The absolute only place it has any advantage is if you want to lie down in bed and watch movies on a bigger screen- which isn't a big enough niche, and most people are happy using their phones for (or getting a TV in their bedroom). Which is why tablets are dying.
If one stops to think about the idea, it makes sense for a plutocracy that believes in a surveillance state to build spyware into the products its communications industry exports.
Not really. All good and well unless someone figures it out. Then *everyone* stops buying your products. You are out the surveillance and the profits.
They know that in basic capitalist economies, people look for the least expensive option to maximize the most amount of profit.
Huawei and ZTE technology will largely be banned from use by the US government and government contractors. The ban was signed into placed by President Trump today as a component of the much larger Defense Authorization Act.
Maybe you don't understand. The SDK version and the Android version vary independently. There's obviously a mapping between them, but if you look in the link you pasted for a single Android version with 2 different SDK versions, and two different Android versions have a single SDK version. So obviously you can't have "Android version X == SDK version X". You're the one that said it's "worse". It's not "worse" it's a necessity. One is an API version and one is a software version. There are completely different concepts.
That's what I said. It's right there in the text you quoted.
Yes, and the whole point of your post was how it gets "worse" because there's an SDK version. Users never even know about that. So why is it worse?
Do you have evidence that Diversity Hires are lower skilled?
If you do *anything* other than hire based on 100% skill you will end up with a lower skilled workforce.
Well, to be fair, it's possible that the highest skilled workers are also the most diverse workers, in all cases, across tens of thousands of employees.
It's worse than that even. Besides the version number (9) and the name (Pie) there's also something called an API level that only developers see (28).
Android version (7,8,9) and the SDK version (25,26,27) are independent. Moreover, the SDK version is not something a user of Android knows or needs to care about.
Gender is the social expression and recognition of sex
That's fine. But our laws are written regarding sex, not gender. If we want to change the laws, that's fine too. It's a long and arduous process to change laws. That's how our founding parents (see what I did there) wanted it. Change is supposed to come slowly and deliberately so we are not subject to mob rules.
As many others have noted, if we want to remove the notion of sex from laws all together, you can do that too. See above.
Oh, okay, so maybe Trump should repeal the Americans With Disabilities act while he's at it, since it's such a bother to have to make places accessible to someone in a wheelchair or otherwise physically disabled to the point where, say, getting up stairs is impossible for them.
Are you saying trans folks are disabled?
these whiny crybaby military veterans need to STFU
Politics aside, this would actually have some practical benefits. It consumes less floor space and costs less to maintain
Um, what? What the OP suggested is that each person has equal but private "areas" in a restroom. At the very minimum that means all stalls. Ever wondered why the women's restroom line at a ball game goes around the block?
At worst it means single bathrooms like you see in many places (i.e. the "family" restrooms that have a urinal and sit down and sink behind a locked door).
Not to mention the unfathomable cost of re-configuring the nation's bathrooms.
Why not just make all public restrooms co-ed, and configure them such that everyone using them has privacy from everyone else?
Maybe... because re-configuring every freaking bathroom in the United States would destroy the economy, and because it'd result in necessarily fewer usable receptacles per square foot.
I mean, I ain't no smart guy, but that could be it.
I forgot that some people are homophobic and/or can't control themselves around the opposite sex
I'm confused. Are you concerned that straight folks are homophobic or that gay folks can't control themselves around straight men?
However it does seem like it would really be a great gesture of goodwill, to give some large amount of money (say $10k) to the top 100 RedHat contributors, however they felt like defining it...
Most of those people are already paid to do that work... so that'd be strange.
Seems a bit shady though that you put your stuff out for free that someone else can pick it up, package it and sell it on.
If that's the case then don't pick an open source license. Let me quote from the Open Source Definition:
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Rationale: The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it.
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so whats your excuse america ?
I know right? What's the big deal with changing the way the internet backbone works for all of N. America?
That's opposed to a magical solar sail that maintains orientation without attitude control ?
So your ruler is technology that we can understand?
Anyway, the OP didn't say anything about a solar sail. They just rightly pointed out the outgassing theory was already considered and abandoned.
Ding Ding! We have a winner. That is exactly what I see out there. Low end crap, or high end and not worth the price.
You can get a new 10" iPad for $329.
The absolute only place it has any advantage is if you want to lie down in bed and watch movies on a bigger screen- which isn't a big enough niche, and most people are happy using their phones for (or getting a TV in their bedroom). Which is why tablets are dying.
Tablet sales outpaced laptops for a few years and now are about even now:
https://www.statista.com/stati...
There are about 1.5b tablet users worldwide. So yeah, contrary to your arm chair analysis, people love tablets.
Tablet would not do half of what I need to do (half: web browsing and email. Other half: everything else).
The shocking thing is that you think the only possible role for a tablet is the 1-1 replacement of your PC.
If one stops to think about the idea, it makes sense for a plutocracy that believes in a surveillance state to build spyware into the products its communications industry exports.
