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Just How Much Is a Just Wage?
Catholic Social Thought has long recognized the right to a "just wage" (sometimes called a "living wage"), which is defined as a wage "sufficient to enable [a man] to support himself, his wife and his children." CA 8. One common objection to the idea of the just wage is what might be called the calculation problem. Sure, the criticism goes, everyone would agree in the abstract that wages should be sufficient to support oneself and one's family, but how are we to decide what is sufficient? What, specifically, is the minimum wage that a man may be paid without violating his right to a just wage?
For answers, I went to Father John Ryan's A Living Wage, which is the classic American text in defense of the right to a just wage. Chapter five of the book, A Concrete Estimate of A Living Wage, tackles the calculation problem head on, and Father Ryan offers a specific estimate of the amount of wages a man must be paid as his due in justice (in what follows all figures appear to assume a five person family of husband, wife, and three children).
In the first edition of A Living Wage (published in 1906), Father Ryan gave $600 a year (or $14,143.39 in 2009 dollars*) as the minimum wage necessary to qualify as a just wage in the United States. Father Ryan opined that this wage was "probably" sufficient in certain parts of the country (such as the South) where the cost of living was lower, and was possibly sufficient elsewhere, though he noted that there were "certainly" parts of the country where it was insufficient.
The Advantage of Ideology
One of the main problems with politics is that it is complicated. Take, for example, the recently passed health care bill. The bill was over 2,000 pages. I haven't read it. Neither, I imagine, have most of our readers (indeed, it would not surprise me if no single person has read every word of the bill, though obviously each of the bill's many provisions has been read by someone).
Of course, even if someone had read every word of the bill, this would not be sufficient to have a truly informed position on it. To have a truly informed position one would have to not only read the bill but understand it. And to do that would require a great deal of knowledge about fields as complicated and diverse as the law, medicine, political science, economics, bureaucratic management, etc.
And, mind you, even if one were somehow able to master and muster all of this information, that would only entitle one to a have a truly informed position on that one bill.
Libertarians vs. Rand Paul
A couple of months back Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul stirred up a hornets' nest of controversy when he (briefly) indicated his opposition to Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned racial discrimination in "public accommodations" like restaurants and hotels. The controversy was notable not only for its utterly irrelevance to any current political issue, but also for the fact that even many libertarians distanced themselves from Paul's position. I was out of the country at the time and so didn't get a chance to comment, but libertarian think tank the Cato Institute recently published a libertarian defense of Title II and other civil rights legislation, which got me thinking about the issue again.
Defenders of Paul's position (and there were a few) typically made one of two arguments; one based on an appeal to principle; one based on free market economics. The first argument is the straightforwardly libertarian one that individuals have the right to dispose of their property as they see fit, and while we might not like it if a business owner refuses to serve members of a particular racial group, it is still wrong to violate his property rights by telling him he can't do so. I don't have much to say about this argument, except to note how incongruously unpersuasive it is to most everyone today. Libertarianism is also criticized as being absolutist, but of course there are areas in which lots of people are willing to be comparably absolutist in their defense of individual freedom. Had Paul said, for example, that he supported the right of neo-Nazis to march through the streets of Jewish neighborhoods waving swastikas, his views would have been in keeping with those of most of the intelligentsia. Yet displaying a similar solicitude when the subject involves commercial activity is viewed as borderline crankish. The reasons for this discrepancy are probably worth further reflection, but I won't dwell on them here.
Perhaps sensing that the argument from principle is a surefire loser, others have contended that laws such as Title II weren't really necessary to end private discrimination by businesses. According to this argument, any business that turned away a substantial number of potential customers would soon find itself out of business, and absent legal mandates segregation would simply collapse under its own weight (call it the 'everyone's money is the same color' argument).
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North Korea embraces neoliberalism (baby steps).
Matt Yglesias is my kind of liberal.
The Onion channels Bertolt Brecht.
Israel further loosens border restrictions with Gaza.
A lot of people seems to think this is good news for Afghanistan. Have they never heard of the resource curse?
The menace of friendship. Paging Eve Tushnet.
What the Left Cannot Supply, the Right Will Not Demand
Recently I've been toying with the idea of doing a series of posts looking at the recent survey purporting to know a lack of economic knowledge on the Left, with one post for each of the eight questions on the survey. As I look at the list of questions, however, a clear theme emerges, namely that liberals tend to think that the price of a good or service isn't much affected by the supply of that good or service or visa versa. According to the survey, liberals tend to think that restricting the supply of housing doesn't increase the price of housing (question 1), that restricting the supply of doctors (through licensing) doesn't increase the price of doctors (question 2), and that price floors won't decrease the supply of either rental space (question 4) or jobs (question 8).
Coincidentally, I'm currently reading a (surprisingly good) book by Paul Krugman, in which he argues that conservatives tend to minimize or dismiss the part changes in demand have on getting us into or out of recessions. Naturally this got me thinking whether one of the things separating left from right in this country is a difference in the importance of supply and demand in economic phenomenon. For the above issues, at least, liberals seem to be ready to discount the importance of supply, whereas conservatives underestimate the importance of demand.
Is Collective Punishment Always Wrong?
As readers of this blog are probably aware, I am not a fan of the Israeli blockade of Gaza. I find the blockade to be morally unjustifiable and ultimately not in the interests of Israel's security. Yet I do wonder about some of the moral claims made in the course of the controversy.
For example, a recent Vox Nova post by contributor Morning's Minion contains the following aside:
Remember, collective punishment is absolutely forbidden under the moral law.
Morning's Minion, of course, is hardly the only one to make this point, and at first blush it seems fairly sensible and obvious. It's easy to see why punishing one person for the crimes of another, which is what collective punishment seems to consist in, would be morally objectionable, and one might readily conclude that, just as a straightforward application of moral logic, collective punishment is always and everywhere morally wrong.
