The algorithm around here (Koch Bros patent pending) is:
10 PRICE GOES UP! 20 Everyone matches the high price 30 Price holds or starts to sag 40 Dribbling down until under $2 50 Goto 10
Price in $bigcity does this. Price in $smalltownonfreeway does this. Moderate size town off the beaten track-- add 10% because fib about being off the beaten tracks. Rinse, repeat.
Yeah. Gated Windows apps. Microsoft glommed most of the apps it sells today. Have a nice app? Put it into the store and find its features in something Microsoft magically comes out with. These are kings of intellectual property rights and patents.
Worse, it removes choice. Yes, there are lots of downloadables that are plainly ugly and malware-ridden. Nonetheless, they're outside of Microsoft's control-- and often for the better. It's the death of shareware as we know it. It's vendor control, ala Oracle and Apple.
I have absolutely no trust of Microsoft at all. I have to deal with them, but I want nothing to do with them.
You um, missed that important part in the middle where you have software that is readily adapted to your business model today and tomorrow, can cheaply migrate your assets to it, and maintain the revs in a way that's rationally cost-controlled yet flexible for scale and/or adaptation, acquisition, and actual return on investment.
Like SAP and so many others, this is just a retirement plan for junior software engineers. The roads are littered with unsuccessful vertical stack-buys, especially in healthcare and government. If you want to look at successful cloud, look at the hybrid models, and Salesforce might be the first place to research how not only do the right job, but make your customers (mostly) love you. Oracle has become the United Airlines of enterprise computing with ludicrous pricing models and salesmanship over really progressive return on value. They are: Trailing Edge Technology.
We have lots of godless people in the Midwest. Where I live, we have traffic jams, but they're five minutes long and only if you leave at exactly 5pm.
In a ten minute drive, I can get Thai (3) genuine Chinese (7), varieties of Mex (11), Turkish (2) Afghani (1), Indian (7), and much much more. A good house: $115K. A great house: $250K. House in the country with pond and woods for $350K.
Gigabit Ethernet in town. International airport 45min drive on a bad day. LGBTQ+ friendly. There are evangelicals, rednecks and others who, when they're sober, are fine people. The music is good, but not great, but not as expensive as the coasts.
The universities are rated very well, and aren't that expensive. Sports is ok, major teams within easy driving distance.
You're not going to get rich here rapidly. But you might have much less stress and be happy, hedonistic and godless-- or not.
This fact can be viewed as either a failure on their part, or a failure on your part. In either case, it's failure. I like the idea of future, well-designed public transportation from autonomous vehicles. But that's a long way off....
I'm with you. You and I are not their target market. But keeping up the banter makes people open up their investment wallets and drool. Look at the stupid juicer (and so many, many more) if you had questions about stupid money looking for an amplification spot marked X.
There'll be a trunk. Spots in parking lots. After all, these folks have money to spend, viz their expensive transportation. People buy many expensive transportation devices that you see every day on your way to work. Fizzle? Nope. Gonna happen, just like bad weather and more plutocracy. You can't fight the weather, and you need lots of money to either join plutocracy or fight it.
My flying friends have their own planes, Lambos in the garage, and lots of money to spend on toys. Better toy than yours?- all the better. Yes, they're licensed pilots with lots of hours under their belts and they're safe pilots as well, having some sense of survival instinct. But when you moan about the ten hour trip to X, they'll say: I can get there in four in my (Cessna, Beech, etc.).
From Watsonville to Napa, there are dozens of general aviation airports to suit this fancy. Your tax dollars at work. Moreover, there are already flying neighborhoods built around private strips. These are people that fly and commute, rather than sit on 101 trying not to look at their texts.
Me, I live in a small town and use a VPN, so it doesn't matter to me at all. I watch SillyCon Valley and muse over capitalism gone amok.
You're an altruist, and good on you for being one, seriously.
Unfortunately, idiots exist, and you cannot null them, only mitigate them and threaten them with ugly consequences for being idiots. The "hold my beer..." culture cannot be eradicated and more arrive every moment. So yes, we have regulations, punishments, licensing, insurance, and sadly, many personal injury lawyers.
Money and insurance are not obstacles to the fabulously wealthy and banks love to loan funds on such seeming trivialities. This, too, is a reality. I'm not in favor of it, just stating the facts. Testosterone rules until we find a way to rechannel testosterone to something more productive. Convenience in LA or SF where traffic is stupefyingly ugly is a real attraction. The mine's-bigger-than-yours mentality will fuel this, like it or not. I don't like it, but they didn't ask me.
