Google is a a software company that makes some hardware. Apple is a hardware company that makes some software.
Google hardware isn't bad, and neither is Apples Software.
However the approaches to problems are different.
The Google Pixel uses more software to correct the image and focusing from its little camera. Apple is more likely to put more hardware behind a better camera, and less on the software.
It is like giving a problem to both a Carpenter and a Welder. They will solve the problems with what they feel best at doing. So we can have one solution made out of wood, and the other made out of metal, with the advantages and disadvantages of both methods.
I doubt Apple will ever get Maps to the quality as Google Maps is. It isn't money or resources, but how the company culture approaches the problem.
The general fear that we will be forced to get rid of our Cars is the Driving (Pun well intended) force for a lot of Climate change debate. In America Cars are a symbol of our freedom. The romantic images of being able to pack up and hit the open road alone to seek new and better things, is ingrained in our culture. We can be the loan horseman without having to deal with the elements, and facing starvation as you travel for months to get to your location.
Especially to the Boomers, car ownership is a sign of prosperity. Having people who say you need to get rid of your car because it is bad, is just an insult to them, and will fight back. Clinging onto any bad science or far fetched idea.
Can we get off cars? Sure Car pollution is a big problem. It is also what we feel the most, having to fuel up our cars. But they are other problems too. Our homes which we are often not in for 8-16 hours a day, which is still being heated or cooled, while we spend time in other building that are being heated or cooled then we leave for home having this building not occupied. While we may pay for metered electricity, the power plants cant just drop their generation by 0.000001% when you turn off your light when you go to bed. They are still generating power.
Your arguments against Hydrogen fuel seems a bit week. No Infrastructure: If deemed a viable energy source one can be built. Normal Oil companies would probably like that idea, converting gas station to hydrogen stations. Unlike solar or "Home grown" or Grid energy they can keep their business model. They just change the energy source. Conversion is ineffective: Efficiencies is rather over rated concept. Especially if you can be inefficient for cheap. Storage makes metals brittle: Too bad we don't have other materials other then metal. Or able to coat metal with other materials.
It would like me making an argument of electric cars with battery technology from the 1980's
It is time for you learn the difference between news and opinion. If you even look at the link you had sent it was under the opinion section of CNN.
News is reporting facts gathered and explaining them, this happened, this is the order that it happened, these are the people involved this is what they say about it. Now News can be bias, however this is done on how statements are worded or summarized, also choosing who to report and quoting what they say.
Opinion is just that the opinion of the writer. His opinion isn't based on fact, a good opinion writer may use facts to back up his opinion but it isn't necessary. Opinions are the opinion of a few people in this case the Opinion or a Van Jones.
News sites like to include Opinion as it often will help put some context and point of views around the News. However CNN Didn't tell you Humanity was already doomed, but Van Jones did. CNN may have approved to air Van Jones Opinion either because they may agree with it, or it was written well enough to be considered worthwhile to air.
I think it is more the case the algorithm is working normally not censoring. It is just no one really cares on your political belief. So the algorithm rates content no one cares about accordingly.
Part of the problem is politics has gone beyond policy, but to identity. If you are the tough guy then you should be a republican. If you are an intellectual then you are a democrat. If your religious then you are a republican. If your an atheist then you are a democrat.
It isn’t about policy anymore it is personal. It is about the other side trying to stop your way of life and your values.
However if you wanted to start a local delivery business, Doing this with Amazon at least means you will have a paying customer (Amazon) .
If you are clever and you want to deliver other things, you can just get a big magnet to put over the Amazon logo, and put yours on it. And just give your workers a change of shirt, or a vest to put over the shirt.
All that being said, Having Amazon as your only customer is probably really good for a small shipping company. Being otherwise you will need to Compete against USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL.
This is a franchise. Just like many other places you go to.
If it is profitable for the franchisee then they will go with it, otherwise they will not.
Uber, was intended to be a part-time job. This is a franchise, it is your own company, you have more options available to you, but being a franchise there are standard you need to meet. Just like a fast food franchise cannot sell their food at a different price, the Amazon Delivery Company cannot charge Amazon too much for shipping.
