Great so the next big thing is that we're all gonna be voluntarily turning ourselves into remotely controlled drones. No thanks. Its already bad enough with cellphones.
Your argument is logically unsound. With things built to last, you have the option to stick with it. You don't HAVE to either keep or replace them. With things made with built-in obsolescence, such as cell-phones with unaccessible lithium-ion batteries (i.e. a technology with a limited lifespan), you're gonna be screwed in say 3 years whether you want to keep the phone or not. i.e. you don't even have the option.
I also don;t agree with your sentiment that newer tech is necessarily better. For example, call me a freak but I personally prefer cars with zero built-in technology. I don't want a car that is always connected to the manufacturer and spying on me, or has half a ton of expensive electronics that I had to pay for, can't fix myself, weighs the car down and goes obsolete. The problem is that no manufacteres even make a single car without all that crap anymore, so I buy old ones, back from the time when cars WERE built well, and to last. I currently have a 1997 Toyota 4 runner that I boutght usefd for 5k. it has 180k miles on it and shows no sign of stopping, and everything works. Compare that to a 2008 car of a brand that will remain unnamed. It cost $115k new. Its bluetooth won't even talk to modern phones and they don't even make navigation DVDs for it since 2013. Its a $115k car. Sorry but I'm not going to throw it away every 3 years.
I totally agree and find it highly interesting how in their last days, most empires all do the same things just before they implode. We are now seeing MANY of the same things in the US that Rome went through during its last days, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
>> encourages a culture of optimizing for short term showmanship instead of making something people want and creating lasting value.
You've just described the entire US business culture for at least the last 50 years. No-one builds quality products designed to last any more. Everything is actively designed to ensure it needs replacing every 3-5 years now, and to be sold through marketing (push) rather than need (pull).
Yes. Identifying, gathering and processing the market data is the only step to Investment advice. Trading requires all of that plus some extra decisions.
>> better, is to address the root issues instead of blanket banning,
The government have been trying that for years. The fatcat companies aren't allowing it to work.
>> instead of blanket banning, as a protectist, isolationist which never works....
Sure it does. Look at how rich the US health industry is. Anyway the fatcats have bought it on themselves by until now blocking all more moderate government attempts to get them to stop replacing skilled US workers with cheap, foreign ones.
Possibly but not half as much of a problem as these companies like to make out. If there is a shortage, its also by their own hand in the first place, for years of screwing the US software developer base for their own short-term gain. If they stopped (or were forced to stop) doing that, then the demand would adjust the salary they would have to pay, which in turn would stop people leaving the industry for other positions, and also attract more people to do Comp Sci degrees, so adjust the supply.
>> is it possible, that the H1B program is being abused? well yea, no shit sherlock. lets dig into that and find out where and why
Well, where is going to be all the big companies that are fighting this bill, and why is already obvious: Cheap labor.
Leghal masturbation and digging into endless detail is exactly what these companies are trying to cause, simply as a delaying tactic simply so they can keep their snout in the trough for a while longer.
Typical America. Everything has a pill. Sure you could treat it as an illness and electrocute the brains of anyone that gets pissed off by the sound of others eating loudly... (What next... electrocute the brains of anyone who doesn't agree with your musical taste?)....or Americans could simply not act like pigs and dont eat with your damn mouths open. Oh wait that requires people to actually do something. How stupid of me.
>> (H1Bs) remain essential for American companies to hire the technical talent they need
I call bullshit. There are plenty of software developers out there. The thing thats actually biting all these company's hring managers asses is that they don't want to pay the going wage when they can hire someone from Pakistan with zero skill and a photoshopped degree certificate for minimum wage, only because they aren't also including the increased rework costs, deylaed releases and cost of losing customers because of bad software quality on their own department's budget statement.
>>The advantage Linux currently has is security through obscurity.
Thats utter bullshit considering the Linux kernel runs about 99% of the worlds internet servers and smartphones, i.e. all the most connected things.
>> Internet of things devices, that there are more of those devices than machines running Windows. Otherwise, they would be quite secure.
Unlike Windows, IOT issues are all to do with clueless companies releasing products with bad configurations, not fundamental issues with the OS itself. And further to your point, by far the most infected systems on botnets are actually Windows PCs.
..plust having all the benefits of a security model that is from-the-gound-up intended for a multi-user environment. Also many details like having an architecture where installing apps doesnt require allowing it to modify your operating system, or putting both your app and OS settings in a shared registry that everything can at least read.
I think that must be a typo. Surely they mean zero, since the first thing that anyone concerned about security or performance should do when the get Windows 10 is disable Cortana.
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Great so the next big thing is that we're all gonna be voluntarily turning ourselves into remotely controlled drones.
No thanks. Its already bad enough with cellphones.
...we could just stop killing all the bees.
>> I deleted my facebook several years ago.
Last I heard this isn't actually possible.
Your argument is logically unsound. With things built to last, you have the option to stick with it. You don't HAVE to either keep or replace them.
With things made with built-in obsolescence, such as cell-phones with unaccessible lithium-ion batteries (i.e. a technology with a limited lifespan), you're gonna be screwed in say 3 years whether you want to keep the phone or not. i.e. you don't even have the option.
