dhimes · HackerTrans

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I do the same thing.

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I'm right there with you. I voted for Bush in 2000 based on his education platform; when it was clear the war was a major mistake that he wouldn't admit to, I tried to vote him out in 2004.

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To me the biggest crime is in how they figure out what I need. They should let me ask. Period.

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I've always just searched 'John Smith baseball' and that works well in DDG too.

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Exactly. Changing our clocks is changing our schedules, the easy way.

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I had never heard of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_o...

From the wiki page, there are three levels that include 6 stages (two each):

        Level 1 (Pre-Conventional)

            1. Obedience and punishment orientation

                    (How can I avoid punishment?)

            2. Self-interest orientation

                    (What's in it for me?)
                    (Paying for a benefit)

        Level 2 (Conventional)

            3. Interpersonal accord and conformity

                    (Social norms)
                    (The good boy/girl attitude)

            4. Authority and social-order maintaining orientation

                    (Law and order morality)

        Level 3 (Post-Conventional)

            5. Social contract orientation
            6. Universal ethical principles

                    (Principled conscience)

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7 tahun yang laludiscuss

She is excellent, as is that book.

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Along these lines, if you are in the US I recommend a local community college. You'll get a solid foundation, you be on the correct pace, and you'll be working with people whose primary mission is to teach you. You'll also find that you're not alone.

I don't recommend self-study, simply because if that was for you then you probably wouldn't have asked the question. It may turn out after a couple of classes jump-starting you that you then want to self-study: fine, you can make that decision then (we'll even give you advice lol). But don't start there.

Source: I used to teach in a community college, and saw a lot of students just like you.

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But they are deliberately throttling this, in an effort to get people to have to use Windows.

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I can name two that never sold very well. I built them :(

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Very good point.

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In the 80s you could argue that there was a mainstream OS choice in Apple vs DOS. Even so, outside of desktop publishing (remember that term?) Apple had little place. I was fairly unique with my Mac Plus when it came out (and proud of my 1Meg of RAM!). Nevertheless, all official biz correspondence has to be retyped in WordPerfect on the IBM machine.

In the 90s, aside from some niche use (artists and home) the Mac was done. I finally switched with Win 95. The only software that was (as far as I could tell) completely compatible between Apple and Win was Mathematica. By that I mean that if I wanted to collaborate electronically (with non-technical folks) I pretty much needed a Win system. So I got one.

And while I'm a huge fan of free s/w I still have to use office to collaborate with people who don't have strong tech skills and perhsps aren't too clever. Ever try to co-write a presentation or doc with someone using Win Office when you are using Libre Office? They just can't seem to keep themselves from formatting and it screws everything up.

So some prices have trended to zero, but there is a large discontinuity in the product set. Office 2003 has all the features I need, and I suspect that's true for most of us. So we are being coerced to upgrade by different means- the latest push is to rent the software so it can be continuously updatable. For all these things I don't need. And we are stuck in a tragedy of the commons situation: If I refuse to play along, I can't collaborate.

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This is mostly a distinction without a difference in practice. Exploit it in certain ways and your monopoly gets broken apart- thus illegal. See ATT/ Ma Bell

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The monopoly is what is illegal, not the price you charge.

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I agree. The fine is just another cost of doing business, and this makes breaking the law to put someone else out of business just another tactic. I'm not sure what the fix is, but this was clearly MS's strategy in the '90s. Kill the competition, fight the case, pay the fine if you lost, then make up the money lost because you can charge more.

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The higher prices come once the monopoly is established and the competition is impotent. The problem with IE and the Windows OS is that IE was being seamlessly integrated into Office; MS was hijacking java and javascript making it impossible for users of competitive products to get the full office functionality; and their formats were proprietary. Any individual one of these may seem ok- but the result that was coming was that the web was going to be proprietary. Web pages would be written in Word (not by pros, but by, say, professors and mom-and-pop shops), put on the web via "convert-to-html," have hooks embedded that made the page only usable by MS Office users, etc.

There was no technological challenge to this. Google wasn't around. VCs at meetups talking to young entrepreneurs would explicitly say they wouldn't fund anybody competing with Microsoft.

Think what would have happened if IE contained adblockers: Google would have been killed at the outset.

With no competition an important downward pressure on price is taken away (and an important upward pressure on innovation would be, too).

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None is illegal if you don't have a monopoly.

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