Listen, this is the way that the society you live in was built. People come up with laws to make the society better for everyone and people are expected to follow those laws. If you don't like those laws you are free to fight them using the same process. One such set of laws are the ones governing the taxi industry. They ensure there aren't too many cabs on the road so that it doesn't become dangerous, people can access cabs fairly in the eyes of the law even if they are challenged in doing so, and that the people and driver are adequately protected. These are good things. If you don't think these are good things then fight the law and good luck to you, but don't just ignore the law because then you're screwing over people who like laws that protect public safety.
A better analogy would be a drug dealer complaining that the police keep arresting him and taking him out of the school yard. Those draconian laws protecting kids from drugs and all.
The thing is, you live in a country that is governed entirely by a full legal system. Move to a place that doesn't have a legal system then and tell us how that works out for you.
People have moral responsibilities, not corporations making millions of dollars! Plus, part of accepting a moral responsibility is accepting the punishment for that. Rosa Parks knew fully well that they might go to jail, but she was fully willing to accept the consequences of her actions knowing that it would spark a discussion. Now will Uber?
Plus if that is what they cost, that is what they cost! Explain to me why my house cost so much... Partly because the local government regulates where builders can build so we don't end up with a freaking mess. They strike a balance between what's good for me as a person who needs a house, the builder, and the society at large. With cabs, the government has also done the same thing. They set the number of cabs on the road that they feel will be balanced between cab riders, cab companies, and the others that need to use the road. The price is just a number that is decided by the market. There is no conspiracy there. Cab drivers usually get a job with someone who owns a license and work to pay off a part of it, or all of it.
Unless an introvert is absolutely brilliant they will be ignored. This world totally caters to people who can't stop talking about themselves. That's just the way it is.
Because the government created that value by introducing laws that made it a limited supply. The government can't just turn around and say 'sorry that you trusted us to keep everyone playing by this rule' and move on in another direction.
Families aren't surviving off Uber money. Families are surviving off taxi industry money. The taxi industry only survives because of the laws that protect it.
When you have total hardware lockdown and one installable application per every fifty on windows in the market I would hope it would work. Sad that it doesn't.
In most cases when windows doesn't work it isn't windows that is to blame, it is a bad developer or bad/cheap hardware or drivers.
It is because of battery life. Yet even if I go through extremes as a developer to protect battery life, as I have done, Apple users will still be missing functionality from my app and there is nothing I can do. If I am using Android and I find an app is eating battery, then I can go to the developer to fix it or I can not use the app. But I can still have all that app's functionality.
This also goes to Apple's unwillingness or inability to add an advanced feature switch. If I own an iPhone and I want to allow apps to run in the background, why can't I enable a mode to do that and then accept responsibility for it?
I was going to say the same thing about eol.org. Why reinvent the wheel? I think eol.olg is very well done. Much better than wikipedia in terms of layout and navigation.
I don't know much about what an MBA 'entails' as opposed to general business skills. MBA is the only degree that I know of that is related to business skills, and I know a lot of technical people get them. I've never looked into getting it myself, or what other better alternatives may be.
Apple would have impressed me if they did it without the walled garden, without gobs of advertising, and without chopping features that had already become standard by the time. Apple is an impressive force in marketing and locking people into the way they want them to work with their devices, but that just doesn't impress me.
I'm using one right now! I just didn't mention it because I thought people were tired of me talking about it. I love trackpoints. I generally use second hand Thinkpads with trackpoints.
The two don't *have* to be exclusive. In a great tech company they would not be. If Apple were to allow advanced users to switch file level support on in iOS I would be totally impressed. But they don't do that, so the two DO become mutually exclusive.
I do develop for iOS. I couldn't even make a freaking app run in the background forever. No problem in Android. Apple removed this feature for some got forsaken reason. So now Apple people get a hacked together solution.
But once you have to go into the app layer for that, your're done. I've had this conversation ad-nauseum with others. Having an app that stores files and allows your certain protocol options to transfer them is NOT an equivalent for full access at a filesystem level.
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Listen, this is the way that the society you live in was built. People come up with laws to make the society better for everyone and people are expected to follow those laws. If you don't like those laws you are free to fight them using the same process. One such set of laws are the ones governing the taxi industry. They ensure there aren't too many cabs on the road so that it doesn't become dangerous, people can access cabs fairly in the eyes of the law even if they are challenged in doing so, and that the people and driver are adequately protected. These are good things. If you don't think these are good things then fight the law and good luck to you, but don't just ignore the law because then you're screwing over people who like laws that protect public safety.
