Whatever Economic system you have you will have people who will break the laws or bend them to their most extreme to get the most of of doing the least.
Now what you stated isn't the triumph of capitalism. Con-artist and doing the bare minimum to get "free money" can only get so far. If you want a triumph of capitalism you need a good long term plan. Where you can keep your customers and they want to stay with you.
Now we will hear about these big companies who are making tones of money and consumers are hating them like banks... However if you look at their books they are usually start scamming a few years ago and now it is going back to bite them.
Most COBAL applications while do a lot of processing they are not required to do much in terms of advanced coding. We expect more out of Java Programs then we do with Cobal. Java Apps need a cool fancy UI that handles every users whim. While the COBOL app has a menu you type that Item fill those fields and the record and hit process and wait.
If we were to one for one recreate those COBOL apps in Java without anything new. I will bet those Java Apps will run just as well.
If you are suppose to be working, you are getting paid to work, why do you spend so much time and effort to find ways around not working. Let me guess this is also the same group of people who complain when they don't get promoted or are the first to get layoffs.
So with key counter and mouse movement tracking software, or a random webcam snapshop. They cannot prove you are goofing off, but they can prove you are not really working.
So if you store information on your own computer and you get a warrant to search your data you have to show your data. Chances are most companies being much smaller then could companies will give up and not put much of a legal hassle anyways. So your data isn't really that much safer out of the cloud from the government.
The fear of the cloud is like the fear of taking the train vs. driving. Like taking a train if there is an accident, one accident could have a big effect and a lot of people get hurt. While people are getting hurt every day (more then then a single train accident) You are usually safer in the Cloud computing or taking the Train... However you loose control so you need to trust someone else with your data or your life. We don't like doing that even if they are better at keeping you safe then you are.
We as IT folk who take pride in our work really don't like the idea that some snot noes kid is handling data. However for the most part we are the Snot Noes Kids too, and we are in an organization who isn't as committed to keeping everything protected and operational.
The thing is unlike real people, who are actually more complex people who have families, their own culture, and their own hopes and ambitions to the future. These are mathematical simulations, who are not human or animal they are just logical simulations. What are you going to do now hang everyone who works at the DoD because of their nuclear war simulations? Where they kill billions of simulated people daily to analysis different strategies of warfare, or figure out the worse case. Heck lets hunt down those climate scientist who kill millions of simulated people by applying their climate change models at different rates.
Why are games that let you perform crimes so popular. Because it is fun to be the bad guy with no consequences. When you play the evil character it helps the person unwind from a day of balancing things that need to get done and done right. Having mean people being mean but you cannot fight back. So you play a game where you kill as many people you like as a quick release. It is better then start drinking or smoking at the end of the day.
I am a student who likes x what major should I take? I work in a business <i>x</i> and I need to do <i>y</i> what open source <i>/cheap</i> tools are available to me? I see product <i>x</i> is in violation of the GPL. How can I make these evil evil people pay? My boss declared <i>A policy I do not like</i> how can I fight him to the bitter end and not end fired (the bitter end)? Why is life difficult and who should I vote for to make it easy?
The iPhone 10. No glass no hard plastic. Built in a classy silicone (you know the rubbery stuff) case. That will not break when you drop it. And new sensors that detect bending for more new apps....
On the other hand, I don't think I want to see these apps.
Yes because unlike most do it at home they have insurance to cover it. I mean if they did that in a bomb range. What would happen if average joe did it in their back yard.
Schools adjust the difficulty of their classes to meet demand. Those tough to pass professors get pushed to those fancy Grad school classes. And the easy to pass gets pushed to into and get the BA in CS with some BS.
In other words. Rules for civilized public discourse still apply.
Granted Face Book really needs to fix it privacy and security to be much better. But Facebook is a Social Media site. Meaning information posted is meant to be posted socially.
I doubt that humans were a major impact on the Mammoth population. 1. They were big and dangerous. While perhaps once in a while their might be a mighty mammoth hunt, but for the most part lets hunt bison for a big catch. But normally hairs and fowl.
2. Humans really are not well adapted for the cold. Mammoths like the cold... People do not. Sure there are some colonies who have made it. But no large cities large enough to decimate a population.
A bubble in Developers! Developers! Developers! That means we will get a bunch of snot noes guys jumping into Computer Science who are in it just for the money. It will create the.COM boom all over again... Then it will crash and half of the idiots will stay and they will lay off half of the skilled workers.
Lets give birth to an Ice Age animal during earths period of global high heat. They couldn't survive the end of the last ice age. So lets bring them to life and stick them in a post/anti-Ice Age environment... Brilliant!
