"This guy is evil, therefor his claims are wrong." works just fine when it's Donald Trump. Why's it a logical fallacy again?
I participate in a lot of political discussions, and I rarely hear this. In fact, it's often the other way around: "Trump is evil BECAUSE his claims are often wrong." Trump (and his followers') repeated rejection of FACTS is what often results in people calling him evil. If Trump and his followers spoke the truth it would be much harder to brand him as "evil." His crassness and personality means I might still dislike him profoundly, but I would be unable to call him "evil."
Few reject Trump's comments on climate change or immigration or a thousand other issues because Trump is evil, they reject those comments because they are factually wrong.
Yea, all form, all surface, all appearances, all "save spaces". Actual facts, true communication and *gasp* honest evaluations of skill are not welcome. Google is just one victim of the cancer though, it spreads all through the industry at the moment. I predict that in the end this deeply conformist and authoritarian movement will fail and leave the industry stronger, if a lot smaller. SJWs cannot get things to work reliably, if at all. SJWs destroy communities that are critical. SJWs care about nothing and nobody but themselves and their short-term comfort. Hence they cannot learn, because getting out of their comfort-zones is anathema to them.
What I find hilarious about this frightened rant against "SJWs" is you've described Trump-voting conservatives to a "T" (For Trump, presumably.)
Yea, all form, all surface, all appearances, all "save spaces" [sic].
Conservatives: Fox News, Breitbart, information bubbles: All "Safe spaces." Trump is so frightened of CNN he kicked Jim Acosta out of the White House.
Actual facts, true communication and *gasp* honest evaluations of skill are not welcome.
Conservatives? Check.
Cannot get things to work reliably, if at all.
Conservatives? Check. (Republicans had White House and Congress for two years and all they could pass was tax cuts for the rich. Trump couldn't even build his wall.)
Destroy communities that are critical.
Conservatives? Check.
care about nothing and nobody but themselves and their short-term comfort.
If a gay, non-christian, non white person moved here (believe it or not, we have those already), that person would feel very welcome and comfortable as long as he/she/non-binary-individual could get past his/hers/non-binary-individual's existing bias.
It's got nothing to do with "bias" and everything to do with facts.
I would absolutely NOT feel comfortable living next to someone with a Trump sign in their yard - Trump called Latin Americans rapists, insulted women, wants to trample over trans rights, is a racist "birther" who called Nazis "very fine people" and then put children in cages, wants to rip away healthcare, insulted veterans, muslims and gold star parents, put in a VP who believes you can "pray away the gay" and more.
If someone heard all that and then said "Yep, Trump is my man!" and put a sign on their lawn for him well then yes I'd be very uncomfortable and would feel very unwelcome.
Because anyone putting a sign on their lawn or wearing a MAGA hat is saying "I'm fine with all that!"
Whether you support or oppose the results, we don't want you if that is your criteria for deciding whether or not to move here
What a ridiculous thing to say, Anonymous Coward.
Of course how a region votes would be one critical determinant as to whether you'd feel comfortable living there. If you're gay, or a non-Christian or non-white and you move to a neighbourhood full of Trump signs, do you think you'd feel comfortable or welcome? It's no different than a homophobic evangelical christian feeling uncomfortable moving into the Castro District in San Francisco.
As a Canadian working in high tech, I've had numerous opportunities to move to the USA which I've turned down due to political differences.
Tulsa is actually the democratic bastion of Oklahoma.
That applies to almost every city (or cities) in otherwise red states. Look at Texas. Hard-red, except for blue enclaves radiating out from Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso and Corpus Christi.
Australia has a lower population density than Canada or the US but pays lower rates than both.
Somewhat of a false equivalency though.
1) Canada's geography means it's much harder (ergo, more expensive) to deploy a cellular network than it is in Australia - Particularly out west and up north. Rarely do cell towers get covered in eight inches of ice and snow in Australia.
2) While it's true there are hundreds-of-thousands of kilometers of area in Canada with no cell coverage, there's still much better rural coverage in Canada than there is in the Australian wilderness. The amount you pay for your Telus cell phone bill in urban Vancouver is subsidizing coverage half-way up Jervis Inlet.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: It all comes down to whether or not you would have bought the thing, had you not been able to "pirate" it.
If people weren't able to pirate "Game of Thrones" would they just shrug and go play frisbee instead, or would they have gone out and subscribed to an HBO service or paid for a digital download or DVD set so they could watch it?
If the former, then yes, they haven't really cost HBO anything. If the latter, then one can argue pretty clearly that they've "stolen" revenue from HBO.
Are you afraid they'll mess with your online games of "Super Elite Sniper game #51", "Car hijacking game #67" or "Mafia Syndicate game #154"?
