The problem we as a culture are getting too afraid of everything! Thus making things worse. When faced with fear the natural instinct is Fight or Flight. Flight creates Lazy Bums who leech off of others take drugs to escape life and never accomplish anything in life aka the Republican favorite target to cut social security. Fight creates people who are violent and will kill others and end up in trouble. The Democrats favorite target to create new regulations. For most social situations neither natural response to fear is appropriate nor will help anything. So the fear lingers. Causing problems like, Obesity, Addictive behaviors, joining groups who offer easy fixes to complex problems (Political, Religious, Social...) who are more often than not radical in their behavior. Video Games are just a type of escapism, not the cause of fear, but a temporary reprieve from it. So people who live in a lot of Fear may tend to gravitate towards addictive level of video games.
Many of the more successful people recognize their fear and work to fix it (the self made man)_, or live in a world that stuff to fear has been isolated (born from a wealthy family). But a lot of us is pounded with so much stuff to be afraid of. I have seen Slashdot Posts like, I want to start a business but I am Afraid of Software Patents. There is no point in trying to make my own cell phone, it will never sell. I don't want to waste my money to get a degree... There are many factors that create fear and our culture has changed as to support fear as the correct response to many problems.
Oh know some guy says by some insane logic the world will end, Will I hide in a bunker, or go out killing a bunch of children to save them the fate of what could be worse. Or not fear the comment, and either go back and rationally figure out his logic is insane, or at least bravely go on with life like normal and go whatever happens happens, Ill deal with the problem later.
The student athlete would be protected by the community, after all he is a good kid who made a few mistakes, besides he just could make it into the big leagues. While the straight A student caught with Aspirin is kicked out of school because he worthless druggy. We need more Baby Ruths not Einsteins.
No you wouldn't, you think you would, but you wouldn't.
1. If you lose your phone, then all your work is gone. 2. If your program is going to run an anything but your phone you will need to move it off to another system anyways. 3. Oddly enough you will not be happy with mainframe only features you are going to use the extra features your phone has and slow it right back to mainframe speed. At least the mainframe is designed for many people using the system anyways. 4. Why the hell is your university still teaching software development on a mainframe, That was so out of date 20 years ago!
Well if you are paying a monthly rate, chances are you will be seeing more movies. At least for me. A lot of movies come out and I go, it sounds interesting, however I will wait for it to come out on DVD to watch it. Just because to Rent a DVD cost $3.00 vs. $15.00. If I am paying monthly then chances are I will go more often to maximize my value.
So instead saving my money and only going to the theater for the big blockbuster Special Effects that you need the Large Screen and mega Speakers to really get the full effect. I can actually go and watch movies with plots and quality acting, vs. waiting for them to be on DVD. And if you see a Bad Movie you won't feel so bad about it because it isn't like you spent money that couldn't be substituted for another show. If the movie sucks the next week go to a different one.
Don't forget about playing with that spring door stopper in 10-15 minute intervals. When I use to live in apartment, I was home sick with a pounding headache, and I was tortured with Rumble Rumble Rumble from my right ear to my left back to my right. Then a Sproing ratatatata...Sproing ratatatata...Sproing ratatatata...
In economical terms Black Markets exist where the price doesn't quite fit with actual supply and demand curves meet.
So yes the retail price will effect the black market influence. The amount of crime seems to show that these devices are too expensive (In terms of Physical Cost, Cost to freedom, or other methods of cost), for the demand, that people are willing to buy a cheaper product with the extra costs of possible getting caught, as well getting a product where there is no legal consumer protection.
So solutions available are the following. Make the device cheaper (Money, freedom, available plans) In essence trying to balance the supply and demand curve. Make the device harder to steal (Software, Hardware, Legal, Education) By making the product less profitable to sell on the black market (causing the black market price to be near or above the legit total price). Find a comparable/better solution to the device. You stuff isn't going to get stolen when it isn't wanted so much.
What ever happened to hacking a device for the sake of hacking it?
If these people have the money, to risk bricking the unit, then more power to them. Ok the surface is hard to change, it doesn't mean it is impossible,
I am surprised that people are not taking these things apart and attempt to manually reflash some of the chips, or desolder them and put replacement chips in.
Imagine working 8-12 hours a day on average, grunting threw the boring parts, having some of what you thought was good ideas just be turned down by end users, working around system limitations. Then you have the audacity to want to make some money for it.
