why not?
ripping content isn't always about saving money.
i want drm free copies of my movies on my computer, so when i buy a dvd, it gets ripped and put back in the case.
No, his point was that wealth is relative.
For example, to the uneducated, it would appear that you could solve everyone's money problems and make everyone rich simply by printing huge amounts of money and sending everyone a check for a million dollars. Then you would be a nation of millionaires, right? Well technically, yes - but... soon houses that used to be one million dollars would rise in price to a billion dollars or so as people bid against each other. In fact everything would rise in price, meaning that not much would change overall.
Then again, what would change is that if you had two people: One with a million dollars, and one with zero dollars, then before the give-away one would be very rich and one would be dirt poor. After the give-away, one would be "normal" and one would have twice as much money as the new "normal" but that would be a lot less rich than he used to be in relative terms. (i.e. he might be in the top 25% now instead of the top 5%). Either way, printing money ends up to cause massive inflation and is a form of taxation. Who benefits depends on where how the money is distributed.
That said, the blurb in this "article" is too short to understand what he was actually trying to say. I suppose he thinks that IT workers are overpaid compared to other professions, and thus allowing more H1B workers might possibly lower the average pay and thus help make wages more even? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me either, because then we would have to go searching for the next target. Doctors? Pro-wrestling? Cable man?
That's (perhaps) a shame, but hardly unusual. Most web sites only support the local language - so just as most US web sites only support English and most Japanese web sites only support Japanese, one would expect that naturally most Chinese web sites would only support Chinese.
To put it another way - what percentage of potential TaoBao users inside China would know another language (say English), but *not know* Chinese?
Let's say well less than 1%? If Japan is anything to go by, only 1.7% of the population is foreign, and of those, over 95% speak Japanese. So you're looking at a potential market of a *Maximum* of 0.09% and for that you are going to translate your web site, all of your documents, hire bilingual staff (who will want a higher salary), etc., etc.? I don't think so. That's even assuming that everyone spoke the *same* different language (like English). If some spoke only German or Korean, etc., then the situation gets much more complicated. Just because you want it to be doesn't make it so. For all the talk of the "Global Platform" of English, the reality on the ground is that in most countries if you really want to get along you had better learn the local language, or expect to pay more for less and need help all the time.(Of course, English speaking countries like the US are no different here, as they expect you to learn English before coming).
At any rate, in all seriousness, I agree that most of the complaints seemed to be of a general nature. Specifically of what I would call "Small Company Syndrome", where companies are small enough that gossip about people's personal lives permeate 100%, and there is no independence between departments like HR, IT, etc.
Tesla could play their game if they wanted to. For example, set up a separate dealership company which can contact with the manufacturing arm. If Apple can do it for tax purposes, Tesla could do it too.
We all know ISP standa for "Ikebukuro Shopping Park".
(At least I figured this out after it appeared on my credit card statement a few times after shopping at the grocery store near Ikebukuro Station).
If the WiFi Network is a separate SSID and the traffic is routed straight outside, I don't see any huge problem with this.
Except that Comcast was a rip-off last time I checked, so if they are going to be using everyone's private locations to improve their coverage, they could at least give you a discount for it.
The whole "But it's using my electricity", etc. is a bit silly. The router is likely to always be on 24/7 in your house anyway, and it's doubtful that it uses much more power over the course of a year just because there is some occasional visitor accessing it from nearby.
Opt-in sounds great, but we are talking about cable company internet customers. These are not the informed types that have Covad or Speakeasy run to their homes. These are the Joe Sixpack that buy the local cable or telecom internet (and the crappiest consumer package at that). If you don't make it opt-out, nobody will opt-in because they likely won't understand it, much less bother with it.
I think there's a huge difference between this and Amazon's add-ons:
1. Things that show up on Amazon (or pizzahut.com or whatever) take exactly 1 second or less to skip. You don't have to listen to some annoying guy talk for 10 minutes so you can tell him "no."
