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  1. Re:Tiny penis + NEET = doomed population on Japan's Population Falls At Fastest Rate Since 1968 · · Score: 3, Funny

    But they have the biggest dick as president. That must count for something.

  2. Re: Facebook can't do that either. on Germany's Federal Cartel Office Claims Facebook 'Extorts' Personal Data From Users (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You can disagree with FB, but then you are excluded from many social processes including invitations of your friends and birthdays. This is a real danger for the individual.

  3. Re: I'm not understanding the problem? on Germany's Federal Cartel Office Claims Facebook 'Extorts' Personal Data From Users (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Other sites (competition) closed down, e.g., StudiVZ, or do not play an important role,e.g., MySpace. Therefore, FB has a monopoly and can force people to accept term which they would not accept when real alternatives would exist. In Germany monopolies are considered bad for obvious reasons. Therefore, they are investigated by the anti monopoly authority.

  4. Well this is somewhat a funny story. However, you just download all your mail to your PC with your email client. Then you get a new email account and move up all the mails to that. However, if the mail system has only a website frontend then this might be complicated. Anyway, the provider could provide an image with all the mails.

  5. Sounds a lot like Star Trek turbo lifts. Anyway, as this company developed the German maglev train which was sold only once, they found one way to make a product out if it. As long as people build ridiculous tall houses such elevator might be a good idea.

  6. Re: Illegal speech? on Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media. (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    The NSDAP was not a socialist party. Socialists are internationalists. The opposite of nationalists. Also the Nazis had a pro industry program and were supported be rich people. Where did you have your history classes?

  7. Re: Illegal speech? on Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media. (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Spreading hate that s not free speech. Also you cannot demand that someone kill someone else or commit other kinds of crimes. Like all human rights they are limited by the rights of other humans.

  8. Re: Free Speech on Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media. (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Some people think free speech means they can say anything without consequence and others have to listen to it. However, this is not the case. For example "there are too many migrants in the country " is an opinion. "All n*****s are apes" is hate speech. First it uses a word to describe black people negatively and second it relates them to animals in an effort to dehumanize them. In Germany the latter statement is forbidden.

  9. Prerequisites on Should Your Company Switch To Microservices? (cio.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Before you can switch to microservices, you have to modularize your software along domain aspects not technical aspects. For example, do not split the system up in X-tier/layer. Instead separate the catalogue, cart, payment, adverts etc.,

  10. Re:Sentiment is worthless. Action matters. on Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares His Experience Of Working With President Donald Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If it would have a business, they would have invested in that area. Unfortunately, they thought there is no profit in that area. (Under the assumption, that you are right about no new Mac computers).

    Capitalism works that way that you only invest when you can make a profit. If the consumer base does not have more money, they cannot buy things. So you do not produce more things, because no one would buy them.

  11. Re:Sentiment is worthless. Action matters. on Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares His Experience Of Working With President Donald Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Showing how you don't understand the phone supply chain at all. Here's a hint: The Chinese build what they are told and how they are told and charge accordingly. The knowledge of efficient phone design and assembly is Apple's.

    There is a difference in designing a phone and manufacturing one. You need knowledge in both to mass produce phones. Of course a designer could think about the production process, but he has no experience in actually running a factory. For example, when Fairphone searched for an manufacturer in Europe, they could not find one. Even though there are companies producing embedded systems. However, phone production is too different from their present production principles that they did not make an offer. Therefore, the devices were produced in China.

    But really you're trying to do is justify the actions of the future while really you're excusing the actions of the past. In either case, Tim Cook *couldn't* care less about Americans.

    No, I am not. I am telling you that why the companies act the way they do. If you are unhappy with their motivation, change their motivation (the companies motivation).

  12. Re:Sentiment is worthless. Action matters. on Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares His Experience Of Working With President Donald Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you not understand the concept example? Of course they can come up with new products. However, you need MONEY to buy them (see our economic system is called capitalism and it is money driven). If the people do not have more money, they cannot by new products. Therefore, there is limited growth. Therefore, companies limit investments. Furthermore, companies only innovate and invest, if that will result in more money for them. And just as another example. Lets say Apple invests in new computer factories, as they sell a new cheap consumer computer for the masses. But the masses do not have more money. Then they cannot buy other things. Then they might by an Apple instead of a Dell, and therefore all jobs created at Apple are lost at Dell. As workforce you have gained nothing.

  13. Re:Sentiment is worthless. Action matters. on Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares His Experience Of Working With President Donald Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    He also chooses to sell Apple products in Europe with a 10-20% higher price. Why does he do that? Because of capitalism. Capitalism is about getting as rich as possible without hesitating to harm others (as long as it does not harm your profits). In addition you can also have a conscience and support act against climate change or poverty. However, as a company or corporation you have to put that aside. If you want to change that you need regulations and taxes. Unfortunately, the present US government is not going in that direction nor will the EU go in that direction.

