I can understand Epic's arguments about Apple's app store. Their arguments about Google make no sense.
Their argument is that the GP store is a "the" app store for Android devices, and requiring users to toggle off that "security" setting that prevents installing apps from other sources is a hurdle most users won't jump.
Those words are literally, in the truest sense of the word, in that little book.
Here you go.
A record-low 20% of Americans now say the Bible is the literal word of God, down from 24% the last time the question was asked in 2017, and half of what it was at its high points in 1980 and 1984. Meanwhile, a new high of 29% say the Bible is a collection of "fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man."
https://news.gallup.com/poll/3...
As for rarity, again, a multitude of Christians will tell you the text of the bible must be taken literally.
Words like "multitude" don't really help here. If you're homosexual or trans, there are many churches, at least in western countries that welcome you. Yes, there are also some that don't.
But you're also Gay. So you're forever cut off from fulfilling romantic involvement, a basic human drive. What do you do?
There are lots of Christian churches that welcome trans and homosexual people. It's pretty rare to treat bible text literally. The bible is God's words interpreted by men. Of course the text is going to reflect the narrow thinking of the time it was written.
The entire thing comes down to the Church shitting all over Gay people and breaking their brains, then covering up the damage they're doing.
It's a mistake to reason from the few to the many. There are bad people. If you lump everyone that looks the same, has the same profession, goes the same church, etc. into the same bad category... that's where we get -isms. You're never going to eliminate bad people. Punish, deter, rehabilitate, lock away, or whatever. That's the best we can do.
Where is your proof for this absurd statement... That's what I thought.
increasingly redundant now that so many people have big phones and long-lasting laptops
2010 called. They want their opinion back.
if both your parents have one, their children don't need one
I guess, if you're satisfied only knowing you might have inherited this or that.
140 million humans are born every year. If they could sell to 1% of those that'd be a nice business. Can they? Who knows, but that's only a marketing problem.
Unless they have some new market
All companies are always planning to move into new markets.
On the other hand, making up his own story instead of telling the original stories is just appropriation.
It's his job. He's not there to translate the book into a movie, he's there to adapt it. If you're looking for a translation of a book to the big screen you'd better just stick to books.
Like a lot of things in life nobody cares as long as you do a good job. Dune the book is good, but a story based on Dune can also be good, and in this case it was a great sci-fi film in a sea of awful sci-fi films. Let's be thankful, and hope for more from this director.
It's considered "stealth" as Dell is trying to reduce their personnel without alerting anyone of what they are doing.
Well no, it's the opposite of that. This is their public statement to employees:
The implications of choosing to work remotely, we're told, are
I would think Dell would like to keep this quiet.
But they didn't.
The article says this affect 65% of their work force. I think this is a way for Dell to pressure employees to quietly quit without having to pay them severance.
Maybe they just want people to be in the office. Most companies require employees to be in the office a regularly (not necessarily ever day). Sounds like they let things get out of hand during covid and they are trying to make a correction.
4) remote status will be considered when planning or organization changes
Right, which is why it's not "stealth". It's right there for the public, and investors to read.
Employers don't owe you severance because you disagree. It'd be perfectly legal to just terminate the people that refused to come into the office. Plenty of tech companies did this. They didn't announce the details, but when your employer requires you to come into the office 3 days a week, and you refuse, you'd better believe it's not going to be "that's okay we were just asking nicely".
By allowing them to remain on, for some time, it's giving them the opportunity to look for work locally while keeping their job at Dell. Or decide to move, their choice. Why is this bad?
Not everyone wants advancement. In fact, I've worked for companies where they had to drag people kicking and screaming into management.
Every tech company I've worked at (and I'm old) has had parallel tracks for engineering and management. Equal seniority, equal pay. No good reason to go into management.
They don't want any hit to their stock price from such an announcement.
Layoffs almost always boost stock prices. It shows that the company is cutting costs.
By denying advancement rather than threatening termination they're firmly in the clear, legally speaking.
They are legally in the clear regardless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I guess cord cutting meant going from $200 / month to the cable company to $50 month to an ISP, and $50 / month to 3+ media conglomerates.
Guaranteed, this offering is $50+ a month and will have ads.
After switching to a competitor that offered actual 10Gb/s fiber at 1/4 the price, I definitely did a double take when I saw the Comcast "10G" mailer. Closer inspection revealed it was 200Mb/s.
Anyway, I didn't interpret it as a competitor to 5G wireless tech, but rather as an offer of higher bandwidth.
This sort of ego doesn't translate into monetary return. It only frustrates their clientele, their customers, into seeking alternatives.
If they aren't monetizing your Windows install in some way, you might as well uninstall. They don't make money from selling you a $99 Windows license every 10 years.
I'm sure they want you to keep using Windows all things being equal, but there's not a strong financial incentive for them to keep you around if you aren't in their larger software ecosystem.
What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
