"I would rather not wait" is really the mentality I was talking about when I said I don't feel the same way anymore. Clearly some people are willing to pay premium prices to get media first. I don't value most movies and television that highly so I'm not willing to pay a premium. It sounds like you want the premium service for the bargain bin price. I don't buy the "try before you buy" argument either since there's clearly a huge market of people willing to pay the premium price for early access to media without "trying before they buy." So you have a data cap during the day.. aren't you usually at work/school during the day? Are there not options for which you could pay additional money for additional bandwidth? Is iTunes available in your country? You can buy tons of shows/movies from that service. Can you not purchase season DVDs in your country of popular American shows?
I used to feel the same way. Then I realized that the difference between watching a particular movie RIGHT NOW vs. in a few weeks is really negligible. A couple times a year there's a movie I want to see in all it's giant screen surround sound glory and I pay $5 to see it at the local mom and pop matinee. Like the GPP I really just can't be bothered to sift around shady websites to find content anymore. I'm happy to pay $5-10/mo to have some decent content streamed tome.
It takes a while to change peoples' minds. It's the same way in every industry. Sometimes you literally have to wait for the people in charge to grow old and die before things change in a meaningful way. I'm sure you've seen it happen in some business you've worked for, I know I have. Happily though we have things like the working model for ebooks where small time writers are making big bucks selling their books for $2-3/ea. It's only a matter of time before we see more and more industries work this way.
To be fair, it's a little more like a different cartel took over. There isn't much in the way of viable alternatives to iTunes. Amazon is okay and improving, but it still has a hard time competing with iTunes. Still a minor win for the consumer, but it's not as if freedom and ponies started raining down from the skies. Also.. movie/television industry? You're next.
There's no infrastructure/technology for "quick refills." There's very little in the way of places which can do maintenance on the vehicles, the TCO is still higher than petroleum vehicles, etc. It'll be a while.
Yes, that because EV research and development stagnated for literally decades between then and now (as opposed to pretty regular improvements in the internal combustion engine) we're quite a ways off from it being competitive in the modern world. We've made some good progress the last 5-10 years, but we've still got a long ways to go until your average consumer vehicle could realistically be EV.
Those electric vehicles largely didn't go from 0 to 60 in ~10s. They didn't have to carry a frame/body capable of meeting modern safety standards, 20 airbags or power an air conditioner.
Umm, we've been involved in a cold war with China for decades. Their currency manipulation is nothing short than a trade war with the United States and other western countries. So no, going to war with them will not necessarily destroy businesses.
I really hope not. I like WebOS and would've gladly taken it instead of Android but there is such a thing as too many choices. As a developer having to deploy to both iOS and Android is already a pain.. as a consumer if I see someone with an iPhone with an app it may or may not exist/run on Android or WebOS. It sucks for pretty much everyone involved other than the large corporations backing these systems.
I'm okay with them doing what they do right up until it infringes on a person's rights to do things like travel throughout the country... or even out of the country.
Microsoft is taking the opposite approach of Apple. Apple puts the same OS on the phone and tablet but a different OS for the desktop/laptop. Microsoft has the tablet and desktop/laptop as the same OS and a different phone. We'll see which approach works out the best. Frankly, I'm interested in seeing how someone can approach the market differently to see what comes of it.
Let me rephrase the item below. Let's say someone contracts my company to write an iOS app and one of the deliverables is a working/running copy of the software on an iPod Touch. I would not consider the fact that I have to buy and deliver an iPod Touch to my client as "subcontracting Apple."
I don't know that purchasing licenses of Office should be considered "subcontracting" Microsoft. I would assume that the enterprise license of Office would barely be a blip on the radar compared to the manpower/support costs.
If you really need to rely on access to your mail/calendar offline then I wouldn't rely on the browser sync thing, just use your real mail/calendar fat client of choice. I agree though about docs not being "there" wrt offline use.
