TL:DR Loans are tough (or impossible) to get If you get a loan, your rates are higher. Can't rent an apartment (As a landlord, *I* check credit ratings) Can't get some jobs (My employer checked my credit rating) Can't get security clearance You may not be able to get a cell phone contract Higher insurance premiums
Trying to avoid the credit system is tough too. Try renting a car or buying an airline ticket without a credit card.
Microsoft will keep churning out crud. Same shit. Different day. That same old 90s era C++ "we know better than you" attitude is still very much in evidence.
...for the poor planning by technically illiterate managers or the absurd promises made by salespeople chasing commissions through the time honored practice of lying?
Buying chips offshore is a national security risk and always has been. If you're stupid enough to think that the Chinese military won't exploit chips/software/tech products bound for the USA for their own benefit, I have a bridge I can sell you.
Of course, as always, profits before country. Can't restrict Northrop Grumman, ya know. And you can bet the current crop of republican technopeasants don't have this on their radar.
If by "smarter, " you mean "tolerant of bad design" and "utterly unaware of real life human behavior or how the human nervous system works," then I guess you're right.
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Soccer moms driving SUVs while jabbering on their phones apparently find mere bicyclist and pedestrians invisible.
You wondered why Alexa was giggling last year? Soon, you will wonder no more.
You will assimilate yourselves, and pay us for the privilege.
I hope I'm wrong but larger software companies have a track record of addressing everything that doesn't matter while ignoring the basics.
Shrug. Sure, music industry. Give it a whirl. You'll stop nothing. There's always another solution, even if it means a new internet.
Breeding and distributing species of mosquitoes that avoid humans, however, would actually be ecologically benign.
I'm sure it won't be done because it costs .01 cents more per hundred thousand mosquitoes killed.
Manly men prefer a handful of unlabeled copper wires that must be connected by hand to make characters appear on screen.
The Chinese are behind the curve. In the USA, we've had this rolled out for years.
https://www.moneycrashers.com/...
TL:DR
Loans are tough (or impossible) to get
If you get a loan, your rates are higher.
Can't rent an apartment (As a landlord, *I* check credit ratings)
Can't get some jobs (My employer checked my credit rating)
Can't get security clearance
You may not be able to get a cell phone contract
Higher insurance premiums
Trying to avoid the credit system is tough too. Try renting a car or buying an airline ticket without a credit card.
>To Open Headquarters In Washington DC Area
Much easier to buy legislation/legislators when the deals can be made verbally, up close and in person,
The actual headline.
New *features* sells software. Bug fixes don't.
Microsoft will keep churning out crud. Same shit. Different day. That same old 90s era C++ "we know better than you" attitude is still very much in evidence.
...for the poor planning by technically illiterate managers or the absurd promises made by salespeople chasing commissions through the time honored practice of lying?
That's just crazy talk.
Buying chips offshore is a national security risk and always has been. If you're stupid enough to think that the Chinese military won't exploit chips/software/tech products bound for the USA for their own benefit, I have a bridge I can sell you.
Of course, as always, profits before country. Can't restrict Northrop Grumman, ya know. And you can bet the current crop of republican technopeasants don't have this on their radar.
Madame Curie would like a word with you.
If this isn't a set up for a sitcom, I don't know what is.
Fuzzy and with uncertain causality.
Good golly guy! Just take your meds. They really do work.
If by "smarter, " you mean "tolerant of bad design" and "utterly unaware of real life human behavior or how the human nervous system works," then I guess you're right.
An frankly, anyone who would design a drive to work any other way should have been fired.
Water wet!
Politicians dishonest, corrupt shysters!
Then they won't have *made* them, since, you know, they didn't install the stuff themselves.
I still use it regularly. Or I did. Oh well.
But we're taking turns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week--
with a childlike faith reminiscent of a five year old waiting for Santa Clause.
Rather than the bland, approved, sanitized pap that the world's governments would inevitably use to control us.