Without patents, the big company, see's it and copies it, and sells it before the little guy can get off the ground.
With patents, the little guy can't afford a patent defense, is drowned in legal expenses, and is counter-sued by the big company for infringing other patents in their defensive patent portfolio.
Do you believe that corporations are run by greedy bastards? If yes, then most likely your data is safe. If Apple was secretly collecting the keys and passing them on to the government, many people, both at Apple and in the government, would know about it. This knowledge would eventually leak. It would be a HUGE PR disaster for Apple, and cost them billions and billions in lost customers and lawsuits.
China requires a member of the Party and the government to be on every corporate board.
This is only true for public companies. Most Chinese corps have no such requirement. My spouse is a director on the board of a Shanghai based private corporation, and they have no board members from the government, and no party member, although my spouse is an ex-member, who lost her membership when she became a US citizen.
Also, being a "member of the party" does not imply any loyalty or ideology. Most members joined to advance their careers. The application process is fairly rigorous, but there are still tens of millions of members.
In America, we have many political parties (although only two with real power), so you can join the one that is most aligned with your beliefs and interests. In China, there is only one party, so it encompasses every possible ideology. Some members are hardcore Marxists, others are free market libertarians, along with everything in between.
A big deal of Walmart's success also has to do with sound IT practices.
But Walmart uses tech to support retail. Amazon makes most of their profit directly from tech. AWS generates most of Amazon's profit. Retailing is just a side business.
“Taking" is consumption, not accumulation of paper wealth.
If he sold his stock and distributed it to the poor, it would mean less investment and more consumption in a country that already consumes way too much and invests way too little.
It's not about storage space, in this case. It's about searching through 20,000 lines several times each time you load a page.
Is the implementation really this stupid? Why doesn't it hash it on the first access? Even just sorting it would reduce subsequent searches to log-log interpolative searches.
Uh, the last time I tried to write a bash script in osx I had to do a whole bunch of strange notation crap to work around osx.
You should learn to write portable code. I have plenty of scripts that work with no changes on OS X, FreeBSD, and Linux. When there are problems, it is usually Linux that is the outlier.
but not exactly native unix.
Yes it is. Mac OS X is a full Unix kernel by any criteria.
All of the Nordic countries are more capitalist than socialist. They may have socialized health care, but most of them have privatized postal services, and some have partially privatized their schools.
The success (if you want to call it that) of the Nordic model is due more to be Nordic than being "socialist". Greece used a similar model, but with a very different culture, and the result was a disaster. Detroit is another example.
Really, the thing to do is require that these companies have an appropriate sum of money set aside for decommissioning
Most of these turbines are on private land. Decommissioning is their problem, not yours. Despite the idiotic alarmism in TFA, it is none of your concern. It does not affect you in any way.
the way that the nuclear reactor industry is required to.
That is a completely different situation. A leaking reactor doesn't respect property boundaries. That makes it a public concern.
Right, because the skills needed to drive a haul truck or setup a cast blast are directly translatable to climbing towers and replacing generators.
The skills transfer is the easy part. Much harder will be transferring intact turbines and towers from Texas to the unemployed coal miners in Pennsylvania. And even that is easy compared to the time shifting machine needed so coal miners losing their jobs in 2018 can disassemble obsolete turbines in 2050.
They can live inside the abandoned wind towers. Or we could drape a large canvas over a cluster of towers to create a big tent.
On a more serious note, TFA is silly: 1. Turbines don't "wear out". Only the bearing wear, and they can be replaced. 2. The towers don't "go bad" either. They will stand for centuries. 3. Wind towers do not create a "wasteland". The surrounding land can continue to be used for grazing, crops, whatever. 4. Turbines contain plenty of valuable copper, steel, rare earths, etc. We should worry more about someone stealing them than abandoning them.
This is a "gift" to Americans as much as it is to China, since we all share the same atmosphere.
Chinese manufacturers have a higher energy intensity than America, so more CO2 can be eliminated for the same money if it is invested there. What Apple is doing makes sense, and is better for everyone.
What if Apple stopped producing gizmos and the factory's no longer ran and we all went back to talking in person.
Traveling to talk in person generates a lot more CO2 and other pollutants than talking on the phone. It also takes a lot more time. There is a reason that productivity and living standards have increased over the last century: Technology.
What is the point of having resources that are never used? Sensible people prefer functionality and good presentation over false economy. A cellphone uses about 2 kwh per year. At 12 cents per kwh, that is 24 cents annually, or 2 cents per month.
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Hardware patents protect the little guy.
Plenty of little guys would disagree.
Without patents, the big company, see's it and copies it, and sells it before the little guy can get off the ground.
With patents, the little guy can't afford a patent defense, is drowned in legal expenses, and is counter-sued by the big company for infringing other patents in their defensive patent portfolio.
The problem with that is: you don't know.
Do you believe that corporations are run by greedy bastards? If yes, then most likely your data is safe. If Apple was secretly collecting the keys and passing them on to the government, many people, both at Apple and in the government, would know about it. This knowledge would eventually leak. It would be a HUGE PR disaster for Apple, and cost them billions and billions in lost customers and lawsuits.
China requires a member of the Party and the government to be on every corporate board.
This is only true for public companies. Most Chinese corps have no such requirement. My spouse is a director on the board of a Shanghai based private corporation, and they have no board members from the government, and no party member, although my spouse is an ex-member, who lost her membership when she became a US citizen.
Also, being a "member of the party" does not imply any loyalty or ideology. Most members joined to advance their careers. The application process is fairly rigorous, but there are still tens of millions of members.
