and an X Server. And a driver framework for that X Server. And an init system. And....
That's sorta been the problem. Nobody ever stepped in and sorted out a _way_ to do common things. Sure, Microsoft's way isn't always the best. It's full of holes and quirks. But at least it's something. It's sorta like Ruby on Rails. It might not be the best way to write web apps, but it says to you: This is how we do it. Period. So you don't have to support 8 different ways of doing the same damn thing...
British Steel, like American Steel, couldn't compete with slave labor. Heck, I shouldn't call them slaves. You _own_ a slave, so you at least try to keep it running. Chinese Workers have even less value.
Read your sig, btw. Liberty is economic security. If you lack economic security you'll do whatever the guy with money tells you to do. Sooner or later you'll get hungry enough. You'll break. Everyone does. Hunger and poverty make animals out of us all...
but the dealers run the parts network. Also, car companies keep parts around because of laws that say they have to, not because they love you as a customer.
I don't trust Tesla not to drop me like a rock when it's no longer profitable to support me...
thought I'd chime in on why dealerships are getting a free ride before the thread is choked with constitutionalists:P.
Dealers stock parts and provide a distribution network for said parts. This is why my '94 Honda Accord still runs (and why my Volvo 240 DL would have been running if that $#%@! hadn't rear ended me).
If we remove the dealer who is going to stock parts, deliver them, and install them? I'm sure you can come up with a thousand free market answers, but the fact is running that sort of business is _expensive_. Most of the obvious solutions become races to the bottom. Eventually either you stop getting parts and service for cars after 5 years or your start getting gouged in ways you can only imagine.
So yeah, it's a bit more complex an issue then just: Dealers Bad! Tesla Good!....
Democrat in Name Only. There's several of them. Plus the Dems aren't really in power. The Republicans have threatened to drive this country over a cliff multiple times (debt ceiling). This last time the Pres said: "Go for it, I think we can survive and you won't", but it wasn't that he called their bluff. They were never bluffing. The only reason they backed down is they thought they'd be hurt themselves....
it's that we're losing _any_. We've had 30 years of constant productivity increases. These are the sort of jobs we were promised would replace all the Manufacturing jobs that went away for those 30 years. Now some of them are going away. It's suppose to be growing, not shrinking.
when all the manufacturing moved to Mexico & China. It happened almost overnight, but they still had millions of people and a large infrastructure. Naturally the tax base collapse and the schools became hopelessly underfunded while their students struggled with a level of poverty normally reserved for blasted out sections of Afghanistan.
I know it's fashionable to blame Detroit's problems on the Evil Tax And Spend Democrats (tm), but even a cursory glance at the facts proves it otherwise.
Jokes aside this stuff scares me. It's basically the rich getting their social services without letting the poors have them. Very few people recognize the tremendous amount of luck that goes into becoming and then staying wealthy. It basically means either a) life was handed to you on a silver plate or b) absolutely nothing major ever went wrong in your life or the lives of your immediate family.
It's like how the fund the schools here with property tax. They don't do that to be fair. They do it so the rich don't have to pay for the poor's educations.
Now, on the topic of why the rich _should_ be paying for that. Well, that's the price of a stable and progressive civilization.
Yeah, but what do we do with all the people. Japan is lousy with engineers, but their economy sucks. Plus we just don't _need_ that many highly skilled engineers. Sure, we could always use more Einsteins, but they're one in a million genetic freaks. We can't just stamp those guys out no matter how much we try.
The price is ridiculous, but I don't see a problem with them charging to do the installation. OTOH Mozilla might have the right to limit use of their icons. But GPL is GPL, you have certain rights to redistribute. That's why IceCat (formerly Ice Weasel) exists.
There's no manufacturing to speak of in America. It costs too much to employe Americans. If you bring back manufacturing you bring robots to automate 90% of it.
Turns out, the world doesn't really need ditch diggers anymore...
My kid's 2 year old iPhone runs iOS 6 (albeit without some features). In contrast, my 2 year old Android (an el cheapo, It's been a tough couple years, and I'd rather the kid have a nice phone than me) runs 2.3.3.
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PHP works, it's fast as heck, and I can do anything you can do in python/perl just as well and way faster. My host for my hobby site (Shameless Plug) gives me php and a mysql DB for $7 bucks a month, and that's probably more than I should be paying. If I want perl/python that goes up to $100/mo...
What alternatives does a young person have to getting a 4 year degree? If you happen to land a _really_ sweet job or you happen to be someone that can get by on 4 hours sleep a night you can slowly work you're work your way though school. Otherwise every time and all your time goes into survival.
