You say this as if there's only one school of thought in Economics. But there isn't. Your statement of the theory is a right wing one, and was expounded by the Conservatives and the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) before the minimum wage came in. And equally there were economists on the left who said that wasn't so, and that increasing the minimum wage had a positive effect on the economy. The latter were proved correct.
because at the margin, some of them become no longer worth employing for what they cost.
Most people on the low wages are not there because the employers can't pay them more, nor because they don't make their employers more than that. They are there because the employers can get away with it because there's not a shortage of unskilled employees. Take for example McDonalds paying minimum wages, yet making $billions of profits. When they are forced to pay more, they don't lose any staff because they are all required. However the better paid staff go out and spend their money in other stores, thus stimulating the economy for all, including McDonalds.
That's the thing about blowhards - they're always so shoved up their own rectums and/or too busy being a cock to anyone who disagrees with them that they fail to see the forest for the trees.
Such as? Do we know of any in particular, or are we being hyperbolic for the sake of argument?
For example Mercedes uses a long press on the steering wheel buttons to change radio channel.
Says you. I guess you know more than the researchers at Harvard and everywhere else in the links I provided.
Not "says me". It was your claim that holding a button down lost a surprising amount of "road attention". I simply doubted it, and said I wouldn't take your word for it.
You tried to bluff through by listing several links, not a single one of which concerned holding a button down.
Therefore I still doubt your claim, and still don't trust your opinion.
They're standard on Honda Civics as of this year, I think. Not sure if that includes steering wheel-based controls (but man, I'd hope so!)
Indeed. They are being introduced with iOS Carplay, so yes, that would presumably include touchscreens. But that's the upcoming model. The existing model has a screen which is surrounded by manual buttons, so I guess that's not touchscreen.
I said 'touchscreens suck;' you said 'That's why there's typically car stereo controls on the steering wheel.'
Right. It makes it safer, in that you don't have to take your eyes off the road or hand off the steering wheel, regardless if the centre dash controls are manual or touchscreen.
You said bitcoin is not 'regulated' by code. Now you claim to be a programmer...
There was no quotes around my regulated. We are talking financial regulation not some stupid redefinition into code. Likewise it has nothing to do with mechanical regulation either.
Financial regulation requires legislation and a person or department who regulates.
Bitcoins are not created by the one with the highest computation power. Only the likelyhood to get a coin scales with computation power.
Contradict yourself.
Btw. Bitcoins are traceable.
I'm afraid you don't understand them yourself. Bitcoins have a record of transactions. That does not record who owned them at any time. It's simply the implementation of a method of transferring a digital token over the network, such that the original owner loses the ability to use it again.
3D printing is a fad. Just like virtual reality was in the 1990s. In both cases, they are useful for niche creative uses in prototyping and visualisation. Neither is the transformative technology for ordinary people some make it out to be.
Thats the thing about bigots. They are always too stupid to realise when they are wrong. There's always yet another angle by which they can view reality to separate their arbitrary good from their arbitrary bad. Even when there's no difference.
Sat-navs all have errors. All people are just as likely to follow the error directions they are given by the product they happen to be using. Any other conclusion is bone-headed fanboyism/haterism.
All of which refer to talking to devices, not a long press of a button. Which are certainly relevant to the question of using Siri for various tasks, but has nothing to do with long/short presses on a button.
The alternative alternative would be people using Google Maps and/or Navigation, tying into the cars existing Bluetooth/aux in port, and not driving down private driveways insisting "this is the best route to Roundtop Mountain!!!"
There has never been a sat-nav product ever that didn't have examples of routes that are impossible in the real world. None. And certainly not Google Maps. Heck Garmin has been doing this longer than most, and you still get impossible routes on their sat-navs.
Considering how apple has handled open standards in the past, I suspect this will not be the case though.
Even if your viewpoint were right, Apple aren't making the cars. If you think Apple can dictate to Ferrari what other interfaces are in the car besides CarPlay, I think you might be entering conspiracy theory land.
Frankly I dont see how you could confuse "appstore" as there are hundreds of "appstores" out there
All of them following the Apple App Store. There were other web-sites where you could buy and download software earlier, but they weren't called App Stores.