Israel to Loosen Gaza Blockaid
Palestinian official Raed Fattouh, who coordinates the flow of goods into Gaza with Israel, said soda, juice, jam, spices, shaving cream, potato chips, cookies and candy were now permitted. He said Israel rebuffed Palestinian requests for construction goods, raw materials for factories to operate and medical devices.
Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were discussing internal policymaking, said their goal in allowing more goods into Gaza was to defuse pressure for an international investigation of the sea raid.
More. Since the blockaid is essential to Israel's security and right to defend itself, one can only assume that the country will now cease to exist.
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The Nuclear Option
It was September of 1966, and gas was gushing uncontrollably from the wells in the Bukhara province of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. But the Reds, at the height of their industrial might, had a novel solution. They drilled nearly four miles into the sand and rock of the Kyzyl Kum Desert, and lowered a 30-kiloton nuclear warhead — more than half-again as large as "Little Boy," the crude uranium bomb dropped over Hiroshima — to the depths beneath the wellhead. With the pull of a lever, a fistful of plutonium was introduced to itself under enormous pressure, setting off the chain reaction that starts with E = MC2 and ends in Kaboom! The ensuing blast collapsed the drill channel in on itself, sealing off the well.
The Soviets repeated the trick four times between 1966 and 1979, using payloads as large as 60 kilotons to choke hydrocarbon leaks. Now, as the Obama administration stares into the abyss of the Deepwater Horizon spill, and a slicker of sweet, medium crude blankets the Gulf of Mexico, slouching its way toward American beaches and wetlands, Russia's newspaper of record is calling on the president to consider this literal "nuclear option."
As well he should. It's a little less crazy than it sounds. The simple fact is that the leak has confounded all conventional efforts to quell it, forcing British Petroleum and its federal overseers to resort to a series of untested, increasingly unwieldy, and heretofore unsuccessful backup plans as the American people's impatience and rage grow at geometric rates. In the madness that is Deepwater Horizon, The Bomb may be the sanest choice.
Political Correctness Trumps Expertise in Gulf Oil Spill Response
During his press statement last week, President Obama said that in dealing with the recent oil spill in the Gulf, he was "examining every recommendation, every idea that's out there, and making our best judgment as to whether these are the right steps to take, based on the best experts that we know of."
That, however, is not entirely true:
A St. Louis scientist who was among a select group picked by the Obama administration to pursue a solution to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been removed from the group because of writings on his website, the U.S. Energy Department confirmed Wednesday.
Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz was one of five top scientists chosen by the Department of Energy and attended meetings in Houston last week.
Though considered a leading scientist, Katz's website postings often touch on social issues. Some of those writings have stirred anger in the past and include postings defending homophobia and questioning the value of racial diversity efforts.
Why Aren't There More Worker Co-Ops?
Despite their obvious potential advantages, employee owned businesses tend to be rare. In 2004, there were an estimated 300 worker owned cooperatives in the United States. If that sounds impressive, consider that in 2001, there were over 18.3 million nonfarm proprietorships in the U.S. Nor is the situation much different overseas. The Mondragon Cooperative Corporation is typically cited as an example of a successful worker cooperative, and it is indeed quite successful . . . for a co-op. Compared to other types of businesses, however, Mondragon performs well, but not stellar. It is the seventh largest corporation in Spain, and despite being a conglomeration of more than a 100 different companies, it accounts for less than 4% of the GDP of the Basque region of Spain where it is located. When one considers that Mondragon is in all likelihood the most successful worker cooperative on the planet, the idea that the co-op's success proves the viability of worker cooperatives generally begins to seem doubtful.
There's nothing legally preventing people from choosing to start a workers-owned cooperative rather than some other form of business, and in fact cooperatives receive more favorable tax treatment than do standard business corporations. Why then, aren't they more common? The question has actually inspired a fair amount of research, which has identified at least four obstacles to the success of worker owned businesses.
Is the Means of Production an Obsolete Idea?
The "means of production" (which may be defined, roughly, as consisting of capital goods minus human and financial capital), is a central concept in Marxism, as well as in other ideologies such as Distributism. The problems of capitalism, according to both Marxists and Distributists, arise from the fact that ownership of the means of production is concentrated in the hands of the few. Marxists propose to remedy these problems by having the means of production be collectively owned. Distributists want to retain private ownership, but to break the means of production up (where practicable) into smaller parts so that everyone will have a piece (if you wanted to describe the difference between the Marxist and Distributist solutions here, it would be that Distributists want everyone to own part of the means of production, whereas Marxists want everyone to be part owner of all of it).
Where a society's economy is based primarily on agriculture or manufacture, thinking in terms of the means of production makes some sense. In an agricultural economy wealth is based primarily on ownership of land, and in a manufacturing economy ownership of things like factories and machinery plays an analogous role. In a modern service-based economy, by contrast, wealth is based largely on human capital (the possession of knowledge and skills). As Pope John Paul II notes in Centesimus Annus, "[i]n our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources."
Arizona, Immigration, and Moral Panic
When I first heard of the controversy swirling around Arizona's "draconian" new immigration law, I'll admit I was skeptical. It's not that I thought I would approve of the Arizona law (I tend to be of the view that immigration is a net benefit to America). But hyperbole is an all too common feature of political discourse, and I had to wonder whether the bill was really as harsh and wrongheaded as its critics were making out.
After reading the text of the bill, however, I have to say that, yes, it really is that bad. The bill would criminalize charitable activities directed at illegal immigrants, would making it a crime for an illegal immigrant to try to get a legitimate job, and, in an Orwellian twist, would make illegal immigrants guilty of trespassing for being on private property even with the owner's permission.