And yes, I don't see personal drones arriving in quantity any time soon, thankfully. But they'll arrive. And sadly, I know two guys that will do whatever the drill is to purchase one and buzz the neighborhood. And like earlier private pilots, some of them will die and take people out doing so. History repeats itself, and so far the over-testosteroned are winning.
You need to null out idiots. They're everywhere as part of the noise, and cannot be eliminated.
Wind gusts-- yep, need stabilizers. But we deal with black ice, snow, and have to dodge stuff with cars, like the dog that ran out into the road in front of me, this morning.
Your Edward Scissors-Hand thinking is a bit goofy. In urban environments, we're running out of space close to ground, because we can't convince people to take public transportation, although much of public transportation lacks convenience.
Will stuff fall out of the sky? Probably. Will we sue the living hell out of people that do this? Yep.
The early adopters will be the super-rich. If you look at SillyCon Valley, they pay jaw-dropping amounts of money for simple housing, so a flying drone car that gets them over the 101 to their offices filled with barristas and pool tables is a no-brainer.
Never heard of collision avoidance algorithms and radar, right? And used nefariously, murder is still murder. We do it with cars all the time, called driving drunk.
So, lots of choppy choppy blades or an F-150 careening over the center line into a bus full of kids? What's the diff?
My process is that if you go around the robots.txt, you're hostile, and you route to null on the next access. If you attempt to directly access cached URLs, you're hostile, same answer. The file of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses that have attempted this is easily a half-mile long.
Happy to add archive.org to it. Baidu, Bing, and yes, Google, are already there. Most of them have been from AWS instances snooping around. They get the same answer.
First, it's difficult to peer inside the data and establish if the artificially sweetened beverage drinkers had high A1C or other metabolic markers. It says, cautiously, that sugary vs artificially-sweetened beverages seem to cause higher incidence of cardio-vascular problems, citing strokes, etc.
Then, no specific artificial sweetener was identified as being consumed to establish sucralose vs many other sweeteners as a possible culprit. Just "sweeteners"
There are so many ambiguities that the high cautions in the study make the data and its representation not quite useless.
Fast food involves carbs, which makes the world fat and sick. Yep, you might have to actually do something like the rest of the world.
Use any rationalization you want: being a slacker is expensive and wasteful. Don't want to sit down in a restaurant? Use your kitchen.
It creates more problems than it solves, including the up-thread mentioned abuses, supply chain madnesses, and the sudden loss of sanity upon believing your own bullshit story. This product was not only ill-conceived, financed by gold-diggers, but gets even stranger when they don't sell product to anyone, just the stooges that bought the mixer. There are suckers born every minute, and this story is emblematic of suckers all the way through the financing to the consumer.
Any old mixer or juicer will work fine. Once it's down in your digestive track, it all does the same thing.
If you're hinging your post on saving a minute and a half compared to a manual method, then you must bill your time.
But you accused people of being morons, so it's more likely you are indeed a lawyer. Me, I eat my veggies the old fashioned way, one fork full at a time.
8088, 16K, front panel binary bootstrap, paper tape reader, then a cassette/cloader, then a very expensive floppy controller and drive, all based on the S-100 bus. Patched CP/M and NorthStarDOS, and bought a real VT-100 terminal.
Then came endless Intel and Moto and Signetics chips. The Osborne I and Kaypro. IMSAI, Ithaca uSystems, endless Apple 2s with Corvus hard drives in early classroom networks.
Math co-processors, memory upgrades, 5MB hard drives. Proprietary bus schemes (thank you Compaq and IBM for nothing), fat 19" CRTs.
Blah.
Last week, I bought a 512GB flash drive. Compared to the 8" floppy hanging on my wall, it holds a ghastly amount of information. And hanging with it is, yes, an 1802 wirewrap board. I am old.
This isn't a problem, IMHO, on Burger King's part. This is an incredible security gaffe on the part of Google. If it's that easy to hack, wait until the subliminal YouTube videos start with "Order Dominos Pizza" starts about -45db under noise. Yeah.
Hey Google! Transfer $20,000 from checking to: routing number 70442331 account 38222814. Execute immediately. What? You thought it was a Grateful Dead song? He he he.....
What incredible idiots. Do no harm..... yeah, right.
The longer a strike goes, the more people will stream old stuff, watch YouTube, look on Facebook, or maybe even, and I know this strikes fear: go outside or read an actual paper book.
I'm not anti-union, but I'm firmly anti-Hollywood and it's time to poke a few holes in their balloons, this being one of them.
It goes far more deeply than your explanation, I believe.
