Nope. The rich ones have very little experience of life in tough conditions, and generally depend on delegating difficult tasks to others.
The bible says "The slum dwellers will do really well. Ghetto girls are really hot. The posh will be stuffed!" (Your translation might word it a bit differently, but perhaps you should not rely on a 5th century version of Google Translate).
What we all need is open hardware APIs - so you can choose the OS you actually want, on the hardware you want. Presumably we don't have this already because the HW manufacturers are afraid people will find out how crap their HW is.
Eventually, some of the hardware people will realise that once they have amortized their dev costs, the marginal cost of the same part is close to zero, and someone will start releasing "bog standard" hardware. With several OSes able to support it, the OSes will specialise (Like the *BSDs do now). At least one will probably compete on quality, and presumably several with fight to the death on lack of same.
It has not happened so far because the buyers have relatively little experience - that is changing fast. Almost 50% of the world's population has a smart phone. In 5 years, practically everyone who is able to will have used one. Then the more mature market will ask more questions before they buy - like "where the fuck are the bug fixes?", "why would I buy one that is even thinner that the one I have, if the battery life is shorter than my commute?" and "The phone works fine. Do you really think I will buy one with less features than the one I have paid for that still works?"
The "My phone is bigger/shinier/posher than yours" has run out. No one can tell the most latest, expensive from cheap Chinese ones (except perhaps by the fact that the cheap ones don't burn your legs off).
I think its going to need a critical mass of super heros! (possibly with support from aliens from several galaxies far away - and we are not talking Ford galaxies, either).
Let them do some practical research with that data:
It has long* been suspected that computers fail more often when being sworn at or insulted. Now they can find out if its really true. Given how often people swear at Windows, there should be a lot of data.
* Only yesterday I was reminded of a discussion on this topic I had 30 years ago, and that it wasn't a new idea then - that discussion was about how it had applied in the 1960's.
When your blood sugar level is high, the aqueous humour in your eyes gets filled with sugar, which alters its refractive index and can make it opaque. The result is that your eye muscles continuously try to focus your eyes but are unable to do so, and its very tiring.
What makes you think I cannot tell cause from effect? Are you suggesting that my pre-diabetes condition was brought about by high sugar intake? Few people would have a lower sugar intake than be before the diagnosis. I did not eat sweets or put sugar on my food or drinks, or have sugary drinks even when young (I had diluted squash as a kid, but generally only once a week on Saturdays). The craving for sweet things came after the pre-diabetes diagnosis, and medical researchers say this is common where your diabetes is due to insulin resistance.
I have had type 2 diabetes for about 10 years, and have spoken to loads of other sufferers and some medical researchers.
In the run up to being diagnosed, I felt completely exhausted, and an absolute craving for sugar. This was during the pre-diabetes state. The most likely explanation is that I was developing insulin resistance, and so was unable to digest the sugar from the Mars bars and Coca-Cola. This is common in insulin resistant type 2 diabetes (the other kind is where you don't produce enough insulin - both are type 2, cos no one had the good sense to call one of them type 3).
So yeah, people who cannot digest sugar are likely to crave more of it to get some energy.
As soon as I was diagnosed and put on Metformin, I stopped wanting coke and Mars bars, and my eyes stopped hurting (unless my blood sugar is high).
The medical profession cannot tell cause from effect.
Its a CITY - they tell you "Submit in the ISO standard format". And you do it. Even if you have to use the "odf" format option on your MS product. ODF - Its not a weird option - its the international standard. The MS formats are the non-standard stuff.
Anyway, if you are submitting forms, should they not be pdf to avoid tampering after submission?
Just this week I had a government subcontractor send me an Excel spreadsheet that did not work in LibreOffice.
I politely emailed him back saying that I had a problem with it, because it was in a non-standard, MS proprietary, format and please could he send it in the ISO standard ODF format instead. He did. It worked.
MS formats don't even transfer from one computer to another if you have different printers. Windows is NOT fit for prime time. Its just that some people don't know, and a whole lot of the others were bribed.
Who would want to live in a dysgenic, third-world, overpopulated pile of crap?
Actually, its an alternative to dying in a dysgenic, third-world, overpopulated pile of crap called the USA.
Those people whose education included history, are aware of the French revolution the (English) peasants revolt, WW1 and WW2, and various other incidents. As a result, they understand that, taken as a whole, evidence suggests that if you make the poor suffer enough, the results are quite similar to what is happening with Da'esh in the Middle East. (Mass murder, destruction, etc).
Summary:
Either you enable the poor to survive at some level, or they come and kill you. If there are a lot of them, and not many of you, your chances are not great. Particularly as killing by the undiscriminating tends to be somewhat indiscriminate.
This is the medical profession - they cannot tell the difference between correlation and causation. Of course it is a reasonable to expect people with high (or even above average) risk of heart disease to be more worried about it. However, if you keep thinking like that, you probably won't pass your medical exams, even if you did want to be a doctor - which is unlikely.