The law also requires state officials to enforce federal immigration laws, effectively turning every Arizona cop into a part time border patrol agent. Arizona's politicians may like the idea of having cops enforce the immigration code because it makes them look tough, but actual police tend to hate the idea, as it makes their job more difficult and forces them to take resources away from actual police work. (During the debate on the Bush immigration bill back in 2006, for example, the Major Cities Chiefs Associations came out against a requirement for state police to enforce immigration laws, arguing that doing so "undermines trust and cooperation with immigrant communities, which are essential elements of community oriented policing," and would require scarce resources to be devoted to immigration enforcement rather than other, higher priorities). Continue reading


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Abe, Park and Xi Jinping display good economics in East Asia, but questionable politics
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When it comes to economic reform, leaders of Asia's largest economies seem far more rational than with their politics.
After all the recent hoopla about Abenomics in Japan and China's reform under Xi Jinping, South Korea's Park Geun-hye becomes the latest to join the Asian reform club. If these leaders are willing to take risks for their countries' economic prospects, you wonder if they could display comparable rationality in their politics and diplomacy.
The daughter of the murdered dictator Park Chung-hee who laid the economic foundations for his country, Korea's first female president no doubt wants not only to preserve but expand on the economic legacy of her father. Shinzo Abe's three arrows - monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reform - received a lot of attention, as did Xi's promise to let market forces play a decisive role in the mainland economy. But the reform package that Park - whose popularity ratings are plunging - unveiled last week arguably could succeed better than the two men's, which have been long on promises but short on details. Maybe more will be disclosed at the annual National People's Congress and CPPCC meetings starting this week. We will see.
Park wants to deregulate Korea's economy by ending preferential policy for favoured large exporters over smaller companies and reining in state-owned enterprises. She recognises national productivity is falling and that the era of easy economic growth is over. These are similar to the problems that China faces. But Xi confronts more intractable and entrenched state-owned interests that are a key barrier to reform.
The three leaders of 21st century Asia have the right diagnoses and right cures for their economies. It becomes a question of whether they have the willpower and ability to carry reform through.
Their economics show the three leaders are rational actors. Funny how when it comes to politics, inflammatory rhetoric, irrationality and nationalism reign. Japan's relations with Korea and China are at their worst in years, and all three leaders have gone out of their way to worsen them. Surely they must realise any regional conflict will undermine whatever economic gains they hope to achieve.
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If Hong Kong too must do an economic reform, CY Leung must reform our local politics – stop favoritisms towards conglomerates by government. Of what Leung has initiated since he became the CE, I believe he is reforming our local politics aiming our economic to be more competitive in serving Hong Kong better.
I also frown on overuse of internal politic to achieve economic ends which I believe most conglomerates suffer from. Conglomerates can take advantage in internal cross funding to make a product or provide a service for bigger market share without innovation. Hong Kong's LKS conglomerate is of this kind rendering Hong Kong's economy highly uncompetitive. Hong Kong people pay highly for their flats, food and electricity. LKS notices that and made a convoluted confession most recently.
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New home sales rose in Worcester, MA in March. The percentage of new home closings belonging to single family homes rose, climbing 1.4% percentage points. Average prices of new and existing homes moved up, rising 12.3%. Real Estate Owned (REO) closings as a percentage of existing home closings...
New home sales climbed in February. The percentage of new home closings belonging to attached homes dropped, falling 24.5% percentage points. Average prices of new and existing homes moved up, rising 5.9%. The percentage of new home closings belonging to single family homes rose, climbing 24.5%...
New home sales remained level from a year ago in January. The percentage of new home closings belonging to attached homes rose, climbing 20.0% percentage points. The percentage of new home closings belonging to single family homes dropped, falling 20.0% percentage points. Average prices of new homes...
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Closings of new homes dropped year-over-year in April in the Worcester, MA market, and the decline was by a larger percentage than the March 2014. New home closings moved from 16 a year earlier to 1 after the figure moved from 11 in March 2013 to 4 in March 2014.
A total of 132 new homes were sold during the 12 months that ended in April, down from 147 for the year that ended in March.
On a percentage basis, new home closings as a part of total closings decreased to 0.1% from 1.9% a year earlier. For new and existing homes, closings sank in April after also declining in March year-over-year.
The average value of newly sold homes in April 2014 was $338,000, down from last year's $376,596. This was on the heels of a 6.5% rise in March year-over-year.
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SADC People`s Summit - Zimbabwe
Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending Act in force, but vendors live in fear
National Women`s Day - South Africa
Report on the Seminar held in Togo on the capacity building of the Trade Union Leaders of Fainatrasit from 22 to 23 July 2014
Seminar held to raise awareness about labour rights in the informal Economy
INDIA. MCG to verify data on street vendors' survey. The Times of India (3 August 2014).
UGANDA. KCCA councillors reject Usafi deal. New Vision (2 August 2014) by Brian Mayanja. New Vision (2 August 2014) by Brian Mayanja.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. Burgeoning traffic in Chaguanas. Guardian (3 August 2014) by Charles Kong Soo. Guardian (3 August 2014) by Charles Kong Soo.
ZAMBIA. PF cadres scheming to remove Kabwe Town Clerk. Zambian Watchdog (2 August 2014).
ZIMBABWE. Riot police, vendors clash. Newsday Zimbabwe (2 August 2014).
USA. 'Dog Days' Documentary Profiles D.C.'s Dogged Street Vendors . World News Report (31 July 2014) by Nick Sibilla.
MYANMAR. Yangon to ban street vendors. Mizzima (31 July 2014) by Nann Myint.
INDONESIA. Army says it has strong evidence on general. The Nation (1 August 2014).
ZIMBABWE. Vendors, council clash over 'exorbitant' fees. Newsday (31 July 2014).
INDIA. Survey of Street Vendors to be Held in 8 Civic Bodies in Krishna District. The New Indian Express (29 July 2014)
INDIA. India: Mumbai residents set up big-wig as street vendor. BBC News (28 July 2014).
NEPAL. Delay in govt response cost a life: Street vendors. Republica (26 July 2014) by Sangeet Sangroula.
