Strawman..... of course prices do not depend 'solely' on speculation, but that part of the market does have a significant, potentially even dominant, effect.
Via the market? Companies selling their product to other companies that use it, rather then speculators inserting themselves between buyer and seller.
Speculation pulls money out of a market and raises prices without adding value simply because people with enough resources are able to force getting their 'share' of whatever is going on. Markets do just fine without speculation, in fact they generally do better with lower prices and greater stability... but fewer useless people getting very wealthy for no other reason then already being wealthy.
The person has a point. Both cases are attempting to force a manufacturer to play by the OS developer's rules rather then their own. People tend to forget that forcing people to open up is still forcing, the fact that it benefits them personally does not change this.
Linux is great if your are compiling from source or installing from rpm/deb, but everything is so heavily versioned that writing apps that 'just work' is nearly impossible across any significant range of versions. Developing binary packages for Linux is an exercise in frustration and I can not blame companies from not wanting to invest in doing it. The distribution and kernel developers have stated many times that they do not really think backward compatibility of binaries is something that should be focused on so they don't.
I use and love linux, but I have no delusions about its deficicines from a developer/user standpoint.
Unfortunately Apple learned a valuable lesson from those years... when consumers have easy access to modify their systems, they end up blaming the company when their own mods go awry in ways they don't understand. I used to field reports that pretty much came down to that... 'but I used a standard harddrive, it should work find!' 'but I used an off the self monitor! your stuff sucks!'. Not only is it frustrating but it ends up with people giving you a bad image to their friends since they tend to leave off the part about how THEY modified and broke it.. nope, it becomes the manufacturer's fault for not accepting any random 3rd party component that they never tested...
That was my thought too. Sounds like someone from another field rediscovering historial linguistics but not knowing enough about what is already known to put it into terms used by the community.
I don't know about now, but Microsoft used to have a pretty impressive skunkworks going on. Lots of bright people working on innovative technology.. though it never seemed to cross over to their actual products. I remember speculation that it was just a way to keep such people out of the hands of competition, kinda like paying farmers to not farm.... it isn't because you want a bunch of dirt, you just want less food on the market....
I tried. I ended up wanting to punch the speaker. Then I went to his website to see if he had a better summary there, and wanted to punch the speaker. This person seems to be someone more interested in looking insightful then clearly communicating. He will probably do well as a motivational speaker or manager, but I would not want him anywhere near an engineering project.
TBH - at an hour of talking, no. A summary or argument with diagrams would be worth looking at, but a video? I am actually getting tired of this fad of posting videos to make a case. Very inefficient and can usually be summed up in something that only takes 10 minutes to read. I get the feeling the people who do things pieces just like hearing their own voice....
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Agreed. I am getting a bit tired of things moving to video only. Videos are hard to skim or speed-read, you have to absorb things at the pace the speaker feels like moving at, which is usually pretty slow/inefficient.
That tends to be the problem with a lot of these 'rethink programming' ideas. They tend to come from people who are thinking in very specific domains and believe that their domain is the only one that matters or that its lessons apply everywhere. It gets very frustrating, esp if your domain is one that is not one of the 'hot' fields that everyone is paying attention to.
I would put the lack of a card slot pretty high on its list of shortcoming. Form factor is not something all that important to me, I use cameras to take pictures, not be fashion statements.
Though it does look like a typical machine vision camera, so I am guessing that is the type they modeled the case off of.
Actually one of the things they did was hand prototypes off to professional photographers to see what they would do. Some where rather pretty, but still in the 'tech demo' direction. Sadly I think a lot of the 'twue photogs' are falling over themselves to say how gimicky the tech is, so it will probably be the rank and file bored amateur playing with it that will really produce potentially interesting images.
*nods* most of the second tests are only done at the suspect's personal expense. Given how notoriously unreliable breathalyzers are at the best of time, it is yet another example of 'how much justice can you afford'.
Actually, the US prison system was built around the idea of rehabilitation.. so prison is not supposed to be unpleasant, it is supposed to either keep dangerous people out of the public OR make people less dangerous so they can be re-integrated.
As with all things, it is in the balance. A pure capitalist system and pure socialist one are equally dysfunctional, though pure capitalist ones actually do come out worse and historically are much less stable then their socialist counterparts. This is actually why we have so many examples of socialist countries in the world and very few capitalist ones, the socialist ones might not work well but they do work.. the capitalist ones tend to explode within a few decades or collapse into 3rd world expletive-holes.. or more commonly wealth quickly concentrates enough that a small group starts acting as a defacto economic planner anyway, so it decays into a hybrid system anyway.
