Sustainable solutions exist today. You don't need a 50% farmer labor force to do so, thanks to technology and improvements over time. There's no question about whether or not we can do sustainable things for 6.7 billion people, the question is why are we not doing so already? What does "first world" have anything to do with the situation? First world or not isn't even relevant.
Climates always change, and cultures too. That doesn't mean that somehow food supply is magically solved or harder to sustain without monsanto.
in either situation, the whole concept is a failure. What's to guarantee that a: a destroy on command function works, or b: a "only allow authenticated" works? What's to guarantee that either one can be bypassed if someone has the physical device, or forgets to do the "destroy on command"?
This is a sign of people watching too much mission impossible and thinking it's a good thing. They should focus on basic security improvements, not try to go fancy with crap that doesn't even work.
Why would you expel someone for warez? That just shows that a school has no actual values/isn't with the times. Please show me a school that would expel a student for torrenting, and that would be a school which should be torn down for a lack of a backbone on sensible policies.
Please remind me of where the harm is for LaMacchia, since he was found not guilty. Please, play more bullshit there, buddy. Swartz's access to Jstor meant nothing as it was public. If he took it down, then what? That means it's nothing to do with copyright or wire fraud if you're simply impacting the network.
Neither belong in jail. It's too bad that you seem to have a complete misunderstanding of the law and reality, just like anyone who's either a: deliberately trolling or b: associated/involved with some aspect of MIT, or c: MAFIAA.
net result: credit card transaction charges are so greedy that in an effort to extract the money directly, they (visa, etc) now are going to get less business.
How does google associate with Intel? Each have their own issues, but that's like lumping Apple in with MS. They all have done questionable things without easy answers, but only 3 of those 4 have actually done ethically questionable things.
It's still surprising when we get a bit more data on exactly *how much* of a dick he was. I wish some of this stuff had come out while he was alive.
Are you kidding? How far back do we need to go? When the iphone was released and they had paid actors that stood in line. The product they sell is not being sold on it's merits, but on attempting to look popular/hip. All the talk about how GPL is somehow "limiting" and how "BSD is more free", even though BSD can = free code becomes nonfree. with thousands and thousands of apple paid folks to push that viewpoint in that somehow BSD is better for being more free, while the same people who take advantage of BSD being able to be made less free, were making the statement. They didn't even invent the ipod scroll wheel, that was synaptics. Yet you don't hear people acknowledging synaptics while using their products every single day in basically every laptop that exists. And yet at the same time, people say apple is better because "it's not Microsoft", while failing to recognize that Apple actually polices what you can do with the computer and anything they don't want to allow you simply aren't allowed to do. Aka ethical quandaries? It's apple's choice. see: controversial app blocking on IOS, etc. Even Stallman makes every one of these arguments.
Since when has any of that represented an actual solid product and since when has that been anything other than the highlighting of that while the software engineers at their company are certainly awesome, the company itself has been as much of a dick as Ballmer.
There is not just "windows". You're not teaching people an OS. You're also teaching them every bit of software they use. Every bit of proprietary windows software in addition. So not just windows. The entire MS office suite, sharepoint, lync, all that shit. All of which is mostly useless until trained. Not to mention that training for it as provided by Microsoft is both a: completely useless and b: insufficient. So you end up having to pay to get people trained for it in addition to the OS, and now you have astronomical training costs (it's microsoft! we're specialized trainers!) + software people don't use in the meantime + license costs + hardware costs.
allowing monsanto to exist has *already* screwed us. Getting rid of them will simply get us past the hump of all the problems and shit they brought about in the first place. If you think we're living because of monsanto crops, you're mistaken. sustainable solutions (and life as we know it) has existed for thousands and thousands of years without them.
Of course, guaranteed. Why? I'd bet you an infinite amount of money that it in some way completely skips the training costs and licensing costs of windows vs linux's nearly instant transition.
There is no winphone market, and the nokia market is steadily going away - as it has ever since they successfully put the MS plant into Nokia's executive staff in the first place.
The only sentence here of relevance is the last sentence: having several options is a good thing. The rest doesn't even exist.
If you think Linux exists because of Samba, I'd like to remind you of a company called Oracle. They are the most important in corporate america. Windows doesn't mean shit in the big picture.
Please, keep going ad hominem. It is clearly reflecting poorly on me. Yes, that must be it. Any other phrases I'm missing? Excuse me while I imagine up some sort of rage you perceive I have, but I don't. Call me whatever you want, but going after people for stating that a product was incredibly poorly designed from a company that treats their customers like crap is not hate, it's explicit fact. Sorry that facts hurt your feelings, I guess?
