Sure, my first born... *laugh* then click "suuuuuuuure I accept", if they made some plausible sounding but ominous legalese they might have had some people refuse.
You can put whatever you want into a TOS or EULA, what matters is what is enforceable by law, which is very, very little on most TOSs.
So why have them, well they're very effective arse covers. TOSs and EULAs aren't there to tell you what you can and cant do, they're there to indemnify the manufacturer and seller if you do something stupid with their product. By simply saying "Well it was in the TOS so not our fault" they're pretty much off the hook in most cases. The other use for TOSs is to terminate contracts. This again is subject to what is legal but that's a fairly large grey area. I.E. it isn't illegal to use your home internet connection to run a small ISP, but it is against your ISP's TOS to do so on a personal/residential connection so they're 100% in their rights to end the contract. The TOS that allows the customer to terminate the contract is called the SLA, so it works both ways.
So I dont worry about what a EULA says, most of it can never be enforced.
Usually the hardware of a console is sold at about a break even price point right when launched
Actually, console hardware is sold at a loss at launch and usually for several years afterwards. Only after years of manufacturing the same hardware, which is usually out of date by the launch date, do the costs of manuacturing actually reach break even... let alone repay the costs of R&D. This is why they're referred to "loss leaders"
profits come from game licensing
As well as peripheral services, extra hardware and what not. In fact it seems the low cost of entry is quite deceptive with consoles. They nickel and dime you at every opportunity. With PC's, the cost of games are US$10 per game minimum, not counting things like steam sales. If you buy 2 games a month a $1200 gaming PC pays itself off in 2 years.
I recently built a good spec gaming box for less than £800 (GBP because/. cant render a pound sign), its the first one I've built since 2009.
The problem MS has here is that the console is current now, not in a year when NVidia and AMD have released new gaming hardware for the PC. Doubly so in 2 years when they've released another generation. There's no point in crowing about how powerful an unreleased console is.
Firing him wasn't an excuse, he punched a co-worker. They had to fire him at that point. That said, I am a fan of him but had no idea he would get physical with anyone.
He was fired due to politics. Certain parts of BBC management had been gunning for Clarkson for years, in particular a man named Danny Cohen who was the BBC director of television at the time. Clarkson was untouchable because he (and Wilman) owned a part of Top Gear's production company up until 2015 where the BBC bought it from them. Remember the Enie Meanie Minie Moe video debacle, that never went to air. In fact someone had to steal that off the cutting room floor and release it to the Daily Mail.
So the punch was the perfect excuse for Cohen to get his way. However it wasn't long before Cohen got his comeuppance. The entire production team quit along with Clarkson, this combined with the BBC having money troubles and asking to raise the TV tax at the same time as gutting one of their biggest earners meant that Cohen was unceremoniously dumped (asked to resign) in October 2015.
Trying to take Clarkson down ultimately caused his downfall... Meanwhile Clarkson is laughing all the way to the bank.
Back when the Top Gear 2002 was (re)booted, I wouldn't have said it but after 20-something seasons - there's no team that can replace Clarkson, Hammond and May. Their charisma together was quite unique and I loved the show, for all of its faults.
The first season of Old New Top Gear was Clarkson, Hammond and a fat bloke from Cornwall named Jason Dawe. James May made his debut in season 2.
What you've got to remember is that Clarkson, Hammond and May (and Dawe) hadn't just worked together, they were mates for years before Old New Top Gear started in 2002 so the chemestry was well established before their first season together. The hosts of New New Top Gear were thrown together because someone at the BBC thought you could design that by committee, you cant. Chris Harris has a reputation for being a complete prat, so a lot of us are completely unsurprised by this.
I don't know if I agree that the accident was unavoidable.
No accident is unavoidable, going back far enough something could have been done differently. The question is could the driver have taken reasonable action to avoid the collision.
From what I've seen, yes, it could have been avoided if the driver was paying attention. However he thought the car would drive for him and stopped.
Also lets stop calling them "Accidents" and start calling them what they are, collisions. Accident implies that it was unavoidable and no-one should be blamed, in motor vehicle collisions, either of these are rarely the case.
The thing is, I dont want my epitaph to be a bug report.
