The difference is that Bieber is not the President of the United States. You can turn off the TV and live a life free from Bieber's autocratic impositions.
Do you care to tell us what these powerful alternatives are? I need to create documents for business purposes on occasion - nothing too complex, but things like page layout and being able to export to a common file format are critical. OO has worked acceptably for that but if there is something better...
Plenty of sci fi and fantasy authors do this. Sometimes it's used as a crutch, sometimes it enhances the story, usually it's a mixture of both. Tolkien wasn't immune to this either... The eagles show up to carry Hobbits only when it's convenient. That said, the books aren't comparable for a bunch of reasons, this is way down on the list. Totally different styles of writing, different experiences reading.
I always thought the interface of GoldWave (shareware) was easier to work than Audacity. The programs both do almost exactly the same thing, each has a couple features the other doesn't, but I think goldwaves interface has the slight edge. I'll have to try the new Audacity UI, but the fact that they are adding things like skins doesn't give me confidence their minds are in the right place.
People don't know how to effect change. The system doesn't give them any legitimate avenues to do it, and the alternatives like armed revolution or leaving the country have pretty high costs.
If you sat down and talked to them about it one on one, they would tell you they don't want it. But there are many who are ignorant and wouldnt know until you talked to them. Or they may vaguely know things like this go on, but they have no idea what a VPN is, and so can't parse why this, specifically, is important. Of those who know, and those who care... Most have more pressing concerns that they will devote their effort to.
So what's your proposed solution to the rotten leadership at Twitter and Facebook? Should the government get into the business of regulating what content private entities can and can't host on their web site? How about Trump or some other even-minded individual purchase a controlling stake in the company? I'm sure it would do better under His leadership. Or, you could keep on voluntarily using these sites and being oppressed in whatever way you feel is happening, and keep complaining about it on Slashdot.
I had several first-gen Atoms. To me it seemed like they were slow more because of what else was running on the systems - Windows XP from a hard disk. Doesn't exactly feel as responsive as Android from flash memory. I have no idea how they would compare in real world benchmarks like video encoding.
Probably the refining is cost-prohibitive (requiring more energy and/or materials) when compared to better mines. When the better mines are sucked dry, then they move on to Canada, and the price goes up for everybody.
It didn't say they were eliminating their VR team entirely, just cutting down on the resources for the time being. When the VR market gets bigger and there is more money to be made they can resume developing their game or whatever. These guys are game developers, right? I don't think they are looking to pour huge amounts into R&D without having a product to ship... a market to sell it to.
There was a beta version of the site launched not even 2 days ago. Considering that Wiki usually means crowdsourced, and building crowds takes time... It's fairer to say it hasn't fully launched yet.
What ruins my faith in government is when they *don't* prosecute financial crimes, which happens plenty. Manafort, although he had been under investigation for years, seemed to be avoiding charges until Mueller stepped in. If they can get information from him that will help take down more of his criminal network, that's a-OK by me. Even - especially - if some of them hold office in our government. I guess your concerns lie elsewhere.
Most of the real-world scenarios I've seen Bluetooth used in, for home audio, seemed like more of a hassle than anything. Those shitty "sound bar" style speakers still need a power cable anyway, since they aren't getting power directly from an amplifier. Either that, or you have to start worrying about batteries. We were never able to get the subwoofer to pair to the system at all... Im willing to consider it was just one bad product, but making the product more complex makes more points of failure, so it's not totally unrelated to the decision to go with Bluetooth.
The problem I have with HDMI is that little of my audio equipment supports it. I've got everything running on RCA or 3.5mm, which are basically interchangable with the right cable. I could probably get HDMI audio output off my video card if I replaced one of my VGA/DVI monitors and passed it through somehow... Then also replaced my receiver, which will probably also necessitate buying a separate phonograph pre-amp as well... A lot of changes for no discernable benefit, as someone who doesn't need surround sound.
Sounds like you are trying to absolve the executive branch of some responsibility. It may be useful to remember who cast the tiebreaking vote that let the bill in TFA pass the Senate - that would be Vice President Pence. Who got rid of the Johnson amendment so that churches and other nonprofits can endorse political campaigns? That would be Trump, with an EO back in May. Moving down from the very top of the executive ticket, you can take a look at what all their appointees are doing. Gutting net neutrality, removing pollution controls, consumer protections, awarding a $300-million disaster relief contract to a 2-employee shell company run by Trumpkins... Most administrations come with at least a couple slimeballs, but Trump's is so stacked with corporatist/nepotist stooges that they'll do in a month what would have taken Hilary's guys 20 years.
