They aren't priced at "what the market will bear" but are priced at "what the market will pay" -- there is a difference. Market-clearing price and all that...
With the lessened consumer buying power, fewer jobs are available. Tickets become more expensive, and so your average consumer now has less money to spend. That money, when spent on goods, creates a need to produce those goods, which creates employment; when the cost-per-good increases, the proportion of all incomes spent on that good increases, and diverts away from other goods. Because income is both made and spent over time (e.g. per year), the enrichment of one person at the expense of ten others doesn't translate to that one person then creating ten more jobs.
Yeah, they don't do that here. There is no artificial restriction on the number of cabs roaming the streets and the ability to be legal is pretty low aside from high prices for commercial insurance (which, quite honestly, is the major limiting factor). Much easier to buy a governor and get the state to quit enforcing the law of the land though...well, unless you're a legal livery vehicle/taxi then they still enforce them.
Nobody's saying they're not making money today. The issue is how much they make after all the costs are accounted for, how many of these folks are thinking ahead for things like trading in/selling a car with an extra 150/200k miles on it or trying to get a warranty repair on a car if/when they find out that is being used as a commercial vehicle.
I know a bunch of full time Uber/Lyft ex-taxi drivers so I'm pretty familiar with the economics behind this 'sharing economy' thing and I can tell you it isn't that much different from the 'evil' cab companies except they can't spread their losses across a fleet of a few hundred cars -- your car goes down and you're taking the bus until you can scrape enough cash together to get it fixed.
What i find comical about all this is they are starting to figure out that cab companies do things for a reason and it might be a good idea to emulate that. I know one guy who leases a fancy prius from someone who has a fleet of 50 which is exactly the cab co model around here -- aside from not having a weights & measures sticker (and pricy commercial insurance) this is the same as they've been doing around here since like forever...except apps...
What type of contractors get to set the price to the end user?
Ironically enough, cab drivers can (at least in the AZ). You can flat rate fares to your little heart's content though, generally speaking, customers aren't going to get too interested in paying more than meter rate for a trip because what's the point in that?
After you factor in wear & tear, gas, insurance, maintence, depreciation, tickets (because most of them are idiots and shouldn't be hauling people around in the first place and/or think they are taxis and get fined for doing something perfectly legal in a cab but not in an improperly licenced livery vehicle), &etc they don't make quite as much as you'd think.
Speaking of Uber -- you will never see a change in the quality of service if you don't tip because they live or die based on keeping their 4.5 star rating (or whatever the cutoff is today). Same with Lyft and peeps can actually tip on their app. Those drivers have to put up with a crazy amount of shit from passengers because if they get too many bad ratings you get kicked off the app so short of physically assalting them they're gonna kiss your ass to get that ever important 5 stars. Most of the Uber drivers don't seem to mind being pimped out for peanuts so they just get paid whatever their corporate masters deem is sufficient even if its less than the cost of wear and tear on their car like a few month ago when they dropped the prices to $0.72/mile or some such.
Well, if the app doesn't let passengers add a tip and the drivers aren't allowed to say anything bad about Uber (including whining that customers can't tip with the app) then of course they don't seem to expect a tip.
You could also not be a cheap fuck and toss these suckers who are tearing up their personal vehicles for basically nothing a dollar once in a while, it really won't kill you...err, parting with the dollar I mean not the driver because who knows what kind of crazy fucker is going to "invite" you into their car.
"Plenty of science stuff is simply facts and does not need particular proof beyond facts. E.g. that stuff lighter than water swims in water... no brainers."
So, logically... If she weighs the same as a duck she's made of wood.
And therefore?
I'm pretty sure the original renderman exporter code predates Cycles, back when the blender internal renderer was (and still is) kind of iffy for production usage without a couple coders sitting in the same studio as the artists using it -- pretty much the 'production environment' of the first few Blender Institute open movie projects.
So these Pixar peeps dusted off the old code (which, IIRC, was based around 3Delight) and updated it to work better with PRMan so hobbyists can learn/play with their 'free' renderer and dream of how they are learning the skills to help them get a jig working on a multi-bazillion dollar blockbuster movie.
Also, to be fair, Cycles with OSL (Open Shading Language) isn't GPU accelerated so if you want a programmable shader pipeline then they both are going to be running on the CPU.
Az still has crazy long licences, mine's good till 2036. I think it'll probably change soon but as long as I don't loose this one I'm good for a long time. Oh, and I just got a new one in Jan since my last one got stolen in a holdup.
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They aren't priced at "what the market will bear" but are priced at "what the market will pay" -- there is a difference. Market-clearing price and all that...
