The judge, Henry Coke Morgan, was born in 1935, so he's either 80 or 81 depending on his month of birth. Maybe his error in judgement is a result of incipient dementia. Maybe it's a good time for him to retire.
Remember those media theorists who said that media companies want to turn the internet into the next evolution of television, where it exists for an oligopoly of content creators to sell to a mass of passive consumers? Facebook is at the forefront of this movement. Zuckerberg's vision is for FB to wrest the crown from the likes of Comcast/Disney/CBS and become the next 800lb content creator (with advertisers footing the bill). Notice how they are burying mundane status updates in users' feeds and drowning them out with 'suggested adverts' and 'so-and-so friend likes this company, check it out' and other such marketing drivel? The writing has been on the wall for quite some time.
One has only to look at the rise of platforms such as Slack to realise that Nicola Mendelsohn is dead wrong. She must be a student of the John C. Dvorak school of prognostication.
Maybe that's where Linux will finally have a chance - as a kickass scalable, reliable thin client OS that natively does things the same way as all those servers out there.
The merged product of Android and Chrome OS fits this bill pretty nicely. Chromebooks are already displacing iPads in the educational sector. Can the business sector be far behind? If Google comes out with private-cloud version of its Apps platform, then that provides another nail in Microsoft's coffin. One might argue that we're trading one oligopolist for another, but hasn't that always been the case?
Under the hood without spyware/Cortana/Edge/store, Windows 10 is actually Windows 8.1.
That's actually false. Windows 10 has a streamlined kernel that furthers the work of the original MinWin project beyond what 8.x had implemented (with positive implications both for resource usage and security), and such things as the new Ubuntu environment coming with the Anniversary Update. 10 may have its (grave and potentially pernicious) flaws, but denying that it has some genuinely beneficial advancements beyond 8.x is to ignore reality.
The answer is universal access to low-cost, reliable contraceptives. Most people (especially women) would rather decouple intercourse from procreation (Roman Catholic dogma to the contrary). They could then knock boots as much as they want whilst practising family planning. Studies show conclusively that women in the developing world favour education and opportunity over being mere baby factories. So the most effective answer to lowering population growth is to empower women and give them control over their wombs. The trick is not to suffer the unintended consequences of China's One Child policy.
I could go write a paper and it would all be very structured and take months and be incomplete and nobody would read it.
Don't discount yourself so readily. Why not write the paper and publish it on Medium or some other website? Or a blog? Though it may take time to reach critical mass, if your ideas are truly novel and compelling, someone of influence will notice them and propagate them. You have little to lose in offering a structured, well-written position piece.
To me, it's a question of why would use use Microsoft Office for anything other final editions meant to be shared (in Office format) with the outside world?
An even better practice would be to have the final document rendered to PDF.
smells of BO while being stuck in the same traffic as they would be in their car
The first objection could be handled with periodic PSA's about the importance of good personal hygiene in crowded conditions (most people with hygiene problems are oblivious and inured to it and if it is pointed out tactfully, they will be sufficiently chastened so as to fix their behaviour).
The second is fixed by having bus-only lanes or corridors.
Most choose to drive out of laziness and sloth. In a dense urban environment, there are precious few reasons for the vast majority of people not to walk the last few blocks from a bus-stop to their destination. Exemptions go to those who are physically incapacitated or are carrying one or more large objects where use of a hand-truck would be impractical. Otherwise, if you have the ability to use your legs, get off your fucking lazy arse and walk, dammit!
Legalising prostitution won't solve all the world's ills. Societal problems like sex slavery are multifarious and complex. The fact that sex slavery still exists does not mean that prostitution shouldn't be legal -- it just means that other root causes need to be mitigated. Your argument is kind of like saying that malignant tumours shouldn't be removed because you'll still suffer from allergies after surgery.