People tend to have problems separating all their political issues. Open Source isn't Anti-Capitalism, even though some of its biggest voices are, that doesn't make Open Source Anti-Capitalism. However these people have a hard time separating their two beliefs and work to stop every workaround to make money off of GNU with the exception of Consulting/Support Services and Distribution.
There are a lot of good product ideas however the developers will have a near impossible mission to get the funding to work on it the time they need. Because the product may to so easy to use that Consulting/Support will not get any business, as well Distribution not so much because it is too easy to quickly repackage the product an other way.
So these people either add some advertising means to bring in some revenue, Offer a Time Sharing service, wait that is two old they host the solution, err um Software as a Service (SaaS), oh wait it is now call Cloud Computing.
We look at a small handful of Big Projects, and how successful they are in open source however there is a slue of failed projects not due to improper skills or interest, but they just cannot sustain the work that is is needed.
Your analogy has flaws. 1. To nit pick. A job for a truck driver usually means a job driving tractor trailers or similar large truck, the F150 can be driven by any slob with a license. You would have been better with Mack trucks.
2. A truck driver requires a special license with training. To drive a truck, there is no such licence for spreadsheets.
3. The truck driving industry isn't saturated by one company. Excel is a common name for a spreadsheet. Like Kleenex or Escalator. There is a neer monopoly in using excel in corporate environments. Unlike trucks where you can be a Chevy man, GMC, a Dodge, Toyota or Nesson. Ford may be the most popular but it isn't used at 99% work places.
I can see a very simple reason. You are hiring a lot of people (Including some non-technical people) These non-technical people who are good at what they do, however they do not necessarily know all the cool alternatives to the systems that they have been using for decades.
You put a job Requirement Asking for Experience with Google Docs or worse Open/Libre Office. You will get a lot of Accountants, Marketers, Sales... Who have no idea what the heck you are talking about and they could lose some good employees. With experience in Office you can Pick up Google Docs, or Open/Libre Office rather easily.
Also Google does need to work with other companies. A lot of companies use office products to share information. 99% compatible products such as LibreOffice means you may get a problem every 3 and a half days. So I would expect Google would have Office installed for these people. Now the techies may have their Linux Box with Google Docs and they are all set... However other jobs not so much.
There is evidence that Europeans visited the America's before Columbus. However many years later boating technology improved so such a trip isn't nearly as heroic. And as time progresses further, today we can boat across the Atlantic without being considered a hero.
Yes we have been to the moon, we know it can be done. But we really don't have any pressing means to get there really, so we should take our time and find a way to make the trip safer and a bit less heroic.
While it has been a while and there is some relearning lessons learned, we also have new technology available that was near impossible then. We can do calculations and adjustments with todays computers much faster than the old rockets. So many old methods that was tossed out as making too hard to control, may be perfectly usable now.
It isn't about religion, but the decline in Moderate thinking. With the internet people in general get caught up in a competition on who is the best in their group.
I don't have the citation and it has been a few years (and I am too lazy to look it up for a slashdot post), but there was a study that shows the stricter groups (Religions, Parties...) have a better retention and growth rate then the groups that are a bit more moderate.
So a Religion that says you are going to Hell unless you follow these commandments are more popular and tend to last longer than a religion that states if you are good of heart than you will be saved.
The same thing is happening with political parties, Parties are creating stricter guidelines to say what it means to be in the party. The difference between a republican and democrat isn't as simple as Small Local Governments vs. Large Centralized government. But to an array of policies often contradictory to each other that define the groups stances.
You can add color without much of a loss. It is closer to the move to High-definition TV. The current 3D you don't get much out of it, and they are tradeoffs to get it. Most movies are done on smaller sets, so you will need to digitally alter movie to give the correct 3d effect, now when you digital alter something you can run into the Uncanny Valley where any slight imperfection could make the viewer feel ill. Next they are still required to wear glasses. Now if you already have glasses that adds more discomfort. as well putting on special dark sunglasses in a dark theater isn't always good. 3D doesn't allow you to explore the film they make things in 3D that they want you to view, things you don't want to view are usually in more 2d, thus causing headaches trying to explore other details (Aka, I know the guy is talking, but I want to look at the woman in the background's boobs). 3D isn't as immersive as we need it to be yet. Some things work, such as snow or things floating around us, but still we feel outside the movie, we are not gaining much from it.
