The reason that you *consider* paying apple memory prices is that apple's specs for memory are something like a half a standard deviation higher than other good memory.
I don't find it worth it, but the reality is that meeting apple's specs is more expensive.
Then again, a few years ago when I brought my iMac in the third time for crashes, they returned it with my bank of aftermarket memory in a bag--with the offending stick labeled . . .
That will still depend on the car . . . a three ton cadillac land yacht with a ride like a nice coach sitting on a cloud would be kind of silly with a manual . . .
He's the CEO of a *classic car* insurance company, which is an entirely different kind of fish.
I actually have two vehicles insured with them. $300k liability, no deductibles, rather extended towing, part concierge service, etc.
I think one is for $8k, and the other for $10k--which includes replacement and search costs.
My annual premium is something like $250 combined. . . . (so about an eighth of regular insurance here)
Now.I also had to show them that I had another car, and provide pictures of the car *in* my garage to get the policy.
Initially, I could only drive to and from car clubs, car eents, parades, and "pleasure driving."
I asked about taking my wife to dinner and tha gal responded, "we'd rather you take her to a drivein." . . . (they've relaxed since then, and dinner and eve a "once in a blue moon" trip to work is now OK)
While I strongly prefer a manual in general. a large Cadillac just wouldn't be the same without an automatic. (I have a '72 Eldorado Convertible in the garage)
(whereas anyone that wants to buy an MG or Miata with an sutomatic or hard roof shouldn't be allowed to have one!)
>I was confused, because we didn't have 28 million >people out of work (unless the unemployment figures >are rigged)
Speaking as a displaced economist . . .
"rigged" is an overstatement, but they sure don't measure what normal people think of as unemployment.
The most commonly reported figure is U-3, which just takes those with no work at all in the "labor force", and divides by the size of that force. The labor force is defined (roughly) as those actively looking for work.
U-3 can, in an economy that isn't changing much, tell you about employment trends.
One problem is that in long poor economies, people give up and stop looking. These are called "discouraged workers" and are not counted as part of the labor force.
Another is that the guy that got two hours of work but needs 40 still counts as unemployed.
U-4 to U-6 take that into account. By the time you get to U-6, the folks that have given up and those that can't get enough work count towards unemployed.
In "normal" times, U-3 and U-6 kind of move together. But as we went about eight years after the last recession (which was really a run of the mill recession, it's just that we hadn't had a "real" one since the early 80s) without a normal expansion, U-3 and U-6 diverged more and more widely.
So once we got back to "normal" economic growth, some discouraged workers resumed working, and some of the underemployed got more hours. This is reflected by U-6 moving *far* more than U-3, with large numbers of people becoming employed with only small changes in the labor rate.
So there are always more people out of work than the common U-3 shows--they've just been redefined as out o the labor force. In normal times, there aren't as many.
>You haven't explained why that would make the cost >go down for US exporters though.
Currently, the payment for internationally shipping from the US is basically the price plus a subsidy. For example, a $5 fee paid is $4 for the shipping, and $1 for the subsidy.
If a packages is $5 to a developing country, it might be only 50 cents to ship *from* the developing country. The first world receiver pays more to deliver in country than it is paid on that package--and subsidizes this loss from that extra dollar above.
The reason for this is to let Elbonia pull itself up into the the modern world; it is deliberately subsidized.
The problem is that as China left that developing status, it hasn't given up its rates.
If China has to pay the rates of an economy of its state of development, subsidy of its shipping no longer has to be built into the other international rates. *That* is where the reduction comes from.
Shipment between the US and Europe don't subsidize one another, and their cost could reasonably be expected to go down without the subsidy for China (or at least not increase as much as they would have).
What made it s unusable was not just the grab of scree space, so that empty "desktop" blocked access sot other application, but that this effectively brought *all* of its documents to the front, and took away focus-follows-mouse access to other documents.
I thought that losing focus-follows-mouse would be the hardest part of switching back to mac, but it turned to be only #2--not being able to select and middle-click to paste was the biggest.
Sun didn't write it; they bought StarOffice from the german companyStarDivision (or some such)
I''d used StarOffice since 1.x, except for the horrific 4.x with the "feature" of its own desktop.