I dont want to be that 1 in a million that gets T-Boned because it couldn't see the shade of black on my car or a roadster is too low to detect and the Steering Wheel Attendant was too busy playing candy crush to care.
This technology needs to be Fucking Perfect(TM) before release to the general public and we still haven't got there with autopilots after decades of use. It needs to be that good because people will rely on it and completely switch off as the gentlemen using this Tesla did (trucks are not hard to notice). 1 in a 100 million will still result in hundreds of deaths a year considering how often a car is used..
I work for an engineering company that does business in Saudi Arabia, I have been there myself and I have sent female engineers there, with their consent, obviously.
There is no law that requires women to wear a burka. Basically, to be seen in public a woman must:
1. Be escorted by a man
2. Be covered from neck downwards
3. Have their hair covered, some form of light head-scarf is enough
Women are not allowed to drive but exceptions can be made. Actually, driving over there is not for the faint-hearted but that's another story.
It's a country torn between its modernising royal family and its regressive clerics. You can see them trying to do the right thing and then failing; it's a delicate power balance.
Like all third world nations, laws are selectively enforced. Some areas will be more liberal, others will be more strict. This is especially volatile as the Saudi religious police (mutaween) are partially volunteer. Governance is provided by the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
I've also done business in Saudi, in places where westerners are common the religious laws are relaxed on Saudi's (they don't really apply at all to westerners, the worst that will happen is a woman is deported or a man gets canned... the same shit happens in Singapore). However out in the sticks where the oil rigs are, things are a lot more strict. As I said, many of the religious police are volunteers and the further away from Riyadh you get the more tribal/feudal it becomes. Powerful families taking on official roles like the religious police is often used as a way to maintain power and maintain a veneer of loyalty to the state at the same time.
As much as I dislike them, if the house of Saud falls, Saudi Arabia will fall into tribal warfare like Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's a country torn between its modernising royal family and its regressive clerics. You can see them trying to do the right thing and then failing; it's a delicate power balance.
I wouldn't say torn, but there is a rift between traditionalists and modernists. Most Saudi's are actually pretty sick of Wahhabists, but they're keeping the king in power and that keeps the country from turning on itself. The House of Saud wants to modernise, but by the same token it's the Wahhabists keeping order where they wont be able to. The worst part is, the Wahhabists know how much power they hold.
This is a cool technology and it's serving a practical need.
But as soon as someone says "Real-Life RoboCop" and then backpedals to a kind of surveillance drone, none of the rest of it has any credibility.
Further more, it looks nothing like rocbocop, it looks like someone with a hard-on for Apple products made a body kit for a Dalek.
Its completely non threatening, I can see it having serious problems with stairs, getting into elevators uneven carpets and any undulation really, I can see Chavs (youths that wear their hats backwards) making a game of knocking this thing over so a person has to come and put it upright again. I certainly hope they built it to be able to take a tumble as it will be taking quite a few if it ever gets deployed.
Most of what mall cops do is make people feel watched. It's the kind of work that's ripe for automation.
In the US.
In Australia and the UK we dont really have "mall cops" as we tend not to let crazy people run around with weapons too often. We do have people employed by the shopping centre to assist people like the disabled, the elderly, parents with children when appropriate. Generally policing is done by the police and shopping centres are full of cameras (so that they can be charged and then released by the police and courts).
The only time I've seen actual mall cops is in the Philippines where you have to enter via a metal detector and all the guards are packing (yes, there are lots of guns in the Phils).
I guess its up to the non American to play devils advocate and say the law is wrong.
When "people" protest against an incorrect law they're "heroes".
When cops do it, they're villains.
For many people who are mobility impaired which is quite a few including old persons who are capable of assisted walking (read: with cane) but not capable of walking down ramps unassisted footpath ramps are a godsend they sorely need.
It was a law passed to appease lazy drivers at the expense of those who are most vulnerable.
And I say that as a 30-ish year old petrolhead. Seems those of us most addicted to the fast pedal (and three pedal cars) are the same as those who care most about those who are least able to move about. I'm happy to park a few metres further away if it means I dont inconvenience anyone, odd that... compared to the propaganda.
Eh. I expect she didn't KNOW it was math and assumed it was Arabbic, because, you know, squiggly lines and the state of American education.
