Agreed. With the cost of computing hardware constantly on the decline, along with better central management tools, dumb terminals are just plain dumb. The supposed cost savings are all academic; in the real world it is more expensive.
Anyone who paid for this deserves to lose their money. They can think of it as a teaching moment, and will ultimately be better off for it. The worst thing we can do for people like this is have some nanny-state government agency force Best Buy to refund them. This will ensure they learn nothing and continue making stupid idiotic decisions.
Seriously, if you own an electronic product and can't even handle installing simple updates just take it back to the store and be done with it. It's 2010 already: no more excuses.
Politicians want everything to be either taxed or subsidized (or even both at the same time) so they retain control over it and hence grow the size of their own bank accounts. Not to mention, it makes it a lot easier for politically connected cronies to keep a hand in the cookie jar.
And then there are the labor unions who go on strike right before the project begins and right before its about to end. Then the politically connected contractors with their bulging expense accounts. In short, high speed rail would cost about $1 billion per mile in the United States by the time everything is accounted for.
Why don't totalitarians like yourself get the hell out of this country (wherever you are from) and move to North Korea. Their total lack of personal freedoms would be more to your liking.
#3 it's not that hard: if you drink YOU DO NOT DRIVE, period.
And then what happens when every bar and restaurant outside of a major city goes out of business due to a complete loss of alcohol sales? No problem there, right? This is MADD's true agenda: back-door prohibition.
Why do some people think you need 100% of your mental and physical abilities to drive a car? If that is the case, then anyone over 50 must be taken off the roads immediately as their reflexes won't be as good as any 25 year old who just drank one beer. There is NOTHING wrong with driving with a.05 BAC. Driving while tired is much worse than this, and can't be enforced by breathalyzer either.
What do all of those countries have in common? No immigration whatsoever. Well, France allows immigrants in but then marginalizes them into their own immigrant ghettos where they will never become part of society and occasional riots break out because of this.
Socialism along with uncontrolled (illegal) immigration = bankruptcy on a national scale. Coming soon to the United States.
Programmers can be eliminated just as soon as business users are capable of grasping the FULL logic of all of their various processes so they can create an automation system with no technical or process-oriented expertise required. In other words, when hell freezes over.
So why don't they do anything to reduce the chance of delays, such as not scheduling more flights than an airport can actually handle during a given period of time?
Companies know that customers care about one thing: CHEAP! They shop where they do because of low prices. Sure, everybody says they care about service. But 9/10 times they shop where the prices are lowest. Why would Wal-Mart, Best Buy and every airline bother to care about service when they know they'll make more money selling cheap shit and giving the illusion of a bargain? This requires skimping on any extras such as knowledgeable employees.
In short, consumers are their own worst enemies when it comes to the death of customer service.
Its the same reason I've always been opposed to point-and-click server administration. If you can't handle a command line, you have no business administering a server!
The hot ladies will be a lot more likely to get additional visual patdowns.
But seriously, does anyone really think the TSA is capable of pulling this off? And the UK government seems especially good at adopting whatever kind of security theater stupidity Americans come up with and then making it even worse over there.
This kind of thinking is exactly why people like this have money problems to begin with. Rather than proper financial planning, they'd rather hold out for "something big" which never quite materializes. Its a mindset of wishful thinking.
This is why it is futile to try to do anything innovative in the United States. Patent trolls will come popping out of the woodwork if you succeed. NOTHING meaningful can be done in the American tech industry without stepping on some overly broad patent. Might as well pack up shop and move to some nation where they don't give a shit about the US patent system.
This would require fundamentalist Islam to move past the 12th century, which they stubbornly refuse to do. Its sad how Islamic nations once lead the world in innovation and creative thought and then went into a Dark Ages which they have yet to emerge from. When will Islam have their Renaissance?
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Agreed. With the cost of computing hardware constantly on the decline, along with better central management tools, dumb terminals are just plain dumb. The supposed cost savings are all academic; in the real world it is more expensive.
You don't have to keep up with 100% of it. A mere 20% would be enough to tell you who is full of shit.
Here's a hint: they likely have an R or a D after their name on the ballot.
