Not at the time they were invented, no. Lasers were originally conceived and the foundation for them laid down in the 1920s. It took until the 1980s when they were actually something you could market.
You think any company invests into something with a 60 years development period?
Unfortunately competition is on the way out and monopolies are what we're heading for. And if I only have the choice between a corporate monopoly and a state monopoly, I choose the latter.
Austria, Sweden, France, Norway... Yes, even Germany before they had that reunion. It's probably not an efficient system, but a good one. And frankly, I don't care whether a system is efficient as long as it does what it should and is affordable.
I mean, seriously, why should I care whether 100 millions a year are lost in inefficient practices or blown on some idiots' golden parachutes? I have to pay either, and with the former, I at least have a chance of being affected positively in some way.
Come April 29, disable the updating process. Yes, it's possible. Wait for May 3-4. Read up what's going on. Then decide whether you want to install or whether it's better to keep the update disabled.
Windows Updates are not a nature of force. You still have every option to not let them happen and wait it out 'til others have played Russian roulette for your convenience.
Because that's a secondary concern. For the public sector, the product IS the main concern. Providing one that can fulfill the role it has to fill perfectly is the goal. Cost is secondary. For the private sector, the product only has to be good enough to fulfill the specs, what matters is doing it with as much profit as possible.
Governments on the other hand have much bigger bargaining power. Government contracts are lucrative, even if you happen to have a government that doesn't just throw out money but is actually working sensibly (yes, astonishing as it may be for some, such a thing exists). Selling to the government means that you WILL get paid (well, provided you're not selling to Somalia). Since as a company you're usually in a position where you owe money to the government, be it for taxes, fees or even fines, even if they for some odd reason cannot pay at all, you'll have a way to get your money, if only by not paying taxes in return to not getting paid (and if your country doesn't let you do that, well, find a better country).
Also, government don't go out of business and leave you sitting on raw materials for a contract that you suddenly can't sell anymore and they rarely cancel contracts. With all those things in mind you can calculate a lot tighter margins because you simply don't have to deal with risks you're usually facing when dealing with private enterprises or (worse) consumers.
Fortunately these crackpots are rarely in a position where they can take on a multi-billion heavy corporation. It's not that trivial to get rid of idiots in many other areas.
You act as if the private sector was in any way more competent. I am "blessed" with the chance to play with the security of a large international corporation. Incompetence and bureaucracy are rampart here. Being fired is possible up to a certain echelon, and up to that level there are actually fairly competent people working, simply because the incompetent ones get fired. Once you get to a certain level, though, you notice that incompetent idiots don't get fired. They get shuffled around. Mostly 'cause firing them is simply too expensive, or because they know either someone, or something about someone.
C'mon, what country are you in where a superfluous governmental body ceases to exist? It just gets reorganized and the people in it get redistributed. And they know it.
If you want to make cynical comments, at least make some that work.
The private sector cannot do it cheaper. By definition. If the private sector can, you're not working at Capitalist terms.
The private sector and the public sector have fundamentally different goals when doing something. For the private sector, whatever is produced or provided is a means to the end, i.e. profit. For the public sector, the produced good or service IS already the end. No profit needed.
Now, all other aspects identical, there is no way a private enterprise can offer anything at the same price as a public provider, simply because he needs to slap profit on top of the cost. Usually, when you see a private enterprise offering something cheaper, you also lose an aspect the public provider takes into account that the private one doesn't give a fuck about.
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Not at the time they were invented, no. Lasers were originally conceived and the foundation for them laid down in the 1920s. It took until the 1980s when they were actually something you could market.
You think any company invests into something with a 60 years development period?
Unfortunately competition is on the way out and monopolies are what we're heading for. And if I only have the choice between a corporate monopoly and a state monopoly, I choose the latter.
Austria, Sweden, France, Norway... Yes, even Germany before they had that reunion. It's probably not an efficient system, but a good one. And frankly, I don't care whether a system is efficient as long as it does what it should and is affordable.
