awilliams87

redraider11 said:

usersinceos1 said:

georgie01 said:

I see the benefits of globalisation but can't support Cook on it. It creates greater potential for negative global consequences, things in our arrogance we assume won't happen. Even the shipping of bees around the US to pollinate crops makes me nervous—that seems like a disaster waiting to happen (why not develop a sustainable crop variety to encourage bee population year round?). Also, through globalisation there is a reduction in the uniqueness of different cultures, and I think it's arrogant to assume those losses are inconsequential.

There are also consequences of non-globalization, as we see with the slowly sinking ship of the British economy.

And there are even dangers in democracy, if the electorate is ignorant and uncommitted to the principles of that form of government, as we saw in Egypt and other Arab Spring disasters, and we may be seeing in the US right now.

The US is NOT a Democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic. But you are correct in that our electorate, on both sides, seem uncommitted to preserving the Constitution as it was written and try to interpret it in their own ways which is very bad. 

A Republic is a type of Democracy (a representative Democracy). It's completely correct to refer to it as a Democracy.

Ever since the previous election, It's incredibly hard to read the political garbage flowing from the guy's writing. Fake news? "Radicalized hate speech"? Or merely people you disagree with? Get real. If one truly wants to see fake news, they simply have to tune into the CIA-controlled CNN every day.

There are more engineers produced via college universities than there are enough jobs to fill. As a matter of fact, after adjusting for inflation, the income of many engineering professions has diminished overtime precisely because of this oversupply of engineers.

http://www.urban.org/research/publication/eye-storm
http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF194.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/the-myth-of-the-science-and-engineering-shortage/284359/

Even the IEEE itself reported years ago that it is a long standing myth, which goes back to the 1960's, and has had no evidence whatsoever, but is still perpetuated on by the average American:

 http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth-an-ongoing-discussion

There was a huge debate in congress a few years ago and reports even surfaced that the unemployment rate for engineers are higher than other professions, like nurses and lawyers, mainly because there are more incoming engineers from colleges than jobs available:

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43061.pdf

The congressional debate ultimately concluded with the reason for this perpetuated myth was simply to reduce labor cost for engineers by getting more of them into the profession, ultimately dimension there price. Why people on this site choose to talk with little knowledge on the actual facts is beyond me.

slprescott said:

How many GB are typical console games on Xbox, Playstation, etc.?

I'm wondering if this is setting the stage for Apple to target more high end games on ATV.

~40GB, double the size of the maximum bundle size allowed on tvOS

rogifan_new said:

awilliams87 said:

I was praying to the God in Hades that this was a DED article. Now I can sit down and have an enjoyable time reading it.

Because it will tell you what you want to hear? Even Ben Bajarin, normally very bullish on Apple was worried about the lack of Apple love at CES. Outside of iPhone cases/chargers the only real Apple presence was companies providing solutions for the ports Apple removed on the new Macs. Siri and HomeKit aren't dominating anything.

I actually don't agree with the way DED approached this article. Attacking Amazon on its profits was meaningless.