Just download AirVideo for $2.99 and deal with it. Sure, you have to run a transcoding server, but it works flawlessly, transcodes any media I've thrown at it in up to HDTV resolutions (up to 720p on the iPad from a 1080p source), and doesn't require any local storage.
Besides, when you're using your iPad, you're not using your computer, so it's most likely sitting there idle anyway. There are other reasons for transcoding, like reducing bandwidth (I transcode down to 2,000 kbps streams so they can go out over my cable modem which has a max 2 megabit upload speed).
Regarding your second point, you only have to sync your iPad with iTunes once, and you never have to connect it to a computer again if you don't want to. If you don't even have a computer, the Apple store will activate it for you right when you purchase it. Of course, it's still nice to sync it just to backup your data, but there are also plenty of online services like DropBox that work with 3rd party apps for syncing documents and files.
The simple fact is: A perfect tablet does not yet exist. But a $499 wifi iPad + a $2.99 application will get you what you want, as long as you drop your silly "no transcoding" requirement.
You have the history right, but that doesn't make your argument right. At this point, telecoms are the problem. How many $billions of taxpayer money did they receive to increase broadband penetration? How many cable companies and telephone companies are spending $millions to actively lobby city governments against even considering municipal broadband and fiber to the home that has proven it can cost less to deliver 100mbps to every resident in an urban area than to pay Cableco/Telco rates.
Internet is a utility. Deal with it and regulate it like a utility. Bust up monopolies, and don't let them take over.
Name one example of a monopoly utility provider that has offered better service at a lower price out of the "goodness of their hearts." It doesn't exist.
Too bad; you oversold your upstream pipe. Deal with it. ISPs often oversell bandwidth at 100:1 ratios. This is fine, but if you're offering unlimited bandwidth and overselling it at 200:1 or 300:1 ratios, don't be surprised when a few of your users decide to use that "unlimited" bandwidth.
Nuclear power appeals to state planners, not market actors.
I don't care who nuclear power appeals to. I'd rather spend $billions building and running nuclear power plants than $billions drilling for oil, or $billions on the military to protect that oil. In the end, taxpayer money is being spent regardless. Whether it's on the power generation itself, or the externalities associated with the power generation, the costs to society are much higher for fossil fuels.
A couple of construction zones in Ohio do it differently. They have a guy in a truck with sticks to hog the whole road drive at the posted zone limit all day long, he slows down the idiots by making them not able to pass him. It's quite effective as all he needs to to is generate a "pressure wave" of cars bunched up and the average speed stays down.
That's almost the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Similar to construction workers that think it's somehow OK to drive a backhoe on the freeway at 20 mph when the rest of traffic trying to get past going 70 mph.
Speed doesn't kill people. Great differences in speed kill people. What happens when you get one idiot at the front driving 55 mph and 10 aggressive drivers behind him are darting in and out of lanes trying to pass him on the shoulder, in oncoming traffic, etc? It's the perfect environment for an accident.
I'm not worried so much about the guy at the front driving 55 mph. I'm more worried about the asshole that's going to plow me from behind or side-swipe me because I'm stuck behind the guy driving 55 mph.
When I'm reading through a page, if I come across a link that interests me, I open it in a new tab in the background. Then I continue on reading the page until there's nothing else I want, and I close the tab. That automatically brings me to the next tab, from which I do the same thing. It's a very easy and natural way of processing things, and I barely understand the point of having multiple web pages open at the same time if you're not managing things that way.
Do yourself a favor and buy Atomic Web browser for iPad. It's only $0.99 and it does all of the things you want to do. Tap and hold on a link and choose "open in a background tab". Supports ad-block, private browsing (porn mode), full screen browsing, user agent switching, etc.
The number one feature I like is that I can switch tabs without having to reload the entire page. In Safari, for some reason when you switch pages to a page you loaded even a few minutes ago, it has to reload. This is probably for memory reasons, but it makes tabbed browsing damn inconvenient. Atomic Web does this and somehow keeps the pages in memory.
Who pays for the mistakes? Who pays for the environmental impact?
You are welcome to try the alternative of not living in an energy intensive society if that would better suit your needs. I hear that sub-Saharan Africa is wonderful this time of year.
That's a false dichotomy. You make it sound like we have only 2 choices: Either deal with oil spills like this, that could have been prevented if BP had installed a $500,000 blowout valve on the well, or live in a tribal village with no electricity or oil.
