That logic works for the federal government, because not many people are willing to leave the country. It does not work with states.. people will simply leave the state if the taxes are too high.
And if you aren't willing to leave the state when the tax bill comes due... then you're obviously benefiting from it, and maybe you should pay for it.
Welcome to my foes list... you've demonstrated a remarkable lack of logic and basic thinking skills, and I wanted to be sure I never read anything you write again.
This is basically a list of companies that Eric Schmidt sees as direct competitors to Google. Each one established and now dominates a field that Google desperately wants to get into: the cloud (AWS vs GCE), mobile (iOS vs Android) and social media (Google+ vs Facebook).
They also developed the hiphop php compiler, cassandra, thrift, and scribe... but those are nearly entirely to work around problems with using LAMP on a site that large.
Schmidt: Something unusual has happened. All four companies are networks/platforms generating enormous scale effects. We’ve never had that before: Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google. All different, all competitors, all making enormous investments.
Swisher: You left out Microsoft:
Schmidt: Deliberate....
Mossberg: Why did you keep Microsoft out of the Gang of Four?
Schmidt: They’re a well-run company, but they haven’t been able to bring state-of-the-art products into the fields we’re talking about yet.
8:23 pm: Schmidt: The Android-Apple platform fight is the defining contest. Here’s why: Apple has thousands of developers building for it. Google’s platform, Android, is even larger. Four times more Android phones than Apple phones. 500 million phones already in use. Doing 1.3 million activations a day. We’ll be at 1 billion mobile devices in a year.
Schmidt: We’ve not seen network platform fights at this scale. The beneficiary is you all, the customer, globally. “This is wonderful.”
8:25 pm: Compare this to the PC industry. Phone user population is six billion, one billion smartphone users. Much bigger than the PC industry — maybe a billion, 1.5 billion installed. Every month, quarter, year, the growth rate of mobile adoption exceeds everyone’s expectations. The phones become so useful that “it’s good enough for normal people” in lieu of a PC, for day-to-day events. Years ago, “people like myself, we missed that.”
1) It's Eric Schmidt. of course he's biased.
and
2) he didn't seem to be specifically talking about mobile. Facebook, Google+, etc.
So it's laughable that 100m apple phones, or 500m android phones is a significant platform.. but the OS used on 95% of a billion PCs somehow is not.
Implanted RFID? We still have to develop the technology for that.. and implants need FDA approval... If you think that's going to happen in 15 years, you've been reading too much of Soulskills writing.
This "article" is nothing more than fantasy written in the same vein as similar articles in the 50s. 15 years from now will be NOTHING like the article.
It will be like today, with some fairly minor improvements. Think of the improvements between 1995 and today.
See the revolutionary awesome difference? No? That's because there were no revolutionary changes. We got faster processors, smaller phones, faster internet connections, etc, etc, etc. But those are all minor in the grand scheme of things.
Over 40 percent of total U.S. petroleum refining capacity is located along the Gulf coast, as well as 30 percent of total U.S. natural gas processing plant capacity.
If I sign a futures contract today for corn to be delivered 6 months from now.. in 6 months, that farmer will sell the corn to whoever holds that contract. That contract cannot be broken -- no matter the current price on the market.
If I sign a futures contract 2 months from today, the price for that new contract may be different.. but it does not affect the price of my previous contract, even though the farmer has not delivered the goods yet -- that price is fixed.
Look.. if I buy a gallon of milk that I will drink for the next week, that is not gambling. If 2 days from now the store has a sale, then I can buy more milk for the sale price.. but the price of the gallon I already bought does not change.
There is no gambling here.. futures contracts are just people buying goods in advance.
Futures are gambling.. Are you serious? Do you know what futures are?
A farmer grows x bushels of corn that will be harvest 6 months from now. He asks people who need corn 6 months from now to sign a contract for it, so he has someone to sell the corn to, and he knows the price he will receive for it.
That is a futures contract.
How is that gambling?
Maybe you shouldn't throw around terms you don't know. It gets in the way of the adults having an informative discussion.
At that point, Facebook was already running for nearly two years.
Get over it already... you didn't lose $100m... you were a momentary employee of facebook, where had you stayed for 10x longer, and your share wasn't diluted, and etc etc etc.. you might have made $100m.
Sorry.. I got that wrong.. They scheduled it on 9/25, but then sat on their hands before actually making the announcement on 9/26. So make that 5 days.
Microsoft signed an agreement to use X amount of electricity, almost certainly to get a lower price per kwh. They then used/purchased less electricity than they agreed to, and no longer qualified for the discount (hence the 210k "fine").
What's the problem here?
