No, I don't want to run software designed for a desktop on my phone. Stop trying to shoe horn software into places it doesn't belong and focus on releasing it where it belongs.
Not that I particularly care about Enlightenment, but what distinction are you drawing between large, stationary computers and small, portable computers? The main relevant difference in this case is screen size - E isn't an RDBMS or DVD transcoder - and surely E can be adjusted to account for that.
One good campaign to try and fix some of that is http://thirty-thousand.org/ , where they want to have 1 member of the house for at most every 30,000 people.
On one hand, I can only imagine how paralyzed and ineffective a house with 10,000 members would be. On the other hand, yay! Go Big House!
First off, son, I don't work there anymore, and I'm not even sure if they're still in business (or if they still own the assignments). You really need to quit making your disagreements into personal issues.
Second, please explain to me why IP space is more of a "public good" than real estate? Some parts of the world are horrifically overcrowded but they use the real estate market to distribute limited resources. How is your way of confiscation and redistribution any more fair than what you (incorrectly) accused me of?
So, what "superhighway" runs through our netblock? Why are you advocating the hostile takeover of our address space - which you can't even verify is unused - and redistributing it to other commercial entities?
Isn't that a good thing? I imagine there are going to be serious security issues when ipv6 is implemented and EVERYTHING is routable.
So we move back the crisis another 18 months. What then? We find some ultra-short-term "fix" to put it off another 18 months for "security issues"? At some point, you've gotta do what you've gotta do.
As a network security guy in a company with 9 Class B's that are used within the company.
You can get blocks that small now? When I worked at an ISP / web host, I was told to get an assignment from ARIN. At that time, the smallest block they'd hand out was/19 (32/24s).
Yes, give them more ammo that you are an irrational, online cabal by posting bad reviews not of the game you have not purchased due to DRM, but of the DRM that caused you to not purchase the game.
As the DRM ships as an integral part of the game, you're drawing a distinction that doesn't exist.
I know my FP pretty well. I know the pediatrician even better ("hey, Ed! Grab a beer and help me grill the burgers."). Our experiences really do seem to be culturally based.
I agree with the rest about doctors getting driven out. My wife's a specialist who sees a lot of Medicare patients by nature of her practice. Over the summer, Medicare decided to cut their reimbursements by 10%. The medical association stepped in and pressured them to at least keep the current levels, but we were looking at a 10% pay cut (and corresponding expense increases because the cost of providing Medicare services is monotonically increasing), which would have been financially devastating.
And along the same lines, she now only sees Medicaid patients by direct referral from another physician. That's because her reimbursement for seeing those patients is less than the cost of the medical supplies required to treat them. Ignoring stuff like opportunity costs, she directly loses money on each patient. That's just not sustainable.
What really bugs me is when people like him get so wound up in their own fanaticism that they begin to engage in the old practice of 'If I can't have it, then no one can.'
Off-topic: where I grew up, that was known as a "dog in a manger". The dog didn't want to eat the hay, but barked and growled at the cows who did want it.
Punitive damages shouldn't be allowed unless the health care provider was grossly negligent
I'll go one further - punitive damages should be taxed at 100%. You should be able to sue for them to truly punish those who deserve punishment, but they should never be seen as a source of income. That's what the actual damange payout is for: to reimburse you for your lost time and money.
In my town a 10am appointment means sitting in the waiting room until at least 11am.
With all respect, you meant to say "at my doctor". My family practice guy usually sees me on time, or even a few minutes early. Orthopedic guy? I'm usually done and leaving within 15 minutes of my scheduled appointment. On the other hand, I bring reading material when the kids go to their pediatrician because I know I'll be there a while.
Now, that's not to say that there isn't a "culture of lateness" in your particular town, especially if it's not a large city with lots of doctors to choose from. It's still an issue with those particular doctors and not a symptom of the American medical system.
In my Oldsmobile, you can only temporarily disable them by starting the car with the parking brake on (or something along those lines), and as soon as you release it the lights come on.
