What it really comes down to is this... Money buys anything. Your friends, leaders, family CAN be bought at the right price. That is the nature of money. That is the nature of humans. You can have all of the ideals in the world, but even God needs money to do anything. Ideologies are nice, but there is always an asshole to exploit the system. You can never separate money from power because one guarantees another. Redistributing the wealth only amounts to those that would't have the money get taken by those that would have the money. The only way to beat the beast is to take away their teeth, but I honestly don't know of a good solution
Unlike myself, young folks these days aren't pinned by the constraints of a limited system. Something like the Pi is like throwing a 386 at them and telling them to do something useful with it. It is possible, and it runs a much more capable OS than the DOS I had to deal with
You know how to code, but I doubt you know how these systems actually work, what they actually collect, or how that data is actually used in the real world
I am one of those people who DO know how they work and what data they collect. I spent plenty of time engineering them and the subsequent delegations of production. They are just as evil as you can imagine, only more so. You may feel that you are a single point of consumer data, but your behavior changes and your habits along with them. They know this and see this, and if they can tell you are willing to spend more money, your new PC from XCompany is $39 more expensive.
Your post is misleading, and on purpose. It may be well articulated, but the Devil is in the details
5,978,791 - Data processing system using substantially unique identifiers to identify data items, whereby identical data items have the same identifiers -UUID 6,415,280 - Identifying and requesting data in network using identifiers which are based on contents of data - CRC Hash 6,928,442 - Enforcement and policing of licensed content using content-based identifiers - See WinAmp and Windows Media player and so on...
I took Oxycontin for kidney stones after increased tolerance from taking opiates over the years for kidney stones. With pain like that, it never goes away, but it made it tolerable. Apparently, I am an exception to the rule, but once the kidney stones were out of me, I felt no compulsion to take anymore. No kidney stones since, and nothing stronger than ibuprofen. Perhaps it is because I haven't gotten "high" off of a pain killer in 20 years. Regardless the reason, it really isn't black or white.
No, see as you approach feasibility, your likelihood of being bough by a competing producer to be extinguished (see gasoline) becomes multitudes greater. You will never actually reach production with things like this, for the same reason you will never reach a wall by moving in increments of 1/2. Tee short of it, there is too much money to be made to have something as valuable as energy become a low-cost commodity.
ARM Cortex-A9 easily beats the NVIDIA/AMD GPUs and latest Intel/AMD workstation CPUs in performance-per-Watt efficiency
So, it is saying that a car with an engine that can get 400mpg is more economical than one with 30mpg, but they leave out the important part that it will take you 10x longer to get to your destination. I hate the trite "typical marketing", but that is what this is
Funny you mention this, my last job dealt a little too close with Infosys for your comment to be insightful. If anything, it reaffirms my position. There is more to the world of programming than desktop/web apps.
To be fair, the nature of a union is to gain power. The same as a corporations nature is to gain money. The outcome may not be better for you and me, but it is what they are built to do
Your whole post left my mouth agape. The standpoint that you are coming from, all programming can be simplified into dragging and dropping visual widgets and throwing in a bit of high-level platform code to tie it all together. If that is your view of what programming is, no wonder you think it isn't special. You aren't always programming on Windows. You don't always have desktop-sized amounts of memory. Sometimes YOU need to write one of those libraries that are NOT "already coded".
And no, an astronaut doesn't just "drive the shuttle"
Copyright already solves this problem. If I copy the exact way you do it, copyright grants you protection (like writing the same paragraph as you in my thesis). If I come up with a different way to accomplish the same thing (as in, found a way to copy documents that isn't the same way a Xerox machine works), I should be allowed to. I can't see anything other than personal agenda to disagree with this
Wait until you have 3d ON 3d! It looks like a normal super spy car, but put on the glasses and the patterns on it pop out to be an assortment of rocket launchers and DirecTV ads
Your argument hinges on the same misconception that most people have, where you are comparing criminal law punishment to civil law punishment. These are two completely different set of rules. Civil law can pretty much only bite your wallet, so it is in proportion the the perception of wealth. Your beef is with the lack of boundaries in civil law. The meanies are financially/socially putting these people in the gas chamber.
I could have never afforded a TI graphing calculator in high school, and it was required for Calculus, so the school gave them out akin to a text book. You had your serial number recorded and if you lost it, you didn't graduate until you paid for it. The things I was able to learn and do punching on that thing day in and out were infinitely valuable. I was even able to sign out a second one so that I didn't have to purge the programs I made for class. If there is such an excess, giving them to people who really can use them is a great idea
Even during the great depression food riots only rarely occurred and while there was civil unrest it was far from panic or massive
My great grandmother begs to differ enough that I had to give her THREE Swedish fish to calm her down. Downplaying the poverty and struggle of that era is a gross troll. People ate days old "bread" soaked in maple syrup, scooping off the mold. They rationed toilet paper because they COULDN'T AFFORD an extra roll, or they would starve. Pump your brakes, turn around, and go back the way you came.
