Maybe one day when you start looking for reasons why you can instead of excuses why you can't, and look for solutions instead of problems, you will find success instead of constant failure.
It's what we had 100+ years ago and regulating that anti-competitive behavior was considered "market reform" Nowadays, removing regulations on anti-competitive behavior is considered "market reform" How did we get here?
By foolishly believing that more government is the solution to all our problems.
You skipped the part where - any time new competitors do jump in - the established businesses can afford to once again cut their prices until the new competitors can no longer compete.
And how are they able to do this infinitely forever, when their cash reserves are not infinite and forever? Every time a company cuts prices below their profit margin they LOSE money. This can't go on forever. In the mean time, the customer benefits immensely.
And once players are driven out of the market, the capital costs need to be paid all over again for any new entrant
What do you mean, "all over again"? Each competitor only has to pay them once. It's not the same guy having to pay them over and over again.
Which means that the monopoly or duopoly parties can temporarily cut prices to make it uneconomical for any new parties to enter the market.
Sure....and they can live as monks in the mean time, since they're not making any profit themselves. This also means they are effectively giving free value to the community through their artificially low prices.
On the other hand, if the company IS still making profit at these low prices, then there is most definitely an opportunity there for another competitor who is willing to accept a lower profit.
A business can't lower prices beyond the margin of profitability for very long, unless it has huge cash reserves in the bank. Every time it does, it blows through those cash reserves, so it can't do it forever.
This sounds not so much like a knowledge issue, and more like some "techs" who have poor problem-solving skills and go by the book for their "troubleshooting".
No, it sounds more like a case of assholes making ASSumptions.
It could be a case of epic CYA, but you don't want to be the one in the wrong if that batch of systems turned out to have bad hard drives -- and because you loaded XP, HP declaimed all responsibility for honoring the service contract.
Only if you were a coward who expected to take the blame and responsibility for somebody else's failings. In the real world, if HP screws you, that's on HP, not the guy who was trying in good faith to fix their mistakes. The correct solution is to fire HP, not the smart employee.
Sounds to me like the others had their reasons for not liking the boxes, and the trouble with the XP install was just a convenient excuse to dump them, til Smartass McGee came along and "fixed" things for them. Now they're stuck with the shit boxes they really should have returned for something better.
Then perhaps you could explain it, asshole? I'm a satellite communications engineer and his idea sounds workable to me. I don't know if a Raspberry Pi would have enough computing power, but some kind of low power VIA system or other embeddable X86 system would certainly do the job. All the "modulation"/signal generation is handled by software, and frequency upconversion by the hardware, right? (I didn't read the link yet.) Then all you need is what, a power amp and antenna? Where's the problem?
the entire Title 47 of US Code? Anyway, I'll save you the trouble of finding this:
Fuck you and your laws. Go rain on somebody else's parade. We're trying to advance the state of the art here, not be dragged down by some obscure, forgotten regulation amongst tens of thousands of other laws that time forgot. Take your negative nancy-ism elsewhere please.
In reality, though, a phone that was able to do that would have to have a processor big enough to handle the extra overhead from decoding 4G, would burn through it's batteries in no time, and would be more expensive.
Not if you used a special purpose (programmable) radio processor (instead of the CPU) to do the software decoding.
People don't obsess, they just see you and a perception automatically floods their mind.
Let them think whatever they want. If someone thinks a business suit makes a person valuable/smart/whatever, they are a moron, and nobody should care about or lend any credence to the opinions of a moron.
Or maybe you could go to college and pick up some ideas for how to best execute your idea so it has a fighting chance of becoming reality. You might even be able to build a network of contacts that could help. And maybe even get the credentials that many investors will want to see in order to give you the money you'll need to get off the ground.
Sorry, no. Clearly you know nothing about entrepreneurship, or college even.
Who exactly do you expect to meet in college that will be such an awesome person, and that you would never have the chance to meet if you didn't blow $100k on a university degree?
What ideas are you expecting to pick up in college that are just going to totally change everything, and that you wouldn't be exposed to out in the real world?
Free clue: colleges and universities, today, by and large are not churning out free thinkers. They are rigid, inflexible institutions turning out drones who are programmed to follow already existing, "successful" courses. None of this is an asset to an entrepreneur.
If an investor expects to see "credentials" in the form of a college degree, he's an idiot. College degrees don't mean a fucking thing in the world of business.
Or just hope that you can do it all on your own with no resources or formal training.
Why would you "just hope"? Successful businesses aren't built on hope or luck. They are built on planning.
"Formal training" is for drones.
EDUCATION is something we can all access without paying a dime. I have a 1TB hard drive full of ebooks I've downloaded off bittorrent. Any subject I care to learn about is at the tip of my fingers. Why in the world do I need a professor to lead me through the same material, at 1/4 the speed I'm capable of digesting it?
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Maybe one day when you start looking for reasons why you can instead of excuses why you can't, and look for solutions instead of problems, you will find success instead of constant failure.
For one thing, it costs money to learn how to run a business (MBA)
You really think you have to go to school and get an MBA degree in order to learn how to run a business?
LOL
Stronger companies tend to have more power and more money, meaning they can bully both competitors and users around.
People get bullied around because they allow themselves to be, not because somebody else is "strong."
Yes, strong competition is viewed as a good thing, by everyone who is a not a weakling.
Government regulation is rarely among the most significant barriers to entry
Name one business you can enter into in this country without having to legally comply with some arcane Federal regulation.
Even to be a hairstylist you have to get a license.
It's what we had 100+ years ago and regulating that anti-competitive behavior was considered "market reform"
Nowadays, removing regulations on anti-competitive behavior is considered "market reform"
How did we get here?
