I agree with you wholeheartedly on the apple connection to foxcon. It is close to the entire electronics industry to blame. I disagree with your statements on the conditions not being horrific. 36 hour shifts wages under a couple bucks an hour, living and working in the same place, jail time for mentioning the idea of a union etc... The long lines is because china is just so screwed up that these horrific conditions, are the best they can do.
Umm no I very clearly implied that companies don't promote piracy within, however while I agree officially it is the company's choice, Photoshop probably sells much better as a result of teens/college students pirating it and deciding that graphic design is what they want to get into, and then when working for a company encouraging the companies to purchase in it. I believe microsoft at one point was known for saying we would rather someone pirate our software than to purchase our competitors.
The difference between say windows and macOS, and even macOS and xerox, android and IOS, is still they all had unique features to a much larger degree. Zynga tower, quite litterally is a new skin on tiny tower, as farmville is a new skin on farmtown. There is a big difference between taking a general concept and adding features to it, and taking something and slightly sharpening the graphics.
Heroin is a natural plant, so an OD is natural causes by that logic. I believe natural causes is supposed to imply the body just wearing out on it's own and not caused by outside stimulants. Getting struck by lightning is pretty equally lethal for trees and humans alike. But I've never seen a death certificate attribute being struck by lightning a natural cause.
Because companies are subject to random audits by BSA etc... As well in a company environment no half way inteligent company would bootleg software because they know all it takes is 1 person to turn them in to destroy the company. Turnover is inevitable in a company, and it is equally inevitable that every few years you will have 1-2 people who left the company and aren't on friendly terms with it. Photoshop I believe is one of the best examples of software that is more or less intended to be pirated by the individual users. It is barely useful at all until you are an expert in it, you can't become an expert in it without using it for a long time, and it's price point is well above what any sane home user can afford to pay without high confidence that they are going to recoup the investment.
indeed, though I still fail to see how a moon base is any better then say the ISS we already have. Say a meteor crashes into the earth and hurls it into the sun, the moon isn't going to hold onto itself, or likely be self sustaining any more than the ISS is. If we want to survive past the destruction of the earth, we kind of need a base, that isn't orbiting earth.
I agree that it is nowhere near the same level, but that doesn't mean it should go unnoticed. Godwin time!!!, Next to Hitler, Ted Bundy was a pretty harmless guy, he only killed what a dozen people or so, but I would bet people in America were probably on comperable levels of relieved to see bundy locked up as they were Hitler, heck America really was fine with staying out of WW2 until Pearl Harbor was bombed. Because what Americans can tolerate happening outside this country, is in general 100x what we can tolerate inside our borders.
While this is the cover for it, it still does not explain the facts that 1. America arrests more people for non-violent crimes than any other civilized country, and 2. Even with crime rates declining, incarceration rates are skyrocketing. I agree with the philosophy that, if they aren't going anywhere why not put them to work ideas, but the data is starting to imply that to a growing extent, perhaps people are being locked up, that otherwise would not have been if we weren't earning more than they were costing.
By far I agree with you there, I'd rather be a prisoner here, then a "free" man working at foxcon, at least in prison if I kill myself they can't sue my family, though I do also have to say that our legal system isn't all as fair as it should be, the article was also commenting on the fact that when our crime rate goes down, we lower the bar for what it takes to get sent to prison, and the ratio of non-violent criminals in jail is far higher than any other country, and I would say our legal system strays further and further from the Innocent until proven guilty thing every day.
It is also hypocritical for America to refuse to buy products manufactured in china but not America, considering America has kept slave labor around for years, we just call it prison labor. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289
Straying from the port standards is like running an ice cream truck in the back of a standard white van. Technically it isn't illegal and just seeing it doesn't mean something dangerous is going on, but it's just plain suspicious and I'm not letting my kids anywhere near it.
Why would the chinese not inspire us. When on earth has the US actually cared how large the debt gets. The difference between 100x what it has ever come close to pulling in and 10,000x what it ever has come close to pulling in isn't that significant, and for the most part people will keep loaning us money because they would rather be on our good side when the next crazy group attacks them, or in case we just snap and decide to call another random war.
