I think what the complaint has been, at least from my perspective, is that battery storage hasn't advanced in leaps, only in small evolutionary type advances, since Lithium batteries came on the scene. It's been a long long time since anything revolutionary in batteries has significantly affected recharge time, lengthened lifespans, or increased power density. There's several quite exciting developments in R&D currently, mostly for medium plus storage as in house sized. That is a huge thing if you're wanting to go renewables and/or be at least somewhat off-grid.
It's quite clear when you first bring up the system or create a new user - "Enter your iCloud account" for various... including backups, IIRC. I always skip that one, precisely because I don't want that crap configured that way.
There's a reason some of us don't think Smart Meters are anything more than a precursor to the energy company being able to temporarily disconnect you at will from the power the grid. Smart Meters have 0 use for me. I don't run things I don't need, and I already have transitioned to the most power saving items I can for everything I'm willing to spend money on. So how, exactly, is a Smart Meter going to benefit me? Same with Smart Water meters, for that matter, although in that case there's less privacy issues because the majority of my water usage is automated anyways.
When I started school, Petroleum Engineers had at least 4 offers each before graduation and there were hundreds enrolled as Petroleum Engineers. When I graduated, there were less than 100 Petroleum Engineers enrolled, and of the 30 or so graduating with me, of those few that had offers, none were in their field. The same happened to all STEM fields when I graduated and left college. I haven't seen a good STEM market since for the types of jobs related to Mechanical/Civil/Aerospace and non computer related EE engineers. Hence the mass migration of these folks into the computer field, and now there is a shortage of of these STEM people, namely people with 10-20 years experience in the field.
I'd also point out that he sent out 250 resumés and ended up with 4 interviews.
Then he had more interviews than I had. STEM hasn't had a shortage of available candidates since the 80s bubble caused by Reagan's efforts to successfully spend Russia into oblivion.
Not cluttering my email is the biggest feature of Facebook.
This only makes sense if you don't go to FB. My email was never that cluttered, because people didn't tend to take a selfie of them entering McDs, standing in line at McDs, ooh, there's the menu!!!, look - formica!!!! Here's the paper wrapper!!! etc crap that makes up what seems like half of FBs "content". They'd send 1 email saying they met joe, and here's a pic.
I like it even better after the recent announcement that only web enabled access to Google's calendar will be allowed. That's just awesome to be able to track you all over.
I can't rule out the existence of God with 100% certainty, but I certainly can't believe an omniscient, omnipotent God somehow managed to create a world which was not what he wanted? The ultimate fuck-up.
I can't rule out the existence of the FSM either, nor that we're in a computer simulation or our universe is merely a marble in a bag full of other marble universes for play by some juvenile double thumbed alien either.
It used to not be an issue for me either. However, with the CPU performance bottleneck receding for most of my phone needs, updating a phone has become much less pressing over the past 3 years. At this point the only thing really motivating an update outside of various types of hardware failures including, ahem, dropping your device in a pool or the like.... is lack of updates.
Note also that AVRs, TVs, BD players, and a host of other devices all desire internet connectivity these days. Mine don't have it, so updates are irrelevant. I prefer to run everything through a single control point, my HTPC, and it's one I pretty much control.
sadly, if only people would learn the simplest things about email.... you can have everything FB does without all the data gathering and privacy invading aspects of FB if people only learned about distribution lists. Yes, many people have no idea that they can create a simple "joes" list in most of their email clients and drop all their friends into it and voila, stuff just works and they can even control who see what. Simply shocking what this old dinosaur tech is capable of.
Having both, I keep my Apple devices updated, and my Samsung devices disconnected from the internet. Why, because only 1 of my Samsung devices is still supported by Samsung, as most are more than 18 months old and therefore unsupported.
Actually, these companies are lobbying to retain ownership rights to the items they sell you. This is a double whammy on the purchaser who no longer owns the object he bought, and can only use it as the seller wants. So you buy a screwdriver and need to pry up that board? Sorry, you cannot use your screwdriver that way.
I submit that facebook and mySpace are quite different. facebook is much much more about interaction, and mySpace was a lot more about publishing. To that end its hard to extricate yourself from facebook. When your friends put out invitations as facebook events, when your relatives check their E-mail once a month but their facebook messages ten times a day, when all the photos your wife have been stored their for 10 years, its hard to leave.
Actually even today's kids use FB not the way their parents do but they still regularly login which is what the ad men care about so FB is just fine going forward even if the interactions change.
