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Hungarian Postal Service Issues Steve Jobs Commemorations
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Since this is a pure money-making exercise: Would you buy it? Do you know anyone who would? That will answer your question.
Someone (an American) asked my French ex-girlfriend if they had a moon in France. Bye the way, that person didn't know where France is.
It's not the .01 or .02 on the price of a single first class letter that people groan about. Heck, who sends letters anymore. The increase in the first class letter price is part of a wider price increase which includes packages. If you take a look at USPS package prices they are frequently more expensive than UPS or FedEx Ground and don't include real tracking or insurance (both FedEx Ground and UPS provide $100 free insurance).
I sent a package in a flat rate priority box a few months ago and the clerk at the counter blessed me out because the top of the box was not completely flat. Never had that happen to me at UPS or FedEx.
Also you are mistaken that the price of a domestic stamp in other countries is anywhere near $4.50. Most countries are more expensive than the U.S. but by a nickel or dime, not dollars.
Remember the huge controversy over the fat Elvis or skinny Elvis picture.
I think the most complimentary image should be used, at least out of respect.
Sorry in advance for the OT post...
Actually, I think it IS the price of a first class letter most people complain about. The reason why they bump the package rates so much is because under law, they cannot raise the price of a 1st class stamp faster than the rate of inflation. So they need to cover their increased costs from somewhere. If people didn't complain about 1st class prices, why would a law have been passed (fairly recently, I think in the last 5-10 years or so) that prohibited the cost of a stamp from increasing beyond the rate of inflation?
And as someone who does a lot of shipping, the USPS is still a tremendous value for smaller, lighter packages heading to residential destinations (the flat rate stuff is sometimes a great value and sometimes a raw deal). They beat UPS or FedEx rates hands down. And if you print your label online, it comes with free tracking (they used to call this delivery confirmation but they are slowly switching the verbiage to "USPS Tracking" because now they scan everything at multiple points enroute). For heavier stuff, UPS/FedEx is the way to go. This makes sense if one understands what the USPS vs. commercial carrier distribution networks are geared towards.
Also, understand that Priority Mail is an express service. You can't compare Priority Mail to FedEx/UPS Ground - the comparable service is Parcel Post. Other than regional packages which are trucked, all Priority Mail is actually flown under contract by FedEx Express. Stack Priority Mail against UPS 3 Day Select or FedEx 3 Day and the numbers will come out very differently.
Are the commercial carriers somewhat more efficient and technically savvy? Sure. But they're also built around the business of moving packages, while the USPS has traditionally focused on moving letters and has invested plenty of technology in the latter.
When I was visiting Hungary five or six years ago, I noticed a lot of little computer stores sold and serviced Apple machines alongside PCs. This was at a time when it was hard to find an Apple dealer in Canada, so it stuck out to me.
I recall that Mac's were well-suited for internationalization compared to the early competition, so I bet they held a pretty good slice of the market in non-English-speaking countries.
I recall that Mac's were well-suited for internationalization compared to the early competition, so I bet they held a pretty good slice of the market in non-English-speaking countries.
I was being facetious. Nobody cares about Dennis Ritchie, unfortunately. Steve Jobs, a grossly overrated 'pioneer' gets all the glory. Did Jobs ever write any code for Mac OS? What was his actual skill beyond management?
Nothing really, just things like getting a mouse in every computer and multitouch in every telephone.
By the way, interestingly the original Mac OS was written in Pascal and ASM - not C. Yeah, no point, I just thought that'd irk you.
Afaik, Hungary has made many beautiful stamps about happenings around the world. So for me it's not random. No, I'm not Hungarian.
You filthy trolls just get lower and lower, don't you?
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Did Einstein invent the laws of physics? Did Newton build gravity? Charles Babbage never completed his engines, but they all work. And you have no clue how much involvement Jobs had with the practical side of his company - but as he used to work out of a garage, it was probably quite a lot.
I was in Paris about 10 years ago. Talking to a guy at a local market.
"Where are you from?" He asks me
"Sydney, Australia" l reply
"Oh, l'm driving there next week"
I don't know but about French, but in German, the word for travel is the same as the word for drive, so I could easily imagine someone who is a non-native English speaker confusing the two. I would not have assumed that it was a lack of geographical knowledge, but rather a translation error.
He turned Apple into one of the most successful companies in the world, with the second largest market caps of any US company. What do you want beyond that?
Not that it warrants a stamp issue, but as I said, the stamp is just to grab money. The Hungarian Postal Service gets $4.50 or so for a sheet of paper. Good deal - for them. In a genuine stamp issue you would have expected the text on the stamp to be in Hungarian, not English.
Providing the tech blueprint for the industry to follow for the next decade. No biggie, right?
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Use a better picture please
Use a better picture please
Yeah, nothing compared to building the foundation for *all* tech since the 70s and for the next DECADES.
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Did Steve Jobs invent the Telephone? Were cell phones available before the iPhone? Were tablets available before the iPad? Did touch screen phones exist before the iPhone? Did apps exist before the iPhone? Did cameras on phones existed before the iPhone? Did MP3s exist before the iPod? Did music streaming exist before iTunes/iPod/iPhone?
Why is everyone regarding him higher than god himself when Jobs' involvement was evolutionary, NOT revolutionary? Is it 'cool' to hold him on a pedestal these days?
Yeah, nothing compared to building the foundation for *all* tech since the 70s and for the next DECADES.
Well, one could argue that the creators of C introduced us all into a dark age in which we still are mired. With C and all its family of imperative languages we straddled away from the ways of LISP and functional / declarative languages, so now we are still trying to get things done while monkeying with C++ and Object Orientation and Design Patterns, and only little by little the industry is realizing that maybe we got a wrong detour in the 70's or even earlier. Look now at the resurgence of functional programming and functional extensions to every language, the despair about multithread / multicore programming with our current tools, the appearance of VM's and JITs everywhere, the take over of said VM's by functional languages (Scala vs Java), ... look at what computer science luminaries have been doing and saying since always (Djikstra, Knuth; even Stallman used C mostly as a portable assembler, leaving LISP for anything high-level).
So yeah, there is still a chance that the last few decades will be looked at as a costly experiment that didn't work out. An anomaly fueled by the appearance of GUIs (and their plug to object orientation), the computer market explosion of the 80's and 90's ("leave that LISP machine, the money is in these Windows thingies!"), and the low-hanging fruit of single-core Moore's Law ("yeah, the software is slow, but anyway the new Pentium will be so fast that it won't matter!").
Meanwhile, at least we have a mouse in every computer and multitouch in every phone, thanks directly or indirectly to Steve Jobs.
(I am not as radical as pictured here, but better don't push me
)Of course, apps existed. And the thing was so nasty that understandbly the market fell in love with Apple.
I take it you never had to look for and install a J2ME application on a Sony Ericsson or Nokia phone.
I would like to understand what is you problem with those words, "evolutionary" or "revolutionary". Why are you so hanged up with them?
And anyway, what was ever "revolutionary" for you?
And about "god himself", I don't know, do you mean I should not be making these sacrifices to Him?
Why did another country do this before America? I think we should be the first to honor him in the manner. Oh, and if we do, use a better picture.
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They are on eBay if you're will to pay for them.
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They are on eBay if you're will to pay for them.