What the fuck does that have to do with being a socialist?!?
How can you enforce socialism in a world where anyone can make anything they want in their garage?
This is why socialists hate progress so much; they know they're rapidly becoming utterly irrelevant, and are desperate to roll the world back to the 50s. 'Rise up and seize the means of production, comrades!' 'Uh, you mean the 3D printer in my garage?'
Except the only 'manufactured goods' they'll want to buy are 3D printers. You'd have to start World War IP, to force draconian copyright laws on them. Oh, wait...
Manufacturing is a dead end. In thirty years, most 'manufacturing' will consist of downloading a design from the Net and loading it into a 3D printer, either in your garage or the local print shop.
Anyone who thinks we're ever going back to the 1950s economy, with vast numbers of well-paid manufacturing jobs for low-skilled workers, is either deluded, or a socialist. Oh, wait...
Who typed this BS and why did you deem it necessary to repeat it here on slashdot?
To be fair, they are. Android's privacy policy for years has been 'you don't have any, once you click to install that screensaver that wants every possible permission so it can spy on you'. Microsoft's privacy policy with Windows 10 is apparently now 'ha-ha-ha.'
Apple are the holdout, among major commercial operating systems where the standard privacy policy is moving to 'all spyware, all the time'. Which is why I replaced my Android tablet with an iPad some time ago.
Of course, I do wish it accepted MicroSD cards (or any for that matter) but otherwise it's great.
Not much point, when Google made SD cards pretty much useless in a recent update. Few apps will now install there, and some that will install there don't actually work if you try.
Oh, yeah, and my Android phone does have an SD card, which it randomly corrupts for no obvious reason. One of the few things you can push to the SD card are photos and videos from the phone camera... but they're unlikely to be there when you want to view them.
I've seen software that depends on bugs to function
Back in the 90s, I had to intentionally reproduce Microsoft bugs in my Windows drivers, or various apps that had never been run with non-Microsoft drivers would fall over...
But, yeah, let's make Linux do things the Windows way, so you have sixteen copies of different versions of zlib.dll spread across your disk, all with different security holes. Because you know it makes sense!
Unless you want to launch really expensive fireworks, of course... they're good at that.
And NASA has probably launched the most expensive fireworks in history. If I remember correctly, replacing Challenger cost over $2,000,000,000 (and the total cost would have been more than $5,000,000,000 if you include the costs of not launching anything for a year or two afterwards).
What do you think the chances are of a successful launch of a rocket that only flies every couple of years? Would you really want to stick a multi-billion dollar payload on top of it?
What's bad is that it's so expensive that no-one can afford to launch anything on it.
If it flies once a year, the launch costs are expected to be around $5,000,000,000 a time. That's close to fifty SpaceX launches. If it flies every two years, as seems more likely, the cost will be closer to $10,000,000,000 a time.
Microsoft's only hope is that people get so fed up with Android's constant security problems that they decide they're willing to live with the constant spyware problems, and switch to Windows instead.
Same ole' bullshit from you, ledow. Microsoft Windows is still the leader in desktop operating systems for PCs.
And Microsmack, Inc, is still the leader in buggy whips.
Last story I remember reading here said the free, nagware upgrade to Windows 10 had only managed to snag as many users as Vista. They can't even manage to give away their new operating system!
But the left keep claiming that Star Trek is a 'post-scarcity society'. In a post-scarcity society, you just click your fingers and you have a boat. You click your fingers, and you have a starship.
That's what 'post-scarcity' means. If you can't click your fingers and have a fleet of starships so vast that they block out the stars, you don't live in a post-scarcity society.
(Of course, as any sane person knows, 'post-scarcity' is just a left-wing codeword for Communism. Which, as those sane people know, is an economic system where you queue up for six hours because there's a rumour the store may have toilet paper, then get trampled to death in the rush when they open the doors.)
The majority will do what they're told, comrade! Because the Party knows best!
Funny, isn't it, that the left used to claim the world would be a much better place, and the workers would be much better off, if they were in charge? Now history has proven what a disaster their policies are, they tell us the workers don't want much anyway, and are quite happy to queue up for six hours to buy a roll of toilet paper... and will be grateful that they got some.
In real world socialism, the majority live crammed in Stalinist tower blocks, but the Important People always get their Zil limos, and dachas in the country.
But that's OK, because those limos and dachas aren't EVIL PRIVATE PROPERTY, so they're just as equal as everyone else. Who could all have limos and dachas, if only they were Important People, too.
A correction, the majority of people do not have "ever increasing unlimited desires and wants", only a tiny minority.
Yeah, right. Everyone wouldn't want their own starship, if they lived in a 'post-scarcity' Star Trek society. People would just be lining up to be Redshirts, rather than starship captains.
Back in the real world, the left just have no imagination.
Because I have a NASA document somewhere which I believe is from the 70s or 80s, which talks about hitching rides in this way. Except, in that case, they were going to use a net rather than a tether.
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And it would STILL be 50% more productive than an American one ...
Because they send all the unproductive cows to the slaughterhouse.
Actually, it would seem to be quite the opposite. This ensures that, once you buy a Monsanto bull, you won't be allowed to clone it.
What the fuck does that have to do with being a socialist?!?
How can you enforce socialism in a world where anyone can make anything they want in their garage?
This is why socialists hate progress so much; they know they're rapidly becoming utterly irrelevant, and are desperate to roll the world back to the 50s. 'Rise up and seize the means of production, comrades!' 'Uh, you mean the 3D printer in my garage?'
Except the only 'manufactured goods' they'll want to buy are 3D printers. You'd have to start World War IP, to force draconian copyright laws on them. Oh, wait...
