That's not about first half of the 90s... (still, "only since 1985 Intel started...", yeah). Back then Macs were nice in comparison (still under-performing, for the excessive price - especially excessive considering insane premium at my non-core-market place... yes, I was one of very few from my place using, say, LC475 - to mention one with a name that stuck for some reason), still not as deserving as Amigas (oh, also a place where they very much dominated for a long time)
"Doing it again" probably having a bit different twist this time - by supporting exclusively "open web", they force any content provider which cares to go through iApp / iTunes DRM / etc....getting their 30%.
TOR should add significantly more; very fluctuating and narrow pipe... unusable, overall.
(and y'know, there's a lot of clickfest in many "strategies" too... even Diablo can be seen as having both aspects;p )
Ah, homebrew... I wonder a bit how the triggers are set, if they're at "pretty much anything except nominal" (oh well, too late question anyway; just a slow morning here, going through mailbox)
You think: "a line of computers forming less than 1% of sales (but visible at my place!) pushed the whole market"
I think: "they were mostly riding on a wave of larger movement, while shedding their legacy isolated (mostly not used by anybody else) connectors"
What could be more probable... (aka "how many times do we have to hear that Apple propelled something... from one of very few very atypical markets?")
If you want to include "a lot of mpeg4 formats", instead of just sensible ones in context, then portable Apple devices are also out of luck... especially in video tend to greatly depend on reencoding.
And you really managed to convince yourself that the above Wikipedia link, mentioning few recent models, is a counterpoint to my where's eAAC and eAAC+, in "all of them"?(*) Meanwhile, I'm listening now to an iPod (surprised? I know, hard to believe how for many people it's not a worship of one company) which never will, as is the case with vast majority of them in the wild.
(*)hint: it subtetly implies that's not a problem with all... but with well enough to make your "they were best in format support" absurd.
PS. It's like talking to a goldwish... the point about DRM was very clearly about the past (plus Apple is at their game in other areas - probably a large reason to support only "open web standards", why they shun Flash - forcing content providers to go through iApp or iTunes, to get 30%)
Socialism: "to each according to his contribution"... that's doesn't even fit with the topic, do you just demonize the S-word out of habit?
However unpopular it would be to point out - there was an insane progress in quality of life throughout Comecon / etc., generally bringing very backwards and impoverished places up to modern standards (heck, the biggest two ironies of history: despite all the victims of Stalinist times and WW2 there was immense increase in life expectancy; and yes, censorship - but also the first literate generations)
Then there's Big Max Index... don't act like you are on the worse end of "purchasing power of work time", you're not (ridiculously inexpensive cars or consumer electronics, for one)
They are still locally finite. And even if we realize the dream of colonization, there are strong hints that many other dreams (or, to put it bluntly: creative shortcuts to ease production or storytelling) won't be coming (while we're at it - where are ships with hulls overlooking Archimedes' principle? It's 2k+ years old, surely we should be able to ignore it by now...)
This means continuation of something which was always true, is still true on Earth (even with very easy travel)... even probably much, much stronger: if you're born somewhere, you're very likely to die near that place (because when it comes to travel, people will probably mostly do it while miniaturized and in deep hibernation). Similar for infrastructure.
"need to starve or freeze to death", no - but people would still starve of freeze. Because, in large part, they don't "need" to do it even now - OK, I don't know the situation in the US... but no shelters, etc.?
At my place, most of "last night / week (depending how bad) x people froze to death" is about drunks. Which touches on your preference for social programs of course (still, not everybody would use it; also, any goods can be exchanged for alcohol)
There's also "human dexterity + knowledge" (hm, a buddy of mine - a forester - might be good for a while) - unless of course covered by "augmented" humans.
Anyway, I'm not sure if those changes will be much more rapid than typical intergenerational ones (where are all the typists? Human computers?); coupled with falling mortality rates.... crap, this does start to look like extinction;)
It wouldn't be at your gas pumps without quite a few wars and spending on "defense", FFS... (taxes on it are nowhere enough for road infrastructure, what's required is also a form of subsidy). Without massive subsidies airlines wouldn't have where to operate, virtually all airports wouldn't exist (NVM fuel, NVM spending on "defense" benefiting airplane manufacturers)
The issue here is you have no clue how of your comfy modern society depends on "socialism"...
