Double? That's easily proven false. Will it increase? Only for those products that require long haul trucking. That's a good thing in my book.
And there's no market demand, it's more the realities of truck driving - due to regulations there's 10 driving hours a day, you get paid by the mile. Hmmm.... 50*10 = 500 * $. 90 * 10 = 900 * $. Seems like the only market demand is how truckers get paid, and that could easily be fixed by another regulation - pay by the hour. And when I select faster delivery, it's by air, so no long haul trucking is involved.
I'm waiting for the autonomous trucks, so they can drive 50-55 mph in the right lane with proper spacing, instead of 90 mph 10 feet from the vehicle in front of them.
It's true that Oracle could have an awesomely compelling offering from silicon to software. Unfortunately, while their hardware is definitely better on the high end (Sun made some awesome high end products) their software products at this point have enough stipulations associated with them to give anyone pause. It's an all in option, much like any ERP purchase.
If only that were true - the radios are inside the wheels and can only be removed when the tires are off, at least in my 1 vehicle that has these. My other vehicle uses a rotational difference monitoring system to detect low tire pressure, and thus has no TPMS radio anywhere.
Since British English makes little sense in spelling, perhaps in this case, color, the American spelling is correct? After all, how do you pronounce "colour"? Is the second syllable pronounced as the "our" in the words our, hour, flour, etc? If not, besides other words like the "labour" which in american english are all spelled with "or" instead of "our" does "our" get pronounced like "or"?
And don't worry about American English being the better version, we have lots of our own special spelling mistakes, some inherited from British English, some not. In the case of color, labor, etc, we did not adopt the phonetically illogical spellings current British English perpetuates. It's been too long since I studied how languages fluctuated and differentiated combined with when semi-stable spellings were instituted and became "standard" for a specific branch. It's interesting to me but nothing I can devote any time to currently. Maybe in retirement I'll become some ivory tower academic who spends their time on totally useless ponderings...
Note that we should use a pretty generous definition of "intelligence" for that caveat. I'm not sure I'd count a chimp, but would definitely count Australopithecus Africanus, and maybe Afarensis.
Not chimps? How about Gorillas? Dolphins? Whales? Heck, it's possible a dog is as smart as Afarensis. I think your definition of "intelligence" may not be very smart.
In the 80s and 90s, depending upon when, exactly, there was complete and total access to everything on the internet, just about. Computers connected to the internet were directly accessible, for the most part. Firewalls? Routers? They all came later. Everything was pretty much statically defined and worked like your wired home LAN, if your home LAN were comprised of speaker wires with crappy connectors and ran at 10Kb/s.
Honestly, you should never have gotten into a situation where you're living that close to the edge. I know lots do, but honestly, the biggest problem here are the workers themselves. These aren't minimum wage slaves or anything, they're usually quite well paid individuals. That they have the financial common sense of a drunken meth-head can only be blamed on... themselves.
For what it's worth - I've been out of work twice for extended periods, and never had to dig into my extended finances much less go into debt. The dates were in 2002 and 2009, if that tells you anything. It means I live below my means and I save a significant portion of my salary. If you work in IT and you're not putting away at least 15% pre-tax you're short-changing yourself and honestly, there's little reason for anyone to feel sorry for you. You don't need that new car, toy, house in the fancy neighborhood. And if you didn't start to save when you first got your first real job well, life is full of choices, you made a really really bad one. Not everyone can be Trump and be bailed out by big banks.
And that, unfortunately, is the core problem. If the people affected were not "average", then they would not easily be replaceable by outsourcing. In many cases like these it turns out that the people affected did not do a good job and were much more a problem than an asset. Sure, service quality with outsourcing will get even worse, but if it had been good before, this would not have happened at all. That unpleasant truth behind all this is than the majority of IT workers are bad at their job, and quire a few suffer from inflated egos as well. Of course, one major driver for this problem is inadequate wages, which make people that would do a good job stay away from these jobs in the first place.
Your entire statement boils down to
The jobs being replaced paid so little that those that would take them were likely not qualified and did a crappy job thus justifying to management that they could get near the same quality for even less money by outsourcing overseas.
It might actually be better for them if they actually hired more competent employees, provided that performance actually was a problem. And then there's this question: they wouldn't happen to have a large pool of potential contractors on campus or anything, would they?
Or, more importantly because a "nation" is collection of people with common blood and/or ideas. If you let in too many people who don't share your ideas and give them decision making power, eventually your nation ceases to be. If you rather liked the ideas of your nation this becomes very bad for you.
