While I partially agree and it was a generalisation on my part, the tech you mentioned (Flash, Java, ActiveX) all came at a time to fill a gaping hole and they solved many problems of their respective time, yes, even ActiveX.

- Flash came at a time when the web was primitive, there was no other way of doing funky animations or creating web-based games.
- Java - not sure why this was mentioned, as it's (arguably) still a success - came at a time to be able to write code to run on multiple different platforms with minimal effort. And it's arguably still a success on countless back-ends to the web.
- ActiveX came at a time where again, the web was primitive, JavaScript was still in its infancy (to some degree), and it allowed not only desktop apps to talk to the web, but solved web front-end and back-end communication at a time when there was no ajax.

The problem with Microsoft trying to reinvent the wheel in Windows and re-writing foundations with .net only makes the OS ever more bloated. We have gone from an OS using only a few hundred mb of memory to over 4gb while sitting on the desktop, for doing absolutely nothing of benefit to the end user, majority of whom spend their time either gaming, or using a web browser, or standard Office applications.

To me, they've solved no real problems... unless perhaps Microsoft secretly hopes to enlarge the number of .net based apps, so they an eventually launch another phone/tablet product? Or perhaps they envisioned the collapse of x86 before Win10 came on the scene, and hope to be able to switch to any ARM implementation with as little friction as possible?

But to me, removing WordPad and then re-adding those features back into notepad serves no purpose. Each app has it's own use case and worked well, and seems another example of increasing bloatware into a lightweight app.

Quite simple.
Many of the older (intelligent) devs retired or were made redundant and replaced with cheap H1B's.

The problem with H1B-types and the younger gen is they only care about making everything using JavaScript or bloated .net. For them, everything is coded wrong and needs to be rewritten from scratch. They have no wisdom or care or appreciation for the countless hours gone into fixing intricate bugs and adding various business logic which they will never comprehend. For them, it's all about the latest toy, and the latest and greatest, no matter how inefficient.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com...

Yea, I don't think that happened.

All you had to do was simply reactivate it, and it would have worked.
Same has happened with my Win7 and Win8.1 licenses.

Because of an Office licensing issue, you switched an entire OS from something superior to a hodgepodge of a UI put together by developers who act like teens with constant in-fighting? The biggest problem with Linux ever since creation is that despite a lot of talent, there's constant in-fighting over trivial stuff, until each dev breaks away to develop yet-another "perfect"/"ideal" fork.

Yea, don't think so.

Makes one wonder why it hasn't been done already.
And why we're constantly in an "autopsy" mode, waiting for something major to happen before passing laws, verses going by scientific evidence.

Capitalism, perhaps?

I understand exactly what you're saying ;)

However, to be fair, we can't access each other's patient data, so we wouldn't have theirs.
Whether Google already has that data, that's where the question lies.

When I first found out about the (now) not-so-secret agreement between Government and Google to harvest patient data, I tried to have my patient record deleted for this reason. Most of the doctors weren't aware, but still declined my request :(

Is there anything else one can do to "opt-out" or ideally have ones personal health history wiped?

I was waiting for an ignorant person to quote that.

Sadly people don't like to read, and fail to read the verses before and after that - fighting became allowed because the pagans broke the peace treaty, stopped Muslims from worship, started picking out individuals and torturing and killing them, persecuted the remaining Muslims, stole their wealth, etc. Only after all of this, fighting against that group specifically became allowed.

Also notice how people never quote the verse after that: -
"And if any one of the polytheists seeks your protection, then grant him protection so that he may hear the words of God. Then deliver him to his place of safety. That is because they are a people who do not know (without knowledge)."

Which nation or army in the world would ever do that? hmm

And with that, you already lost.

To be honest, I question any so-called Islamic terrorism.

This verse is recited every Friday prayer which is compulsory for Muslims to attend: https://legacy.quran.com/16/90

Muslims are taught that suicide for any cause will cause one to enter hell, but before that, they will be suffering in their grave with that punishment continuously until day of judgement.
Same as the verse in Quran about killing a soul is as though one has killed all of mankind. [5:32]

Committing acts of terror where so many harmless people are killed (including Muslims) makes no sense in any religion, especially Islam.
"The best of you are those best in conduct.' And the Prophet was not one who was obscene, nor one who uttered obscenities."

There's more behind the stories of terrorist incidents than is revealed - as has been shown time and again, the people/gov that benefits the most from "Islamic" terrorist incidents are the apartheid regime (by getting America to do its dirty work), or the American gov by enacting even tougher laws. People should question why any incoming American/UK leader needs to pledge allegiance to a foreign state, despite the fact that foreign regime has done nothing for America/UK.

Why Queen Elizabeth disliked Israel, and how Israel is built on continuous acts of terror, even against the west:
https://rumble.com/v5zyz5q-que...

... unless one has already been made redundant thanks to AI and cheap foreign labour.

I know many colleagues who also know others (mostly devs), who are now out of job, with little hope of finding another (in UK anyway).
Agencies they have spoken to say they are flooded with over a thousand applicants for a single dev job.

I'm not sure about other countries, but it's never been this bad in UK for developers.

Exactly, they sated the same in that AI had really helped them, but has the side-effect of not needing as many developers.

As such, some of those devs (made redundant) have shifted industry entirely, one became a photographer, another is trying to do any bits of freelance work that comes along, while another tried starting a business. But most are still out of work and even willing to take huge pay cuts.

A colleague mentioned they don't even get recruiter calls now, but the 2 calls they did receive, they were told each dev job floods them with CV's of over thousand applicants!

Things have never been this bad.

erm, Bush created "Islamic" extremism by mass slaughter of civilians in Islamic countries, under the guise of a "war".
A war where one side has the most advanced weaponry and army in the world, while the other in comparison is pretty much using stones and arrows.

Unless you refer to 9/11, which I think some would now question was thanks to the terrorist apartheid regime.

Someone I know has been a developer for over 15 years, they're based in UK and made redundant from a large consultancy firm, along with countless other colleagues. The consultancy has been doing mass layoffs of IT staff in small batches so that the news doesn't spread both inside and outside the company, as such, they're not even on the layoffs.fyi website or other news.

Regardless, that person mentioned and they and their colleagues have been out of a job now for 8 months, the market is absolutely horrendous for developers right now. The consultancy was hiring for a few devs as replacements, but all from India as cheap labour.

So I think it's due to a mix of both automation and cheap labour from India specifically.

Even in the UK, there just doesn't seem to be as much need for developers any more.

"Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."
- Vladimir Putin.

Putin: "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."

Professor Mearsheimer has extensively studied Vladimir Putin's writings and found no evidence of him wanting to bring back the Soviet Union or even to expand Russiaâ(TM)s borders. Rather, for almost 3 decades now, heâ(TM)s been telling the US and NATO to back off and respect their borders.

If one wants to take over another country, you donâ(TM)t start with only 100k soldiers. Hitler needed over a million men to have a chance to take over Poland, while 3 million men to take over France.

"Intel is dead" - actually far from it.

There's still a huge amount of talent at Intel, and their single-core performance is still exceptionally good, if not on equal footing to AMD.

Besides, their business isn't limited to CPU production.

They just need better management, ideally someone who isn't guzzling millions for his own sake.