There are other stories like her, from people who are of different skin color, nationality, even born into the wrong class or parentage. There are also people who as a child had been placed in the "Stupid Kid" classes, and basically placed in the fast track to meritocracy. We as a society are more interested in putting people in their place in society vs finding the best place for them to be in.
Unfortunately there are so many stories like hers, where some one aspires to be more then what society says they can be. Makes me wonder, without all that extra luggage how much further could they have became.
While I still use an iPhone (Mostly due to the trusted Apps I have installed and integration with work) and have an Apple TV (Mostly due to the fact that I have an iPhone). I got off the Mac Platform back in 2012. Basically by that time the writing was on the wall that Apple really didn't care much for the Mac Platform and was going to the iOS direction. I do most of my programming for Web Based Applications, not device particular apps. There really wasn't much special about the Mac Platform, that I couldn't do with a hybrid Linux/Windows system. With a normal PC, I had a larger selection of features I can choose form. Dropping features I don't care about and getting ones that I do.
A kill switch is actually the least of our worries. All that would do it let people know that there is one. The biggest risk is having an IC integrated in a diode casing (often overlooked because they are normally there for simple surge protection). Or an extra radio broadcaster that you don't know what it is for. These things can bet tested. You don't need to brute force all the methods, if you know what each component suppose to do.
There are a lot of food phobias out there, many are very culturally sensitive. A lot of Asian foods use fermented food which would find disgusting if we knew what was happening. They let the food spoil to a point when kill off the rest.
Even a lot of our foods such as steak the meat hangs until it gets crusty, we shave that off and sell it as fresh steak.
There is a big selection of Android phones from the Low End cheap sub $100 phones to the high end phones that are a fraction of a dollar less then what Apple sells, which are arguably just as nice or for some people much better. However people are still paying more of the Apple phones. So why would lower its prices until it really has too.
Apple rarely gets suckered to the race to the bottom game, even it costs them market share. Here is how the race to the bottom game works. Company A offers a product at a high price. Company B offers a similar product at a lower Price (often with some minor quality issues that is barely noticed). Company A offers a product at a lower cost then B, however to meet the cost they have to cut its quality down. Company B then goes makes an even crappier product to compete against A.... What we end up with is 2 products that no one really wants to buy because they are so poor.
We have seen this with Gateway 2000. Back in the mid 1990's gateway actually sold quality custom built PC's they were more expensive, but people gladly paid for them because they used good components. Then by the late 1990's they were competing against the lower end system to dominate the market, and end up with system that were Crap. In which Dell took over.
Apples approach is to maximize profit, not market share, if they can do both great, but they will error on the side of profit. So when company B makes a lower cost competitor Apple then tries to make a much better unit and charge more for it.
Now did they hit the limit? This article says yes, but we will see. Consumers always say the prices are too high.
I think it may largely have to do with what type of food you are use too. This is quite literally a matter of taste. However I expect growing up you had nitrate added breakfast meats so that is what you connect to the taste of proper bacon.
Basically all food is trying to kill you in some way. Mainly because we eat other lifeforms who themselves don't want to be eaten. We find toxins in nearly every food we eat, because nearly every animal, fungus and plant creates such toxins as a safety measure from being eaten. But those who eat these lifeforms have built in a tolerance to such toxins (Not I said a tolerance not an immunity) These toxins are still bad for us, but we can deal with small amounts, as the nutrition of eating it exceed the cost of having the toxins.
Now with inorganic (including salt curing) methods of preservation. We are trying to kill of bacteria whose main goal is to turn the food into a puddle of slime, that will have little to no health benefit. As well as other bacteria that we as humans are not well evolved into digesting. Preservation of food, is making food more toxic, because we want to kill of harmful organisms that is in it. But we tend to do it at levels that will not outright hurt us.
There seems to be a lack of interest in actually testing systems to see if the meet national security guidelines. Believe it or not these things are not black-boxes if people open up the cases, put them in Faraday cages. Monitor what its out put it, and traffic to see where things go, what ports are open.... You can take the chips off the board and be sure they are doing what the specs say they should be doing. In case of Flash software, you can demand the source review it, and compile it at your country and flash it onto a device.
I know policy makers don't want to use specialists because they are these crazy egg heads who think they know it all, and will often go against their best instincts. But for national security, you probably should trust those people who have studied this stuff and understand the going on. Vs saying it it too technical let ban it.