Actually the bidding process is there so that businesses can bid way under cost, steal the money, and then demand more money or if it's a small business just declare bankruptcy spawn a new corp and rinse/repeat. I'm not familiar with these large scale IT contracts but that's the way it works in government contracting for construction (roads and such).
Last I heard Google Docs wasn't "accessible" or whatever the terminology is that says Hellen Keller can use your software. If Google Docs doesn't qualify it's stupid for them to sue.
For my personal and business (small business owner) I find that open office is significantly more powerful than anything I need. I typically get by fine with Google Docs. The only thing OO and Google Docs don't have perfect is Office file formats, which frankly I can't remember the last time this was an issue.
Is there a widely available (as in I can purchase it at Best Buy) operating system that doesn't have several known privilege escalation vulnerabilities?
I am an "enthusiast" and build all my own PCs. My current desktop is over 5 years old and I have no intention of upgrading it any time soon. I do some moderate development on it and it's plenty fast for that. I don't do any gaming or video/photo/music editing. Tablets have nothing to do with my not buying a new machine. It's an industry wide issue in my opinion... CPU/memory/disk space dwarfed what the average user will use in a lifetime ages ago. Now that some of my apps are moving into the browser it's even worse for hardware manufacturers. My next purchase will probably be a tablet, but it won't replace my desktop. My desktop (assuming no hardware failures) will last for the foreseeable future.
Good luck with that. Let me design and build your CPU, I appreciate you wasting battery/cpu by encrypting all your data... it stops my customers from getting your data from anyone but me.
I think when most people talk about raising the LTCG tax they are talking about doing it progressively. Take some relatively high wage... like $250-500k, capital gains over that amount taken in a single year are taxed as earned income. That way you and grandma who saved for retirement are fine and people who take huge salaries in the form of capital gains in order to dodge taxes will pay their fair share.
That's not true. The tax rates on the mega-rich are at historical lows. If you did nothing but axe the last 40 years of tax law they would pay more taxes.
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"I would rather not wait" is really the mentality I was talking about when I said I don't feel the same way anymore. Clearly some people are willing to pay premium prices to get media first. I don't value most movies and television that highly so I'm not willing to pay a premium. It sounds like you want the premium service for the bargain bin price. I don't buy the "try before you buy" argument either since there's clearly a huge market of people willing to pay the premium price for early access to media without "trying before they buy." So you have a data cap during the day.. aren't you usually at work/school during the day? Are there not options for which you could pay additional money for additional bandwidth? Is iTunes available in your country? You can buy tons of shows/movies from that service. Can you not purchase season DVDs in your country of popular American shows?
It would be interesting to know whether it was the music/movie industry that pushed for DRM, Apple, or both.
I used to feel the same way. Then I realized that the difference between watching a particular movie RIGHT NOW vs. in a few weeks is really negligible. A couple times a year there's a movie I want to see in all it's giant screen surround sound glory and I pay $5 to see it at the local mom and pop matinee. Like the GPP I really just can't be bothered to sift around shady websites to find content anymore. I'm happy to pay $5-10/mo to have some decent content streamed tome.
It takes a while to change peoples' minds. It's the same way in every industry. Sometimes you literally have to wait for the people in charge to grow old and die before things change in a meaningful way. I'm sure you've seen it happen in some business you've worked for, I know I have. Happily though we have things like the working model for ebooks where small time writers are making big bucks selling their books for $2-3/ea. It's only a matter of time before we see more and more industries work this way.
To be fair, it's a little more like a different cartel took over. There isn't much in the way of viable alternatives to iTunes. Amazon is okay and improving, but it still has a hard time competing with iTunes. Still a minor win for the consumer, but it's not as if freedom and ponies started raining down from the skies. Also.. movie/television industry? You're next.
There's no infrastructure/technology for "quick refills." There's very little in the way of places which can do maintenance on the vehicles, the TCO is still higher than petroleum vehicles, etc. It'll be a while.
