The big cost isn't in the software itself, but in the cost of the operation.
Even a free tool has huge costs if it requires specialist knowledge. What stops a lot of companies from being more secure isn't that they dont have the tools, its rather they dont have the know how.
AD's innate protection and logging.
Could you elaborate on this, specifically how to configure and use? Any link would be appreciated.
Although it wont be of much use in my current role (we have another system that does everything to do with user accounts that manipulates AD) but it would be good for future roles.
but ALL laptops were consumer-level crap.
(Don't recall having seen a Dell desktop - seems companies want everyone to use laptops these days)
Look past the casing (the enterprise doesn't place any value on looks). The Latitude and precision series are extremely powerful and reliable as well as very easy to fix. Its no coincidence that organisations that use dell tend to have long replacement cycles (4 or 5 years in some places).
I've worked with procuring laptops in both small and big business, I have no problems in recommending Dells as they've demonstrated that they can:
1) go the distance.
2) bend over backwards to fix problems.
After sales support with Dell's business laptops is top notch, regardless of if you bought 10 or 10,000 laptops.
My only real complaints with them are they're fugly as hell and a tiny bit on the heavy side (as in maybe half a kilo). Both of these are easy to get over.
I've seen a few Dell desktops, SFF desktops are making a bit of a come back, but laptops are still dominant.
Why the fuck did anyone listen to a playmate, of all the people on this planet, when it comes to advice on a medical subject? Do you go to your doctor for make up tips?
It speaks volumes about the people who fall for that bunk when you consider whose advice they take on what subject.
Because people want to be reassured in the belief they already hold and they dont really care about the source as long as the source says what they want to hear.
There's a reason the phrase "mind your sources" is uttered so often in science and research. Recognising that humans have a natural bias towards what they believe is the first step to mitigating it.
Right. The desktop will die, probably in the year of the Linux Desktop.
I've been hearing this for 10 years or more. Desktops aren't going anywhere soon. The market will evolve, but it isn't going to die.
Yep, desktops will die when you can plug your phone into a docking station that uses an external monitor, keyboard and mouse... erm... exactly like a desktop.
Very few people work exclusively on a laptop, most have docking stations or at the very least, plug monitors and keyboards into their laptops for most of the time at work.
You're right that the market will evolve, this includes the desktop. My bet is on a convergence of devices. Something like an Asus Transformer that has a detachable KB/track pad and can be plugged into a docking stations so it is a laptop, tablet and desktop in one. Desktops themselves wont die as PC gaming will never die and there will always be new GPU's that require more space, more power and more cooling. 49.38% of the power generated by the starship Enterprise was just to power the NVIDIA card used to run the main screen.
What Apple learned from the PC manufacturers, is to not depend on anyone. They are one of the few companies who keep all design and technology in-house..
LoL,
Apple are as dependent on others as any other PC manufacturer. In fact they do less in house manufacturing than many of their competitors like Asus.
First off, Apple are almost entirely dependent on external suppliers for everything. Hynix RAM, Samsung screens, Nvidia GPU's, Intel GPU's. Even their mobile SoC's are dependent on external chip manufacturers and licensed designs as well as Samsung for manufacturing.
In fact Apple is heavily dependent on manufacturers like Samsung not being as vindictive and petty as they are.
Secondly, Apple owns none of their own manufacturing facilities. Dell produces 95% of its laptops from it own factories in Malaysia (Penang) and China (Xiamen), Asus owns factories in Taiwan, Mexico, Czech Republic and more recently, mainland China.
Apple is far from being independent, the only reason their business model isn't being copied is because it's inferior to the business model currently being used. As soon as Apple becomes passe, its over for them, no other business sees any sense in taking that risk.
Apple needs the Mac for their own use, and so do all of the iOS developers. They won't get out of the PC business until and unless an iPad can drive a" 5K display.
