For me, it's a phone with SMS, and an alarm that works pretty well (IE ring at 6PM only on Su,Mo,Tu,Fri) since I have a schedule that doesn't require me to wake up every day. I like it.
I came from a MPx220, with all the gadgetry and doodads you could ever want, email, web (REAL html using pocket IE), 1.2MP camera, smarphone OS, bluetooth, IR, played mp3 ringtones, Divx video even... you name it, it could probably do it.
Now I find that I charge my phone less often, and if I miss charging it, I'm not stuck low on power the next day. I can usually go for 4 days without a charge with about 30-60 minutes oftalktime per day.
The only thing I really miss is a camera. The 1.2MP on the Moto was great as far as cameraphones go, but I just keep my 5 MP in the glovebox anyway.
As for other uses, I use Google's SMS feature for things that I used mobile web and other custom applications, IE weather, business lookups, etc.
I've used a Windows Mobile Smartphone for the past year. Am I concerned about getting spyware on my phone? Not in the least.
I'll tell you why.
First off, any program you try to install must be confirmed that you want the application. You (or your carrier) can also set the phone up so it will only accept signed applications, which I beleive means Microsoft approved it for use with the OS.
Do you worry about getting spyware on an XBox too? Every game that is put out for the XBox is signed by Microsoft as being legit. It's the same deal on MS Smartphone.
About your comment on Pocket Internet Explorer, Web browsing (no matter what browser you are using) over GPRS (celluar data) is slow. Think around 14.4, dialup speeds. My phone has a 200MHz processor and 32MB of RAM, so that influences how fast pages load, etc.
So any pages I visit, I goto them for a reason, because I want to view that page, and something important is there. For example while at work I can check on the status of a package on FedEx.com and see if I should go home for lunch and put the package inside the house instead of letting it stay outside for 8 hours.
I personally do not go browsing or searching for things on my phone that I do not implicitly trust.
On the otherhand, on my PC with fast internet, I could get a emailed link, get a link sent by a friend saying "hey this is cool"... my PC is so fast compared to a phone that you can click a link, and within seconds your machine is infected.
The problem is user authentication and proper policy management. For people who use their PC at home, this is a "nuisance" because many people would be using the PC, many people would want to install applications, and for a computer to ask for the master password whenever a program is installed is really just a out there idea. Most people want to be able to install whatever they want, whenever they want and not have to authenticate themselves.
Mac OS X can be set to authenticate when you install programs, there's no spyware for Macs. Linux authenticates before you start your user session, there's no spyware for Linux.
Windows for PC is meant to be stupid user friendly. That's what makes it a target for spyware. I talk to people almost daily who have gotten a major infection of spyware on their PC and that's because their 12 year old son installed Kazaa, or downloaded some free smiles, or wanted to check the weather. If there was user authentication on the PC when installing programs, it might be less of a target, because only an authorized user can install things.
That said, I do install unsigned applications on my phone. But at least I know what I am installing and when.
Why don't you shut up if you don't have an informed opinion, and I would ask you to call me as know as soon as there's a virus out there that bypasses user authentication and can install it onto my cellphone, but I'll be reading it via RSS -- on my phone.
I live in the USA. Reverse the senario, but the shows I am watching (mostly) will never get airtime in the USA... Apparently shows in the USA get aired overseas a bit more often than the other way around.
For example, I've been watching "My Restaurant Rules" religiously via BitTorrent, and it's a breath of fresh air compared to the shoddy production value, plain silly reality TV shows here in the USA.
Also, I watch the UK version of "The Apprentice." It's much more interesting compared to the USA version, in my opinion.
These shows (and others I watch on a regular basis) will NEVER make it to the USA, and products marketed by the commercials have little to no target market in the USA.
Watch shows from overseas is great, regardless of the "legal" implications, because I doubt there are any -- and honestly, who gives a rip if some Aussie watches LOST 4 months before schedule? It's not a big deal.
Another example, "Dr. Who" -- I watched this show as a kid on PBS, and now after many many years new episodes are being produced again, which is AWESOME. I figure Dr. Who will eventually make it over here to the USA.
Eventually there will be MASS-MARKET video on demand via the net services, and they'll take off rather quickly...
Services like <URL:http://www.saltwaterchimp.com/> and <URL:http://www.everyshowsucks.com> are great, but need much more variety and backing from content providers before they take off in a bigger scale.
"write drivers for the niche 5% MacOS X or 5% other *nix market?
