"the industry has learned that they can't rely on Apple's walled garden to make a profit."
Profit was never guaranteed. Anywhere. I wonder what part of the lessons in economics and capitalism did these "Industry" people miss out on? Did they fail the class too? Did they just skip class all together?
Of course they boost their own interests. They're in business and they're only human. Well, actually, just about any species would do it. It's the natural order.
Mandetory voting is one of those dumb ideas that gets tossed around time to time. It gets promoted by what ever people thing that by forcing people to vote those forced voters would vote in that party's favor. This is a very dangerous way to 'get out the vote' as it were.
We're supposed to live in the 'land of the free' and one of those freedoms is the right to not vote. Please do not vote if you don't want to vote. I vote. When you don't vote I get more power!
If this house is made of wood then you are creating a high fire risk. The space you put the system in should be sheathed with drywall, ideally doubly, since computers burn and can then catch nearby wood on fire burning down the entire house. Most houses are built of 2x construction which is basically a tinderbox. This is the reason the interiors are sheathed with sheetrock. It's not to look nice, it's to stop fires.
A better idea would be to build of concrete or stone.
Back in the 1700's there were a lot of theories, and things thrown around as laws, that we would now view as really stupid. That was chaff that has been forgotten. Only the good stuff was kept. Music and literature are similar.
Yahoo, Google and others keep asking me for my mobile phone number. I have none. A lot of people don't have cell phones and even more don't have smartphones. A lot of the country, a lot of the world does not have cellular coverage.
"Why Does Science Appear To Be Getting Things Increasingly Wrong?"
Probably because you have more difficulty looking at things that are in the future and near term but don't understand that the past has been largely settled.
To put it another way, your perceptions of the past being more accurate is caused by the filters of history and time. You aren't seeing all the chaff.
The IRS is funding this research with the hope of getting tax payers to look forward to paying their taxes, more often, larger, bigger, huger! Pretty soon you'll want to shovel your money into the IRS pockets so that you can feel that pleasure. It will be better than sex, better than chocolate. There will be a resulting reduction in world obesity and population.
You might be right but here in the north the switch in DST doesn't do us any good either. The day light period gets short in the winter no matter how you shift the mid-point. We just deal with it. The switching back and forth of clocks is the hassle. Some, like computers connected to the internet, do it automatically. Others like the stove, microwave, etc have to be hand set, or ignored. Personally, it makes no difference to our own life schedule but then we work on a farm with the natural cycles, not with an office. For office workers it is more of a hassle I suspect.
"Impossible" is a bad word choice. It should be "Difficult". Robots have been created that do laundry including the folding. They're slow. But that is merely a problem of CRU, not of impossibility.
It doesn't matter which we go with, let's just pick one and stick with it year round. The natural cycles make it so that sunrise and sunset change dramatically from December to June. They can't legislate away the tilt of the Earth so let's start by accepting nature and science and do away with this nonsense of changing the clocks.
When the robots take your job robots and material goods will become cheap too. Return to the land. Produce your own food and many other things. Enjoy life. Fret less. Be.
Your lack of imagination and drive is your problem. Look for land where it is cheaper. That's what I did. Worked. The money you spend on rent each month could instead be building you an asset. With renting you have nothing.
No, actually most of what is in my house was created by me and has never been to a city and mostly those things were created from materials right here on our own land. I have few possessions.
It's a very different world than you are used to, clearly.
"Trying to find new jobs for billions of people is a good idea but obviously very hard because whatever the new jobs are, they will probably be so fundamentally different from anything that exists today that meaningful planning is almost impossible."
Return to the land. Farm. Raise up your own food and some extra. Harvest your own local fuel. Build your own house. All of these things are doable and it brings your cost of living to nearly nil. No need for 'jobs'. Be.
Not really. You won't find any light from us. I am careful to not waste light. What goes up to the sky is a waste. It's not being useful. We are also minimally noisy and not polluting.
Just because there are humans does not mean there will be light, noise or pollution.
The problem is choices. Urban areas have too many people choosing not to conserve and letting their noise, light and pollutants out into the environment. One might argue the problem is simply too many people in those places such that they don't care. They have other priorities.
