I would think it's fairly obvious - the world doesn't need Yet Another Android Maker. They took a big gamble on WP7, either it'll pay off or they're screwed. Going Android wouldn't be a gamble but would have very little upside. And regardless of the neckbeard tittering around here, WP7 has a lot of potential and Nokia could be the premier WP7 phone maker.
I'm more curious to hear why you think it _isn't_ relevant.
But I'll save on thread length. What is Finland's poverty rate? How many people, as a percentage, simply don't work or provide any input into the Finnish economy? I'll give you a hint: It's a tiny number.
The US has a _huge_ population of people who literally do nothing other than be born, grow up on welfare, and then spit out 4-5 kids of their own who go on to do the same thing.
It's not just the population, it's population demographics. The US is not a nice little EU country where everyone pitches in to help out the odd, small number of people who don't or won't work.
Nonsense. People succeed without college educations every day. And this ridiculous myth that we all "get" a big house and car and family is part of the problem.
Almost every one of those people is poor due to bad choices. That doesn't mean I don't sympathize with many of them - bad choices are a part of life, especially when you're young.
I'm not saying we should "let them die". I'm all for minimal health care, shelter, food. Anything over that and you're going to have to work for it.
Being poor in this country largely means you have a lot of debt, but you still have food, shelter, and clothing. The very poorest even have some health care - state provided.
Finland is _tiny_. Miniscule. It's not even worth discussing in the same breath as the US.
Not everyone should be going to college. We need to expand trade schools. That everyone should go to college is a romantic myth. Many people should train to be mechanics, or cable guys, or A/C guys, etc... Many people should work in fast food or retail. And some people should go to college.
I'd be willing to offer free college to the top 10% of academic performers.
I'm slowly coming around to a single-payer like system. It should be a sliding scale deductible plan, though. The poorest pay a $500 max deductible (with government grants to cover for the _dirt_ poorest). This slides up to maybe $10k max at $500k a year incomes. This makes healthcare cost something so people don't overuse it, yet gets coverage to all.
Lol, are you serious? The American Dream is the _opportunity_ to succeed, not the guarantee. Literally anyone _can_ succeed in this country. That's all we're promising. Whether you will succeed is up to you.
Modding people down is so old school. The new hotness is blathering that everyone is a paid shill. Because, you know... Microsoft deeply cares what a bunch of rabidly anti-MS neckbeards think about MS products.
Them thinking MS gives a shit about them is like thinking the hot girl at the table across the restaurant is eye fucking them. Really, she's just staring off into space over their heads wondering why they call it "taking a dump" instead of "leaving a dump",
So tell me, is there a cadre of you "you're shilling" cocksuckers out there, or is it more of a dynamic movement where various douchebags independently decide they want to go out and call everyone a shill/astroturfer?
And if there's a cadre of you out there, who is the head douchebag and how do you elect him? Is he the guy with the bear that grows furthest down his neck, or the fattest one with the most ironic black tee-shirt and the most baselessly smug grimace?
Odd, I guess nuget is a figment of my imagination. No, wait - it's just that people who bash VS almost universally don't know what they're talking about.
PS: Only the boring parts of the Internet run on Linux.
Oh please, didn't we end the neckbeard pedantry over what an "OS" is years ago? An OS is the software that comes with the device you buy. That's what it means when you talk about a phone OS.
Very few people care, and even fewer would buy ECC memory. It would be an insanely lame thing to brag about. I'm not going to spend 3X the amount on memory so my game doesn't crash. In all my years of running way too many computers in my house, I've never thought "damn, I wish I'd spent 3X the money so I could have ECC!".
I can only talk based on their own words. I've seen them talk, I've seen their talks, and I've seen their cute little pictures where they mournfully hold up pages of paper with hand-written text of their sob story.
The only thing I really agree with is I'm starting to come around to a single-payer type system for healthcare. Most of the other stuff is whining.
I do agree. In fact we should eliminate special protections for student loans from bankruptcy. Of course, this means far fewer people will go to college, but it would solve a huge issue.
I'm not insensitive to their plight. They were given bad information and made bad decisions based on it. They're young, people do stupid shit when they're young. I have some sympathy.
That doesn't change the core fact - nobody is going to hand them success. They're going to have to fight for it one way or another, and they've handicapped themselves in many cases with useless, expensive degrees.
Personally, I would say we as a society should encourage more trade schools. We should also end bankrupcy protection for student loans, meaning far fewer people will be able to get them. Not everyone is a precious snowflake who should be going to college. Send our best and brightest, or the people rich enough to pay their own way. Otherwise they can go to trade schools.
Film will not always be superior, and isn't now. I think you're mistaking compression artifacts with the quality of raw digital media.