What amazon really is doing is mitigating its risk.
Forking isn't always a viable solution. Lets say you fork a solution, because you need a particular feature. The application isn't static, time changes and the main line app gets a lot of good features also, which you will need to incorporate in yours. It is easier to push for that particular feature then having a separate code base to be maintained.
For the most part (there are exceptions that will always happen) the simple solutions have been already been found that often solve the big problem. Then as advancements go on the smaller problems become the big problem, which then needs more complex solutions.
Proto-man: I don't want to freeze to death, solution hide in a hole. Early man: I want to move around and not freeze to death, solution Take the fur of other animals and wear them. early human: I want greater movement and not having it fall off, solution cut the fur into shapes and tie them together to cover the body better.... To today we are trying to make clothing that will block a wavelength of light we only discovered to exist a little over 200 years ago, to prevent detection from a device invented less then a hundred years ago, which only has been in active use for military reasons for over a generation. We need high tech and complex solutions to fight off counter high-tech and complex solutions.
Like decreasing the wavelength into the microwave? Or you become a radio broadcast? Boost it up so you are emitting Gamma Rays. To the main point, where does that energy go? Perhaps it will take the body heat and turn it into electricity to power your phones.
Sure, I use it for fast downloading of popular open source software. Must music isn't licensed for torrent downloads, so I don't do so. I have friends and family who are professional musicians. Even if they get pennies per sale, the fact that the purchase is tracked helps them get more notice, more notice gives them more gigs, the live performance gigs is where the real money is.
Except for the fact that is widely copied and used. I do like more subtle 3d effects in my UI, but Flat is in. But this is a trend that moves around.
1980s Flat was in Think TNG LCARs interface. A lot of hardware that didn't require a lot of typing used membrane buttons, just to give the flat look. Then When graphic interfaces came up. We started to move more towards 3d effects in the 1990's Windows 3.1, Motif. We hard the colors and the ability so 3d effects were cool. Then when we gone to 8bit color and up. UI started to use more and more subtle buttons to make them more flat. Then we got 3d Acceleration in the early 2000's So Shadows and raised effects, were less intrusive, and offered the raise feel again. Now today with ultra high resolution displays and touchscreen we gone flat again. Making it easier to target, and high resolutions allows for thin borders and smaller fonts that are easy to read. Now for the 2020s who knows what is next.
That and if you have millions/billions of dollars invested in a Linux Infrastructure. Do you really want your competitors make decisions on what direction the product takes?
I have found that a speaker such as you have explained doesn't make much sound unless we put a couple of wires next to some sort of device that converts, physical bumps/magnetic charges, or optical refraction's into electrical charges of various levels.
I would like to bring up how much money we paid for in them olden days for physical media. Often pay 20 bucks for album for that one song we wanted. Or the cost of a song for just a blank media.
If it wern't for the AT&T lawsuits FreeBSD may be the standard for non desktop systems. Linux wasn't really superior, But being it was made without the Unix legal baggage and was free. Allowed for easy adoptions of the OS, because at the time similar OS's from Unix would cost thousands of dollars. And DOS and Windows wasn't up to snuff.
Being a free OS, it makes it easy to be implemented by a startup into new ideas such as IoT.
Linux had taken it lead as BSD legality was under consideration. This lead allowed fore more support/drivers and availability.
Linux was on par with FreeBSD but not superior. Linus needs credit for what he had done, by abandoning Unix source code, but he didn't build a superior system.
Using round things such as logs to help move heavy objects by reducing the friction coefficient was used before the wheel. But the invention of the Axel that was fixed which was the true innovation.
I expect the Axel concept was figured out when moving heavy things for a long time, when the inside gets warn down and a bit more narrow. you were able to push the object further before having to pickup the log and move it to the front. Then they found a point where they can have it narrow enough to put in stops at the cost of more friction, but enough to be able to move it easier. However sturdy enough to hold the weight.
Being the Wheel was considered to be invented during the bronze age. I Expect using Metal to strengthen and reduce friction was a factor as well.