EGYPT. Cairo governorate vs street vendors: A brewing conflict. Ahram Online (24 August 2014) by Passant Darwish
It is now quite widely accepted by the international trade union movement today that its very survival depends on organising workers in the informal economy and new forms of work. It is also widely accepted that new strategies are needed to organise these workers, and the traditional organisational strategies used by the formal sector trade unions are not necessarily appropriate. But what are these new strategies?
There is no blueprint. Those already doing it are inventing new strategies as they go along. Here we present some cases of creative organizing, and new approaches to collective bargaining, which are in operation in the informal economy and in new forms of work.


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Googorola mysteriously pulls plug on ITC Apple patent probe
Samsungs lost every case in Germany - wrong
Samsung have started winning cases in Germany in the single court they'd been losing in. Probably because that court noticed courts in the Netherlands, UK and *other parts of Germany* were all ruling for Samsung on the same claims!
AMD launches Android app store for Windows PCs
just tested it on my PC
Well, it works. You could even say it works well... on my 3rd attempt to launch it.
But what it works best at is reminding us that a touch based interface just doesn't work well on a mouse+keyboard. Temple Run ran fast enough, looked pretty, but was no fun because the bloody mouse wasn't window captured and it was far too easy to get it out of sync in a way that doesn't happen with actual touch. Cue lots of other windows being selected, the player window getting dragged around at random and general unusability.
Something Win8 users will no doubt be facing all too soon ;)
Also a little surprised to see apps on there that Google would filter out based on lack of hardware support.
Anyway, having read the T&Cs it's getting yanked off my PC right away. Most customer information pillaging deals offer some token opt-out. If there's anything about my life they don't own under those T&Cs I can't think of it. Not that I'd allow a program with no quit option, that silently tried to install a 'start at boot' link, to stay on my PC anyway.
Motorola, Samsung smash Apple's touchscreen patent claim
Re: @Rob Dobs
Ahhh, but you missed the obvious. They aren't winning with those really obvious patents. Even the German courts have started ruling against Apple after a year of insanity rubber stamping everything. The Germans may have finally noticed that every other EU court has ruled against Apple on the same patents.
...and the Samsung rule 50 appeal should be scaring the jury from that case a LOT. The whole 1st section is redacted but unmistakably about jury corruption. What the foreman swore to do in court is exactly what he didn't do in the jury room. It's been pointed out if it was a UK court he could face jail time. The yanks will probably go easier on him, but the jury ruling will die. Maybe not in Koh's court but it's manifestly unsupportable.
There aren't going to be triple damages on $1bil whatever happens. If the award survives at all it was so badly constructed only a few percent of it is even eligible for tripling.
Apple got a lot of PR from their 'win' and got to perpetuate the import ban but that's about all they'll end up with. And the PR wasn't all good PR.
Fans revolt over Amazon 'adware' in Ubuntu desktop search results
Re: I trust Shuttleworth only as far as my backup can rescue me
Learned long ago to take a backup before letting any Ubuntu related updater run. That's a /home copy and a drive image for maximum recoverability.
It's been quite a shock the last 2 Kubuntu in place upgrades went smoothly... OK as smoothly as any upgrade involving Nvidia's shitty drivers can be (need Wine to run 3D well).
Google 'dominance abuse' games may yet mean monster Euro smack
Re: Google should tell Almunia to feck off
You may be right. AFAIK they've not actually done any investigation at all yet, just compiled that 400 page list of allegations, cherry picked a couple of them and asked for Google to bend over.
But we have good reason to believe most (if not all) those 400 pages were submitted by a coalition of Googles less honest competitors, led by whatever the group of scumbag search hijackers are calling themselves (Fairsearch? can't be arsed looking it up) we all hate and backed my Microsoft.
I doubt it will harm the eventually result if Google make them prove everything in court because it seems unlikely they'll manage to prove anything worthy of a painful fine or restraint. If they prove anything at all. Most likely outcome is pissing away millions on the process, then imposing face saving but empty restrictions. Google might as well just let them waste the time and money instead of volunteering more than the courts are likely to compel.
How hard is 3D printing?
Re: scale matters
Would anyone seriously consider ordering 1,2 or 3 pages online and having them delivered the next day to be preferable to printing them at home?
HTC hawks fresh WinPho smartphones
Re: HTCs are the WP8 flagship devices
Thought I read it didn't have NFC. Anyway, overall the HTCs are more 'completely' featured.
And they exist today ;)
HTCs are the WP8 flagship devices
So no mention of MS announcing at the launch that these are officially the flagship WP8 phones?
Nokia must be spitting teeth, their 'special relationship' doesn't outweigh the missing features like NFC that HTC remembered to build in.
As expected, MS are shitting on Nokia at the 1st opportunity.
Win8 tablets may cost MORE than iPads – AND LAPTOPS
can I say 'contractual obligation' release?
...I think I can. MS fought hard to keep their super secret patent shakedown agreements out of the public record in recent court cases... harder than if they just wanted the numbers kept secret, redacting would achieve that.
I've suggested many times those deals oblige various OEMs to ship Microsoft product, be it WP7, WP8 or Win8. Obliged to ship if they want to keep the Android tax affordable... but apparently also free to price to *not sell* ;)
There is indeed piss taking going on but it's MS getting wet.
Motorola Razr i hands-on review
how did the ARM emulation perform?
Be nice to see some benchmarks on various apps, to see what sort of hit emulating native ARM code has. Don't believe many apps have ported to native x86 yet.
PC share of DRAM biz falls below 50%
sign of a mature proct with a long replacement cycle
Nice to see the 'death of the PC' mistake wasn't made here. Yes, they use more chips per device than the tablet/phone competition. We just don't replace PCs very often, they've been more than powerful enough for almost all tasks for 5+ years - the only reason most need replacing is actual catastrophic failure.
