No, Adobe has not shifted their applications to The Cloud. The applications run right there on a local CPU and GPU, like any other desktop application. (Go ahead and turn off your wifi and check: the software still runs just the same.) I know, I know: the word "cloud" is right there in the name of the product, but keep in mind that "Photoshop" does not actually include a store, and "Illustrator" doesn't actually draw for you. The difference between "Adobe Creative Suite" and "Adobe Creative Cloud" is a licensing model, not a computing model.
Why do you assume that there needs to be an employer/employee relationship for one group of people to have a moral obligation to treat another group of people well?
Some people – libertarians mostly – would look at the difference between what you cost to your employer and what you end up with (i.e. taxes), and scream that it should all be given to you. What they don't realize is that, if those payroll+incomes taxes didn't exist, you wouldn't get $122.30; your employer would pay you about $70 instead... maybe $75. And if they knew you didn't have to pay VAT, they'd pay you even less, because they could. It isn't an exact correspondence, and if taxes go up/down dramatically it takes a while for wages to adjust to compensate, but that's how it works on the macro level: taxes are factored into wages. This is why (for example) Norway is "highly taxed" but middle-class Norwegians can still afford the same kinds of food and housing and entertainment that middle-class people in "low tax" countries can. The main difference is that high-tax countries tend to have better-funded governments, and low-tax countries tend to have wealthier business owners.
I don't care so much about the router-only models, which can be replaced with competing commodity routers. But the Time Capsule model has no equivalent, and was one of Apple's best ideas... OK, half of one of their best ideas. The other half is Time Machine, which is hands down, the best personal-computer backup system I have ever seen: set it up, and forget about it until you need it. Working over wifi, it's like "cloud" backup, but faster, no monthly fees, and low probability of data breaches.
I gently pushed the Time Capsule to every customer who bought a computer from me the year I worked in the Apple Store... not because management told me to (they didn't), but because I wanted people to have them. I already have one, of course, but – like the iPod Shuffle I wear every time I go to the gym – I anticipate a day will come eventually when I'll need a replacement. And Apple won't have anything like it.
How is Time Machine "orphaned"? It still works with a locally-attached hard drive... not nearly as convenient as with a Time Capsule, but it's still fully functional.
The block-appeals process sounds pretty ineffectual, if it's being handled by the same people who are doing the blocking. Part of the problem there is that there are clearly people working for Facebook who don't understand the difference between a nude painting and a porn video, or who are so disgusted by a snapshot of two men kissing that they fire off a "BLOCK!" and move on to the next report. If you ask someone equally clueless/bigoted to review that decision (and there's no appeal available to protest their confirmation of that mistake) nothing actually gets better... but the PR pressure is off.
What they need is for these appeals to be treated like customer complaints, that go to the equivalent of Internal Affairs: people who actually want to support free expression, who'll not only say "oops, never mind" when their censors screw up, but also get those people trained/terminated so it happens less often.
Maybe the problem isn't that the music costs these distributors too much, but that the customers aren't paying the distributors enough?
Back in the last half of the 20th century, the music industry had a pretty viable business model, in which people who wanted to listen to music bought copies of it, and got to listen to those whenever they wanted. This model worked so well that it supported retail stores, distributors, recording companies, and musicians. It produced most of the music you listen to today. Of course then the music went digital, the internet arrived everywhere, and a whole generation got hooked on the myth that creative work like music doesn't need money to support it. So of course your favorite give-me-all-I-want-for-pocket-change distribution channels are failing, and everything "new" sounds like a bland imitation of stuff from 20 to 50 years ago.
Have you considered that these measures aren't about retroactively preventing the last shooting, but are rather about possibly preventing the next? These are long-standing, long-stifled proposals. The Orlando incident merely served to give a bunch of Senators the kick in the ass to push for some of them again.
...the one news source that's worse than television news. Even Fox News usually refrains from making shit up (i.e. they take real events but report them incorrectly), but Facebook is littered with outright hoaxes.
