“There is no change to Philips’ commitment towards an open system and ZigBee Light Link as the best standard for residential lighting control. Our lights continue to be fully standards compatible with differentiated features built on top of the standard and exposed via our bridge.”
“Yes, we will continue to allow other applications to work with Philips Hue without certification”
* Until we feel such applications are cutting into our profit margins, or the CEO needs a bump in his stock dividends before cashing in his golden parachute.
Good luck on that, they've probably already got you locked into an arbitration clause, at the arbitrator they happen to have a nice fat contract with. Corporations have been killing the class action suit for quite a while now, which always makes me laugh when Libertarian-tards say we don't need government, just take corporations to court!
Here in Asia, other less "industrial-grade" bananas still exist. They are sweeter, more flavorful and won't survive a plane crash like your laboratory-born neo-fruit.
The death of the Cavendish could be a wonderful thing.
The Cavendish banana has been cultivated for something like a century, it wasn't "laboratory-born". It's commercially successful because it can withstand the rigors of shipping, unlike about every other banana strain currently around.
As for the destruction of the Cavendish being a wonderful thing.. sure, if you're the kind of monster that doesn't give a damn about the people who depend on harvesting them for their livelihood. There's an entire global industry around the Cavendish that will collapse and wipe out jobs around the planet. But hey, as long as you can get something subjectively better, screw everyone else eh?
Why are all these SJW's trying to prevent the invisible hand of the market from working??? Are they TRYING to get the marketplace regulated!?!?!?! These are the sorts of things that separate the winners from the losers! The losers deserve to be poor and broke and die on the streets for not being wiser with their investments! It's Darwin! It's what Capitalist Jesus would want! That's why Jesus went off on the moneylenders, you know. They'd gone bankrupt investing in a housing bubble and were begging for a government handout THANKS OBAMA!
News for nerds? This is news for SJW's! Why's it on my Slashdot?????
I think it's mainly maintained by Stallman fanatics who still bare death grudges against Linus for stealing their thunder, to be honest.
They gather at the gnarled roots of his wretched toes, surviving on Jolt cola and Stallman's beard fungus as they furiously translate their eldritch acid dreams into holy code all the while gnashing their teeth at any mention of the dread thief Linus.
LINUS!!! That thief of dreams, murderer of hope, that foul bandit who ran off with their sacred GNU!! His every fetid caress of the GNU corrupts it with corporate appeasance!! HE MUST BE STOPPED!!
.... and so they chitter in binary under the caressing shade of Stallman's girth, preparing for the day of their triumph... they need not success, the accolades of the masses, those putrid sheeple!... they have their purity..
Tell you what, never use our roads, our internet, our many other public services ever again. Shut yourself up in your private property hermitage, dig a well because you aren't allowed to use water that came from a river the government diverted for our benefit. We'll work out a list of products you can never use because they resulted from government backed research. Then.. yeah you can quit paying taxes then. We'll let you.
By your logic people should be dropping Androids and iPhones like radioactive waste to snatch up those sweet sweet Nokia Windows Phones.
People understand that different programs run on different hardware now. I'm not saying that a pure Linux laptop wouldn't have perception problems, but they wouldn't be insurmountable either. Frankly the biggest sales cases for Linux laptops would be Governments and Schools anyway, and they have teams to train the users on new hardware.
The engineers did it because the CEO on down told them to make it happen or go find another job. There were far too many sensors on the car involved with this cheat for anyone to believe it was just a few rogue engineers.
You can't do a one launch manned trip to Mars, land and relaunch back to Earth. Isn't going to happen.
It's going to take multiple launches with some construction in space. Might as well do the construction on the Moon which is easily reachable.
Creating fuel on Mars is fine for the return trip, but it does nothing for the trip from Earth to Mars, which is where using the Moon as a fuel depot comes in.
Here's the most compelling reason to start with a Moon base. We've had people there before. We know how much it will cost, what will be needed and how to do it already. It's cheaper than going to Mars, it's faster than going to Mars, a lunar colony program can be running well before a Martian one can, and it gives us a base for a later Mars mission, or better yet Venus.