DDR3 in particular hasn't been around long enough to be in many PCs ready for replacement.
...and the RAM in PCs also comes in convenient DIMMs you just move over to the next machine/mboard, further reducing demand for new RAM (albeit not by much I'd guess - most probably ends up landfilled).
Key evidence in Assange case dissolves
Re: Very strange
...why, it's almost as if the case doesn't matter at all. Just the chance to get him into custody for the yanks...
Google to axe IE 8 support, cuts off Windows XP lifeline
yes, only IE will do. In some parallel universe
Oh dear. Forced to use 'some other browser'. Oh... not much of a disaster for us XP users after all.
Windows Phone 8 stands a chance as Apple, Android dither
re: When they appear on the shelves
Let's remember a major reason the WP7 Lumias failed is because by and large they never did appear on shelves. Even the shops that stocked them kept them all in the backroom out of sight. I've still never seen an actual Lumia in real life, despite trawling through shops looking around launch time.
Will it be any different this time? Seems pretty unlikely, apart from EE signing up not much has changed to make buyers want to stock them or shop staff want to sell them. Unless you believe Microsofts cynical Win8 scheme will work... I tend to believe not trashing all their existing apps will be more important to users than some imaginary Win8 bonus.
Apple iPhone 5 hands-on review
Re: It's a thinner longer iPhone with patent infringement suit magnet LTE
...there, corrected your title.
I guess the Samsung paperworks already delivered to the ITC and various US courts and the ban hammer is swinging.
Re: weight they're prioritising, not thinness
Didn't they claim it would have a new touchscreen with sensors embedded, substantially reducing its thickness. IMHO they should have used that reduction to fit a fatter battery, not make the phone thinner.
One more try: Metro apps are now 'Windows Store' apps
The German Metro Group refused. With no dependency on Microsoft or Microsoft products, MS couldn't bully them into it or afford to buy them to get the rights. Just hope they threw money at the UK Metro newspaper before abandoning the trademark appropriation ;)
I think I'll just carry on calling it Metro. Might keep alive the memory of this whole sorry clusterfuck.
Information is the UI in Windows 8, says design guru
Signs give the information needed to let viewers navigate. ALL they need to do is present that information clearly and easily, they have no active involvement in navigation. A computer UI needs to present navigation information BUT it's also the navigation tool.
Those appear to me to be different requirements. It doesn't matter how space wasting, clumsy or whatever road signage is, it's a different system to navigation and once familiar with a route I don't use it. Once familiar with my UI I still need to use it constantly. I want signs optimised for legibility, my UI optimised for navigation.
Metro de-optimises my navigation to present information I won't need after the 1st few uses. Worse it doesn't even manage to show navigation information better, with hidden controls, acres of wasted space and the 1 size window fits all idiocy. The control elements in my UI are there FOR CONTROL not to show information. The navigation elements are there to let me NAVIGATE not tell me where I'm going.
This whole UI is backwards, designed by idiots so in love with an abstract idea they forgot what the fscking system is meant to do.
Windows 8? Nah: Win Phone 8 should give Apple the fear
Re: I hate Task Centric
While reading the description of WP's task centric behaviour I was more than a little puzzled at why Android is described as app centric. I click on an a link/document/launcher in a hub app OR anywhere else and Android goes off to find the correct app for me, which seems no different. It appears the difference between app and task centric is in the bias of the commenter!
You hate task centric *without user control*. Android embeds its task->app mapping in the OS, not the apps and it gives the user control of that mapping. I don't need to trust anyone else to choose what service my phone chooses, I tell it which to use, I decide if it should remember that choice or ask every time.
My biggest task centric problem has always been making sure all FaceBook tasks die a swift death. Maybe Android is app centric because I can remove the FB apps and the FB tasks die with them ;)
Re: Just a thought
"it solves a non-existent problem."
Didn't people say that about the whole tablet platform?
Many failed attempts to sell PCs in tablet form blinded most in IT to the possibilities of swapping full functionality for convenience. If you're expecting a PC of course this looks like a loser but normal folk don't use PCs the way we do. In any case tabs solve a real problem, convenience and do it *by being different* to PCs.
Metro/Win8/WP8 tries to make disparate devices used in different ways look,feel&behave the same and does it by compromising/limiting the PC experience. That is not a solution to any problem I have.
Re: the point I wanted to make was that there are WP7 handsets available for less than £300
"the point I wanted to make was that there are WP7 handsets available for less than £300"
Yes, the Lumia's were swiftly discounted. It's what happens to phones that aren't selling. That's why you could buy the £549 Xperia Play for £129-149 6 months and 2 official price cuts after launch. It's also why you'll struggle to find a cheap iPhone or Samsung S3 - they're selling well full price.
Being able to buy a cheap Lumia does not say good things about the brand or inspire confidence in it's future.
Re: Just a thought
That's certainly the MS plan, there's no other credible reason they need Metro as the new Windows on the desktop.
But I find no problem switching between XP on the desktop and Android on my phone. XP or anything like it wouldn't work on the phone and Android is equally wrong on the desktop. I'm middle age and presumably less adaptable than youngsters but simply don't need a cross platform UI - it solves a non-existent problem.
So is the underlying assumption that familiarity with Win8 on the desktop will drive WP8 adoption at all credible?
Metro is the solution to a Microsoft market share problem, not it's users problems and it's not for the benefit of it's users. My opinion is they've borked the Win8 experience for nothing.
customers choose the winner, not suppliers
It may well be tempting for vendors to play safe with whatever MS throws at the wall but ultimately the public chooses which phone it buys, not the vendor, not the carrier.
They can influence our choices but even then the carriers have more power. But guess what - the carriers offer a pretty wide choice of phones at all service tiers. So they'll happily stock WP8 devices for those that want to buy them, iPhone if Apple will let them, Android for the bulk of smartphone sales and a whole raft of lesser phones as well.
