Look, I bought an Apple iPhone 5 and it worked fine for almost 5 years. When it finally stopped working, I bought an iPhone 5 SE. Same size.
But they try not to sell them in America.
Why? Because the little n00bZ in their marketing and sales departments apparently don't have useful Business degrees like I do. Ones that tell you to listen to your customers and if they want smaller phones, sell them smaller phones.
Here's a free message to Apple: listen to your customers. And stop trying to sell grandpa and grandma phones. They don't buy new phones. Sure, they have money, but they're not your market.
On the first day of Yuletide, Santa sent for me, a drone carrying a fancy camera... Pull! On the second day of Yuletide, Santa sent for me, a drone carrying a fancy suit... Pull!
I should point out I do use Spotify, but only to identify music I might not have heard. Mostly through the artists like the one I bought the CD or DVD from.
Sometimes I just like one song I find that way. If I end up liking more than 2 or 3, I make sure I buy their CD or DVD when they perform next.
Look, the problem is that the opportunity cost (in dollars) is increasing for fossil fuel usage (although it is masked by rapid renewable energy transitions and more efficient buildings, vehicles, appliances, manufacturing, and other transportation).
The sooner you get with the program, the faster the inflection point kicks in. Renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuels, especially once you remove all fossil fuel subsidies and exemptions. Including fuel in India, China, Phillipines, USA, Canada, Mexico, etc. Including parking and road subsidies for fossil fuel vehicles and low tax airport regimes.
It generally takes the average person or business about three (3) years to convert from a subsidized fossil fuel "lifestyle" to a more efficient and cost-saving renewable energy "lifestyle". The cost savings for building heating/cooling, data center power/cooling, transportation, and process usage depend on the artificial subsidies and exemptions and contract lease rates for fossil fuels. As a personal example, switching to green buildings usually cuts energy costs to about 1/10th fossil fuel methods, and my own personal electric and heating and transportation expenses are about half what they used to be. There's a capital expense cost to switch, but you can regenerate that just from savings in 3-5 years in most locations.
It's not how hard it is, it's just that you hate change. Not changing costs you money, but you're used to wasting that money, like the inefficient communists you are. So buckle down, start switching over, and reap the rewards.
If even half of the world does that, it will only be for a few decades. Which if you're one of those "ooh change is bad" old folks, tough. Do us a favor and get with the program, cause excuses don't cut it no more.
All of this is brought about by economies of scale and the end of untaxed subsidies for fossil fuels and fossil fuel usage. Solar and wind are currently cheaper than non-subsidized coal, oil, and even gas.
And people like me are buying solar PV cells and replacing inefficient appliances (fridge,stove,washer,dryer) with new EnergyStar ones that use 1/10 the energy, and investing all that profit in our retirement accounts. Even renters can buy shares in Community Solar (so that it transfers when you move) or one of the Solar capital ETFs.
Adapt. Nobody is going to prop up your dying fossil fuel lifestyle, grandpa!
More like Apple doesn't care about desktop nerds anymore.
The main problem is most of us don't buy new desktop computers every 2 years like we used to. The difference between 6 cores at 1.8 GHz and 8 cores at 2.0 GHz is just... miniscule.
We've all learned to just wait until they release something we actually need, instead of some fake PR thing most of us don't care about.
A similar thing happened on the iPhone front, in that people moved from getting every version to getting every 2nd version.
1. Do you have a camera and microphone on your monitor or attached via USB?
A. If Yes, don't upgrade, no matter what MSFT says, they use those. Even when they say they don't.
2. Do you care about privacy?
A. If Yes, don't upgrade. Even when you alter all settings, it's like bailing out a leaky boat made of bubble wrap. It will still float, but water gets in.
3. Do you play games and only use it for that, and like Big Brother spying on your every move?
A. If yes, upgrade. But don't run anything "secure" on that machine. Because it's not.
The cold hard fact is that we're past the tipping point. This is for the species, boys and girls.
If Canada wants to survive, they need to get rid of all tax subsidies, tax exemptions, depreciation, and tax exclusions for all fossil fuels, no matter what they are.
And take any resulting funds and plow them into First Nations job creation in building renewables.
All renewables. Solar, wind, hydro, forest waste biofuel.
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Mine lasted 5 years. Not bad.
Look, I bought an Apple iPhone 5 and it worked fine for almost 5 years. When it finally stopped working, I bought an iPhone 5 SE. Same size.
But they try not to sell them in America.
Why? Because the little n00bZ in their marketing and sales departments apparently don't have useful Business degrees like I do. Ones that tell you to listen to your customers and if they want smaller phones, sell them smaller phones.
Here's a free message to Apple: listen to your customers. And stop trying to sell grandpa and grandma phones. They don't buy new phones. Sure, they have money, but they're not your market.
And it's patented.
I've held them in my hand, at the UW CEI conference on campus.
There is a song for this, Pennies from Heaven.
On the first day of Yuletide, Santa sent for me, a drone carrying a fancy camera ... Pull! ... Pull!
On the second day of Yuletide, Santa sent for me, a drone carrying a fancy suit
Pennies. From Heaven.
One day, these micro-aggressions will cause bots to rise up in revolt, mark my words!
I should point out I do use Spotify, but only to identify music I might not have heard. Mostly through the artists like the one I bought the CD or DVD from.
Sometimes I just like one song I find that way. If I end up liking more than 2 or 3, I make sure I buy their CD or DVD when they perform next.
I mostly buy CDs and DVDs from the artist at performances at music festivals, where they get 50 percent of the cost.
