So you're saying, to be fair, we need to treat Elon Musk like the operators of Big Oil. Even though most of the American public benefit from the 'subsidies' to traditional energy you cite, whereas Musk's company makes expensive luxury cars for the 1%.
I found out about 9/11 on Slashdot. I was just checking in for a bit before going to work and somebody posted an offtopic comment about a plane crash at the WTC in an unrelated thread.
So what you're saying is people aren't eager to 'pay good money' for a PC. And Apple is making 50% of the profits. Hmmm. I see a salesman in an Apple store with a sad face on....
Most people don't end up with a rubbish PC. And if they do, it was so cheap ($199 for the cheapest 17" laptops at WalMart last time I looked, doesn't a mouse or a few cables from Apple cost nearly half that??) that it's easily replaced.
With Seamonkey you can still rightclick an image and select 'Block images from url.com' and bip! Sorry, web 'designer', you failed to impress. Firefox has gone over to the darkside and doesn't have this feature. It's nice to have the images from adservers blocked so the aren't even loaded.
They just have to stop storing personal content 'on the cloud'. Don't buy into the idea of no local storage. Say NO to devices that don't have an SD slot ( sorry, Apple and Google...)
I don't use skype for a 'chat box.' Really, I hardly 'chat' at all anymore. Did enough of that in the late 80's to early 90's. I use skype as my long distance phone carrier. As long as I'm at home or have a wifi connection, I can call any phone in the continental US at no extra cost. This costs me about $4 a month. It's a nomadic sort of thing, I used to do it with an iPod touch, but now use an unsubscribed Android phone (the iPod touch 'for the rest of us', which even has an SD slot!). When home I make long distance calls on my desktop. We have DSL and a local landline, no long distance carrier.
So when you say 'by teaming up with the major credit card companies' do you mean through an exclusive monopolistic agreement with them? I don't see the credit card companies making that sort of deal, and if they did, we've got a precedent with Apple and the eBook industry, and people are gonna be right on it.
The users are winning, because they're not being roped into a monoculture.
It's much the same as the prosperous early years of the PC clones. It didn't matter what brand PC you used, in fact if your computer had a national brand name on the case it simply meant you had paid too much for it. In that era the best deal in PCs was a shop somewhere in your city putting together clones with parts from many vendors.
Some bird manure is a good thing. It's very easy for there to be too much of a good thing. Like, say, the big manure lagoons around a large-scale hog farm. I doubt if an inch thick layer of bird manure is good for a field.
So you embrace a 'one true scotsman' view of communism?
What's your preferred flavor, then? Trotskyism? Or are you a Spartacist? Or just a dabbler in Fabianism?
Perhaps an 'intellectual marxist' or some other flavor of oxymoron? Check out Henry George. There are countless musty old disciplines of political economy to dabble in. It can make Civil War reenactment look like a tiny hobby by comparison.
Human literacy, and the written word to record knowledge, existed for eons before movable type and printing existed. Gutenberg was just a bandwidth increase.
Also, because we're really never that far ahead of toppling back centuries in our grasp of technology. A few weeks of massive power and infrastructure failure would drag large parts of humanity back centuries, and potientially allow new anti-tech warlords to take control. The average channel surfing prole wouldn't rise to the occasion. He'd be driven to the countryside in a global repeat of Pol Pot's 'drive to the countryside*'
(* which was actually caused by the instantaneous halt of supplies from the US airlifted into the urban centers of Cambodia, where the former agrarian population had been driven by US bombing campaigns.)
Actually things have spun up. There are many more revolutions than in the past. Consider music recording: the norm used to be 33-1/3 revolutions per minute. With CDs it went beyond hundreds of RPM. Now, with hard disk technology, thousands of RPM.
It's all just spinning in place, yes, but let's be real: even the most earnest revolutionary, standing at the lit table, really is mainly aiming to get the pants off a few freshmen coeds.
Communists sought to monopolize and control typewriters, mimeograph machines, faxes, and photocopiers. More important than their need to control the means to production, they strove to have complete control over the means to communicate.
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To be more correct, the car's battery probably requires 8000 cells.
But now I'm being all technical and stuff, and slashdot has changed: it's a website for IT types.
So you're saying, to be fair, we need to treat Elon Musk like the operators of Big Oil. Even though most of the American public benefit from the 'subsidies' to traditional energy you cite, whereas Musk's company makes expensive luxury cars for the 1%.
I'm glad we can be clear on that.
I thought a Mini Cooper was a barrel making machine made by Mini Motors. Where does 'small' enter into it?
I found out about 9/11 on Slashdot. I was just checking in for a bit before going to work and somebody posted an offtopic comment about a plane crash at the WTC in an unrelated thread.
The 'cathederal' being criticised in Raymond's essay was gnu emacs.