Sun's vision was a return to powerful central computers, but this time with smart to very smart terminals. Your session could follow you from one to another, as it was really running centrally.
They needed an office suite to run on the center, and StarOffice already ran on X.
As their plan was to make the money from the hardware, a virally licensed open source project was perfect for them (a public license wouldn't work, as a competitor could fork for a competitive edge from new features).
The icing on the cake was that giving it away was a way for McNealy to stick a knife in Gates' ribs . . . this was at a time where their wealth's were fluctuating in the same range, and constantly passing one another . . .
>The thing Sun wrote was bloated and slow. OO added a lot of features. LO is basically "finished" IMO.
sun didn't write it, but rather bought it.
It was part of their vision of a return to more powerful central servers with smart terminals. OO would run on the center, and display, with your sun-session able to follow you from machine to machine.
OO originally came from a german company whose name slips mind, and was free for commercial and academic use, with a paid commercial version.
I used it from version 1 on (except for the hideous 4.x withers own desktop . ..) until switching to LO I forget when.
Oh, and for McNealy, Sun giving it away was a unaided inceptive, a way to knife gates in the ribs . . .
>Then you must have been in a coma from 1984 through to 1998 given that >the fundamental OS that ran all computers of that decade +/- ran this OS.
Apple was rumored to have been planning another OS for 1984. Think of what the world might be like if *that* had happened . . . pity they died as the Apple ][ couldn't compete . . .
>Or maybe if you don't find OSes interesting in >general people purposely don't send you memos.
He shouldn't feel bad; IBM, AT&T, DEC, and Pr1me neer got the memo either . . .
> nMS-DOS 1 basically cloned all the CP/M interfaces.
but not everything *important*.
Of note was the absence of the IO byte at address 3 which allowed CP/M to assign devices at a very low level. I used it once for example, to temporarily change the main output to the physical line printer to print reports with the same code as went to screen (I'd taken over a project already coded in basic).
Or another time when I changed the serial port to be the console to feed keyboard commands and output for testing (this took a second computer . . . )
There's a couple of other things, but an expansion o that iobyte (say, to allow files) would have been more than slightly useful.
Replacing original windows (which were *all* tenant damaged anyway) with doublepane and non-metal frames made a *huge* difference in the desert summer . . . and when winter rolled around, my ife started claling them "you stupid windows" because the house didn't warm as fast in the morning . . ...if it were trying to radiate away heat, it would have taken evne longer . . .
We briefly considered it for both my father and my mother in law. One *has* been injured in a fall and was slowed for a couple of years, and the other had a minor injury hiking alone.
But the partial day battery life makes it a non-starter . . .
I'd consider a watchless one for myself just for the bio-monitoring--just send the info to my iPhone. As cool as the contraption is I go nuts with a watch on y wrist . . .
> an iPhone SE, and sheâ(TM)s adamant that she doesnâ(TM)t want a phone larger than that.
Indeed, the reason that the iphone stayed so small so long, and then first grew only taller, was to that a woman's thumb could reach the entire screen . . . (leaving folks with hands like mine unable to tap the near side; every strategy has holes . ..)
It generally takes a week of work to get a dissertation into format when the dissertation nazis in the graduate office are done with it.
I used LyX to write LaTeX, and my time was well under 15 minutes--**including** the call over something that they got backwards, and "correcting" before the call and fixing after the call. I had to manually insert a pagebreak somewhere due to the rules on figures; that was really about it.
It helped that there was an ISU thesis package for LaTeX . . .
And near the deadline, I got stranded for a couple of days when my transmission failed with only an older version of the dissertation on my laptop, but with the latest markup from my committee.
So I made a copy to edit, edited away, took a diff, and patched the master when I got back . . .
> Heck, the Credit Default Swap was invented to take advantage of this situation
Not really.
It was invented quite specifically to *offset* risk. A company that would take a loss one way would insure against that risk for a fixed cost, while another who received risk in the other direction would do the same.
Once *created* for this purposed, it became a speculation vehicle, in the same way as agricultural futures, which traded the chance of wild profit if the market boomed for a locked in certain value.
