But it's crappy capitalism. There is more money to be made if every hungry person in the world gives you a quarter a day for their food than in making finger-waving door openers.
The problem is the perception that catering to the rich is the best way to make money -- it's not, it's an idiotic way to make money. You're subject to the unpredictable whims of a relatively small group of people who may decide tomorrow that they'd rather be recognised by the shape of their asses than their fingerprints. Meeting the undeniable, predictable needs of millions of people is a reliable, intelligent way to make money. The more people who make money reliably and intelligently, the healthier the market as a whole. THAT's capitalism.
I agree that the government has no place legislating morality, but it's naive to say that it should not try to direct the market. It should do so in ways to make the market healthier and more efficient, because the well-being of its citizens depend on it. If that really necessitates control of the way rich SOBs spend their money, fine (though I personally don't think it does).
Like the title of your post says, it's economics, and to a greater extent, politics. Forget the environmental argument, compelling as it may be to some people. I'm more interested in reducing the country's consumption of petroleum for both economic reasons (It's largely an import-only product at this point) and political reasons (We tend to import it from people who don't particularly like us).
Those two considerations alone are, I think, enough to provoke a restructuring of our farm subsidies to make these plastics considerably cheaper in a very short period of time.
You should email Nullsoft with exactly that sentiment. Even if you don't get permission to use it, you might get a straight answer about why it was taken down.
As badly mod-punished as I'm going to get for this, you're burning a hell of a lot of good will by hosting mirrors of WASTE. What if it were your own software that someone put up under the GPL without your permission? And before I get the chorus of, "All my software is under the GPL anyway!!" even software intended for free release shouldn't be distributed before the author is ready for it to be.
It's fine to speculate what exactly brought this about (And Nullsoft really should be more forthcoming than a plaintext legalistic note!), no speculation is grounds enough to justify redistribution of someone else's code that they've explicitly asked you not to redistribute. Period.
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Even sickly, it might still be able to reproduce, and thus make money as a stud. It'd require a heck of a lot of faith in genetics, though, to actually sell that to breeders.
I hate 'me too' posts, but I've got to second this. It's very not-free, but it's an amazing tool. You should be able to get a demo version to try it out (and I'd encourage you to, considering the necessary outlay of cash)
I can actually see it being a fairly popular utility in corporate laptops. So long as a company has very strict back-up policies, it would be far better for them if an executive's laptop got wiped than just have its location reported. Sure, you lose the opportunity to reclaim the hardware, but you also reduce the chances that the laptop can be used for industrial espionage.
You could, however, use a little miniature picture of the item, and so tell at a glance what you're looking at, with less chance of bringing up the wrong thing. You could also sell these in the gift shop with a copy of the database, so that people could bring them home and put an image of the painting or artifact up on the wall, together with all the information on it. If the pictures are nice enough, you could leave them out on the coffee table and allow guests to sort through them.
This is nothing that we couldn't do today; the difference is in moving the icon mentality into the physical world. This object that I can pick up and feed to the dog is actually representative of a set of data that describe the object. Pictures, text, sounds.
86. It is not possible for Linux to rapidly reach UNIX performance standards for complete enterprise functionality without the misappropriation of UNIX code, methods or concepts to achieve such performance, and coordination by a larger developer, such as IBM.
sums it up quite nicely. They're banking on the judge not understanding the nature of the Open Source community, which IBM will most likely lay to rest.
So, if you went to an event where they gave you free food, a free gun, and free shooting lessons, you'd be fine if at the end they gave you a pamphlet on the best way to shoot Charlton Heston?
My chief complaint with the software as it was six months ago, was that the level of detail varies so much from place to place. Sure, LA was really detailed, but my whole town in New Hampshire was just a green blob. (On the other hand, I looked up my parents' house and there was enough detail to make out the house, the garage, and the driveway. A little spooky, I must say)
I had that program; we used to make it try to call the dog.
I think, though, that in retrospect it was not quite so good as we remember it; getting something like that to sound more natural is no small thing, nor is it to make it a smaller, faster program that makes fewer pronunciation errors. Incremental advancements are the name of the game for most technologies -- what was Apollo, after all, except a series of incremental advancements over Sputnik?