Looks like we've entered the realm of the "videophile".
I just bought a new gold-plated power cord for my film projector, I really get a more ethereal quality and the eye-strain is far less with a more purified power source.
Exactly. The predominant complaint seems to be "I have $100k in student loans and can't get a job". What they don't tell you is they refuse to work any _real_ job. they got their degree in Art History, and god damn it they refuse to work in anything but the burgeoning field of Art History.
Back in the old days you took any job you could and worked your way up. Now they think they're "owed" a job because they racked up $100k in loans.
The lax parenting of the baby boomer generation is coming back to haunt us - they've raised a bunch of lazy, entitled brats who think the "American Dream" is the "American Entitlement".
Lol, explain how this will get that rabble off the street, please. You do understand that 90% of them are protesting because they think the "American Dream" is them going to school for 4 years to get some bullshit degree, rack up $100k in student loans, and then get promised a $90k a year (to start) job so they can buy a house they are "owed" and get the BMW they "deserve".
You're not fooling anyone by ascribing any kind of rational motive to these bottom dwellers. They want the shit they're "entitled" too, and they refuse to work for it.
In the earlier part of the 20th century people started at menial jobs. Then they proved themselves and worked their way up the chain to success.
Now, people think they're "owed" instant success. Fucking rabble is what they are.
This is such a lie. These people don't care about that. If we reigned in corporate spending and implemented all kinds of new regulations on banks, it wouldn't help them.
They are pissed because they got a $100k college degree in Women's Studies or Art History and now have $100k in student loans and they didn't get the instant $90k a year job and BMW they thought they were "owed".
I say we call their bluff. Reimpose Glass–Steagall, raise dividends tax by 5%, get rid of tax loopholes, etc... Let's do it. The problem is those lazy fucks will _still_ not have their BMWs and will still be pissed off that someone else does.
They are protesting freedom. It's as simple as that. Capitalism is the economic equivalent of freedom and they don't like the fact that people are free to buy and sell products and labor as they see fit.
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I would think it's fairly obvious - the world doesn't need Yet Another Android Maker. They took a big gamble on WP7, either it'll pay off or they're screwed. Going Android wouldn't be a gamble but would have very little upside. And regardless of the neckbeard tittering around here, WP7 has a lot of potential and Nokia could be the premier WP7 phone maker.
But that's, like, hard maaaan.
I'm more curious to hear why you think it _isn't_ relevant.
But I'll save on thread length. What is Finland's poverty rate? How many people, as a percentage, simply don't work or provide any input into the Finnish economy? I'll give you a hint: It's a tiny number.
The US has a _huge_ population of people who literally do nothing other than be born, grow up on welfare, and then spit out 4-5 kids of their own who go on to do the same thing.
It's not just the population, it's population demographics. The US is not a nice little EU country where everyone pitches in to help out the odd, small number of people who don't or won't work.
Nonsense. People succeed without college educations every day. And this ridiculous myth that we all "get" a big house and car and family is part of the problem.
Almost every one of those people is poor due to bad choices. That doesn't mean I don't sympathize with many of them - bad choices are a part of life, especially when you're young.
I'm not saying we should "let them die". I'm all for minimal health care, shelter, food. Anything over that and you're going to have to work for it.
Being poor in this country largely means you have a lot of debt, but you still have food, shelter, and clothing. The very poorest even have some health care - state provided.
This is garbage.
Finland is _tiny_. Miniscule. It's not even worth discussing in the same breath as the US.
Not everyone should be going to college. We need to expand trade schools. That everyone should go to college is a romantic myth. Many people should train to be mechanics, or cable guys, or A/C guys, etc... Many people should work in fast food or retail. And some people should go to college.
I'd be willing to offer free college to the top 10% of academic performers.
I'm slowly coming around to a single-payer like system. It should be a sliding scale deductible plan, though. The poorest pay a $500 max deductible (with government grants to cover for the _dirt_ poorest). This slides up to maybe $10k max at $500k a year incomes. This makes healthcare cost something so people don't overuse it, yet gets coverage to all.
Isn't that just something stupid people say, though? Unless someone forced you to borrow someone else's money, it's all consensual.
Lol, are you serious? The American Dream is the _opportunity_ to succeed, not the guarantee. Literally anyone _can_ succeed in this country. That's all we're promising. Whether you will succeed is up to you.
Modding people down is so old school. The new hotness is blathering that everyone is a paid shill. Because, you know... Microsoft deeply cares what a bunch of rabidly anti-MS neckbeards think about MS products.
Them thinking MS gives a shit about them is like thinking the hot girl at the table across the restaurant is eye fucking them. Really, she's just staring off into space over their heads wondering why they call it "taking a dump" instead of "leaving a dump",
So tell me, is there a cadre of you "you're shilling" cocksuckers out there, or is it more of a dynamic movement where various douchebags independently decide they want to go out and call everyone a shill/astroturfer?