Obviously you're unfamiliar with the Nintendo ecosystem and their target market. That should be Splatoon Paint Wars! #51, SuperDuper MarioKart SmashUP #67 or Luigi's Mushroom Syndicate #154.
This is not really a la carte. This is a couple of big buffets, with each combining a few real treats with a lot of stuff I don't care about.
Of course it is. People used to complain back in the day that if they wanted the History Channel they also had to pay for A&E, AMC, TLC and HGTV.
Now it's A La Carte - You can choose between Netflix, Prime, Hulu, CBS, Disney. If you subscribe to Netflix it no longer means that you have to take Prime as well.
make a quality movie that people who like quality cinema can recognize
There are many dozens of "quality" movies released each year - Great story, great acting, great cinematography. Most of them go bust because they majority of the movie viewing public wants "The Fast and the Furious Part 11" not "Children of Men."
If a company only has to pay $1M in taxes instead of $2M they want that to mean the same thing as if the government wrote them a check for a million bucks.
That's because they are.
If you owe me two dollars and you only want to pay me one dollar, I can either reduce the amount you owe me by a dollar, or hand you a dollar and then have you pay me two dollars. The end result is the same - You've paid a dollar less, and I'm a dollar poorer.
With the exception of 'iCloud' you just rattled off a list of thick-client products. All of them store data locally and most anyone who had an ipad or ipod has it stuffed with local content - Photos, video files, documents, whatever.
A mid-range iPad has 128 Gb of storage. Hardly a "thin client."
Google, Facebook and other background data brokers that profit from privacy-hostile business models
It's worth noting that Apple sells thick-client product that are deeply threatened by thin-client cloud-based solutions like the products Google is selling. When you can buy a Chromebook for $250 that lasts for a decade, convincing people to drop $2000 on a Macbook becomes a much harder sell.
If you're Cook, your primary way to attack this market erosion is to seed doubt about data in the cloud.
The problem with Netflix is the licensing mess. Last time I bothered to keep a subscription they really didn't have that much stuff.
I know I'm not really a typical Slashdotter (I have kids and a fairly busy life outside of the home) - The notion of sitting at home watching six hours of TV is foreign to me. Nevertheless, whenever someone says Netflix "doesn't really have that much stuff" it blows my mind. To me, the library of "stuff" on Netflix is HUGE. The notion that I wouldn't be able to find something to watch is mind-blowing (and that's just little old Canadian Netflix).
My Computer Science degree, with the countless hours spent implementing every well known sorting algorithm, search algorithm, data manipulation algorithm, data structures, and other things that were done well decades ago, says your concept of requesting a lack of an engineering degree to being a code monkey is crap
That's not what the parent said.
He said if you don't have an engineering degree you're not an engineer - In the same way someone who didn't go to medical school isn't a "medical doctor" or someone who didn't go to architecture school isn't an architect.
You may very well write excellent software, but you're not a "software engineer" unless you have an engineering degree.
In most cases it's not about being "wasteful." It's purely an economic consideration. People aren't going to pay $250 to fix a vacuum cleaner worth $300. If the cleaner's worth $1000, then yes, the $250 is worth spending.
First, repairing locally is cheaper than sending stuff halfway around the globe. Repair shops would pop up quickly where people with the skill to repair sell that skill to those that need it.
Depends entirely on what's being repaired. Let's imagine I want to open a repair shop in San Francisco. To pay the shop's rent, taxes, utilities, a salary for myself and everything else I discover I need to charge $150 / hour + parts.
So someone brings in a TV for repair with a power supply problem, and you tell them the cost for the repair (labor and parts) will be $200. Most people will just say "never mind, I'll just go buy a new TV.:"
Why were there TV repair men in 1968? Because a 23" color TV cost $2500 in today's dollars. Back then it was cheaper to repair it.
he could have shaped a whole different Microsoft ecosystem if he'd had his way and Xenix had become the base of Microsoft's post-DOS operating system
Hey Anonymous Coward, MS-DOS booted off a 720K floppy disk, with the second 720K drive for your "programs and data." My first "IBM Compatible" PC had something like a 7 MHz processor and an 8086 chip. No way I could've run Xenix on that thing.
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"This guy is evil, therefor his claims are wrong." works just fine when it's Donald Trump. Why's it a logical fallacy again?
I participate in a lot of political discussions, and I rarely hear this. In fact, it's often the other way around: "Trump is evil BECAUSE his claims are often wrong." Trump (and his followers') repeated rejection of FACTS is what often results in people calling him evil. If Trump and his followers spoke the truth it would be much harder to brand him as "evil." His crassness and personality means I might still dislike him profoundly, but I would be unable to call him "evil."
Few reject Trump's comments on climate change or immigration or a thousand other issues because Trump is evil, they reject those comments because they are factually wrong.
