So far bootstrapping things like Kinect, office, and exchange to their cloud offering has boosted its presence in much the same way that paying hosting providers to switch their park-web sites to IIS static pages improved their netcraft numbers.
So... translated into very real income and marketshare making it the most profitable part of the company?
The end result will be hundreds of errors on his screen typically that his tap didn't work (because despite what you may think the contactless payment system needs very close proximity held sustained for a second or two,... in which case you'd be checking that he doesn't have your wallet in the first place,) and because you need to identify the single card, which means if you go up to a random person in the street and try it you'll just get an error, likely from their credit card, or their oyster card, or their parking garage ticket, or whatever.
Not as easy as you think. Use your phone? Doesn't work when the screen is on. Have more than one bank card, or a bank card and an oyster card, or even your swipe card for your building, or a parking ticket, the transaction fails.
Plus you need reasonably close contact sustained for a second or so meaning a quick brush against someone won't do it either.
So their modest income is now trackable by the government, if not now, very soon. It’s only a matter of time until even the oldest profession in the world is monitored by governments for taxes due.
And why wouldn't it be? It's taxes. If their income is that modest well that's why the tax system is progressive including a personal allowance for income which is completely untaxed.
Yeah you could see it like that. The other way of seeing it is jailing people who re-offend multiple times of being in contempt of court. Oh and fuck you for calling Tommy Robinson a journalist. He is as much of a journalist as Freddy Krueger is a surgeon. Just because you have a knife or a mic in your hand doesn't make you that profession.
London is fine, knife attacks are quite under control in a city of 8million, the vast majority of them never actually involve an attack, the murder rate is lower than it's been in the past and well below that of New York or Chicago, the city certainly isn't known as Londonistan to anyone other than racist fucks, and when you walk around there's no a Muslim extremist to be seen.
Speaking of being seen you can't see me giving you the finger right now for sharing such sheer and utter stupidity. You give the human race a bad name. I hope you get murdered by a Muslim terrorist, but you probably live in London given you are so passionate about the city so the odds of that happening are sadly quite low.
The list of famous musicians who were once buskers is very long.
While not famous, I saw the best guitar player at our school who has gone to do great things in the local musical scene busking long after he was able to afford to live as a musician without a second job to support him.
I asked him why, and he just said, why not. The difference between playing at home on the couch and playing here in the subway station is that I get free dinner doing it here.
has ever been dumb enough to give money to a street performer?
What has dumb got to do with appreciating some dirt cheap entertainment?
Oh yeah, the same people who will happily charge 2 pounds...oops...decimal point...200 pounds to a random person on the street.
Just because someone is a street performer doesn't mean they are automatically criminals or arsehats. The same can not be said for some Slashdot posters.
Or you could just say no. Works just as well. Mind you if lying because you feel you would otherwise be a bad person makes you feel better about yourself then by all means.
You owe many of the comforts of your technology precisely because of government involvement. Everything from being able to repair your car, to not voiding your warranty when looking in the case, it is all thanks to the many laws on the books that protect you.
Vote with your wallet
This works only in a free market. Very few of those exist.
Burning plastic releases massive amounts of sequestered carbon into the atmosphere
There is relatively little carbon in plastic to release and certainly nothing that could justify the term "massive" to describe it. The bigger problems are PVCs and Dioxins which are captured nicely in industrial processes. Actual burning of plastic can almost be as clean as burning natural gas in a modern process. The bigger bonus, no one burns it in isolation often waste burning facilities instead provide central heating or power in much cleaner ways than many of our other primary energy sources (read: coal, oil).
In economy, you always start with the activity that has the highest marginal product.
You sound like one of those people who once read an economic theory and never actually had a look at how any of it applies in reality. You then apply your highly theoretical knowledge to a highly theoretical situation, and I guarantee sure as fuck that the drinking straw floating down in the lake near my house did not get tossed into some Asian river and then migrate around the world, grow legs and walk several hundred km inland as well.
As much as everyone likes to claim pollution is a global problem, most of its affects are actually very localised. Why should Europe lead the way in electric cars when China is spewing CO2 in the air? Well global warming aside I'm not breathing Chinese air (though occasionally we get Saharan dust).
Now as to your highest marginal product theory, do you not think there's some value over policy that covers 10% of the population of the planet just because a country with 14% of the population didn't do it first? If that's the case then you clearly haven't understood theoretical economics either.
I can't say I've had plastic utensils in a plane. I can't say I've had any sharp ones either, at least not in economy class. Ordering a steak in first netted me a nice sharp stabby hijack the plane rated knife.
Bringing my own utensils when eating out would be kind of difficult/annoying/awkward, though.
