We have already pointed out
.. how stupid it is to try and use the same interface for desktop computers, and small hand held devices.
Extending the interface to large mechanical devices is a deliberate denial of reality
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Repair centres who want to increase their credibility would sign-up straight away.
"sign-up" translates to "pay off", so just another revenue stream for apple, with no quality involved - even the dealerships arent an assurance of competence - and another combine harvester to add to the toolkit of apple lawyers to persecute independant repairers.
The whole idea is so bad, I would suspect it has been proposed by apple themselves.
The problem with all of these suggestions, is that they are to the users benefit.
They do nothing quantifiable for Microsoft - downgrading the hate and contempt felt in user-land obviously isnt of value - so why the hell would Microsoft exert itself?
Instead they will continue promoting the fallacy that because they provide an OS they own your machine, and like an incompetent manager, will make pointless changes and screw people around just to demonstrate their power.
The sharks will be carried externally,
They are still working on attaching launch engines onto remoras, to carry the laser equipped sharks into orbital space, but once they do, just look out, okay.... It will be frikkin awesome!
There will be bits of satellites, and sharks, and -we need some way to get squids up there-, and probably bears, because russia.. and all sorts of stuff falling out of the sky all over the place...
Its not so much the personal failing to live up to whatever standard, its the blatant hypocrisy when someone sells themselves to the public as an upholder of a certain set of values, gaining votes/donations/followers/mana/upvotes, whilst in their private life they completely ignore those standards.
Crooked politicians and police, multimillionaire sybarite leaders of austerity cults, child molesting teachers or priests, televangelists,.. Its behaviour that should not be tolerated, let alone supported and rewarded.
What reality would end up with is something like an MBA being required for political office.. "management", not STEM, and definitely not ethics.
While there are dangers in disenfranchising sections of the population here are a couple of suggestions for exclusion from eligibility (With a large enough population, it would be impossible not to bear some resemblance to real persons. funny, that.)
Multiple bankruptees - once is fair enough, twice is unlucky, three or more is either stupid or criminally deceitful - either case not anyone who should have authority over public money.
Reality TV 'stars' - narcissist attention whores practiced at appealing to the lowest common denominator.
Deliberate Hypocrisy - Espousing a mode of behaviour acceptable to their supporters but not living up to it eg "family values" while cheating.
Enjoying Borderlands 2, but as a fan of the REAL X-Com series (and the UFO-Afterxxxx imitations) I found the console style gameplay of the XCOM deeply offensive. Any world that wont ALLOW its super-secret defense organisation to defend against BOTH incoming attacks... doesnt deserve to be defended.
Console style works for Borderlands 2 - an action game, does not for XCOM if its pretending to be a strategy game.
but did promise that "if violations of law are identified, the Department will proceed appropriately to seek redress."
That translates to.. How dare you rip off people without paying us off first !
Is this the new catch cry of the Land Formerly Known as The Free?
No Exploitation Without Taxation !
not sure what its like in Zuckerbergland, but I hear 'Libra'
..and I think 'feminine hygiene products'
followed by astrology (well thats a guarantee of credibility, right there) and the quote from SWMBO "I'm a Libran... No decision is final, up to and even after implementation.."
would happily pay $50 a month for one iTunes like service
Fuck that.
No Subscription services, just pay for the product, own it and keep it.
These bullshit providers that "sell" you a product - that you can only download 3 times, and try not to let you manage your own copies....
Bandcamp seems to be one of the very few good citizens on the internet - (which makes me wonder how long they will survive, but then arsehole music services seem to fall of the perch pretty regularly too) - but Bandcamp by its very nature doesnt have access to a lot of back catalogue.
Autonomous trucks are being used on minesites in Oz, not for any happy progressive free-the-masses-from-having-to-think idealism, but for industrial/economic avoid-having-to-pay-and-feed-workers logistic reasons... and thus, operating for several years already.
These are controlled environments, limited in scope with barricades preventing random vehicles entering, and all authorised vehicles inside the zone communicating their positions and locations to central control, and road and engineering design and construction to make everything pleasing to our robot overlords.
And yet...
Crows had been swooping the trucks and triggering the collision avoidance detectors, and tumbleweeds ( the Australian equivalent) will set it off.
All this plus being vulnerable to network, software and hardware hiccups.
