Unemployment does not exist because consumers want to consume less. There is plenty of meaningful work which is not getting done, despite many people being eager to do it.
The choices are accept a shorter week so others can also have a job, try to sweep back progress and destroy the robots, or cheerfully pay more taxes so others can go on the dole and stay there.
How about the Karl Marx option of working the same and getting more TV's, more phones, more cars and so on? If the super-rich are anything to go by, the limit to consumption per person is an extremely high bar. Productivity growth will not make a significant proportion of population hit that limit any time soon.
One of the problems with working less than full time is that many modern jobs have a good-sized portion of fixed overhead -- just keeping up with what is going on, staying current, attending meetings and so on can take up a significant fraction of your work week. If you cut a day out of your week, the fixed overhead gets proportionally larger...
Another problem is that there are fixed overheads associated with having employees. Just finding and hiring the right ones (and getting rid of the wrongly chosen ones) is a challenge, and having to deal with 20% extra employees means extra costs for the company. Companies are often reluctant to let their employees cut hours.
They did not realize that they were making contrary inputs. And I do not agree that they recognized the stall. The pilot in control kept pulling back at the stick for most of the fall, and no sane pilot would do that if he knew he was in a stall.
The Airbus way of not making the physical sticks move in concert must have contributed to the confusion. The mishap report does not dare say that.
Before I sent my original comment I did a tcpdump on YouTube just to be sure. TCP all the way.
And I can assure you that the IP stacks can tell the difference. Just look at the TCP offloading done in Linux. Only recently has some work been done on optimizing UDP offload, and it is nowhere near as mature.
TCP is not used for Video or Audio streaming as you do not want to have a lost packet cause a fault in the stream.
TCP is probably the most widely used protocol for video streaming. E.g. Youtube streams over TCP. Using TCP means you have more delay, because you have to wait for the occasional retransmit instead of just dropping a frame, but TCP is much easier to deal with overall. Network cards and IP stacks are optimized for TCP, firewalls handle TCP universally well... Unless it really matters that you are 10 seconds behind live (and it rarely does, even cable TV is several seconds behind live), go with TCP.
Video conferencing over TCP is probably not going to happen anytime soon though.
Do note that part of the gains is due to "improved" measuring. Especially air conditioning unit ratings are legal (well, possibly legal) lies. The Danish authorities have forced a few of the most ridiculous models off the market, but have yet to use their power to impose fines -- up to the equivalent of several hundred dollars, I am sure the criminals are shaking with fear.
A+++ is the best actually; the AA AAA system is gone (or rather, AAA today means an A-rating or better in other criteria apart from energy use). The industry has lobbied to avoid rebasing the system as efficiencies improve so "A" is a fairly lousy rating today for many items.
Soon we will see A+++++++. I wonder how many pluses it will take to overcome the industry bribery.
Modern wind power is reasonably predictable hours in advance. Gusts do not suddenly accelerate a 3MW (or 8MW) turbine, the momentum is too large for that and the turbine would immediately twist the blades to try to limit the impact. There are even turbines which have sensors that detect gusts before they actually hit the turbine so they can twist the blades in advance. This limits maximum strain on the tower.
Also, modern wind turbines are asynchronous and decoupled from the grid. Their electronics can provide reactive power for stabilization on demand.
I challenge you to provide power more reliably than the Danish grid. I trust that more than a datacenter with generators and double-conversion UPS.
Fair enough, my experience is that most applications are almost unusable in Windows 7 on a Macbook Retina with DPI set to 200%. It is possible that Windows is smart, but it certainly isn't showing it. Remote Desktop is a disaster, but everything else is pretty sad too. Fonts scale beautifully, everything else breaks around the pretty text.
You are talking about Mac OS X. Windows is not that smart. I was replying to a comment about Windows.
Firefox has been fine on Mac OS X high DPI for several releases. Many applications without intentional high DPI support work fine on Mac OS X even if you manually declare them high DPI aware. No such luck on Windows.
It does not work. It scales the fonts, but in many applications it does not scale the bitmaps. Lots of applications are effectively unusable on a high-DPI display.
The release version of Firefox is fairly broken for high DPI on Windows, but the Nightly handles it fine.
Remote desktop is almost unusable at high DPI in Windows; you cannot change scaling per user in Windows Server, so it only works if all your clients are high DPI.
Why cannot they charge today? If the phone does not work on any network in the country, surely that is equivalent.
Anyway, they cannot charge if they activate the kill switch. If the kill switch can be circumvented by carriers, it is completely useless. The whole point of it is that it is irreversible (except possibly by the manufacturer).
You have demonstrated no such thing. You still basically cannot import any non-English word from any other language and have it sound remotely the same. Advising people to pick names that are pronounceable in English is practically the same as advising them to pick native English names. The world is poorer for it.
You still haven't explained what the difference is between what can be done today by the authorities and what will be possible with a kill switch. There is no significant difference.
