For example, do you know what the salary is for a DC metro subway driver? I had no clue until I saw a job posting on one of the govt. job boards. It's in the 6 figures. I'd sure like to know why a $100,000/yr. plus salary is necessary to get someone to operate a metrorail train!
False. Their salary is not in 6 figures. The only way they are going to get into six figures is to do a lot of overtime.
It's the same the world over. Where roads are paved and maintained, they are heavily subsidized. Rail transport is cheap compared with the subsidies given to private road transport.
In most of the world the cars and the fuel is taxed enough to not only cover their own costs (roads etc.) but also feed into other parts of the big government sinkhole.
Not even slightly true. Countries with paved roads are massively subsidising them.
We are always told how efficient cities are as compared to other forms of living but the cities are the only places that actually seem to need high levels of subsidization.
Typically the reverse is true. Rural areas need more subsidy per capita than cities.
Cut the subsidy money off and a lot of people that live in cities won't be able to live there anymore. They'll have to move to cheaper areas.
Clearly you haven't considered all the poverty in cities in countries where there is little public subsidy of anything. You never heard of favelas and shanty towns? These are often people that had to move to the city because despite the poor conditions and poor pay there, in the countryside where they came from they would starve.
And that is a major issue in mass transit. Most mass transit systems do NOT break even after collecting all the tickets and passes. Nearly all of them must subsidize their costs with taxes. And some of them even take money from federal and state programs because the systems are not actually affordable even using city taxes without adding money from the federal and state governments.
Countries with good public transport are pleasanter for everone than countries without them.
As such, saying "hey they should just lower prices" is not really rational.
A train or a bus costs about the same per passenger mile whether it is full or empty. The additional fuel for weight is a tiny part of the cost. Thus if the transport service is not running near capacity, it very often DOES make sense to lower ticket prices and get more passengers. Note the success of low-cost airlines vs the traditional airlines.
And if the ticket revenue fell below what it cost to build and maintain the system then it would shut down for lack of funding the same way companies do that can't get enough sales to pay for operations.
A very short sighted viewpoint. First of all most of those people that were on public transport will be forced into private vehicles causing massive congestion. Secondly those who are unable to drive, such as old people, disabled and children become disenfranchised. And that's not good for society either.
It is annoying when they stop offering services, but do you actually lose anything when they do that? Take google reader: I paid nothing for it. When it was being shut down, google made the transition simple.
Google more or less killed the market for news readers by offering theirs for free. Such that when they lost interest and dropped it, there wasn't much left to migrate to.
But yes, at least you didn't pay for Google Reader. Pity the fools that paid for Google Glass. In a boring 3 hour keynote, there was not a mention of Google Glass, not a single presenter who wore one. When Google finally pull the plug on that turkey, that's going to be a lot of people who feel cheated out of $1500.
It's never as easy as that with Android due to the fragmentation. A separate binary is required for Amazon devices. So availability there depends on the developer building for Amazon. And of course uploading to the Amazon store as amazon devices can't access Google Play.
You can't. Significant amounts of the software that's shipped with Android phones is closed source. Including the parts that Google uses to spy on you.
Oh I left plenty out. Google X, Google Catalog, Web Accelerator, Google Video Player, Google Audio Ads, Jaiku, Google Page Creator, Google Zeitgeist, Google Buzz...
Most people don't remember then because they were all failures too.
Google have had their success with search and Android. But their failures have been far more numerous. Google+, GoogleWave, Google Reader, Google Talk, Google Health, Google Answers etc. And Google Glass seems to be on the continuous beta path to being abandoned too.
It did. But let me state right off the bat. For each individual that downloaded and ran Google App Stoy... Good. Let your bank account be pwnd. Let your email get taken over. I am ok with your life being ruined because you are an unthinking being. Bye.
So when you get older, and maybe get Alzheimers, it's OK if you get ripped off as an easy target, because you are an unthinking being? Or if you travel and end up getting ripped off because you don't read the foreign language very well. In fact it's not just OK, we should all celebrate because you have lost a lot of money.
You know something, by posting what you did there, you've made a pretty good case for you not being a thinking being now. Or at least not a mensch.
No, removing malware after it's been news on the internet is not what's supposed to happen. What's supposed to happen is that it doesn't get on the store in the first place.
That's wooly thinking. If your security relies on you spotting a badly spelled app name, you have no security against all those malware authors that didn't misspell their malware.
Furthermore, why did Google not notice the app name and icon ripped off from their own app? Because there is no security on their store. Google will sell anything anyone uploads. Again this cannot happen on the Apple App Store.
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For example, do you know what the salary is for a DC metro subway driver? I had no clue until I saw a job posting on one of the govt. job boards. It's in the 6 figures. I'd sure like to know why a $100,000/yr. plus salary is necessary to get someone to operate a metrorail train!
False. Their salary is not in 6 figures. The only way they are going to get into six figures is to do a lot of overtime.
http://greatergreaterwashingto...
Road transport is heavily subsidized. Are you willing to pay taxes that double your costs for driving your car?
Cars actually generate revenue. They're taxed very heavily and generate more revenue from those taxes then is spent on cars.