You are already bending over and taking it, before you are even employed. You are working hours you won't get paid for, and they already have the upper hand in this "relationship"
Because the asshole that cuts you off within millimeters to make their fare happy is now worrying about how many fares they will miss if they aren't driving and fucking around on their cell phone
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What it really comes down to is this... Money buys anything. Your friends, leaders, family CAN be bought at the right price. That is the nature of money. That is the nature of humans. You can have all of the ideals in the world, but even God needs money to do anything. Ideologies are nice, but there is always an asshole to exploit the system. You can never separate money from power because one guarantees another. Redistributing the wealth only amounts to those that would't have the money get taken by those that would have the money. The only way to beat the beast is to take away their teeth, but I honestly don't know of a good solution
Unlike myself, young folks these days aren't pinned by the constraints of a limited system. Something like the Pi is like throwing a 386 at them and telling them to do something useful with it. It is possible, and it runs a much more capable OS than the DOS I had to deal with
You know how to code, but I doubt you know how these systems actually work, what they actually collect, or how that data is actually used in the real world
I am one of those people who DO know how they work and what data they collect. I spent plenty of time engineering them and the subsequent delegations of production. They are just as evil as you can imagine, only more so. You may feel that you are a single point of consumer data, but your behavior changes and your habits along with them. They know this and see this, and if they can tell you are willing to spend more money, your new PC from XCompany is $39 more expensive.
Your post is misleading, and on purpose. It may be well articulated, but the Devil is in the details
5,978,791 - Data processing system using substantially unique identifiers to identify data items, whereby identical data items have the same identifiers -UUID
6,415,280 - Identifying and requesting data in network using identifiers which are based on contents of data - CRC Hash
6,928,442 - Enforcement and policing of licensed content using content-based identifiers - See WinAmp and Windows Media player
and so on...
The problem is, with the current system, it is more reasonable to the bottom line to pay X in settlement costs vs paying your own lawyers for Y time
HACK THE PLANET!
I took Oxycontin for kidney stones after increased tolerance from taking opiates over the years for kidney stones. With pain like that, it never goes away, but it made it tolerable. Apparently, I am an exception to the rule, but once the kidney stones were out of me, I felt no compulsion to take anymore. No kidney stones since, and nothing stronger than ibuprofen. Perhaps it is because I haven't gotten "high" off of a pain killer in 20 years. Regardless the reason, it really isn't black or white.
Nothing new about fusion. Ask our friendly neighbor, the Sun. El Sol. Le Soleil. Die Sonne. La Suno.
No, see as you approach feasibility, your likelihood of being bough by a competing producer to be extinguished (see gasoline) becomes multitudes greater. You will never actually reach production with things like this, for the same reason you will never reach a wall by moving in increments of 1/2. Tee short of it, there is too much money to be made to have something as valuable as energy become a low-cost commodity.
"It worked for me, so you must be wrong" is probably the most horrible retort I ever have to deal with
ARM Cortex-A9 easily beats the NVIDIA/AMD GPUs and latest Intel/AMD workstation CPUs in performance-per-Watt efficiency
So, it is saying that a car with an engine that can get 400mpg is more economical than one with 30mpg, but they leave out the important part that it will take you 10x longer to get to your destination. I hate the trite "typical marketing", but that is what this is
Funny you mention this, my last job dealt a little too close with Infosys for your comment to be insightful. If anything, it reaffirms my position. There is more to the world of programming than desktop/web apps.
To be fair, the nature of a union is to gain power. The same as a corporations nature is to gain money. The outcome may not be better for you and me, but it is what they are built to do
Your whole post left my mouth agape. The standpoint that you are coming from, all programming can be simplified into dragging and dropping visual widgets and throwing in a bit of high-level platform code to tie it all together. If that is your view of what programming is, no wonder you think it isn't special. You aren't always programming on Windows. You don't always have desktop-sized amounts of memory. Sometimes YOU need to write one of those libraries that are NOT "already coded".
And no, an astronaut doesn't just "drive the shuttle"
Copyright already solves this problem. If I copy the exact way you do it, copyright grants you protection (like writing the same paragraph as you in my thesis). If I come up with a different way to accomplish the same thing (as in, found a way to copy documents that isn't the same way a Xerox machine works), I should be allowed to. I can't see anything other than personal agenda to disagree with this
Because it is built on "services" and "platforms", built on libraries, built on libraries, ...
A desktop is more than an X Window manager anymore
That 1/2 fps in a game is the difference between tolerable and unusable
Wait until you have 3d ON 3d! It looks like a normal super spy car, but put on the glasses and the patterns on it pop out to be an assortment of rocket launchers and DirecTV ads
Your argument hinges on the same misconception that most people have, where you are comparing criminal law punishment to civil law punishment. These are two completely different set of rules. Civil law can pretty much only bite your wallet, so it is in proportion the the perception of wealth. Your beef is with the lack of boundaries in civil law. The meanies are financially/socially putting these people in the gas chamber.
I could have never afforded a TI graphing calculator in high school, and it was required for Calculus, so the school gave them out akin to a text book. You had your serial number recorded and if you lost it, you didn't graduate until you paid for it. The things I was able to learn and do punching on that thing day in and out were infinitely valuable. I was even able to sign out a second one so that I didn't have to purge the programs I made for class. If there is such an excess, giving them to people who really can use them is a great idea
Even during the great depression food riots only rarely occurred and while there was civil unrest it was far from panic or massive
My great grandmother begs to differ enough that I had to give her THREE Swedish fish to calm her down. Downplaying the poverty and struggle of that era is a gross troll. People ate days old "bread" soaked in maple syrup, scooping off the mold. They rationed toilet paper because they COULDN'T AFFORD an extra roll, or they would starve. Pump your brakes, turn around, and go back the way you came.
You are already bending over and taking it, before you are even employed. You are working hours you won't get paid for, and they already have the upper hand in this "relationship"
You can't possibly have kids. No sane parent would/should give a 7 year old as something as breakable and valuable as a multi-hundred dollar laptop
Because the asshole that cuts you off within millimeters to make their fare happy is now worrying about how many fares they will miss if they aren't driving and fucking around on their cell phone
The confusing thing about pcs...you go to the store and there is just so many games. I mean, everywhere you look. But on the Mac, there's just six