It is the difference of the creator of the infrastructure vs the creator of the implementation.
It is like thanking the Firemen who saved your life from the burning building Vs thanking the guys who built the road to get to your home from the fire station, or the materials expert that allowed your home to maintain structure to allow the firemen to reach your home in time.
The Linux Kernel really doesn't do anything useful, unless there are people who work with it and create with it. Linus may had made a kernel to help control these super computers but it was a team of other people who needed to work with the Kernel to make a super computer out of it.
Does Linus deserve Credit? Yes. Do Techies worship Musk? Some may. However Linus is mostly focused on making the kernel better (a noble goal on its own). While Musk is trying to solve problems, and may choose to use the Linux Kernel as a tool in solving the problem.
So advocating unpopular policies needs to be criminalized? No Using Lies and misinformation to trick people into such a policy needs to be criminalized? Yes
The part of Instagram that is its value, is the number of young customers on its site, who are the future economic drivers.
Lets say Exon Mobile went out of business tomorrow, Millions if not Billions of people will be affected as they have the immediate need for fuel, and Exon Mobile is a major producer the loss of the company would cause a short term set of problems until competitors can ramp up to meet demand.
Now if Solar City went out of business that would probably drive down Solar Power Adoption, but will not cause any major problems. Those with Solar Panels will still work, those without can continue on with their lives. However its loss would slowly affect the future. Without Adoption of Affordable Clean Energy solutions we will be increasing pollution, which will cause other economic factors.
Instagram is how young people communicate, Facebook is how us older people communicate. Killing Instagram today, could mean today's kids when they get into the market and want to communicate with business contacts will probably be split up across many competing services.
Online discourse is very complex. In general you have the power to speak your mind, and often without any real consequences, as you are in general separated from the people who disagree with your argument. This separation also prevents proper discourse, undoubtedly for most arguments they are issues and factors that are not taken into account. This is the point of proper discourse, to expand the views given, not necessary change them, but to give a more complete picture.
So side one giving their opinion without much proper discourse, because opposing ideas are just trolling or just going off and giving their opinion (just like this post that seems to have nothing to do with SWATing, I am getting there I promise). Because of lack of any good counter discussion, this reinforces the idea I am right and they are wrong.
Now the opposing ideas, even the complete well composed ones, Are often lost in a sea of Trolls. Such as discussion against the GPL in a mist of comments explaining its core writers lack of Personal Hygiene, which has nothing to do for the quality or faults of that particular idea. To the person writing the Pro GPL Argument, You who is writing the counter argument is in the same group of people who are fixated on some unrelated troll. So by extension you are a toll as well.
Now for the person who had made the counter argument, had their idea dismissed for equally irrational reasons (just because there were other tolls against his idea) is feeling his ideas and contribution where dis-empowered from him. Thus not getting an appropriate discourse, and in general starting the cycle on the other side.
The feeling of dis-empowerment for some could lead to violence or trickery such as swatting, as a way to feel like they have some power over the person who had tried to take away their power. THIS REASON DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT! But I seem to find much of the problems we have today is from people having a lack of empowerment. Which is different from them always getting their way, but getting respect for their ideas and their contributions.
Back in the 1980's and 1990's we had Shareware. These were programs that you can download, copy with other and use. Some of them had a Trial Time Period, where you can use the full version for a period of time, then you have access to a reduced features, or not work at all. But most others Offered additional Levels, and other goodies if you were to actually purchase the software.
I see many of these free to play games with extra purchases as just an extension of the Shareware concept. However the problem that I feel is most concerning is the lack of a cap in how much you are going to pay for it. Say an $80 fee (The cost of a good console game) where everything is unlocked, and you can use the game and stay current. But that isn't the case, because it is easy to nickle and dime your way into people paying much more. Often for just something fun at the moment.
Granted this is still probably better then what people will pay for beer where they drink it, get a buzz, and then feel sick in the morning.
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I guess it is a good thing most Med School Grads are Women, Red Green Colorblindness is much more common with males.
Google is a a software company that makes some hardware.
Apple is a hardware company that makes some software.
