considering the conditions under which we will be able to drive them (insurance, liability, and so) are largely not understood, i'm surprised it's that low.

so people have questions about a a brand new product that for the most part isn't for sale yet, that 99.999% of them have never experienced. surprising stuff!

except that's not true. it's all tracked. do you really think that despite seeing that ads don't result in clickthroughs, businesses still are happy to toss their $ in the garbage?

which proves that this is not really happening in the wild, otherwise it'd be a much bigger deal. you'd be hearing about on the local news, not /.

the early web was experimental and non-profit, but that was really, really early. the internet boom has had ads since day one. there was never a time when websites were (primarily) supported by subscriptions, microTxs, etc.

but anyway, if people could make more money that way, do you think they would? or what, no one has thought of it yet, and the world's just waiting for your insight into website profitability? no, almost no one supports themselves in that manner because it's not viable. any web product i know of that has a subscription model does it as a side to the primary revenue stream: ads.

so i guess you know what you're talking about then.

weird. everywhere i've worked, i've always made significantly more than the contractors.

references? no? okay then.

no, scheduling vacation weeks ahead of time during contract negotiations is not the same as "whenever you want".

and p.s., that's exactly how i've scheduled vacation, as a salaried, employee for 20+ years.

yep, you are clever.

ooooh here comes the troll!

on the contrary, i was going on ONLY what was said, you're the one that's reading between the lines.

contractors most certainly do not simply take vacation when they want. their clients need things done just as much as an employer needs things done from its employees.

sure you can take as much "vacation" as you want, as long as you don't need the pay. however, i wouldn't count unemployment as as vacation.

so negotiating a fixed amount of vacation ahead of time in your contract qualifies, as the parent post states, "taking time off when you want"?

good try.

you do understand that when a company offers vacation, you get PAID for the time off, right? what you are "earning" is paid time off, not simply the right to take time off.

i'm not sure you know what "universal app" means. it means a single binary that runs across multiple platforms. it doesn't mean the exact same UI, or the same UI stretched or shrunk to different screen sizes. the binary can inspect the device on which it's running and render different UIs and experiences.

please link to the successful apps that you've authored that rival something like gmail or facebook in their complexity. writing a good, stable, easy to use, beautiful app is hard.

making a virtual profit of $.6B (by writing off more than they paid), and gaining all of Nokia's assets including patents, land, and buildings? doesn't sound stupid to me.

it's interesting how i joked about you copying my troll, and you get out of that that i take myself too seriously. it's like you have this rolodex of cliche phrases and you are throwing them out at random regardless of the context. your first response was barely intelligible by the way.

oh come on at least you can do is come up with your own troll. how lazy are you?