Yes, I agree, we need anti-vivisection legislation for all animals, not just chimps. Its a shame that even the government is shallow enough to only be concerned about "cute" animals or ones that most physically resemble humans.
Really? trying to stop pain and suffering is an outdated concept that belongs in the 19th century? Wow. I think it is you that has the screwed up understanding (and morality), not me.
And FYI the term "vivisection" is the correct one. I'm sorry your limited/culturally biassed (lack of) education associates it only with Nazis.
The correlation to humans of results obtained from vivisection on any animals (including chimps) has always been questionable at best.
The reasons vivisection is still conducted comes down to 3 points:
1) Inflicting suffering on animals is unfortunately relatively cheap compared to more humane methods, even though the humane methods can produce better results.
2) Nearly all scientists that already perform vivisection simply don't want to adapt from the techniques they already are most familiar with, regardless of the consequent elimination of animal suffering.
3) The legislation covering the release of new products basically assumes vivisection and isn't sufficiently flexible to encourage or even accommodate alternative methods.
Microsoft wont blame themselves for any difference between actual and total expected sales. They'll just prefer to blame the console market for being dead.
The only figure that will force MS to face reality is the actual difference between Xbox One and PS4 sales.
Ugh. Please. The issue here is not even slightly the general availability of broadband, it is the big-brother DRM approach that Microsoft assumes they can force on us like we are all brainless sheep. Their arrogance is astounding.
We need to teach Microsoft a lesson to get them to realise they need to respect our rights or become irrelevant. Voting with our wallets is the only thing Microsoft will notice, so we should all totally avoid Xbox One and only buy PS4. Its only a massive difference in sales numbers between the 2 consoles that will make MS finally get the message.
They wont even notice lost Xbox one sales if you dont then buy a PS4 instead. MS will just prefer to think the whole console market is sluggish. Basically anything other than having to admit their own mistakes.
Jeezus just take the CEO aside and recommend the guy gets fired. I'm concerned you're even asking this.....arent you sure of your own abilities enough to accurately confirm this guy is the real problem? Have you considered that it might be YOU who has the position they dont have the skills to perform well in?
With that approach you will never get to work anywhere other than hire-and-fire sweatshops.
Candidates that lie during interviews are very easy to spot. You should see their faces when they suddenly realise that during the interview we are also going test their skills they just claimed they are expert at.
Amazing how with each new product Microsoft always design in exactly the thing that would most make sure my money stays in my pocket.
Windows 8's hideous an massively inneficient GUI saved me from wasting $$$ on an unnecessary upgrade. Thanks Microsoft for reminding me that Windows 7 works just fine at work. (Still not as good as Linux Mint or other free Linux distros I run at home though).
Microsoft phones are just plain useless (so start out being totally undesireable).
I can't tell you how many cars I've crossed off my potential future purchases list because they have had "Powered by Microsoft" stickers.
Now this retarded "always connected" decision by Microsoft was exactly what it would take to make sure my household wont ever be buying any more Xboxes.
Just look at all the money Microsoft keep saving me.
Sorry but I totally disagree. Having interviewed many people for tech positions. I was amazed to see how often (i.e. nearly always) people in an interview situation will blatantly lie about their own skills/abilities. Its very easy to weed them out but consequently most hiring managers tend to not to give a crap about what people claim they have learnt on their own.
Having previous work experience is best, but having a label from some professional body that says you have the skills is the only other thing that most hiring managers will believe, regardless of your actual skills/ability.
My advice would be to get a certification in the technologies you keep finding you need for other jobs. In most cases, Its the piece of paper that wlll help you the most at least to get to the interview stage, not your actual skills.
Microsoft have always been ridiculously arrogant and out of touch with what their customers actually want, (most recent examples are their windows 8 GUI decisions and crappy Xbox case design), however I cant believe they really want the Xbox One to fail as a product.
To me, the decision to include always-on DRM in the Xbox One strongly implies that Microsoft already know for a fact that the PS4 will have the same thing too, otherwise Microsoft wouldn't have taken such a big risk. Apparently Microsoft are already thinking that consumers will have no alternative choice to always-on DRM if they want a next gen console at all.
