Microsoft is not a monopoly. They have Apple, Linux, Oracle, IBM, Google, Yahoo, Sony, Nintendo, etc... to compete with. Apple has recently overtaken them in market cap.
Since the inception of Microsoft, the cost of a computer has dropped substantially, in spite of inflation. In 1984, my dad purchase a desktop with 64K of RAM for $3000. Today, you can buy a Quadcore with 8GB of RAM for $600. If you look at that in terms of real money, that's about 10 ounces of gold vs. about 1/2 an ounce today. So the price has dropped 20 fold, while the performance has increased exponentially. (And obviously it's not just Microsoft that's responsible, it's Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and of course Microsoft's competitors)
Successful businesses grow because they do right by the consumer. So if you're Microsoft, you deserve a $250 Billion market cap because the consumer decided they liked your product. The consumer can break up a monopoly, or a competitor can by offering something a large company doesn't. In the case of Apple overtaking Microsoft, the consumer decided Apple had a better product.
No one else has the power that government has.
Exactly. That's the problem. They have no accountability to anyone. Even a huge corporation like Microsoft is accountable to it's customers.
They need to follow the laws of the constitution and enforce property rights. The government isn't even close to accountable to the people. They own the airwaves. They decide who can broadcast, and what they can say on them(Thus manipulating elections...I've heard it all too often that "I'm voting for Obama because McCain wasn't any good" THERE WERE ABOUT 5 or 6 OTHER THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES, PLUS THE PRIMARIES!!!). Now that the Internet is a threat to their monopoly, they're looking to take that over.
Given that it will probably take at least a few hours to get that thing working, it would take about 5 minutes to read the wiki on race conditions. That 5 minutes might save the amateur several hours.
So please read it!
This is actually over complicated, so consider the following example: ( It's hard to do with text, I'd like to draw a pic...nevertheless )
Guy C takes apples every 5 seconds from Guy A and Guy B. If you give Guy A 8 apples and Guy B 11 apples, you would expect Guy C to run off with 19 apples.
Now suppose Guy A trips while running to Guy C and takes 7 seconds to get to Guy C, but Guy B gets to Guy C in 3 seconds. Since Guy C is leaving at 5 seconds regardless, he runs off with only 11 apples rather than the expected 19.
This is a hazard, or a race condition. In order to solve this, you need to inform Guy C that BOTH Guy A and Guy B have apples to bring him, and that he must wait until both have arrived before leaving.
Shitty employees are willing to work for shitty companies. If you are good(which it sounds like you're better than everyone they let go), find a decent company to work for. They do exist. They are few and far between though, just like great employees are.
I think every time I post a new position I get 100 candidates more qualified than your dumbass.
That is until you start calling them back and find out that 95 won't return your call because they found other jobs better than working for a shithead like you, then of the 5 that come in 3 or 4 of them misrepresent themselves, which leaves you with 1 or 2 who want double what you're paying the "dumbass".
You're on the right track, but you're incorrect as to how monopolies are formed. The government is a monopoly and creates monopolies. You can see how in recent history how they kept a financial oligopoly together with the recent couple TRILLION in bailouts. Had the government not stepped in, there would have been no more AIG, Lehman Brothers, GM, etc...(It's a long list)
The FDIC ceased all of WAMU's assets and sold them to Chase at fire sale prices. Wamu is trying to fight back, but they will likely lose. The government does not allow for private mints and decides who can be a bank, and who can't. They made the dollar the only legal tender, when the constitution clearly states only Gold and Silver can be used as legal tender. By doing this, they are able to print up dollars at will. That's why we had to abandon the Gold Standard, they counterfeited too much money and couldn't make good on all of their promises. With most recent wave of bank failures, and the giants (BOA, Wells Fargo, Chase) still standing, we now have less competition in the financial industry.
This is true of energy too. The government decides who can drill oil and where. They can't drill in ANWR, but can in the deepest portion of the Gulf of Mexico. They decide where power plants can be built. They decide who can be an electric company or gas company. If you don't believe me, buy a generator and try selling electricity to your neighbor. It won't be long before you get a cease and desist letter from the government.
I agree with you that monopolies need to be broken up, but I would argue that putting this task in the biggest monopoly of them all is a flawed method.
That's not a troll post. Slashdot users are just biased.
Even if his post is false, Windows is the most used operating system, therefore it's likely you will find the most vulnerabilities. The other OS's are niche markets, so clearly you will have less people attacking them.
Microsoft is an incredibly successful empire built on the premise of market dominance with low-quality goods,' says former White House advisor Richard Clarke in a recent book.
This is said from a guy who is part of the institution that will throw you in jail if you use gold as tender, or don't pay them to spend YOUR money however THEY see fit.
I have a band signed up for it, but not a personal one. So I'm close to you.
