Yes. Otherwise you promote ghettos and generations of dependence. At some point you got to stop caring more about someone else's situation then they do themselves.
Milk costs more than soda. It also has less calories. It isn't just weight of food that matters it is it's ability to sate your hunger. A 50 cal 5oz green salad still leaves you hungry. A 50g bag of chips doesn't. So you get the chips.
Because they can still get on their feet and want to have children later. It isn't eugenics or whatever you want to call it that I'm proposing. I'm proposing personal responsibility to not make themselves a bigger burden than they already are.
It's not exclusively a poor problem. However, I don't think it is unreasonable that someone that can't afford to take care of themselves be asked to not increase their expenses by their own choice while taking hand outs.
You probably don't want to bolster demand for subsidized products. AFAIK the subsidizies are usually tied either directly to quantities or indirectly (like by acres or whatever). Having more demand will just pump more subsidies into the system. I say kill the subsidies. All of a sudden a bottle of soda will cost $5 (because corn syrup would go through the roof) and people will start using their food stamps to get the milk instead. You'd also get people to realize that using a food crop to fuel your cars isn't so hot an idea (especially something like corn which is very hard on the soil to grow).
Obesity is inversely related to income because healthy foods cost more than unhealthy ones. You need to be pretty well off to get nice clean carbs and protein. But for 99cents you can get a nice big bag of chips.
How about when the girl gets on welfare with one kid you tell her "Here's the pill, here's where you can get condoms. If you get pregnant again you will be dropped from welfare and charged with child endangerment."
Why should people that are themselves dependents have the right to create more dependents with no consequences?
No that will likely be MS Dynamics, SAP or whatever the Oracle (which does support Mac). I have never seen a point of sale system that I could tell wasn't running windows. I have seen numerous that were (or still running DOS). Similarly for machinist equipment I've worked with (CNC mills/lathes/plasma tables), with tape libraries (sold by Sun no less, the fileserver was Sparc/Solaris but the actual hardware ran on Windows), etc. As for in house development my experience has usually the somewhat technical BA or manager hacks something together in Access or some other MS Office product it becomes important enough that it gets handed of to a full time dev/IT and since it is already imbedded in the MS world gets ported to say.Net, SQL Server. In house customization by relatively low level people (BA's, accounting, non-computer related engineers etc) just never seems to have caught on in the Mac/Linux space. Sure the IT guys hack away, companies that know enough what they want ahead of time might get the budget and make useable systems but the small/medium business (or siloed business unit) typically cobbles something together in Excel/Access and then throws it over the fence when it breaks or becomes important enough to do right.
Again this is changing in my experience but not the case yet. More people are coming out that are more familiar with javascript or python than VB/A|Office so it is becoming more common to see things hacked together in some web stack that might be running on anything (and Linux is a great choice because getting the LAMP stack up and running on a VM is trivial compared to both installing and getting permission to install on your work desktop a WAMP stack.
Compared to a Mac with the same specs? Yeah you didn't pay anything. You also probably got a box with a design closer to what you want (better graphics card but smaller drive? You can do that. More USB on the front but no bluray? You can do that. Etc).
So he uses Windows right? The point is Mac fanboy's say OS X does everything you need it to then they tell you well just install Parallels or do a Bootcamp install. So pay a premium for the hardware then spend loads more getting a non-OEM install of windows and potentially a license for your VM solution. That isn't want I call "just is good" that is what I call "a workaround exists". In corporate environment they then have to insure both OSs are getting updated properly, have a directory service and other access systems setup to play with 2+ different platforms etc.
I have an iMac at home boot camped to Win 8.1 and virtualbox copies of XP as well. I got sick of the performance of a VM solution and waiting for a reboot whenever I wanted to do some heavy lifting. So I run windows exclusively. I'm yet to have a reason where I had to boot into Mac to get something done but I had the problem every day or two when I tried to use Mac exclusively. The point is the platform: if one has complete coverage of everything you need and the other only misses a small amount you end up having to VM, swap between etc. Much simpler to stick with the one that covers your needs.
Similarly Windows Phone isn't a winner because their are hundreds of important apps that only exist on Android or iOS. In a lot of ways I like the UI better, I definitely like the development and development toolset better for Win Phone but I probably won't develop anything for it because I don't want to piss away my weekends so I can make 10's of dollars on Windows Store when I can make 100's of dollars on iOS.
FPS is useful software if the user wants to use it. "Useful" matters more in the corporate world at home useful is however I want to use my computer. If I just want to use it as a minesweeper and solitaire machine that's my choice. Put it another way what percentage of companies are exclusively Mac/*nix vs exclusively Windows? By far Windows would dominate. Mostly Mac/Mostly Windows: closer but still Windows would dominate.
