I think you are incorrect by implying that nobody wants a subscription model, just as it is wrong to assume that everyone wants it. Many subscriptions are worth it so long as you plan to upgrade every release, and sometimes even if you don't. They tend to come with perks like support and cloud management.
But, I think that companies who offer subscriptions should offer both, and let the customer decide. And I think you should have a perpetual license to any version you download during the subscription period.
So that makes sense, except I'm not sure about the ~10 km/s delta-V. Isn't that almost literally the same thing as getting in your car, shooting a lasso out of a gun in the path of a gigantic mountain passing by ten times faster than a bullet, and shouting "Hey... watch this!"?
The first link was a rant by twitter, someone who is so obsessed with Microsoft that most of his comments are about them. In that same post, he created a list of Slashdot accounts he declared to be paid Microsoft shills, based on evidence such as
Likewise in windows you can change the background color and text color of the BSOD (or at least you could uder 98, I haven't had the desire to play around with it under 2000 / XP since they crash much less frequently).
My Windows Server 2003 desktop (YES I USE IT AS A DESKTOP!) is perfectly stable and has yet to give me one single hiccup.
CmdrTaco is gay
Shut up, Twitter.
(the last comment was made after it was discovered that "twitter" had created and was using extra./ accounts)
And based on your posting style, I might assume you and he were the same person.
No, I agree with your original statement. I was just pointing out the contradiction in the post by raymorris. (And to be clear, it's not a contradiction in logic but a contradiction between ideal and reality.)
Folks here compared the uptake of Windows 8 (an OS which was not free to manufacturers or to people who upgraded) to Android (an OS that is free). I'm not allowed to make a similar comparison?
Not sure where you got your numbers, but you appear to be comparing total nuclear deaths to rate of pollution deaths. What is the rate of nuclear deaths?
5% adoption in one month is actually pretty fantastic, for such an immense market that is filled with enterprise users (whose IT departments need to train and prepare for rollout, and who do not get the upgrade for free).
For perspective, it took Apple around 3 years to sell a total of 75 million iPhones, and it was deemed a resounding success much earlier than that.
This is one of the reasons Microsoft is building up its APPX package model to be compatible with Win32 apps (Project Centennial) in addition to the new universal apps which already use APPX.
The program will run in an virtualized/isolated environment based on App-V that keeps the program's files and registry keys separate from the rest of the system (even though the app thinks it is writing to real disk and registry locations). Install and uninstall works just like with universal apps, and when you uninstall the APPX package the system will clean up all the program's isolated files and registry edits.
I was under the impression that a bitcoin bank would secure its funds by rolling its bitcoins by performing transactions often (even if the transactions are simple payments to self). That way once someone gains access to the private key data, transactions would have been performed that make the stolen data obsolete.
But, I'm probably mistaken... I'd love to hear why this doesn't happen, or why it didn't work if it was in place at MtGox.
In any case, deposit insurance is a minimum requirement for any funds I supply to a bank.
These choices are personal, but not all are adequately informed. It's a problem when someone with a lot of money gets to decide the information which people will see when making such choices. That's an area that can be improved.
Another problem with your logic is when you say people shouldn't go crying when their bad choices produce undesired results, but those results affect people who made informed choices.
You fail to consider that there is a vast distance between racism and slavery. If I nod my head at a random white person but don't do the same to a random black person, I'm being racist. If I whip a person for not performing the hard labor that I have required of him without compensation, that is slavery.
Don't you think there is at least the possibility that some of those 300,000 white men died because they didn't believe that slavery was good, but also didn't necessarily find much common ground with black people in general?
You are naive if you believe that companies spend billions of dollars each year on something that doesn't work. Just because people can be strong-willed enough to completely ignore all influence that advertisements carry, doesn't mean they actually are.
It is not about requiring votes from employees. It is about influencing voters at large. The number political ad impressions is generally much larger than the number of people who work for the company whose money pays for the ad.
An impression doesn't usually make a huge difference... but it does make an amount of difference that is measurably as large or larger than "one bit".
