Are you seriously trying to defend the claim that Android has been abandoned by Google and all developers? Because that is what the OP is claiming. The relevance that the platform market share has is that it is impossible that the OP could have missed the existence of Android. That it is obvious that it is still under development, and that there is obviously and army of developers who are writing applications for it. Thus it is clearly not abandoned by the platform maker nor by developers.
Answering phones, insurance adjuster, electrician, plumber, real estate agent, book keeper... It doesn't matter. The vast majority of jobs gain nothing from college education. Right now people are being pushed into massive debt to pay for schooling that is totally unnecessary for the jobs that they are getting because so many people have degrees that they have nothing to lose in demanding a degree to answer phones. Because of the education inflation, not only do the degrees not help most people that didn't need it anyway, it devalues degrees for those jobs could benefit from more education.
they cannot get a decent job because they cannot afford an education
This is a myth. The vast majority of jobs do not require an education beyond approximately the 7th grade. The current belief that one needs 17+ years of education to learn how to do things like answer phones is a large part of our economic problem.
The parent poster is the one that made the claim that there was a correlation/causation relationship. I pointed out that his claim of correlation was exactly the opposite of reality. Given that he claimed that 70% market share is abandonment, his claim is detailed long before we could even get to debating correlation and causation.
Does that apply to everyone? Like the CDC, that tries to create fear of death over the mild childhood illness of chicken pox to push a vaccine that their own data shows increases the risk from the disease? And that they list making money as a primary reason to get the vaccine?
Of course you EVERY-vaxxers are just as bad. The chicken pox vaccine is a good example. The CDC gives enough data to show that not only is the disease not a serious health risk, but getting the vaccine can increase the risks from the disease 10 fold. Even so, the EVERY-vaxxers will cry 'murder' if someone chooses to get life long immunity.
Abandoned by every smartphone platform except the one that holds a majority market share. As for the desktop, the smartphone platform that dominates the market is not only running a platform where the apps are written in Java, but is running on Linux, which also has done very poorly on the desktop.
Santa doesn't deliver coal anymore. He did that back in the day when coal was useful in the home. The good children got toys. The bad children got something useful. Today he delivers socks.
- If you choose to have sex anyway, and do not want a child, use contraception. You twit. If you still get pregnant, a) legally the father should get hooked in and b) as an adult who is allowed to roam free and participate in society, you have to accept the consequences of your actions. If you cannot accept responsibility for your actions, you need to be locked up, I don't even want to drive on the same road as you.
Now, if only women would be held to the same legal responsibility that men are.
Who cares if the system becomes outdated. Clearly the poster is willing to buy new systems since he already has a PS3.
As for the Raspberry Pi, as a computer, it was outdated before it was even at the design stage. I have two of them. The interesting things about them are that they are cheap enough that you can throw an entire system at a single problem, and that they are ultra low power. Those are very compelling to me as a hacking geek, but for a kid, it would be in the same category as buying them socks.
Says the hypocrite that spends money on electricity (and likely computer equipment) to post on Slashdot instead of spending that money on someone in need.
Great, then we can have people feeling emotionally good about eating the right number of calories in chocolate cake, while still suffering from horrible nutrition related illnesses. The ELEM (Eat Less Exercise More) diet experiment has been tried. We have overwhelming evidence of it's catastrophic failure.
I would think that TVs would be the ideal target. Sure, the processing power is low, but nobody even considers watching for malware on TVs. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the computer running Linux inside my TV never turns off. Of that is the case, a malware writer the targeted TVs would have 100k - millions of low power but always on and never protected computers to run there malware on.
Of course that would only be if Linux were easy to exploit.
Ongoing breakage is a real problem with Wine. Wine needs to define a packaging system that installs an independent copy of Wine for each game. Let those that want to test the general purpose Wine continue to run their software in a system wide install. Let those that want a specific game/application to run install the version that is tweaked to run the specific application 100%.
Users should be able to launch the installer, select the specific application that they want to install, and point to the Windows install files. What they should get is an application that just works. An application that has no connection to any other windows applications that are installed.
Offer a membership to a movie 'Club'. Have a monthly fee and let the customers have 3 movies out at a time. This would be better than Netflix in that you could pick and watch your movie within the hour. If a customer wanted have a movie marathon one weekend, they could literally go through a dozen movies in a weekend. It is no sweat off of the rental store's nose if the customer changes his movies a half dozen times in a weekend. They will still only have three movies out at a time.
While you are at it, include games. There is a lot of crap out their for all of the systems. The games are expensive. Being able to rent a few games, and when they suck, take them back the same day and try something new would be a boon.
I don't know if anyone does it in other areas, but I haven't seen any rental stores that have a Netflix style subscription.
My guess is that when we get instant translators, what we will see is a cross pollination and eventual merging of the different languages. There are ideas that are hard to translate from one language to another. There just isn't an exact translation. So, if you get a sentence along the lines of "My girlfriend was feeling blatsbrigs last night." there would be no translation for blatsbrigs, so you would just use it untranslated to describe how my girlfriend was feeling. We see this all the time with foreign words being picked up in English. If I want layers of noodles, tomato sauce and cheese in a casserole, I don't ask for it with an English word. I ask for lasagna. If I walked up to a friend and said "Hola Joe! How have you been?" I wouldn't even get a funny look.
With a real time translator, the hard line that currently exists between languages would become a very fuzzy one, and each language could easily become an extension of the other.
I'm thinking that they are 1) better at keeping their secrets, and 2) sex dungeons are just not the big of a deal. They are a lot more common than some people think.
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If Java were any good, it would not have been abandoned by every desktop platform and basically every smartphone platform.
