Because Apple doesn't have anything like a dominant position on mobile devices (that would be Android), whereas Microsoft still has that level of dominance on PCs.
And would likely, in the EU, at least, lead to Microsoft being financially punished and being forced on threat of even greater monetary fines to open up Windows S to other browsers. I don't think Microsoft has the guts to do it anymore. This isn't the MS of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Not that I think it isn't run by a pack of evil sociopaths, but Microsoft no longer has the operating system dominance to bully its way back up that way.
Or maybe your usage scenario is atypical. The average commute distance in the United States is about 15 miles one-way https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/s.... So yes, while we can all come up with dozens of scenarios where an EV won't work, at least not with currently available battery technology, the fact is that EVs would likely work for most people.
Edge is still such a piece of crap, the UI so amateurish, that I'd gladly sacrifice a bit of battery life to use Chrome. So far as I'm concerned, Microsoft has lost the browser wars.
And how would pollution be accounted for, particularly when in most environments it actually takes time for pollutants to build up to a level where they start a problem? To my mind, a keen capitalist in such a "free market" would busy himself maximizing profits by ignoring pollution, and then walk away once the extent of the damage he had done became evident. And low and behold, that's often what has happened:
The coal and rust belts throughout the industrialized world are filled with these sort of toxic dumps, and guess who is on the hook in most cases for cleaning them up. That's right; the taxpayers within those jurisdictions.
In fact, that's not even the limit of how evil industries can be. The sugar and tobacco industries not only sold products highly dangerous to human health, but used junk science to hide the fact that they were killing people... for decades. And who was left responsible for decades worth of cancers, heart disease, diabetes, and so forth? That's right, the taxpayer (or in the US, in many cases, those who paid health insurance premiums). These companies became some of the most successful companies in the world, raking in vast profits, and letting governments and insurance companies deal with the carnage they were producing.
Sorry mate, your free market is an utter fantasy, a religion as daft as $cientology. Free markets cannot be unconstrained, and there must be regulation in place, because its government's job to look out for the people. I'm all onboard for capitalism and free enterprise, but the idea that some guy who makes thousands of times my hourly wage gives one single fuck about my wellbeing or that somehow he'll feel the need to moderate his company's actions for my best interests is, well, just plain absurd.
In other words, they managed to maintain their sovereign wealth fund, rather than blowing it like petrojurisdictions like Venezuela and Alberta did, and now can channel that money into the next generation of energy production and use. You'll note that Saudi Arabia is doing the same thing now, but on an even larger scale.
The fact that major oil producing nations like Saudi Arabia and Norway are clearly planning for a post-oil future ought to tell you something.
An LP and optical media are anything but permanent. Books certainly can last a while, but as i discovered when I pulled a box of my old books a year or two ago, a few years stored in less than optimal conditions, and you won't want to keep them.
My solution is digital, but stored in multiple places are reduplicated in one way or another once or twice a year. Still a risk of small amount of loss, but that's made up for by convenience. I have ebooks I bought a decade ago that I can still read; the file is still intact, stored on multiple media, and yes, the evil "cloud". I have MP3s that are much older than that.
What me? Nah, I think it's a crime against the white man to have hispanics being dressed up in white man hero's pajamas! How dare those SJWs! You and I should get together and form some sort of gang to hound these race traitors.
Yeah, because we all know that the white race will fall if there's a Hispanic Spider man. The white man must be preserved, even imaginary white men like Peter Parker! Let's you and me together join forces to harass anyone who creates or advertisers those filthy Hispanic Spiderman comics! They are a perversion, a diluting of a white man's story!
What's the problem. It's pretty clear gay people, people with darker skin or funny names are clearly threats against the sanctity and purity of the White Race. Oh sure, they're equal in principal, but they should go back where they came from, you know, because if they're around too long, some white folks might take a liking to them, and then you get mixed-race babies, and those pure races get watered down. As to gays and feminists, well, I mean who likes homos and uppety women? The white man, who is sacrosanct, must not be threatened, not even in an imaginary way. Therefore, gays need to be shoved back in the closet, anyone of indeterminate sexuality is clearly mentally ill and needs to be forced into treatment, and kept there until they accept that a free society cannot tolerate some with a Y chromosome in a dress. In general all Liberals should be hunted down and forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh and Fox and Friends until they finally understand that God loves the white man best and wants to make sure uppety dark skinned types, feminists, negroes, oh yes, and female school teachers, are never able to threaten the purity and righteousness of the white man!
