"The demand is outstripping their supply. Right now, if they could product 250,000 MS, they would be able to sell it just in America and Europe ALONE."
Quite a faith step given that they managed to sell just 8800 cars in Europe on 2014, with numbers for 2015 that won't be much higher.
About 80% of all these cars were sold in only two countries: Norway and The Netherlands, the only two countries in Europe were these cars are heavily incentivized (they go with above 30% discount at purchase plus a lot of recurring fees avoided).
And you are saying their sales could go from 9000 to 250000? Certainly not impossible, but strongly doubtful.
"Excuse me, but what I expect from corporations (where I am not myself a shareholder) is quality products. I don't give a damn, who they hire and why â" as long as they don't enslave workers â" and neither should anybody else"
Wrong, wrong, utterly wrong.
Corporations are corporations because of their Corporate Charter which is to be approved by the State Government. Since the State Government is the civil servant of the State's people, there you have everybody having their damn about what a corporation does and how from its very inception.
You expect from corporations "just quality products" and that's all well and good, but others may expect corporations also to support their local societies and to promote their local values or go making business anywhere else and that's also as good a position as your own.
"in practice it's going to be on the politicians' whim for quite some time still."
Ah, my friend, but there's a giant difference, here: SpaceX is a private company, NASA is not.
No, no, I'm not implying anything the like of "government can't do anything right, let's handle it to the private initiative". The difference is that NASA, being a public entity, can't bribe congressmen to ensure its money provision, Musk can.
"they will be producing at around 100,000 cars by end of 2016 and when model 3 hits, should be able to do 150-200k just on model S and X. Combine with an easy rampup of 50-100k M3 just for the first year, and we are looking at over 300k by end of 2017."
Yeah, well, they'll be producing a lot of cars... The question is: will they be able to sell them?
"One side of the argument is that developers should be constantly refreshing their knowledge by reading every source of information available in their spare time, and making their own notes. Then they don't need to read Stack Overflow during the daytime, as the knowledge is in their heads."
No, they shouldn't. They are not payed for 24x7 job dedication, therefore they shouldn't dedicate 24x7 to their jobs. It is up to the employer to either stay with VB6 or move forward, though.
No, it won't because the required "natural selection" process here should be at the managerial level, and that's gonna happen.
Reportedly a new hire gets screened for his knowledge, then his work gets screened by his supervisor so either the code he copy-pastes from stack overflow is good enough and then there's no problem or it's rubbish in which case it is the supervisor/manager the one failing if it ever hits the master branch.
"This is already the case for drugs in many countries [...] They have to be identified by a serial number linked to their place and date of manufacture [...] people in the industry (I are one) [...] This will help to trace back products in case of a recall and avoid losses to companies in case of a mistake. It will also helps in detecting counterfeit or stolen drugs."
Since you are in the industry, tell us the whole story: main concern is not tracking for health purposes; it's not even counterfeits. It is brown market.
Some days ago there was a story about who people in USA pay for prescription drugs quite a bit more than basically everywhere else (and first world countries in general more than third world countries). Tracking is in the best interest of big pharma because it protects it's business: they don't want drugs they sell in India at a heavy discount to appear in the USA market.
"Does the food that you purchase identify the conglomerate which entirely owns the folksy subsidiary whos name appears on the product?"
No. Is that something good for me? Absolutly not. I'd be so much better served if it would be easier to know and track where the money comes from/to. Again, all this fuss about "free market" requires "perfectly informed parties".
"You never had that impression."
Oh, yes, certainly yes! I had so much that impression that I know for certain how far is our market from a free one. I'm not glad for the market to be even more opaque.
"You're merely dragging out a trope of long-disproven economic theory"
Which one? That it's better for me to make my decision in a properly informed fashion than not? When that came disproven?
"in an attempt to require that a food product include a politically-driven disclosure that the producer does not wish to use."
Disclosure, by its very definition, is not something that the producer wants at all. The consumer, on the other hand...
"Ok so they grow faster. Does that mean they eat a proportional amount more in the same amount of time or are they less dense or less healthy then the original fish?"
There is NO WAY they are even worse than current farm-rised ones. They are simply awful.
"If we tell them what is and what is not GM, some people will refuse to buy the GM, even if they are not sure the non-GM is better."
Well, some others will choose to buy the GM, even if they are not sure the GM is better. Stupidity works both ways, you know?
I was under the impression that all this fuss about "free market" required "perfectly informed parties", right?
