...there was nothing else in this sector (vaio does not count, fuck vaio).
You're right. There is nothing else in this sector as long as you ignore the others that are in the sector (like Sony, Samsung, Toshiba,...)
Buying Sony is like supporting SCO. Not viable for me and their hardware sucks, anyways. Yes, I have had 3 Sony VAOI machines, the last short-lived one about 3 years ago. Toshiba is more expensive, and I have never liked their hardware personally. Samsung didn't hit my radar last round.
And there's a minor variance there - the sun and the earth obey a certain set of well defined laws, so we can say with some certainty that it will come up tomorrow. We can also state with lesser certainty the time when it no longer will. For jobs, the argument is similarly persuasive that if automation can handle all manufacturing and services, then the amount of jobs available will significantly shrink because even new jobs that might be created will be automated.
What? Take a look at your precious Linux OS or MacOS. They stop supporting previous versions within a year of a new version coming out. 95 was supported for almost 10 years. XP after 15+ years. Microsoft is the *only* company who has ridiculously long support timelines for their products.
Linux has 5+ year supported OSes or more, depending upon who you sign up with, or forever if you're running it yourself.
OSX has had a minimum of 3 year active support cycle for the "old" version. Note that going from 10.6->10.11 costs you nothing. And that's more than 10 years of updates. In fact, I'm still running a 10.6 on a system that dates from 2006 and it works just fine.
But neither of those are the point. The point is MS brings out a "new" version of an old product and purposefully breaks backwards compatibility. They did it with Win95, it's well documented. They did it with Office97 (9 months before the functionality was added for saving in older versions, by then the damage was done) and again with Office2010 or whatever it was when the xml format came around although that was quickly fixed IIRC because there was enough pushback that MS took notice. These are by no means the only instances.
I would actually prefer anything other than a transmitting TPMS in the wheel. They are nothing but an annoyance, and don't even work properly on my car.
AC explained it. It is quite likely that you are failing in imagination or perhaps are merely overly optimistic about the average person. Idiocracy is a scary concept, if you look at it in this light.
This just points out that the secretive FISA court does far far more harm than good. There should be no secret laws, and no courts to deal with secrets. The NSA is allowed to spy on foreigners, and does not need a court order. The FBI and underlings do need court orders, and those should at most be sealed for the duration of the activity. IOW, FISA was a work around the Constitution.
That is correct - no other jobs to fill their places.
We are about to enter an era where a few engineers or creative people can create an entire manufacturing line and product with no external workforce, for just about anything you care to name. Agriculture, manufacturing, delivery, stocking, the only thing not subject to automation is consumption of the final product, the raison d'etre for the entire process in the first place. Automation will kill millions of jobs in the near future as robots will be able to build other robots to create whatever is needed.
I agree it's time for the knee jerk reaction to even mentioning the name of Microsoft to move along. It probably never even should have been around in the first place.
Um, no, knee-jerk reaction is the safest one regarding MS. Only after careful consideration and inspection should you think anything different, and even then, you're likely to be wrong.
MS deserves all its hate, and anyone even remotely thinking otherwise is mistaken. MS moved into the Sony category for me long ago with their incessant failure to make things backwards compatible to kill off still massively in use products, all the way back to Win95. The abusive history is long, they haven't fundamentally changed.
That doesn't take away from the fact that Facebook is right there behind them, or Google perhaps a few steps further back.
I guarantee you you can find a worker to fill your slot. However, you may have to pay more, or hire someone that works remotely, if your skill set requirements are extremely specific. In software development, you do not have to have a person sitting at that special "development" desk in the closet behind the bathroom next to the boiler.
without comparing them to other executive orders, how can you classify those in any meaningful way? In fact, the usnews link doesn't even make the case that the EO creates a new law nor contravenes existing law. It's just a bunch of impassioned statements for or against. Reading it carefully, he's choosing to focus on enforcing certain portions of immigration over others. The only interesting thing is the deferments, which there isn't enough about to make any meaningful statement. If he had truly overstepped his bounds or done anything you claim, a Republican congress certainly would have passed legislation to counter his orders.