What you fail to take into account is that Adaptec RAID 5 controllers are a niche market meant for either hardcore users who need a RAID 5 array for storage, or for servers. To take an entire segment out of that niche and say "We don't want this business" is ludicrous.
Last time I checked, OpenBSD is a decent sized segment of the server "niche market." Yes, it is a niche within a niche, but the PR implications of NOT providing documentation is huge, thanks to Slashdot.
This is what the topic is about -- the documentation requested is required to hotswap a failed drive, then rebuilt the array without needing to go into the BIOS and reboot. From what I read, other operating systems (ie: Windows) drivers have the ability to rebuilt the array without a reboot -- this is a huge feature required for many corporate and enterprise class servers.
I choose to vote for Open Source friendly companies with my dollars, and the influence I have on the dollars that my company will spend.
Everyone on here expects companies to spend millions in development and bend over backwards for their own purposes.
As I'm sure other people have rebutted, all they want is documentation -- Adaptec has a choice, they can choose either paying some $50 shipping and printing out a box of papers, or potentially a huge PR smear that would convince more than a few people to not buy their products.
No, with XP starter, you are restricted to running only 3 trojans at once.
Possible obvious responses:
Only 3 trojans? I'm a self-replicating-trojan author you insensitive clod.
So I can only run three instances of Internet Explorer at once?
Customer: Whenever I try to start a second program, it gives me an error... Techie: Yeah, you can't run Gator, Precision Time, Weatherbug AND something else... you've gotta turn something off. Customer: (incredulous)WHAT!!?? I NEED TO KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS, SAVE MY PASSWORDS, AND KNOW WHAT THE WEATHER IS LIKE OUTSIDE. Techie: (mutes customer): "Fucking Chuck Noris, all those goddamn ninjas had to go after the pirates."
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/4a5348d4e9a30ecdb 18837ab66bcbcbf/index.html Dunno if that's a link that expires or not, but it's on this page if not: http://www.mirrordot.org/
Link to the AVI: http://www.mirrordot.org/media/9395b32628854ab4647 3b7097a7c669f/machine.avi
1) Your inbox is full... a full 1GB account! 2) You have a copy of Netscape 4.7 for MacOS laying around.
Good luck with the ladies, you'll need it.
For folks who don't read the article...
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From TFA: "These are very disruptive, low-cost technologies, and it's not in the incumbent telecommunication companies' best interest to embrace them," Gurley said. "But these are technologies that can be very beneficial to communities."
He(or she) offers two diametrically opposed opinions, and realizes what is best for the community, but seems more supportive in banning free wi-fi. Bad article... doesn't seem to say who this person is, or what position they hold either in government or private sector.
Another quote, this time from SBC spokesperson: That's not to say they disagree with the wireless provision. SBC Communications, which has more DSL customers in the nation than any other provider, said cities should be allowed to offer wireless Internet access in public places, such as parks and libraries. But they should not directly compete with private enterprises by providing services to residents and businesses, said company spokesman Gene Acuña.
Also note, the telecom companies were not involved with writing the bill -- basically this proposed law is just a provision that a business or residential areas should not be able to get free internet via wi-fi provided by the government.
King's chief of staff, Trey Trainor, said they are rewriting the telecommunications bill to recognize that there are legitimate uses for municipal networks, such as public safety communication, meter-reading and other city services.King's basic objection, Trainor said, stands -- in a free-market system it's not acceptable to let public government compete with private businesses.
These telecom companies are wanting to get these people as customers and make it illegal to use a free wi-fi hotspots, but also distancing themselves by saying essentially that they are not responsible for the bill at all.
All in all, I am surprised the most reasonable causes for this sort of bill to go through have not been mentioned in the article: kiddie porn, spam, and hacking.
I see people using my access point for their main source of internet, either on purpose or accident. Big deal.
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I agree with your comment - "it's up to the product."
The thing here is that most consumers of any product expect it to 'just work.'
Want to know why Firefox is starting to make a small, but appreciable difference in what useragent is showing up in server logs?
I'll tell ya.
No end-user action required for installation of "bad stuff" in IE. Internet Explorer in it's default configuration is notorious for getting stuff without even clicking "Yes."
That "Yes" button to install ActiveX controls is effectively the following: Please rape and pillage my TCP/IP stack and redirect every http request to your affiliate search engine, and when you pay someone $85 to diagnose and to fix it, I'll go ahead and make it as difficult as possible, and if they don't catch one little peice of what I'm about to put on your machine, I'll go ahead and timebomb it so it'll reappear in two weeks. Good day."
