No, you are not correct. This was ONLY an issue because Microsoft was deemed to have a monopoly on their OS. If they did not, then they would have been free to force resellers of their products to remove advertisements for competing products. That's an A-OK business practice, except for monopolies.
Did you take the time to note that I said "it looked much better than it did a few months ago" before you copied and pasted your self-hate into a reply?
We are not the sort of country that will ever let a photogenic minority lay dying in the streets. If the law were changed to allow this - in the way you suggest, or for example by eliminating the bare minimum safety net of social security - then there would be enough of an outcry that folks like you would be swept from office, and the law would swing way back towards socialism.
But it's in the interest of both the insurance company and those they cover that the need for such catastrophic care is minimized, by catching the problems early. This costs the insurance company less money overall, and of course means some people avoid health catastrophes. Thus, it's in the best interest of both groups that routine checks and other preventative care be covered. It's only the short-sighted nature of most insurance companies that such care wasn't free already.
You should find a company that has "architect" roles, where you can be a designer of the big picture, and oversee the technical work of less-experienced programmers, and do the tricky parts of the code that interest you while delegating the rest, without having to do the management crap you hate.
In theory, the big company would expect you to work 45 or so hours a week on average, and understand when you have to use your health plan and take time off when you're kids are sick. The startup, on the other hand, is giving you stock options and expects you to work 60 hours a week and oh, they can't afford for you to have (or use) health care, and you certainly can't have that much time off when the launch deadline is looming, but oooh, options, shiny!
All those other things cost the big company money, so the total compensation might be higher. The young don't care about those other things, and take a gamble for a big win with a startup. The natural cycle of life means older people can't do that sort of thing, so they gravitate towards other types of companies, those that know they can pay less in exchange for other benefits.
You can call it ageism or think it's fine but the fact is that ageless startups & corporations and their "big picture" masters regularly exploit the life cycle of their employees to maximize their work vs pay. That's how the business world works.
The Netscape case was because they were bundling their competing product with their OS. It was only because they had an OS monopoly that the IE vs Netscape thing mattered.
If Microsoft were still a monopoly, and made it difficult to use facebook over their own social network (by making every user create a MS Social account, auto logging out Facebook users via IE on every reboot, or whatever else I can make up) they would certainly have been sued. But their monopoly is pretty much broken, and at this point they'll only lose suits in consumer space based on legacy holdover resentment.
I was in Asia for a few weeks, and was auto logged out from my work computer. Today, when I checked Slashdot at lunch while logged out, I was presented with this strange, foreign beta site. It looked much better than it did a few months ago, and then I logged in and turned it off. So it's still being foisted on the anonymous masses.
On topic: When is it different that the best and brightest are lured by the flashy companies making the "cool" products and offering low wages and the potential for exploding options, as opposed to working for the existing big companies with all their processes and proper-market-valuation that make them boring and predictable? It's been like this for at least 15 years. Sure, when the economy is down, the big guys are safer, but when the money and drugs and alcohol are flowing (and, this year at least from what I've seen at SXSW, the alcohol and drugs are flowing), young startups are the place to be for people with big ambitions and no responsibilities.
LPs sound better when they remind you of how the music sounded when you were listening to it as a child, with your mom or dad, when they're cleaning or reading the newspaper. Its nostalgia, or iterating over good audio memories, or whatever you want to call that.
People who are too young for that experience and claim to prefer LPs just decided to develop a taste for the noise, in the same way a determined cigarette smoker might fight through the initial coughing fits to get "hooked on the flavor".
I was pretty careful with my wallet walking through the SXSW crowd last night. My fault for going downtown to dinner, but I still didn't feel particularly safe about it.
WoW gold also has value, can be sold (someone is willing to pay for it), etc. However Blizzard could stop renewing subscriptions and then shut off the servers, and people with gold balances would have no legal recourse, even in the U.S. where assets are more loosely defined the way you think they should be. The same would be true, for example, for Magic: The Gathering online cards and currency, which could be easily shut off in bankruptcy without legal resource to card or currency holders.
In Japan, law related to assets is a little more strict, and digital currency not backed by a world government simply doesn't count under any circumstances, whether you agreed to its value via EULA or not.
Encrypting your phone does nothing because you decrypt it every time you power it on, and you always have your phone on, don't you?