There is in general way too much control by the media companies.
Comcast owns NBC, Comcast owns the Cables that goes to your house that you use for TV and Internet. ATT, Dish TV... The problem is we just want to pay 1 bill vs. Paying a bill for each channel we want to subscribe to, pay for the cable company which puts them into one feed, paying for the cable infrastructure.
Think of the old dial-up internet. You paid for your ISP, your phone line, and sometimes a separate long distance service, all on separate bills. Now it was annoying for bills, but it was good for the customer, as we could find competition in some areas, or disconnect service we don't want or need.
I don't see Apple to be in a position to do something like this, yet. Netflix brand is synonymous with streaming movies and TV. Dropping Netflix would cause iOS users to switch over to Android systems. Netflix is actually mobile systems killer app.
I think you are confused. This is paying for the Netflix service with iTunes instead of your credit card. So you pay Apple and Apple Pays Netflix. This is more akin to why some stores may not accept American Express or Discover, because its processing fees are too high.
Integration into Apple TV isn't that big of a thing, Apple Rairly cares about Apple TV, they put just a little bit more effort in it then their Macintosh Lineup.
Because it doesn't cost Apple money to transfer from your account to an other. There is a big infrastructure behind it with security settings, rules, and risk from fraud...
When you buy the hardware you paid for the hardware, and you actually paid for the software updates and security fixes too, factored in in the price. The locking down to the store, isn't a guarantee revenue from you either, the free apps on the store are available to you for free, at apples loss.
Now 15% for Netflix seems too high. But Apple is a for profit company. They are not going to give too many freebees away, especially when they know their customer is making money off of them.
I expect it is like most credit cards, where they are contractually agreed to charge the same amount with the card and pay the fee as they would do if they paid cash. I am unsure if some gas stations are breaking the contract, when they offer the Cash Price, or there is a different set of rules for Fuel.
Netflix has a name for itself. 15% is way too much for a service with that much name behind it. For the small company, paying with iTunes is probably a safer bet, as they can bank their payments behind Apples goodwill (This is an accounting goodwill, not charitable goodwill). Customers know Apple payments and more or less trust it is secure or at least if it goes too wrong a big company can backup the losses. But for Netflix this isn't the case. I have just as much trust giving Netflix my Credit Card number as I do giving it to Apple. Apple should realize that and probably give them a discount on their fee amount, as the key service they would be offering Netflix would be just payment option convince, which would probably put it in the 5% Territory.
Unfortunately UBI hasn't had a good test to show that it works. It sounds good on paper, but in practice it hasn't shown to be practical.
What really is needed is increased Adult vocational education and training. There are still a lot of jobs, however they need skills that a lot of people do not have. That retail job that you lost may need to become a call center job, or a home health care nurse.
In many ways it is kinda unfair to load kids with the responsibility to make career choices at the age of 18. Do I go into college, trade school, military, seminary... Or just get a job and hope it works out. At 18 these young adults are still mostly kids in their thoughts, If we had a system of continuing education a poor life choice from going into the wrong major. Wasting time digging ditches in the military, studying a trade that is obsolete, or just finding your heart into so much in your faith as you though. They can have options available for them for growth and changing the direction of their life without such a hassle.
Borders are not as well defined as some like them to be. Border disputes happen for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes a border line is considered when it hits a river. Now over time such river will change, and give more land to one entity and less from the other, or even more complex the river bends to a point where there is an island, then which municipality owns that? We have other areas such as districts where a particular culture resides where there is no formal border. Like the Italian District or China Town. Then we have other areas such as the Native American Reservations which some take up large spots of land, have their own rules and government, that spans and crosses state borders.
There may not be any formal country called Palestine, but there is a splotch of land called Palestine, with its edges of its borders in dispute.
Their Market share is increasing. But their profits are down. They are Selling CDs, DVDs and Blue rays. There is a general decline (for good or for bad) in demand of physical digital media, as we are shifting over to streaming services. So a lot of companies who sold this stuff has stopped doing such, so their market share is increasing in products that less people want to buy.
Back over a 100 years ago. many companies can be making buggy whips, each one being a large growing industry. Each one would have a fraction of the market share.
Today there may be a mom and pop shop that makes buggy whips that can meet the world demand. Just because there isn't that much demand.
Because JK owns the rights to the Harry Potter Universe. She created it and it is hers. Now if your Fanfic of Harry Potter just changed some details such as changing the Names of the IP. Harry Potter to Clay Barber, Hogwards to Toadslime...