First world problems much? Try having a child, dog, a breastfeeding infant, or maybe one of the myriad of actual debilitating medical conditions. You can even get them in a carry case and they are smaller than you mega smartphone.
Interesting my reply ended up in the wrong part of the thread...
Management is looking for a safe escape.
Exactly. And the argument presented is not that safe escape. Management will do what they do best. Look at the pros and cons and then decide that anal really only hurts the first few times and then you kind of get to like it.
Ironically in this case the movie that plays out on an alien planet rather than the one set in London is the one grounded in reality. The news said it themselves. Hundreds! of people demonstrated. Hundreds! In the 4th most populated city in Europe a whole hundreds turned out and gave a shit. 8,787,500 other Londoners just yawned.
Exactly. And the argument presented is not that safe escape. Management will do what they do best. Look at the pros and cons and then decide that anal really only hurts the first few times and then you kind of get to like it.
Not trolling. Just grew up in a hot country unable to comprehend the American's fascination with trying to bring the UK weather indoors in the Arizona desert.
That doesn't make them irrelevant. Quite the opposite. It makes them a lovely indication of what you're likely to experience if you interact with any part of the commercial world, be it turn on the TV, radio, what concerts are likely to come up, and what shitty music will be playing over your beer and steak at the bar.
Religion can be used to justify absolutely anything. Including human rights.
Yes but only those rights of those who believes in my god and not those other animals.
Note: Don't give a shit about the topic at hand, jews, christians, muslims, whatever. Just pointing out that the only thing religion should ever justify is its own abolition for the stupid practice that each one of them is.
Some places have been on Oracle for many years, and the alternatives have come a long way in that time.
I see the words you strung together, but I translated them to: Oracle has become entrenched in the business and everyone we know is trained in it, and we all know how to service it and moving away would be an unmitigated disaster.
Migrating fundamental infrastructure in your organisation is always risky, expensive, time-consuming and generally not great, but being abused by a supplier who holds you captive isn't great either.
Oh I agree. But that sentence there will not win you over with management.
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So far bootstrapping things like Kinect, office, and exchange to their cloud offering has boosted its presence in much the same way that paying hosting providers to switch their park-web sites to IIS static pages improved their netcraft numbers.
So ... translated into very real income and marketshare making it the most profitable part of the company?
The end result will be hundreds of errors on his screen typically that his tap didn't work (because despite what you may think the contactless payment system needs very close proximity held sustained for a second or two, ... in which case you'd be checking that he doesn't have your wallet in the first place,) and because you need to identify the single card, which means if you go up to a random person in the street and try it you'll just get an error, likely from their credit card, or their oyster card, or their parking garage ticket, or whatever.
Solicitation by homeless and entertainment by street performers are two different things. Few people see the loss of the latter as an "advantage".
Not as easy as you think. Use your phone? Doesn't work when the screen is on. Have more than one bank card, or a bank card and an oyster card, or even your swipe card for your building, or a parking ticket, the transaction fails.
Plus you need reasonably close contact sustained for a second or so meaning a quick brush against someone won't do it either.
So their modest income is now trackable by the government, if not now, very soon. It’s only a matter of time until even the oldest profession in the world is monitored by governments for taxes due.
And why wouldn't it be? It's taxes. If their income is that modest well that's why the tax system is progressive including a personal allowance for income which is completely untaxed.
Yeah you could see it like that. The other way of seeing it is jailing people who re-offend multiple times of being in contempt of court. Oh and fuck you for calling Tommy Robinson a journalist. He is as much of a journalist as Freddy Krueger is a surgeon. Just because you have a knife or a mic in your hand doesn't make you that profession.
London is fine, knife attacks are quite under control in a city of 8million, the vast majority of them never actually involve an attack, the murder rate is lower than it's been in the past and well below that of New York or Chicago, the city certainly isn't known as Londonistan to anyone other than racist fucks, and when you walk around there's no a Muslim extremist to be seen.
Speaking of being seen you can't see me giving you the finger right now for sharing such sheer and utter stupidity. You give the human race a bad name. I hope you get murdered by a Muslim terrorist, but you probably live in London given you are so passionate about the city so the odds of that happening are sadly quite low.
The list of famous musicians who were once buskers is very long.
While not famous, I saw the best guitar player at our school who has gone to do great things in the local musical scene busking long after he was able to afford to live as a musician without a second job to support him.
I asked him why, and he just said, why not. The difference between playing at home on the couch and playing here in the subway station is that I get free dinner doing it here.
has ever been dumb enough to give money to a street performer?
What has dumb got to do with appreciating some dirt cheap entertainment?
Oh yeah, the same people who will happily charge 2 pounds...oops...decimal point...200 pounds to a random person on the street.