/end rant
Windows 2000 and XP users saw this twice in the past year, in the form of MSBlast, and it's friend Sasser, not counting the variants.
If we see more of these sorts of things, and trust me, these do disrupt personal, business, and government computers. The timing of the famous 2004 power outage was almost too close to the release of MSBlast to be called a fluke.
I actually think it's completely possible and plausible that someone brought in an infected laptop to work, or connected via POTS or frame relay with an infected machine, which would make sense; the outage wasn't concurent with the outbreak of MSBlast, but it was close, within a week I believe.
Two things need to happen for Linux to begin a grassroots explosion into the desktop of mom and poppa.
1. The default window manager needs to REALLY emulate the GUI of Windows, or be resonably close for someone who has memorized the route to get to things that they know. Use more familar looking GUI widgets for example. Use a splash screen when the system is coming up instead of outputting alot of cryptic data that only old-timers and linux hackers even know what it means.
2. The default internet browser must follow #1 - familar widgets, GUI responsiveness, and very good compatability - remember, there's not an option in Linux to fire up IE to access your banking website.
3. Most importantly, if something is screwed up beyond fixing, there must be an automated backup process and restore option. Mom doesn't know what to answer when asked to choose what packages to install.
4. ???
5. Take over Mom's PC.
Linspire aka Lindows is trying real hard to accomplish this. I haven't used any recent versions of their product, so I don't know how close they are to getting there. AFAIK they are still giving away Linspire licenses with Walmart computers, so it has to be usable, although possibly not meeting my criteria.
A better example would be World of Warcraft, since Steam does NOT use your upload bandwidth, except for
Blizzard uses a customized BitTorrent client to download patches, instead of getting the patches right from Blizzard... all you download is the BT client designed to only download that one specific file, and then it exits, runs the downloaded patch and then you've got the latest content.
Smart usage of BT to distribute their patches... otherwise sending out a patch would be much more costly - think a few hundred gigs of upload, instead of multi-terabyte... very cost efficient for them.
Broadband is no longer something that I could live without. DSL is not offered in my area, which is right outside downtown Salt Lake City.
The response from teleco was that I am "40 feet too far away, but you can get IDSL (128/128) for $130 a month."
If I could not get Comcast Cable service here, I would be getting a high gain antenna, and a 802.takeyourpick network card, and connect to an open access point, sniff some traffic to determine the owner, send them an email or stop by their door and ask if I can use it.
I for one, welcome our new two-armed manufacturing robotic friends.
All kidding aside, technological advancements not only displace jobs, but also create them as well. There is a small difference between paying 20 robotics engineers to develop, create, and maintain the robots exorbitant salaries as much as hiring 150 "guys off the street" to do the same stuff.
Yes, after the initial development, the costs go down, but not a whole lot. Someone needs to make sure the robots keep doing their jobs.
From TFA: Japan has so far rejected calls to open up to large numbers of unskilled immigrants, fearing the effects on the country's social framework.
So instead of using "outsourced" labor, they remove jobs by having robots do them.... almost as bad.
The problem with that is if you go out of state on vacation, you would be taxed for that mileage in another state, which they have no business taxing.
Or how about someone who has a winter home in California, and drives half the year mostly in Washington or Canada but has the car registered in CA? It would not be fair to go on mileage alone.
What would be fair is if the tax on fuel was getting less for the state because of higher efficiency in newer cars, just to raise the fuel tax more. Repairing roads can't be outsourced to India, and still costs the same amount it did last year.
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You missed the "Search Mail" button at the top of the Yahoo Mail page, FYI.
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To get "folder-like" behavior, and this is kinda a hack, label the email conversation, then archive the email. Then click the link on the left and there you go, folders... kinda.
Bolded so more people see it.
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For all the talk about labels vs. folders, I find labels are counter-intuitive. Here in my filing cabinet I sort documents into folders; I don't stick 3 or 4 different labels on documents and throw them all into the same drawer. It's crazy!
There is a way around this, and it's not very intuitive, I'll give you that.
Basically just label an email, then archive it. It wont show up in the inbox, and it only shows up when you click on the label on the left (just like regular folders, but you can have the same email in multiple folders without taking up more space) or click on view all mail. Viola, folders, abeit badly designed and clumbsy, but folders, nontheless.
Slashdot Mirror
http://mirrordot.org/stories/39a95b17d780f88643ca2 4fe07782398/index.html
Actually your link goes to Google in Canada. Nyuck nyuck!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Agoogl e.com
And I completely agree.
