Capitalism naturally leads to monopolies/duopolies. The marginally more profitable company can undercut, outbribe, and outscale the smaller competitors who eventually go out of business or get absorbed. Once it is down to a couple players it is easier to compete with just barely enough gusto to keep regulators at bay, but not enough to drive prices down or performance up. Without some threat of intervention a pure monopoly is the natural result once the key players end up with enough power to corner
See stagnant intel vs. crumbling AMD lately. See cable TV lately. See standard oil.
Not surprising. Most companies don't do any sort of training except for managers as to what is legal or illegal to ask.
I once had to do a bunch of phone screenings for a position that had to deal with ITAR materials. My boss asked me to make sure they were citizens. But it turns out that you CANNOT ask that directly. You can list a set of requirements and ask if they meet them, but you cannot legally directly ask about citizenship or country of origin in an interview. There are a bunch of little ways like this that people can get themselves and their company in trouble simply because nobody bothers to do basic training.
This. I was in SF a couple months ago and even coming from Portland I was pretty impressed by the sheer brazenness of the average SF pedestrian. The drivers were no better/worse as far as I could tell, but everyone was in a hustle, crossing illegally, ignoring pedestrian signals, etc. Combined with narrow downtown streets the real surprise is that it is not even worse.
Waited 5 months on GTA 5, still a disaster just to get it to download the mandatory 6 GB(!) patch to be able to play. A week into it and a re-install I still am not there. What an utter mess. We need more consumer friendly laws against severely broken software that is not easily returned.
It is a Big Round Number that impresses until put into context. I am not sure what they are setting out to accomplish other than to come up with a metric so they can stick their thumbs in their rainbow suspenders and come off as even more condescending and self righteous.
Samsung devices come with a ton of bloated crap. Having gone from a Samsung to a Nexus recently I am quite pleased at how little extraneous crap there is on a pure Android install.
Please keep this crap simple. It is maddening for secondary tools (ones I don't use daily) to get all cutesy with the Silky Lizard release, which is also known at the 2015 release, but has an about me of 3.2.0.1 hotfix 430. Searching under all three is necessary since everyone adopts a different preferred method to refer to the dang thing.
On the whole I greatly prefer versions that are year.month based so it is very easy to recognize how long in the tooth something is. XYZ 2015.01 tells me it is the January 2015 release.
The thick A columns in recent cars are quite the hazard. I find it very easy to not see a pedestrian coming towards me when I am turning left. Blind spots are growing as well due to the tiny windows, and so on. It certainly does start to feel like we are playing an odd game of increasing the number of crashes to get better crash survival.
It is that aspect that gives me a little pause. Everything on a work issued phone belongs to the company, it should be the companies decision as to whether to unlock the phone. Perhaps we will see secondary access by an admin become a condition of use?
Will this get extended to divulging passwords in general like in the Terry Childs case? Couldn't someone in his position plead the 5th on similar grounds?
I have not gotten a coherent explanation of the value of the current one. It is just more and more long term effects of space studies. What other science of note or value is being done there that could not easily have been done unmanned for far less? Other than milking the vanishingly small amount of residual cool factor that remains, what will it buy us.
With great power comes great responsibility. Drug dealers never force people to swallow, inject, or light up either.
Food companies use an amazing array of tools to win. Coke is "Low Fat!", bacon in "Low Carb!"; advertising twists the latest health headlines to make bad food less obviously so. Recipes are tweaked to hit your bliss point, making it extremely easy to just keep grabbing one more chip or sip while not making you feel full at all. So those without a pretty strong spine end up like a rat at the feeder bar, blissful but never quite satisfied.
These same companies thwart efforts to pass new health standards that might preclude their products.
When companies the size of Coke throw their weight around, they need to be held responsible for the negative outcomes that result.
Public funding for science has been a low priority. University survival is dependent on keeping up with the Jones' on the publishing circuit. Your career is dependent on running around hat-in-hand looking for grants to keep the studies and papers going out the door, and to keep your grad students occupied.
In this climate a scientist would be a fool to turn away funding from all but the shadiest benefactors.
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Capitalism naturally leads to monopolies/duopolies. The marginally more profitable company can undercut, outbribe, and outscale the smaller competitors who eventually go out of business or get absorbed. Once it is down to a couple players it is easier to compete with just barely enough gusto to keep regulators at bay, but not enough to drive prices down or performance up. Without some threat of intervention a pure monopoly is the natural result once the key players end up with enough power to corner
See stagnant intel vs. crumbling AMD lately.
See cable TV lately.
See standard oil.
Not surprising. Most companies don't do any sort of training except for managers as to what is legal or illegal to ask.