So long as they keep making money, the studios will keep making them. If enough people feel as you do, the studios will move on to something else.
I feel the same way about vampire/supernatural hunter shows on TV. The number of these shows is incredible in this post-Buffy age, but the quality, at least of the ones I've seen, is pretty appalling. And yet the genre has a huge number of viewers, so as long as people are willing to tune in in the numbers they do, these shows will continue to propagate.
Nonsense! When the Fourth Reich arises, those pesky minorities will be put in their place, and the White Man will once again be pre-eminent, you know, sort of like he is now, when he's not sitting there sobbing like the delicate snowflake that he is because someone dared to make a black or gay superhero.
Says the person who works around women every day and doesn't imagine that they're all out to cut off my genitals. You know, I'm an actual functional adult, not some 4chan man child
Relationships between staff have always been problematic, and relationships between managers and subordinates even more so. Many, if not most firms now, have pretty strong HR policies against any relationships involving any kind of power imbalance; the classic "executive sleeping with his secretary" scenario, because that power imbalance will always raise questions as to whether there is true consent. It's one thing to have to cubicle workers of equal standing having a relationship. While that can create some degree of havoc, particularly if they breakup badly, it's the supervisor/subordinate relationships where HR and legal's nightmares can come true; where someone in a subordinate position can be claimed to have had a consensual relationship with someone further up the chain, and yet the company still ends up in hot water when the subordinate, often because of a messy breakup or because their supervisor love interest didn't make good on certain professional promises (ie. I'm going to make sure you're promoted ASAP, and it doesn't happen), and then suddenly the whole question of whether there was a coercive element to the relationship rears its ugly head, and suddenly what seemed consensual can morph into an exploitative relationship and yes, possibly even sexual assault.
So firms usually have a limited number of options. One is to outright ban such relationships, and if a manager gets caught having a sexual relationship with a secretary, one or both are reprimanded or fired. The other is to require a change to the reporting relationship so the manager is no longer in a position to do special favors for the subordinate, or if the relationship goes sour, to do the subordinate some sort of professional harm. This solution may be available to larger firms where one of the employees can be shunted into a different department, but may not be feasible in smaller companies. The third solution is the (in)famous "love contract", whereby HR and/or legal sits down with the the manager and subordinate separately, tries to determine whether the relationship is truly consensual, makes both parties sign a contract declaring that they are in the relationship freely, and then makes a number of performance requirements. I've heard that these love contracts, while they will get 100% buy-in from the two at the time, don't always guarantee things go smoothly in the longer run, but they may at least be strong enough to prevent the company being dragged into a sexual assault or wrongful dismissal case, and may even give the company sufficient leverage to sack one or both people in the relationship should it prove too disruptive to business operations.
OLE and DDE certainly serve the same purpose, but OLE is Microsoft's implementation of CORBA, which has been around since the 1980s. So far as I understand it, at least in theory, OLE is supposed to interact with other CORBA implementations.
Frankly anyone with any good sense should have been avoiding DDE for 20 years. The reality is that Microsoft should have killed it in the late 90s. Even without considering the security implications, it's a goddamned awkward data exchange protocol compared to OLE. The fact that Microsoft maintained this antiquated protocol really is the problem.
I have a four or five year old Trendnet switch whose web interface doesn't render properly in Chrome, Firefox or Edge, so I have to use IE unless I want to go telnet or ssh. So there is definitely embedded legacy applications where IE is still needed, but that's about the only thing left that still forces me into IE.
Most Western countries, where a good fraction of such pollution is still produced, is in a general demographic decline. Population increases, which will level out, cannot be the only explanation for this.
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Because Apple doesn't have anything like a dominant position on mobile devices (that would be Android), whereas Microsoft still has that level of dominance on PCs.
In other words; apples and oranges.
