and gets bought out by a rival and then shelved or made irrelevant but die hard fans will still stick to it and use it anyway.
The same thing happened to BeOS and OS/2. I think there is a lesson to be learned here on how to market your product better than just nickle and dime marketing and why third party driver and software support is really really important and you should not mess that opportunity up.
I still remember the Linspire 1960's Marketing, with a Gogo Girl dancing to "Come on baby light my fire" but instead the lyrics said "Come on baby switch to Linspire", lame.
Infoworld and eWeek were the computer tabloids that wished they were Byte or even Compute!, they had more articles that shilled products than they had neutral articles if you could find one. Most editors and writers got bribed by computer companies to write a good article on their product in exchange for keeping the product plus other gifts.
Spencer the Cat was the gossip guy, but around 2000 his gossip columns became more advertising and less rumor. I think when he made a prediction that Microsoft would switch to a Xenix clone named Winix to compete with Linux was when he lost his mojo back during the Clinton Administration and Dotcom busts that made gossip and rumor columns had to get info so they started to make stuff up.
I bought Linspire 5.0 but did not upgrade to Linspire 6.0 and I went to Fedora and Ubuntu instead. I went to Ubuntu after Linspire started to be based on Ubuntu.
Linspire had a Freespire version which was like Linspire but had all of the commercial code and software removed and nothing but GPLed software for critics of Linspire that said it was too commercial and because it cost $50 it was not true Linux unless it was given away free. Freespire was the core of Linspire just like Darwin is the core of Mac OSX.
But I guess all Linspire users will be given an option to upgrade to Xandros at a discount, I guess? Too late I moved on to Ubuntu.
The British government paid them a lot of money to develop the analytical engine to research, design, and organize computerized solutions for business/government problems/tasks.
"Pray tell me, Mr. Babbage if the wrong numbers are entered into the computer, will the right results come out?" British Parliament to Charles Babbage on his work and what they are funding it for.
I made up the whole Orion Blastar space pirate ninja from 4096AD profile to use to be anonymous on the Internet and not allow anyone to learn anything about me, long ago.
If you think I am really Orion Blastar, I got the Brooklyn bridge to sell you really cheap. Because you are the most gullible person alive if you actually think my online profiles are true and not fiction.
Actually the same thing could be said about OS/2 and IBM OEMed it to Serenity for eComStation to become the new OS/2 for modern systems.
The reason, for running legacy software that only works on the original OS and not an emulator. There are a lot of business apps written for PalmOS that cannot run on other operating systems. A lot of data collection software using proprietary hardware attached to Palm Pilots and other PalmOS PDAs is too expensive to port to a new OS and the companies that write the software refuse to port them.
The same problem exists for legacy Windows software as Windows Vista cannot run the custom business programs written for XP, and 2000, and older Windows versions like PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) software used in assembly lines to control robots or alarm systems. Which is why projects like ReactOS exist as Microsoft is dropping support and sales for XP and 2000 and earlier operating systems based on Windows.
#2 Work with the WINE team to get 100% of the Vista and XP API calls supported under WINE, and port WINE to Singularity OS aka Windows 7.0 for legacy support.
#3 Profit.
Microsoft make sure to make royalty checks made out to Orion Blastar via Paypal to my email address for this idea.:)
I guess if you ignore Charles Babbage and Ada Augusta Lovelace? They too invented their own software and hardware long before 1951 aka the Analytical Engine, etc. While it didn't actually work right, IBM fixed the problems and made a working version later, and they can be considered Systems Analysts before that term was phrased.
Actually McDonald's partnered up with AT&T to provide Wifi Internet access from local McDonald's restaurants and yes you can access their Wifi via the drive-thru line and outside of the building. AT&T customers can pay a small fee per month for access to various Wifi hotspots in McDonald's, Starbuck's, etc without paying them an extra fee.
Some McDonald's also have flat screen LCD TV sets on their wall with Fox News or CNN playing on them with the sound turned off and CC captions playing.
Open source Windows 9X and Windows 2000/XP and MS-Office 2002 and under in order to prove to the world that Microsoft is finally embracing open source licensing.