You might be surprised as to how much "road attention" you lose performing such a simple maneuver.
Yes I would be surprised. And I wouldn't take your word for it. Especially as you example is of taking your eyes off the road, not a long press of a button that is already at your fingertip.
Bitcoins are created by whoever owns the most processing power. Often those who steal the processing power from others, such as employers or by creating a botnet.
So rather than banks creating money, criminals do. How is that better?
Cash can be transfered by handing it over, Bitcoins require an transaction.
Handing cash over IS a transaction. There's nothing in Bitcoin's mechanics that make it any more of a transaction. Bitcoins can be stolen, are untraceable, and chargebacks are impossible, just as with cash.
If you don't know what computer code is, then you should perhaps not be on/.?
And perhaps you shouldn't repeatedly say such a stupid thing to a programmer of 30 years standing. It only manes you look foolish, not me.
Bitcoin is far more regulated then any bank ever was.
Complete nonsense. There is no-one that regulates bitcoins, and indeed the impossibility of regulating it is exactly what makes it attractive to libertarians and criminals. It's what makes them believe they are OK to use it for buying drugs and avoiding tax.
My facts are absolutely accurate, I lived through it, and even the Conservative opposition party hasn't denied it. You are attempting to cherry pick by considering only a minority of ill-educated teens, as against the entire rest of the workforce. And by only considering the 4 years 2004-2008, rather than the 9 years 1999-2008. (We know why all employment fell from 2008 - the bankers.)
For 18s and over the minimum wage came into effect in 1999, and there followed a decade of increased employment.
Increases in the minimum wage cause unemployment among those who are less valuable to an employer than the minimum wage. They work the same way as every other law setting a price floor. Price floors doesn't exactly have controversial effects.
That is your belief. But again it is flatly contradicted by the increased employment in the UK in the decade after the introduction of the minimum wage.
What you don't seem to understand is that a rising minimum wage increases buying ability, and thus stimulates the economy. Heck, in the USA, one of the things Congress did to address the recession was to issue everyone with checks, and told them to spend them rather than save. A rational minimum wage is far more sensible and sustainable than panic injections of cash to the consumers.
Honestly thinking like yours is why we probably have a nation of people up to their eyeballs in debt with barely any understanding of how money works.
In my entire life I've only ever taken out one loan. And I'm well into middle age now. So that theory isn't so good. And it's not that I've always been wealthy either. I've simply always lived within my means.
It wasn't that I didn't get any financial education. But it was tailored towards MY financial affairs, not theirs. So I got pocket money, and that was that. If I wanted something that was more expensive than my pocket money I had to save, or do chores to earn the extra.
I certainly remember my dad saying "never a borrower nor a lender be", without ever relating it to specifics in their financial affairs. Maybe that had the effect, or maybe it's simply that I resent paying interest. Hard to say.
It may also be that my parents weren't materialistic, so I never felt the need to buy things to feel better about myself.
Really you think not sharing some details about things like house and car buying with children is good parenting?
Yes. It's the best parenting. Children shouldn't be worried about their parents finances.
They already have a very good responsive UI based on Qt and Linux and I'm sure they have a lot of processes running under Linux. It would be a big job to port from Linux to iOS and probably not worth it.
Well, as you've pointed out with the GPS, Tesla doesn't seem to feel they need to use the same computer system for everything...
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You say this as if there's only one school of thought in Economics. But there isn't. Your statement of the theory is a right wing one, and was expounded by the Conservatives and the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) before the minimum wage came in. And equally there were economists on the left who said that wasn't so, and that increasing the minimum wage had a positive effect on the economy. The latter were proved correct.
because at the margin, some of them become no longer worth employing for what they cost.
Most people on the low wages are not there because the employers can't pay them more, nor because they don't make their employers more than that. They are there because the employers can get away with it because there's not a shortage of unskilled employees. Take for example McDonalds paying minimum wages, yet making $billions of profits. When they are forced to pay more, they don't lose any staff because they are all required. However the better paid staff go out and spend their money in other stores, thus stimulating the economy for all, including McDonalds.
