So your solution to the greed of the "job creators" which is leading towards unsustainable wage disparities and high unemployment due to large-scale automation is to make it easier for them to get their fix by lowering employee benefits?
GP was right, we do need a new economy to deal with the fact that people can't compete with robots anymore, we've been putting hackish fixes on this tarted-up barter system for too long and it won't stay running much longer. Trying to make people cheaper than robots doesn't seem like a good short-term solution. Maybe instead we stop giving into the money addiction of the few?
More efficient yes, but without modern emissions controls equipment (which many plants in the US and China don't have) still more polluting. That's how nasty coal is.
Unless it was produced with and charged by 100% coal power or close to it, it will be "greener." In most places there is a huge difference.
Of course then they're going to fly the cars and the teams all around the world, completely obliterating that difference, so you've still got something to nitpick on and pooh-pooh electric cars with.
F1 is still at the peak of car technology even if the use of that technology is restrained. The most expensive supercars or any other race car are pedestrian in comparison.
Funny how they never do that. I figure you could hire a guy at least as good as Steve Elop for something in the US minimum wage range and save about the cost of a low-end fighter jet each year.
Good for you but I gotta say, I think it's really cheesy and laughable when someone calls themself the CEO of a little startup or mom & pop operation. If I somwehow had the cash and time to start a company I think I'd hold off calling myself the CEO until I had at least 50 employees.
I get what you're saying but the equilibrium point is probably very, very low. In a lot of countries the average wage is well below $17k a year, and inflation adjusted, always has been. So sadly it seems possible for this massive inequality to go on for generations. Businesses just adjust to sell cheaper (lower-quality/more basic) goods that people can afford.
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All of those face the same threat from robotics - even infotech, although to a lesser degree. It will also move to fewer, more highly skilled jobs.
So your solution to the greed of the "job creators" which is leading towards unsustainable wage disparities and high unemployment due to large-scale automation is to make it easier for them to get their fix by lowering employee benefits?
GP was right, we do need a new economy to deal with the fact that people can't compete with robots anymore, we've been putting hackish fixes on this tarted-up barter system for too long and it won't stay running much longer. Trying to make people cheaper than robots doesn't seem like a good short-term solution. Maybe instead we stop giving into the money addiction of the few?
Oh I thought we were discussing the surface area of an adult's shirt.
I assume you mean 48 hours, and that sounds wrong. The little "folding wallet" solar chargers do it in under a day.
Already done.
Well, you know what you need to do...
Hahaha my thoughts exactly.
Building computers and beta testing software, that's something to put on a CV? If so I'm the king of that.
Yes. Any similar batteries are just as likely to catch fire if flooded with salt water, however.
What The Market Will Bear - the real version of Supply and Demand!
"No wonder those humans are always trying to eat us...we're delicious!"
Hey you know what's under a labcoat? A pizza-stained shirt. From slouching and eating it while running an experiment with someone else's discoveries.
More efficient yes, but without modern emissions controls equipment (which many plants in the US and China don't have) still more polluting. That's how nasty coal is.
You know all the computer assisted driving has been gone for at least a year. That was definitely the worst part.
Yep and pretty soon they'll stomp all over the ICE vehicles...not much ego and narcissism in defeat.
Unless it was produced with and charged by 100% coal power or close to it, it will be "greener." In most places there is a huge difference.
Of course then they're going to fly the cars and the teams all around the world, completely obliterating that difference, so you've still got something to nitpick on and pooh-pooh electric cars with.
F1 is still at the peak of car technology even if the use of that technology is restrained. The most expensive supercars or any other race car are pedestrian in comparison.
The last decade? F1 hasn't been close to "no compromises" since wheels with spokes fell out of favor, and mostly for good safety-related reasons.
I was so pissed off with MS at that point I wanted to hurt them...ah the good ol' days...
Homer Simpson's shoes? A decent house, two gas-guizzling Ameribarges and enough to support a family even if you're a total dimwit? Sign me up!
Funny how they never do that. I figure you could hire a guy at least as good as Steve Elop for something in the US minimum wage range and save about the cost of a low-end fighter jet each year.
Good for you but I gotta say, I think it's really cheesy and laughable when someone calls themself the CEO of a little startup or mom & pop operation. If I somwehow had the cash and time to start a company I think I'd hold off calling myself the CEO until I had at least 50 employees.
See my post above:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3283411&cid=42132187
I get what you're saying but the equilibrium point is probably very, very low. In a lot of countries the average wage is well below $17k a year, and inflation adjusted, always has been. So sadly it seems possible for this massive inequality to go on for generations. Businesses just adjust to sell cheaper (lower-quality/more basic) goods that people can afford.
They do include a bit (or at least they did when I bought one from them years ago), but not nearly as much as a Windows laptop.