As long as the Communist Party runs China, the long view is that it's Communist. The Party allows private ownership and private control, but the key word there is "allows". All it takes is for the Party to decide that they don't like how things are working out and they can nationalize everything overnight at gunpoint and bye-bye Capitalism, regardless of the turmoil it would cause. The ultimate motivator for the PRC is still the Party, not some abstract economic system and the Chinese have a very long history of not caring what the rest of the world thinks about what they do.
The sour old joke in the USSR was that "they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work". But a lot of Putin's popularity comes from the fact that he reminds people of the "godd old days" when income might have been a joke, but at least you had an income, guaranteed and with luck, there'd be something in the shops to buy with it.
Capitalists have always been proud of their freedom, including the freedom to starved to death if you don't work. Or can't work. Or there simply is no work, which is what worries us as even lawyers are seeing technology threaten their jobs.
Alas, I don't have a rich combination of mental abilities. If I see the milk carton's empty, I should add it to my shopping list. But by the time I get to the shopping list, I've forgotten I need milk.
Worse, my SO discovers no milk and doesn't tell me.
So I can see the advantage of a few buttons here and there. Just don't want them hooked up to the Amazon/NSA servers, that's all.
If your clock is wrong while syncing files, I can only assume that you don't have the NTP daemon running, since you evidently had enough network connectivity to transfer large amounts of data.
If you're completely off the net, I think there's a GPS add-on that will pull atomic time down from the satellites.
Larger companies tend to have specialists. They may have multiple tasks, but the kinds of tasks they do are pretty much all the same.
Smaller companies often don't have the budget to hire specialists. The people they employ often have to do a myriad of very different tasks.
Your problem in getting work in smaller companies is probably because they've got you pegged as a big-company bureaucrat and not up to doing anything outside a fixed domain.
Well, if I'm not missing out, the reason that these obese Big Mac-stuffed Hummer drivers (OK, that was nasty, but it was fun) are so up in arms isn't about weight per se, it's about toxins, and toxins due to weight. So if they are really so concerned about the environment and they think that only petro-fueled vehicle can save it, then they should shed a few pounds and trade in the Hummers for Mini Coopers.
Some toxins are unique to gasoline-powered vehicles. Some are unique to diesel, some to electric vehicles and so on. Some, such as brake dust are going to be pretty common to almost every type of vehicle.
The solution isn't to sit around and wail about how bad any alternatives are, it's to put some effort into mitigating the problems that the alternatives bring. Just, to cycle back to the beginning of what I said, like we did 100 years ago with internal combustion.
20-30 years ago we gave up manufacturing for the "knowledge economy". Now we're offshoring that work, but I haven't heard what the politicians will be replacing it with this time.
Well, in that period of time, their favorite industry seems to have become Gridlock.
No it isn't. Everyone Knows that any major software system can be designed and written complete from scratch in no more than 48 hours by a 10-year old kid.*
After all, "All You Have To Do Is..."
==== * Or, failing that, the cheapest outsourced labor you can find. They even have certs in it!
When Torvalds created Git, he shaped it according to his own requirements. Even the best of the alternatives weren't good enough for him as they stood.
So I don't think that the Linux source tree, at a minimum, is likely to move back now. And since git has spawned a fairly extensive ecosystem in its own right, that's another potential market lost.
At this point, it's a might steep hill that BitKeeper would have to climb.
The problem with this kind of "analysis", is that even it it's true - and considering the source that's a significant "IF" - it's also predicated on an unchanging world to further its political agenda.
If traditional automobiles have an edge on pollution and operating costs, it's in large part due to 100+ years of being fine-tuned. When the automobile first arrived, there were no convenient service stations and not much in the way of roads optimized to carry them. We spent a great deal of effort creating that environment, but the naysayers want to pretend that God created it that way in 4300 BC and that's the only possible way it could be.
If batteries are too heavy and too bulky, but there is enough demand or subsidy then lighter and more compact means of producing and/or storing electricity are going to be explored. Gasoline itself is one means, of course, although because of its high cost once it leaves the pump, not one with too many advocates long-term. Or it may simply result in a redesign of tires and brakes, if that's where the problem stems.
It's as meaningless to point to how things are now as a reason for not improving them as it is to wail about how solar power "disappears" when the sun goes down. Anyone who burns coal should know that solar power can be stored for millions of years, much less overnight, and that's just one of the older and dirtier ways to do it.
who would buy proprietary technology and drm 'protected' content, and voluntarily be at the mercy of decisions and mistakes of owners? born idiots! they deserve the suffering they get !