You talking like Uber invented something new.
A better analogy would be a drug dealer complaining that the police keep arresting him and taking him out of the school yard. Those draconian laws protecting kids from drugs and all.
The thing is, you live in a country that is governed entirely by a full legal system. Move to a place that doesn't have a legal system then and tell us how that works out for you.
People have moral responsibilities, not corporations making millions of dollars!
Plus, part of accepting a moral responsibility is accepting the punishment for that. Rosa Parks knew fully well that they might go to jail, but she was fully willing to accept the consequences of her actions knowing that it would spark a discussion. Now will Uber?
Plus if that is what they cost, that is what they cost! Explain to me why my house cost so much... Partly because the local government regulates where builders can build so we don't end up with a freaking mess. They strike a balance between what's good for me as a person who needs a house, the builder, and the society at large. With cabs, the government has also done the same thing. They set the number of cabs on the road that they feel will be balanced between cab riders, cab companies, and the others that need to use the road. The price is just a number that is decided by the market. There is no conspiracy there. Cab drivers usually get a job with someone who owns a license and work to pay off a part of it, or all of it.
"Anonymous Coward rapes children and uses Apple products exclusively" -- 5 STARS
Now people can be judged by the mistakes they make at 14 for the job they apply for at 55! How awesome is that??ha??
Unless an introvert is absolutely brilliant they will be ignored. This world totally caters to people who can't stop talking about themselves. That's just the way it is.
Because the government created that value by introducing laws that made it a limited supply. The government can't just turn around and say 'sorry that you trusted us to keep everyone playing by this rule' and move on in another direction.
Families aren't surviving off Uber money. Families are surviving off taxi industry money. The taxi industry only survives because of the laws that protect it.
Anyone watch Person of Interest? We're almost there.
When you have total hardware lockdown and one installable application per every fifty on windows in the market I would hope it would work. Sad that it doesn't.
In most cases when windows doesn't work it isn't windows that is to blame, it is a bad developer or bad/cheap hardware or drivers.
It is because of battery life. Yet even if I go through extremes as a developer to protect battery life, as I have done, Apple users will still be missing functionality from my app and there is nothing I can do. If I am using Android and I find an app is eating battery, then I can go to the developer to fix it or I can not use the app. But I can still have all that app's functionality.
This also goes to Apple's unwillingness or inability to add an advanced feature switch. If I own an iPhone and I want to allow apps to run in the background, why can't I enable a mode to do that and then accept responsibility for it?
I was going to say the same thing about eol.org. Why reinvent the wheel? I think eol.olg is very well done. Much better than wikipedia in terms of layout and navigation.
I don't know much about what an MBA 'entails' as opposed to general business skills. MBA is the only degree that I know of that is related to business skills, and I know a lot of technical people get them. I've never looked into getting it myself, or what other better alternatives may be.
That would suit me just fine. I'm an extremely patient person, and I don't much care for the idea of being burned alive.
Apple would have impressed me if they did it without the walled garden, without gobs of advertising, and without chopping features that had already become standard by the time. Apple is an impressive force in marketing and locking people into the way they want them to work with their devices, but that just doesn't impress me.
I'm using one right now! I just didn't mention it because I thought people were tired of me talking about it. I love trackpoints. I generally use second hand Thinkpads with trackpoints.
Maybe hard to teach, but becoming more and more necessary just the same.
The two don't *have* to be exclusive. In a great tech company they would not be. If Apple were to allow advanced users to switch file level support on in iOS I would be totally impressed. But they don't do that, so the two DO become mutually exclusive.
Ok fair enough... I mean management and business skills, not MBA.
When your storage is full and you cannot use iCloud for legal reasons.
"Then don't buy one. Apple doesn't want shit-faces like you for a customer anyway."
So you've admitted your wrong?
I do develop for iOS. I couldn't even make a freaking app run in the background forever. No problem in Android. Apple removed this feature for some got forsaken reason. So now Apple people get a hacked together solution.
But once you have to go into the app layer for that, your're done. I've had this conversation ad-nauseum with others. Having an app that stores files and allows your certain protocol options to transfer them is NOT an equivalent for full access at a filesystem level.