Being forced to change is disruptive even if you knew it was coming.
More disruptive to the media is the conglomatization (I hope that word makes sense to somebody, I don't know what i typed). When the media is dominated by AP stories, rebroadcast from who knows where raidio and other inexpensive things of mediocer (but not terrible) it makes the price for a quality increase more expensive. Even if Clear Channel sucks, it is not as bad as a small independent raidio station with the same budget since costs are very low to not produce anything.
This a is a troll (CL is not for news) but I'll bite. CL is not scanning and reproducing newspaper classifieds. They are yet another source for the same service. This is like Dreamworks saying Disney costs them money. I am not tryin to bolster the piracy is a one to one corralation in cost argument, but this is something else entirly different.
I did not read the article though, a headline like that could be about observation, in which case it is akin to saying, we are losing ratings and better change our line up.
People will suffer. People have always suffered and people will continue to suffer. In the long run freed up workers let everybody win, it may take a generation or to to adjust but it will happen. In the short run though thigns will be hard.
Lawn mowing was just one example of an untapped market. If the prices were fair for service such as that it would be cheaper to have your lawn mowed then buy a mower. But that was just one example I have personal experiance with, I am sure there are plenty of other little untapped markets taht could be exploited buy people not particularly tallented. And the rest you put into public works projects and tax the people that are saving money to do so. It could temper efficiancy in such a way that it would not be as abrupt (the same way we temper economic growth artificially) and it would help employ the people on the short end of the general improvement in quality of life.
Unless the people do absolutly nothing then it is a bennifit in the long run, so really the solution is to make people do work for unemployment. I still enjoy things that were done during the great depression (sky line drive swimming holes in parks) to this day, and wish that people would see that as the solution.
Also people do have extra cash, if they wern't so greedy. I am living well below the mean income and I have my own bedroom, a brand new car, a nice computer and I can eat out once or twice a week. I am still saving money for retirement, and a little for a house. I see families with two new cars (and one working parent) 3 TV's 4 bedrooms brand new kitchen and a nice yard go on vacation with all 5 members of the family by plane every year. These are people with way more then enough cash, and they complain about taxes still, but the money is there.
The 40 year old store employee is either a supervisor who will keep there job, a part timer who will need to find other part time work or someone who needs to be pushed to do more.
If we still had to do things without automation do you think there would be enough good jobs for you to have one right now?
Yeah, the industrial revolution spelled doom for the world. We still havn't recovered.
When tractors (and other automation) made farming a small percentage of the work force things really spireled out of control.
In the short term such changes were very negative, but in the long term they were not. If someone is incapable of functioning at a level higher then that of a cashier then give them welfare, and tax companies some of the money they saved to pay for it. Others should be educated. And still some will take innitiative and do something like start a lawn mowing ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H land scaping service and help bring that kind of work down to a reasonable price (I know somebody who does it and they make as much as an elementry school teacher in 6 months of the year).
Lawn mowing is rediculously expensive and a prime example of where a lot of people should end up. WHen I was younger I went through a poor neighborhood with small yards and foot high grass everywhere and cut lawns at $5.00 a pop. I made plenty more then a cashier in a lot less time.
Job loss due to efficiancy is a good thing. It hurts in the short term, but in the long term it frees up people for other jobs; the store has more money, and the labour force has one more able body. It is win-win. Especially since cashier is a low paying job, it is not like a high paying job leaving the country and people getting underemployed after the fact.
Slashdot linked to a story about the Insight when it was brand new. The author was claiming better then advertised fuel economy.
But also both Honda and the EPA say that fuel economy is different because the synthetic test does not work as well on hybrids. I would imagine that different driving affects the cars differently. For example hybrids recapture energy when breaking (I think, I know the prototypes used to) so accelerating to a red light would be less detrimental then in a traditional car.
Or the person distributing Nvidia's Closed source driver linked to Nvidia's GPL part could be looked at as violating, but it still is in Nvidia's besyt interst to say it is OK to do.
Just as China (our only real nuclear enemy/really good trade buddy) perfects Thomohawk (low to the ground) style missiles we are getting our ICBM interceptor to the stages that we are at least supprised it didn't do anything.
Hopefully the money we save buying products made with nearly slave labor is enough to cover the costs of a defense shield from them.
Well when I first used a computer encyclapedia it was a 1x CD ROM. The net is much faster for me now, but many people don't have broadband, so that sound clip of Beethoven may be a long time in coming.
If you are stuck with dial up (especialy 14.4k) and want to see pictures and hear sounds and see movies about the stuff you are looking up the CD still has it's place. The slowest CD drives you can find operational are, at 8 mbps, fast enough to be a good broadband connection (8x arbitraily decided as the slowest still around).
If there was a good (not encarta) cheap (not Britanica) encyclapedia that I could install totally to my HD and not worry about the CD (making it as convenient as broadband) I would buy it. probably pay 3 figures for it too, and willingly subscribe for automatically downloaded updates.
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't that closer describe the renaissance?
Being forced to change is disruptive even if you knew it was coming.
More disruptive to the media is the conglomatization (I hope that word makes sense to somebody, I don't know what i typed). When the media is dominated by AP stories, rebroadcast from who knows where raidio and other inexpensive things of mediocer (but not terrible) it makes the price for a quality increase more expensive. Even if Clear Channel sucks, it is not as bad as a small independent raidio station with the same budget since costs are very low to not produce anything.
This a is a troll (CL is not for news) but I'll bite. CL is not scanning and reproducing newspaper classifieds. They are yet another source for the same service. This is like Dreamworks saying Disney costs them money. I am not tryin to bolster the piracy is a one to one corralation in cost argument, but this is something else entirly different.
I did not read the article though, a headline like that could be about observation, in which case it is akin to saying, we are losing ratings and better change our line up.