Or, it's you who is rewriting history. You're focusing on the fact that the South supported using federal power to back the Fugitive Slave Clause in the Constitution, and then to expand federal regulation of slavery via the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
But slavery was pretty much the only case where the South was for federal intervention. In practically every other matter, they favored local rights over federal regulation. The Civil War was about slavery, not states' rights. But because the North won, they got to abolish slavery and weaken states' rights at the same time.
As a friend often tells me, before the Civil War people would say "the United States are", and since the war they say "the United States is".
Neither is forming conclusions when comparing apples and oranges.
You compare the raw numbers of intentional car crashes to intentional plane crashes, but the number of all car crashes is much greater than the number of all plane crashes. And the number of car trips is much greater than the number of plane trips.
It might have been fine to compare percentages, but not raw numbers.
I'm dismayed that in CS that the academic community is putting so much emphasis on replication and not enough on robust reproducibility.
From my experience, the academic community puts no emphasis on either. I think it would be neat to study a paper and attempt to reproduce the results, but that doesn't get me a journal paper in today's academic landscape.
But your suggestion means they have to somehow signal to the system that I bought $28 in eligible food items, $15 in eligible school supplies, and $5 in ineligible items. But because there was only $27 worth of food items left on the card, it has to notify me that the actual total out of my other account will be $6. The back end would have to know what category each item is and charge it against a separate but linked account appropriate to that category, but as one complex transaction, so it will have to add a whole separate stage where it kicks back when one of the accounts is short and the general account is to be charged the difference.
Yes. If you can't find software developers that can handle those relatively straightfoward rules, then you need to hire different software developers. Grocery store chains already handle much more complex rules... they deal with EBT/SNAP as well as national sales, regional sales, local sales, store coupons, manufacturer coupons, digital app sales, inventory management, just to name some of the systems I can think of.
And like you said, this part isn't even handled by the merchant, it's handled by the payment processor. If they want to offer combined cards as options, that's up to them... and they already know how to handle those concepts too (EBT is already a combined card that separates SNAP and TANF).
Anyway, I'm done with this long conversation. But I do appreciate having it; it made me research these things more than I had before, and now I feel even stronger that my plan is a good one. I hope that your plan is something we can eventually achieve, but I don't see how our society would put so much funding (it could double or even triple the revenue required at the federal level) behind a program that can still result in starving children, men and women living in cardboard boxes, and people who are no further out of their financial woes than today. At least consider my program a step in the direction of yours. Nice talking with you.
We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done. And you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.
Only food items are allowed to be purchased with SNAP funds today. Grocery stores and superstores (Walmart, Target, etc.) are the ones that would be most affected, but due to existing policies they are also the ones that are already setup for this.
As for how to present all of that on a POS, that's up to the merchant.
And zeroed out any sort of transaction privacy. Normally, charges are not itemized when a charge is being authorized.
Fine, have your entitlement funds on one card and bank account or credit account on another. That's the default way it would work anyway. Anything else would be additional options and flexibility offered by the payment processor.
You keep acting like this system is some huge micromanagement nightmare, but it really isn't. And it gets people the help they need. And it builds up society as a whole. I expected to get the third degree from conservatives who wouldn't fathom taking this much money from the rich, but I'm not sure why someone who is on the liberal side as yourself would push back on this so hard, and keep pushing and pushing and pushing.
And yet, if he doesn't want to leave money on the table (who does), he'll have to figure out how much of what he can buy on that card before whipping out his other card.
I can see this being much more flexible. The EBT funds could be put on his regular card and used first. Or the EBT card could be used, drawing funds beyond the allotment from another specified credit or bank account.
For that matter, some people might like seeing when their EBT funds are used up so they know in advance how much will be taken from their normal account. I don't see why all of these options can't exist for those who want them.
Would it be a problem if he gives his assistant his card and asks her to get him a coffee?
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For what it's worth, they have since stated that they are listening.
I think you are incorrect by implying that nobody wants a subscription model, just as it is wrong to assume that everyone wants it. Many subscriptions are worth it so long as you plan to upgrade every release, and sometimes even if you don't. They tend to come with perks like support and cloud management.
But, I think that companies who offer subscriptions should offer both, and let the customer decide. And I think you should have a perpetual license to any version you download during the subscription period.