"It might even end up killing the GM industry"
And favoring the GM industry might even end up killing the Organic Foods industry. Didn't know it was some kind of government mandate to favor a side of an industry against any other.
"But I believe that RAW formats are pretty well understood and widely documented. It's in the camera manufacturer's interest to see these formats well and widely supported. Also, it's just sensor data, ultimately. The data structure is fairly straightforward."
Well, I'm not an expert but I know something about the software industry. On one hand, you don't want your format to be easily accessible if you think you can benefit from it: see office document formats, for instance. I can imagine a big camera vendor, say Canon, reaching agreements with strong graphic manipulation providers, say Adobe, so both benefit from the deal. On the other hand, even the wikipedia page states that at least some proprietary native raw formats are partially encrypted for lock-in purposes.
I don't know what the ultimate reason is here but I do know that requiring an suitable (not sure if jpeg fits the bill here) open format (both in design and implementation) is only good for everybody.
"I'm media director of the newspaper of record in a small country, a news photographer who has contributed to wire services, and a geek"
Ok, then. So, asking to the geek, I understand "raw" means "unprocessed". Does all cameras spit out the same raw format? Or by "raw" you don't really mean "raw" but "whatever happens to be Canon's or Nikon's native format; don't bring me any other than that"? Because if it's the second option you, as a geek, already know that kind of lock in is always a bad advise, don't you?
Play devil's advocate all you want: if you look for an holistic approach the last thing you want is a new different silo.
"Would you want dedicated employees to help it grow"
Maybe yes. Maybe I understand that in order for change to come I need people above and beyond the current "business as usual" level. But if I look for an "holistic approach" I'll integrate them in the structures already in place, that's what "holistic" means to start with.
It's not me but Satya the one that came with the "holistic" concept. Maybe it's a clever approach, maybe it's stupid (if the current way is too entrenched, maybe it's better to start anew with new people and groups and facilities: in the end, you don't change the way people interact by just putting a different name in their presentation cards) but if you say it's going to be holistic, you being the CEO, it's going to be damn holistic or the stupid one is you!
"That's where you're wrong. How do you think CNN gets a hold of all their videos? Internet. They have the money to setup and leverage social media."
What you may not understand it that what you see in CNN is not meant to gain adepts: it is targeted at you.
Yes, it's difficult to grasp that they may use different marketing tactics and channels to reach different goals but, hey, that's the case.
"That's how they intercept would be recruits crossing the borders into the middle east. Social media."
Yes, and police may use hound dogs to track fugitives. This doesn't mean those fugitives either got in prison or escaped from it because of their particular odor.
"Their entire PR and recruiting operation works on twitter, facebook and other social network properties."
Or they are recruiting them in around their mosques and the society they cultivate, whispering here and there, seeding ideas in early teenagers' minds and nurturing them to grow.
"CEO Satya Nadella officially announced the launch of a new managed security services group and a new cyber defense operations center â" all part of its new strategy of holistic and integrated security"
In order to attain an holistic approach, Microsoft's CEO creates new separated groups and facilities. Brilliant!
"The whole thing about each gold rush is that for the most part anybody who could scrounge together some very basic equipment could strike out and attempt to make their fortune."
Not exactly. The whole thing about each gold rush is that the ones selling the equipment to the crazy-at-heart everyothers were the ones solidly making a fortune.
Now, humm... where did I leave my hefty stock of multimillion dollar tank-sized underwater robots? These naives are going to learn a lesson or two MWAHAHAHA!
"You seem to think that (a) almost everybody will stop working"
No, I don't think so, why you think I do? In fact, what I say is quite the opposite: since after price adjustment you'll need to double your income to make ends meet, you forcibily will need to stay working.
"(b) the banks will print twice the current amount of cash in circulation"
Not needed, since now most money is made of plastic and ones and zeroes, not paper.
"c) you won't increase taxes significantly for companies and higher earners."
Irrelevant, but if done, it's even reassured that prices will go up, since "companies and higher earners" are the owners of the production means in higher percentage.
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"In my experience, the modern world -- like reality -- is highly overrated."
That's what happens when, in John Wayne's words, "You left a boy out there to do a man's job!"
"You'd still need to additionally install a text editor."
Uhhhh... nope. Emacs comes with vim-mode.
"The demand is outstripping their supply. Right now, if they could product 250,000 MS, they would be able to sell it just in America and Europe ALONE."
Quite a faith step given that they managed to sell just 8800 cars in Europe on 2014, with numbers for 2015 that won't be much higher.
