This is going to be no different than plastic surgery, it too started to help say burn victims, soon the rich could use it to prolong youthful look. This time around, its actually may preserve youth much longer. Sure you will have problems, they will be solved, breast implants use to burst, now they don't. Already in US of A, the rich can afford medicine poor cannot. Now imagine you struggling to live past 60 and CEO of LiveLong corp looks 20 in at 100+. That is going to be the near future. Eventually it might trickle down, however I doubt it, expensive medicine is still not available to countless, this is going to be no different.

I still keep getting these p__is enlargement adverts, and I don't even own a smartphone, only my girlfriend.

Moved to it about a year ago and hardly miss Win 7. Even come to like it.

We have come a complete circle, everyone loved Win NT and stuck to it until USB came out and MS did not provide driver support for USB, soon people moved and now like Win 7.

Sometime I feel people don't like to embrace change.

... gooole is typically comfortable with launching full fledged products in beta. Don't worry, they will come out of beta in few years.

Google writes the OS for the phones that drives all the hardware. I think this one is blown out of proportion. Yes, I would rather not have them change settings like this, it was a mistake, they admitted and that is more important. Apple, Samsung and Microsoft have same capability on their front, even Tesla can do the same for their cars.

If you really want to stop this, install one of many open source initiative in the Android world and take control of your device, maybe pursue your elected official to regulate such updates. In the mean time, they have the capability to do whatever they want remotely, welcome to 2018.

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Market forces at work here. Average Canadian income is around $50K. Transit operators in my town make above $60K+. Barrier to entry to become a bus or subway driver is low if the market was open, que unions artificially creating a high barrier to entry. Almost anyone can drive a bus, however unions protect their turf by design. No wonder anyone with a car is now jumping on this bandwagon. They complain and complain like milk or ice men of era forgone.

I hear what you are saying, sounds to me like, I built a computer using two reservoirs at different heights connected by a hose and a tap, this system can simulate water flowing from the higher reservoir to the lower when the tap is open. We can monitor when the water flows from higher reservoir to the lower.

It is the wrong kind of immigration policies in US that allow for this "cheapest labor exploitation". Speaking as a Canadian, the work permit here, which is equivalent to H1-B in US is bound to the employer, but the permanent resident status, equivalent to green card is not. So you get here on work permit, apply for permanent resident status couple years later and your employer effectively has no leverage except a just pay and a healthy work environment. Sure it costs 2 years before you can apply, however its not like a decade or so in US at the mercy of your employer.

Ah, confused with average income. Samsung profits have nothing to do with average Spanish budget for a phone vs that of an average Indian. If 25% Spanish can afford a $300 Samsung phone, they sold about 12 million units, Now if just 2% of Indians can afford a $300 Samsung phone, they just sold over 26 million phones.

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I think they were trying to recover energy from breaking rather aggressively earlier. Some kind of balance between how hard the pads squeeze on the rotors so some breaking happens from magnet/coils to recharge the batteries.

Something like this could be tweaked rather easily.

How about federal health care. Pay it from taxes, win win. Don't pay for a military, pay for health care.

Balance in favor of health care a bit.

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That is correct, the subject line anyway.Majority of enterprises still use Windows, email is on exchange, Microsoft office is the defacto app, vizio is your tool for diagrams, excel is what the business loves and uses. Yet a lot of developers love and want linux. As in my case, I like to think of myself as an above average software engineer. I would love to use Linux at work, I did for a while, soon Pidgin is a half baked replacement for Lync, Evolution almost works as a email client and even though Libre Office sort of opens Word document, it does make the document formatting useless, so is not of much use, if we didn't want formatting, we would use text files. Yet platform for production is Linux, our team looks after enterprise front office web apps for our institution.

So all of us do development on Windows, we would love Linux if the entire bank switched, good luck with that.

So then this WSL fills that gap for me. I don't need to shell into any linux machine, have cygwin sitting along. I can just install windows. Now yes I can use something like virtualbox, however some parts of our application also run on Docker. so I need both Linux and Docker, and if you have tried, the way Windows Hyper-V works, you cannot run it along with Virtualbox. For the moment, we choose mixed bag, a seperate linux VM on our company cloud, or VMs on Hyper-V. It would speed things up if can just get a distro going right off the store.

Having said that, the value is incremental, as is we can install VMs via Hyper-V and it works more or less.