But the first thing any thief will do is turn it off by pulling the battery, so it can't be located. When they next power it on, that encryption might help.
A USD is a representation of a monetary asset; as of right now a Bitcoin is regarded more as a fixed asset, such as a stock certificate. It's not cash and isn't treated the same way.
It lacks the last mile connection to anywhere outside of downtown, or reasonably-timed connections to take more than one bus anywhere. And I say that living a few hundred feet from the 3 route.
It's still momentarily strange to see a sign that points out an extra pancake on your stack is a $20 surcharge. The part of my brain that processes conversions is apparently a bit slower than the part that reads signs.
We stayed at the GoodView Hotel in Tangxia. With a good corporate rate it was just $117 a night including buffet breakfast, and is a resort including indoor pools and spa, outdoor activities, weak drinks, and secured property you can walk around on safely. It's far enough away from industry that the air was usually decent at ground level, though there was still no sky. The first sun I saw in a week was in the hotel shuttle this morning just after we crossed the bridge into Hong Kong.
I was in Shenzhen yesterday, and a few other sites in Guangdong for the week before that. The continual gray haze gets to after a few days, beats you down, and holds you there. I have a residual cough. I took a chance to go on the company dime, but don't ever consider it a place for a holiday.
-- typing from LAX twenty-four hours into my transit home
Google sees the number of people using email dropping, and place at least some of the blame on unwanted (perhaps unsolicited, perhaps not) email cluttering their users' inboxes. People are replacing email with Facebook and Twitter though, both products that Google doesn't own and can't as easily mine for profit, so it's in Google's interest to help you only receive the mail you want to receive.
I'm not doubting or denying your point that you and I aren't Google's customers, but at the same time I think what's in Google's best interests (keeping our gmail inboxes spam-free so we'll continue to use gmail) and our interests (keeping our gmail inboxes spam-free so we'll continue to use our gmail) are the same.
The neat part is that, if you take the first bit of each byte of the proof and string them all together, you get a complete HD MPEG copy of The Matrix.
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No, you are not correct. This was ONLY an issue because Microsoft was deemed to have a monopoly on their OS. If they did not, then they would have been free to force resellers of their products to remove advertisements for competing products. That's an A-OK business practice, except for monopolies.
Did you take the time to note that I said "it looked much better than it did a few months ago" before you copied and pasted your self-hate into a reply?
We are not the sort of country that will ever let a photogenic minority lay dying in the streets. If the law were changed to allow this - in the way you suggest, or for example by eliminating the bare minimum safety net of social security - then there would be enough of an outcry that folks like you would be swept from office, and the law would swing way back towards socialism.
But it's in the interest of both the insurance company and those they cover that the need for such catastrophic care is minimized, by catching the problems early. This costs the insurance company less money overall, and of course means some people avoid health catastrophes. Thus, it's in the best interest of both groups that routine checks and other preventative care be covered. It's only the short-sighted nature of most insurance companies that such care wasn't free already.
You should find a company that has "architect" roles, where you can be a designer of the big picture, and oversee the technical work of less-experienced programmers, and do the tricky parts of the code that interest you while delegating the rest, without having to do the management crap you hate.
In theory, the big company would expect you to work 45 or so hours a week on average, and understand when you have to use your health plan and take time off when you're kids are sick. The startup, on the other hand, is giving you stock options and expects you to work 60 hours a week and oh, they can't afford for you to have (or use) health care, and you certainly can't have that much time off when the launch deadline is looming, but oooh, options, shiny!
All those other things cost the big company money, so the total compensation might be higher. The young don't care about those other things, and take a gamble for a big win with a startup. The natural cycle of life means older people can't do that sort of thing, so they gravitate towards other types of companies, those that know they can pay less in exchange for other benefits.
You can call it ageism or think it's fine but the fact is that ageless startups & corporations and their "big picture" masters regularly exploit the life cycle of their employees to maximize their work vs pay. That's how the business world works.
The Netscape case was because they were bundling their competing product with their OS. It was only because they had an OS monopoly that the IE vs Netscape thing mattered.
If Microsoft were still a monopoly, and made it difficult to use facebook over their own social network (by making every user create a MS Social account, auto logging out Facebook users via IE on every reboot, or whatever else I can make up) they would certainly have been sued. But their monopoly is pretty much broken, and at this point they'll only lose suits in consumer space based on legacy holdover resentment.