I don't know if I'm this way because I'm a programmer, or if I'm a programmer because I'm this way, but I always feel the compulsion to invent cases where some new idea would be really terrible. Examples include car lights that come on automatically at night, and the case where you're trying to escape from a deaf serial killer. Well, this one's fairly easy: you're trying to surreptitiously dial 911 because you're being carjacked or kidnapped. Too bad for you!
Their service is worth exactly what people are willing to pay for it. Since their current business model is working, they have set their prices correctly.
Sales figures are not normally used as measure of product value. If that were true then Budweiser would be the best beer ever and Baywatch the best TV show ever produced.
No one ever said otherwise. Their sales figures are only relevant within the context of their own organization. Apple is moving merchandise in line with their goals, which means that their estimate of their product's value (as measured by MSRP) is in line with what the market thinks.
Better analogies would be to Guinness and "Dexter", premium brands that people pay extra to enjoy. You can't say that those are overpriced as long as the desired number people continue to pay for them.
No, I think he was just being coolly anti-establishment, and blanketly stating that Apple's products are overpriced. To that, I assert that the market is willing to bear the price, so they must be correctly priced regardless of his opinion on the matter.
I'm typing this on an Eee PC. Apple could go out of business tomorrow and it wouldn't affect me one bit. Still, I think their pricing is between them and their customers, and right now everyone seems to be happy.
No, they're not. As long as they're reaching their sales goals, their price is less than or equal to what it could be. For having such a high opinion of yourself and your financial habits, you suck at economics.
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No, I don't want to run software designed for a desktop on my phone. Stop trying to shoe horn software into places it doesn't belong and focus on releasing it where it belongs.
Not that I particularly care about Enlightenment, but what distinction are you drawing between large, stationary computers and small, portable computers? The main relevant difference in this case is screen size - E isn't an RDBMS or DVD transcoder - and surely E can be adjusted to account for that.
I switched to E from my aging Amiga. Now both of them are primarily used to power cell phones.
Sorry about that, folks. Maybe I'll switch to Vista to balance it out.
The bio-scanning stuff is a pain in the arse,
Um, they only asked for my fingerprints. Maybe your customs guy was more thorough.
One good campaign to try and fix some of that is http://thirty-thousand.org/ , where they want to have 1 member of the house for at most every 30,000 people.
On one hand, I can only imagine how paralyzed and ineffective a house with 10,000 members would be. On the other hand, yay! Go Big House!
Irony overload.
First off, son, I don't work there anymore, and I'm not even sure if they're still in business (or if they still own the assignments). You really need to quit making your disagreements into personal issues.
Second, please explain to me why IP space is more of a "public good" than real estate? Some parts of the world are horrifically overcrowded but they use the real estate market to distribute limited resources. How is your way of confiscation and redistribution any more fair than what you (incorrectly) accused me of?
D'oh! I'll be running along now.
So, what "superhighway" runs through our netblock? Why are you advocating the hostile takeover of our address space - which you can't even verify is unused - and redistributing it to other commercial entities?
Real estate is finite, yet owned. Some of us paid (and continue to pay) quite a bit of money for ARIN assignments. How's that different?
Isn't that a good thing? I imagine there are going to be serious security issues when ipv6 is implemented and EVERYTHING is routable.
So we move back the crisis another 18 months. What then? We find some ultra-short-term "fix" to put it off another 18 months for "security issues"? At some point, you've gotta do what you've gotta do.
As a network security guy in a company with 9 Class B's that are used within the company.
You can get blocks that small now? When I worked at an ISP / web host, I was told to get an assignment from ARIN. At that time, the smallest block they'd hand out was /19 (32 /24s).
IP space is "common" space, just like the roads, parks and so on.
IP space is "common" space, just like my living room.
Yes, give them more ammo that you are an irrational, online cabal by posting bad reviews not of the game you have not purchased due to DRM, but of the DRM that caused you to not purchase the game.
