It's not a double standard, it's a self-centered standard. I am opposed to countries like Iran, who have special holidays for hating my country, getting nuclear weapons. I don't want people who have declared themselves enemies of my country to have nuclear weapons. Unfair? Yes. Do I care, not really. Sometimes there are more important things than fairness (and real fairness in life is impossible anyway).
But it's not a self-centered standard. What you fail to realize is that the two issues are intrinsically linked. Anytime nuclear weapons are acquired by a state, their enemies will attempt to seek them, too.
This happened with the US - Russia and it happened with India - Pakistan. Israel's introduction of nuclear weapons to the mid-east region is a catalyst for other nations - nations which we don't like - to also create nuclear weapons, so if you care about Iran and other nations not having nukes then you should also care about Israel not having them because it's a huge motivator.
The mideast issue is complex but I think most people will agree that it's a good idea to take a step back and least agree to take nuclear weapons out of the equation.
husbands, wives and other people who trust each other will no longer be able to lend their partner an ATM card and ask them to go take out some cash. Well done banks, for making technology slightly less useful while still allowing a crook to put a gun to your head and force you to make that withdrawal.
Sharing passwords is a bad idea because it's a big security risk, so the inability to share passwords is a plus. If you want someone to have permanent access to your account then add another card (or Iris) to your account. If you don't want them to have permanent access, then you shouldn't be giving them your password.
What the buyer perceives (correctly or incorrectly) is irrelevant in determining whether price discrimination is happening. If you read the coffee example in the link I provided, it could be equally argued that the premium coffee is made from a totally different bean, it tastes better, is healthier but in the end it's still coffee and what matters is that the cost to the seller was only slightly higher than the "basic" coffee yet the price was far higher.
The only thing that matters in determining price discrimination are the cost to the seller and the price i.e. the profit margin. If the seller offers a "premium" version of the same product - and that's what the 32GB version of the ipad is - and the seller prices it at a far higher profit/cost ratio then that's a way for the seller to get buyers to show their willingness to pay.
I'll give you that it's more subtle than what Intel is doing but it's textbook price discrimination (Apple is literally used in some textbooks as an example).
... if I still didn't convince you then I probably never will:)
Please see the "Premium pricing" section in the link I provided.
The 16GB product brings Apple a profit of $240 while the 32GB brings them a profit of $310. The products are essentially identical and only differ in the hard drive size. The reason it's price discrimination is because the larger hard drive is being charged at a far higher profit margin.
Car companies do this when they offer different "trims" for the same model and you can also see MS and Apple do this when they offer different versions of their OS. The products are essentially identical yet the "premium" product is charged at a far higher profit margin.
This is an example of price discrimination. Apple basically does the same thing with all their hardware when they offer iphones/ipods/ipads with different hard drive sizes. For example, "NAND flash chips on 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB iPads cost $29.50, $59, and $118, respectively". This means they're making an additional $70 and $82 profit on the higher priced items. I guess it's not as blatant as Intel but it's essentially the same strategy.
The GPL restrictive. If I use GPL code then I am forced to share my modifications with the world. I may not want to, but I have to.
This is probably the most common misconception about the GPL. You are only forced to share your modifications with the people who use your binaries so if you produce a modified version of some GPL'ed code for Bob, then Bob is the *only* person you're required to give the modified source to.
This might not seem like an important distinction but it is. Suppose Bob is a client who wants to use the project in-house and doesn't want his competitors to benefit from the code he paid you to create - it would be perfectly ok for him to not the share the modifications (and binaries of course) with anyone else and have you sign a contract saying that you wouldn't do so either.
Might be because skype is p2p based and there is law that bans p2p in certain areas of government because people were unintentionally sharing gov't files. Why your Senator can't Skype
Skype doesn't give you a free phone number and also doesn't allow you to make/recieve calls to landlines for free. Google Voice + Google Call can essentially replace a landline (except for 911) and if they bring this to android you could technically get a phone with only a data plan.
I just tried it and it works nicely on linux. They should update the google voice extension so you can receive & make calls w/o needing to have gmail open but I'm sure that will come later. The call quality wasn't always great but overall it's a great addition that unlike buzz & wave is immediately useful to me.
There's a fine line between checking on someone and spying on them just as there's a difference between logging how many hours a day an employee is on the phone and who's on the other line vs actually listening in on the calls.
Would you care if your top sales guy was performing worse than all the bottom sales guys at your competition? In other words, would you care if you had a company wide productivity problem?
From AT&T's point of view, you would be correct. But we're talking about Motorola here. They do not lose a penny on phone sales because AT&T (and other companies) subsidize them.
Yes the market was at 6800 a year ago but it was also at 14000 two years ago, so maybe at 6800 the question was "these are the same companies. Does anyone really believe that all of the companies are collectively worth less than 50%?". And it seems the market answered "No, they're collectively worth about 30% less".
Essentially all a hacker would have to do to really abuse this system is plant a couple of fake stories on yahoo finance while shorting(or going long I guess) the stock the fake story is about.