And if there's a cadre of you out there, who is the head douchebag and how do you elect him? Is he the guy with the bear that grows furthest down his neck, or the fattest one with the most ironic black tee-shirt and the most baselessly smug grimace?
Astroturfing(n): Posting anything a bunch of dirty neckbeard Linux dweebs don't like. See also: Shilling.
Lies. IIS has 16% of publicly visible market share. That number shifts dynamically when you peek behind the firewalls of large corporations.
But yes, lots of pissant, random web servers use Apache or some other web server.
Odd, I guess nuget is a figment of my imagination. No, wait - it's just that people who bash VS almost universally don't know what they're talking about.
PS: Only the boring parts of the Internet run on Linux.
Oh please, didn't we end the neckbeard pedantry over what an "OS" is years ago? An OS is the software that comes with the device you buy. That's what it means when you talk about a phone OS.
Very few people care, and even fewer would buy ECC memory. It would be an insanely lame thing to brag about. I'm not going to spend 3X the amount on memory so my game doesn't crash. In all my years of running way too many computers in my house, I've never thought "damn, I wish I'd spent 3X the money so I could have ECC!".
If you care, buy a real server platform.
Nobody copied Apple's effort, so I ignored the rest of your inane, childish blathering.
I can only talk based on their own words. I've seen them talk, I've seen their talks, and I've seen their cute little pictures where they mournfully hold up pages of paper with hand-written text of their sob story.
The only thing I really agree with is I'm starting to come around to a single-payer type system for healthcare. Most of the other stuff is whining.
I do agree. In fact we should eliminate special protections for student loans from bankruptcy. Of course, this means far fewer people will go to college, but it would solve a huge issue.
VHS was better. You seem to think Beta was, when it clearly wasn't - ergo the rest of your comment isn't very useful to read.
Ummm.. yes? Or do you think major purchases and integration like that can happen overnight?
I'm not insensitive to their plight. They were given bad information and made bad decisions based on it. They're young, people do stupid shit when they're young. I have some sympathy.
That doesn't change the core fact - nobody is going to hand them success. They're going to have to fight for it one way or another, and they've handicapped themselves in many cases with useless, expensive degrees.
Personally, I would say we as a society should encourage more trade schools. We should also end bankrupcy protection for student loans, meaning far fewer people will be able to get them. Not everyone is a precious snowflake who should be going to college. Send our best and brightest, or the people rich enough to pay their own way. Otherwise they can go to trade schools.
Film will not always be superior, and isn't now. I think you're mistaking compression artifacts with the quality of raw digital media.
Looks like we've entered the realm of the "videophile".
I just bought a new gold-plated power cord for my film projector, I really get a more ethereal quality and the eye-strain is far less with a more purified power source.
Exactly. The predominant complaint seems to be "I have $100k in student loans and can't get a job". What they don't tell you is they refuse to work any _real_ job. they got their degree in Art History, and god damn it they refuse to work in anything but the burgeoning field of Art History.
Back in the old days you took any job you could and worked your way up. Now they think they're "owed" a job because they racked up $100k in loans.
The lax parenting of the baby boomer generation is coming back to haunt us - they've raised a bunch of lazy, entitled brats who think the "American Dream" is the "American Entitlement".
Lol, explain how this will get that rabble off the street, please. You do understand that 90% of them are protesting because they think the "American Dream" is them going to school for 4 years to get some bullshit degree, rack up $100k in student loans, and then get promised a $90k a year (to start) job so they can buy a house they are "owed" and get the BMW they "deserve".
You're not fooling anyone by ascribing any kind of rational motive to these bottom dwellers. They want the shit they're "entitled" too, and they refuse to work for it.
In the earlier part of the 20th century people started at menial jobs. Then they proved themselves and worked their way up the chain to success.
Now, people think they're "owed" instant success. Fucking rabble is what they are.
This is such a lie. These people don't care about that. If we reigned in corporate spending and implemented all kinds of new regulations on banks, it wouldn't help them.
They are pissed because they got a $100k college degree in Women's Studies or Art History and now have $100k in student loans and they didn't get the instant $90k a year job and BMW they thought they were "owed".
I say we call their bluff. Reimpose Glass–Steagall, raise dividends tax by 5%, get rid of tax loopholes, etc... Let's do it. The problem is those lazy fucks will _still_ not have their BMWs and will still be pissed off that someone else does.
They are protesting freedom. It's as simple as that. Capitalism is the economic equivalent of freedom and they don't like the fact that people are free to buy and sell products and labor as they see fit.