Yes, but the people willing to spend the money on a cat kidney transplant can clearly not be trusted with it. Better to give the money to a responsible vet, who is likely to use it for slightly more intelligent purposes. I mean, it's not like your cat gets a kidney and ten grand disappear from circulation or anything.
Oil industry == petrol industry, which does not use fat oils, to my knowledge. My guess is that the oil industry uses degassed water while drilling, since it's probably very chemically inert.
As always, the weakest link will be the user. I can just see some schmuck decide that he's tired of waiting six seconds every time he gets back from the water cooler, and so he leaves the wristwatch next to the laptop at all times.
But I don't think frogs croak underwater (doesn't that require air?), and the aucoustic properties of the pipes would change if you filled them up with water.
I think he meant amphibian. Frogs croak in air. Pipes need to be filled with air. Just mist `em down every now and then, and you're fine.
The larger part of the decline in prices has come from sheer volume of sales, and the sharp drop in prices of hard drives and RAM, which MS had nothing at all to do with (Except, possibly, that its bloated OS requires more space and more memory every iteration). Now, much of that was driven by competition in the market for these devices stemming from the fact that multiple companies were building machines using parts from multiple sources -- but by no means can you conclude that this wouldn't have happened if IBM had retained their PC monopoly. Cloning was going to happen, no matter what. It was just a matter of which system got cloned; it could have been Apple's, it could have been Commodore's.
I love the way everyone assumes that the music they want will be available on the internet if they can't/don't buy the CD. Sony is trying to make it so that you -can't- get their music online, or at least not in a way that can be freely distributed.
The plan is this: Make it hard for average people to rip MP3s (or whatever. Let's say MP3s) from their copy-protected CDs, which are the only way you can get CDs with these songs. This leaves a relative handful of people who are able to rip MP3s, and Sony can go after these folks personally, first with C&D letters, then by going after their ISPs, then through the courts.
The ONLY way this plan can backfire is if you stop listening to music produced by the major labels, PERIOD. I know it sucks to hear that, but you're going to have to sacrifice listening to the new Britney songs if you want to remain free to listen to music the way you want.
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But it's crappy capitalism. There is more money to be made if every hungry person in the world gives you a quarter a day for their food than in making finger-waving door openers.
The problem is the perception that catering to the rich is the best way to make money -- it's not, it's an idiotic way to make money. You're subject to the unpredictable whims of a relatively small group of people who may decide tomorrow that they'd rather be recognised by the shape of their asses than their fingerprints. Meeting the undeniable, predictable needs of millions of people is a reliable, intelligent way to make money. The more people who make money reliably and intelligently, the healthier the market as a whole. THAT's capitalism.
I agree that the government has no place legislating morality, but it's naive to say that it should not try to direct the market. It should do so in ways to make the market healthier and more efficient, because the well-being of its citizens depend on it. If that really necessitates control of the way rich SOBs spend their money, fine (though I personally don't think it does).
Like the title of your post says, it's economics, and to a greater extent, politics. Forget the environmental argument, compelling as it may be to some people. I'm more interested in reducing the country's consumption of petroleum for both economic reasons (It's largely an import-only product at this point) and political reasons (We tend to import it from people who don't particularly like us).
Those two considerations alone are, I think, enough to provoke a restructuring of our farm subsidies to make these plastics considerably cheaper in a very short period of time.
You should email Nullsoft with exactly that sentiment. Even if you don't get permission to use it, you might get a straight answer about why it was taken down.
As badly mod-punished as I'm going to get for this, you're burning a hell of a lot of good will by hosting mirrors of WASTE. What if it were your own software that someone put up under the GPL without your permission? And before I get the chorus of, "All my software is under the GPL anyway!!" even software intended for free release shouldn't be distributed before the author is ready for it to be.
It's fine to speculate what exactly brought this about (And Nullsoft really should be more forthcoming than a plaintext legalistic note!), no speculation is grounds enough to justify redistribution of someone else's code that they've explicitly asked you not to redistribute. Period.
Even sickly, it might still be able to reproduce, and thus make money as a stud. It'd require a heck of a lot of faith in genetics, though, to actually sell that to breeders.