If you buy from the Nook store, there are many books available which explictly say that the publisher has insisted that the book be sold without DRM - stuff from O'Reilly, Baen, Tor, and so forth.
Which current versions of Nook software will promptly download into hidden file storage that can only be accessed by rooting the device.
So, technically, this sounds like a blatant violation by Barnes & Noble of their contract with the publisher.
Technically, any computer that can display prompts to the operator to "insert next disc" and "insert previous disc" has access to "infinite" memory in compliance with the rules for a Turing machine.
Alcohol is simply self-medication with one of the cruder drugs available.
If you can't leave your upbringing behind you, the first thing you should consider is to see a professional about behavior modification, especially if you're constantly (obsessively) replaying the past in your mind. If simple talk therapy and exercises don't suffice, see a psychiatrist who can try prescribing something. Be prepared to discover 2 things, however: 1) a lot of psychatrists will be crazier than you are (at least if they're like the ones I know) and 2) drugs are a crap shoot and you'll probably have to go through a few (and possibly suffer some unpleasant side-effects) before you can find one that's effective. Someday, I hope we'll be able to DNA-test and maybe even custom-print drugs that precisely attack what's wrong with your brain chemistry without leaving you dysfunctional or dissolving your liver, but not today.
I've see strong indications that obsession and depression often are linked, although I don't know if that's ever been formally acknowledged. So treating one may help with the other.
I may be mistaken, but I do believe that he's a Federal Judge, especially since patents are granted at the Federal level. It's merely that the Federal judicial climate in East Texas is friendlier to patent trolls.
Yes, that smells. the US Government is supposed to be consistent throughout the nation, otherwise it's basically just regional government. But so far, no one seems to be doing anything about this.
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As long as the Communist Party runs China, the long view is that it's Communist. The Party allows private ownership and private control, but the key word there is "allows". All it takes is for the Party to decide that they don't like how things are working out and they can nationalize everything overnight at gunpoint and bye-bye Capitalism, regardless of the turmoil it would cause. The ultimate motivator for the PRC is still the Party, not some abstract economic system and the Chinese have a very long history of not caring what the rest of the world thinks about what they do.
The sour old joke in the USSR was that "they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work". But a lot of Putin's popularity comes from the fact that he reminds people of the "godd old days" when income might have been a joke, but at least you had an income, guaranteed and with luck, there'd be something in the shops to buy with it.
Capitalists have always been proud of their freedom, including the freedom to starved to death if you don't work. Or can't work. Or there simply is no work, which is what worries us as even lawyers are seeing technology threaten their jobs.
You have found me out. A milk button, a pet food button, a laundry detergent button and a great big red coffee panic button.
That's what Amazon envisioned. All I want is for me to control it and not them.
No it won't. They're Communists.
Alas, I don't have a rich combination of mental abilities. If I see the milk carton's empty, I should add it to my shopping list. But by the time I get to the shopping list, I've forgotten I need milk.
Worse, my SO discovers no milk and doesn't tell me.
So I can see the advantage of a few buttons here and there. Just don't want them hooked up to the Amazon/NSA servers, that's all.
Although replacement batteries often cost more than the device itself did originally.
If your clock is wrong while syncing files, I can only assume that you don't have the NTP daemon running, since you evidently had enough network connectivity to transfer large amounts of data.
If you're completely off the net, I think there's a GPS add-on that will pull atomic time down from the satellites.
Free. Is that what you soul is worth as it sails up to Redmond's data collectors?
Or a crappy class 4 SD card.
You are funny.
Larger companies tend to have specialists. They may have multiple tasks, but the kinds of tasks they do are pretty much all the same.
Smaller companies often don't have the budget to hire specialists. The people they employ often have to do a myriad of very different tasks.
Your problem in getting work in smaller companies is probably because they've got you pegged as a big-company bureaucrat and not up to doing anything outside a fixed domain.
Well, if I'm not missing out, the reason that these obese Big Mac-stuffed Hummer drivers (OK, that was nasty, but it was fun) are so up in arms isn't about weight per se, it's about toxins, and toxins due to weight. So if they are really so concerned about the environment and they think that only petro-fueled vehicle can save it, then they should shed a few pounds and trade in the Hummers for Mini Coopers.
Some toxins are unique to gasoline-powered vehicles. Some are unique to diesel, some to electric vehicles and so on. Some, such as brake dust are going to be pretty common to almost every type of vehicle.