-jcr
There is very little stopping that. You can already stick a COTS discrete GPU onto an ARM chipset. The only reason there isn't a readily available consumer version already is because a discrete GPU would be so power hungry that battery life would be terrible on a mobile device. This is easily mitigated by having the machine plugged into the mains, as for laptops, I've had a dual GPU laptop for years now that uses an Intel GPU for low power and a NVIDIA GPU for high performance.
Apple are merging OS X into IOS, albeit very slowly. The Fan, erm... Frogboys need to be boiled very slowly. As for IOS developers, all Apple need to do is port the dev tools after all, you use Windows to develop for Windows.
Do not underestimate Dell. Their ability to sell laptops by the pallet to corporations is impressive.
Beyond that, their enterprise gear is actually quite good. For people who've only ever used Dell's consumer crap this may come as a bit of a surprise.
My biggest complaint with the Dell Latitude work gave me is that it is a little bit on the heavy side.
Reliable laptops with decent specs combined with aggressive pricing at the enterprise level that Acer is unable to match and Apple is unwilling to match there is little surprise that Dell is an enterprise favourite.
That said... I fail to see what exactly their problem or complaint actually is.
In this last week an anti-vaxxer group in Australia put out a post on their FB page likening forced vaccination to rape (penetration without consent). They even illustrated it with a photo of a guy standing over a women in a menacing pose and holding his hand over her mouth.
So at this point I have no clue what some of them are thinking, and wouldn't even know how to communicate with them.
Anti-Vaxxers know their message will never be taken seriously unless they use ridiculous amounts of hyperbole. This is why they never rely on actual science and fall back on nebulous threats to other things (freedom, sexual assault, your daughters virginity). They need people to associate vaccinations with something else bad without thinking. Standard operating procedure for almost all extremist groups really.
it also demonstrates to the rest of us how out of touch with reality they are... But thats the kind of follower they want to attract.
"Fast"? I'll wager my full size SUV, a Mercedes GL550, is faster than most anything other than an all-out sports car
Fast?
For what you paid for your Mercedes, I could buy a Nissan GTR and have change. Compared to the Nissan's 3 second 0-60 time, the overweight Merc is positively pedestrian.
In fact you'll be taken to town by a much cheaper Subaru WRX STI and struggle to keep up with my 12 year old lightly modified Nissan Silvia which does an actual 0-100 (KPH) time of 6.1 seconds. That is an actual recorded time with me as the driver. Not a time extrapolated from power to weight figures like yours.
But then again, you're just name dropping and dont own a GL550.
But this simply removed the overlay they use to bug you about adblock.
Sites that are serious about it re-direct you to a completely different page, for these sites my response is the same as the GGP, go elsewhere. However if this kind of thing becomes common, there will be adblock detector detectors we can use to get around it. its an arms race where the advertisers will always be playing catch up.
1) ZERO MAINTENANCE (except for breaks & tires, wipers/fluid)
And CV joints, batteries, electrical systems, power steering, ABS, Traction control and all the other systems a traditional car has.
All an EV does is replace the engine and gearbox which in time will have their own issues, entropy will have it's way with it just like everything else.
They aren't attractive, they don't stop/go fast, they can't carry much stuff. I don't get it.
Its not about having a better drive or more space than a hatchback. It's about people with little man syndrome wanting to pretend they're lording it over other motorists. This becomes readily apparent when they as "where can your car go that my SUV cant" and their dumbfounded look when you answer "fast" is priceless.
Also with Pickups or "Utes" as we call them in Australia, they're the domain of tradesmen who need the space in the tray and towing capacity that most pickups provide. A few others buy them because they're cheap proper offroaders (low range gearbox, locking diffs, underside protection... things you dont get on SUVs). Very few people outside the US buy a pickup because they want one, most people buy them because they do something they need.
In Australia most pickups are Japanese (Nissan Navara, Toyota Hilux, Mitsubishi Triton, Isusu D-Max) so they have a 2-3L turbo diesels and a proper 4x4 drive train. The F-series floundered over here.
Because you do not name the SUV I do not believe you.
Well he's right and wrong.
Many SUV's are just jacked up hatchbacks. = True.
