Can you? Where? And where can you buy one with as good a screen as a MBP? Or a 512MB SSD? Why are Ultrabooks so expensive if Apple are just charging for the screen?
The jobs are only done by robots in places where easily exploitable expendable human labour is not available Since the changes to workers' rights wouldn't have come about in the alternative reality proposed there would have been no need for robots, and because most people would have had a shit education, there probably wouldn't have been anyone to invent them in any case.
You probably wouldn't be on Slashdot if that had been the attitude of those who fought for workers' rights, you'd probably be in a dangerous factory right now if you were lucky or otherwise you'd have no work today and be worrying about how you were going to eat. Putting profits at risk is the most effective way of getting the wealthy to take notice and possibly change their behaviour. What sort of protest should they be making in your opinion? A letter writing campaign?
No I know but I just had to laugh at "most of us would voluntarily elect to not fill our bodies with man-made poisons" when that's practically the national sport here in the UK.
Most people would just say to someone like me "my PC can't read my SD card", I would install the driver and then away they would go. This is nothing like being given a new OS that doesn't run their games or Microsoft Office.
What are you on about now? What does what you did 15 years ago for something completely different have to do with now? Or with your previous weird argument about head of household (what is this 1972?). Just admit you're wrong, it's not that hard.
You libertarian types are hilarious. What do you think alcoholic drinks are if not man-made poisons and yet most of us do voluntarily elect to fill our bodies with it. You have way more faith in humans than I do. I do agree with you but your argument has big holes in it.
Then wouldn't the manufacturer of the device need to license the patent just to get the installer from the device to the host PC?
The Kies driver for my Samsung driver doesn't come on the device, it is downloaded from their website. The same could be done with a filesystem driver.
When more than one member of one household share a PC, the head of household is often the only one with admin privileges.
So the head of household can install the driver. Strange argument and not representative of all or even the majority of households in the world.
For one thing, you'd need to have a Microsoft file system to store the installer for that driver.
I don't get your point. If it's an installer for Windows then of course it's going to be stored on a Microsoft file system. It will be a driver, much like the HFS+ driver that allows you to read Mac disks.
For another, I was under the impression that only members of the Administrators group could install file system drivers.
I was also under this impression but given that we're talking about consumer Windows primarily that isn't a problem. Any need for corporate access to $NEWANDROIDFILESYSTEM could be added to the corporate Windows image and rolled out via SCCM to existing installs. I'm mystified as to why alternatives haven't at least been tried. It's got to be better than paying a tithe to Microsoft.
Because no-one is working on them. If the Android handset manufacturers got together and defined a new standard it would only take installing a driver to start eroding exFAT's dominance.
They have these things called drivers that add additional functionality to Windows. It would only take one popular device to install that driver and suddenly exFAT is dead in the water.
Because it's far easier to deploy a web app than an native app. You only need to update it in one place and as long as the user has the right browser they can access it from wherever. This is of course completely screwed by the arrival of tablets but then that's what happens when monopolies go unpunished.
You say that like it's a good thing that Microsoft is still a massive drag on the progress of the web. IE11 dev tools may finally have reached a standard that makes them worth using but how soon will they fall behind again as Microsoft seems to be completely unable to update the dev tools separately from the browser. I use IE9 at work because Dynamics CRM, their own fucking product, doesn't work properly in IE10 unless you apply a rollup which breaks a whole load of other things. This is because it was coded in Microsoft-only shite that doesn't work on any decent browsers and has only just been rewritten over 3 years after the iPad came along and started eroding their monopoly. Try using IE9 dev tools on a product that uses a shit load of Javascript libraries. You cannot navigate easily to the code you need to debug, you have to cycle through a huge list using the keyboard. Firebug had that at least 3 fucking years ago.
I pressed F12 and they still suck. A bit less than the IE9 ones which sucked a bit less than the IE8 ones. The real problem is that we have to wait an eternity for an update to them whereas the Chrome and Firefox ones are being improved all the time.
Apparently we don't according to the above poster because industries will regulate themselves. Just like the banks or the food industry wouldn't do things like selling worthless securities or passing horsemeat as beef if there was no-one watching them.
Information is only useful if you can understand it. For example how do I know that medicine is safe to take. I am unable to test it for myself, not being a biochemist. I have to rely on the corporation not to cut corners and the government organisation not to miss things. Information flow means nothing in a situation where you would need to be a chemist to decide what's safe for you to take, a financial expert to decide whether a particular bank was a safe place to keep your money, a mechanical engineer to decide whether a car was safe ad nauseum. I have no choice but to rely on the government for many things, because I am unable to get the required expertise to be completely self-reliant.
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Can you? Where? And where can you buy one with as good a screen as a MBP? Or a 512MB SSD? Why are Ultrabooks so expensive if Apple are just charging for the screen?