But I thought Mac has all important software types. No it does not. It probably doesn't have the logistics software used by a trucking company, it probably doesn't have the software used by a video rental store, it probably doesn't have the latest accounting software. Do they have an Office replacement, sure. Do they have a browser, sure. Do they have (all of not just part of the stack) the specific software you need to generate the data that goes into either? Usually not. You might be able to do 90% of your stuff on a Mac at work but if you can't do that last 10%, who cares? Your boss is going to buy you a Windows PC and call it a day.
That is the problem I find with the *nix market though (and I was a unix sys admin for several years with a Mac as my primary desktop): there is something that will work. It might be crap, it might just be a text file with no formatting it gets you 80% of the way there. It is the last 20% that keeps me using Windows (and now I'm a server side dev using MS tech): not every Windows app is great but there are 10X more of them so you can find one closer to doing exactly what you want and designed in the way that you like to work vs just having to drink the koolaid and say that product X which is one of few options on your platform is so cool because it is one of few products on your platform. Wow you really love me enough to make a program for me to use? I must love you too then:)
It is just a market domination thing Windows for PC, and probably iOS or Android for mobile because they are the ones drawing the developers to provide a wide range of options.
Or dvd players or bluray within say 2 years of general availability on a PC. There is no doubt Apple is very opinionated with their design choices and since they have such a small product line (and they tend to try to make everything consistent across the line anyways) you won't find an option for you if you don't like their choices. Ex: I hate that the iMac doesn't have any forward facing usb ports. I'm constantly having to swap things in and out (find usb extenders don't charge my gadgets well and periodically drop them) but since the ports are in the back and the swivel mechanism is so loose every time I change a gadget out I have to stand up get the thing behind the machine then adjust my monitor back to the correct tilt.
Anyways a typical Apple fanboy's response is "but it is so beautiful and simple", and a typical PC fanboy's response is "but it doesn't do what I want", and a typical linux fanboy's is "I can't myself make it do what I want (ie I have to rely on someone else, or God forbid pay a company that developed a solution for me).
Finally someone agrees with me. There is macports etc but the typical Mac user is going to want something with a proper installer. OS X can be *nix all it wants the typical user can't figure out the command line so it doesn't matter. What matters is the availability of "packaged" software (whether online or offline). No one is going to be beating Windows any time soon. The best you can say is that most things are moving to SaaS/webbased so installed software is mattering less and less every day. But if you want to game, want to run most business applications, heck want to install the crapware that comes with your next shinny toy you are guaranteed to find a Windows solution, you might have a 70% chance of finding a mac installer coming with it and about a 0% chance of a Linux solution in the box. Most people don't enjoy solving computer problems they just want to do their work/play on it.
Yeah under Bush they'd tell you what they were doing and then criticize you as unpatriotic/giving America to the terrorists if you disagreed. Now they just do the same thing but try to be sneaky about it, but at least they don't insult you (as much) when you disagree.
Windows 8+ has radial menus I think is what you are referring to. The modern interface apps menus are a swipe up from the bottom (supposed to bring them up with your thumbs when grasping the device) and are supposed to be grouped near the left side and right side edges by the design guidance I seem to recall. But... hardly anyone uses them so they are effectively mote.
+1 for the on menu bar suggestion. Would follow the rest of the paradigm of having the interaction space being in a common place regardless of where the window is.
Still don't like the separate menu though, though it would make more sense if the close max, etc button were there. They could then do away with most of the window border than too. Just have a little "grabber" on a corner when not maximized and have focus otherwise you could be borderless. The menubar having the app name: generally at least for me it hasn't been enough. Maybe it is from my background as a windows user originally (though I did run OSX exclusively on the desktop for a few years) but I never got used to it, I just don't read the app name before trying to interact with the menu. If an app uses mostly the common menu layout (File, Edit etc) you might not realize right away that the menu is for the wrong app. Having to read to know if things are associated is a much slower operation than colour and proximity.
I actually find OSX flawed in some ways discoverability wise: example having to make a window active to see the menu and having the menu separate from the window itself. "Closing" an app the window goes away but the application is still running. Also IMO the min, max, close buttons are both too small and all the same size which doesn't indicate importance (either individual or relative to each other) well.
Speaking of "porns okay" wouldn't it be nice if you could only opt into good porn. Yes I want adult material but only that which meets the following criteria. Think of the thousands of hours you could save if you didn't have to search:)
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Yes because kids living in ghettos and other low income communities have such better prospects staying in the ghetto with their mother.
Yes. Otherwise you promote ghettos and generations of dependence. At some point you got to stop caring more about someone else's situation then they do themselves.