Now there is a fair amount of liberty on stuff you can rip-off. But you can't cross the line to make people think it is a licensed work from the copyright author.
While Disney has a legal machine backing it up. That doesn't stop a bunch of $5.00 videos of ripoffs from appearing in the stores after a popular Disney release. After Frozen, we get Ice Queen, After finding Nemo, we get A fish tail.
They are different enough to avoid copyright and legal issues. But similar enough for your grandma to buy your kids a copy based on how the kids try to explain it to them.
I think it is more indirect, Sears use to be a major Mall Corner Store. Walmart/Target was in competition with all those little stores between the corner stores. Which then cause the malls to be waste lands. So no one wanted to go there. Thetop three rules for Retail Business is Location, Location, Location. Malls use to be the Hip and trendy place for the Late Boomers and Gen Xers. Now no one wants to go there. So they are stuck in bad locations.
Then What I think they really did to kill their business was many of the Popular Sears only brands, such as Kenmore and Craftsman were sold off to different companies. So there isn't much an attraction to go there anymore.
Which seems rather Odd. Because Sears origin was with Mail to Order Catalog shopping. Online shopping really isn't that much different then from that model.
Being "perennially mismanaged and produce the horror stories you hear.." Why would we want to implement that. (Just kidding)
However Canada while close by and has a very similar culture and values to the United States. There are some difference. The difference between a Provence and a Sate is more then just a different name. A state has more control of its operations and many of the federal laws are actually just bribes to the state. We will give you an extra billion dollars if you do these actions. A State can choose not to implement the idea and not take the money.
I never stated that these countries need to use the American System. I just highlighted that the EU system didn't work for these countries, and are a major problem for the country.
Every person has the power to disrupt society. However their effect is dependent on how many people are listening to them. The thing is it isn't the quality of their message, but enough people listen to them, they will get followers and cause damage. Companies have bosses who employee thousands of people so what they say there is a number of people listing to them.
But think about all the extra money he would make from royalties from the book. A lot of people will pay top dollar to reinforce their views against capitalism.
The biggest problem is that I am not sure if I am being sarcastic or not.
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There are other stories like her, from people who are of different skin color, nationality, even born into the wrong class or parentage. There are also people who as a child had been placed in the "Stupid Kid" classes, and basically placed in the fast track to meritocracy. We as a society are more interested in putting people in their place in society vs finding the best place for them to be in.
Unfortunately there are so many stories like hers, where some one aspires to be more then what society says they can be. Makes me wonder, without all that extra luggage how much further could they have became.
While I still use an iPhone (Mostly due to the trusted Apps I have installed and integration with work) and have an Apple TV (Mostly due to the fact that I have an iPhone). I got off the Mac Platform back in 2012.
Basically by that time the writing was on the wall that Apple really didn't care much for the Mac Platform and was going to the iOS direction. I do most of my programming for Web Based Applications, not device particular apps. There really wasn't much special about the Mac Platform, that I couldn't do with a hybrid Linux/Windows system. With a normal PC, I had a larger selection of features I can choose form. Dropping features I don't care about and getting ones that I do.
A kill switch is actually the least of our worries. All that would do it let people know that there is one. The biggest risk is having an IC integrated in a diode casing (often overlooked because they are normally there for simple surge protection). Or an extra radio broadcaster that you don't know what it is for. These things can bet tested. You don't need to brute force all the methods, if you know what each component suppose to do.
There are a lot of food phobias out there, many are very culturally sensitive. A lot of Asian foods use fermented food which would find disgusting if we knew what was happening. They let the food spoil to a point when kill off the rest.
Even a lot of our foods such as steak the meat hangs until it gets crusty, we shave that off and sell it as fresh steak.
There is a big selection of Android phones from the Low End cheap sub $100 phones to the high end phones that are a fraction of a dollar less then what Apple sells, which are arguably just as nice or for some people much better.
However people are still paying more of the Apple phones. So why would lower its prices until it really has too.
Apple rarely gets suckered to the race to the bottom game, even it costs them market share. ...
Here is how the race to the bottom game works.
Company A offers a product at a high price.
Company B offers a similar product at a lower Price (often with some minor quality issues that is barely noticed).
Company A offers a product at a lower cost then B, however to meet the cost they have to cut its quality down.
Company B then goes makes an even crappier product to compete against A.