I hope Sony now see this as a potential tactical advantage that will guarantee extra PS4 sales from people that were otherwise planning on buying an Xbox One, and quickly remove all DRM (or at least any internet connectedness requirement) from the forthcoming PS4 before they release it.
Agreed. Skills around tehcnical Innovation and coming up with products that people actually like/want to buy rather than are forced to has been so undervalued at Microsoft its now a lost art there. They have no other way to stay alive than to keep blackmailing people now.
Incorrect, at least for my Samsung Galaxy S3. If you launch an app then hit the home button, that app stays running in the background. Also the latest firmware update gives you a split screen option to run 2 apps on the same screen at the same time.
I understand what you're saying, but when I started to think about how intelligence relates to being hunted, I realised that "stupid" animals probably experience just as much fear, pain etc, as intelligent ones even though they dont have the same IQ, so I'm not convinced its correct to assume hunting is somehow less cruel to dumber animals. Hunting is actually the 'natural way of the world' for all carnivores. I dont think lions or sharks have any qualms about killing, although they often but not always only kill whats necessary, Its not as if hunting animals is just some cruel thing that only humans invented to get food. There's not even a way to avoid killing something assuming you want to eat meat at all. Personally I still wouldn't choose to kill or eat whales though but assuming whales weren't in fact endangered I could at least see both sides of the argument.
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Yes, I agree, we need anti-vivisection legislation for all animals, not just chimps.
Its a shame that even the government is shallow enough to only be concerned about "cute" animals or ones that most physically resemble humans.
Really? trying to stop pain and suffering is an outdated concept that belongs in the 19th century? Wow. I think it is you that has the screwed up understanding (and morality), not me.
And FYI the term "vivisection" is the correct one. I'm sorry your limited/culturally biassed (lack of) education associates it only with Nazis.
The correlation to humans of results obtained from vivisection on any animals (including chimps) has always been questionable at best.
The reasons vivisection is still conducted comes down to 3 points:
1) Inflicting suffering on animals is unfortunately relatively cheap compared to more humane methods, even though the humane methods can produce better results.
2) Nearly all scientists that already perform vivisection simply don't want to adapt from the techniques they already are most familiar with, regardless of the consequent elimination of animal suffering.
3) The legislation covering the release of new products basically assumes vivisection and isn't sufficiently flexible to encourage or even accommodate alternative methods.
http://www.twainquotes.com/Vivisection.html
The average intelligence of the government would double?
They should pick someone who looks younger, like Mr. Burns.
Except the NSA have almost certainly already broken PGP. ...and probably everything else you can think of.
>> Fortunately there are ways to gain a measure of security: HTTPS, Tor, SCP, SFTP..
Don't those all rely on SSL?
Do you REALLY believe that the NSA still hasn't cracked/can't decrypt SSL (or any of the stuff mentioned) yet?
MS no longer supporting XP doesn't mean that it suddenly wont boot up any more.
Anyway, anybody that needs retraining to just go from XP to Windows 7 is a retard.
>> then heâ(TM)s got to do what? Subpoena the service to see if the phone was actively used or not?'"
Wait make cops follow due process? Thats outrageous. Whatever next...
So just buy one without DRM then never connect it to the internet so it cant ever update.
Microsoft wont blame themselves for any difference between actual and total expected sales. They'll just prefer to blame the console market for being dead.
The only figure that will force MS to face reality is the actual difference between Xbox One and PS4 sales.
Ugh. Please.
The issue here is not even slightly the general availability of broadband, it is the big-brother DRM approach that Microsoft assumes they can force on us like we are all brainless sheep. Their arrogance is astounding.
We need to teach Microsoft a lesson to get them to realise they need to respect our rights or become irrelevant. Voting with our wallets is the only thing Microsoft will notice, so we should all totally avoid Xbox One and only buy PS4. Its only a massive difference in sales numbers between the 2 consoles that will make MS finally get the message.
They wont even notice lost Xbox one sales if you dont then buy a PS4 instead. MS will just prefer to think the whole console market is sluggish. Basically anything other than having to admit their own mistakes.
You're an outside consultant right?
Jeezus just take the CEO aside and recommend the guy gets fired.