Besides the cold war, it was also being fueled by the GI Bill which really gave us an explosion of skilled/educated workers who normally would not have been available to industry. Now however we are cutting back on such educational investment under the idea that the 'market' will somehow get the same results.
Pretty much. The only thing I have seen come out of new languages for a decade now is more syntactical sugar for automating things (which is not necessarily a bad thing) and lots of re-inventing the wheel.
On the other hand, something that has been changing, and I am not sure if this is really for the better, is languages are bit by bit trying to include 'everything'... if language A has feature X and language B has feature Y, slowly A is getting Y and B is getting X, making languages more and more similar with the only real difference being stylistic and, more importantly, inability to run each other's code. Which is something I am finding increasingly frustrating since we are getting more and more languages, but fewer and fewer of them have ways to interact at a binary (as opposed to some kind of bridge) way... resulting in an increasing number of single-language ghettos. (I admit, part of my grrr there has to do with the difficulty of using code written in a non-web language in a web language).
Sad thing is, you are probably not far off. As far as I can tell, the difference between a good and bad language tends to be 'what are the cool kids using?'.. then most others take their cues from there. I am always amazed at just how social 'solitary' technology use tends to be.
Because Americans are both passionate (a good and bad thing) and pretty bloodthirsty when it comes to punishment. Many people get a thrill out of the idea of someone getting tortured and/or raped, but we have a nice social 'out' that if the person is a 'bad guy' then it is ethically OK and there is nothing wrong with the person salivating at the idea. The whole 'it is not evil if your victim is evil!' is very convient.
Ahm, actually it is a known problem in the US. Law enforcement was under incredible pressure to get results in 'finding terrorism' so they moved further and further into entrapment, essentially creating harmless (as in, they lacked resources, skills, or competency to be an actual threat) terrorists who they then arrested and held up as an example of their effectiveness and the utility of the new laws. So the person was a bit extreme but, like police planting drugs to meet their quotas, it does happen and is a legitimate issue.
Sadly, it really comes down to who you work for rather then what you are doing. If lulzsec was doing illegal work for politicians or government they would be fine. For that matter if they were doing it for profit to help a company that contracted them they would probably just get a slap on the wrist since many seem to feel that activism is less ethical then profit.. or more accurately, the more money you make the more acceptable it is.
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Strawman..... of course prices do not depend 'solely' on speculation, but that part of the market does have a significant, potentially even dominant, effect.
Via the market? Companies selling their product to other companies that use it, rather then speculators inserting themselves between buyer and seller.
Speculation pulls money out of a market and raises prices without adding value simply because people with enough resources are able to force getting their 'share' of whatever is going on. Markets do just fine without speculation, in fact they generally do better with lower prices and greater stability... but fewer useless people getting very wealthy for no other reason then already being wealthy.
The person has a point. Both cases are attempting to force a manufacturer to play by the OS developer's rules rather then their own. People tend to forget that forcing people to open up is still forcing, the fact that it benefits them personally does not change this.
Linux is great if your are compiling from source or installing from rpm/deb, but everything is so heavily versioned that writing apps that 'just work' is nearly impossible across any significant range of versions. Developing binary packages for Linux is an exercise in frustration and I can not blame companies from not wanting to invest in doing it. The distribution and kernel developers have stated many times that they do not really think backward compatibility of binaries is something that should be focused on so they don't.
I use and love linux, but I have no delusions about its deficicines from a developer/user standpoint.
Unfortunately Apple learned a valuable lesson from those years... when consumers have easy access to modify their systems, they end up blaming the company when their own mods go awry in ways they don't understand. I used to field reports that pretty much came down to that... 'but I used a standard harddrive, it should work find!' 'but I used an off the self monitor! your stuff sucks!'. Not only is it frustrating but it ends up with people giving you a bad image to their friends since they tend to leave off the part about how THEY modified and broke it.. nope, it becomes the manufacturer's fault for not accepting any random 3rd party component that they never tested...
That was my thought too. Sounds like someone from another field rediscovering historial linguistics but not knowing enough about what is already known to put it into terms used by the community.
DDoS generally qualify as a slight inconvenience, esp against big sites and agencies.
I don't know about now, but Microsoft used to have a pretty impressive skunkworks going on. Lots of bright people working on innovative technology.. though it never seemed to cross over to their actual products. I remember speculation that it was just a way to keep such people out of the hands of competition, kinda like paying farmers to not farm.... it isn't because you want a bunch of dirt, you just want less food on the market....
I tried. I ended up wanting to punch the speaker. Then I went to his website to see if he had a better summary there, and wanted to punch the speaker. This person seems to be someone more interested in looking insightful then clearly communicating. He will probably do well as a motivational speaker or manager, but I would not want him anywhere near an engineering project.
