You don't need knowledge of a process for that process to occur. Sure we had evolution as a concept before he had any idea of genetics, but that doesn't mean clarifying knowledge has no place in the explanation. That's like saying a rock is not really made up of atoms because at one point we didn't know atoms existed.
Natural Selection does not show how evolution works, because it's only tangentially related to how organisms change over time. Evolution IS genetic drift. It's the process by which new gene sequences occur in offspring. Natural selection is an influence for what genetic material is allowed to be passed on to future generations. You can have evolution without any kind of natural or artificial selection.
Most people don't even know the difference between evolution and natural selection. When asked what that difference is, many will insist it's the same thing. Most people also equate evolution with constant improvement, even though that's not really what it is.
If it runs like shit on Windows, the game will fail. End of story.
You need to stop thinking like a clueless zealot and start coming to terms with the fact that the average gamer runs Windows and will likely never switch because there is no reason to. He doesn't give a hot shit about your ranting, he just wants his games to run well.
If Linux wants the gamer market they need to have a compelling reason to get people to want to use it. Features or performance gamers can't live without. So far, Linux has none of these things while at the same time creating a high barrier to entry via an unfriendly community and an OS that is a pain in the ass to make work the way you want it to.
Not until open source devs start taking he general market seriously enough to up their game. They're still making the shittiest most unfriendly UIs out of all the OSes. Even android, arguably the most user friendly Linux distro, had to be made from the ground up with a strong focus on UI.
That's really the problem though. Linux users want to rule the desktop world, but they don't want to "dumb down" the OS so it's usable by regular people. Make a decision, you can't have it both ways.
"For some reason we ignore all of that when it comes to economics"
I would think that the reason it gets ignored it obvious:
Money is power. Those with power make more money because they can influence the system. It's a system that cannibalizes itself, because the cost of power keeps going up, so one must continue to make even greater amounts of money in order to maintain the power necessary to keep making increasing amounts of money.
At some point, the machine is going to hit a limit and break. That said, I really liked your analogy.
It's not that it "can" be abused - it's that it IS abused. Constantly. Consistently. The world continues to fall apart around these people and they simply can't be bothered to give a hot shit. Governments have failed. Regulation has failed. As time goes on this imaginary utopia capitalism is supposed to deliver us to looks more and more like a cage you're born in to and die in service of.
I thought it was illegal to replace workers for a specified period of time after a layoff. For example, If I lay off Joan the Accountant, I can't hire another accountant to take her place for a fixed period unless I specifically offer the job back to Joan first.
My HTC One M8 gets just over two days of standby time and up to a day of battery if I'm actively using it. If your phone is dying at the worst times, get a phone that doesn't suck.
How exactly to you envision a personal digital assistant working without looking at the information you'd want it to act on? Are you really that stupid?
If you don't want to use Cortana, just turn it off. Problem solved.
Last I checked, the burden of proof was on the accuser not the accusee. If you're going to run around making grand claims, you should be prepared to back it up with grand evidence.
Even after the moronic voat user was shown to have completely screwed up the entire test slashdot is here referencing it yet again as fact? The new editors - just as shitty as the old ones.
Most people are not going to turn off their ad-blocking software just to read Wired. Regardless, the quality of their content has been dropping steadily over the last decade.
Yeah, I really hate it when the system goes out of its way to patch several hundred vulnerabilities before the black hats are able to add the computer to the borg collective. It's just HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE I say!
This is indicative of a more serious problem - the fact that Linux and FOSS zealotry is so great that they can't be bothered to learn anything about the systems they're attacking. Half the people I run in to who are like this think Windows 10 is just Windows 98 with a new skin.
Windows has faults - I think we can all agree on that. However if you're going to attack something at a fundamental level, you really should know that something well enough to understand what you're talking about. I find it doubtful that you can have that deep understanding if you've spent the last decade actively avoiding it.
As a community, we need to actively discourage FUD in all its forms - even when it's FUD that is attacking something we may not like.
No they do not. This is complete bullshit. Code is code. It's either, good, or it isn't. If you stop running around like a chicken with your head cut off long enough to actually listen to women in tech, the vast majority do not actually encounter these imaginary issues you think are so rampant.
Rob. What an asshole. He's trying to hard to put her in a situation where she'll say something that supports the narrative he's hoping for. He should be fired. This wasn't so much an interview as it was an attempted ambush.
I don't agree with their stance on headphone jacks because it limits your options for headphones and microphones and makes it so you have one more thing to charge, but sim cards are pretty stupid. It's just a physical set of credentials for a phone, and there are any number of non-hardware ways we could do that.
It would be even nicer if we could just run them on farts and rainbows. After all, that's about as likely to work as suggesting water should be used as a fuel source.
Freedom of speech means you can mostly say what you want free from legal reprisal provided it is not damaging or defaming someone. What it isn't is the right to force your way on to anyone's podium in order to present your message.
I 100% disagree with Dawkins on this one. There is no freedom of speech issue here.
...6 years ago, and haven't needed to look back since. For as closed source as they might be, at least stuff usually works like it should. AMD on the other hand has a long history of burning its users. I find intel processors more reliable too. Sure I'll pay a little more, but I'd rather not find the gotchas that always crop up with AMD hardware later.
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The ultimate Cox block.
You don't need knowledge of a process for that process to occur. Sure we had evolution as a concept before he had any idea of genetics, but that doesn't mean clarifying knowledge has no place in the explanation. That's like saying a rock is not really made up of atoms because at one point we didn't know atoms existed.