By foolishly believing that more government is the solution to all our problems.
You skipped the part where - any time new competitors do jump in - the established businesses can afford to once again cut their prices until the new competitors can no longer compete.
And how are they able to do this infinitely forever, when their cash reserves are not infinite and forever? Every time a company cuts prices below their profit margin they LOSE money. This can't go on forever. In the mean time, the customer benefits immensely.
And once players are driven out of the market, the capital costs need to be paid all over again for any new entrant
What do you mean, "all over again"? Each competitor only has to pay them once. It's not the same guy having to pay them over and over again.
Which means that the monopoly or duopoly parties can temporarily cut prices to make it uneconomical for any new parties to enter the market.
Sure....and they can live as monks in the mean time, since they're not making any profit themselves. This also means they are effectively giving free value to the community through their artificially low prices.
On the other hand, if the company IS still making profit at these low prices, then there is most definitely an opportunity there for another competitor who is willing to accept a lower profit.
A business can't lower prices beyond the margin of profitability for very long, unless it has huge cash reserves in the bank. Every time it does, it blows through those cash reserves, so it can't do it forever.
"His" logic? You just made that shit up. Try re-reading his sentence until you understand it, then feel free to reply.
gui-ifying man will ruin its utility (make it slow, crappy, can't use from a text terminal, can't pipe its output to other commands... really, WTF?!)
The voice of ignorance speaks.
This sounds not so much like a knowledge issue, and more like some "techs" who have poor problem-solving skills and go by the book for their "troubleshooting".
No, it sounds more like a case of assholes making ASSumptions.
He's wondering why nobody he works with seems even to want to adapt to changing tech.
Changing tech? The BIOS was invented 30+ years ago, I'm pretty sure they realize what it is and what it does by now.
It could be a case of epic CYA, but you don't want to be the one in the wrong if that batch of systems turned out to have bad hard drives -- and because you loaded XP, HP declaimed all responsibility for honoring the service contract.
Only if you were a coward who expected to take the blame and responsibility for somebody else's failings. In the real world, if HP screws you, that's on HP, not the guy who was trying in good faith to fix their mistakes. The correct solution is to fire HP, not the smart employee.
Sounds to me like the others had their reasons for not liking the boxes, and the trouble with the XP install was just a convenient excuse to dump them, til Smartass McGee came along and "fixed" things for them. Now they're stuck with the shit boxes they really should have returned for something better.
.....and just who are you, again? Here in Jesusland it's summer and that's all that matters, heathen.
I just want to get the information, as efficiently as possible.
You're welcome.
But not before books existed, and ebook torrents existed.
I don't see how you could get online mechanical engineering, physics, or chemistry degrees, since each requires significant lab experience.
You don't have a lab in your home?
Then perhaps you could explain it, asshole? I'm a satellite communications engineer and his idea sounds workable to me. I don't know if a Raspberry Pi would have enough computing power, but some kind of low power VIA system or other embeddable X86 system would certainly do the job. All the "modulation"/signal generation is handled by software, and frequency upconversion by the hardware, right? (I didn't read the link yet.) Then all you need is what, a power amp and antenna? Where's the problem?
What, do you want me to
the entire Title 47 of US Code? Anyway, I'll save you the trouble of finding this:
Fuck you and your laws. Go rain on somebody else's parade. We're trying to advance the state of the art here, not be dragged down by some obscure, forgotten regulation amongst tens of thousands of other laws that time forgot. Take your negative nancy-ism elsewhere please.
Maybe
In reality, though, a phone that was able to do that would have to have a processor big enough to handle the extra overhead from decoding 4G, would burn through it's batteries in no time, and would be more expensive.
Not if you used a special purpose (programmable) radio processor (instead of the CPU) to do the software decoding.
People don't obsess, they just see you and a perception automatically floods their mind.
Let them think whatever they want. If someone thinks a business suit makes a person valuable/smart/whatever, they are a moron, and nobody should care about or lend any credence to the opinions of a moron.
I think that is is too much to ask to say what these particles are "actually made of" -- that requires too much of the vagaries of human language.
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -- Albert Einstein
Still, the right opportunity and the will to take advantage of it is what is actually required.
FTFY
Or maybe you could go to college and pick up some ideas for how to best execute your idea so it has a fighting chance of becoming reality. You might even be able to build a network of contacts that could help. And maybe even get the credentials that many investors will want to see in order to give you the money you'll need to get off the ground.
Sorry, no. Clearly you know nothing about entrepreneurship, or college even.
Who exactly do you expect to meet in college that will be such an awesome person, and that you would never have the chance to meet if you didn't blow $100k on a university degree?
What ideas are you expecting to pick up in college that are just going to totally change everything, and that you wouldn't be exposed to out in the real world?
Free clue: colleges and universities, today, by and large are not churning out free thinkers. They are rigid, inflexible institutions turning out drones who are programmed to follow already existing, "successful" courses. None of this is an asset to an entrepreneur.
If an investor expects to see "credentials" in the form of a college degree, he's an idiot. College degrees don't mean a fucking thing in the world of business.
Or just hope that you can do it all on your own with no resources or formal training.
Why would you "just hope"? Successful businesses aren't built on hope or luck. They are built on planning.
"Formal training" is for drones.
EDUCATION is something we can all access without paying a dime. I have a 1TB hard drive full of ebooks I've downloaded off bittorrent. Any subject I care to learn about is at the tip of my fingers. Why in the world do I need a professor to lead me through the same material, at 1/4 the speed I'm capable of digesting it?