No, you explain to me how the old one is better beyond "I don't want to learn anything new." It's obvious that's your mentality and I'm not dealing with such ignorant people.
Yes, because they don't care about money in the way you think they do. All they care about is if the stock price is going up. That's literally it. If you have a CEO who can consistently increase the stock price, they're golden. If anything I think this salary cut (which is, let's be honest, probably meaningless to Cook) is an attempt to placate shareholders who see them missing their revenue targets.
WHYYYYY do people keep suggesting this? The Windows 10 start menu is SO MUCH BETTER than the old style. I don't understand why you would want to bring back something worse. People: change is inevitable. Companies are never ever going to stop updating their products. How is this news? Just get on board and stop whining, you'll find out that very often new is actually better.
I don't think you know what Medium is...this is like suggesting that a paper company is at fault for the failure of a newspaper. Medium is a publishing platform, nothing more. You accuse them of using a "click-bait approach," but there are thousands of sites running on Medium, each with their own approach.
Lies, misinformation, etc. It's funny that you people act all high and mighty about this even though 99% of the shit you spew is completely fabricated.
I don't understand how this happens to people. I frequently have to force Windows 10 to install updates because it's gone in the opposite direction and steadfastly refuses to do a damn thing while I'm using the computer.
App Store reviews are pointless. Some of the most popular apps have terrible review scores. Mario is probably getting poor scores because it requires an internet connection (which is admittedly dumb) and people are too cheap for $10. The actual, real reviews of the game itself have been pretty good.
You can place an order at most retailers and they will ship you one when it's in stock. These retailers are in contact with Nintendo. Nintendo is fully aware of demand.
It's not "premeditated," and the guy you're replying to is 1000% correct. Nintendo is a MUCH smaller company than Sony and Microsoft and they aren't able to takes as many risks. Building too many consoles and leaving some of them on the shelves isn't a option, that wasted money hurts them bad. They've always been conservative in this regard and they always will be. It's sound business sense.
Apple watch was a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist.
A good way of putting it. I think it's more accurately an attempt to explode a nascent hardware market in the same way they did with the iPod and iPhone. Problem is, smartwatches will (probably) always be a niche market. It's just not a device that people think they need. I think it's quite likely that Apple Watch sales are great, in the context of the smartwatch industry. I just don't think that industry is very large or relevant.
The Nokia purchase has fuck all to do with this, but even if it were somehow relevant, that happened under entirely different management! Microsoft under Nadella is practically a new corporation. There is quite literally zero reason to suggest that they want to get involved with Linux for anything other than making Linux better. You know why? Because improving Linux, in this era - NOT the 20 years ago era you can't same to move on from - benefits Microsoft financially.
They don't have any problem with it because they aren't perpetually stuck in the laughable mindset that Microsoft is a pantomime villain incapable of change. Making an enemy of Microsoft for no reason other than "they were mean to us in the 90s" is an idiotic and childish suggestion.
Wouldn't this just result in replacing on-call rotations with shift rotations? Like, if you can't call me for a 2am emergency, doesn't that mean a representative from my group needs to be in the office at all times? That sounds awful.
They're not selling any phones at present. It makes zero sense to cater to their current users, an irrelevantly tiny group, rather than attempting to appeal to the billions of people who don't own a Windows Phone.
They didn't kill Windows Phone, they laid off their former Nokia staff. The Lumia specifically is dead, not Windows Phone as a whole. Their next phone will be the Surface Phone that their in-house team is working on, makes no sense to keep the Nokia folks around to compete with themselves. And I suspect that project will be flying under the radar for a while until they figure out some kind of app strategy.
I don't honestly know where I stand on this debate, but for Wikileaks to suggest Snowden is just angling for a pardon from Clinton is a comically childish response. Tons of respect lost for that group. I've seen higher levels of discourse in a local newspaper comment section.
An hour to show up? Where I live, Pittsburgh, you could be anywhere in the city and be unable to get a cab. You could be in the middle of downtown, call a cab, and it would never show up. Or you'd find another way home and the cab company would call you three hours later wondering where you were. Everyone I know who lived here before Uber has some story about spending four hours walking home because they couldn't get a cab. That's why I take issue with this study, particularly this line: "They also suggest that the tipsy riders who now call Uber are the ones who formerly would have called a taxi." Guess what? That wasn't always possible. Uber and Lyft gave us something we didn't have before, and in Pittsburgh specifically, there is a clear decline in DUI citations since 2013/14, when the ride sharing companies arrived. Looking only at country-level data is going to obscure Uber's impact in markets where cab service did not exist.
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No, you explain to me how the old one is better beyond "I don't want to learn anything new." It's obvious that's your mentality and I'm not dealing with such ignorant people.
Yes, because they don't care about money in the way you think they do. All they care about is if the stock price is going up. That's literally it. If you have a CEO who can consistently increase the stock price, they're golden. If anything I think this salary cut (which is, let's be honest, probably meaningless to Cook) is an attempt to placate shareholders who see them missing their revenue targets.