Why spend billions to put someone on Mars if they're not going to live there? We're nowhere near where we need to be for a Mars colony, but a Moon colony? That's something we can do now.
A container built to hold in 1 bar of pressure in a solid vacuum would stand up to Mar's atmosphere just fine. As for the abrasive dust, the dust on the Moon just sits there except for the very brief moments when an astronaut tracks it into the airlock. The dust on Mars moves, sometimes very quickly, which means high speed wind storms as well as abrasive dust and electrostatic discharge. Those temperature variations? The Moon is locked, one side is constantly in sunlight, the other constantly in darkness. Unless you are traveling from one side to the other, the temperature doesn't fluctuate very much. Unlike Mars, where it goes up and down every 24 1/2 hours.
Overrall, it's much easier to be on the Moon than Mars. After all, if you can build a space ship in the first place, you've pretty much built a Moon habitat.
You don't have to get fuel to the moon, you can make fuel there. Aluminum & water ice are all you need, and the Moon has plenty of aluminum. Sources of water are more questionable, the dark side of the moon may have some, or we could capture a comet for it, or if necessary truck it up from Earth. It's still better than towing 100% of the fuel from Earth.
As for Mars itself, there's several ways to create rocket fuel there.
Also, the Moon is a balmy hell? The moon is just radiation and straight up vacuum. Mars has dust storms, radiation, freezing ass cold and near vacuum. Anything that can survive on Mars will do just fine on the Moon, and the Moon can be a nice test bed for Martian equipment.
If Apple enabled SD cards, how could they expect to keep selling those larger capacity phones at such a markup? SD cards cut into profits, it's why Samsung dropped them from the S6.
"Let the market handle it" as if the "the market" cares for anything but profits and what about all the people dead or injured while "the market" is figuring itself out? You apparently don't give a damn. "Let the courts handle it" as if the courts can do a damn thing if there's no laws against it. You're apparently also unaware that the entire purpose of a corporation is to limit the legal liability of it's owners and directors. And who would investigate a corporation for endangerment in the first place? There'd be no Federal agency if people of your ilk had their way. The local agencies, if such exist, would be all to happily suborned by corporate interests. But hey, who cares about a few deaths here and there as long as someone's getting paid.
Did I mention you being an idjit? Because you obviously know nothing about law, or history or people in general, or what the point of this discussion was about for that matter.
The West Fertilizer Company plant that blew up and killed 15 people, injured 160 and caused millions in damages to neighboring structures. They employed 9 people.
Here's some significant findings from the Wikipedia article: (emphasis mine)
On April 22, 2014, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board released preliminary results of its investigation into the explosion. It found that company officials failed to safely store the chemicals in its stockpile, and that federal, state and local regulations about the handling of hazardous materials were inadequate. In a statement released alongside the report, the board's chair, Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso, stated: "The fire and explosion at West Fertilizer was preventable. It should never have occurred. It resulted from the failure of a company to take the necessary steps to avert a preventable fire and explosion and from the inability of federal, state and local regulatory agencies to identify a serious hazard and correct it." The CSB's yearlong investigation found that 1,351 facilities across the country store ammonium nitrate, and that there many areas had no regulations to keep such facilities away from populated areas. Moure-Eraso urged new and revised regulations, stating "there is no substitute for an efficient regulatory system that ensures that all companies are operating to the same high standards. We cannot depend on voluntary compliance."
If you can't make a business succeed without having safety regulations removed, then please shut up and let the big corporations that can absorb and pass on the costs do it. There's no constitutional right to a successful business, or a business environment that allows businessmen to get away with whatever they want in the name of profit. The public good comes first, THEN you can try to make a profit at it, otherwise, no thanks.
Next you'll be claiming we should allow slavery again because "regulations" prevent honest businessmen from making a buck off human misery.
Higher taxes might need to be levied on corporations, stocks, capital gains, etc. but if you're not part of the 1% who cares, and if you are, then who cares. More people with money means more people consuming products. This is why "trickle down" has never worked as an economic theory.
See? Right there: It's not 'free money'. You're going to tax someone more because they make more money, so you can give that money to someone else? That's not 'free money', that sounds more like welfare to me. Guess what else? Since I make more than the poverty level (~$50000 a year is what I make right now) they'd probably tax ME higher regardless of not being part of 'the 1%'.