The key phrase there being "status symbol". There was a short-lived fad in which Puch mopeds and Honda Spree scooters were popular among upper-class 15-year-olds without proper driver licenses, but they never became a mainstream form of transportation. They started to make a comeback about eight years ago, thanks to skyrocketing gas prices, but as soon as Wall Street tanked the economy and drove gas prices down, the idea of investing a couple grand into another vehicle made people nervous.
I'm skeptical that electric-powered bikes will become very popular in the US. They're fairly similar in riding qualities (lightweight, easy to handle) and licensing requirements (pretty much none) to a 50cc motorscooter, and those have failed to take off, despite being widely available in the same price range for years. I've been a day-to-day scooterist for seven years, but I don't have a lot of company out there. Especially in the north, where they're a three-season vehicle (or one-season, for the less dedicated), they aren't seen as a viable substitute for a car. Even with 100mpg engines that cost almost nothing to fuel, the ability to park them almost anywhere, and a lot of other appealing features, most consumers just don't seem interested (which is too bad for them, because unless the roads are wet or icy, I'd much rather ride than sit in a car).
An e-bike also suffers from being neither fish nor fowl. A 20mph bike is too slow to keep up with traffic in a motor-vehicle lane, but too fast to fit in with any human-powered traffic in a bicycle lane. I've ridden a 50cc scooter (mine was capable of 40mph) in 45mph zones, and believe me: motorists don't like you when you go under the speed limit in a motorized-vehicle lane. They'll eat a 20mph e-bike alive, even in a 25mph zone. But if that e-bike takes the bike lane (which isn't legal in many places), it will quickly overtake regular bicyclists, whom it won't be able to safely pass because bike lanes aren't designed for that. Dedicated lanes for motor-powered two-wheelers might help as an option for e-bikes and scooters (and motorcyclists who aren't in a hurry), but I don't see that happening until they become popular... ye olde Catch 22.
"OK, Google, how do I get to the airport from here?"
"Throw yourself shamelessly onto Maple Drive. Proceed down in your loins to Lake Avenue, and turn hard on Washington. When you get to glistening I-69, take it take it all the way to my exit tunnel, where you should cum breathlessly to a quivering finish."
Do you think that wages will stay the same if everyone gets X per month from the government? I can imagine that every employee who doesn't have a contract with a dollar amount spelled out in it, would immediately get a letter from the CEO explaining why their pay will be cut the week UBI goes into effect. Lower private wages are one of the assumptions that the universal-basic-income model is based on.
"Good luck convincing many citizens to do actual work."
It wouldn't be that difficult, given how little "basic income" would pay. Adjusting for the cost of living difference between Switzerland and the US (rent, groceries, etc), their proposal would work out to about US$1500/month, or $18K/year. (This is in the range of what people who are judged too disabled to work get from Social Security.) Yes, there are people who are content to live on that. But not most people. Would you?
Anyone who aspires to a middle-class lifestyle would at least get a part-time job to supplement basic income (maybe regular freelance work, a half-time office job, gig-economy stuff as needed, a creative project that they never had time for, that business they were otherwise afraid to take a risk on, etc) or a full-time job that they might not otherwise be able to afford to take (e.g. teaching, social work, performing arts). And the kinds of people who are used to taking home $1500 or more every week would undoubtedly stick with the jobs they have already, and treat the basic-income grant as "mad money" to spend on something fun.
The idea needs to be tested thoroughly, before being tried on the scale of, say, the US, or even the UK. It may not work as projected based on how it's worked in a few small-population experiments so far. The amount definitely needs to be evaluated. But if you're ridiculing the idea based on the assumption that a just-above-poverty-level income is going to be really attractive to the masses... I'm pretty sure you're mistaken.
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Mindless people, on the other hand, feel no pain at all... they just inflict it on the rest of us.
If that were true, MoviePass woud not allow you to see it again.
No, Adobe has not shifted their applications to The Cloud. The applications run right there on a local CPU and GPU, like any other desktop application. (Go ahead and turn off your wifi and check: the software still runs just the same.) I know, I know: the word "cloud" is right there in the name of the product, but keep in mind that "Photoshop" does not actually include a store, and "Illustrator" doesn't actually draw for you. The difference between "Adobe Creative Suite" and "Adobe Creative Cloud" is a licensing model, not a computing model.
