If I send a nasty email to someone and declare it copyrighted, they can't distribute it?
I say that because of a recent story about a guy who sent a girl a mean email and she published it on her blog and he received death threats in response...
MicroSoft could make the next version of Windows remote-boot only.
That's when GNU/Linux or *BSD's maturity and availability comes into play, large swaths of the populace shrug off Windows, and literally two worlds emerge: the thin client centralized world and the fat client decentralized world.
Now the centralizers who are quite real and quite active in their quest for control, will try to take away personal hard drives, but it'll only take a few screw-ups with loss, revocation of access to, or the catastrophic leaking of vital personal files (a writer's book gets plagiarized because corporate server rules won't let it be inaccessible to others, or a writer/artist's works in progress are lost due to a crash of some sort), for that pipe dream to die. Hard drives will come in from Singapore & Taiwan, I suppose.
But do expect an assault on the personal hard drive. Without the removal of the personal hard drive from the market, the migration to centralization is an outright abortion. If they can justify no longer producing hard drives, then bend over and kiss the golden age of computing and computing freedom goodbye.
To liken the job creation by space exploration to "just more broken windows" is frighteningly myopic.
The same argument could just as logically be made concerning the US road system. It required Government funding to create, but look at the externalities there - we now have a far more efficient interstate shipping and commerce system, and countless new businesses depend on this system to transport goods. Not to mention all the tourists and road trippers who convey dollars from sea to shining sea as a result. If we had left private business to manage our road system we would not have so many "broken windows" - but we also would not have as many "houses" either. A nation of toll roads would grind our economy to a halt.
Another example would be the Government's funding of the internet.
What makes this broken windows analogy so off the mark is 1) that space exploration is not some useless pork barrel project. It not only creates new jobs for the moment, but it literally expands the economy by exponentially exponential orders of magnitude, and that's no exaggeration; and 2) we're not breaking windows to create jobs for people who mend windows - in actuality, we're creating infinitely more windows, and creating jobs for people who make windows; and finally 3) major economic milestones - the US road system, the internet, the space program and urban/rural electrification - were not achieved by the Government standing back. US Government, in many cases, has caused major evolutionary jumps forward in our economy, by getting involved. Then, when the infrastructure was laid, free enterprise jumped up on the shoulders of giants and built the rest of America.
Ironically, the laissez-faire deregulation days of the 1920s (banking deregulation) were what sunk our economy. (See: banks closing on a daily basis and people putting their money under mattresses - this kind of unstable, untrustworthy economy was doomed, even without the Smoot-Hawley[sp?] tariff boogey man.)
Basically, this is less about broken windows, and more about making more windows.
The indisputable fact that space exploration leads to (among other measurable benefits)
access to more natural resources (read: an inevitably expanding economy) technological advances (read: more conveniences for you)
and here's the Libertarian kicker: the chance to move your home so far remotely from the reach of Governments that you can live your life without the fear of Communist intervention
pretty much means that funding space exploration mends more windows than it breaks.
That having been said, an economist knows what "externality" means. That word, which is highly relevant to this discussion, explains why your "broken window fallacy" accusation is wildly off the mark.
Outsourcing PCI = Mastercard information goes right to Al Qaeda, do not pass go, do collect $200 for Osama Bin Laden.
There's no amount of security that can save you once the admin overseas has been bribed a year's salary to cough up the goods - oh, and they're outside the FBI's jurisdiction, too. Their host country MIGHT get around to chasing the bastard down... if they like you at the time. Such is the joy of being at the mercy of another country to come to bat for you if you're wronged by one of their citizens.
Do you realize the damage that an unlicensed real estate professional can do to a home buyer or home seller?
Let's say you buy a house - a $400,000 investment - and you find out later that the home has inside wiring problems dry rot and other water damage termites **a mountain of casino debt attached to the property**
oh and the unlicensed jerk who brokered this sale - and the former homeowner - have disappeared.
This, and 10,000 other issues, are why you never buy a house without a licensed realtor.
What you just basically said is you discriminate against an employee based on their religion.
What you just basically said you do, has gotten many an employer sued and quite successfully so.
You, holophrastic, are bullshitting. You are not a manager, nor do you run a business. Not here in America, you don't.
Perhaps you run a business in some third world shithole, but in America, you would be eaten alive.
I on the other hand DO manage a data center in a financial institution and I would utterly FIRE you if I found out you were monitoring a worker's life after work hours. I would fire you and put it in the newspapers.
Yup, just as I predicted. I said runaway capitalism is the problem, and you knee jerked right into "he is saying capitalism is the problem."
