The problems with hands free devices is that they don't support many of the applications that people want to use. Many of the application developers just ignore the problem. Then you have the shoddy voice comms that just plain suck. Then you have connectivity issues and what not that most people resort to having a wired headphone to their ear instead. When the police spending millions can't even develop devices to prevent their own officers from killing people because they were to busy texting, what hope do we have?
They can be exempt and claim all the training they want, they seem to lose in court constantly for it that it resorts to having to spend more tax payers money to payoff the victim and now paying millions to "research" new devices for emergency personnel that doesn't help squat.
Simple google search seems to reveal this is more common than we realize:
I'm sure they'll claim "They're trained to do so" nonsense. Almost as bad as the cop that claimed he was trained to judge what speed I was going without a radar gun in court (Didn't really fly).
And what about the cops that constantly drive using their mobile phones? I see it all the time.
This isn't going to be deterred with higher ticket prices. They've already tried that and it isn't stopping it. The problem is getting worse when you have employers who request that you be by your phone at all times, driving or not, they don't care. This is also a failure of technologies as a lot of hands-free devices have been complete and utter crap. And now you have a new generation of kids who are literally stuck to their devices that are going to be driving really soon.
Who's making them poor? Everyone is getting into robotics, even the mom & pop stores. This isn't going to change and it isn't going to make everyone poorer overall. The people getting on the robot scheme now are going to temporarily improve their margins, but not for long. Yes, it's a gravy train right now, but there's no way these places are going to keep up their same prices as they did with regular workers. Eventually everyone is going to compete against you the same way on pricing and costs. And eventually your margins are going to be more or less the same as before. As long as government doesn't get involved, this is a net benefit for all, as products start declining in costs dramatically and the way we look at huge profits will change as well.
The other net benefit is that it opens up a lot of business opportunities for a lot of people as the costs will have dropped dramatically to get into a market and people will compete on logistical costs instead (It'll be much cheaper for some local guy to make you stuff than in China for example).
"That's absurd. It's almost luddism. I don't understand how technies, especially, don't see that as extremely infuriating and unacceptable. You are paying fewer dollars than me, but you are paying so much more than me, in convenience, security, reliability, and even aesthetics. WHAT. THE. FUCK."
This isn't just a characteristic in media, it's a cancer all over the place. From industrial machines to the lone person downloading music on their iphone. A lot of people accept this situation, I contribute it to our declining education, wages and salaries. I'm seeing more and more people just accept the way things are, I don't see people saying "No way, I don't want it this way". You should see the freakout I get when I ask machine manufacturers to give me full access to their software and PLC or get the hell out of my building (All of them break after that). I can't afford having a machine go down and I have no clue why and I won't find out why until the service guy flies in from the east coast or Europe somewhere when I have perfectly qualified people on the spot, including me.
"Enforcement alone didn't kill TPB, businesses adapting caused fewer people to fight against the enforcement."
TPB killed TPB, not streaming services. Pirating still continues just as it has all the time. Sure, streaming services have gotten cheaper and more convenient, but it's not really causing less piracy. Many people around the world still cannot afford these prices. Many people still prefer storing and having access to videos or audio at all times, instead of being regulated by some third party when and where they can access their content. There is still huge demand for non-DRM stuff and that will continue to be the case for a very long time.
But for TPB, the main page on TPB started serving malware ads for years (Even before the raids). TPB is losing the fight because they suck, literally, their website sucks. Torrents will continue to be around just like all other methods of pirating has been around, the situation just has changed away from TPB, where a lot of groups have their own websites, irc channel, whatever to serve their own content, most of them ad and malware free.
It did work, for a time. Ubuntu brought the desktop to linux that worked. The very fact that I could install Ubuntu on a laptop without having to tinker with ACPI and all other nonsense was a big plus (If anyone remembers installing linux on the laptop was a very painful experience pre-2010 days, still is). They fixed a lot of annoying little problems and contributed quite a bit to "get things working". They had the easiest installer of any linux distribution. They had an established community that was dedicated to Ubuntu and contributed a lot to fixing things. Being debian based just made it better.
Then they decided to make their own spinoffs of projects that really sucked and splitting off from all the desktop environments that worked, instead of contributing to fixing and making them better. The whole unity thing, Amazon and all the other nonsense. They should have stuck to what they were doing before, it was just fine, instead they tarnished their image and reputation with this crap.