Selling 80% of your expected harvest is risk management and sound planning; selling 120% is gambling, not investing.
I've received calls from security sections of a couple of different credit card companies.
In one case, their data had been compromised and they were overnighting me a replacement card with a new number, and a couple questioning the transaction of the moment to confirm.
tmobile has had some of this for a while, but could definitely be better.
I hadn't remembered creating a "scam likely" designation (although it's the kind of label I'd tend to create) when it first came up on our phones, and I later found out that it was tmobile doing that.
Now if they'd only scan my texts for a speciic name in the first three words, and auto-block . . . I assume they're from something the prior owner of my number fell for . . .
I foolishly bought a refurbished 5 when my 6plus died.
Foolish, as in I bought it from Frys, who insisted it came from apple had the full warranty.
While I should make a fuss about the battery which clearly wasn't up to snuff, at this point I'd have to do the repairs involved with running it over with one of my Cadillacs . . . at least it was the '97 and not the '72 . . . and, for the record, they don't react well to this . . .
So I've been waiting for the new ones, and two numbers is worth a small fortune to me--I can kill the business line and live a normal life.
It's amazing when some people think it's reasonable to call their lawyer. The worst was a "just wondering about . .." at 3 AM Sunday morning . . .
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It's not about performance, but failure rate.
If the machine crashing brings your entire business to a halt for hours, a couple of hundred dollars extra to make this less frequent is nothing.
If it's just a couple of minutes, it may not be worth it.
hawk
> there's no point at all to pay the Apple tax.
The reason that you *consider* paying apple memory prices is that apple's specs for memory are something like a half a standard deviation higher than other good memory.
I don't find it worth it, but the reality is that meeting apple's specs is more expensive.
Then again, a few years ago when I brought my iMac in the third time for crashes, they returned it with my bank of aftermarket memory in a bag--with the offending stick labeled . . .
hawk
That will still depend on the car . . . a three ton cadillac land yacht with a ride like a nice coach sitting on a cloud would be kind of silly with a manual . . .
hawk
He's the CEO of a *classic car* insurance company, which is an entirely different kind of fish.
I actually have two vehicles insured with them. $300k liability, no deductibles, rather extended towing, part concierge service, etc.
I think one is for $8k, and the other for $10k--which includes replacement and search costs.
My annual premium is something like $250 combined. . . . (so about an eighth of regular insurance here)
Now.I also had to show them that I had another car, and provide pictures of the car *in* my garage to get the policy.
Initially, I could only drive to and from car clubs, car eents, parades, and "pleasure driving."
I asked about taking my wife to dinner and tha gal responded, "we'd rather you take her to a drivein." . . . (they've relaxed since then, and dinner and eve a "once in a blue moon" trip to work is now OK)
They're not insuring transportation, they're insuring people's babies . . .
hawk
That depends, of course, on the vehicle.
While I strongly prefer a manual in general. a large Cadillac just wouldn't be the same without an automatic. (I have a '72 Eldorado Convertible in the garage)
(whereas anyone that wants to buy an MG or Miata with an sutomatic or hard roof shouldn't be allowed to have one!)
hawk
>I was confused, because we didn't have 28 million
>people out of work (unless the unemployment figures
>are rigged)
Speaking as a displaced economist . . .
"rigged" is an overstatement, but they sure don't measure what normal people think of as unemployment.
The most commonly reported figure is U-3, which just takes those with no work at all in the "labor force", and divides by the size of that force. The labor force is defined (roughly) as those actively looking for work.
U-3 can, in an economy that isn't changing much, tell you about employment trends.
One problem is that in long poor economies, people give up and stop looking. These are called "discouraged workers" and are not counted as part of the labor force.
Another is that the guy that got two hours of work but needs 40 still counts as unemployed.
U-4 to U-6 take that into account. By the time you get to U-6, the folks that have given up and those that can't get enough work count towards unemployed.
In "normal" times, U-3 and U-6 kind of move together. But as we went about eight years after the last recession (which was really a run of the mill recession, it's just that we hadn't had a "real" one since the early 80s) without a normal expansion, U-3 and U-6 diverged more and more widely.