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This is just my experience. My issue's with these experiences are that there's a lot of talking, and not a lot of doing. In the software field, I'd rather people stop asking stupid questions and just let me solve the problem. It boils down to...if you don't know what you're talking about, don't pretend that you do. Instead, I often get a lot of beating around the bush and it pisses me off. If you don't know, just ask and you can learn. If you don't have the capacity or interest to learn, find a new field!
I have respect for good sales people, good mechanics, good cooks. Anyone who is productive I have respect for.
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I agree with you that these people are unemployable and I'd add perhaps replaceable by a machine depending on the position. In fact, in my 12 years as a software engineer, I've found that maybe 20% of company's employees are productive while the other 80% are just dead weight.
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If people love the Mac OS, why not just pay the $40 license fee and install it on an Intel Based PC for 1/4 the price and 2x the performance. Or even use it inside a virtual machine.
The reason is that you have a bunch of shit for brains Yes Men, that will say Yes to their friends. The financiers have no idea what goes into making a video game and want it out at the same time the movie releases.
I remember seeing The Matrix animation of the main guy. We all laughed our asses off at how horrible it was. In general, a piece of shit like that wouldn't even make it into Source Control let alone into the final release of the game.
They say the same stuff to us. While that whole health care thing really didn't shut down the internet, it did scare people and was quite the bunch of bullshit.
We're also told we have a free media, but this administration and the previous administration have both thrown reporters in jail. Of course all of this Net Neutrality talk is a bunch of bullshit too.
I never actually run anywhere but if I suddenly decided to do so, I bet I could get a couple miles.
Two miles is really quite sad, and Dance Dance Revolution fitness does not equate to running fitness. In fact, basketball fitness doesn't even equate to running fitness. Rick Fox starting running too much, and actually cut his NBA career short.
I have an Amana Dishwasher that was made in 1972. It works better than the dishwashers of today.
I bought an IBM ThinkPad in 1993, and it still works beautifully!!! I bought a Gateway in 2005 and the flimsy piece of shit is falling apart. It works, but I have to jiggle the monitor, fuck with the keys on the mouse as they're just about falling out.
Chrysler made solid automobiles. I own a GM (Camaro to be specific) It works great...150,000+ miles and still going strong(minimal repairs), and get this...the FUCKING BRAKES WORK!!!
I suppose it depends on your personal experience, but in my case I would way prefer "Made in the USA"
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You fucker, you took my line!!! :P I thought that's what the internet was for.
Since the inception of Microsoft, the cost of a computer has dropped substantially, in spite of inflation. In 1984, my dad purchase a desktop with 64K of RAM for $3000. Today, you can buy a Quadcore with 8GB of RAM for $600. If you look at that in terms of real money, that's about 10 ounces of gold vs. about 1/2 an ounce today. So the price has dropped 20 fold, while the performance has increased exponentially. (And obviously it's not just Microsoft that's responsible, it's Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and of course Microsoft's competitors)
Successful businesses grow because they do right by the consumer. So if you're Microsoft, you deserve a $250 Billion market cap because the consumer decided they liked your product. The consumer can break up a monopoly, or a competitor can by offering something a large company doesn't. In the case of Apple overtaking Microsoft, the consumer decided Apple had a better product.
No one else has the power that government has.
Exactly. That's the problem. They have no accountability to anyone. Even a huge corporation like Microsoft is accountable to it's customers.
They need to follow the laws of the constitution and enforce property rights. The government isn't even close to accountable to the people. They own the airwaves. They decide who can broadcast, and what they can say on them(Thus manipulating elections...I've heard it all too often that "I'm voting for Obama because McCain wasn't any good" THERE WERE ABOUT 5 or 6 OTHER THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES, PLUS THE PRIMARIES!!!). Now that the Internet is a threat to their monopoly, they're looking to take that over.
Given that it will probably take at least a few hours to get that thing working, it would take about 5 minutes to read the wiki on race conditions. That 5 minutes might save the amateur several hours.
So please read it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition
This is actually over complicated, so consider the following example: ( It's hard to do with text, I'd like to draw a pic...nevertheless )
Guy C takes apples every 5 seconds from Guy A and Guy B. If you give Guy A 8 apples and Guy B 11 apples, you would expect Guy C to run off with 19 apples.
Now suppose Guy A trips while running to Guy C and takes 7 seconds to get to Guy C, but Guy B gets to Guy C in 3 seconds. Since Guy C is leaving at 5 seconds regardless, he runs off with only 11 apples rather than the expected 19.
This is a hazard, or a race condition. In order to solve this, you need to inform Guy C that BOTH Guy A and Guy B have apples to bring him, and that he must wait until both have arrived before leaving.
This just a race condition, which was taught when I was a sophomore in college(and I knew about in high school).
Shitty employees are willing to work for shitty companies. If you are good(which it sounds like you're better than everyone they let go), find a decent company to work for. They do exist. They are few and far between though, just like great employees are.
You think you're irreplaceable?
I think every time I post a new position I get 100 candidates more qualified than your dumbass.