I have to add a comparison, BUSH's EO for military trials and you can always review certain actions such as asserting that the prisoners were not subject to the Geneva Conventions which seems an interesting twist on legality, as the US is subject to said conventions as a signatory.
You don't have to be a geek for this, just watch the news channels of Sony getting into one big lawsuit after another, all anti-consumer. It really started decades ago with the CD root kit and hasn't really stopped. I'm pretty sure "Sony" and "good customer service" no longer appear together anywhere, so people should be forewarned.
My point was that sticking a key in the ignition or flipping the on switch and pressing the pedal or keys are required but insufficient to be able to properly operate the machinery, IMNSHO. If you don't know enough to properly operate it leave it to someone else.
It's no different than going to dealer with your car and mindlessly signing on the dotted line for everything they want you to do. In fact, hilariously, I went for the $20 oil change special at my local dealer as I was short on time, and in their list of $1k plus items was a humorous note - change the brake fluid. Now, my brake fluid had been changed less than 3 months previously, complete flush, and was as sparkling clear in the almost new looking reservoir as it could be, so I'm guessing their "process" is just to check (on the sheet) everything by mileage that we haven't done. The rest were also largely funny, but that one took the cake as it told me they didn't even look at it. If you're going to operate a complex piece of machinery, you should at least be aware of the basics.
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Doesn't matter whether or not you like it. You did it, you said it, you meant it, then you own it.
Ah, but did you? There in lies the question. What if you're doing some role playing?
...there was nothing else in this sector (vaio does not count, fuck vaio).
You're right. There is nothing else in this sector as long as you ignore the others that are in the sector (like Sony, Samsung, Toshiba, ...)
Buying Sony is like supporting SCO. Not viable for me and their hardware sucks, anyways. Yes, I have had 3 Sony VAOI machines, the last short-lived one about 3 years ago. Toshiba is more expensive, and I have never liked their hardware personally. Samsung didn't hit my radar last round.
Ditto, I install a Linux VM for anything Linuxy I need, which generally is nothing that requires a GUI.
It was always those with power, if you go back and look at it.
And there's a minor variance there - the sun and the earth obey a certain set of well defined laws, so we can say with some certainty that it will come up tomorrow. We can also state with lesser certainty the time when it no longer will. For jobs, the argument is similarly persuasive that if automation can handle all manufacturing and services, then the amount of jobs available will significantly shrink because even new jobs that might be created will be automated.
Make that 6+ years of updates on 10.6.
What? Take a look at your precious Linux OS or MacOS. They stop supporting previous versions within a year of a new version coming out. 95 was supported for almost 10 years. XP after 15+ years. Microsoft is the *only* company who has ridiculously long support timelines for their products.
Linux has 5+ year supported OSes or more, depending upon who you sign up with, or forever if you're running it yourself.
OSX has had a minimum of 3 year active support cycle for the "old" version. Note that going from 10.6->10.11 costs you nothing. And that's more than 10 years of updates. In fact, I'm still running a 10.6 on a system that dates from 2006 and it works just fine.
But neither of those are the point. The point is MS brings out a "new" version of an old product and purposefully breaks backwards compatibility. They did it with Win95, it's well documented. They did it with Office97 (9 months before the functionality was added for saving in older versions, by then the damage was done) and again with Office2010 or whatever it was when the xml format came around although that was quickly fixed IIRC because there was enough pushback that MS took notice. These are by no means the only instances.
I would actually prefer anything other than a transmitting TPMS in the wheel. They are nothing but an annoyance, and don't even work properly on my car.
You are suffering from a failure of imagination.
AC explained it. It is quite likely that you are failing in imagination or perhaps are merely overly optimistic about the average person. Idiocracy is a scary concept, if you look at it in this light.
