However being Amazon has years of data and tending information, they should have been able to predict how much demand was going to happen, and made sure the infrastructure is prepped, and ready for the event.
It is kinda a high stake game to play for load testing.
The problem is location. In some places 50k is a good salary, enough to own a home and have a family. In others you are scraping by.
If these prices are based on the national average. The numbers seem about right. I work in a City often awarded "All American City" which in general means the city is the closest to the national averages. Aka a fair representation of America on the whole.
However if you live in the big citys or Silicon Valley where prices are way high. chances are you will be making more then 50k unless you have some real low end job. Your you really suck at your job.
ThinkPads are not always the most repairable systems either. In the quest for smaller/lighter/thinner those bulky connectors for rather reliable parts will just get in the way.
That will not stop it from having problems, where if you backed up your data you can save a lot of money and time.
An open system, that happens to solder a component in place, will still have that problem, especially if that component may be a bit more rare to handle.
Much like Coke and Pepsi. You have areas where there are more Android users and areas with more iPhone users.
I can see a case where City people may be more Android focused, (higher cost of living, meaning less money for a phone) would get a cheaper but good quality Android phone. But being in the City they have access to faster internet speeds.
While the Suburban and Rural users who have lower cost of living, may be willing to splurge more on an iPhone. However those area they don't have access to such high speeds.
This isn't a case of iPhone being slower with networking with an Android. But more to the case that iPhone users have a slower internet connection.
I know I can get an Ookla speed over 100mbs from an iDevice so it isn't the hardware.
In the States in some areas we have Single Stream Recycling. Where you put in all your recyclable (Paper, Some plastics normally the thick plastic, and Metal) materials into one bin. Then it goes and gets sorted out.
Only about 1/3 of the material actually gets recycled. However the amount of material sent over to be recycled has increased 5 fold. So overall we are better with a less efficient process, because the convenience makes it easier to increase your output.
For some reason there is a reaction if something isn't working as well as it should, we should just stop it all together. While the net benefit outweighs the cost.
I have also heard a similar type of argument against LED traffic lights. Because in a rare weather condition snow can cover the lights, and be hard to see, while incandescent bulbs create enough heat to melt the snow. Because of this perhaps once a year occurance, people are using this to prevent LED lights, which use less energy, are cheaper to maintain, offer better viability, as well often will not die at once.
Space flight is very dangerous, and I don't see it becoming much more safe in my lifetime.
Unless we can get into space without explosive force, such as a space elevator, it is going to be dangerous, and people will die in the future from space travel.
The biggest problem to urbanization is crime, noise and price. Noise is the biggest issue. If you are having a migraine having some idiot kid skateboarding outside you house. Or some idiot with a car with a muffler that makes the car louder going up and down the blocks. If you confront the person then they get a dry with you and probably retaliate. Now if I am in bad standings with my neighbors the last thing I want to do is bike or walk anywhere.
Not all urban areas are equal. If you going to live in a good area then it will be priced very high.
In the US you can live in a rural area for cheaper and have better living conditions. Yes it is at an environmental hit. But you need more then the environment to get people to change.
There are other ways to lower demand. However these require a lot of work that we just don’t have the leadership to manage.
For Drugs you need to find out why someone starts in the beginning. There could be thousands of different reasons. The issue is to find people who would be tempted and offer alternatives.
It isn’t easy it isn’t cheap and it would be messy. But if it is really considered a problem then they are solution but it is going to be hard.
It really is the same for floppy disk or cassette tape. The key difference is with speed and caching. The old 8 bit systems for one didn’t multi task. So while the light was blinking then the program was writing to the disk when it stopped and you were at the prompt then it safe to take the disk out.
When we have multitasking then the storage write may be interrupted with an other process, then we also have memory cashing which means the task thinks things are done while the os takes it time to save.
On modern computers this is often very quick faster then you can react. However if your pc is sluggish then you really should wait for the os to confirm it is done.
