If one vendor cuts corners to improve performance the other vendors will look like their products are slower until such time as the corner cutting is identified and can be proven to be detrimental.
You don't go to the theater to watch a movie, you go to the theater for the social aspect, or especially taking a girl and sitting in the back row... Some theaters even have wider seats for two people.
That's the problem with using a blanket term "losses" without context...
Spending money to expand an otherwise profitable business is a fairly safe investment, Walmart could have continued operating their existing stores and gradually built up the capital to open more but it would have slowed their growth.
Spending money to expand a business that you hope will become profitable after expansion is a more risky investment, but may pay off - so long as people are aware of the risks it's up to them to make the investment or not.
But some businesses just lose money with no hope of recovering it, and this is generally what people think of when they hear the term "losses".
Then those people are in need of education... Being completely ignorant and relying on the government to think for you is not the answer, such a system can and will be heavily abused.
What's wrong with private business going bust? So long as they're not being bailed out by unwilling participants (ie taxpayers via the government) there's no problem... People who bought shares in a business with a failed model knew the risks they were taking. Those employees would not have had a job otherwise, and those suppliers wouldn't have had a customer.
What should be stopped, is people who profit from failing a business, there are many cases where senior management will pay themselves handsomely while they drive a business to collapse. If you're the senior management for a business which fails you should only be paid minimum wage for your time.
Welcome to capitalism... If we choose to support small stores who charge higher prices, we the customers suffer in the short term. If we don't support them, we suffer in the long term.
Capitalism encourages short term thinking, if you're harming yourself in the short term in the hopes of a long term gain you may not be around in the long term.
A clunker that does very few miles is better for the environment than a new car... A LOT of resources are consumed to manufacture a car, for an old clunker that's a sunk cost.
Technically it doesn't explicitly "deny" incoming traffic, the inbound traffic is addressed to the gateway and it doesn't know which (if any) of the machines behind to forward it to. It's not intentionally denying incoming traffic, just that incoming traffic is broken due to nat.
So if i send you packets you did not ask for which are spoofed from the ip addresses of google, slashdot etc, you will drop all traffic from those places too? Well done...
Meanwhile someone who's trying to hack you probably has (or can get) access to thousands of random boxes, doesn't matter if you block some of the source ips as he has thousands more.
And your own install of a typical linux distro running on generic hardware will actually have updates available and easily installable, the same can't be said of the ancient embedded linux found on a typical cheap router.
XP on netbooks basically killed the market tho... The original netbooks were cheap, but not powerful enough to run xp... they increased the spec so they could run xp, which also upped the price considerably - to the point that they weren't significantly cheaper than traditional laptops.
MS don't like the idea of low cost computing, as they account for a significant amount of the cost which other competitors in the low cost space (linux netbooks, android) don't have. If they start giving away their software for free or very low cost, then that would significantly reduce their profits, so they come out with intentionally crippled versions while their competitors are not crippling their offerings. And then their software typically has much higher system requirements than others, so the low cost hardware will perform poorly.
Well it makes sense that Kaspersky would detect state-sponsored malware from the US and Israel etc, the whole purpose of such companies is to detect malware irrespective of where it comes from and if other vendors are not identifying the same malware that could be either collusion or incompetence.
Then again, what about malware sponsored by the russian government? Are Kaspersky finding any less russian malware than other vendors? If Kaspersky are great at finding US malware but conveniently fail to detect russian malware thats found by other researchers, that might imply some level of collusion (or coercion).
Why is a russian company worse than an american, chinese or european company? Sure, the russian government is known for spying, but so are governments of various other countries especially the us. The us is also known for having secretive courts, mass surveillance etc.
You can't trust any software which does not have publicly disclosed source code, and even then you should conduct your own audits and builds if its for a critical system. If the code is open, you may not have the skills or time to audit it, but as the code is open to everyone then its open to be inspected by various groups with competing interests, as it's unlikely that opposing governments would all collude together to backdoor software.
Unless you are actually working for a government, it actually makes sense to prefer foreign software, as a far away foreign government is unlikely to have any interest in you, or influence over you.
Yes double clicking the home button is just as quick as double clicking a mouse... But you've still failed to explain why pressing the home button once is slower than pressing it twice?
