They both made abusive business deals to amass the wealth they have. And I believe Jobs did donate heavily to charities, just not publicly.
he gets worshiped like some kind of god.
I think that sums up what's wrong in general. But it's not wrong because of the reasons you listed. It's wrong because worshipping an individual is wrong.
People should be judged by their actions and the consequences of their actions. No one should be considered intrinsically better than any other person. If they are better people, it is because of what they have done, and not who they are.
The worst part is, people deify people like Jobs to feel better about themselves. That is the ultimate wrong.
How is this insightful? This comment has said nothing. It says: "Input on a tablet with a keyboard is as fast as input on a computer (with a keyboard). Input on a touchscreen computer is just as fast as input on a tablet (with a touchscreen)." Huh? I thought the whole definition of tablets was to not have a keyboard and just be a touchscreen. To have to "dock" a tablet to make it as useful as a computer implies that it's not as useful without "docking".
Unless this was meant to be funny, in which case somebody misplaced their sarcasm tag.
You're assuming that more water along the east coast equates to more rain on the east coast. This is unlikely even at a glance, because the jetstream is not blowing in the requisite direction for this to happen in the first place.
Funny thing about climate is that changes are rarely localized. Systems are so massive and interconnected that you're not going to see an immediate effect to a cause. And there are numerous failsafes. Water has a huge specific heat. That the planet is mostly water means that it buffers a lot of what otherwise would be extreme immediate effects, and distributes it both over a geographical area and over time.
To understand climate, you have to think bigger than your local weather. You have to think about what would the internet look like in ten years if one of the backbone servers suddenly and permanently goes offline. The immediate effects are probably not significant, but the long term effects can be drastic. Can be, not will be, because there are more than once possible outcome of equal likelihood. Perhaps another backbone operator goes out of business because of the increased load and hence increased maintenance. Perhaps some other company steps in to take the place of that missing server. And there are plenty of external forces, e.g. the MAFIAA, governments, etc. These external actors can be in a more advantageous position as a result, or not.
To think that there is a simple, easy answer (like higher ocean level implies more rain) to a question on a highly complex system is naivete at best, willful ignorance at worst.
Actually, since they ultimately died on the island, it's not a nicer thought. An infection would've been the most likely cause of death. Just imagine how long that would've taken, and under what conditions.
Believe it or not, NYC is on fairly high ground. Staten Island, in particular, has hills that are as high as several hundred feet above sea level. Central Park itself is something like forty feet above sea level, and most of Manhattan is fairly high. This is the same with most parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx.
Here's the thing about Manhattan and hurricanes. It's really, really well protected. Any storm surge would have to make its way past Staten Island and Brooklyn (through the Verizano Narrows) to get to Manhattan. New York Harbor is the only large body of water that's directly up against Manhattan, and it's just not that large.
There's another thing about Manhattan. It's sitting on some crazy hard bedrock. Manhattan Schist, I believe it's called, some of the oldest, hardest rock in the world (it doesn't seem to exist in most of the surrounding area and even in parts of Manhattan). Which means that the island isn't getting washed away anytime soon by a hurricane either. The smaller inhabited islands are mostly situated on the East and Harlem rivers, which are tidal, and thus wouldn't be in any danger of being washed away either.
Overall, the biggest areas of concern would be the outer boroughs and possibly some of the islands in the harbor, while the area of least concern would be Manhattan island itself. South Brooklyn, south Queens (Far Rockaways), and the eastern part of Staten Island are all at risk of major flooding. But the rest of New York City? Nah. It's about the safest place from a hurricane you can get, safer even than farther inland, where there's a greater chance of the local bodies of water (lakes, rivers, streams, etc.) overflowing and washing out roads, bridges, and even entire houses. Look at what happened during Irene.
Now, Long Island and New Jersey is a different story, especially the southern shore of Long Island, which has the highest chance of a storm surge. They usually fare much, much worse than the city proper, but that's largely due to the population density or lack thereof.
Just beacuse there's tyranny and oppression in other parts of the world does not mean that there isn't tyranny and oppression in the U.S., or that the U.S. is not headed in that direction.
And, if indeed there is tyranny and oppression in the U.S., then there's even less of a moral standing to point to tyranny and oppression in other countries. I think the saying is: If your house isn't perfect, you've no business telling others how to fix theirs (or the in case of the U.S., "fixing" it for them).