2. The things at that the stores try to sell you are often either totally generic (like cabinets or cell phones or sattalite dishes whatever), or they are things that go with the products you are buying buy you might not want (batteries, cables, etc.), and are typically vastly overpriced. So RadioShack will sell you a printer for cheap and then charge you $30 for the cable! The things that Amazon recommends are more or less based on what other people bought in combination with the item you are buying now - not so much based on trying to force you to buy what Amazon wants you to buy.
It's much like banner ads. I hate ads, but I don't mind the ones on Google so much because they are less intrusive and they are actually relevant some of the time.
Hmm but I have seen a lot of comic book stores ( no personal interest, but...), model train stores (again, not much interest myself), and used book stores are all over the place. And some of the used book stores are clearly not a small mom and pop type operation either.
Well I remember there being a time, when I was in middle school or so when the local radio shack sold at least Resisters, Capacitors, Multi-Meters, LEDs, small ICs like 555 timers, Piezo-electric buzzers, battery cases, solar cells, motors, breadboards, copper circuit boards, pcb etchant, solder, soldering irons, wires, shrink-wrap tubing, etc., etc.
Last time I wandered into one a few years ago I didn't even see *any* of that stuff. But they had crappy "realistic" radios. Great.
As for there not being enough people doing electronics as a hobby?
Well... to that I say:
1. If not, then it's the end of an era, and the chain can die a honorable death by sticking to their guns until the end.
2. I don't really believe this. Sure, people don't build computers and TVs from scratch with soldering irons anymore - but there is lots of cool stuff they could sell that is targeted as hackers/makers instead of junky consumer stuff.
3. If it's so, then it must be a US thing. We have parts stores here in Japan, and I have seen them in Germany in other places. They don't need to be as common as McDonalds, but there is normally a reasonable population to support them. If not, you're probably doing something wrong.
Because, wires and wireless transmissions aren't the same. Commonly used wireless transmissions take up certain frequencies for certain distances, and basically nobody else can use those frequencies in that area then. Two wired transmissions can be run very close together without interfering nearly as much.
Which is pretty much what I dint like about it. It looks very retro, and not in a chill kind of way. Maybe tesla could roll out a new line of cars designed to look like the Ford model t.
There is a network block feature that allows a phone itself to be blocked from the network by an internal identifying number. (no, not based on the SIM card).
This is typically done when the phone is reported stolen. Of course, the thief could still use it as an iPod touch type device.
However some phones, like those from Sharp, will detect the block and prevent all use until it is removed by the carrier.
It's very effective, but it sucks if you buy a phone from someone who stops paying their bill.
Well I'm in Japan, and although you can certainly get internet for around $20 per month, I'm not sure if it would be considered high speed. Basically you can get medium speed dsl for that price. Usually you're looking at 8mbps for around $30 or 100mbps for around $45.
At the time of the original incident, a lot of people were saying that NHK was TEPCO's mouthpiece or something. But they happily report stuff like this.
I have to call b.s. On this one. Kanji doesn't work like you describe except for very simple concepts.
A single kanji character is generally more complex than a single "English" letter, but it also carries more information. You also doubt have to memorize every kanji as a series of strokes because they are composed of common radicals.
A more apt analogy would be something like this: English letters are like binary code. Ones and zeros are simple, but you need more of them. Kanji are like hexadecimal. Each unit requires more bits, but it holds more data.
For example house requires 5 characters in English, but only 1 or 2 characters in Japanese, depending what word you translate it too.
Well, they wouldn't have to load android on it. They could just explain the specs well enough that people could make drivers for it, and then make it ready to load an alternative os. You know, like boot camp.
The idea that your diet should be affected by your blood type is more silly.
Basically speaking, meat is bad for you. Then again, how your body reacts to food has a lot to do with what you are used to eating.
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There is no way to do this. At the very least, i have seen plenty of devices that can capture encrypted HDMI.
