A free market can't work unless people are willing to turn their back on obvious trash, especially when it causes problems for them.
This "service" is a manifestation of what everyone knows: Windows is crap that nearly no one would put up with if not for monopoly vendor lock and network effects. The rise of tablets is a nice demostration of just how fed up consumers are.
They just need to get over their mental block regarding things like IE and msoffice. Tablets are just "different" enough to allow usual mental block to seem meaningless.
Most of them are lawyers. There's an entire field of law dedicated to tax avoidance. Gaming the rules is what they do. Whining that someone else is doing the same is remarkably disengenuous.
When you outsource, the labor is working for someone else. They aren't your employees. They are employees of OtherCorp. The labor will do nothing that doesn't benefit OtherCorp. They don't care about you or your company or your product. They will not lift a finger except what is spelled out in your contract with OtherCorp.
> Boradcasters have a business model that permits them to make stuff for you.
Then don't charge Dish anything. If you really and truely "live off those commercials", then there's really no reason that any commercial cable channel can't be free to retransmit so long as you don't alter the signal.
For those commercials, my cable bill should be $20. Dish should get to retransmit channels for free and their only cost should be overhead of operating all of the sattellite infastructure.
Anything else is just double dipping by channel operators and a farce perpetrated by lawmakers.
> Europe is struggling because of their austerity policies.
It's like Republicans managed to take over Europe or something.
The conventional wisdom is to spend your way out of a recession and clean up the mess later rather than trying to pay your way out of debt with money you don't really have.
> Gluten is a problem for many people, does that make it bad?
Yes.
You can't just blindly transplant dietary practices without considering the possibility that they might not be appropriate for a population that hasn't adapted to them.
"Large amounts of anything" might be consumed merely as side effect of the cuisine you are trying to consume.
Exercise helps keeps your metabolism from crashing and adjusting to the calorie defecit. It's also beneficial for it's own reasons beyond mere weight control.
The most expensive "baking" potatoes top out at about $1 per pound when they are not on sale (and they are often on sale). The smaller potatoes bought in bulk in large bags are going to be a lot cheaper per pound.
I was "well enough off" that I ate free school lunches through most of my childhood. Any adult in my household held down their own job. NO ONE played the role of dedicated maid or house wife. It simply wasn't an option.
Although no one made excuses.
That's the difference between "poor" and working class.
Most people have never had this Ozzie and Harriet lifestyle that you see in old TV shows.
> sounds like a diet that only someone with an above average income could afford
Been there. Did that. It's not the great challenge some people would like to believe. This is all about lazy stupid people doing everything to make up excuses for their own failings.
"It's impossible, therefore it's not my fault"
It's not impossible. It just requires some effort, some knowledge, and perhaps a little will power.
Some people can handle a post-agricultural diet just fine. Others can't. You just have figure out what works best for you and ignore all of the stupid propaganda that assumes we're all the same.
We're not all the same. Contradictory anecdotes are to be expected.
No. Eating well requires knowledge and thoughtfulness. The poor usually lack both of these for a number of reasons. Processed foods also give the illusion that you are eating well. Cheap nutritious food may be viewed as a sign of poverty that people might want to disassociate themselves with.
> Of course they have the right. It's their product.
Their rights to control the product end when they sell it.
This is a clear attack on individual liberties that not everyone agrees with. Some of us prefer not to degrade individual liberties for the sake of a brand fetish or corporate power.
> CGI has a LONG way to go before it can replace a good photograph.
The problem is that most aren't, or they are something that can be replicated by amateurs.
When you've got a billion amateurs taking a trillion photos, chances are that a lot of what professionals do will become unnecessary. Photography will likely still thrive. It's the professional work that will become marginalized.
It's like you're trying to claim that MacOS has greater market share than Windows when we all know that it doesn't really.
The market doesn't mind choice. Windows has thrived and marginalized Apple in that kind of environment for decades. Now Android is set to do the same to Apple again.
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A free market can't work unless people are willing to turn their back on obvious trash, especially when it causes problems for them.
This "service" is a manifestation of what everyone knows: Windows is crap that nearly no one would put up with if not for monopoly vendor lock and network effects. The rise of tablets is a nice demostration of just how fed up consumers are.
They just need to get over their mental block regarding things like IE and msoffice. Tablets are just "different" enough to allow usual mental block to seem meaningless.
Most of them are lawyers. There's an entire field of law dedicated to tax avoidance. Gaming the rules is what they do. Whining that someone else is doing the same is remarkably disengenuous.
When you outsource, the labor is working for someone else. They aren't your employees. They are employees of OtherCorp. The labor will do nothing that doesn't benefit OtherCorp. They don't care about you or your company or your product. They will not lift a finger except what is spelled out in your contract with OtherCorp.
They are not your employees.
> Boradcasters have a business model that permits them to make stuff for you.