You're ignoring that the first $24,000 or so of income would be tax free. All the taxes you're already paying for Social Security, Welfare, Food Stamps, WIC, etc? The money the government hands to corporations to hire more people? The tax breaks and subsidies corporations get? The money they'd normally pay to Unemployment? That would be redirected to the basic income, so that wouldn't change at all, up or down. If it did go up, it likely wouldn't hit someone in your new tax bracket.
Basically everything you said in your comment is either blue-sky/rose-colored-glasses thinking, or just confirms everything I already thought about something like this: It's nonsense, there is no 'free money'. Also unlike car insurance, some of us don't need health insurance so much; I'm not obese, I don't eat garbage food, I don't sit on my ass and get weak and diseased, and rarely if ever go to the doctor for anything; I'm middle-aged, genuinely an athlete (if amateur -- I work a day job) and yet I'm forced to pay for health insurance that I don't even use. Not the same thing at all.
Do you never get sick? Fall down in the snow, trip, have an accident? You get health insurance for more reasons than an excuse to be unhealthy. Hope you never injure yourself in your athletics, those sorts of injuries are never expensive:P.
Oh and for sure businesses would lower wages since people get 'free money', and everything would self-regulate back down to exactly where things stand right now: poor people would still be poor, rich people would still be rich, corporate America would still do whatever it takes to raise their bottom line, mainly by cutting wages since people get so-called 'free money'. My advice to you is to not quit your day job, friend, because there won't being any $2000 checks from the government in your mailbox anytime soon, or ever. It's just an incredibly unrealistic idea, and I haven't read anything from anyone yet that convinces me it's even remotely feasible. Also as I've said repeatedly now, if there is all this money floating around then pay the National Debt with it!
So businesses lower wages, or cut hours and you make.. exactly the same amount you were making before the basic income. And maybe the company hires another couple of people since they have to pay less overall. Maybe they split your job with another person, pay you each half your current wages and with the basic income you get more free time with the same income over the year. And then when your job inevitably has a mass layoff, just like HP dropping 30,000 people recently through no fault of the employees, you don't have to go into a panic because you still have money coming in.
If you want to talk about historical evidence then industrial production is a blip and the majority of human productivity has been small scale custom work with family associations and apprenticeships to craftspersons all under the governance of the local aristocracy.
Historical evidence doesn't mean future performance. We are approaching a time when it will take very few people to provide for the needs of the majority of human population, and we're not growing new jobs fast enough to reclaim the losses.
Those forces of market structure and consolidation you point to are driven by the very automation and process efficiency when you claim aren't the issue.
What it does currently do...is over regulate and kill the small businesses with taxation and paperwork preventing them from doing what they have historically done BEST in the past, and that is....employ the majority of people in the US.
Yeah, they've also abused their workers, poisoned the environment, killed their customers with dangerous products, killed their employees with dangerous work practices, ran every type of scam that you can imagine and every scam you can't imagine, generally behaved with complete lack of morals or regard for other people WHICH IS WHY WE REGULATE THEM.
First off, all of the social programs the government already puts money into would be eliminated and the money funneled into this.
Second, if you don't have health insurance it ends up costing all the rest of us as someone has to pay for it so that means taxes. It's the same reasoning that every state forces you to have car insurance if you have a car. Get over it.
Third, of course wages would go down for some, or more companies would hire more part time workers. Companies are always fighting to pay workers less money, and they're already shifting to more part time workers. The basic income would just be the government subsidizing the worker rather than the employer, which is where they usually put the job growth money.
Fourth, you'd only be taxed on income made over the basic income, so the basic income could be considered a pre-paid tax return. Higher taxes might need to be levied on corporations, stocks, capital gains, etc. but if you're not part of the 1% who cares, and if you are, then who cares. More people with money means more people consuming products. This is why "trickle down" has never worked as an economic theory.
I'm pretty sure nobody has ever built a bomb, taken it to school showed their teacher the neat clock they built and oh just ignore those blocks of C4 m'kay?