This is why the person who made the complaint needs to be charged and have to pay for the delays they caused.
I see this kind of shit happen fairly regularly on planes, for the most part it's not someone who is ignorant, rather someone who is arrogant. They think that by creating a problem with the guy next to them they can get an empty seat next to them.
Boaty McBoatface is actually very representative of the "democratic" process in our societies: people vote, but ultimately their voice doesn't matter one jot, and the powers that be impose whatever the hell they want.
The inevitable conclusion, in politics as in silly internet ship-naming polls, is: why vote at all then? The deciders don't really need our opinion, now, do they?
So a feature should be enabled for 100% of the users when 0.005% of them might avail themselves of it legally?
Actually the feature is enabled by default, you need to add extra engineering to disable it.
So you're suggesting that everyone should be punished because 0.000000000000006% may misuse it. That is going to be one hell of a slippery slope. How long until you have a card tracking how many calories you've had or a "TV-like" screen making sure you've done the required amount of exercises.
Also more than 0.005% of people will go to a "run what you brung" track day. In fact most drivers will have been to one, in their own car or otherwise.
Because it does make you wonder what Ford was thinking selling a Focus that can go 121 MPH.
Two words: Track Day.
As someone who can drive at 121 MPH in a 2L turbo, I dont do it on the roads because it's stupid. You can drive your car to its limit safely, you cant use a phone in a moving (or stationary at the lights) car because it's never safe.
I expect this to get thrown out of court, but we really do need to get the message across to people that think they can phone and drive that "No, no you cant you blithering idiot".
From this site (which summarizes a bunch of national polls), 5 out of 6 polls have Hillary beating the Donald. And it is 6 out of 6 for Sanders beating him So it looks like he most likely won't win.
That is true, if the election were held today...
Keep in mind, NOONE expected Trump to end up the Nominee, so keep in mind lots can change over the next few months.
Clinton might not even be running, if she is indited... but even if not, what if Trump comes out and picks off Bernie's supporters by taking some of his positions?
Did you ever think it could go the other way?
Now that Trump's nomination is assured, he could become more racist, more xenophobic and more unlikable. In fact, I think that is the more likely scenario.
Trump got this far by being a firebrand, if he changes his tune the opposition will jump all over the hypocrisy, nor will the minorities quickly forget. Every time I hear the excuse that "Trump might change" it smells more of desperation, rather than an actual prediction.
Getting Jeb Bush and Rubio out of the race early seems like the Republicans have already ceded victory to Clinton or Sanders, they want to save their best candidates for 2020 and let Trump take a fall in an unwinnable election. The easiest way to do this is to let Trump keep doing what he's doing.
I'm not in the US so all I get are news paper reports.
Is it possible for trump to win the presidency? From the outside he looks incredibly divisive even in his own party, but are there enough disenfranchised people that would jump on his band wagon to get over the line?
We had a similar muppet in Australia called Clive Palmer who managed to get elected to our house of reps despite all the press saying he didn't stand a chance.
To be fair, he only just scraped in with 50.3% of the vote, much like the abominable Tony Abbot, due to dodgy preference deals which despite being in relative plain sight, the media kept quiet about.
I cant compare Trump to Palmer however. Palmer is a blithering idiot with no personality who's sole goal in parliament was to help his ailing company (and he failed at that). Trump is a blithering idiot with lots of personality (a bad personality is still a personality) who doesn't seem to have much of a goal and seems to like the sound of his own voice far too much.
You're ignoring the fact that now that he has the nomination, he's free to move to the center and make nice with women, blacks and mexicans. Anything can still happen.
I'd comment, but I'm late for my date with Jessica Alba.
I've got to move the Torana so I can move the Gallardo to get my flying unicorn out of the garage.
Since Netflix has bowed to the content conglomerates and started blocking people getting around geoblocks (100% legal where I live) I've terminated my membership.
Wilst I've got the skill, I dont have the time, patience or willingness to spend the money on complex solutions involving running my own VPN server from an S3 container. Fuck that, I've gone back to Channel BT.
Yes Netflix, you can tell the content owners that instead of paying for their content like I was happy to do before they started fucking around, they've forced me back to piracy, mission fucking haycomplished guys, well fucking done.