Congress, of course, has failed in just as spectacular fashion. The leadership vacuum in the Executive branch has now left us with 2 useless branches... who are steadily trying to wreck the third. I'm not sure what the solution is. Congressional term limits and algorithm-based districting might help, but I see little will for even those small reforms to be implemented. A viable third party would be great but where would it come from? People like the Greens are seen as single-issue, fringe, or even extremist. We had the "Tea Party" movement, but they got tidily swept back into the Republican column. Fox News and similar tastemakers made sure the Tea Party knew the enemy was the black man in the white house, and that the only solution was to vote Republican. (Funnily enough, that was also Trump's start in national politics, Fox loved trotting out document expert Trump to talk about birth certificates. I don't watch reality TV or Access Hollywood so that was my first time hearing the man's name.)
What I see is that our national discourse has been completely derailed by mountains of bullshit. People are worried about Russian interference in our electoral process, which certainly is a cause for concern, but the way our OWN government and media have tried to influence things is the root of it all. His corporatist agenda would be seen as absurd on its face, a bad joke, if it weren't for decades of conditioning by the Republican party to make the ideas palatable. The Democrats could have easily swept him aside if they had produced a candidate with a halfway-compelling vision for the country. A third candidate might have won if they'd had a media megaphone as big as either of the two.
We can try to tweak our system of government to get around these problems, but we can also attack the core of the problem through education. The statistics show that educated people were less likely to fall for the menage of deceptions that comprise Trumpism. It stands to reason that they would also be less inclined to eat up the bullshit coming from the next politician. The problem needs to be attacked from every angle, but I see education as the tide that will lift all boats in the long run.
Now, how to fix our declining education system? Thats a whole other can of worms, but I feel confident in saying the answer is not more money (by itself), or more privatization, or more standardized tests.
Supposedly, the collection was worth a few million. It's hard to imagine whoever owned the thing couldn't have put up a few thousand dollars to digitize them. Crowdfunding might even work on something like this.
A cell phone is a toy to them, like a hula hoop. They don't cost much more than a hula hoop either, especially in the East. They provide few more tangible benefits to the individual user than internet cafes or telephones.
The problem with social media is that it makes it easier for people to remain ignorant. You get all the effects of filter bubble, plus you get the *impression* of being informed by this omniscient, worldwide information tool. It's like it was purpose-built to exacerbate the Dunnig-Kreuger effect in people.
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The difference is that Bieber is not the President of the United States. You can turn off the TV and live a life free from Bieber's autocratic impositions.
Do you care to tell us what these powerful alternatives are? I need to create documents for business purposes on occasion - nothing too complex, but things like page layout and being able to export to a common file format are critical. OO has worked acceptably for that but if there is something better...
How am I going to keep up with the Jetsons when my deliveries go in a BOX?
Plenty of sci fi and fantasy authors do this. Sometimes it's used as a crutch, sometimes it enhances the story, usually it's a mixture of both. Tolkien wasn't immune to this either... The eagles show up to carry Hobbits only when it's convenient. That said, the books aren't comparable for a bunch of reasons, this is way down on the list. Totally different styles of writing, different experiences reading.
You must not know many foxes.
I always thought the interface of GoldWave (shareware) was easier to work than Audacity. The programs both do almost exactly the same thing, each has a couple features the other doesn't, but I think goldwaves interface has the slight edge. I'll have to try the new Audacity UI, but the fact that they are adding things like skins doesn't give me confidence their minds are in the right place.
People don't know how to effect change. The system doesn't give them any legitimate avenues to do it, and the alternatives like armed revolution or leaving the country have pretty high costs.
If you sat down and talked to them about it one on one, they would tell you they don't want it. But there are many who are ignorant and wouldnt know until you talked to them. Or they may vaguely know things like this go on, but they have no idea what a VPN is, and so can't parse why this, specifically, is important. Of those who know, and those who care... Most have more pressing concerns that they will devote their effort to.
So what's your proposed solution to the rotten leadership at Twitter and Facebook? Should the government get into the business of regulating what content private entities can and can't host on their web site? How about Trump or some other even-minded individual purchase a controlling stake in the company? I'm sure it would do better under His leadership. Or, you could keep on voluntarily using these sites and being oppressed in whatever way you feel is happening, and keep complaining about it on Slashdot.
I had several first-gen Atoms. To me it seemed like they were slow more because of what else was running on the systems - Windows XP from a hard disk. Doesn't exactly feel as responsive as Android from flash memory. I have no idea how they would compare in real world benchmarks like video encoding.
Church!
Probably the refining is cost-prohibitive (requiring more energy and/or materials) when compared to better mines. When the better mines are sucked dry, then they move on to Canada, and the price goes up for everybody.
It didn't say they were eliminating their VR team entirely, just cutting down on the resources for the time being. When the VR market gets bigger and there is more money to be made they can resume developing their game or whatever. These guys are game developers, right? I don't think they are looking to pour huge amounts into R&D without having a product to ship... a market to sell it to.
