After killing the taxi industry and ruining the lives of thousands of owners who invested in government backed medallions the rent seekers at Uber will have to reinvent the same rules that the taxi industry has implemented in the past, and for the same reasons.
Meet the new boss - the same as the old boss. And jeezuz cryst in a bowling ball, isn't it amazing to see that in a few years, we will be right where we were, only with a monopoly.
The interesting possibility is that after Uber becomes the new normal taxi service, is whether or not the politicians will allow a different service to run unregulated and destroy Uber.
And at least the old Taxi services didn't monitor their drivers while not working.
What I'm saying is that when driving a regular car- it's years between incidents like the one that killed the tesla driver. Short of taking a defensive driving class annually, you will not be in peak driving shape when your moment comes.
I agree that auto-driving might make you more careless. But without autodriving you might have died in a prior accident a few months or years before anyway,.
As a motorcyclist, I have to keep very mentally active during the whole trip. Your trance like state you describe is pretty accurate for automobile drivers. As in one case a fellow blew through a stop sign, and I had to jump on the sprags hard. He stopped to apologize, saying he could have sworn he saw my turn signals on - which were my equivalent of parking lights - and I was going to turn right and he could blow through the stop sign with impunity.
Fortunately, with my practice of constant awareness, I was ready on both brakes. I assume while in traffic that the car drivers are going to do stupid stuff. I'm not often wrong.
Even when alert, auto drivers do some pretty crazy stuff - My favorite was a young woman who was driving, texting, and putting on makeup at the same time.
Cars as they are even now without many of the driver assists allow people to use precious little of their mind to propel the things down the road. It's that trance state you mention.
Also, the numbers at Netmarketshare sometimes have weird fluctuations.
Windows XP, for instance, dipped to 13,57% in Nov. 2014, then recovered to 19.15% until Feb. 2015. After that it finally started losing market share again, as expected from an old system without support.
Considering that, I won't celebrate the Year Of Linux On The Desktop yet, even if it is tempting;-)
I won't ever celebrate that even if it does happen.
I never did quite understand why some folks even care. I picked every aspect of my life, from career to hobbies to computer Operating system because that's what I thought was interesting or what worked for me.
Then again, I don't drive a Toyota Corolla, or find Kim Kardashian remotely attractive, two on the most popular list
You don't know some of the vicars daughter's I know. Two girls, one cup.
Guess I'll pass on that.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
Just as I am a descendent of my parents, and we are all humans, birds are both dinosaurs and descendents of dinosaurs. Let's not get into gum flapping about that, I hope.
Meanwhile, my backyard is a riot of colorful little dinos, from the Blue Jays, the Gold Finches, the Grackles, and Titmice. The Downy, Hairy and Redheaded woodpeckers come to a suspended log feeder with suet, and we have a family of Pileated Woodpeckers that can beat the crap out of any dead limbs while searching for food.
Part of why I suspect that the so called "Age of Dinosaurs" was actually quite colorful.
Sorry - bringing evidence to a theological gum-flapping exercise. Next thing you know, I'll be shitting on the carpet and propositioning the vicar's daughter.
You'll do better if you reverse the order of those two things.
What I don't get about them "having to be perfect" is that they usually aren't when switching between versions of MS Office. Not just between the mac and windows versions (which between fonts and various incompatibilities is pretty much guaranteed to give different results), but different versions on Windows as well. Heck, I've seen Word fail to load a document the way it saved it.
And yet that hasn't seemed to harm MS Office adoption.
VHS tapes were the number 1 video storage format once. People feel secure in using number 1, even if it isn't very good.
Then don't use MSOffice. I've sent an.docx file from one computer to another using the exact same version of MSWord on both and the formatting got completely wrecked. This has happened repeatedly and in one instance almost cost me my job.
Pretty much this. Perhaps that monoculturist has never had an interOffice incompatability with MS Office, but he's the only one I know of outside Slashdot shilly world. Even outside of Word, I always had to check PowerPoints well before meetings, because something always broke.
Yes, I've tried the other options, they "kinda sorta work" most of the time, sometimes, often, but not 100% of the time...
The same is true for Microsoft Office. I had to open a MS Word 95 file. MS Office could not read it, OpenOffice had no problem with it.
OO or AO has the widest range of file compatibility. Microsoft Office is woefully deficient in that respect, not being compatible within it's own closed ecosystem.
OpenOffice is no worse than different versions of MS Office in that respect.
