It is not enough to be a genius in this world, you must also have marketing skills. It is very rare for someone to 'find' you out of the blue and determine that you have skills that they need and can make use of. You have to sell your intelligence like any other product. You have to be able to actually solve problems show people how that is beneficial to them. I imagine the ones that can't market and don't reach their full potential from an intellectual perspective are very unhappy indeed.
I use Owncloud and it works very well. The one thing I don't like about it is that it takes a good 1/2 hour for a file to get from one end to the other. Sometimes I wish you could just go to the target machine and immediately pull down a certified newest copy of a file. Seafile doesn't happen to do that does it?
I'm not sure if this is what you are saying, but it is a bit much to expect to be able to upgrade your OS and have it still work with all your devices. Windows has a very long support Window so you can still use all Windows 7 devices. I admit I have a dongle that only worked with windows xp and I was pissed about that. But at least it worked in windows. I tried it in Linux and it was somewhat there but not really. IT was a home automation dongle.
I'm saying that I have never had a problem obtaining a driver for windows that allows the device to work as advertised. Not the case on Linux. I've spent hours installing drivers, or installed the 'commercial driver' only to find that the device is missing features or is flaky with KDE and or Gnome. I've had many devices that don't work properly on OS/X.
*IF* you don't change it.... or dare to dream by suspending it and expecting it to come alive again exactly the way it was before. Double headed may or may not work. Yeah, other then that it is stable.
Oh and you need linux support for all the hardware in your machine. And have the fortune that all new (within the last 10 years) features of your device are supported in the available linux driver. Not to mention whether it will support dual graphics cards.
And before you go on saying 'x' distro does it, or 'y' distro does it.. we don't always have the choice of all distros due to dependencies or legal reasons.
Linux is good, maybe even great, but it is not without its headaches. Personally I find Windows to be the most headache free OS. OS/X loses out in my mind because they have sacrificed a lot to make the UI basic and simple, and that is a matter of personal preference.
Let me add that, I think this has happened because the wealthy have been allowed to believe that their status as making 800% more than the rest of us should be protected somehow; but they are supposed to have to fight for that echelon in society and be challenged, since there may be others that have sharper ideas and have a greater right to that spot. This is supposed to happen when new companies are created. This should all create a healthy churn and people are were they should be according to their actual skills and not as much by birth right.
Corporations are SUPPOSED to fail in a healthy capitalist economy. If a corp has outlived it's welcome, OH WELL, capitalism is supposed to allow everyone to pack up their bags and go come. In theory if we allow this to happen, three more companies pop up in the corp's place with more innovation and better ideas and hire.
Decades of government protection allowed corporations to grow into mammoth organizations and this has become infeasible. It is and always has been the government that is supposed to indicate how to get out of this mess. Not corporations, not consumers.
I knew a long-haul driver and there are places in cities where they will not stop even if the light it red. Why? Because people will board the vehicle and break into it. How does this work with an automated vehicle? There will have to be a security force dedicated to protecting the vehicles. Seems easier just to have a driver.
I don't get it.. so you have a button for laundry detergent. What if you run out of one of the other hundreds of things that house holds regularly run out of? I'm not sure if there is one single product in my house I find that important over the others. Am I supposed to have fifty of these buttons around my house?
Awhile ago I was working on a project and had an integer field for 'percentage sales tax rate'. I get to Quebec and their tax rate is 9.975%.
That's pretty much a microcosm of Canada right there.
I'm just wondering how that would work if they don't currently have broadband access... Would you sign them on for a broadband contract and pay for it outright just so that they can test it? Would you set it up under the name of the current home owners? Would Comcast be willing to transfer the contract to you after you are in the home?
Then why have salaries been stagnant since the 70's. Listen, I really wish I could be as optimistic as you, but I haven't seen many improvements in my lifetime. The trend is definitely downward. If, in 100 years everyone still owns a TV I will be very surprised.
I should add, the reason why numbers don't account for companies who employ like Uber in the first place is because no one really thought a corporation would have such a low level of loyalty to its employees. There isn't even any point talking about corporate culture any more.
The numbers are well known to be slanted towards the upper class. The numbers only reflect income, not the quality or permanence of that income. Uber is exactly the kind of company that these numbers overlook.
All the rise of Uber exemplifies is how capitalism is a race to the bottom. Uber doesn't want to have employees, and doesn't want to enforce the same level of safety. A new lower rung. A new successful company.
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And then when you got past the nipples you stopped the download because there wasn't a point any longer.
It is not enough to be a genius in this world, you must also have marketing skills. It is very rare for someone to 'find' you out of the blue and determine that you have skills that they need and can make use of. You have to sell your intelligence like any other product. You have to be able to actually solve problems show people how that is beneficial to them. I imagine the ones that can't market and don't reach their full potential from an intellectual perspective are very unhappy indeed.