How's this: Get the BBC to start broadcasting over the internet in the U.S., and *I'll* pay your licence fee for you.
In fact, if iPlayer + Live TV was available for a monthly fee anywhere in the world, I'll bet BBC would be so flush with cash they could abolish the domestic fee.
The problem is that the Beeb licenses a lot of its TV shows and other content to commercial stations overseas. Also licenses to produce shows locally like Top Gear (US, RIP Top Gear UK) and Dancing With The Stars (based on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing).
Licensing agreements prevent them from running a competing network, not to mention licensing regulations and fees for each country they operate in.
Also the BBC operates a lot of local channels in other countries like BBC America or BBC Asia. Granted, BBC America is a commercial supported channel.
Anytime people want to stop calling it a fucking phone, I'm ready. It's not like we actually talk on the damn things anymore, and voice is about the last priority with smartphone development these days, as evidenced by the mood of a game developer driving next-gen phone software.
Speak for yourself, I use mine as a communications device all the time. So do most others. Just because you dont have any friends to call does not make your phone any less of a phone.
Also you need to get a better phone, voice quality is a huge component of mine and quite good too (Nexus 5X). If people didn't require voice, they'd get a phone that didn't have the voice component, they've been around for some time now but still haven't overtaken phones... they're called tablets.
Like many/.'ers I do support for family. Guess which laptops and computers get screwed up?
Mac's.
Having done Mac support in a professional environment, Windows problems are easy to fix, Mac problems often require hours of hair pulling trial and error to fix. They also occur at about the same frequency (comparing OS X to Win XP SP2). Even though there were only 5 Macs in a 200 head company, I spent 25% of my time on Mac problems.
I'm smarter than you, I dont do family support. I tell them to buy an Asus because 1. The hardware support is good, 2. The hardware hardly ever breaks, 3. If it does, it's Asus' problem and; 4. Windows problems are 9 times out of 10 hardware problems (hence Asus' problem). As such the last 12 AM phone call from a distraught relative about a computer had to do with a Mac and I told them what I told them when they bought it, "It's your problem".
Beyond this, Windows problems are pretty rare these days. The biggest problem is still the user and I've watched a dumb user completely fuck a macbook faster than a PC by doing the same stupid shit (installing every toolbar and bit of software that came along). I was surprised the Mac fell as quickly as it did to a clueless user and as you could have guessed, I dont exactly hold Apple in high esteem when it comes to reliability.
BTW, I've removed all references from Apple from my work history. As time passes the risk of a current or future employee finding out that I know something about fixing Mac's grows less and less of a threat.
Between the failure of Windows Mobile and now XBox winding down combined with falling PC sales, Microsoft has got to be feeling the heat from investors when asked, "where's the growth in 10 years." Right now their revenues are fine but, with no future money making divisions, they risk stagnation which investors see as death.
Microsoft's bread and butter has always been and still is the enterprise. As yet, all of their consumer rivals including Apple and Google have failed to penetrate one iota.
OS, Server and Office licenses make up the bulk of the MS revenue and profit, here it doesn't matter how many PC's are sold because MS charge per license, not OEM for enterprise. Out of this they're bankrolling almost everything else and it's not really making a dent.
Also, most PC makers have been seeing growth in the last two years with a few exceptions (namely Acer and Apple). Tablet sales have been faltering since early 2015.
Nothing is preventing you from using any browser and search engine you want. Typing something into Cortana doesn't get you anything you can't get by typing the same thing into any search engine.
Bundling Internet Explorer with Windows is what got them into trouble in 2001. Nothing stopped users from downloading some other browser but that argument didn't prevent Microsoft being found in violation of antitrust law.
I'm amazed at how blatantly they're ignoring history.
The defence MS has is that they are no longer the dominant browser platform. In fact, IE and Edge have been pushed into the minor browser category below Firefox and Chrome on Windows. Sadly this is a defence that will work (especially combined with the fact Cortana is optional).
However they've shot themselves in the foot here. I suspect it will become so annoying that people will stop using Cortana and start using 3rd party products again.
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Sure, my first born... *laugh* then click "suuuuuuuure I accept", if they made some plausible sounding but ominous legalese they might have had some people refuse.