By the 8th grade in public schools, teachers stop accepting Encyclopedias as a source. I don't see why we should accept Wikipedia as a source either.
This isn't to say that even in College or even Post-Grad work that Encyclopedias or now Wikipedia isn't useful for research, but it is used as a start of knowledge. Just because if you are looking at something new, you may not even know what questions to ask and what material to read up on, for you to actually get information needed to actually start the real research.
The largest Black Market in New York State isn't drugs, but unpasteurized milk. You can drive across Upstate NY and find signs saying Raw Milk this way. I say this because calling people dealing in the Black Market Criminals is a harsh statement. It is the sale of anything that isn't allowed to be sold in the area.
A low bar of entry makes it easier for stupid people to get into it. However they are also a lot of extremely smart people in the Black Market too, which is why the "War on Drugs" is so hard to fight, Because you are fighting Market Demand and Creative individuals who work all the time to work around the system, yet make themselves known to actually sell to people.
Black Market is a very inconsistent area. You can get top notch quality or crap that will kill you. Because for that Raw Milk the producer can make sure the Cows are in wonderful living conditions, clean happy and healthy. Or sleeping in their own waste, eating garbage food.
I am not sure if it will outlast it. I rarely use that 2006 laptop. I save it for watching a few shows I have bought on iTunes. It battery had died and it only works on wall power. The software isn't going to get updated much any more...
I am currently using its replacement which I got in 2012 and it is started to feel its age too, I am not able to find replacement batteries (unless via some 3rd party) and it isn't keeping up as well as it use to. For being a small light system at its time, it is rather big and bulky too.
So if they need a new laptop they don't want to spend extra for it. Mostly because computers devalue so quickly. That 3k system you buy today would sell for 2k (new) the next year and will drop quickly after that.
Also these companies are still in a culture of selling to the individual, that is often the hardest part to get over with.
In short if there is demand for a product there will be a market for it. You can try to setup social rules or actual laws, but just as long people want it, it will be available.
However if such a product/service is Black Market, or just Taboo for that culture, there rarely is a formal entry to entry. It isn't like a Drug dealer will need at least 2 years of business school, or a Sex Worker will need an art degree, or places that offer formal training... So the reason why a lot of these people get caught is because they don't know what they are doing. So Venmo is an easy way to send them money, they will take it. Not realizing how insecure it is. Because they didn't think on how insecure it is, and neither does the consumer (even for more normal purchases) realize how publicly displaying the purchases is risky.
Now Black Market and even Taboo markets have the biggest problem of not being able to fight against bad service or products. You as a consumer isn't willing to sue Venmo because it posted your purchases of an Illegal or Embarrassing item, because all it will do is bring more attention to themselves. Sure some people are willing to take the Embarrassment of a Taboo item, just to get their point across, but for Black Market stuff your risking punishment as well, for getting ripped off.
PHP has a lot of problems, but what they poster reported isn't near the top of them. the 3.5 Meg with Gadgets isn't PHP it is Google. Also for a lot of other page size issues, the biggest problem is less with the language but with added Javascript Add ins such as Jquery or Angular.js this moves your few kilobyte page to megs very quickly.
In.NET I had aspx pages that seem to place a meg of session data onto the page, which I normally disable because I don't program websites with point and click, and I would rather have more more control when the screen refreshes or just does an AJAX cal and DOM the results back in.
I have been doing Web Application Development (I don't do web sites) from the beginning I know what is happening in general on all sides of computers the clients and the servers. A particular web language sometime can help sometimes make particular tasks which are annoying much easier. But they cant stop you from making a crap Web Application, and they all have a feature where people may misuse or abuse to create utter garbage.
The posters experience probably has PHP Developers fresh out of college bight eyed and ambitious, looking to change the world with Open Source Technology however lacking the experience to know how to debug (I still have to show recent college grads on how to use the programming debugger, and they are always worried because for some reason that it isn't pure enough for them, or cheating.. For those college professors out there why arn't you showing these kids normal debugging software that has been around for generations!) and also they are often happy when it works, they don't know when to go back to make it better, or they also don't know when to call it good enough and continue on.