If Windows Vista and MS-Office 2007 are so superior that Microsoft is no longer selling older versions, then just open source the older versions and let others work on them.
Also open source Xenix and make a deal with SCO to stop the Linux lawsuits of which SCO Unix is based on Microsoft Xenix.
Make sure that you replace top management with new management that know what they are doing as well are qualified for the job and ethical.
>2) Dump PDA line, close down any idiotic >Folio-like R&D until profitable.
Actually they should open source the PDA line and license the OEM version of PalmOS to run on that and let other companies create their own PDAs, but pay Palm royalties for doing so.
>3) Fundamentally redesign the appearance > hardware, and boost its features. Palm needs >smartphones that combine the business-edge of >RIM with the glitz of the iPhone.
Agreed, I would create a PalmX standard for Smart Phone motherboards and let OEMs create their own cases and either license PalmOS, or use Linux for the OS and software. With the PalmX standard, Palm can create motherboards or smart phones and sell them to OEMs.
>4) Throw out smartphone that is innovative and a >noticeable improvement over its predecessor at >least twice a year. You need volume, turnover, >and upgrade incentives.
The best way to do that is to improve quality which will also reduce support costs and allow Palm to sell them at lower prices than Apple, Motorola, Nokia, etc. Also include upgradeable features for smart cards and memory sticks to exchange data with other devices, plug-in WiFi cards for when the user wants Internet VoIP in places they cannot get a cell phone signal but have Wifi, and other things that customers want.
>5) Get a new OS, now. If you have to, buy or >rent another OS, and slap a Palm emulation layer >on top.
Actually Geos, GEM, AmigaOS, etc are affordable to "rent" or license and base a phone on them. But I think Palm would do much better using an open source OS like Linux and create their own distro for smart phones, call it Palm Linux or something or Palinux. Another option is to join in on the ReactOS, OSFree, Haiku, and other open source projects and spin off a smartphone OS from those projects.
Palm based mobile phones did really really well before the iPhone was released and cut into the Palm Phone market. Basically Apple stole all of the PalmOS mobile phone features for the iPhone and found a way to market the iPhone better than the Palm phone. Palm should sue Apple over Apple stealing their IP for a touch based mobile phone with PDA and media player abilities to create the iPhone.
Palm has to make an iPhone killer with a lower price than the iPhone, with the same features, but able to work on any network.
Palm also could try making a TV set top device using PalmOS to play MP3s, Videos, DVDs, CDs, and even play some video games as a combo Game Console slash TV-Media device.
Writing helps me deal with my mental illness. Just that a majority of the people on the Internet don't like me for being mentally ill and noticed that I am mentally ill by my writing. My mental illness gives me a writing style that most people don't like, and automatically hate me for it, like on Kuro5hin. All I am trying to do is help out people and educate them and sometimes show them the other side of the debate. But because I show them the other side of the debate or another point of view that they don't agree with, automatically the hate me more for that.
300 people found with machine guns, bombs, suicide vests, trying to murder civilians and US troops and captured instead of killed. Not enough evidence for you? Dig up the bodies in Iraq and Afghanistan that they murdered and do autopsies on them and then give those 300 people a fair trial.
Yes because OPEC and foreign oil companies are lobbying Congress and paying them lobby money to blame the USA oil companies and also raise taxes on those oil companies per barrel sold, so the price of oil can skyrocket to $200 a barrel and $10 a gallon for gas. You figured it out! So for every dollar the US oil companies earn, the national government gets 60 cents of it based on a 60% tax on US oil companies. Brilliant!
One thing though, US oil companies will be forced to raise their prices to make up for the higher oil taxes, and very soon Democrats will take control of the White House and Congress and pass those carbon taxes that will cause oil and gas prices to get even higher!
when you buy something, you own it and can modify it or pay to have it modified. Unlike in the USA where if you buy something the company that made it owns it and takes away your freedom to modify it or have it modified.