And what if your license was not issued by that state? Your license may be issued by another state, or even in another country. I've frequently rented cars in foreign countries using an international license.
When printing sure, but most text won't be printed and is just edited electronically. Using a single character makes more sense as it reduces file size, especially if you have short lines.
I press the home button once, during this press it reads my fingerprint and authenticates me. I fail to see how pressing the home button twice is quicker than pressing it once?
Open, and full of malware... How do i know that your website offering software downloads is legitimate and not one of the many scam sites? The average slashdot reader might be clued up enough to verify the legitimacy of a site, but clued up users are more likely to be running linux anyway. Most end users have no idea how to do this, and shouldn't be doing so. If you're using microsoft's os then you should be acquiring software through their store and nowhere else unless you really understand what you're doing.
Encouraging users to enter card details and run binaries from strange websites is not a good plan, and will end up with more users infected by malware.
Most people won't... Either it comes with the hardware they bought, or they pirate it. Very few people will make a conscious decision to purchase windows.
Many companies don't provide an opt-out, or intentionally hide it. Such a thing should be opt-in, not opt-out. If someone wants to receive marketing they should ask for it. I always read through forms, and will always turn off any marketing options, and yet i still receive junk because many companies don't give you the choice. Simply making a purchase (or even just an enquiry) is taken as consent to be spammed, and then there's sometimes a process to opt-out later.
I get lots of junk every day, both email and paper, The paper stuff is even worse as it wastes more resources and often provides no way to cancel it. The email usually has an opt-out link but it often doesn't work.
The problem is none of the companies hiring these consultancies understand what they're getting...
They should demand source code, should demand a second source supplier, should demand ongoing maintenance, should demand that the software store data and communicate using documented protocols so that its easily replaceable.
But very few people ever make these demands, so few of the consultancies cater to them.
It should be due diligence to insist on all of the above and have a thorough procurement policy, but for that to happen the people making the purchasing decisions need to understand what they're getting into.
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If one vendor cuts corners to improve performance the other vendors will look like their products are slower until such time as the corner cutting is identified and can be proven to be detrimental.
You don't go to the theater to watch a movie, you go to the theater for the social aspect, or especially taking a girl and sitting in the back row...
Some theaters even have wider seats for two people.
That's the problem with using a blanket term "losses" without context...
Spending money to expand an otherwise profitable business is a fairly safe investment, Walmart could have continued operating their existing stores and gradually built up the capital to open more but it would have slowed their growth.
Spending money to expand a business that you hope will become profitable after expansion is a more risky investment, but may pay off - so long as people are aware of the risks it's up to them to make the investment or not.
But some businesses just lose money with no hope of recovering it, and this is generally what people think of when they hear the term "losses".
Then those people are in need of education...
Being completely ignorant and relying on the government to think for you is not the answer, such a system can and will be heavily abused.
What's wrong with private business going bust?
So long as they're not being bailed out by unwilling participants (ie taxpayers via the government) there's no problem... People who bought shares in a business with a failed model knew the risks they were taking.
Those employees would not have had a job otherwise, and those suppliers wouldn't have had a customer.
What should be stopped, is people who profit from failing a business, there are many cases where senior management will pay themselves handsomely while they drive a business to collapse. If you're the senior management for a business which fails you should only be paid minimum wage for your time.
Welcome to capitalism...
If we choose to support small stores who charge higher prices, we the customers suffer in the short term.
If we don't support them, we suffer in the long term.
Capitalism encourages short term thinking, if you're harming yourself in the short term in the hopes of a long term gain you may not be around in the long term.
A clunker that does very few miles is better for the environment than a new car...
A LOT of resources are consumed to manufacture a car, for an old clunker that's a sunk cost.
Technically it doesn't explicitly "deny" incoming traffic, the inbound traffic is addressed to the gateway and it doesn't know which (if any) of the machines behind to forward it to.
It's not intentionally denying incoming traffic, just that incoming traffic is broken due to nat.
Most likely they just got infected with some random malware...
So if i send you packets you did not ask for which are spoofed from the ip addresses of google, slashdot etc, you will drop all traffic from those places too? Well done...