The posters experience with.NET developers are probably with professions who have been doing it for a few years, they have families and their goals to change the world isn't going to be their unique take on how to format that textbox. They have more years experience and learned from their younger years. They know when to dig and optimize, and when good enough is good enough. They uses the tools in.NET (Or in PHP or whatever freaking language they are either told to use or what is best suited for the project) more carefully and more often. They know each tool is a double edge sward while making one job quicker and easier it may have a side effect that you need to mitigate, work around, or decide that it isn't worth it. Now I normally don't code sites with point and click programming, because it really bloats up the Application, that doesn't mean I never do it. Sometimes that method would save weeks off my development cycle. And bloat isn't a big issue for the project.
The question is what is your sense of self, and the culture of this.
In America after asking your name, you want to know what job does the person do, where do they work. It is how Americans define their place in the world. This is also why Americans don't take as much vacation time, because what they do on vacation doesn't define who they are, they are just not getting work done and things are piling up.
Other cultures don't have the same sense of self. Some people will define themselves by religion, or age, number of children, where they live, what their hobbies are....
I am unsure if the 4 day a week would work in America, not because loss productivity, as we will slack off as much, but because we even as the low level worker would feel uneasy having an always 3 day work week, where we could be working.
For the past 8 years there hasn't been such a demand for the traditional computer. They were more of a business thing (that sector Apple has a hard time in) not a Personal Computer. So Apple put their money in the phone market and other mobile stuff while the market was shifting away from Personal Computers. This year the demand for traditional computers started to go back up so they put more effort behind their PC lineup.
During this time a lot traditional PC makers were more or less just weathering the storm, and focusing on the business market. If you are in laptop hunting mode now, you see a lot of the models are really business focused, vs home, even the gamer laptops put a business twist to them, showing off their CAD ability.
If these trade-offs bother you then don't buy a MacBook Pro.
The last MacBook Pro I owned was purchased in 2006. It still works well 12 years later. That said, when it was upgrade time, I wasn't comfortable with the new models not having replaceable batteries. As the biggest problem my MacBook Pro was the battery dying on my also that was the problem with the previous Powerbook I had. So the next laptop was a ThinkPad.
I know I am not the standard person for most of these markets. Apple moved their laptops to Thin, self contained units. This means that ports are the first to go, and Apple never really like ports. I am not hating Apple because they went to a direction I didn't want to go. I just didn't buy their product and went with one that was still going the same direction as I was.
I really do not understand your Rant on everything the Macbook pro doesn't do. It does do a lot of things well too. And if you are going to spec similar devices you will find they will cost about the same as well. You are not getting ripped off if you bought an Apple laptop, however if it doesn't suit your needs, then don't get it. But you should also go back and look at all these NO's and figure out how much of these things are something you really going to be using.
Europe can win in an economic battle, but there will be a cost to it. You can slowly change your relationship over time, that way if EU wants to stop playing nice the harm will be minimal. say a 5% hit. Vs now which can be a 60% hit.
The US Military has been primed for Full Scale War, Where everyone in the border is a target. The problem is politically most of us don't fall for the propaganda of the Evil Enemy. But a bunch of innocent people caught in a tough situation between bad leaders. So we can't just bomb a country capital plant a flag and declare victory. We need to win hearts and minds. This is why we havn't been winning small wars. Because post WWII We learned that we cant just go killing everything just to win. Because you can Win the War but fail the Objective.
Networking gear isn't as flexible as Software or consumer items.
Companies have spent a lot of money just on metal bars with holes drilled/punched with a particular size and spaced to fit most of the vendors equipment. Which supports standards that nearly all the other vendors support.
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However being Amazon has years of data and tending information, they should have been able to predict how much demand was going to happen, and made sure the infrastructure is prepped, and ready for the event.
It is kinda a high stake game to play for load testing.