It's weird how many people don't seem to know this.
So what you're saying is people aren't eager to 'pay good money' for a PC. And Apple is making 50% of the profits. Hmmm. I see a salesman in an Apple store with a sad face on....
Most people don't end up with a rubbish PC. And if they do, it was so cheap ($199 for the cheapest 17" laptops at WalMart last time I looked, doesn't a mouse or a few cables from Apple cost nearly half that??) that it's easily replaced.
With Seamonkey you can still rightclick an image and select 'Block images from url.com' and bip! Sorry, web 'designer', you failed to impress. Firefox has gone over to the darkside and doesn't have this feature. It's nice to have the images from adservers blocked so the aren't even loaded.
They just have to stop storing personal content 'on the cloud'. Don't buy into the idea of no local storage. Say NO to devices that don't have an SD slot ( sorry, Apple and Google...)
32g sd cards are really cheap now.
I don't use skype for a 'chat box.' Really, I hardly 'chat' at all anymore. Did enough of that in the late 80's to early 90's. I use skype as my long distance phone carrier. As long as I'm at home or have a wifi connection, I can call any phone in the continental US at no extra cost. This costs me about $4 a month. It's a nomadic sort of thing, I used to do it with an iPod touch, but now use an unsubscribed Android phone (the iPod touch 'for the rest of us', which even has an SD slot!). When home I make long distance calls on my desktop. We have DSL and a local landline, no long distance carrier.
So this would never replace skype for me.
So when you say 'by teaming up with the major credit card companies' do you mean through an exclusive monopolistic agreement with them? I don't see the credit card companies making that sort of deal, and if they did, we've got a precedent with Apple and the eBook industry, and people are gonna be right on it.
I have an SE/30 with NetBSD on it.
The users are winning, because they're not being roped into a monoculture.
It's much the same as the prosperous early years of the PC clones. It didn't matter what brand PC you used, in fact if your computer had a national brand name on the case it simply meant you had paid too much for it. In that era the best deal in PCs was a shop somewhere in your city putting together clones with parts from many vendors.
We should try to reintroduce the giant sloths, which were driven to extinction by the earlier human settlers to North America.
More like New Yorkers will be thrilled when there's no lettuce or carrots because of what the pigeons did to the farmers' fields.
Some bird manure is a good thing. It's very easy for there to be too much of a good thing. Like, say, the big manure lagoons around a large-scale hog farm. I doubt if an inch thick layer of bird manure is good for a field.
So we finally restore the American Chestnut. Then passenger pigeons descend on the trees like locusts and decimate them.
The passenger pigeons WERE locust-like in the era before their extinction. It was a real problem for people wanting to farm.
There are Republicans under you bed when you sleep at night.
The orthodox jews in the US are not in charge of the government. They don't force their views on the whole population.
Quit being ridiculous.
So you embrace a 'one true scotsman' view of communism?
What's your preferred flavor, then? Trotskyism? Or are you a Spartacist? Or just a dabbler in Fabianism?
Perhaps an 'intellectual marxist' or some other flavor of oxymoron? Check out Henry George. There are countless musty old disciplines of political economy to dabble in. It can make Civil War reenactment look like a tiny hobby by comparison.
Human literacy, and the written word to record knowledge, existed for eons before movable type and printing existed. Gutenberg was just a bandwidth increase.
Also, because we're really never that far ahead of toppling back centuries in our grasp of technology. A few weeks of massive power and infrastructure failure would drag large parts of humanity back centuries, and potientially allow new anti-tech warlords to take control. The average channel surfing prole wouldn't rise to the occasion. He'd be driven to the countryside in a global repeat of Pol Pot's 'drive to the countryside*'
(* which was actually caused by the instantaneous halt of supplies from the US airlifted into the urban centers of Cambodia, where the former agrarian population had been driven by US bombing campaigns.)
Actually things have spun up. There are many more revolutions than in the past. Consider music recording: the norm used to be 33-1/3 revolutions per minute. With CDs it went beyond hundreds of RPM. Now, with hard disk technology, thousands of RPM.
It's all just spinning in place, yes, but let's be real: even the most earnest revolutionary, standing at the lit table, really is mainly aiming to get the pants off a few freshmen coeds.
Communists sought to monopolize and control typewriters, mimeograph machines, faxes, and photocopiers. More important than their need to control the means to production, they strove to have complete control over the means to communicate.
Apple has really good brand management. Their bullet points are always gleaming, to be certain.
Why, though, is there always the need for some to seemingly worship the brand? Could it be astroturf?
People who use terms like 'hater' are cult members. It's sort of creepy, be it scientologists, moonies, or followers of other cultish movements.
Get over it. Boogeyman 'samsung' isn't out to get your device, just like 'IBM' wasn't out to get your mac.