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From the HUE developer program web site:
http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/friends-hue-update
“There is no change to Philips’ commitment towards an open system and ZigBee Light Link as the best standard for residential lighting control. Our lights continue to be fully standards compatible with differentiated features built on top of the standard and exposed via our bridge.”
“Yes, we will continue to allow other applications to work with Philips Hue without certification”
* Until we feel such applications are cutting into our profit margins, or the CEO needs a bump in his stock dividends before cashing in his golden parachute.
Good luck on that, they've probably already got you locked into an arbitration clause, at the arbitrator they happen to have a nice fat contract with. Corporations have been killing the class action suit for quite a while now, which always makes me laugh when Libertarian-tards say we don't need government, just take corporations to court!
Funny you point out Carly, but not one of the thousands of male examples of CEO sociopaths, like oh... Steve Jobs.
Here in Asia, other less "industrial-grade" bananas still exist. They are sweeter, more flavorful and won't survive a plane crash like your laboratory-born neo-fruit.
The death of the Cavendish could be a wonderful thing.
The Cavendish banana has been cultivated for something like a century, it wasn't "laboratory-born". It's commercially successful because it can withstand the rigors of shipping, unlike about every other banana strain currently around.
As for the destruction of the Cavendish being a wonderful thing.. sure, if you're the kind of monster that doesn't give a damn about the people who depend on harvesting them for their livelihood. There's an entire global industry around the Cavendish that will collapse and wipe out jobs around the planet. But hey, as long as you can get something subjectively better, screw everyone else eh?
Put a project that should have been done in house into the hands of a private contractor? Check!
Stage a long series of cost overruns to ensure maximum profit? Check!
Screw over immigrants? Check!
Sounds like the program did perfectly.
Why are all these SJW's trying to prevent the invisible hand of the market from working??? Are they TRYING to get the marketplace regulated!?!?!?! These are the sorts of things that separate the winners from the losers! The losers deserve to be poor and broke and die on the streets for not being wiser with their investments! It's Darwin! It's what Capitalist Jesus would want! That's why Jesus went off on the moneylenders, you know. They'd gone bankrupt investing in a housing bubble and were begging for a government handout THANKS OBAMA!
News for nerds? This is news for SJW's! Why's it on my Slashdot?????
I think it's mainly maintained by Stallman fanatics who still bare death grudges against Linus for stealing their thunder, to be honest.
They gather at the gnarled roots of his wretched toes, surviving on Jolt cola and Stallman's beard fungus as they furiously translate their eldritch acid dreams into holy code all the while gnashing their teeth at any mention of the dread thief Linus.
LINUS!!! That thief of dreams, murderer of hope, that foul bandit who ran off with their sacred GNU!! His every fetid caress of the GNU corrupts it with corporate appeasance!! HE MUST BE STOPPED!!
.... and so they chitter in binary under the caressing shade of Stallman's girth, preparing for the day of their triumph... they need not success, the accolades of the masses, those putrid sheeple!... they have their purity..
It's news for nerds and matters because nerds like obscure difficult to understand projects that will never be popular with "7|-|3 l0$3rs".
Do please avail yourself of one of the many options open to you to leave this planet you were so tragically born into then.
Tell you what, never use our roads, our internet, our many other public services ever again. Shut yourself up in your private property hermitage, dig a well because you aren't allowed to use water that came from a river the government diverted for our benefit. We'll work out a list of products you can never use because they resulted from government backed research. Then.. yeah you can quit paying taxes then. We'll let you.
By your logic people should be dropping Androids and iPhones like radioactive waste to snatch up those sweet sweet Nokia Windows Phones.
People understand that different programs run on different hardware now. I'm not saying that a pure Linux laptop wouldn't have perception problems, but they wouldn't be insurmountable either. Frankly the biggest sales cases for Linux laptops would be Governments and Schools anyway, and they have teams to train the users on new hardware.
Everyone knows Germans are the hardest working Engineers in the world, this just proves it!
The engineers did it because the CEO on down told them to make it happen or go find another job. There were far too many sensors on the car involved with this cheat for anyone to believe it was just a few rogue engineers.
You can't do a one launch manned trip to Mars, land and relaunch back to Earth. Isn't going to happen.
It's going to take multiple launches with some construction in space. Might as well do the construction on the Moon which is easily reachable.