Google hardware isn't bad, and neither is Apples Software.
However the approaches to problems are different.
The Google Pixel uses more software to correct the image and focusing from its little camera. Apple is more likely to put more hardware behind a better camera, and less on the software.
It is like giving a problem to both a Carpenter and a Welder. They will solve the problems with what they feel best at doing. So we can have one solution made out of wood, and the other made out of metal, with the advantages and disadvantages of both methods.
I doubt Apple will ever get Maps to the quality as Google Maps is. It isn't money or resources, but how the company culture approaches the problem.
The general fear that we will be forced to get rid of our Cars is the Driving (Pun well intended) force for a lot of Climate change debate. In America Cars are a symbol of our freedom. The romantic images of being able to pack up and hit the open road alone to seek new and better things, is ingrained in our culture. We can be the loan horseman without having to deal with the elements, and facing starvation as you travel for months to get to your location.
Especially to the Boomers, car ownership is a sign of prosperity. Having people who say you need to get rid of your car because it is bad, is just an insult to them, and will fight back. Clinging onto any bad science or far fetched idea.
Can we get off cars?
Sure Car pollution is a big problem. It is also what we feel the most, having to fuel up our cars.
But they are other problems too. Our homes which we are often not in for 8-16 hours a day, which is still being heated or cooled, while we spend time in other building that are being heated or cooled then we leave for home having this building not occupied.
While we may pay for metered electricity, the power plants cant just drop their generation by 0.000001% when you turn off your light when you go to bed. They are still generating power.
Your arguments against Hydrogen fuel seems a bit week.
No Infrastructure: If deemed a viable energy source one can be built. Normal Oil companies would probably like that idea, converting gas station to hydrogen stations. Unlike solar or "Home grown" or Grid energy they can keep their business model. They just change the energy source.
Conversion is ineffective: Efficiencies is rather over rated concept. Especially if you can be inefficient for cheap.
Storage makes metals brittle: Too bad we don't have other materials other then metal. Or able to coat metal with other materials.
It would like me making an argument of electric cars with battery technology from the 1980's
It is time for you learn the difference between news and opinion.
If you even look at the link you had sent it was under the opinion section of CNN.
News is reporting facts gathered and explaining them, this happened, this is the order that it happened, these are the people involved this is what they say about it. Now News can be bias, however this is done on how statements are worded or summarized, also choosing who to report and quoting what they say.
Opinion is just that the opinion of the writer. His opinion isn't based on fact, a good opinion writer may use facts to back up his opinion but it isn't necessary. Opinions are the opinion of a few people in this case the Opinion or a Van Jones.
News sites like to include Opinion as it often will help put some context and point of views around the News. However CNN Didn't tell you Humanity was already doomed, but Van Jones did. CNN may have approved to air Van Jones Opinion either because they may agree with it, or it was written well enough to be considered worthwhile to air.
I think it is more the case the algorithm is working normally not censoring. It is just no one really cares on your political belief. So the algorithm rates content no one cares about accordingly.
Part of the problem is politics has gone beyond policy, but to identity.
If you are the tough guy then you should be a republican.
If you are an intellectual then you are a democrat.
If your religious then you are a republican.
If your an atheist then you are a democrat.
It isn’t about policy anymore it is personal. It is about the other side trying to stop your way of life and your values.
That is the same as with any other Franchise.
However if you wanted to start a local delivery business, Doing this with Amazon at least means you will have a paying customer (Amazon) .
If you are clever and you want to deliver other things, you can just get a big magnet to put over the Amazon logo, and put yours on it. And just give your workers a change of shirt, or a vest to put over the shirt.
All that being said, Having Amazon as your only customer is probably really good for a small shipping company. Being otherwise you will need to Compete against USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL.
This is a franchise. Just like many other places you go to.
If it is profitable for the franchisee then they will go with it, otherwise they will not.
Uber, was intended to be a part-time job. This is a franchise, it is your own company, you have more options available to you, but being a franchise there are standard you need to meet. Just like a fast food franchise cannot sell their food at a different price, the Amazon Delivery Company cannot charge Amazon too much for shipping.