That is I am sure most of these countries don't want to import Corn from the United States, while they have interests in other countries for other fuels and foods.
If you have a Capitalistic or a Socialistic country, you are going to see policies and regulations that favor the country the most.
Corn is a major product from the United States, many countries have stronger ties with other countries or prefer to make their own products. So they will use corn alternatives.
For good or bad, Lobbies are one of the few ways for minority groups to get their point across. Although we believe that our views are right and true, so do your political opponents. How can government fairly listen to the right side when both sides feel so strongly they are in the right.
Well normally while they are typing one sec, they are busy looking up the issue. They would prefer to have the answer right after you asked them. But they wanted to check it out. So they may have instinctively tried to answer your question... Then went to double check thus the delay in typing...
Just because the IM is saying they are typing a response it doesn't mean they are busy typing in a response. Heck In the middle of this response, I had to stir my lunch that is in the microwave.
Well normally, when I have to IM, I will tend to go back and re filter my response.
For example... You: The system is down. Me: It has been up all day check your pc. ^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M Let me check, maybe something is of. You: Let me know it when it is back up. Me: ok. (I go and find and fix the problem) It should be good now.
Programmers and IT workers are actually rather bad typist.
Just because we are on a computer all day... It doesn't mean we are typing all the time, we are Programmers not data entry. If we end find that we are typing too much we write a program to do it for us.
I have never stated you couldn't make money off of open source. However you remove many methods of making money.
You can't make money selling quality software alone, you make money selling contracts and support, this works if your product is advanced enough or mission critical enough to need it. However a lot of apps out there are too easy to use, and are not so mission critical to make such contracts a viable means of money.
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Oh I use a mainframe nearly every day, and I bitch and moan about it every day, and make sure the higher ups are embarrassed by the system.
The problem we as a culture are getting too afraid of everything! Thus making things worse.
When faced with fear the natural instinct is Fight or Flight.
Flight creates Lazy Bums who leech off of others take drugs to escape life and never accomplish anything in life aka the Republican favorite target to cut social security.
Fight creates people who are violent and will kill others and end up in trouble. The Democrats favorite target to create new regulations.
For most social situations neither natural response to fear is appropriate nor will help anything. So the fear lingers.
Causing problems like, Obesity, Addictive behaviors, joining groups who offer easy fixes to complex problems (Political, Religious, Social...) who are more often than not radical in their behavior.
Video Games are just a type of escapism, not the cause of fear, but a temporary reprieve from it. So people who live in a lot of Fear may tend to gravitate towards addictive level of video games.
Many of the more successful people recognize their fear and work to fix it (the self made man)_, or live in a world that stuff to fear has been isolated (born from a wealthy family). But a lot of us is pounded with so much stuff to be afraid of.
I have seen Slashdot Posts like, I want to start a business but I am Afraid of Software Patents. There is no point in trying to make my own cell phone, it will never sell. I don't want to waste my money to get a degree... There are many factors that create fear and our culture has changed as to support fear as the correct response to many problems.
Oh know some guy says by some insane logic the world will end, Will I hide in a bunker, or go out killing a bunch of children to save them the fate of what could be worse. Or not fear the comment, and either go back and rationally figure out his logic is insane, or at least bravely go on with life like normal and go whatever happens happens, Ill deal with the problem later.
The student athlete would be protected by the community, after all he is a good kid who made a few mistakes, besides he just could make it into the big leagues. While the straight A student caught with Aspirin is kicked out of school because he worthless druggy. We need more Baby Ruths not Einsteins.
More to the point, what carrier would support it. An all too easy to hack phone, would get in a way of a lot of the cost extra features.
No you wouldn't, you think you would, but you wouldn't.
1. If you lose your phone, then all your work is gone.
2. If your program is going to run an anything but your phone you will need to move it off to another system anyways.
3. Oddly enough you will not be happy with mainframe only features you are going to use the extra features your phone has and slow it right back to mainframe speed. At least the mainframe is designed for many people using the system anyways.
4. Why the hell is your university still teaching software development on a mainframe, That was so out of date 20 years ago!
Well if you are paying a monthly rate, chances are you will be seeing more movies.