With AWD = Mostly false as many are simply FWD. Many more are just 4x4 on demand, which means the read drive train only kicks in when the front wheels lose traction.
And gets the same fuel efficiency as a Civic = Completely false as the increase in weight and ride height (worse aerodynamics) increases fuel consumption.
Of course, fuel efficiency is not the only problem with SUVs. That extra ground clearance makes them awful for road visibility because it's much more difficult to see through or around them from a regular sized vehicle, so every SUV on the road makes driving more dangerous for everyone.
And, when I was driving my mid-engined sports car, I couldn't even see past a Volvo, because my eyes were level with its door handle. Should they be banned, too?
I drive a low car, (Nissan Sivlia S15) and I have no trouble seeing past and through an ordinary sedan or hatch as the windows are low enough that I can see through them. I've driven a Caterham 7, at no point were my eyes level with the door handles of a Toyota Camry and I'm not particularly tall either.
So this is utter bollocks.
SUV's on the other hand are high enough that when I'm driving an ordinary sedan (Subaru Liberty 3.0 Spec B) I cant see through the window to the traffic ahead.
Basically, your argument reduces to 'WAH! WAH! WAH! ME NOT LIKE! WAH! WAH!'.
Basically, your argument reduces to "WAH! WAH! WAH! ME NOT LIKE TRUTH SO ME MAKE UP SHIT! WAH! WAH! WAH!"
It's just a euphemism. I remember working for a company that started embracing offshoring, which they called "right-shoring." Layoffs were called "right-sizing." And the executives were called "cunts." Amazing how just a little "word-smithing" can make things sound better than they really are, huh?
Yes, but here "remix" may actually be the right word for it.
When you "remix" a song, you take a song that was good on its own merits, fuck with the tempo, add some annoying bleeps, warbles, gaps and/or voiceovers which completely ruins a song.
So when you "remix" a company, you get rid of all the engineers and functional people whilst keeping the designers and giving the upper management a nice fat bonus which completely ruins a company
As an example McDonalds "upgraded" their order taking turrets from using words for each food item to pictures for each food item.
Actually, chaning from words to pictograms speeds up the order taking process regardless of literacy level. Even an extremely literate person will be faster to recognise common pictures and symbols over words. This is why a lot of hazard warnings (chemical, flammable, corrosive, nuclear, biohazard) have a large symbol and smaller writing. The symbol lets you know it's flammable from a distance, the writing gives an educated observer some idea as to what or why.
That meant they could employ people who couldn't read, because I guess literacy was a limiting requirement in their hiring process.
This indicates a problem with your nation, not the hiring or order taking process.
In a lot of first world nations, applications to work in McDonalds requires a written application and in some cases, a simple written examination in the native language of the country (so a French Micky D's worker is expected to be able to read and write in French). Hell even in many third world nations like Thailand or the Phillipines literacy levels are high in fast food restaurants as you need a certificate in hospitality to work there.
Your thinking is obviously US centric. The US is the odd man out in first world nations in this regard as it tolerates a relatively high level of native language illiteracy and almost promotes a large underclass of non-native language speakers. Or in other words, education is inconsistent and there are jobs "Americans wont do".
Yeah, who needed the industrial revolution. F*** progress! Lets all go back to back breaking work in an agrarian society.
This.
China and India, unlike Europe still had a strict caste system in place in the industrial revolution. Changes that made the lowest castes more wealthy which Europe and the US benefited from was disruptive to the rulers at the time and they resisted this. Cheap labour was unable to compete with machine produced products so Europe increased its trade volume whilst India and China had their trade reduced.
Put simply, China and India didn't keep up with the times and paid for it. This is why Mao rushed to industrialise China in the 50's and 60's and despite a lot of spectacular failures (and massive quantities of extremely poor quality home made steel), it did produce benefits for China in the end.
capitalism is like a great beast. properly harnessed and controlled it can plow your fields and give you great riches. allowed to run roughshod, it will knock down your barn and eat your crops. and what capitalism is most certainly not is some sort of fundamentalist religion, the end-all be-all of existence as some assholes conceive it to be. such fools represent our destruction
This is why no pure capitalist economy has ever existed and why successful are mixed economies.
that's $2 TRILLION for NYC to LA if you extrapolate the costs. and it would still be half the speed of your average airliner
Only if the entire distance is a mountain chain and 600km/h is 3/4 of the speed of a modern airliner (not average, any).