And would likely, in the EU, at least, lead to Microsoft being financially punished and being forced on threat of even greater monetary fines to open up Windows S to other browsers. I don't think Microsoft has the guts to do it anymore. This isn't the MS of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Not that I think it isn't run by a pack of evil sociopaths, but Microsoft no longer has the operating system dominance to bully its way back up that way.
Or maybe your usage scenario is atypical. The average commute distance in the United States is about 15 miles one-way https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/s.... So yes, while we can all come up with dozens of scenarios where an EV won't work, at least not with currently available battery technology, the fact is that EVs would likely work for most people.
Edge is still such a piece of crap, the UI so amateurish, that I'd gladly sacrifice a bit of battery life to use Chrome. So far as I'm concerned, Microsoft has lost the browser wars.
And how would pollution be accounted for, particularly when in most environments it actually takes time for pollutants to build up to a level where they start a problem? To my mind, a keen capitalist in such a "free market" would busy himself maximizing profits by ignoring pollution, and then walk away once the extent of the damage he had done became evident. And low and behold, that's often what has happened:
Sydney Tar Ponds
The coal and rust belts throughout the industrialized world are filled with these sort of toxic dumps, and guess who is on the hook in most cases for cleaning them up. That's right; the taxpayers within those jurisdictions.
In fact, that's not even the limit of how evil industries can be. The sugar and tobacco industries not only sold products highly dangerous to human health, but used junk science to hide the fact that they were killing people... for decades. And who was left responsible for decades worth of cancers, heart disease, diabetes, and so forth? That's right, the taxpayer (or in the US, in many cases, those who paid health insurance premiums). These companies became some of the most successful companies in the world, raking in vast profits, and letting governments and insurance companies deal with the carnage they were producing.
Sorry mate, your free market is an utter fantasy, a religion as daft as $cientology. Free markets cannot be unconstrained, and there must be regulation in place, because its government's job to look out for the people. I'm all onboard for capitalism and free enterprise, but the idea that some guy who makes thousands of times my hourly wage gives one single fuck about my wellbeing or that somehow he'll feel the need to moderate his company's actions for my best interests is, well, just plain absurd.
In other words, they managed to maintain their sovereign wealth fund, rather than blowing it like petrojurisdictions like Venezuela and Alberta did, and now can channel that money into the next generation of energy production and use. You'll note that Saudi Arabia is doing the same thing now, but on an even larger scale.
The fact that major oil producing nations like Saudi Arabia and Norway are clearly planning for a post-oil future ought to tell you something.
An LP and optical media are anything but permanent. Books certainly can last a while, but as i discovered when I pulled a box of my old books a year or two ago, a few years stored in less than optimal conditions, and you won't want to keep them.
My solution is digital, but stored in multiple places are reduplicated in one way or another once or twice a year. Still a risk of small amount of loss, but that's made up for by convenience. I have ebooks I bought a decade ago that I can still read; the file is still intact, stored on multiple media, and yes, the evil "cloud". I have MP3s that are much older than that.
What me? Nah, I think it's a crime against the white man to have hispanics being dressed up in white man hero's pajamas! How dare those SJWs! You and I should get together and form some sort of gang to hound these race traitors.
Yeah, because we all know that the white race will fall if there's a Hispanic Spider man. The white man must be preserved, even imaginary white men like Peter Parker! Let's you and me together join forces to harass anyone who creates or advertisers those filthy Hispanic Spiderman comics! They are a perversion, a diluting of a white man's story!
What's the problem. It's pretty clear gay people, people with darker skin or funny names are clearly threats against the sanctity and purity of the White Race. Oh sure, they're equal in principal, but they should go back where they came from, you know, because if they're around too long, some white folks might take a liking to them, and then you get mixed-race babies, and those pure races get watered down. As to gays and feminists, well, I mean who likes homos and uppety women? The white man, who is sacrosanct, must not be threatened, not even in an imaginary way. Therefore, gays need to be shoved back in the closet, anyone of indeterminate sexuality is clearly mentally ill and needs to be forced into treatment, and kept there until they accept that a free society cannot tolerate some with a Y chromosome in a dress. In general all Liberals should be hunted down and forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh and Fox and Friends until they finally understand that God loves the white man best and wants to make sure uppety dark skinned types, feminists, negroes, oh yes, and female school teachers, are never able to threaten the purity and righteousness of the white man!