Just because someone is a street performer doesn't mean they are automatically criminals or arsehats. The same can not be said for some Slashdot posters.
Now "Sorry, I don't carry cash" is no excuse.
You can claim that your cell battery is dead.
Or you could just say no. Works just as well. Mind you if lying because you feel you would otherwise be a bad person makes you feel better about yourself then by all means.
Governments should not get involved in this.
You owe many of the comforts of your technology precisely because of government involvement. Everything from being able to repair your car, to not voiding your warranty when looking in the case, it is all thanks to the many laws on the books that protect you.
Vote with your wallet
This works only in a free market. Very few of those exist.
Burning plastic releases massive amounts of sequestered carbon into the atmosphere
There is relatively little carbon in plastic to release and certainly nothing that could justify the term "massive" to describe it. The bigger problems are PVCs and Dioxins which are captured nicely in industrial processes. Actual burning of plastic can almost be as clean as burning natural gas in a modern process. The bigger bonus, no one burns it in isolation often waste burning facilities instead provide central heating or power in much cleaner ways than many of our other primary energy sources (read: coal, oil).
Just because its not where its needed most doesn't mean we can't lead by example and our local area a poster child for cleanliness.
In economy, you always start with the activity that has the highest marginal product.
You sound like one of those people who once read an economic theory and never actually had a look at how any of it applies in reality. You then apply your highly theoretical knowledge to a highly theoretical situation, and I guarantee sure as fuck that the drinking straw floating down in the lake near my house did not get tossed into some Asian river and then migrate around the world, grow legs and walk several hundred km inland as well.
As much as everyone likes to claim pollution is a global problem, most of its affects are actually very localised. Why should Europe lead the way in electric cars when China is spewing CO2 in the air? Well global warming aside I'm not breathing Chinese air (though occasionally we get Saharan dust).
Now as to your highest marginal product theory, do you not think there's some value over policy that covers 10% of the population of the planet just because a country with 14% of the population didn't do it first? If that's the case then you clearly haven't understood theoretical economics either.
I read recently that the vast majority of plastic come from rivers in Asia and Africa. Why do this in Europe?
Better question: Why not do this in Europe? God forbid the local environment gets a bit nicer. How horrible that would be.
I can't say I've had plastic utensils in a plane. I can't say I've had any sharp ones either, at least not in economy class. Ordering a steak in first netted me a nice sharp stabby hijack the plane rated knife.
Bringing my own utensils when eating out would be kind of difficult/annoying/awkward, though.
First world problems much? Try having a child, dog, a breastfeeding infant, or maybe one of the myriad of actual debilitating medical conditions. You can even get them in a carry case and they are smaller than you mega smartphone.
Interesting my reply ended up in the wrong part of the thread...
Management is looking for a safe escape.
Exactly. And the argument presented is not that safe escape. Management will do what they do best. Look at the pros and cons and then decide that anal really only hurts the first few times and then you kind of get to like it.
Ironically in this case the movie that plays out on an alien planet rather than the one set in London is the one grounded in reality. The news said it themselves. Hundreds! of people demonstrated. Hundreds! In the 4th most populated city in Europe a whole hundreds turned out and gave a shit. 8,787,500 other Londoners just yawned.
Management is looking for a safe escape.
Exactly. And the argument presented is not that safe escape. Management will do what they do best. Look at the pros and cons and then decide that anal really only hurts the first few times and then you kind of get to like it.
Not trolling. Just grew up in a hot country unable to comprehend the American's fascination with trying to bring the UK weather indoors in the Arizona desert.
That doesn't make them irrelevant. Quite the opposite. It makes them a lovely indication of what you're likely to experience if you interact with any part of the commercial world, be it turn on the TV, radio, what concerts are likely to come up, and what shitty music will be playing over your beer and steak at the bar.
Religion can be used to justify absolutely anything. Including human rights.
Yes but only those rights of those who believes in my god and not those other animals.
Note: Don't give a shit about the topic at hand, jews, christians, muslims, whatever. Just pointing out that the only thing religion should ever justify is its own abolition for the stupid practice that each one of them is.
This could well be the beginning of violent revolution in the UK.
I've seen how these revolutions play out before: https://youtu.be/Kb1ztV93dsE?t...
Some places have been on Oracle for many years, and the alternatives have come a long way in that time.
I see the words you strung together, but I translated them to: Oracle has become entrenched in the business and everyone we know is trained in it, and we all know how to service it and moving away would be an unmitigated disaster.
Migrating fundamental infrastructure in your organisation is always risky, expensive, time-consuming and generally not great, but being abused by a supplier who holds you captive isn't great either.
Oh I agree. But that sentence there will not win you over with management.