We are God: "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov.
I believe the ultimate assertion from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" was "You are God". And not just as an idea from a new perspective, but as a studied examination of the underlying spiritual lessons from all human religions.
So, is this just another update to shuffle a couple of buttons and checkboxes around or is there something else in this update?
Good luck finding the change log from Microsoft.
I'm assuming they've updated all the "SkyDrive" stuff to "OneDrive", since they lost the trademark lawsuit on that one.
That happened in some previous update I think. When I go to my user folder there's a folder named "OneDrive". Open it up and the breadcrumb navication calls it OneDrive. Yet when I check the actual path it's still actually "c:\users\Linuxisgarbage\SkyDrive" folder.
Nope. If you're seeing anything on the Windows GUI called "OneDrive", then you must have the update released today. I'm still waiting for the update to finish installing, but it definitely has always been called "SkyDrive" except on the web site.
WTF benefit does a touch screen bring to me? What is the use case for this that I'm missing?
And here I thought the use case for it was pretty obvious.
So, is this just another update to shuffle a couple of buttons and checkboxes around or is there something else in this update?
Good luck finding the change log from Microsoft.
I'm assuming they've updated all the "SkyDrive" stuff to "OneDrive", since they lost the trademark lawsuit on that one.
tl;dr
Thankfully I don't live in the Peoples' Republic of San Fransisco. I get the feeling that there is almost no normal day-to-day activity that a person can engage in there without "likely breaking" some rule or ordinance or bureaucratic policy that the busybodies in government have decided to impose.
So, you would have no problem if the law said that if you were caught breaking your legally mandated, below market value lease by subletting at market value, you would be required to retroactively pay market value rent back to the day you started subletting and continuing until you vacate the premises, yes?
No, Mr. Hannity, I would have no problem if the law were limited to enforcing contracts, like it is supposed to do, instead of trying to control every aspect of everyone's lives to the point that no one can make a move without banging on the City Council's doors demanding recognition of their group's desires.
I have an apartment. I am legally prevented from charging "market value" for my property due to rent control laws, especially for long term residents.
Self-entitlement is strong in this one.
You completely missed my point. Your sense of self-entitlement is at least as great as mine. SF's government is interfering in both party's ability to engage in the free market. Note they're hinting they'll go ahead and allow the Airbnb rentals to happen as long as they can get their 14% tax out of the renter. You won't see any of that revenue.
Your slum-lord profit entitlement outrage is clearly misplaced.
"Illegal activity" in this case, being that the little people aren't allowed to engage in free enterprise without greasing some palms.
SF and Airbnb are working on a framework which might make Airbnb rentals legal, an effort helped by Airbnb's decision last week to start collecting the city's 14% hotel tax by summer.
This is what we used to call corruption. Or, before that, "tribute to the king."
don't go tecky on someone who's doesn't understand what the word computer means. Ask them some basic questions on their knowledge on the subject and go from there. Adapt to their knowledge and understanding. If they learn slow, you need to teach them slow. If they learn like sponges...teach them fast and strong.
Also - don't take advice from Bennett Haselton. He comes across as quite a douchebag.
Nobody uses Zonomi?
Considering Dyn bought several promised "free for life" DNS services then promptly killed them you need to realize they'll probably do it again. They've apparently decided the best business model is buy out their free competitors and put them out business.
I'm one of those that got an account when they bought out EveryDNS. They committed to keeping it free for life (but charged $5 for the "transition").
I'm actually a little confused by this announcement. I got an email from them this morning about it, but very little information. They included this in mine:
However, because you believed in us and supported this company through your donations, we are continuing to fulfill our promise to you: your service is still free for life.
Not sure what this means for me. I do have what I think they are referring to, a free hostname in the "from-va.com" domain. I don't really use it much, so I don't care if it goes away. But I've also got 2 of my own domains that I use their DNS services for. I'm assuming that will continue to work, and for no new fees. I better be right, or I'll be raising some hell.
Nice in theory, but companies have a well-established playbook for getting around anti-monopoly rules. Vertical integration, so that any new business that isn't vertically integrated is immediately at a huge competitive disadvantage. Various forms of vendor lock-in making it inconvenient for people to switch to another provider. Multiple "competing" companies owned by the same parent company.
Wrong. They don't need all that, it's just for show. All they really need is the one tried-and-true technique known as "Campaign Contributions." Microsoft learned that lesson when they paid no attention to Washington politics at all. Now they spend more on lobbying than pretty much any other company, and the Washington bureaucrats let them do whatever they want.
Come to think of it, that is a pretty apt analogy. The Government is the father, the corporations the son (for obvious reasons), and the Fed is the unholy ghost, because hardly anyone knows what it is or what it does.
So that makes Apple Corporation the Anti-Christ. I like it!
The part I agree with is that I personally am not concerned whatsoever with the metadata. At all. And the only reason you see most of the media coverage is because folks don't understand what metadata is. If you polled the public right now you would largely find them believing the government is secretly recording and archiving all of our actual phone calls. They aren't.
Sorry, but metadata is all that is needed to invade privacy, and they're collecting it on everyone. It's not okay, okay?
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