Yea, all form, all surface, all appearances, all "save spaces". Actual facts, true communication and *gasp* honest evaluations of skill are not welcome. Google is just one victim of the cancer though, it spreads all through the industry at the moment. I predict that in the end this deeply conformist and authoritarian movement will fail and leave the industry stronger, if a lot smaller. SJWs cannot get things to work reliably, if at all. SJWs destroy communities that are critical. SJWs care about nothing and nobody but themselves and their short-term comfort. Hence they cannot learn, because getting out of their comfort-zones is anathema to them.
What I find hilarious about this frightened rant against "SJWs" is you've described Trump-voting conservatives to a "T" (For Trump, presumably.)
Yea, all form, all surface, all appearances, all "save spaces" [sic].
Conservatives: Fox News, Breitbart, information bubbles: All "Safe spaces." Trump is so frightened of CNN he kicked Jim Acosta out of the White House.
Actual facts, true communication and *gasp* honest evaluations of skill are not welcome.
Conservatives? Check.
Cannot get things to work reliably, if at all.
Conservatives? Check. (Republicans had White House and Congress for two years and all they could pass was tax cuts for the rich. Trump couldn't even build his wall.)
Destroy communities that are critical.
Conservatives? Check.
care about nothing and nobody but themselves and their short-term comfort.
Conservatives? Check. (Two words: Climate change).
they cannot learn, because getting out of their comfort-zones is anathema to them.
Conservatives? Check. (See safe spaces).
If a gay, non-christian, non white person moved here (believe it or not, we have those already), that person would feel very welcome and comfortable as long as he/she/non-binary-individual could get past his/hers/non-binary-individual's existing bias.
It's got nothing to do with "bias" and everything to do with facts.
I would absolutely NOT feel comfortable living next to someone with a Trump sign in their yard - Trump called Latin Americans rapists, insulted women, wants to trample over trans rights, is a racist "birther" who called Nazis "very fine people" and then put children in cages, wants to rip away healthcare, insulted veterans, muslims and gold star parents, put in a VP who believes you can "pray away the gay" and more.
If someone heard all that and then said "Yep, Trump is my man!" and put a sign on their lawn for him well then yes I'd be very uncomfortable and would feel very unwelcome.
Because anyone putting a sign on their lawn or wearing a MAGA hat is saying "I'm fine with all that!"
Whether you support or oppose the results, we don't want you if that is your criteria for deciding whether or not to move here
What a ridiculous thing to say, Anonymous Coward.
Of course how a region votes would be one critical determinant as to whether you'd feel comfortable living there. If you're gay, or a non-Christian or non-white and you move to a neighbourhood full of Trump signs, do you think you'd feel comfortable or welcome? It's no different than a homophobic evangelical christian feeling uncomfortable moving into the Castro District in San Francisco.
As a Canadian working in high tech, I've had numerous opportunities to move to the USA which I've turned down due to political differences.
Tulsa is actually the democratic bastion of Oklahoma.
That applies to almost every city (or cities) in otherwise red states. Look at Texas. Hard-red, except for blue enclaves radiating out from Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso and Corpus Christi.
Australia has a lower population density than Canada or the US but pays lower rates than both.
Somewhat of a false equivalency though.
1) Canada's geography means it's much harder (ergo, more expensive) to deploy a cellular network than it is in Australia - Particularly out west and up north. Rarely do cell towers get covered in eight inches of ice and snow in Australia.
2) While it's true there are hundreds-of-thousands of kilometers of area in Canada with no cell coverage, there's still much better rural coverage in Canada than there is in the Australian wilderness. The amount you pay for your Telus cell phone bill in urban Vancouver is subsidizing coverage half-way up Jervis Inlet.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: It all comes down to whether or not you would have bought the thing, had you not been able to "pirate" it.
If people weren't able to pirate "Game of Thrones" would they just shrug and go play frisbee instead, or would they have gone out and subscribed to an HBO service or paid for a digital download or DVD set so they could watch it?
If the former, then yes, they haven't really cost HBO anything. If the latter, then one can argue pretty clearly that they've "stolen" revenue from HBO.
Are you afraid they'll mess with your online games of "Super Elite Sniper game #51", "Car hijacking game #67" or "Mafia Syndicate game #154"?
Obviously you're unfamiliar with the Nintendo ecosystem and their target market. That should be Splatoon Paint Wars! #51, SuperDuper MarioKart SmashUP #67 or Luigi's Mushroom Syndicate #154.
This is not really a la carte. This is a couple of big buffets, with each combining a few real treats with a lot of stuff I don't care about.
Of course it is. People used to complain back in the day that if they wanted the History Channel they also had to pay for A&E, AMC, TLC and HGTV.
Now it's A La Carte - You can choose between Netflix, Prime, Hulu, CBS, Disney. If you subscribe to Netflix it no longer means that you have to take Prime as well.
make a quality movie that people who like quality cinema can recognize
There are many dozens of "quality" movies released each year - Great story, great acting, great cinematography. Most of them go bust because they majority of the movie viewing public wants "The Fast and the Furious Part 11" not "Children of Men."
