That's an awesome post (and you deserve the insightful mods) because you answered both the parent and GP posts. I use very high end software that runs on Windows and currently nothing else. All the idiots that keep telling me to use Linux (I already do when I can) do not understand the reality of most people's situations.
No, the market is fully functional - unfortunately, though, it goes where the money is - and most people will allow themselves to be treated worse by the airlines if it means saving a few bucks, so they are in a race to the bottom. The only ones competing at the high end are for the longest flights, where people start to pay attention to comfort.
But, those small seats are why some people can afford to fly.
Yes, and now it's a race to the bottom, as more and more people will continue to sacrifice comfort for lower ticket prices. It's like all the retail stores competing with WalMart, and the resulting drop in quality all the way around. Also, businesses generate the most revenue for airlines (from what I understand). That might include business class seats for some, but when my crew goes to a remote, nobody gets anything but coach, and I suspect most businesses are flying their non-executive employees that way.
No, I'm saying anyone that thinks there was a time in history better than now to have kids is a delusional idiot, and I'm thankful that few people feel the way you do otherwise none of us would be here. If you really thought the world was too terrible to live in, you'd probably have rectified your situation by now.
That might be the case in a few rare instances - it might keep people from having litters instead of just one or two kids. I know I wouldn't want more than the two I have because I wouldn't be able to maintain any semblance of the lifestyle I have right now. But if you look at the broader picture, the smart people with money are having fewer kids, while the poorer people with no hope of being able to financially support their kids are the ones "pump"-ing them out.
But most go through childbirth just fine. The vast, vast majority, in fact. This is again about lacking perspective - you hear all these cases, and they stand out in your mind, but most experiences with having and raising children are amazing. There are a lot of people who regretted having kids. Maybe they weren't ready, maybe they didn't have the patience. But the percentage of people who've had planned kids and regretted it is tiny compared to the people who chose NOT to have kids and ultimately regretted it.
Yes, having a child is so terrible that most parents choose to have at least one more. I won't berate your choice to not have kids, but you berating or mocking anyone else for having kids lacks any understanding of the joy of being a parent, even when things are tough.
And you really believe that, historically, things were better? You think it's better for a black person 100 years ago, or 200 years ago, than it is now? How about for women?
People lack historical perspective (in fact, most lack any kind of real perspective at all). Really. Pick any previous century and tell me how much better your life would have been. If there's anything wrong with our current society, it's that what people are whining about is mostly a joke compared to how things used to be. I'm not saying it's perfect - it's not, and it never will be; I'm saying things are always getting better, even if there's some bad that comes along with it. But we let the media and other whiners influence how we feel about society, and it's almost always negative.
Only because the boneheads making the decisions keep ignoring the data that open concept work spaces don't f#@king work.
Google: open concept offices. Note, I didn't include words or phrases like "bad" or "don't work," that's just everything that shows up when you search for it. It's a provably bad idea and dysfunctional. And yes, I'm admitting this as someone who, just this week, is being forced to move into our "new" open concept area at work.
A former boss of mine insisted we all get skype accounts. So I got a skype account. Never installed the software for it, just registered online and got a user ID. They put it on our business cards and everything and I've never even logged in.
Have you ever gotten a text hours, or even days after it was sent? 99% of the time it's instant... but hardly guaranteed, even when there are no network problems. I sent someone a picture on Christmas two years ago that I got a reply from the following April.... because that's when he finally got it. Yes, I know, it's an anomaly; just pointing out that email is actually generally very fast 99% of the time, too.
Like Tomahawk, my immediate reaction to the article was that exact xkcd; but what the link in the article shows is that 90% (it should probably be 100%) are covered by email and SMS. I haven't had any problems (of course, I don't use Twitter, facebook, or any of those other services). You can send multimedia in SMS - if it's too long for SMS, you can use email.
Yeah... you need to randomly insert numbers for some rules (as in your last example); it might be hard to remember which "number" rule you applied. Some sites don't allow special characters, so you can't use ",", but some sites require special characters, so your phrase needs to have some memorable punctuation... then, ultimately, it's all well and good for one place, but while you might remember "Yeah, best of luck with that," try remembering a dozen different phrases and, more specifically, which sites they go to and which rules you had to apply to meet their particular requirements.