What amazon really is doing is mitigating its risk.
Forking isn't always a viable solution. Lets say you fork a solution, because you need a particular feature. The application isn't static, time changes and the main line app gets a lot of good features also, which you will need to incorporate in yours. It is easier to push for that particular feature then having a separate code base to be maintained.
For the most part (there are exceptions that will always happen) the simple solutions have been already been found that often solve the big problem. Then as advancements go on the smaller problems become the big problem, which then needs more complex solutions.
Proto-man: I don't want to freeze to death, solution hide in a hole. ...
Early man: I want to move around and not freeze to death, solution Take the fur of other animals and wear them.
early human: I want greater movement and not having it fall off, solution cut the fur into shapes and tie them together to cover the body better.
To today we are trying to make clothing that will block a wavelength of light we only discovered to exist a little over 200 years ago, to prevent detection from a device invented less then a hundred years ago, which only has been in active use for military reasons for over a generation.
We need high tech and complex solutions to fight off counter high-tech and complex solutions.
Like decreasing the wavelength into the microwave? Or you become a radio broadcast? Boost it up so you are emitting Gamma Rays.
To the main point, where does that energy go? Perhaps it will take the body heat and turn it into electricity to power your phones.
Sure, I use it for fast downloading of popular open source software.
Must music isn't licensed for torrent downloads, so I don't do so. I have friends and family who are professional musicians. Even if they get pennies per sale, the fact that the purchase is tracked helps them get more notice, more notice gives them more gigs, the live performance gigs is where the real money is.
Except for the fact that is widely copied and used. I do like more subtle 3d effects in my UI, but Flat is in. But this is a trend that moves around.
1980s Flat was in Think TNG LCARs interface. A lot of hardware that didn't require a lot of typing used membrane buttons, just to give the flat look. Then When graphic interfaces came up. We started to move more towards 3d effects in the 1990's Windows 3.1, Motif. We hard the colors and the ability so 3d effects were cool. Then when we gone to 8bit color and up. UI started to use more and more subtle buttons to make them more flat. Then we got 3d Acceleration in the early 2000's So Shadows and raised effects, were less intrusive, and offered the raise feel again. Now today with ultra high resolution displays and touchscreen we gone flat again. Making it easier to target, and high resolutions allows for thin borders and smaller fonts that are easy to read.
Now for the 2020s who knows what is next.
That and if you have millions/billions of dollars invested in a Linux Infrastructure. Do you really want your competitors make decisions on what direction the product takes?
I have found that a speaker such as you have explained doesn't make much sound unless we put a couple of wires next to some sort of device that converts, physical bumps/magnetic charges, or optical refraction's into electrical charges of various levels.
I would like to bring up how much money we paid for in them olden days for physical media. Often pay 20 bucks for album for that one song we wanted. Or the cost of a song for just a blank media.
If it wern't for the AT&T lawsuits FreeBSD may be the standard for non desktop systems. Linux wasn't really superior, But being it was made without the Unix legal baggage and was free. Allowed for easy adoptions of the OS, because at the time similar OS's from Unix would cost thousands of dollars. And DOS and Windows wasn't up to snuff.
Being a free OS, it makes it easy to be implemented by a startup into new ideas such as IoT.
Linux had taken it lead as BSD legality was under consideration. This lead allowed fore more support/drivers and availability.
Linux was on par with FreeBSD but not superior. Linus needs credit for what he had done, by abandoning Unix source code, but he didn't build a superior system.
Mr. Axel Wheel.
Using round things such as logs to help move heavy objects by reducing the friction coefficient was used before the wheel. But the invention of the Axel that was fixed which was the true innovation.
I expect the Axel concept was figured out when moving heavy things for a long time, when the inside gets warn down and a bit more narrow. you were able to push the object further before having to pickup the log and move it to the front. Then they found a point where they can have it narrow enough to put in stops at the cost of more friction, but enough to be able to move it easier. However sturdy enough to hold the weight.
