For some time MBA training has concentrated on offering the least while charging the most. Ethics, social responsibility, even just basic human decency have no ROI, so they've been thrown overboard. The goal is to control a market, then milk it for all it's worth. Part and parcel of that is letting QoS degrade while consistently undercutting your labor force. As the C-whatever, you make your quaterly bonuses, the shareholders are delighted, and the company gradually degrades until it is a mere shell. Of course, you've moved on and the collapsing hulk you left behind is someone else's problem. Then it's time for the government bailout. Welcome to the modern business model.
... and they will flee. If those who provide services are charged more, they will pass those costs to the students. If the students are forced to pay more, they'll do their online ordering on free wifi at the coffee shop, (and look for a cheaper place to live). By providing network access, you are providing a useful service that enhances the appeal of you rentals. Diminish the quality or value of that service, and you diminish the value of your rental.
Making programming more accessible by more people may result in well-functioning programs being as common as well-functioning governments are where voting is more accessible by more people.
... many programmers still communicate in English, (or German, French, etc.), as well. Of course, English has changed over the last fifty years, but then, so has FORTRAN. The time really is ripe for the Esperanto/Haskell movement to take the world by storm.
In their education, professionals, whether physicians or IT admins, are often inculcated with a professional swagger to the effect that they assume superiority in any situation. It is wise not to trust the judgement of those who exhibit this characteristic. They are commonly blind to their own failings and dismissive to others' concerns. Sadly, many are most impressed by this phenomenon, which they misapprehend as, "confidence".
Because we don't need no stinking slaves to have fun. Blam, pow, ka-blooey! (Really, who needs a robot movie that makes you examine human motivations? That's sooo Asimov. )
On the contrary, my clients and I have been using Linux for business and personal use in a variety of applications, for over ten years. Your impression is common, but ignorant. It is true that it takes some competence to set it up correctly, but that's actually true with Windows or OS X, as well. I've worked with each of them and Linux actually makes the most sense in how it's laid out and works. Linux, and the software which runs on it, will do the great majority of jobs as well or better than the other two, and, if it is properly configured for the use case, it is as easy to use as anything out there.
... that you still see articles based on the question, "Why should I switch to Linux?" For all those still asking that question, the answer is, in a word, "Microsoft".
Inadequate resources is hardly the exclusive domain of Open Source projects. Nor is a failure to adequately vet code particularly reflective of an open development model. The insecure, buggy code in the devices used in the world's infrastructue display those facts, perfectly. Device manufacturers tend to focus on hardware, underfund and understaff their software development and demand unrealistic delivery times. These are, by and large, proprietary endeavors.
... the money. The technology is only touted in service to the pursuit of the money. Is that a paradigm that should be trusted? Is it any wonder that it always costs more than advertised in the recruitment brochure?
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... for challenging DARPA.
For some time MBA training has concentrated on offering the least while charging the most. Ethics, social responsibility, even just basic human decency have no ROI, so they've been thrown overboard. The goal is to control a market, then milk it for all it's worth. Part and parcel of that is letting QoS degrade while consistently undercutting your labor force. As the C-whatever, you make your quaterly bonuses, the shareholders are delighted, and the company gradually degrades until it is a mere shell. Of course, you've moved on and the collapsing hulk you left behind is someone else's problem. Then it's time for the government bailout. Welcome to the modern business model.
... and they will flee. If those who provide services are charged more, they will pass those costs to the students. If the students are forced to pay more, they'll do their online ordering on free wifi at the coffee shop, (and look for a cheaper place to live). By providing network access, you are providing a useful service that enhances the appeal of you rentals. Diminish the quality or value of that service, and you diminish the value of your rental.
I might posit that cynicism is a coping mechanism for the dementia-impaired.
... to the old saw that, "Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your kids"?
Just say, "this may have negative marketing implications", and corporate will have the recall in effect by lunchtime.
Making programming more accessible by more people may result in well-functioning programs being as common as well-functioning governments are where voting is more accessible by more people.
Well, if one were to be prevented from arguing on the basis of ignorance, most political commentary would be banned.
... many programmers still communicate in English, (or German, French, etc.), as well. Of course, English has changed over the last fifty years, but then, so has FORTRAN. The time really is ripe for the Esperanto/Haskell movement to take the world by storm.
In their education, professionals, whether physicians or IT admins, are often inculcated with a professional swagger to the effect that they assume superiority in any situation. It is wise not to trust the judgement of those who exhibit this characteristic. They are commonly blind to their own failings and dismissive to others' concerns. Sadly, many are most impressed by this phenomenon, which they misapprehend as, "confidence".
... cannot be achieved without open standards, and open standards in computing can only be guaranteed through Open Source.
Because we don't need no stinking slaves to have fun. Blam, pow, ka-blooey! (Really, who needs a robot movie that makes you examine human motivations? That's sooo Asimov. )
No, it's the manufacturers who make laptops incompatible with open standards that suck.
... and it realizes it's in the wrong, shouldn't it fall on its own sword, by self-destructing?
On the contrary, my clients and I have been using Linux for business and personal use in a variety of applications, for over ten years. Your impression is common, but ignorant. It is true that it takes some competence to set it up correctly, but that's actually true with Windows or OS X, as well. I've worked with each of them and Linux actually makes the most sense in how it's laid out and works. Linux, and the software which runs on it, will do the great majority of jobs as well or better than the other two, and, if it is properly configured for the use case, it is as easy to use as anything out there.
... that you still see articles based on the question, "Why should I switch to Linux?" For all those still asking that question, the answer is, in a word, "Microsoft".
Put a few grams of C-4 in those phones and really put the "kill" in "kill switch".
Ununseptium sounds like a nasal condition caused by the consumption of cocaine.
Inadequate resources is hardly the exclusive domain of Open Source projects. Nor is a failure to adequately vet code particularly reflective of an open development model. The insecure, buggy code in the devices used in the world's infrastructue display those facts, perfectly. Device manufacturers tend to focus on hardware, underfund and understaff their software development and demand unrealistic delivery times. These are, by and large, proprietary endeavors.
If Joseph Campbell is to be trusted, the Upanishads describe a multiverse many centuries before this upstart whelp.
... a rail gun up the side of a tall mountain as a sort of first-stage booster stands a better chance of, ahem, taking off. (All puns intended.)
... the money. The technology is only touted in service to the pursuit of the money. Is that a paradigm that should be trusted? Is it any wonder that it always costs more than advertised in the recruitment brochure?
So, you're saying to really be safe, everything should be stored on trusty mag-cards?
Good to know. I guess all we have to worry about now is if they're using that untested double-density stuff.
Oh, great, nuclear war triggered by a head crash!