Wikipedia is less and less reliable for anything but the obvious. I know top universities advise users to avoid using it as a reference, and rightfully so. Encarta or a realiably curated source of knowledge would be quite useful!
The eu is far from a federation. And there is much imbalance between eu countries that a few more will burst against germany’s dictats. Everything that happens in the eu is decided by that country. Really worrying that few other countries speak up against it.
Agreed. The eu is basically a german/french dictatorship. The thing is, once the uk recovers after the leave event, many other eu countries will follow suit.
There was a pro china candidate, obama, and he did it for free. He didn't even flinch an eye when china prevented or restricted us companies from doing business in china, neither did he strongly call them out for intellectual property theft.
Specifically, what is bad in pointing out windows is a security liability, and a low quality os generally speaking? Along with blunt user spying though ads inside a product you paid for? Something tells me i stepped into a vicious fandom of that os.
I remember the smashing the stack for fun and profit windows days. It was so easy to inject shell code it was laughable. Btw can you still name a file smss.exe, run it, and not end the process with the task manager?
Come to think, what you describe are exactly the issues i had around london. Yay i could get a new iphone, but buying a property would mean an enormous loan and the size of that property would have been tiny. Overcrowding was another issue, trains were filled to the point where people would stick their noses in other peoples armpits, roads jammed, loads of small shops with low quality products, and ofc loads of crime. I ended up leaving, and one option was toronto, but gave up at the thought it might become another london. Left back for my home country, but my nature is to explore and experience new places, it’s just that the thought of yet another london is unbearable. And most tech jobs are centred around such cities. I just dont want to be a part of the tech worker scene that “changes the world and are the best” but cant afford even basic things in life such as owning a decent property with plenty of room for kids to grow up happily. So i am working remote and working on a side project. Maybe once it takes off i will retire in a small city in a developed country and buy a big ass mansion and enjoy life as it should be.
As a rare windows user (two or free times a year) i never trust a machine without an av. maybe things changed, but i see windows as so unsafe that i would not even login with to regular email, let alone make online payments. I simply see that os as a vulnerability by default.
Another good point, re quality of life. In london the quality of life is quite low, despite high salaries. I am wondering if toronto can do something different and learn from mistakes made by other tech boom cities. I.e. how to avoid congestion, how to keep house process at an affordable level, etc. It would be interesting to have tech companies located outside the city centre as a starting point. Of course there is the solution of not welcoming these companies and immigrants, but is there a way their presence can be leveraged for the greater good, by learning from mistakes made by others?
Sometimes i get the feeling some are contrarian only for the sake of it. Advocating using windoze without av is like advocating not using condoms because it doesn't feel good.