I also don;t agree with your sentiment that newer tech is necessarily better. For example, call me a freak but I personally prefer cars with zero built-in technology. I don't want a car that is always connected to the manufacturer and spying on me, or has half a ton of expensive electronics that I had to pay for, can't fix myself, weighs the car down and goes obsolete. The problem is that no manufacteres even make a single car without all that crap anymore, so I buy old ones, back from the time when cars WERE built well, and to last. I currently have a 1997 Toyota 4 runner that I boutght usefd for 5k. it has 180k miles on it and shows no sign of stopping, and everything works.
Compare that to a 2008 car of a brand that will remain unnamed. It cost $115k new. Its bluetooth won't even talk to modern phones and they don't even make navigation DVDs for it since 2013.
Its a $115k car. Sorry but I'm not going to throw it away every 3 years.
I totally agree and find it highly interesting how in their last days, most empires all do the same things just before they implode.
We are now seeing MANY of the same things in the US that Rome went through during its last days, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
>> encourages a culture of optimizing for short term showmanship instead of making something people want and creating lasting value.
You've just described the entire US business culture for at least the last 50 years. No-one builds quality products designed to last any more. Everything is actively designed to ensure it needs replacing every 3-5 years now, and to be sold through marketing (push) rather than need (pull).
Yes. Identifying, gathering and processing the market data is the only step to Investment advice. Trading requires all of that plus some extra decisions.
>> better, is to address the root issues instead of blanket banning,
The government have been trying that for years. The fatcat companies aren't allowing it to work.
>> instead of blanket banning, as a protectist, isolationist which never works....
Sure it does. Look at how rich the US health industry is. Anyway the fatcats have bought it on themselves by until now blocking all more moderate government attempts to get them to stop replacing skilled US workers with cheap, foreign ones.
This will be the first thing I block.
>> its already hard to find talent.
Possibly but not half as much of a problem as these companies like to make out. If there is a shortage, its also by their own hand in the first place, for years of screwing the US software developer base for their own short-term gain.
If they stopped (or were forced to stop) doing that, then the demand would adjust the salary they would have to pay, which in turn would stop people leaving the industry for other positions, and also attract more people to do Comp Sci degrees, so adjust the supply.
Please. They're computers not robots, and they've already been trading for years.
>> is it possible, that the H1B program is being abused? well yea, no shit sherlock. lets dig into that and find out where and why
Well, where is going to be all the big companies that are fighting this bill, and why is already obvious: Cheap labor.
Leghal masturbation and digging into endless detail is exactly what these companies are trying to cause, simply as a delaying tactic simply so they can keep their snout in the trough for a while longer.
I dont think the problem is so much AI itself, but what humans like Gates, Musk and Zuckerberg will be programming them to have as their objectives..
> which addresses your point very well.
No, it actually doesn't.
>> Also add Halliburton to the list. They have a LOT of people working in Pakistan including a major geophysical software division.
Good. I hope they have to close it and return the jobs to the US.
Typical America. Everything has a pill. ...or Americans could simply not act like pigs and dont eat with your damn mouths open. Oh wait that requires people to actually do something. How stupid of me.
Sure you could treat it as an illness and electrocute the brains of anyone that gets pissed off by the sound of others eating loudly... (What next... electrocute the brains of anyone who doesn't agree with your musical taste?).
Nope. For it to be an analogy it has to be analogous to reality, not some just be some bullshit claim that happens to further the peecee agenda.
>> What is it about low cost staff from other nations that big US brands really want in the USA?
This part: low cost
>> Why not just go with what the big US brands really want.
What part about destroying US jobs are you not getting?
>> (H1Bs) remain essential for American companies to hire the technical talent they need
I call bullshit. There are plenty of software developers out there. The thing thats actually biting all these company's hring managers asses is that they don't want to pay the going wage when they can hire someone from Pakistan with zero skill and a photoshopped degree certificate for minimum wage, only because they aren't also including the increased rework costs, deylaed releases and cost of losing customers because of bad software quality on their own department's budget statement.
Can you point at the line in the executive order in question where it says it's about terrorism?
>>The advantage Linux currently has is security through obscurity.
Thats utter bullshit considering the Linux kernel runs about 99% of the worlds internet servers and smartphones, i.e. all the most connected things.
>> Internet of things devices, that there are more of those devices than machines running Windows. Otherwise, they would be quite secure.
Unlike Windows, IOT issues are all to do with clueless companies releasing products with bad configurations, not fundamental issues with the OS itself.
And further to your point, by far the most infected systems on botnets are actually Windows PCs.
..plust having all the benefits of a security model that is from-the-gound-up intended for a multi-user environment.
Also many details like having an architecture where installing apps doesnt require allowing it to modify your operating system, or putting both your app and OS settings in a shared registry that everything can at least read.
>> Immigration is the best way to safeguard a nation against attack.
Tell that to the Jews who moved to Germany prior to WW2.
Agreed, but thats not what people are wanting in this case.
I think that must be a typo. Surely they mean zero, since the first thing that anyone concerned about security or performance should do when the get Windows 10 is disable Cortana.