This is early days for the development of brain machine interfaces, probably at the equivalent level of leechs or amateur vivisectionists for traditional medicine.
History tells us we should expect a lot of people to die or be permanently injured before the technology is stable and reliable, and yet marketing is telling us how wonderful it will be.
I think I may have found the problem.
several years ago -thinking about it, it is becoming several DECADES ago- McDonalds were running promotional campaigns based on some kind of scrabble theme... buy their crap, get given individual letters, put them together to make words and receive prizes on achieving specific words..
The control on the number of prizes was on the prize winning words containing a specific letter which McDonalds only printed in the required number, while all the trash letters were basically unlimited.
All well and good, campaign run, job done.
So well done, they ran the same kind of campaign 6 months or a year later, with different prize words - using different prize winning letters.
Thing is, some people were still hanging onto the previous campaigns trash letters (totally understandable, I'm a packrat myself) and those letters were able to build the major prize winning words.. Overseas holidays, cars, that kind of thing.
McD was trying to say that previous promotional material was not eligible, and the consumer groups were saying that was not specified in the T's&C's. I believe the government or courts told McDonalds they had to pay up, but its all a bit hazy now.
Ads are 100% effective - at presenting items somebody wants to SELL
They are considerably less effective at presenting them to somebody interested in buying.. but the ad-slingers still get paid.
In the never-ending war between (us) and (them), the clear winners are the guys selling the armaments..
Trump is working with Kim Jong Un, hoping to get rid of the technology transfer restrictions.
North Korea have released some details such as how to ruin their own economy, and how the more poverty you have around you - the richer you yourself appear, but are holding back on the key technologies on establishing a despotic dynasty.
Casual conversation with a work colleague a few years back, it emerged that he had no knowledge about Japan and China beyond the names themselves, and that they were full of asians. Wouldnt be able to tell which was which.
Thinking about it, he and many others would be just as appalled at my willful ignorance of sporting teams - possibly which ones are full of asians...
I have to do this on the rare occasions I am using my laptop without an external monitor. Some dialogue boxes on the software I use object to the 1366 x 768 display on my decrepit work machine, and wont provide the action buttons at the base of the forms, Solution - rotate display to be be 768 x 1366.
This may have been fixed, I havent checked after recent updates..
Please refer to them as "The company that has bought Ataris' name".
I know this is mentioned in the article, but only about halfway through, with the headline and bulk of the article potentially implying this current iteration has more relation to the original than simple carrion feeding.
No offense to carrion feeders intended.
You have to be indoctrinating impressionable youth into using MS products.
If that isnt your core business, why shouldnt MS screw you for everything they can?
Well done CERN, Leading humanity to a brighter future,... and the chance of that being as a flare of radiation as we pass through an event horizon is probably fractionally lower if they arent exposed to Windows Updates.
The problem isnt with any individual pilot not knowing where they are.
The problem is with SOME pilots not knowing where they are in relation to everyone else
Add in liability issues - when ATC are providing instructions to pilots that are now based on poor quality information, and it all descends into a legal septic tank.
For the people who will be held responsible, the responsible thing to do is say "no".
Only the media - including self publishing social media "influencers" (Hooray, spell check recognises that that ISNT a word!) will miss him,and will persist in dragging his memory out and shoving it in our faces - but the rest of us will be glad he is gone, and pray his successors dont try to out-do him.
If the micro particles are the solute, we are the solvent..
The emerging global catastrophe of plastic pollution has been getting a HUGE amount of media attention (the only thing they love more than a circus is a train-wreck.. which is why elections get so much coverage) and this article describes the way that we, yes we humans, my brothers and sisters and non-determinants, have a part to play in removing this scourge from the environment.
By ingesting and inhaling these supposedly indestructible remnants of our affluent lifestyle, we are acting as the agents of Mother Nature in sequestering these putatively harmful substances, and concentrating them into convenient packages for disposal - this mechanism has been part of natures arsenal since... a long time ago.. and while a single passage through a human organism may not have much effect on the particles (probably less than exposure to UV, like,you know, sunlight), it can be repeated, and each time, the toxic chemicals can leach out into the host, leaving the actual micro particles less harmful.
Yes, pollution in pretty much any form is bad, and entire species and possibly even ecosystems will die out and be replaced, and as we have contributed to the cause we have a responsibility to act towards a solution, but the media frenzy is a form of pollution in its own way, and should be discouraged also.