maintain, process and use diagnostic, technical, usage and related information, including but not limited to information about your iOS Device, computer, system and application software, and peripherals, that is gathered periodically..."
I just love how they sneak that in there. Those four word sandwiched in between makes all others moot. Instead, they should be honest and phrase it as
"You're data is ours and everyone else's we so choose. Bitch! Deal with it!"
That would be at least more respectable.
Well actually, it was more like a single wide mobile home. As for the sofa, I have no idea. It was already there when I arrived to visit her mother for the first time.
You dated my ex-gf didn't you? No joke! Her mother was your typical trailer trash alcoholic with a chain smoking habit. She was also bit wonky in the head. One day as my ex and I were sitting down on the sofa, I asked if her TV was broke or something. It's because she would cover the unit with a table cloth. Her response.
"When I watch TV, they are watching me."
The answer was in a serious tone. Talk about being ahead of her time. Not too far off.
Exactly. Why buy a PS4 when I can purchase an Apple TV (v4) that might be let me play all my previous iDevice games right on the big screen. Apple controllers and all.
Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft. You are all so about to get 0wned if you're not careful. Get your shit together. That cat is about to pounce and go right for the jugular!
The problem with BOYD in a large fortune 500 is that a local IT department doesn't have the control at the level the executives want. Primarily to keep corporate espionage, leaks, and thefts to a minimum. Yet, the BOYD crowd throws a fit when they can't get Exchange setup properly when clearly the generic setup parameters have been verified to work properly.
Working in an internal IT department sucks these days. If you're not outsourced, you're being pulled in a tug-of-war between executive policies and what the employees and their managers demand. Forget getting the executives and managers to duke it out. That apparently is your job.
wiki
Second most deadliest industrial event in NY history at the time. I'm sorry, but forming a Union wouldn't have prevented that unless these girls knew of the dangers ahead of time. For something that is a -common practice-, this would be considered to be a freak accident based on that baseline and general acceptance. Or to put it another way, that's like blaming the World Trade Center building administration for not having mounted missile technology and parachutes available on each floor enough for every person to jump out of breakable windows.
If it sounds absurd, it should. It also proves my point. You're armcharing after the fact is way out of line to associate this freak accident with workers rights. The major safety improvements happen unfortunately because someone died to pave way for legislated safety reforms and enforcement. That is to say, horrific precedents must take place with the loss of life before such legislation can have an example to go by. Take it too far, and you end up with nanny-state oppression.
Or to put it another way. Living life is deadly, it's not without risk!
By this logic slaves can also just walk away.
You fail at reading comprehension! Read read that again for your own edification.
This is a teachable moment as to why it's important to have a democratic government people that truly represents the voice of the people. From transparency to civil rights such as the freedom of assembly (ability to form Unions). But until the Chinese deal with it, Apple is providing them and society the means by which to live an improved quality of life. Relative to their previous agrarian occupation that is. Please, get some perspective first. Then you'll understand why the Chinese are flocking in droves to be "abused". To them, this level of work making Apple products is a path of least resistance.
Words mean things. And yes, it's absolutely voluntary. People have to work to live however the "conditions" may be. Whether you're hunting on foot with a spear or hacking away at code for enough money to purchase food at the local super market, it's all voluntary.
Involuntary is where you're being forced by some other person or group with threats of reprisal. Involuntary work is brutal slavery at worst and indentured servitude at best. In either case, the individual has no legal standing to be allowed to walk away from situation or break the contract on his/her own behest.
Just a thought. But what if empowering the local Chinese with more wealth and work advancement opportunities provided enough societal confidence for political change? Would new-found freedom from governmental reform be worth it? I'm just asking...
I'd like to point out that there is a major difference between voluntary and involuntary.
Honestly, I think the outsourcing would have happened regardless. Unions just happened to have accelerated this process via a positive feedback loop. But to be fair about, I wouldn't put the blame squarely on the Unions. They didn't start the process by their mere existence. Of course, they certainly wouldn't have stopped it either.
Finger pointing aside, the reality of globalism is that it exposes one absolute fact about the Western world. We (and thus our currency) is over valued in the market. Our fucked up Federal Gov decided to run up massive debt thinking our GDP would be sustained enough to pull us out of it. It's not. We are losing jobs AND are left holding the bag. Not good.
Basically, we're going to have to wait for the rest of able-bodied world to become expensive before it's no longer cost effective to outsource. Who know how long that will take.