What about a company like Norway, who is literally wealthy from their oil production, yet requires their offshore drilling platforms to install sonar activated blowout valves to stop exactly this type of leak? Why can't we do something like that? Simple, common sense solution: you pay $500K to put this safety equipment on your rig or you can't drill. No, this is America, we wouldn't want to mess with the "free market." Free my ass... The market is free to literally fuck over the planet so BP can keep their executives flying corporate jets and lighting their cigars with wads of cash.
Having spares would have been a cheap insurance policy. Don't these people even think about risk mitigation?
It's actually much worse than that. According to an interview I heard on NPR, BP could have purchased a sonar activated blowout valve for $500,000 at the time the well was constructed. These are required by law in Norwegian and Dutch oil wells, but good old America, we don't like any regulations stinking up our "free market".
So, because some bean counter decided that a $500,000 insurance policy wasn't worth it, now we have $billions in direct damage to the economy, as well as the long term damage to the environment that you can't put a price on.
In the meanwhile, we will continue developing Free Open standards, and Free Open software that uses them. We will eventually prevail. We always do.
Absolutely. What we have now on the web is simple:
- In one corner, you have Apple loyalists and Obj-C developers getting fired up because their platform is dominating mobile computing. - In the other corner, you have Flash developers who invested years of their life writing code for a proprietary problem thinking they're going to lose their jobs now.
Everyone needs to kill these religious arguments and just use whatever is the best tool for the job. The only reason why we're seeing such a rabid response from the Apple fans is that they perceive Apple, a perpetual underdog, is under attack. The only reason we see such a rabid response from the Flash developers is that they perceive their software development environment of choice is dying (as it probably should).
Learn how to code in standard languages like C, C++, Java,.NET, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc. and you will be able to write code that will run on ANY platform, open or closed. Developers need to put up or shut up and quit leaning on the crutch that proprietary tools give you. I don't give a fuck if you can create a new GUI in 30 seconds flat with Adobe InterfaceBuilderHooHaa CS5 or not. If you don't understand the code it is generating you will never be a good developer. Learn the concepts of computer science, and languages don't matter any more. Languages can be learned. Programming skill is something that takes time, but can transfer to any new language.
This is really good SPIN. Steve is right in that the very OLD verion of flash before 2007 (3 years in internet time is a VERY LONG TIME.) version 9, did use a CPU based codec. But as stated above, H.264 is now the standard and all sites using flash are now using the same H.264 files in flash as is compatible with the Hardware accelerated decoders. As such, Flash 10.1 is as efficient as that can possibly be on these mobile devices. Steve implies Flash cannot do this. Again deceptive and untrue.
That's a pretty dang good point.
No, it's not. He is SPINNING his response to make it sound like Flash has had hardware acceleration since 2007, but it has not. In fact, Flash 10.1 is still in release candidate phase which means it's only available in a beta form.
The shipping version of Flash does not currently support hardware acceleration of ANY video playback, H.264 or not. FUD, FUD, and more FUD, from an Adobe Flash developer.
For what it's worth, I'm also a UNIX/Linux sysadmin, and the HP iLO has been steadily improving to the point that it's much better than Sun's iLOM now. Also, the HP servers are now supporting cool features like RAID 6 on internal disks, cheap SAS expansion shelves that give me lots of inexpensive but fast locally attached disk.
We still have some of the X4600s. They were great boxes 2 years ago, but HP is making better servers now.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this, but a huge part of the reason why Bing is bleeding money is the Bing CashBack program. I know, because I used it to full advantage during last year's Christmas shopping season. I got over $100 cash back, up to 15% per merchant, just by clicking through from bing.com first before shopping online. The funny thing is, I don't even use Bing as a search engine. I use Google most of the time, but if you're going to give me 15% cashback on a $500 laptop, sure, I'll click through your search engine first.
I think the best deal I got was a 17" Acer Laptop, Core2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 320GB hard drive, Windows 7, etc, for $498 from Walmart.com with 15% cashback and free shipping (pick it up in the store).
Microsoft is basically doing what they always do to capture a new monopoly: Buy the market. They probably spent $200 million alone on Bing CashBack last holiday season, and they'll keep doing it until they have another monopoly, then can jack up the rates and eliminate competition.
My main question is why Adobe has been so late to create a true mobile player that supports touch for newer mobile devices - the ones that actually can access the internet easily. A player that optimizes battery life, and resources. I know version 10.1 is supposed to be this, but I can't really tell if it will deliver. 10.1 also seems to be 1+ years behind schedule. Adobe is the one that owns the player and that onus is on them.