The problem is location.
In some places 50k is a good salary, enough to own a home and have a family. In others you are scraping by.
If these prices are based on the national average. The numbers seem about right. I work in a City often awarded "All American City" which in general means the city is the closest to the national averages. Aka a fair representation of America on the whole.
However if you live in the big citys or Silicon Valley where prices are way high. chances are you will be making more then 50k unless you have some real low end job. Your you really suck at your job.
ThinkPads are not always the most repairable systems either. In the quest for smaller/lighter/thinner those bulky connectors for rather reliable parts will just get in the way.
That will not stop it from having problems, where if you backed up your data you can save a lot of money and time.
An open system, that happens to solder a component in place, will still have that problem, especially if that component may be a bit more rare to handle.
Much like Coke and Pepsi. You have areas where there are more Android users and areas with more iPhone users.
I can see a case where City people may be more Android focused, (higher cost of living, meaning less money for a phone) would get a cheaper but good quality Android phone. But being in the City they have access to faster internet speeds.
While the Suburban and Rural users who have lower cost of living, may be willing to splurge more on an iPhone. However those area they don't have access to such high speeds.
This isn't a case of iPhone being slower with networking with an Android. But more to the case that iPhone users have a slower internet connection.
I know I can get an Ookla speed over 100mbs from an iDevice so it isn't the hardware.
In the States in some areas we have Single Stream Recycling.
Where you put in all your recyclable (Paper, Some plastics normally the thick plastic, and Metal) materials into one bin. Then it goes and gets sorted out.
Only about 1/3 of the material actually gets recycled. However the amount of material sent over to be recycled has increased 5 fold. So overall we are better with a less efficient process, because the convenience makes it easier to increase your output.
For some reason there is a reaction if something isn't working as well as it should, we should just stop it all together. While the net benefit outweighs the cost.
I have also heard a similar type of argument against LED traffic lights. Because in a rare weather condition snow can cover the lights, and be hard to see, while incandescent bulbs create enough heat to melt the snow.
Because of this perhaps once a year occurance, people are using this to prevent LED lights, which use less energy, are cheaper to maintain, offer better viability, as well often will not die at once.
Space flight is very dangerous, and I don't see it becoming much more safe in my lifetime.
Unless we can get into space without explosive force, such as a space elevator, it is going to be dangerous, and people will die in the future from space travel.
Then you are not urban enough for the environmentalist.
The biggest problem to urbanization is crime, noise and price.
Noise is the biggest issue. If you are having a migraine having some idiot kid skateboarding outside you house. Or some idiot with a car with a muffler that makes the car louder going up and down the blocks. If you confront the person then they get a dry with you and probably retaliate.
Now if I am in bad standings with my neighbors the last thing I want to do is bike or walk anywhere.
Not all urban areas are equal. If you going to live in a good area then it will be priced very high.
In the US you can live in a rural area for cheaper and have better living conditions. Yes it is at an environmental hit. But you need more then the environment to get people to change.
There are other ways to lower demand.
However these require a lot of work that we just don’t have the leadership to manage.
For Drugs you need to find out why someone starts in the beginning. There could be thousands of different reasons. The issue is to find people who would be tempted and offer alternatives.
It isn’t easy it isn’t cheap and it would be messy. But if it is really considered a problem then they are solution but it is going to be hard.
It really is the same for floppy disk or cassette tape.
The key difference is with speed and caching.
The old 8 bit systems for one didn’t multi task. So while the light was blinking then the program was writing to the disk when it stopped and you were at the prompt then it safe to take the disk out.
When we have multitasking then the storage write may be interrupted with an other process, then we also have memory cashing which means the task thinks things are done while the os takes it time to save.
On modern computers this is often very quick faster then you can react. However if your pc is sluggish then you really should wait for the os to confirm it is done.
By the 8th grade in public schools, teachers stop accepting Encyclopedias as a source. I don't see why we should accept Wikipedia as a source either.
