Designing a UX indicates an idea that using the program is the point, which may be true from the perspective of the ad salesperson, but is not true for most users. (Games and similar programs are an exception in that users do want to pass time using these programs, but those programs are expected to have very custom UIs.)
Maybe if you use cheap rubberized stuff, it will degrade after a few years. The bumper case for my phone is two years old with no degradation. The raised buttons have a bit of grime, but no more than my wife's iPhone.
It's telling that Apple fans prioritize looks over function.
The big tech companies want young (especially childless) workers because those workers will work insane hours in an effort to generate marginally more output than the person at the next open-plan table. Lots of other companies are more reasonable about expectations and environment.
Can you quote someone from Google claiming that a valid NDA covered that meeting? More particularly, can you actually answer the question I asked by pointing to language in the NDA that purports to silence Forbes (or its employees) if they chose to report on Google's attempted abuse of market position and attempted restraint of trade?
Also, the journalist's defense is actually that nobody told her there was an NDA until it became convenient for Google to claim there was one. You are being quite sloppy in your retelling of the journalist's account.
Google has for a long time been able to de-index web pages on request, and apparently they are able to also de-index pages with similar content. They do that for legal reasons and because they think some pages are trying to game their search results. It's not far-fetched to think they might de-index pages for other reasons as well.
Why was it a reasonable presumption that the meeting was confidential? Did they say in the meeting that the content of the meeting would be confidential? Did Google ask Forbes to sign an NDA that purported to prevent either party from disclosing the illegal activities of the other party? (It's illegal to abuse your market position in one area to gain an advantage in another market.)
The dealership intentionally put the device in the car. If they wanted it back, they should have spelled that out at the time of sale. It's not like accidentally leading an unrelated piece of property in the car when you sell the car.
Governments usually come down pretty hard on any (unshielded) terrestrial transmitters on GPS frequencies. The only transmitters are supposed to be in orbit. That's why this car wouldn't have a GPS transmitter.
The same is true of the rest of Amazon's grocery offerings. I figure the break-even for my time is less than a third of what I get on an average weekly trip (for two adults and two children). Maybe self-driving delivery trucks will make prices more compelling.
Window managers (at least in those days) generally did not provide widget trays, launch menus, or other things you usually see on an empty modern-day computer desktop. They decorated each window with controls -- one or more resizing buttons, a frame on at least one side of the window, and usually a system menu -- and arranged icons for minimized applications. fvwm was notable for providing virtual workspaces.
On the other hand, the Common Desktop Environment (CDE, whence KDE got its name) was first released in 1993, so there was not just the concept of a desktop environment for X back then, but even a shipping implementation. CDE was not very nice to use -- where I was introduced to Linux in the mid-'90s, fvwm2 was much more popular -- but it is clearly recognizable as a predecessor to modern computer desktops.
Over the last (roughly) 200,000 years, we have gone from 1% of the genus Homo to 100% of the genus Homo. Discuss, with particular emphasis on why we should think either measure is important.
A good CoC should have three rules: When using project resources, keep discussions related to the project. Keep your disagreements technical. Don't be an asshole to other people.
(My smart-alec Android phone wanted that last one to be "don't be an Apple to other people"....)
Maybe you think "dislocations" is a clinical term. I don't. It's merely shorter than writing that a lot of jobs will go away, and people will have to change careers or fields, with a lot of uncertainty and possibly retraining. It is obvious enough what online shopping (exemplified by Amazon.com) is doing to retail; it is not at all obvious what people who used to work in retail should do instead.
There are a lot of hard questions about how to handle advancing automation and radical changes in technology, but reducing an opponent's argument to a straw man is not a helpful way to address those questions, and that reduction was what I was primarily objecting to. It's hard enough to have a serious discussion about the topic, in large part because people take different things on faith (like the ageist assumption that older people "practically can't 'just go get another job'", or the idealist assumption that more automation will lead to a significant number of more specialized jobs), that we really don't need bad-faith arguments added to the mix.
You're right; they were replaced by nothing, because automobiles made horse-drawn buggies essentially obsolete. What was your point? Mine was that rsilvergun presented such a distorted version of the march-of-progress argument that it's hard to see any good faith behind presenting the distorted version.