Well if the.COM crash was as bad has the Housing Crash. Then people who didn't have the taste of broadband probably wouldn't have spend the extra money for it.
My parent just got broad band This year. Because they didn't know what they were missing and didn't think it was worth it to buy it.
Those who tried in 2000 probably have switch back or in the process of switching back, or out of business. Those who tried in 2010 are feeling the pain now. I am not finding any shortage for American Software Developers work for good developers.
I think a lot of the rub is the fact the businesses are no longer tolerant like in the 90's to those unprofessional quirks of those IT people and expect a more professionalism in their organization. So the Jeans and Tee-Shirt are being replaced by Slacks and a collared shirt. Working flex time is pushed more to 9:00-5:00 and we are no longer getting Huge Salaries just to write HTML.
Hind sight is 20/20. There are also companies that died because they adopted a new fad technology. And lost too much money that they went out of business and should have stuck with their old model.
For example Saturn cars (yes it was oned by GM) but they got popular on the small car with little frills. Then when gas prices were at a low they jumped ship and started making SUV and sport cars. And hitting the quality on their small car line. Gas prices rose. Saturn lost because it didn't have cars the people wanted.
Jump on the wrong fad you get hurt too. It is easy to mock Kodak but the digital camera faze may have ended with some software just not easy enough to share photos. Or broad band was just too expensive for the market. Or color printers prices remained high price and offered infeaor pictures.
Will the iPad and touch tablets stay popular. Or will windows 8 on multitouch laptops take the cheese. A lot of companies are investing in getting the newest tablet to trump apples IPad, but what if tablets just reach their peak the holiday season then die down? Do we skoff at the people who blindly jumped on the tablet fad? Even though right now it seems the hot new tech?
The problem is, all the consumers who do have a choice acting like the world is against them. Saying I won't buy this product because memory is too expensive and there is little chance for a 3rd party replacement. However when you fill the comments with a hippy anti-corporate rants. The company will just peg the entire comment as a stupid rant and do nothing.
Just not buying the product says more then a mindless rant.
It is only a Video Game System. No one is forcing you to get one. I'm sorry I feel little pity for people who cry Foul because their Video Games cost too much.
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Whatever Economic system you have you will have people who will break the laws or bend them to their most extreme to get the most of of doing the least.
Now what you stated isn't the triumph of capitalism. Con-artist and doing the bare minimum to get "free money" can only get so far. If you want a triumph of capitalism you need a good long term plan. Where you can keep your customers and they want to stay with you.
Now we will hear about these big companies who are making tones of money and consumers are hating them like banks... However if you look at their books they are usually start scamming a few years ago and now it is going back to bite them.
Most COBAL applications while do a lot of processing they are not required to do much in terms of advanced coding. We expect more out of Java Programs then we do with Cobal. Java Apps need a cool fancy UI that handles every users whim. While the COBOL app has a menu you type that Item fill those fields and the record and hit process and wait.
If we were to one for one recreate those COBOL apps in Java without anything new. I will bet those Java Apps will run just as well.
If you are suppose to be working, you are getting paid to work, why do you spend so much time and effort to find ways around not working.
Let me guess this is also the same group of people who complain when they don't get promoted or are the first to get layoffs.
Which is fine by them because then they will get someone else who will be willing to do it while watching for cheaper.
So with key counter and mouse movement tracking software, or a random webcam snapshop. They cannot prove you are goofing off, but they can prove you are not really working.
So if you store information on your own computer and you get a warrant to search your data you have to show your data. Chances are most companies being much smaller then could companies will give up and not put much of a legal hassle anyways.
So your data isn't really that much safer out of the cloud from the government.
The fear of the cloud is like the fear of taking the train vs. driving.
Like taking a train if there is an accident, one accident could have a big effect and a lot of people get hurt. While people are getting hurt every day (more then then a single train accident)
You are usually safer in the Cloud computing or taking the Train... However you loose control so you need to trust someone else with your data or your life. We don't like doing that even if they are better at keeping you safe then you are.
We as IT folk who take pride in our work really don't like the idea that some snot noes kid is handling data. However for the most part we are the Snot Noes Kids too, and we are in an organization who isn't as committed to keeping everything protected and operational.
The thing is unlike real people, who are actually more complex people who have families, their own culture, and their own hopes and ambitions to the future. These are mathematical simulations, who are not human or animal they are just logical simulations. What are you going to do now hang everyone who works at the DoD because of their nuclear war simulations? Where they kill billions of simulated people daily to analysis different strategies of warfare, or figure out the worse case. Heck lets hunt down those climate scientist who kill millions of simulated people by applying their climate change models at different rates.
Why are games that let you perform crimes so popular. Because it is fun to be the bad guy with no consequences.
