Yeah throw due process out the window. You realize that you could be turned into a criminal at any time with just the stroke of a pen from a politician, right?
Actually I have a desktop that boots debian, ubuntu and windows 7. For some reason I always use Windows 7, except when I do my online banking. Why? Because you simply cannot argue with 90-odd percent market share. All the new drivers come out for Windows 7 first. All the new software is supported for Windows 7 first. I don't have to fiddle with the command line. I don't have to download packages. I don't have to be insulted on random websites when I ask what apparently are extremely stupid questions because I can't seem to get my hardware to work despite everyone swearing how easy it is.
The time for rolling up my sleeves and fiddling around with bits of computer or OS are gone. I am too old. I enjoyed it when I was young, but it belongs in the past. Just like I used to swear by manual transmissions, I've had an automatic now for years and I love it. I'm not a kid anymore. So, while I agree that linux has its niche, linux will never "rule all" unless they undergo a fundamental design change from a specialist OS to a mass market OS. But if that happens it will just stop being linux.
US consumers like you that drive those practices with ignorance and laziness.
Except, I'm not a US consumer. But ok, continue to be proud of the fact that the US can't make anything at all anymore, thanks to the worship of profit and the bottom line above everything else. Then wonder why Germany can prop up all of Europe despite being a fraction of the size of the US. And completely ignore what this means for the American future when you are all busy selling hamburgers to each other and have to import everything else (including hamburger meat). In fact the only industry that is still relevant in the US is the defense industry, but when you look at 100 million dollar drones and trillion dollar 5th generation jets that are still not off the drawing board or the ones that have actually been manufactured can't actually fly because they have been grounded, you have to wonder exactly how deep the rot goes in the American business community.
You print money to hand out to companies so they can hand it out to foreigners to build the real products you use, and hand it out to banks to create credit to give to Americans so that they can buy said foreign goods. Thus you have created a nation of paper-pushers and office workers who can't actually make anything, and you expect this model to last forever. And THEN you claim that the Taliban are the threat to your national security. To be honest you are your own worst enemies. But what should I care, I have enough gold to still be rich even after the US dollar collapses. I just can't wait to hear you guys say that you "never saw it coming". When you let someone else do stuff for you, that makes you depend on someone else.
Samsung doesn't have a religious following, nor people camping out in tents to buy products on release day AFAIK. Of course you are going to sell your product near (but slightly under) the major competitor's price, that's only common sense. Why throw away the chance at extra profit? Of course what would be really cool is a 3rd company coming along and selling a similar product for half. That would blow both of them out of the water, and force a price war - like happened in the PC market. I remember the $5000 PC. The price is now 20% of what it used to be, despite inflation.
If I read your point further, you are saying that Apple should be forced to build their phones in the US.
I never said they should be forced to do anything. I said they probably could make them in the US. What gets me is that most consumers think they are "buying American" when they buy Apple, when in actual fact there is not much here in America apart from some offices in Cupertino and pimply teenagers at Apple stores.
What I don't get is that Japan - with incredibly high labor costs and costs of living - manages to continue to be a manufacturer. As does Germany. Yet the US seems to be completely incapable of doing this. At one point buy the damned robots and upgrade your plants, you know?
'They're not cheap, but I don't think they're viewed as high-priced anymore,
with
$82 billion in cash and marketable securities
Truly you have to be an Appletard to feel sorry for these poor fellows who have to operate on razor thin margins to make all that money. Face it - Apple is a shining example of everything that is WRONG with modern American corporations. They COULD make their products in the US, but it would be slightly more expensive, so they outsourced manufacturing to Souzhou, China. All the US gets to see is minimum wage retail mall jobs, while Apple gets extremely cheap manufacturing labor, relaxes environmental controls and of course tax breaks. But people line up for days for these products when marginally incremental versions come out. Truly this is a sign of credit and access to money being way, way too easy.
Advertisers and marketing people might be the lowest form of life too.
Eh, I am sitting here uncomfortably as my wife is head of market research (not marketing) at a Fortune 500, and my sister in law is regional VP of a large media/advertising corporation...
None of the staff had any idea that the cuts were coming, or that they'd focus so particularly in certain areas.
And this is precisely why they were fired. I mean duh, this is not news that marketing is among the first areas to be axed in a dying company. There's quite a bit of precedent in the business world. If those employees didn't even know this, and had no situational awareness as to how their brands were doing, I can just imagine how they were handling their day to day work.