First, FB and myspace were similar when FB came out. It wasn't that much interaction. The exodus has started already - the younger generation, those that even have FB pages, don't log in much anymore. They're on Instagram (also FB now) although that's soooo last year already, Pinterest, Snapchat, and other stuff that suits their style of communication better.
It's relatively easy to extricate yourself from facebook. Just delete your account, if you really want to be gone, or just stop logging in. Delete all your cookies on all your browsers. Do this daily for a few weeks in a row. At the least, use adblock and block facebook domains (you should be using some sort of filtering plugin anyways) As for the friends and relatives, breaking them of their FB addiction is the best thing you can do for them.
The submitter makes it sound like there was no other choice but to rely on one of the "Gang of Five" when that is far from true. And seriously with the Nickname? There is already a GoF (Gang of Four) on tech. Clearly these guys aren't hard core techies.
Well, when Microsoft (long overdue) drops out, they'll be the Gang of Four, at least in this particular writer's mind... Snapchat is an app, much like FB. FB will also falter, and already is on the slippery slope of Google Wave, Buzz, So.cl etc. Something else will take its place, or it will become the EA of social sites.
Autotuned voices, corporate-created-idols (usually some pretty teenaged kid with a previous 'career' as a Disney 'talent employee'), new stars with a pre-baked 'image' (naturally built/provided by the studio), lyrics that are focus-group-tested and written by someone else, a catchy tune usually ripped-off from some unknown who got paid a pittance for it...
Hey hey, we're the Monkees!
Pop music has been that way from the beginning - only autotune is new.
But don't despair, there's plenty of talent out there, it's just that radio is garbage these days unless you find a good public station, so you'll never hear them that way.
I'd disagree. The Monkees were an exception at the time, as were the Partridge Family. Radio is garbage these days because it's all payola and corporate profit driven playlists to lower their costs maximizing their profits. Occasionally a real talent breaks out, and I'm sure the corporate monkeys grimace as they're forced to pay a "premium" for those breakout artists as they redouble their efforts to create cookie-cutter "talent" that can be replaced as soon as they get "demanding". Other than Adele, Lady Gaga and Twenty-One Pilots, what other real talent has broken out within mass-media? Even 1 hit wonders, rather common in the 50s through 90s, seem to have given way to "Disney" produced "talent" a la American Idol, the Voice, etc, which have produced an amazingly lack of successful "talent" given their runs. Star Search's losers any single year had more talent. (No, I don't necessarily like those three's music, but I acknowledge their talent and that they've achieved a certain mindshare and are likely to have their music continue to be played past the initial release for years)
I've used Pandora, Spotify, various internet radio stations and others and have yet to find a source of reasonably coherent new music.
Apple rips off everyone, too. They haven't been at the forefront of anything in ages. USB adoption was about the last thing. They didn't invent the smartphone or the mp3 player.
Lightning / Thunderbolt - forced USB-C to become a much better connector, of which they also were early adopters. BTW, the only Apple proprietary one there is Lightning. They seem to be moving away from proprietary connectors as a whole especially with the rumored iPhone 8 USB-C connection. Admittedly, Apple is not including legacy connectors (USB 1, 2, 3, VGA, DVI, FW, etc) anymore.
As for smartphones/mp3 players, they invented round tires compared to the squarish stone wheels being produced at the time.
there were other problems with that series of Intel based laptops, namely the inability of the Intel chipset to effectively support more than 3 GB of RAM, even unofficially. They were rock solid though. My 64 bit SL system is still running, although firefox just about kills it today after a few page views. Probably need to tweak the settings a bit to reduce memory usage and eliminate swap usage.
Everybody does it, google rips off apple, linux rips off windows and apple, windows rips off apple and google... its some vicious cycle, I'll give it that.
Something's wrong. Everyone rips off apple? Seems like it's not a cycle. (For the record, apple licensed Xerox's windowing GUI)
Your comment makes quite a number of unfounded assumptions:... Not that I'm agreeing with your opponent here, but your counter-argument isn't solid.
His statement directly correlates to the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent core belief. Either you believe in that, and therefore his statement follows naturally, or you don't believe in those three tenants, and then the entire religion comes crumbling down since the entire belief system is based on those three being true. Enjoy.
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I think what the complaint has been, at least from my perspective, is that battery storage hasn't advanced in leaps, only in small evolutionary type advances, since Lithium batteries came on the scene. It's been a long long time since anything revolutionary in batteries has significantly affected recharge time, lengthened lifespans, or increased power density. There's several quite exciting developments in R&D currently, mostly for medium plus storage as in house sized. That is a huge thing if you're wanting to go renewables and/or be at least somewhat off-grid.