So that makes sense, except I'm not sure about the ~10 km/s delta-V. Isn't that almost literally the same thing as getting in your car, shooting a lasso out of a gun in the path of a gigantic mountain passing by ten times faster than a bullet, and shouting "Hey... watch this!"?
But in fairness, the one she unfairly punished was a problem student and did that kind of thing.
No... in "fairness", the girls who threw the object were the problem students. Let the troublemaker boy get punished for his own crimes.
So, who is paying you?
The first link was a rant by twitter, someone who is so obsessed with Microsoft that most of his comments are about them. In that same post, he created a list of Slashdot accounts he declared to be paid Microsoft shills, based on evidence such as
Likewise in windows you can change the background color and text color of the BSOD (or at least you could uder 98, I haven't had the desire to play around with it under 2000 / XP since they crash much less frequently).
My Windows Server 2003 desktop (YES I USE IT AS A DESKTOP!) is perfectly stable and has yet to give me one single hiccup.
CmdrTaco is gay
Shut up, Twitter.
(the last comment was made after it was discovered that "twitter" had created and was using extra ./ accounts)
And based on your posting style, I might assume you and he were the same person.
No, I agree with your original statement. I was just pointing out the contradiction in the post by raymorris. (And to be clear, it's not a contradiction in logic but a contradiction between ideal and reality.)
Yet in the same comment, he's saying that making it opt-out is the reason it died.
Folks here compared the uptake of Windows 8 (an OS which was not free to manufacturers or to people who upgraded) to Android (an OS that is free). I'm not allowed to make a similar comparison?
Not sure where you got your numbers, but you appear to be comparing total nuclear deaths to rate of pollution deaths. What is the rate of nuclear deaths?
5% adoption in one month is actually pretty fantastic, for such an immense market that is filled with enterprise users (whose IT departments need to train and prepare for rollout, and who do not get the upgrade for free).
For perspective, it took Apple around 3 years to sell a total of 75 million iPhones, and it was deemed a resounding success much earlier than that.
This is one of the reasons Microsoft is building up its APPX package model to be compatible with Win32 apps (Project Centennial) in addition to the new universal apps which already use APPX.
The program will run in an virtualized/isolated environment based on App-V that keeps the program's files and registry keys separate from the rest of the system (even though the app thinks it is writing to real disk and registry locations). Install and uninstall works just like with universal apps, and when you uninstall the APPX package the system will clean up all the program's isolated files and registry edits.
I was under the impression that a bitcoin bank would secure its funds by rolling its bitcoins by performing transactions often (even if the transactions are simple payments to self). That way once someone gains access to the private key data, transactions would have been performed that make the stolen data obsolete.
But, I'm probably mistaken... I'd love to hear why this doesn't happen, or why it didn't work if it was in place at MtGox.
In any case, deposit insurance is a minimum requirement for any funds I supply to a bank.
These choices are personal, but not all are adequately informed. It's a problem when someone with a lot of money gets to decide the information which people will see when making such choices. That's an area that can be improved.
You misunderstand. How should we as a society create this control over such desires?
We can't put it on the people. You can't expect people, through self-control, curb their desires not to self-control...
Controlling the desire is where the effort needs to be directed.
Ok, so how would we do that?
Here:
The money should not make one bit of difference.
Another problem with your logic is when you say people shouldn't go crying when their bad choices produce undesired results, but those results affect people who made informed choices.
You fail to consider that there is a vast distance between racism and slavery. If I nod my head at a random white person but don't do the same to a random black person, I'm being racist. If I whip a person for not performing the hard labor that I have required of him without compensation, that is slavery.
Don't you think there is at least the possibility that some of those 300,000 white men died because they didn't believe that slavery was good, but also didn't necessarily find much common ground with black people in general?
You are naive if you believe that companies spend billions of dollars each year on something that doesn't work. Just because people can be strong-willed enough to completely ignore all influence that advertisements carry, doesn't mean they actually are.
It is not about requiring votes from employees. It is about influencing voters at large. The number political ad impressions is generally much larger than the number of people who work for the company whose money pays for the ad.