I hate 'me too' posts, but I've got to second this. It's very not-free, but it's an amazing tool. You should be able to get a demo version to try it out (and I'd encourage you to, considering the necessary outlay of cash)
I can actually see it being a fairly popular utility in corporate laptops. So long as a company has very strict back-up policies, it would be far better for them if an executive's laptop got wiped than just have its location reported. Sure, you lose the opportunity to reclaim the hardware, but you also reduce the chances that the laptop can be used for industrial espionage.
I stand corrected (and very well done, since my conductance statement was based on its electrical properties)
Oh, you're absolutely right, but being harder than ceramics, they'd probably hold up a little better under daily use.
Hmm. I didn't think that diamond was a good enough conductor to cook with. I think I'd rather have a nice set of diamond knives, myself.
You could, however, use a little miniature picture of the item, and so tell at a glance what you're looking at, with less chance of bringing up the wrong thing. You could also sell these in the gift shop with a copy of the database, so that people could bring them home and put an image of the painting or artifact up on the wall, together with all the information on it. If the pictures are nice enough, you could leave them out on the coffee table and allow guests to sort through them.
This is nothing that we couldn't do today; the difference is in moving the icon mentality into the physical world. This object that I can pick up and feed to the dog is actually representative of a set of data that describe the object. Pictures, text, sounds.
86. It is not possible for Linux to rapidly reach UNIX performance standards for complete enterprise functionality without the misappropriation of UNIX code, methods or concepts to achieve such performance, and coordination by a larger developer, such as IBM.
sums it up quite nicely. They're banking on the judge not understanding the nature of the Open Source community, which IBM will most likely lay to rest.
Sure. Hell, I'd ask for extra.
Friend of the Court.
Didn't you read the article? ;)
My chief complaint with the software as it was six months ago, was that the level of detail varies so much from place to place. Sure, LA was really detailed, but my whole town in New Hampshire was just a green blob. (On the other hand, I looked up my parents' house and there was enough detail to make out the house, the garage, and the driveway. A little spooky, I must say)
I had that program; we used to make it try to call the dog.
I think, though, that in retrospect it was not quite so good as we remember it; getting something like that to sound more natural is no small thing, nor is it to make it a smaller, faster program that makes fewer pronunciation errors. Incremental advancements are the name of the game for most technologies -- what was Apollo, after all, except a series of incremental advancements over Sputnik?
... at which point they'll discover that 'dissidents' means pretty much everybody.
Yes, but the people willing to spend the money on a cat kidney transplant can clearly not be trusted with it. Better to give the money to a responsible vet, who is likely to use it for slightly more intelligent purposes. I mean, it's not like your cat gets a kidney and ten grand disappear from circulation or anything.
Oil industry == petrol industry, which does not use fat oils, to my knowledge. My guess is that the oil industry uses degassed water while drilling, since it's probably very chemically inert.
As always, the weakest link will be the user. I can just see some schmuck decide that he's tired of waiting six seconds every time he gets back from the water cooler, and so he leaves the wristwatch next to the laptop at all times.
I think he meant amphibian. Frogs croak in air. Pipes need to be filled with air. Just mist `em down every now and then, and you're fine.
The larger part of the decline in prices has come from sheer volume of sales, and the sharp drop in prices of hard drives and RAM, which MS had nothing at all to do with (Except, possibly, that its bloated OS requires more space and more memory every iteration). Now, much of that was driven by competition in the market for these devices stemming from the fact that multiple companies were building machines using parts from multiple sources -- but by no means can you conclude that this wouldn't have happened if IBM had retained their PC monopoly. Cloning was going to happen, no matter what. It was just a matter of which system got cloned; it could have been Apple's, it could have been Commodore's.
The plan is this: Make it hard for average people to rip MP3s (or whatever. Let's say MP3s) from their copy-protected CDs, which are the only way you can get CDs with these songs. This leaves a relative handful of people who are able to rip MP3s, and Sony can go after these folks personally, first with C&D letters, then by going after their ISPs, then through the courts.
The ONLY way this plan can backfire is if you stop listening to music produced by the major labels, PERIOD. I know it sucks to hear that, but you're going to have to sacrifice listening to the new Britney songs if you want to remain free to listen to music the way you want.
OK, now I know I have a problem -- I read that as a Roman Numeral 4 after all the mentions of 4:00 and 4:27. I think I need some caffiene...