The only spinoff which I think would have been fine is ubuntu on phones and tablets. They had quite a development following on those devices (They had a huge loyal following for the phone, ever since the whole NSA stink and a lot of people were very enthusiastic for it). The phones would been quite successful if they didn't have limited production (Seriously, they sold every handset they made). Their poor business decisions pretty much killed Ubuntu phone.
It's quite sad, as I was really hoping for an Ubuntu phone, as I wanted something else than Android or Apple, but looks like we won't ever see another one. It's not like they didn't have sales and a lot of people really wanted to buy one, a lot of people wanted to develop for it, but you simply couldn't buy one because they didn't make enough of them. Stupid decisions like that made it a complete failure.
Partially. From someone that buys equipment, I can tell you Asian manufacturers have little to no written manuals, procedures, maintenance programs, real lack of any real control diagrams and just plain hard to communicate because they really don't care about you once you buy their equipment. I constantly have their sale guys visit my place and attempt to try to convince me how much cheaper it will be if I buy their stuff. They sell to clients that are too dumb to realize their machine actually costs them more in the long run (Enjoy giving that asian guy a free vacation every time your machine breaks down) versus buying equipment from a reputable manufacturer who actually have all of the above I've written and more, driving your operating costs down dramatically. Most Asian equipment ends up having you to invent all of the above yourself.
So the whole Samsung Tizen code being full of security blunders and horrible SDK that is practically useless is no surprise to me.
The US has gigantic food markets just the same, what's your point? More than likely the gigantic food markets is majority sourced from the US somewhere. The fact that fast food places may serve drastically different things in other countries is simply a supply issue, it maybe cheaper to supply locally than from some huge farm, but I found this to be rare and in certain areas only. More than likely fast food joints will still be serving GMO heavy food from the US due to it being cheaper, considering the US exports the vast majority of the worlds food supply. You'd be surprised how much food is imported in the EU from the US. If it's chicken, highly likely it came from the US. Paying $3 per a pound of chicken versus paying $10 - $15 per a pound from the local market, huge difference there. All the anti-GMO talks stops there when some little French shop owner gasps at trying to sell chicken for $30 and trying to justify the price to the poor French people.
Most of the anti-GMO lobbying in the US is causing a huge price fluctuation of food around the world, which is why a lot of places are extremely expensive. It's not as pronounced in the US and many Americans don't notice (Since everything is literally local here), but on the export market, it's having a huge impact.
How so? I'm currently in France and I see more McDonald's here on every corner than where I live in the US. Add to that packed with tons of people. There's no shortage of McDonald's here. They like to talk about how they want to buy local and so against GMO, then they go to McDonald's because they don't have time to find something.
Uber thinks that throwing more money on the project will result in a fully autonomous vehicle. The fact is, Google had people interested in doing it and had an R&D program to do it, with the resources to do it. They had renown researchers they could take off from other projects to focus on this. They even made videos of their projects to try to encourage more smart people to join them. This is completely the inverse what Uber has.
From a regular Linux user, yes this is a problem. Trying to figure out why things don't work is quite a pain in the ass when you don't have the time to deal with it. That's one thing Microsoft certainly has everyone beat where every hardware you buy will most likely work with little to no tinkering. Unfortunately, this problem will continue on for quite a while. Displayport is another hassle especially when you want 4k and audio in Linux which I think is still very broken in Xorg.
Why bother? If you're traveling abroad to the US, you can already afford burner phones and burner laptops. Laptops and phones are cheap now. Just add it to the costs of your travel.
Ill-planned definitely. In my case, I hit everyone with the change and shift to a linux desktop all at once. As a long time linux user, I've already foreseen what problems there were going to be and I prepared for them. People expecting compatibility with Microsoft is just shooting themselves in the foot as all Microsoft has to do is change something to make everything incompatible and make everyone complain. Start using the new format and stop relying on Microsoft files immediately after a shift.
