inventory is purchased statically. retailers mark it up and sell it.
that's how it works at the moment.
inflating a price due to market conditions, like a computer memory plant getting destroyed by a asteroid, could either be price gouging or "seizing a market opportunity" even though the real cost of the commodity would be covered by people buying options on commodity exchanges. at the very most, these things should affect the market a couple of quarters out when the lack of supply would actually be impacted.
Not the next day.
When the war with Iraq started and gas prices went shy high, was this an accurate reflection of supply prices or was it retailers cashing in on hype?
it takes 6-9 months for raw crude from the Arab states to make it to a gas pump in refined form.
the answers are left as an exercise to the reader.
also think about what it means for people to support companies that engage in these practices.
if consumers move with their feet and encourage companies that are more receptive to them instead of those that lock in customers and charge them for all they can tolerate before throwing the game away, then we'll all be better off.
survival of the fittest gaming company. natural corporate selection in action...now if only it would spread to some of the other industries like the airlines and power production..
..and when you say DRM, I suppose we'll just assume that you really intended to say CM (content management).
It should be more about maintaining the integrity of the information and less about licensing for the purposes of this discussion.
I'd view them as two distinct and separate issues; data integrity and access to the data. You don't need a library card to open the cover of a book, but you may to remove it from the library.
you're free to say anything that you like, however there can be consequences for what you say.
you can't scream that you're going to kill $WORLDLEADER or shout fire in an auditorium.
a better argument would be to make this a satire case.
As Al Franken said once, "the first amendment protects satire, even if the people you're talking about don't get it" -- it was something like that anyway.
as much as I would like someone to tote around my severed head or my eyeball on a stick to get into the ub3rs3kt3t ninja facility, it shouldn't get them past the first vault door.
Government is about leadership, which is why it is so interesting when elected government officials talk about how government should be run as a business and then have short-sighted and whatever-the-popular-dog-wagging-of-the-moment happens to be.
Doesn't leadership entail doing the right thing for the long term gain?
Perhaps this mindset that I've mentioned is more of the grand perpetuating myth that the lowest priced bid is always the best bid.
I also did not mean to imply that you were a scheme-proponent, though many seem to swear by it (where I would just swear).
I think it's more of the dropouts that get a lot of free kool-aid giveaways in school that end up with a lot of these underdeveloped MCSE concepts.
I know when I was reading over the material for their TCP/IP fundamentals exam (caveat: this was a long time ago. perhaps it might be somewhat close to reality now.) it was like a parody of reality.
People who don't grok open standards, yet want to develop and implement in them, are a liability and detriment to the industry IMAO.:)
I am all for academics doing their research, but with two suggestions:
- let your TA who is fresh from the world and pays attention to the new stuff teach your classes where the rubber meets the road, where the profs stick to theory - come up for air occasionally and pick up some out-of-band clue that might be floating around. Unfortunately for academics, (and this may only be my malinformed opinion) there is a lot that happens outside of a college research lab that is of high value.
I'm sure there are many that do these things, however I have not had the pleasure of meeting any of them lately.
I think it would be important to point out that many of the people teaching undergraduates are those people without PhDs.
I know my own personal experience in computer science suffered from my professors lack of interest in learning new software and only having a limited exposure to operating systems. Without consistent learning at the highest level and just teaching the same class over and over again such as using scheme (a heavily recursive language if you're not familiar with it -- lucky!) to teach object oriented programming.
Unless you're an emacs developer (and who isn't) a much more useful and job skill creating language could be used to teach OOP.
This is only a personal example that culled any interest in continuing a life of professional programming after being subjected to a couple years of zero-worth coding assignments.
How long until they start selling mod chips for these reporting devices, or better yet, for whole cars?
Someone should start a pool for the first time someone posts pics of them booting linux on their Honda. It won't be long now, especially with those pretty lcd screens they have in those hybrids.
actually it is somewhat common that the theft of a drive on a system with sensitive information by someone with physical access to a machine (think server farm or colo site).
Preventing this with a hardware token that is used when a box is rebooted is a pretty slick idea.
Then, I suppose, there would be a procedure where those at the physical site would need to plug in the hardware token when the box is rebooted. Seems like a good and worthy idea to me. I could see it becoming a standard and a selling point for managed linux hosting.
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..no one cared, as they have all moved to other methods of file-getting. :D
Also, please keep in mind that what t0ny says above, remember that it AD is just ldap with added kludge.
Many of the same caveats apply when running unix auth vs. ldap sso services.
inventory is purchased statically. retailers mark it up and sell it.
that's how it works at the moment.
inflating a price due to market conditions, like a computer memory plant getting destroyed by a asteroid, could either be price gouging or "seizing a market opportunity" even though the real cost of the commodity would be covered by people buying options on commodity exchanges. at the very most, these things should affect the market a couple of quarters out when the lack of supply would actually be impacted.
Not the next day.
When the war with Iraq started and gas prices went shy high, was this an accurate reflection of supply prices or was it retailers cashing in on hype?
it takes 6-9 months for raw crude from the Arab states to make it to a gas pump in refined form.
the answers are left as an exercise to the reader.
also think about what it means for people to support companies that engage in these practices.
