If you can't find something else for your former widgetmakers to do, you end up just draining money out of your economy. This is the important point, that you seem to gloss over. If you can't see that we do so many new, different jobs in out country within the last 20-30 years, then you are blind. Probably even your job would not have existed 20 years ago.
So we know that we have new types of jobs that needs new types of people, these people get paid MORE not less. So GDP is increasing. (as long pay from new jobs is greater than jobs lost, which I will conveniently gloss over in any great detail).
Spouting of this incorrect crap about Monopolies makes you look idiotic. Dell are so far away from being a Monopoly, compared to Microsoft, and IBM in the day, that it is ridiculous. How the hell you get marked up is a joke, a bad one.
Seriously, how much customization to most people want - none. They just want a computer that works. Offer two models, one for the cheapos, one for the more reasonable people, and give people the ability to buy more hdd, ram, etc... simple.
The funny thing is, that picking your next CEO has a huge influence over the share price of the company. Picking someone who is perceived to be a corporate saviour is more important on whether they actually are.
Since the public can not actually know everything about a company, perception is very important.
Ha, cars all do look the same, to people who don't really care about them. I don't, and think it is ridiculous when people get caught up on some great design. Sure, I can tell the difference between a Ferrari and a Mini, but everything in between looks very similar.
Given that the entire world is already divided between people who believe the conspiracy theories circulating about Google and people who love Google unconditionally,
I don't think that most of the world cares about Google all that much. Now you would be right about the people here at slashdot.
They're definitely in the top three, but this isn't an industry that actually has metrics to determine who the "leader" is, like most industries do, and DoubleClick (and the other two big players in this field) don't share enough data to really determine this. In fact, this is like most industries. Most companies don't like sharing data about their practises, this is valuable information to their competition.
Apple decided to move over from some old technology left over from support for pre-OS X, to the current technology. They had to do this sometime. This is a big decision, but not one that was taken lightly.
Blame Apple? I didn't think we could do that, here. Ha,ha,ha that is hilarious. Please, keep it coming...
Why? Because once you said something against apple and somebody disagree with you? Get of your bloody high horse. Their are plenty of apple lovers and haters, but most people don't really care about anything except for Apple and Linux.
You are just getting older and more discerning, and popular music isn't targetted at you so much. Compared to teenagers, we are such a small section of the market (and no, I don't care if you buy 50 cds a week, you alone do not a market make).
Do you remember when your parents shouted at you to turn the music down?? That is because when the music was targetted at you, and not at your parents. New popular music is not targetted at you, so just like your parents, you think it is shit. Hate to break it to you, but there was crap music in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and yes now.
I don't find this too hard to believe. In the old days, if you wanted to listen to a particular song, you could request it on the radio, buy it at the shop, or copy it from a friend. If you were copying it from a friend, then it was reasonable for you to have something to copy, so maybe not everbody had the original, but each person had a few originals, and lots of copies. And of course, people who had no friends had all originals.
Now, you don't need friends. Music is easily available to download. How can you honestly say that this hasn't changed things??
Your dad is a fool, and has no place here on Slashdot. All OS can basically do the same thing, so there has to be some differentiation between them. For a lot of us here, it is about being free to do what we want with our OS, to try to weaken the control of a behemoth, to have a faster/smaller/superior OS, and to pay nothing for it. So if you want to go ahead and pay for something inferior, then I feel that we are in a position to mock you.
Mocking isn't the worst thing in the world, some people even learn from it. Just as you tease someone who can't tie their shoelaces, or wears their shirt the wrong way around, we tease you.
I think they should restrict the period to just Christmas day. Surely even Walmart isn't open on Christmas day, and even if they were so scummy, most people would stay away.
I am a cheap scottish bastard, who lives in a cave, you can be sure I won't be buying anything. So in fact, I am doing them a favour by saving their resources. They should be thanking me.
I thought it was the fact that people can't get enough of linux, so when they aren't using it, they want to read about it (on the plane, or in meetings, etc...)
Nice Buttons? Maybe, but they take up too much room. I enjoyed being able to read more than 3 comments on the page at the same time. I am after content, not prettiness (why I run on lite mode). Give me my content back, please!
This is almost enough to make me start doing some work. Evil bastards!
If only the world wasn't so god damn apathetic, we might have something. Most people don't care, and to be honest, there are a lot more important things for most people to worry about. It is quite a luxurious position in, to care about something that doesn't actually kill you.
I am glad someone shares the pain. My E1000 make the most annoying noise, when it is about to run out of battery power, which is around 8 hours before it does run out of battery power. About every 4 minutes, so you are just about to get back to sleep, then bam!
Febuary 29th is one of the biggest scams perpetrated on the working people. Do you get extra money for working that extra day?? No. Do you get to have it off? No. What a bloddy rip-off. So I came to work, drunk. That will show them.