Yes, I know you probably were home schooled, but your parents should have told you the difference between "x" and "runaway x". A car is good and it gets you places. A runaway car is a deadly hazard to everyone in its path. Likewise, capitalism is good, but runaway capitalism consumes a nation with utter greed. Now I don't know about you but where I come from, greed is not good. This might have changed, though, in this age of total Godlessness - er, no wait, money is God now. Sillyme.
As for the dorks talking about the evils of Government, what difference does it make? If you get rid of the Government you will inevitably wind up with warlords where he with the biggest and mostest guns, makes all the rules - and guess what? The rich people will influence him to make the rules. Government embodies the will of the people, in a democratic society. Try and live in a country without Government and see how long you last. You may kill the FIRST bandit coming to your door, but not the one a mile away aiming that rocket launcher at you. Think: Ruby Ridge - on a daily basis.
The big picture is that runaway Capitalism is where they have gone wrong.
Consumer freedom is now irrelevant. What good is the free market when you can't buy what you want - namely, to keep this on topic, where can we get a powerful video card with the full specs for making open source drivers? Good luck building your own fab. Apparently only a trillionaire can afford such simple freedoms.
This is clearly an example where capitalism fails miserably.
(Uh oh, here come the angry "Capitalism is God, how dare you infidels question the market!" right wing Republo-jihadists with mod points...)
I'd put my Palm Treo 700p up against this over hyped thing any day. I get more apps than the iPhone, I get to put any kind of music I want on my phone, and I have FREEDOM. Plus the 700p does such a huge shiteload of things that the iPhone's "advantage" is a joke.
Hire the right sales people, and they can turn the company around with astounding jumps in sales. Without these people, management can do absolutely nothing but what they are doing now - sucking the company dry as it sinks.
Circuit City's stocks have taken a dive since this boneheaded maneuver, which you are saying is not idiotic, was carried out. Darwin says they failed the natural selection test by doing this.
I say let all those execs go and hire someone who will oversee a return to a base+commission based sales system.
What we need are larger and more visible protests.
The recent traffic jamming of intellectual property fascism in the EU and the Super-DMCA grinding to a halt in Canada, is proof that the people can still get their way. Or at least a compromise. Though defending privacy now is going to take a more radical amount of action.
I already resist commercials pretty much naturally, and am very hard to sell ANYTHING to. Who is this Jeff Cooper? I have a feeling this thing he teaches can tell me why I'm so super skeptical and yet also raise up my game.
The 5 year warranty is why I get Seagate drives to begin with.
I commit my data to DVD overnight and archive on seagate drives. If they die, I get a replacement. By the time these 750gb drives can't be replaced for free, there'll be a 3000 gb drive on the market or something like that, and it'll be time to consolidate into larger cap drives anyway.
Western Digital? Dead in a year, just days beyond its warranty. Screw that.
Hmmm. Rambling thoughts here. Maybe 500gb drives will go the way of the 500 meg drives. One can hope!
AC is right. The FBI can't prosecute someone in East India who shuttles your money over to Al Qaeda. But the FBI sure can come nab you because they think it was you who did it.
A year's salary for a database admin in Bangalore = a cup of Java at Starbucks. Sleep tight.
No, the place for 'game design' grads is more likely to be the shoe department in Target.
*rolls eyes* This sort of hackneyed elitism is boring.
The people who design quality games are experienced codemonkeys who work extremely long, hard hours. Not some doe-eyed frat boy who thinks big explosions would be neat-o. I suggest people read the biography on Carmack and Romero. Carmack spent hour after miserable hour doing nothing but write code for months to get out each doom and quake engine. Romero, however, was the poster child of the "gaming game-designer", he did a lot more playing than designing and towards the end of their partnership was much more of a burden than a contributer. The people who come up with innovative and fun gameplay mechanics are usually the boring, technical geeks and not hardcore players.
Romero is Romero, he is not the typical gaming game-designer.
Gaming is like any other creativity business - you need the workers, and you need the management to direct them. Actors alone will not make a movie without a good director, who her/himself can't do it without a producer, who usually can't do it without a writer.
Hard core players make good testers if they have a white box testing background. Game designers need to come by and see what they and the programmers have wrought, and suggest fine tunings thereafter. But most of all, they need to be competent.
John Romero was incompetent. Incompetence will ruin a project, be it incompetent management or talent.
It's like the architect (game designer) and the construction worker (coder). Sometimes the coder can BE the architect, but you always need the architect and the construction worker.
Game design grads should be doing what they were trained for.
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If I send a nasty email to someone and declare it copyrighted, they can't distribute it?