That's the thing about blowhards - they're always so shoved up their own rectums and/or too busy being a cock to anyone who disagrees with them that they fail to see the forest for the trees.
You've lost it. In both meanings of the term.
Such as? Do we know of any in particular, or are we being hyperbolic for the sake of argument?
For example Mercedes uses a long press on the steering wheel buttons to change radio channel.
Says you. I guess you know more than the researchers at Harvard and everywhere else in the links I provided.
Not "says me". It was your claim that holding a button down lost a surprising amount of "road attention". I simply doubted it, and said I wouldn't take your word for it.
You tried to bluff through by listing several links, not a single one of which concerned holding a button down.
Therefore I still doubt your claim, and still don't trust your opinion.
They're standard on Honda Civics as of this year, I think. Not sure if that includes steering wheel-based controls (but man, I'd hope so!)
Indeed. They are being introduced with iOS Carplay, so yes, that would presumably include touchscreens. But that's the upcoming model. The existing model has a screen which is surrounded by manual buttons, so I guess that's not touchscreen.
I said 'touchscreens suck;' you said 'That's why there's typically car stereo controls on the steering wheel.'
Right. It makes it safer, in that you don't have to take your eyes off the road or hand off the steering wheel, regardless if the centre dash controls are manual or touchscreen.
You said bitcoin is not 'regulated' by code. ...
Now you claim to be a programmer
There was no quotes around my regulated. We are talking financial regulation not some stupid redefinition into code. Likewise it has nothing to do with mechanical regulation either.
Financial regulation requires legislation and a person or department who regulates.
Bitcoins are not created by the one with the highest computation power. Only the likelyhood to get a coin scales with computation power.
Contradict yourself.
Btw. Bitcoins are traceable.
I'm afraid you don't understand them yourself. Bitcoins have a record of transactions. That does not record who owned them at any time. It's simply the implementation of a method of transferring a digital token over the network, such that the original owner loses the ability to use it again.
Now stop being an idiot.
3D printing is a fad. Just like virtual reality was in the 1990s. In both cases, they are useful for niche creative uses in prototyping and visualisation. Neither is the transformative technology for ordinary people some make it out to be.
So as well as exercising on the bike, we have to lift weights as well?
If you've got a guy membership, there's no need to sweat whilst commuting - use electric, as you're already exercising at the gym.
Thats the thing about bigots. They are always too stupid to realise when they are wrong. There's always yet another angle by which they can view reality to separate their arbitrary good from their arbitrary bad. Even when there's no difference.
Sat-navs all have errors. All people are just as likely to follow the error directions they are given by the product they happen to be using. Any other conclusion is bone-headed fanboyism/haterism.
Probably because, thus far, no car manufacturer has been stupid enough to put a 'long press' interface in for steering wheel controls.
Except for the ones that have.
Might be a reason for that.
Yes. Your overestimate of the mental capacity required to hold down a button for a short time is hysterical and wrong.
Sure they are optional. But low spec cars also tend not to have touch screens.
not to make up for shortcomings in the expensive, superfluous touchscreen interface
Stereo controls on the steering wheel predated touch screens. Plenty of accidents used to happen from people looking at the stereo itself.
Sorry to spoil your irrational bigotry:
http://www.techhive.com/articl...
All of which refer to talking to devices, not a long press of a button. Which are certainly relevant to the question of using Siri for various tasks, but has nothing to do with long/short presses on a button.
That's why there's typically car stereo controls on the steering wheel.
I feel the same way. I think it has potential but it depends on how easy/hard Apple makes for developers to get their apps to work on the dash.
As far as I can see, this isn't supported. It's simply a way of accessing certain built in apps.
The alternative alternative would be people using Google Maps and/or Navigation, tying into the cars existing Bluetooth/aux in port, and not driving down private driveways insisting "this is the best route to Roundtop Mountain!!!"
There has never been a sat-nav product ever that didn't have examples of routes that are impossible in the real world. None. And certainly not Google Maps. Heck Garmin has been doing this longer than most, and you still get impossible routes on their sat-navs.
Considering how apple has handled open standards in the past, I suspect this will not be the case though.