What's convenient for the phone manufacturers is largely irrelevant to the people that actually buy the phones or the sales figures.
And BTW: outside of the US Apple aren't doing too well damaging Android, MS are taxing it but haven't managed to drive it anywhere near unprofitability. It looks like the Android side is beginning to fight back so the best days in the war (from Apple+MS POV) may be over now.
Firefox support extended to older Android mobiles
Tried a lot of ff Android builds and none of them can manage the simple task of opening pages at a readable zoom level or focussed at the main content pane. Something every other Android browser has little trouble with.
The useless POS even resets its zoom level with every link followed making me manually zoom over and over.
If they can't be bothered getting a simple STANDARD usability feature implemented why bother building it at all?
Listen up, Nokia: Get Lumia show-offs in pubs or it's game over
Apparently you slept through Microsoft announcing the ui would no longer be called Metro... or noticing Not Metro shortens to Notro. Microsoft fanboism taken to a new low to whine about this!
won't have it to themselves long enough to win
One slight problem for that USP. How long do you think it will remain unique?
Samsung have a camera division that's been building optically stabilised cameras for years. If this really is a killer feature how long till Samsung phones have it grafted on? For a yardstick, a few weeks back Apple told a court it takes Samsung 3 months to catch up with 5 years Apple effort. And there are rumours Samsung were preparing this before the Nokia announcement anyway!
Sony also have the tech, acquired from Konica Minolta 4-5 years ago and have some pretty good sensor tech of their own.
Even if you're right Nokia won't have long to milk this USP. With the likely launch dates still far off maybe zero time if Samsung are galvanised into action.
Another case of announcing 1st in an industry full of early and premature announcements. iPhone5 panic.
Nokia apologizes for faking Lumia 920 ad
Looking forward to when people manage to properly dissect how the new 'it's nothing to do with what we used to call' Pureview works. My guess is, with no supersampling available and nowhere to put the optics for a supersize sensor it really is that optical stabilisation *and nothing more*.
I say that partly because my beloved Konica Minolta Z6 features the same optical stabilisation and claims an effective 3 stop exposure advantage by allowing longer shake free exposures. It does indeed improve low light performance but not without cost, long exposure bring motion blur to the party.
With 7 years advances since the Z6 they should do better but this tech seems much less revolutionary than Nokia would like us to believe and with caveats they want us not to notice.
New Nokia Lumia mobes fail to inspire investors
Re: FacePalm.
It's not even the 1st that does image stabilisation by moving the sensor - Konica Minolta were doing that in 2004 in the DiMage Z series.
WinPhone 8 preview SDK limited to established developers
Re: Way to go.....
Seems you forgot MS plan to transcompile the existing WP7 apps in their store to run on WP8... you just won't be seeing any magical new WP8 features used for a looooooonnnnnnngggggggggg time.
Nokia tears wraps off new Windows Phone Lumias on steroids
Re: the other apps are just gimmicks
It's worse. All of them are things IOS,Android,Blackberry (and probably Symbian and Java feature phone) users have been able to download of their respective app stores for a long time. Free downloads apart from offline maps.
Seems the only innovation in the phone is from Nokia hardware and it's not enough to survive today's market. Or maybe Nokia will pre-emptively sue Samsung before they can drown Nokia in similarly featured phones ;)
Re: Wait a minute...
In reality if you care at all about taking photos you carry a camera and just use a cameraphone for fun. Any improvement is welcome but honestly, how many people choose a phone based on it's camera (*) and haven't all of them already bought an 808?
(*) I'll confess the presence of a front facing camera does sway my choice but that's a whole different thing! ...and rapidly swaying me less since confirming just how poor video calls over 3G are ;)
Android spat loser Oracle ordered to toss Google some change
Oracles amazing mutating claims caused the $1mil bill
You didn't report my favourite bit of the ruling:
"A close follower of this case will know that Oracle did not place great importance on its copyright claims until after its asserted patents started disappearing upon PTO reexamination"
Some of us commented on exactly that when they finally reached court with SCO's 2nd hand legal case standing in for a real one. That it's also why Alsup refused to reduce that part of the costs claim just adds to the fun.
Still, David Boies's PR campaign to suggest Google bought public opinion is over and I doubt the judge is well pleased with being led on a wild goose chase by it. Maybe he checked past Boies cases and read recent interviews with the man and notice the repeating MO. Can't have helped with the costs award ;)
Sony: Our Xperia S tab COPIED Samsung's slab ... on price
Buying their way out of SE may have been needed to consolidate all their products but it's bad news for their reputation and customer trust. Ericsson always offered some reassurance that Sony's natural 'shaft the customer' tendencies would be controlled and that moderation might leak across to the tablet division.
Now we just have the same serial customer abusers in control everywhere and I for one don't trust them an inch.
...and yes, still pissed that they dropped my Xperia Play the second the sale was agreed, then invented technical problems as cover. Bunch of shits.
Internet Explorer needs fresh dev infusion for a full recovery
Re: Tired of MS playing politics
WebGL... I hear echoes of MS trying to kill OpenGL on Windows. The market overruled them back then, it will this again if WebGL takes off.
Torvalds bellows: 'The GNOME PEOPLE are in TOTAL DENIAL'
"on anything vaguely modern, it "just works" and always has"
Yet I have 4 supposedly supported DVT-T tuners here and over the years (all the way back to having just 2 tuners 5+ years ago) I've not found a distro+kernel combo that supports all of them simultaneously, rarely found one that actually works for more than of the tuners.
Every update just shuffles the pack. Open source drivers stop compiling when they change the video API, closed source blobs just break, drivers compile install and load but just don't work or in 1 case the driver maintainer gets so pissed with the endless changes and intransigent attitudes that he quits and no-one takes his place. OEM maintainers generally try once or twice then give up chasing the runaway driver model.
Step even slightly off the common path and Linux hardware support goes MIA and a lot of it is due to the shitty attitude the (equally shitty) GNOME devs point out.