So once we got back to "normal" economic growth, some discouraged workers resumed working, and some of the underemployed got more hours. This is reflected by U-6 moving *far* more than U-3, with large numbers of people becoming employed with only small changes in the labor rate.
So there are always more people out of work than the common U-3 shows--they've just been redefined as out o the labor force. In normal times, there aren't as many.
Frankly, I'd phase out U-1 to U-5 entirely . . .
hawk, economist at large
>If you up-end the shipping rates from third world countries
That's *not* what this is about, and not what is being sought.
It's about *China* getting that third world subsidy, which should have ended some time ago.
hawk
>You haven't explained why that would make the cost
>go down for US exporters though.
Currently, the payment for internationally shipping from the US is basically the price plus a subsidy. For example, a $5 fee paid is $4 for the shipping, and $1 for the subsidy.
If a packages is $5 to a developing country, it might be only 50 cents to ship *from* the developing country. The first world receiver pays more to deliver in country than it is paid on that package--and subsidizes this loss from that extra dollar above.
The reason for this is to let Elbonia pull itself up into the the modern world; it is deliberately subsidized.
The problem is that as China left that developing status, it hasn't given up its rates.
I've actually ordered something for eleven cents, delivered . . .
If China has to pay the rates of an economy of its state of development, subsidy of its shipping no longer has to be built into the other international rates. *That* is where the reduction comes from.
Shipment between the US and Europe don't subsidize one another, and their cost could reasonably be expected to go down without the subsidy for China (or at least not increase as much as they would have).
hawk, wearing his econ professor hat for a change
What made it s unusable was not just the grab of scree space, so that empty "desktop" blocked access sot other application, but that this effectively brought *all* of its documents to the front, and took away focus-follows-mouse access to other documents.
I thought that losing focus-follows-mouse would be the hardest part of switching back to mac, but it turned to be only #2--not being able to select and middle-click to paste was the biggest.
hawk
Sun didn't write it; they bought StarOffice from the german companyStarDivision (or some such)
I''d used StarOffice since 1.x, except for the horrific 4.x with the "feature" of its own desktop.
Sun's vision was a return to powerful central computers, but this time with smart to very smart terminals. Your session could follow you from one to another, as it was really running centrally.
They needed an office suite to run on the center, and StarOffice already ran on X.
As their plan was to make the money from the hardware, a virally licensed open source project was perfect for them (a public license wouldn't work, as a competitor could fork for a competitive edge from new features).
The icing on the cake was that giving it away was a way for McNealy to stick a knife in Gates' ribs . . . this was at a time where their wealth's were fluctuating in the same range, and constantly passing one another . . .
hawk
>The thing Sun wrote was bloated and slow. OO added a lot of features. LO is basically "finished" IMO.
sun didn't write it, but rather bought it.
It was part of their vision of a return to more powerful central servers with smart terminals. OO would run on the center, and display, with your sun-session able to follow you from machine to machine.
OO originally came from a german company whose name slips mind, and was free for commercial and academic use, with a paid commercial version.
I used it from version 1 on (except for the hideous 4.x withers own desktop . . .) until switching to LO I forget when.
Oh, and for McNealy, Sun giving it away was a unaided inceptive, a way to knife gates in the ribs . . .
hawk
>Then you must have been in a coma from 1984 through to 1998 given that
>the fundamental OS that ran all computers of that decade +/- ran this OS.
Apple was rumored to have been planning another OS for 1984. Think of what the world might be like if *that* had happened . . . pity they died as the Apple ][ couldn't compete . . .
>Or maybe if you don't find OSes interesting in
>general people purposely don't send you memos.
He shouldn't feel bad; IBM, AT&T, DEC, and Pr1me neer got the memo either . . .
hawk
> nMS-DOS 1 basically cloned all the CP/M interfaces.
but not everything *important*.
Of note was the absence of the IO byte at address 3 which allowed CP/M to assign devices at a very low level. I used it once for example, to temporarily change the main output to the physical line printer to print reports with the same code as went to screen (I'd taken over a project already coded in basic).