Meanwhile someone who's trying to hack you probably has (or can get) access to thousands of random boxes, doesn't matter if you block some of the source ips as he has thousands more.
And your own install of a typical linux distro running on generic hardware will actually have updates available and easily installable, the same can't be said of the ancient embedded linux found on a typical cheap router.
XP on netbooks basically killed the market tho...
The original netbooks were cheap, but not powerful enough to run xp... they increased the spec so they could run xp, which also upped the price considerably - to the point that they weren't significantly cheaper than traditional laptops.
$15 is a huge chunk of a device which is costing less than $100 at retail...
MS don't like the idea of low cost computing, as they account for a significant amount of the cost which other competitors in the low cost space (linux netbooks, android) don't have.
If they start giving away their software for free or very low cost, then that would significantly reduce their profits, so they come out with intentionally crippled versions while their competitors are not crippling their offerings.
And then their software typically has much higher system requirements than others, so the low cost hardware will perform poorly.
A better analogy would be tossing your privacy to the wolf instead of the shark, assuming that you're a fish...
Well it makes sense that Kaspersky would detect state-sponsored malware from the US and Israel etc, the whole purpose of such companies is to detect malware irrespective of where it comes from and if other vendors are not identifying the same malware that could be either collusion or incompetence.
Then again, what about malware sponsored by the russian government? Are Kaspersky finding any less russian malware than other vendors? If Kaspersky are great at finding US malware but conveniently fail to detect russian malware thats found by other researchers, that might imply some level of collusion (or coercion).
Why is a russian company worse than an american, chinese or european company?
Sure, the russian government is known for spying, but so are governments of various other countries especially the us. The us is also known for having secretive courts, mass surveillance etc.
You can't trust any software which does not have publicly disclosed source code, and even then you should conduct your own audits and builds if its for a critical system. If the code is open, you may not have the skills or time to audit it, but as the code is open to everyone then its open to be inspected by various groups with competing interests, as it's unlikely that opposing governments would all collude together to backdoor software.
Unless you are actually working for a government, it actually makes sense to prefer foreign software, as a far away foreign government is unlikely to have any interest in you, or influence over you.
Yes double clicking the home button is just as quick as double clicking a mouse...
But you've still failed to explain why pressing the home button once is slower than pressing it twice?
And what if your license was not issued by that state?
Your license may be issued by another state, or even in another country. I've frequently rented cars in foreign countries using an international license.
When printing sure, but most text won't be printed and is just edited electronically. Using a single character makes more sense as it reduces file size, especially if you have short lines.
I press the home button once, during this press it reads my fingerprint and authenticates me.
I fail to see how pressing the home button twice is quicker than pressing it once?
Open, and full of malware...
How do i know that your website offering software downloads is legitimate and not one of the many scam sites?
The average slashdot reader might be clued up enough to verify the legitimacy of a site, but clued up users are more likely to be running linux anyway. Most end users have no idea how to do this, and shouldn't be doing so. If you're using microsoft's os then you should be acquiring software through their store and nowhere else unless you really understand what you're doing.
Encouraging users to enter card details and run binaries from strange websites is not a good plan, and will end up with more users infected by malware.
Most people won't...
Either it comes with the hardware they bought, or they pirate it. Very few people will make a conscious decision to purchase windows.
Many companies don't provide an opt-out, or intentionally hide it. Such a thing should be opt-in, not opt-out. If someone wants to receive marketing they should ask for it. I always read through forms, and will always turn off any marketing options, and yet i still receive junk because many companies don't give you the choice. Simply making a purchase (or even just an enquiry) is taken as consent to be spammed, and then there's sometimes a process to opt-out later.
I get lots of junk every day, both email and paper, The paper stuff is even worse as it wastes more resources and often provides no way to cancel it. The email usually has an opt-out link but it often doesn't work.
The problem is none of the companies hiring these consultancies understand what they're getting...
They should demand source code, should demand a second source supplier, should demand ongoing maintenance, should demand that the software store data and communicate using documented protocols so that its easily replaceable.
But very few people ever make these demands, so few of the consultancies cater to them.
It should be due diligence to insist on all of the above and have a thorough procurement policy, but for that to happen the people making the purchasing decisions need to understand what they're getting into.