Your "limbic" brain is a decision maker and reacts to fear and lust and more basal stimulus. The thinking brain, call it the pre-frontal cortex, takes a lot of work to use-- to think and consider alternatives and consequences.
The narcissists are very good at appearing to use sound decisions, but they are sound decisions *for then* and not necessarily for you. They create reactive sound bite communications and even NLP communications to create an Us vs Them dichotomy that becomes appealing. Then they heap lots of disjointed, but seemingly correlating "facts" to make Us appear sooooo much better than Them, so as to allow vilification of Them. They use this in ways that polarize and aid their power and praise for seemingly being so brilliant. Rinse. Repeat.
Mir took forever. It over-promised not only delivery schedule, but what it could do, and why. Like Unity, it was perceived as fixing something that wasn't (too) broke, and was more for the glorification of Shutlleworth's ego than a cogent method of ridding ourselves of the trappings of X.
Now that the reality sets in that Ubuntu can't be all things to all people, and Canonical's reality check suffers the scrapes of having hitting the wall hard, it's ok to dust off, and go where reality might actually work. There's SO MUCH that needs to be done with out leaving smelly little piles of poop where pipe dreams were once smoked.
No one said you can't dream in open source and free software. Ya get a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, Mr Shuttleworth, and that goes from the top through the bottom through the community.
In the absence of a ToS, in the USA, the Uniform Commercial Code applies unless you live in Louisiana (who never signed it, being of Napoleonic law origins).
Recourse is available under the Code, in terms of suitability or fitness for a purpose. IANAL, but the UCC covers a lot of purchasing, even by consumers. There are even more FTC rules to meet.
This said, Garadget should have put some of its 'gogo haul into simple customer service. Any sane organization puts a wall between customer service and the founder, engineering staff, and others that don't understand how to deal with the public. Any goodwill they had has left the building.
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The algorithm around here (Koch Bros patent pending) is:
10 PRICE GOES UP!
20 Everyone matches the high price
30 Price holds or starts to sag
40 Dribbling down until under $2
50 Goto 10
Price in $bigcity does this. Price in $smalltownonfreeway does this. Moderate size town off the beaten track-- add 10% because fib about being off the beaten tracks. Rinse, repeat.
Yeah. Gated Windows apps. Microsoft glommed most of the apps it sells today. Have a nice app? Put it into the store and find its features in something Microsoft magically comes out with. These are kings of intellectual property rights and patents.
Worse, it removes choice. Yes, there are lots of downloadables that are plainly ugly and malware-ridden. Nonetheless, they're outside of Microsoft's control-- and often for the better. It's the death of shareware as we know it. It's vendor control, ala Oracle and Apple.
I have absolutely no trust of Microsoft at all. I have to deal with them, but I want nothing to do with them.
You um, missed that important part in the middle where you have software that is readily adapted to your business model today and tomorrow, can cheaply migrate your assets to it, and maintain the revs in a way that's rationally cost-controlled yet flexible for scale and/or adaptation, acquisition, and actual return on investment.
Like SAP and so many others, this is just a retirement plan for junior software engineers. The roads are littered with unsuccessful vertical stack-buys, especially in healthcare and government. If you want to look at successful cloud, look at the hybrid models, and Salesforce might be the first place to research how not only do the right job, but make your customers (mostly) love you. Oracle has become the United Airlines of enterprise computing with ludicrous pricing models and salesmanship over really progressive return on value. They are: Trailing Edge Technology.
Midwest. Nice college town.
Just fly over.
We have lots of godless people in the Midwest. Where I live, we have traffic jams, but they're five minutes long and only if you leave at exactly 5pm.
In a ten minute drive, I can get Thai (3) genuine Chinese (7), varieties of Mex (11), Turkish (2) Afghani (1), Indian (7), and much much more. A good house: $115K. A great house: $250K. House in the country with pond and woods for $350K.
Gigabit Ethernet in town. International airport 45min drive on a bad day. LGBTQ+ friendly. There are evangelicals, rednecks and others who, when they're sober, are fine people. The music is good, but not great, but not as expensive as the coasts.
The universities are rated very well, and aren't that expensive. Sports is ok, major teams within easy driving distance.
You're not going to get rich here rapidly. But you might have much less stress and be happy, hedonistic and godless-- or not.
This fact can be viewed as either a failure on their part, or a failure on your part. In either case, it's failure. I like the idea of future, well-designed public transportation from autonomous vehicles. But that's a long way off....
I'm with you. You and I are not their target market. But keeping up the banter makes people open up their investment wallets and drool. Look at the stupid juicer (and so many, many more) if you had questions about stupid money looking for an amplification spot marked X.