Not really. All good and well unless someone figures it out. Then *everyone* stops buying your products. You are out the surveillance and the profits.
They know that in basic capitalist economies, people look for the least expensive option to maximize the most amount of profit.
Except this: https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
Huawei and ZTE technology will largely be banned from use by the US government and government contractors. The ban was signed into placed by President Trump today as a component of the much larger Defense Authorization Act.
who cares
What time is over there in Beijing anyway? You've had a hard day of trolling the west. Get some sleep.
Who thought "security through obscurity" was a viable option when people's lives literally hung in the balance?
Who knew you could search the internet?
No they aren't. Here's Google's documentation on them: https://source.android.com/set... [android.com]
Maybe you don't understand. The SDK version and the Android version vary independently. There's obviously a mapping between them, but if you look in the link you pasted for a single Android version with 2 different SDK versions, and two different Android versions have a single SDK version. So obviously you can't have "Android version X == SDK version X". You're the one that said it's "worse". It's not "worse" it's a necessity. One is an API version and one is a software version. There are completely different concepts.
That's what I said. It's right there in the text you quoted.
Yes, and the whole point of your post was how it gets "worse" because there's an SDK version. Users never even know about that. So why is it worse?
I strongly suspect you would not tolerate typical feminist behavior and attitudes if they were coming from men directed at women.
They have this one covered. You cannot be the target of racism or sexism if you are a member of a protected class.
You've posted an insane amount of dishonest comments here before, but this one is by far the worst. What the hell is wrong with you?
From that ultra-conservative rag, the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/0...
Do you have evidence that Diversity Hires are lower skilled?
If you do *anything* other than hire based on 100% skill you will end up with a lower skilled workforce.
Well, to be fair, it's possible that the highest skilled workers are also the most diverse workers, in all cases, across tens of thousands of employees.
It's worse than that even. Besides the version number (9) and the name (Pie) there's also something called an API level that only developers see (28).
Android version (7,8,9) and the SDK version (25,26,27) are independent. Moreover, the SDK version is not something a user of Android knows or needs to care about.
Gender is the social expression and recognition of sex
That's fine. But our laws are written regarding sex, not gender. If we want to change the laws, that's fine too. It's a long and arduous process to change laws. That's how our founding parents (see what I did there) wanted it. Change is supposed to come slowly and deliberately so we are not subject to mob rules.
As many others have noted, if we want to remove the notion of sex from laws all together, you can do that too. See above.
Shut the fuck up.
Good comeback. I've seen the error of my ways.
Whoosh.
P.S., when you create a hyperlink you link just a word or a few words, not the entire sentence.
Oh, okay, so maybe Trump should repeal the Americans With Disabilities act while he's at it, since it's such a bother to have to make places accessible to someone in a wheelchair or otherwise physically disabled to the point where, say, getting up stairs is impossible for them.
Are you saying trans folks are disabled?
these whiny crybaby military veterans need to STFU
Veterans are asking for different bathrooms?
Politics aside, this would actually have some practical benefits. It consumes less floor space and costs less to maintain
Um, what? What the OP suggested is that each person has equal but private "areas" in a restroom. At the very minimum that means all stalls. Ever wondered why the women's restroom line at a ball game goes around the block?
At worst it means single bathrooms like you see in many places (i.e. the "family" restrooms that have a urinal and sit down and sink behind a locked door).
Not to mention the unfathomable cost of re-configuring the nation's bathrooms.
Why not just make all public restrooms co-ed, and configure them such that everyone using them has privacy from everyone else?
Maybe... because re-configuring every freaking bathroom in the United States would destroy the economy, and because it'd result in necessarily fewer usable receptacles per square foot.
I mean, I ain't no smart guy, but that could be it.
I forgot that some people are homophobic and/or can't control themselves around the opposite sex
I'm confused. Are you concerned that straight folks are homophobic or that gay folks can't control themselves around straight men?
Obama, without statute, redefined gender to be whatever someone claims it to be. Trump changed that back to an objective standard.
Can you link to this. Not trolling I just don't know about it.
He hasn't built any walls
Yes but to be fair that's Obama's fault.
However it does seem like it would really be a great gesture of goodwill, to give some large amount of money (say $10k) to the top 100 RedHat contributors, however they felt like defining it...
Most of those people are already paid to do that work... so that'd be strange.
Seems a bit shady though that you put your stuff out for free that someone else can pick it up, package it and sell it on.
If that's the case then don't pick an open source license. Let me quote from the Open Source Definition:
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Rationale: The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it.
https://opensource.org/osd-ann...
And there's another obvious point. If Linux were not free, it would not exist - let alone have any value.
I know, like Windows and MacOS. Oh wait...
You won't know. Period.
I won't know if my cable bill goes up or Netflix starts buffering?
and police aren't elected
I know right. Just last night the police busted down my door for using too much bandwidth.
Do you have any idea how much crooked crap actually goes on at the city/county/and even state level that people never hear about?
No, but I'm sure you do, because you are smarter than the rest of us sheep.