An impression doesn't usually make a huge difference... but it does make an amount of difference that is measurably as large or larger than "one bit".
Or, it's you who is rewriting history. You're focusing on the fact that the South supported using federal power to back the Fugitive Slave Clause in the Constitution, and then to expand federal regulation of slavery via the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
But slavery was pretty much the only case where the South was for federal intervention. In practically every other matter, they favored local rights over federal regulation. The Civil War was about slavery, not states' rights. But because the North won, they got to abolish slavery and weaken states' rights at the same time.
As a friend often tells me, before the Civil War people would say "the United States are", and since the war they say "the United States is".
Neither is forming conclusions when comparing apples and oranges.
You compare the raw numbers of intentional car crashes to intentional plane crashes, but the number of all car crashes is much greater than the number of all plane crashes. And the number of car trips is much greater than the number of plane trips.
It might have been fine to compare percentages, but not raw numbers.
I'm dismayed that in CS that the academic community is putting so much emphasis on replication and not enough on robust reproducibility.
From my experience, the academic community puts no emphasis on either. I think it would be neat to study a paper and attempt to reproduce the results, but that doesn't get me a journal paper in today's academic landscape.
But your suggestion means they have to somehow signal to the system that I bought $28 in eligible food items, $15 in eligible school supplies, and $5 in ineligible items. But because there was only $27 worth of food items left on the card, it has to notify me that the actual total out of my other account will be $6. The back end would have to know what category each item is and charge it against a separate but linked account appropriate to that category, but as one complex transaction, so it will have to add a whole separate stage where it kicks back when one of the accounts is short and the general account is to be charged the difference.
Yes. If you can't find software developers that can handle those relatively straightfoward rules, then you need to hire different software developers. Grocery store chains already handle much more complex rules... they deal with EBT/SNAP as well as national sales, regional sales, local sales, store coupons, manufacturer coupons, digital app sales, inventory management, just to name some of the systems I can think of.
And like you said, this part isn't even handled by the merchant, it's handled by the payment processor. If they want to offer combined cards as options, that's up to them... and they already know how to handle those concepts too (EBT is already a combined card that separates SNAP and TANF).
Anyway, I'm done with this long conversation. But I do appreciate having it; it made me research these things more than I had before, and now I feel even stronger that my plan is a good one. I hope that your plan is something we can eventually achieve, but I don't see how our society would put so much funding (it could double or even triple the revenue required at the federal level) behind a program that can still result in starving children, men and women living in cardboard boxes, and people who are no further out of their financial woes than today. At least consider my program a step in the direction of yours. Nice talking with you.
We do what we must
because we can
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying
over every mistake.
You just keep on trying
'til you run out of cake.
And the science gets done.
And you make a neat gun
for the people who are
still alive.
Only food items are allowed to be purchased with SNAP funds today. Grocery stores and superstores (Walmart, Target, etc.) are the ones that would be most affected, but due to existing policies they are also the ones that are already setup for this.
As for how to present all of that on a POS, that's up to the merchant.
And zeroed out any sort of transaction privacy. Normally, charges are not itemized when a charge is being authorized.
Fine, have your entitlement funds on one card and bank account or credit account on another. That's the default way it would work anyway. Anything else would be additional options and flexibility offered by the payment processor.
You keep acting like this system is some huge micromanagement nightmare, but it really isn't. And it gets people the help they need. And it builds up society as a whole. I expected to get the third degree from conservatives who wouldn't fathom taking this much money from the rich, but I'm not sure why someone who is on the liberal side as yourself would push back on this so hard, and keep pushing and pushing and pushing.
And yet, if he doesn't want to leave money on the table (who does), he'll have to figure out how much of what he can buy on that card before whipping out his other card.
I can see this being much more flexible. The EBT funds could be put on his regular card and used first. Or the EBT card could be used, drawing funds beyond the allotment from another specified credit or bank account.
For that matter, some people might like seeing when their EBT funds are used up so they know in advance how much will be taken from their normal account. I don't see why all of these options can't exist for those who want them.
Would it be a problem if he gives his assistant his card and asks her to get him a coffee?
I don't think so.