Just hook up a random number generator to a set of speakers. Let the frequency and the duration of the "notes" be determined randomly. Use random numbers outside of the audible range to determine the space between notes. And voila! Completely random non-mathematical music.
There's no excuse nowadays. I live in Costa Rica and my local convenience store has "Roland" brand 100% genuine Canadian maple syrup. Of course it costs me like $35 for a tiny little jug, but hey you want good stuff you pay good money. Much better than the "dark ages" (30 years ago) where you could ONLY get maple syrup from Quebec, in Quebec province, and probably had to be able to cuss in French Canadian to get it. Maudit tabarnac.
Those must be fairly new - it used to be called maple syrup when I was a Canadian ex-pat kid growing up in Florida. I think many restaurants still call it "maple syrup" though on the menu.
And Vermont is very proud of its maple syrup.
Also a recent development. Of course American maple syrup is nowhere near as good as Quebec maple syrup, but that's just my biased Montreal snob-side coming out. Good for you, any cartel (and the Quebec maple syrup industry certainly is a cartel that has been gouging the price for years) deserves a little competition overseas.
I agree. In fact there are a lot more mediocre managers than good ones. So imagine how good the really good ones are, that they manage to achieve something DESPITE the bad ones. Eh I'm hardly partial - I'm married to a "good" senior manager at a Fortune 500. You would not believe (no, actually you would) the shit that goes on. Politics, favoritism, nepotism, good people getting fired for no reason to make room for "friends", etc. All that is part of shitty management, and we end up paying for it. But in theory, management is crucial. An army without officers is just a collection of men. Likewise a corporation needs leadership and vision to organize and motivate.
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He didn't download illegal music. His child did.
That one doesn't work. Tell that to the judge. Oh, wait.
Yeah throw due process out the window. You realize that you could be turned into a criminal at any time with just the stroke of a pen from a politician, right?
Actually I have a desktop that boots debian, ubuntu and windows 7. For some reason I always use Windows 7, except when I do my online banking. Why? Because you simply cannot argue with 90-odd percent market share. All the new drivers come out for Windows 7 first. All the new software is supported for Windows 7 first. I don't have to fiddle with the command line. I don't have to download packages. I don't have to be insulted on random websites when I ask what apparently are extremely stupid questions because I can't seem to get my hardware to work despite everyone swearing how easy it is.
The time for rolling up my sleeves and fiddling around with bits of computer or OS are gone. I am too old. I enjoyed it when I was young, but it belongs in the past. Just like I used to swear by manual transmissions, I've had an automatic now for years and I love it. I'm not a kid anymore. So, while I agree that linux has its niche, linux will never "rule all" unless they undergo a fundamental design change from a specialist OS to a mass market OS. But if that happens it will just stop being linux.
US consumers like you that drive those practices with ignorance and laziness.
Except, I'm not a US consumer. But ok, continue to be proud of the fact that the US can't make anything at all anymore, thanks to the worship of profit and the bottom line above everything else. Then wonder why Germany can prop up all of Europe despite being a fraction of the size of the US. And completely ignore what this means for the American future when you are all busy selling hamburgers to each other and have to import everything else (including hamburger meat). In fact the only industry that is still relevant in the US is the defense industry, but when you look at 100 million dollar drones and trillion dollar 5th generation jets that are still not off the drawing board or the ones that have actually been manufactured can't actually fly because they have been grounded, you have to wonder exactly how deep the rot goes in the American business community. You print money to hand out to companies so they can hand it out to foreigners to build the real products you use, and hand it out to banks to create credit to give to Americans so that they can buy said foreign goods. Thus you have created a nation of paper-pushers and office workers who can't actually make anything, and you expect this model to last forever. And THEN you claim that the Taliban are the threat to your national security. To be honest you are your own worst enemies. But what should I care, I have enough gold to still be rich even after the US dollar collapses. I just can't wait to hear you guys say that you "never saw it coming". When you let someone else do stuff for you, that makes you depend on someone else.
In 100 years when Linux rules all,
Dude I don't normally say this, but today I have a real bad back-ache and I'm in a lot of pain. So could you give me some of what you're smoking?
Don't worry they have all signed contracts prohibiting them from committing suicide so everything is ok now.
If I read your point further, you are saying that Apple should be forced to build their phones in the US.
I never said they should be forced to do anything. I said they probably could make them in the US. What gets me is that most consumers think they are "buying American" when they buy Apple, when in actual fact there is not much here in America apart from some offices in Cupertino and pimply teenagers at Apple stores. What I don't get is that Japan - with incredibly high labor costs and costs of living - manages to continue to be a manufacturer. As does Germany. Yet the US seems to be completely incapable of doing this. At one point buy the damned robots and upgrade your plants, you know?