Overpriced compared to what? All the other laptops with similar specs are similarly priced.
Except Nintendo sold the Wii at a profit.
By the way it's "effect" change. Don't be a moron.
Are there? In a totalitarian country where unions are illegal and the army gets sent in to break them up?
The jobs are only done by robots in places where easily exploitable expendable human labour is not available Since the changes to workers' rights wouldn't have come about in the alternative reality proposed there would have been no need for robots, and because most people would have had a shit education, there probably wouldn't have been anyone to invent them in any case.
You probably wouldn't be on Slashdot if that had been the attitude of those who fought for workers' rights, you'd probably be in a dangerous factory right now if you were lucky or otherwise you'd have no work today and be worrying about how you were going to eat. Putting profits at risk is the most effective way of getting the wealthy to take notice and possibly change their behaviour. What sort of protest should they be making in your opinion? A letter writing campaign?
No I know but I just had to laugh at "most of us would voluntarily elect to not fill our bodies with man-made poisons" when that's practically the national sport here in the UK.
Most people would just say to someone like me "my PC can't read my SD card", I would install the driver and then away they would go. This is nothing like being given a new OS that doesn't run their games or Microsoft Office.
What are you on about now? What does what you did 15 years ago for something completely different have to do with now? Or with your previous weird argument about head of household (what is this 1972?). Just admit you're wrong, it's not that hard.
You libertarian types are hilarious. What do you think alcoholic drinks are if not man-made poisons and yet most of us do voluntarily elect to fill our bodies with it. You have way more faith in humans than I do. I do agree with you but your argument has big holes in it.
How many households does this represent? I think you're clutching at straws here.
I get it, but surely if they're paying that sort of money out it would be worth the support calls.
The Kies driver for my Samsung driver doesn't come on the device, it is downloaded from their website. The same could be done with a filesystem driver.
So the head of household can install the driver. Strange argument and not representative of all or even the majority of households in the world.
I don't get your point. If it's an installer for Windows then of course it's going to be stored on a Microsoft file system. It will be a driver, much like the HFS+ driver that allows you to read Mac disks.
I was also under this impression but given that we're talking about consumer Windows primarily that isn't a problem. Any need for corporate access to $NEWANDROIDFILESYSTEM could be added to the corporate Windows image and rolled out via SCCM to existing installs. I'm mystified as to why alternatives haven't at least been tried. It's got to be better than paying a tithe to Microsoft.
Because no-one is working on them. If the Android handset manufacturers got together and defined a new standard it would only take installing a driver to start eroding exFAT's dominance.
They have these things called drivers that add additional functionality to Windows. It would only take one popular device to install that driver and suddenly exFAT is dead in the water.
Because it's far easier to deploy a web app than an native app. You only need to update it in one place and as long as the user has the right browser they can access it from wherever. This is of course completely screwed by the arrival of tablets but then that's what happens when monopolies go unpunished.
Are you saying Itanium is a non-Intel architecture?
You say that like it's a good thing that Microsoft is still a massive drag on the progress of the web. IE11 dev tools may finally have reached a standard that makes them worth using but how soon will they fall behind again as Microsoft seems to be completely unable to update the dev tools separately from the browser. I use IE9 at work because Dynamics CRM, their own fucking product, doesn't work properly in IE10 unless you apply a rollup which breaks a whole load of other things. This is because it was coded in Microsoft-only shite that doesn't work on any decent browsers and has only just been rewritten over 3 years after the iPad came along and started eroding their monopoly. Try using IE9 dev tools on a product that uses a shit load of Javascript libraries. You cannot navigate easily to the code you need to debug, you have to cycle through a huge list using the keyboard. Firebug had that at least 3 fucking years ago.
I pressed F12 and they still suck. A bit less than the IE9 ones which sucked a bit less than the IE8 ones. The real problem is that we have to wait an eternity for an update to them whereas the Chrome and Firefox ones are being improved all the time.
Apparently we don't according to the above poster because industries will regulate themselves. Just like the banks or the food industry wouldn't do things like selling worthless securities or passing horsemeat as beef if there was no-one watching them.
And if there isn't such an organisation or it is completely untrustworthy?
Information is only useful if you can understand it. For example how do I know that medicine is safe to take. I am unable to test it for myself, not being a biochemist. I have to rely on the corporation not to cut corners and the government organisation not to miss things. Information flow means nothing in a situation where you would need to be a chemist to decide what's safe for you to take, a financial expert to decide whether a particular bank was a safe place to keep your money, a mechanical engineer to decide whether a car was safe ad nauseum. I have no choice but to rely on the government for many things, because I am unable to get the required expertise to be completely self-reliant.