There'll be a trunk. Spots in parking lots. After all, these folks have money to spend, viz their expensive transportation. People buy many expensive transportation devices that you see every day on your way to work. Fizzle? Nope. Gonna happen, just like bad weather and more plutocracy. You can't fight the weather, and you need lots of money to either join plutocracy or fight it.
My flying friends have their own planes, Lambos in the garage, and lots of money to spend on toys. Better toy than yours?- all the better. Yes, they're licensed pilots with lots of hours under their belts and they're safe pilots as well, having some sense of survival instinct. But when you moan about the ten hour trip to X, they'll say: I can get there in four in my (Cessna, Beech, etc.).
From Watsonville to Napa, there are dozens of general aviation airports to suit this fancy. Your tax dollars at work. Moreover, there are already flying neighborhoods built around private strips. These are people that fly and commute, rather than sit on 101 trying not to look at their texts.
Me, I live in a small town and use a VPN, so it doesn't matter to me at all. I watch SillyCon Valley and muse over capitalism gone amok.
My guess is that they'll skip hybrid vehicles, and small drone-like vehicles will be the answer. Simpler.
You're an altruist, and good on you for being one, seriously.
Unfortunately, idiots exist, and you cannot null them, only mitigate them and threaten them with ugly consequences for being idiots. The "hold my beer..." culture cannot be eradicated and more arrive every moment. So yes, we have regulations, punishments, licensing, insurance, and sadly, many personal injury lawyers.
Money and insurance are not obstacles to the fabulously wealthy and banks love to loan funds on such seeming trivialities. This, too, is a reality. I'm not in favor of it, just stating the facts. Testosterone rules until we find a way to rechannel testosterone to something more productive. Convenience in LA or SF where traffic is stupefyingly ugly is a real attraction. The mine's-bigger-than-yours mentality will fuel this, like it or not. I don't like it, but they didn't ask me.
And yes, I don't see personal drones arriving in quantity any time soon, thankfully. But they'll arrive. And sadly, I know two guys that will do whatever the drill is to purchase one and buzz the neighborhood. And like earlier private pilots, some of them will die and take people out doing so. History repeats itself, and so far the over-testosteroned are winning.
You need to null out idiots. They're everywhere as part of the noise, and cannot be eliminated.
Wind gusts-- yep, need stabilizers. But we deal with black ice, snow, and have to dodge stuff with cars, like the dog that ran out into the road in front of me, this morning.
Your Edward Scissors-Hand thinking is a bit goofy. In urban environments, we're running out of space close to ground, because we can't convince people to take public transportation, although much of public transportation lacks convenience.
Will stuff fall out of the sky? Probably. Will we sue the living hell out of people that do this? Yep.
The early adopters will be the super-rich. If you look at SillyCon Valley, they pay jaw-dropping amounts of money for simple housing, so a flying drone car that gets them over the 101 to their offices filled with barristas and pool tables is a no-brainer.
Yeah, the SillyCon Valley response to "German engineering". Add a juicer to it and watch it get funded.
Never heard of collision avoidance algorithms and radar, right? And used nefariously, murder is still murder. We do it with cars all the time, called driving drunk.
So, lots of choppy choppy blades or an F-150 careening over the center line into a bus full of kids? What's the diff?
The site is static. It goes through revision. No one in their right mine bookmarked sites-- it gets 100 legit visits a year. It's a honeypot.
But spiders cache URLs and try to find them again. Nope.
My process is that if you go around the robots.txt, you're hostile, and you route to null on the next access. If you attempt to directly access cached URLs, you're hostile, same answer. The file of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses that have attempted this is easily a half-mile long.
Happy to add archive.org to it. Baidu, Bing, and yes, Google, are already there. Most of them have been from AWS instances snooping around. They get the same answer.
Yet there are several problems with the study.
First, it's difficult to peer inside the data and establish if the artificially sweetened beverage drinkers had high A1C or other metabolic markers. It says, cautiously, that sugary vs artificially-sweetened beverages seem to cause higher incidence of cardio-vascular problems, citing strokes, etc.
Then, no specific artificial sweetener was identified as being consumed to establish sucralose vs many other sweeteners as a possible culprit. Just "sweeteners"
There are so many ambiguities that the high cautions in the study make the data and its representation not quite useless.
Mmmmm. Tastes good.
A Craigslist VitaMix does the same thing.
Fast food involves carbs, which makes the world fat and sick. Yep, you might have to actually do something like the rest of the world.