What we end up with is 2 products that no one really wants to buy because they are so poor.
We have seen this with Gateway 2000. Back in the mid 1990's gateway actually sold quality custom built PC's they were more expensive, but people gladly paid for them because they used good components. Then by the late 1990's they were competing against the lower end system to dominate the market, and end up with system that were Crap. In which Dell took over.
Apples approach is to maximize profit, not market share, if they can do both great, but they will error on the side of profit. So when company B makes a lower cost competitor Apple then tries to make a much better unit and charge more for it.
Now did they hit the limit? This article says yes, but we will see. Consumers always say the prices are too high.
I think it may largely have to do with what type of food you are use too. This is quite literally a matter of taste. However I expect growing up you had nitrate added breakfast meats so that is what you connect to the taste of proper bacon.
Basically all food is trying to kill you in some way. Mainly because we eat other lifeforms who themselves don't want to be eaten.
We find toxins in nearly every food we eat, because nearly every animal, fungus and plant creates such toxins as a safety measure from being eaten. But those who eat these lifeforms have built in a tolerance to such toxins (Not I said a tolerance not an immunity) These toxins are still bad for us, but we can deal with small amounts, as the nutrition of eating it exceed the cost of having the toxins.
Now with inorganic (including salt curing) methods of preservation. We are trying to kill of bacteria whose main goal is to turn the food into a puddle of slime, that will have little to no health benefit. As well as other bacteria that we as humans are not well evolved into digesting. Preservation of food, is making food more toxic, because we want to kill of harmful organisms that is in it. But we tend to do it at levels that will not outright hurt us.
There seems to be a lack of interest in actually testing systems to see if the meet national security guidelines. Believe it or not these things are not black-boxes if people open up the cases, put them in Faraday cages. Monitor what its out put it, and traffic to see where things go, what ports are open....
You can take the chips off the board and be sure they are doing what the specs say they should be doing.
In case of Flash software, you can demand the source review it, and compile it at your country and flash it onto a device.
I know policy makers don't want to use specialists because they are these crazy egg heads who think they know it all, and will often go against their best instincts. But for national security, you probably should trust those people who have studied this stuff and understand the going on. Vs saying it it too technical let ban it.
There is in general way too much control by the media companies.
Comcast owns NBC, Comcast owns the Cables that goes to your house that you use for TV and Internet. ATT, Dish TV...
The problem is we just want to pay 1 bill vs. Paying a bill for each channel we want to subscribe to, pay for the cable company which puts them into one feed, paying for the cable infrastructure.
Think of the old dial-up internet. You paid for your ISP, your phone line, and sometimes a separate long distance service, all on separate bills. Now it was annoying for bills, but it was good for the customer, as we could find competition in some areas, or disconnect service we don't want or need.
I don't see Apple to be in a position to do something like this, yet.
Netflix brand is synonymous with streaming movies and TV. Dropping Netflix would cause iOS users to switch over to Android systems. Netflix is actually mobile systems killer app.
I think you are confused. This is paying for the Netflix service with iTunes instead of your credit card. So you pay Apple and Apple Pays Netflix. This is more akin to why some stores may not accept American Express or Discover, because its processing fees are too high.
Integration into Apple TV isn't that big of a thing, Apple Rairly cares about Apple TV, they put just a little bit more effort in it then their Macintosh Lineup.
Because it doesn't cost Apple money to transfer from your account to an other. There is a big infrastructure behind it with security settings, rules, and risk from fraud...
When you buy the hardware you paid for the hardware, and you actually paid for the software updates and security fixes too, factored in in the price. The locking down to the store, isn't a guarantee revenue from you either, the free apps on the store are available to you for free, at apples loss.
Now 15% for Netflix seems too high. But Apple is a for profit company. They are not going to give too many freebees away, especially when they know their customer is making money off of them.
I expect it is like most credit cards, where they are contractually agreed to charge the same amount with the card and pay the fee as they would do if they paid cash.
I am unsure if some gas stations are breaking the contract, when they offer the Cash Price, or there is a different set of rules for Fuel.
Netflix has a name for itself. 15% is way too much for a service with that much name behind it.
For the small company, paying with iTunes is probably a safer bet, as they can bank their payments behind Apples goodwill (This is an accounting goodwill, not charitable goodwill). Customers know Apple payments and more or less trust it is secure or at least if it goes too wrong a big company can backup the losses. But for Netflix this isn't the case. I have just as much trust giving Netflix my Credit Card number as I do giving it to Apple.
