They have had too, dell, Asus and the rest of the OEM's were producing shit for a long time. Hence the surface line to try and inspire them to compete at the top rather than a race for who can produce the crapiest cheapest machine while ceding the top end to apple. I expect this is going to be a similar situation. They normally price their own lines at a premium so it leaves plenty of room for the OEM's anyway.
What possible incentive is there for them to make it backwards compatible. They want to sell and obsolete as many devices as fast possible, one way to do that is with constantly changing and evolving the standards ensuring enough improvements to make a replacement desirable. Future proofing means lost sales. I don't agree with this strategy but it makes good business sense. Hell they don't even provide OS upgrades for most smartphones.
You are cherry picking data, numbers fluxate but the trend is down, just prior to the last few years was record lows which falsely make 2014 and 2015 look massive if you cherry pick just that year. either way the data indicates we are safer than ever for flying and total crashes is also on the decline.
The problem is the cuts are usually generic and don't target the real waste and simply usually say, here take a 2%, 5%, 10% cut across the board while wasteful practices aren't targeted or touched. e.g. spending surplus budget before EOFY as they know if they don't they might get less the next FY, I see this every year, sometimes the waste is in the millions where they will buy services, hardware and software that never get used or touched just to ensure they don't have surplus.
A lot of it is dysfunction to combat dysfunction because if any process is delayed you can't say the $100k we budgeted for servers this year we'll need in February next year. Those money will go away and because you overbudgeted last year, we'll actually not just cut the $100k but we'll give you $150k less and you'll be stuck with extra old out of support servers because there was a delay in procurement. Sure, every company has to replan their portfolio and cancel projects sometimes. But they don't go nuclear every year and make every project and every department start over the allocation process.
The theory is of course that all the money will go back in a big pool and be spent where they're most needed. The reality is that when you've finally got approval to do something in one budget process, then no matter what you'd rather spend it than taking that fight all over again. I actually think you'd see much less waste in practice if you could get a spillover-account where you could have at most 10% of the budget but it's still "yours", sure more money would be stuck down in the system but it wouldn't accumulate and you could flex schedules more. It's the "use it or lose it" process that is the real problem.
well aware of why it happens and the mentality behind it. It doesn't make it less appalling watching a department deliberately flush millions down the toilet just to ensure it doesn't affect how much they get the following year. I have even been the beneficiary of this broken system in past years where they prepaid my contract for a year in advance just to help empty their budget and I am still completely against it as they are just gaming a broken system which is especially bad when the country is in debt with every department complaining they are underfunded.
Government waste is only exceeded by waste in successful corporations. Sure, little scrappy companies are fast, lean and efficient, but when a corporation reaches 10K employees and years of consecutive growth, take a look on the inside and see how many "Wally"s the place has, how much structural BS exists for no particular reason other than "that's how it's done here."
Government waste is continually scrutinized by the taxpayers, but when a corporation has been "exceeding shareholder expectations" for a decade or more - you'd be amazed at the colossal waste that goes on inside.
BS, I work for one of those massive corporations and I am usually contracted into various government agencies. I am very familiar with the waste and inefficiencies in BOTH sectors. corporate waste doesn't come even close to what is wasted in government and most companies have regular Targeted crackdowns on waste and inefficiencies, though they will always have some, highly successful fast growing companies tend to have a lot more waste as they can get away with it while on that trajectory but as soon as growth isn't high double digit then they tend to quickly focus on cleaning it up (at least those that want to survive). I would say the waste is orders of magnitude higher in government and given the source of government money I think government has a much higher responsibility to be prudent in its spending.
It does when that "even more safe" is associated with 100's of billions of cost in infrastructure and development for what is a fraction of a fraction of a percent in likely survival improvements.
given latest sales figures I doubt their will be such a thing as a steambox for sale by the end of the year. I suppose you can build a PC still though and call it a steambox.