Can I get the same agreement for my home? I "promise" I'll use 1 billion kwh/month. Same pricing if I don't though.. right?
Even when the US becomes saturated, there are still international markets.
and finally, even though you are right: stagnation does not necessarily mean the end.. stagnation often does mean exactly that.
The problem is, when a company does not grow, it is essentially sitting in limbo until one of it's competitors kills it... either by finding the next big product; or by growing large enough to enable economies of scale that the ungrowing company cannot match; or when tastes of consumers adjust, etc. It is essentially sitting still while the world and its competitors move forward.
That does not mean the company will fail... RIM could create the next great new product, and everything will be fine for the company.
Does that sound hard? It should. Which is exactly why stagnation OFTEN means eventual death.
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That logic works for the federal government, because not many people are willing to leave the country. It does not work with states.. people will simply leave the state if the taxes are too high.
And if you aren't willing to leave the state when the tax bill comes due... then you're obviously benefiting from it, and maybe you should pay for it.
I think what you're trying to say is that the DNT folks took their inspiration from the evil bit, not realizing it was an april fools joke.
obligatory http://xkcd.com/966/
Welcome to my foes list... you've demonstrated a remarkable lack of logic and basic thinking skills, and I wanted to be sure I never read anything you write again.
This is basically a list of companies that Eric Schmidt sees as direct competitors to Google. Each one established and now dominates a field that Google desperately wants to get into: the cloud (AWS vs GCE), mobile (iOS vs Android) and social media (Google+ vs Facebook).
+1 /. summary that.
They should change the
You have it all wrong. Facebook is cutting-edge technology. They use Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and MemCache. What is more innovative than that?
They also developed the hiphop php compiler, cassandra, thrift, and scribe... but those are nearly entirely to work around problems with using LAMP on a site that large.
An article about how wrong he is.. but no link to his actual comments? Really?
http://allthingsd.com/20121010/live-from-new-york-walt-mossberg-kara-swisher-interview-eric-schmidt/
Schmidt: Something unusual has happened. All four companies are networks/platforms generating enormous scale effects. We’ve never had that before: Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google. All different, all competitors, all making enormous investments.
Swisher: You left out Microsoft:
Schmidt: Deliberate. ...
Mossberg: Why did you keep Microsoft out of the Gang of Four?
Schmidt: They’re a well-run company, but they haven’t been able to bring state-of-the-art products into the fields we’re talking about yet.
8:23 pm: Schmidt: The Android-Apple platform fight is the defining contest. Here’s why: Apple has thousands of developers building for it. Google’s platform, Android, is even larger. Four times more Android phones than Apple phones. 500 million phones already in use. Doing 1.3 million activations a day. We’ll be at 1 billion mobile devices in a year.
Schmidt: We’ve not seen network platform fights at this scale. The beneficiary is you all, the customer, globally. “This is wonderful.”
8:25 pm: Compare this to the PC industry. Phone user population is six billion, one billion smartphone users. Much bigger than the PC industry — maybe a billion, 1.5 billion installed.
Every month, quarter, year, the growth rate of mobile adoption exceeds everyone’s expectations. The phones become so useful that “it’s good enough for normal people” in lieu of a PC, for day-to-day events. Years ago, “people like myself, we missed that.”
1) It's Eric Schmidt. of course he's biased.
and
2) he didn't seem to be specifically talking about mobile. Facebook, Google+, etc.
So it's laughable that 100m apple phones, or 500m android phones is a significant platform.. but the OS used on 95% of a billion PCs somehow is not.
Please name one dramatic breakthrough that exists today that did not exist in 1997.
Remember you said dramatic. And despite Jobs' product speeches, the iPhone does not count as dramatically different.
Implanted RFID? We still have to develop the technology for that.. and implants need FDA approval... If you think that's going to happen in 15 years, you've been reading too much of Soulskills writing.
I'll second this.
This "article" is nothing more than fantasy written in the same vein as similar articles in the 50s. 15 years from now will be NOTHING like the article.
It will be like today, with some fairly minor improvements. Think of the improvements between 1995 and today.
See the revolutionary awesome difference? No? That's because there were no revolutionary changes. We got faster processors, smaller phones, faster internet connections, etc, etc, etc. But those are all minor in the grand scheme of things.
Things just don't change that fast.
Can you imagine an airline that doesn't factor in changes in fuel prices?
Airlines have fuel surcharges specifically because they didn't factor it in
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/23/business/la-fi-travel-briefcase-20120723
fedex, ups also have fuel surcharges in case you didn't notice.
Over 40 percent of total U.S. petroleum refining capacity is located along the Gulf coast, as well as 30 percent of total U.S. natural gas processing plant capacity.
http://www.eia.gov/special/gulf_of_mexico/
The prices go up as you move away from the gulf.. that's all the map shows.