And do they think I can't do this on OS X? Hahaha
Not if you use transparent aluminum!
why not? ripping content isn't always about saving money. i want drm free copies of my movies on my computer, so when i buy a dvd, it gets ripped and put back in the case.
No, his point was that wealth is relative. For example, to the uneducated, it would appear that you could solve everyone's money problems and make everyone rich simply by printing huge amounts of money and sending everyone a check for a million dollars. Then you would be a nation of millionaires, right? Well technically, yes - but... soon houses that used to be one million dollars would rise in price to a billion dollars or so as people bid against each other. In fact everything would rise in price, meaning that not much would change overall. Then again, what would change is that if you had two people: One with a million dollars, and one with zero dollars, then before the give-away one would be very rich and one would be dirt poor. After the give-away, one would be "normal" and one would have twice as much money as the new "normal" but that would be a lot less rich than he used to be in relative terms. (i.e. he might be in the top 25% now instead of the top 5%). Either way, printing money ends up to cause massive inflation and is a form of taxation. Who benefits depends on where how the money is distributed. That said, the blurb in this "article" is too short to understand what he was actually trying to say. I suppose he thinks that IT workers are overpaid compared to other professions, and thus allowing more H1B workers might possibly lower the average pay and thus help make wages more even? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me either, because then we would have to go searching for the next target. Doctors? Pro-wrestling? Cable man?
That's (perhaps) a shame, but hardly unusual. Most web sites only support the local language - so just as most US web sites only support English and most Japanese web sites only support Japanese, one would expect that naturally most Chinese web sites would only support Chinese. To put it another way - what percentage of potential TaoBao users inside China would know another language (say English), but *not know* Chinese? Let's say well less than 1%? If Japan is anything to go by, only 1.7% of the population is foreign, and of those, over 95% speak Japanese. So you're looking at a potential market of a *Maximum* of 0.09% and for that you are going to translate your web site, all of your documents, hire bilingual staff (who will want a higher salary), etc., etc.? I don't think so. That's even assuming that everyone spoke the *same* different language (like English). If some spoke only German or Korean, etc., then the situation gets much more complicated. Just because you want it to be doesn't make it so. For all the talk of the "Global Platform" of English, the reality on the ground is that in most countries if you really want to get along you had better learn the local language, or expect to pay more for less and need help all the time.(Of course, English speaking countries like the US are no different here, as they expect you to learn English before coming).
Yes, at first I read the headline to mean that Alabama would have an IPO!
At any rate, in all seriousness, I agree that most of the complaints seemed to be of a general nature. Specifically of what I would call "Small Company Syndrome", where companies are small enough that gossip about people's personal lives permeate 100%, and there is no independence between departments like HR, IT, etc.
Maybe the boss's wife was sexist? She was nice to all the hot guys and a bitch to the only girl?
Tesla could play their game if they wanted to. For example, set up a separate dealership company which can contact with the manufacturing arm. If Apple can do it for tax purposes, Tesla could do it too.
We all know ISP standa for "Ikebukuro Shopping Park". (At least I figured this out after it appeared on my credit card statement a few times after shopping at the grocery store near Ikebukuro Station).
If the WiFi Network is a separate SSID and the traffic is routed straight outside, I don't see any huge problem with this. Except that Comcast was a rip-off last time I checked, so if they are going to be using everyone's private locations to improve their coverage, they could at least give you a discount for it. The whole "But it's using my electricity", etc. is a bit silly. The router is likely to always be on 24/7 in your house anyway, and it's doubtful that it uses much more power over the course of a year just because there is some occasional visitor accessing it from nearby. Opt-in sounds great, but we are talking about cable company internet customers. These are not the informed types that have Covad or Speakeasy run to their homes. These are the Joe Sixpack that buy the local cable or telecom internet (and the crappiest consumer package at that). If you don't make it opt-out, nobody will opt-in because they likely won't understand it, much less bother with it.
