More like Kellyanne Conway unmasked. "I have to conclude the investor meeting, I've got to change into Revolutionary garb to make America safe from inconvenient facts!"
On an unrelated sidenote, hey Slashdot editors, an annoying fixed location ad about "vuln management". Not only offensive, but also, seriously, "vuln management". Sounds like some sort of sci-fi flick where the hero starts out as a "vuln manager", where vulns are large four-winged fanged monstrosities. "So tell me, Creedo Nugalan, what did you do before you became a space pirate?" "Uh, you know, vuln management."
Nadella: [sounding official] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal. Voice: What happened? Nadella: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you? Voice: We're sending a squad up. Nadella: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous. Voice: Who is this? What's your operating number? Nadella: Uh... [Nadella shoots the intercom] Nadella: [muttering] Boring conversation anyway.
I think they're very well aware they have a problem. When they run around declaring because Surfaces outsold Macs, you know they're really reaching for a good news story out of all this. The fact is that Apple and Google are the tech behemoths as the second decade of the 21st century closes, and Microsoft is basically riding on its Office/Backoffice strategy, with its OS dominance slipping badly as people do more and more computing outside the PC domain.
I don't even own any Apple products. I gave my iPhone to my daughter three years ago and never looked back. But facts are facts. Apple is the most successful technology company history, and right now it is hands down the biggest.
It can mean that, or it can mean a company is making so much money that they simply have no real means of re-investing all of it. The fact is that Apple's management is dividend-prudent, and has literally been raking in boatloads of money for several years now. It doesn't represent stagnation, it represents the fact that Apple is the most successful technology company on the planet right now.
It's Microsoft that's running around shouting "WINNING!" Yes, they're doing well, but Apple is the predominant technology company on the planet, and the fact that it's losing a bit of market share in a market where it hasn't had a dominant position for longer than my kids who are in their mid-20s have been alive is an idiotic metric.
Have you looked at Apple's cash reserves? 237.6 billion versus around 113 billion. Apple could buy Microsoft's liquid assets and still have over 100 billion to spare.
I don't think it's laziness, more like cluelessness. There was a big push for several years after smartphones and tablets took off to merge UIs across platforms. I suppose part of the justification was to try to draw in developers from both the smart device and desktop worlds to do more cross-platform work, and part of it was likely just to simplify (read: make less expensive) maintaining and developing features where an OS might be on everything from multiple screen desktops to 5" phones.
At the end of the day, I doubt even a smart UI abstraction layer will ever make these variant UI scenarios fit under one hood. Many web developers have known this for a while, which is why you have mobile and desktop versions of sites in many cases, but I still think Microsoft and Apple need to fully accept the reality that what works on little may look like shit on big (and visa versa, as my experience with an 8" Windows 10 tablet even in tablet mode informs me).
I think most of us have been bit too many times by the bloat that products like Norton AV and McAfee represent. Norton in particular is just a resource hungry monster, and as a good many of the machines in our organization are about seven or eight years old, the idea of putting that kind of CPU cycle ravisher on them fills me with horror. In the end, we upgraded to Windows 10 (a rather mixed experience), and just used the built-in Windows Defender plus a pretty locked down network and good backups so if, somehow, some ransomware gets loose, our actual data loss is fairly low. And that's really the lesson here, AV has never been the entire answer, and relying on it in the absence of good practices and user training has always been a dangerous path.
The universe doesn't give a fuck about your libertarianism. Co2 has the properties it has, no matter your ideological bent. Grow the fuck up you pathetic coward
CO2's properties have been known for over a century. Increasing PPM increases heat trapped. You can try to handwave it away all you like, you can try to make the science sound more uncertain than it is if you like, but that just means you're a coward and a moron.
Reducing CO2 emissions will at least slow the trapping of energy. This is physics, and it doesn't care about your stupidity. CO2 has the properties it has, so grow the fuck up you fucking piece of denying shit.
And on more time, a large amount of global CO2 emissions come from countries with birth rates below replacement rate. The rest is just you being a sociopathic monster.
Yes, I'm proposing a tax. Taxes are not inherently evil..
And jesus christ, seriously, the old "climate is gonna change" meme. We are responsible through unrestrained CO2 emissions for a significant amount of climate change that is happening *right now* and into the future, and your only response is a moronic meme and brainless contempt for taxes? What are you, five years old?