At least for me. A lot of movies come out and I go, it sounds interesting, however I will wait for it to come out on DVD to watch it. Just because to Rent a DVD cost $3.00 vs. $15.00. If I am paying monthly then chances are I will go more often to maximize my value.
So instead saving my money and only going to the theater for the big blockbuster Special Effects that you need the Large Screen and mega Speakers to really get the full effect. I can actually go and watch movies with plots and quality acting, vs. waiting for them to be on DVD. And if you see a Bad Movie you won't feel so bad about it because it isn't like you spent money that couldn't be substituted for another show. If the movie sucks the next week go to a different one.
Don't forget about playing with that spring door stopper in 10-15 minute intervals. When I use to live in apartment, I was home sick with a pounding headache, and I was tortured with Rumble Rumble Rumble from my right ear to my left back to my right. Then a Sproing ratatatata...Sproing ratatatata...Sproing ratatatata...
a "Local Film Maker" are you sure he didn't violate other terms of service.
In economical terms Black Markets exist where the price doesn't quite fit with actual supply and demand curves meet.
So yes the retail price will effect the black market influence. The amount of crime seems to show that these devices are too expensive (In terms of Physical Cost, Cost to freedom, or other methods of cost), for the demand, that people are willing to buy a cheaper product with the extra costs of possible getting caught, as well getting a product where there is no legal consumer protection.
So solutions available are the following.
Make the device cheaper (Money, freedom, available plans) In essence trying to balance the supply and demand curve.
Make the device harder to steal (Software, Hardware, Legal, Education) By making the product less profitable to sell on the black market (causing the black market price to be near or above the legit total price).
Find a comparable/better solution to the device. You stuff isn't going to get stolen when it isn't wanted so much.
What ever happened to hacking a device for the sake of hacking it?
If these people have the money, to risk bricking the unit, then more power to them. Ok the surface is hard to change, it doesn't mean it is impossible,
I am surprised that people are not taking these things apart and attempt to manually reflash some of the chips, or desolder them and put replacement chips in.
How horrible!
Imagine working 8-12 hours a day on average, grunting threw the boring parts, having some of what you thought was good ideas just be turned down by end users, working around system limitations. Then you have the audacity to want to make some money for it.
People tend to have problems separating all their political issues. Open Source isn't Anti-Capitalism, even though some of its biggest voices are, that doesn't make Open Source Anti-Capitalism. However these people have a hard time separating their two beliefs and work to stop every workaround to make money off of GNU with the exception of Consulting/Support Services and Distribution.
There are a lot of good product ideas however the developers will have a near impossible mission to get the funding to work on it the time they need. Because the product may to so easy to use that Consulting/Support will not get any business, as well Distribution not so much because it is too easy to quickly repackage the product an other way.
So these people either add some advertising means to bring in some revenue, Offer a Time Sharing service, wait that is two old they host the solution, err um Software as a Service (SaaS), oh wait it is now call Cloud Computing.
We look at a small handful of Big Projects, and how successful they are in open source however there is a slue of failed projects not due to improper skills or interest, but they just cannot sustain the work that is is needed.
Then how are you posting this?
How do you find any modern electronics that doesn't have any Chinese parts in it?
Your analogy has flaws.
1. To nit pick. A job for a truck driver usually means a job driving tractor trailers or similar large truck, the F150 can be driven by any slob with a license. You would have been better with Mack trucks.
2. A truck driver requires a special license with training. To drive a truck, there is no such licence for spreadsheets.
3. The truck driving industry isn't saturated by one company. Excel is a common name for a spreadsheet. Like Kleenex or Escalator. There is a neer monopoly in using excel in corporate environments. Unlike trucks where you can be a Chevy man, GMC, a Dodge, Toyota or Nesson. Ford may be the most popular but it isn't used at 99% work places.
From that post it sounds like you have never used excel. Or a spreadsheet at any real depth.
No we need to moderate as Stupid.
I can see a very simple reason.
You are hiring a lot of people (Including some non-technical people) These non-technical people who are good at what they do, however they do not necessarily know all the cool alternatives to the systems that they have been using for decades.
You put a job Requirement Asking for Experience with Google Docs or worse Open/Libre Office. You will get a lot of Accountants, Marketers, Sales... Who have no idea what the heck you are talking about and they could lose some good employees. With experience in Office you can Pick up Google Docs, or Open/Libre Office rather easily.