I was in Asia for a few weeks, and was auto logged out from my work computer. Today, when I checked Slashdot at lunch while logged out, I was presented with this strange, foreign beta site. It looked much better than it did a few months ago, and then I logged in and turned it off. So it's still being foisted on the anonymous masses.
On topic: When is it different that the best and brightest are lured by the flashy companies making the "cool" products and offering low wages and the potential for exploding options, as opposed to working for the existing big companies with all their processes and proper-market-valuation that make them boring and predictable? It's been like this for at least 15 years. Sure, when the economy is down, the big guys are safer, but when the money and drugs and alcohol are flowing (and, this year at least from what I've seen at SXSW, the alcohol and drugs are flowing), young startups are the place to be for people with big ambitions and no responsibilities.
LPs sound better when they remind you of how the music sounded when you were listening to it as a child, with your mom or dad, when they're cleaning or reading the newspaper. Its nostalgia, or iterating over good audio memories, or whatever you want to call that.
People who are too young for that experience and claim to prefer LPs just decided to develop a taste for the noise, in the same way a determined cigarette smoker might fight through the initial coughing fits to get "hooked on the flavor".
I was pretty careful with my wallet walking through the SXSW crowd last night. My fault for going downtown to dinner, but I still didn't feel particularly safe about it.
This was in Hong Kong IIRC, at the Spaghetti House in the airport.
Just cross your fingers and wait a few more years?
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WoW gold also has value, can be sold (someone is willing to pay for it), etc. However Blizzard could stop renewing subscriptions and then shut off the servers, and people with gold balances would have no legal recourse, even in the U.S. where assets are more loosely defined the way you think they should be. The same would be true, for example, for Magic: The Gathering online cards and currency, which could be easily shut off in bankruptcy without legal resource to card or currency holders.
In Japan, law related to assets is a little more strict, and digital currency not backed by a world government simply doesn't count under any circumstances, whether you agreed to its value via EULA or not.
Encrypting your phone does nothing because you decrypt it every time you power it on, and you always have your phone on, don't you?
But the first thing any thief will do is turn it off by pulling the battery, so it can't be located. When they next power it on, that encryption might help.
a.k.a. everywhere on this planet, at least
A USD is a representation of a monetary asset; as of right now a Bitcoin is regarded more as a fixed asset, such as a stock certificate. It's not cash and isn't treated the same way.
It lacks the last mile connection to anywhere outside of downtown, or reasonably-timed connections to take more than one bus anywhere. And I say that living a few hundred feet from the 3 route.
After living here for a decade, it started hitting me a few years back. Tends to knock me out for a full week in January each year.
We certainly avoided the steamy season, if that's the alternative. But I didn't pick the travel dates regardless.
It's still momentarily strange to see a sign that points out an extra pancake on your stack is a $20 surcharge. The part of my brain that processes conversions is apparently a bit slower than the part that reads signs.
We stayed at the GoodView Hotel in Tangxia. With a good corporate rate it was just $117 a night including buffet breakfast, and is a resort including indoor pools and spa, outdoor activities, weak drinks, and secured property you can walk around on safely. It's far enough away from industry that the air was usually decent at ground level, though there was still no sky. The first sun I saw in a week was in the hotel shuttle this morning just after we crossed the bridge into Hong Kong.
I was in Shenzhen yesterday, and a few other sites in Guangdong for the week before that. The continual gray haze gets to after a few days, beats you down, and holds you there. I have a residual cough. I took a chance to go on the company dime, but don't ever consider it a place for a holiday.
-- typing from LAX twenty-four hours into my transit home
Then they'll lose more customers to Facebook messaging instead of email, and they'll make less money.
Google sees the number of people using email dropping, and place at least some of the blame on unwanted (perhaps unsolicited, perhaps not) email cluttering their users' inboxes. People are replacing email with Facebook and Twitter though, both products that Google doesn't own and can't as easily mine for profit, so it's in Google's interest to help you only receive the mail you want to receive.
I'm not doubting or denying your point that you and I aren't Google's customers, but at the same time I think what's in Google's best interests (keeping our gmail inboxes spam-free so we'll continue to use gmail) and our interests (keeping our gmail inboxes spam-free so we'll continue to use our gmail) are the same.
The neat part is that, if you take the first bit of each byte of the proof and string them all together, you get a complete HD MPEG copy of The Matrix.