I mean, seriously, why should I care whether 100 millions a year are lost in inefficient practices or blown on some idiots' golden parachutes? I have to pay either, and with the former, I at least have a chance of being affected positively in some way.
You're working for the wrong governments...
People don't feel the consequences of their actions in corporations either, at least at levels where they can actually make decisions.
Come April 29, disable the updating process. Yes, it's possible. Wait for May 3-4. Read up what's going on. Then decide whether you want to install or whether it's better to keep the update disabled.
Windows Updates are not a nature of force. You still have every option to not let them happen and wait it out 'til others have played Russian roulette for your convenience.
Write me an "H" in Cyrillic. And don't get me started on the yers, nobody so far could explain their reason to exist.
Well, it doesn't really affect me that much, since where it really counts I call out (or get called out) the digits one by one anyway.
Because that's a secondary concern. For the public sector, the product IS the main concern. Providing one that can fulfill the role it has to fill perfectly is the goal. Cost is secondary. For the private sector, the product only has to be good enough to fulfill the specs, what matters is doing it with as much profit as possible.
It has little to do with altruism. But a government that fails to provide what its constituents want will not govern for long.
Many places in Europe have shown that it can work. Provided you keep the rest of the world out, that is...
Governments on the other hand have much bigger bargaining power. Government contracts are lucrative, even if you happen to have a government that doesn't just throw out money but is actually working sensibly (yes, astonishing as it may be for some, such a thing exists). Selling to the government means that you WILL get paid (well, provided you're not selling to Somalia). Since as a company you're usually in a position where you owe money to the government, be it for taxes, fees or even fines, even if they for some odd reason cannot pay at all, you'll have a way to get your money, if only by not paying taxes in return to not getting paid (and if your country doesn't let you do that, well, find a better country).
Also, government don't go out of business and leave you sitting on raw materials for a contract that you suddenly can't sell anymore and they rarely cancel contracts. With all those things in mind you can calculate a lot tighter margins because you simply don't have to deal with risks you're usually facing when dealing with private enterprises or (worse) consumers.
Talk for your own failed state.
Fortunately these crackpots are rarely in a position where they can take on a multi-billion heavy corporation. It's not that trivial to get rid of idiots in many other areas.
You act as if the private sector was in any way more competent. I am "blessed" with the chance to play with the security of a large international corporation. Incompetence and bureaucracy are rampart here. Being fired is possible up to a certain echelon, and up to that level there are actually fairly competent people working, simply because the incompetent ones get fired. Once you get to a certain level, though, you notice that incompetent idiots don't get fired. They get shuffled around. Mostly 'cause firing them is simply too expensive, or because they know either someone, or something about someone.
I would have agreed with you before "too big to fail" became reality.
C'mon, what country are you in where a superfluous governmental body ceases to exist? It just gets reorganized and the people in it get redistributed. And they know it.
If you want to make cynical comments, at least make some that work.
The private sector cannot do it cheaper. By definition. If the private sector can, you're not working at Capitalist terms.
The private sector and the public sector have fundamentally different goals when doing something. For the private sector, whatever is produced or provided is a means to the end, i.e. profit. For the public sector, the produced good or service IS already the end. No profit needed.
Now, all other aspects identical, there is no way a private enterprise can offer anything at the same price as a public provider, simply because he needs to slap profit on top of the cost. Usually, when you see a private enterprise offering something cheaper, you also lose an aspect the public provider takes into account that the private one doesn't give a fuck about.
True. I have backups today. Without, well, it's surprising what a little faulty driver can do to a system...
Well, then what is the point?
Hmm... Then it's more sensible than trying a startup, that's high risk AND a lot of work.
Funny about the German system is only that they count from right to left (fourty-one is actually literally "one and fourty").
How does this beat "four times twenty plus ten plus nine" for 99 in French?
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What? Please tell me you don't think this looks like a worthy target for trolls.
I'm sure you can explain how to restrict a browser in such a way that your kid can access YouTube but not log out and create another account.
Even if I did believe any of this, and why exactly should I, why does Facebook think they deserve anything resembling trust anymore?
Ridiculous. People are just typing wrong.