Clinton lied about Whitewater, his wife's employer Wal-mart (Hillary Clinton worked as a lawyer for Wal-mart) benefiting from that China trade bill he signed, his pardoning of people from his administration that had been found guilty of violating federal law, and deleting White House emails and documents when asked to present them as evidence. There was more to Clinton's impeachment trial than Monica Lewinsky there was also Genifer Flowers and Paul Jones as well as several other women that claim Clinton had affairs with them while he was in office.
We do the same thing for oil executives. Ask them under oath why their raised prices so high and how can they live with themselves. Completely ignoring oil speculators, OPEC, oil shortages, environmentalists getting taxes on oil and preventing oil companies from drilling for more oil or exploring alternatives to oil, the devaluation of the US dollar and bad US economy because oil is bought and sold with US dollars, and the fact that there are wars going on for access to oil in the middle-east, as the other factors for high oil prices.
For every finger that Congress points at oil executives, they have four fingers pointing back to themselves.
The real charge against Bush was that he lied, but citing Clinton if you don't know it is a lie, you cannot be charged with it and can appeal an impeachment. Clinton lied too, remember, but then claimed incompetence that he didn't really know what he said was a lie. It was far more than a BJ with Monica that he was charged with, Whitewater, he pardoned someone from his administration that was charged with a criminal act, he used the power of his office to try and hide evidence of his breaking the oath of office, etc.
But in the case of murder, if one hits someone with their car, and was too incompetent to control the car, they can face a lesser charge of manslaughter or appeal the guilty verdict later and claim that they didn't get a fair trial.
Clinton appealed his guilty verdict on his impeachment trial, claiming that he didn't know he broke his oath of office and also that he didn't get a fair trial. You really think with a 30% approval rate, and a majority of the media bashing Bush, that Bush will get a fair trail any more than Clinton's low approval rate and the media bashing him near the end of his administration? The parallels are quite ironic between Clinton and Bush impeachment trials.
why not sell Microsoft software at affordable prices so there will be no need of Career Pirates to sell Counterfeit Microsoft software at affordable prices?
Also how about Pirate Amnesty, where people can trade in their pirated copy of Microsoft software in exchange for a discount on genuine Microsoft software?
But first you have to prove who "they" are. Then you have to prove what "they" did. Plus why hasn't Congress started the articles of impeachment in 2006 when they promised they would as soon as we elected them?
It will all end up like the Clinton impeachment trial, go on for months, and then at the end Bush wins his appeal. By that time he is out of office and cannot be impeached. Honestly they had more evidence against Bill Clinton like Linda Tripp recording phone conversations, the blue dress, the Bill Clinton cum stains and DNA matches, lying under oath, etc. But it wasn't enough evidence to impeach.
The problem is that Bush is only guilty of incompetence the real ringleader is Cheney who keeps telling him what to do and what to sign or not sign.
Bush does not own Haliburton stock, but Cheney does, guess which one of them got rich over Iraq? It was Cheney, so you have more evidence against Cheney than Bush.
"It is a pity that the vast majority of humans on Earth today are totally unaware, willfully ignorant and unbelieving, but that will not change the final outcome. The good will triumph over evil in the end."
The book of Revelation talked about false Jews, but it could just as easily be false Christians. At the time the new testament was written Christianity was still a Jewish movement called "The Way", it was Paul that decided to teach to Gentiles. When John wrote Revelations it was still a Jewish movement, but at the time the Roman Empire had paganified Judaism into Caesar worship, which was what Jesus had preached against. It seemed to Jesus that the chosen people had lost their way and taken up the traditions of man and stopped doing the traditions of God. What Jesus was talking about was the materialistic or secular conversion of religion into a false religion that led people away from God, away from the light and into the darkness. It was at that point that people started to worship Moloch instead of God, and changed from spiritual people into materialistic people and secular people who only care about money, power, lust, etc, sinful things, and killed their born and unborn children as a sacrifice to Moloch. For example, abortions either pre-natal or post-natal are really Moloch worshiping, so was other things as well.
As Jesus taught, as did Buddha, and others, materialism can kill people. But people refuse to listen to the truth. So much so that people reject spiritualism and accept materialism instead. In doing so they learn to hate, and grow angry, and stop being responsible.