..now if only it would spread to some of the other industries like the airlines and power production..
if consumers move with their feet and encourage companies that are more receptive to them instead of those that lock in customers and charge them for all they can tolerate before throwing the game away, then we'll all be better off.
survival of the fittest gaming company. natural corporate selection in action.
..and when you say DRM, I suppose we'll just assume that you really intended to say CM (content management).
It should be more about maintaining the integrity of the information and less about licensing for the purposes of this discussion.
I'd view them as two distinct and separate issues; data integrity and access to the data. You don't need a library card to open the cover of a book, but you may to remove it from the library.
"yes. it was fortunate that the robot overlord did not buy an unlimited kill user license, else we would have been in real trouble."
you're free to say anything that you like, however there can be consequences for what you say.
you can't scream that you're going to kill $WORLDLEADER or shout fire in an auditorium.
a better argument would be to make this a satire case.
As Al Franken said once, "the first amendment protects satire, even if the people you're talking about don't get it" -- it was something like that anyway.
when the world ends before the conclusion of xmas shopping season.
It would suck to be tossed into the void without having made or spent a grip of cash in the throws of exuberant merchandising.
do you provide an internet service or services?
:D
sounds like you do, chief!
sounds like you are providing an internet service to me!
and decreasing amounts of 100% disposable time.
:)
you'll understand when you're older
also many biometric devices look for a pulse.
as much as I would like someone to tote around my severed head or my eyeball on a stick to get into the ub3rs3kt3t ninja facility, it shouldn't get them past the first vault door.
I couldn't agree more.
Government is about leadership, which is why it is so interesting when elected government officials talk about how government should be run as a business and then have short-sighted and whatever-the-popular-dog-wagging-of-the-moment happens to be.
Doesn't leadership entail doing the right thing for the long term gain?
Perhaps this mindset that I've mentioned is more of the grand perpetuating myth that the lowest priced bid is always the best bid.
cool. battery design by HG Geiger.
maybe they can do some mockups for the upcoming preditor vs alien movie.
"in space.. no one can hear your pda scream"
would mister anonymous like to post a redirect (tinyurl or whatever) to an implementation guide for this?
:)
I know I would be quite appreciative
I have taught my pet rock to play dead.
we're one of the only countries around thats chosen to use coal for 50% of our national energy.
there is little logic in your argument.
perhaps they should throw prof xavier in one of those for the next x-men movie.
then again, dark phoenix will likely blow it up anyway.
I also did not mean to imply that you were a scheme-proponent, though many seem to swear by it (where I would just swear).
:)
I think it's more of the dropouts that get a lot of free kool-aid giveaways in school that end up with a lot of these underdeveloped MCSE concepts.
I know when I was reading over the material for their TCP/IP fundamentals exam (caveat: this was a long time ago. perhaps it might be somewhat close to reality now.) it was like a parody of reality.
People who don't grok open standards, yet want to develop and implement in them, are a liability and detriment to the industry IMAO.
I am all for academics doing their research, but with two suggestions:
- let your TA who is fresh from the world and pays attention to the new stuff teach your classes where the rubber meets the road, where the profs stick to theory
- come up for air occasionally and pick up some out-of-band clue that might be floating around. Unfortunately for academics, (and this may only be my malinformed opinion) there is a lot that happens outside of a college research lab that is of high value.
I'm sure there are many that do these things, however I have not had the pleasure of meeting any of them lately.
I use *trillian* and I received *many*
*oh*kay*?
they did have that auto-msg every time one would log on to YIM for about a month.
I suppose you could have taken the hint.
I think it would be important to point out that many of the people teaching undergraduates are those people without PhDs.
I know my own personal experience in computer science suffered from my professors lack of interest in learning new software and only having a limited exposure to operating systems. Without consistent learning at the highest level and just teaching the same class over and over again such as using scheme (a heavily recursive language if you're not familiar with it -- lucky!) to teach object oriented programming.
Unless you're an emacs developer (and who isn't) a much more useful and job skill creating language could be used to teach OOP.
This is only a personal example that culled any interest in continuing a life of professional programming after being subjected to a couple years of zero-worth coding assignments.
I'm sure many others have similar experiences.
oh. you mean like this for instance?
doing a search for torrents on slashdot yelds more then a couple of results.
Perhaps you should look into it. Everyone else has already.
How long until they start selling mod chips for these reporting devices, or better yet, for whole cars?
Someone should start a pool for the first time someone posts pics of them booting linux on their Honda. It won't be long now, especially with those pretty lcd screens they have in those hybrids.
actually it is somewhat common that the theft of a drive on a system with sensitive information by someone with physical access to a machine (think server farm or colo site).
Preventing this with a hardware token that is used when a box is rebooted is a pretty slick idea.
Then, I suppose, there would be a procedure where those at the physical site would need to plug in the hardware token when the box is rebooted. Seems like a good and worthy idea to me. I could see it becoming a standard and a selling point for managed linux hosting.