My guess is it is the cash crop subsidies to a large part. Keeping corn cheap makes things with sugar or oil cheap. If the food is processed/frozen it has much less spoilage. Over half of the food grown is wasted: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/08/22/how-food-actually-gets-wasted-in-the-united-states/ a lot of that is prevented by preservatives/freezing. The fresh greens: not so much.
Milk costs more than soda. It also has less calories. It isn't just weight of food that matters it is it's ability to sate your hunger. A 50 cal 5oz green salad still leaves you hungry. A 50g bag of chips doesn't. So you get the chips.
There are clinics pretty much everywhere that hand out condoms. Pills might be a bit harder to get though I admit.
Too bad. Shit happens. If she didn't want to take risks she should have swallowed.
Because they can still get on their feet and want to have children later. It isn't eugenics or whatever you want to call it that I'm proposing. I'm proposing personal responsibility to not make themselves a bigger burden than they already are.
It's not exclusively a poor problem. However, I don't think it is unreasonable that someone that can't afford to take care of themselves be asked to not increase their expenses by their own choice while taking hand outs.
You probably don't want to bolster demand for subsidized products. AFAIK the subsidizies are usually tied either directly to quantities or indirectly (like by acres or whatever). Having more demand will just pump more subsidies into the system. I say kill the subsidies. All of a sudden a bottle of soda will cost $5 (because corn syrup would go through the roof) and people will start using their food stamps to get the milk instead. You'd also get people to realize that using a food crop to fuel your cars isn't so hot an idea (especially something like corn which is very hard on the soil to grow).
Obesity is inversely related to income because healthy foods cost more than unhealthy ones. You need to be pretty well off to get nice clean carbs and protein. But for 99cents you can get a nice big bag of chips.
How about when the girl gets on welfare with one kid you tell her "Here's the pill, here's where you can get condoms. If you get pregnant again you will be dropped from welfare and charged with child endangerment."
Why should people that are themselves dependents have the right to create more dependents with no consequences?
True which would have been great if my keyboard lasted longer than 6 months.
No that will likely be MS Dynamics, SAP or whatever the Oracle (which does support Mac). I have never seen a point of sale system that I could tell wasn't running windows. I have seen numerous that were (or still running DOS). Similarly for machinist equipment I've worked with (CNC mills/lathes/plasma tables), with tape libraries (sold by Sun no less, the fileserver was Sparc/Solaris but the actual hardware ran on Windows), etc. As for in house development my experience has usually the somewhat technical BA or manager hacks something together in Access or some other MS Office product it becomes important enough that it gets handed of to a full time dev/IT and since it is already imbedded in the MS world gets ported to say .Net, SQL Server. In house customization by relatively low level people (BA's, accounting, non-computer related engineers etc) just never seems to have caught on in the Mac/Linux space. Sure the IT guys hack away, companies that know enough what they want ahead of time might get the budget and make useable systems but the small/medium business (or siloed business unit) typically cobbles something together in Excel/Access and then throws it over the fence when it breaks or becomes important enough to do right.
Again this is changing in my experience but not the case yet. More people are coming out that are more familiar with javascript or python than VB/A|Office so it is becoming more common to see things hacked together in some web stack that might be running on anything (and Linux is a great choice because getting the LAMP stack up and running on a VM is trivial compared to both installing and getting permission to install on your work desktop a WAMP stack.
Compared to a Mac with the same specs? Yeah you didn't pay anything. You also probably got a box with a design closer to what you want (better graphics card but smaller drive? You can do that. More USB on the front but no bluray? You can do that. Etc).
So he uses Windows right? The point is Mac fanboy's say OS X does everything you need it to then they tell you well just install Parallels or do a Bootcamp install. So pay a premium for the hardware then spend loads more getting a non-OEM install of windows and potentially a license for your VM solution. That isn't want I call "just is good" that is what I call "a workaround exists". In corporate environment they then have to insure both OSs are getting updated properly, have a directory service and other access systems setup to play with 2+ different platforms etc.
I have an iMac at home boot camped to Win 8.1 and virtualbox copies of XP as well. I got sick of the performance of a VM solution and waiting for a reboot whenever I wanted to do some heavy lifting. So I run windows exclusively. I'm yet to have a reason where I had to boot into Mac to get something done but I had the problem every day or two when I tried to use Mac exclusively. The point is the platform: if one has complete coverage of everything you need and the other only misses a small amount you end up having to VM, swap between etc. Much simpler to stick with the one that covers your needs.
Similarly Windows Phone isn't a winner because their are hundreds of important apps that only exist on Android or iOS. In a lot of ways I like the UI better, I definitely like the development and development toolset better for Win Phone but I probably won't develop anything for it because I don't want to piss away my weekends so I can make 10's of dollars on Windows Store when I can make 100's of dollars on iOS.