In general, it's unfair to lump all Christians together. Or for that matter, any particular grouping of people. That's called stereotyping.
It's not so much that stereotyping is wrong, as it is the lazy approach to interacting with other, different people. It's a way to pass judgment even if not qualified to do so.
Unfortunately, what you're not seeing is that there's a huge "content" industry in Canada. American production companies like to go to Canada to make their films. Said production companies would threaten to leave if they didn't get their way.
What the Canadian government doesn't see is that these companies don't really have anywhere else to go.
Yes, but that's marketing-speak, not the real world. PC is short for "personal computer" in this context (as opposed to "political correctness"). Any desktop computer qualifies as a PC (OTOH, servers do not qualify as a PC because it's not personal).
Also don't forget that there are BSD and Linux PCs in addition to Windows PCs. I suspect Macs are not immune to BSD viruses, making it an inaccurate statement regardless.
Marketing (and Apple as an organization) may want to force the term PC to specifically mean Windows PC, but that's not how it's understood in the industry.
Not sure you can use that word for Apple and mice either. In particular, I'm not sure reducing functionality qualifies to be an "innovation." Making things simplier or easier certainly does, but going from a two- or three-button mouse to a one-button mouse when the interface necessitates a two-button mouse at the minimum doesn't qualify as either.
That only works for cheap crap. Once you get into more advanced machines, it doesn't quite work so well. Unhappy workers will do a crappier job than happy workers. In the electronics industry, that may be sufficient. But in heavy machinery manufacturing, including automotives, that's a recipe for disaster, both for the operator and the company. Detroit moved their manufacturing to Mexico and that's why people buy Toyotas and Hondas now, which are more likely than not assembled in the U.S.
Manufacturing high precision equipment requires the necessary expertise as well as a desire to do a good job. You can't feed your workers shit and expect gold to come out of the other end (again, except for the electronics industry, but that's because the tolerances are so high there).
They acknowledged their mistake there. I believe they caved to Intel's request here, which in the post mortem, they said they shouldn't have. It not only made them unpopular with a lot of the higher-end OEMs, but it also was partially reponsible for the botched Vista release.
This is a different move. I think the only ones really unhappy and complaining loudly are the cheap, low-cost OEMs. HP and Dell are probably secretly glad, because the higher-end stuff also come with higher margins (remember the race to the bottom that was netbooks?). Of course, they're probably a little bit upset that they now have a fairly high standard that they have to meet. But that's their own fault for thinking they can keep releasing crap into the market and the consumers will lap it up because there's no alternative out there.
Seriously, this is like 1973, but with tablets and phones rather than cars - price of gas suddenly goes sky high (from 0.25$US/gallon to about 1.30$US/gallon, shortages abound) the GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Motoros only focused on big V8 engines (think 6L or more displacement) Meanwhile the automakers of the rest of the world, who made cars which could stretch a gallon to 25 or more miles ate their lunch. Took about 10 years for Detroit to sort their junk out.
OT, but Detroit didn't learn anything from that. 20 years later (the 90's), they were back to making gas guzzlers again. Fast forward to the late 2000's, and yet again they get their lunch eaten for the same reason no less. Hell, they almost starved to death this time until the government gave them a welfare check.
The worst part is that you absolutely know that when gas is cheap again (in say, 20 years), they'll be making the same mistakes yet again.
But yeah, Microsoft's Windows 8 strategy means Linux on the desktop FTW. Only, I suspect the personal, home, casual computing paradigm is moving away from desktop and into mobile (though exactly what shape this will take is beyond me). Not that I particularly like Unity, but it's good to have a project out there to address this up and coming market segment. Only, they should've made it an optional interface instead of the default.
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They both made abusive business deals to amass the wealth they have. And I believe Jobs did donate heavily to charities, just not publicly.
he gets worshiped like some kind of god.
I think that sums up what's wrong in general. But it's not wrong because of the reasons you listed. It's wrong because worshipping an individual is wrong.
People should be judged by their actions and the consequences of their actions. No one should be considered intrinsically better than any other person. If they are better people, it is because of what they have done, and not who they are.
The worst part is, people deify people like Jobs to feel better about themselves. That is the ultimate wrong.