Natural Selection does not show how evolution works, because it's only tangentially related to how organisms change over time. Evolution IS genetic drift. It's the process by which new gene sequences occur in offspring. Natural selection is an influence for what genetic material is allowed to be passed on to future generations. You can have evolution without any kind of natural or artificial selection.
Most people don't even know the difference between evolution and natural selection. When asked what that difference is, many will insist it's the same thing. Most people also equate evolution with constant improvement, even though that's not really what it is.
The part where your ridiculous argument tends to fall apart is that most modern games still run on 5-year old hardware.
They aren't. He's just a clueless idiot that wishes something Microsoft-made would fail.
If it runs like shit on Windows, the game will fail. End of story.
You need to stop thinking like a clueless zealot and start coming to terms with the fact that the average gamer runs Windows and will likely never switch because there is no reason to. He doesn't give a hot shit about your ranting, he just wants his games to run well.
If Linux wants the gamer market they need to have a compelling reason to get people to want to use it. Features or performance gamers can't live without. So far, Linux has none of these things while at the same time creating a high barrier to entry via an unfriendly community and an OS that is a pain in the ass to make work the way you want it to.
Not until open source devs start taking he general market seriously enough to up their game. They're still making the shittiest most unfriendly UIs out of all the OSes. Even android, arguably the most user friendly Linux distro, had to be made from the ground up with a strong focus on UI.
That's really the problem though. Linux users want to rule the desktop world, but they don't want to "dumb down" the OS so it's usable by regular people. Make a decision, you can't have it both ways.
"For some reason we ignore all of that when it comes to economics"
I would think that the reason it gets ignored it obvious:
Money is power. Those with power make more money because they can influence the system. It's a system that cannibalizes itself, because the cost of power keeps going up, so one must continue to make even greater amounts of money in order to maintain the power necessary to keep making increasing amounts of money.
At some point, the machine is going to hit a limit and break. That said, I really liked your analogy.
It's not that it "can" be abused - it's that it IS abused. Constantly. Consistently. The world continues to fall apart around these people and they simply can't be bothered to give a hot shit. Governments have failed. Regulation has failed. As time goes on this imaginary utopia capitalism is supposed to deliver us to looks more and more like a cage you're born in to and die in service of.
Yeah. More jobs. Just not for you, or your kids.
I thought it was illegal to replace workers for a specified period of time after a layoff. For example, If I lay off Joan the Accountant, I can't hire another accountant to take her place for a fixed period unless I specifically offer the job back to Joan first.
Is my understanding of labor law incorrect?
My HTC One M8 gets just over two days of standby time and up to a day of battery if I'm actively using it. If your phone is dying at the worst times, get a phone that doesn't suck.
How exactly to you envision a personal digital assistant working without looking at the information you'd want it to act on? Are you really that stupid?
If you don't want to use Cortana, just turn it off. Problem solved.
Last I checked, the burden of proof was on the accuser not the accusee. If you're going to run around making grand claims, you should be prepared to back it up with grand evidence.
Even after the moronic voat user was shown to have completely screwed up the entire test slashdot is here referencing it yet again as fact? The new editors - just as shitty as the old ones.
"Wired to lose 20% of its readership"
Most people are not going to turn off their ad-blocking software just to read Wired. Regardless, the quality of their content has been dropping steadily over the last decade.
Yeah, I really hate it when the system goes out of its way to patch several hundred vulnerabilities before the black hats are able to add the computer to the borg collective. It's just HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE I say!
This is indicative of a more serious problem - the fact that Linux and FOSS zealotry is so great that they can't be bothered to learn anything about the systems they're attacking. Half the people I run in to who are like this think Windows 10 is just Windows 98 with a new skin.
Windows has faults - I think we can all agree on that. However if you're going to attack something at a fundamental level, you really should know that something well enough to understand what you're talking about. I find it doubtful that you can have that deep understanding if you've spent the last decade actively avoiding it.
As a community, we need to actively discourage FUD in all its forms - even when it's FUD that is attacking something we may not like.
No they do not. This is complete bullshit. Code is code. It's either, good, or it isn't. If you stop running around like a chicken with your head cut off long enough to actually listen to women in tech, the vast majority do not actually encounter these imaginary issues you think are so rampant.
Rob. What an asshole. He's trying to hard to put her in a situation where she'll say something that supports the narrative he's hoping for. He should be fired. This wasn't so much an interview as it was an attempted ambush.
I don't agree with their stance on headphone jacks because it limits your options for headphones and microphones and makes it so you have one more thing to charge, but sim cards are pretty stupid. It's just a physical set of credentials for a phone, and there are any number of non-hardware ways we could do that.
So much for "stuff that matters". This is such an awful submission I wonder if the editors even bother to look anymore.
It would be even nicer if we could just run them on farts and rainbows. After all, that's about as likely to work as suggesting water should be used as a fuel source.
Freedom of speech means you can mostly say what you want free from legal reprisal provided it is not damaging or defaming someone. What it isn't is the right to force your way on to anyone's podium in order to present your message.
I 100% disagree with Dawkins on this one. There is no freedom of speech issue here.
...6 years ago, and haven't needed to look back since. For as closed source as they might be, at least stuff usually works like it should. AMD on the other hand has a long history of burning its users. I find intel processors more reliable too. Sure I'll pay a little more, but I'd rather not find the gotchas that always crop up with AMD hardware later.