Let me FTFY: "[..] but when it gets its hands on something everybody wants, but no one has the guts to actually go without, it's gonna take you to the cleaners. Every single time."
You are not insightful. In fact you are the opposite, willfully blind to your own fallacy. The market, ie consumers, did decide. They just decided that they dont care. They simply don't have the desire, or knowledge, or will, to stand up and say "hey, this is a ripoff, and im not going to give you my money anymore". They voted with their dollars, and their vote was one of apathy. They either dont know better or they dont care.
You want to change it? Fix their ignorance. Educate them that it doesnt have to be this way. Believe it or not, if you want change, and you're in the minority that sees the need for it, you may actually have to do some legwork and help make it happen.
But that's too hard. And logical. And goes against the easy way of blaming capitalism even when I dont understand it. So lets just get rid of it and mandate everything via the government.
Addendum: but hey, MS dumping it just means there will be EVEN MORE money to be made by labs like mine or ATS or similar, who support, maintain, and reverse engineer legacy equipment.
No its not broke. And you misidentify the fallacy too. The fallacy is that everyone even cares about the things you list.
Do you need CS7 files? I dont. Do you need security updates? I dont; my lab's computers are all strictly off-network. Secure acrchtecture? Who cares? Do you? Cause it doesnt exist (theres a concept called ORM, operation risk management, you should learn about it; basically, worry about the things that need worrying about). Adobe12? PDF's still load fine in older versions, particularly of archived materials that are intenionally stored with compatibility in mind. HTML5? Agan, not relevant.
You are not hte market for XP. People who care about these things arent the ones trying to hold onto XP.
I, and the electronics lab I'm in. however are EXACTLY the market that needs to hold onto XP. Legacy hardware, legacy software, crap dating from teh 60s that someone wrote an interface for years ago that worked on Win95 and still does on XP (and doesnt on Vista/7/8) and now no one even knows what the interface commands ARE anymore for that old hunk we still need to support. And we get paid good money to do so. The joys of military contracting.
Sorry pal. It ain't broke. It don't need fixing. Learn to see beyond your own small world; there are more demands out there than yours and the constant latest and greatest arms race.
if youre gonna nitpick a nitpicker, at least have the courtesy to actually point out the relevant parts. neither of your posts are relevant. the important issue is that neither of you addressed the blatantly glaring fact that girlsintraining has no clue was constitutes "fair use". of course, given that datum, I have to assume neither of you two do either.
Single person lawsuits? The company will just outspend you until youre broke.
The whole idea of it being legal to arbitrarily sign away fundamental rights and protections as a consumer is idiotic. The Supreme Court has handed down their decision, and since their job is primarily to "interpret the law as it stands", now its time to pass a law explicitly stating that CAL are a fundamental right of consumers as a form of protection from the abuses of corporations.
The world is full of engineering disasters that occured because the designer missed one little thing. Such mistakes improve the world of engineering by learning from mistakes. But peer review also helps.
The patch is -not- necessarily the same. that is an untrue statement.
You have to consider the strength dynamics of the tire shape overall. that is the the walls and structure of the tire begin affecting the contact area. tire width, tire height (road to rim), tire thickness, all affect the structural support properties of the tire. one of the properties of wider tires is they generally have a larger footprint. larger footprint plus same weight equals less bearing pressure, which is why larger tires are used when sinking into the surface is a concern (dirt, sand, mud). but not all wider tires; the "low profile" tires can be wider but not deform as much because the effective column height is much shorter. but it will still tend to deform in the middle ("flat" contact dimension) more than a narrow tire of same low-profile height would; think a beam type bending moment, but in reverse (upward). that upward force btw is why the proper inflation pressure is important and improves traction (and wire steel wire meshing/banding was added to tires years ago); more pressure to resist it, since the rubber itself has poor resistance to deformation.
Psychology and history and language combine for "Hitler: Examining Mein Kampfe and selected speeches. the effect of a single charismatic dictator on the world"
Math and Biology and Chemisty and Physics combine for "How protiens fold, and why the same chemical can cure or kill you based on geometry"
Nutrition and Chemistry and Language combine for "Talking to your kids about eating right, and succeeding"
And therein lies why all education is linked, and why skipping sciences, or skipping math, or skipping languages, or skipping insertxhere is fundamentally ignorant.
A good education shows you not just what you need to survive life, but how all these different fields, all these seperate subjects, are actually fundamentally inter-linked.
That is the single biggest failure of the education system. You are presented with 8+ different and totally seperate things, and never shown that that separation is a lie.
Rome wasn't built in a day, and it also wasn't built by lazy people.
14 hour days? Every day? Quit bitching. That normal for a lot of people. -military -police -certain farmers -contractors (and other "blue collar") -doctors
Not really. The hardest part of flying isnt the driving. It's the rules and regs. And drone pilots still have to obey nearly all the same FAA rules as normal pilots. They just dont risk their personal self in the act.