How is this insightful? This comment has said nothing. It says: "Input on a tablet with a keyboard is as fast as input on a computer (with a keyboard). Input on a touchscreen computer is just as fast as input on a tablet (with a touchscreen)." Huh? I thought the whole definition of tablets was to not have a keyboard and just be a touchscreen. To have to "dock" a tablet to make it as useful as a computer implies that it's not as useful without "docking".
Unless this was meant to be funny, in which case somebody misplaced their sarcasm tag.
Looks like the country tilting right!
It all depends on perspective. From mine, the left is rising.
You're assuming that more water along the east coast equates to more rain on the east coast. This is unlikely even at a glance, because the jetstream is not blowing in the requisite direction for this to happen in the first place.
Funny thing about climate is that changes are rarely localized. Systems are so massive and interconnected that you're not going to see an immediate effect to a cause. And there are numerous failsafes. Water has a huge specific heat. That the planet is mostly water means that it buffers a lot of what otherwise would be extreme immediate effects, and distributes it both over a geographical area and over time.
To understand climate, you have to think bigger than your local weather. You have to think about what would the internet look like in ten years if one of the backbone servers suddenly and permanently goes offline. The immediate effects are probably not significant, but the long term effects can be drastic. Can be, not will be, because there are more than once possible outcome of equal likelihood. Perhaps another backbone operator goes out of business because of the increased load and hence increased maintenance. Perhaps some other company steps in to take the place of that missing server. And there are plenty of external forces, e.g. the MAFIAA, governments, etc. These external actors can be in a more advantageous position as a result, or not.
To think that there is a simple, easy answer (like higher ocean level implies more rain) to a question on a highly complex system is naivete at best, willful ignorance at worst.
Actually, since they ultimately died on the island, it's not a nicer thought. An infection would've been the most likely cause of death. Just imagine how long that would've taken, and under what conditions.
Believe it or not, NYC is on fairly high ground. Staten Island, in particular, has hills that are as high as several hundred feet above sea level. Central Park itself is something like forty feet above sea level, and most of Manhattan is fairly high. This is the same with most parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx.
Here's the thing about Manhattan and hurricanes. It's really, really well protected. Any storm surge would have to make its way past Staten Island and Brooklyn (through the Verizano Narrows) to get to Manhattan. New York Harbor is the only large body of water that's directly up against Manhattan, and it's just not that large.
There's another thing about Manhattan. It's sitting on some crazy hard bedrock. Manhattan Schist, I believe it's called, some of the oldest, hardest rock in the world (it doesn't seem to exist in most of the surrounding area and even in parts of Manhattan). Which means that the island isn't getting washed away anytime soon by a hurricane either. The smaller inhabited islands are mostly situated on the East and Harlem rivers, which are tidal, and thus wouldn't be in any danger of being washed away either.
Overall, the biggest areas of concern would be the outer boroughs and possibly some of the islands in the harbor, while the area of least concern would be Manhattan island itself. South Brooklyn, south Queens (Far Rockaways), and the eastern part of Staten Island are all at risk of major flooding. But the rest of New York City? Nah. It's about the safest place from a hurricane you can get, safer even than farther inland, where there's a greater chance of the local bodies of water (lakes, rivers, streams, etc.) overflowing and washing out roads, bridges, and even entire houses. Look at what happened during Irene.
Now, Long Island and New Jersey is a different story, especially the southern shore of Long Island, which has the highest chance of a storm surge. They usually fare much, much worse than the city proper, but that's largely due to the population density or lack thereof.
Just beacuse there's tyranny and oppression in other parts of the world does not mean that there isn't tyranny and oppression in the U.S., or that the U.S. is not headed in that direction.
And, if indeed there is tyranny and oppression in the U.S., then there's even less of a moral standing to point to tyranny and oppression in other countries. I think the saying is: If your house isn't perfect, you've no business telling others how to fix theirs (or the in case of the U.S., "fixing" it for them).
In general, it's unfair to lump all Christians together. Or for that matter, any particular grouping of people. That's called stereotyping.
It's not so much that stereotyping is wrong, as it is the lazy approach to interacting with other, different people. It's a way to pass judgment even if not qualified to do so.
You have that mistaken for the Super Devil.
Until it's real-world tested, I wouldn't want it anywhere near my computer. Keep it in the lab please, and let me know the results once you're done.
Unfortunately, what you're not seeing is that there's a huge "content" industry in Canada. American production companies like to go to Canada to make their films. Said production companies would threaten to leave if they didn't get their way.