It's quite clear when you first bring up the system or create a new user - "Enter your iCloud account" for various... including backups, IIRC. I always skip that one, precisely because I don't want that crap configured that way.
There's a reason some of us don't think Smart Meters are anything more than a precursor to the energy company being able to temporarily disconnect you at will from the power the grid. Smart Meters have 0 use for me. I don't run things I don't need, and I already have transitioned to the most power saving items I can for everything I'm willing to spend money on. So how, exactly, is a Smart Meter going to benefit me? Same with Smart Water meters, for that matter, although in that case there's less privacy issues because the majority of my water usage is automated anyways.
When I started school, Petroleum Engineers had at least 4 offers each before graduation and there were hundreds enrolled as Petroleum Engineers. When I graduated, there were less than 100 Petroleum Engineers enrolled, and of the 30 or so graduating with me, of those few that had offers, none were in their field. The same happened to all STEM fields when I graduated and left college. I haven't seen a good STEM market since for the types of jobs related to Mechanical/Civil/Aerospace and non computer related EE engineers. Hence the mass migration of these folks into the computer field, and now there is a shortage of of these STEM people, namely people with 10-20 years experience in the field.
I'd also point out that he sent out 250 resumés and ended up with 4 interviews.
Then he had more interviews than I had. STEM hasn't had a shortage of available candidates since the 80s bubble caused by Reagan's efforts to successfully spend Russia into oblivion.
I have sometimes wished I had a passion for investment banking; I'd be a lot richer.
Or broke and possibly in jail.
But Intel cannot buy AMD, something about the FTC and monopolies or something I hear.
Not cluttering my email is the biggest feature of Facebook.
This only makes sense if you don't go to FB. My email was never that cluttered, because people didn't tend to take a selfie of them entering McDs, standing in line at McDs, ooh, there's the menu!!!, look - formica!!!! Here's the paper wrapper!!! etc crap that makes up what seems like half of FBs "content". They'd send 1 email saying they met joe, and here's a pic.
I avoid using anything on TVs. My TVs are dumb, whether their manufacturers wanted them that way or not.
Oh, I downloaded it, dropped it into a sandboxed VM, looked at it once and shut it down. No harm done.
I like it even better after the recent announcement that only web enabled access to Google's calendar will be allowed. That's just awesome to be able to track you all over.
I can't rule out the existence of God with 100% certainty, but I certainly can't believe an omniscient, omnipotent God somehow managed to create a world which was not what he wanted? The ultimate fuck-up.
I can't rule out the existence of the FSM either, nor that we're in a computer simulation or our universe is merely a marble in a bag full of other marble universes for play by some juvenile double thumbed alien either.
It used to not be an issue for me either. However, with the CPU performance bottleneck receding for most of my phone needs, updating a phone has become much less pressing over the past 3 years. At this point the only thing really motivating an update outside of various types of hardware failures including, ahem, dropping your device in a pool or the like.... is lack of updates.
Note also that AVRs, TVs, BD players, and a host of other devices all desire internet connectivity these days. Mine don't have it, so updates are irrelevant. I prefer to run everything through a single control point, my HTPC, and it's one I pretty much control.
sadly, if only people would learn the simplest things about email.... you can have everything FB does without all the data gathering and privacy invading aspects of FB if people only learned about distribution lists. Yes, many people have no idea that they can create a simple "joes" list in most of their email clients and drop all their friends into it and voila, stuff just works and they can even control who see what. Simply shocking what this old dinosaur tech is capable of.
Having both, I keep my Apple devices updated, and my Samsung devices disconnected from the internet. Why, because only 1 of my Samsung devices is still supported by Samsung, as most are more than 18 months old and therefore unsupported.
Actually, these companies are lobbying to retain ownership rights to the items they sell you. This is a double whammy on the purchaser who no longer owns the object he bought, and can only use it as the seller wants. So you buy a screwdriver and need to pry up that board? Sorry, you cannot use your screwdriver that way.
I submit that facebook and mySpace are quite different. facebook is much much more about interaction, and mySpace was a lot more about publishing. To that end its hard to extricate yourself from facebook. When your friends put out invitations as facebook events, when your relatives check their E-mail once a month but their facebook messages ten times a day, when all the photos your wife have been stored their for 10 years, its hard to leave.