When people talk of "failed bush policies" and "failed trickle down" they dont know what they are talking about. The policies and taxes have very little to do with that; it has everything to do with the fact some faceless chinese worker is willing to do with $1/hr something that would cost $10+/hr over here. You can change all the policies you want, raise or lower all the taxes you want...it wont matter as long as there is no minimum wage in China.
And the proposed solution of requiring US companies to adhere to a minimum wage worldwide will simply force companies that can to flee the US entirely, and companies that cant to raise prices enormously, further damaging our own economy.
Your post is calssic textbook example of the "Biased credit" Law of Politics:
Your guy gets all the credit and none of the blame, regardless of facts. The other guy gets none of the credit and all the blame, regardless of facts.
The recession technically ended is 2009 yes, though the economy is still not "great". Obama had little to do with either part of that statement. But according to the Law of Biased Credit, if you hate him, he gets all the blame for it still sucking...if you like him, he gets credit for "ending the recession". The fact is, he gets neither credit nor blame. The economy pulled itself out, in that its various actors performed in ways that collectively caused a recovery, regardless of anything the Prez did or didnt do. And likewise the economy continues to suck, even after the technical ending of the recession, by and large regardless of anything the Prez did or didnt do. Barring truly extraodrinary events (megaomnibus super bill 3000!!) the economy is bigger than one man, even when that man is the POTUS.
And when people talk of "failed bush policies" and "failed trickle down" they dont know what they are talking about. Again, the economy crash had little to do with Bush and his policies, and everything to do with certain huge Wall Street players taking big (and unethical and almostbutnotquiteillegal) risks, and losing.
as for trickle down....its not the policies or tax cuts or anything else. Its the fact its still simply cheaper to ship jobs overseas. The policies and taxes have very little to do with that; it has everything to do with the fact some faceless chinese worker is willing to do with $1/hr something that would cost $10+/hr over here. You can change all the policies you want, raise or lower all the taxes you want...it wont matter as long as such disparities exist.
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So the solution to exclusinve contracts from regulation is.... more regulation.
Bingo. But GIT and most of the rest of /. doesnt get that and would rather "blame capitalism."
Dont blame capitalism for consumer apathy/ignorance.
Let me FTFY: "[..] but when it gets its hands on something everybody wants, but no one has the guts to actually go without, it's gonna take you to the cleaners. Every single time."
You are not insightful. In fact you are the opposite, willfully blind to your own fallacy. The market, ie consumers, did decide. They just decided that they dont care. They simply don't have the desire, or knowledge, or will, to stand up and say "hey, this is a ripoff, and im not going to give you my money anymore". They voted with their dollars, and their vote was one of apathy. They either dont know better or they dont care.
You want to change it? Fix their ignorance. Educate them that it doesnt have to be this way. Believe it or not, if you want change, and you're in the minority that sees the need for it, you may actually have to do some legwork and help make it happen.
But that's too hard. And logical. And goes against the easy way of blaming capitalism even when I dont understand it. So lets just get rid of it and mandate everything via the government.
(And thus does the cycle of apathy repeat)
Addendum:
but hey, MS dumping it just means there will be EVEN MORE money to be made by labs like mine or ATS or similar, who support, maintain, and reverse engineer legacy equipment.
No its not broke. And you misidentify the fallacy too. The fallacy is that everyone even cares about the things you list.
Do you need CS7 files? I dont.
Do you need security updates? I dont; my lab's computers are all strictly off-network.
Secure acrchtecture? Who cares? Do you? Cause it doesnt exist (theres a concept called ORM, operation risk management, you should learn about it; basically, worry about the things that need worrying about).
Adobe12? PDF's still load fine in older versions, particularly of archived materials that are intenionally stored with compatibility in mind.
HTML5? Agan, not relevant.
You are not hte market for XP. People who care about these things arent the ones trying to hold onto XP.
I, and the electronics lab I'm in. however are EXACTLY the market that needs to hold onto XP. Legacy hardware, legacy software, crap dating from teh 60s that someone wrote an interface for years ago that worked on Win95 and still does on XP (and doesnt on Vista/7/8) and now no one even knows what the interface commands ARE anymore for that old hunk we still need to support. And we get paid good money to do so. The joys of military contracting.
Sorry pal.
It ain't broke.
It don't need fixing.
Learn to see beyond your own small world; there are more demands out there than yours and the constant latest and greatest arms race.
If it ain't broke, don't fugg with it.
if youre gonna nitpick a nitpicker, at least have the courtesy to actually point out the relevant parts. neither of your posts are relevant.
the important issue is that neither of you addressed the blatantly glaring fact that girlsintraining has no clue was constitutes "fair use".
of course, given that datum, I have to assume neither of you two do either.
internet big shot
A robo-call has a very clear and concise meaning. You've certainly missed that point. Are you a politician?
Scary politicians
Single person lawsuits? The company will just outspend you until youre broke.