Buggy whip makers and other cliches would like to have words with you.
The argument is essentially always that automation will lead to dislocations and role changes, but the humans in the process will be doing more productive or less common work -- managing the production line, or programming the robots (maybe by simply demonstrating the pattern, or entering the pattern on a computer), or installing and repairing robots, or something that humans do better than robots.
Don't be that asshole who claims victory over a straw man.
Camera-driven robots will need good lights at least as much as humans would, but robots can carry them around. A/C could be eliminated in a lot of the world, but most electronic assemblies are only rated to operate up to 40 (for commercial) or 50 (for industrial) C ambient temperatures. If outside temperatures get close to 50, some site-wide air handling would still be required.
Military tactics 101: Land mines aren't primarily meant to kill or maim people. They are meant to force your enemy to go a certain way so that you can turn that into a kill zone. The alternative measures you suggested do not achieve the same result.
As ShanghaiBill explained, alternatives to land mines there would likely lead to a shooting war. Do you think being able to say "the US does not use labs mines anywhere in the world" is worth the cost of millions of dead Koreans?
If James Damore wanted more independent evidence that Google, in spite of claiming to value diversity, actually has an animus against conservative and libertarian speech, this gives him that. It strengthens his case that Google uses political affiliation and beliefs as a basis for discrimination.
This also looks like ripe grounds for the FTC to investigate Google on anti-trust grounds, and the DOJ to investigate them on civil rights grounds. Failing that, some conservative lawmaker might introduce a bill to make political ideology a protected category under the Civil Rights Act. Not that they (or I) want Antifa or Nazis to be protected classes, but the US Constitution would not permit Josh Average to get better treatment under the law than Joe Jackboots.
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Please get your chronology right! The USSR was formed 10 years after the Titanic sank. The ship's sinking was actually a Bolshevik plot.
Designing a UX indicates an idea that using the program is the point, which may be true from the perspective of the ad salesperson, but is not true for most users. (Games and similar programs are an exception in that users do want to pass time using these programs, but those programs are expected to have very custom UIs.)
Maybe if you use cheap rubberized stuff, it will degrade after a few years. The bumper case for my phone is two years old with no degradation. The raised buttons have a bit of grime, but no more than my wife's iPhone.
It's telling that Apple fans prioritize looks over function.
Or do companies like Twitter also have employees who will yank a target's blue checkmark for a fee (assuming a halfway plausible excuse exists)?
The big tech companies want young (especially childless) workers because those workers will work insane hours in an effort to generate marginally more output than the person at the next open-plan table. Lots of other companies are more reasonable about expectations and environment.
Can you quote someone from Google claiming that a valid NDA covered that meeting? More particularly, can you actually answer the question I asked by pointing to language in the NDA that purports to silence Forbes (or its employees) if they chose to report on Google's attempted abuse of market position and attempted restraint of trade?
Also, the journalist's defense is actually that nobody told her there was an NDA until it became convenient for Google to claim there was one. You are being quite sloppy in your retelling of the journalist's account.
Google has for a long time been able to de-index web pages on request, and apparently they are able to also de-index pages with similar content. They do that for legal reasons and because they think some pages are trying to game their search results. It's not far-fetched to think they might de-index pages for other reasons as well.
Why was it a reasonable presumption that the meeting was confidential? Did they say in the meeting that the content of the meeting would be confidential? Did Google ask Forbes to sign an NDA that purported to prevent either party from disclosing the illegal activities of the other party? (It's illegal to abuse your market position in one area to gain an advantage in another market.)
The dealership intentionally put the device in the car. If they wanted it back, they should have spelled that out at the time of sale. It's not like accidentally leading an unrelated piece of property in the car when you sell the car.
Governments usually come down pretty hard on any (unshielded) terrestrial transmitters on GPS frequencies. The only transmitters are supposed to be in orbit. That's why this car wouldn't have a GPS transmitter.
The same is true of the rest of Amazon's grocery offerings. I figure the break-even for my time is less than a third of what I get on an average weekly trip (for two adults and two children). Maybe self-driving delivery trucks will make prices more compelling.