Except then they don't let you just set your password directly, but send a link to your email - which kind of makes it similar to a two factor password - you not only need the answers to the questions, but the user has to be able to log into the user's registered email account.
Either I haven't been paying attention or I'm not getting these ads. I did do a bunch of registry hacks and other things to turn all the crap off, it's true - but then I have to do a lot with a fresh Ubuntu install, also (turn off telemetry and ads). I don't like that I have to opt out of stuff I didn't opt in to, but it's par for course no matter who you're buying from these days. I've been using Windows 10 for some time now, and I actually really like it compared to older versions of Windows. It's not that there aren't complaints, it's that there are good and bad things, and on the whole Windows 10 seems better to me than Windows 7. I do know of specific bad things in Windows 10 that simply don't apply to me (w.r.t. floating license managers, in particular). And over the past few years I've changed from spending more time in Linux to more time in Windows, but I can use either one and be happy. Or, rather, not too annoyed.
That still doesn't solve the idiotic problem of sites not accepting long passwords, some site requiring special characters, some sites refusing special characters, etc., etc.. It otherwise seems like a great scheme (although I haven't tried it), and would be perfect if you could edit the generated password to fit a site's special requirements.
Great point. I have not been on Facebook for nearly two years, it's just a giant waste of time for the most part. But my wife is constantly talking about people going on vacation or getting a new car or blah blah blah... and why can't we do that? I've tried explaining the phenomena, but it doesn't really work when people don't want to hear it. But I've also had quite the opposite problem with social media, too.... people posting pictures of what they're eating for lunch of dinner or some such nonsense.
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Nice. And I won't worry about security or running the most recent versions of the software I'm required to use for work. It's all good.
That's an awesome post (and you deserve the insightful mods) because you answered both the parent and GP posts. I use very high end software that runs on Windows and currently nothing else. All the idiots that keep telling me to use Linux (I already do when I can) do not understand the reality of most people's situations.
No, the market is fully functional - unfortunately, though, it goes where the money is - and most people will allow themselves to be treated worse by the airlines if it means saving a few bucks, so they are in a race to the bottom. The only ones competing at the high end are for the longest flights, where people start to pay attention to comfort.
But, those small seats are why some people can afford to fly.
Yes, and now it's a race to the bottom, as more and more people will continue to sacrifice comfort for lower ticket prices. It's like all the retail stores competing with WalMart, and the resulting drop in quality all the way around. Also, businesses generate the most revenue for airlines (from what I understand). That might include business class seats for some, but when my crew goes to a remote, nobody gets anything but coach, and I suspect most businesses are flying their non-executive employees that way.
And what I'm saying is that you obviously find value in living in the present.
Probably 99% of people buying Samsung products online did NOT buy it from Samsung directly.
No, I'm saying anyone that thinks there was a time in history better than now to have kids is a delusional idiot, and I'm thankful that few people feel the way you do otherwise none of us would be here. If you really thought the world was too terrible to live in, you'd probably have rectified your situation by now.
That might be the case in a few rare instances - it might keep people from having litters instead of just one or two kids. I know I wouldn't want more than the two I have because I wouldn't be able to maintain any semblance of the lifestyle I have right now. But if you look at the broader picture, the smart people with money are having fewer kids, while the poorer people with no hope of being able to financially support their kids are the ones "pump"-ing them out.
But most go through childbirth just fine. The vast, vast majority, in fact. This is again about lacking perspective - you hear all these cases, and they stand out in your mind, but most experiences with having and raising children are amazing. There are a lot of people who regretted having kids. Maybe they weren't ready, maybe they didn't have the patience. But the percentage of people who've had planned kids and regretted it is tiny compared to the people who chose NOT to have kids and ultimately regretted it.
Yes, having a child is so terrible that most parents choose to have at least one more. I won't berate your choice to not have kids, but you berating or mocking anyone else for having kids lacks any understanding of the joy of being a parent, even when things are tough.