Jury awards Apple $1bn damages in Samsung patent case
It's not just the product cycles are much shorter, for software the time to independent (re)discovery is so short patent protection serves no purpose.
That's partly because the ideas being patented right now are so ludicrously primitive they would inevitably be 'discovered' by average programmers as soon as they needed to solve that problem. Patent protection is about scarcity of innovation, encouraging sharing for the good of all. But the patents being issued aren't for innovation with any sort of scarcity to it.
More important: software is the 1st example of the 'infinite monkeys typing' concept. We have so many people writing software, sufficient of them being creative doing it that invention is a tidal flood, not a scarce trickle.
What's wrong with software patents is the failure to properly account for both those aspects, that without scarcity there's no need to protect trivial discoveries. Instead the patent offices have stampeded the other way and allowed everything, however trivial or obvious to get protection.
Re: So what happens if Apple is banned from the US Market
To paraphrase Apple:"It will take us 5 years to redesign the iPhone but Samsung will manage it in 3 months"
Apple just proved that Samsung is as good as Apple but half the price
I really hope this is 1:true, 2:spreads because its absolutely hilarious. From https://plus.google.com/u/0/114476892281222708332/posts/246srfbqg6G
"Guy: "Wait, so what they're saying is, Samsung is the same as Apple?"
Friend: "I know, right? Makes me think twice about how much I paid for my Mac Book"
Yes, Apple just proved that Samsung is as good as Apple but half the price... and the public noticed ;)
Re: What the Foreman said...
Don't be too upset. Normally a jury decision is pretty appeal proof. That quote establishes they didn't follow their instructions, the time the took suggests they didn't take the job seriously at all. This particular jury looks very challengeable and the next one will see more of the evidence on prior art.
Re: Appeal, here we come
'Exhaustion' doesn't mean what you think. The patent holder only gets to charge once for each *use* of their patent. Intel paid to cover the CPU, Samsung have no right to charge again for that CPU, whatever happens to it.
Note: nothing stops Samsung *trying* to sell Apple a general licence for the same patent but only actual infringement could force Apple to buy... and exhaustion == no infringement. I really don't understand why Samsung even bothered taking it to trial, it was obvious exhaustion applied the moment they revealed the patent use was embedded in an Intel component.
The rest of the case is simply a disgrace though and it's hard to believe it won't go to retrial. Meanwhile Apple have won because the injunctions will stay in place.
The only glimmer of hope is the case shone light on the collusion between Apple & Microsoft, the result of that threat 2-3 years ago to pool patents to destroy Google&Android. I see some anti-trust attention coming their way soon.
Still, any backroom deal that forces Microsoft to cripple their own software (Metro is the direct result of agreeing not to copy Apple) isn't all bad ;)
Ten 15in notebooks for under 400 quid
Re: A little harsh
All the variants I can see that specify it say Win7 Home Premium 64... TBH I wouldn't expect anything new to ship with a 32bit OS.
Windows Phone 8: Microsoft quite literally can't lose
MS Kin
I won't be taking bets on MS repeating the Kin One experience. Killed about 3 months after launch when it failed to sell more than 500 units. This time they can't afford to give up so easily, however poor sales are.
Apple and Google in talks to end patent war?
Japan result in: there's a pattern even Apple can't ignore
I wonder if Apples new found willingness to talk relates to the rapidly growing list of patent cases they've LOST against Android/Android users. Outside of some local German courts and that mockery of a jury in America they're losing everywhere.
Latest result: Japan just ruled against Apple in another attack on Samsung. No patent infringement in yet another country.
At some point reality catches up with most and Jobs is no longer around to blind his followers to reality. Google can just take it's time because time doesn't seem to be working for Apple. The real fun will be trying to deconstruct the 'not so' secret pact with Microsoft before MS can turn on Apple. MS have much more experience screwing their partners than Apple.
Why Java would still stink even if it weren't security swiss cheese
You were spoilt. Modula 2? We dreamed of that when I was learning. Cheeky lecturers even let us read the white papers then went back to forcing us to use standard Pascal - a language designed to prevent anything but toy programs being written in it!
The most productive programmers in my entire years in university used BASIC or machine code. Both ran faster than Pascal did on the mainframe and imposed much less insane limits on what was expressable.
IDC: Trying to flog PCs? It's not going to happen
Yes, we all know all MS really did was remove that pesky start button, nothing else changed at all...
The quality of fanbois comment has declined far below 'pathetically out of touch with reality' well before Win8 even launches.
Power users are going to just bypass all the new crap while subconsciously downgrading support for MS products. Ordinary and new users are going to wonder WTF just happened when Win8 switches UI modes, wonder WTF the controls are hidden in Metro. The missing Start menu will be the least of their worries.
Samsung fights to stay on US shelves as Apple calls for ban
Re: Of course the fact that they had just spent
Steve Todd:"Unfortunately for Samsung the test is "no reasonable jury" would have made the decision that they did"
The juries own statements establish this was not a 'reasonable jury' as jury's are meant to be formed and act and everything they decided is open to challenge.
Unfortunately for Apple and Apple fanbois the problem here is the jury justified their decisions based on the lack of prior art, prior art the court withheld from them. If they'd just shut their mouths it would probably end with 'no reasonable jury' but they A: established prior art is too important to be excluded the way it was, B: raised enough questions about jury corruption that A will get considered as a side effect.
So the question becomes: if all the prior art was seen what would a 'reasonable jury' decide. And this jury is no guide to that because they don't look remotely like a 'reasonable jury'.
This is going to retrial. That's not that interesting though, the real issue here is whether this threatens the rest of the Android world. As the days pass, as I consider it more, it seems less important. Samsung aren't innocent and certainly aren't as skilled at surfing right on the edge of what's legally permissable as Google showed in Oracle vs Google.