A lot of bad things happening in the world is because of human selfishness caused by materialism and secularism, that means human beings are using up resources at a growing rate and becoming pathological narcissists. Economies turn into recessions and depressions when people don't save 10% to 15% for retirement and for the future, and instead spend all of their money on material things. So they buy as many songs, movies, video games, game consoles, computers, books, magazines, clothes, food, jewelry, etc as they want, instead of just the things they need to live. It is this pursuit of wealth and material things that is harming our economy, because that means they default on loans for houses, cars, student loans, because they buy useless things and burn through their money faster than the gas they burn in their cars. It also causes global warming, high gas and oil prices, ruins the global economy, puts people out of work, causes businesses to fail, forces nations to start up pointless wars as a result of terrorists striking that nation as their nation got ruined before the nation they attacked did and they blame them for that, and it also causes bad leaders to be elected because they promise tax cuts and better economic programs. So as a majority of the planet turn into pathological narcissists they look to their government for handouts, which come in social programs that are funded by higher taxes and/or printing up even more money that causes money to lose value and thus more inflation, more unemployment, higher gas and oil prices, higher food prices, etc. So the cycle starts all over again when the next national leader is elected that promises to fix the economy and give out even more money for universal healthcare and even more social programs, which means higher taxes, printing up even more money, higher inflation, higher gas and oil prices, higher food prices, etc.
Most of the planet is incompetent, and cannot even figure out how to balance a check book or plan a monthly budget, and neither can our politicians and national leaders. We are our own worst enemies, and we are self destructive and suicidal. Most people will willingly send themselves into Hell because they lack common sense, responsibility, and not only do they hate God, they refuse to acknowledge his existence. Even most religious people only joined the church they attend not because they love God or want to help others, but only because of the
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and gets bought out by a rival and then shelved or made irrelevant but die hard fans will still stick to it and use it anyway.
The same thing happened to BeOS and OS/2. I think there is a lesson to be learned here on how to market your product better than just nickle and dime marketing and why third party driver and software support is really really important and you should not mess that opportunity up.
I still remember the Linspire 1960's Marketing, with a Gogo Girl dancing to "Come on baby light my fire" but instead the lyrics said "Come on baby switch to Linspire", lame.
Infoworld and eWeek were the computer tabloids that wished they were Byte or even Compute!, they had more articles that shilled products than they had neutral articles if you could find one. Most editors and writers got bribed by computer companies to write a good article on their product in exchange for keeping the product plus other gifts.
Spencer the Cat was the gossip guy, but around 2000 his gossip columns became more advertising and less rumor. I think when he made a prediction that Microsoft would switch to a Xenix clone named Winix to compete with Linux was when he lost his mojo back during the Clinton Administration and Dotcom busts that made gossip and rumor columns had to get info so they started to make stuff up.
I bought Linspire 5.0 but did not upgrade to Linspire 6.0 and I went to Fedora and Ubuntu instead. I went to Ubuntu after Linspire started to be based on Ubuntu.
Linspire had a Freespire version which was like Linspire but had all of the commercial code and software removed and nothing but GPLed software for critics of Linspire that said it was too commercial and because it cost $50 it was not true Linux unless it was given away free. Freespire was the core of Linspire just like Darwin is the core of Mac OSX.
But I guess all Linspire users will be given an option to upgrade to Xandros at a discount, I guess? Too late I moved on to Ubuntu.
The British government paid them a lot of money to develop the analytical engine to research, design, and organize computerized solutions for business/government problems/tasks.
"Pray tell me, Mr. Babbage if the wrong numbers are entered into the computer, will the right results come out?" British Parliament to Charles Babbage on his work and what they are funding it for.
I made up the whole Orion Blastar space pirate ninja from 4096AD profile to use to be anonymous on the Internet and not allow anyone to learn anything about me, long ago.
If you think I am really Orion Blastar, I got the Brooklyn bridge to sell you really cheap. Because you are the most gullible person alive if you actually think my online profiles are true and not fiction.