Hey.. I have an idea... where are your facts for your wild conspiracy theory?
Don't have any? you don't say...
here's a gas map:
http://gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx
no relation to red and blue states.
ok.. i'll play your stupid little game..
here's a temperature map of gas prices:
http://gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx
I see no relation between red and blue states and the prices.
looks more like any state near the gulf coast is cheaper.. but that's it.
users support the internet? Maybe the ecommerce side.. but the content websites? really?
how much have you paid to slashdot today?
Why is there no subscription mark next to your UID? Is slashdot not worthy of your support?
If you haven't paid anything, then how are you supporting it?
slashdot requires 16 web servers, 7 db servers, 2 db read-only servers, 2 load balancers, and 3 misc systems.
http://slashdot.org/story/07/10/18/1641203/slashdots-setup-part-1--hardware
How much of that hardware did you pay for with your "support"?
Large websites are not free. Where is the money suppose to come from?
You're just proving how WRONG you are.
If I sign a futures contract today for corn to be delivered 6 months from now.. in 6 months, that farmer will sell the corn to whoever holds that contract. That contract cannot be broken -- no matter the current price on the market.
If I sign a futures contract 2 months from today, the price for that new contract may be different.. but it does not affect the price of my previous contract, even though the farmer has not delivered the goods yet -- that price is fixed.
Look.. if I buy a gallon of milk that I will drink for the next week, that is not gambling. If 2 days from now the store has a sale, then I can buy more milk for the sale price.. but the price of the gallon I already bought does not change.
There is no gambling here.. futures contracts are just people buying goods in advance.
Futures are gambling.. Are you serious? Do you know what futures are?
A farmer grows x bushels of corn that will be harvest 6 months from now. He asks people who need corn 6 months from now to sign a contract for it, so he has someone to sell the corn to, and he knows the price he will receive for it.
That is a futures contract.
How is that gambling?
Maybe you shouldn't throw around terms you don't know. It gets in the way of the adults having an informative discussion.
That, plus.. according to wikipedia he worked there for 8 months over 6 years ago.
At that point, Facebook was already running for nearly two years.
Get over it already... you didn't lose $100m... you were a momentary employee of facebook, where had you stayed for 10x longer, and your share wasn't diluted, and etc etc etc.. you might have made $100m.
so you want to subsidize phone calls by overcharging on data...
how is that an improvement?
Sorry.. I got that wrong.. They scheduled it on 9/25, but then sat on their hands before actually making the announcement on 9/26. So make that 5 days.
Too fucking lazy to give people a 6th day.
The problem is not that they are dropping a feature.. that's fine. The problem is the time frame. Here's the announcement on 9/25 announcing the change:
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.ca/2012/09/scheduled-release-track-features-update_26.html
They gave people 6 fucking days to fix any processes that rely on that functionality.
I don't care that they have dropped support for it. But 6 days?!
You really don't see a problem with that?
Microsoft signed an agreement to use X amount of electricity, almost certainly to get a lower price per kwh. They then used/purchased less electricity than they agreed to, and no longer qualified for the discount (hence the 210k "fine").
What's the problem here?
Can I get the same agreement for my home? I "promise" I'll use 1 billion kwh/month. Same pricing if I don't though.. right?
the smartphone market has grown by 38.8% in the past year.
Even when the US becomes saturated, there are still international markets.
and finally, even though you are right: stagnation does not necessarily mean the end.. stagnation often does mean exactly that.
The problem is, when a company does not grow, it is essentially sitting in limbo until one of it's competitors kills it ... either by finding the next big product; or by growing large enough to enable economies of scale that the ungrowing company cannot match; or when tastes of consumers adjust, etc. It is essentially sitting still while the world and its competitors move forward.
That does not mean the company will fail... RIM could create the next great new product, and everything will be fine for the company.
Does that sound hard? It should. Which is exactly why stagnation OFTEN means eventual death.
You know what's hilarious? Best Buy is still more profitable than Amazon:
net profit
Best Buy: 12m
Amazon: 7m
http://www.jagsreport.com/2012/09/amazon-announces-96-profit-decrease-nasdaq-amzn/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2012/08/21/best-buy-profit-plunges-retailer-suspends-guidance-and-share-buybacks/
It is a vigorous, growing company unlike the others you cite.
Amazon is growing at 20% a year. On 50b in revenue, that's about +10b/year.. very impressive.
Walmart is growing at 6% a year. On 450b in revenue, that's about +27b/year. Double the growth of Amazon
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/snapshots/2255.html