Spreading false rumors with the intention of causing stock price movements is an old fraud that many people have gone to jail for, so in that sense this computer trading system is no more vulnerable than a human one. In fact, the computer system would get to short the stock before the human (since they too would read the fake story) and cover within 20 minutes for a gain.
I've been trying all the 10.1 RC releases and starting with release 4 it broke hulu and many other streaming sites for me. After playing a stream for 5-10 minutes, the stream will continuously try to restart. Not only that but the audio track from each stream isn't turned off so you have a new audio track that lags the previous one by a second and if you don't close hulu you'll have a chorus of audio tracks.
This is also happening in the final version but it does not happen in 10.0 so for now I'm downgrading and hopefully I don't get hacked:)
The title of their demo is "HTML5 and web standards". Do you not understand the meaning of the word "standards" and the hypocrisy of requiring a certain browser to demo said "standards"? I would have no problem if they title the page "HTML5 and Safari"
I didn't RTFA but I'd be curious to know whether it is illegal to walk down the specific highway that she walked on. If so, she might have a case against Google for suggesting to do something that was illegal to begin with.
Here's another analogy. Leaving your keys in the ignition when you go to the store. It's a stupid thing to do, it's against the law (just as leaving your wifi open is in Germany) but that doesn't mean when someone steals your car the police shouldn't go after the thief.
Remember also that every trade on the market which is not directly linked to the true value of a stock actively destroys information because it introduces noise into the market, polluting the use of that stock's trading symbol as a measure of real wealth (rather than imaginary fantasy wealth).
Not only is a trade "directly" linked to the true value of a stock (or whatever is being traded) but it defines the true value of the thing being traded. The true value is what the buyer and seller agree to.
IIRC it's because atoms get excited by heat (i.e. they move) so when they're cooled they stand perfectly still and offer no resistance to the charge flowing through it.
OO does make code re-use a bit easier BUT that is NOT the claim that people often make. Trust me, I ask this in interviews and it is always the same answer. Apparently you can't re-use functions. No way, no how. NEXT!
You can reuse functions but you can't extend them and that's where OOs reuse shines. It's very powerful to be able to lay out your code as a tree and control the reuse 'flow' at the nodes.
I don't understand your disbelief. Do you have a hard time believing that people who earn their living on minimum wage jobs exist? Or are you saying that people who 'decide' to work minimum wage jobs do so because they're lazy and therefore don't deserve health insurance?
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That phrase doesn't mean what you think it means
It's not a double standard, it's a self-centered standard. I am opposed to countries like Iran, who have special holidays for hating my country, getting nuclear weapons. I don't want people who have declared themselves enemies of my country to have nuclear weapons. Unfair? Yes. Do I care, not really. Sometimes there are more important things than fairness (and real fairness in life is impossible anyway).
But it's not a self-centered standard. What you fail to realize is that the two issues are intrinsically linked. Anytime nuclear weapons are acquired by a state, their enemies will attempt to seek them, too.
This happened with the US - Russia and it happened with India - Pakistan. Israel's introduction of nuclear weapons to the mid-east region is a catalyst for other nations - nations which we don't like - to also create nuclear weapons, so if you care about Iran and other nations not having nukes then you should also care about Israel not having them because it's a huge motivator.
The mideast issue is complex but I think most people will agree that it's a good idea to take a step back and least agree to take nuclear weapons out of the equation.
husbands, wives and other people who trust each other will no longer be able to lend their partner an ATM card and ask them to go take out some cash. Well done banks, for making technology slightly less useful while still allowing a crook to put a gun to your head and force you to make that withdrawal.
Sharing passwords is a bad idea because it's a big security risk, so the inability to share passwords is a plus. If you want someone to have permanent access to your account then add another card (or Iris) to your account. If you don't want them to have permanent access, then you shouldn't be giving them your password.
What the buyer perceives (correctly or incorrectly) is irrelevant in determining whether price discrimination is happening. If you read the coffee example in the link I provided, it could be equally argued that the premium coffee is made from a totally different bean, it tastes better, is healthier but in the end it's still coffee and what matters is that the cost to the seller was only slightly higher than the "basic" coffee yet the price was far higher.
The only thing that matters in determining price discrimination are the cost to the seller and the price i.e. the profit margin. If the seller offers a "premium" version of the same product - and that's what the 32GB version of the ipad is - and the seller prices it at a far higher profit/cost ratio then that's a way for the seller to get buyers to show their willingness to pay.
I'll give you that it's more subtle than what Intel is doing but it's textbook price discrimination (Apple is literally used in some textbooks as an example).
Please see the "Premium pricing" section in the link I provided.
The 16GB product brings Apple a profit of $240 while the 32GB brings them a profit of $310. The products are essentially identical and only differ in the hard drive size. The reason it's price discrimination is because the larger hard drive is being charged at a far higher profit margin.
Car companies do this when they offer different "trims" for the same model and you can also see MS and Apple do this when they offer different versions of their OS. The products are essentially identical yet the "premium" product is charged at a far higher profit margin.