Everybody owes me a living and a safespace from opinion I don't agree with, waah waaaah waaaah!
Look you Anonymous Coward Trump voter, your dear leader has already told you the USA owes you your coal mining job, so stop whining.
Now go back to your FOX NEWS safe space and get off the internet where you might hear opposing views, you conservative snowflake.
I wonder what he's getting in trade.
Voter turnout from social conservatives at the midterm elections next week, in order to help ensure the Mueller probe continues to be neutered.
If a company only has to pay $1M in taxes instead of $2M they want that to mean the same thing as if the government wrote them a check for a million bucks.
That's because they are.
If you owe me two dollars and you only want to pay me one dollar, I can either reduce the amount you owe me by a dollar, or hand you a dollar and then have you pay me two dollars. The end result is the same - You've paid a dollar less, and I'm a dollar poorer.
and the Republican governor first met: a $3 billion state subsidy in return
If you're a Republican, be sure to chant the mantra:
Corporate welfare: GOOD
Individual welfare: BAD
?!?!?!
With the exception of 'iCloud' you just rattled off a list of thick-client products. All of them store data locally and most anyone who had an ipad or ipod has it stuffed with local content - Photos, video files, documents, whatever.
A mid-range iPad has 128 Gb of storage. Hardly a "thin client."
Google, Facebook and other background data brokers that profit from privacy-hostile business models
It's worth noting that Apple sells thick-client product that are deeply threatened by thin-client cloud-based solutions like the products Google is selling. When you can buy a Chromebook for $250 that lasts for a decade, convincing people to drop $2000 on a Macbook becomes a much harder sell.
If you're Cook, your primary way to attack this market erosion is to seed doubt about data in the cloud.
The problem with Netflix is the licensing mess. Last time I bothered to keep a subscription they really didn't have that much stuff.
I know I'm not really a typical Slashdotter (I have kids and a fairly busy life outside of the home) - The notion of sitting at home watching six hours of TV is foreign to me. Nevertheless, whenever someone says Netflix "doesn't really have that much stuff" it blows my mind. To me, the library of "stuff" on Netflix is HUGE. The notion that I wouldn't be able to find something to watch is mind-blowing (and that's just little old Canadian Netflix).
I'm much happier to watch 30 episodes of "Narcos" than two hours of "Hot Tub Time Machine 2."
My Computer Science degree, with the countless hours spent implementing every well known sorting algorithm, search algorithm, data manipulation algorithm, data structures, and other things that were done well decades ago, says your concept of requesting a lack of an engineering degree to being a code monkey is crap
That's not what the parent said.
He said if you don't have an engineering degree you're not an engineer - In the same way someone who didn't go to medical school isn't a "medical doctor" or someone who didn't go to architecture school isn't an architect.
You may very well write excellent software, but you're not a "software engineer" unless you have an engineering degree.
People were also much less wasteful in the past.
In most cases it's not about being "wasteful." It's purely an economic consideration. People aren't going to pay $250 to fix a vacuum cleaner worth $300. If the cleaner's worth $1000, then yes, the $250 is worth spending.
First, repairing locally is cheaper than sending stuff halfway around the globe. Repair shops would pop up quickly where people with the skill to repair sell that skill to those that need it.
Depends entirely on what's being repaired. Let's imagine I want to open a repair shop in San Francisco. To pay the shop's rent, taxes, utilities, a salary for myself and everything else I discover I need to charge $150 / hour + parts.
So someone brings in a TV for repair with a power supply problem, and you tell them the cost for the repair (labor and parts) will be $200. Most people will just say "never mind, I'll just go buy a new TV.:"
Why were there TV repair men in 1968? Because a 23" color TV cost $2500 in today's dollars. Back then it was cheaper to repair it.
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1968-A...
he could have shaped a whole different Microsoft ecosystem if he'd had his way and Xenix had become the base of Microsoft's post-DOS operating system
Hey Anonymous Coward, MS-DOS booted off a 720K floppy disk, with the second 720K drive for your "programs and data." My first "IBM Compatible" PC had something like a 7 MHz processor and an 8086 chip. No way I could've run Xenix on that thing.
He ran a monopoly
Hey Anonymous Coward, which monopoly did he "run?"
He was co-founder of Microsoft, but he left there over 36 years ago.
Hey Anonymous Coward, which *facts* in this Snopes story are wrong? Be specific.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...
He is now burning in hell for Microsoft and Windows
Windows, Anonymous Coward? Allen left Microsoft in 1982. Windows 1.0 launched in 1985.
("The" Windows - Windows 3.1 - Didn't launch until 1992, a decade after Allen had left.)