Why do you assume that there needs to be an employer/employee relationship for one group of people to have a moral obligation to treat another group of people well?
Some people – libertarians mostly – would look at the difference between what you cost to your employer and what you end up with (i.e. taxes), and scream that it should all be given to you. What they don't realize is that, if those payroll+incomes taxes didn't exist, you wouldn't get $122.30; your employer would pay you about $70 instead... maybe $75. And if they knew you didn't have to pay VAT, they'd pay you even less, because they could. It isn't an exact correspondence, and if taxes go up/down dramatically it takes a while for wages to adjust to compensate, but that's how it works on the macro level: taxes are factored into wages. This is why (for example) Norway is "highly taxed" but middle-class Norwegians can still afford the same kinds of food and housing and entertainment that middle-class people in "low tax" countries can. The main difference is that high-tax countries tend to have better-funded governments, and low-tax countries tend to have wealthier business owners.
Anyone whose job title begins with "Chief" and ends with "Officer", for example.
I don't care so much about the router-only models, which can be replaced with competing commodity routers. But the Time Capsule model has no equivalent, and was one of Apple's best ideas... OK, half of one of their best ideas. The other half is Time Machine, which is hands down, the best personal-computer backup system I have ever seen: set it up, and forget about it until you need it. Working over wifi, it's like "cloud" backup, but faster, no monthly fees, and low probability of data breaches.
I gently pushed the Time Capsule to every customer who bought a computer from me the year I worked in the Apple Store... not because management told me to (they didn't), but because I wanted people to have them. I already have one, of course, but – like the iPod Shuffle I wear every time I go to the gym – I anticipate a day will come eventually when I'll need a replacement. And Apple won't have anything like it.
How is Time Machine "orphaned"? It still works with a locally-attached hard drive... not nearly as convenient as with a Time Capsule, but it's still fully functional.
How many of them provide data backup services with Time Machine?
The block-appeals process sounds pretty ineffectual, if it's being handled by the same people who are doing the blocking. Part of the problem there is that there are clearly people working for Facebook who don't understand the difference between a nude painting and a porn video, or who are so disgusted by a snapshot of two men kissing that they fire off a "BLOCK!" and move on to the next report. If you ask someone equally clueless/bigoted to review that decision (and there's no appeal available to protest their confirmation of that mistake) nothing actually gets better... but the PR pressure is off.
What they need is for these appeals to be treated like customer complaints, that go to the equivalent of Internal Affairs: people who actually want to support free expression, who'll not only say "oops, never mind" when their censors screw up, but also get those people trained/terminated so it happens less often.
They've announced the release, and released the announcement, but the software is not yet available for download....
Industry analysts Chad Sudonim, Ima Puppet, Travis Hoxe, and Gnome DePlume all denounced the deception.
But will it run Linux?
(Imagine a beowulf cluster of them!)
And if you don't want to support them, then you can listen to your dad's favorite music, for all they care.
Maybe the problem isn't that the music costs these distributors too much, but that the customers aren't paying the distributors enough?
Back in the last half of the 20th century, the music industry had a pretty viable business model, in which people who wanted to listen to music bought copies of it, and got to listen to those whenever they wanted. This model worked so well that it supported retail stores, distributors, recording companies, and musicians. It produced most of the music you listen to today. Of course then the music went digital, the internet arrived everywhere, and a whole generation got hooked on the myth that creative work like music doesn't need money to support it. So of course your favorite give-me-all-I-want-for-pocket-change distribution channels are failing, and everything "new" sounds like a bland imitation of stuff from 20 to 50 years ago.
Econ 101: you get what you pay for.
Have you considered that these measures aren't about retroactively preventing the last shooting, but are rather about possibly preventing the next? These are long-standing, long-stifled proposals. The Orlando incident merely served to give a bunch of Senators the kick in the ass to push for some of them again.
But the "good news" is that no one they are spying on will be restricted from buying whatever firearms they want.