And you really believe that, historically, things were better? You think it's better for a black person 100 years ago, or 200 years ago, than it is now? How about for women?
People lack historical perspective (in fact, most lack any kind of real perspective at all). Really. Pick any previous century and tell me how much better your life would have been. If there's anything wrong with our current society, it's that what people are whining about is mostly a joke compared to how things used to be. I'm not saying it's perfect - it's not, and it never will be; I'm saying things are always getting better, even if there's some bad that comes along with it. But we let the media and other whiners influence how we feel about society, and it's almost always negative.
Hmm. There's a room at work where my phone doesn't work... I use google voice just fine there for sending/receiving text messages on the computer.
Phones are distracting to *everyone else*.
Only because the boneheads making the decisions keep ignoring the data that open concept work spaces don't f#@king work.
Google: open concept offices. Note, I didn't include words or phrases like "bad" or "don't work," that's just everything that shows up when you search for it. It's a provably bad idea and dysfunctional. And yes, I'm admitting this as someone who, just this week, is being forced to move into our "new" open concept area at work.
A former boss of mine insisted we all get skype accounts. So I got a skype account. Never installed the software for it, just registered online and got a user ID. They put it on our business cards and everything and I've never even logged in.
Have you ever gotten a text hours, or even days after it was sent? 99% of the time it's instant... but hardly guaranteed, even when there are no network problems. I sent someone a picture on Christmas two years ago that I got a reply from the following April.... because that's when he finally got it. Yes, I know, it's an anomaly; just pointing out that email is actually generally very fast 99% of the time, too.
Google voice solves all your typing problems by allowing you to type on the computer.
Like Tomahawk, my immediate reaction to the article was that exact xkcd; but what the link in the article shows is that 90% (it should probably be 100%) are covered by email and SMS. I haven't had any problems (of course, I don't use Twitter, facebook, or any of those other services). You can send multimedia in SMS - if it's too long for SMS, you can use email.
The only person I know with a Windows phone is my mom, because she didn't know w.t.f. she was doing and didn't ask any of her kids or grand-kids.
Yeah... you need to randomly insert numbers for some rules (as in your last example); it might be hard to remember which "number" rule you applied. Some sites don't allow special characters, so you can't use ",", but some sites require special characters, so your phrase needs to have some memorable punctuation... then, ultimately, it's all well and good for one place, but while you might remember "Yeah, best of luck with that," try remembering a dozen different phrases and, more specifically, which sites they go to and which rules you had to apply to meet their particular requirements.
Except then they don't let you just set your password directly, but send a link to your email - which kind of makes it similar to a two factor password - you not only need the answers to the questions, but the user has to be able to log into the user's registered email account.
I'm not going to lie - we have a 90 day policy at work, so that's what I do (well, not quite that, but something like it).
Either I haven't been paying attention or I'm not getting these ads. I did do a bunch of registry hacks and other things to turn all the crap off, it's true - but then I have to do a lot with a fresh Ubuntu install, also (turn off telemetry and ads). I don't like that I have to opt out of stuff I didn't opt in to, but it's par for course no matter who you're buying from these days. I've been using Windows 10 for some time now, and I actually really like it compared to older versions of Windows. It's not that there aren't complaints, it's that there are good and bad things, and on the whole Windows 10 seems better to me than Windows 7. I do know of specific bad things in Windows 10 that simply don't apply to me (w.r.t. floating license managers, in particular). And over the past few years I've changed from spending more time in Linux to more time in Windows, but I can use either one and be happy. Or, rather, not too annoyed.
That still doesn't solve the idiotic problem of sites not accepting long passwords, some site requiring special characters, some sites refusing special characters, etc., etc.. It otherwise seems like a great scheme (although I haven't tried it), and would be perfect if you could edit the generated password to fit a site's special requirements.
Great point. I have not been on Facebook for nearly two years, it's just a giant waste of time for the most part. But my wife is constantly talking about people going on vacation or getting a new car or blah blah blah... and why can't we do that? I've tried explaining the phenomena, but it doesn't really work when people don't want to hear it. But I've also had quite the opposite problem with social media, too.... people posting pictures of what they're eating for lunch of dinner or some such nonsense.