Where we are is pretty deep blue on the map but I bet it is even bluer in reality as we are in a valley surrounded by mountains that lift the sound up over us providing an extra buffer. Loving it in the deep blue.
Interesting to note the map also looks like the city lights maps.
I've got this covered. We'll have population increases over the next century up to the point of a sustainable level at 50 Billion. This will allow one quarter of the earth's land area to be set aside as natural parks areas, move people out of the urban areas and back to the land, get almost everyone involved at least to some degree with producing at least 10% of their own food, improve health and education all while lowering consumption by 90%.
1) All existing and past applications should be able to run on current platforms. This can be done economically and gracefully with enveloping. That would even allow modern OSs to run software from all previous OSs even those not in their lineages or hardware histories. There is no good excuse for Apple, Microsoft and others making the OS's not compatible with legacy software. Access to legacy software is key to our being able to access our data into the future.
2) OS makers should be building their OSs so that they run on older hardware. This can be done gracefully and economically with targeted compiling and fall back on features that older hardware is not able to support.
Companies are driving our data to extinction. Legacy support should be required. If it was required they would figure out how to do it gracefully because that means economically.
I prefer having a dumb home that passively does what it should do. That is what I designed and built. It is low cost, low maintenance, low taxes and passive. It just works. It keeps us sheltered from rain, warm in the winter and cool in the summer with a minimum of effort, cost and upkeep.
Smart Homes are a Dumb Idea that gadget makers have been trying to sell for a long time. The problem is do you really want to be upgrading and replacing your home's parts every five years or more frequently?
What will be worse is subscription homes. It's called renting.
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"the industry has learned that they can't rely on Apple's walled garden to make a profit."
Profit was never guaranteed. Anywhere. I wonder what part of the lessons in economics and capitalism did these "Industry" people miss out on? Did they fail the class too? Did they just skip class all together?
Of course they boost their own interests.
They're in business and they're only human.
Well, actually, just about any species would do it.
It's the natural order.
Mandetory voting is one of those dumb ideas that gets tossed around time to time. It gets promoted by what ever people thing that by forcing people to vote those forced voters would vote in that party's favor. This is a very dangerous way to 'get out the vote' as it were.
We're supposed to live in the 'land of the free' and one of those freedoms is the right to not vote. Please do not vote if you don't want to vote. I vote. When you don't vote I get more power!
If this house is made of wood then you are creating a high fire risk. The space you put the system in should be sheathed with drywall, ideally doubly, since computers burn and can then catch nearby wood on fire burning down the entire house. Most houses are built of 2x construction which is basically a tinderbox. This is the reason the interiors are sheathed with sheetrock. It's not to look nice, it's to stop fires.
A better idea would be to build of concrete or stone.
Back in the 1700's there were a lot of theories, and things thrown around as laws, that we would now view as really stupid. That was chaff that has been forgotten. Only the good stuff was kept. Music and literature are similar.
I'm all for making fines income sensitive because the current system here makes them just a tickle for some people.
BUT we need to stop fines from being used as a revenue source for government. Since fines are paid to the government this is a bit of a tricky wicket.
Yahoo, Google and others keep asking me for my mobile phone number. I have none. A lot of people don't have cell phones and even more don't have smartphones. A lot of the country, a lot of the world does not have cellular coverage.
"Why Does Science Appear To Be Getting Things Increasingly Wrong?"
Probably because you have more difficulty looking at things that are in the future and near term but don't understand that the past has been largely settled.
To put it another way, your perceptions of the past being more accurate is caused by the filters of history and time. You aren't seeing all the chaff.
The IRS is funding this research with the hope of getting tax payers to look forward to paying their taxes, more often, larger, bigger, huger! Pretty soon you'll want to shovel your money into the IRS pockets so that you can feel that pleasure. It will be better than sex, better than chocolate. There will be a resulting reduction in world obesity and population.
You might be right but here in the north the switch in DST doesn't do us any good either. The day light period gets short in the winter no matter how you shift the mid-point. We just deal with it. The switching back and forth of clocks is the hassle. Some, like computers connected to the internet, do it automatically. Others like the stove, microwave, etc have to be hand set, or ignored. Personally, it makes no difference to our own life schedule but then we work on a farm with the natural cycles, not with an office. For office workers it is more of a hassle I suspect.