'They're not cheap, but I don't think they're viewed as high-priced anymore,
with
$82 billion in cash and marketable securities
Truly you have to be an Appletard to feel sorry for these poor fellows who have to operate on razor thin margins to make all that money. Face it - Apple is a shining example of everything that is WRONG with modern American corporations. They COULD make their products in the US, but it would be slightly more expensive, so they outsourced manufacturing to Souzhou, China. All the US gets to see is minimum wage retail mall jobs, while Apple gets extremely cheap manufacturing labor, relaxes environmental controls and of course tax breaks. But people line up for days for these products when marginally incremental versions come out. Truly this is a sign of credit and access to money being way, way too easy.
Advertisers and marketing people might be the lowest form of life too.
Eh, I am sitting here uncomfortably as my wife is head of market research (not marketing) at a Fortune 500, and my sister in law is regional VP of a large media/advertising corporation...
None of the staff had any idea that the cuts were coming, or that they'd focus so particularly in certain areas.
And this is precisely why they were fired. I mean duh, this is not news that marketing is among the first areas to be axed in a dying company. There's quite a bit of precedent in the business world. If those employees didn't even know this, and had no situational awareness as to how their brands were doing, I can just imagine how they were handling their day to day work.
Then AT&T would be making a killing selling all that bandwidth - er wait sorry what was the question?
doesn't this open carriers up to potential lawsuits when their network fails and someone dies of treatable maladies as a result?
Of course not. And if it does, they will just make the government write laws to exempt them from this.
Just hook up a random number generator to a set of speakers. Let the frequency and the duration of the "notes" be determined randomly. Use random numbers outside of the audible range to determine the space between notes. And voila! Completely random non-mathematical music.
Is it a good idea to take culinary advice from someone who knows what dead beetles taste like?
You sir, have obviously never ridden a motorcycle.
Seriously though, I've never eaten beetles. But I have smelled them. And maple (flavored) syrup tastes like what beetles smell like.
That's why I'll never leave the province.
Heh, you can keep it. I prefer to go around shivering and complaining about the "cold" when it's 17 degrees C outside. That's +17C... :P
long for a good waffle.
Heresy! BURN THE UNBELIEVER!
I understand not everybody has this luxury,
There's no excuse nowadays. I live in Costa Rica and my local convenience store has "Roland" brand 100% genuine Canadian maple syrup. Of course it costs me like $35 for a tiny little jug, but hey you want good stuff you pay good money. Much better than the "dark ages" (30 years ago) where you could ONLY get maple syrup from Quebec, in Quebec province, and probably had to be able to cuss in French Canadian to get it. Maudit tabarnac.
If you do it too often you also end up running out of dopamine, just like meth users. So just do it once every couple of weeks.
mmmmm maple butter..... responsible for at least 1 of my blocked coronary arteries. Damn you, doting grand-parents!
Oh yeah you're right. But it used to say "News for nerds, stuff that matters" under "Slashdot" in the top left corner. That's gone.
Surprisingly I didn't find it hard to explain it to her at all. I guess I got lucky - my ex wife never seemed to get it at all.
we have both consumer protection laws
Those must be fairly new - it used to be called maple syrup when I was a Canadian ex-pat kid growing up in Florida. I think many restaurants still call it "maple syrup" though on the menu.
And Vermont is very proud of its maple syrup.
Also a recent development. Of course American maple syrup is nowhere near as good as Quebec maple syrup, but that's just my biased Montreal snob-side coming out. Good for you, any cartel (and the Quebec maple syrup industry certainly is a cartel that has been gouging the price for years) deserves a little competition overseas.
I agree. In fact there are a lot more mediocre managers than good ones. So imagine how good the really good ones are, that they manage to achieve something DESPITE the bad ones. Eh I'm hardly partial - I'm married to a "good" senior manager at a Fortune 500. You would not believe (no, actually you would) the shit that goes on. Politics, favoritism, nepotism, good people getting fired for no reason to make room for "friends", etc. All that is part of shitty management, and we end up paying for it. But in theory, management is crucial. An army without officers is just a collection of men. Likewise a corporation needs leadership and vision to organize and motivate.
No need to get the fucking Belgians involved in this ok? Europe is in enough trouble already.
Fortunately you chose bagels because doughnut time seems to be pretty constant. The nth doughnut disappears just about as quickly as the first.