Undistorted prices works fine when you are dealing with and an industry that does not have external social costs. Unfortunately, the private costs associated with energy generation typically do account for all the negative external costs such as health care, climate change and pollution cleanup.
Taxes (or tax credits) can add the social costs back in so producers and consumers can make proper market decisions based on the real costs.
I love to play the libertarian but Keynesian economics make more sense when market failure has such drastic effects such as climate change and pollution. IMO.
LinuxCanada has an POS system and an open source accounting system similar to Quickbooks. Both are reasonably priced for small businesses.
http://www.linuxcanada.com/
People.
This is not going to be Linux's big win on the desktop. Dell Linux sales are not going to rival the sales of Windows or Apple any time soon. I personally wonder if Dell will make any money on this initiative directly.
However, as Linux has the interest of many IT people, supporting it captures the attention and respect of many people who can influence IT budgets now and in the future.
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They currently have a yum repository:
http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/
I can only imagine they would have a debian based repository as well.
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In other news, fish are mysteriously dying all over the planet.
Plato, who stole most of his good ideas from Socrates (Socrates must have used Perl).
Sell them and let the invisible hand decide what is the best way to use these machines.
The Fifth Estate did a fantastic news piece on this. http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/head_games/video.html/
Undistorted prices works fine when you are dealing with and an industry that does not have external social costs. Unfortunately, the private costs associated with energy generation typically do account for all the negative external costs such as health care, climate change and pollution cleanup. Taxes (or tax credits) can add the social costs back in so producers and consumers can make proper market decisions based on the real costs. I love to play the libertarian but Keynesian economics make more sense when market failure has such drastic effects such as climate change and pollution. IMO.
My favourite is the Cheese Monster from a Pup Named Scooby Doo.
LinuxCanada has an POS system and an open source accounting system similar to Quickbooks. Both are reasonably priced for small businesses. http://www.linuxcanada.com/
Its called synchronized swimming. We use a photon called light to see what the other swimmer is doing and then mimic the other swimmer.
People. This is not going to be Linux's big win on the desktop. Dell Linux sales are not going to rival the sales of Windows or Apple any time soon. I personally wonder if Dell will make any money on this initiative directly. However, as Linux has the interest of many IT people, supporting it captures the attention and respect of many people who can influence IT budgets now and in the future.
They currently have a yum repository: http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/ I can only imagine they would have a debian based repository as well.
Or worse...What if one of the little gaffers decided to use their gun?
We have to stop letting people in our movie theaters with cam-quarters.