The solution isn't to sit around and wail about how bad any alternatives are, it's to put some effort into mitigating the problems that the alternatives bring. Just, to cycle back to the beginning of what I said, like we did 100 years ago with internal combustion.
Or for failing.
In the USA, that's no problem.
We just assert our Second Amendment rights and blow them out of the sky.
RPGs and anti-aircraft weapons are arms, aren't they?
20-30 years ago we gave up manufacturing for the "knowledge economy". Now we're offshoring that work, but I haven't heard what the politicians will be replacing it with this time.
Well, in that period of time, their favorite industry seems to have become Gridlock.
You just need to find a way to monetize that!
Those virtual newspapers aren't selling themselves.
Better lay off some more reporters, then.
No it isn't. Everyone Knows that any major software system can be designed and written complete from scratch in no more than 48 hours by a 10-year old kid.*
After all, "All You Have To Do Is..."
====
* Or, failing that, the cheapest outsourced labor you can find. They even have certs in it!
When Torvalds created Git, he shaped it according to his own requirements. Even the best of the alternatives weren't good enough for him as they stood.
So I don't think that the Linux source tree, at a minimum, is likely to move back now. And since git has spawned a fairly extensive ecosystem in its own right, that's another potential market lost.
At this point, it's a might steep hill that BitKeeper would have to climb.
The problem with this kind of "analysis", is that even it it's true - and considering the source that's a significant "IF" - it's also predicated on an unchanging world to further its political agenda.
If traditional automobiles have an edge on pollution and operating costs, it's in large part due to 100+ years of being fine-tuned. When the automobile first arrived, there were no convenient service stations and not much in the way of roads optimized to carry them. We spent a great deal of effort creating that environment, but the naysayers want to pretend that God created it that way in 4300 BC and that's the only possible way it could be.
If batteries are too heavy and too bulky, but there is enough demand or subsidy then lighter and more compact means of producing and/or storing electricity are going to be explored. Gasoline itself is one means, of course, although because of its high cost once it leaves the pump, not one with too many advocates long-term. Or it may simply result in a redesign of tires and brakes, if that's where the problem stems.
It's as meaningless to point to how things are now as a reason for not improving them as it is to wail about how solar power "disappears" when the sun goes down. Anyone who burns coal should know that solar power can be stored for millions of years, much less overnight, and that's just one of the older and dirtier ways to do it.
who would buy proprietary technology and drm 'protected' content, and voluntarily be at the mercy of decisions and mistakes of owners?
born idiots!
they deserve the suffering they get !
If you buy from the Nook store, there are many books available which explictly say that the publisher has insisted that the book be sold without DRM - stuff from O'Reilly, Baen, Tor, and so forth.
Which current versions of Nook software will promptly download into hidden file storage that can only be accessed by rooting the device.
So, technically, this sounds like a blatant violation by Barnes & Noble of their contract with the publisher.
Technically, any computer that can display prompts to the operator to "insert next disc" and "insert previous disc" has access to "infinite" memory in compliance with the rules for a Turing machine.
Sounds like an install for OS/2.
Whoosh!
Better learn to tow the line.
Alcohol is simply self-medication with one of the cruder drugs available.
If you can't leave your upbringing behind you, the first thing you should consider is to see a professional about behavior modification, especially if you're constantly (obsessively) replaying the past in your mind. If simple talk therapy and exercises don't suffice, see a psychiatrist who can try prescribing something. Be prepared to discover 2 things, however: 1) a lot of psychatrists will be crazier than you are (at least if they're like the ones I know) and 2) drugs are a crap shoot and you'll probably have to go through a few (and possibly suffer some unpleasant side-effects) before you can find one that's effective. Someday, I hope we'll be able to DNA-test and maybe even custom-print drugs that precisely attack what's wrong with your brain chemistry without leaving you dysfunctional or dissolving your liver, but not today.
I've see strong indications that obsession and depression often are linked, although I don't know if that's ever been formally acknowledged. So treating one may help with the other.
Hey! Don't loose track of the topic at hand with your silly pedantry!
I may be mistaken, but I do believe that he's a Federal Judge, especially since patents are granted at the Federal level. It's merely that the Federal judicial climate in East Texas is friendlier to patent trolls.
Yes, that smells. the US Government is supposed to be consistent throughout the nation, otherwise it's basically just regional government. But so far, no one seems to be doing anything about this.
Next thing you know, they'll be telling us that software doesn't run forever either!
Now fix my copy of Lotus 1-2-3!
Except at night, when solar is a lot more expensive. Or when it rains.
Sigh. Here we go again.