If you think techies are douchebags, maybe you should find other techies. If you think I am a douchebag, maybe you should try not assuming I'm a douchebag with your silly little confirmation bias which is not based on anything.
I encourage people to try new technology constantly. As someone who represents a lot of vested interests in technology with a larger impact on people than I can even handle anyway, that's basically what I do. However, I don't give any berth to bad products or products made by companies which are known for treating consumers poorly or in an unethical fashion. Which in this case is Razr, with having a mouse that still requires online activation (they never turned it off, they just made it that you *can* turn it off later), while defending the situation. The last company to have done similar anti-consumer things and defend themselves was ubisoft, and look at how much people don't like them. I didn't know that magically this calling out of crap products was somehow "hate", or wrong, or somehow incorrect for being *logical*.
Why yes, clearly the issue is my "hate", not the fact that it's a garbage product by a company sending clear signals of "we do not understand our customers". Clearly that is an argument of substance! Ignore any questions about whether this is even a good design, lets go straight to "Wow, look at what it can do!"
Facepalm. You are what's wrong with technology on every level. Thank goodness you do not represent the public at large.
it's amazing how much of an example we (the US) set in showing other countries how to fail exactly like we do. You'd think more of them would know to do the opposite.
uh, no. It's already on a platform - windows. The concept of having handles on a tablet is not new, alternate, or creative. It's incredibly retarded. Which isn't exactly a surprise that Razer doesn't understand the market anymore after their response to the "you must have your mouse connected to the internet" problems of a few weeks ago. This is a shit product, at a shit price, with shit design. I'd be surprised if they sell at all, considering a $999 price tag. That's even more than surface's crazy price in the first place.
Razer has no idea what they're doing - they keep wanting to foray into gaming, but they really should just double down on making great mice and keyboards instead of these continual failure products. First they had that "gaming laptop" thing which was crap, now this.
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Sustainable solutions exist today. You don't need a 50% farmer labor force to do so, thanks to technology and improvements over time. There's no question about whether or not we can do sustainable things for 6.7 billion people, the question is why are we not doing so already? What does "first world" have anything to do with the situation? First world or not isn't even relevant.
Climates always change, and cultures too. That doesn't mean that somehow food supply is magically solved or harder to sustain without monsanto.
in either situation, the whole concept is a failure. What's to guarantee that a: a destroy on command function works, or b: a "only allow authenticated" works? What's to guarantee that either one can be bypassed if someone has the physical device, or forgets to do the "destroy on command"?
This is a sign of people watching too much mission impossible and thinking it's a good thing. They should focus on basic security improvements, not try to go fancy with crap that doesn't even work.
Why would you expel someone for warez? That just shows that a school has no actual values/isn't with the times. Please show me a school that would expel a student for torrenting, and that would be a school which should be torn down for a lack of a backbone on sensible policies.
Please remind me of where the harm is for LaMacchia, since he was found not guilty. Please, play more bullshit there, buddy. Swartz's access to Jstor meant nothing as it was public. If he took it down, then what? That means it's nothing to do with copyright or wire fraud if you're simply impacting the network.
Neither belong in jail. It's too bad that you seem to have a complete misunderstanding of the law and reality, just like anyone who's either a: deliberately trolling or b: associated/involved with some aspect of MIT, or c: MAFIAA.
net result: credit card transaction charges are so greedy that in an effort to extract the money directly, they (visa, etc) now are going to get less business.
You mean....like a VM?
like everyone else runs android on anything other than a phone/tablet? /facepalm for windowsandroid software to even be created
How does google associate with Intel? Each have their own issues, but that's like lumping Apple in with MS. They all have done questionable things without easy answers, but only 3 of those 4 have actually done ethically questionable things.
It's still surprising when we get a bit more data on exactly *how much* of a dick he was. I wish some of this stuff had come out while he was alive.
Are you kidding? How far back do we need to go? When the iphone was released and they had paid actors that stood in line. The product they sell is not being sold on it's merits, but on attempting to look popular/hip. All the talk about how GPL is somehow "limiting" and how "BSD is more free", even though BSD can = free code becomes nonfree. with thousands and thousands of apple paid folks to push that viewpoint in that somehow BSD is better for being more free, while the same people who take advantage of BSD being able to be made less free, were making the statement. They didn't even invent the ipod scroll wheel, that was synaptics. Yet you don't hear people acknowledging synaptics while using their products every single day in basically every laptop that exists. And yet at the same time, people say apple is better because "it's not Microsoft", while failing to recognize that Apple actually polices what you can do with the computer and anything they don't want to allow you simply aren't allowed to do. Aka ethical quandaries? It's apple's choice. see: controversial app blocking on IOS, etc. Even Stallman makes every one of these arguments.
