With the benefits accruing entirely to the owners of capital.
Well, except for the benefits accruing to everyone who shops at Amazon., who vastly outnumber Amazon employees.
except for a few crumbs given to the managers and techs who enable the process
Amazon pays it's software develops quite well, or at least they made the recent "top 20 average salaries" list in that recent/. article.
You, too can be an owner of capital, of course. Right now, you can own one share of Amazon for just $375.91, including a vote on how much to pay warehouse workers, and the hope that maybe one day you'll get a dividend of some sort. Most Americans are "the owners of capital" these days, as more than half of us own stock directly, or indirectly through a pension plan.
But workers get most of the money, really. Total wages in the US for one year (~13T) are fairly close to the total value of all stocks (~19T). If all dividends paid by all companies were divided evenly among the workers, we'd average less than a 3% pay raise. Include all profits, some of which are quite legitimately being used to grow businesses, and it's still less than a 10% raise.
Yep: collectively the "owners of capital" are getting about 10% of what the employees get in salary. Does that surprise you?
You can always use the "Asimov Orbit": effectively hovering over the pole, using a solar sail to offset the Earth's gravity. But even a Clarke orbit spends far less than 12 hours a day in Earth's shadow.
OTOH, a vehicle that uses a fan to power it's wheels, and powers the fan from the wind of the vehicles passage works very well indeed into a strong wind, by the same principle that lets racing sailboats sail upwind at faster than the windspeed.
Opportunity cost: what sane and useful power system did you not build because you wasted 100 units building this stupid thing?
It's the same problem with orbital power stations. Eventually mankind will need these - only so much solar power hits the Earth, after all, but this year they're a bad trade-off. As most heavy industry eventually moves to space, in the centuries to come, most power plants can be there with them. But today it's just silly.
Microwave power transmission from orbit to ground actually makes a lot of sense. Are there losses, sure, but the losses from sunlight are greater. It's more efficient to have a solar power in orbit and beam down power as microwaves than to put the same panel on the Earth (and that's before taking into account the ground-based panel being dark half the day).
Life isn't supposed to be perfectly safe. Nuclear power plants are very safe - they're down in the noise floor compared to real risks. But "oooooh nukular scary scary" is all people can hear.
Bad things happen in life, and eventually everyone dies. A nuclear power plant with a modern design is as safe as there's any point in making things in life. Will people eventually die as a result. Sure. People die building them to. It's just not important that they aren't "perfectly safe" because that's not an interesting goal.
A very low change of death is a minor factor in our standard of living. Technology that gives a net increase in standard of living is good, even if there are also downsides, because everything in life has downsides.
A market-based pricing system is better than any system involving a central planning committee setting wages or prices according to some ideas about what they "should be". There's no doubt about the facts there. There are places where you can argue that market-based pricing just can't be made to work, but CEO wages are not one of those places.
Plus, the basic notion that some special favored group of people deserve higher wages than they get today while some other, disfavored group of people deserve lower wages is just so vile and evil that I can't put words to it, other than to Godwin the thread.
Explain to me how me downloading a copy of Hurt Locker, which I wouldn't never spend money to watch, own, or rent, is going to affect your bottom line?
Did you watch it? Then it reduced your appetite for paid films. OTOH, many, many people torrent 10x as many films as they will ever watch, at which point the torrenting really is irrelevant to anything except hard drive sales.
if you come out of that thing feeling good about the Iraq War, you're a moron.
So, "yes" to the masturbatory fan-fiction then. A bold, shocking, profound artistic statement would show only the good things that came of some war - every critic would trash it, but it might make people think. A moving showing "war is bad, mmmmkay" is just expected and vulgar.
Think about "conflict of interest": that's where the CEOs personal interest conflicts with the shareholders, as represented by the board. For a program put in place by the board as a work-around this just doesn't come up.
You have an idea for changing the basic economics of large corporations that you think will make them better. You've never run a large corporation. Protip: your theory is incorrect. Almost every theory about corporate governance that "looks good on paper" even to people who are skilled in the art is wrong, and badly wrong.