Window managers (at least in those days) generally did not provide widget trays, launch menus, or other things you usually see on an empty modern-day computer desktop. They decorated each window with controls -- one or more resizing buttons, a frame on at least one side of the window, and usually a system menu -- and arranged icons for minimized applications. fvwm was notable for providing virtual workspaces.
On the other hand, the Common Desktop Environment (CDE, whence KDE got its name) was first released in 1993, so there was not just the concept of a desktop environment for X back then, but even a shipping implementation. CDE was not very nice to use -- where I was introduced to Linux in the mid-'90s, fvwm2 was much more popular -- but it is clearly recognizable as a predecessor to modern computer desktops.
Over the last (roughly) 200,000 years, we have gone from 1% of the genus Homo to 100% of the genus Homo. Discuss, with particular emphasis on why we should think either measure is important.
A good CoC should have three rules: When using project resources, keep discussions related to the project. Keep your disagreements technical. Don't be an asshole to other people.
(My smart-alec Android phone wanted that last one to be "don't be an Apple to other people"....)
Don't confuse polity for policy. Politics are about the former, not the latter.
Clone you and your cloning durn clones.
Maybe you think "dislocations" is a clinical term. I don't. It's merely shorter than writing that a lot of jobs will go away, and people will have to change careers or fields, with a lot of uncertainty and possibly retraining. It is obvious enough what online shopping (exemplified by Amazon.com) is doing to retail; it is not at all obvious what people who used to work in retail should do instead.
There are a lot of hard questions about how to handle advancing automation and radical changes in technology, but reducing an opponent's argument to a straw man is not a helpful way to address those questions, and that reduction was what I was primarily objecting to. It's hard enough to have a serious discussion about the topic, in large part because people take different things on faith (like the ageist assumption that older people "practically can't 'just go get another job'", or the idealist assumption that more automation will lead to a significant number of more specialized jobs), that we really don't need bad-faith arguments added to the mix.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we should not analyze the economy as if it were a GDP factory.
You're right; they were replaced by nothing, because automobiles made horse-drawn buggies essentially obsolete. What was your point? Mine was that rsilvergun presented such a distorted version of the march-of-progress argument that it's hard to see any good faith behind presenting the distorted version.
Buggy whip makers and other cliches would like to have words with you.
The argument is essentially always that automation will lead to dislocations and role changes, but the humans in the process will be doing more productive or less common work -- managing the production line, or programming the robots (maybe by simply demonstrating the pattern, or entering the pattern on a computer), or installing and repairing robots, or something that humans do better than robots.
Don't be that asshole who claims victory over a straw man.
Camera-driven robots will need good lights at least as much as humans would, but robots can carry them around. A/C could be eliminated in a lot of the world, but most electronic assemblies are only rated to operate up to 40 (for commercial) or 50 (for industrial) C ambient temperatures. If outside temperatures get close to 50, some site-wide air handling would still be required.
Military tactics 101: Land mines aren't primarily meant to kill or maim people. They are meant to force your enemy to go a certain way so that you can turn that into a kill zone. The alternative measures you suggested do not achieve the same result.
As ShanghaiBill explained, alternatives to land mines there would likely lead to a shooting war. Do you think being able to say "the US does not use labs mines anywhere in the world" is worth the cost of millions of dead Koreans?
If James Damore wanted more independent evidence that Google, in spite of claiming to value diversity, actually has an animus against conservative and libertarian speech, this gives him that. It strengthens his case that Google uses political affiliation and beliefs as a basis for discrimination.
This also looks like ripe grounds for the FTC to investigate Google on anti-trust grounds, and the DOJ to investigate them on civil rights grounds. Failing that, some conservative lawmaker might introduce a bill to make political ideology a protected category under the Civil Rights Act. Not that they (or I) want Antifa or Nazis to be protected classes, but the US Constitution would not permit Josh Average to get better treatment under the law than Joe Jackboots.
It has an optional 360-degree camera that you won't want to lug around, and an optional dock. (Woo, how trendy.) And no microSD slot.