I buy new and depreciate my car, generally I keep a car on average for 6-7 years after which time maintenance costs start to cut in to the point where you should have repurchased, I wish I had sold my current car at 6 years (hit that last year), would have been far better off as have spent $3000 alone in repairs this year. I aim for around 5% income per annum on my car (before tax deductions).
what utter Bullshit. I earned just on 200k a year, that would only let me afford a slightly above average car while most people could not afford anything until they are earning in excess of 100k a year. Your numbers are complete garbage, The cost of a car is averaged over the expected lifetime.
and which news website can you honestly say provides true and unbiased reporting of political information? many of the news sites are WHY voters are misinformed. I am pretty damn good with the interweb thingy and be buggered if I know of a good site that I would recommend someone use for truly informed voting. The reality is you have to filter through 100 tons of shit to find 10 grams of gold and much of this is a result of how websites are funded today through clickbait journalism, the majority of people aren't motivated or capable of sifting through that.
There is a massive amount of government waste, I see it everyday while working within various government departments. The problem is the cuts are usually generic and don't target the real waste and simply usually say, here take a 2%, 5%, 10% cut across the board while wasteful practices aren't targeted or touched. e.g. spending surplus budget before EOFY as they know if they don't they might get less the next FY, I see this every year, sometimes the waste is in the millions where they will buy services, hardware and software that never get used or touched just to ensure they don't have surplus. You have government employees with "safe" comfortable positions that don't mandate performance and have no consequences for lack of performance as they are heavily union protected, Their is massive Machinery of Government spending purely to reward ministers with bigger portfolios to match ego's (some of this spending is absolutely insane and how the fuck it is ever justified to spend X million just to make a ministers portfolio bigger is beyond me).
most users would not even know if such an app exists, the only way for it to be true is if it was one of the hugely popular apps which just happened to automatically make this change for them in the background.
Linux on mobile platforms (Android) was underrepresented because of this. A lot of Android users deliberately modified their user agent string to report a desktop browser, so they would get the desktop version of websites instead of crippled mobile versions.
By a Lot you mean a tiny percentage of technical users that care.
Slashdot is regularly a long way behind in the news, sometimes even more than a decade, but FFS with this having been on Slashdot so many times it is nothing but pure laziness reporting this again.
mate you have no idea what expensive mobile internet is. I am from Australia, I love when I visit the US as what you consider expensive mobile internet is dirt cheap to us.
PS: Winterkorn and other execs are actually under criminal investigation to see if they did actually have any involvement or negligence in this matter.
The point being the CEO didn't appear to be the person that committed this fraud and that not everything evil that a company does has to be directly attributable to something the CEO did and at least in my opinion it is not reasonable to pile all penalties on him when he didn't actually do anything wrong.. It seems (at least on the surface) that the then CEO Winterkorn was acting in good faith and was not a party to the fraud and even went as far as assisting in uncovering it after it was revealed. I am all for locking up those responsible, and if ends up being found that he was a party to it, or even if he should have known (i.e. guilty through negligence) then throw him on the Pyre too, but at this point that doesn't appear to have been the case.
The CEO didn't get squat, he resigned over this scandal last year so he definitely isn't still being paid and by all reports he didn't actually know anything about this but took responsibility for it anyway by resigning. Supposedly he also ensured the investigation into it was kicked off properly before he resigned. Not everything that happens in a company is because the CEO is an evil bastard.
its cute you think that the sort of people I am combating with this have that sort of access, you must be terrified of your neighbours and there supreme power,
If they release on the same weekend they'll be competing for $$$. If I had to choose between Starwars and Minecraft I would probably still go and see Starwars [regardless of the recent emo character shift;)]. Imagine how poorly the Warcraft movie would have done if it had to compete against... the new Avatar movie in China;)
Off-Topic: I'm would pay to see a new Goonies movie:)
That is what I doubt, I simply can't believe the market overlap between these is so significant that they are going to be going head to head for $,
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They have had too, dell, Asus and the rest of the OEM's were producing shit for a long time. Hence the surface line to try and inspire them to compete at the top rather than a race for who can produce the crapiest cheapest machine while ceding the top end to apple. I expect this is going to be a similar situation. They normally price their own lines at a premium so it leaves plenty of room for the OEM's anyway.