In America, we have many political parties (although only two with real power), so you can join the one that is most aligned with your beliefs and interests. In China, there is only one party, so it encompasses every possible ideology. Some members are hardcore Marxists, others are free market libertarians, along with everything in between.
A big deal of Walmart's success also has to do with sound IT practices.
But Walmart uses tech to support retail. Amazon makes most of their profit directly from tech. AWS generates most of Amazon's profit. Retailing is just a side business.
Consumption causes the market to respond by offering goods and services to satisfy, which requires investment.
Of course, but the consumption is happening in America. The investment is happening in China.
The average Chinese household saves (invests) far more than the average American household, despite their lower income.
Are they rated for immersion in SALT water?
Yes.
AGW will cause many serious problems. This isn't one of them.
Stupid ignorant alarmism does nothing but provide ammunition to the denialists.
I'd consider it fun to watch capitalist theorists go bananas.
Plenty of capitalists have given away their fortunes to philanthropy, and nobody went bananas.
once he runs everybody out of business.
Walmart has three times the revenue and twice the profit, so good luck with that.
Is it evil to take more than you need?
“Taking" is consumption, not accumulation of paper wealth.
If he sold his stock and distributed it to the poor, it would mean less investment and more consumption in a country that already consumes way too much and invests way too little.
This has been a monumental task, not something that can be fixed by just throwing money at it.
Money was not thrown at it.
For example, there are only so many transformers, insulators, poles, etc. in stock
Bad example, since this could obviously be fixed with money.
many many of these had to be replaced.
Money could fix this too.
There are still parts that they are taking a long time to source.
Money could speed things up.
So much of the infrastructure had been ignored
Because of a lack of money.
It's not about storage space, in this case. It's about searching through 20,000 lines several times each time you load a page.
Is the implementation really this stupid? Why doesn't it hash it on the first access? Even just sorting it would reduce subsequent searches to log-log interpolative searches.
Uh, the last time I tried to write a bash script in osx I had to do a whole bunch of strange notation crap to work around osx.
You should learn to write portable code. I have plenty of scripts that work with no changes on OS X, FreeBSD, and Linux. When there are problems, it is usually Linux that is the outlier.
but not exactly native unix.
Yes it is. Mac OS X is a full Unix kernel by any criteria.
How do you crop images?
Just click on the image, and it will open the right tool.
How would a Mac make you more productive?
Because, unlike Windows, it comes with a full suite of Unix command line tools.
Because, unlike Linux, everything "just works". No futzing with drivers, or figuring out how to crop an image with Gimp.
I have a Mac. It doesn't make me more productive.
Then why do you have it?
All of the Nordic countries are more capitalist than socialist. They may have socialized health care, but most of them have privatized postal services, and some have partially privatized their schools.
The success (if you want to call it that) of the Nordic model is due more to be Nordic than being "socialist". Greece used a similar model, but with a very different culture, and the result was a disaster. Detroit is another example.
I don't understand why people continue to pay such prices for mainstream technology.
$2500 spread over 5 years, is less than 1% of a developer's salary. If a Mac makes you more productive, then buying it is a no-brainer.
The build cost is irrelevant.
Really, the thing to do is require that these companies have an appropriate sum of money set aside for decommissioning
Most of these turbines are on private land. Decommissioning is their problem, not yours. Despite the idiotic alarmism in TFA, it is none of your concern. It does not affect you in any way.
the way that the nuclear reactor industry is required to.
That is a completely different situation. A leaking reactor doesn't respect property boundaries. That makes it a public concern.
Right, because the skills needed to drive a haul truck or setup a cast blast are directly translatable to climbing towers and replacing generators.
The skills transfer is the easy part. Much harder will be transferring intact turbines and towers from Texas to the unemployed coal miners in Pennsylvania. And even that is easy compared to the time shifting machine needed so coal miners losing their jobs in 2018 can disassemble obsolete turbines in 2050.
Can you name any structures today that have their tear down cost in escrow anywhere?
Nuclear power plants.
And what about the homeless?
They can live inside the abandoned wind towers. Or we could drape a large canvas over a cluster of towers to create a big tent.
On a more serious note, TFA is silly:
1. Turbines don't "wear out". Only the bearing wear, and they can be replaced.
2. The towers don't "go bad" either. They will stand for centuries.
3. Wind towers do not create a "wasteland". The surrounding land can continue to be used for grazing, crops, whatever.
4. Turbines contain plenty of valuable copper, steel, rare earths, etc. We should worry more about someone stealing them than abandoning them.
This is a "gift" to Americans as much as it is to China, since we all share the same atmosphere.
Chinese manufacturers have a higher energy intensity than America, so more CO2 can be eliminated for the same money if it is invested there. What Apple is doing makes sense, and is better for everyone.
What if Apple stopped producing gizmos and the factory's no longer ran and we all went back to talking in person.
Traveling to talk in person generates a lot more CO2 and other pollutants than talking on the phone. It also takes a lot more time. There is a reason that productivity and living standards have increased over the last century: Technology.
Napoleon didn't have to worry about thermonuclear weapons. The economics of war has drastically changed since Waterloo.
there is no reason to allow your smart TV to connect to the internet.
Uhhh, Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, YouTube, etc. There are plenty of reasons.
I should not have to watch movies on my cellphone just to avoid tracking.
What is the point of having resources that are never used? Sensible people prefer functionality and good presentation over false economy. A cellphone uses about 2 kwh per year. At 12 cents per kwh, that is 24 cents annually, or 2 cents per month.