Good corporate management types can spew that stuff on demand. Pacify the angry mobs, and don't promise anything. Hell, that's most of their job.
And that's why he moved to Silicon Valley? The model place for affordable housing?? Really?
Yes, really: SV prices are downright affordable compared to Vancouver's. In Vancouver, an actual crack house will cost you over $1M.
Don't play dumb with me. I'm talking about aiming for success in the test, not simply losing in the test.
Please, don't dig yourself deeper.
I thought you'd do some research but apparently not. Oh well, I'm feeling good this morning so I'll help you out.
Part of the deal is the monitoring of the supply chain. Yes, even the mines and DEFINITELY the centrifuges. ALL the centrifuges. Monitoring means cameras filming 24/7, as well as occasional in-person inspectors, activity logs, and many other forms of inspection and verification.
The 'military facilities' that Iran refuses access to are sites where things like training, conventional weapons testing, and maintenance/assembly are carried out. They are not, as far as we know, part of their nuclear operations. Could Iran use those places for nuclear operations? Certainly. There's not much point in doing so, though.
They've also completely failed to consider that just as quickly a one website may rise to prominence, another may equally quickly supplant it. Look at Facebook replacing MySpace for example.
Wouldn't a more relevant example of this be Reddit replacing Digg?
Bluetooth headphones seem to either be wicked uncomfortable (plantronic backbeats) or exquisitely sensitive to sweat (Motorola). So it's nice being able to listen to music over corded headphones, and still have the smartphone available to do whatever in between sets.
I don't know about your phone, but every decent smartphone I've ever seen has a standard 1/4" headphone jack. It doesn't keep you from doing other things with the phone.
Also the mp3 player just fucking 'works' on demand. Spotify seems to crash about 50% of the time and requires a reboot of the phone.
Every decent phone I've seen lets you just put MP3s on it (or even Oggs with Android phones) and play them directly.
Also having the headphone jack come out, then having my phone broadcast my horrible taste of music over its speaker after accidentally touching the screen/volume buttons -- was embarrassing enough to ensure it happened just once
Ok now this is definitely something I don't know how to fix on a smartphone...
It might not be about the electronics, but the things you talk about sound like really low-value products. The special thing about electronics is that they're high-value; maybe not as much as in the 80s when a VCR cost $1000 (a large fraction of the price of a car back then), but still usually a lot more than a stick of deodorant.
And TV shows don't get canceled because of lack of popularity, but because of idiotic network executives. It's not like they actually poll viewers to see what's popular (how many Nielsen families do you know?), especially in an age when people use DVRs, Hulu, and Netflix.
Most code written anywhere is crap.
I suspect you probably moved for very different reasons than Greek developers. In your case, it was probably because the housing costs in Vancouver (Canada) are insane.
Yeah, look at how awful countries like Norway and Sweden are with all their "nanny-state policies".... they only have the highest standards of living in the world.
I don't know about other KDE users, but I've never "hacked around with settings all day"; I've spent maybe 10-20 minutes hacking around with different settings, trying things out, and after that I've just left them that way for ages, because at that point I'm happy with them.
So instead of spending less than a half hour to play around with settings in KDE, you want me to write my own shell program so I can use Windows??? Are you fucking nuts?
I don't have to do any programming to use KDE and change it around to my liking. This is supposed to be a plus for Windows?
You sound like all the idiotic Gnome sycophants: "if you don't like the default Gnome settings, just write an extension! And when they break the API in the next release, just recode your extension for it!"
I write a C/C++ app that uses Qt. But people use GTK+ because its C and not C++.
GTK+ has C++ bindings and is used in C++ projects.
So how would you do away with the operating system and still enable people to 'get something done'?
That's easy: you go back to the days of MS-DOS (which was nothing more than a program loader). We got plenty of stuff done back then, it was just slower and crappier because changing tasks took so long: you had to save and exit your application, then start up the other application and load your work. If you had to constantly switch between two things, it was a real PITA.
But you could "get something done". Countless secretaries got lots of work done in WordPerfect in those days.
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.