That is until you start calling them back and find out that 95 won't return your call because they found other jobs better than working for a shithead like you, then of the 5 that come in 3 or 4 of them misrepresent themselves, which leaves you with 1 or 2 who want double what you're paying the "dumbass".
You're on the right track, but you're incorrect as to how monopolies are formed. The government is a monopoly and creates monopolies. You can see how in recent history how they kept a financial oligopoly together with the recent couple TRILLION in bailouts. Had the government not stepped in, there would have been no more AIG, Lehman Brothers, GM, etc...(It's a long list)
The FDIC ceased all of WAMU's assets and sold them to Chase at fire sale prices. Wamu is trying to fight back, but they will likely lose. The government does not allow for private mints and decides who can be a bank, and who can't. They made the dollar the only legal tender, when the constitution clearly states only Gold and Silver can be used as legal tender. By doing this, they are able to print up dollars at will. That's why we had to abandon the Gold Standard, they counterfeited too much money and couldn't make good on all of their promises. With most recent wave of bank failures, and the giants (BOA, Wells Fargo, Chase) still standing, we now have less competition in the financial industry.
This is true of energy too. The government decides who can drill oil and where. They can't drill in ANWR, but can in the deepest portion of the Gulf of Mexico. They decide where power plants can be built. They decide who can be an electric company or gas company. If you don't believe me, buy a generator and try selling electricity to your neighbor. It won't be long before you get a cease and desist letter from the government.
I agree with you that monopolies need to be broken up, but I would argue that putting this task in the biggest monopoly of them all is a flawed method.
I once tried to power-slide around a curve after playing it. It didn't work.
You should have your Slashdot privileges revoked for that post.
That's not a troll post. Slashdot users are just biased.
Even if his post is false, Windows is the most used operating system, therefore it's likely you will find the most vulnerabilities. The other OS's are niche markets, so clearly you will have less people attacking them.
Microsoft is an incredibly successful empire built on the premise of market dominance with low-quality goods,' says former White House advisor Richard Clarke in a recent book.
This is said from a guy who is part of the institution that will throw you in jail if you use gold as tender, or don't pay them to spend YOUR money however THEY see fit.
Most intelligent and objective post I've ever seen on Slashdot about Windows.
I have a band signed up for it, but not a personal one. So I'm close to you.
This is just my experience. My issue's with these experiences are that there's a lot of talking, and not a lot of doing. In the software field, I'd rather people stop asking stupid questions and just let me solve the problem. It boils down to...if you don't know what you're talking about, don't pretend that you do. Instead, I often get a lot of beating around the bush and it pisses me off. If you don't know, just ask and you can learn. If you don't have the capacity or interest to learn, find a new field!
I have respect for good sales people, good mechanics, good cooks. Anyone who is productive I have respect for.
I agree with you that these people are unemployable and I'd add perhaps replaceable by a machine depending on the position. In fact, in my 12 years as a software engineer, I've found that maybe 20% of company's employees are productive while the other 80% are just dead weight.
If people love the Mac OS, why not just pay the $40 license fee and install it on an Intel Based PC for 1/4 the price and 2x the performance. Or even use it inside a virtual machine.
Skynet is fine with me, I didn't create the things.
The reason is that you have a bunch of shit for brains Yes Men, that will say Yes to their friends. The financiers have no idea what goes into making a video game and want it out at the same time the movie releases.
I remember seeing The Matrix animation of the main guy. We all laughed our asses off at how horrible it was. In general, a piece of shit like that wouldn't even make it into Source Control let alone into the final release of the game.
This is idiocracy at it's finest. Go fuck yourself to all the idiots involved in this abomination.
They say the same stuff to us. While that whole health care thing really didn't shut down the internet, it did scare people and was quite the bunch of bullshit.
We're also told we have a free media, but this administration and the previous administration have both thrown reporters in jail. Of course all of this Net Neutrality talk is a bunch of bullshit too.
I never actually run anywhere but if I suddenly decided to do so, I bet I could get a couple miles.
Two miles is really quite sad, and Dance Dance Revolution fitness does not equate to running fitness. In fact, basketball fitness doesn't even equate to running fitness. Rick Fox starting running too much, and actually cut his NBA career short.
Working for a game developer is not a professional gamer.
A lot of football players play A LOT of video games. Ray Lewis plays like 8 hours a day.
How is it that no one is aware of the FED, Fractional Reserve Lending, a Monopoly on the money supply, the FDIC and Moral Hazard?
I have an Amana Dishwasher that was made in 1972. It works better than the dishwashers of today.
I bought an IBM ThinkPad in 1993, and it still works beautifully!!! I bought a Gateway in 2005 and the flimsy piece of shit is falling apart. It works, but I have to jiggle the monitor, fuck with the keys on the mouse as they're just about falling out.
Chrysler made solid automobiles. I own a GM (Camaro to be specific) It works great...150,000+ miles and still going strong(minimal repairs), and get this...the FUCKING BRAKES WORK!!!
I suppose it depends on your personal experience, but in my case I would way prefer "Made in the USA"