I think there's a huge difference between this and Amazon's add-ons: 1. Things that show up on Amazon (or pizzahut.com or whatever) take exactly 1 second or less to skip. You don't have to listen to some annoying guy talk for 10 minutes so you can tell him "no." 2. The things at that the stores try to sell you are often either totally generic (like cabinets or cell phones or sattalite dishes whatever), or they are things that go with the products you are buying buy you might not want (batteries, cables, etc.), and are typically vastly overpriced. So RadioShack will sell you a printer for cheap and then charge you $30 for the cable! The things that Amazon recommends are more or less based on what other people bought in combination with the item you are buying now - not so much based on trying to force you to buy what Amazon wants you to buy. It's much like banner ads. I hate ads, but I don't mind the ones on Google so much because they are less intrusive and they are actually relevant some of the time.
Hmm but I have seen a lot of comic book stores ( no personal interest, but...), model train stores (again, not much interest myself), and used book stores are all over the place. And some of the used book stores are clearly not a small mom and pop type operation either.
Well I remember there being a time, when I was in middle school or so when the local radio shack sold at least Resisters, Capacitors, Multi-Meters, LEDs, small ICs like 555 timers, Piezo-electric buzzers, battery cases, solar cells, motors, breadboards, copper circuit boards, pcb etchant, solder, soldering irons, wires, shrink-wrap tubing, etc., etc. Last time I wandered into one a few years ago I didn't even see *any* of that stuff. But they had crappy "realistic" radios. Great. As for there not being enough people doing electronics as a hobby? Well... to that I say: 1. If not, then it's the end of an era, and the chain can die a honorable death by sticking to their guns until the end. 2. I don't really believe this. Sure, people don't build computers and TVs from scratch with soldering irons anymore - but there is lots of cool stuff they could sell that is targeted as hackers/makers instead of junky consumer stuff. 3. If it's so, then it must be a US thing. We have parts stores here in Japan, and I have seen them in Germany in other places. They don't need to be as common as McDonalds, but there is normally a reasonable population to support them. If not, you're probably doing something wrong.
Because, wires and wireless transmissions aren't the same. Commonly used wireless transmissions take up certain frequencies for certain distances, and basically nobody else can use those frequencies in that area then. Two wired transmissions can be run very close together without interfering nearly as much.
Which is pretty much what I dint like about it. It looks very retro, and not in a chill kind of way. Maybe tesla could roll out a new line of cars designed to look like the Ford model t.
There is a network block feature that allows a phone itself to be blocked from the network by an internal identifying number. (no, not based on the SIM card). This is typically done when the phone is reported stolen. Of course, the thief could still use it as an iPod touch type device. However some phones, like those from Sharp, will detect the block and prevent all use until it is removed by the carrier. It's very effective, but it sucks if you buy a phone from someone who stops paying their bill.
Well I'm in Japan, and although you can certainly get internet for around $20 per month, I'm not sure if it would be considered high speed. Basically you can get medium speed dsl for that price. Usually you're looking at 8mbps for around $30 or 100mbps for around $45.
At the time of the original incident, a lot of people were saying that NHK was TEPCO's mouthpiece or something. But they happily report stuff like this.
Because technology companies and backs are different.
Owncloud isn't really distributed. I would recommend aerofs and/or btsync.
I have to call b.s. On this one. Kanji doesn't work like you describe except for very simple concepts. A single kanji character is generally more complex than a single "English" letter, but it also carries more information. You also doubt have to memorize every kanji as a series of strokes because they are composed of common radicals. A more apt analogy would be something like this: English letters are like binary code. Ones and zeros are simple, but you need more of them. Kanji are like hexadecimal. Each unit requires more bits, but it holds more data. For example house requires 5 characters in English, but only 1 or 2 characters in Japanese, depending what word you translate it too.
Well, they wouldn't have to load android on it. They could just explain the specs well enough that people could make drivers for it, and then make it ready to load an alternative os. You know, like boot camp.
The idea that your diet should be affected by your blood type is more silly. Basically speaking, meat is bad for you. Then again, how your body reacts to food has a lot to do with what you are used to eating.