Are you seriously trying to defend the claim that Android has been abandoned by Google and all developers? Because that is what the OP is claiming. The relevance that the platform market share has is that it is impossible that the OP could have missed the existence of Android. That it is obvious that it is still under development, and that there is obviously and army of developers who are writing applications for it. Thus it is clearly not abandoned by the platform maker nor by developers.
Answering phones, insurance adjuster, electrician, plumber, real estate agent, book keeper... It doesn't matter. The vast majority of jobs gain nothing from college education. Right now people are being pushed into massive debt to pay for schooling that is totally unnecessary for the jobs that they are getting because so many people have degrees that they have nothing to lose in demanding a degree to answer phones. Because of the education inflation, not only do the degrees not help most people that didn't need it anyway, it devalues degrees for those jobs could benefit from more education.
they cannot get a decent job because they cannot afford an education
This is a myth. The vast majority of jobs do not require an education beyond approximately the 7th grade. The current belief that one needs 17+ years of education to learn how to do things like answer phones is a large part of our economic problem.
The parent poster is the one that made the claim that there was a correlation/causation relationship. I pointed out that his claim of correlation was exactly the opposite of reality. Given that he claimed that 70% market share is abandonment, his claim is detailed long before we could even get to debating correlation and causation.
Does that apply to everyone? Like the CDC, that tries to create fear of death over the mild childhood illness of chicken pox to push a vaccine that their own data shows increases the risk from the disease? And that they list making money as a primary reason to get the vaccine?
Of course you EVERY-vaxxers are just as bad. The chicken pox vaccine is a good example. The CDC gives enough data to show that not only is the disease not a serious health risk, but getting the vaccine can increase the risks from the disease 10 fold. Even so, the EVERY-vaxxers will cry 'murder' if someone chooses to get life long immunity.
Abandoned by every smartphone platform except the one that holds a majority market share. As for the desktop, the smartphone platform that dominates the market is not only running a platform where the apps are written in Java, but is running on Linux, which also has done very poorly on the desktop.
In your hypothetical situation, the woman is a piece of crap whore.
Yes. "It just happened", never just happens.
Sounds like a design failure on the part of the console manufacturers to me.
The difference is shades of gray.
Santa doesn't deliver coal anymore. He did that back in the day when coal was useful in the home. The good children got toys. The bad children got something useful. Today he delivers socks.
- If you choose to have sex anyway, and do not want a child, use contraception. You twit. If you still get pregnant, a) legally the father should get hooked in and b) as an adult who is allowed to roam free and participate in society, you have to accept the consequences of your actions. If you cannot accept responsibility for your actions, you need to be locked up, I don't even want to drive on the same road as you.
Now, if only women would be held to the same legal responsibility that men are.
Who cares if the system becomes outdated. Clearly the poster is willing to buy new systems since he already has a PS3.
As for the Raspberry Pi, as a computer, it was outdated before it was even at the design stage. I have two of them. The interesting things about them are that they are cheap enough that you can throw an entire system at a single problem, and that they are ultra low power. Those are very compelling to me as a hacking geek, but for a kid, it would be in the same category as buying them socks.
Same here. Our Wii gets used several times a week. The Xbox360 averages only about once a month.
Says the hypocrite that spends money on electricity (and likely computer equipment) to post on Slashdot instead of spending that money on someone in need.
Great, then we can have people feeling emotionally good about eating the right number of calories in chocolate cake, while still suffering from horrible nutrition related illnesses. The ELEM (Eat Less Exercise More) diet experiment has been tried. We have overwhelming evidence of it's catastrophic failure.
I would think that TVs would be the ideal target. Sure, the processing power is low, but nobody even considers watching for malware on TVs. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the computer running Linux inside my TV never turns off. Of that is the case, a malware writer the targeted TVs would have 100k - millions of low power but always on and never protected computers to run there malware on.
Of course that would only be if Linux were easy to exploit.
Ongoing breakage is a real problem with Wine. Wine needs to define a packaging system that installs an independent copy of Wine for each game. Let those that want to test the general purpose Wine continue to run their software in a system wide install. Let those that want a specific game/application to run install the version that is tweaked to run the specific application 100%.
Users should be able to launch the installer, select the specific application that they want to install, and point to the Windows install files. What they should get is an application that just works. An application that has no connection to any other windows applications that are installed.
Offer a membership to a movie 'Club'. Have a monthly fee and let the customers have 3 movies out at a time. This would be better than Netflix in that you could pick and watch your movie within the hour. If a customer wanted have a movie marathon one weekend, they could literally go through a dozen movies in a weekend. It is no sweat off of the rental store's nose if the customer changes his movies a half dozen times in a weekend. They will still only have three movies out at a time.
While you are at it, include games. There is a lot of crap out their for all of the systems. The games are expensive. Being able to rent a few games, and when they suck, take them back the same day and try something new would be a boon.
I don't know if anyone does it in other areas, but I haven't seen any rental stores that have a Netflix style subscription.
That or 25 days. Whichever comes first.
My guess is that when we get instant translators, what we will see is a cross pollination and eventual merging of the different languages. There are ideas that are hard to translate from one language to another. There just isn't an exact translation. So, if you get a sentence along the lines of "My girlfriend was feeling blatsbrigs last night." there would be no translation for blatsbrigs, so you would just use it untranslated to describe how my girlfriend was feeling. We see this all the time with foreign words being picked up in English. If I want layers of noodles, tomato sauce and cheese in a casserole, I don't ask for it with an English word. I ask for lasagna. If I walked up to a friend and said "Hola Joe! How have you been?" I wouldn't even get a funny look.
With a real time translator, the hard line that currently exists between languages would become a very fuzzy one, and each language could easily become an extension of the other.
Sure he is. We just need a constitutional amendment first.
I'm thinking that they are 1) better at keeping their secrets, and 2) sex dungeons are just not the big of a deal. They are a lot more common than some people think.