Yeah, Microsoft isn't quite matching RMS's level of enthusiasm for FOSS, either in the enterprise or on the personal computing level, but I think the behemoth has to move at a slow pace, at least for now,
Exactly. RMS doesn't have shareholders to placate, so he can afford to be ideological. MS has many more constituencies and priorities to juggle, so there is much more inertia. It's also pretty obvious that there are competing factions within MS with different visions. Hopefully Nadella will listen to the engineers and politely tell the marketdroids to get bent.
Coercion, violence, trafficking, etc. are not reasons to make prostitution illegal. They are the result of making it illegal.
+1, wishing I had mod points.
As Ed McMahon would say, 'You, sir, are correct!' Most people make the logical fallacy of flipping causality. They forget the lesson of Prohibition in the US. Alcohol was forced underground, making much of it poisonous swill that made imbibers go blind or suffer other maladies, as well as causing a vast increase in organised crime. Making prostitution legal would deny criminal syndicates of a bunch of money, and its regulation would cause an increase in welfare both for the prostitutes and their customers (in the form of compulsory prophylactic use and regular STD tests, for example).
Wish I had mod points. In areas where they have made prostitution legal or at least decriminalised it, statistics have shown lower rates of domestic abuse, violent crime, and STD's. Plus, they enjoy an increase in tax revenue because a formerly illicit occupation can have its workers brought into the mainstream economy to pay taxes. The degree to which some people are so concerned about others' genitals is most irrational.
Concerning your enlightened comment about conflating prostitution and sex trafficking, the same logical fallacy is committed with regards to homosexuality and paedophilia. In the minds of many, someone who is gay must be a raving child molestor who has designs on their young kids. The vast majority of homosexuals are of course as equally horrified by child molestation as most heterosexuals are, but moralists can't be bothered with facts and logic. And I suspect that moralism is an example of psychological overcompensation to mask some repressed tendency in the one passing judgement on others.
The Macs I recycled had crapped-out hard drives, PSU's that went bust, USB ports that were defective, and so forth. They were 3-5 years old, and the owners opted to buy newer hardware rather than replace the offending component. It wasn't simply because the people were too lazy to run malware/virus scans. In fact, these users were typically more technically savvy than the average Windows user. So they would've troubleshot the more obvious symptoms themselves before consulting me.
On average Apple hardware is probably of somewhat higher quality than your Best Buy budget box, but it had better be for the price premium. Do the components that go into a MacBook or Mac Pro have drastically longer MTBF's? Probably not. The price premium is largely down to the logo and the styling. Form over function and all that.
You're making the perfect the enemy of the good. Yes, of course the Five Eyes can still spy on you if they're so determined -- but it raises the bar for the unemployed computer science graduate sitting in an Internet cafe in Nigeria or Moscow. Ubiquitous encryption is a rising tide that lifts all boats.
Agreed. When x86 represented the vast majority of corporate and consumer sales -- as recently as 2008-2009, before the iPhone and iPad made smartphones and tablets mass-market products -- the regulatory argument held more water. Now that ARM-family chips ship in so many devices, x86 isn't the dominant CPU architecture it once was. Intel's competition isn't AMD, but rather ARM licensees -- hence their huge push into beefing up their Atom line. As ARM64 use explodes, watch Intel's server footprint decline similarly.
FTFY. One could make that argument when Jobs was still alive. Under Cook's tenure, we've had quite a few clusterfucks, the latest being the iOS 9.3 disaster. Cook is proving to be a ho-hum CEO in the vein of Gil Amelio and company.
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The judge, Henry Coke Morgan, was born in 1935, so he's either 80 or 81 depending on his month of birth. Maybe his error in judgement is a result of incipient dementia. Maybe it's a good time for him to retire.