Since when has any of that represented an actual solid product and since when has that been anything other than the highlighting of that while the software engineers at their company are certainly awesome, the company itself has been as much of a dick as Ballmer.
Are you blind, or oblivious?
There is not just "windows". You're not teaching people an OS. You're also teaching them every bit of software they use. Every bit of proprietary windows software in addition. So not just windows. The entire MS office suite, sharepoint, lync, all that shit. All of which is mostly useless until trained. Not to mention that training for it as provided by Microsoft is both a: completely useless and b: insufficient. So you end up having to pay to get people trained for it in addition to the OS, and now you have astronomical training costs (it's microsoft! we're specialized trainers!) + software people don't use in the meantime + license costs + hardware costs.
It's not even remotely the same as using linux.
allowing monsanto to exist has *already* screwed us. Getting rid of them will simply get us past the hump of all the problems and shit they brought about in the first place. If you think we're living because of monsanto crops, you're mistaken. sustainable solutions (and life as we know it) has existed for thousands and thousands of years without them.
Of course, guaranteed. Why? I'd bet you an infinite amount of money that it in some way completely skips the training costs and licensing costs of windows vs linux's nearly instant transition.
There is no winphone market, and the nokia market is steadily going away - as it has ever since they successfully put the MS plant into Nokia's executive staff in the first place.
The only sentence here of relevance is the last sentence: having several options is a good thing. The rest doesn't even exist.
this isn't a new trick.
creating their own standard to shoot down the competing standard is microsoft's standard technique.
because having to use passwords for identity and thinking passwords are keeping things secure is somehow better?
You do realize the entire premise is flawed, right?
And? My google nexus tablet begs to differ with your assessment, you insensitive clod!
no really - mine runs quite smooth, even if battery life went to crap after the latest patch.
no.
It's problem is stubbornly using their shitty trident engine for years and enormous amounts of compatibility issues contained therein.
If you think Linux exists because of Samba, I'd like to remind you of a company called Oracle. They are the most important in corporate america. Windows doesn't mean shit in the big picture.
MS-Nokia partnership = it's worth investigating if any aspect of this decryption means that windows software is also accessing the unencrypted data.
what's the difference between legally disorderly and illegally disorderly? how do we even define disorderly?
no. Absolutely no.
You do not give up freedom to record just because something is happening. That's absurd.
Please, keep going ad hominem. It is clearly reflecting poorly on me. Yes, that must be it. Any other phrases I'm missing? Excuse me while I imagine up some sort of rage you perceive I have, but I don't. Call me whatever you want, but going after people for stating that a product was incredibly poorly designed from a company that treats their customers like crap is not hate, it's explicit fact. Sorry that facts hurt your feelings, I guess?
If you think techies are douchebags, maybe you should find other techies. If you think I am a douchebag, maybe you should try not assuming I'm a douchebag with your silly little confirmation bias which is not based on anything.
I encourage people to try new technology constantly. As someone who represents a lot of vested interests in technology with a larger impact on people than I can even handle anyway, that's basically what I do. However, I don't give any berth to bad products or products made by companies which are known for treating consumers poorly or in an unethical fashion. Which in this case is Razr, with having a mouse that still requires online activation (they never turned it off, they just made it that you *can* turn it off later), while defending the situation. The last company to have done similar anti-consumer things and defend themselves was ubisoft, and look at how much people don't like them. I didn't know that magically this calling out of crap products was somehow "hate", or wrong, or somehow incorrect for being *logical*.
quit trolling me.
Plants aren't people. Soylent greens are.
Why yes, clearly the issue is my "hate", not the fact that it's a garbage product by a company sending clear signals of "we do not understand our customers". Clearly that is an argument of substance! Ignore any questions about whether this is even a good design, lets go straight to "Wow, look at what it can do!"
Facepalm. You are what's wrong with technology on every level. Thank goodness you do not represent the public at large.
it's amazing how much of an example we (the US) set in showing other countries how to fail exactly like we do. You'd think more of them would know to do the opposite.
uh, no. It's already on a platform - windows. The concept of having handles on a tablet is not new, alternate, or creative. It's incredibly retarded. Which isn't exactly a surprise that Razer doesn't understand the market anymore after their response to the "you must have your mouse connected to the internet" problems of a few weeks ago. This is a shit product, at a shit price, with shit design. I'd be surprised if they sell at all, considering a $999 price tag. That's even more than surface's crazy price in the first place.
Razer has no idea what they're doing - they keep wanting to foray into gaming, but they really should just double down on making great mice and keyboards instead of these continual failure products. First they had that "gaming laptop" thing which was crap, now this.
why should they care?
that's usually an issue of people abusing the service, not an issue of rolling out the service.