FPS is useful software if the user wants to use it. "Useful" matters more in the corporate world at home useful is however I want to use my computer. If I just want to use it as a minesweeper and solitaire machine that's my choice. Put it another way what percentage of companies are exclusively Mac/*nix vs exclusively Windows? By far Windows would dominate. Mostly Mac/Mostly Windows: closer but still Windows would dominate.
But I thought Mac has all important software types. No it does not. It probably doesn't have the logistics software used by a trucking company, it probably doesn't have the software used by a video rental store, it probably doesn't have the latest accounting software. Do they have an Office replacement, sure. Do they have a browser, sure. Do they have (all of not just part of the stack) the specific software you need to generate the data that goes into either? Usually not. You might be able to do 90% of your stuff on a Mac at work but if you can't do that last 10%, who cares? Your boss is going to buy you a Windows PC and call it a day.
That is the problem I find with the *nix market though (and I was a unix sys admin for several years with a Mac as my primary desktop): there is something that will work. It might be crap, it might just be a text file with no formatting it gets you 80% of the way there. It is the last 20% that keeps me using Windows (and now I'm a server side dev using MS tech): not every Windows app is great but there are 10X more of them so you can find one closer to doing exactly what you want and designed in the way that you like to work vs just having to drink the koolaid and say that product X which is one of few options on your platform is so cool because it is one of few products on your platform. Wow you really love me enough to make a program for me to use? I must love you too then :)
It is just a market domination thing Windows for PC, and probably iOS or Android for mobile because they are the ones drawing the developers to provide a wide range of options.
Or dvd players or bluray within say 2 years of general availability on a PC. There is no doubt Apple is very opinionated with their design choices and since they have such a small product line (and they tend to try to make everything consistent across the line anyways) you won't find an option for you if you don't like their choices. Ex: I hate that the iMac doesn't have any forward facing usb ports. I'm constantly having to swap things in and out (find usb extenders don't charge my gadgets well and periodically drop them) but since the ports are in the back and the swivel mechanism is so loose every time I change a gadget out I have to stand up get the thing behind the machine then adjust my monitor back to the correct tilt.
Anyways a typical Apple fanboy's response is "but it is so beautiful and simple", and a typical PC fanboy's response is "but it doesn't do what I want", and a typical linux fanboy's is "I can't myself make it do what I want (ie I have to rely on someone else, or God forbid pay a company that developed a solution for me).
Finally someone agrees with me. There is macports etc but the typical Mac user is going to want something with a proper installer. OS X can be *nix all it wants the typical user can't figure out the command line so it doesn't matter. What matters is the availability of "packaged" software (whether online or offline). No one is going to be beating Windows any time soon. The best you can say is that most things are moving to SaaS/webbased so installed software is mattering less and less every day. But if you want to game, want to run most business applications, heck want to install the crapware that comes with your next shinny toy you are guaranteed to find a Windows solution, you might have a 70% chance of finding a mac installer coming with it and about a 0% chance of a Linux solution in the box. Most people don't enjoy solving computer problems they just want to do their work/play on it.
Or useful software but who needs that anyways?
Yeah under Bush they'd tell you what they were doing and then criticize you as unpatriotic/giving America to the terrorists if you disagreed. Now they just do the same thing but try to be sneaky about it, but at least they don't insult you (as much) when you disagree.
Windows 8+ has radial menus I think is what you are referring to. The modern interface apps menus are a swipe up from the bottom (supposed to bring them up with your thumbs when grasping the device) and are supposed to be grouped near the left side and right side edges by the design guidance I seem to recall. But ... hardly anyone uses them so they are effectively mote.
+1 for the on menu bar suggestion. Would follow the rest of the paradigm of having the interaction space being in a common place regardless of where the window is.
Still don't like the separate menu though, though it would make more sense if the close max, etc button were there. They could then do away with most of the window border than too. Just have a little "grabber" on a corner when not maximized and have focus otherwise you could be borderless. The menubar having the app name: generally at least for me it hasn't been enough. Maybe it is from my background as a windows user originally (though I did run OSX exclusively on the desktop for a few years) but I never got used to it, I just don't read the app name before trying to interact with the menu. If an app uses mostly the common menu layout (File, Edit etc) you might not realize right away that the menu is for the wrong app. Having to read to know if things are associated is a much slower operation than colour and proximity.
I actually find OSX flawed in some ways discoverability wise: example having to make a window active to see the menu and having the menu separate from the window itself. "Closing" an app the window goes away but the application is still running. Also IMO the min, max, close buttons are both too small and all the same size which doesn't indicate importance (either individual or relative to each other) well.
Speaking of "porns okay" wouldn't it be nice if you could only opt into good porn. Yes I want adult material but only that which meets the following criteria. Think of the thousands of hours you could save if you didn't have to search :)