Use any rationalization you want: being a slacker is expensive and wasteful. Don't want to sit down in a restaurant? Use your kitchen.
It creates more problems than it solves, including the up-thread mentioned abuses, supply chain madnesses, and the sudden loss of sanity upon believing your own bullshit story. This product was not only ill-conceived, financed by gold-diggers, but gets even stranger when they don't sell product to anyone, just the stooges that bought the mixer. There are suckers born every minute, and this story is emblematic of suckers all the way through the financing to the consumer.
You must be a shareholder.
Any old mixer or juicer will work fine. Once it's down in your digestive track, it all does the same thing.
If you're hinging your post on saving a minute and a half compared to a manual method, then you must bill your time.
But you accused people of being morons, so it's more likely you are indeed a lawyer. Me, I eat my veggies the old fashioned way, one fork full at a time.
Correction: 8080, then an 8086, then cheap 8088 and 8087s
It was Andrew Kay (inventor of the DVM) not ALAN Kay, that did Kaypro.
8088, 16K, front panel binary bootstrap, paper tape reader, then a cassette/cloader, then a very expensive floppy controller and drive, all based on the S-100 bus. Patched CP/M and NorthStarDOS, and bought a real VT-100 terminal.
Then came endless Intel and Moto and Signetics chips. The Osborne I and Kaypro. IMSAI, Ithaca uSystems, endless Apple 2s with Corvus hard drives in early classroom networks.
Math co-processors, memory upgrades, 5MB hard drives. Proprietary bus schemes (thank you Compaq and IBM for nothing), fat 19" CRTs.
Blah.
Last week, I bought a 512GB flash drive. Compared to the 8" floppy hanging on my wall, it holds a ghastly amount of information. And hanging with it is, yes, an 1802 wirewrap board. I am old.
This isn't a problem, IMHO, on Burger King's part. This is an incredible security gaffe on the part of Google. If it's that easy to hack, wait until the subliminal YouTube videos start with "Order Dominos Pizza" starts about -45db under noise. Yeah.
Hey Google! Transfer $20,000 from checking to: routing number 70442331 account 38222814. Execute immediately. What? You thought it was a Grateful Dead song? He he he.....
What incredible idiots. Do no harm..... yeah, right.
The longer a strike goes, the more people will stream old stuff, watch YouTube, look on Facebook, or maybe even, and I know this strikes fear: go outside or read an actual paper book.
I'm not anti-union, but I'm firmly anti-Hollywood and it's time to poke a few holes in their balloons, this being one of them.
Yeah, go ahead and strike.
It goes far more deeply than your explanation, I believe.
Your "limbic" brain is a decision maker and reacts to fear and lust and more basal stimulus. The thinking brain, call it the pre-frontal cortex, takes a lot of work to use-- to think and consider alternatives and consequences.
The narcissists are very good at appearing to use sound decisions, but they are sound decisions *for then* and not necessarily for you. They create reactive sound bite communications and even NLP communications to create an Us vs Them dichotomy that becomes appealing. Then they heap lots of disjointed, but seemingly correlating "facts" to make Us appear sooooo much better than Them, so as to allow vilification of Them. They use this in ways that polarize and aid their power and praise for seemingly being so brilliant. Rinse. Repeat.
Mir took forever. It over-promised not only delivery schedule, but what it could do, and why. Like Unity, it was perceived as fixing something that wasn't (too) broke, and was more for the glorification of Shutlleworth's ego than a cogent method of ridding ourselves of the trappings of X.
Now that the reality sets in that Ubuntu can't be all things to all people, and Canonical's reality check suffers the scrapes of having hitting the wall hard, it's ok to dust off, and go where reality might actually work. There's SO MUCH that needs to be done with out leaving smelly little piles of poop where pipe dreams were once smoked.
No one said you can't dream in open source and free software. Ya get a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, Mr Shuttleworth, and that goes from the top through the bottom through the community.
Sigh. I wished they didn't constantly change the URLs. If they're plucky and use cloudflare or an AWS source, you're screwed.
Oh... wait...
In the absence of a ToS, in the USA, the Uniform Commercial Code applies unless you live in Louisiana (who never signed it, being of Napoleonic law origins).
Recourse is available under the Code, in terms of suitability or fitness for a purpose. IANAL, but the UCC covers a lot of purchasing, even by consumers. There are even more FTC rules to meet.
This said, Garadget should have put some of its 'gogo haul into simple customer service. Any sane organization puts a wall between customer service and the founder, engineering staff, and others that don't understand how to deal with the public. Any goodwill they had has left the building.