Remember that the 600 KPH of this train is its top attained speed, not it's average speed. TGV trains in France often reach 320 KPH (200 MPH) but this is for short periods and the average is much lower for sections of track that only support lower speeds (120 KPH and below).
Trains are great for getting around in densely populated countries like England and France but not for long distance travel. If I had to go from London to Paris, I'd take the TVG as it would be faster (Flight time is 1:05, Eurostar is 2:20-3:00 depending on stops), if I had to go from London to Berne I'd fly as its 1:40 by plane but 8:20 by train. Even with all the mucking about at the airport, flying is faster (if it takes you 1.5 hours to leave an airport, you're doing it wrong, doubly so when travelling in the Eurozone). One of the big problems with long distance rail travel is the fact you need to change trains.
Do you understand that this just blocks accounts from doing certain "spam tasks" until the account has spent FIVE FUCKING DOLLARS? Five is not a lot of dollars. It's not five dollars a week, a month, or a year. It's over the life of the account.
Because Steam accounts can be made in an automated fashion, this will greatly ramp up the effort needed by spammers- they'll have to steal cards or spend money.
This is to shut down spammers. Do you seriously mean to tell me you've been using Steam and have never spent five dollars, ever?
I used Steam for 5 years before spending a single dollar on steam.
How, I bought games at a store (be it online or physical).
That being said, I never participated in anything Steam offered and realistically still dont (it's just something that updates itself and every now and then refuses to work until I reboot). Also I completely understand why Valve is doing such a thing.
I haven't seen any evidence yet that Google isn't interested in huge distractions from their primary business.
Google hasn't done anything that would qualify as a huge distraction. Yes they go off on all sorts of tangents but none of them are giant, bet the business, diversions. Nothing that would harm their core advertising business. Even Android is really nothing more than a defensive play to ensure they cannot get locked out of the mobile market by Apple and Microsoft.
You are aware that Android is currently dominating the mobile market?
You're also quite wrong. Google have a huge stake in GIS and have become one of the worlds leading imagery providers, so much to the point that they now have their own satellites (GeoEYE).
Google is extremely diversified, so much so they could survive the complete destruction of their advertisement business.
There's more than enough amazing stuff in the first two categories to retain wonder for the future. We don't need to pretend that one day frozen corpses will be brought back and able to walk on top of that.
The last thing we need are walking corpses, especially the bitey kind.
Also, Cryogenics isn't about freezing dead people and thawing them out dead to bring back to life. It's about freezing live people and thawing them out alive. If it every works (not like our fundamental understanding of what is "impossible" has ever changed in the past) there will be no corpses involved.
This will become especially clear if you read up on what they actually did to the girl's dead body.
When the summary mentioned a frozen brain, then a head going through customs, I kind of assumed the girl was dead before the procedure occurred.
People paint all socialism like some kind of communist dictatorship, but in reality socialism can be very similar to capitalism,
Or to be a bit more accurate, socialism and the free market are not incompatible.
You're right that most (American) people assume socialism is communism with it's state controlled economy but the reality is almost all socialist countries live with the same kind of mostly free market as we do (China and Vietnam being the most obvious examples, the Nordic states as well although their socialism is extremer mild).
Even capitalism and socialism are not incompatible. many nations have a universal health care system that sits nicely with a capitalist insurance market.
"Capitalism", "Socialism", "Free market" and "Planned economies" are all extremist philosophies in their pure forms. When mixed they are all quite effective in their own ways. Think of it this way, Drinking 95% ethanol will likely kill you, however a nice whiskey at ~50% abv is quite enjoyable, despite the active ingredient being ethanol. Western nations owe most, if not all of their success to the fact that they're not extremist philosophies.