Remember those media theorists who said that media companies want to turn the internet into the next evolution of television, where it exists for an oligopoly of content creators to sell to a mass of passive consumers? Facebook is at the forefront of this movement. Zuckerberg's vision is for FB to wrest the crown from the likes of Comcast/Disney/CBS and become the next 800lb content creator (with advertisers footing the bill). Notice how they are burying mundane status updates in users' feeds and drowning them out with 'suggested adverts' and 'so-and-so friend likes this company, check it out' and other such marketing drivel? The writing has been on the wall for quite some time.
One has only to look at the rise of platforms such as Slack to realise that Nicola Mendelsohn is dead wrong. She must be a student of the John C. Dvorak school of prognostication.
It should be:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Policies -or-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
Credit goes to user foobar in the article's comment section.
Maybe that's where Linux will finally have a chance - as a kickass scalable, reliable thin client OS that natively does things the same way as all those servers out there.
The merged product of Android and Chrome OS fits this bill pretty nicely. Chromebooks are already displacing iPads in the educational sector. Can the business sector be far behind? If Google comes out with private-cloud version of its Apps platform, then that provides another nail in Microsoft's coffin. One might argue that we're trading one oligopolist for another, but hasn't that always been the case?
Under the hood without spyware/Cortana/Edge/store, Windows 10 is actually Windows 8.1.
That's actually false. Windows 10 has a streamlined kernel that furthers the work of the original MinWin project beyond what 8.x had implemented (with positive implications both for resource usage and security), and such things as the new Ubuntu environment coming with the Anniversary Update. 10 may have its (grave and potentially pernicious) flaws, but denying that it has some genuinely beneficial advancements beyond 8.x is to ignore reality.
Only people of working age would get a UBI. Yours is a common misunderstanding of the concept.
The answer is universal access to low-cost, reliable contraceptives. Most people (especially women) would rather decouple intercourse from procreation (Roman Catholic dogma to the contrary). They could then knock boots as much as they want whilst practising family planning. Studies show conclusively that women in the developing world favour education and opportunity over being mere baby factories. So the most effective answer to lowering population growth is to empower women and give them control over their wombs. The trick is not to suffer the unintended consequences of China's One Child policy.
At the same time however, most liberals don't believe in human nature either. Simply look at the loons who believe one's sex is a "choice".
Uh, it's religious conservatives who believe that sexual orientation is a choice, not largely secular social liberals. Doh!
I could go write a paper and it would all be very structured and take months and be incomplete and nobody would read it.
Don't discount yourself so readily. Why not write the paper and publish it on Medium or some other website? Or a blog? Though it may take time to reach critical mass, if your ideas are truly novel and compelling, someone of influence will notice them and propagate them. You have little to lose in offering a structured, well-written position piece.
Alexis de Tocqueville commented on the very same thing when he published Democracy In America in 1835 (Vol. I) and 1840 (Vol. II).
Whatever galaxy you're in, you've got problems and even if you're smart, you might not be able to solve them.
Hence Alan Kay's observation that perspective (or context) is worth 80 IQ points. :)
To me, it's a question of why would use use Microsoft Office for anything other final editions meant to be shared (in Office format) with the outside world?
An even better practice would be to have the final document rendered to PDF.
IMDB is owned by Amazon, not Google. (Citation.)
smells of BO while being stuck in the same traffic as they would be in their car
The first objection could be handled with periodic PSA's about the importance of good personal hygiene in crowded conditions (most people with hygiene problems are oblivious and inured to it and if it is pointed out tactfully, they will be sufficiently chastened so as to fix their behaviour).
The second is fixed by having bus-only lanes or corridors.
That's why they choose to drive.
Most choose to drive out of laziness and sloth. In a dense urban environment, there are precious few reasons for the vast majority of people not to walk the last few blocks from a bus-stop to their destination. Exemptions go to those who are physically incapacitated or are carrying one or more large objects where use of a hand-truck would be impractical. Otherwise, if you have the ability to use your legs, get off your fucking lazy arse and walk, dammit!
Prohibition doesn't work as well as regulation.
