Posts by BlueTemplar 77 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2018
I think that you're deluded that a University is even supposed to provide job training...*
(Only the company can really do that, not surprising that the last University semester is generally spent in an internship...)
*well except for PhD's of course, where at least some of the students are expected to become researchers themselves.
EU original founders (France+Germany) are pushing for a EU-wide tax harmonization :
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-france-tax-harmonisation-idUSKBN1JG1RB
If this works out, eventually the Single Market will also be a Single Tax System - IMHO, as it should be, as the current system can be gamed too easily.
"Always" is a very long time. For instance at some point some countries might just decide to forbid doing commerce with countries classified as tax havens - in fact if I'm not mistaken the EU already has various penalties against tax havens, though their definition of "tax haven" seems to be very forgiving...
Well, yes, fossil fuels account for most of our wealth. And so we've been living above our means for decades - the people that can afford to drive a car every day are certainly NOT "poor" by worldwide standards. (But I'm not going to discount their feeling of being "trapped" either - by definition, it takes a very weird type of person to go against social norms !)
The ironic/funny part that El Reg missed is how this discovery seems to have initially originated from Liberation.fr boasting about being the first news website that doesn't track its readers, which obviously pissed off the technical-inclined news websites that did it years ago, and so pushed them to dig around to try to find some mistake with those claims :
https://reflets.info/articles/liberation-a-traqueur-vaillant-rien-d-impossible
(in French, paywalled, but the partial text from that article and the previous ones should give you the idea !)
Signal is the least bad of the bunch, but still suffers from the lack of interoperability (aka "federation").
(Also, using your own servers - required if you want the best security - might be poorly supported ?)
The XMPP (aka Jabber) protocol is the way to go (using OMEMO for end-to-end encryption).
Notable programs supporting it are Pidgin (desktop),
Jitsi (with the additional feature of cross Windows-*nix video calls),
Conversations (Android, free on F-Droid)
and ChatSecure (IOS).
That's not my experience - I was impressed with the performance of the Asus Transformer I had to use for a week.
(The USB-B mini ports and the bluetooth keyboard were clunky though...)
Your issue seems to be that you expected to be able to run the full bloated MS Office on it (and got baited into it).
For heavy stuff like that you need a Surface Pro - which costs FIVE TIMES MORE !!
(The right tool for the job...)
Yeah, sorry, but this "responsive design" fad is nonsense.
It's just not possible to make a single user interface that works as well on a tiny, fat-fingered smartphone touchscreen, as on a widescreen mouse & keyboard PC.
There are multiple ways around it, like using separate, dedicated programs for browsing news (RSS feeds) and writing comments on mobile.
Or have a very simple, standardized layout that lets the browser do the job... (also, hiding the pictures is certainly a job for the browser's side !)
"However, if you have a working surface and you're tired of windows, the one I was working on managed to run Linux quite well, with no driver issues."
Which one? I was told that Ubuntu drivers were a disaster for anything "touch-related" on the Surface Pro 3... which is annoying because I have an ever harder time to justify running Windows to myself.
"I bet a good percentage is spent on, say, displaying white pixels on computers for Google's home page.
On World Eco day they once went black and estimated the savings worldwide and it was a significant chunk."
Source?
This doesn't make sense, most displays are LCDs these days, and those don't consume less by displaying black... (because the fluorescent/LED backlight is always on)
"Maybe some of those Youtubers should try doing what BigClive does: don't rely on Youtube ads to cover costs, explain why it works better for him and his viewers if the money needed to buy coffee and cookies doesn't pass through Youtube, and hope it works out OK. Everybody here is aware of BigClive, right?
Or maybe more prospective YouTube starlets could repeat what some lowlife have achieved with the help of the Daily Mail this week: use the Daily Mail's 'news' coveragel to provide free advertising of dubious videos set in dodgy London shopping malls (and worse), thereby enabling this stuff to reach an audience that wouldn't normally even know such videos existed ("Barbara Streisand effect" gone mad)."
Exactly. I've never heard of BigClive. I *have* heard of a YouTuber disrespecting a corpse.
https://locusmag.com/2016/03/cory-doctorow-wealth-inequality-is-even-worse-in-reputation-economies/
"Whuffie [a fictional reputation-based currency] has all the problems of money, and then a bunch more that are unique to it. In Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, we see how Whuffie – despite its claims to being ‘‘meritocratic’’ – ends up pooling up around sociopathic jerks who know how to flatter, cajole, or terrorize their way to the top. Once you have a lot of Whuffie – once a lot of people hold you to be reputable – other people bend over backwards to give you opportunities to do things that make you even more reputable, putting you in a position where you can speechify, lead, drive the golden spike, and generally take credit for everything that goes well, while blaming all the screw-ups on lesser mortals."
I feel that there's many parallels to hoarding YouTube subscribers, "likes", and view-based income trough advertising...
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