Try reading the thread? The whole discussion is about the facts that "vacuum" isn't vacuum, and what affects the speed of light because it's not just a travelling photon.
Oh, if it ever matters there are just so many work abounds that it won't matter. I've worked for a large company where the CEO got most of his pay from nearly-secret small companies that he owned, which the large company bought parts from at insane markups. Millions a year that don't show up as "executive comp" for the large company.
I've worked at a large company where you had the option to receive this year's pay divided equally over the next 5 years. Since most CEOs only hold a very-high-paying post for a couple of years before flaming out, that would serve the purpose.
The more you make, the more choice you have as to how, where, and when you get paid.
Why should lower CEO pay even be a goal? Jealousy? Hatred of success? They work harder for their pay than lottery winners, sports stars, or movie stars.
The goal should be to increase efficiency of production of goods and services over time. "Making the pie bigger" entirely dominates "how the pie is divided" over time. Almost everyone in America has a higher standard of living than a medieval king, and certainly better health care. Damn, I'll take being a modern wage slave over a medieval king just for dentistry alone!
Yes, but are they the same across all wavelengths? I believe this GRB included the current record for shortest wavelength ever observed in a photon. I don't know how much this-scale-GRB data we have to compare this against.
By far the least repetitive MMO I've played, with the best low-level content, is D&D Online. There's so much low level content that you never need to repeat a quest on your way to max level.
I'm not a fan of the new endgame, the latest expansion plays too much like NWNO, but there's tons of fun game content before you get to the endgame, with many complex and interesting build choices (being very D&D based, there's remarkable depth to the "skill system" - it's like nothing else I've seen). I had years of fun just making new builds, sometimes to optimize and sometimes to just make something crazy work, before getting bored.
It also has the Underdark / Drow city Demonweb quest line (the original "dark elves in gaming", and thus the only take on that concept I've ever found interesting) which is just a darn cool area to explore and get lost it, even if the devs were losing their way by that expansion and the quests weren't the best, just wandering around was a blast for an old-school D&D player like me!
Impedance, in the abstract, is that factor that limits the speed that a wave propagates. If light at one frequency (e.g., gamma) is slower than light at another (e.g. visible), then impedance differs by frequency. The speed light moves is limits by (ideal) vacuum impedance, by the absorption and re-emission due to electron interaction (dispersive or otherwise), and by interaction with virtual electron-positron pairs and other vacuum quantum effects. All of these contribute to impedance, dispersion is a specific case.
And I wouldn't blindly assume that dispersion is solely at work here. Perhaps the extreme high energy of the photons in this gamma burst interact with vacuum quantum effects in a different way than visible light due to the remarkably short wavelength.
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Well, we've at least seen MS willing to be flexible on the network requirements. As long as they don't get in my way, I don't care, but I have no tolerance for actual, real-world (not opposing-fanboy-imagined) problems with a console game because of some poorly-done DRM.
My next-gen console will go on a shelf under my TV next to the much larger black box of my home theater amp, on the shelf above the crusty 80s VCR that I still have for some reason. Looks fine to me.
This is why I love Slashdot. On the official console fanboy flamewar story the first big thread is a grammar Nazi thread, complete with a detail analysis if the semantics of "dumbass".
IANAAP, but impedance is a better word than dispersion. Much like the speed of light through a prism varies by frequency, the speed of light through the interstellar medium (which is called vacuum, but is not some Platonic ideal of vacuum) should vary just a bit by frequency. Of course, that's not going to surprise anyone in the filed, so presumably the numbers aren't quite as expected even accounting for that.
The effect is very small, and I agree this could be telling us about the "vacuum" as easily as it could be telling us about the speed of light in an (ideal) vacuum.
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With the benefits accruing entirely to the owners of capital.