    Regarding jobs in China. In the beginning Apple moved some tasks to China, because they were cheaper. Then the US lost the skill to do certain tasks. Now the Chinese have the knowledge how to efficiently build phones. The VR China also invested in its education of workers and is determined to support growth in highly educated jobs. This means even on an level playing field, these jobs will not come back to the US. The next step in China is automation. At Foxcon they replace skilled Chinese labor with in place robots which can handle the same tasks and can learn what the need to do. In the beginning they bought robots from ABB. However, they also invest in their own robot companies and just bough one of the leading companies in Germany. Therefore, these jobs will go to robots. If Apple would move production back to the US, they would also use these robots.

    What need to do instead is to tax companies so you can finance a basic income for everyone and healthcare for every one and basic housing for everyone etc. Then you need to provide good education. What you do not need are jobs in coal. You have to look how you can shape the future actively instead of trying to prolong the past.

  14. Re:Sentiment is worthless. Action matters. on Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares His Experience Of Working With President Donald Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The have billions of dollars (in foreign currency). However, it is doubtful that these money can be used to create jobs. Jobs are necessary to do things. For example produce iPhones. And you need more workers when you want to produce more iPhones. However, you only need to produce more iPhones when people are buying more iPhones. Furthermore, as a company leader it is his job to make as much money for the owners as possible. If he can avoid paying taxes than this is the fault of politicians. They should have designed the tax laws in a way that you cannot cheat. Unfortunately, Trump is not going in that direction.

  15. Re:Apple sitting on billions and tax evader on Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares His Experience Of Working With President Donald Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    However, some people enjoy putting genitalia in there. If you do not like that. Don't do it, but it is up to the respective person to decide whether they want to do it.

  16. Eclipse serializes with spaces or tabs on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Modern IDEs format code automatically and use spaces or tabs based on your settings. In addition, the auto formatter automatically adds whitespace when you go into the next line. It is most likely not a real dependency between whitespace and salaries, but it has more to do with which environment they use.

  17. Re:Maybe not such bad news on Trump Announces US Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The US did not get its act together under Obama. However, other countries will impose taxes on CO2 in products or similar measures which will harm US exports, as long as, the US is not fulfilling its reduction goals. Therefore, this withdrawal will hurt US economy. Furthermore, it shows that the US is now only working for its own short term interests. The Us administration is considered not trustworthy. On that basis you cannot make any deals.

  18. Re:"we didn't find much sub-Saharan African ancest on DNA From Ancient Egyptian Mummies Reveals Their Ancestry (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    No they are not.

  19. Re:Capitalism is at fault on British Airways CEO Won't Resign, Says Outsourcing Not To Blame For IT Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Both do not have a communist economy. However, Venezuela is struggling today under a leader who has problems with democracy and North Korea is owned by Kim Jon Un and his useless clan. Communism is an economic model where in essence everything is owned by everyone, money does not exist and people are sharing things. While this concept is totally utopian it has also nothing to do with any country which claimed to be communist. However, countries like the the German Democratic Republic or the Democratic Republic of Kongo were/are both named democratic, but they were both dictatorships.

    Also "communism now" was mentioned as a joke.

  20. Re:There are less western developers on Are There More Developers Than We Think? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean in the US you get a debt and get outsourced to India. Well in, for example Germany, you usually have not a big debt after university, because you get state subsidies and do not have to pay a lot of money to the university. Also you earn 35 to 50 k€ a year (before taxes and social security stuff) or 18 to 25 k€ after all taxes and fees which include healthcare and retirement funds. Good enough to have a comfortable life.

  21. What is a developer? on Are There More Developers Than We Think? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    In case of the article a developer is anybody who writes code. In that context, 20 mio is far too low. However, in case you want to count only people who actually write code for a living then these number would go down. Still I think 20 mio is a little low on that, as we have 7000 mio people on the planet.

  22. You know these Patents only apply to the US and Japan. While I appreciate it, it was not an issue in Thema EU, China etc.

  23. yes on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    Best way to keep all news in one app.

  24. yes on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    Besteht way to keep all news in one app.

  25. Re: Why not? on Should Banks Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    COBOL is a horrible language. Programs written in it are hard to be modified and modernized. Most companies do not even know what the software does in detail. Therefore, they are afraid to replace it with modern software. This has to do with architecture erosion and language features which do not hinder erosion. In addition it is not specifically good in business modeling. It is a mask oriented language.