Exactly. Adobe has been shouting from the rooftops for the last year or so "iPhone can't do flash." But you know what? Neither can any other smartphone on the market right now. There is a great stat that Gruber @ Daring Fireball likes to throw out there:
# of iPhones supporting Flash: 0 # of competing smartphones supporting Flash: 0
The burden is on Adobe to first develop a version of Flash that can even run on a smartphone, and then prove to Apple that it won't suck battery life and make the phone crash. If Adobe can do that first, and show Flash running on smartphones without sucking, maybe Apple will reconsider. Until then, this is just a lot of hot air and crying from a company like Adobe that abused their monopoly position in browser based plugins for years to hold the market back from technological progress.
Yeah, if there was no Photoshop for Mac, millions of designers would ditch the foremost image edit suite in the world for what, exactly? Or would they ditch Mac? "Adobe screwed", indeed... *eyeroll*
Actually, I know a lot of designers, and trust me, if Adobe stopped making Photoshop for Mac, they would not abandon Mac for Windows. They love their Macs. In fact, many I know were still using System 9 for years because Adobe refused to port Photoshop to OS X.
Hey, if you're a working designer and you have to get work out the door on a weekly basis, you don't have time to go buy a Windows 7 PC, learn an entire new workflow, and try to get up and running on a completely new system. You use what works, and if your System 9 software and workflow is working now, why wouldn't it keep working 3 years from now?
The only people I know that wouldn't do that aren't really using their Macs for a paycheck. They're tech geeks that use Macs as computers first, and graphics editors second. The professional designers I know use their Macs as tools first, and computers second. They could care less if they have to browse the web using IE 5.5 on System 9, arguably the worst browser/OS combination in the world. Sure, it might be painful, but you know what's more painful? Explaining to that magazine that expected a layout for a print run that you can't meet their deadline and have to pass on the several thousand dollar paycheck because you couldn't figure out how to do something in Windows 7 that you used to be able to do on your old Mac.
Microsoft, after all, just controls the operating system; Apple controls (or wants to control) everything from the operating system and the hardware to what kind of software you run and data you are allowed to access.
Absolutely not true. Microsoft has continuously abused their monopoly in OS marketshare to monopolize new markets, including:
* Office document creation software. * Office document formats, increasing their monopoly control over document creation software. * Web browsers. * Server file sharing protocols (SMB, etc). * Directory and Authentication (Active Directory). * Internet based single sign on (Windows Live, Passport, etc). * Internet search (they've tried, with such underhanded tricks as replacing the default search engine automatically during forced updates to their monopoly browser, but still can't shake Google). * Browser-based plugins (Silverlight - although again Adobe seems to be beating them here). * Online gaming (Games for Windows Live, XBox Live).
In fact, out of all those monopoly abused areas that Microsoft has tried to leverage their desktop monopoly to corner, they have only been unsuccessful in a few, namely Internet Search, Browser plugins, and online gaming (on PC, not Xbox).
Apple has only ~5% desktop market share and ~5% mobile phone marketshare (~29% smartphone marketshare).
The only thing Apple has a monopoly on is products that don't suck. Name one example where they've tried to use their monopoly in products that don't suck to capture a new market. It doesn't exist.
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If for instance the FTC steps in, the remedy might be splitting the company into two - one hardware, one software.
Not likely. The FTC didn't even split Microsoft, a convicted monopolist, in two. They would have a hard time arguing that a manufacturer with ~5% of the desktop PC market and ~29% of the mobile smartphone market has a monopoly on anything.
I find it entertaining how many people scream MONOPOLY!!!!11!!1!!one!!!1! at Apple. Apple only has a monopoly on phones that don't suck.
I'm not an economist, but according to Wolfram Alpha the GDP per capita for China is 3290 USD. Figuring 15 hours a day * $.065 per hour* 6 days a week * 52 weeks in a year = $3042 a year, so about 92% of the GDP per capita.
You're comparing GDP per capita to what a factory worker working overtime earns. You do realize that per capita takes into account all women and children and everyone who doesn't even have a job. US income per capita for 2009 was $39,138, so this would be like making $36,006.96 for working 15 hours a day, 6 days a week.
Actually, the workers are only paid $0.52 an hour after company provided food is taken out of their salary. This means their real wage is $2433.60, which is only 80% of GDP. Which means their US equivalent wage is only $31,205.57, or $6.67/hr.