Creating fuel on Mars is fine for the return trip, but it does nothing for the trip from Earth to Mars, which is where using the Moon as a fuel depot comes in.
Here's the most compelling reason to start with a Moon base. We've had people there before. We know how much it will cost, what will be needed and how to do it already. It's cheaper than going to Mars, it's faster than going to Mars, a lunar colony program can be running well before a Martian one can, and it gives us a base for a later Mars mission, or better yet Venus.
Why spend billions to put someone on Mars if they're not going to live there? We're nowhere near where we need to be for a Mars colony, but a Moon colony? That's something we can do now.
Overrall, it's much easier to be on the Moon than Mars. After all, if you can build a space ship in the first place, you've pretty much built a Moon habitat.
You don't have to get fuel to the moon, you can make fuel there. Aluminum & water ice are all you need, and the Moon has plenty of aluminum. Sources of water are more questionable, the dark side of the moon may have some, or we could capture a comet for it, or if necessary truck it up from Earth. It's still better than towing 100% of the fuel from Earth.
As for Mars itself, there's several ways to create rocket fuel there.
Also, the Moon is a balmy hell? The moon is just radiation and straight up vacuum. Mars has dust storms, radiation, freezing ass cold and near vacuum. Anything that can survive on Mars will do just fine on the Moon, and the Moon can be a nice test bed for Martian equipment.
If Apple enabled SD cards, how could they expect to keep selling those larger capacity phones at such a markup? SD cards cut into profits, it's why Samsung dropped them from the S6.
I take it back, you're not an idjit. You're an aggressively ignorant child. Grow up, come back when you're worth debating.
You are, what is loosely termed, an idjit.
"Let the market handle it" as if the "the market" cares for anything but profits and what about all the people dead or injured while "the market" is figuring itself out? You apparently don't give a damn. "Let the courts handle it" as if the courts can do a damn thing if there's no laws against it. You're apparently also unaware that the entire purpose of a corporation is to limit the legal liability of it's owners and directors. And who would investigate a corporation for endangerment in the first place? There'd be no Federal agency if people of your ilk had their way. The local agencies, if such exist, would be all to happily suborned by corporate interests. But hey, who cares about a few deaths here and there as long as someone's getting paid.
Did I mention you being an idjit? Because you obviously know nothing about law, or history or people in general, or what the point of this discussion was about for that matter.
The West Fertilizer Company plant that blew up and killed 15 people, injured 160 and caused millions in damages to neighboring structures. They employed 9 people.
Here's some significant findings from the Wikipedia article: (emphasis mine)
On April 22, 2014, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board released preliminary results of its investigation into the explosion. It found that company officials failed to safely store the chemicals in its stockpile, and that federal, state and local regulations about the handling of hazardous materials were inadequate. In a statement released alongside the report, the board's chair, Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso, stated: "The fire and explosion at West Fertilizer was preventable. It should never have occurred. It resulted from the failure of a company to take the necessary steps to avert a preventable fire and explosion and from the inability of federal, state and local regulatory agencies to identify a serious hazard and correct it." The CSB's yearlong investigation found that 1,351 facilities across the country store ammonium nitrate, and that there many areas had no regulations to keep such facilities away from populated areas. Moure-Eraso urged new and revised regulations, stating "there is no substitute for an efficient regulatory system that ensures that all companies are operating to the same high standards. We cannot depend on voluntary compliance."
If you can't make a business succeed without having safety regulations removed, then please shut up and let the big corporations that can absorb and pass on the costs do it. There's no constitutional right to a successful business, or a business environment that allows businessmen to get away with whatever they want in the name of profit. The public good comes first, THEN you can try to make a profit at it, otherwise, no thanks.
Next you'll be claiming we should allow slavery again because "regulations" prevent honest businessmen from making a buck off human misery.
Higher taxes might need to be levied on corporations, stocks, capital gains, etc. but if you're not part of the 1% who cares, and if you are, then who cares. More people with money means more people consuming products. This is why "trickle down" has never worked as an economic theory.
