Calm discussion? The CEO called them "Mathematically Incompetent Theories". Calm would be, "We believe the study has significant flaws." The word "incompetent" attacks people, not ideas. Inanimate objects cannot be "incompetent".
Write the up requirements, rank them by importance, and submit them for a custom software quote. Keep the UI simple (close to standard HTML) so that you minimize screwy JavaScript dependencies.
Everybody has different ideas for what they want and don't want in schedulers such that no existing product will be a sure fit for you.
You neither addressed nor refuted my point, which is that bigoted classism is rampant in California
Humans in general tend to be tribalistic and say that their own "kind" are the best. It's not just red's or blue's. It's similar in sports where the visitor teams are always cheaters and thugs who manipulate the referees.
I try to take what I believe is the high-minded approach and simply say "I personally prefer X" rather than "X is special and the best" from absolute sense.
The flip side of your liberal stereotype viewpoint would be something like, "I don't want to live on the coast with anti-family atheists, socialists, gays, sodomites, and AIDS-infected homeless who come for the weather, which also inflates real-estate prices to high-heaven, which Californians will never see anyhow."
CA and big cities often specialize in fast-changing areas where collaboration is paramount, and thus talent and specialists are stuffed into a small geographical area so that they are readily available, including between gigs.
But there are down-sides to such density, such as high housing prices. It's hard to be everything to every industry such that certain kind of technology may indeed find a better fit elsewhere. It's merely Adam Smith's/David Ricardo's "Comparative Advantage" principle in action.
You'll spend most of the day... in the cramped heat-treat or shipping office on a desktop with a missing '3' key that hasnt seen an upgrade since the bush administration
I find it's often easier to just buy new keyboards and minor equipment yourself and don't make an issue of it. Ask for a replacement, but if it doesn't show up, then just go get one.
True, but it became increasingly annoying to share between those different formats for multiple reasons. And MS was not always friendly across products: VB6 customers were left holding the bag, as VB-NET had too many differences to be auto-translate-able.
MS has always been a "subscription" service. Even though you used to make a one-time payment for a particular version, getting upgrades to be compatible with everyone and everything around you was a de-facto subscription.
Since subscriptions will typically be bought for about 2 years' worth, it's not much different than the old way of paying every 3-to-5 years for an upgrade.
However, the utility of the old version generally gradually "rotted" instead of having the plug suddenly pulled when the subscription expires. However, I suspect MS will offer a grace period for bigger orgs such that a nag message gradually grows more annoying over time, possibly with a delayed late-fee. Diminishing compatibility and nag messages are roughly comparable in pain.
MS cannot make subscriptions too annoying, otherwise too many customers will bolt for alternatives. However, if one day they get into a financial funk, they could turn to milking current customers for as much as possible via strict terms, and sell out their longer future to survive the short-term. Remember when IBM went through a bean-counter fad where instant-profit was more important than customer good-will?
I've used both iPhone and Android. I have gripes about both, but the iPhone UI and feature set is just overall "cleaner". Android is more ad-hoc: the rhyme and reason for the UI design is unclear and may take longer to get used to. Plus, the Android retailer seems to put crap-ware and poorly-tuned features on Android. Apples guards against that more than Google.
Apple's philosophy seems to be "do fewer things but do them well", while Android is a bit more wild-west in feel. You can roam further away, but you are also more likely to get arrows in your back.
If you mostly use just basic features: phone, text, email, calendar/reminder, maps, common social media, and web-browsing; then iPhone will be less hassle.
But Android has better map-integrated searches of stores and services because it's connected up with Google-Maps. You can still use Google-Maps on iPhone, but Apple doesn't make it as smoothly integrated into the default map feature, probably because they want you to use their search engine to control recommendations (ads). But Google is still the king of search. (The Google Maps downloaded app wasn't so great on iPhone when I tried it, but that was a while ago.)
It would be a speaker that automatically plays Donald Trump's voice into the smart speaker, with the appropriate command word
I do T impressions when telemarketers call. If I can automate a T-bot to keep them busy and waste their time, that would be great! Sample script:
Marketer: "Hi Fred, this is your friendly local telecom provider. We'd like to offer you a special deal on bundled phone, cable, and Internet. Are you interested?"
T: "I make the best deals, believe me! If you have a great deal for me, that would be fantastic."
Marketer: "The three-service bundle is only $119 a month for one year and comes with HBO."
T: "HBO is for total luuuzers."