I once had to do a bunch of phone screenings for a position that had to deal with ITAR materials. My boss asked me to make sure they were citizens. But it turns out that you CANNOT ask that directly. You can list a set of requirements and ask if they meet them, but you cannot legally directly ask about citizenship or country of origin in an interview. There are a bunch of little ways like this that people can get themselves and their company in trouble simply because nobody bothers to do basic training.
Ethics don't help you hit your quarterly targets. Ethics can't easily be monetized. Any questions?
See page 9:
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/P...
SF is 1.7 deaths per 100k residents
Dallas, Detroit, El Paso, Oklahoma City, Albequerque, and Jacksonville are all over 3 deaths per 100k residents.
This. I was in SF a couple months ago and even coming from Portland I was pretty impressed by the sheer brazenness of the average SF pedestrian. The drivers were no better/worse as far as I could tell, but everyone was in a hustle, crossing illegally, ignoring pedestrian signals, etc. Combined with narrow downtown streets the real surprise is that it is not even worse.
Mind sharing some statistics for that claim?
http://www.examiner.com/articl...
Sounds like you are regurgitating some hate-talk-radio host's flawed hateful email.
Waited 5 months on GTA 5, still a disaster just to get it to download the mandatory 6 GB(!) patch to be able to play. A week into it and a re-install I still am not there. What an utter mess. We need more consumer friendly laws against severely broken software that is not easily returned.
+1. I fail to see the harm being created by idle plastic sitting in landfills.
Agreed. I expect that after the retail units hit the shelves and then after some additional "penalty box" time their app will re-emerge.
They kicked a dog and got bit as a result. Hard to see how Apple did anything wrong here.
But 30 redundant and mostly unused distros are surely 30x more valuable than one that people actually use...
It is a Big Round Number that impresses until put into context. I am not sure what they are setting out to accomplish other than to come up with a metric so they can stick their thumbs in their rainbow suspenders and come off as even more condescending and self righteous.
Samsung devices come with a ton of bloated crap. Having gone from a Samsung to a Nexus recently I am quite pleased at how little extraneous crap there is on a pure Android install.
Please keep this crap simple. It is maddening for secondary tools (ones I don't use daily) to get all cutesy with the Silky Lizard release, which is also known at the 2015 release, but has an about me of 3.2.0.1 hotfix 430. Searching under all three is necessary since everyone adopts a different preferred method to refer to the dang thing.
On the whole I greatly prefer versions that are year.month based so it is very easy to recognize how long in the tooth something is. XYZ 2015.01 tells me it is the January 2015 release.
Worth the toilet paper it is written on.
The thick A columns in recent cars are quite the hazard. I find it very easy to not see a pedestrian coming towards me when I am turning left. Blind spots are growing as well due to the tiny windows, and so on. It certainly does start to feel like we are playing an odd game of increasing the number of crashes to get better crash survival.
How do I get a refund?
It is that aspect that gives me a little pause. Everything on a work issued phone belongs to the company, it should be the companies decision as to whether to unlock the phone. Perhaps we will see secondary access by an admin become a condition of use?
Will this get extended to divulging passwords in general like in the Terry Childs case? Couldn't someone in his position plead the 5th on similar grounds?
Great, cop sees you fiddling with an object and assumes it is a gun and shoots you. At least your 5th amendment rights were not violated.
We have yet to beat public apathy, and the public is the funding source.
Storage is a problem. So yes, you can get over 1kW/m^2, but you have to plan around 2 weeks of darkness at a shot.
+1
I have not gotten a coherent explanation of the value of the current one. It is just more and more long term effects of space studies. What other science of note or value is being done there that could not easily have been done unmanned for far less? Other than milking the vanishingly small amount of residual cool factor that remains, what will it buy us.
Only applies to those to those who off themselves before procreating.
Previously there has been hysteria over "Death by iPod!' from zoned out ipod listeners getting mowed down by cars and trains.
Blame the car? Blame the driver? Blame the walker? Blame the iPod?
How about blame whatever makes the best headline...
Many more examples of such bad sensationalist journalism, but that one came to mind first.
With great power comes great responsibility. Drug dealers never force people to swallow, inject, or light up either.
Food companies use an amazing array of tools to win. Coke is "Low Fat!", bacon in "Low Carb!"; advertising twists the latest health headlines to make bad food less obviously so. Recipes are tweaked to hit your bliss point, making it extremely easy to just keep grabbing one more chip or sip while not making you feel full at all. So those without a pretty strong spine end up like a rat at the feeder bar, blissful but never quite satisfied.
These same companies thwart efforts to pass new health standards that might preclude their products.
When companies the size of Coke throw their weight around, they need to be held responsible for the negative outcomes that result.
Public funding for science has been a low priority. University survival is dependent on keeping up with the Jones' on the publishing circuit. Your career is dependent on running around hat-in-hand looking for grants to keep the studies and papers going out the door, and to keep your grad students occupied.
In this climate a scientist would be a fool to turn away funding from all but the shadiest benefactors.