So basically, working 15 hour days, with unpaid bathroom breaks for 10 min. every 4 hours, forced to buy company food and pay for company rent, for the equivalent to less than minimum wage "doesn't seem that bad?"
Seriously, fuck you. This is slave labor, no two ways about it.
Outsourcing and insourcing, the double whammy plan to marginalize and destroy the middle class here so they can have their globalist master/serf society, with one percent owning everything eventually. That's what is going on.
I agree with everything you said, but I have to wonder why these CxOs, who are obviously very smart, never thought about an endgame. Are they just planning on moving to their own tropical island somewhere while the US goes up in flames? Or are they planning on living inside an armed, guarded suburban enclave (burbclave) like in so many Cyberpunk novels?
It seems like feudalism sounds like a nice idea to a ruler, until you have thousands of angry peasants with pitchforks and torches storming the gates.
oh... and can we have a version which works outdoors in bright light please!
Yeah, because netbooks work just great in bright light. I'd like an eInk display with 24 bit color and a 1 ms refresh rate too, but it's not going to happen anytime soon...
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Just download AirVideo for $2.99 and deal with it. Sure, you have to run a transcoding server, but it works flawlessly, transcodes any media I've thrown at it in up to HDTV resolutions (up to 720p on the iPad from a 1080p source), and doesn't require any local storage.
Besides, when you're using your iPad, you're not using your computer, so it's most likely sitting there idle anyway. There are other reasons for transcoding, like reducing bandwidth (I transcode down to 2,000 kbps streams so they can go out over my cable modem which has a max 2 megabit upload speed).
Regarding your second point, you only have to sync your iPad with iTunes once, and you never have to connect it to a computer again if you don't want to. If you don't even have a computer, the Apple store will activate it for you right when you purchase it. Of course, it's still nice to sync it just to backup your data, but there are also plenty of online services like DropBox that work with 3rd party apps for syncing documents and files.
The simple fact is: A perfect tablet does not yet exist. But a $499 wifi iPad + a $2.99 application will get you what you want, as long as you drop your silly "no transcoding" requirement.
Bad troll is bad. I'm not sure how this got modded up, as you can indeed crank the font up to where any nearly blind senior citizen could read it.
Let me finish that for you - "Get off my lawn..."
You have the history right, but that doesn't make your argument right. At this point, telecoms are the problem. How many $billions of taxpayer money did they receive to increase broadband penetration? How many cable companies and telephone companies are spending $millions to actively lobby city governments against even considering municipal broadband and fiber to the home that has proven it can cost less to deliver 100mbps to every resident in an urban area than to pay Cableco/Telco rates.
Internet is a utility. Deal with it and regulate it like a utility. Bust up monopolies, and don't let them take over.
Name one example of a monopoly utility provider that has offered better service at a lower price out of the "goodness of their hearts." It doesn't exist.
Too bad; you oversold your upstream pipe. Deal with it. ISPs often oversell bandwidth at 100:1 ratios. This is fine, but if you're offering unlimited bandwidth and overselling it at 200:1 or 300:1 ratios, don't be surprised when a few of your users decide to use that "unlimited" bandwidth.
I don't care who nuclear power appeals to. I'd rather spend $billions building and running nuclear power plants than $billions drilling for oil, or $billions on the military to protect that oil. In the end, taxpayer money is being spent regardless. Whether it's on the power generation itself, or the externalities associated with the power generation, the costs to society are much higher for fossil fuels.
You didn't write it in Objective-C, so I couldn't compile it... ;-)
No, it hasn't been banned, and it was approved by Apple. It uses the same WebKit rendering engine that Safari does, it just has a nicer interface.
This link takes you to the iTunes store.
That's almost the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Similar to construction workers that think it's somehow OK to drive a backhoe on the freeway at 20 mph when the rest of traffic trying to get past going 70 mph.
Speed doesn't kill people. Great differences in speed kill people. What happens when you get one idiot at the front driving 55 mph and 10 aggressive drivers behind him are darting in and out of lanes trying to pass him on the shoulder, in oncoming traffic, etc? It's the perfect environment for an accident.
I'm not worried so much about the guy at the front driving 55 mph. I'm more worried about the asshole that's going to plow me from behind or side-swipe me because I'm stuck behind the guy driving 55 mph.
