Then why do all the religious people try to push their ideology into our laws and badger me with joining their cult? If the path is MINE and only MINE to take, it should also be MY and ONLY MY decision whether I want to take it.
As far as I remember, the Bible does not claim that God has free will.
I have an apartment. I am legally prevented from charging "market value" for my property due to rent control laws, especially for long term residents.
Self-entitlement is strong in this one.
You completely missed my point. Your sense of self-entitlement is at least as great as mine. SF's government is interfering in both party's ability to engage in the free market. Note they're hinting they'll go ahead and allow the Airbnb rentals to happen as long as they can get their 14% tax out of the renter. You won't see any of that revenue.
Your slum-lord profit entitlement outrage is clearly misplaced.
"Illegal activity" in this case, being that the little people aren't allowed to engage in free enterprise without greasing some palms.
SF and Airbnb are working on a framework which might make Airbnb rentals legal, an effort helped by Airbnb's decision last week to start collecting the city's 14% hotel tax by summer.
This is what we used to call corruption. Or, before that, "tribute to the king."
don't go tecky on someone who's doesn't understand what the word computer means. Ask them some basic questions on their knowledge on the subject and go from there. Adapt to their knowledge and understanding. If they learn slow, you need to teach them slow. If they learn like sponges...teach them fast and strong.
Also - don't take advice from Bennett Haselton. He comes across as quite a douchebag.
Nobody uses Zonomi?
Considering Dyn bought several promised "free for life" DNS services then promptly killed them you need to realize they'll probably do it again. They've apparently decided the best business model is buy out their free competitors and put them out business.
I'm one of those that got an account when they bought out EveryDNS. They committed to keeping it free for life (but charged $5 for the "transition").
I'm actually a little confused by this announcement. I got an email from them this morning about it, but very little information. They included this in mine:
However, because you believed in us and supported this company through your donations, we are continuing to fulfill our promise to you: your service is still free for life.
Not sure what this means for me. I do have what I think they are referring to, a free hostname in the "from-va.com" domain. I don't really use it much, so I don't care if it goes away. But I've also got 2 of my own domains that I use their DNS services for. I'm assuming that will continue to work, and for no new fees. I better be right, or I'll be raising some hell.
Nice in theory, but companies have a well-established playbook for getting around anti-monopoly rules. Vertical integration, so that any new business that isn't vertically integrated is immediately at a huge competitive disadvantage. Various forms of vendor lock-in making it inconvenient for people to switch to another provider. Multiple "competing" companies owned by the same parent company.
Wrong. They don't need all that, it's just for show. All they really need is the one tried-and-true technique known as "Campaign Contributions." Microsoft learned that lesson when they paid no attention to Washington politics at all. Now they spend more on lobbying than pretty much any other company, and the Washington bureaucrats let them do whatever they want.
Come to think of it, that is a pretty apt analogy. The Government is the father, the corporations the son (for obvious reasons), and the Fed is the unholy ghost, because hardly anyone knows what it is or what it does.
So that makes Apple Corporation the Anti-Christ. I like it!
And those OSs will run all the software I need? Mission-critical software that the existence of my company hinges on?
Before you retort with the obvious, i.e. why I allowed myself to be locked into the dependence on an OS that I have no control over, tell me what the alternatives were. I could have started out on a free OS. That would have entailed, though, that I'd have had to hire a programmer that can develop for this other OS, which would have been quite a bit more expensive some 10 years ago when cross platform libraries (like, say, Qt) were virtually unheard of. And more expensive was out of the question, because competitors did hire people who developed for WinXP, and my choice back then was only to either put my money on WinXP as well or fold right then and there because I could not compete on price, because my customers in turn didn't give a shit what my back office was running on. Why would they?
That is the situation as it is now in many companies. They are locked into XP for good or ill because they simply could not afford to have Linux tools developed. Like it or not, and while the situation has changed considerably in the least decade or so, but a decision for Linux usually meant one for more freedom and flexibility but also higher cost. That Linux doesn't cost anything doesn't mean much. It changed considerably, but 10 years ago it was a higher risk to migrate completely rather than simply going for the next Windows version.
That has even little to do with managers' inability to see past the next quarter report. For many the choice was just "fold now or deal with the consequences later".
The case would be closed if someone could open up a competing business. Else we're talking a monopoly situation where the monopolist can (and obviously does) charge through the nose.
Extortion is what comes to my mind looking at that business model, not support.
Why only force one of them?
It's where some third party company pumps out spare parts and addons long after the original maker of the car stopped supplying anything. It's not so uncommon actually, considering there are quite a few car enthusiasts that enjoy modifying and remodeling their cars. There's a whole industry that does nothing but that, actually.
Fine by me, too. Then fork over Windows for free.
I program, therefore I am.