Apple should realize that and probably give them a discount on their fee amount, as the key service they would be offering Netflix would be just payment option convince, which would probably put it in the 5% Territory.
Unfortunately UBI hasn't had a good test to show that it works. It sounds good on paper, but in practice it hasn't shown to be practical.
What really is needed is increased Adult vocational education and training. There are still a lot of jobs, however they need skills that a lot of people do not have. That retail job that you lost may need to become a call center job, or a home health care nurse.
In many ways it is kinda unfair to load kids with the responsibility to make career choices at the age of 18. Do I go into college, trade school, military, seminary... Or just get a job and hope it works out.
At 18 these young adults are still mostly kids in their thoughts, If we had a system of continuing education a poor life choice from going into the wrong major. Wasting time digging ditches in the military, studying a trade that is obsolete, or just finding your heart into so much in your faith as you though. They can have options available for them for growth and changing the direction of their life without such a hassle.
Borders are not as well defined as some like them to be.
Border disputes happen for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes a border line is considered when it hits a river. Now over time such river will change, and give more land to one entity and less from the other, or even more complex the river bends to a point where there is an island, then which municipality owns that?
We have other areas such as districts where a particular culture resides where there is no formal border. Like the Italian District or China Town.
Then we have other areas such as the Native American Reservations which some take up large spots of land, have their own rules and government, that spans and crosses state borders.
There may not be any formal country called Palestine, but there is a splotch of land called Palestine, with its edges of its borders in dispute.
Their Market share is increasing. But their profits are down. They are Selling CDs, DVDs and Blue rays.
There is a general decline (for good or for bad) in demand of physical digital media, as we are shifting over to streaming services.
So a lot of companies who sold this stuff has stopped doing such, so their market share is increasing in products that less people want to buy.
Back over a 100 years ago. many companies can be making buggy whips, each one being a large growing industry. Each one would have a fraction of the market share.
Today there may be a mom and pop shop that makes buggy whips that can meet the world demand. Just because there isn't that much demand.
Because JK owns the rights to the Harry Potter Universe. She created it and it is hers.
Now if your Fanfic of Harry Potter just changed some details such as changing the Names of the IP.
Harry Potter to Clay Barber, Hogwards to Toadslime...
Now there is a fair amount of liberty on stuff you can rip-off. But you can't cross the line to make people think it is a licensed work from the copyright author.
While Disney has a legal machine backing it up. That doesn't stop a bunch of $5.00 videos of ripoffs from appearing in the stores after a popular Disney release.
After Frozen, we get Ice Queen, After finding Nemo, we get A fish tail.
They are different enough to avoid copyright and legal issues. But similar enough for your grandma to buy your kids a copy based on how the kids try to explain it to them.
I think it is more indirect, Sears use to be a major Mall Corner Store. Walmart/Target was in competition with all those little stores between the corner stores. Which then cause the malls to be waste lands. So no one wanted to go there. Thetop three rules for Retail Business is Location, Location, Location. Malls use to be the Hip and trendy place for the Late Boomers and Gen Xers. Now no one wants to go there. So they are stuck in bad locations.
Then What I think they really did to kill their business was many of the Popular Sears only brands, such as Kenmore and Craftsman were sold off to different companies. So there isn't much an attraction to go there anymore.
Which seems rather Odd. Because Sears origin was with Mail to Order Catalog shopping. Online shopping really isn't that much different then from that model.
Being "perennially mismanaged and produce the horror stories you hear.." Why would we want to implement that. (Just kidding)
However Canada while close by and has a very similar culture and values to the United States. There are some difference. The difference between a Provence and a Sate is more then just a different name. A state has more control of its operations and many of the federal laws are actually just bribes to the state. We will give you an extra billion dollars if you do these actions. A State can choose not to implement the idea and not take the money.
I never stated that these countries need to use the American System. I just highlighted that the EU system didn't work for these countries, and are a major problem for the country.
Every person has the power to disrupt society. However their effect is dependent on how many people are listening to them. The thing is it isn't the quality of their message, but enough people listen to them, they will get followers and cause damage.
Companies have bosses who employee thousands of people so what they say there is a number of people listing to them.
But think about all the extra money he would make from royalties from the book. A lot of people will pay top dollar to reinforce their views against capitalism.
The biggest problem is that I am not sure if I am being sarcastic or not.