Also Google does need to work with other companies. A lot of companies use office products to share information. 99% compatible products such as LibreOffice means you may get a problem every 3 and a half days. So I would expect Google would have Office installed for these people. Now the techies may have their Linux Box with Google Docs and they are all set... However other jobs not so much.
There is evidence that Europeans visited the America's before Columbus. However many years later boating technology improved so such a trip isn't nearly as heroic. And as time progresses further, today we can boat across the Atlantic without being considered a hero.
Yes we have been to the moon, we know it can be done. But we really don't have any pressing means to get there really, so we should take our time and find a way to make the trip safer and a bit less heroic.
While it has been a while and there is some relearning lessons learned, we also have new technology available that was near impossible then. We can do calculations and adjustments with todays computers much faster than the old rockets. So many old methods that was tossed out as making too hard to control, may be perfectly usable now.
It isn't about religion, but the decline in Moderate thinking.
With the internet people in general get caught up in a competition on who is the best in their group.
I don't have the citation and it has been a few years (and I am too lazy to look it up for a slashdot post), but there was a study that shows the stricter groups (Religions, Parties...) have a better retention and growth rate then the groups that are a bit more moderate.
So a Religion that says you are going to Hell unless you follow these commandments are more popular and tend to last longer than a religion that states if you are good of heart than you will be saved.
The same thing is happening with political parties, Parties are creating stricter guidelines to say what it means to be in the party. The difference between a republican and democrat isn't as simple as Small Local Governments vs. Large Centralized government. But to an array of policies often contradictory to each other that define the groups stances.
You can add color without much of a loss. It is closer to the move to High-definition TV.
The current 3D you don't get much out of it, and they are tradeoffs to get it.
Most movies are done on smaller sets, so you will need to digitally alter movie to give the correct 3d effect, now when you digital alter something you can run into the Uncanny Valley where any slight imperfection could make the viewer feel ill.
Next they are still required to wear glasses. Now if you already have glasses that adds more discomfort. as well putting on special dark sunglasses in a dark theater isn't always good.
3D doesn't allow you to explore the film they make things in 3D that they want you to view, things you don't want to view are usually in more 2d, thus causing headaches trying to explore other details (Aka, I know the guy is talking, but I want to look at the woman in the background's boobs).
3D isn't as immersive as we need it to be yet. Some things work, such as snow or things floating around us, but still we feel outside the movie, we are not gaining much from it.
That is I am sure most of these countries don't want to import Corn from the United States, while they have interests in other countries for other fuels and foods.
If you have a Capitalistic or a Socialistic country, you are going to see policies and regulations that favor the country the most.
Corn is a major product from the United States, many countries have stronger ties with other countries or prefer to make their own products. So they will use corn alternatives.
Down with lobby groups like the EFF!
For good or bad, Lobbies are one of the few ways for minority groups to get their point across. Although we believe that our views are right and true, so do your political opponents. How can government fairly listen to the right side when both sides feel so strongly they are in the right.
Well normally while they are typing one sec, they are busy looking up the issue. They would prefer to have the answer right after you asked them. But they wanted to check it out. So they may have instinctively tried to answer your question... Then went to double check thus the delay in typing...
Just because the IM is saying they are typing a response it doesn't mean they are busy typing in a response.
Heck In the middle of this response, I had to stir my lunch that is in the microwave.
It sounds like you are jealous that you don't have a custom built yacht of your own.
Yes these are toys for the 0.1%.
Well normally, when I have to IM, I will tend to go back and re filter my response.
For example...
You: The system is down.
Me: It has been up all day check your pc. ^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M Let me check, maybe something is of.
You: Let me know it when it is back up.
Me: ok. (I go and find and fix the problem) It should be good now.
Programmers and IT workers are actually rather bad typist.
Just because we are on a computer all day... It doesn't mean we are typing all the time, we are Programmers not data entry. If we end find that we are typing too much we write a program to do it for us.
I have never stated you couldn't make money off of open source. However you remove many methods of making money.
You can't make money selling quality software alone, you make money selling contracts and support, this works if your product is advanced enough or mission critical enough to need it. However a lot of apps out there are too easy to use, and are not so mission critical to make such contracts a viable means of money.