I have yet to see any realistic alternative to Thunderbird. Most other local clients are so bloated I might as well just go to the gmail web panel. Thunderbird is the most lightweight email client that I can see. Too bad it has been abandoned.
An evolution to where? Where could any of this go other than make a few people very rich and living in walled gardens while the rest of the world is a toilet?
You're implying that the 'disruptive' nature of technology helps average people, but that's not true either. All most do is offer a small improvement to a customer at the determent and cost to the rest of society; whether it be Uber's worming through of taxi regulations or Airb2b's worming through of residential zoning laws, or Waze sending cars streaming through once quiet neighborhoods, or delivery apps leaching everyone.
I think it must lack volume though. If I'm listening to music that has bass, I like my windows to rattle a little. In movies with explosions it should feel a bit like the explosion is in the room with you.
The summary alone explains how it is not just 'people being stupid', but rather a systematic manipulation. But you might be too full of yourself to understand the difference, because no one ever pulls one over on you apparently.
There are probably a hundred German developers newly out of school that would love to fill that gap. It's not like it would be that hard. So it gets fragmented in the beginning because everyone does their own thing. Eventually they learn to get along or it settles out into a few favorites. That's how capitalism is *supposed* to work, in fact, not to mention the internet.
Owning and operating a restaurant trying to forge its own way in the industry is hard enough as it is. No one will want to take the risk in an industry with only multinational players in it.
Besides, already restaurants are priced at a point that I can only go rarely for a 'treat' with the family. If they got more expensive due to this external price pressure, they would be unaffordable for most anyway.
The commonality between most of these 'gig' economy ideas is that they are predators. They are serving no one but themselves. If the economy has no way to naturally balance against these predators, then we are surely headed for the toilet.
Exactly. You might as well say 'if you're going in the toilet anyway you might as well party on the way down', instead of looking for ways to stop the toilet from flushing you.
Having the money go to someone who created something once and is sitting back and collecting the profits is not efficient. Having more money going to the person doing the work is the efficient way to do it. The taxi industry isn't perfect but it is at least better in that way, since a taxi driver actually has a chance of supporting a family.
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I got an Epson printer and quickly found out they don't make drivers for linux either.
This is why you can't really believe reviews anywhere. It is a system ripe for gaming.
Yes I think the fact that I'm using Thunderbird would mean it goes without saying that I want a local client with a gui.
I have yet to see any realistic alternative to Thunderbird. Most other local clients are so bloated I might as well just go to the gmail web panel. Thunderbird is the most lightweight email client that I can see. Too bad it has been abandoned.
An evolution to where? Where could any of this go other than make a few people very rich and living in walled gardens while the rest of the world is a toilet?
You're implying that the 'disruptive' nature of technology helps average people, but that's not true either. All most do is offer a small improvement to a customer at the determent and cost to the rest of society; whether it be Uber's worming through of taxi regulations or Airb2b's worming through of residential zoning laws, or Waze sending cars streaming through once quiet neighborhoods, or delivery apps leaching everyone.
But then you are locked into the lightning connector, or you need to carry two headphones wherever you go.
You are bad to Apple. Don't be so bad to Apple.
I think it must lack volume though. If I'm listening to music that has bass, I like my windows to rattle a little. In movies with explosions it should feel a bit like the explosion is in the room with you.
The summary alone explains how it is not just 'people being stupid', but rather a systematic manipulation. But you might be too full of yourself to understand the difference, because no one ever pulls one over on you apparently.
The government says 'track less' and you call that a lose for personal freedom? Wow.
There are probably a hundred German developers newly out of school that would love to fill that gap. It's not like it would be that hard. So it gets fragmented in the beginning because everyone does their own thing. Eventually they learn to get along or it settles out into a few favorites. That's how capitalism is *supposed* to work, in fact, not to mention the internet.
After making these settings on my phone many, many times and finding they just undo themselves again at the next upgrade I have long given up.
Oh noes, a country has protected its citizens against a multinational corporation! That's against everything America stands for!
You think GERMANY would be the loser in that case? That's hilarious.
I can usually tell by holding them and looking at them. Also I make sure the store takes returns if I am not happy with the product.
Owning and operating a restaurant trying to forge its own way in the industry is hard enough as it is. No one will want to take the risk in an industry with only multinational players in it.
Besides, already restaurants are priced at a point that I can only go rarely for a 'treat' with the family. If they got more expensive due to this external price pressure, they would be unaffordable for most anyway.
For a company the size of Google, an an application that is basically drawing tiles in a grid, is this really all that impressive?
The commonality between most of these 'gig' economy ideas is that they are predators. They are serving no one but themselves. If the economy has no way to naturally balance against these predators, then we are surely headed for the toilet.
I'd hazard a guess that this varies widely according to location.
Exactly. You might as well say 'if you're going in the toilet anyway you might as well party on the way down', instead of looking for ways to stop the toilet from flushing you.
Sure, slavery would help a lot of businesses compete. Let's do it!
Having the money go to someone who created something once and is sitting back and collecting the profits is not efficient. Having more money going to the person doing the work is the efficient way to do it. The taxi industry isn't perfect but it is at least better in that way, since a taxi driver actually has a chance of supporting a family.