Do yourself a favor and buy Atomic Web browser for iPad. It's only $0.99 and it does all of the things you want to do. Tap and hold on a link and choose "open in a background tab". Supports ad-block, private browsing (porn mode), full screen browsing, user agent switching, etc.
The number one feature I like is that I can switch tabs without having to reload the entire page. In Safari, for some reason when you switch pages to a page you loaded even a few minutes ago, it has to reload. This is probably for memory reasons, but it makes tabbed browsing damn inconvenient. Atomic Web does this and somehow keeps the pages in memory.
That's a false dichotomy. You make it sound like we have only 2 choices: Either deal with oil spills like this, that could have been prevented if BP had installed a $500,000 blowout valve on the well, or live in a tribal village with no electricity or oil.
What about a company like Norway, who is literally wealthy from their oil production, yet requires their offshore drilling platforms to install sonar activated blowout valves to stop exactly this type of leak? Why can't we do something like that? Simple, common sense solution: you pay $500K to put this safety equipment on your rig or you can't drill. No, this is America, we wouldn't want to mess with the "free market." Free my ass... The market is free to literally fuck over the planet so BP can keep their executives flying corporate jets and lighting their cigars with wads of cash.
It's actually much worse than that. According to an interview I heard on NPR, BP could have purchased a sonar activated blowout valve for $500,000 at the time the well was constructed. These are required by law in Norwegian and Dutch oil wells, but good old America, we don't like any regulations stinking up our "free market".
So, because some bean counter decided that a $500,000 insurance policy wasn't worth it, now we have $billions in direct damage to the economy, as well as the long term damage to the environment that you can't put a price on.
You're both right so shut the fuck up already.
Absolutely. What we have now on the web is simple:
- In one corner, you have Apple loyalists and Obj-C developers getting fired up because their platform is dominating mobile computing.
- In the other corner, you have Flash developers who invested years of their life writing code for a proprietary problem thinking they're going to lose their jobs now.
Everyone needs to kill these religious arguments and just use whatever is the best tool for the job. The only reason why we're seeing such a rabid response from the Apple fans is that they perceive Apple, a perpetual underdog, is under attack. The only reason we see such a rabid response from the Flash developers is that they perceive their software development environment of choice is dying (as it probably should).
Learn how to code in standard languages like C, C++, Java, .NET, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc. and you will be able to write code that will run on ANY platform, open or closed. Developers need to put up or shut up and quit leaning on the crutch that proprietary tools give you. I don't give a fuck if you can create a new GUI in 30 seconds flat with Adobe InterfaceBuilderHooHaa CS5 or not. If you don't understand the code it is generating you will never be a good developer. Learn the concepts of computer science, and languages don't matter any more. Languages can be learned. Programming skill is something that takes time, but can transfer to any new language.
No, it's not. He is SPINNING his response to make it sound like Flash has had hardware acceleration since 2007, but it has not. In fact, Flash 10.1 is still in release candidate phase which means it's only available in a beta form.
The shipping version of Flash does not currently support hardware acceleration of ANY video playback, H.264 or not. FUD, FUD, and more FUD, from an Adobe Flash developer.
For what it's worth, I'm also a UNIX/Linux sysadmin, and the HP iLO has been steadily improving to the point that it's much better than Sun's iLOM now. Also, the HP servers are now supporting cool features like RAID 6 on internal disks, cheap SAS expansion shelves that give me lots of inexpensive but fast locally attached disk.
We still have some of the X4600s. They were great boxes 2 years ago, but HP is making better servers now.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this, but a huge part of the reason why Bing is bleeding money is the Bing CashBack program. I know, because I used it to full advantage during last year's Christmas shopping season. I got over $100 cash back, up to 15% per merchant, just by clicking through from bing.com first before shopping online. The funny thing is, I don't even use Bing as a search engine. I use Google most of the time, but if you're going to give me 15% cashback on a $500 laptop, sure, I'll click through your search engine first.
I think the best deal I got was a 17" Acer Laptop, Core2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 320GB hard drive, Windows 7, etc, for $498 from Walmart.com with 15% cashback and free shipping (pick it up in the store).
Microsoft is basically doing what they always do to capture a new monopoly: Buy the market. They probably spent $200 million alone on Bing CashBack last holiday season, and they'll keep doing it until they have another monopoly, then can jack up the rates and eliminate competition.