No one forced you? You really have no idea what life was like in America until about 1950 and what it is like in most of the rest of the world. Just google "Company Store" and "16 tons" and call it a day. Or read "A people's history of the United States". Also this. A few very lucky people have options. The rich and powerful are working to remove those options.
So I guess I'll qualify my statement: What are the alternatives for those of use that aren't very lucky.
Companies don't train anymore. They won't even look at you if you're not carrying a 4 year degree. Why should they? Congress will give them all the Work Visas they want.
if you understand it or not. You still don't have a choice. Right now major employers won't even look at your resume unless you've got a 4 year degree. The HR filters just toss you right out.
Requiring degrees has lots of benefits for employers. You get a more desperate employee (they've got a tonne of debt after all). Odds are you don't have to spend a dime training an employee. If you don't get enough employees you can run to Congress and ask for more work Visas.
The real problem here is that the 1%ers that have most of the wealth are happy to sit on their cash until a better deal comes around. So we're the people that hold the purse strings have no incentive to push education. We used to use a 90% tax bracket to force them to "use it or lose it" and then the gov't poured that money into education. It's all about idle capacity in the economy.
The scam is they just keep raising it every 3 months until they get to the real price. They'll send you all these wonderful letters about how they've "Upgraded" you're connection in the meantime, but they don't actually change your package (because they do technically have an agreement with you).
It's basically a round about way to force you into the higher tier packages. If you call ask for lesser service they offer you 300 kbps for $45/mo.
regular end users (e.g. like my kid) don't mind it at all. Especially once it started booting to a desktop. If the tech had been there to do cheap x86 tablet PCs that didn't get so hot you could fry an egg on them I think it woulda gone over just fine.
Microsoft is looking at google giving away Android/Chrome and wondering if they should do the same. The Office 360 revenue is way more than Windows revenue. The only question is if they give away Windows can they sell other services on top of it that bring in recurring revenue. Sure, they give up a $50 profit on Windows, but if that means $20/year in office fees for 5 years they come out ahead.
grand parent is right. Every now and then I have to explain to a family member why they have to pay $100 bucks to Microsoft for that nice computer that bought at the swap meet from the nice man...
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and an X Server. And a driver framework for that X Server. And an init system. And....
That's sorta been the problem. Nobody ever stepped in and sorted out a _way_ to do common things. Sure, Microsoft's way isn't always the best. It's full of holes and quirks. But at least it's something. It's sorta like Ruby on Rails. It might not be the best way to write web apps, but it says to you: This is how we do it. Period. So you don't have to support 8 different ways of doing the same damn thing...
British Steel, like American Steel, couldn't compete with slave labor. Heck, I shouldn't call them slaves. You _own_ a slave, so you at least try to keep it running. Chinese Workers have even less value.
our liberal leanings are _Civilized_ standards.
Read your sig, btw. Liberty is economic security. If you lack economic security you'll do whatever the guy with money tells you to do. Sooner or later you'll get hungry enough. You'll break. Everyone does. Hunger and poverty make animals out of us all...
Right Here. Interesting read. Yeah, yeah, causation, correlation, but still an interesting read.
but the dealers run the parts network. Also, car companies keep parts around because of laws that say they have to, not because they love you as a customer.
I don't trust Tesla not to drop me like a rock when it's no longer profitable to support me...
thought I'd chime in on why dealerships are getting a free ride before the thread is choked with constitutionalists :P.
Dealers stock parts and provide a distribution network for said parts. This is why my '94 Honda Accord still runs (and why my Volvo 240 DL would have been running if that $#%@! hadn't rear ended me).
If we remove the dealer who is going to stock parts, deliver them, and install them? I'm sure you can come up with a thousand free market answers, but the fact is running that sort of business is _expensive_. Most of the obvious solutions become races to the bottom. Eventually either you stop getting parts and service for cars after 5 years or your start getting gouged in ways you can only imagine.
So yeah, it's a bit more complex an issue then just: Dealers Bad! Tesla Good!....
Democrat in Name Only. There's several of them. Plus the Dems aren't really in power. The Republicans have threatened to drive this country over a cliff multiple times (debt ceiling). This last time the Pres said: "Go for it, I think we can survive and you won't", but it wasn't that he called their bluff. They were never bluffing. The only reason they backed down is they thought they'd be hurt themselves....
it's that we're losing _any_. We've had 30 years of constant productivity increases. These are the sort of jobs we were promised would replace all the Manufacturing jobs that went away for those 30 years. Now some of them are going away. It's suppose to be growing, not shrinking.
when all the manufacturing moved to Mexico & China. It happened almost overnight, but they still had millions of people and a large infrastructure. Naturally the tax base collapse and the schools became hopelessly underfunded while their students struggled with a level of poverty normally reserved for blasted out sections of Afghanistan.