...the one news source that's worse than television news. Even Fox News usually refrains from making shit up (i.e. they take real events but report them incorrectly), but Facebook is littered with outright hoaxes.
The key phrase there being "status symbol". There was a short-lived fad in which Puch mopeds and Honda Spree scooters were popular among upper-class 15-year-olds without proper driver licenses, but they never became a mainstream form of transportation. They started to make a comeback about eight years ago, thanks to skyrocketing gas prices, but as soon as Wall Street tanked the economy and drove gas prices down, the idea of investing a couple grand into another vehicle made people nervous.
I'm skeptical that electric-powered bikes will become very popular in the US. They're fairly similar in riding qualities (lightweight, easy to handle) and licensing requirements (pretty much none) to a 50cc motorscooter, and those have failed to take off, despite being widely available in the same price range for years. I've been a day-to-day scooterist for seven years, but I don't have a lot of company out there. Especially in the north, where they're a three-season vehicle (or one-season, for the less dedicated), they aren't seen as a viable substitute for a car. Even with 100mpg engines that cost almost nothing to fuel, the ability to park them almost anywhere, and a lot of other appealing features, most consumers just don't seem interested (which is too bad for them, because unless the roads are wet or icy, I'd much rather ride than sit in a car).
An e-bike also suffers from being neither fish nor fowl. A 20mph bike is too slow to keep up with traffic in a motor-vehicle lane, but too fast to fit in with any human-powered traffic in a bicycle lane. I've ridden a 50cc scooter (mine was capable of 40mph) in 45mph zones, and believe me: motorists don't like you when you go under the speed limit in a motorized-vehicle lane. They'll eat a 20mph e-bike alive, even in a 25mph zone. But if that e-bike takes the bike lane (which isn't legal in many places), it will quickly overtake regular bicyclists, whom it won't be able to safely pass because bike lanes aren't designed for that. Dedicated lanes for motor-powered two-wheelers might help as an option for e-bikes and scooters (and motorcyclists who aren't in a hurry), but I don't see that happening until they become popular... ye olde Catch 22.
It's around 10 quadrillion kilobytes!
"OK, Google, how do I get to the airport from here?"
"Throw yourself shamelessly onto Maple Drive. Proceed down in your loins to Lake Avenue, and turn hard on Washington. When you get to glistening I-69, take it take it all the way to my exit tunnel, where you should cum breathlessly to a quivering finish."
Do you think that wages will stay the same if everyone gets X per month from the government? I can imagine that every employee who doesn't have a contract with a dollar amount spelled out in it, would immediately get a letter from the CEO explaining why their pay will be cut the week UBI goes into effect. Lower private wages are one of the assumptions that the universal-basic-income model is based on.
"Good luck convincing many citizens to do actual work."
It wouldn't be that difficult, given how little "basic income" would pay. Adjusting for the cost of living difference between Switzerland and the US (rent, groceries, etc), their proposal would work out to about US$1500/month, or $18K/year. (This is in the range of what people who are judged too disabled to work get from Social Security.) Yes, there are people who are content to live on that. But not most people. Would you?
Anyone who aspires to a middle-class lifestyle would at least get a part-time job to supplement basic income (maybe regular freelance work, a half-time office job, gig-economy stuff as needed, a creative project that they never had time for, that business they were otherwise afraid to take a risk on, etc) or a full-time job that they might not otherwise be able to afford to take (e.g. teaching, social work, performing arts). And the kinds of people who are used to taking home $1500 or more every week would undoubtedly stick with the jobs they have already, and treat the basic-income grant as "mad money" to spend on something fun.
The idea needs to be tested thoroughly, before being tried on the scale of, say, the US, or even the UK. It may not work as projected based on how it's worked in a few small-population experiments so far. The amount definitely needs to be evaluated. But if you're ridiculing the idea based on the assumption that a just-above-poverty-level income is going to be really attractive to the masses... I'm pretty sure you're mistaken.
Between TiVo and now Netflix and Hulu, I haven't watched live TV on a regular basis since around the time Google was founded.