Exactly. Adobe has been shouting from the rooftops for the last year or so "iPhone can't do flash." But you know what? Neither can any other smartphone on the market right now. There is a great stat that Gruber @ Daring Fireball likes to throw out there:
# of iPhones supporting Flash: 0
# of competing smartphones supporting Flash: 0
The burden is on Adobe to first develop a version of Flash that can even run on a smartphone, and then prove to Apple that it won't suck battery life and make the phone crash. If Adobe can do that first, and show Flash running on smartphones without sucking, maybe Apple will reconsider. Until then, this is just a lot of hot air and crying from a company like Adobe that abused their monopoly position in browser based plugins for years to hold the market back from technological progress.
Actually, I know a lot of designers, and trust me, if Adobe stopped making Photoshop for Mac, they would not abandon Mac for Windows. They love their Macs. In fact, many I know were still using System 9 for years because Adobe refused to port Photoshop to OS X.
Hey, if you're a working designer and you have to get work out the door on a weekly basis, you don't have time to go buy a Windows 7 PC, learn an entire new workflow, and try to get up and running on a completely new system. You use what works, and if your System 9 software and workflow is working now, why wouldn't it keep working 3 years from now?
The only people I know that wouldn't do that aren't really using their Macs for a paycheck. They're tech geeks that use Macs as computers first, and graphics editors second. The professional designers I know use their Macs as tools first, and computers second. They could care less if they have to browse the web using IE 5.5 on System 9, arguably the worst browser/OS combination in the world. Sure, it might be painful, but you know what's more painful? Explaining to that magazine that expected a layout for a print run that you can't meet their deadline and have to pass on the several thousand dollar paycheck because you couldn't figure out how to do something in Windows 7 that you used to be able to do on your old Mac.
Absolutely not true. Microsoft has continuously abused their monopoly in OS marketshare to monopolize new markets, including:
* Office document creation software.
* Office document formats, increasing their monopoly control over document creation software.
* Web browsers.
* Server file sharing protocols (SMB, etc).
* Directory and Authentication (Active Directory).
* Internet based single sign on (Windows Live, Passport, etc).
* Internet search (they've tried, with such underhanded tricks as replacing the default search engine automatically during forced updates to their monopoly browser, but still can't shake Google).
* Browser-based plugins (Silverlight - although again Adobe seems to be beating them here).
* Online gaming (Games for Windows Live, XBox Live).
In fact, out of all those monopoly abused areas that Microsoft has tried to leverage their desktop monopoly to corner, they have only been unsuccessful in a few, namely Internet Search, Browser plugins, and online gaming (on PC, not Xbox).
Apple has only ~5% desktop market share and ~5% mobile phone marketshare (~29% smartphone marketshare).
The only thing Apple has a monopoly on is products that don't suck. Name one example where they've tried to use their monopoly in products that don't suck to capture a new market. It doesn't exist.
Not likely. The FTC didn't even split Microsoft, a convicted monopolist, in two. They would have a hard time arguing that a manufacturer with ~5% of the desktop PC market and ~29% of the mobile smartphone market has a monopoly on anything.
I find it entertaining how many people scream MONOPOLY!!!!11!!1!!one!!!1! at Apple. Apple only has a monopoly on phones that don't suck.
You're comparing GDP per capita to what a factory worker working overtime earns. You do realize that per capita takes into account all women and children and everyone who doesn't even have a job. US income per capita for 2009 was $39,138, so this would be like making $36,006.96 for working 15 hours a day, 6 days a week.
Actually, the workers are only paid $0.52 an hour after company provided food is taken out of their salary. This means their real wage is $2433.60, which is only 80% of GDP. Which means their US equivalent wage is only $31,205.57, or $6.67/hr.
So basically, working 15 hour days, with unpaid bathroom breaks for 10 min. every 4 hours, forced to buy company food and pay for company rent, for the equivalent to less than minimum wage "doesn't seem that bad?"
Seriously, fuck you. This is slave labor, no two ways about it.
I agree with everything you said, but I have to wonder why these CxOs, who are obviously very smart, never thought about an endgame. Are they just planning on moving to their own tropical island somewhere while the US goes up in flames? Or are they planning on living inside an armed, guarded suburban enclave (burbclave) like in so many Cyberpunk novels?
It seems like feudalism sounds like a nice idea to a ruler, until you have thousands of angry peasants with pitchforks and torches storming the gates.
Yeah, because netbooks work just great in bright light. I'd like an eInk display with 24 bit color and a 1 ms refresh rate too, but it's not going to happen anytime soon...
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