This times infinity. ++++...oo
Legalising prostitution won't solve all the world's ills. Societal problems like sex slavery are multifarious and complex. The fact that sex slavery still exists does not mean that prostitution shouldn't be legal -- it just means that other root causes need to be mitigated. Your argument is kind of like saying that malignant tumours shouldn't be removed because you'll still suffer from allergies after surgery.
Yeah, Microsoft isn't quite matching RMS's level of enthusiasm for FOSS, either in the enterprise or on the personal computing level, but I think the behemoth has to move at a slow pace, at least for now,
Exactly. RMS doesn't have shareholders to placate, so he can afford to be ideological. MS has many more constituencies and priorities to juggle, so there is much more inertia. It's also pretty obvious that there are competing factions within MS with different visions. Hopefully Nadella will listen to the engineers and politely tell the marketdroids to get bent.
Coercion, violence, trafficking, etc. are not reasons to make prostitution illegal. They are the result of making it illegal.
+1, wishing I had mod points.
As Ed McMahon would say, 'You, sir, are correct!' Most people make the logical fallacy of flipping causality. They forget the lesson of Prohibition in the US. Alcohol was forced underground, making much of it poisonous swill that made imbibers go blind or suffer other maladies, as well as causing a vast increase in organised crime. Making prostitution legal would deny criminal syndicates of a bunch of money, and its regulation would cause an increase in welfare both for the prostitutes and their customers (in the form of compulsory prophylactic use and regular STD tests, for example).
+1
Wish I had mod points. In areas where they have made prostitution legal or at least decriminalised it, statistics have shown lower rates of domestic abuse, violent crime, and STD's. Plus, they enjoy an increase in tax revenue because a formerly illicit occupation can have its workers brought into the mainstream economy to pay taxes. The degree to which some people are so concerned about others' genitals is most irrational.
Concerning your enlightened comment about conflating prostitution and sex trafficking, the same logical fallacy is committed with regards to homosexuality and paedophilia. In the minds of many, someone who is gay must be a raving child molestor who has designs on their young kids. The vast majority of homosexuals are of course as equally horrified by child molestation as most heterosexuals are, but moralists can't be bothered with facts and logic. And I suspect that moralism is an example of psychological overcompensation to mask some repressed tendency in the one passing judgement on others.
The Macs I recycled had crapped-out hard drives, PSU's that went bust, USB ports that were defective, and so forth. They were 3-5 years old, and the owners opted to buy newer hardware rather than replace the offending component. It wasn't simply because the people were too lazy to run malware/virus scans. In fact, these users were typically more technically savvy than the average Windows user. So they would've troubleshot the more obvious symptoms themselves before consulting me.
On average Apple hardware is probably of somewhat higher quality than your Best Buy budget box, but it had better be for the price premium. Do the components that go into a MacBook or Mac Pro have drastically longer MTBF's? Probably not. The price premium is largely down to the logo and the styling. Form over function and all that.
You're making the perfect the enemy of the good. Yes, of course the Five Eyes can still spy on you if they're so determined -- but it raises the bar for the unemployed computer science graduate sitting in an Internet cafe in Nigeria or Moscow. Ubiquitous encryption is a rising tide that lifts all boats.
Agreed. When x86 represented the vast majority of corporate and consumer sales -- as recently as 2008-2009, before the iPhone and iPad made smartphones and tablets mass-market products -- the regulatory argument held more water. Now that ARM-family chips ship in so many devices, x86 isn't the dominant CPU architecture it once was. Intel's competition isn't AMD, but rather ARM licensees -- hence their huge push into beefing up their Atom line. As ARM64 use explodes, watch Intel's server footprint decline similarly.
Apple was about building a good product.
FTFY. One could make that argument when Jobs was still alive. Under Cook's tenure, we've had quite a few clusterfucks, the latest being the iOS 9.3 disaster. Cook is proving to be a ho-hum CEO in the vein of Gil Amelio and company.