Yes, irrational. Gold is "scarce", as you put it (and remaining properties aren't unique). Scarce without any relation to much of anything. But you still seem to dream of irrationality of measuring world economies by artificial (as far as limits which we choose to impose upon ourselves go) scarcity completely unrelated to economic health.
So you don't realize even absolute basics; like how the base units don't mean much, how they were always a manner of convention (if basically in one sentence "the money supply has exploded" and "the government has effectively taken and spent 95% of the combined value of the money supply")... but via some brainfart it was determined largely by random ore, through most of our history. That part of history which excludes (very decent overall) recent times.
Fuel for "regulars cars" is also subsidized to hell (as is general road infrastructure, plus for example airlines; vs., say, trains)...probably much more than few areas you whine about.
Sir, are you or have you ever been a member of the communist party?
(but seriously: when it comes to OECD stats, it's also good to point out how the US is at the bottom (together with the UK and few others) of developed countries in terms of social mobility - and at the top are so called "nanny states" (Nordic, Canada, et al); so much for "land of opportunities" & "American dream" - just that, a dream, maybe just another product to sell)
In such society, it has likewise less and less with another classic definition of sorts - "to each according to his contribution". Actually, it even seems closer to the dreaded "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need"...
However, such possibility doesn't mean societal ability. I'm sure we can be still very creative in "waste", conspicuous consumption, etc. - if for no other reasons than...
Well, when it comes to near (like...bordering) with Russia, there's North Korea or, just across somewhat large lake, Iran (apart from Belarus, South Ossettia / Abkhazia, China; all a bit ambiguous)
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Though I do wonder how apocryphal most (all?) of those reports and stories are...
That's not about first half of the 90s... (still, "only since 1985 Intel started...", yeah). Back then Macs were nice in comparison (still under-performing, for the excessive price - especially excessive considering insane premium at my non-core-market place ... yes, I was one of very few from my place using, say, LC475 - to mention one with a name that stuck for some reason), still not as deserving as Amigas (oh, also a place where they very much dominated for a long time)
"It has no merit in showing they don't follow open standards, that's bias... and besides they do that because it suits them". Nice going there.
"Doing it again" probably having a bit different twist this time - by supporting exclusively "open web", they force any content provider which cares to go through iApp / iTunes DRM / etc. ...getting their 30%.
TOR should add significantly more; very fluctuating and narrow pipe... unusable, overall. ;p )
(and y'know, there's a lot of clickfest in many "strategies" too... even Diablo can be seen as having both aspects
Ah, homebrew... I wonder a bit how the triggers are set, if they're at "pretty much anything except nominal" (oh well, too late question anyway; just a slow morning here, going through mailbox)
Hey, it's a matter of interpretation, not facts.
You think: "a line of computers forming less than 1% of sales (but visible at my place!) pushed the whole market"
I think: "they were mostly riding on a wave of larger movement, while shedding their legacy isolated (mostly not used by anybody else) connectors"
What could be more probable... (aka "how many times do we have to hear that Apple propelled something... from one of very few very atypical markets?")
it need to be clustered preferably on different sites with different power etc. This is why the USA has the 25th amendment.
Sadly, in real world we don't embrace opportunities anyway - like at my place, when the second Kaczynski twin was available as a backup ;/
If you want to include "a lot of mpeg4 formats", instead of just sensible ones in context, then portable Apple devices are also out of luck... especially in video tend to greatly depend on reencoding.
And you really managed to convince yourself that the above Wikipedia link, mentioning few recent models, is a counterpoint to my where's eAAC and eAAC+, in "all of them"?(*) Meanwhile, I'm listening now to an iPod (surprised? I know, hard to believe how for many people it's not a worship of one company) which never will, as is the case with vast majority of them in the wild.
(*)hint: it subtetly implies that's not a problem with all... but with well enough to make your "they were best in format support" absurd.
PS. It's like talking to a goldwish... the point about DRM was very clearly about the past (plus Apple is at their game in other areas - probably a large reason to support only "open web standards", why they shun Flash - forcing content providers to go through iApp or iTunes, to get 30%)
However, latest IE is pretty much the only browser capable of smoothly displaying Slashdot...