Well, the US is certainly not a nation of common blood (melting pot) nor ideas (have you seen our politics, and not just now either, but throughout history) I'd hazard most of the population would still rather live here than elsewhere.
There is nothing nationalistic about this at all. If I pay taxes, I'd like those taxes to be spent in the country (school) and not for that entity to then send the money directly offshore at the expense of my neighbors, or myself, for that matter.
And then you have OSX, which no longer allows you even moderately difficult access to various locations with in the system libraries, forcing you into "best practices".
That was kind of the point... how exactly do you think it determines what the word is? Magic? Or the same process as suggest/type ahead/autocorrect, which all pretty much use the same underlying processes?
You are one of the fortunate few then
I am the happy owner of the most popular Android device released in 2014.
And one of the select < 8% that are currently running Marshmallow, your final update. No Nougat for you.
Bullshit. Learn to type. I turned off type ahead, autocorrect, and suggest on my keyboards.
Typeahead? Autocorrect? Sounds like someone has never used Swype. But hey if you feel like I've threatened your manhood then more power to you.
How do you think swype works? Magically takes words from your mind to the screen? No, it attempts to predict your words based on roughly where your motions touched letters. If you have to touch them exactly (like typing) then it's effectively slower than typing. 2 thumbs are faster than 1 finger, at least for me they are.
However, the only rotting thing is the version of the OS on your android device.
Oh so my 2 generations behind S5 that Marshmallow on it pushed by the vendor not as an after market hack
You are one of the fortunate few then, provided that is true. I have a whole list of devices that have been dropped after at most 2 updates, some with none. It's a well known problem with Android, why, after all, are less than 8% of devices running Marshmallow? How about less than 45% running the last 3 releases? I just can't figure out why such exceptional update support results in such underwhelming updates by users. iPhones, by comparison, are running 90+% on iOS 9.
Android's device update support is rotten to the core. Deal with it. I have to, as I support it.
News DISTRIBUTION service. It's not like they provide any original content like AP, Reuters, etc.
In that AP and Reuters are just distribution services, Facebook is arguably a larger source of original news distribution than those two.
AP and Reuters both have reporters in their employ. FB does not, AFAIK. I'd guess FB also technically could probably be accused of copyright violations regarding reposting AP/Reuters stories. FB nothing more than a massive "look at me" and gossip site.
And kudos to their engineering team for not just paying lip service to reliability.
I would agree with this. Running real world tests is the only way to be sure.
As for text. Yes the lack of swype on iPhone keyboards makes sending emails or any text message significantly faster on Android.
Bullshit. Learn to type. I turned off type ahead, autocorrect, and suggest on my keyboards. Why? Because they're nearly useless, and I happen to type lots of technical terms that are listed as errors.
The stock gmail app seems to be lighter and run better than the iOS one.
That smell, it's a rotting Apple, and like the person you replied to I also curse the damn iPhone my employer gave me.
I have multiple Android phones and tablets. I use them for development. They generally run no better or faster than iOS. That said, there's a number of things that suck about iOS. There's also any large number of suckage points for Android. Between the two, iphones have more consistent interfaces and usage patterns, and generally the things I do use on my phone always work on Apple. On Android, it's different, less intuitive, and usually a few more steps. YMMV.
However, the only rotting thing is the version of the OS on your android device. Since it stops being updated after 18 months with 1 or 2 exceptions.
You know, I heard they actually fixed that issue. Wait, they did address that issue. And, you didn't have to update after 16+ months, but you could, or 18 months, 20 months... 36 months....the phone is still supported. The 4S is still currently supported, and that came out in 2011.
Android user: If they didn't want you to buy the phone again they wouldn't put a new version out.
FTFY. Side note - love the troll mod. Guess the truth hurts. And I speak as the owner of a Note 2 and Note 4, neither of which got more than 1 minor point update.
Galaxy Note 4 - 4.4.4 max (AT&T)
Galaxy Note 2 - 4.3 max (T-mobile)
I have others, all similarly EOL'd within 18 months or less of purchase. Yes, if I jail break them, sure, I can move up the release chain, but that doesn't do my particular use cases any good. There are a very small number of Android devices that have seen more than 1 OS upgrade, and you can count them on 1 hand for those that have gone through a major OS upgrade.
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Double? That's easily proven false. Will it increase? Only for those products that require long haul trucking. That's a good thing in my book.