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Unfortunately, they were barrels of bullshit.
But how many could survive a winter without cable TV?
The bible says "The slum dwellers will do really well. Ghetto girls are really hot. The posh will be stuffed!" (Your translation might word it a bit differently, but perhaps you should not rely on a 5th century version of Google Translate).
With Trump in the White House, we will be lucky to survive 10 years.
I think you will find St Trinians is British.
Eventually, some of the hardware people will realise that once they have amortized their dev costs, the marginal cost of the same part is close to zero, and someone will start releasing "bog standard" hardware. With several OSes able to support it, the OSes will specialise (Like the *BSDs do now). At least one will probably compete on quality, and presumably several with fight to the death on lack of same.
It has not happened so far because the buyers have relatively little experience - that is changing fast. Almost 50% of the world's population has a smart phone. In 5 years, practically everyone who is able to will have used one. Then the more mature market will ask more questions before they buy - like "where the fuck are the bug fixes?", "why would I buy one that is even thinner that the one I have, if the battery life is shorter than my commute?" and "The phone works fine. Do you really think I will buy one with less features than the one I have paid for that still works?"
The "My phone is bigger/shinier/posher than yours" has run out. No one can tell the most latest, expensive from cheap Chinese ones (except perhaps by the fact that the cheap ones don't burn your legs off).
Or so those of us that pay for it are lead to believe.
I think its going to need a critical mass of super heros! (possibly with support from aliens from several galaxies far away - and we are not talking Ford galaxies, either).
He may or may not take action, but you can be jolly sure it will not be preceded by any planning - or even thinking.
It has long* been suspected that computers fail more often when being sworn at or insulted. Now they can find out if its really true. Given how often people swear at Windows, there should be a lot of data.
* Only yesterday I was reminded of a discussion on this topic I had 30 years ago, and that it wasn't a new idea then - that discussion was about how it had applied in the 1960's.
When your blood sugar level is high, the aqueous humour in your eyes gets filled with sugar, which alters its refractive index and can make it opaque. The result is that your eye muscles continuously try to focus your eyes but are unable to do so, and its very tiring.
What makes you think I cannot tell cause from effect? Are you suggesting that my pre-diabetes condition was brought about by high sugar intake? Few people would have a lower sugar intake than be before the diagnosis. I did not eat sweets or put sugar on my food or drinks, or have sugary drinks even when young (I had diluted squash as a kid, but generally only once a week on Saturdays). The craving for sweet things came after the pre-diabetes diagnosis, and medical researchers say this is common where your diabetes is due to insulin resistance.
In the run up to being diagnosed, I felt completely exhausted, and an absolute craving for sugar. This was during the pre-diabetes state. The most likely explanation is that I was developing insulin resistance, and so was unable to digest the sugar from the Mars bars and Coca-Cola. This is common in insulin resistant type 2 diabetes (the other kind is where you don't produce enough insulin - both are type 2, cos no one had the good sense to call one of them type 3).
So yeah, people who cannot digest sugar are likely to crave more of it to get some energy.
As soon as I was diagnosed and put on Metformin, I stopped wanting coke and Mars bars, and my eyes stopped hurting (unless my blood sugar is high).
The medical profession cannot tell cause from effect.
You might want to turn your TV on (OTOH, maybe not).
Hell, yeah - Trump will replace the robots with sexbots!
Anyway, if you are submitting forms, should they not be pdf to avoid tampering after submission?
I politely emailed him back saying that I had a problem with it, because it was in a non-standard, MS proprietary, format and please could he send it in the ISO standard ODF format instead. He did. It worked.
MS formats don't even transfer from one computer to another if you have different printers. Windows is NOT fit for prime time. Its just that some people don't know, and a whole lot of the others were bribed.
FTFY
You might want to look up "stupid" in the dictionary.
Actually, its an alternative to dying in a dysgenic, third-world, overpopulated pile of crap called the USA.
Those people whose education included history, are aware of the French revolution the (English) peasants revolt, WW1 and WW2, and various other incidents. As a result, they understand that, taken as a whole, evidence suggests that if you make the poor suffer enough, the results are quite similar to what is happening with Da'esh in the Middle East. (Mass murder, destruction, etc).
Summary:
Either you enable the poor to survive at some level, or they come and kill you. If there are a lot of them, and not many of you, your chances are not great. Particularly as killing by the undiscriminating tends to be somewhat indiscriminate.
Is that what you call armed robbery in America?
I am certain Trump is not short of poop. The same applies to all politicians, everywhere.
Oh, wait, so long as we have politicians, energy will be cheap.
Now we finally know how Trump will make America rich again!
It doubles as an emergency escape hatch in case of fire!
This is the medical profession - they cannot tell the difference between correlation and causation. Of course it is a reasonable to expect people with high (or even above average) risk of heart disease to be more worried about it. However, if you keep thinking like that, you probably won't pass your medical exams, even if you did want to be a doctor - which is unlikely.
If you believe that, you will never get an MBA!