One: Can we expect petty criminals to be up on this latest news and be aware of this feature BEFORE they have already mugged you and tried to fence the phone?
Yes. Criminal communications are good. I would be surprised if it took as much as a month for robberies targeting a protected model to stop.
Two: If the phone is deactivated accidentally (or intentionally as a prank or malice against the owner), how much would you trust your mobile carrier to be reasonable in their process to reactivate the phone?
This is a kill switch. The carrier should not be able to fix the phone afterwards. The phone manufacturer might be able to fix it, but not if the kill switch is properly implemented.
All of which is extremely easy to accomplish today. Yet even in Turkey or Egypt it does not happen. Well they do shut off cell phone towers completely of course.
Today people get robbed for 3 things: money, passports, and phones. Cash is going away, so you have to bring the victim to an ATM to get the money out, and most people do not carry passports so you have to be really careful selecting your victim. Phones are easy to spot, so you know that there is something to rob, and they are extremely easy to fence.
If we take phones out of the equation, the criminals are likely to switch to other types of crime. Hopefully types which are less devastating to the victims.
They know they can still sell the phones for parts and make more money than they would just selling a phone.
I doubt that. Phone parts are relatively cheap because few people buy original parts. The only ones who do buy official parts are the official repair shops, and they are unlikely to buy parts from thieves.
The pool of people who are willing to steal is dramatically smaller than the pool of people who are willing to (intentionally) commit murder. Usually the robber does not start the robbery with the intention of killing the victim. If we cut robberies down to only intentional murders, the police will have lots of resources to deal with much fewer cases, and that should take those murderers out of circulation fairly rapidly.
As an extra bonus, if a fenced phone is likely to come from a murder victim, a lot more people will think twice about buying it. Maybe we can finally make fencing socially unacceptable.
IMEI is almost entirely useless. Few carriers care about IMEI block lists, and it's easy enough to export the phones to a place which doesn't care anyway. In addition you can sometimes change IMEI numbers, but that is unnecessary.
The companies get new sales and the government gets a stealthed system to quickly kill organized protests and evidence of police brutality with the push of a button. Win-Win!
If you think that shutting down cell phone communications to a specific area is difficult and requires new software, you are deluded. Sorry.
Parents who give their children names that aren't pronouncable in major languages like English are bastards.
Nothing is pronounceable in English. You basically cannot import any non-English word from any other language and have it sound remotely the same. The set of available sounds is both small and weird.
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Unemployment does not exist because consumers want to consume less. There is plenty of meaningful work which is not getting done, despite many people being eager to do it.
The choices are accept a shorter week so others can also have a job, try to sweep back progress and destroy the robots, or cheerfully pay more taxes so others can go on the dole and stay there.
How about the Karl Marx option of working the same and getting more TV's, more phones, more cars and so on? If the super-rich are anything to go by, the limit to consumption per person is an extremely high bar. Productivity growth will not make a significant proportion of population hit that limit any time soon.
One of the problems with working less than full time is that many modern jobs have a good-sized portion of fixed overhead -- just keeping up with what is going on, staying current, attending meetings and so on can take up a significant fraction of your work week. If you cut a day out of your week, the fixed overhead gets proportionally larger...
Another problem is that there are fixed overheads associated with having employees. Just finding and hiring the right ones (and getting rid of the wrongly chosen ones) is a challenge, and having to deal with 20% extra employees means extra costs for the company. Companies are often reluctant to let their employees cut hours.
They did not realize that they were making contrary inputs. And I do not agree that they recognized the stall. The pilot in control kept pulling back at the stick for most of the fall, and no sane pilot would do that if he knew he was in a stall.
The Airbus way of not making the physical sticks move in concert must have contributed to the confusion. The mishap report does not dare say that.
Before I sent my original comment I did a tcpdump on YouTube just to be sure. TCP all the way.
And I can assure you that the IP stacks can tell the difference. Just look at the TCP offloading done in Linux. Only recently has some work been done on optimizing UDP offload, and it is nowhere near as mature.
TCP is not used for Video or Audio streaming as you do not want to have a lost packet cause a fault in the stream.
TCP is probably the most widely used protocol for video streaming. E.g. Youtube streams over TCP. Using TCP means you have more delay, because you have to wait for the occasional retransmit instead of just dropping a frame, but TCP is much easier to deal with overall. Network cards and IP stacks are optimized for TCP, firewalls handle TCP universally well... Unless it really matters that you are 10 seconds behind live (and it rarely does, even cable TV is several seconds behind live), go with TCP.
Video conferencing over TCP is probably not going to happen anytime soon though.
"Jigga" is spelled giga. It was a perfectly valid pronunciation which is now almost completely gone.
Do note that part of the gains is due to "improved" measuring. Especially air conditioning unit ratings are legal (well, possibly legal) lies. The Danish authorities have forced a few of the most ridiculous models off the market, but have yet to use their power to impose fines -- up to the equivalent of several hundred dollars, I am sure the criminals are shaking with fear.