You can put whatever you want into a TOS or EULA, what matters is what is enforceable by law, which is very, very little on most TOSs.
So why have them, well they're very effective arse covers. TOSs and EULAs aren't there to tell you what you can and cant do, they're there to indemnify the manufacturer and seller if you do something stupid with their product. By simply saying "Well it was in the TOS so not our fault" they're pretty much off the hook in most cases. The other use for TOSs is to terminate contracts. This again is subject to what is legal but that's a fairly large grey area. I.E. it isn't illegal to use your home internet connection to run a small ISP, but it is against your ISP's TOS to do so on a personal/residential connection so they're 100% in their rights to end the contract. The TOS that allows the customer to terminate the contract is called the SLA, so it works both ways.
So I dont worry about what a EULA says, most of it can never be enforced.
Actually, console hardware is sold at a loss at launch and usually for several years afterwards. Only after years of manufacturing the same hardware, which is usually out of date by the launch date, do the costs of manuacturing actually reach break even... let alone repay the costs of R&D. This is why they're referred to "loss leaders"
As well as peripheral services, extra hardware and what not. In fact it seems the low cost of entry is quite deceptive with consoles. They nickel and dime you at every opportunity. With PC's, the cost of games are US$10 per game minimum, not counting things like steam sales. If you buy 2 games a month a $1200 gaming PC pays itself off in 2 years.
I recently built a good spec gaming box for less than £800 (GBP because /. cant render a pound sign), its the first one I've built since 2009.
The problem MS has here is that the console is current now, not in a year when NVidia and AMD have released new gaming hardware for the PC. Doubly so in 2 years when they've released another generation. There's no point in crowing about how powerful an unreleased console is.
Firing him wasn't an excuse, he punched a co-worker. They had to fire him at that point. That said, I am a fan of him but had no idea he would get physical with anyone.
He was fired due to politics. Certain parts of BBC management had been gunning for Clarkson for years, in particular a man named Danny Cohen who was the BBC director of television at the time. Clarkson was untouchable because he (and Wilman) owned a part of Top Gear's production company up until 2015 where the BBC bought it from them. Remember the Enie Meanie Minie Moe video debacle, that never went to air. In fact someone had to steal that off the cutting room floor and release it to the Daily Mail.
So the punch was the perfect excuse for Cohen to get his way. However it wasn't long before Cohen got his comeuppance. The entire production team quit along with Clarkson, this combined with the BBC having money troubles and asking to raise the TV tax at the same time as gutting one of their biggest earners meant that Cohen was unceremoniously dumped (asked to resign) in October 2015.
Trying to take Clarkson down ultimately caused his downfall... Meanwhile Clarkson is laughing all the way to the bank.
Back when the Top Gear 2002 was (re)booted, I wouldn't have said it but after 20-something seasons - there's no team that can replace Clarkson, Hammond and May. Their charisma together was quite unique and I loved the show, for all of its faults.
The first season of Old New Top Gear was Clarkson, Hammond and a fat bloke from Cornwall named Jason Dawe. James May made his debut in season 2.
What you've got to remember is that Clarkson, Hammond and May (and Dawe) hadn't just worked together, they were mates for years before Old New Top Gear started in 2002 so the chemestry was well established before their first season together. The hosts of New New Top Gear were thrown together because someone at the BBC thought you could design that by committee, you cant. Chris Harris has a reputation for being a complete prat, so a lot of us are completely unsurprised by this.
I don't know if I agree that the accident was unavoidable.
No accident is unavoidable, going back far enough something could have been done differently. The question is could the driver have taken reasonable action to avoid the collision.
From what I've seen, yes, it could have been avoided if the driver was paying attention. However he thought the car would drive for him and stopped.
Also lets stop calling them "Accidents" and start calling them what they are, collisions. Accident implies that it was unavoidable and no-one should be blamed, in motor vehicle collisions, either of these are rarely the case.
The thing is, I dont want my epitaph to be a bug report.
I dont want to be that 1 in a million that gets T-Boned because it couldn't see the shade of black on my car or a roadster is too low to detect and the Steering Wheel Attendant was too busy playing candy crush to care.