M: "Okay, but the bundle is still less expensive than purchasing all 3 services separately. You don't have to watch HBO."
T: "Your competitor made me a better deal."
M: "Fubar Co.? That's the only other competitor in your area, we bribed...I mean out-competed the rest. What did they offer you?"
T: "I won't say, that would spoil my negotiating position."
M: "We know what they offer, we follow them closely. Our deal is better."
If one does a lot of house-work or hobbies with their hands, such as cooking, repairing cars, building battle-bots, etc.; then a hands-free digital assistant could be handy, if done right.
Most slashdotters probably want an OSS version(s). Ideally the hardware, OS, and answering software could be sold and installed separately. Otherwise, you'll probably end up with talking & snooping spam.
That's a different case. Often what happens is that somebody interprets a broadcast as X happening, but the story is more involved and Y really happened. But the accuser either doesn't know that Y really happened and keeps spreading X (or others copy it), or maybe doesn't care that he/she is wrong and spreads BS for the hell of it because they can.
It would be nice if MSM would give their side of the accusation in a consistent, easy-to-search area (blog, page, etc.) However, I suspect the volume of accusations may over-tax them: you can't fight off every troll on the Interwebs: they have to pick their battles carefully, for the volume of trolls is Yuuuge.
This was debunked somewhere, I just can't find the related links right now. As I remember it, the press was allowed a very limited amount of physical space by cops such that the camera person accidentally ended up in the shot.
The loss of faith in MSM is entirely self inflicted. They've been caught time and again [being manipulative and biased]
This isn't new, it's just that the Internet made it easier to spread the word of their sins. Further, polarization of politics has made each other more likely to point out the others' mistakes. News networks used to rarely trash each other, at least not intensely. Corporations are jerks, gov't agency are jerks, users are jerks, etc. We can't make humans stop sucking, but we need to find a practical way to limit and monitor the suckage.
Perhaps in order for reporters to be granted press access to politicians and press conferences, their sponsoring org has to follow a minimum set of quality and transparency guidelines.
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Calm discussion? The CEO called them "Mathematically Incompetent Theories". Calm would be, "We believe the study has significant flaws." The word "incompetent" attacks people, not ideas. Inanimate objects cannot be "incompetent".
Write the up requirements, rank them by importance, and submit them for a custom software quote. Keep the UI simple (close to standard HTML) so that you minimize screwy JavaScript dependencies.
Everybody has different ideas for what they want and don't want in schedulers such that no existing product will be a sure fit for you.
Humans in general tend to be tribalistic and say that their own "kind" are the best. It's not just red's or blue's. It's similar in sports where the visitor teams are always cheaters and thugs who manipulate the referees.
I try to take what I believe is the high-minded approach and simply say "I personally prefer X" rather than "X is special and the best" from absolute sense.
Can they put this tech on golf carts?
All those parking tickets: gone!
The flip side of your liberal stereotype viewpoint would be something like, "I don't want to live on the coast with anti-family atheists, socialists, gays, sodomites, and AIDS-infected homeless who come for the weather, which also inflates real-estate prices to high-heaven, which Californians will never see anyhow."
CA and big cities often specialize in fast-changing areas where collaboration is paramount, and thus talent and specialists are stuffed into a small geographical area so that they are readily available, including between gigs.
But there are down-sides to such density, such as high housing prices. It's hard to be everything to every industry such that certain kind of technology may indeed find a better fit elsewhere. It's merely Adam Smith's/David Ricardo's "Comparative Advantage" principle in action.
I find it's often easier to just buy new keyboards and minor equipment yourself and don't make an issue of it. Ask for a replacement, but if it doesn't show up, then just go get one.
True, but it became increasingly annoying to share between those different formats for multiple reasons. And MS was not always friendly across products: VB6 customers were left holding the bag, as VB-NET had too many differences to be auto-translate-able.
MS has always been a "subscription" service. Even though you used to make a one-time payment for a particular version, getting upgrades to be compatible with everyone and everything around you was a de-facto subscription.
Since subscriptions will typically be bought for about 2 years' worth, it's not much different than the old way of paying every 3-to-5 years for an upgrade.
However, the utility of the old version generally gradually "rotted" instead of having the plug suddenly pulled when the subscription expires. However, I suspect MS will offer a grace period for bigger orgs such that a nag message gradually grows more annoying over time, possibly with a delayed late-fee. Diminishing compatibility and nag messages are roughly comparable in pain.
