Yes, it really isn't that expensive. I put in my own fiber network for our farm, home and business. Small, but then we're smaller than Google (surprise!) and I had a very good reason. Fiber is immune to lightning strikes which are a huge problem up here on the mountain. Next I would like to lay fiber the mile and a half down to the phone company. It pushes the lightning strike problem that much further away from us.
So wonderful! My grandfather went blind towards the end of his life, or nearly so. Having sight again would have been something he dearly would have liked for reading. I hope this continues to advance and quickly for all those who are sight impaired.
It all sounds so rosy and wonderful... provided we can trust Google. They used to claim to do no Evil but that was a thing of the past. They've biased search results, stolen intellectual property and any number of other Evil things. I long for a Go(d)ogle who is Good(gle).
Really? Perhaps you're simply aware that most people don't do math very well and having calculators around has made this more visible. People who are math inclined often do the numbers faster than it takes to even reach for a calculator never mind punch in the digits. Most people were never like that. Astonished me when I found out.
Break downs? Same as before cell phones. There's a reason, cell phones don't work around here except in pockets around the cities. Mostly there is no coverage.
We get along fine without cell phones. They are not necessary. You are welcome, of course, to carry one and perhaps in your location they work but cell phones are not a necessity. One of the big problems with society is people are confusing needs with wants.
*grin* I would mark you as funny but I can't moderate this since I already commented.
Our pork is high in vitamin D and Omega-3 Fatty acids because it is raised on pasture. Eat appropriate amounts of a varied diet, exercise as part of your life and you don't have to worry about getting fat. Getting fat comes from over eating and not getting enough exercise. I, and all of our family, eat plenty of meat and am not fat at all. I have known plenty of fat vegans and vegetarians so don't worry, meat is not the issue. Enjoy your pork chops.
As to carbon neutral, our farm is actually far better than that. We are carbon negative. We soak up about 1,400,000 pounds of carbon a year in our pastures and forest but we produce virtually no carbon or other pollution. Grazed pastures are more efficient at soaking up carbon so by eating our pork you're helping the environment. Green ham and green eggs!
Curse you, Apple computers for making such durable gear.
*grin* If only every manufacturer made such durable equipment. It used to be that way. I have power tools from the 1970's and 1980's that work great. I have hand tools that are over a century old. I have a cast iron skillet that is older than that. Still functions. This fad of making things only last a year or two is wasteful.
You're problem is you're expecting too much. Pass the computer down the line. A 10 year old Mac runs 10 and 15 year old software (even 5 year old software) just great. This way everyone in the family gets a machine to use.
My mother likes it, she doesn't need more computing power to type a letter, do a spreadsheet, email or browse the web.
My youngest daughter loves the older machine for most of what she does because she's using educational software that won't even run on the newer machines since Apple fails to support Classic and PPC.
Use the equipment at an appropriate level. Don't expect it to be more than it is. Just because a new model comes out doesn't mean the old model somehow instantly loses functionality. No, the same functionality is still there.
""That's something of an oversimplification. Merely producing is not enough to succeed, since efficiencies of scale kills dozens of family farms a day. There is also marketing value, distribution, all sorts of lockout/contract/exclusivity/undercutting complications, weather/climate, choosing the wrong crop in a bumper year.]"
We do the marketing, transportation, delivery, distribution, deal with weather, etc. So it really isn't an over simplification at all. As I said, we do vertical integration and that includes all of those things. Check out:
Too bad you phrase this as a class struggle. It is not. Poor people and middle class people like to go fast. Speeding has nothing to do with class. It's simply dangerous. It's a real pain in the butt as well as being dangerous. People need to slow down.
Perhaps what we need is for people to get back in the business of producing. Our family business maximizes vertical integration and just-in-time manufacturing to make it so we control our process, product and profits. We do work with retailers and they take about a 50% cut. To make it we have to make sure that we keep as much as possible of that other 50%. Unlike many businesses, our family actually does the work. We farm. We turn sunlight into food.
"Gimme a Laptop Air that runs Windows or hell, Linux, and I'll buy it in a heartbeat..."
It's called a Macintosh and any of them run Windows or Linux if you really want to downgrade to that. I'll stick to MacOSX.
As to sales, Apple is increasing market share while the others are flatlining. Why? Quality. I buy a Mac and it lasts a decade or more. We have 1999 Macs in our family that are still running fine. We just pass them down the line.
And now I would like you to meet Miss Jello, Mr. Pancake & Ms. Crispy. They will demonstrate what happens when you accelerate too fast, stop too quickly or lose vacuum.
People have been trying to to replace the QWERTY keyboard for about 100 years. Lots of "better" keyboards have been proposed. None have caught on.
The fact of the matter is once you learn it you can go very, very fast on the QWERTY. I touch type at about 135 wpm sustained. I knew someone who was even faster. Most people I know can do 35 to 55 wpm easily. Sure, I could go faster with a more efficient keyboard but they're not standardized and standards matter, a lot.