Android was created by an entity more aware of what they could get away with and with more ability to fight the nonsense patents Apple are using. The real battle hasn't begun and it will be brutal and hopefully put us back 30 years to a world where innovation has to be real to survive the market, not imposed by a parasitic legal system.
Office 2013 to offer one-off apps on demand
Re: Just what we need
...or if you remember to delete the cache and have no data cap... no need to run at all but all the bandwidth costs for Microsoft, over and over again.
Disable Java NOW, users told, as 0-day exploit hits web
WTF? Java stopped being malware?
It's disturbing that however hard I try to disable Java updates or Java browser plugins they just keep coming back like zombies. Java behaves like malware before malware tries to use it as a malware vector ;(
Want a Windows 8 Start Button? Open source to the rescue!
Re: why?!
"this had been done for years before by other companies"
True but no-one else managed to create a critical mass of installs. Probably more copies of GEM shipped on the Atari ST than sold to PC users. The best selling apps ST just dumped GEM and used their own UI ;)
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The most ambitious Spanish restaurant in Paris, this spot occupies an airy Seine-side space, avoiding tapas-bar clichés. The seasonal all-tapas menu, at €55 per person, is the most creative choice, but that would mean missing out on the seven different takes on paella that are available daily: perhaps saffron with seafood (which could be a bit more generous), inky squid, vegetable, or Valencia-style with rabbit, chicken, and vegetables. Finish up with custardy crème Catalan and a glass of muscatel.
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Big Sean is gearing up to release his new album, Hall of Fame, on August 27, so naturally the G.O.O.D Music signee is in a celebratory mood. Instead of popping bottles before pre-sale numbers begin to flood in, however, the Motown native has decided to unleash an unreleased record that hit the cutting room floor. Unfortunately, due to sample clearance issues, the No I.D.-produced Control failed to make the final Hall of Fame tracklist. Fortunately, the song is a seven minute Blitzkrieg featuring guest verses from Kendrick Lamar, who absolutely murders the track, and Jay Electronica, who has to follow Kendrick in third verse mop-up duty. Enough from me, listen, enjoy, tell a friend.
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Wedding Album for Kurt & Krystle Daugherty
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Ambition matters,writes Bryan Caplan on EconLog. It explains why students who apply to selective colleges earn more than those who set modest goals.
In Ambition Revisited, he looks at James Rosenbaum's College-For-All: Do Students Understand What College Demands? It shows degree completion as a function of high school students' grades and goals.
Exhibit A: Percentage of high school seniors who plan to get a BA who successfully do so.
Exhibit B: Percentage of high school seniors who plan to get an AA who successfully do so.
More than two-thirds of A-students who plan to get a BA succeed, compared to less than half of A-students who plan to get an AA, Caplan observes. "This pattern extends all the way down to the weakest students." In fact, B students who aim for a bachelor's are as likely to succeed as A students who aim for an associate degree.
It's likely seniors who want a BA are more ambitious than classmates willing to settle for an AA, Caplan writes. "As a result, they are — holding grades fixed — markedly more likely to achieve their goal despite its intrinsic difficulty. Seniors who say they only want an AA, in contrast, simultaneously aim low and fall short."
Ninth graders should be shown Exhibit A: Less than half of B students and one fifth of C students earn a bachelor's degree. Ambition isn't enough: You need to do the work in high school.
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Four Centuries of Women Composers composed by Gail Smith. For Piano. Perfect binding, Solos. Classic. Beginning-Intermediate. Book. 112 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.20260).
ISBN 9780786668700. Classic. 8.5 x 11 inches.
This collection of compositions for piano solo spans four centuries, including a rarely heard piece by Gottchalk's sister, Clara, as well as a charming piece by Marie Antoinette. Other composers include Madame Dussek, Teresa Carreno, Amy Beach, Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, and others. Three new solos are also offered by the author, Gail Smith.


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Tax Policy: A report says that nearly two-thirds of Britain's millionaires have left the country since the government established a 50% top tax rate. Is the U.S. about to repeat the same mistake?
According to the London Telegraph, the number of British taxpayers who earned more than 1 million pounds a year fell from more than 16,000 in the 2009-10 tax year to 6,000 "after Gordon Brown introduced the new 50% top rate of income tax shortly before the last general election."
"It is believed," reports the Telegraph, "that rich Britons moved abroad or took steps to avoid paying the new levy by reducing their taxable incomes."
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Between 2004 and 2008, more than $70 billion in wealth left New Jersey, according to a study by Boston College's Center on Wealth and Philanthropy. Increases in taxes on income, sales, property and millionaires all contributed to the exit.
Down the coast in Maryland, there was a net loss of 31,000 residents from 2007 to 2010, "the largest taxpayer exodus of any state in the region" in that period, says Change Maryland, the group that reported the data.
And where did they go? Change Maryland says 11,500 Marylanders have moved to Virginia.
And why? Change Maryland says that "since 2007, taxes and fees have been raised 24 times" in Maryland. Meanwhile the sales tax in Maryland is 6%, in Virginia it's 5%; the top personal income tax rate is 9% in Maryland while in Virginia it's 5.75%; and the corporate rate is 2.25 percentage points higher in Maryland.
Wealthy residents in California, Illinois, New York and Ohio are also leaving due to the high burden of government. And like elsewhere, they take with them a large piece of tax revenue. They also pull needed investment capital and jobs out of states desperate for them.
Despite the clear lessons available to him, President Obama wants to make the same mistake Britain and a few of our own states have made: He wants to raise the income tax rate of the country's top earners.
The ostensible reason is to close the federal deficit. But it won't work. Washington would have to tax the top 5% at an 88% rate to balance the budget. Moving rates back to the Clinton-era 39.6% won't come close.
So why target the rich? Two reasons:
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While those who sow division and those inclined to be envious of others' wealth say "good riddance" to the exodus of the rich, the flight of the rich creates practical problems.
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