My cellular phone has a charge that's measured in weeks, not hours.
So does any modern Android smartphone if you enable ultra low power mode. Oh but you don't "want" to do that do you.
Frankly my smart phone has all the features and benefits of my 90s era brick with a lot of additional benefits as well and without any downsides that are sorely the product of your own ignorance.
Products are not always about utility. That is why some people have Luxury Car while others have the basic cars.
Sure they are. The problem is utility is what people make of it. Luxury cars have more utility to those people who value and use the features that they offer.
. Some people like sport cars that can go real fast even though most roads cannot handle them.
And they are also capable of going really fast when on a race track, and they go really quickly up to speed on any road, oh wait there's one more thing... they are a status symbol which in itself is a form of utility provided by the car.
You're confusing utility as something very specific such as getting from a to b or telling the time, whereas utility is actually any facet of use or benefit to the owner. My Breitling watch has utility in that it makes me happy in a way that no Casio could.
It isn't emotion it is biology. So to answer your question...no. I cannot work around women without my body responding biologically. My blood pressure will go up. My hormones are going to kick in. My body will respond physiologically. How I respond to those impulses is up to me. But if, as society says I should, I suppress them it will cause physical illness and in many cases mental illness as well.
Does your cave come with electricity and broadband, or do you go down to the local town and beat each other over the head with sticks to fight for the only computer with dialup and electricity?
What are viable alternatives to search? What are viable social networking alternatives? What's a viable mobile OS platform? What's a viable advertising platform?
It took you a while but you actually eventually stumbled on the one thing they do have a monopoly in.... Advertising.
The rest as far as they are concerned they have a lot of market power, but they are not monopolies in the first three you mention.
Mind you being a monopoly in an of itself is not bad, and being a monopoly is also not illegal either. It is what you do with the market dominant position that counts.
Indeed, and neither does anything in this announcement from Microsoft. You could have saved a lot of typing by reading the first 2 sentences of the summary.
It's worth a lot to logistics businesses. But it's worth nothing to those who aren't impacted by congestion, such as nearly every major employer in a major city which happily has people applying for jobs despite those people knowing they'll spend 3 hours stuck in traffic every day.
Businesses are not based on satisfaction, they don't have varying degrees of happiness. They are based on resource availability, and they either have resources or they don't.
I didn't say spread out. I said move out. Why would you move your business out into the burbs when you could move it into another major city. You have to remember what draws businesses into the city in the first place: infrastructure.
As I said before: City planning is the answer.
So when government owns the resource it should not price it according to demand.
Actually the government shouldn't price anything according to demand. They should build according to demand and charge through taxes. That's how infrastructure works. The user pays model fails miserably when talking about infrastructure that benefits the whole.
The same ultra rich employers of lobbyists who would have America believe that climate change is a hoax
Huh? Two of the companies you mentioned have major investments in green energy, one is one of the largest wind producers in the USA, and all three lobbied against trump pulling out of the Paris accords.
Well considering that we've had windows as a subscription services for enterprises for the best part of 20 years, and Office about equally as long. I'm going to draw a horizontal trend line which I'll correct for the heat death of the universe.
Being in the IT industry for a while gives an interesting perspective
Is it the perspective where you are unable to see that this announcement only applies to enterprises and businesses which pay for windows using an annual subscription anyway and have since the NT era?
What is it about people being in an industry that makes them completely unable to see what is actually happening in their industry?
specifically to stop this kind of bundling from taking place
Why? I mean it's a 100% optional choice. Actually it's far more optional than say buying a copy of Windows with frigging Norton or Mcafee or some similar shit bundled.
But the pizza with the correct ingredients will be worth every cent.
"Hello Papa Jo's" "Hello I'd like a Hawaiian with wirecutters baked into the crust, and completely covered in anchovies." "Why all the anchovies?" "Get it past the guards". "It'll be there in 30min and you're free".
a) Something that becomes essentially free if I have it for 3 hours is not worth the effort of returning. b) What if it rains after I return it. A crappy day is often a crappy day, chances are I'll need the umbrella again. c) Oh look I thought about it too long so it's not worth returning anymore.
Any private company would have raised the price of accessing the prime working areas, and raised the prices over time
And any company in those areas would move out. I know that's what you're going for, but that is only a benefit if you are a company with a stake in the roads alone. If you're a government which also has a stake in not having an empty ghost city while companies are driving taxes and business into other cities that is not the ideal outcome.
Taxing the road use isn't the answer. City planning is.
This! It is quite telling that several oil companies were critical of Trump for pulling out of the Paris accords. But it's quite obvious when you look at it. E.g. BP own and operate 2.4GW worth of wind farms in the USA (14 farms) and many more internationally. Total is the second largest solar generator in the world, and even late comers like Shell just invested close to $2bn in a green energy division.
The writing is on the wall for oil, and the oil companies and preparing.
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My cellular phone has a charge that's measured in weeks, not hours.
So does any modern Android smartphone if you enable ultra low power mode. Oh but you don't "want" to do that do you.
Frankly my smart phone has all the features and benefits of my 90s era brick with a lot of additional benefits as well and without any downsides that are sorely the product of your own ignorance.
Products are not always about utility. That is why some people have Luxury Car while others have the basic cars.
Sure they are. The problem is utility is what people make of it. Luxury cars have more utility to those people who value and use the features that they offer.
. Some people like sport cars that can go real fast even though most roads cannot handle them.
And they are also capable of going really fast when on a race track, and they go really quickly up to speed on any road, oh wait there's one more thing... they are a status symbol which in itself is a form of utility provided by the car.
You're confusing utility as something very specific such as getting from a to b or telling the time, whereas utility is actually any facet of use or benefit to the owner. My Breitling watch has utility in that it makes me happy in a way that no Casio could.