What is awful is these new on-screen keyboards with all their weird layouts and no feedback.
The issue is not global warming. It really is not relevant. It has been much hotter in the past (and live thrived with an explosion of diversity) and it has been much colder in the past (near and distant, try the mini-ice ages of the last few centuries on for size). The reality is cooling is more of a problem than warming.
But most of all, people, especially city people, don't like change. They have a hard time adapting because they're locked down in a bad spot. So they whine about it.
What they need to do is stop complaining about global warming and start doing something about real problems like war, toxic pollution and such which are real threats.
Most of all, have more children and teach them. They are the hope for our species. There is a disaster headed our way, likely a space object, that will wipe out most life on this planet, including you. That will set humanity back a bit, or kill it off entirely. This keeps happening. Our best chance is to develop the technology to let us get off this rock and colonize other planets and even outside our solar system so we can survive. With us we'll undoubtedly take other species. We are their hope.
I counter-counter-predict that the agencies like the city of SF who adhere to this will be forced into an embarrassing climb-down because of the realization that these standards are bogus marketing tools that have nothing to do with real world greening.
This makes the assumption that the network and remote data store is always available. That is not the case. It is simply not there in many locations, slow in others, unreliable even where it does exist. I want my data in my 'hands'. I backup to my home and business servers. I don't want to be backing up or remotely using my data over someone else's network or storage.
An often ignored issue is that the police, and bad guys, can simply take your data if it is stored in the cloud. You have no data security over the net, even with encryption. The courts have said the police don't need warrants for that but they do need a warrant to invade your house. Keep your data at home.
The issue here has nothing to do with environmentalism or profitability. It is about building better, more rugged equipment. If the hardware certification program is outdated in its specifications then it makes sense to leave and move on, which is what Apple is doing.
I predict that the program will update itself to account for this and Apple will rejoin, after the changes are there.
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Yes, it really isn't that expensive. I put in my own fiber network for our farm, home and business. Small, but then we're smaller than Google (surprise!) and I had a very good reason. Fiber is immune to lightning strikes which are a huge problem up here on the mountain. Next I would like to lay fiber the mile and a half down to the phone company. It pushes the lightning strike problem that much further away from us.
Dibs on first run to my house!
Apple could just tell the UK to Fsk off. The Queen would be pissed. Or maybe she would smuggle in her gadget fix?
Obvious
Prior Art
Non-unique
Not patentable
The patent clerks have sunk to a new low.
So wonderful! My grandfather went blind towards the end of his life, or nearly so. Having sight again would have been something he dearly would have liked for reading. I hope this continues to advance and quickly for all those who are sight impaired.
Poster of Uncle Sam pointing at a young woman:
Uncle Sam Wants You!
To Be Patriotic and
Fsk a Hacker Today!
You can make the difference!
It all sounds so rosy and wonderful... provided we can trust Google. They used to claim to do no Evil but that was a thing of the past. They've biased search results, stolen intellectual property and any number of other Evil things. I long for a Go(d)ogle who is Good(gle).
"Then ubiquitous calculators eroded arithmetic skills."
Really? Perhaps you're simply aware that most people don't do math very well and having calculators around has made this more visible. People who are math inclined often do the numbers faster than it takes to even reach for a calculator never mind punch in the digits. Most people were never like that. Astonished me when I found out.
We still have pay phones around here.
Break downs? Same as before cell phones. There's a reason, cell phones don't work around here except in pockets around the cities. Mostly there is no coverage.
We get along fine without cell phones. They are not necessary. You are welcome, of course, to carry one and perhaps in your location they work but cell phones are not a necessity. One of the big problems with society is people are confusing needs with wants.
There is a simple solution. Don't have a cell phone.
*grin* I would mark you as funny but I can't moderate this since I already commented.
Our pork is high in vitamin D and Omega-3 Fatty acids because it is raised on pasture. Eat appropriate amounts of a varied diet, exercise as part of your life and you don't have to worry about getting fat. Getting fat comes from over eating and not getting enough exercise. I, and all of our family, eat plenty of meat and am not fat at all. I have known plenty of fat vegans and vegetarians so don't worry, meat is not the issue. Enjoy your pork chops.
As to carbon neutral, our farm is actually far better than that. We are carbon negative. We soak up about 1,400,000 pounds of carbon a year in our pastures and forest but we produce virtually no carbon or other pollution. Grazed pastures are more efficient at soaking up carbon so by eating our pork you're helping the environment. Green ham and green eggs!
Sorry about the electric car. You could sell it.
Curse you, Apple computers for making such durable gear.
*grin* If only every manufacturer made such durable equipment. It used to be that way. I have power tools from the 1970's and 1980's that work great. I have hand tools that are over a century old. I have a cast iron skillet that is older than that. Still functions. This fad of making things only last a year or two is wasteful.