About 80% of all these cars were sold in only two countries: Norway and The Netherlands, the only two countries in Europe were these cars are heavily incentivized (they go with above 30% discount at purchase plus a lot of recurring fees avoided).
And you are saying their sales could go from 9000 to 250000? Certainly not impossible, but strongly doubtful.
"Excuse me, but what I expect from corporations (where I am not myself a shareholder) is quality products. I don't give a damn, who they hire and why â" as long as they don't enslave workers â" and neither should anybody else"
Wrong, wrong, utterly wrong.
Corporations are corporations because of their Corporate Charter which is to be approved by the State Government. Since the State Government is the civil servant of the State's people, there you have everybody having their damn about what a corporation does and how from its very inception.
You expect from corporations "just quality products" and that's all well and good, but others may expect corporations also to support their local societies and to promote their local values or go making business anywhere else and that's also as good a position as your own.
"If we really put Christ into Christmas"
I tried, really I did... but I couldn't find at a discount on Black Friday.
"in practice it's going to be on the politicians' whim for quite some time still."
Ah, my friend, but there's a giant difference, here: SpaceX is a private company, NASA is not.
No, no, I'm not implying anything the like of "government can't do anything right, let's handle it to the private initiative". The difference is that NASA, being a public entity, can't bribe congressmen to ensure its money provision, Musk can.
"they will be producing at around 100,000 cars by end of 2016 and when model 3 hits, should be able to do 150-200k just on model S and X. Combine with an easy rampup of 50-100k M3 just for the first year, and we are looking at over 300k by end of 2017."
Yeah, well, they'll be producing a lot of cars... The question is: will they be able to sell them?
"I love my flat-panel TV but, when it comes time to buy my next one, it will NOT be a "smart" TV."
You will NOT own a "next flat-panel" then, because you won't find "non-smart" TVs at all.
"One side of the argument is that developers should be constantly refreshing their knowledge by reading every source of information available in their spare time, and making their own notes. Then they don't need to read Stack Overflow during the daytime, as the knowledge is in their heads."
No, they shouldn't. They are not payed for 24x7 job dedication, therefore they shouldn't dedicate 24x7 to their jobs. It is up to the employer to either stay with VB6 or move forward, though.
No, it won't because the required "natural selection" process here should be at the managerial level, and that's gonna happen.
Reportedly a new hire gets screened for his knowledge, then his work gets screened by his supervisor so either the code he copy-pastes from stack overflow is good enough and then there's no problem or it's rubbish in which case it is the supervisor/manager the one failing if it ever hits the master branch.
"This is already the case for drugs in many countries [...] They have to be identified by a serial number linked to their place and date of manufacture [...] people in the industry (I are one) [...] This will help to trace back products in case of a recall and avoid losses to companies in case of a mistake. It will also helps in detecting counterfeit or stolen drugs."
Since you are in the industry, tell us the whole story: main concern is not tracking for health purposes; it's not even counterfeits. It is brown market.
Some days ago there was a story about who people in USA pay for prescription drugs quite a bit more than basically everywhere else (and first world countries in general more than third world countries). Tracking is in the best interest of big pharma because it protects it's business: they don't want drugs they sell in India at a heavy discount to appear in the USA market.
"Does the food that you purchase identify the conglomerate which entirely owns the folksy subsidiary whos name appears on the product?"
No. Is that something good for me? Absolutly not. I'd be so much better served if it would be easier to know and track where the money comes from/to. Again, all this fuss about "free market" requires "perfectly informed parties".
"You never had that impression."
Oh, yes, certainly yes! I had so much that impression that I know for certain how far is our market from a free one. I'm not glad for the market to be even more opaque.
"You're merely dragging out a trope of long-disproven economic theory"
Which one? That it's better for me to make my decision in a properly informed fashion than not? When that came disproven?
"in an attempt to require that a food product include a politically-driven disclosure that the producer does not wish to use."
Disclosure, by its very definition, is not something that the producer wants at all. The consumer, on the other hand...
"Ok so they grow faster. Does that mean they eat a proportional amount more in the same amount of time or are they less dense or less healthy then the original fish?"
There is NO WAY they are even worse than current farm-rised ones. They are simply awful.
"If we tell them what is and what is not GM, some people will refuse to buy the GM, even if they are not sure the non-GM is better."
Well, some others will choose to buy the GM, even if they are not sure the GM is better. Stupidity works both ways, you know?
I was under the impression that all this fuss about "free market" required "perfectly informed parties", right?
"It might even end up killing the GM industry"
And favoring the GM industry might even end up killing the Organic Foods industry. Didn't know it was some kind of government mandate to favor a side of an industry against any other.