Actually even today's kids use FB not the way their parents do but they still regularly login which is what the ad men care about so FB is just fine going forward even if the interactions change.
First, FB and myspace were similar when FB came out. It wasn't that much interaction. The exodus has started already - the younger generation, those that even have FB pages, don't log in much anymore. They're on Instagram (also FB now) although that's soooo last year already, Pinterest, Snapchat, and other stuff that suits their style of communication better.
It's relatively easy to extricate yourself from facebook. Just delete your account, if you really want to be gone, or just stop logging in. Delete all your cookies on all your browsers. Do this daily for a few weeks in a row. At the least, use adblock and block facebook domains (you should be using some sort of filtering plugin anyways) As for the friends and relatives, breaking them of their FB addiction is the best thing you can do for them.
The submitter makes it sound like there was no other choice but to rely on one of the "Gang of Five" when that is far from true. And seriously with the Nickname? There is already a GoF (Gang of Four) on tech. Clearly these guys aren't hard core techies.
Well, when Microsoft (long overdue) drops out, they'll be the Gang of Four, at least in this particular writer's mind... Snapchat is an app, much like FB. FB will also falter, and already is on the slippery slope of Google Wave, Buzz, So.cl etc. Something else will take its place, or it will become the EA of social sites.
Autotuned voices, corporate-created-idols (usually some pretty teenaged kid with a previous 'career' as a Disney 'talent employee'), new stars with a pre-baked 'image' (naturally built/provided by the studio), lyrics that are focus-group-tested and written by someone else, a catchy tune usually ripped-off from some unknown who got paid a pittance for it...
Hey hey, we're the Monkees!
Pop music has been that way from the beginning - only autotune is new.
But don't despair, there's plenty of talent out there, it's just that radio is garbage these days unless you find a good public station, so you'll never hear them that way.
I'd disagree. The Monkees were an exception at the time, as were the Partridge Family. Radio is garbage these days because it's all payola and corporate profit driven playlists to lower their costs maximizing their profits. Occasionally a real talent breaks out, and I'm sure the corporate monkeys grimace as they're forced to pay a "premium" for those breakout artists as they redouble their efforts to create cookie-cutter "talent" that can be replaced as soon as they get "demanding". Other than Adele, Lady Gaga and Twenty-One Pilots, what other real talent has broken out within mass-media? Even 1 hit wonders, rather common in the 50s through 90s, seem to have given way to "Disney" produced "talent" a la American Idol, the Voice, etc, which have produced an amazingly lack of successful "talent" given their runs. Star Search's losers any single year had more talent. (No, I don't necessarily like those three's music, but I acknowledge their talent and that they've achieved a certain mindshare and are likely to have their music continue to be played past the initial release for years)
I've used Pandora, Spotify, various internet radio stations and others and have yet to find a source of reasonably coherent new music.
Apple rips off everyone, too. They haven't been at the forefront of anything in ages. USB adoption was about the last thing. They didn't invent the smartphone or the mp3 player.
Lightning / Thunderbolt - forced USB-C to become a much better connector, of which they also were early adopters. BTW, the only Apple proprietary one there is Lightning. They seem to be moving away from proprietary connectors as a whole especially with the rumored iPhone 8 USB-C connection. Admittedly, Apple is not including legacy connectors (USB 1, 2, 3, VGA, DVI, FW, etc) anymore.
As for smartphones/mp3 players, they invented round tires compared to the squarish stone wheels being produced at the time.
there were other problems with that series of Intel based laptops, namely the inability of the Intel chipset to effectively support more than 3 GB of RAM, even unofficially. They were rock solid though. My 64 bit SL system is still running, although firefox just about kills it today after a few page views. Probably need to tweak the settings a bit to reduce memory usage and eliminate swap usage.
Everybody does it, google rips off apple, linux rips off windows and apple, windows rips off apple and google... its some vicious cycle, I'll give it that.
Something's wrong. Everyone rips off apple? Seems like it's not a cycle. (For the record, apple licensed Xerox's windowing GUI)
I can save the "reserachers" a lot of time: People are having less sex because they're not as bored as before.
Perhaps they shouldn't have polled the same group?
He should start with his twitter account. That should keep him busy until the next election.
Your comment makes quite a number of unfounded assumptions: ... Not that I'm agreeing with your opponent here, but your counter-argument isn't solid.
His statement directly correlates to the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent core belief. Either you believe in that, and therefore his statement follows naturally, or you don't believe in those three tenants, and then the entire religion comes crumbling down since the entire belief system is based on those three being true. Enjoy.