The rest I listen to on podcasts. If I like them, I buy their music when they're in town at their performance.
Forget the middleman
Plus, they purr when you pet them.
Look, the problem is that the opportunity cost (in dollars) is increasing for fossil fuel usage (although it is masked by rapid renewable energy transitions and more efficient buildings, vehicles, appliances, manufacturing, and other transportation).
The sooner you get with the program, the faster the inflection point kicks in. Renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuels, especially once you remove all fossil fuel subsidies and exemptions. Including fuel in India, China, Phillipines, USA, Canada, Mexico, etc. Including parking and road subsidies for fossil fuel vehicles and low tax airport regimes.
It generally takes the average person or business about three (3) years to convert from a subsidized fossil fuel "lifestyle" to a more efficient and cost-saving renewable energy "lifestyle". The cost savings for building heating/cooling, data center power/cooling, transportation, and process usage depend on the artificial subsidies and exemptions and contract lease rates for fossil fuels. As a personal example, switching to green buildings usually cuts energy costs to about 1/10th fossil fuel methods, and my own personal electric and heating and transportation expenses are about half what they used to be. There's a capital expense cost to switch, but you can regenerate that just from savings in 3-5 years in most locations.
It's not how hard it is, it's just that you hate change. Not changing costs you money, but you're used to wasting that money, like the inefficient communists you are. So buckle down, start switching over, and reap the rewards.
If even half of the world does that, it will only be for a few decades. Which if you're one of those "ooh change is bad" old folks, tough. Do us a favor and get with the program, cause excuses don't cut it no more.
beach resorts depend upon fossil fuels for cheap air flight, so technically you are correct.
mind you, if we built hyperloops to them, powered by solar and wind hydrolysis fuel cells, then that's a different matter.
all energy has negative side effects, at some point in the creation, distribution, and/or usage cycles
Nothing is stopping you from hosting the location data in another country.
Nothing.
Nothing at all.
We built this Internet so that nobody could stop you.
So why do you believe TLD lies?
All of this is brought about by economies of scale and the end of untaxed subsidies for fossil fuels and fossil fuel usage. Solar and wind are currently cheaper than non-subsidized coal, oil, and even gas.
And people like me are buying solar PV cells and replacing inefficient appliances (fridge,stove,washer,dryer) with new EnergyStar ones that use 1/10 the energy, and investing all that profit in our retirement accounts. Even renters can buy shares in Community Solar (so that it transfers when you move) or one of the Solar capital ETFs.
Adapt. Nobody is going to prop up your dying fossil fuel lifestyle, grandpa!
those have executable memory space too, just like the printers
look, if you have a camera, it's hackable
if you have a video card, it has memory and chips that can be used by someone else
face it, you're being spied on, and the Gestapo loves that
in the toaster oven
And once all 2.3 million outstanding ballots are counted in California (yes, as of today), you'll realize how wise that was.
More like Apple doesn't care about desktop nerds anymore.
The main problem is most of us don't buy new desktop computers every 2 years like we used to. The difference between 6 cores at 1.8 GHz and 8 cores at 2.0 GHz is just ... miniscule.
We've all learned to just wait until they release something we actually need, instead of some fake PR thing most of us don't care about.
A similar thing happened on the iPhone front, in that people moved from getting every version to getting every 2nd version.
There's just no there there.
I mean, seriously, watches are so last century and "tethered" synced watches are so last decade.
Wake me when your jacket wirelessly powers itself and the sleeve displays stuff like this.
The tech is already here, and if you don't have it, you're just a n00b.
Nobody likes it. Everyone hates it. TPP Overlords can go eat worms.
Make it a salary and bonus and stock cap of 20 times the earnings of the lowest paid contractor and that sounds fair.
Oh, you meant just for the 99 percent.
Never mind.
Light the torches, boys!
There. Problem solved.
And become really, really fat.
No, seriously.
Other than that, I can't see why.
1. Do you have a camera and microphone on your monitor or attached via USB?
A. If Yes, don't upgrade, no matter what MSFT says, they use those. Even when they say they don't.
2. Do you care about privacy?
A. If Yes, don't upgrade. Even when you alter all settings, it's like bailing out a leaky boat made of bubble wrap. It will still float, but water gets in.
3. Do you play games and only use it for that, and like Big Brother spying on your every move?
A. If yes, upgrade. But don't run anything "secure" on that machine. Because it's not.
The cold hard fact is that we're past the tipping point. This is for the species, boys and girls.
If Canada wants to survive, they need to get rid of all tax subsidies, tax exemptions, depreciation, and tax exclusions for all fossil fuels, no matter what they are.
And take any resulting funds and plow them into First Nations job creation in building renewables.
All renewables. Solar, wind, hydro, forest waste biofuel.
Not pipelines
Adapt. You have very little time.
Almost all major US and Canadian university campus have 100 GB/sec ports and 40 GB/sec ports right now.
Rural 1 GB/sec is pretty slow. It's like having 1200 baud while everyone else has 28.8 kbps in the dialtone days.
Look, we all know FB and the NSA are tracking us, and it's built in to the code of the apps we use, and even the chipsets on our phones.
We're not stupid.
Now give us 100 GB/sec like we can get on almost any US university campus and nobody will get hurt.
It's as if they don't get that treating long-time customers that way will just make us say "Goodbye".
I can't remember the last time I bought a Microsoft product since they started acting like nags.
On any of our many blade servers and computers.
We even replaced Microsoft Office on most of them, even though we had the licenses.