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Even a free tool has huge costs if it requires specialist knowledge. What stops a lot of companies from being more secure isn't that they dont have the tools, its rather they dont have the know how.
Could you elaborate on this, specifically how to configure and use? Any link would be appreciated.
Although it wont be of much use in my current role (we have another system that does everything to do with user accounts that manipulates AD) but it would be good for future roles.
but ALL laptops were consumer-level crap. (Don't recall having seen a Dell desktop - seems companies want everyone to use laptops these days)
Look past the casing (the enterprise doesn't place any value on looks). The Latitude and precision series are extremely powerful and reliable as well as very easy to fix. Its no coincidence that organisations that use dell tend to have long replacement cycles (4 or 5 years in some places).
I've worked with procuring laptops in both small and big business, I have no problems in recommending Dells as they've demonstrated that they can:
1) go the distance.
2) bend over backwards to fix problems.
After sales support with Dell's business laptops is top notch, regardless of if you bought 10 or 10,000 laptops.
My only real complaints with them are they're fugly as hell and a tiny bit on the heavy side (as in maybe half a kilo). Both of these are easy to get over.
I've seen a few Dell desktops, SFF desktops are making a bit of a come back, but laptops are still dominant.
Why the fuck did anyone listen to a playmate, of all the people on this planet, when it comes to advice on a medical subject? Do you go to your doctor for make up tips?
It speaks volumes about the people who fall for that bunk when you consider whose advice they take on what subject.
Because people want to be reassured in the belief they already hold and they dont really care about the source as long as the source says what they want to hear.
There's a reason the phrase "mind your sources" is uttered so often in science and research. Recognising that humans have a natural bias towards what they believe is the first step to mitigating it.
Right. The desktop will die, probably in the year of the Linux Desktop. I've been hearing this for 10 years or more. Desktops aren't going anywhere soon. The market will evolve, but it isn't going to die.
Yep, desktops will die when you can plug your phone into a docking station that uses an external monitor, keyboard and mouse... erm... exactly like a desktop.
Very few people work exclusively on a laptop, most have docking stations or at the very least, plug monitors and keyboards into their laptops for most of the time at work.
You're right that the market will evolve, this includes the desktop. My bet is on a convergence of devices. Something like an Asus Transformer that has a detachable KB/track pad and can be plugged into a docking stations so it is a laptop, tablet and desktop in one. Desktops themselves wont die as PC gaming will never die and there will always be new GPU's that require more space, more power and more cooling. 49.38% of the power generated by the starship Enterprise was just to power the NVIDIA card used to run the main screen.
What Apple learned from the PC manufacturers, is to not depend on anyone. They are one of the few companies who keep all design and technology in-house..
LoL,
Apple are as dependent on others as any other PC manufacturer. In fact they do less in house manufacturing than many of their competitors like Asus.
First off, Apple are almost entirely dependent on external suppliers for everything. Hynix RAM, Samsung screens, Nvidia GPU's, Intel GPU's. Even their mobile SoC's are dependent on external chip manufacturers and licensed designs as well as Samsung for manufacturing.
In fact Apple is heavily dependent on manufacturers like Samsung not being as vindictive and petty as they are.
Secondly, Apple owns none of their own manufacturing facilities. Dell produces 95% of its laptops from it own factories in Malaysia (Penang) and China (Xiamen), Asus owns factories in Taiwan, Mexico, Czech Republic and more recently, mainland China.
Apple is far from being independent, the only reason their business model isn't being copied is because it's inferior to the business model currently being used. As soon as Apple becomes passe, its over for them, no other business sees any sense in taking that risk.
Apple needs the Mac for their own use, and so do all of the iOS developers. They won't get out of the PC business until and unless an iPad can drive a" 5K display.
-jcr
There is very little stopping that. You can already stick a COTS discrete GPU onto an ARM chipset. The only reason there isn't a readily available consumer version already is because a discrete GPU would be so power hungry that battery life would be terrible on a mobile device. This is easily mitigated by having the machine plugged into the mains, as for laptops, I've had a dual GPU laptop for years now that uses an Intel GPU for low power and a NVIDIA GPU for high performance.