I had a new client that wasn't in my system and didn't have a method to pay me to have an order proceed. He decided that he could use paypal to pay me. I reluctantly agreed to help the guy out, boy was that a mistake. First, the transaction fees were absurd. Second, the guy had to pay me at increments because paypal has a limit and third the amount of time it took to get the money OUT of paypal was absolutely horrible. You have to wait a few weeks before you can even touch your money and then to transfer it out of paypal was another two weeks of BS that made my accountants life miserable. Paypal instantly treats you as a person with criminal intent for new accounts and only allows you to transfer $1000 at a time.
Would I use paypal again? Nope. 99% of my clients pay me with wire transfers or checks. Unless paypal can offer better services for people that move large amounts of money, they're completely useless to me and don't offer anything for me of any value.
Most likely their forms and submissions relied on MS Office docs. Then add probably some other things like Autocad for plan review and what not. I can see where all of this failed without proper prepping.
The problem with people moving to a Linux desktop is that everyone expects things to work like Windows. Hardware wise, I haven't really found much issues with hardware and linux anymore.
However, expecting Microsoft Office docs to work 100% in OpenOffice or LibreOffice was your first mistake. Either you do a full move to libre or openoffice or you're just going to screw yourself over. That means actually stop using Microsoft Office files, including your employees, don't even look at them again, ever. That's what I had to do with my business and I haven't had any issues with it.
As for browser rendering differences, I have no idea, never had that issue.
Mainly, the only problem I have so far is the lack of professional software for linux, but for the moment vmware takes care of that.
It also doesn't help that the majority of software that such municipalities need don't run on a linux desktop. For my case, vmware pretty much came into play for quite a bit of things from Siemens PLC software to Autocad and Solidworks (Because all the cad alternatives for linux is absolutely crap). There is a huge lack of professional software in linux, which really hurts its desktop adoption.
The sad part is, a lot of stuff has not even been brought over from KDE 4 yet. A lot of functionality was lost due to the move to KDE 5.x. KDE 4 worked better out of the box than KDE 5.x ever did. KIO is still broken with a lot of stuff and they're at version 5.9 now...
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The problems with hands free devices is that they don't support many of the applications that people want to use. Many of the application developers just ignore the problem. Then you have the shoddy voice comms that just plain suck. Then you have connectivity issues and what not that most people resort to having a wired headphone to their ear instead. When the police spending millions can't even develop devices to prevent their own officers from killing people because they were to busy texting, what hope do we have?
They can be exempt and claim all the training they want, they seem to lose in court constantly for it that it resorts to having to spend more tax payers money to payoff the victim and now paying millions to "research" new devices for emergency personnel that doesn't help squat.
Simple google search seems to reveal this is more common than we realize:
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I'm sure they'll claim "They're trained to do so" nonsense. Almost as bad as the cop that claimed he was trained to judge what speed I was going without a radar gun in court (Didn't really fly).
And what about the cops that constantly drive using their mobile phones? I see it all the time.
This isn't going to be deterred with higher ticket prices. They've already tried that and it isn't stopping it. The problem is getting worse when you have employers who request that you be by your phone at all times, driving or not, they don't care. This is also a failure of technologies as a lot of hands-free devices have been complete and utter crap. And now you have a new generation of kids who are literally stuck to their devices that are going to be driving really soon.
Who's making them poor? Everyone is getting into robotics, even the mom & pop stores. This isn't going to change and it isn't going to make everyone poorer overall. The people getting on the robot scheme now are going to temporarily improve their margins, but not for long. Yes, it's a gravy train right now, but there's no way these places are going to keep up their same prices as they did with regular workers. Eventually everyone is going to compete against you the same way on pricing and costs. And eventually your margins are going to be more or less the same as before. As long as government doesn't get involved, this is a net benefit for all, as products start declining in costs dramatically and the way we look at huge profits will change as well.
The other net benefit is that it opens up a lot of business opportunities for a lot of people as the costs will have dropped dramatically to get into a market and people will compete on logistical costs instead (It'll be much cheaper for some local guy to make you stuff than in China for example).
"That's absurd. It's almost luddism. I don't understand how technies, especially, don't see that as extremely infuriating and unacceptable. You are paying fewer dollars than me, but you are paying so much more than me, in convenience, security, reliability, and even aesthetics. WHAT. THE. FUCK."