Being the Wheel was considered to be invented during the bronze age. I Expect using Metal to strengthen and reduce friction was a factor as well.
It is the difference of the creator of the infrastructure vs the creator of the implementation.
It is like thanking the Firemen who saved your life from the burning building Vs thanking the guys who built the road to get to your home from the fire station, or the materials expert that allowed your home to maintain structure to allow the firemen to reach your home in time.
The Linux Kernel really doesn't do anything useful, unless there are people who work with it and create with it. Linus may had made a kernel to help control these super computers but it was a team of other people who needed to work with the Kernel to make a super computer out of it.
Does Linus deserve Credit? Yes. Do Techies worship Musk? Some may.
However Linus is mostly focused on making the kernel better (a noble goal on its own). While Musk is trying to solve problems, and may choose to use the Linux Kernel as a tool in solving the problem.
So advocating unpopular policies needs to be criminalized? No
Using Lies and misinformation to trick people into such a policy needs to be criminalized? Yes
The part of Instagram that is its value, is the number of young customers on its site, who are the future economic drivers.
Lets say Exon Mobile went out of business tomorrow, Millions if not Billions of people will be affected as they have the immediate need for fuel, and Exon Mobile is a major producer the loss of the company would cause a short term set of problems until competitors can ramp up to meet demand.
Now if Solar City went out of business that would probably drive down Solar Power Adoption, but will not cause any major problems. Those with Solar Panels will still work, those without can continue on with their lives. However its loss would slowly affect the future. Without Adoption of Affordable Clean Energy solutions we will be increasing pollution, which will cause other economic factors.
Instagram is how young people communicate, Facebook is how us older people communicate. Killing Instagram today, could mean today's kids when they get into the market and want to communicate with business contacts will probably be split up across many competing services.
Online discourse is very complex.
In general you have the power to speak your mind, and often without any real consequences, as you are in general separated from the people who disagree with your argument. This separation also prevents proper discourse, undoubtedly for most arguments they are issues and factors that are not taken into account. This is the point of proper discourse, to expand the views given, not necessary change them, but to give a more complete picture.
So side one giving their opinion without much proper discourse, because opposing ideas are just trolling or just going off and giving their opinion (just like this post that seems to have nothing to do with SWATing, I am getting there I promise). Because of lack of any good counter discussion, this reinforces the idea I am right and they are wrong.
Now the opposing ideas, even the complete well composed ones, Are often lost in a sea of Trolls. Such as discussion against the GPL in a mist of comments explaining its core writers lack of Personal Hygiene, which has nothing to do for the quality or faults of that particular idea. To the person writing the Pro GPL Argument, You who is writing the counter argument is in the same group of people who are fixated on some unrelated troll. So by extension you are a toll as well.
Now for the person who had made the counter argument, had their idea dismissed for equally irrational reasons (just because there were other tolls against his idea) is feeling his ideas and contribution where dis-empowered from him. Thus not getting an appropriate discourse, and in general starting the cycle on the other side.
The feeling of dis-empowerment for some could lead to violence or trickery such as swatting, as a way to feel like they have some power over the person who had tried to take away their power.
THIS REASON DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT!
But I seem to find much of the problems we have today is from people having a lack of empowerment. Which is different from them always getting their way, but getting respect for their ideas and their contributions.
Back in the 1980's and 1990's we had Shareware. These were programs that you can download, copy with other and use. Some of them had a Trial Time Period, where you can use the full version for a period of time, then you have access to a reduced features, or not work at all. But most others Offered additional Levels, and other goodies if you were to actually purchase the software.
I see many of these free to play games with extra purchases as just an extension of the Shareware concept. However the problem that I feel is most concerning is the lack of a cap in how much you are going to pay for it. Say an $80 fee (The cost of a good console game) where everything is unlocked, and you can use the game and stay current. But that isn't the case, because it is easy to nickle and dime your way into people paying much more. Often for just something fun at the moment.
Granted this is still probably better then what people will pay for beer where they drink it, get a buzz, and then feel sick in the morning.
All of Opera advantages has been disrupted by its stupid news feature which seems to be nearly impossible to disable.