You must have a quite strange definition of fine.
You're problem is you're expecting too much. Pass the computer down the line. A 10 year old Mac runs 10 and 15 year old software (even 5 year old software) just great. This way everyone in the family gets a machine to use.
My mother likes it, she doesn't need more computing power to type a letter, do a spreadsheet, email or browse the web.
My youngest daughter loves the older machine for most of what she does because she's using educational software that won't even run on the newer machines since Apple fails to support Classic and PPC.
Use the equipment at an appropriate level. Don't expect it to be more than it is. Just because a new model comes out doesn't mean the old model somehow instantly loses functionality. No, the same functionality is still there.
""That's something of an oversimplification. Merely producing is not enough to succeed, since efficiencies of scale kills dozens of family farms a day. There is also marketing value, distribution, all sorts of lockout/contract/exclusivity/undercutting complications, weather/climate, choosing the wrong crop in a bumper year.]"
We do the marketing, transportation, delivery, distribution, deal with weather, etc. So it really isn't an over simplification at all. As I said, we do vertical integration and that includes all of those things. Check out:
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/
Too bad you phrase this as a class struggle. It is not. Poor people and middle class people like to go fast. Speeding has nothing to do with class. It's simply dangerous. It's a real pain in the butt as well as being dangerous. People need to slow down.
Perhaps what we need is for people to get back in the business of producing. Our family business maximizes vertical integration and just-in-time manufacturing to make it so we control our process, product and profits. We do work with retailers and they take about a 50% cut. To make it we have to make sure that we keep as much as possible of that other 50%. Unlike many businesses, our family actually does the work. We farm. We turn sunlight into food.
"Gimme a Laptop Air that runs Windows or hell, Linux, and I'll buy it in a heartbeat..."
It's called a Macintosh and any of them run Windows or Linux if you really want to downgrade to that. I'll stick to MacOSX.
As to sales, Apple is increasing market share while the others are flatlining. Why? Quality. I buy a Mac and it lasts a decade or more. We have 1999 Macs in our family that are still running fine. We just pass them down the line.
And now I would like you to meet Miss Jello, Mr. Pancake & Ms. Crispy. They will demonstrate what happens when you accelerate too fast, stop too quickly or lose vacuum.
Reality can be a bit more disturbing than Sci-Fi.
People have been trying to to replace the QWERTY keyboard for about 100 years. Lots of "better" keyboards have been proposed. None have caught on.
The fact of the matter is once you learn it you can go very, very fast on the QWERTY. I touch type at about 135 wpm sustained. I knew someone who was even faster. Most people I know can do 35 to 55 wpm easily. Sure, I could go faster with a more efficient keyboard but they're not standardized and standards matter, a lot.
What is awful is these new on-screen keyboards with all their weird layouts and no feedback.
The issue is not global warming. It really is not relevant. It has been much hotter in the past (and live thrived with an explosion of diversity) and it has been much colder in the past (near and distant, try the mini-ice ages of the last few centuries on for size). The reality is cooling is more of a problem than warming.
But most of all, people, especially city people, don't like change. They have a hard time adapting because they're locked down in a bad spot. So they whine about it.
What they need to do is stop complaining about global warming and start doing something about real problems like war, toxic pollution and such which are real threats.
Most of all, have more children and teach them. They are the hope for our species. There is a disaster headed our way, likely a space object, that will wipe out most life on this planet, including you. That will set humanity back a bit, or kill it off entirely. This keeps happening. Our best chance is to develop the technology to let us get off this rock and colonize other planets and even outside our solar system so we can survive. With us we'll undoubtedly take other species. We are their hope.
Now, go have sex.
I counter-counter-predict that the agencies like the city of SF who adhere to this will be forced into an embarrassing climb-down because of the realization that these standards are bogus marketing tools that have nothing to do with real world greening.
A flash crash would be great. These sellers are despicable for using this sort of technology and I would love to see them hoisted on their own petard.
Automated buyer watching algorithms could hasten the death of this sort of sales tactic. Assassin buyers and suicide sellers.
Microsoft who? Don't they make game consoles or something?
This makes the assumption that the network and remote data store is always available. That is not the case. It is simply not there in many locations, slow in others, unreliable even where it does exist. I want my data in my 'hands'. I backup to my home and business servers. I don't want to be backing up or remotely using my data over someone else's network or storage.
An often ignored issue is that the police, and bad guys, can simply take your data if it is stored in the cloud. You have no data security over the net, even with encryption. The courts have said the police don't need warrants for that but they do need a warrant to invade your house. Keep your data at home.
The issue here has nothing to do with environmentalism or profitability. It is about building better, more rugged equipment. If the hardware certification program is outdated in its specifications then it makes sense to leave and move on, which is what Apple is doing.
I predict that the program will update itself to account for this and Apple will rejoin, after the changes are there.