This isn't just a characteristic in media, it's a cancer all over the place. From industrial machines to the lone person downloading music on their iphone. A lot of people accept this situation, I contribute it to our declining education, wages and salaries. I'm seeing more and more people just accept the way things are, I don't see people saying "No way, I don't want it this way". You should see the freakout I get when I ask machine manufacturers to give me full access to their software and PLC or get the hell out of my building (All of them break after that). I can't afford having a machine go down and I have no clue why and I won't find out why until the service guy flies in from the east coast or Europe somewhere when I have perfectly qualified people on the spot, including me.
"Enforcement alone didn't kill TPB, businesses adapting caused fewer people to fight against the enforcement."
TPB killed TPB, not streaming services. Pirating still continues just as it has all the time. Sure, streaming services have gotten cheaper and more convenient, but it's not really causing less piracy. Many people around the world still cannot afford these prices. Many people still prefer storing and having access to videos or audio at all times, instead of being regulated by some third party when and where they can access their content. There is still huge demand for non-DRM stuff and that will continue to be the case for a very long time.
But for TPB, the main page on TPB started serving malware ads for years (Even before the raids). TPB is losing the fight because they suck, literally, their website sucks. Torrents will continue to be around just like all other methods of pirating has been around, the situation just has changed away from TPB, where a lot of groups have their own websites, irc channel, whatever to serve their own content, most of them ad and malware free.
It did work, for a time. Ubuntu brought the desktop to linux that worked. The very fact that I could install Ubuntu on a laptop without having to tinker with ACPI and all other nonsense was a big plus (If anyone remembers installing linux on the laptop was a very painful experience pre-2010 days, still is). They fixed a lot of annoying little problems and contributed quite a bit to "get things working". They had the easiest installer of any linux distribution. They had an established community that was dedicated to Ubuntu and contributed a lot to fixing things. Being debian based just made it better.
Then they decided to make their own spinoffs of projects that really sucked and splitting off from all the desktop environments that worked, instead of contributing to fixing and making them better. The whole unity thing, Amazon and all the other nonsense. They should have stuck to what they were doing before, it was just fine, instead they tarnished their image and reputation with this crap.
The only spinoff which I think would have been fine is ubuntu on phones and tablets. They had quite a development following on those devices (They had a huge loyal following for the phone, ever since the whole NSA stink and a lot of people were very enthusiastic for it). The phones would been quite successful if they didn't have limited production (Seriously, they sold every handset they made). Their poor business decisions pretty much killed Ubuntu phone.
This. Ever since they did the whole Amazon fiasco, they lost my respect.
It's quite sad, as I was really hoping for an Ubuntu phone, as I wanted something else than Android or Apple, but looks like we won't ever see another one. It's not like they didn't have sales and a lot of people really wanted to buy one, a lot of people wanted to develop for it, but you simply couldn't buy one because they didn't make enough of them. Stupid decisions like that made it a complete failure.
Not when you have an android phone.
Partially. From someone that buys equipment, I can tell you Asian manufacturers have little to no written manuals, procedures, maintenance programs, real lack of any real control diagrams and just plain hard to communicate because they really don't care about you once you buy their equipment. I constantly have their sale guys visit my place and attempt to try to convince me how much cheaper it will be if I buy their stuff. They sell to clients that are too dumb to realize their machine actually costs them more in the long run (Enjoy giving that asian guy a free vacation every time your machine breaks down) versus buying equipment from a reputable manufacturer who actually have all of the above I've written and more, driving your operating costs down dramatically. Most Asian equipment ends up having you to invent all of the above yourself.
So the whole Samsung Tizen code being full of security blunders and horrible SDK that is practically useless is no surprise to me.
The US has gigantic food markets just the same, what's your point? More than likely the gigantic food markets is majority sourced from the US somewhere. The fact that fast food places may serve drastically different things in other countries is simply a supply issue, it maybe cheaper to supply locally than from some huge farm, but I found this to be rare and in certain areas only. More than likely fast food joints will still be serving GMO heavy food from the US due to it being cheaper, considering the US exports the vast majority of the worlds food supply. You'd be surprised how much food is imported in the EU from the US. If it's chicken, highly likely it came from the US. Paying $3 per a pound of chicken versus paying $10 - $15 per a pound from the local market, huge difference there. All the anti-GMO talks stops there when some little French shop owner gasps at trying to sell chicken for $30 and trying to justify the price to the poor French people.