For me, it's a phone with SMS, and an alarm that works pretty well (IE ring at 6PM only on Su,Mo,Tu,Fri) since I have a schedule that doesn't require me to wake up every day. I like it.
I came from a MPx220, with all the gadgetry and doodads you could ever want, email, web (REAL html using pocket IE), 1.2MP camera, smarphone OS, bluetooth, IR, played mp3 ringtones, Divx video even... you name it, it could probably do it.
Now I find that I charge my phone less often, and if I miss charging it, I'm not stuck low on power the next day. I can usually go for 4 days without a charge with about 30-60 minutes oftalktime per day.
The only thing I really miss is a camera. The 1.2MP on the Moto was great as far as cameraphones go, but I just keep my 5 MP in the glovebox anyway.
As for other uses, I use Google's SMS feature for things that I used mobile web and other custom applications, IE weather, business lookups, etc.
I've used a Windows Mobile Smartphone for the past year. Am I concerned about getting spyware on my phone? Not in the least.
I'll tell you why.
First off, any program you try to install must be confirmed that you want the application. You (or your carrier) can also set the phone up so it will only accept signed applications, which I beleive means Microsoft approved it for use with the OS.
Do you worry about getting spyware on an XBox too? Every game that is put out for the XBox is signed by Microsoft as being legit. It's the same deal on MS Smartphone.
About your comment on Pocket Internet Explorer, Web browsing (no matter what browser you are using) over GPRS (celluar data) is slow. Think around 14.4, dialup speeds. My phone has a 200MHz processor and 32MB of RAM, so that influences how fast pages load, etc.
So any pages I visit, I goto them for a reason, because I want to view that page, and something important is there. For example while at work I can check on the status of a package on FedEx.com and see if I should go home for lunch and put the package inside the house instead of letting it stay outside for 8 hours.
I personally do not go browsing or searching for things on my phone that I do not implicitly trust.
On the otherhand, on my PC with fast internet, I could get a emailed link, get a link sent by a friend saying "hey this is cool"... my PC is so fast compared to a phone that you can click a link, and within seconds your machine is infected.
The problem is user authentication and proper policy management. For people who use their PC at home, this is a "nuisance" because many people would be using the PC, many people would want to install applications, and for a computer to ask for the master password whenever a program is installed is really just a out there idea. Most people want to be able to install whatever they want, whenever they want and not have to authenticate themselves.
Mac OS X can be set to authenticate when you install programs, there's no spyware for Macs. Linux authenticates before you start your user session, there's no spyware for Linux.
Windows for PC is meant to be stupid user friendly. That's what makes it a target for spyware. I talk to people almost daily who have gotten a major infection of spyware on their PC and that's because their 12 year old son installed Kazaa, or downloaded some free smiles, or wanted to check the weather. If there was user authentication on the PC when installing programs, it might be less of a target, because only an authorized user can install things.
That said, I do install unsigned applications on my phone. But at least I know what I am installing and when.
Why don't you shut up if you don't have an informed opinion, and I would ask you to call me as know as soon as there's a virus out there that bypasses user authentication and can install it onto my cellphone, but I'll be reading it via RSS -- on my phone.
I live in the USA. Reverse the senario, but the shows I am watching (mostly) will never get airtime in the USA... Apparently shows in the USA get aired overseas a bit more often than the other way around.
For example, I've been watching "My Restaurant Rules" religiously via BitTorrent, and it's a breath of fresh air compared to the shoddy production value, plain silly reality TV shows here in the USA.
Also, I watch the UK version of "The Apprentice." It's much more interesting compared to the USA version, in my opinion.
These shows (and others I watch on a regular basis) will NEVER make it to the USA, and products marketed by the commercials have little to no target market in the USA.
Watch shows from overseas is great, regardless of the "legal" implications, because I doubt there are any -- and honestly, who gives a rip if some Aussie watches LOST 4 months before schedule? It's not a big deal.
Another example, "Dr. Who" -- I watched this show as a kid on PBS, and now after many many years new episodes are being produced again, which is AWESOME. I figure Dr. Who will eventually make it over here to the USA.
Eventually there will be MASS-MARKET video on demand via the net services, and they'll take off rather quickly...
Services like <URL:http://www.saltwaterchimp.com/> and <URL:http://www.everyshowsucks.com> are great, but need much more variety and backing from content providers before they take off in a bigger scale.
Nobody has mentioned Adam Curry yet? Sheesh!
http://live.curry.com/
Daily Source Code -- fun to listen to on the way to work.
- "write drivers for the niche 5% MacOS X or 5% other *nix market?