I know it's fashionable to blame Detroit's problems on the Evil Tax And Spend Democrats (tm), but even a cursory glance at the facts proves it otherwise.
beat me to the explanation :)
Jokes aside this stuff scares me. It's basically the rich getting their social services without letting the poors have them. Very few people recognize the tremendous amount of luck that goes into becoming and then staying wealthy. It basically means either a) life was handed to you on a silver plate or b) absolutely nothing major ever went wrong in your life or the lives of your immediate family.
It's like how the fund the schools here with property tax. They don't do that to be fair. They do it so the rich don't have to pay for the poor's educations.
Now, on the topic of why the rich _should_ be paying for that. Well, that's the price of a stable and progressive civilization.
For what it's woth, these are the kind of tools you need to see Android in the enterprise.
Mozilla gives away the code and a lot of the assets, but they keep the icons and names (Firefox is Trademarked).
Yeah, but what do we do with all the people. Japan is lousy with engineers, but their economy sucks. Plus we just don't _need_ that many highly skilled engineers. Sure, we could always use more Einsteins, but they're one in a million genetic freaks. We can't just stamp those guys out no matter how much we try.
The price is ridiculous, but I don't see a problem with them charging to do the installation. OTOH Mozilla might have the right to limit use of their icons. But GPL is GPL, you have certain rights to redistribute. That's why IceCat (formerly Ice Weasel) exists.
There's no manufacturing to speak of in America. It costs too much to employe Americans. If you bring back manufacturing you bring robots to automate 90% of it.
Turns out, the world doesn't really need ditch diggers anymore...
My kid's 2 year old iPhone runs iOS 6 (albeit without some features). In contrast, my 2 year old Android (an el cheapo, It's been a tough couple years, and I'd rather the kid have a nice phone than me) runs 2.3.3.
I've never done my own garbage collection, and PHP just updated it in 5.3.
PHP works, it's fast as heck, and I can do anything you can do in python/perl just as well and way faster. My host for my hobby site (Shameless Plug) gives me php and a mysql DB for $7 bucks a month, and that's probably more than I should be paying. If I want perl/python that goes up to $100/mo...
What alternatives does a young person have to getting a 4 year degree? If you happen to land a _really_ sweet job or you happen to be someone that can get by on 4 hours sleep a night you can slowly work you're work your way though school. Otherwise every time and all your time goes into survival.
No one forced you? You really have no idea what life was like in America until about 1950 and what it is like in most of the rest of the world. Just google "Company Store" and "16 tons" and call it a day. Or read "A people's history of the United States". Also this. A few very lucky people have options. The rich and powerful are working to remove those options.
So I guess I'll qualify my statement: What are the alternatives for those of use that aren't very lucky.
Like Cars? Like Doctors? Like the Internet? Power Grid?
You benefit TREMENDOUSLY from their education. You're just conveniently ignoring that fact because it happens to suit you right no.
Companies don't train anymore. They won't even look at you if you're not carrying a 4 year degree. Why should they? Congress will give them all the Work Visas they want.
if you understand it or not. You still don't have a choice. Right now major employers won't even look at your resume unless you've got a 4 year degree. The HR filters just toss you right out.
Requiring degrees has lots of benefits for employers. You get a more desperate employee (they've got a tonne of debt after all). Odds are you don't have to spend a dime training an employee. If you don't get enough employees you can run to Congress and ask for more work Visas.
The real problem here is that the 1%ers that have most of the wealth are happy to sit on their cash until a better deal comes around. So we're the people that hold the purse strings have no incentive to push education. We used to use a 90% tax bracket to force them to "use it or lose it" and then the gov't poured that money into education. It's all about idle capacity in the economy.
The scam is they just keep raising it every 3 months until they get to the real price. They'll send you all these wonderful letters about how they've "Upgraded" you're connection in the meantime, but they don't actually change your package (because they do technically have an agreement with you).
It's basically a round about way to force you into the higher tier packages. If you call ask for lesser service they offer you 300 kbps for $45/mo.
regular end users (e.g. like my kid) don't mind it at all. Especially once it started booting to a desktop. If the tech had been there to do cheap x86 tablet PCs that didn't get so hot you could fry an egg on them I think it woulda gone over just fine.
Microsoft is looking at google giving away Android/Chrome and wondering if they should do the same. The Office 360 revenue is way more than Windows revenue. The only question is if they give away Windows can they sell other services on top of it that bring in recurring revenue. Sure, they give up a $50 profit on Windows, but if that means $20/year in office fees for 5 years they come out ahead.
grand parent is right. Every now and then I have to explain to a family member why they have to pay $100 bucks to Microsoft for that nice computer that bought at the swap meet from the nice man...