In general a small development house cannot successfully sue a multi million dollar company, whether the case is valid or not is irrelevant as multi-million dollar lawyers will pretty much tweak any law to permit just about anything.
Well in the long run they still may out manuver us in a construction zone, they navigate via cameras, meaning they can see cones too. Now the sleep part is probably a ways off, odds are the drivers are going to be liable for some time, and people are to be expected to flip to manual if they think there is any reason to doubt the safety of the cars current actions. Of course on google's part they will need to be smart enough to make the car log this switch, because I have a feeling 95-99% of accidents are going to be caused by people flipping to manual and then crashing into something.
Relevance to the current topic? Absolutely none as this isn't a story on sales of anything. Secondly I do see one huge flaw in the articles view of marketshare. If you are going purely by sales that is also not a good comparison. Android users are far less likely to repeatedly upgrade their phone when it works for everything they need. 1 person 1 sale unless it breaks. Apple fans on the other hand are more likely to buy every model that comes out. So 1 person, 4 sales still only 1 phone actually being used, 3 rotting in a drawer somewhere.
Right, but solving it in an hour or solving it in 30 seconds makes no difference. When the goal of the tournament is who can solve it fastest, it doesn't prove he is any better then the other competitors when the contest ends after the first person solves it
The time is pretty irelevant. I mean it isn't like the hackers hadn't seen the OS's or browsers before they set foot on the floor and were going blind. That is like giving someone a sudoku puzzle a month in advance, having him do it from memory and claiming that this guy is so smart he can solve the sudoku puzzle in 30 seconds.
Indeed, that is the universal way that the electronics industry works, company A makes the product, company b. makes it smaller/better/faster Company C makes it smaller better faster and cheaper, company B sues company C. Claiming smaller better faster are unobvious progressions of the technology. I think that is the big thing here, IOS is not particularly novel in any approach or any side, the ipod was not the first MP3 player to use similar styles of storage, HDD based storage was already in progress and similar devices with similar storage capacity were out before it. The only aspect of Samsung that I can see apple having any grounds for is chosing the same colors. Everything else is something that anyone with a palm 3 and one of the tablets from the early 2000's could have anticipated the market going eventually.
I don't think the BS is on the call that activation was required on the 5th hardware change, but I have dealt with microsofts activation numerous times and in general a 5 minute call with very little explaining needed is all it takes to get that 5 activations reset. I've never had a unproductive "sorry too bad" response from MS.
From my experience in the tech world, I would say there are far less women who live and breathe computers even among those who work with them. While finding females in the IT industry is far less rare than it used to be, one thing I do notice is a larger portion of them tend to prefer specializing in one area, rather than an overall knowledge of subjects, and even fewer that I find that actually continue to enjoy spending time on computers outside of work. That is not to discredit or claim any of them are less smart than their male counterparts, in many ways many of them are far smarter in their respective specialization, but very few women that I have worked with tend to be the types that will sit on a computer at work all day long, and then go home and work on their personal computer related personal projects.
why vendors obsession is in it is obvious. for every person like you who would rather give money than information, there are roughly 1,000 people who would gladly let everything about themselves leak out to the public rather then spend $5 a year. Every privacy fiasco done on facebook/google or any other site has had little to no impact on the number of people subscribing, and usually loses less than 1% of the current subscribers even for the big issues. Now look at how many people went into an extreme panic when the fake rumors of facebook charging money sent all of it's users into a mass panic. I would bet that if facebook charged say 15 a year, within 3 months they would become myspace and G+ would become facebook.
In many many ways we've been opening more security holes in our cars as time progressed, the wireless unlockers. Even if we pretend that wireless isn't heaven to sniff and spoof. People leave their keys out in all sorts of public places, not everyone locks them up at the gym, most people leave them unattended at a waterpark or beach etc... before wireless that was reasonable, no-one is going to steal my keys because there are 500 cars in the parking lot, nobody can try each one. now with wireless, if you steal someones keys, you can just walk around the lot and push a button to make it beep and find out where the car is.