And there's no market demand, it's more the realities of truck driving - due to regulations there's 10 driving hours a day, you get paid by the mile. Hmmm.... 50*10 = 500 * $. 90 * 10 = 900 * $. Seems like the only market demand is how truckers get paid, and that could easily be fixed by another regulation - pay by the hour. And when I select faster delivery, it's by air, so no long haul trucking is involved.
I'm waiting for the autonomous trucks, so they can drive 50-55 mph in the right lane with proper spacing, instead of 90 mph 10 feet from the vehicle in front of them.
It's true that Oracle could have an awesomely compelling offering from silicon to software. Unfortunately, while their hardware is definitely better on the high end (Sun made some awesome high end products) their software products at this point have enough stipulations associated with them to give anyone pause. It's an all in option, much like any ERP purchase.
A) why are you updating a printer that's working? B) at $50, why do you care what they're doing on ink?
At this point, I pretty much only buy GOG games with an occasional Steam game thrown in by accident more than anything else.
If only that were true - the radios are inside the wheels and can only be removed when the tires are off, at least in my 1 vehicle that has these. My other vehicle uses a rotational difference monitoring system to detect low tire pressure, and thus has no TPMS radio anywhere.
And a day late: dolphins
Since British English makes little sense in spelling, perhaps in this case, color, the American spelling is correct? After all, how do you pronounce "colour"? Is the second syllable pronounced as the "our" in the words our, hour, flour, etc? If not, besides other words like the "labour" which in american english are all spelled with "or" instead of "our" does "our" get pronounced like "or"?
And don't worry about American English being the better version, we have lots of our own special spelling mistakes, some inherited from British English, some not. In the case of color, labor, etc, we did not adopt the phonetically illogical spellings current British English perpetuates. It's been too long since I studied how languages fluctuated and differentiated combined with when semi-stable spellings were instituted and became "standard" for a specific branch. It's interesting to me but nothing I can devote any time to currently. Maybe in retirement I'll become some ivory tower academic who spends their time on totally useless ponderings...
Humans.
Progenitors
Note that we should use a pretty generous definition of "intelligence" for that caveat. I'm not sure I'd count a chimp, but would definitely count Australopithecus Africanus, and maybe Afarensis.
Not chimps? How about Gorillas? Dolphins? Whales? Heck, it's possible a dog is as smart as Afarensis. I think your definition of "intelligence" may not be very smart.
In the 80s and 90s, depending upon when, exactly, there was complete and total access to everything on the internet, just about. Computers connected to the internet were directly accessible, for the most part. Firewalls? Routers? They all came later. Everything was pretty much statically defined and worked like your wired home LAN, if your home LAN were comprised of speaker wires with crappy connectors and ran at 10Kb/s.
Honestly, you should never have gotten into a situation where you're living that close to the edge. I know lots do, but honestly, the biggest problem here are the workers themselves. These aren't minimum wage slaves or anything, they're usually quite well paid individuals. That they have the financial common sense of a drunken meth-head can only be blamed on... themselves.
For what it's worth - I've been out of work twice for extended periods, and never had to dig into my extended finances much less go into debt. The dates were in 2002 and 2009, if that tells you anything. It means I live below my means and I save a significant portion of my salary. If you work in IT and you're not putting away at least 15% pre-tax you're short-changing yourself and honestly, there's little reason for anyone to feel sorry for you. You don't need that new car, toy, house in the fancy neighborhood. And if you didn't start to save when you first got your first real job well, life is full of choices, you made a really really bad one. Not everyone can be Trump and be bailed out by big banks.
And that, unfortunately, is the core problem. If the people affected were not "average", then they would not easily be replaceable by outsourcing. In many cases like these it turns out that the people affected did not do a good job and were much more a problem than an asset. Sure, service quality with outsourcing will get even worse, but if it had been good before, this would not have happened at all. That unpleasant truth behind all this is than the majority of IT workers are bad at their job, and quire a few suffer from inflated egos as well. Of course, one major driver for this problem is inadequate wages, which make people that would do a good job stay away from these jobs in the first place.
Your entire statement boils down to
It might actually be better for them if they actually hired more competent employees, provided that performance actually was a problem. And then there's this question: they wouldn't happen to have a large pool of potential contractors on campus or anything, would they?
Or, more importantly because a "nation" is collection of people with common blood and/or ideas. If you let in too many people who don't share your ideas and give them decision making power, eventually your nation ceases to be. If you rather liked the ideas of your nation this becomes very bad for you.
Well, the US is certainly not a nation of common blood (melting pot) nor ideas (have you seen our politics, and not just now either, but throughout history) I'd hazard most of the population would still rather live here than elsewhere.
