Except that is not how it ends up working, because what the corporations save on production costs, thanks to less salaries, do not result in cheaper goods. Instead they maintain the same price level and take out the difference in profits. This because they can lock the driving force of price reduction, competition, out via means like patents and copyright. Or the whole market segment may well buddy up thanks to it all being run by 2-3 massive corporations.
I recall reading a claim that Wal-mart would sell below cost until they have killed the local competition in a area, and then crank their prices back up. Or consider how Microsoft provides bulk discounts only as long as the OEM do not sell products with a different OS or such. Start trying to branch out and your supply costs goes up.
Never mind that cruise and anti ship missiles have made aircraft carriers more or less the great white dreadnaughts of the modern navy. It may be a excellent way of showing "we are present", but each one ties up its own fleet of anti-air, anti-surface and anti-submarine systems. Basically they worked very well during WW2 because trying to pick a fast aircraft with a smart pilot out of the sky at the time required a whole lot of lead in the sky. Now a good radar guided missile can do the same job.
Except that jobs provides the money used to provide the means of sustaining the life one is supposed to go out and enjoy, now that one no longer have a job to spend ones time on...
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Ah yes, "shock doctrine" Friedman. How much his ideas have improved life around the globe...
There is also the issue of the capitalist economy, that only really runs as long as the money moves from producer, via worker, back to producer. Once people loose access to jobs, they loose access to the primary means of getting the cash in hand that keeps the system going. As such, we may well risk seeing the system grind to halt.
Well Jobs was more marketing savant then engineer. But he seemed to have a mental goal about tech that may be missing in most other tech CEOs right now.
Btw, this is a pattern as old as capitalism. Consider a family owned company that goes big. The old man will likely take care of the employees because he may have been doing part of what they do when the company started. But once the second or third generation takes over, shit hits the fan.
Its is more about what equipment the current generation of teachers learned to do their stuff on, and using to teach the next generation to do stuff on, then about where it is available.
It is similar in concept to the statement from Bill Gates about him rather wanting people to use a unlicensed copy of Windows then opting for an alternative OS. This because Microsoft can sell package deals to corporations and such on the idea that people are already familiar with Windows.
And then corporate backed government decide that those full fledged computing platforms are dangerous to national security in some way, and demand that anyone using them get certified via some office or other. Next thing we know, security research takes a dive and if they find a "open" laptop in your belonging during a border crossing you "vanish".
Sure, i was not detailed enough. But i suspected the average reader of/. knew them already. Sure, it is a third party program. But Apple shipping a GUI enabled the creation.
And it is more then marketing. How many images from graphics courses have we seen where the room is 99% glowing apples? The course leaders basically cut their teeth on Mac.
Or perhaps it is more apparent for someone that did not grow up in USA? First time i heard about Apple and their computers was in a music magazine in a friend of mines place. Until then it had been all about Commodore 64, Amiga and MS-DOS PC. The first time i actually saw a Mac was at the local newspaper, hooked up to a flat bed scanner in their photo office.
And i keep seeing people that have used PC all their life get a Mac once they enroll to a artistic course. Or how when every other computer lab is filled with PCs the Graphics lab stocks up on iMac or Mac Pro.
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while only a war game outcome: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
What is odd is that the Discovery program on him mostly talked about the hardware, not the man (and spent 5 mins ranting about online music sharing).
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2011/10/27/george-monbiot-seminar/
Never mind that in economist modeling, rational means accurately predicting future events. Anywhere else, that would be known as clairvoyance...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_economy is what USA leadership have bet the farm on, and finding the horse coming up short.
Except that is not how it ends up working, because what the corporations save on production costs, thanks to less salaries, do not result in cheaper goods. Instead they maintain the same price level and take out the difference in profits. This because they can lock the driving force of price reduction, competition, out via means like patents and copyright. Or the whole market segment may well buddy up thanks to it all being run by 2-3 massive corporations.
I recall reading a claim that Wal-mart would sell below cost until they have killed the local competition in a area, and then crank their prices back up. Or consider how Microsoft provides bulk discounts only as long as the OEM do not sell products with a different OS or such. Start trying to branch out and your supply costs goes up.
Never mind that cruise and anti ship missiles have made aircraft carriers more or less the great white dreadnaughts of the modern navy. It may be a excellent way of showing "we are present", but each one ties up its own fleet of anti-air, anti-surface and anti-submarine systems. Basically they worked very well during WW2 because trying to pick a fast aircraft with a smart pilot out of the sky at the time required a whole lot of lead in the sky. Now a good radar guided missile can do the same job.
http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Except that jobs provides the money used to provide the means of sustaining the life one is supposed to go out and enjoy, now that one no longer have a job to spend ones time on...
Ah yes, "shock doctrine" Friedman. How much his ideas have improved life around the globe...
Except that work provides money, that is spent to cover the necessities of sustaining life.
There is also the issue of the capitalist economy, that only really runs as long as the money moves from producer, via worker, back to producer. Once people loose access to jobs, they loose access to the primary means of getting the cash in hand that keeps the system going. As such, we may well risk seeing the system grind to halt.
Your threading dangerously close to communism there, consumer. Please report to your nearest Homeland Security officer.
On the topic of lawyers: http://singularityhub.com/2011/07/04/lawyers-object-as-computer-program-does-job-better/
I think there is a video out there of a robot able to balance two sticks on top of each other by just moving the base.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/jobs-i-will-spend-my-last-breath-fighting-android-a-stolen-product.ars
http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtis_TheMayfairSet
part 3 have some interesting comments on that.
Well Jobs was more marketing savant then engineer. But he seemed to have a mental goal about tech that may be missing in most other tech CEOs right now.
Btw, this is a pattern as old as capitalism. Consider a family owned company that goes big. The old man will likely take care of the employees because he may have been doing part of what they do when the company started. But once the second or third generation takes over, shit hits the fan.
I think the 5 year span has been broken because now the consoles are more internet set top box then (just a) games console.
As such, they can keep bolting on software feature like DLC and casual/indie games download without the need to shipping new hardware.
Its is more about what equipment the current generation of teachers learned to do their stuff on, and using to teach the next generation to do stuff on, then about where it is available.
It is similar in concept to the statement from Bill Gates about him rather wanting people to use a unlicensed copy of Windows then opting for an alternative OS. This because Microsoft can sell package deals to corporations and such on the idea that people are already familiar with Windows.
Like rats hitting the paddle that stimulates their pleasure center.
And then corporate backed government decide that those full fledged computing platforms are dangerous to national security in some way, and demand that anyone using them get certified via some office or other. Next thing we know, security research takes a dive and if they find a "open" laptop in your belonging during a border crossing you "vanish".
Sure, i was not detailed enough. But i suspected the average reader of /. knew them already. Sure, it is a third party program. But Apple shipping a GUI enabled the creation.
And it is more then marketing. How many images from graphics courses have we seen where the room is 99% glowing apples? The course leaders basically cut their teeth on Mac.
Or perhaps it is more apparent for someone that did not grow up in USA? First time i heard about Apple and their computers was in a music magazine in a friend of mines place. Until then it had been all about Commodore 64, Amiga and MS-DOS PC. The first time i actually saw a Mac was at the local newspaper, hooked up to a flat bed scanner in their photo office.
And i keep seeing people that have used PC all their life get a Mac once they enroll to a artistic course. Or how when every other computer lab is filled with PCs the Graphics lab stocks up on iMac or Mac Pro.
And media basically runs on Apple, thanks to Mac bringing Photoshop, and equivalent tools for video and audio, to market.
Oh i think they get it, what they worry is that by pandering to the lowest common denominator one heads towards idiocracy.