First, I disagree... OpenOffice isn't remotely the same as using Office 2013 vs Office 2016 on the same document, I've tried it...
Second, if you're using Office in a serious professional capacity where 100% accuracy is needed, then you're on the current version...
Of course, Microsoft Office is not compatible with anything else. I've stated that many times, and it is a fatal flaw unless you use only Microsoft Office and only on Windows computers. The world is changing, and some of us are not afforded the luxury and simple workflow of a monoculture. However, AO, which I have on Windows, OS X, and many flavors of Linux is exactly, 100 percent, not a chang,e compatible within itself. From Windows to OS X to Linux.
Of which your precious Microsoft Windows doesn't do at all. Exceptionally limiting. How odd that you worship it as the Alpha and Omega, when it is in fact the weak sister suite.
Hint: the number is greater than zero, but it isn't THAT high...
A lot more than you think. And they tend to be much higher on the food chain. Perhaps you work in a clone office where somehow using Microsoft office gives you cause for celebration, but in my field I need to accommodate everyone, and there are plenty of Macs that show up. Linux and Unix as well.
Ahh, so you're on Mac! Running MS Office on Mac? Why? If you're going to be on Mac, why pay MS anything?
No my dear monoculturist, I am on Windows, OS X, Linux and Unix. Rather than limit myself to one product, I use whatever tool is the best for the job.
And since Windows doesn't have the software I need I use OS X and Linux, and Windows, in that order. Because just like VHS, Windows might be in wider use, but it is seldom the best.
yes, they work fine in a pinch, but if you're building or editing a 143 slide PowerPoint, that is just painful.
A 143 slide powerPoint? I truly hope you are exxagerating by about 110 slides, because otherwise, that's just sad. Hopefully thes presentations use every transition as well.
This presentation thing - you aren't doin' it right.
Slashdot is an interesting community. People are generally at a much higher than the average poster/board but you still get a lot of anger when somebody challenges other people's world views.
And keeping in mind, that I am an enthusiastic gun owner and user, I fell that I have an insight into the psyches of many of the overly enthusiastic.
I'm just not at core a frightened person.
And miraculously, my post above is still sitting at 2.
"Flamebait"? I'm surprised at the number of posters that are "enthusiastic" about gun ownership rights and their responses to the various posts. Maybe somebody who considers my root post flamebait can explain why.
It's the concept of screaming down your opposition. If a person dares to post anything remotely non NRA supporting, they'll swarm on them like crocodiles on a wildebeest. It's irresistable to them.
To a certain segment of the population, disagreement equals trolling or flame bait. Oddly enough, there are folks on the left that do the exact same thing. You think these two groups would find common ground in that.
Watch what happens to this post in 3...2...1.
Yes it is a joke but the fact that it looks authentic to the point it can confuse the typical person is the reason the NRA is threatening legal action. Furthermore what this site is suggesting is likely outright illegal under the Brady Act; as a straw purchase, which the NRA, whether you like them or not, would obviously never advocate.
If we could just eliminate the first amendment, theat would be great.
You joke, but they literally are. With the amount of data and cloud-based centralization taking place a tech executive can fiddle with just about any aspect of the judicial, legislative and executive processes from the smallest towns to entire nations. It's only a matter of time before they start adding the same "social justice" filter they apply to things like search to things like jail sentencing, election numbers, pricing, etc. The cloud is the most evil and easily exploited thing ever created.
Who are they? It's like liberals proclaiming that all republicans are far right wing bible bangers who supprt sexual assault on women seeking abortions, and want to kill all people demanded to be killed in Leviticus.
For the definition of liberal, 90 percent of Democrats don't even fit that term. Barry Goldwater would be considered left of center these days.
So spare us your broad brush, and proving my point, as I poe y'all.
OneDrive is free, available on any platform that has a modern web browser, and will open and edit MS Office documents.
So does AO. FlyHelicopters says only Microsoft products works, and since Their Office suite isn't even 100 percent compatible with itself between Windows and PC, he's locked into their products.
Product/Vendor/Operating System lock-in. Some folks love it.
We need to INCREASE sentences for so-called "victimless" crimes like drug possession and prostitution and Operating a Motor Vehicle With a Burned-out Tail-light While Being a Minority. We need MORE (and longer) mandatory-sentence laws.
Or, of course, the US could overhaul it's ridiculous justice system. Start by eliminating the "War on Drugs". MJ should be legal. People addicted to hard drugs need help, not jail.