There is nothing nationalistic about this at all. If I pay taxes, I'd like those taxes to be spent in the country (school) and not for that entity to then send the money directly offshore at the expense of my neighbors, or myself, for that matter.
And then you have OSX, which no longer allows you even moderately difficult access to various locations with in the system libraries, forcing you into "best practices".
yes, but it has to be installed first. Unlike with Windows DLLs, which can be loaded and modded on demand.
If you have to touch them exactly (like typing)
You don't.
That was kind of the point... how exactly do you think it determines what the word is? Magic? Or the same process as suggest/type ahead/autocorrect, which all pretty much use the same underlying processes?
You are one of the fortunate few then
I am the happy owner of the most popular Android device released in 2014.
And one of the select < 8% that are currently running Marshmallow, your final update. No Nougat for you.
Bullshit. Learn to type. I turned off type ahead, autocorrect, and suggest on my keyboards.
Typeahead? Autocorrect? Sounds like someone has never used Swype. But hey if you feel like I've threatened your manhood then more power to you.
How do you think swype works? Magically takes words from your mind to the screen? No, it attempts to predict your words based on roughly where your motions touched letters. If you have to touch them exactly (like typing) then it's effectively slower than typing. 2 thumbs are faster than 1 finger, at least for me they are.
However, the only rotting thing is the version of the OS on your android device.
Oh so my 2 generations behind S5 that Marshmallow on it pushed by the vendor not as an after market hack
You are one of the fortunate few then, provided that is true. I have a whole list of devices that have been dropped after at most 2 updates, some with none. It's a well known problem with Android, why, after all, are less than 8% of devices running Marshmallow? How about less than 45% running the last 3 releases? I just can't figure out why such exceptional update support results in such underwhelming updates by users. iPhones, by comparison, are running 90+% on iOS 9.
Android's device update support is rotten to the core. Deal with it. I have to, as I support it.
News DISTRIBUTION service. It's not like they provide any original content like AP, Reuters, etc.
In that AP and Reuters are just distribution services, Facebook is arguably a larger source of original news distribution than those two.
AP and Reuters both have reporters in their employ. FB does not, AFAIK. I'd guess FB also technically could probably be accused of copyright violations regarding reposting AP/Reuters stories. FB nothing more than a massive "look at me" and gossip site.
And kudos to their engineering team for not just paying lip service to reliability.
I would agree with this. Running real world tests is the only way to be sure.
As for text. Yes the lack of swype on iPhone keyboards makes sending emails or any text message significantly faster on Android.
Bullshit. Learn to type. I turned off type ahead, autocorrect, and suggest on my keyboards. Why? Because they're nearly useless, and I happen to type lots of technical terms that are listed as errors.
The stock gmail app seems to be lighter and run better than the iOS one.
That smell, it's a rotting Apple, and like the person you replied to I also curse the damn iPhone my employer gave me.
I have multiple Android phones and tablets. I use them for development. They generally run no better or faster than iOS. That said, there's a number of things that suck about iOS. There's also any large number of suckage points for Android. Between the two, iphones have more consistent interfaces and usage patterns, and generally the things I do use on my phone always work on Apple. On Android, it's different, less intuitive, and usually a few more steps. YMMV.
However, the only rotting thing is the version of the OS on your android device. Since it stops being updated after 18 months with 1 or 2 exceptions.
You know, I heard they actually fixed that issue. Wait, they did address that issue. And, you didn't have to update after 16+ months, but you could, or 18 months, 20 months... 36 months....the phone is still supported. The 4S is still currently supported, and that came out in 2011.
Android user: If they didn't want you to buy the phone again they wouldn't put a new version out.
FTFY. Side note - love the troll mod. Guess the truth hurts. And I speak as the owner of a Note 2 and Note 4, neither of which got more than 1 minor point update.
Galaxy Note 4 - 4.4.4 max (AT&T)
Galaxy Note 2 - 4.3 max (T-mobile)
I have others, all similarly EOL'd within 18 months or less of purchase. Yes, if I jail break them, sure, I can move up the release chain, but that doesn't do my particular use cases any good. There are a very small number of Android devices that have seen more than 1 OS upgrade, and you can count them on 1 hand for those that have gone through a major OS upgrade.
false.
I have the misfortune of having to carry my employer's Apple phone when on call
my Android phone is much faster at any task
Does it ring, dial, or text faster? Yeah, didn't think so. How about email? No? Hmm, something smells here.