This technology needs to be Fucking Perfect(TM) before release to the general public and we still haven't got there with autopilots after decades of use. It needs to be that good because people will rely on it and completely switch off as the gentlemen using this Tesla did (trucks are not hard to notice). 1 in a 100 million will still result in hundreds of deaths a year considering how often a car is used..
I work for an engineering company that does business in Saudi Arabia, I have been there myself and I have sent female engineers there, with their consent, obviously.
There is no law that requires women to wear a burka. Basically, to be seen in public a woman must:
1. Be escorted by a man
2. Be covered from neck downwards
3. Have their hair covered, some form of light head-scarf is enough
Women are not allowed to drive but exceptions can be made. Actually, driving over there is not for the faint-hearted but that's another story. It's a country torn between its modernising royal family and its regressive clerics. You can see them trying to do the right thing and then failing; it's a delicate power balance.
Like all third world nations, laws are selectively enforced. Some areas will be more liberal, others will be more strict. This is especially volatile as the Saudi religious police (mutaween) are partially volunteer. Governance is provided by the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
I've also done business in Saudi, in places where westerners are common the religious laws are relaxed on Saudi's (they don't really apply at all to westerners, the worst that will happen is a woman is deported or a man gets canned... the same shit happens in Singapore). However out in the sticks where the oil rigs are, things are a lot more strict. As I said, many of the religious police are volunteers and the further away from Riyadh you get the more tribal/feudal it becomes. Powerful families taking on official roles like the religious police is often used as a way to maintain power and maintain a veneer of loyalty to the state at the same time.
As much as I dislike them, if the house of Saud falls, Saudi Arabia will fall into tribal warfare like Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's a country torn between its modernising royal family and its regressive clerics. You can see them trying to do the right thing and then failing; it's a delicate power balance.
I wouldn't say torn, but there is a rift between traditionalists and modernists. Most Saudi's are actually pretty sick of Wahhabists, but they're keeping the king in power and that keeps the country from turning on itself. The House of Saud wants to modernise, but by the same token it's the Wahhabists keeping order where they wont be able to. The worst part is, the Wahhabists know how much power they hold.
This is a cool technology and it's serving a practical need.
But as soon as someone says "Real-Life RoboCop" and then backpedals to a kind of surveillance drone, none of the rest of it has any credibility.
Further more, it looks nothing like rocbocop, it looks like someone with a hard-on for Apple products made a body kit for a Dalek.
Its completely non threatening, I can see it having serious problems with stairs, getting into elevators uneven carpets and any undulation really, I can see Chavs (youths that wear their hats backwards) making a game of knocking this thing over so a person has to come and put it upright again. I certainly hope they built it to be able to take a tumble as it will be taking quite a few if it ever gets deployed.
Most of what mall cops do is make people feel watched. It's the kind of work that's ripe for automation.
In the US.
In Australia and the UK we dont really have "mall cops" as we tend not to let crazy people run around with weapons too often. We do have people employed by the shopping centre to assist people like the disabled, the elderly, parents with children when appropriate. Generally policing is done by the police and shopping centres are full of cameras (so that they can be charged and then released by the police and courts).
The only time I've seen actual mall cops is in the Philippines where you have to enter via a metal detector and all the guards are packing (yes, there are lots of guns in the Phils).
This, the only shock I need is to look in my wallet and find I've only got a 20 and a fiver left.
Also it doesn't need recharging... or make me look like a douche nugget.
First off, anyone using the term "SJW" is completely full of shit.
Secondly, the article is just trying to get their name in some headlines in order to get eyeballs on ads. This is Buzzfeed turned to 11.
No nefarious agenda behind it (well other than getting your eyeballs around their ads).
I guess its up to the non American to play devils advocate and say the law is wrong. When "people" protest against an incorrect law they're "heroes".
When cops do it, they're villains.
For many people who are mobility impaired which is quite a few including old persons who are capable of assisted walking (read: with cane) but not capable of walking down ramps unassisted footpath ramps are a godsend they sorely need.
It was a law passed to appease lazy drivers at the expense of those who are most vulnerable.
And I say that as a 30-ish year old petrolhead. Seems those of us most addicted to the fast pedal (and three pedal cars) are the same as those who care most about those who are least able to move about. I'm happy to park a few metres further away if it means I dont inconvenience anyone, odd that... compared to the propaganda.