TBH - at an hour of talking, no. A summary or argument with diagrams would be worth looking at, but a video? I am actually getting tired of this fad of posting videos to make a case. Very inefficient and can usually be summed up in something that only takes 10 minutes to read. I get the feeling the people who do things pieces just like hearing their own voice....
Agreed. I am getting a bit tired of things moving to video only. Videos are hard to skim or speed-read, you have to absorb things at the pace the speaker feels like moving at, which is usually pretty slow/inefficient.
That tends to be the problem with a lot of these 'rethink programming' ideas. They tend to come from people who are thinking in very specific domains and believe that their domain is the only one that matters or that its lessons apply everywhere. It gets very frustrating, esp if your domain is one that is not one of the 'hot' fields that everyone is paying attention to.
I would put the lack of a card slot pretty high on its list of shortcoming. Form factor is not something all that important to me, I use cameras to take pictures, not be fashion statements.
Though it does look like a typical machine vision camera, so I am guessing that is the type they modeled the case off of.
Actually one of the things they did was hand prototypes off to professional photographers to see what they would do. Some where rather pretty, but still in the 'tech demo' direction. Sadly I think a lot of the 'twue photogs' are falling over themselves to say how gimicky the tech is, so it will probably be the rank and file bored amateur playing with it that will really produce potentially interesting images.
Odd, since it tends to be conservative groups who campaign for zero tolerance and lack of nuance, not to mention being punishment heavy in general.
*nods* most of the second tests are only done at the suspect's personal expense. Given how notoriously unreliable breathalyzers are at the best of time, it is yet another example of 'how much justice can you afford'.
Actually, the US prison system was built around the idea of rehabilitation.. so prison is not supposed to be unpleasant, it is supposed to either keep dangerous people out of the public OR make people less dangerous so they can be re-integrated.
As with all things, it is in the balance. A pure capitalist system and pure socialist one are equally dysfunctional, though pure capitalist ones actually do come out worse and historically are much less stable then their socialist counterparts. This is actually why we have so many examples of socialist countries in the world and very few capitalist ones, the socialist ones might not work well but they do work.. the capitalist ones tend to explode within a few decades or collapse into 3rd world expletive-holes.. or more commonly wealth quickly concentrates enough that a small group starts acting as a defacto economic planner anyway, so it decays into a hybrid system anyway.
Besides the cold war, it was also being fueled by the GI Bill which really gave us an explosion of skilled/educated workers who normally would not have been available to industry. Now however we are cutting back on such educational investment under the idea that the 'market' will somehow get the same results.
Big talk for someone typing on a computer, which exists because of engineers striving and preforming 'engineering stunts'.
Pretty much. The only thing I have seen come out of new languages for a decade now is more syntactical sugar for automating things (which is not necessarily a bad thing) and lots of re-inventing the wheel.
On the other hand, something that has been changing, and I am not sure if this is really for the better, is languages are bit by bit trying to include 'everything'... if language A has feature X and language B has feature Y, slowly A is getting Y and B is getting X, making languages more and more similar with the only real difference being stylistic and, more importantly, inability to run each other's code. Which is something I am finding increasingly frustrating since we are getting more and more languages, but fewer and fewer of them have ways to interact at a binary (as opposed to some kind of bridge) way... resulting in an increasing number of single-language ghettos. (I admit, part of my grrr there has to do with the difficulty of using code written in a non-web language in a web language).
Sad thing is, you are probably not far off. As far as I can tell, the difference between a good and bad language tends to be 'what are the cool kids using?'.. then most others take their cues from there. I am always amazed at just how social 'solitary' technology use tends to be.
Because Americans are both passionate (a good and bad thing) and pretty bloodthirsty when it comes to punishment. Many people get a thrill out of the idea of someone getting tortured and/or raped, but we have a nice social 'out' that if the person is a 'bad guy' then it is ethically OK and there is nothing wrong with the person salivating at the idea. The whole 'it is not evil if your victim is evil!' is very convient.
Ahm, actually it is a known problem in the US. Law enforcement was under incredible pressure to get results in 'finding terrorism' so they moved further and further into entrapment, essentially creating harmless (as in, they lacked resources, skills, or competency to be an actual threat) terrorists who they then arrested and held up as an example of their effectiveness and the utility of the new laws. So the person was a bit extreme but, like police planting drugs to meet their quotas, it does happen and is a legitimate issue.
Sadly, it really comes down to who you work for rather then what you are doing. If lulzsec was doing illegal work for politicians or government they would be fine. For that matter if they were doing it for profit to help a company that contracted them they would probably just get a slap on the wrist since many seem to feel that activism is less ethical then profit.. or more accurately, the more money you make the more acceptable it is.