Yes, that because EV research and development stagnated for literally decades between then and now (as opposed to pretty regular improvements in the internal combustion engine) we're quite a ways off from it being competitive in the modern world. We've made some good progress the last 5-10 years, but we've still got a long ways to go until your average consumer vehicle could realistically be EV.
Those electric vehicles largely didn't go from 0 to 60 in ~10s. They didn't have to carry a frame/body capable of meeting modern safety standards, 20 airbags or power an air conditioner.
Umm, we've been involved in a cold war with China for decades. Their currency manipulation is nothing short than a trade war with the United States and other western countries. So no, going to war with them will not necessarily destroy businesses.
I really hope not. I like WebOS and would've gladly taken it instead of Android but there is such a thing as too many choices. As a developer having to deploy to both iOS and Android is already a pain.. as a consumer if I see someone with an iPhone with an app it may or may not exist/run on Android or WebOS. It sucks for pretty much everyone involved other than the large corporations backing these systems.
I'm okay with them doing what they do right up until it infringes on a person's rights to do things like travel throughout the country... or even out of the country.
Microsoft is taking the opposite approach of Apple. Apple puts the same OS on the phone and tablet but a different OS for the desktop/laptop. Microsoft has the tablet and desktop/laptop as the same OS and a different phone. We'll see which approach works out the best. Frankly, I'm interested in seeing how someone can approach the market differently to see what comes of it.
Let me rephrase the item below. Let's say someone contracts my company to write an iOS app and one of the deliverables is a working/running copy of the software on an iPod Touch. I would not consider the fact that I have to buy and deliver an iPod Touch to my client as "subcontracting Apple."
I don't know that purchasing licenses of Office should be considered "subcontracting" Microsoft. I would assume that the enterprise license of Office would barely be a blip on the radar compared to the manpower/support costs.
If you really need to rely on access to your mail/calendar offline then I wouldn't rely on the browser sync thing, just use your real mail/calendar fat client of choice. I agree though about docs not being "there" wrt offline use.
Actually the bidding process is there so that businesses can bid way under cost, steal the money, and then demand more money or if it's a small business just declare bankruptcy spawn a new corp and rinse/repeat. I'm not familiar with these large scale IT contracts but that's the way it works in government contracting for construction (roads and such).
I'm sure IBM, Oracle, Google, Redhat and any number of other IT firms could provide cloud services and support for MS Office products.
Last I heard Google Docs wasn't "accessible" or whatever the terminology is that says Hellen Keller can use your software. If Google Docs doesn't qualify it's stupid for them to sue.
For my personal and business (small business owner) I find that open office is significantly more powerful than anything I need. I typically get by fine with Google Docs. The only thing OO and Google Docs don't have perfect is Office file formats, which frankly I can't remember the last time this was an issue.
Is there a widely available (as in I can purchase it at Best Buy) operating system that doesn't have several known privilege escalation vulnerabilities?
What little gaming I do is on a console.
I am an "enthusiast" and build all my own PCs. My current desktop is over 5 years old and I have no intention of upgrading it any time soon. I do some moderate development on it and it's plenty fast for that. I don't do any gaming or video/photo/music editing. Tablets have nothing to do with my not buying a new machine. It's an industry wide issue in my opinion... CPU/memory/disk space dwarfed what the average user will use in a lifetime ages ago. Now that some of my apps are moving into the browser it's even worse for hardware manufacturers. My next purchase will probably be a tablet, but it won't replace my desktop. My desktop (assuming no hardware failures) will last for the foreseeable future.
Good luck with that. Let me design and build your CPU, I appreciate you wasting battery/cpu by encrypting all your data... it stops my customers from getting your data from anyone but me.
I think when most people talk about raising the LTCG tax they are talking about doing it progressively. Take some relatively high wage... like $250-500k, capital gains over that amount taken in a single year are taxed as earned income. That way you and grandma who saved for retirement are fine and people who take huge salaries in the form of capital gains in order to dodge taxes will pay their fair share.
That's not true. The tax rates on the mega-rich are at historical lows. If you did nothing but axe the last 40 years of tax law they would pay more taxes.