Anyone who paid for this deserves to lose their money. They can think of it as a teaching moment, and will ultimately be better off for it. The worst thing we can do for people like this is have some nanny-state government agency force Best Buy to refund them. This will ensure they learn nothing and continue making stupid idiotic decisions.
Seriously, if you own an electronic product and can't even handle installing simple updates just take it back to the store and be done with it. It's 2010 already: no more excuses.
Can you please post some of the long list of sites you claim are shutting down?
I wouldn't have to read a review to know that a $39 inkjet printer (especially a Lexmark) is a piece of shit.
If its the United States you're talking about, theft means whatever a large corporation defines it to mean.
Politicians want everything to be either taxed or subsidized (or even both at the same time) so they retain control over it and hence grow the size of their own bank accounts. Not to mention, it makes it a lot easier for politically connected cronies to keep a hand in the cookie jar.
And then there are the labor unions who go on strike right before the project begins and right before its about to end. Then the politically connected contractors with their bulging expense accounts. In short, high speed rail would cost about $1 billion per mile in the United States by the time everything is accounted for.
Why don't totalitarians like yourself get the hell out of this country (wherever you are from) and move to North Korea. Their total lack of personal freedoms would be more to your liking.
#3 it's not that hard: if you drink YOU DO NOT DRIVE, period.
And then what happens when every bar and restaurant outside of a major city goes out of business due to a complete loss of alcohol sales? No problem there, right? This is MADD's true agenda: back-door prohibition.
Why do some people think you need 100% of your mental and physical abilities to drive a car? If that is the case, then anyone over 50 must be taken off the roads immediately as their reflexes won't be as good as any 25 year old who just drank one beer. There is NOTHING wrong with driving with a .05 BAC. Driving while tired is much worse than this, and can't be enforced by breathalyzer either.
What do all of those countries have in common? No immigration whatsoever. Well, France allows immigrants in but then marginalizes them into their own immigrant ghettos where they will never become part of society and occasional riots break out because of this.
Socialism along with uncontrolled (illegal) immigration = bankruptcy on a national scale. Coming soon to the United States.
Programmers can be eliminated just as soon as business users are capable of grasping the FULL logic of all of their various processes so they can create an automation system with no technical or process-oriented expertise required. In other words, when hell freezes over.
Yes, but the NTP patent contains the magic words "using a computer", thus making all prior art irrelevant.
So why don't they do anything to reduce the chance of delays, such as not scheduling more flights than an airport can actually handle during a given period of time?
Companies know that customers care about one thing: CHEAP! They shop where they do because of low prices. Sure, everybody says they care about service. But 9/10 times they shop where the prices are lowest. Why would Wal-Mart, Best Buy and every airline bother to care about service when they know they'll make more money selling cheap shit and giving the illusion of a bargain? This requires skimping on any extras such as knowledgeable employees.
In short, consumers are their own worst enemies when it comes to the death of customer service.
Its the same reason I've always been opposed to point-and-click server administration. If you can't handle a command line, you have no business administering a server!
The hot ladies will be a lot more likely to get additional visual patdowns.
But seriously, does anyone really think the TSA is capable of pulling this off? And the UK government seems especially good at adopting whatever kind of security theater stupidity Americans come up with and then making it even worse over there.
This kind of thinking is exactly why people like this have money problems to begin with. Rather than proper financial planning, they'd rather hold out for "something big" which never quite materializes. Its a mindset of wishful thinking.
He sounds like the Republican version of Rod Blagojevich. Hopefully the feds find something to indict him for.
Yep. Like "network computers" (dumb terminals) and now cloud computing.
This is why it is futile to try to do anything innovative in the United States. Patent trolls will come popping out of the woodwork if you succeed. NOTHING meaningful can be done in the American tech industry without stepping on some overly broad patent. Might as well pack up shop and move to some nation where they don't give a shit about the US patent system.
Plenty of people have driven into a lake when their GPS told them to (usually by driving down a boat launch ramp).
This would require fundamentalist Islam to move past the 12th century, which they stubbornly refuse to do. Its sad how Islamic nations once lead the world in innovation and creative thought and then went into a Dark Ages which they have yet to emerge from. When will Islam have their Renaissance?
Are there any countries that DON't have a history of violence? Even France does.