Posts by ecofeco 8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010
A business no longer needs to be quickly profitable, just through enough money at it until it one day it magically is. For reasons.
Think about that the next time you contemplate starting your own. This is what you are up against. Not some one else's better business plan or product, but a bottomless war chest that can make bollocks profitable.
You bring political shit into a completely unrelated thread and you are still not sure?
Well the core story of the movie was that, wait for it... politicians blew up the world.
And there was political conflict among the monkeys.
Or have you not seen the actual movie?
That's the famous Chinese port explosion at Taijin.
A VERY interesting bit of trivia about that port: it's very near one of China's supercomputing facilities, the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin. Close enough that it caused some minor structural damage to the building and they had to shut the computer down for some time.
The PTB are truly clueless about the Internet.
You can't stop the piracy, the dark web, porn, none of it. The ability to route around obstacles was built in from the beginning. Just like the entire purpose of the PC was freedom from the mainframe.
To badly paraphrase Sir Pratchett, " a mistake every corporation has been trying to fix ever since."
See title.
This whole fashion mistake of allowing private companies to do government's business has been a bad idea from day one, thank you very much Thatcher/Reagan!
I mean, how'd that work out for the East India Trading Co? It was good for while, right? And then? Yeah, not so good.
If Pai's actions flout the law then organizations and states will bring lawsuits against him and the FCC.
They already are. They are also passing their own laws in favor of Net Neutrality.
The damage is already bad and will get worse. We still haven't recovered from Reagan's disasters, let alone the Bushes.
Except that isn't what will really happen.
What will happen is just an extension of the status quo: the illegals go underground like they always have and businesses continue to hire them because they can abuse them, just like they always have.
Employment abuse is THE point where I say immigrants should get and stay as legit as possible to protect themselves from business owners.
I'm probably not the only one who remembers all the cool stuff they used to make even before the "Labs" thing they did. So numerous I can't even remember it all.
They have definitely lost their way. Search has become a bloated mess and is now trying to force me over to Google Assistant. Gmail has not improved its interface in years.
In fact, user interface is still a huge problem with Google.
And all this is just the basics!
Something more like "programless" or something along that lines. (I'll think of a clever name but I sure as hell won't tell you lot! Still trying to create a retirement fund, you know?)
I've always been a big fan of having computers do the heavy lifting. It is, after all, their sole purpose in life.
If I can create an application that can sort what was once disparate data and produce useful and practical information faster than all previous methods, then bring it on!
I've seen glimpses of this already and it's very cool. Well, the stuff that works right, anyway.
Here's one example (I cannot vouch for its quality only that it's not the only one) https://www.appmakr.com/
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