This isn't to say that even in College or even Post-Grad work that Encyclopedias or now Wikipedia isn't useful for research, but it is used as a start of knowledge. Just because if you are looking at something new, you may not even know what questions to ask and what material to read up on, for you to actually get information needed to actually start the real research.
The largest Black Market in New York State isn't drugs, but unpasteurized milk. You can drive across Upstate NY and find signs saying Raw Milk this way. I say this because calling people dealing in the Black Market Criminals is a harsh statement. It is the sale of anything that isn't allowed to be sold in the area.
A low bar of entry makes it easier for stupid people to get into it. However they are also a lot of extremely smart people in the Black Market too, which is why the "War on Drugs" is so hard to fight, Because you are fighting Market Demand and Creative individuals who work all the time to work around the system, yet make themselves known to actually sell to people.
Black Market is a very inconsistent area. You can get top notch quality or crap that will kill you. Because for that Raw Milk the producer can make sure the Cows are in wonderful living conditions, clean happy and healthy. Or sleeping in their own waste, eating garbage food.
I am not sure if it will outlast it. I rarely use that 2006 laptop. I save it for watching a few shows I have bought on iTunes. It battery had died and it only works on wall power. The software isn't going to get updated much any more...
I am currently using its replacement which I got in 2012 and it is started to feel its age too, I am not able to find replacement batteries (unless via some 3rd party) and it isn't keeping up as well as it use to. For being a small light system at its time, it is rather big and bulky too.
Professionals are cheap too.
So if they need a new laptop they don't want to spend extra for it. Mostly because computers devalue so quickly. That 3k system you buy today would sell for 2k (new) the next year and will drop quickly after that.
Also these companies are still in a culture of selling to the individual, that is often the hardest part to get over with.
In short if there is demand for a product there will be a market for it. You can try to setup social rules or actual laws, but just as long people want it, it will be available.
However if such a product/service is Black Market, or just Taboo for that culture, there rarely is a formal entry to entry. It isn't like a Drug dealer will need at least 2 years of business school, or a Sex Worker will need an art degree, or places that offer formal training... So the reason why a lot of these people get caught is because they don't know what they are doing. So Venmo is an easy way to send them money, they will take it. Not realizing how insecure it is. Because they didn't think on how insecure it is, and neither does the consumer (even for more normal purchases) realize how publicly displaying the purchases is risky.
Now Black Market and even Taboo markets have the biggest problem of not being able to fight against bad service or products. You as a consumer isn't willing to sue Venmo because it posted your purchases of an Illegal or Embarrassing item, because all it will do is bring more attention to themselves. Sure some people are willing to take the Embarrassment of a Taboo item, just to get their point across, but for Black Market stuff your risking punishment as well, for getting ripped off.
PHP has a lot of problems, but what they poster reported isn't near the top of them.
the 3.5 Meg with Gadgets isn't PHP it is Google. Also for a lot of other page size issues, the biggest problem is less with the language but with added Javascript Add ins such as Jquery or Angular.js this moves your few kilobyte page to megs very quickly.
In .NET I had aspx pages that seem to place a meg of session data onto the page, which I normally disable because I don't program websites with point and click, and I would rather have more more control when the screen refreshes or just does an AJAX cal and DOM the results back in.
I have been doing Web Application Development (I don't do web sites) from the beginning I know what is happening in general on all sides of computers the clients and the servers.
A particular web language sometime can help sometimes make particular tasks which are annoying much easier. But they cant stop you from making a crap Web Application, and they all have a feature where people may misuse or abuse to create utter garbage.
The posters experience probably has PHP Developers fresh out of college bight eyed and ambitious, looking to change the world with Open Source Technology however lacking the experience to know how to debug (I still have to show recent college grads on how to use the programming debugger, and they are always worried because for some reason that it isn't pure enough for them, or cheating.. For those college professors out there why arn't you showing these kids normal debugging software that has been around for generations!) and also they are often happy when it works, they don't know when to go back to make it better, or they also don't know when to call it good enough and continue on.
