"yes, yes, we did it on Accident, yes sir! And, believe you me, once we knew what we'd recorded, we recoiled in horror, deleted the calls,and burned the devices they were recorded on! Plus, we vow NEVER to do it again!".
As long as China continues to maintain an exponential growth in the standard of living. People accept that tradeoff: freedom for increased prosperity. Where it breaks down is in the eventual slowdown of exponential growth, which WILL occur. At that point, the agreement weakens. Why maintain the line if the old promises no longer apply? That's when things get dicey, and why the Chinese leadership is so paranoid. Unfortunately, cracking down will, long run, just fuel the fire.
As much as I don't like overpaid CEOs, that's just false. Unless you're talking about ONLY public companies, and then you're completely correct, even underestimating.
This exactly! Minidisc, for the time, was fantastic. But the silly DRM on it made it overly annoying. I remember the PC software had "library" counts, where you'd "check out" tracks to media, and had to check them in before you could move them somewhere else. Making multiple MDs with the same son? Impossible on their software. You had this device that could read, write, store songs with removable storage that sounded good, and packaged in a small fairly indestructable case--then crippled it with DRM to the point of wanting to throw it out the window. Nevermind how the software on the PC would often crash for no particular reason. Also: half the interesting models were only available in Japan.
"Edison has said if there's any money left over, it'll be refunded to rate payers." Oh, that's a good one. There's NEVER any money left over. It's like apartment security deposits and motion picture finance accounting--somehow it all magically got spent.
Many broken surface tablets from frustration. Sitting at home, comfortable, I've come perilously close to destroying my windows 8 tablet a few times. The annoyance factor is huge. Unless it's an ap with a big "push me for more info" button
There's an excellent book on the Cholera epidemic in London, circa 1854: The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. One of the points made, and one which I had never thought of,was that VERY deadly diseases tend to mutate into less lethal varieties, mainly because when they kill quickly the disease has fewer options for being passed to another person over the long term. They tend to burn out. The lethality itself prevents it from spreading. How many people get colds? It's successful because it doesn't kill the host, just hangs around. Of course, if Ebola spread, it would kill a LOT of people before it mutated down, so...
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Most logical people will buy things they might normally pass on if the price is cheap enough. However, at some point, as I have with Steam, you eventually ask: "Why should I buy any more when I haven't finished the stuff I've got?" As a result, I haven't bought a game off steam in at least a year. I have a stack of unplayed ones I'm working through.
I do wonder how long this might last, though. Say you marked everythign down to $5. People used to $20 snap them up as a bargain. However, at some point they may say "Hey, I've already got more than enough of these, I don't need anymore", and profits drop.
I prefer paper books. 1) cheaper, 2) used availability drives down prices on secondary market. I can pickup cheap books at thrift stores/library sales. No used ebooks. 3) leave a book in my hot car trunk for one year, fine. 4) read book at beach with sand and salt spray and no power: fine. 5) destroy my book. Oh well. whoop de doo. 6)I can underline/mark it up and pass it on easily to a friend without any need for expensive hardware. 7) twenty/thirty/fifty years from now, I have no doubt MY copy of the book, marked up and noted, will still exist if I wish it to, in a readable format. They do the job.
I've seen many family businesses that preach what you're saying, but when push comes to shove the family member magically emerges unscathed while some other unlucky fool gets disciplined/canned/hung out to dry. I think a lot of family businesses like to pretend that the family is successful because every member is inherently talented, when they're not. Reality shows up, and they choose to overlook it. I can STILL remember at one company, the owner's son whining about how everyone hated him and set him up when he drove a forklift, tines in the up position, into a garage door. Entire door ruined, anyone else would have been let go for that.
There are times they can, and times they can't. For example: Can: Hi, our flight is full, you can't fly on this flight... Can't: Hi, Your'e black/gay/short/Mormon, you can't fly on this flight...
Bah, this happens to men in general.Try being a single adult man. If you even smile when some random kid does something funny in public, the parents glare at you and shuffle their kids off like you're wearing a shirt labelled "child molester". You're not allowed to think kids are OK.
That's like saying " we have a functioning democracy, except our King tells everyone what to do, but all the ministers and the guy selling candy bars are elected!"
I'm becoming less and less of a fan of the "buggy whip" example. Mainly because we currently feel it's so easy and simple to point and laugh at those archaic, buggy whip makers. The concept changes drastically when you realize how much of the middle class has/will be gutted by automation, and now it's not just buggy whip guys losing their job, it's YOU. In the position you thought was too intelligent and necessary, you're suddenly automated out of existence and somebody else is making jokes about whatever it is you do being eliminated, times are tough, suck it up. Society needs to figure out a way to deal with this before it becomes rioting, heads on poles serious.
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Ah yes, the golf war. We barely made it out of the bunker alive!
"yes, yes, we did it on Accident, yes sir! And, believe you me, once we knew what we'd recorded, we recoiled in horror, deleted the calls,and burned the devices they were recorded on! Plus, we vow NEVER to do it again!".
You're a glutton for punishment, aren't you?
you do it BEFORE they block all your traffic.
It's a silly song from the old "Dr. Demento" radio show days.
"cash in hand jobs done as a teenager"..