I say that because of a recent story about a guy who sent a girl a mean email and she published it on her blog and he received death threats in response...
**AA? Forget that.
You're talking instant drowning death in 3 letter alphabet soup.
Excellent bullshit detector technology you have there. In fact, you beat me to it. :)
LOL - and you may have to pay a subscription to get that 'vision' back.
Perhaps they can't see it because Apple keeps deleting forum postings about it.
MicroSoft could make the next version of Windows remote-boot only.
That's when GNU/Linux or *BSD's maturity and availability comes into play, large swaths of the populace shrug off Windows, and literally two worlds emerge: the thin client centralized world and the fat client decentralized world.
Now the centralizers who are quite real and quite active in their quest for control, will try to take away personal hard drives, but it'll only take a few screw-ups with loss, revocation of access to, or the catastrophic leaking of vital personal files (a writer's book gets plagiarized because corporate server rules won't let it be inaccessible to others, or a writer/artist's works in progress are lost due to a crash of some sort), for that pipe dream to die. Hard drives will come in from Singapore & Taiwan, I suppose.
But do expect an assault on the personal hard drive. Without the removal of the personal hard drive from the market, the migration to centralization is an outright abortion. If they can justify no longer producing hard drives, then bend over and kiss the golden age of computing and computing freedom goodbye.
To liken the job creation by space exploration to "just more broken windows" is frighteningly myopic.
The same argument could just as logically be made concerning the US road system. It required Government funding to create, but look at the externalities there - we now have a far more efficient interstate shipping and commerce system, and countless new businesses depend on this system to transport goods. Not to mention all the tourists and road trippers who convey dollars from sea to shining sea as a result. If we had left private business to manage our road system we would not have so many "broken windows" - but we also would not have as many "houses" either. A nation of toll roads would grind our economy to a halt.
Another example would be the Government's funding of the internet.
What makes this broken windows analogy so off the mark is
1) that space exploration is not some useless pork barrel project. It not only creates new jobs for the moment, but it literally expands the economy by exponentially exponential orders of magnitude, and that's no exaggeration; and
2) we're not breaking windows to create jobs for people who mend windows - in actuality, we're creating infinitely more windows, and creating jobs for people who make windows; and finally
3) major economic milestones - the US road system, the internet, the space program and urban/rural electrification - were not achieved by the Government standing back. US Government, in many cases, has caused major evolutionary jumps forward in our economy, by getting involved. Then, when the infrastructure was laid, free enterprise jumped up on the shoulders of giants and built the rest of America.
Ironically, the laissez-faire deregulation days of the 1920s (banking deregulation) were what sunk our economy. (See: banks closing on a daily basis and people putting their money under mattresses - this kind of unstable, untrustworthy economy was doomed, even without the Smoot-Hawley[sp?] tariff boogey man.)
Basically, this is less about broken windows, and more about making more windows.
The indisputable fact that space exploration leads to (among other measurable benefits)
access to more natural resources (read: an inevitably expanding economy)
technological advances (read: more conveniences for you)
and here's the Libertarian kicker: the chance to move your home so far remotely from the reach of Governments that you can live your life without the fear of Communist intervention
pretty much means that funding space exploration mends more windows than it breaks.
That having been said, an economist knows what "externality" means. That word, which is highly relevant to this discussion, explains why your "broken window fallacy" accusation is wildly off the mark.
Learn those two languages or everything else you learn won't mean squat.
PCI? God help us all.
Outsourcing PCI = Mastercard information goes right to Al Qaeda, do not pass go, do collect $200 for Osama Bin Laden.
There's no amount of security that can save you once the admin overseas has been bribed a year's salary to cough up the goods - oh, and they're outside the FBI's jurisdiction, too. Their host country MIGHT get around to chasing the bastard down... if they like you at the time. Such is the joy of being at the mercy of another country to come to bat for you if you're wronged by one of their citizens.
he wants his world of tomorrow back.
Do you realize the damage that an unlicensed real estate professional can do to a home buyer or home seller?
Let's say you buy a house - a $400,000 investment - and you find out later that the home has
inside wiring problems
dry rot and other water damage
termites
**a mountain of casino debt attached to the property**
oh and the unlicensed jerk who brokered this sale - and the former homeowner - have disappeared.
This, and 10,000 other issues, are why you never buy a house without a licensed realtor.
China is doing that a lot in Africa, most likely Nigeria included.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/9557
What you just basically said is you discriminate against an employee based on their religion.
What you just basically said you do, has gotten many an employer sued and quite successfully so.
