I actually agree with you in that location. I was just pointing out that singling out amazon is the wrong approach. Either everyone should pay more for this work or not.
$12/hour to sort boxes were I live is a little on the low side, in even bigger cities you would find no employees. Here even McDonalds is advertising over $10/hour for some shifts.
I have no problem with paying the same price everywhere. I do have a problem with not being able to find the best price as quickly as possible.
Dumping is already illegal.
Mom and pop shops often were worse than walmart. I worked in some as a kid and they loved part time work, they loved to keep you on training pay(PA at the time allowed a short period of time of lower than minimum wage for training) for over the legal limit. They would go so far as to fire and rehire the same person over and over for that last one.
You are missing one very obvious solution, do not allow resellers. You can use amazon as a storefront but sell your own products. Resellers are a middle man and like most should simply be eliminated if they don't provide value for both ends of the transaction.
MAP is nothing more than collusion. I think they should be flatly illegal. In a totally free market no one would ever obey them.
You don't want a free market you want a market that is ruled the way you like.
The correct solution to amazon paying this little is just to raise the minimum wage for this job. If you don't want to do that, then you think this wage is fine.
If that is the case, why not just play on the PC? If it can't at least be usable at the Mcdonalds down the road or the starbucks a block further it seems totally useless.
As much as I rag on Apple they should get a refund from the Patent Office, and something for their trouble.
The Patent office should not hand out patents then take them back. It should have never been issued and their fees should at least be refunded. The examiner who granted this as some serious explaining to do.
I did however select a Honda, they are made in large volume and as such can be built from up to date parts. To continue this stupid analogy you are hoping for a garage builder to build you a supercar at average car prices. You are expecting a low volume device to have the fit and finish of a mass run. Go look at those hand built super cars, check out the body gaps and the noises the dash makes.
So instead of being a realist and knowing that without volume you can't get good SOCs, I should take a risk based on your dreams?
I suspect you are under 25. Age tends to kill of those kinds of flights of fancy.
At best case it will be like the Ouya, the SOC will be mediocre by the time it ships. They got their tegra 3 now that everyone else is shipping tegra 4 parts.
They have comparatively little money, no manpower on hardware and not much innovation in that space.
Heck, none of those matter as much as having a relationship with someone who can build this stuff. Who is even going to build them? What is the part number for the SOC? Where are they buying these sapphire screens?
It is not FUD, it is my own fear. Shuttleworth has done a lot for the community, but I can't expect him to put himself in the poorhouse. You think he will really order 10x as many SOCs as he needs for the phone just to get top of the line parts?
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I actually agree with you in that location. I was just pointing out that singling out amazon is the wrong approach. Either everyone should pay more for this work or not.
$12/hour to sort boxes were I live is a little on the low side, in even bigger cities you would find no employees. Here even McDonalds is advertising over $10/hour for some shifts.
I have no problem with paying the same price everywhere. I do have a problem with not being able to find the best price as quickly as possible.
Dumping is already illegal.
Mom and pop shops often were worse than walmart. I worked in some as a kid and they loved part time work, they loved to keep you on training pay(PA at the time allowed a short period of time of lower than minimum wage for training) for over the legal limit. They would go so far as to fire and rehire the same person over and over for that last one.
You are missing one very obvious solution, do not allow resellers. You can use amazon as a storefront but sell your own products. Resellers are a middle man and like most should simply be eliminated if they don't provide value for both ends of the transaction.
I don't carry my netbook everywhere. I like to game on the go. I leave the netbook in the car.
The last such platform?
So no other UNIXes still exist?
There are other POSIX compliant desktops available on the market not made by Apple?
MAP is nothing more than collusion.
I think they should be flatly illegal. In a totally free market no one would ever obey them.
You don't want a free market you want a market that is ruled the way you like.
The correct solution to amazon paying this little is just to raise the minimum wage for this job. If you don't want to do that, then you think this wage is fine.
If that is the case, why not just play on the PC?
If it can't at least be usable at the Mcdonalds down the road or the starbucks a block further it seems totally useless.
And how in the hell is that portable?
Are you wearing MC hammer pants?
Yeah, I am going with my guess that you are sub 25.
Then they should not issue patents.
If they cannot determine their validity why are they issuing them?
I want them to penalize the patent examiner.
By making the patent office pay they are encouraged to do that.
You might be correct though.
Sure, but if you think it is novel and the government agrees then changes its mind that is wrong.
I don't think it was novel, you don't, but someone did at some point.
As much as I rag on Apple they should get a refund from the Patent Office, and something for their trouble.
The Patent office should not hand out patents then take them back. It should have never been issued and their fees should at least be refunded. The examiner who granted this as some serious explaining to do.
Be careful of that, infection can kill.
I would suggest you call dental schools in your area. A simple extraction can be done there pretty cheaply.
The beer I mentioned has no bitterness. The IBUs are below what most humans can even detect.
There are quite likely a dozen beer styles that meet this requirement.
Not that I don't also like bitter beer, the Sam Adams IPL is really neat since it tastes like grapefruit.
10.3 should help considerably if TRIM can be enabled on that device.
Correct sir, wait hard cider? You are a girl right?
Eh, just messing with you. I like the stuff fine, just for apple you have to go to apfelwein for it to be worth it.
You may email me at gmail at this username if by some miracle you win. I am rooting for that outcome actually.
You sound like a nice guy, how about we simply put a 6 pack on it? Rather than pointlessly speculate.
I will take Paulaner hefe, for the children size bottles they sell in the USA it goes about $10 a sixer.
What beer would you like?
The terms are if it ships on time and with the named specs you win, else I get my beer.
I am suggesting they are not comparable goods.
I never bought a yugo either.
I did however select a Honda, they are made in large volume and as such can be built from up to date parts. To continue this stupid analogy you are hoping for a garage builder to build you a supercar at average car prices. You are expecting a low volume device to have the fit and finish of a mass run. Go look at those hand built super cars, check out the body gaps and the noises the dash makes.
By which point they will be mediocre specs.
A sapphire screen and 128GB storage is only good because it is better than the average.
I have no iOS devices. As far as I am concerned IOS is something routers run.
Try again. Instead I buy Nexus devices, because they actually exist. The markup on these devices is not 100%. Nor are the margins on cars that good.
When you find a car that much cheaper the left something out. Quite often stuff you don't care about. That does not make it the same though.
So instead of being a realist and knowing that without volume you can't get good SOCs, I should take a risk based on your dreams?
I suspect you are under 25. Age tends to kill of those kinds of flights of fancy.
At best case it will be like the Ouya, the SOC will be mediocre by the time it ships. They got their tegra 3 now that everyone else is shipping tegra 4 parts.
Why does that matter?
If no one else uses this phone it hurts the owner not at all, since he can run android apps.
Linux is everywhere, every android phone, every server room, nearly every consumer router, many TVs.
If you have to budget that, then you probably should just get rid of the smartphone plan.
I would not have one if work did not pay for it. $100/month for internet on the go is insane if not for work.
They have comparatively little money, no manpower on hardware and not much innovation in that space.
Heck, none of those matter as much as having a relationship with someone who can build this stuff. Who is even going to build them? What is the part number for the SOC? Where are they buying these sapphire screens?
It is not FUD, it is my own fear. Shuttleworth has done a lot for the community, but I can't expect him to put himself in the poorhouse. You think he will really order 10x as many SOCs as he needs for the phone just to get top of the line parts?