Well, except for the benefits accruing to everyone who shops at Amazon., who vastly outnumber Amazon employees.
except for a few crumbs given to the managers and techs who enable the process
Amazon pays it's software develops quite well, or at least they made the recent "top 20 average salaries" list in that recent /. article.
You, too can be an owner of capital, of course. Right now, you can own one share of Amazon for just $375.91, including a vote on how much to pay warehouse workers, and the hope that maybe one day you'll get a dividend of some sort. Most Americans are "the owners of capital" these days, as more than half of us own stock directly, or indirectly through a pension plan.
But workers get most of the money, really. Total wages in the US for one year (~13T) are fairly close to the total value of all stocks (~19T). If all dividends paid by all companies were divided evenly among the workers, we'd average less than a 3% pay raise. Include all profits, some of which are quite legitimately being used to grow businesses, and it's still less than a 10% raise.
Yep: collectively the "owners of capital" are getting about 10% of what the employees get in salary. Does that surprise you?
Bah, that's only the old folks. Keep up with the times: we all hate pedophiles now, conservative and liberal alike!
You can always use the "Asimov Orbit": effectively hovering over the pole, using a solar sail to offset the Earth's gravity. But even a Clarke orbit spends far less than 12 hours a day in Earth's shadow.
OTOH, a vehicle that uses a fan to power it's wheels, and powers the fan from the wind of the vehicles passage works very well indeed into a strong wind, by the same principle that lets racing sailboats sail upwind at faster than the windspeed.
Opportunity cost: what sane and useful power system did you not build because you wasted 100 units building this stupid thing?
It's the same problem with orbital power stations. Eventually mankind will need these - only so much solar power hits the Earth, after all, but this year they're a bad trade-off. As most heavy industry eventually moves to space, in the centuries to come, most power plants can be there with them. But today it's just silly.
Microwave power transmission from orbit to ground actually makes a lot of sense. Are there losses, sure, but the losses from sunlight are greater. It's more efficient to have a solar power in orbit and beam down power as microwaves than to put the same panel on the Earth (and that's before taking into account the ground-based panel being dark half the day).
Ouch.
Life isn't supposed to be perfectly safe. Nuclear power plants are very safe - they're down in the noise floor compared to real risks. But "oooooh nukular scary scary" is all people can hear.
Bad things happen in life, and eventually everyone dies. A nuclear power plant with a modern design is as safe as there's any point in making things in life. Will people eventually die as a result. Sure. People die building them to. It's just not important that they aren't "perfectly safe" because that's not an interesting goal.
A very low change of death is a minor factor in our standard of living. Technology that gives a net increase in standard of living is good, even if there are also downsides, because everything in life has downsides.
A market-based pricing system is better than any system involving a central planning committee setting wages or prices according to some ideas about what they "should be". There's no doubt about the facts there. There are places where you can argue that market-based pricing just can't be made to work, but CEO wages are not one of those places.
Plus, the basic notion that some special favored group of people deserve higher wages than they get today while some other, disfavored group of people deserve lower wages is just so vile and evil that I can't put words to it, other than to Godwin the thread.
Explain to me how me downloading a copy of Hurt Locker, which I wouldn't never spend money to watch, own, or rent, is going to affect your bottom line?
Did you watch it? Then it reduced your appetite for paid films. OTOH, many, many people torrent 10x as many films as they will ever watch, at which point the torrenting really is irrelevant to anything except hard drive sales.
if you come out of that thing feeling good about the Iraq War, you're a moron.
So, "yes" to the masturbatory fan-fiction then. A bold, shocking, profound artistic statement would show only the good things that came of some war - every critic would trash it, but it might make people think. A moving showing "war is bad, mmmmkay" is just expected and vulgar.
Think about "conflict of interest": that's where the CEOs personal interest conflicts with the shareholders, as represented by the board. For a program put in place by the board as a work-around this just doesn't come up.
You have an idea for changing the basic economics of large corporations that you think will make them better. You've never run a large corporation. Protip: your theory is incorrect. Almost every theory about corporate governance that "looks good on paper" even to people who are skilled in the art is wrong, and badly wrong.
