And a lot of it was't/isn't recycled anyway. There are 'showcase' instances of recycling which almost always get trumpeted around loudly, but almost the only economically feasible recycling is of aluminim. Lots of the rest of it just gets piled somewhere which is probably better as it's at least better sorted. But the money in 'recycling' is still in moving the stuff around, of course (ahem) funded through public subsidies.
We're not technologically adept yet at recoverng the valuable resources being piled into the landfills. But mankind is resourceful. I predict that eventually the landfills that everybody frets about will become one of the most valuable resources we have. It's a long term outlook, to be certain, but the 'mineral rights' to the landfills would actually be a very good investment if they could be obtained now and 'submarined' for a hundred years.
The apps from that 'developer' are things like 'xxx Quotes' where there are quotes collections for many many different people. And slider puzzles where there are many different pictures. And recipie books.
Basically the kind of 'stuff' where the actual codebase is a small container re-released over and over and over with different content.
That's part of the problem in general with the 'little Apps' model Apple has developed. There are separate 'Web Radio Players' for each radio station, leading to thousands of different radio 'apps.'
If you're going to build it in an old Railroad Carriage, you're basically talking about a Mobile Home. Why not just try to find a Trailer Park that will allow you to haul it and dump it on one of their spots. You should be right at home there, because trailer parks with low standards are pretty permissive.
The Marketing guys know what they're selling. And the coders will be able to get it going by the time it ships. Or eventually, anyway, maybe. This is Oracle.
Andreesen at Netscape was doing the same thing. He upfront said that his aim was to defeat Microsoft. They intended the Netscape browser/server platform to get a proprietary lock on the desktop and take over Microsoft's captive market.
Waving a big red flag at the bull is never a good idea, particularly when the bull is as big, aggressive, and ruthless as Microsoft.
Your long winded diatribe that seems to conclude "it has to be massive government spending projects or total decline!" is one of the more ridiculous assertions we've seen here recently. It's just not worth the time to rebut point by point. Carry on, I guess.
I'll note, though, that much of the wealth created in recent time was generated in spite of the efforts of our esteemed political operatives.
I'm sure that if the politicians set up yet another 'Non-profit' the union bosses and lobbyists for varied interests would manage to climb up it's ass and make vigorously certain it would remain permanently and vigorously non-profit.
Most people in the USA aren't going to succeed at anything
There, I cut away all the filler to get at the core of your comment. However, if you measure 'success' as the process of getting the food pellet for pushing the bar in the proper sequence, then yes: people who've been 'trained' through a College sequence are bound to be more successful.
frankly have seen that those without the PhDs and Masters tend to do better.
People with degrees have learned how to obey more promptly. They've demonstrated the ability to perform tasks that others have asked of them, to conform to somebody elses' standards. This is important in a cookie-cutter corporate environment, where the job of 'management' is to root out and remove non-standard creativity. Creative employees who work 'outside the box' are a genuine threat to these organizations, because their skills are an asset that the company can not 'secure' and own.
That's why a degree is so important to the HR types. They're completely and fully part of the Taylorist ideological movement of 'scientific management.' Employees need to be interchangeable parts that can be switched from task to task at random, at the whim of management. Specialized skills need to be captured in 'process documents' so they are the property of The Company not something that belongs to individual employees.
Linux is a kernel. All sorts of OSes have been created that use the Linux kernel. They are commonly referred to as 'distributions.' Many/most of them use the GNU tools as part of that distribution.
More for person xx always means less for some other person yy. Nobody ever 'gets the same amount of money' in any commercial organization. Nobody ever should.
Years ago I once lost the password for my dial-up internet, and it was easier to make a 'modem tap' to recover it than it was to dig into the binaries and extract the encrypted password from the dialup networking glop I used back then. I just soldered on a third 'listen only' tap connector on my modem cable and intercepted the password as it was sent out to the modem.
So what you're saying is that whatever feels good to a person should be their 'moral compass.' That there is no social role for defining our common values. Anything goes, whatever any individual wants.
you will find plenty of people with a similar "i know best how everybody should conduct themselves" mind-set.
I think I found one, right in the person who wrote the comment I am replying to.
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And a lot of it was't/isn't recycled anyway. There are 'showcase' instances of recycling which almost always get trumpeted around loudly, but almost the only economically feasible recycling is of aluminim. Lots of the rest of it just gets piled somewhere which is probably better as it's at least better sorted. But the money in 'recycling' is still in moving the stuff around, of course (ahem) funded through public subsidies.
We're not technologically adept yet at recoverng the valuable resources being piled into the landfills. But mankind is resourceful. I predict that eventually the landfills that everybody frets about will become one of the most valuable resources we have. It's a long term outlook, to be certain, but the 'mineral rights' to the landfills would actually be a very good investment if they could be obtained now and 'submarined' for a hundred years.