MS cannot make subscriptions too annoying, otherwise too many customers will bolt for alternatives. However, if one day they get into a financial funk, they could turn to milking current customers for as much as possible via strict terms, and sell out their longer future to survive the short-term. Remember when IBM went through a bean-counter fad where instant-profit was more important than customer good-will?
There's some funky Darwin Awards around the corner.
I've used both iPhone and Android. I have gripes about both, but the iPhone UI and feature set is just overall "cleaner". Android is more ad-hoc: the rhyme and reason for the UI design is unclear and may take longer to get used to. Plus, the Android retailer seems to put crap-ware and poorly-tuned features on Android. Apples guards against that more than Google.
Apple's philosophy seems to be "do fewer things but do them well", while Android is a bit more wild-west in feel. You can roam further away, but you are also more likely to get arrows in your back.
If you mostly use just basic features: phone, text, email, calendar/reminder, maps, common social media, and web-browsing; then iPhone will be less hassle.
But Android has better map-integrated searches of stores and services because it's connected up with Google-Maps. You can still use Google-Maps on iPhone, but Apple doesn't make it as smoothly integrated into the default map feature, probably because they want you to use their search engine to control recommendations (ads). But Google is still the king of search. (The Google Maps downloaded app wasn't so great on iPhone when I tried it, but that was a while ago.)
I told you not to use go-to's.
I do T impressions when telemarketers call. If I can automate a T-bot to keep them busy and waste their time, that would be great! Sample script:
Marketer: "Hi Fred, this is your friendly local telecom provider. We'd like to offer you a special deal on bundled phone, cable, and Internet. Are you interested?"
T: "I make the best deals, believe me! If you have a great deal for me, that would be fantastic."
Marketer: "The three-service bundle is only $119 a month for one year and comes with HBO."
T: "HBO is for total luuuzers."
M: "Okay, but the bundle is still less expensive than purchasing all 3 services separately. You don't have to watch HBO."
T: "Your competitor made me a better deal."
M: "Fubar Co.? That's the only other competitor in your area, we bribed...I mean out-competed the rest. What did they offer you?"
T: "I won't say, that would spoil my negotiating position."
M: "We know what they offer, we follow them closely. Our deal is better."
T: "Fake news!"
M: "So you really want to pay more?"
T: "They are nicer to me; I reward loyalty."
M: "How were we mean to you?"
T: "You gave me fake news. Totally unacceptable."
Etc...
If one does a lot of house-work or hobbies with their hands, such as cooking, repairing cars, building battle-bots, etc.; then a hands-free digital assistant could be handy, if done right.
They could make a deal.
I'm trying sooo hard right now to resist Trump jokes, it hurts.
Most slashdotters probably want an OSS version(s). Ideally the hardware, OS, and answering software could be sold and installed separately. Otherwise, you'll probably end up with talking & snooping spam.
Sounds more like a defense contract. "Sure, these dashboard clocks are expensive, but they'll survive the apocalypse." (Sound of check-signing...)
To compete, take a different tactic: hide thousands of little long-life clocks all over the planet. At least a few will survive. It's web-scale :-)
Long Now is an odd name. Sounds like a Chinese restaurant: "Happy Long Life Now Lucky Gold Family Noodle-House".
He should have launched it into interplanetary orbit instead of that stupid car. Nobody can touch it there, except maybe the Ru ... nevermind.
That's a different case. Often what happens is that somebody interprets a broadcast as X happening, but the story is more involved and Y really happened. But the accuser either doesn't know that Y really happened and keeps spreading X (or others copy it), or maybe doesn't care that he/she is wrong and spreads BS for the hell of it because they can.
It would be nice if MSM would give their side of the accusation in a consistent, easy-to-search area (blog, page, etc.) However, I suspect the volume of accusations may over-tax them: you can't fight off every troll on the Interwebs: they have to pick their battles carefully, for the volume of trolls is Yuuuge.
This was debunked somewhere, I just can't find the related links right now. As I remember it, the press was allowed a very limited amount of physical space by cops such that the camera person accidentally ended up in the shot.
This isn't new, it's just that the Internet made it easier to spread the word of their sins. Further, polarization of politics has made each other more likely to point out the others' mistakes. News networks used to rarely trash each other, at least not intensely. Corporations are jerks, gov't agency are jerks, users are jerks, etc. We can't make humans stop sucking, but we need to find a practical way to limit and monitor the suckage.
Perhaps in order for reporters to be granted press access to politicians and press conferences, their sponsoring org has to follow a minimum set of quality and transparency guidelines.