What is amazing is that the tough on crime crowd has been responsible for the very thing that they try to prevent.
You would think we would have learned.
Prohibition was the best possible way to jump start organized crime in America.
Then in a remarkable show of idiocy, we did the same thing with the "War on Drugs", and now have militarized and incredibly powerful drug organizations.
They'd be fools, then, because the private prison companies lose money by providing healthcare. It's in the company's interest to spend as little money as possible, and they can get away with it far, far more than any insurance company or HMO on the outside could ever dream of.
THere ar elimits though. If the income unit expires while in your care, you lose that income.
Of course they believe the opposite is true -- lower recidivism would mean fewer prisoners, and that means lower profits.
Exactly. When you have a public corporation here, if you do not make more money this quarter than last, you are in big trouble.
So you have to continually chase the profit.
So you have only a few options:
Make the cost of operation cheaper
Increase the income units (prisoners)
It eventually becomes a lot of effort to decrease costs, and if the income units die off from starvation or freezing/overheating, you ride a thin line.
Much better to have lobbying efforts to enact laws that enable more "guests" for longer periods of time.
Yet another example of social commies and their bankrupt ideas.
This is America, and our jails are run for profit. How the hell we gonna make a profit if we don't have as many Americans in jail as possible? We need more for the next quarter as well.
Apache office, the only cross platform compatible Office suite.
Sure, but not with MS Office which is really the only one that counts...
Yes, I've tried the other options, they "kinda sorta work" most of the time, sometimes, often, but not 100% of the time...
When you exchange Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with other people, edit them, then send them back, they have to be perfect.
Problem is, you just locked yourself into Windows PCs. Unless there has been a radical change, Mocrosoft office isn't even compatable with crossing to OS X. I spent a lot of time fixing shit I got from Windows versions. It ain't all that, and if the best we can say is that it can get an excel or word file right on one platform. well now that's a shining endorsement.
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After killing the taxi industry and ruining the lives of thousands of owners who invested in government backed medallions the rent seekers at Uber will have to reinvent the same rules that the taxi industry has implemented in the past, and for the same reasons.
Meet the new boss - the same as the old boss. And jeezuz cryst in a bowling ball, isn't it amazing to see that in a few years, we will be right where we were, only with a monopoly.
The interesting possibility is that after Uber becomes the new normal taxi service, is whether or not the politicians will allow a different service to run unregulated and destroy Uber.
And at least the old Taxi services didn't monitor their drivers while not working.
What I'm saying is that when driving a regular car- it's years between incidents like the one that killed the tesla driver. Short of taking a defensive driving class annually, you will not be in peak driving shape when your moment comes. I agree that auto-driving might make you more careless. But without autodriving you might have died in a prior accident a few months or years before anyway,.
As a motorcyclist, I have to keep very mentally active during the whole trip. Your trance like state you describe is pretty accurate for automobile drivers. As in one case a fellow blew through a stop sign, and I had to jump on the sprags hard. He stopped to apologize, saying he could have sworn he saw my turn signals on - which were my equivalent of parking lights - and I was going to turn right and he could blow through the stop sign with impunity.
Fortunately, with my practice of constant awareness, I was ready on both brakes. I assume while in traffic that the car drivers are going to do stupid stuff. I'm not often wrong.
Even when alert, auto drivers do some pretty crazy stuff - My favorite was a young woman who was driving, texting, and putting on makeup at the same time.
Cars as they are even now without many of the driver assists allow people to use precious little of their mind to propel the things down the road. It's that trance state you mention.
Also, the numbers at Netmarketshare sometimes have weird fluctuations.
Windows XP, for instance, dipped to 13,57% in Nov. 2014, then recovered to 19.15% until Feb. 2015. After that it finally started losing market share again, as expected from an old system without support.
Considering that, I won't celebrate the Year Of Linux On The Desktop yet, even if it is tempting ;-)
I won't ever celebrate that even if it does happen.
I never did quite understand why some folks even care. I picked every aspect of my life, from career to hobbies to computer Operating system because that's what I thought was interesting or what worked for me.
Then again, I don't drive a Toyota Corolla, or find Kim Kardashian remotely attractive, two on the most popular list
You don't know some of the vicars daughter's I know. Two girls, one cup.
Guess I'll pass on that.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
Just as I am a descendent of my parents, and we are all humans, birds are both dinosaurs and descendents of dinosaurs. Let's not get into gum flapping about that, I hope.