Even if your viewpoint were right, Apple aren't making the cars. If you think Apple can dictate to Ferrari what other interfaces are in the car besides CarPlay, I think you might be entering conspiracy theory land.
Frankly I dont see how you could confuse "appstore" as there are hundreds of "appstores" out there
All of them following the Apple App Store. There were other web-sites where you could buy and download software earlier, but they weren't called App Stores.
You might be surprised as to how much "road attention" you lose performing such a simple maneuver.
Yes I would be surprised. And I wouldn't take your word for it. Especially as you example is of taking your eyes off the road, not a long press of a button that is already at your fingertip.
And I'm sure they tried both. Perhaps drivers got annoyed when they got Siri speaking when they accidentally hit the button whilst turning the wheel.
Boston is not in Florida.
She's at Boston College.
Bitcoins are created by whoever owns the most processing power. Often those who steal the processing power from others, such as employers or by creating a botnet.
So rather than banks creating money, criminals do. How is that better?
Cash can be transfered by handing it over, Bitcoins require an transaction.
Handing cash over IS a transaction. There's nothing in Bitcoin's mechanics that make it any more of a transaction. Bitcoins can be stolen, are untraceable, and chargebacks are impossible, just as with cash.
If you don't know what computer code is, then you should perhaps not be on /.?
And perhaps you shouldn't repeatedly say such a stupid thing to a programmer of 30 years standing. It only manes you look foolish, not me.
Bitcoin is far more regulated then any bank ever was.
Complete nonsense. There is no-one that regulates bitcoins, and indeed the impossibility of regulating it is exactly what makes it attractive to libertarians and criminals. It's what makes them believe they are OK to use it for buying drugs and avoiding tax.
The failure of the banks was due to insufficient regulation, not too much. Their regulation had been decreasing since Reagan, thanks to lobbying.
My facts are absolutely accurate, I lived through it, and even the Conservative opposition party hasn't denied it. You are attempting to cherry pick by considering only a minority of ill-educated teens, as against the entire rest of the workforce. And by only considering the 4 years 2004-2008, rather than the 9 years 1999-2008. (We know why all employment fell from 2008 - the bankers.)
For 18s and over the minimum wage came into effect in 1999, and there followed a decade of increased employment.
Increases in the minimum wage cause unemployment among those who are less valuable to an employer than the minimum wage. They work the same way as every other law setting a price floor. Price floors doesn't exactly have controversial effects.
That is your belief. But again it is flatly contradicted by the increased employment in the UK in the decade after the introduction of the minimum wage.
What you don't seem to understand is that a rising minimum wage increases buying ability, and thus stimulates the economy. Heck, in the USA, one of the things Congress did to address the recession was to issue everyone with checks, and told them to spend them rather than save. A rational minimum wage is far more sensible and sustainable than panic injections of cash to the consumers.
Honestly thinking like yours is why we probably have a nation of people up to their eyeballs in debt with barely any understanding of how money works.
In my entire life I've only ever taken out one loan. And I'm well into middle age now. So that theory isn't so good. And it's not that I've always been wealthy either. I've simply always lived within my means.
It wasn't that I didn't get any financial education. But it was tailored towards MY financial affairs, not theirs. So I got pocket money, and that was that. If I wanted something that was more expensive than my pocket money I had to save, or do chores to earn the extra.
I certainly remember my dad saying "never a borrower nor a lender be", without ever relating it to specifics in their financial affairs. Maybe that had the effect, or maybe it's simply that I resent paying interest. Hard to say.
It may also be that my parents weren't materialistic, so I never felt the need to buy things to feel better about myself.
Really you think not sharing some details about things like house and car buying with children is good parenting?
Yes. It's the best parenting. Children shouldn't be worried about their parents finances.
Yes, the Gigafactory is also quite likely.
They already have a very good responsive UI based on Qt and Linux and I'm sure they have a lot of processes running under Linux. It would be a big job to port from Linux to iOS and probably not worth it.
Well, as you've pointed out with the GPS, Tesla doesn't seem to feel they need to use the same computer system for everything...
Anyway, no way of knowing for now.