Eh. I expect she didn't KNOW it was math and assumed it was Arabbic, because, you know, squiggly lines and the state of American education.
This is why the person who made the complaint needs to be charged and have to pay for the delays they caused. I see this kind of shit happen fairly regularly on planes, for the most part it's not someone who is ignorant, rather someone who is arrogant. They think that by creating a problem with the guy next to them they can get an empty seat next to them.
Boaty McBoatface is actually very representative of the "democratic" process in our societies: people vote, but ultimately their voice doesn't matter one jot, and the powers that be impose whatever the hell they want.
The inevitable conclusion, in politics as in silly internet ship-naming polls, is: why vote at all then? The deciders don't really need our opinion, now, do they?
Yes, this is a complete subversion of democracy.
Signed, Votey McVoteface.
Actually the feature is enabled by default, you need to add extra engineering to disable it.
So you're suggesting that everyone should be punished because 0.000000000000006% may misuse it. That is going to be one hell of a slippery slope. How long until you have a card tracking how many calories you've had or a "TV-like" screen making sure you've done the required amount of exercises.
Also more than 0.005% of people will go to a "run what you brung" track day. In fact most drivers will have been to one, in their own car or otherwise.
Because it does make you wonder what Ford was thinking selling a Focus that can go 121 MPH.
Two words: Track Day.
As someone who can drive at 121 MPH in a 2L turbo, I dont do it on the roads because it's stupid. You can drive your car to its limit safely, you cant use a phone in a moving (or stationary at the lights) car because it's never safe.
I expect this to get thrown out of court, but we really do need to get the message across to people that think they can phone and drive that "No, no you cant you blithering idiot".
From this site (which summarizes a bunch of national polls), 5 out of 6 polls have Hillary beating the Donald. And it is 6 out of 6 for Sanders beating him So it looks like he most likely won't win.
That is true, if the election were held today...
Keep in mind, NOONE expected Trump to end up the Nominee, so keep in mind lots can change over the next few months.
Clinton might not even be running, if she is indited... but even if not, what if Trump comes out and picks off Bernie's supporters by taking some of his positions?
Did you ever think it could go the other way?
Now that Trump's nomination is assured, he could become more racist, more xenophobic and more unlikable. In fact, I think that is the more likely scenario.
Trump got this far by being a firebrand, if he changes his tune the opposition will jump all over the hypocrisy, nor will the minorities quickly forget. Every time I hear the excuse that "Trump might change" it smells more of desperation, rather than an actual prediction.
Getting Jeb Bush and Rubio out of the race early seems like the Republicans have already ceded victory to Clinton or Sanders, they want to save their best candidates for 2020 and let Trump take a fall in an unwinnable election. The easiest way to do this is to let Trump keep doing what he's doing.
I'm not in the US so all I get are news paper reports.
Is it possible for trump to win the presidency? From the outside he looks incredibly divisive even in his own party, but are there enough disenfranchised people that would jump on his band wagon to get over the line?
We had a similar muppet in Australia called Clive Palmer who managed to get elected to our house of reps despite all the press saying he didn't stand a chance.
To be fair, he only just scraped in with 50.3% of the vote, much like the abominable Tony Abbot, due to dodgy preference deals which despite being in relative plain sight, the media kept quiet about.
I cant compare Trump to Palmer however. Palmer is a blithering idiot with no personality who's sole goal in parliament was to help his ailing company (and he failed at that). Trump is a blithering idiot with lots of personality (a bad personality is still a personality) who doesn't seem to have much of a goal and seems to like the sound of his own voice far too much.
You're ignoring the fact that now that he has the nomination, he's free to move to the center and make nice with women, blacks and mexicans. Anything can still happen.
I'd comment, but I'm late for my date with Jessica Alba. I've got to move the Torana so I can move the Gallardo to get my flying unicorn out of the garage.
Since Netflix has bowed to the content conglomerates and started blocking people getting around geoblocks (100% legal where I live) I've terminated my membership.
Wilst I've got the skill, I dont have the time, patience or willingness to spend the money on complex solutions involving running my own VPN server from an S3 container. Fuck that, I've gone back to Channel BT.