What you fail to take into account is that Adaptec RAID 5 controllers are a niche market meant for either hardcore users who need a RAID 5 array for storage, or for servers. To take an entire segment out of that niche and say "We don't want this business" is ludicrous.Last time I checked, OpenBSD is a decent sized segment of the server "niche market." Yes, it is a niche within a niche, but the PR implications of NOT providing documentation is huge, thanks to Slashdot.
This is what the topic is about -- the documentation requested is required to hotswap a failed drive, then rebuilt the array without needing to go into the BIOS and reboot. From what I read, other operating systems (ie: Windows) drivers have the ability to rebuilt the array without a reboot -- this is a huge feature required for many corporate and enterprise class servers.
I choose to vote for Open Source friendly companies with my dollars, and the influence I have on the dollars that my company will spend.
As I'm sure other people have rebutted, all they want is documentation -- Adaptec has a choice, they can choose either paying some $50 shipping and printing out a box of papers, or potentially a huge PR smear that would convince more than a few people to not buy their products.
End rant.
Possible obvious responses:
Only 3 trojans? I'm a self-replicating-trojan author you insensitive clod.
So I can only run three instances of Internet Explorer at once?
Customer: Whenever I try to start a second program, it gives me an error...
Techie: Yeah, you can't run Gator, Precision Time, Weatherbug AND something else... you've gotta turn something off.
Customer: (incredulous)WHAT!!?? I NEED TO KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS, SAVE MY PASSWORDS, AND KNOW WHAT THE WEATHER IS LIKE OUTSIDE.
Techie: (mutes customer): "Fucking Chuck Noris, all those goddamn ninjas had to go after the pirates."
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/4a5348d4e9a30ecdb 18837ab66bcbcbf/index.html
7 3b7097a7c669f/machine.avi
Dunno if that's a link that expires or not, but it's on this page if not: http://www.mirrordot.org/
Link to the AVI: http://www.mirrordot.org/media/9395b32628854ab464
Two things caused me to think this:
1) Your inbox is full... a full 1GB account!
2) You have a copy of Netscape 4.7 for MacOS laying around.
Good luck with the ladies, you'll need it.
"These are very disruptive, low-cost technologies, and it's not in the incumbent telecommunication companies' best interest to embrace them," Gurley said. "But these are technologies that can be very beneficial to communities."
He(or she) offers two diametrically opposed opinions, and realizes what is best for the community, but seems more supportive in banning free wi-fi. Bad article... doesn't seem to say who this person is, or what position they hold either in government or private sector.
Another quote, this time from SBC spokesperson:
That's not to say they disagree with the wireless provision. SBC Communications, which has more DSL customers in the nation than any other provider, said cities should be allowed to offer wireless Internet access in public places, such as parks and libraries. But they should not directly compete with private enterprises by providing services to residents and businesses, said company spokesman Gene Acuña.
Also note, the telecom companies were not involved with writing the bill -- basically this proposed law is just a provision that a business or residential areas should not be able to get free internet via wi-fi provided by the government.
King's chief of staff, Trey Trainor, said they are rewriting the telecommunications bill to recognize that there are legitimate uses for municipal networks, such as public safety communication, meter-reading and other city services. King's basic objection, Trainor said, stands -- in a free-market system it's not acceptable to let public government compete with private businesses.
These telecom companies are wanting to get these people as customers and make it illegal to use a free wi-fi hotspots, but also distancing themselves by saying essentially that they are not responsible for the bill at all.
All in all, I am surprised the most reasonable causes for this sort of bill to go through have not been mentioned in the article: kiddie porn, spam, and hacking.
I see people using my access point for their main source of internet, either on purpose or accident. Big deal.
The thing here is that most consumers of any product expect it to 'just work.'
Want to know why Firefox is starting to make a small, but appreciable difference in what useragent is showing up in server logs?
I'll tell ya.
No end-user action required for installation of "bad stuff" in IE. Internet Explorer in it's default configuration is notorious for getting stuff without even clicking "Yes."
That "Yes" button to install ActiveX controls is effectively the following: Please rape and pillage my TCP/IP stack and redirect every http request to your affiliate search engine, and when you pay someone $85 to diagnose and to fix it, I'll go ahead and make it as difficult as possible, and if they don't catch one little peice of what I'm about to put on your machine, I'll go ahead and timebomb it so it'll reappear in two weeks. Good day."
Windows 2000 and XP users saw this twice in the past year, in the form of MSBlast, and it's friend Sasser, not counting the variants.