See? Right there: It's not 'free money'. You're going to tax someone more because they make more money, so you can give that money to someone else? That's not 'free money', that sounds more like welfare to me. Guess what else? Since I make more than the poverty level (~$50000 a year is what I make right now) they'd probably tax ME higher regardless of not being part of 'the 1%'.
You're ignoring that the first $24,000 or so of income would be tax free. All the taxes you're already paying for Social Security, Welfare, Food Stamps, WIC, etc? The money the government hands to corporations to hire more people? The tax breaks and subsidies corporations get? The money they'd normally pay to Unemployment? That would be redirected to the basic income, so that wouldn't change at all, up or down. If it did go up, it likely wouldn't hit someone in your new tax bracket.
Basically everything you said in your comment is either blue-sky/rose-colored-glasses thinking, or just confirms everything I already thought about something like this: It's nonsense, there is no 'free money'. Also unlike car insurance, some of us don't need health insurance so much; I'm not obese, I don't eat garbage food, I don't sit on my ass and get weak and diseased, and rarely if ever go to the doctor for anything; I'm middle-aged, genuinely an athlete (if amateur -- I work a day job) and yet I'm forced to pay for health insurance that I don't even use. Not the same thing at all.
Do you never get sick? Fall down in the snow, trip, have an accident? You get health insurance for more reasons than an excuse to be unhealthy. Hope you never injure yourself in your athletics, those sorts of injuries are never expensive :P.
Oh and for sure businesses would lower wages since people get 'free money', and everything would self-regulate back down to exactly where things stand right now: poor people would still be poor, rich people would still be rich, corporate America would still do whatever it takes to raise their bottom line, mainly by cutting wages since people get so-called 'free money'. My advice to you is to not quit your day job, friend, because there won't being any $2000 checks from the government in your mailbox anytime soon, or ever. It's just an incredibly unrealistic idea, and I haven't read anything from anyone yet that convinces me it's even remotely feasible. Also as I've said repeatedly now, if there is all this money floating around then pay the National Debt with it!
So businesses lower wages, or cut hours and you make.. exactly the same amount you were making before the basic income. And maybe the company hires another couple of people since they have to pay less overall. Maybe they split your job with another person, pay you each half your current wages and with the basic income you get more free time with the same income over the year. And then when your job inevitably has a mass layoff, just like HP dropping 30,000 people recently through no fault of the employees, you don't have to go into a panic because you still have money coming in.
If you want to talk about historical evidence then industrial production is a blip and the majority of human productivity has been small scale custom work with family associations and apprenticeships to craftspersons all under the governance of the local aristocracy.
Historical evidence doesn't mean future performance. We are approaching a time when it will take very few people to provide for the needs of the majority of human population, and we're not growing new jobs fast enough to reclaim the losses.
Those forces of market structure and consolidation you point to are driven by the very automation and process efficiency when you claim aren't the issue.
What it does currently do...is over regulate and kill the small businesses with taxation and paperwork preventing them from doing what they have historically done BEST in the past, and that is....employ the majority of people in the US.
Yeah, they've also abused their workers, poisoned the environment, killed their customers with dangerous products, killed their employees with dangerous work practices, ran every type of scam that you can imagine and every scam you can't imagine, generally behaved with complete lack of morals or regard for other people WHICH IS WHY WE REGULATE THEM.
First off, all of the social programs the government already puts money into would be eliminated and the money funneled into this.
Second, if you don't have health insurance it ends up costing all the rest of us as someone has to pay for it so that means taxes. It's the same reasoning that every state forces you to have car insurance if you have a car. Get over it.
Third, of course wages would go down for some, or more companies would hire more part time workers. Companies are always fighting to pay workers less money, and they're already shifting to more part time workers. The basic income would just be the government subsidizing the worker rather than the employer, which is where they usually put the job growth money.
Fourth, you'd only be taxed on income made over the basic income, so the basic income could be considered a pre-paid tax return. Higher taxes might need to be levied on corporations, stocks, capital gains, etc. but if you're not part of the 1% who cares, and if you are, then who cares. More people with money means more people consuming products. This is why "trickle down" has never worked as an economic theory.
I'm pretty sure nobody has ever built a bomb, taken it to school showed their teacher the neat clock they built and oh just ignore those blocks of C4 m'kay?