Why does it have an Android icon for a story about a Windows OS?
Microsoft ended support for the Windows Mobile Icon a few years ago. We make do with what we have.
It isn't emotion it is biology. So to answer your question...no. I cannot work around women without my body responding biologically. My blood pressure will go up. My hormones are going to kick in. My body will respond physiologically. How I respond to those impulses is up to me. But if, as society says I should, I suppress them it will cause physical illness and in many cases mental illness as well.
Does your cave come with electricity and broadband, or do you go down to the local town and beat each other over the head with sticks to fight for the only computer with dialup and electricity?
Companies like Google and Facebook shouldn't be harvesting content for free.
Oh they are harvesting content? Based on what I saw they only provide snippets of the headlines and links to content.
Really I wonder if maybe the media companies shouldn't be getting this for free. Heck just de-list them. That will make it all better.
What are viable alternatives to search? What are viable social networking alternatives? What's a viable mobile OS platform? What's a viable advertising platform?
It took you a while but you actually eventually stumbled on the one thing they do have a monopoly in. ... Advertising.
The rest as far as they are concerned they have a lot of market power, but they are not monopolies in the first three you mention.
Mind you being a monopoly in an of itself is not bad, and being a monopoly is also not illegal either. It is what you do with the market dominant position that counts.
So no examples. Thought so. Just yet more hyperbole which is why the anti-trust suits based on this actually never went anywhere.
$2 billion is so little for Shell it's laughable.
$2bn is the department they setup, not the investment.
Also I would hardly call 1/4 of their entire 2015 profit a laughing matter.
Neither of these things apply for home users.
Indeed, and neither does anything in this announcement from Microsoft. You could have saved a lot of typing by reading the first 2 sentences of the summary.
Because they exposed Windows features early to Office, and also allowed them to use private APIs.
The test for this is how it affected the end consumer. The reality is, it didn't. The APIs were worthless.
This gave MS Office an advantage over Joe Schmo Office
Examples?
It's worth a lot to logistics businesses. But it's worth nothing to those who aren't impacted by congestion, such as nearly every major employer in a major city which happily has people applying for jobs despite those people knowing they'll spend 3 hours stuck in traffic every day.
Businesses are not based on satisfaction, they don't have varying degrees of happiness. They are based on resource availability, and they either have resources or they don't.
So what if businesses spread out?
I didn't say spread out. I said move out. Why would you move your business out into the burbs when you could move it into another major city. You have to remember what draws businesses into the city in the first place: infrastructure.
As I said before: City planning is the answer.
So when government owns the resource it should not price it according to demand.
Actually the government shouldn't price anything according to demand. They should build according to demand and charge through taxes. That's how infrastructure works. The user pays model fails miserably when talking about infrastructure that benefits the whole.
Personally I wouldn't buy an iPhone for 1/3rd of that price. A better question is: If you bought an iPhone at $600 would you buy one for $1200.
The same ultra rich employers of lobbyists who would have America believe that climate change is a hoax
Huh? Two of the companies you mentioned have major investments in green energy, one is one of the largest wind producers in the USA, and all three lobbied against trump pulling out of the Paris accords.
Well considering that we've had windows as a subscription services for enterprises for the best part of 20 years, and Office about equally as long. I'm going to draw a horizontal trend line which I'll correct for the heat death of the universe.
Being in the IT industry for a while gives an interesting perspective
Is it the perspective where you are unable to see that this announcement only applies to enterprises and businesses which pay for windows using an annual subscription anyway and have since the NT era?
What is it about people being in an industry that makes them completely unable to see what is actually happening in their industry?
specifically to stop this kind of bundling from taking place
Why? I mean it's a 100% optional choice. Actually it's far more optional than say buying a copy of Windows with frigging Norton or Mcafee or some similar shit bundled.
So by that logic what you said applies to the entire IT industry.
But the pizza with the correct ingredients will be worth every cent.
"Hello Papa Jo's"
"Hello I'd like a Hawaiian with wirecutters baked into the crust, and completely covered in anchovies."
"Why all the anchovies?"
"Get it past the guards".
"It'll be there in 30min and you're free".
Seems like a great way to sell umbrellas to me... Here borrow this, but if you don't bring it back I'm going to charge you...
The bit that comes after the ... is "1/3rd of the price that it costs me to replace it".
Your chances of turning this into a successful business get lower as your motivation to read TFA article increases.
If you ever get to that point you'll find out they made a 41yuan loss on every stolen umbrella.
And that is why the system failed.
a) Something that becomes essentially free if I have it for 3 hours is not worth the effort of returning.
b) What if it rains after I return it. A crappy day is often a crappy day, chances are I'll need the umbrella again.
c) Oh look I thought about it too long so it's not worth returning anymore.
Oh please, melodrama much?
For once the EU actually does something to the benefit of the average Joe, but rest assured you find some dimwit to complain about it.
To be fair you would kind of expect "Vinegar Joe" to complain when Average Joe is the one who gets the benefit.
Any private company would have raised the price of accessing the prime working areas, and raised the prices over time
And any company in those areas would move out. I know that's what you're going for, but that is only a benefit if you are a company with a stake in the roads alone. If you're a government which also has a stake in not having an empty ghost city while companies are driving taxes and business into other cities that is not the ideal outcome.
Taxing the road use isn't the answer. City planning is.
This! It is quite telling that several oil companies were critical of Trump for pulling out of the Paris accords. But it's quite obvious when you look at it. E.g. BP own and operate 2.4GW worth of wind farms in the USA (14 farms) and many more internationally. Total is the second largest solar generator in the world, and even late comers like Shell just invested close to $2bn in a green energy division.
The writing is on the wall for oil, and the oil companies and preparing.