A+++ is the best actually; the AA AAA system is gone (or rather, AAA today means an A-rating or better in other criteria apart from energy use). The industry has lobbied to avoid rebasing the system as efficiencies improve so "A" is a fairly lousy rating today for many items.
Soon we will see A+++++++. I wonder how many pluses it will take to overcome the industry bribery.
Modern wind power is reasonably predictable hours in advance. Gusts do not suddenly accelerate a 3MW (or 8MW) turbine, the momentum is too large for that and the turbine would immediately twist the blades to try to limit the impact. There are even turbines which have sensors that detect gusts before they actually hit the turbine so they can twist the blades in advance. This limits maximum strain on the tower.
Also, modern wind turbines are asynchronous and decoupled from the grid. Their electronics can provide reactive power for stabilization on demand.
I challenge you to provide power more reliably than the Danish grid. I trust that more than a datacenter with generators and double-conversion UPS.
Fair enough, my experience is that most applications are almost unusable in Windows 7 on a Macbook Retina with DPI set to 200%. It is possible that Windows is smart, but it certainly isn't showing it. Remote Desktop is a disaster, but everything else is pretty sad too. Fonts scale beautifully, everything else breaks around the pretty text.
You are talking about Mac OS X. Windows is not that smart. I was replying to a comment about Windows.
Firefox has been fine on Mac OS X high DPI for several releases. Many applications without intentional high DPI support work fine on Mac OS X even if you manually declare them high DPI aware. No such luck on Windows.
It does not work. It scales the fonts, but in many applications it does not scale the bitmaps. Lots of applications are effectively unusable on a high-DPI display.
The release version of Firefox is fairly broken for high DPI on Windows, but the Nightly handles it fine.
Remote desktop is almost unusable at high DPI in Windows; you cannot change scaling per user in Windows Server, so it only works if all your clients are high DPI.
Why cannot they charge today? If the phone does not work on any network in the country, surely that is equivalent.
Anyway, they cannot charge if they activate the kill switch. If the kill switch can be circumvented by carriers, it is completely useless. The whole point of it is that it is irreversible (except possibly by the manufacturer).
You have demonstrated no such thing. You still basically cannot import any non-English word from any other language and have it sound remotely the same. Advising people to pick names that are pronounceable in English is practically the same as advising them to pick native English names. The world is poorer for it.
You still haven't explained what the difference is between what can be done today by the authorities and what will be possible with a kill switch. There is no significant difference.
Yet none of those imported words sound anything like the original.
One: Can we expect petty criminals to be up on this latest news and be aware of this feature BEFORE they have already mugged you and tried to fence the phone?
Yes. Criminal communications are good. I would be surprised if it took as much as a month for robberies targeting a protected model to stop.
Two: If the phone is deactivated accidentally (or intentionally as a prank or malice against the owner), how much would you trust your mobile carrier to be reasonable in their process to reactivate the phone?
This is a kill switch. The carrier should not be able to fix the phone afterwards. The phone manufacturer might be able to fix it, but not if the kill switch is properly implemented.
All of which is extremely easy to accomplish today. Yet even in Turkey or Egypt it does not happen. Well they do shut off cell phone towers completely of course.
Today people get robbed for 3 things: money, passports, and phones. Cash is going away, so you have to bring the victim to an ATM to get the money out, and most people do not carry passports so you have to be really careful selecting your victim. Phones are easy to spot, so you know that there is something to rob, and they are extremely easy to fence.
If we take phones out of the equation, the criminals are likely to switch to other types of crime. Hopefully types which are less devastating to the victims.
They know they can still sell the phones for parts and make more money than they would just selling a phone.
I doubt that. Phone parts are relatively cheap because few people buy original parts. The only ones who do buy official parts are the official repair shops, and they are unlikely to buy parts from thieves.
The pool of people who are willing to steal is dramatically smaller than the pool of people who are willing to (intentionally) commit murder. Usually the robber does not start the robbery with the intention of killing the victim. If we cut robberies down to only intentional murders, the police will have lots of resources to deal with much fewer cases, and that should take those murderers out of circulation fairly rapidly.
As an extra bonus, if a fenced phone is likely to come from a murder victim, a lot more people will think twice about buying it. Maybe we can finally make fencing socially unacceptable.
IMEI is almost entirely useless. Few carriers care about IMEI block lists, and it's easy enough to export the phones to a place which doesn't care anyway. In addition you can sometimes change IMEI numbers, but that is unnecessary.
The companies get new sales and the government gets a stealthed system to quickly kill organized protests and evidence of police brutality with the push of a button. Win-Win!
If you think that shutting down cell phone communications to a specific area is difficult and requires new software, you are deluded. Sorry.
Parents who give their children names that aren't pronouncable in major languages like English are bastards.
Nothing is pronounceable in English. You basically cannot import any non-English word from any other language and have it sound remotely the same. The set of available sounds is both small and weird.