That worked real well. Not.
People will suffer. People have always suffered and people will continue to suffer. In the long run freed up workers let everybody win, it may take a generation or to to adjust but it will happen. In the short run though thigns will be hard.
Lawn mowing was just one example of an untapped market. If the prices were fair for service such as that it would be cheaper to have your lawn mowed then buy a mower. But that was just one example I have personal experiance with, I am sure there are plenty of other little untapped markets taht could be exploited buy people not particularly tallented. And the rest you put into public works projects and tax the people that are saving money to do so. It could temper efficiancy in such a way that it would not be as abrupt (the same way we temper economic growth artificially) and it would help employ the people on the short end of the general improvement in quality of life.
Unless the people do absolutly nothing then it is a bennifit in the long run, so really the solution is to make people do work for unemployment. I still enjoy things that were done during the great depression (sky line drive swimming holes in parks) to this day, and wish that people would see that as the solution.
Also people do have extra cash, if they wern't so greedy. I am living well below the mean income and I have my own bedroom, a brand new car, a nice computer and I can eat out once or twice a week. I am still saving money for retirement, and a little for a house. I see families with two new cars (and one working parent) 3 TV's 4 bedrooms brand new kitchen and a nice yard go on vacation with all 5 members of the family by plane every year. These are people with way more then enough cash, and they complain about taxes still, but the money is there.
The 40 year old store employee is either a supervisor who will keep there job, a part timer who will need to find other part time work or someone who needs to be pushed to do more.
If we still had to do things without automation do you think there would be enough good jobs for you to have one right now?
I believe copyright is law not contract.
It could be argued that the downloaders are copying not the uploaders, but it has already been established that the uploader is infringing too.
Yeah, the industrial revolution spelled doom for the world. We still havn't recovered.
When tractors (and other automation) made farming a small percentage of the work force things really spireled out of control.
In the short term such changes were very negative, but in the long term they were not. If someone is incapable of functioning at a level higher then that of a cashier then give them welfare, and tax companies some of the money they saved to pay for it. Others should be educated. And still some will take innitiative and do something like start a lawn mowing ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H land scaping service and help bring that kind of work down to a reasonable price (I know somebody who does it and they make as much as an elementry school teacher in 6 months of the year).
Lawn mowing is rediculously expensive and a prime example of where a lot of people should end up. WHen I was younger I went through a poor neighborhood with small yards and foot high grass everywhere and cut lawns at $5.00 a pop. I made plenty more then a cashier in a lot less time.
Job loss due to efficiancy is a good thing. It hurts in the short term, but in the long term it frees up people for other jobs; the store has more money, and the labour force has one more able body. It is win-win. Especially since cashier is a low paying job, it is not like a high paying job leaving the country and people getting underemployed after the fact.
Slashdot linked to a story about the Insight when it was brand new. The author was claiming better then advertised fuel economy.
But also both Honda and the EPA say that fuel economy is different because the synthetic test does not work as well on hybrids. I would imagine that different driving affects the cars differently. For example hybrids recapture energy when breaking (I think, I know the prototypes used to) so accelerating to a red light would be less detrimental then in a traditional car.
Or the person distributing Nvidia's Closed source driver linked to Nvidia's GPL part could be looked at as violating, but it still is in Nvidia's besyt interst to say it is OK to do.
So the standards are lower if they are charging $700 for something?
GIMP is free as in spend your time fixing the problems or live with them. Photoshop is free as in 2 weeks pay after taxes.
I'm sure as hell not letting anyone download something from me if I said I expressly wouldn't mirror it.
That wouldn't work.
Step 1 download source
Step 2 set up your own UO ISP
step 3 give yourself whatever you want with server side hacks.
step 4 go to other ISP
Perfect timing.
Just as China (our only real nuclear enemy/really good trade buddy) perfects Thomohawk (low to the ground) style missiles we are getting our ICBM interceptor to the stages that we are at least supprised it didn't do anything.
Hopefully the money we save buying products made with nearly slave labor is enough to cover the costs of a defense shield from them.
The power and serew wern't THAT bad before we went in. They are actually collapsing due to the lack of any real rule Suddam or otherwise.
My usage far surpasses the 10 hours on the SP.
I was just pointing out that Apple is getting reamed with % fee + transaction fee already.
PayPals fees cover what they get charged, then they make money on the float (not the fees).
So do Credit Cards.
Thats why PayPal does it, they need to make money.
Well RedHat would email me for remote root exploits.
This was back when there was a consumer RedHat, I did have to register though.
My fire fox doesn't block it.
If I click the if you have pop up blocking enables link anyway.
WooHoo port forward my RSS.
Never let my roomates know was RSS is, so I can get the forward.
With that work ethic I would certainly hire her over most fresh college grads.
Look wear it got them.
Well when I first used a computer encyclapedia it was a 1x CD ROM. The net is much faster for me now, but many people don't have broadband, so that sound clip of Beethoven may be a long time in coming.
If you are stuck with dial up (especialy 14.4k) and want to see pictures and hear sounds and see movies about the stuff you are looking up the CD still has it's place. The slowest CD drives you can find operational are, at 8 mbps, fast enough to be a good broadband connection (8x arbitraily decided as the slowest still around).
If there was a good (not encarta) cheap (not Britanica) encyclapedia that I could install totally to my HD and not worry about the CD (making it as convenient as broadband) I would buy it. probably pay 3 figures for it too, and willingly subscribe for automatically downloaded updates.
Bet bet well over 50% of "highly rated reviewed games" are worth buying.
I mean thinking back in recent past I can remember Halflife 2, WoW, Metroid Prime2.
I can't think of a singe game that has received good post release revies that "blows fucking nuts"
maybe you should revide the review sites you visit, and stop buying on release day.