What possible incentive is there for them to make it backwards compatible. They want to sell and obsolete as many devices as fast possible, one way to do that is with constantly changing and evolving the standards ensuring enough improvements to make a replacement desirable. Future proofing means lost sales. I don't agree with this strategy but it makes good business sense. Hell they don't even provide OS upgrades for most smartphones.
good luck engaging a recorded message in a useless time consuming discussion.
MORON, their have been a couple of HIGH PUBLICITY accidents. That does not mean there have only been 2 accidents, learn the fucking English language.
You are cherry picking data, numbers fluxate but the trend is down, just prior to the last few years was record lows which falsely make 2014 and 2015 look massive if you cherry pick just that year. either way the data indicates we are safer than ever for flying and total crashes is also on the decline.
The problem is the cuts are usually generic and don't target the real waste and simply usually say, here take a 2%, 5%, 10% cut across the board while wasteful practices aren't targeted or touched. e.g. spending surplus budget before EOFY as they know if they don't they might get less the next FY, I see this every year, sometimes the waste is in the millions where they will buy services, hardware and software that never get used or touched just to ensure they don't have surplus.
A lot of it is dysfunction to combat dysfunction because if any process is delayed you can't say the $100k we budgeted for servers this year we'll need in February next year. Those money will go away and because you overbudgeted last year, we'll actually not just cut the $100k but we'll give you $150k less and you'll be stuck with extra old out of support servers because there was a delay in procurement. Sure, every company has to replan their portfolio and cancel projects sometimes. But they don't go nuclear every year and make every project and every department start over the allocation process.
The theory is of course that all the money will go back in a big pool and be spent where they're most needed. The reality is that when you've finally got approval to do something in one budget process, then no matter what you'd rather spend it than taking that fight all over again. I actually think you'd see much less waste in practice if you could get a spillover-account where you could have at most 10% of the budget but it's still "yours", sure more money would be stuck down in the system but it wouldn't accumulate and you could flex schedules more. It's the "use it or lose it" process that is the real problem.
well aware of why it happens and the mentality behind it. It doesn't make it less appalling watching a department deliberately flush millions down the toilet just to ensure it doesn't affect how much they get the following year. I have even been the beneficiary of this broken system in past years where they prepaid my contract for a year in advance just to help empty their budget and I am still completely against it as they are just gaming a broken system which is especially bad when the country is in debt with every department complaining they are underfunded.
Government waste is only exceeded by waste in successful corporations. Sure, little scrappy companies are fast, lean and efficient, but when a corporation reaches 10K employees and years of consecutive growth, take a look on the inside and see how many "Wally"s the place has, how much structural BS exists for no particular reason other than "that's how it's done here."
Government waste is continually scrutinized by the taxpayers, but when a corporation has been "exceeding shareholder expectations" for a decade or more - you'd be amazed at the colossal waste that goes on inside.
BS, I work for one of those massive corporations and I am usually contracted into various government agencies. I am very familiar with the waste and inefficiencies in BOTH sectors. corporate waste doesn't come even close to what is wasted in government and most companies have regular Targeted crackdowns on waste and inefficiencies, though they will always have some, highly successful fast growing companies tend to have a lot more waste as they can get away with it while on that trajectory but as soon as growth isn't high double digit then they tend to quickly focus on cleaning it up (at least those that want to survive). I would say the waste is orders of magnitude higher in government and given the source of government money I think government has a much higher responsibility to be prudent in its spending.
It does when that "even more safe" is associated with 100's of billions of cost in infrastructure and development for what is a fraction of a fraction of a percent in likely survival improvements.
massive increase? what massive increase? their have been a couple of high publicity crashes but no significant increase.
given latest sales figures I doubt their will be such a thing as a steambox for sale by the end of the year. I suppose you can build a PC still though and call it a steambox.
Current Car is a VW R36. Steering column computer, air conditioner compressor are the big ones, few other minor bits as well.