In the near future, we may have 0.000000001% working farms, janitor jobs, cooking, services, etc.
But, it's a major difference with the concept of (mob) rule of the people versus what was actually created.
This just points out that the secretive FISA court does far far more harm than good. There should be no secret laws, and no courts to deal with secrets. The NSA is allowed to spy on foreigners, and does not need a court order. The FBI and underlings do need court orders, and those should at most be sealed for the duration of the activity. IOW, FISA was a work around the Constitution.
We were never a democracy, but a representative republic.
Being limited to a company and the government is still closed source.
No.
I think Apple should give them the source, after a compile decompile option, printed in 1 point font with water soluble ink on recycled toilet paper.
And no other jobs come to fill their places?
That is correct - no other jobs to fill their places.
We are about to enter an era where a few engineers or creative people can create an entire manufacturing line and product with no external workforce, for just about anything you care to name. Agriculture, manufacturing, delivery, stocking, the only thing not subject to automation is consumption of the final product, the raison d'etre for the entire process in the first place. Automation will kill millions of jobs in the near future as robots will be able to build other robots to create whatever is needed.
I agree it's time for the knee jerk reaction to even mentioning the name of Microsoft to move along. It probably never even should have been around in the first place.
Um, no, knee-jerk reaction is the safest one regarding MS. Only after careful consideration and inspection should you think anything different, and even then, you're likely to be wrong.
MS deserves all its hate, and anyone even remotely thinking otherwise is mistaken. MS moved into the Sony category for me long ago with their incessant failure to make things backwards compatible to kill off still massively in use products, all the way back to Win95. The abusive history is long, they haven't fundamentally changed.
That doesn't take away from the fact that Facebook is right there behind them, or Google perhaps a few steps further back.
The worst portion is you get hauled up in front of the court in the netherlands, where they have done everything up to death in the past.
I guarantee you you can find a worker to fill your slot. However, you may have to pay more, or hire someone that works remotely, if your skill set requirements are extremely specific. In software development, you do not have to have a person sitting at that special "development" desk in the closet behind the bathroom next to the boiler.
without comparing them to other executive orders, how can you classify those in any meaningful way? In fact, the usnews link doesn't even make the case that the EO creates a new law nor contravenes existing law. It's just a bunch of impassioned statements for or against. Reading it carefully, he's choosing to focus on enforcing certain portions of immigration over others. The only interesting thing is the deferments, which there isn't enough about to make any meaningful statement. If he had truly overstepped his bounds or done anything you claim, a Republican congress certainly would have passed legislation to counter his orders.
I have to add a comparison, BUSH's EO for military trials and you can always review certain actions such as asserting that the prisoners were not subject to the Geneva Conventions which seems an interesting twist on legality, as the US is subject to said conventions as a signatory.
You don't have to be a geek for this, just watch the news channels of Sony getting into one big lawsuit after another, all anti-consumer. It really started decades ago with the CD root kit and hasn't really stopped. I'm pretty sure "Sony" and "good customer service" no longer appear together anywhere, so people should be forewarned.
My point was that sticking a key in the ignition or flipping the on switch and pressing the pedal or keys are required but insufficient to be able to properly operate the machinery, IMNSHO. If you don't know enough to properly operate it leave it to someone else.
It's no different than going to dealer with your car and mindlessly signing on the dotted line for everything they want you to do. In fact, hilariously, I went for the $20 oil change special at my local dealer as I was short on time, and in their list of $1k plus items was a humorous note - change the brake fluid. Now, my brake fluid had been changed less than 3 months previously, complete flush, and was as sparkling clear in the almost new looking reservoir as it could be, so I'm guessing their "process" is just to check (on the sheet) everything by mileage that we haven't done. The rest were also largely funny, but that one took the cake as it told me they didn't even look at it. If you're going to operate a complex piece of machinery, you should at least be aware of the basics.
Disable and remove windows update. Don't install updates. Done.
But you failed to disable Windows Update.