Most of the anti-GMO lobbying in the US is causing a huge price fluctuation of food around the world, which is why a lot of places are extremely expensive. It's not as pronounced in the US and many Americans don't notice (Since everything is literally local here), but on the export market, it's having a huge impact.
How so? I'm currently in France and I see more McDonald's here on every corner than where I live in the US. Add to that packed with tons of people. There's no shortage of McDonald's here. They like to talk about how they want to buy local and so against GMO, then they go to McDonald's because they don't have time to find something.
Uber thinks that throwing more money on the project will result in a fully autonomous vehicle. The fact is, Google had people interested in doing it and had an R&D program to do it, with the resources to do it. They had renown researchers they could take off from other projects to focus on this. They even made videos of their projects to try to encourage more smart people to join them. This is completely the inverse what Uber has.
From a regular Linux user, yes this is a problem. Trying to figure out why things don't work is quite a pain in the ass when you don't have the time to deal with it. That's one thing Microsoft certainly has everyone beat where every hardware you buy will most likely work with little to no tinkering. Unfortunately, this problem will continue on for quite a while. Displayport is another hassle especially when you want 4k and audio in Linux which I think is still very broken in Xorg.
Why bother? If you're traveling abroad to the US, you can already afford burner phones and burner laptops. Laptops and phones are cheap now. Just add it to the costs of your travel.
Ill-planned definitely. In my case, I hit everyone with the change and shift to a linux desktop all at once. As a long time linux user, I've already foreseen what problems there were going to be and I prepared for them. People expecting compatibility with Microsoft is just shooting themselves in the foot as all Microsoft has to do is change something to make everything incompatible and make everyone complain. Start using the new format and stop relying on Microsoft files immediately after a shift.
I had a new client that wasn't in my system and didn't have a method to pay me to have an order proceed. He decided that he could use paypal to pay me. I reluctantly agreed to help the guy out, boy was that a mistake. First, the transaction fees were absurd. Second, the guy had to pay me at increments because paypal has a limit and third the amount of time it took to get the money OUT of paypal was absolutely horrible. You have to wait a few weeks before you can even touch your money and then to transfer it out of paypal was another two weeks of BS that made my accountants life miserable. Paypal instantly treats you as a person with criminal intent for new accounts and only allows you to transfer $1000 at a time.
Would I use paypal again? Nope. 99% of my clients pay me with wire transfers or checks. Unless paypal can offer better services for people that move large amounts of money, they're completely useless to me and don't offer anything for me of any value.
"All forms of payment cost money. Ever tried to deposit $50k at a national bank account? Fee. Have more than X number of checks per month. Fee."
Uhh, yes, all the time, I don't pay a fee to my bank for doing so. Unless you live in some crap country that does.
Most likely their forms and submissions relied on MS Office docs. Then add probably some other things like Autocad for plan review and what not. I can see where all of this failed without proper prepping.
The problem with people moving to a Linux desktop is that everyone expects things to work like Windows. Hardware wise, I haven't really found much issues with hardware and linux anymore.
However, expecting Microsoft Office docs to work 100% in OpenOffice or LibreOffice was your first mistake. Either you do a full move to libre or openoffice or you're just going to screw yourself over. That means actually stop using Microsoft Office files, including your employees, don't even look at them again, ever. That's what I had to do with my business and I haven't had any issues with it.
As for browser rendering differences, I have no idea, never had that issue.
Mainly, the only problem I have so far is the lack of professional software for linux, but for the moment vmware takes care of that.
It also doesn't help that the majority of software that such municipalities need don't run on a linux desktop. For my case, vmware pretty much came into play for quite a bit of things from Siemens PLC software to Autocad and Solidworks (Because all the cad alternatives for linux is absolutely crap). There is a huge lack of professional software in linux, which really hurts its desktop adoption.
This! I don't understand why these printers are left out in the open? Or why are they being DMZ'd? I don't understand this mentality.
The sad part is, a lot of stuff has not even been brought over from KDE 4 yet. A lot of functionality was lost due to the move to KDE 5.x. KDE 4 worked better out of the box than KDE 5.x ever did. KIO is still broken with a lot of stuff and they're at version 5.9 now...