And you don't think fucking over the next few generations by unrestrained CO2 emissions, thus creating vast costs for them to pay for, isn't passing on a debt?
How about this. We use market forces to fix the problem, slap a price on carbon, and then we start solving the problem now. Screw the carbon credits and all that nonsense. Charge $200 a ton for emissions across the board.
And why precisely does Mexico deserve to be bullied? The history of US-Mexican relations have been a very long stream of US imposition on Mexican sovereignty.
So you think "diplomacy by Twitter", where Trump tells the President of Mexico to stay home if he won't pay for Trump's border wall, is somehow a responsible way for the leader of the Free World to behave? You don't think being an unapologetic jerk and bully is going to cause all sorts of problems?
I get that you're probably a shameless prick, but surely even a 4chan circle jerker like you can see that this sort of indiscriminate use of executive powers to be a cunt is going to hit some pretty big brick walls.
Oh for chrissakes, the whole overpopulation claim again. A significant proportion of CO2 emissions are coming from countries that have birth rates BELOW replacement rate.
No, what's being suggested is that we alter the way we produce energy now so we don't fuck our grandchildren over. Sea level rise is already occuring (just ask your average insurance actuary), so there's no "thousand years from now" to talk about. There are coastal areas that will be significantly affected well within my lifetime.
You do understand civilization requires a bit more than workable stone to maintain itself. Anything that would significantly interfere with the productivity of large swathes of arable land would have catastrophic consequences for many human societies. The idea that just because Neanderthals made a living in the last Ice Age somehow we'll be alright is ludicrous. No one predicts the ends of humans, really, and no one predicts that human civilization will end, but significant alteration of rain patterns that could lead to arable land within national boundaries being rendered less productive, well, that's going to create significant regional political instabilities. If there's one lesson from humanity's past, both recent and prehistoric, is that when food gets scarce, people just don't sit around and die. They get up and move, and if there are other people in their way, well, you'll have some sort of conflict.
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More like Kellyanne Conway unmasked. "I have to conclude the investor meeting, I've got to change into Revolutionary garb to make America safe from inconvenient facts!"
On an unrelated sidenote, hey Slashdot editors, an annoying fixed location ad about "vuln management". Not only offensive, but also, seriously, "vuln management". Sounds like some sort of sci-fi flick where the hero starts out as a "vuln manager", where vulns are large four-winged fanged monstrosities. "So tell me, Creedo Nugalan, what did you do before you became a space pirate?" "Uh, you know, vuln management."
Nadella: [sounding official] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.
Voice: What happened?
Nadella: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
Voice: We're sending a squad up.
Nadella: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous.
Voice: Who is this? What's your operating number?
Nadella: Uh...
[Nadella shoots the intercom]
Nadella: [muttering] Boring conversation anyway.
Whatever you say snowflake
I think they're very well aware they have a problem. When they run around declaring because Surfaces outsold Macs, you know they're really reaching for a good news story out of all this. The fact is that Apple and Google are the tech behemoths as the second decade of the 21st century closes, and Microsoft is basically riding on its Office/Backoffice strategy, with its OS dominance slipping badly as people do more and more computing outside the PC domain.
Yes, but if you said that, then Microsoft wouldn't be winning!
Well, one thing is for sure, they bring out the anti-Apple babies.
I don't even own any Apple products. I gave my iPhone to my daughter three years ago and never looked back. But facts are facts. Apple is the most successful technology company history, and right now it is hands down the biggest.
It can mean that, or it can mean a company is making so much money that they simply have no real means of re-investing all of it. The fact is that Apple's management is dividend-prudent, and has literally been raking in boatloads of money for several years now. It doesn't represent stagnation, it represents the fact that Apple is the most successful technology company on the planet right now.
It's Microsoft that's running around shouting "WINNING!" Yes, they're doing well, but Apple is the predominant technology company on the planet, and the fact that it's losing a bit of market share in a market where it hasn't had a dominant position for longer than my kids who are in their mid-20s have been alive is an idiotic metric.
Windows 10 tablet mode still sucks badly.
Have you looked at Apple's cash reserves? 237.6 billion versus around 113 billion. Apple could buy Microsoft's liquid assets and still have over 100 billion to spare.