What the Canadian government doesn't see is that these companies don't really have anywhere else to go.
Yes, but that's marketing-speak, not the real world. PC is short for "personal computer" in this context (as opposed to "political correctness"). Any desktop computer qualifies as a PC (OTOH, servers do not qualify as a PC because it's not personal).
Also don't forget that there are BSD and Linux PCs in addition to Windows PCs. I suspect Macs are not immune to BSD viruses, making it an inaccurate statement regardless.
Marketing (and Apple as an organization) may want to force the term PC to specifically mean Windows PC, but that's not how it's understood in the industry.
Not sure you can use that word for Apple and mice either. In particular, I'm not sure reducing functionality qualifies to be an "innovation." Making things simplier or easier certainly does, but going from a two- or three-button mouse to a one-button mouse when the interface necessitates a two-button mouse at the minimum doesn't qualify as either.
Odd how Norton won't warn you about that kind of crap, which slows your computer down as badly as being on a botnet.
That's not odd when you consider that's exactly what they're trying to sell you in the first place.
Since this thing uses lasers
Why are you bringing up sharks?
Thanks for killing it, guys. Gotta explain and analyze the joke (or lack thereof) until it's dead and half buried underground.
It's funny irrespective of whether it's intentional or not. 'nuff said.
China's already trying to corner the market on Africa. Waaaay ahead of the U.S.
That only works for cheap crap. Once you get into more advanced machines, it doesn't quite work so well. Unhappy workers will do a crappier job than happy workers. In the electronics industry, that may be sufficient. But in heavy machinery manufacturing, including automotives, that's a recipe for disaster, both for the operator and the company. Detroit moved their manufacturing to Mexico and that's why people buy Toyotas and Hondas now, which are more likely than not assembled in the U.S.
Manufacturing high precision equipment requires the necessary expertise as well as a desire to do a good job. You can't feed your workers shit and expect gold to come out of the other end (again, except for the electronics industry, but that's because the tolerances are so high there).
Forget X2. I want an All-In-Wonder version.
Completely unrelated /. trivia, but I just noticed the captcha isn't required at all for posting if logging in at the same time.
You keep using that word (cartharsis). I do not think it means what you think it means.
FTFY.
They acknowledged their mistake there. I believe they caved to Intel's request here, which in the post mortem, they said they shouldn't have. It not only made them unpopular with a lot of the higher-end OEMs, but it also was partially reponsible for the botched Vista release.
This is a different move. I think the only ones really unhappy and complaining loudly are the cheap, low-cost OEMs. HP and Dell are probably secretly glad, because the higher-end stuff also come with higher margins (remember the race to the bottom that was netbooks?). Of course, they're probably a little bit upset that they now have a fairly high standard that they have to meet. But that's their own fault for thinking they can keep releasing crap into the market and the consumers will lap it up because there's no alternative out there.
Austria is being paved over with highways, strip malls, excessive parking, soulless suburbs and soviet style housing projects at breakneck speed.
Quick, send in the MAFIAA! Austria is pirating New Jersey.
No, it's pirate, just like how samzenpus pirated soulskill's story.
Seriously, this is like 1973, but with tablets and phones rather than cars - price of gas suddenly goes sky high (from 0.25$US/gallon to about 1.30$US/gallon, shortages abound) the GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Motoros only focused on big V8 engines (think 6L or more displacement) Meanwhile the automakers of the rest of the world, who made cars which could stretch a gallon to 25 or more miles ate their lunch. Took about 10 years for Detroit to sort their junk out.
OT, but Detroit didn't learn anything from that. 20 years later (the 90's), they were back to making gas guzzlers again. Fast forward to the late 2000's, and yet again they get their lunch eaten for the same reason no less. Hell, they almost starved to death this time until the government gave them a welfare check.
The worst part is that you absolutely know that when gas is cheap again (in say, 20 years), they'll be making the same mistakes yet again.
But yeah, Microsoft's Windows 8 strategy means Linux on the desktop FTW. Only, I suspect the personal, home, casual computing paradigm is moving away from desktop and into mobile (though exactly what shape this will take is beyond me). Not that I particularly like Unity, but it's good to have a project out there to address this up and coming market segment. Only, they should've made it an optional interface instead of the default.
Would a Kinect interface in a laptop be interesting?
Yeah, it would finally enable this. That would be cool.