Meanwhile, my backyard is a riot of colorful little dinos, from the Blue Jays, the Gold Finches, the Grackles, and Titmice. The Downy, Hairy and Redheaded woodpeckers come to a suspended log feeder with suet, and we have a family of Pileated Woodpeckers that can beat the crap out of any dead limbs while searching for food.
Part of why I suspect that the so called "Age of Dinosaurs" was actually quite colorful.
Sorry - bringing evidence to a theological gum-flapping exercise. Next thing you know, I'll be shitting on the carpet and propositioning the vicar's daughter.
You'll do better if you reverse the order of those two things.
What I don't get about them "having to be perfect" is that they usually aren't when switching between versions of MS Office. Not just between the mac and windows versions (which between fonts and various incompatibilities is pretty much guaranteed to give different results), but different versions on Windows as well. Heck, I've seen Word fail to load a document the way it saved it.
And yet that hasn't seemed to harm MS Office adoption.
VHS tapes were the number 1 video storage format once. People feel secure in using number 1, even if it isn't very good.
Then don't use MSOffice. I've sent an .docx file from one computer to another using the exact same version of MSWord on both and the formatting got completely wrecked. This has happened repeatedly and in one instance almost cost me my job.
Pretty much this. Perhaps that monoculturist has never had an interOffice incompatability with MS Office, but he's the only one I know of outside Slashdot shilly world. Even outside of Word, I always had to check PowerPoints well before meetings, because something always broke.
Yes, I've tried the other options, they "kinda sorta work" most of the time, sometimes, often, but not 100% of the time...
The same is true for Microsoft Office. I had to open a MS Word 95 file. MS Office could not read it, OpenOffice had no problem with it.
OO or AO has the widest range of file compatibility. Microsoft Office is woefully deficient in that respect, not being compatible within it's own closed ecosystem.
That is true in really large companies... it is far less true outside of public companies...
And it is less true every day, now that MS has made it easier to be on the newest version of everything...
In any case, Office 2016 is FAR more compatible with Office 2013 than it is with OpenOffice...
How about the particulars of that far more compatibility?
OpenOffice is no worse than different versions of MS Office in that respect.
First, I disagree... OpenOffice isn't remotely the same as using Office 2013 vs Office 2016 on the same document, I've tried it...
Second, if you're using Office in a serious professional capacity where 100% accuracy is needed, then you're on the current version...
Of course, Microsoft Office is not compatible with anything else. I've stated that many times, and it is a fatal flaw unless you use only Microsoft Office and only on Windows computers. The world is changing, and some of us are not afforded the luxury and simple workflow of a monoculture. However, AO, which I have on Windows, OS X, and many flavors of Linux is exactly, 100 percent, not a chang,e compatible within itself. From Windows to OS X to Linux.
Of which your precious Microsoft Windows doesn't do at all. Exceptionally limiting. How odd that you worship it as the Alpha and Omega, when it is in fact the weak sister suite.
Maybe not, but how many professionals use OS X?
Hint: the number is greater than zero, but it isn't THAT high...
A lot more than you think. And they tend to be much higher on the food chain. Perhaps you work in a clone office where somehow using Microsoft office gives you cause for celebration, but in my field I need to accommodate everyone, and there are plenty of Macs that show up. Linux and Unix as well.
Ahh, so you're on Mac! Running MS Office on Mac? Why? If you're going to be on Mac, why pay MS anything?
No my dear monoculturist, I am on Windows, OS X, Linux and Unix. Rather than limit myself to one product, I use whatever tool is the best for the job.
And since Windows doesn't have the software I need I use OS X and Linux, and Windows, in that order. Because just like VHS, Windows might be in wider use, but it is seldom the best.
yes, they work fine in a pinch, but if you're building or editing a 143 slide PowerPoint, that is just painful.
A 143 slide powerPoint? I truly hope you are exxagerating by about 110 slides, because otherwise, that's just sad. Hopefully thes presentations use every transition as well.
This presentation thing - you aren't doin' it right.
And George W Bush was to the left of JFK. See how far the Progressives have progressed moving the political center far left?
Is it meth or crack?
Thanx for your comments.
Slashdot is an interesting community. People are generally at a much higher than the average poster/board but you still get a lot of anger when somebody challenges other people's world views.
And keeping in mind, that I am an enthusiastic gun owner and user, I fell that I have an insight into the psyches of many of the overly enthusiastic.
I'm just not at core a frightened person.