Actually the same thing could be said about OS/2 and IBM OEMed it to Serenity for eComStation to become the new OS/2 for modern systems.
The reason, for running legacy software that only works on the original OS and not an emulator. There are a lot of business apps written for PalmOS that cannot run on other operating systems. A lot of data collection software using proprietary hardware attached to Palm Pilots and other PalmOS PDAs is too expensive to port to a new OS and the companies that write the software refuse to port them.
The same problem exists for legacy Windows software as Windows Vista cannot run the custom business programs written for XP, and 2000, and older Windows versions like PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) software used in assembly lines to control robots or alarm systems. Which is why projects like ReactOS exist as Microsoft is dropping support and sales for XP and 2000 and earlier operating systems based on Windows.
#1 Base Windows 7.0 on the Singularity OS project.
#2 Work with the WINE team to get 100% of the Vista and XP API calls supported under WINE, and port WINE to Singularity OS aka Windows 7.0 for legacy support.
#3 Profit.
Microsoft make sure to make royalty checks made out to Orion Blastar via Paypal to my email address for this idea. :)
I guess if you ignore Charles Babbage and Ada Augusta Lovelace? They too invented their own software and hardware long before 1951 aka the Analytical Engine, etc. While it didn't actually work right, IBM fixed the problems and made a working version later, and they can be considered Systems Analysts before that term was phrased.
Actually McDonald's partnered up with AT&T to provide Wifi Internet access from local McDonald's restaurants and yes you can access their Wifi via the drive-thru line and outside of the building. AT&T customers can pay a small fee per month for access to various Wifi hotspots in McDonald's, Starbuck's, etc without paying them an extra fee.
Some McDonald's also have flat screen LCD TV sets on their wall with Fox News or CNN playing on them with the sound turned off and CC captions playing.
Open source Windows 9X and Windows 2000/XP and MS-Office 2002 and under in order to prove to the world that Microsoft is finally embracing open source licensing.
If Windows Vista and MS-Office 2007 are so superior that Microsoft is no longer selling older versions, then just open source the older versions and let others work on them.
Also open source Xenix and make a deal with SCO to stop the Linux lawsuits of which SCO Unix is based on Microsoft Xenix.
>1) Fire top management.
Make sure that you replace top management with new management that know what they are doing as well are qualified for the job and ethical.
>2) Dump PDA line, close down any idiotic
>Folio-like R&D until profitable.
Actually they should open source the PDA line and license the OEM version of PalmOS to run on that and let other companies create their own PDAs, but pay Palm royalties for doing so.
>3) Fundamentally redesign the appearance
> hardware, and boost its features. Palm needs
>smartphones that combine the business-edge of
>RIM with the glitz of the iPhone.
Agreed, I would create a PalmX standard for Smart Phone motherboards and let OEMs create their own cases and either license PalmOS, or use Linux for the OS and software. With the PalmX standard, Palm can create motherboards or smart phones and sell them to OEMs.
>4) Throw out smartphone that is innovative and a
>noticeable improvement over its predecessor at
>least twice a year. You need volume, turnover,
>and upgrade incentives.
The best way to do that is to improve quality which will also reduce support costs and allow Palm to sell them at lower prices than Apple, Motorola, Nokia, etc. Also include upgradeable features for smart cards and memory sticks to exchange data with other devices, plug-in WiFi cards for when the user wants Internet VoIP in places they cannot get a cell phone signal but have Wifi, and other things that customers want.
>5) Get a new OS, now. If you have to, buy or
>rent another OS, and slap a Palm emulation layer
>on top.
Actually Geos, GEM, AmigaOS, etc are affordable to "rent" or license and base a phone on them. But I think Palm would do much better using an open source OS like Linux and create their own distro for smart phones, call it Palm Linux or something or Palinux. Another option is to join in on the ReactOS, OSFree, Haiku, and other open source projects and spin off a smartphone OS from those projects.
Good ideas, I agree.