A common misconception.
http://usa.streetsblog.org/201...
It's the same the world over. Where roads are paved and maintained, they are heavily subsidized. Rail transport is cheap compared with the subsidies given to private road transport.
In most of the world the cars and the fuel is taxed enough to not only cover their own costs (roads etc.) but also feed into other parts of the big government sinkhole.
Not even slightly true. Countries with paved roads are massively subsidising them.
We are always told how efficient cities are as compared to other forms of living but the cities are the only places that actually seem to need high levels of subsidization.
Typically the reverse is true. Rural areas need more subsidy per capita than cities.
Cut the subsidy money off and a lot of people that live in cities won't be able to live there anymore.
They'll have to move to cheaper areas.
Clearly you haven't considered all the poverty in cities in countries where there is little public subsidy of anything. You never heard of favelas and shanty towns? These are often people that had to move to the city because despite the poor conditions and poor pay there, in the countryside where they came from they would starve.
And that is a major issue in mass transit. Most mass transit systems do NOT break even after collecting all the tickets and passes. Nearly all of them must subsidize their costs with taxes. And some of them even take money from federal and state programs because the systems are not actually affordable even using city taxes without adding money from the federal and state governments.
Countries with good public transport are pleasanter for everone than countries without them.
As such, saying "hey they should just lower prices" is not really rational.
A train or a bus costs about the same per passenger mile whether it is full or empty. The additional fuel for weight is a tiny part of the cost. Thus if the transport service is not running near capacity, it very often DOES make sense to lower ticket prices and get more passengers. Note the success of low-cost airlines vs the traditional airlines.
And if the ticket revenue fell below what it cost to build and maintain the system then it would shut down for lack of funding the same way companies do that can't get enough sales to pay for operations.
A very short sighted viewpoint. First of all most of those people that were on public transport will be forced into private vehicles causing massive congestion. Secondly those who are unable to drive, such as old people, disabled and children become disenfranchised. And that's not good for society either.
No bounds checking? In a security module of Android? Duh! What sort of idiots do they have coding this thing?
The countries of Europe do import and export electricity between themselves. Germany is a big exporter.
http://www.neurope.eu/article/...
Of course electricity suffers transmission losses, so there are limits to how far it makes sense to export it.
It is annoying when they stop offering services, but do you actually lose anything when they do that? Take google reader: I paid nothing for it. When it was being shut down, google made the transition simple.
Google more or less killed the market for news readers by offering theirs for free. Such that when they lost interest and dropped it, there wasn't much left to migrate to.
But yes, at least you didn't pay for Google Reader. Pity the fools that paid for Google Glass. In a boring 3 hour keynote, there was not a mention of Google Glass, not a single presenter who wore one. When Google finally pull the plug on that turkey, that's going to be a lot of people who feel cheated out of $1500.
It couldn't be clearer. You're a fake.
So you haven't made any changes to Android source.
Given up arguing eh? Pussy.
LOL! Sure you have! After all, an infinite number of monkeys...
It's never as easy as that with Android due to the fragmentation. A separate binary is required for Amazon devices. So availability there depends on the developer building for Amazon. And of course uploading to the Amazon store as amazon devices can't access Google Play.
Ad hominem is all you have as usual.
So "doing whatever you wish" was more than a slight exaggeration.
You can't. Significant amounts of the software that's shipped with Android phones is closed source. Including the parts that Google uses to spy on you.
I don't know what chances does a Microsoft/Nokia phone have, but the best openly licensable OS to build a smartphone atm is Android.
FTFY.
Oh I left plenty out. Google X, Google Catalog, Web Accelerator, Google Video Player, Google Audio Ads, Jaiku, Google Page Creator, Google Zeitgeist, Google Buzz...
Most people don't remember then because they were all failures too.
Google have had their success with search and Android. But their failures have been far more numerous. Google+, GoogleWave, Google Reader, Google Talk, Google Health, Google Answers etc. And Google Glass seems to be on the continuous beta path to being abandoned too.
I hope that age will bring you peace.
It did. But let me state right off the bat. For each individual that downloaded and ran Google App Stoy ... Good. Let your bank account be pwnd. Let your email get taken over. I am ok with your life being ruined because you are an unthinking being. Bye.
So when you get older, and maybe get Alzheimers, it's OK if you get ripped off as an easy target, because you are an unthinking being? Or if you travel and end up getting ripped off because you don't read the foreign language very well. In fact it's not just OK, we should all celebrate because you have lost a lot of money.
You know something, by posting what you did there, you've made a pretty good case for you not being a thinking being now. Or at least not a mensch.
And trolls like yourself are sad people with no friends.
No, removing malware after it's been news on the internet is not what's supposed to happen. What's supposed to happen is that it doesn't get on the store in the first place.
That's wooly thinking. If your security relies on you spotting a badly spelled app name, you have no security against all those malware authors that didn't misspell their malware.
Furthermore, why did Google not notice the app name and icon ripped off from their own app? Because there is no security on their store. Google will sell anything anyone uploads. Again this cannot happen on the Apple App Store.