Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "ColdFusion" channel.

Fairchild was the start of Silicon Valley. It wasn't the start of the start up culture. That goes back 850 years to the start of commercial banks then termed money lenders. One could even argue that it really goes back to the start of capitalism 3000 years ago where individuals would go into business for themselves selling food, wares or services en masse. Like, everyone did it. Fairchild didn't invent start up culture, it was itself a part of start up culture. Certainly start up culture was around in tech long before Fairchild. Think Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, etc. All either their own start ups that turned into famous ground breaking companies that are still with us today
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You're misunderstanding history @MrSpying247 . When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone he did so with his friend and business partner Thomas Watson who was at the receiving end of the first ever telephone call. It took place at the University they both worked at. Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla were originally friends. They formed a company together and started working on electricity. They later had a fight and went their separate ways, with Nikola Tesla forming his own company. They met at a university. Indeed, money lenders, the precursor to the entire modern banking and financial sector started as groups of friends and landowners who got together to pool their resources in order to offer loans, promissory notes and early banking services. In fact, mate, I can't think of any company or organised business in history that didn't start as a few friends or associated parties trying something new. The new world HR management policies have nothing to do with Fairchild. That's a generational thing that started because millennials thought they could get more productivity and skills retention out of their employees if they provided them relatively cheap but ultimately shallow perks. The concept wasn't even invented in the USA. It's simply an acknowledgement that millennials are childlike and if you distract them you can abuse them more as employees. So again. Fairchild started silicon valley. They didn't invent start up culture.
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Your ID already denies you access based on age. It has done your entire life regardless of how old you are
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Safety and security has always been used to sell communism
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What do you mean Intel has fallen behind technologically? Let's be clear, AMD hasn't done anything overtly revolutionary. Their performance is still very much measured against Intel as the gold standard. Intel had the potential of getting into trouble, so they shifted course with a new CEO BEFORE they got left behind and lost their place at the top. It's a mistake to misrepresent what's going on here
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Windows Phone didn't fail because they got in too late. Google took 5 years to make Android something. Windows Phone failed because Microsoft could never come up with a consistent narrative. It seemed like every five minutes they were changing their minds and taking the OS in a different direction. That's no environment to dev apps for. It's no environment for consumers to feel comfortable purchasing the OS. It's no environment for OEMs to partner. The partnership with Nokia also hurt them, even more so when they purchased the phones division and rebranded as own brand hardware. What gave Google the market edge was licencing to anyone and everyone who would sign their agreement, and having a cut down open source version available for manufacturers who didn't want to sign the agreement. It meant every phone manufacturer other than Apple had Android offerings. That's powerful. It's so powerful a strategy that Microsoft pioneered it with PC OEMs in the 70s/80s to get MSDOS and eventually Windows to hold the biggest market share. Trying to make your apparently separate OS work with Android apps sent mixed messages. Then abandoning it like they did... P.S. Some people might have fond memories of Live tiles but Nokia pioneered the all screen multitouch phone with a grid icon arrangement 5 years before iPhone existed and users have been used to it ever since. That made live tile a learning curve that was too much of a mental hurdle for many to want to purchase. They should have gone with a grid layout of icons and really leaned into incorporation of phones as desktop replacements. That really would have been a boon for sales.
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You have an AI developed by humans. All of it's structure and understanding of human language comes from humans. What a surprise it therefore operates similar to the way human brains decipher language. 🙄 That was obvious to anyone paying attention. The study you mentioned wasn't surprised, it was more a validation of a hypothesis.
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Of course doing nothing was actually always a valid option. Here's the thing, Ukraine aren't "the good guys" they aren't some innocent victim. They've been murdering their own civilians in cold blood for 8 years now. Ironically this is about oil and gas in the Donbas that exists under the towns and villages of the region, and the people not wanting to move. It's also about NATO moving ever closer to Russia and the threat of NATO assets (bases, missiles, soldiers, etc) in Russia's backyard. This whole thing ends today if; 1. NATO put in writing that they will not add Ukraine to their membership and will cease their progress further east. There is no appetite in NATO to add Ukraine to their membership, so this has always been an easy ask for NATO to do. Yankville have refused to do it despite knowing Ukraine won't be added. 2. Kyiv agrees to leave the people in the Donbas alone. To stop slaughtering them by the thousands. To withdrawal their troops from the literal WW1 style trenches they have set up around the Donbas. Leave these innocent people alone and let them live their lives peacefully. This is a human rights issue that's been covered by every major news organisation on the planet over the last 8 years but suddenly they all want to pretend it isn't happening. Their coverage remains up though. Do those two things and the conflict in Ukraine ends today. They aren't big asks, they're basic stuff. But they won't do it because yankville and the UK want war.
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"Meant to be" is where you're going wrong here. It might be the way YOU intended to drive it when you purchased it, but Toyota made it to just be looked at. Like a fashion thing.
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A VPN will absolutely get around the ban. It's not only been confirmed in the short senate inquiry but simply understanding technology let's us know that. The ban is very silly. 61% of Australians supporting restrictions on children under 17 using social media DOES NOT mean 61% of Australians support an outright ban with government imposed ID checks. When yougov polled on the restrictions they didn't ask about ID checks, they just asked about "some restrictions" which most respondents took to mean greater parental controls. That is a regulation that requires meta and google and X to allow the creation of child accounts bound to parent accounts, and where the parent can decide what is and isn't ok, and where the parent can monitor what's being viewed and for how long. Ie. Parental surveillance of their own children while they're online which most people are A-OK with. But this socialist labor government heard parent and thought we were talking about them. P.S. The MaD law has been WITHDRAWN, NOT SCRAPPED. It has between withdrawn previously as well, this was its second attempt. Labor have stated they fully intend to try for a third go if they win the next election. STOP VOTING FOR SOCIALISTS IF YOU DON'T WANT SOCIALISM.
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It was a lesson in being humble for himself and Dorothy. It doesn't matter how big a deal you think you are, always value others, their time and hear them out on the opportunities they may of have to offer
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Why are people allowing all of these apps to use notifications? Most apps don't need notifications. I use a very simple rule. Communication apps (that is phone, SMS, email & IM only) are allowed unrestricted notifications. When I install a new app if it sends me a notification more than once a week I either disable notifications for that app or delete it. The net result is the only apps that aren't communication apps which have notifications enabled are those that choose not to send me notifications. I also don't have any social media apps on my phone. Zero. I chose what I see and when because you don't need a dumb phone for a phone to be a tool, smartphones are just a tool too. Android users have had the ability to disable notifications since 2013. DnD mode turns off all notifications except phone calls. Use these modes if you're having trouble with notifications.
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