Palm based mobile phones did really really well before the iPhone was released and cut into the Palm Phone market. Basically Apple stole all of the PalmOS mobile phone features for the iPhone and found a way to market the iPhone better than the Palm phone. Palm should sue Apple over Apple stealing their IP for a touch based mobile phone with PDA and media player abilities to create the iPhone.
Palm has to make an iPhone killer with a lower price than the iPhone, with the same features, but able to work on any network.
Palm also could try making a TV set top device using PalmOS to play MP3s, Videos, DVDs, CDs, and even play some video games as a combo Game Console slash TV-Media device.
Writing helps me deal with my mental illness. Just that a majority of the people on the Internet don't like me for being mentally ill and noticed that I am mentally ill by my writing. My mental illness gives me a writing style that most people don't like, and automatically hate me for it, like on Kuro5hin. All I am trying to do is help out people and educate them and sometimes show them the other side of the debate. But because I show them the other side of the debate or another point of view that they don't agree with, automatically the hate me more for that.
So how much did Microsoft pay you to write that anonymous post?
300 people found with machine guns, bombs, suicide vests, trying to murder civilians and US troops and captured instead of killed. Not enough evidence for you? Dig up the bodies in Iraq and Afghanistan that they murdered and do autopsies on them and then give those 300 people a fair trial.
Yes because OPEC and foreign oil companies are lobbying Congress and paying them lobby money to blame the USA oil companies and also raise taxes on those oil companies per barrel sold, so the price of oil can skyrocket to $200 a barrel and $10 a gallon for gas. You figured it out! So for every dollar the US oil companies earn, the national government gets 60 cents of it based on a 60% tax on US oil companies. Brilliant!
One thing though, US oil companies will be forced to raise their prices to make up for the higher oil taxes, and very soon Democrats will take control of the White House and Congress and pass those carbon taxes that will cause oil and gas prices to get even higher!
when you buy something, you own it and can modify it or pay to have it modified. Unlike in the USA where if you buy something the company that made it owns it and takes away your freedom to modify it or have it modified.
Clinton lied about Whitewater, his wife's employer Wal-mart (Hillary Clinton worked as a lawyer for Wal-mart) benefiting from that China trade bill he signed, his pardoning of people from his administration that had been found guilty of violating federal law, and deleting White House emails and documents when asked to present them as evidence. There was more to Clinton's impeachment trial than Monica Lewinsky there was also Genifer Flowers and Paul Jones as well as several other women that claim Clinton had affairs with them while he was in office.
We do the same thing for oil executives. Ask them under oath why their raised prices so high and how can they live with themselves. Completely ignoring oil speculators, OPEC, oil shortages, environmentalists getting taxes on oil and preventing oil companies from drilling for more oil or exploring alternatives to oil, the devaluation of the US dollar and bad US economy because oil is bought and sold with US dollars, and the fact that there are wars going on for access to oil in the middle-east, as the other factors for high oil prices.
For every finger that Congress points at oil executives, they have four fingers pointing back to themselves.
The real charge against Bush was that he lied, but citing Clinton if you don't know it is a lie, you cannot be charged with it and can appeal an impeachment. Clinton lied too, remember, but then claimed incompetence that he didn't really know what he said was a lie. It was far more than a BJ with Monica that he was charged with, Whitewater, he pardoned someone from his administration that was charged with a criminal act, he used the power of his office to try and hide evidence of his breaking the oath of office, etc.
But in the case of murder, if one hits someone with their car, and was too incompetent to control the car, they can face a lesser charge of manslaughter or appeal the guilty verdict later and claim that they didn't get a fair trial.
Clinton appealed his guilty verdict on his impeachment trial, claiming that he didn't know he broke his oath of office and also that he didn't get a fair trial. You really think with a 30% approval rate, and a majority of the media bashing Bush, that Bush will get a fair trail any more than Clinton's low approval rate and the media bashing him near the end of his administration? The parallels are quite ironic between Clinton and Bush impeachment trials.
why not sell Microsoft software at affordable prices so there will be no need of Career Pirates to sell Counterfeit Microsoft software at affordable prices?
Also how about Pirate Amnesty, where people can trade in their pirated copy of Microsoft software in exchange for a discount on genuine Microsoft software?