Try reading the thread? The whole discussion is about the facts that "vacuum" isn't vacuum, and what affects the speed of light because it's not just a travelling photon.
Oh, if it ever matters there are just so many work abounds that it won't matter. I've worked for a large company where the CEO got most of his pay from nearly-secret small companies that he owned, which the large company bought parts from at insane markups. Millions a year that don't show up as "executive comp" for the large company.
I've worked at a large company where you had the option to receive this year's pay divided equally over the next 5 years. Since most CEOs only hold a very-high-paying post for a couple of years before flaming out, that would serve the purpose.
The more you make, the more choice you have as to how, where, and when you get paid.
Why should lower CEO pay even be a goal? Jealousy? Hatred of success? They work harder for their pay than lottery winners, sports stars, or movie stars.
The goal should be to increase efficiency of production of goods and services over time. "Making the pie bigger" entirely dominates "how the pie is divided" over time. Almost everyone in America has a higher standard of living than a medieval king, and certainly better health care. Damn, I'll take being a modern wage slave over a medieval king just for dentistry alone!
Yes, but are they the same across all wavelengths? I believe this GRB included the current record for shortest wavelength ever observed in a photon. I don't know how much this-scale-GRB data we have to compare this against.
It's also the only MMO that explicitly gives you a way to win the game. You might be an MMO addict if ...
By far the least repetitive MMO I've played, with the best low-level content, is D&D Online. There's so much low level content that you never need to repeat a quest on your way to max level.
I'm not a fan of the new endgame, the latest expansion plays too much like NWNO, but there's tons of fun game content before you get to the endgame, with many complex and interesting build choices (being very D&D based, there's remarkable depth to the "skill system" - it's like nothing else I've seen). I had years of fun just making new builds, sometimes to optimize and sometimes to just make something crazy work, before getting bored.
It also has the Underdark / Drow city Demonweb quest line (the original "dark elves in gaming", and thus the only take on that concept I've ever found interesting) which is just a darn cool area to explore and get lost it, even if the devs were losing their way by that expansion and the quests weren't the best, just wandering around was a blast for an old-school D&D player like me!
Impedance, in the abstract, is that factor that limits the speed that a wave propagates. If light at one frequency (e.g., gamma) is slower than light at another (e.g. visible), then impedance differs by frequency. The speed light moves is limits by (ideal) vacuum impedance, by the absorption and re-emission due to electron interaction (dispersive or otherwise), and by interaction with virtual electron-positron pairs and other vacuum quantum effects. All of these contribute to impedance, dispersion is a specific case.
And I wouldn't blindly assume that dispersion is solely at work here. Perhaps the extreme high energy of the photons in this gamma burst interact with vacuum quantum effects in a different way than visible light due to the remarkably short wavelength.
Well, we've at least seen MS willing to be flexible on the network requirements. As long as they don't get in my way, I don't care, but I have no tolerance for actual, real-world (not opposing-fanboy-imagined) problems with a console game because of some poorly-done DRM.
Instead of jaguars, article contained serious prose. Would not read again.
My next-gen console will go on a shelf under my TV next to the much larger black box of my home theater amp, on the shelf above the crusty 80s VCR that I still have for some reason. Looks fine to me.
This is why I love Slashdot. On the official console fanboy flamewar story the first big thread is a grammar Nazi thread, complete with a detail analysis if the semantics of "dumbass".
IANAAP, but impedance is a better word than dispersion. Much like the speed of light through a prism varies by frequency, the speed of light through the interstellar medium (which is called vacuum, but is not some Platonic ideal of vacuum) should vary just a bit by frequency. Of course, that's not going to surprise anyone in the filed, so presumably the numbers aren't quite as expected even accounting for that.
The effect is very small, and I agree this could be telling us about the "vacuum" as easily as it could be telling us about the speed of light in an (ideal) vacuum.