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I agree with you wholeheartedly on the apple connection to foxcon. It is close to the entire electronics industry to blame. I disagree with your statements on the conditions not being horrific. 36 hour shifts wages under a couple bucks an hour, living and working in the same place, jail time for mentioning the idea of a union etc... The long lines is because china is just so screwed up that these horrific conditions, are the best they can do.
Umm no I very clearly implied that companies don't promote piracy within, however while I agree officially it is the company's choice, Photoshop probably sells much better as a result of teens/college students pirating it and deciding that graphic design is what they want to get into, and then when working for a company encouraging the companies to purchase in it. I believe microsoft at one point was known for saying we would rather someone pirate our software than to purchase our competitors.
The difference between say windows and macOS, and even macOS and xerox, android and IOS, is still they all had unique features to a much larger degree. Zynga tower, quite litterally is a new skin on tiny tower, as farmville is a new skin on farmtown. There is a big difference between taking a general concept and adding features to it, and taking something and slightly sharpening the graphics.
Heroin is a natural plant, so an OD is natural causes by that logic. I believe natural causes is supposed to imply the body just wearing out on it's own and not caused by outside stimulants. Getting struck by lightning is pretty equally lethal for trees and humans alike. But I've never seen a death certificate attribute being struck by lightning a natural cause.
Because companies are subject to random audits by BSA etc... As well in a company environment no half way inteligent company would bootleg software because they know all it takes is 1 person to turn them in to destroy the company. Turnover is inevitable in a company, and it is equally inevitable that every few years you will have 1-2 people who left the company and aren't on friendly terms with it. Photoshop I believe is one of the best examples of software that is more or less intended to be pirated by the individual users. It is barely useful at all until you are an expert in it, you can't become an expert in it without using it for a long time, and it's price point is well above what any sane home user can afford to pay without high confidence that they are going to recoup the investment.
indeed, though I still fail to see how a moon base is any better then say the ISS we already have. Say a meteor crashes into the earth and hurls it into the sun, the moon isn't going to hold onto itself, or likely be self sustaining any more than the ISS is. If we want to survive past the destruction of the earth, we kind of need a base, that isn't orbiting earth.
I agree that it is nowhere near the same level, but that doesn't mean it should go unnoticed. Godwin time!!!, Next to Hitler, Ted Bundy was a pretty harmless guy, he only killed what a dozen people or so, but I would bet people in America were probably on comperable levels of relieved to see bundy locked up as they were Hitler, heck America really was fine with staying out of WW2 until Pearl Harbor was bombed. Because what Americans can tolerate happening outside this country, is in general 100x what we can tolerate inside our borders.
While this is the cover for it, it still does not explain the facts that 1. America arrests more people for non-violent crimes than any other civilized country, and 2. Even with crime rates declining, incarceration rates are skyrocketing. I agree with the philosophy that, if they aren't going anywhere why not put them to work ideas, but the data is starting to imply that to a growing extent, perhaps people are being locked up, that otherwise would not have been if we weren't earning more than they were costing.
By far I agree with you there, I'd rather be a prisoner here, then a "free" man working at foxcon, at least in prison if I kill myself they can't sue my family, though I do also have to say that our legal system isn't all as fair as it should be, the article was also commenting on the fact that when our crime rate goes down, we lower the bar for what it takes to get sent to prison, and the ratio of non-violent criminals in jail is far higher than any other country, and I would say our legal system strays further and further from the Innocent until proven guilty thing every day.
It is also hypocritical for America to refuse to buy products manufactured in china but not America, considering America has kept slave labor around for years, we just call it prison labor. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289
Straying from the port standards is like running an ice cream truck in the back of a standard white van. Technically it isn't illegal and just seeing it doesn't mean something dangerous is going on, but it's just plain suspicious and I'm not letting my kids anywhere near it.
Why would the chinese not inspire us. When on earth has the US actually cared how large the debt gets. The difference between 100x what it has ever come close to pulling in and 10,000x what it ever has come close to pulling in isn't that significant, and for the most part people will keep loaning us money because they would rather be on our good side when the next crazy group attacks them, or in case we just snap and decide to call another random war.
In general a small development house cannot successfully sue a multi million dollar company, whether the case is valid or not is irrelevant as multi-million dollar lawyers will pretty much tweak any law to permit just about anything.