When you play the evil character it helps the person unwind from a day of balancing things that need to get done and done right. Having mean people being mean but you cannot fight back. So you play a game where you kill as many people you like as a quick release. It is better then start drinking or smoking at the end of the day.
If the business is perceived too risky, customers leave and they cannot sell products and make money.
No no. This is an Apple product. It is better, and innovative.
I am a student who likes x what major should I take?
I work in a business <i>x</i> and I need to do <i>y</i> what open source <i>/cheap</i> tools are available to me?
I see product <i>x</i> is in violation of the GPL. How can I make these evil evil people pay?
My boss declared <i>A policy I do not like</i> how can I fight him to the bitter end and not end fired (the bitter end)?
Why is life difficult and who should I vote for to make it easy?
The iPhone 10.
No glass no hard plastic. Built in a classy silicone (you know the rubbery stuff) case. That will not break when you drop it. And new sensors that detect bending for more new apps....
On the other hand, I don't think I want to see these apps.
Myth: can you build an intercontinental projectal. With duct tape and cheese.
Yes because unlike most do it at home they have insurance to cover it.
I mean if they did that in a bomb range. What would happen if average joe did it in their back yard.
Schools adjust the difficulty of their classes to meet demand.
Those tough to pass professors get pushed to those fancy Grad school classes. And the easy to pass gets pushed to into and get the BA in CS with some BS.
In other words.
Rules for civilized public discourse still apply.
Granted Face Book really needs to fix it privacy and security to be much better. But Facebook is a Social Media site. Meaning information posted is meant to be posted socially.
I doubt that humans were a major impact on the Mammoth population.
1. They were big and dangerous. While perhaps once in a while their might be a mighty mammoth hunt, but for the most part lets hunt bison for a big catch. But normally hairs and fowl.
2. Humans really are not well adapted for the cold. Mammoths like the cold... People do not. Sure there are some colonies who have made it. But no large cities large enough to decimate a population.
A bubble in Developers! Developers! Developers! .COM boom all over again... Then it will crash and half of the idiots will stay and they will lay off half of the skilled workers.
That means we will get a bunch of snot noes guys jumping into Computer Science who are in it just for the money. It will create the
Lets give birth to an Ice Age animal during earths period of global high heat. They couldn't survive the end of the last ice age. So lets bring them to life and stick them in a post/anti-Ice Age environment... Brilliant!
Well if the .COM crash was as bad has the Housing Crash. Then people who didn't have the taste of broadband probably wouldn't have spend the extra money for it.
My parent just got broad band This year. Because they didn't know what they were missing and didn't think it was worth it to buy it.
Those who tried in 2000 probably have switch back or in the process of switching back, or out of business.
Those who tried in 2010 are feeling the pain now.
I am not finding any shortage for American Software Developers work for good developers.
I think a lot of the rub is the fact the businesses are no longer tolerant like in the 90's to those unprofessional quirks of those IT people and expect a more professionalism in their organization. So the Jeans and Tee-Shirt are being replaced by Slacks and a collared shirt. Working flex time is pushed more to 9:00-5:00 and we are no longer getting Huge Salaries just to write HTML.
In the short term, there will be a threat.
In the long term quality will always win out.
Hind sight is 20/20. There are also companies that died because they adopted a new fad technology. And lost too much money that they went out of business and should have stuck with their old model.
For example Saturn cars (yes it was oned by GM) but they got popular on the small car with little frills. Then when gas prices were at a low they jumped ship and started making SUV and sport cars. And hitting the quality on their small car line.
Gas prices rose. Saturn lost because it didn't have cars the people wanted.
Jump on the wrong fad you get hurt too. It is easy to mock Kodak but the digital camera faze may have ended with some software just not easy enough to share photos. Or broad band was just too expensive for the market. Or color printers prices remained high price and offered infeaor pictures.
Will the iPad and touch tablets stay popular. Or will windows 8 on multitouch laptops take the cheese.
A lot of companies are investing in getting the newest tablet to trump apples IPad, but what if tablets just reach their peak the holiday season then die down?
Do we skoff at the people who blindly jumped on the tablet fad? Even though right now it seems the hot new tech?
The problem is, all the consumers who do have a choice acting like the world is against them. Saying I won't buy this product because memory is too expensive and there is little chance for a 3rd party replacement.
However when you fill the comments with a hippy anti-corporate rants. The company will just peg the entire comment as a stupid rant and do nothing.
Just not buying the product says more then a mindless rant.
Don't Buy it.
It is only a Video Game System. No one is forcing you to get one.
I'm sorry I feel little pity for people who cry Foul because their Video Games cost too much.