Apple are merging OS X into IOS, albeit very slowly. The Fan, erm... Frogboys need to be boiled very slowly. As for IOS developers, all Apple need to do is port the dev tools after all, you use Windows to develop for Windows.
Do not underestimate Dell. Their ability to sell laptops by the pallet to corporations is impressive.
Beyond that, their enterprise gear is actually quite good. For people who've only ever used Dell's consumer crap this may come as a bit of a surprise.
My biggest complaint with the Dell Latitude work gave me is that it is a little bit on the heavy side.
Reliable laptops with decent specs combined with aggressive pricing at the enterprise level that Acer is unable to match and Apple is unwilling to match there is little surprise that Dell is an enterprise favourite.
That said... I fail to see what exactly their problem or complaint actually is.
In this last week an anti-vaxxer group in Australia put out a post on their FB page likening forced vaccination to rape (penetration without consent). They even illustrated it with a photo of a guy standing over a women in a menacing pose and holding his hand over her mouth.
So at this point I have no clue what some of them are thinking, and wouldn't even know how to communicate with them.
Anti-Vaxxers know their message will never be taken seriously unless they use ridiculous amounts of hyperbole. This is why they never rely on actual science and fall back on nebulous threats to other things (freedom, sexual assault, your daughters virginity). They need people to associate vaccinations with something else bad without thinking. Standard operating procedure for almost all extremist groups really.
it also demonstrates to the rest of us how out of touch with reality they are... But thats the kind of follower they want to attract.
Fast?
For what you paid for your Mercedes, I could buy a Nissan GTR and have change. Compared to the Nissan's 3 second 0-60 time, the overweight Merc is positively pedestrian.
In fact you'll be taken to town by a much cheaper Subaru WRX STI and struggle to keep up with my 12 year old lightly modified Nissan Silvia which does an actual 0-100 (KPH) time of 6.1 seconds. That is an actual recorded time with me as the driver. Not a time extrapolated from power to weight figures like yours.
But then again, you're just name dropping and dont own a GL550.
IANAWD,
But this simply removed the overlay they use to bug you about adblock.
Sites that are serious about it re-direct you to a completely different page, for these sites my response is the same as the GGP, go elsewhere. However if this kind of thing becomes common, there will be adblock detector detectors we can use to get around it. its an arms race where the advertisers will always be playing catch up.
And CV joints, batteries, electrical systems, power steering, ABS, Traction control and all the other systems a traditional car has.
All an EV does is replace the engine and gearbox which in time will have their own issues, entropy will have it's way with it just like everything else.
They aren't attractive, they don't stop/go fast, they can't carry much stuff. I don't get it.
Its not about having a better drive or more space than a hatchback. It's about people with little man syndrome wanting to pretend they're lording it over other motorists. This becomes readily apparent when they as "where can your car go that my SUV cant" and their dumbfounded look when you answer "fast" is priceless.
Also with Pickups or "Utes" as we call them in Australia, they're the domain of tradesmen who need the space in the tray and towing capacity that most pickups provide. A few others buy them because they're cheap proper offroaders (low range gearbox, locking diffs, underside protection... things you dont get on SUVs). Very few people outside the US buy a pickup because they want one, most people buy them because they do something they need.
In Australia most pickups are Japanese (Nissan Navara, Toyota Hilux, Mitsubishi Triton, Isusu D-Max) so they have a 2-3L turbo diesels and a proper 4x4 drive train. The F-series floundered over here.
Because you do not name the SUV I do not believe you.
Well he's right and wrong.
Many SUV's are just jacked up hatchbacks. = True.
With AWD = Mostly false as many are simply FWD. Many more are just 4x4 on demand, which means the read drive train only kicks in when the front wheels lose traction.
And gets the same fuel efficiency as a Civic = Completely false as the increase in weight and ride height (worse aerodynamics) increases fuel consumption.