It's like some cruel practical joke from MS.
Lower replacement rates might do the trick? Conveniently, they seem to be mostly inversely proportional to tech, quality of life, etc. improvements...
Socialism: "to each according to his contribution"... that's doesn't even fit with the topic, do you just demonize the S-word out of habit?
However unpopular it would be to point out - there was an insane progress in quality of life throughout Comecon / etc., generally bringing very backwards and impoverished places up to modern standards (heck, the biggest two ironies of history: despite all the victims of Stalinist times and WW2 there was immense increase in life expectancy; and yes, censorship - but also the first literate generations)
Then there's Big Max Index... don't act like you are on the worse end of "purchasing power of work time", you're not (ridiculously inexpensive cars or consumer electronics, for one)
They are still locally finite. And even if we realize the dream of colonization, there are strong hints that many other dreams (or, to put it bluntly: creative shortcuts to ease production or storytelling) won't be coming (while we're at it - where are ships with hulls overlooking Archimedes' principle? It's 2k+ years old, surely we should be able to ignore it by now...)
... even probably much, much stronger: if you're born somewhere, you're very likely to die near that place (because when it comes to travel, people will probably mostly do it while miniaturized and in deep hibernation). Similar for infrastructure.
This means continuation of something which was always true, is still true on Earth (even with very easy travel)
"need to starve or freeze to death", no - but people would still starve of freeze. Because, in large part, they don't "need" to do it even now - OK, I don't know the situation in the US... but no shelters, etc.?
At my place, most of "last night / week (depending how bad) x people froze to death" is about drunks. Which touches on your preference for social programs of course (still, not everybody would use it; also, any goods can be exchanged for alcohol)
There's also "human dexterity + knowledge" (hm, a buddy of mine - a forester - might be good for a while) - unless of course covered by "augmented" humans.
;)
Anyway, I'm not sure if those changes will be much more rapid than typical intergenerational ones (where are all the typists? Human computers?); coupled with falling mortality rates.... crap, this does start to look like extinction
It wouldn't be at your gas pumps without quite a few wars and spending on "defense", FFS... (taxes on it are nowhere enough for road infrastructure, what's required is also a form of subsidy). Without massive subsidies airlines wouldn't have where to operate, virtually all airports wouldn't exist (NVM fuel, NVM spending on "defense" benefiting airplane manufacturers)
The issue here is you have no clue how of your comfy modern society depends on "socialism"...
Yes, irrational. Gold is "scarce", as you put it (and remaining properties aren't unique). Scarce without any relation to much of anything. But you still seem to dream of irrationality of measuring world economies by artificial (as far as limits which we choose to impose upon ourselves go) scarcity completely unrelated to economic health.
So you don't realize even absolute basics; like how the base units don't mean much, how they were always a manner of convention (if basically in one sentence "the money supply has exploded" and "the government has effectively taken and spent 95% of the combined value of the money supply") ... but via some brainfart it was determined largely by random ore, through most of our history. That part of history which excludes (very decent overall) recent times.
Fuel for "regulars cars" is also subsidized to hell (as is general road infrastructure, plus for example airlines; vs., say, trains) ...probably much more than few areas you whine about.
So the tragedy was untying the value of money from one unremarkable ore? (notable mostly due to irrational fascination of humans about it)
Sir, are you or have you ever been a member of the communist party?
(but seriously: when it comes to OECD stats, it's also good to point out how the US is at the bottom (together with the UK and few others) of developed countries in terms of social mobility - and at the top are so called "nanny states" (Nordic, Canada, et al); so much for "land of opportunities" & "American dream" - just that, a dream, maybe just another product to sell)
In such society, it has likewise less and less with another classic definition of sorts - "to each according to his contribution". Actually, it even seems closer to the dreaded "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need"...
However, such possibility doesn't mean societal ability. I'm sure we can be still very creative in "waste", conspicuous consumption, etc. - if for no other reasons than...
Well, when it comes to near (like...bordering) with Russia, there's North Korea or, just across somewhat large lake, Iran (apart from Belarus, South Ossettia / Abkhazia, China; all a bit ambiguous)
Right after whole country of Americans notices there's a bit more to Americas (both of them) than... their country?