"Moby Dick was a salmon! If these escape, perhaps it will revive the whaling industry."
No need to grow them up to whale size. A modest shark-size salmon would be OK with me provided they come with head mounted... FRICKIN' LASERS!!!
"But I believe that RAW formats are pretty well understood and widely documented. It's in the camera manufacturer's interest to see these formats well and widely supported. Also, it's just sensor data, ultimately. The data structure is fairly straightforward."
Well, I'm not an expert but I know something about the software industry. On one hand, you don't want your format to be easily accessible if you think you can benefit from it: see office document formats, for instance. I can imagine a big camera vendor, say Canon, reaching agreements with strong graphic manipulation providers, say Adobe, so both benefit from the deal. On the other hand, even the wikipedia page states that at least some proprietary native raw formats are partially encrypted for lock-in purposes.
I don't know what the ultimate reason is here but I do know that requiring an suitable (not sure if jpeg fits the bill here) open format (both in design and implementation) is only good for everybody.
"I'm media director of the newspaper of record in a small country, a news photographer who has contributed to wire services, and a geek"
Ok, then. So, asking to the geek, I understand "raw" means "unprocessed". Does all cameras spit out the same raw format? Or by "raw" you don't really mean "raw" but "whatever happens to be Canon's or Nikon's native format; don't bring me any other than that"? Because if it's the second option you, as a geek, already know that kind of lock in is always a bad advise, don't you?
"Well, the good news is - dihydrogen monoxide is readily avialable to everyone in the developed world"
Even better, these people live in deserts, doesn't they? Now, can you fathom what's really scarce in a desert? We've already win!!!
"To play devil's advocate here"
Play devil's advocate all you want: if you look for an holistic approach the last thing you want is a new different silo.
"Would you want dedicated employees to help it grow"
Maybe yes. Maybe I understand that in order for change to come I need people above and beyond the current "business as usual" level. But if I look for an "holistic approach" I'll integrate them in the structures already in place, that's what "holistic" means to start with.
It's not me but Satya the one that came with the "holistic" concept. Maybe it's a clever approach, maybe it's stupid (if the current way is too entrenched, maybe it's better to start anew with new people and groups and facilities: in the end, you don't change the way people interact by just putting a different name in their presentation cards) but if you say it's going to be holistic, you being the CEO, it's going to be damn holistic or the stupid one is you!
"That's where you're wrong. How do you think CNN gets a hold of all their videos? Internet. They have the money to setup and leverage social media."
What you may not understand it that what you see in CNN is not meant to gain adepts: it is targeted at you.
Yes, it's difficult to grasp that they may use different marketing tactics and channels to reach different goals but, hey, that's the case.
"That's how they intercept would be recruits crossing the borders into the middle east. Social media."
Yes, and police may use hound dogs to track fugitives. This doesn't mean those fugitives either got in prison or escaped from it because of their particular odor.
"Their entire PR and recruiting operation works on twitter, facebook and other social network properties."
Or they are recruiting them in around their mosques and the society they cultivate, whispering here and there, seeding ideas in early teenagers' minds and nurturing them to grow.
But, who knows, maybe it's twitter after all.
"This makes perfect sense"
This makes perfect sense... TWICE!
"CEO Satya Nadella officially announced the launch of a new managed security services group and a new cyber defense operations center â" all part of its new strategy of holistic and integrated security"
In order to attain an holistic approach, Microsoft's CEO creates new separated groups and facilities. Brilliant!
"The whole thing about each gold rush is that for the most part anybody who could scrounge together some very basic equipment could strike out and attempt to make their fortune."
Not exactly. The whole thing about each gold rush is that the ones selling the equipment to the crazy-at-heart everyothers were the ones solidly making a fortune.
Now, humm... where did I leave my hefty stock of multimillion dollar tank-sized underwater robots? These naives are going to learn a lesson or two MWAHAHAHA!
My first think too.
Well, is it another soviet sub or an alien base this time?
"You seem to think that (a) almost everybody will stop working"
No, I don't think so, why you think I do? In fact, what I say is quite the opposite: since after price adjustment you'll need to double your income to make ends meet, you forcibily will need to stay working.
"(b) the banks will print twice the current amount of cash in circulation"
Not needed, since now most money is made of plastic and ones and zeroes, not paper.
"c) you won't increase taxes significantly for companies and higher earners."
Irrelevant, but if done, it's even reassured that prices will go up, since "companies and higher earners" are the owners of the production means in higher percentage.