If we see more of these sorts of things, and trust me, these do disrupt personal, business, and government computers. The timing of the famous 2004 power outage was almost too close to the release of MSBlast to be called a fluke.
I actually think it's completely possible and plausible that someone brought in an infected laptop to work, or connected via POTS or frame relay with an infected machine, which would make sense; the outage wasn't concurent with the outbreak of MSBlast, but it was close, within a week I believe.
Two things need to happen for Linux to begin a grassroots explosion into the desktop of mom and poppa.
1. The default window manager needs to REALLY emulate the GUI of Windows, or be resonably close for someone who has memorized the route to get to things that they know. Use more familar looking GUI widgets for example. Use a splash screen when the system is coming up instead of outputting alot of cryptic data that only old-timers and linux hackers even know what it means.
2. The default internet browser must follow #1 - familar widgets, GUI responsiveness, and very good compatability - remember, there's not an option in Linux to fire up IE to access your banking website.
3. Most importantly, if something is screwed up beyond fixing, there must be an automated backup process and restore option. Mom doesn't know what to answer when asked to choose what packages to install.
4. ???
5. Take over Mom's PC.
Linspire aka Lindows is trying real hard to accomplish this. I haven't used any recent versions of their product, so I don't know how close they are to getting there. AFAIK they are still giving away Linspire licenses with Walmart computers, so it has to be usable, although possibly not meeting my criteria.
Just throwing in my two cents before I goto bed.
Mondays MP3
Asskicked MP3
Stolen directly from Office Space Clips
A better example would be World of Warcraft, since Steam does NOT use your upload bandwidth, except for
... all you download is the BT client designed to only download that one specific file, and then it exits, runs the downloaded patch and then you've got the latest content.
Blizzard uses a customized BitTorrent client to download patches, instead of getting the patches right from Blizzard
Smart usage of BT to distribute their patches... otherwise sending out a patch would be much more costly - think a few hundred gigs of upload, instead of multi-terabyte... very cost efficient for them.
I agree with you on free access.
Broadband is no longer something that I could live without. DSL is not offered in my area, which is right outside downtown Salt Lake City.
The response from teleco was that I am "40 feet too far away, but you can get IDSL (128/128) for $130 a month."
If I could not get Comcast Cable service here, I would be getting a high gain antenna, and a 802.takeyourpick network card, and connect to an open access point, sniff some traffic to determine the owner, send them an email or stop by their door and ask if I can use it.
BeaverNet, and before you ask.. yes, it was "wide open" :)
I for one, welcome our new two-armed manufacturing robotic friends.
All kidding aside, technological advancements not only displace jobs, but also create them as well. There is a small difference between paying 20 robotics engineers to develop, create, and maintain the robots exorbitant salaries as much as hiring 150 "guys off the street" to do the same stuff.
Yes, after the initial development, the costs go down, but not a whole lot. Someone needs to make sure the robots keep doing their jobs.
From TFA:
Japan has so far rejected calls to open up to large numbers of unskilled immigrants, fearing the effects on the country's social framework.
So instead of using "outsourced" labor, they remove jobs by having robots do them.... almost as bad.
Quote:
"you will only be dissapointed if you go in thinking the movie is going to be a great film"
Just replace "the movie" with "your life" and "great film" with "anything significant" and you have my philosophy.
You will never be disapointed if you have no expectations.
Someone please start this.
In fact, I feel so strongly, I decided to do something about it.
I setup a macro to hit "submit" 240,000 times in a row.
That'll teach them.
The problem with that is if you go out of state on vacation, you would be taxed for that mileage in another state, which they have no business taxing.
Or how about someone who has a winter home in California, and drives half the year mostly in Washington or Canada but has the car registered in CA? It would not be fair to go on mileage alone.
What would be fair is if the tax on fuel was getting less for the state because of higher efficiency in newer cars, just to raise the fuel tax more. Repairing roads can't be outsourced to India, and still costs the same amount it did last year.
You missed the "Search Mail" button at the top of the Yahoo Mail page, FYI.
To get "folder-like" behavior, and this is kinda a hack, label the email conversation, then archive the email. Then click the link on the left and there you go, folders... kinda.
There is a way around this, and it's not very intuitive, I'll give you that.
Basically just label an email, then archive it. It wont show up in the inbox, and it only shows up when you click on the label on the left (just like regular folders, but you can have the same email in multiple folders without taking up more space) or click on view all mail. Viola, folders, abeit badly designed and clumbsy, but folders, nontheless.