As the DRM ships as an integral part of the game, you're drawing a distinction that doesn't exist.
I know my FP pretty well. I know the pediatrician even better ("hey, Ed! Grab a beer and help me grill the burgers."). Our experiences really do seem to be culturally based.
I agree with the rest about doctors getting driven out. My wife's a specialist who sees a lot of Medicare patients by nature of her practice. Over the summer, Medicare decided to cut their reimbursements by 10%. The medical association stepped in and pressured them to at least keep the current levels, but we were looking at a 10% pay cut (and corresponding expense increases because the cost of providing Medicare services is monotonically increasing), which would have been financially devastating.
And along the same lines, she now only sees Medicaid patients by direct referral from another physician. That's because her reimbursement for seeing those patients is less than the cost of the medical supplies required to treat them. Ignoring stuff like opportunity costs, she directly loses money on each patient. That's just not sustainable.
What really bugs me is when people like him get so wound up in their own fanaticism that they begin to engage in the old practice of 'If I can't have it, then no one can.'
Off-topic: where I grew up, that was known as a "dog in a manger". The dog didn't want to eat the hay, but barked and growled at the cows who did want it.
Punitive damages shouldn't be allowed unless the health care provider was grossly negligent
I'll go one further - punitive damages should be taxed at 100%. You should be able to sue for them to truly punish those who deserve punishment, but they should never be seen as a source of income. That's what the actual damange payout is for: to reimburse you for your lost time and money.
In my town a 10am appointment means sitting in the waiting room until at least 11am.
With all respect, you meant to say "at my doctor". My family practice guy usually sees me on time, or even a few minutes early. Orthopedic guy? I'm usually done and leaving within 15 minutes of my scheduled appointment. On the other hand, I bring reading material when the kids go to their pediatrician because I know I'll be there a while.
Now, that's not to say that there isn't a "culture of lateness" in your particular town, especially if it's not a large city with lots of doctors to choose from. It's still an issue with those particular doctors and not a symptom of the American medical system.
In my Oldsmobile, you can only temporarily disable them by starting the car with the parking brake on (or something along those lines), and as soon as you release it the lights come on.
I don't know if I'm this way because I'm a programmer, or if I'm a programmer because I'm this way, but I always feel the compulsion to invent cases where some new idea would be really terrible. Examples include car lights that come on automatically at night, and the case where you're trying to escape from a deaf serial killer. Well, this one's fairly easy: you're trying to surreptitiously dial 911 because you're being carjacked or kidnapped. Too bad for you!
Their service is worth exactly what people are willing to pay for it. Since their current business model is working, they have set their prices correctly.
Sales figures are not normally used as measure of product value. If that were true then Budweiser would be the best beer ever and Baywatch the best TV show ever produced.
No one ever said otherwise. Their sales figures are only relevant within the context of their own organization. Apple is moving merchandise in line with their goals, which means that their estimate of their product's value (as measured by MSRP) is in line with what the market thinks.
Better analogies would be to Guinness and "Dexter", premium brands that people pay extra to enjoy. You can't say that those are overpriced as long as the desired number people continue to pay for them.
No, I think he was just being coolly anti-establishment, and blanketly stating that Apple's products are overpriced. To that, I assert that the market is willing to bear the price, so they must be correctly priced regardless of his opinion on the matter.
I'm typing this on an Eee PC. Apple could go out of business tomorrow and it wouldn't affect me one bit. Still, I think their pricing is between them and their customers, and right now everyone seems to be happy.
Apple is overpriced.
No, they're not. As long as they're reaching their sales goals, their price is less than or equal to what it could be. For having such a high opinion of yourself and your financial habits, you suck at economics.
Yep. "I" is the subject of the first sentence, and "me" is the object of the second.
As long as we're casting about:
:-)
I don't think "John and I" is even arguably correct, since "I" is subjective.