I buy new and depreciate my car, generally I keep a car on average for 6-7 years after which time maintenance costs start to cut in to the point where you should have repurchased, I wish I had sold my current car at 6 years (hit that last year), would have been far better off as have spent $3000 alone in repairs this year. I aim for around 5% income per annum on my car (before tax deductions).
what utter Bullshit. I earned just on 200k a year, that would only let me afford a slightly above average car while most people could not afford anything until they are earning in excess of 100k a year. Your numbers are complete garbage, The cost of a car is averaged over the expected lifetime.
and which news website can you honestly say provides true and unbiased reporting of political information? many of the news sites are WHY voters are misinformed. I am pretty damn good with the interweb thingy and be buggered if I know of a good site that I would recommend someone use for truly informed voting. The reality is you have to filter through 100 tons of shit to find 10 grams of gold and much of this is a result of how websites are funded today through clickbait journalism, the majority of people aren't motivated or capable of sifting through that.
There is a massive amount of government waste, I see it everyday while working within various government departments. The problem is the cuts are usually generic and don't target the real waste and simply usually say, here take a 2%, 5%, 10% cut across the board while wasteful practices aren't targeted or touched. e.g. spending surplus budget before EOFY as they know if they don't they might get less the next FY, I see this every year, sometimes the waste is in the millions where they will buy services, hardware and software that never get used or touched just to ensure they don't have surplus. You have government employees with "safe" comfortable positions that don't mandate performance and have no consequences for lack of performance as they are heavily union protected, Their is massive Machinery of Government spending purely to reward ministers with bigger portfolios to match ego's (some of this spending is absolutely insane and how the fuck it is ever justified to spend X million just to make a ministers portfolio bigger is beyond me).
most users would not even know if such an app exists, the only way for it to be true is if it was one of the hugely popular apps which just happened to automatically make this change for them in the background.
Linux on mobile platforms (Android) was underrepresented because of this. A lot of Android users deliberately modified their user agent string to report a desktop browser, so they would get the desktop version of websites instead of crippled mobile versions.
By a Lot you mean a tiny percentage of technical users that care.
Slashdot is regularly a long way behind in the news, sometimes even more than a decade, but FFS with this having been on Slashdot so many times it is nothing but pure laziness reporting this again.
mate you have no idea what expensive mobile internet is. I am from Australia, I love when I visit the US as what you consider expensive mobile internet is dirt cheap to us.
PS: Winterkorn and other execs are actually under criminal investigation to see if they did actually have any involvement or negligence in this matter.
The point being the CEO didn't appear to be the person that committed this fraud and that not everything evil that a company does has to be directly attributable to something the CEO did and at least in my opinion it is not reasonable to pile all penalties on him when he didn't actually do anything wrong.. It seems (at least on the surface) that the then CEO Winterkorn was acting in good faith and was not a party to the fraud and even went as far as assisting in uncovering it after it was revealed. I am all for locking up those responsible, and if ends up being found that he was a party to it, or even if he should have known (i.e. guilty through negligence) then throw him on the Pyre too, but at this point that doesn't appear to have been the case.
The CEO didn't get squat, he resigned over this scandal last year so he definitely isn't still being paid and by all reports he didn't actually know anything about this but took responsibility for it anyway by resigning. Supposedly he also ensured the investigation into it was kicked off properly before he resigned. Not everything that happens in a company is because the CEO is an evil bastard.
its cute you think that the sort of people I am combating with this have that sort of access, you must be terrified of your neighbours and there supreme power,
Pretty easy to counter it though, IR lens filters will become very popular.
If they release on the same weekend they'll be competing for $$$. If I had to choose between Starwars and Minecraft I would probably still go and see Starwars [regardless of the recent emo character shift ;)]. Imagine how poorly the Warcraft movie would have done if it had to compete against ... the new Avatar movie in China ;)
Off-Topic: I'm would pay to see a new Goonies movie :)
That is what I doubt, I simply can't believe the market overlap between these is so significant that they are going to be going head to head for $,