Cool! Does it have Google Street View??
I use Owncloud and it works very well. The one thing I don't like about it is that it takes a good 1/2 hour for a file to get from one end to the other. Sometimes I wish you could just go to the target machine and immediately pull down a certified newest copy of a file. Seafile doesn't happen to do that does it?
But I was really just trying to disagree with someone's point of view.
I'm not sure if this is what you are saying, but it is a bit much to expect to be able to upgrade your OS and have it still work with all your devices. Windows has a very long support Window so you can still use all Windows 7 devices. I admit I have a dongle that only worked with windows xp and I was pissed about that. But at least it worked in windows. I tried it in Linux and it was somewhat there but not really. IT was a home automation dongle.
I'm saying that I have never had a problem obtaining a driver for windows that allows the device to work as advertised. Not the case on Linux. I've spent hours installing drivers, or installed the 'commercial driver' only to find that the device is missing features or is flaky with KDE and or Gnome. I've had many devices that don't work properly on OS/X.
*IF* you don't change it.... or dare to dream by suspending it and expecting it to come alive again exactly the way it was before. Double headed may or may not work. Yeah, other then that it is stable.
Oh and you need linux support for all the hardware in your machine. And have the fortune that all new (within the last 10 years) features of your device are supported in the available linux driver. Not to mention whether it will support dual graphics cards.
And before you go on saying 'x' distro does it, or 'y' distro does it.. we don't always have the choice of all distros due to dependencies or legal reasons.
Linux is good, maybe even great, but it is not without its headaches. Personally I find Windows to be the most headache free OS. OS/X loses out in my mind because they have sacrificed a lot to make the UI basic and simple, and that is a matter of personal preference.
We have the capability to do better, *there is just no money in it*.
Let me add that, I think this has happened because the wealthy have been allowed to believe that their status as making 800% more than the rest of us should be protected somehow; but they are supposed to have to fight for that echelon in society and be challenged, since there may be others that have sharper ideas and have a greater right to that spot. This is supposed to happen when new companies are created. This should all create a healthy churn and people are were they should be according to their actual skills and not as much by birth right.
Corporations are SUPPOSED to fail in a healthy capitalist economy. If a corp has outlived it's welcome, OH WELL, capitalism is supposed to allow everyone to pack up their bags and go come. In theory if we allow this to happen, three more companies pop up in the corp's place with more innovation and better ideas and hire.
Decades of government protection allowed corporations to grow into mammoth organizations and this has become infeasible. It is and always has been the government that is supposed to indicate how to get out of this mess. Not corporations, not consumers.
Then America should have planned for a more sustainable method to run their economy on.
"If it's $100K, there's going to be multiple 1000s in wiggle room. "
Maybe in the 60's.. But in this day and age, most of that $100K needs to go to some sort of investor.
I knew a long-haul driver and there are places in cities where they will not stop even if the light it red. Why? Because people will board the vehicle and break into it. How does this work with an automated vehicle? There will have to be a security force dedicated to protecting the vehicles. Seems easier just to have a driver.
Ahem.
I don't get it.. so you have a button for laundry detergent. What if you run out of one of the other hundreds of things that house holds regularly run out of? I'm not sure if there is one single product in my house I find that important over the others. Am I supposed to have fifty of these buttons around my house?
Tracking is not harmful, it is creepy. It is doing something no person should ever feel the need to do to another person.
If you are the type of person who will do it, you are not likely to see the fault in your actions.
Awhile ago I was working on a project and had an integer field for 'percentage sales tax rate'. I get to Quebec and their tax rate is 9.975%. That's pretty much a microcosm of Canada right there.
I'm just wondering how that would work if they don't currently have broadband access... Would you sign them on for a broadband contract and pay for it outright just so that they can test it? Would you set it up under the name of the current home owners? Would Comcast be willing to transfer the contract to you after you are in the home?
WHY would you expect HP *anything* to last?
Then why have salaries been stagnant since the 70's. Listen, I really wish I could be as optimistic as you, but I haven't seen many improvements in my lifetime. The trend is definitely downward. If, in 100 years everyone still owns a TV I will be very surprised.
I should add, the reason why numbers don't account for companies who employ like Uber in the first place is because no one really thought a corporation would have such a low level of loyalty to its employees. There isn't even any point talking about corporate culture any more.
The numbers are well known to be slanted towards the upper class. The numbers only reflect income, not the quality or permanence of that income. Uber is exactly the kind of company that these numbers overlook.
Uber is a new type of corporate America that is perfectly happy to make serfs out of the average citizen. We're back to the common trades class now.
This is not a step ahead for domestic workers, this is taking advantage of the desperate situation they are in.
All the rise of Uber exemplifies is how capitalism is a race to the bottom. Uber doesn't want to have employees, and doesn't want to enforce the same level of safety. A new lower rung. A new successful company.