The whole idea of it being legal to arbitrarily sign away fundamental rights and protections as a consumer is idiotic. The Supreme Court has handed down their decision, and since their job is primarily to "interpret the law as it stands", now its time to pass a law explicitly stating that CAL are a fundamental right of consumers as a form of protection from the abuses of corporations.
Dear FTC,
Grow a pair, ban robo-calls, and follow through on enforcement.
You can send me my check at your convenience.
Signed,
Me
The world is full of engineering disasters that occured because the designer missed one little thing.
Such mistakes improve the world of engineering by learning from mistakes.
But peer review also helps.
The patch is -not- necessarily the same. that is an untrue statement.
You have to consider the strength dynamics of the tire shape overall. that is the the walls and structure of the tire begin affecting the contact area. tire width, tire height (road to rim), tire thickness, all affect the structural support properties of the tire. one of the properties of wider tires is they generally have a larger footprint. larger footprint plus same weight equals less bearing pressure, which is why larger tires are used when sinking into the surface is a concern (dirt, sand, mud). but not all wider tires; the "low profile" tires can be wider but not deform as much because the effective column height is much shorter. but it will still tend to deform in the middle ("flat" contact dimension) more than a narrow tire of same low-profile height would; think a beam type bending moment, but in reverse (upward). that upward force btw is why the proper inflation pressure is important and improves traction (and wire steel wire meshing/banding was added to tires years ago); more pressure to resist it, since the rubber itself has poor resistance to deformation.
expounding on myself some:
Psychology and history and language combine for "Hitler: Examining Mein Kampfe and selected speeches. the effect of a single charismatic dictator on the world"
Math and Biology and Chemisty and Physics combine for "How protiens fold, and why the same chemical can cure or kill you based on geometry"
Nutrition and Chemistry and Language combine for "Talking to your kids about eating right, and succeeding"
I could go on.
And therein lies why all education is linked, and why skipping sciences, or skipping math, or skipping languages, or skipping insertxhere is fundamentally ignorant.
A good education shows you not just what you need to survive life, but how all these different fields, all these seperate subjects, are actually fundamentally inter-linked.
That is the single biggest failure of the education system. You are presented with 8+ different and totally seperate things, and never shown that that separation is a lie.
Or just wait til it gets hacked/jailbroken/modded to record locally.
Rome wasn't built in a day, and it also wasn't built by lazy people.
14 hour days? Every day? Quit bitching.
That normal for a lot of people.
-military
-police
-certain farmers
-contractors (and other "blue collar")
-doctors
Idiom crits your language skill for 9999 damage. You have lost all knowledge of English and are reduced to grunting and pointing.
God help all those poor soldiers on the front lines with pacemakers.... ...
oh wait...
So much BS. Can't breathe.
Oh and hey! +5 insightful too. Shocking.
Not really. The hardest part of flying isnt the driving. It's the rules and regs. And drone pilots still have to obey nearly all the same FAA rules as normal pilots. They just dont risk their personal self in the act.
When people talk of "failed bush policies" and "failed trickle down" they dont know what they are talking about. The policies and taxes have very little to do with that; it has everything to do with the fact some faceless chinese worker is willing to do with $1/hr something that would cost $10+/hr over here. You can change all the policies you want, raise or lower all the taxes you want...it wont matter as long as there is no minimum wage in China.
And the proposed solution of requiring US companies to adhere to a minimum wage worldwide will simply force companies that can to flee the US entirely, and companies that cant to raise prices enormously, further damaging our own economy.
Your post is calssic textbook example of the "Biased credit" Law of Politics:
Your guy gets all the credit and none of the blame, regardless of facts.
The other guy gets none of the credit and all the blame, regardless of facts.
The recession technically ended is 2009 yes, though the economy is still not "great".
Obama had little to do with either part of that statement. But according to the Law of Biased Credit, if you hate him, he gets all the blame for it still sucking...if you like him, he gets credit for "ending the recession". The fact is, he gets neither credit nor blame. The economy pulled itself out, in that its various actors performed in ways that collectively caused a recovery, regardless of anything the Prez did or didnt do. And likewise the economy continues to suck, even after the technical ending of the recession, by and large regardless of anything the Prez did or didnt do. Barring truly extraodrinary events (megaomnibus super bill 3000!!) the economy is bigger than one man, even when that man is the POTUS.
And when people talk of "failed bush policies" and "failed trickle down" they dont know what they are talking about. Again, the economy crash had little to do with Bush and his policies, and everything to do with certain huge Wall Street players taking big (and unethical and almostbutnotquiteillegal) risks, and losing.
as for trickle down....its not the policies or tax cuts or anything else. Its the fact its still simply cheaper to ship jobs overseas. The policies and taxes have very little to do with that; it has everything to do with the fact some faceless chinese worker is willing to do with $1/hr something that would cost $10+/hr over here. You can change all the policies you want, raise or lower all the taxes you want...it wont matter as long as such disparities exist.