The apps from that 'developer' are things like 'xxx Quotes' where there are quotes collections for many many different people. And slider puzzles where there are many different pictures. And recipie books.
Basically the kind of 'stuff' where the actual codebase is a small container re-released over and over and over with different content.
That's part of the problem in general with the 'little Apps' model Apple has developed. There are separate 'Web Radio Players' for each radio station, leading to thousands of different radio 'apps.'
Well, we can all work toward getting that price down, can't we??
Great. You've just designed a 'smart' $28.95 power cord.
If you're going to build it in an old Railroad Carriage, you're basically talking about a Mobile Home. Why not just try to find a Trailer Park that will allow you to haul it and dump it on one of their spots. You should be right at home there, because trailer parks with low standards are pretty permissive.
But we can be assured that you chaps over there have us USians all completely 'figured out,' no?
The breakfast of, well, er, not exactly Champions...
The Marketing guys know what they're selling. And the coders will be able to get it going by the time it ships. Or eventually, anyway, maybe. This is Oracle.
Andreesen at Netscape was doing the same thing. He upfront said that his aim was to defeat Microsoft. They intended the Netscape browser/server platform to get a proprietary lock on the desktop and take over Microsoft's captive market.
Waving a big red flag at the bull is never a good idea, particularly when the bull is as big, aggressive, and ruthless as Microsoft.
But can you rattle off a list of the 'syndromes' you've been diagnosed with?
The 'pipeline over Afghanistan' motive is as debunked as the nonsense about Obama not being a US citizen.
Go ahead and be the left-wing version of a birther if you wish.
They were fugitives from Saudi Arabia, and harbored in Afghanistan.
GP's point appears to be that they are in his mind, rather, uninvited house guests.
I don't happen to agree, but you should try to get his point a little harder.
Your long winded diatribe that seems to conclude "it has to be massive government spending projects or total decline!" is one of the more ridiculous assertions we've seen here recently. It's just not worth the time to rebut point by point. Carry on, I guess.
I'll note, though, that much of the wealth created in recent time was generated in spite of the efforts of our esteemed political operatives.
I'm sure that if the politicians set up yet another 'Non-profit' the union bosses and lobbyists for varied interests would manage to climb up it's ass and make vigorously certain it would remain permanently and vigorously non-profit.
Afghanistan, who harbored the 9-11 terrorists, in not an oil producer. Their main export to the west (their 'cash crop') is Heroin.
Most people in the USA aren't going to succeed at anything
There, I cut away all the filler to get at the core of your comment. However, if you measure 'success' as the process of getting the food pellet for pushing the bar in the proper sequence, then yes: people who've been 'trained' through a College sequence are bound to be more successful.
frankly have seen that those without the PhDs and Masters tend to do better.
People with degrees have learned how to obey more promptly. They've demonstrated the ability to perform tasks that others have asked of them, to conform to somebody elses' standards. This is important in a cookie-cutter corporate environment, where the job of 'management' is to root out and remove non-standard creativity. Creative employees who work 'outside the box' are a genuine threat to these organizations, because their skills are an asset that the company can not 'secure' and own.
That's why a degree is so important to the HR types. They're completely and fully part of the Taylorist ideological movement of 'scientific management.' Employees need to be interchangeable parts that can be switched from task to task at random, at the whim of management. Specialized skills need to be captured in 'process documents' so they are the property of The Company not something that belongs to individual employees.
Linux is a kernel. All sorts of OSes have been created that use the Linux kernel. They are commonly referred to as 'distributions.' Many/most of them use the GNU tools as part of that distribution.
I am just anxious to see if the Justice Department and assorted third parties will whip up a frenzy if it isn't possible to run IE 10 on ChromeOS.
More for person xx always means less for some other person yy. Nobody ever 'gets the same amount of money' in any commercial organization. Nobody ever should.
Years ago I once lost the password for my dial-up internet, and it was easier to make a 'modem tap' to recover it than it was to dig into the binaries and extract the encrypted password from the dialup networking glop I used back then. I just soldered on a third 'listen only' tap connector on my modem cable and intercepted the password as it was sent out to the modem.
So what you're saying is that whatever feels good to a person should be their 'moral compass.' That there is no social role for defining our common values. Anything goes, whatever any individual wants.
you will find plenty of people with a similar "i know best how everybody should conduct themselves" mind-set.
I think I found one, right in the person who wrote the comment I am replying to.
Exposure to nail polish fumes cause cancer, too. Why aren't you fuming with outrage at that receptionist over there painting her nails in public?