Of course, fuel efficiency is not the only problem with SUVs. That extra ground clearance makes them awful for road visibility because it's much more difficult to see through or around them from a regular sized vehicle, so every SUV on the road makes driving more dangerous for everyone.
And, when I was driving my mid-engined sports car, I couldn't even see past a Volvo, because my eyes were level with its door handle. Should they be banned, too?
I drive a low car, (Nissan Sivlia S15) and I have no trouble seeing past and through an ordinary sedan or hatch as the windows are low enough that I can see through them. I've driven a Caterham 7, at no point were my eyes level with the door handles of a Toyota Camry and I'm not particularly tall either.
So this is utter bollocks.
SUV's on the other hand are high enough that when I'm driving an ordinary sedan (Subaru Liberty 3.0 Spec B) I cant see through the window to the traffic ahead.
Basically, your argument reduces to 'WAH! WAH! WAH! ME NOT LIKE! WAH! WAH!'.
Basically, your argument reduces to "WAH! WAH! WAH! ME NOT LIKE TRUTH SO ME MAKE UP SHIT! WAH! WAH! WAH!"
It's just a euphemism. I remember working for a company that started embracing offshoring, which they called "right-shoring." Layoffs were called "right-sizing." And the executives were called "cunts." Amazing how just a little "word-smithing" can make things sound better than they really are, huh?
Yes, but here "remix" may actually be the right word for it.
When you "remix" a song, you take a song that was good on its own merits, fuck with the tempo, add some annoying bleeps, warbles, gaps and/or voiceovers which completely ruins a song.
So when you "remix" a company, you get rid of all the engineers and functional people whilst keeping the designers and giving the upper management a nice fat bonus which completely ruins a company
There's a better example in history.
Whenever a race or people feel themselves superior, they take action to try to ensure that becomes a reality. You cant engineer out the human ego.
As an example McDonalds "upgraded" their order taking turrets from using words for each food item to pictures for each food item.
Actually, chaning from words to pictograms speeds up the order taking process regardless of literacy level. Even an extremely literate person will be faster to recognise common pictures and symbols over words. This is why a lot of hazard warnings (chemical, flammable, corrosive, nuclear, biohazard) have a large symbol and smaller writing. The symbol lets you know it's flammable from a distance, the writing gives an educated observer some idea as to what or why.
That meant they could employ people who couldn't read, because I guess literacy was a limiting requirement in their hiring process.
This indicates a problem with your nation, not the hiring or order taking process.
In a lot of first world nations, applications to work in McDonalds requires a written application and in some cases, a simple written examination in the native language of the country (so a French Micky D's worker is expected to be able to read and write in French). Hell even in many third world nations like Thailand or the Phillipines literacy levels are high in fast food restaurants as you need a certificate in hospitality to work there.
Your thinking is obviously US centric. The US is the odd man out in first world nations in this regard as it tolerates a relatively high level of native language illiteracy and almost promotes a large underclass of non-native language speakers. Or in other words, education is inconsistent and there are jobs "Americans wont do".
Yeah, who needed the industrial revolution. F*** progress! Lets all go back to back breaking work in an agrarian society.
This.
China and India, unlike Europe still had a strict caste system in place in the industrial revolution. Changes that made the lowest castes more wealthy which Europe and the US benefited from was disruptive to the rulers at the time and they resisted this. Cheap labour was unable to compete with machine produced products so Europe increased its trade volume whilst India and China had their trade reduced.
Put simply, China and India didn't keep up with the times and paid for it. This is why Mao rushed to industrialise China in the 50's and 60's and despite a lot of spectacular failures (and massive quantities of extremely poor quality home made steel), it did produce benefits for China in the end.
capitalism is like a great beast. properly harnessed and controlled it can plow your fields and give you great riches. allowed to run roughshod, it will knock down your barn and eat your crops. and what capitalism is most certainly not is some sort of fundamentalist religion, the end-all be-all of existence as some assholes conceive it to be. such fools represent our destruction
This is why no pure capitalist economy has ever existed and why successful are mixed economies.
that's $2 TRILLION for NYC to LA if you extrapolate the costs. and it would still be half the speed of your average airliner
Only if the entire distance is a mountain chain and 600km/h is 3/4 of the speed of a modern airliner (not average, any).