Yes Netflix, you can tell the content owners that instead of paying for their content like I was happy to do before they started fucking around, they've forced me back to piracy, mission fucking haycomplished guys, well fucking done.
How's this: Get the BBC to start broadcasting over the internet in the U.S., and *I'll* pay your licence fee for you.
In fact, if iPlayer + Live TV was available for a monthly fee anywhere in the world, I'll bet BBC would be so flush with cash they could abolish the domestic fee.
The problem is that the Beeb licenses a lot of its TV shows and other content to commercial stations overseas. Also licenses to produce shows locally like Top Gear (US, RIP Top Gear UK) and Dancing With The Stars (based on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing).
Licensing agreements prevent them from running a competing network, not to mention licensing regulations and fees for each country they operate in.
Also the BBC operates a lot of local channels in other countries like BBC America or BBC Asia. Granted, BBC America is a commercial supported channel.
Anytime people want to stop calling it a fucking phone, I'm ready. It's not like we actually talk on the damn things anymore, and voice is about the last priority with smartphone development these days, as evidenced by the mood of a game developer driving next-gen phone software.
Speak for yourself, I use mine as a communications device all the time. So do most others. Just because you dont have any friends to call does not make your phone any less of a phone.
Also you need to get a better phone, voice quality is a huge component of mine and quite good too (Nexus 5X). If people didn't require voice, they'd get a phone that didn't have the voice component, they've been around for some time now but still haven't overtaken phones... they're called tablets.
Mac's.
Having done Mac support in a professional environment, Windows problems are easy to fix, Mac problems often require hours of hair pulling trial and error to fix. They also occur at about the same frequency (comparing OS X to Win XP SP2). Even though there were only 5 Macs in a 200 head company, I spent 25% of my time on Mac problems.
I'm smarter than you, I dont do family support. I tell them to buy an Asus because 1. The hardware support is good, 2. The hardware hardly ever breaks, 3. If it does, it's Asus' problem and; 4. Windows problems are 9 times out of 10 hardware problems (hence Asus' problem). As such the last 12 AM phone call from a distraught relative about a computer had to do with a Mac and I told them what I told them when they bought it, "It's your problem".
Beyond this, Windows problems are pretty rare these days. The biggest problem is still the user and I've watched a dumb user completely fuck a macbook faster than a PC by doing the same stupid shit (installing every toolbar and bit of software that came along). I was surprised the Mac fell as quickly as it did to a clueless user and as you could have guessed, I dont exactly hold Apple in high esteem when it comes to reliability.
BTW, I've removed all references from Apple from my work history. As time passes the risk of a current or future employee finding out that I know something about fixing Mac's grows less and less of a threat.
Between the failure of Windows Mobile and now XBox winding down combined with falling PC sales, Microsoft has got to be feeling the heat from investors when asked, "where's the growth in 10 years." Right now their revenues are fine but, with no future money making divisions, they risk stagnation which investors see as death.
Microsoft's bread and butter has always been and still is the enterprise. As yet, all of their consumer rivals including Apple and Google have failed to penetrate one iota.
OS, Server and Office licenses make up the bulk of the MS revenue and profit, here it doesn't matter how many PC's are sold because MS charge per license, not OEM for enterprise. Out of this they're bankrolling almost everything else and it's not really making a dent.
Also, most PC makers have been seeing growth in the last two years with a few exceptions (namely Acer and Apple). Tablet sales have been faltering since early 2015.
Nothing is preventing you from using any browser and search engine you want. Typing something into Cortana doesn't get you anything you can't get by typing the same thing into any search engine.
Bundling Internet Explorer with Windows is what got them into trouble in 2001. Nothing stopped users from downloading some other browser but that argument didn't prevent Microsoft being found in violation of antitrust law.
I'm amazed at how blatantly they're ignoring history.
The defence MS has is that they are no longer the dominant browser platform. In fact, IE and Edge have been pushed into the minor browser category below Firefox and Chrome on Windows. Sadly this is a defence that will work (especially combined with the fact Cortana is optional).
However they've shot themselves in the foot here. I suspect it will become so annoying that people will stop using Cortana and start using 3rd party products again.