Perhaps "cash-in-hand" would better explain your point. Unless you had a tough teenage job career.
We laugh, I but I remember making precisely these calculations when normal Hard Drives went through the same process.
As long as China continues to maintain an exponential growth in the standard of living.
People accept that tradeoff: freedom for increased prosperity.
Where it breaks down is in the eventual slowdown of exponential growth, which WILL occur.
At that point, the agreement weakens. Why maintain the line if the old promises no longer apply?
That's when things get dicey, and why the Chinese leadership is so paranoid.
Unfortunately, cracking down will, long run, just fuel the fire.
As much as I don't like overpaid CEOs, that's just false.
Unless you're talking about ONLY public companies, and then you're completely correct, even underestimating.
Now THAT's a good band-name:
"Hello everyone, we're Gay Blackface, are you ready to ROCK?!"
This exactly! Minidisc, for the time, was fantastic. But the silly DRM on it made it overly annoying. I remember the PC software had "library" counts, where you'd "check out" tracks to media, and had to check them in before you could move them somewhere else. Making multiple MDs with the same son? Impossible on their software. You had this device that could read, write, store songs with removable storage that sounded good, and packaged in a small fairly indestructable case--then crippled it with DRM to the point of wanting to throw it out the window. Nevermind how the software on the PC would often crash for no particular reason.
Also: half the interesting models were only available in Japan.
"Edison has said if there's any money left over, it'll be refunded to rate payers."
Oh, that's a good one. There's NEVER any money left over. It's like apartment security deposits and motion picture finance accounting--somehow it all magically got spent.
Many broken surface tablets from frustration.
Sitting at home, comfortable, I've come perilously close to destroying my windows 8 tablet a few times. The annoyance factor is huge.
Unless it's an ap with a big "push me for more info" button
There's an excellent book on the Cholera epidemic in London, circa 1854: ,was that VERY deadly diseases tend to mutate into less lethal varieties, mainly because when they kill quickly the disease has fewer options for being passed to another person over the long term. They tend to burn out. The lethality itself prevents it from spreading. How many people get colds? It's successful because it doesn't kill the host, just hangs around.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World.
One of the points made, and one which I had never thought of
Of course, if Ebola spread, it would kill a LOT of people before it mutated down, so...
Most logical people will buy things they might normally pass on if the price is cheap enough. However, at some point, as I have with Steam, you eventually ask: "Why should I buy any more when I haven't finished the stuff I've got?" As a result, I haven't bought a game off steam in at least a year. I have a stack of unplayed ones I'm working through.
I do wonder how long this might last, though.
Say you marked everythign down to $5. People used to $20 snap them up as a bargain. However, at some point they may say "Hey, I've already got more than enough of these, I don't need anymore", and profits drop.
I prefer paper books.
1) cheaper,
2) used availability drives down prices on secondary market. I can pickup cheap books at thrift stores/library sales. No used ebooks.
3) leave a book in my hot car trunk for one year, fine.
4) read book at beach with sand and salt spray and no power: fine.
5) destroy my book. Oh well. whoop de doo.
6)I can underline/mark it up and pass it on easily to a friend without any need for expensive hardware.
7) twenty/thirty/fifty years from now, I have no doubt MY copy of the book, marked up and noted, will still exist if I wish it to, in a readable format.
They do the job.
"Pay my Rainbow Coalition money or I'll make trouble"
I've seen many family businesses that preach what you're saying, but when push comes to shove the family member magically emerges unscathed while some other unlucky fool gets disciplined/canned/hung out to dry.
I think a lot of family businesses like to pretend that the family is successful because every member is inherently talented, when they're not. Reality shows up, and they choose to overlook it.
I can STILL remember at one company, the owner's son whining about how everyone hated him and set him up when he drove a forklift, tines in the up position, into a garage door. Entire door ruined, anyone else would have been let go for that.
Or not charging for the damn checked luggage. It always seemed silly to me, you just encourage cramped , angry people on the plane.
There are times they can, and times they can't.
For example:
Can: Hi, our flight is full, you can't fly on this flight...
Can't: Hi, Your'e black/gay/short/Mormon, you can't fly on this flight...
Bah, this happens to men in general.Try being a single adult man. If you even smile when some random kid does something funny in public, the parents glare at you and shuffle their kids off like you're wearing a shirt labelled "child molester". You're not allowed to think kids are OK.
That's like saying " we have a functioning democracy, except our King tells everyone what to do, but all the ministers and the guy selling candy bars are elected!"
Plus, there's less APK.
we hardly ever see any host file postings anymore.
They did. It was the Concorde. Fast, uncomfortable, loug and expensive.
I'm becoming less and less of a fan of the "buggy whip" example. Mainly because we currently feel it's so easy and simple to point and laugh at those archaic, buggy whip makers.
The concept changes drastically when you realize how much of the middle class has/will be gutted by automation, and now it's not just buggy whip guys losing their job, it's YOU. In the position you thought was too intelligent and necessary, you're suddenly automated out of existence and somebody else is making jokes about whatever it is you do being eliminated, times are tough, suck it up.
Society needs to figure out a way to deal with this before it becomes rioting, heads on poles serious.