And miraculously, my post above is still sitting at 2.
"Flamebait"? I'm surprised at the number of posters that are "enthusiastic" about gun ownership rights and their responses to the various posts. Maybe somebody who considers my root post flamebait can explain why.
It's the concept of screaming down your opposition. If a person dares to post anything remotely non NRA supporting, they'll swarm on them like crocodiles on a wildebeest. It's irresistable to them.
To a certain segment of the population, disagreement equals trolling or flame bait. Oddly enough, there are folks on the left that do the exact same thing. You think these two groups would find common ground in that. Watch what happens to this post in 3...2...1.
Yes it is a joke but the fact that it looks authentic to the point it can confuse the typical person is the reason the NRA is threatening legal action. Furthermore what this site is suggesting is likely outright illegal under the Brady Act; as a straw purchase, which the NRA, whether you like them or not, would obviously never advocate.
If we could just eliminate the first amendment, theat would be great.
God these liberals - trying to destroy America.
You joke, but they literally are. With the amount of data and cloud-based centralization taking place a tech executive can fiddle with just about any aspect of the judicial, legislative and executive processes from the smallest towns to entire nations. It's only a matter of time before they start adding the same "social justice" filter they apply to things like search to things like jail sentencing, election numbers, pricing, etc. The cloud is the most evil and easily exploited thing ever created.
Who are they? It's like liberals proclaiming that all republicans are far right wing bible bangers who supprt sexual assault on women seeking abortions, and want to kill all people demanded to be killed in Leviticus.
For the definition of liberal, 90 percent of Democrats don't even fit that term. Barry Goldwater would be considered left of center these days.
So spare us your broad brush, and proving my point, as I poe y'all.
OneDrive is free, available on any platform that has a modern web browser, and will open and edit MS Office documents.
So does AO. FlyHelicopters says only Microsoft products works, and since Their Office suite isn't even 100 percent compatible with itself between Windows and PC, he's locked into their products.
Product/Vendor/Operating System lock-in. Some folks love it.
We need to INCREASE sentences for so-called "victimless" crimes like drug possession and prostitution and Operating a Motor Vehicle With a Burned-out Tail-light While Being a Minority. We need MORE (and longer) mandatory-sentence laws.
Thanks for the input Don.
You're confusing 'jail' with 'prison'.
By avoiding congestion in 'jail' we can actually send many more people to 'prison'.
You are confusing a generic term with specific ones.
Or, of course, the US could overhaul it's ridiculous justice system. Start by eliminating the "War on Drugs". MJ should be legal. People addicted to hard drugs need help, not jail.
What is amazing is that the tough on crime crowd has been responsible for the very thing that they try to prevent.
You would think we would have learned.
Prohibition was the best possible way to jump start organized crime in America.
Then in a remarkable show of idiocy, we did the same thing with the "War on Drugs", and now have militarized and incredibly powerful drug organizations.
They'd be fools, then, because the private prison companies lose money by providing healthcare. It's in the company's interest to spend as little money as possible, and they can get away with it far, far more than any insurance company or HMO on the outside could ever dream of.
THere ar elimits though. If the income unit expires while in your care, you lose that income.
Of course they believe the opposite is true -- lower recidivism would mean fewer prisoners, and that means lower profits.
Exactly. When you have a public corporation here, if you do not make more money this quarter than last, you are in big trouble.
So you have to continually chase the profit.
So you have only a few options:
Make the cost of operation cheaper
Increase the income units (prisoners)
It eventually becomes a lot of effort to decrease costs, and if the income units die off from starvation or freezing/overheating, you ride a thin line.
Much better to have lobbying efforts to enact laws that enable more "guests" for longer periods of time.
5. PROFIT!
This is America, and our jails are run for profit. How the hell we gonna make a profit if we don't have as many Americans in jail as possible? We need more for the next quarter as well.
God these liberals - trying to destroy America.
Apache office, the only cross platform compatible Office suite.
Sure, but not with MS Office which is really the only one that counts...
Yes, I've tried the other options, they "kinda sorta work" most of the time, sometimes, often, but not 100% of the time...
When you exchange Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with other people, edit them, then send them back, they have to be perfect.
Problem is, you just locked yourself into Windows PCs. Unless there has been a radical change, Mocrosoft office isn't even compatable with crossing to OS X. I spent a lot of time fixing shit I got from Windows versions. It ain't all that, and if the best we can say is that it can get an excel or word file right on one platform. well now that's a shining endorsement.