Onstar is capable of this sort of thing already, so far it hasn't been abused or hacked that I know of.
Well in the long run they still may out manuver us in a construction zone, they navigate via cameras, meaning they can see cones too. Now the sleep part is probably a ways off, odds are the drivers are going to be liable for some time, and people are to be expected to flip to manual if they think there is any reason to doubt the safety of the cars current actions. Of course on google's part they will need to be smart enough to make the car log this switch, because I have a feeling 95-99% of accidents are going to be caused by people flipping to manual and then crashing into something.
Relevance to the current topic? Absolutely none as this isn't a story on sales of anything. Secondly I do see one huge flaw in the articles view of marketshare. If you are going purely by sales that is also not a good comparison. Android users are far less likely to repeatedly upgrade their phone when it works for everything they need. 1 person 1 sale unless it breaks. Apple fans on the other hand are more likely to buy every model that comes out. So 1 person, 4 sales still only 1 phone actually being used, 3 rotting in a drawer somewhere.
Yet odds are it is the most searched name among the daleks and cybermen.
Right, but solving it in an hour or solving it in 30 seconds makes no difference. When the goal of the tournament is who can solve it fastest, it doesn't prove he is any better then the other competitors when the contest ends after the first person solves it
The time is pretty irelevant. I mean it isn't like the hackers hadn't seen the OS's or browsers before they set foot on the floor and were going blind. That is like giving someone a sudoku puzzle a month in advance, having him do it from memory and claiming that this guy is so smart he can solve the sudoku puzzle in 30 seconds.
Indeed, that is the universal way that the electronics industry works, company A makes the product, company b. makes it smaller/better/faster Company C makes it smaller better faster and cheaper, company B sues company C. Claiming smaller better faster are unobvious progressions of the technology. I think that is the big thing here, IOS is not particularly novel in any approach or any side, the ipod was not the first MP3 player to use similar styles of storage, HDD based storage was already in progress and similar devices with similar storage capacity were out before it. The only aspect of Samsung that I can see apple having any grounds for is chosing the same colors. Everything else is something that anyone with a palm 3 and one of the tablets from the early 2000's could have anticipated the market going eventually.
We program it to crash, and hope for no survivors! I think that is the smartest way to do it.
I don't think the BS is on the call that activation was required on the 5th hardware change, but I have dealt with microsofts activation numerous times and in general a 5 minute call with very little explaining needed is all it takes to get that 5 activations reset. I've never had a unproductive "sorry too bad" response from MS.
From my experience in the tech world, I would say there are far less women who live and breathe computers even among those who work with them. While finding females in the IT industry is far less rare than it used to be, one thing I do notice is a larger portion of them tend to prefer specializing in one area, rather than an overall knowledge of subjects, and even fewer that I find that actually continue to enjoy spending time on computers outside of work. That is not to discredit or claim any of them are less smart than their male counterparts, in many ways many of them are far smarter in their respective specialization, but very few women that I have worked with tend to be the types that will sit on a computer at work all day long, and then go home and work on their personal computer related personal projects.
why vendors obsession is in it is obvious. for every person like you who would rather give money than information, there are roughly 1,000 people who would gladly let everything about themselves leak out to the public rather then spend $5 a year. Every privacy fiasco done on facebook/google or any other site has had little to no impact on the number of people subscribing, and usually loses less than 1% of the current subscribers even for the big issues. Now look at how many people went into an extreme panic when the fake rumors of facebook charging money sent all of it's users into a mass panic. I would bet that if facebook charged say 15 a year, within 3 months they would become myspace and G+ would become facebook.
In many many ways we've been opening more security holes in our cars as time progressed, the wireless unlockers. Even if we pretend that wireless isn't heaven to sniff and spoof. People leave their keys out in all sorts of public places, not everyone locks them up at the gym, most people leave them unattended at a waterpark or beach etc... before wireless that was reasonable, no-one is going to steal my keys because there are 500 cars in the parking lot, nobody can try each one. now with wireless, if you steal someones keys, you can just walk around the lot and push a button to make it beep and find out where the car is.