There was a beta version of the site launched not even 2 days ago. Considering that Wiki usually means crowdsourced, and building crowds takes time... It's fairer to say it hasn't fully launched yet.
What ruins my faith in government is when they *don't* prosecute financial crimes, which happens plenty. Manafort, although he had been under investigation for years, seemed to be avoiding charges until Mueller stepped in. If they can get information from him that will help take down more of his criminal network, that's a-OK by me. Even - especially - if some of them hold office in our government. I guess your concerns lie elsewhere.
Most of the real-world scenarios I've seen Bluetooth used in, for home audio, seemed like more of a hassle than anything. Those shitty "sound bar" style speakers still need a power cable anyway, since they aren't getting power directly from an amplifier. Either that, or you have to start worrying about batteries. We were never able to get the subwoofer to pair to the system at all... Im willing to consider it was just one bad product, but making the product more complex makes more points of failure, so it's not totally unrelated to the decision to go with Bluetooth.
The problem I have with HDMI is that little of my audio equipment supports it. I've got everything running on RCA or 3.5mm, which are basically interchangable with the right cable. I could probably get HDMI audio output off my video card if I replaced one of my VGA/DVI monitors and passed it through somehow... Then also replaced my receiver, which will probably also necessitate buying a separate phonograph pre-amp as well... A lot of changes for no discernable benefit, as someone who doesn't need surround sound.
Watching them go wild on this one will be amusing. Do you really think the campaign is limited to Facebook?
Exactly... Function should dictate UI, not the other way around.
Sounds like you are trying to absolve the executive branch of some responsibility. It may be useful to remember who cast the tiebreaking vote that let the bill in TFA pass the Senate - that would be Vice President Pence. Who got rid of the Johnson amendment so that churches and other nonprofits can endorse political campaigns? That would be Trump, with an EO back in May. Moving down from the very top of the executive ticket, you can take a look at what all their appointees are doing. Gutting net neutrality, removing pollution controls, consumer protections, awarding a $300-million disaster relief contract to a 2-employee shell company run by Trumpkins... Most administrations come with at least a couple slimeballs, but Trump's is so stacked with corporatist/nepotist stooges that they'll do in a month what would have taken Hilary's guys 20 years.
Congress, of course, has failed in just as spectacular fashion. The leadership vacuum in the Executive branch has now left us with 2 useless branches... who are steadily trying to wreck the third. I'm not sure what the solution is. Congressional term limits and algorithm-based districting might help, but I see little will for even those small reforms to be implemented. A viable third party would be great but where would it come from? People like the Greens are seen as single-issue, fringe, or even extremist. We had the "Tea Party" movement, but they got tidily swept back into the Republican column. Fox News and similar tastemakers made sure the Tea Party knew the enemy was the black man in the white house, and that the only solution was to vote Republican. (Funnily enough, that was also Trump's start in national politics, Fox loved trotting out document expert Trump to talk about birth certificates. I don't watch reality TV or Access Hollywood so that was my first time hearing the man's name.)
What I see is that our national discourse has been completely derailed by mountains of bullshit. People are worried about Russian interference in our electoral process, which certainly is a cause for concern, but the way our OWN government and media have tried to influence things is the root of it all. His corporatist agenda would be seen as absurd on its face, a bad joke, if it weren't for decades of conditioning by the Republican party to make the ideas palatable. The Democrats could have easily swept him aside if they had produced a candidate with a halfway-compelling vision for the country. A third candidate might have won if they'd had a media megaphone as big as either of the two.
We can try to tweak our system of government to get around these problems, but we can also attack the core of the problem through education. The statistics show that educated people were less likely to fall for the menage of deceptions that comprise Trumpism. It stands to reason that they would also be less inclined to eat up the bullshit coming from the next politician. The problem needs to be attacked from every angle, but I see education as the tide that will lift all boats in the long run.
Now, how to fix our declining education system? Thats a whole other can of worms, but I feel confident in saying the answer is not more money (by itself), or more privatization, or more standardized tests.
Supposedly, the collection was worth a few million. It's hard to imagine whoever owned the thing couldn't have put up a few thousand dollars to digitize them. Crowdfunding might even work on something like this.
A cell phone is a toy to them, like a hula hoop. They don't cost much more than a hula hoop either, especially in the East. They provide few more tangible benefits to the individual user than internet cafes or telephones.
The problem with social media is that it makes it easier for people to remain ignorant. You get all the effects of filter bubble, plus you get the *impression* of being informed by this omniscient, worldwide information tool. It's like it was purpose-built to exacerbate the Dunnig-Kreuger effect in people.
I ran the world's first social media site back in about 1997, when I put a guestbook on my Geocities page.
Wow... That just makes the whole story even sadder.