I'm concerned you're even asking this.....arent you sure of your own abilities enough to accurately confirm this guy is the real problem? Have you considered that it might be YOU who has the position they dont have the skills to perform well in?
>> I have to "play ball" and lie to get the job
With that approach you will never get to work anywhere other than hire-and-fire sweatshops.
Candidates that lie during interviews are very easy to spot. You should see their faces when they suddenly realise that during the interview we are also going test their skills they just claimed they are expert at.
Amazing how with each new product Microsoft always design in exactly the thing that would most make sure my money stays in my pocket.
Windows 8's hideous an massively inneficient GUI saved me from wasting $$$ on an unnecessary upgrade. Thanks Microsoft for reminding me that Windows 7 works just fine at work. (Still not as good as Linux Mint or other free Linux distros I run at home though).
Microsoft phones are just plain useless (so start out being totally undesireable).
I can't tell you how many cars I've crossed off my potential future purchases list because they have had "Powered by Microsoft" stickers.
Now this retarded "always connected" decision by Microsoft was exactly what it would take to make sure my household wont ever be buying any more Xboxes.
Just look at all the money Microsoft keep saving me.
Microsoft is dying but they have so much money in the bank to burn through it will unfortunately be decades before they finally dissapear.
>> people are upgrading. In fact Windows 8 breathes new life into legacy hardware. Windows is doing just fine.
Lol thanks for the laugh. This is the funnest thing I've read all day.
Sorry but I totally disagree. Having interviewed many people for tech positions. I was amazed to see how often (i.e. nearly always) people in an interview situation will blatantly lie about their own skills/abilities. Its very easy to weed them out but consequently most hiring managers tend to not to give a crap about what people claim they have learnt on their own.
Having previous work experience is best, but having a label from some professional body that says you have the skills is the only other thing that most hiring managers will believe, regardless of your actual skills/ability.
My advice would be to get a certification in the technologies you keep finding you need for other jobs. In most cases, Its the piece of paper that wlll help you the most at least to get to the interview stage, not your actual skills.
Microsoft have always been ridiculously arrogant and out of touch with what their customers actually want, (most recent examples are their windows 8 GUI decisions and crappy Xbox case design), however I cant believe they really want the Xbox One to fail as a product.
To me, the decision to include always-on DRM in the Xbox One strongly implies that Microsoft already know for a fact that the PS4 will have the same thing too, otherwise Microsoft wouldn't have taken such a big risk. Apparently Microsoft are already thinking that consumers will have no alternative choice to always-on DRM if they want a next gen console at all.
I hope Sony now see this as a potential tactical advantage that will guarantee extra PS4 sales from people that were otherwise planning on buying an Xbox One, and quickly remove all DRM (or at least any internet connectedness requirement) from the forthcoming PS4 before they release it.
Agreed.
Skills around tehcnical Innovation and coming up with products that people actually like/want to buy rather than are forced to has been so undervalued at Microsoft its now a lost art there. They have no other way to stay alive than to keep blackmailing people now.
You reply doesn't really address my point as I said "wants to" not "has to".
Incorrect, at least for my Samsung Galaxy S3.
If you launch an app then hit the home button, that app stays running in the background.
Also the latest firmware update gives you a split screen option to run 2 apps on the same screen at the same time.
Woo.That sucks ass. Every day I find more reasons to be more glad I have Linux Mint and not Windows on my laptop.
Personally, I dont understand why anybody wants windows, especially 8, on a PC.
I understand what you're saying, but when I started to think about how intelligence relates to being hunted, I realised that "stupid" animals probably experience just as much fear, pain etc, as intelligent ones even though they dont have the same IQ, so I'm not convinced its correct to assume hunting is somehow less cruel to dumber animals.
Hunting is actually the 'natural way of the world' for all carnivores. I dont think lions or sharks have any qualms about killing, although they often but not always only kill whats necessary, Its not as if hunting animals is just some cruel thing that only humans invented to get food. There's not even a way to avoid killing something assuming you want to eat meat at all. Personally I still wouldn't choose to kill or eat whales though but assuming whales weren't in fact endangered I could at least see both sides of the argument.