"Impossible" is a bad word choice. It should be "Difficult". Robots have been created that do laundry including the folding. They're slow. But that is merely a problem of CRU, not of impossibility.
It doesn't matter which we go with, let's just pick one and stick with it year round. The natural cycles make it so that sunrise and sunset change dramatically from December to June. They can't legislate away the tilt of the Earth so let's start by accepting nature and science and do away with this nonsense of changing the clocks.
When the robots take your job robots and material goods will become cheap too. Return to the land. Produce your own food and many other things. Enjoy life. Fret less. Be.
Your lack of imagination and drive is your problem. Look for land where it is cheaper. That's what I did. Worked. The money you spend on rent each month could instead be building you an asset. With renting you have nothing.
Sorry you live in the wrong place. Pick a better location with less services and lower costs. That's what I did. Works.
No force involved and people are already returning to the land in droves. It's been happening for several decades now.
It is time to eliminate the patent system. The only reward should be delivering the product to customers and making the sales.
No, actually most of what is in my house was created by me and has never been to a city and mostly those things were created from materials right here on our own land. I have few possessions.
It's a very different world than you are used to, clearly.
"Trying to find new jobs for billions of people is a good idea but obviously very hard because whatever the new jobs are, they will probably be so fundamentally different from anything that exists today that meaningful planning is almost impossible."
Return to the land. Farm. Raise up your own food and some extra. Harvest your own local fuel. Build your own house. All of these things are doable and it brings your cost of living to nearly nil. No need for 'jobs'. Be.
"Where there is human, there is light"
Not really. You won't find any light from us. I am careful to not waste light. What goes up to the sky is a waste. It's not being useful. We are also minimally noisy and not polluting.
Just because there are humans does not mean there will be light, noise or pollution.
The problem is choices. Urban areas have too many people choosing not to conserve and letting their noise, light and pollutants out into the environment. One might argue the problem is simply too many people in those places such that they don't care. They have other priorities.
Where we are is pretty deep blue on the map but I bet it is even bluer in reality as we are in a valley surrounded by mountains that lift the sound up over us providing an extra buffer. Loving it in the deep blue.
Interesting to note the map also looks like the city lights maps.
I've got this covered. We'll have population increases over the next century up to the point of a sustainable level at 50 Billion. This will allow one quarter of the earth's land area to be set aside as natural parks areas, move people out of the urban areas and back to the land, get almost everyone involved at least to some degree with producing at least 10% of their own food, improve health and education all while lowering consumption by 90%.
"It costs a lot of money to keep everything compatible."
What a short sited response you have. Consider:
1) there are hundreds of millions of older iOS devices and Macs.
2) older iOS offer an inexpensive way for new users to come into the fold and become customers.
3) Apple makes the vast majority of their money on software and content.
Ergo, by offering legacy support they greatly increase their market share and their income.
The same argument could have been made for PCs except they don't last.
Play the long game. It's for winners.
We desperately need legacy support.
1) All existing and past applications should be able to run on current platforms. This can be done economically and gracefully with enveloping. That would even allow modern OSs to run software from all previous OSs even those not in their lineages or hardware histories. There is no good excuse for Apple, Microsoft and others making the OS's not compatible with legacy software. Access to legacy software is key to our being able to access our data into the future.
2) OS makers should be building their OSs so that they run on older hardware. This can be done gracefully and economically with targeted compiling and fall back on features that older hardware is not able to support.
Companies are driving our data to extinction. Legacy support should be required. If it was required they would figure out how to do it gracefully because that means economically.
I prefer having a dumb home that passively does what it should do. That is what I designed and built. It is low cost, low maintenance, low taxes and passive. It just works. It keeps us sheltered from rain, warm in the winter and cool in the summer with a minimum of effort, cost and upkeep.
Smart Homes are a Dumb Idea that gadget makers have been trying to sell for a long time. The problem is do you really want to be upgrading and replacing your home's parts every five years or more frequently?
What will be worse is subscription homes. It's called renting.
No dice.