The posters experience with .NET developers are probably with professions who have been doing it for a few years, they have families and their goals to change the world isn't going to be their unique take on how to format that textbox. They have more years experience and learned from their younger years. They know when to dig and optimize, and when good enough is good enough. They uses the tools in .NET (Or in PHP or whatever freaking language they are either told to use or what is best suited for the project) more carefully and more often. They know each tool is a double edge sward while making one job quicker and easier it may have a side effect that you need to mitigate, work around, or decide that it isn't worth it. Now I normally don't code sites with point and click programming, because it really bloats up the Application, that doesn't mean I never do it. Sometimes that method would save weeks off my development cycle. And bloat isn't a big issue for the project.
Experience is more important then the language.
The question is what is your sense of self, and the culture of this.
In America after asking your name, you want to know what job does the person do, where do they work.
It is how Americans define their place in the world. This is also why Americans don't take as much vacation time, because what they do on vacation doesn't define who they are, they are just not getting work done and things are piling up.
Other cultures don't have the same sense of self. Some people will define themselves by religion, or age, number of children, where they live, what their hobbies are....
I am unsure if the 4 day a week would work in America, not because loss productivity, as we will slack off as much, but because we even as the low level worker would feel uneasy having an always 3 day work week, where we could be working.
For the past 8 years there hasn't been such a demand for the traditional computer. They were more of a business thing (that sector Apple has a hard time in) not a Personal Computer.
So Apple put their money in the phone market and other mobile stuff while the market was shifting away from Personal Computers.
This year the demand for traditional computers started to go back up so they put more effort behind their PC lineup.
During this time a lot traditional PC makers were more or less just weathering the storm, and focusing on the business market. If you are in laptop hunting mode now, you see a lot of the models are really business focused, vs home, even the gamer laptops put a business twist to them, showing off their CAD ability.
That and Apple Patents. They may get big in 10 years, assuming that devices will still need wires then.
If these trade-offs bother you then don't buy a MacBook Pro.
The last MacBook Pro I owned was purchased in 2006. It still works well 12 years later. That said, when it was upgrade time, I wasn't comfortable with the new models not having replaceable batteries. As the biggest problem my MacBook Pro was the battery dying on my also that was the problem with the previous Powerbook I had. So the next laptop was a ThinkPad.
I know I am not the standard person for most of these markets. Apple moved their laptops to Thin, self contained units. This means that ports are the first to go, and Apple never really like ports. I am not hating Apple because they went to a direction I didn't want to go. I just didn't buy their product and went with one that was still going the same direction as I was.
I really do not understand your Rant on everything the Macbook pro doesn't do. It does do a lot of things well too. And if you are going to spec similar devices you will find they will cost about the same as well. You are not getting ripped off if you bought an Apple laptop, however if it doesn't suit your needs, then don't get it. But you should also go back and look at all these NO's and figure out how much of these things are something you really going to be using.
Europe can win in an economic battle, but there will be a cost to it. You can slowly change your relationship over time, that way if EU wants to stop playing nice the harm will be minimal. say a 5% hit. Vs now which can be a 60% hit.
The US Military has been primed for Full Scale War, Where everyone in the border is a target.
The problem is politically most of us don't fall for the propaganda of the Evil Enemy. But a bunch of innocent people caught in a tough situation between bad leaders. So we can't just bomb a country capital plant a flag and declare victory. We need to win hearts and minds. This is why we havn't been winning small wars. Because post WWII We learned that we cant just go killing everything just to win. Because you can Win the War but fail the Objective.
Unless Germany decides to align itself with Russia?
However most stable countries and leaders are able to compartmentalize Economic disputes with military ones.
Networking gear isn't as flexible as Software or consumer items.
Companies have spent a lot of money just on metal bars with holes drilled/punched with a particular size and spaced to fit most of the vendors equipment. Which supports standards that nearly all the other vendors support.