WHYYYYY do people keep suggesting this? The Windows 10 start menu is SO MUCH BETTER than the old style. I don't understand why you would want to bring back something worse. People: change is inevitable. Companies are never ever going to stop updating their products. How is this news? Just get on board and stop whining, you'll find out that very often new is actually better.
Yes, let's never make any progress and just keep things the same way forever...
What? Have you even used Windows 10? The new Start Menu is infinitely more useful than the old one...
I don't think you know what Medium is...this is like suggesting that a paper company is at fault for the failure of a newspaper. Medium is a publishing platform, nothing more. You accuse them of using a "click-bait approach," but there are thousands of sites running on Medium, each with their own approach.
Lies, misinformation, etc. It's funny that you people act all high and mighty about this even though 99% of the shit you spew is completely fabricated.
I don't understand how this happens to people. I frequently have to force Windows 10 to install updates because it's gone in the opposite direction and steadfastly refuses to do a damn thing while I'm using the computer.
Christ, you people are like clockwork. How about having a real, intelligent conversation without devolving into baseless conspiracies?
What spyware installs are you referencing, exactly? If you mean Windows 10, please be aware that you're spreading lies and misinformation.
Virtually everything has changed, actually. As another poster asked above, how long do we need to wait before you'll move beyond blind religious zeal?
App Store reviews are pointless. Some of the most popular apps have terrible review scores. Mario is probably getting poor scores because it requires an internet connection (which is admittedly dumb) and people are too cheap for $10. The actual, real reviews of the game itself have been pretty good.
You can place an order at most retailers and they will ship you one when it's in stock. These retailers are in contact with Nintendo. Nintendo is fully aware of demand.
It's not "premeditated," and the guy you're replying to is 1000% correct. Nintendo is a MUCH smaller company than Sony and Microsoft and they aren't able to takes as many risks. Building too many consoles and leaving some of them on the shelves isn't a option, that wasted money hurts them bad. They've always been conservative in this regard and they always will be. It's sound business sense.
Apple watch was a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist.
A good way of putting it. I think it's more accurately an attempt to explode a nascent hardware market in the same way they did with the iPod and iPhone. Problem is, smartwatches will (probably) always be a niche market. It's just not a device that people think they need. I think it's quite likely that Apple Watch sales are great, in the context of the smartwatch industry. I just don't think that industry is very large or relevant.
The Nokia purchase has fuck all to do with this, but even if it were somehow relevant, that happened under entirely different management! Microsoft under Nadella is practically a new corporation. There is quite literally zero reason to suggest that they want to get involved with Linux for anything other than making Linux better. You know why? Because improving Linux, in this era - NOT the 20 years ago era you can't same to move on from - benefits Microsoft financially.
They don't have any problem with it because they aren't perpetually stuck in the laughable mindset that Microsoft is a pantomime villain incapable of change. Making an enemy of Microsoft for no reason other than "they were mean to us in the 90s" is an idiotic and childish suggestion.
Wouldn't this just result in replacing on-call rotations with shift rotations? Like, if you can't call me for a 2am emergency, doesn't that mean a representative from my group needs to be in the office at all times? That sounds awful.
They're not selling any phones at present. It makes zero sense to cater to their current users, an irrelevantly tiny group, rather than attempting to appeal to the billions of people who don't own a Windows Phone.
They didn't kill Windows Phone, they laid off their former Nokia staff. The Lumia specifically is dead, not Windows Phone as a whole. Their next phone will be the Surface Phone that their in-house team is working on, makes no sense to keep the Nokia folks around to compete with themselves. And I suspect that project will be flying under the radar for a while until they figure out some kind of app strategy.
iMessage is encrypted end-to-end, is it not?
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I don't know why I thought I could have this conversation on Slashdot, of all places...
I understand being wary of Microsoft, but every indication is that the company today is a heck of a lot different than the one you're referencing.
I don't honestly know where I stand on this debate, but for Wikileaks to suggest Snowden is just angling for a pardon from Clinton is a comically childish response. Tons of respect lost for that group. I've seen higher levels of discourse in a local newspaper comment section.
An hour to show up? Where I live, Pittsburgh, you could be anywhere in the city and be unable to get a cab. You could be in the middle of downtown, call a cab, and it would never show up. Or you'd find another way home and the cab company would call you three hours later wondering where you were. Everyone I know who lived here before Uber has some story about spending four hours walking home because they couldn't get a cab. That's why I take issue with this study, particularly this line: "They also suggest that the tipsy riders who now call Uber are the ones who formerly would have called a taxi." Guess what? That wasn't always possible. Uber and Lyft gave us something we didn't have before, and in Pittsburgh specifically, there is a clear decline in DUI citations since 2013/14, when the ride sharing companies arrived. Looking only at country-level data is going to obscure Uber's impact in markets where cab service did not exist.