Manufacturing is a dead end. In thirty years, most 'manufacturing' will consist of downloading a design from the Net and loading it into a 3D printer, either in your garage or the local print shop.
Anyone who thinks we're ever going back to the 1950s economy, with vast numbers of well-paid manufacturing jobs for low-skilled workers, is either deluded, or a socialist. Oh, wait...
Who typed this BS and why did you deem it necessary to repeat it here on slashdot?
To be fair, they are. Android's privacy policy for years has been 'you don't have any, once you click to install that screensaver that wants every possible permission so it can spy on you'. Microsoft's privacy policy with Windows 10 is apparently now 'ha-ha-ha.'
Apple are the holdout, among major commercial operating systems where the standard privacy policy is moving to 'all spyware, all the time'. Which is why I replaced my Android tablet with an iPad some time ago.
But... but... how are companies going to monetize paradigm synergies in your data, if they don't have your data?
Of course, I do wish it accepted MicroSD cards (or any for that matter) but otherwise it's great.
Not much point, when Google made SD cards pretty much useless in a recent update. Few apps will now install there, and some that will install there don't actually work if you try.
Oh, yeah, and my Android phone does have an SD card, which it randomly corrupts for no obvious reason. One of the few things you can push to the SD card are photos and videos from the phone camera... but they're unlikely to be there when you want to view them.
Why do Apple devices have so little memory?
Because they don't run Java, so they don't have to deal with all that garbage collection crap that massively bloats memory requirements.
Yes. Because just imagine what life would be like if you couldn't watch the latest funny cat video on Youtube! It would hardly be worth living!
Google is a company that sells ads. That's all. Our ancestors lived for tens of thousands of years without ads, and can live without them again.
pray tell what is the standard package manager for "the unix way"?
It's called 'make'.
I've seen software that depends on bugs to function
Back in the 90s, I had to intentionally reproduce Microsoft bugs in my Windows drivers, or various apps that had never been run with non-Microsoft drivers would fall over...
But, yeah, let's make Linux do things the Windows way, so you have sixteen copies of different versions of zlib.dll spread across your disk, all with different security holes. Because you know it makes sense!
Unless you want to launch really expensive fireworks, of course... they're good at that.
And NASA has probably launched the most expensive fireworks in history. If I remember correctly, replacing Challenger cost over $2,000,000,000 (and the total cost would have been more than $5,000,000,000 if you include the costs of not launching anything for a year or two afterwards).
What do you think the chances are of a successful launch of a rocket that only flies every couple of years? Would you really want to stick a multi-billion dollar payload on top of it?
What's bad is that it's so expensive that no-one can afford to launch anything on it.
If it flies once a year, the launch costs are expected to be around $5,000,000,000 a time. That's close to fifty SpaceX launches. If it flies every two years, as seems more likely, the cost will be closer to $10,000,000,000 a time.
Not why Windows Phone failed.
Well, no. But it's why no-one in their right mind would buy one now.
Microsoft's only hope is that people get so fed up with Android's constant security problems that they decide they're willing to live with the constant spyware problems, and switch to Windows instead.
Same ole' bullshit from you, ledow. Microsoft Windows is still the leader in desktop operating systems for PCs.
And Microsmack, Inc, is still the leader in buggy whips.
Last story I remember reading here said the free, nagware upgrade to Windows 10 had only managed to snag as many users as Vista. They can't even manage to give away their new operating system!
Unfortunately, even if you install a real desktop, you still suffer from the 'mobilization' of the web.
So many websites have now been redesigned for touchscreens to the point where they're utter crap on a desktop machine.
I really can't wait until this 'mobile' fad is over, and the 'UX designers' find some other fad to chase after.
Reading this post demonstrates Americans have absolutely no idea what socialism is.
No, it's the left who have no idea what socialism is.
But the left keep claiming that Star Trek is a 'post-scarcity society'. In a post-scarcity society, you just click your fingers and you have a boat. You click your fingers, and you have a starship.
That's what 'post-scarcity' means. If you can't click your fingers and have a fleet of starships so vast that they block out the stars, you don't live in a post-scarcity society.
(Of course, as any sane person knows, 'post-scarcity' is just a left-wing codeword for Communism. Which, as those sane people know, is an economic system where you queue up for six hours because there's a rumour the store may have toilet paper, then get trampled to death in the rush when they open the doors.)
The majority will do what they're told, comrade! Because the Party knows best!
Funny, isn't it, that the left used to claim the world would be a much better place, and the workers would be much better off, if they were in charge? Now history has proven what a disaster their policies are, they tell us the workers don't want much anyway, and are quite happy to queue up for six hours to buy a roll of toilet paper... and will be grateful that they got some.
In real world socialism, the majority live crammed in Stalinist tower blocks, but the Important People always get their Zil limos, and dachas in the country.
But that's OK, because those limos and dachas aren't EVIL PRIVATE PROPERTY, so they're just as equal as everyone else. Who could all have limos and dachas, if only they were Important People, too.
A correction, the majority of people do not have "ever increasing unlimited desires and wants", only a tiny minority.
Yeah, right. Everyone wouldn't want their own starship, if they lived in a 'post-scarcity' Star Trek society. People would just be lining up to be Redshirts, rather than starship captains.
Back in the real world, the left just have no imagination.
Fixing bugs is boring. Particularly when you're an SJW who wants to Save The World.
Because I have a NASA document somewhere which I believe is from the 70s or 80s, which talks about hitching rides in this way. Except, in that case, they were going to use a net rather than a tether.