Or another time when I changed the serial port to be the console to feed keyboard commands and output for testing (this took a second computer . . . )
There's a couple of other things, but an expansion o that iobyte (say, to allow files) would have been more than slightly useful.
Instead, it was gone.
hawk
This.
Replacing original windows (which were *all* tenant damaged anyway) with doublepane and non-metal frames made a *huge* difference in the desert summer . . . and when winter rolled around, my ife started claling them "you stupid windows" because the house didn't warm as fast in the morning . . . ..if it were trying to radiate away heat, it would have taken evne longer . . .
hawk
I got mine on Friday, and have yet to see the third, let alone fourth, bar . . .
hawk
We briefly considered it for both my father and my mother in law. One *has* been injured in a fall and was slowed for a couple of years, and the other had a minor injury hiking alone.
But the partial day battery life makes it a non-starter . . .
I'd consider a watchless one for myself just for the bio-monitoring--just send the info to my iPhone. As cool as the contraption is I go nuts with a watch on y wrist . . .
hawk
> an iPhone SE, and sheâ(TM)s adamant that she doesnâ(TM)t want a phone larger than that.
Indeed, the reason that the iphone stayed so small so long, and then first grew only taller, was to that a woman's thumb could reach the entire screen . . . (leaving folks with hands like mine unable to tap the near side; every strategy has holes . . .)
hawk
Well, they got *me* . . .
I absolutely need a new phone immediately. As in, ran the last one over with one of my Cadillacs and have been desperately holding out.
And we've already used up all the older spares.
So I leave in half an hour to pick up my new nanny.
And things had been *so* peaceful . . .
hawk
It generally takes a week of work to get a dissertation into format when the dissertation nazis in the graduate office are done with it.
I used LyX to write LaTeX, and my time was well under 15 minutes--**including** the call over something that they got backwards, and "correcting" before the call and fixing after the call. I had to manually insert a pagebreak somewhere due to the rules on figures; that was really about it.
It helped that there was an ISU thesis package for LaTeX . . .
And near the deadline, I got stranded for a couple of days when my transmission failed with only an older version of the dissertation on my laptop, but with the latest markup from my committee.
So I made a copy to edit, edited away, took a diff, and patched the master when I got back . . .
hawk
> Heck, the Credit Default Swap was invented to take advantage of this situation
Not really.
It was invented quite specifically to *offset* risk. A company that would take a loss one way would insure against that risk for a fixed cost, while another who received risk in the other direction would do the same.
Once *created* for this purposed, it became a speculation vehicle, in the same way as agricultural futures, which traded the chance of wild profit if the market boomed for a locked in certain value.
Selling 80% of your expected harvest is risk management and sound planning; selling 120% is gambling, not investing.
hawk, economist at large
There is no *corporate* relationship.
The folks who built and sold Egghead later created NewEgg (and i guess that that's been sold, too, now)
hawk
I've received calls from security sections of a couple of different credit card companies.
In one case, their data had been compromised and they were overnighting me a replacement card with a new number, and a couple questioning the transaction of the moment to confirm.
hawk
often, though, they're so sloppy that they get the number of digits wrong . . . I laugh, but am occasionally tempted to answer those.
hawk
tmobile has had some of this for a while, but could definitely be better.
I hadn't remembered creating a "scam likely" designation (although it's the kind of label I'd tend to create) when it first came up on our phones, and I later found out that it was tmobile doing that.
Now if they'd only scan my texts for a speciic name in the first three words, and auto-block . . . I assume they're from something the prior owner of my number fell for . . .
hawk
I foolishly bought a refurbished 5 when my 6plus died.
Foolish, as in I bought it from Frys, who insisted it came from apple had the full warranty.
While I should make a fuss about the battery which clearly wasn't up to snuff, at this point I'd have to do the repairs involved with running it over with one of my Cadillacs . . . at least it was the '97 and not the '72 . . . and, for the record, they don't react well to this . . .
So I've been waiting for the new ones, and two numbers is worth a small fortune to me--I can kill the business line and live a normal life.
It's amazing when some people think it's reasonable to call their lawyer. The worst was a "just wondering about . . ." at 3 AM Sunday morning . . .
hawk