Here is a tip: when you demonize one person and idolize another in the same comment, make sure your idol can stand up to scrutiny.
If you just said Gates made sleazy moves to get to where he was, few could disagree. If you claimed Jobs was a visionary, many would agree. But calling Gates a low-down scumbag and Jobs a saint ("the good die young"???) and wishing ill on another human being makes you a bitter, biased troll.
Maybe you heard of how Jobs stole from Wozniak? Or that he denied paternity on his first kid? Or that he didn't make charitable contributions? Not an idol that most people would worship.
So get over it - both of them did sleazy things. One of them made shiny trinkets that amuse you.
Gone are the days of desktops, and apps specifically developed for the desktops. These days,most apps can be run off a browser.
You might want to tell the millions of engineers and scientists and mathematicians and artists that use a desktop. And don't be surprised if they laugh at your ignorance. Try running CFD/CAD/Matlab/Mathematica/Octave/PaintShop Pro out of a web browser or app - and actually doing something useful with it. Go ahead and design a CFD mesh from your 'app' (yes, I know you can do it in command line, but many times the GUI is faster). I also don't think a lot of C/C++/Java programming is done using apps/web-based platform (I might be wrong, I haven't programmed in those languages in years).
Yeah, if all you want to do is trivial stuff, or basic office work (Google Docs), or play simple games, then ignore the desktop. Meanwhile, the rest of us have complex problems to work on, and don't want to sacrifice our desktop for your limited visions of the future.
Disclaimer: I am writing this on a desktop (Win 8), while my Ubuntu desktop is doing a nonlinear optimization. This isn't a rant for/against Windows 8 or the good/bad of a unified experience (honestly, I like the new experience since I use a dual monitor rig for both my computers. One monitor houses the metro stuff and the other houses the traditional desktop - I found that the new setup is quite nice). It is just a rant against the ignorance I hear from so many people - "I hardly use a desktop, tablets are the future!". While people are entitled to their opinion, all it takes is for one PHB to decide to cut the budget for new computers because of 'tablets rule' and my productivity would be severely impacted.
Similar to insider trading by congressmen.. They can trade on companies/sell information on which they are passing laws. I'd say it is unethical (again, by particular standards that codify ethics - I don't want to assume that everyone shares my sense of ethics).
So yes, there are lots of things in the "free-market" that are unethical/illegal because of information asymmetry.
I'm not contradicting your statement, but isn't there some regulation that says you can't use your IRA to buy into a private company when you are on their board/own it (I assume, by your reference to vultures that it was a company he had some information about - maybe Bain already controlled it)?
In any case, I'm pretty sure people like him (who play in the big leagues) didn't just invest in companies he researched using Bloomberg/Yahoo!. Legal? Certainly (almost). Ethical (by, say, the CFA standards)? Unlikely.
I hope you aren't suggesting that a government should run like a business. If you are, please do the country a favor and abstain from voting. The government should provide services that a company would not in order to benefit the populace. Letting people die because they can't afford health insurance, leaving them uneducated even though education is a (short-term) loss, providing money for arts, supporting the environment... the list goes on.
We need a government because a running the country like a business would suck the resources dry, no matter the cost to the people. I'm sure you wanted the minimum wage abolished as well?
No, what he's saying is that Chevy shouldn't be able to prevent you from installing a new engine in your '57 just because they no longer support the platform.
According to PC World, you can still continue to activate the software. And enterprises use volume licenses that do not need activation. So I don't see the problem.
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If you just said Gates made sleazy moves to get to where he was, few could disagree. If you claimed Jobs was a visionary, many would agree. But calling Gates a low-down scumbag and Jobs a saint ("the good die young"???) and wishing ill on another human being makes you a bitter, biased troll.
Maybe you heard of how Jobs stole from Wozniak? Or that he denied paternity on his first kid? Or that he didn't make charitable contributions? Not an idol that most people would worship.
So get over it - both of them did sleazy things. One of them made shiny trinkets that amuse you.
Gone are the days of desktops, and apps specifically developed for the desktops. These days,most apps can be run off a browser.
You might want to tell the millions of engineers and scientists and mathematicians and artists that use a desktop. And don't be surprised if they laugh at your ignorance. Try running CFD/CAD/Matlab/Mathematica/Octave/PaintShop Pro out of a web browser or app - and actually doing something useful with it. Go ahead and design a CFD mesh from your 'app' (yes, I know you can do it in command line, but many times the GUI is faster). I also don't think a lot of C/C++/Java programming is done using apps/web-based platform (I might be wrong, I haven't programmed in those languages in years).
Yeah, if all you want to do is trivial stuff, or basic office work (Google Docs), or play simple games, then ignore the desktop. Meanwhile, the rest of us have complex problems to work on, and don't want to sacrifice our desktop for your limited visions of the future.
Disclaimer: I am writing this on a desktop (Win 8), while my Ubuntu desktop is doing a nonlinear optimization. This isn't a rant for/against Windows 8 or the good/bad of a unified experience (honestly, I like the new experience since I use a dual monitor rig for both my computers. One monitor houses the metro stuff and the other houses the traditional desktop - I found that the new setup is quite nice). It is just a rant against the ignorance I hear from so many people - "I hardly use a desktop, tablets are the future!". While people are entitled to their opinion, all it takes is for one PHB to decide to cut the budget for new computers because of 'tablets rule' and my productivity would be severely impacted.
So yes, there are lots of things in the "free-market" that are unethical/illegal because of information asymmetry.
I'm not contradicting your statement, but isn't there some regulation that says you can't use your IRA to buy into a private company when you are on their board/own it (I assume, by your reference to vultures that it was a company he had some information about - maybe Bain already controlled it)? In any case, I'm pretty sure people like him (who play in the big leagues) didn't just invest in companies he researched using Bloomberg/Yahoo!. Legal? Certainly (almost). Ethical (by, say, the CFA standards)? Unlikely.
We need a government because a running the country like a business would suck the resources dry, no matter the cost to the people. I'm sure you wanted the minimum wage abolished as well?
No, what he's saying is that Chevy shouldn't be able to prevent you from installing a new engine in your '57 just because they no longer support the platform.
According to PC World, you can still continue to activate the software. And enterprises use volume licenses that do not need activation. So I don't see the problem.