Remember that the 600 KPH of this train is its top attained speed, not it's average speed. TGV trains in France often reach 320 KPH (200 MPH) but this is for short periods and the average is much lower for sections of track that only support lower speeds (120 KPH and below).
Trains are great for getting around in densely populated countries like England and France but not for long distance travel. If I had to go from London to Paris, I'd take the TVG as it would be faster (Flight time is 1:05, Eurostar is 2:20-3:00 depending on stops), if I had to go from London to Berne I'd fly as its 1:40 by plane but 8:20 by train. Even with all the mucking about at the airport, flying is faster (if it takes you 1.5 hours to leave an airport, you're doing it wrong, doubly so when travelling in the Eurozone). One of the big problems with long distance rail travel is the fact you need to change trains.
Do you understand that this just blocks accounts from doing certain "spam tasks" until the account has spent FIVE FUCKING DOLLARS? Five is not a lot of dollars. It's not five dollars a week, a month, or a year. It's over the life of the account.
Because Steam accounts can be made in an automated fashion, this will greatly ramp up the effort needed by spammers- they'll have to steal cards or spend money.
This is to shut down spammers. Do you seriously mean to tell me you've been using Steam and have never spent five dollars, ever?
I used Steam for 5 years before spending a single dollar on steam.
How, I bought games at a store (be it online or physical).
That being said, I never participated in anything Steam offered and realistically still dont (it's just something that updates itself and every now and then refuses to work until I reboot). Also I completely understand why Valve is doing such a thing.
I haven't seen any evidence yet that Google isn't interested in huge distractions from their primary business.
Google hasn't done anything that would qualify as a huge distraction. Yes they go off on all sorts of tangents but none of them are giant, bet the business, diversions. Nothing that would harm their core advertising business. Even Android is really nothing more than a defensive play to ensure they cannot get locked out of the mobile market by Apple and Microsoft.
You are aware that Android is currently dominating the mobile market?
You're also quite wrong. Google have a huge stake in GIS and have become one of the worlds leading imagery providers, so much to the point that they now have their own satellites (GeoEYE).
Google is extremely diversified, so much so they could survive the complete destruction of their advertisement business.
I mean with it's larger screen, removable storage device, and replaceable battery it definitely has the advantage.
What? Oh wait... nevermind.
The Android guy won because the Iphone guy could only use one bottle at a time.
There's more than enough amazing stuff in the first two categories to retain wonder for the future. We don't need to pretend that one day frozen corpses will be brought back and able to walk on top of that.
The last thing we need are walking corpses, especially the bitey kind.
Also, Cryogenics isn't about freezing dead people and thawing them out dead to bring back to life. It's about freezing live people and thawing them out alive. If it every works (not like our fundamental understanding of what is "impossible" has ever changed in the past) there will be no corpses involved.
This will become especially clear if you read up on what they actually did to the girl's dead body.
When the summary mentioned a frozen brain, then a head going through customs, I kind of assumed the girl was dead before the procedure occurred.
People paint all socialism like some kind of communist dictatorship, but in reality socialism can be very similar to capitalism,
Or to be a bit more accurate, socialism and the free market are not incompatible.
You're right that most (American) people assume socialism is communism with it's state controlled economy but the reality is almost all socialist countries live with the same kind of mostly free market as we do (China and Vietnam being the most obvious examples, the Nordic states as well although their socialism is extremer mild).
Even capitalism and socialism are not incompatible. many nations have a universal health care system that sits nicely with a capitalist insurance market.
"Capitalism", "Socialism", "Free market" and "Planned economies" are all extremist philosophies in their pure forms. When mixed they are all quite effective in their own ways. Think of it this way, Drinking 95% ethanol will likely kill you, however a nice whiskey at ~50% abv is quite enjoyable, despite the active ingredient being ethanol. Western nations owe most, if not all of their success to the fact that they're not extremist philosophies.