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Well, just as the buggy whip manufacturers lost their jobs, and people in the 80s lost their jobs to machines, your ex-bro in law will lose his job.
Are you suggesting that we should keep jobs just for people like this??
I guess he could join the army?? They always need people, i think the term is cannonfodder.
So we know that we have new types of jobs that needs new types of people, these people get paid MORE not less. So GDP is increasing. (as long pay from new jobs is greater than jobs lost, which I will conveniently gloss over in any great detail).
Spouting of this incorrect crap about Monopolies makes you look idiotic. Dell are so far away from being a Monopoly, compared to Microsoft, and IBM in the day, that it is ridiculous. How the hell you get marked up is a joke, a bad one.
Seriously, how much customization to most people want - none. They just want a computer that works. Offer two models, one for the cheapos, one for the more reasonable people, and give people the ability to buy more hdd, ram, etc... simple.
The funny thing is, that picking your next CEO has a huge influence over the share price of the company. Picking someone who is perceived to be a corporate saviour is more important on whether they actually are.
Since the public can not actually know everything about a company, perception is very important.
Ha, cars all do look the same, to people who don't really care about them. I don't, and think it is ridiculous when people get caught up on some great design. Sure, I can tell the difference between a Ferrari and a Mini, but everything in between looks very similar.
Yeah, I could care less!!
Given that the entire world is already divided
I don't think that most of the world cares about Google all that much. Now you would be right about the people here at slashdot.between people who believe the conspiracy theories circulating
about Google and people who love Google
unconditionally,
Apple decided to move over from some old technology left over from support for pre-OS X, to the current technology. They had to do this sometime. This is a big decision, but not one that was taken lightly.
Why? Because once you said something against apple and somebody disagree with you? Get of your bloody high horse. Their are plenty of apple lovers and haters, but most people don't really care about anything except for Apple and Linux.
You are just getting older and more discerning, and popular music isn't targetted at you so much. Compared to teenagers, we are such a small section of the market (and no, I don't care if you buy 50 cds a week, you alone do not a market make).
Do you remember when your parents shouted at you to turn the music down?? That is because when the music was targetted at you, and not at your parents. New popular music is not targetted at you, so just like your parents, you think it is shit. Hate to break it to you, but there was crap music in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and yes now.
I don't find this too hard to believe. In the old days, if you wanted to listen to a particular song, you could request it on the radio, buy it at the shop, or copy it from a friend. If you were copying it from a friend, then it was reasonable for you to have something to copy, so maybe not everbody had the original, but each person had a few originals, and lots of copies. And of course, people who had no friends had all originals.
Now, you don't need friends. Music is easily available to download. How can you honestly say that this hasn't changed things??
Come on. Yes, forcing people to work on a holiday were most people are off is good for them. Your attitude really stinks.
Your dad is a fool, and has no place here on Slashdot. All OS can basically do the same thing, so there has to be some differentiation between them. For a lot of us here, it is about being free to do what we want with our OS, to try to weaken the control of a behemoth, to have a faster/smaller/superior OS, and to pay nothing for it. So if you want to go ahead and pay for something inferior, then I feel that we are in a position to mock you.
Mocking isn't the worst thing in the world, some people even learn from it. Just as you tease someone who can't tie their shoelaces, or wears their shirt the wrong way around, we tease you.
I think they should restrict the period to just Christmas day. Surely even Walmart isn't open on Christmas day, and even if they were so scummy, most people would stay away.
So that would be 10million to 0.
Thanks for that nonsense.
If they are raking in the profits, how is their Business model flawed??
What does them crying poverty, have anything to do with their business model??
I am a cheap scottish bastard, who lives in a cave, you can be sure I won't be buying anything. So in fact, I am doing them a favour by saving their resources. They should be thanking me.
I thought it was the fact that people can't get enough of linux, so when they aren't using it, they want to read about it (on the plane, or in meetings, etc...)
Nice Buttons? Maybe, but they take up too much room. I enjoyed being able to read more than 3 comments on the page at the same time. I am after content, not prettiness (why I run on lite mode). Give me my content back, please!
This is almost enough to make me start doing some work. Evil bastards!
12% = 1200 points. You must get pretty surprised when they announce on the news that Interest Rates are going up 75 points?
Well, lets all hope that the Earth isn't at the end of its lifespan just yet.
If only the world wasn't so god damn apathetic, we might have something. Most people don't care, and to be honest, there are a lot more important things for most people to worry about. It is quite a luxurious position in, to care about something that doesn't actually kill you.
I am glad someone shares the pain. My E1000 make the most annoying noise, when it is about to run out of battery power, which is around 8 hours before it does run out of battery power. About every 4 minutes, so you are just about to get back to sleep, then bam!
Febuary 29th is one of the biggest scams perpetrated on the working people. Do you get extra money for working that extra day?? No. Do you get to have it off? No. What a bloddy rip-off. So I came to work, drunk. That will show them.