So long as they keep making money, the studios will keep making them. If enough people feel as you do, the studios will move on to something else.
I feel the same way about vampire/supernatural hunter shows on TV. The number of these shows is incredible in this post-Buffy age, but the quality, at least of the ones I've seen, is pretty appalling. And yet the genre has a huge number of viewers, so as long as people are willing to tune in in the numbers they do, these shows will continue to propagate.
Nonsense! When the Fourth Reich arises, those pesky minorities will be put in their place, and the White Man will once again be pre-eminent, you know, sort of like he is now, when he's not sitting there sobbing like the delicate snowflake that he is because someone dared to make a black or gay superhero.
When you were taught logical fallacies, I think you may have been mistaken in imagining that they were good things.
Says the person who works around women every day and doesn't imagine that they're all out to cut off my genitals. You know, I'm an actual functional adult, not some 4chan man child
That's certainly a solution for you, as you sound like the emotionally stunted troglodyte who has no idea how to behave around women.
Relationships between staff have always been problematic, and relationships between managers and subordinates even more so. Many, if not most firms now, have pretty strong HR policies against any relationships involving any kind of power imbalance; the classic "executive sleeping with his secretary" scenario, because that power imbalance will always raise questions as to whether there is true consent. It's one thing to have to cubicle workers of equal standing having a relationship. While that can create some degree of havoc, particularly if they breakup badly, it's the supervisor/subordinate relationships where HR and legal's nightmares can come true; where someone in a subordinate position can be claimed to have had a consensual relationship with someone further up the chain, and yet the company still ends up in hot water when the subordinate, often because of a messy breakup or because their supervisor love interest didn't make good on certain professional promises (ie. I'm going to make sure you're promoted ASAP, and it doesn't happen), and then suddenly the whole question of whether there was a coercive element to the relationship rears its ugly head, and suddenly what seemed consensual can morph into an exploitative relationship and yes, possibly even sexual assault.
So firms usually have a limited number of options. One is to outright ban such relationships, and if a manager gets caught having a sexual relationship with a secretary, one or both are reprimanded or fired. The other is to require a change to the reporting relationship so the manager is no longer in a position to do special favors for the subordinate, or if the relationship goes sour, to do the subordinate some sort of professional harm. This solution may be available to larger firms where one of the employees can be shunted into a different department, but may not be feasible in smaller companies. The third solution is the (in)famous "love contract", whereby HR and/or legal sits down with the the manager and subordinate separately, tries to determine whether the relationship is truly consensual, makes both parties sign a contract declaring that they are in the relationship freely, and then makes a number of performance requirements. I've heard that these love contracts, while they will get 100% buy-in from the two at the time, don't always guarantee things go smoothly in the longer run, but they may at least be strong enough to prevent the company being dragged into a sexual assault or wrongful dismissal case, and may even give the company sufficient leverage to sack one or both people in the relationship should it prove too disruptive to business operations.
OLE and DDE certainly serve the same purpose, but OLE is Microsoft's implementation of CORBA, which has been around since the 1980s. So far as I understand it, at least in theory, OLE is supposed to interact with other CORBA implementations.
Frankly anyone with any good sense should have been avoiding DDE for 20 years. The reality is that Microsoft should have killed it in the late 90s. Even without considering the security implications, it's a goddamned awkward data exchange protocol compared to OLE. The fact that Microsoft maintained this antiquated protocol really is the problem.
I seriously pondered recording me saying "Have you turned it off and on again?" and playing it every time my phone rang when I worked in support.
I have a four or five year old Trendnet switch whose web interface doesn't render properly in Chrome, Firefox or Edge, so I have to use IE unless I want to go telnet or ssh. So there is definitely embedded legacy applications where IE is still needed, but that's about the only thing left that still forces me into IE.
http://www.jesc.ac.cn/jesc_cn/...
http://www.researchinventy.com...
http://doc.utwente.nl/77454/1/...
http://irina.eas.gatech.edu/EA...
CO2's properties are well known. What you've just written is pure bullshit.
Thanks Ivan, how's the weather in st Petersburg?
Most Western countries, where a good fraction of such pollution is still produced, is in a general demographic decline. Population increases, which will level out, cannot be the only explanation for this.