This is an example of price discrimination. Apple basically does the same thing with all their hardware when they offer iphones/ipods/ipads with different hard drive sizes. For example, "NAND flash chips on 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB iPads cost $29.50, $59, and $118, respectively". This means they're making an additional $70 and $82 profit on the higher priced items. I guess it's not as blatant as Intel but it's essentially the same strategy.
The GPL restrictive. If I use GPL code then I am forced to share my modifications with the world. I may not want to, but I have to.
This is probably the most common misconception about the GPL. You are only forced to share your modifications with the people who use your binaries so if you produce a modified version of some GPL'ed code for Bob, then Bob is the *only* person you're required to give the modified source to.
This might not seem like an important distinction but it is. Suppose Bob is a client who wants to use the project in-house and doesn't want his competitors to benefit from the code he paid you to create - it would be perfectly ok for him to not the share the modifications (and binaries of course) with anyone else and have you sign a contract saying that you wouldn't do so either.
Might be because skype is p2p based and there is law that bans p2p in certain areas of government because people were unintentionally sharing gov't files. Why your Senator can't Skype
Skype doesn't give you a free phone number and also doesn't allow you to make/recieve calls to landlines for free. Google Voice + Google Call can essentially replace a landline (except for 911) and if they bring this to android you could technically get a phone with only a data plan. I just tried it and it works nicely on linux. They should update the google voice extension so you can receive & make calls w/o needing to have gmail open but I'm sure that will come later. The call quality wasn't always great but overall it's a great addition that unlike buzz & wave is immediately useful to me.
There's a fine line between checking on someone and spying on them just as there's a difference between logging how many hours a day an employee is on the phone and who's on the other line vs actually listening in on the calls.
Would you care if your top sales guy was performing worse than all the bottom sales guys at your competition? In other words, would you care if you had a company wide productivity problem?
Want to edit smb.conf, you are SOL unless you go through CLI or create a custom link to your favorite editor.
Try using gksudo i.e. "gksudo gedit". You still have to call it through CLI but it will allow you to run GUI editors as root.
From AT&T's point of view, you would be correct. But we're talking about Motorola here. They do not lose a penny on phone sales because AT&T (and other companies) subsidize them.
Yes the market was at 6800 a year ago but it was also at 14000 two years ago, so maybe at 6800 the question was "these are the same companies. Does anyone really believe that all of the companies are collectively worth less than 50%?". And it seems the market answered "No, they're collectively worth about 30% less".
Essentially all a hacker would have to do to really abuse this system is plant a couple of fake stories on yahoo finance while shorting(or going long I guess) the stock the fake story is about.
Spreading false rumors with the intention of causing stock price movements is an old fraud that many people have gone to jail for, so in that sense this computer trading system is no more vulnerable than a human one. In fact, the computer system would get to short the stock before the human (since they too would read the fake story) and cover within 20 minutes for a gain.
I've been trying all the 10.1 RC releases and starting with release 4 it broke hulu and many other streaming sites for me. After playing a stream for 5-10 minutes, the stream will continuously try to restart. Not only that but the audio track from each stream isn't turned off so you have a new audio track that lags the previous one by a second and if you don't close hulu you'll have a chorus of audio tracks. This is also happening in the final version but it does not happen in 10.0 so for now I'm downgrading and hopefully I don't get hacked :)
The title of their demo is "HTML5 and web standards". Do you not understand the meaning of the word "standards" and the hypocrisy of requiring a certain browser to demo said "standards"? I would have no problem if they title the page "HTML5 and Safari"
I didn't RTFA but I'd be curious to know whether it is illegal to walk down the specific highway that she walked on. If so, she might have a case against Google for suggesting to do something that was illegal to begin with.
Here's another analogy. Leaving your keys in the ignition when you go to the store. It's a stupid thing to do, it's against the law (just as leaving your wifi open is in Germany) but that doesn't mean when someone steals your car the police shouldn't go after the thief.
Remember also that every trade on the market which is not directly linked to the true value of a stock actively destroys information because it introduces noise into the market, polluting the use of that stock's trading symbol as a measure of real wealth (rather than imaginary fantasy wealth).
Not only is a trade "directly" linked to the true value of a stock (or whatever is being traded) but it defines the true value of the thing being traded. The true value is what the buyer and seller agree to.
"I'm not looking for a relationship where the patient accepts my word as the gospel truth," RTFS?
IIRC it's because atoms get excited by heat (i.e. they move) so when they're cooled they stand perfectly still and offer no resistance to the charge flowing through it.
OO does make code re-use a bit easier BUT that is NOT the claim that people often make. Trust me, I ask this in interviews and it is always the same answer. Apparently you can't re-use functions. No way, no how. NEXT!
You can reuse functions but you can't extend them and that's where OOs reuse shines. It's very powerful to be able to lay out your code as a tree and control the reuse 'flow' at the nodes.
I don't understand your disbelief. Do you have a hard time believing that people who earn their living on minimum wage jobs exist? Or are you saying that people who 'decide' to work minimum wage jobs do so because they're lazy and therefore don't deserve health insurance?
... and I will tell you who you are. Nothing new here please move along.