The issue is why do people in UK/USA put up with this Orwellian customer control business model?
In Asia if a company were to do these things the business would be burnt to the ground, and/or family selling the inferior by design products.
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This is silly, the printer biz has always been 'give away the camera, and take the first born when they need film'
You go abroad ASIA and every printer ink or cartridge, as a bladder attached outside where you have an infinite pool of ink/powder for printing, you buy the printer, and walk out the store with the bladder attached.
Now only in the USA do they sell the SIM card for the phone by ID, or make it a felony to put free ink or powder in a printer. HP? Canon and all have been doing this for years, but why is it that in USA you still walk out of the store with a boxed printer that has cartridge with a 1/2 life of 10 prints and then the ink/powder costs the same as the original printer?
The USA like the Epipen fiasco is FULL retard on screwing people, HP is just on the band-wagon.
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From poor medical care, to Epipen, to all the silly things that USA/UK people put with, its amazing the CORP Fascist government has such willing lemmings to go along with this BS.
The focus is also similar to sports. There are very few 100 million dollar players, and there are very few high school kids that even become $1,000 players.
While the story's about Google/Apple programmer's getting $150k are well and good, most hungry un-employed 40% unemployment under 25 world-wide kids these days, would be glad to get an indoor job for $10/hour.
The sport analogy is excellent. Let's look at the hood, the ghetto kid tosses balls in the hoop from 6-14, with dreams of NBA, then one day he realizes the odd's are not in his favor, he see's his destiny at flipping burgers at micky-d, or hustling drugs, the drug dealers have the best women, best cars, ... and the micky guys are a joke, by 16 most ghetto kids know that nobody becomes an NBA, but it rather easy to go be a drug dealer, with micky-d always waiting.
Our little nerd is much the same, he gets his computer, and maybe codes in high-school, but if he doesn't get accepted into Harvard at 14 years old like Bill Gates, then most likely by 16 he knows that he's never going be a Zuckerberg, he looks around see's everybody around him working in high-tech as fat, miserable, and bald. The only people having fun are doctors, and lawyers, and financial guys.
People who like math, and physics, and make it to college, and along the way take to coding go on to be excellent teir-1 programmers. Most people that get into IT, just know enough to get an interview, and most of the time its 'who you know'.
Even 50+ years ago in man-month-metholgoy of Brooks, it was noted that most developers ranged by an order of magnitude in ability. In all organizations it usually one guy that does the work of 100, and what do the other 99 do? Mostly meetings and bullshit, eventually the golden-boy bails and starts his own company.
The trend is towards "expert systems", an expert system is just that an expert at a single task, and that is well and good.
The general machine that really learn's in the wild, anything and everything is the holy-grail, but its also the 'free lunch'.
For now its better to develop gadgets and hack code that solves explicit problems, I think in time there could well be a wiki-expert, where a generalized machine could call upon the wiki-expert to solve the specific problem at hand, or call 100's of such agents, and the only task is to pick the best.
For now we don't even have the best answer's for the specific problems, let alone tools to manage the general problems.
A robot is just that, specific tasks, but is it human? No, its not.
RP Feynman some 60 years ago said "We can't program a dog, because we don't even know how a dog works". Nothing has changed folks, we still don't understand how the dog works, then only then can we have a robot-dog, and then we can talk about a humanoid robot.
In Asia if a company were to do these things the business would be burnt to the ground, and/or family selling the inferior by design products.
...
This is silly, the printer biz has always been 'give away the camera, and take the first born when they need film'
You go abroad ASIA and every printer ink or cartridge, as a bladder attached outside where you have an infinite pool of ink/powder for printing, you buy the printer, and walk out the store with the bladder attached.
Now only in the USA do they sell the SIM card for the phone by ID, or make it a felony to put free ink or powder in a printer. HP? Canon and all have been doing this for years, but why is it that in USA you still walk out of the store with a boxed printer that has cartridge with a 1/2 life of 10 prints and then the ink/powder costs the same as the original printer?
The USA like the Epipen fiasco is FULL retard on screwing people, HP is just on the band-wagon.
...
From poor medical care, to Epipen, to all the silly things that USA/UK people put with, its amazing the CORP Fascist government has such willing lemmings to go along with this BS.