The PC market is hardly a major growth industry, so while it's increased its sales gap with the Mac platform, so what?
I don't think it's laziness, more like cluelessness. There was a big push for several years after smartphones and tablets took off to merge UIs across platforms. I suppose part of the justification was to try to draw in developers from both the smart device and desktop worlds to do more cross-platform work, and part of it was likely just to simplify (read: make less expensive) maintaining and developing features where an OS might be on everything from multiple screen desktops to 5" phones.
At the end of the day, I doubt even a smart UI abstraction layer will ever make these variant UI scenarios fit under one hood. Many web developers have known this for a while, which is why you have mobile and desktop versions of sites in many cases, but I still think Microsoft and Apple need to fully accept the reality that what works on little may look like shit on big (and visa versa, as my experience with an 8" Windows 10 tablet even in tablet mode informs me).
I think most of us have been bit too many times by the bloat that products like Norton AV and McAfee represent. Norton in particular is just a resource hungry monster, and as a good many of the machines in our organization are about seven or eight years old, the idea of putting that kind of CPU cycle ravisher on them fills me with horror. In the end, we upgraded to Windows 10 (a rather mixed experience), and just used the built-in Windows Defender plus a pretty locked down network and good backups so if, somehow, some ransomware gets loose, our actual data loss is fairly low. And that's really the lesson here, AV has never been the entire answer, and relying on it in the absence of good practices and user training has always been a dangerous path.
The universe doesn't give a fuck about your libertarianism. Co2 has the properties it has, no matter your ideological bent. Grow the fuck up you pathetic coward
CO2's properties have been known for over a century. Increasing PPM increases heat trapped. You can try to handwave it away all you like, you can try to make the science sound more uncertain than it is if you like, but that just means you're a coward and a moron.
Reducing CO2 emissions will at least slow the trapping of energy. This is physics, and it doesn't care about your stupidity. CO2 has the properties it has, so grow the fuck up you fucking piece of denying shit.
And on more time, a large amount of global CO2 emissions come from countries with birth rates below replacement rate. The rest is just you being a sociopathic monster.
Yes, I'm proposing a tax. Taxes are not inherently evil..
And jesus christ, seriously, the old "climate is gonna change" meme. We are responsible through unrestrained CO2 emissions for a significant amount of climate change that is happening *right now* and into the future, and your only response is a moronic meme and brainless contempt for taxes? What are you, five years old?
And you don't think fucking over the next few generations by unrestrained CO2 emissions, thus creating vast costs for them to pay for, isn't passing on a debt?
How about this. We use market forces to fix the problem, slap a price on carbon, and then we start solving the problem now. Screw the carbon credits and all that nonsense. Charge $200 a ton for emissions across the board.
And why precisely does Mexico deserve to be bullied? The history of US-Mexican relations have been a very long stream of US imposition on Mexican sovereignty.
So you think "diplomacy by Twitter", where Trump tells the President of Mexico to stay home if he won't pay for Trump's border wall, is somehow a responsible way for the leader of the Free World to behave? You don't think being an unapologetic jerk and bully is going to cause all sorts of problems?
I get that you're probably a shameless prick, but surely even a 4chan circle jerker like you can see that this sort of indiscriminate use of executive powers to be a cunt is going to hit some pretty big brick walls.
Oh for chrissakes, the whole overpopulation claim again. A significant proportion of CO2 emissions are coming from countries that have birth rates BELOW replacement rate.
No, what's being suggested is that we alter the way we produce energy now so we don't fuck our grandchildren over. Sea level rise is already occuring (just ask your average insurance actuary), so there's no "thousand years from now" to talk about. There are coastal areas that will be significantly affected well within my lifetime.
You do understand civilization requires a bit more than workable stone to maintain itself. Anything that would significantly interfere with the productivity of large swathes of arable land would have catastrophic consequences for many human societies. The idea that just because Neanderthals made a living in the last Ice Age somehow we'll be alright is ludicrous. No one predicts the ends of humans, really, and no one predicts that human civilization will end, but significant alteration of rain patterns that could lead to arable land within national boundaries being rendered less productive, well, that's going to create significant regional political instabilities. If there's one lesson from humanity's past, both recent and prehistoric, is that when food gets scarce, people just don't sit around and die. They get up and move, and if there are other people in their way, well, you'll have some sort of conflict.