With the lessened consumer buying power, fewer jobs are available. Tickets become more expensive, and so your average consumer now has less money to spend. That money, when spent on goods, creates a need to produce those goods, which creates employment; when the cost-per-good increases, the proportion of all incomes spent on that good increases, and diverts away from other goods. Because income is both made and spent over time (e.g. per year), the enrichment of one person at the expense of ten others doesn't translate to that one person then creating ten more jobs.
Umm...no, life isn't a zero-sum game...
Agreed, the editors have really been dropping the ball for years. It takes them days to report on recent events.
Well...them IP addresses, they had to count them all. Now they know how many IPs it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
What government programs? They're talking about drug testing to file a (gov't mandated) tax return.
I hear North Korea is nice this time of year...
Public maintenance of roads didn't start out as a justification for government bullying road users.
No, it started as an excuse for the feds to bully the states *cough*drinking age*cough*...
Yeah, they don't do that here. There is no artificial restriction on the number of cabs roaming the streets and the ability to be legal is pretty low aside from high prices for commercial insurance (which, quite honestly, is the major limiting factor). Much easier to buy a governor and get the state to quit enforcing the law of the land though...well, unless you're a legal livery vehicle/taxi then they still enforce them.
Nobody's saying they're not making money today. The issue is how much they make after all the costs are accounted for, how many of these folks are thinking ahead for things like trading in/selling a car with an extra 150/200k miles on it or trying to get a warranty repair on a car if/when they find out that is being used as a commercial vehicle. I know a bunch of full time Uber/Lyft ex-taxi drivers so I'm pretty familiar with the economics behind this 'sharing economy' thing and I can tell you it isn't that much different from the 'evil' cab companies except they can't spread their losses across a fleet of a few hundred cars -- your car goes down and you're taking the bus until you can scrape enough cash together to get it fixed. What i find comical about all this is they are starting to figure out that cab companies do things for a reason and it might be a good idea to emulate that. I know one guy who leases a fancy prius from someone who has a fleet of 50 which is exactly the cab co model around here -- aside from not having a weights & measures sticker (and pricy commercial insurance) this is the same as they've been doing around here since like forever...except apps...
What type of contractors get to set the price to the end user?
Ironically enough, cab drivers can (at least in the AZ). You can flat rate fares to your little heart's content though, generally speaking, customers aren't going to get too interested in paying more than meter rate for a trip because what's the point in that?
After you factor in wear & tear, gas, insurance, maintence, depreciation, tickets (because most of them are idiots and shouldn't be hauling people around in the first place and/or think they are taxis and get fined for doing something perfectly legal in a cab but not in an improperly licenced livery vehicle), &etc they don't make quite as much as you'd think.
Speaking of Uber -- you will never see a change in the quality of service if you don't tip because they live or die based on keeping their 4.5 star rating (or whatever the cutoff is today). Same with Lyft and peeps can actually tip on their app. Those drivers have to put up with a crazy amount of shit from passengers because if they get too many bad ratings you get kicked off the app so short of physically assalting them they're gonna kiss your ass to get that ever important 5 stars. Most of the Uber drivers don't seem to mind being pimped out for peanuts so they just get paid whatever their corporate masters deem is sufficient even if its less than the cost of wear and tear on their car like a few month ago when they dropped the prices to $0.72/mile or some such.
Well, if the app doesn't let passengers add a tip and the drivers aren't allowed to say anything bad about Uber (including whining that customers can't tip with the app) then of course they don't seem to expect a tip. You could also not be a cheap fuck and toss these suckers who are tearing up their personal vehicles for basically nothing a dollar once in a while, it really won't kill you...err, parting with the dollar I mean not the driver because who knows what kind of crazy fucker is going to "invite" you into their car.
"Plenty of science stuff is simply facts and does not need particular proof beyond facts. E.g. that stuff lighter than water swims in water ... no brainers."
So, logically... If she weighs the same as a duck she's made of wood.
And therefore?
I'm pretty sure the original renderman exporter code predates Cycles, back when the blender internal renderer was (and still is) kind of iffy for production usage without a couple coders sitting in the same studio as the artists using it -- pretty much the 'production environment' of the first few Blender Institute open movie projects. So these Pixar peeps dusted off the old code (which, IIRC, was based around 3Delight) and updated it to work better with PRMan so hobbyists can learn/play with their 'free' renderer and dream of how they are learning the skills to help them get a jig working on a multi-bazillion dollar blockbuster movie. Also, to be fair, Cycles with OSL (Open Shading Language) isn't GPU accelerated so if you want a programmable shader pipeline then they both are going to be running on the CPU.
the ability to have post-coital conversations about kernel optimisations is somewhat overrated.
Hey...Don't knock it till you try it, Buster
Az still has crazy long licences, mine's good till 2036. I think it'll probably change soon but as long as I don't loose this one I'm good for a long time. Oh, and I just got a new one in Jan since my last one got stolen in a holdup.
Yeah...Bob still owes me 20 bucks too.