You, holophrastic, are bullshitting. You are not a manager, nor do you run a business. Not here in America, you don't.
Perhaps you run a business in some third world shithole, but in America, you would be eaten alive.
I on the other hand DO manage a data center in a financial institution and I would utterly FIRE you if I found out you were monitoring a worker's life after work hours. I would fire you and put it in the newspapers.
Yup, just as I predicted. I said runaway capitalism is the problem, and you knee jerked right into "he is saying capitalism is the problem."
Yes, I know you probably were home schooled, but your parents should have told you the difference between "x" and "runaway x". A car is good and it gets you places. A runaway car is a deadly hazard to everyone in its path. Likewise, capitalism is good, but runaway capitalism consumes a nation with utter greed. Now I don't know about you but where I come from, greed is not good. This might have changed, though, in this age of total Godlessness - er, no wait, money is God now. Sillyme.
As for the dorks talking about the evils of Government, what difference does it make? If you get rid of the Government you will inevitably wind up with warlords where he with the biggest and mostest guns, makes all the rules - and guess what? The rich people will influence him to make the rules. Government embodies the will of the people, in a democratic society. Try and live in a country without Government and see how long you last. You may kill the FIRST bandit coming to your door, but not the one a mile away aiming that rocket launcher at you. Think: Ruby Ridge - on a daily basis.
The big picture is that runaway Capitalism is where they have gone wrong.
Consumer freedom is now irrelevant. What good is the free market when you can't buy what you want - namely, to keep this on topic, where can we get a powerful video card with the full specs for making open source drivers? Good luck building your own fab. Apparently only a trillionaire can afford such simple freedoms.
This is clearly an example where capitalism fails miserably.
(Uh oh, here come the angry "Capitalism is God, how dare you infidels question the market!" right wing Republo-jihadists with mod points...)
I'd put my Palm Treo 700p up against this over hyped thing any day. I get more apps than the iPhone, I get to put any kind of music I want on my phone, and I have FREEDOM. Plus the 700p does such a huge shiteload of things that the iPhone's "advantage" is a joke.
Oh and I've used the iPhone for a week straight.
Hire the right sales people, and they can turn the company around with astounding jumps in sales. Without these people, management can do absolutely nothing but what they are doing now - sucking the company dry as it sinks.
Circuit City's stocks have taken a dive since this boneheaded maneuver, which you are saying is not idiotic, was carried out. Darwin says they failed the natural selection test by doing this.
I say let all those execs go and hire someone who will oversee a return to a base+commission based sales system.
What we need are larger and more visible protests.
The recent traffic jamming of intellectual property fascism in the EU and the Super-DMCA grinding to a halt in Canada, is proof that the people can still get their way. Or at least a compromise. Though defending privacy now is going to take a more radical amount of action.
best of Slashdot.
eff.org, plaque it, please.
I already resist commercials pretty much naturally, and am very hard to sell ANYTHING to. Who is this Jeff Cooper? I have a feeling this thing he teaches can tell me why I'm so super skeptical and yet also raise up my game.
The 5 year warranty is why I get Seagate drives to begin with.
I commit my data to DVD overnight and archive on seagate drives. If they die, I get a replacement. By the time these 750gb drives can't be replaced for free, there'll be a 3000 gb drive on the market or something like that, and it'll be time to consolidate into larger cap drives anyway.
Western Digital? Dead in a year, just days beyond its warranty. Screw that.
Hmmm. Rambling thoughts here. Maybe 500gb drives will go the way of the 500 meg drives. One can hope!
AC is right. The FBI can't prosecute someone in East India who shuttles your money over to Al Qaeda. But the FBI sure can come nab you because they think it was you who did it.
A year's salary for a database admin in Bangalore = a cup of Java at Starbucks. Sleep tight.
"... but I will have one HELL of a hot Dark Elf babe to leave my hard earned farmed gold to."
*rolls eyes* This sort of hackneyed elitism is boring.
Romero is Romero, he is not the typical gaming game-designer.
Gaming is like any other creativity business - you need the workers, and you need the management to direct them. Actors alone will not make a movie without a good director, who her/himself can't do it without a producer, who usually can't do it without a writer.
Hard core players make good testers if they have a white box testing background. Game designers need to come by and see what they and the programmers have wrought, and suggest fine tunings thereafter. But most of all, they need to be competent.
John Romero was incompetent. Incompetence will ruin a project, be it incompetent management or talent.
It's like the architect (game designer) and the construction worker (coder). Sometimes the coder can BE the architect, but you always need the architect and the construction worker.
Game design grads should be doing what they were trained for.