Then don't charge Dish anything. If you really and truely "live off those commercials", then there's really no reason that any commercial cable channel can't be free to retransmit so long as you don't alter the signal.
For those commercials, my cable bill should be $20. Dish should get to retransmit channels for free and their only cost should be overhead of operating all of the sattellite infastructure.
Anything else is just double dipping by channel operators and a farce perpetrated by lawmakers.
> Europe is struggling because of their austerity policies.
It's like Republicans managed to take over Europe or something.
The conventional wisdom is to spend your way out of a recession and clean up the mess later rather than trying to pay your way out of debt with money you don't really have.
> IN early 2011 I left Linux and went back to Windows because of issues with Gnome 3/Unity
That's really hilarious considering what's going on with Metro.
> few distributions are anywhere near as polished as Mandriva
You're funny.
Mandrake's day passed when it was still called Mandrake.
Except this sort of thing doesn't require being able to code.
It doesn't even require being aware of the existence of computers.
That's one of the fun things about computing. A lot of it is pure math and some of it isn't even that.
Muscle is more dense.
You can become smaller, drop several clothing sizes, and still end up being heavier.
You can be smaller and be heavier at the same time.
Cheese sauce is butter, flour, milk, cheese and 5 minutes of prep time. You will be done with the sauce before the water for the pasta has boiled.
Cheap cans of pasta sauce also do well and you are eating tomatoes rather than cheese.
Apples are NOT low in fiber. Your own citation states that.
> Gluten is a problem for many people, does that make it bad?
Yes.
You can't just blindly transplant dietary practices without considering the possibility that they might not be appropriate for a population that hasn't adapted to them.
"Large amounts of anything" might be consumed merely as side effect of the cuisine you are trying to consume.
You do both at the same time.
Exercise helps keeps your metabolism from crashing and adjusting to the calorie defecit. It's also beneficial for it's own reasons beyond mere weight control.
The most expensive "baking" potatoes top out at about $1 per pound when they are not on sale (and they are often on sale). The smaller potatoes bought in bulk in large bags are going to be a lot cheaper per pound.
3 potatoes for 50 cents is not unrealistic.
> Did you grow up in a house in the suburbs
No, I did not.
I was "well enough off" that I ate free school lunches through most of my childhood. Any adult in my household held down their own job. NO ONE played the role of dedicated maid or house wife. It simply wasn't an option.
Although no one made excuses.
That's the difference between "poor" and working class.
Most people have never had this Ozzie and Harriet lifestyle that you see in old TV shows.
> sounds like a diet that only someone with an above average income could afford
Been there. Did that. It's not the great challenge some people would like to believe. This is all about lazy stupid people doing everything to make up excuses for their own failings.
"It's impossible, therefore it's not my fault"
It's not impossible. It just requires some effort, some knowledge, and perhaps a little will power.
It depends.
Some people can handle a post-agricultural diet just fine. Others can't. You just have figure out what works best for you and ignore all of the stupid propaganda that assumes we're all the same.
We're not all the same. Contradictory anecdotes are to be expected.
No. Eating well requires knowledge and thoughtfulness. The poor usually lack both of these for a number of reasons. Processed foods also give the illusion that you are eating well. Cheap nutritious food may be viewed as a sign of poverty that people might want to disassociate themselves with.
Apple caters to the clueless and we're not clueless.
Although they can cater to the clueless without being evil or otherwise threatening to those of us that genuinely "think different".
The evil stuff is pretty gratuitous really. Although it's a nice warning for the future should Apple get too successful.
Been there. Done that. Not doing it again.
MacOS is nothing special. If anything, the exclusivity here just makes it harder for people to realize just how full of shit you Apple fanboys are.
You have to pay a lot upfront just to get a real test drive, so you will be far less likely to share with the world how the emperor has no clothes.
They sold me a box? Then they sold me a box.
It doesn't matter what secret aftermarket excuses for a contract are inside the box.
> Of course they have the right. It's their product.
Their rights to control the product end when they sell it.
This is a clear attack on individual liberties that not everyone agrees with. Some of us prefer not to degrade individual liberties for the sake of a brand fetish or corporate power.
> CGI has a LONG way to go before it can replace a good photograph.
The problem is that most aren't, or they are something that can be replicated by amateurs.
When you've got a billion amateurs taking a trillion photos, chances are that a lot of what professionals do will become unnecessary. Photography will likely still thrive. It's the professional work that will become marginalized.
More importantly: Why would a "web app" marketplace be platform specific anyways?
Isn't the whole point of the web and the browser the fact that it is it's own platform detached from the underlying operating system?
It should. You are abusing statistics.
It's like you're trying to claim that MacOS has greater market share than Windows when we all know that it doesn't really.
The market doesn't mind choice. Windows has thrived and marginalized Apple in that kind of environment for decades. Now Android is set to do the same to Apple again.