But first you have to prove who "they" are. Then you have to prove what "they" did. Plus why hasn't Congress started the articles of impeachment in 2006 when they promised they would as soon as we elected them?
It will all end up like the Clinton impeachment trial, go on for months, and then at the end Bush wins his appeal. By that time he is out of office and cannot be impeached. Honestly they had more evidence against Bill Clinton like Linda Tripp recording phone conversations, the blue dress, the Bill Clinton cum stains and DNA matches, lying under oath, etc. But it wasn't enough evidence to impeach.
First it was that HD-DVD that never got off, then the optional hard drive, and then the red ring of death, and then the recalls.
:)
I just hope the XBox 720 is a lot better.
P.S. I still have an Atari 2600 that works great, that 1970's technology was built to last!
The problem is that Bush is only guilty of incompetence the real ringleader is Cheney who keeps telling him what to do and what to sign or not sign.
Bush does not own Haliburton stock, but Cheney does, guess which one of them got rich over Iraq? It was Cheney, so you have more evidence against Cheney than Bush.
"It is a pity that the vast majority of humans on Earth today are totally unaware, willfully ignorant and unbelieving, but that will not change the final outcome. The good will triumph over evil in the end."
The book of Revelation talked about false Jews, but it could just as easily be false Christians. At the time the new testament was written Christianity was still a Jewish movement called "The Way", it was Paul that decided to teach to Gentiles. When John wrote Revelations it was still a Jewish movement, but at the time the Roman Empire had paganified Judaism into Caesar worship, which was what Jesus had preached against. It seemed to Jesus that the chosen people had lost their way and taken up the traditions of man and stopped doing the traditions of God. What Jesus was talking about was the materialistic or secular conversion of religion into a false religion that led people away from God, away from the light and into the darkness. It was at that point that people started to worship Moloch instead of God, and changed from spiritual people into materialistic people and secular people who only care about money, power, lust, etc, sinful things, and killed their born and unborn children as a sacrifice to Moloch. For example, abortions either pre-natal or post-natal are really Moloch worshiping, so was other things as well.
As Jesus taught, as did Buddha, and others, materialism can kill people. But people refuse to listen to the truth. So much so that people reject spiritualism and accept materialism instead. In doing so they learn to hate, and grow angry, and stop being responsible.
A lot of bad things happening in the world is because of human selfishness caused by materialism and secularism, that means human beings are using up resources at a growing rate and becoming pathological narcissists. Economies turn into recessions and depressions when people don't save 10% to 15% for retirement and for the future, and instead spend all of their money on material things. So they buy as many songs, movies, video games, game consoles, computers, books, magazines, clothes, food, jewelry, etc as they want, instead of just the things they need to live. It is this pursuit of wealth and material things that is harming our economy, because that means they default on loans for houses, cars, student loans, because they buy useless things and burn through their money faster than the gas they burn in their cars. It also causes global warming, high gas and oil prices, ruins the global economy, puts people out of work, causes businesses to fail, forces nations to start up pointless wars as a result of terrorists striking that nation as their nation got ruined before the nation they attacked did and they blame them for that, and it also causes bad leaders to be elected because they promise tax cuts and better economic programs. So as a majority of the planet turn into pathological narcissists they look to their government for handouts, which come in social programs that are funded by higher taxes and/or printing up even more money that causes money to lose value and thus more inflation, more unemployment, higher gas and oil prices, higher food prices, etc. So the cycle starts all over again when the next national leader is elected that promises to fix the economy and give out even more money for universal healthcare and even more social programs, which means higher taxes, printing up even more money, higher inflation, higher gas and oil prices, higher food prices, etc.
Most of the planet is incompetent, and cannot even figure out how to balance a check book or plan a monthly budget, and neither can our politicians and national leaders. We are our own worst enemies, and we are self destructive and suicidal. Most people will willingly send themselves into Hell because they lack common sense, responsibility, and not only do they hate God, they refuse to acknowledge his existence. Even most religious people only joined the church they attend not because they love God or want to help others, but only because of the