"Economists have modeled cap and trade versus the other alternatives (in a game theoretic sense)"
No politicians in that model? Cap-and-trade involves vast money flows that are not open to public scrutiny. If the penalty money goes into general revenues via a tax, then who gets the money will be somewhat more transparent.
Microsoft should just get smart and start charging for service pack updates to XP.
I'll switch to Linux as my default boot whenever Windows gets too expensive or too restrictive. Right now the cost of an OEM distribution is negligible.
You obviously don't understand what MS's market for desktop OS's is. They sell very few of them as boxed copies to individuals. They have a small market selling site licenses to corporations, but by far their largest market is computer OEMs like Dell.
Is that the case? I thought their big revenues were from site licenses, so they could protect their monopoly by providing Windows for little or nothing to OEM's. So that the price difference between a Windows and a Linux box is in the range of $25 (Lenovo) to $50 (Dell).
256 cores may not be "enough for anybody". Until now, every time I bought a new PC at the end of its 4-5 year life cycle, my scientific fortran code ran an order of magnitude faster. For an n-cube model, each doubling of the number of data requires nearly an order of magnitude more speed. Clock speeds seem to have reached a practical limit due to power requirements. Where are my next few orders of magnitude going to come from, if not lots of cores?
"When I read how charities are a 'tax shelter', I realize how stupid the writer is. And in this case, how dumb the moderators are.
Give away a dollar to save 40 cents. Brilliant strategy."
But how much control does the donor retain? That control gives power and influence and publicity, which have a value, and are bought with the "donation." Worth 60 cents?
Attendance at lectures was not required when I was an engineering undergraduate. Nor was it required when I was a chemistry graduate student. Only later, when I went to medical school, did I encounter faculty petty (or insecure) enough to require attendance at lectures. Evidently law faculty are the same.
That was before the internet, so I always took a textbook or medical journal to read during bad lectures. I doubt anyone would have the nerve to ban textbooks from class.
When my wife calls me she hollers into her handset as loud as she can, "Charlie, pick up the phone", and then allows enough time for me to walk into the other room where the phone is.
As a scientific number cruncher, I always need a few more orders of magnitude in speed. From the first PC until now, I picked up an order of magnitude with each hardware replacement cycle. But now it looks like the next order of magnitude will have to wait until 16-core chips reach commodity prices. So go for it.
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Perhaps the target audience dislike classical music for the same reason I dislike rap - it is emblematic of a culture hostile to my own.
No politicians in that model? Cap-and-trade involves vast money flows that are not open to public scrutiny. If the penalty money goes into general revenues via a tax, then who gets the money will be somewhat more transparent.
Now that everybody is used to Windows, the "Off" button should be labeled "Start"
Microsoft should just get smart and start charging for service pack updates to XP.
I'll switch to Linux as my default boot whenever Windows gets too expensive or too restrictive. Right now the cost of an OEM distribution is negligible.
You obviously don't understand what MS's market for desktop OS's is. They sell very few of them as boxed copies to individuals. They have a small market selling site licenses to corporations, but by far their largest market is computer OEMs like Dell.
Is that the case? I thought their big revenues were from site licenses, so they could protect their monopoly by providing Windows for little or nothing to OEM's. So that the price difference between a Windows and a Linux box is in the range of $25 (Lenovo) to $50 (Dell).
256 cores may not be "enough for anybody". Until now, every time I bought a new PC at the end of its 4-5 year life cycle, my scientific fortran code ran an order of magnitude faster. For an n-cube model, each doubling of the number of data requires nearly an order of magnitude more speed. Clock speeds seem to have reached a practical limit due to power requirements. Where are my next few orders of magnitude going to come from, if not lots of cores?
"When I read how charities are a 'tax shelter', I realize how stupid the writer is. And in this case, how dumb the moderators are. Give away a dollar to save 40 cents. Brilliant strategy." But how much control does the donor retain? That control gives power and influence and publicity, which have a value, and are bought with the "donation." Worth 60 cents?
Attendance at lectures was not required when I was an engineering undergraduate. Nor was it required when I was a chemistry graduate student. Only later, when I went to medical school, did I encounter faculty petty (or insecure) enough to require attendance at lectures. Evidently law faculty are the same. That was before the internet, so I always took a textbook or medical journal to read during bad lectures. I doubt anyone would have the nerve to ban textbooks from class.
When my wife calls me she hollers into her handset as loud as she can, "Charlie, pick up the phone", and then allows enough time for me to walk into the other room where the phone is.
As a scientific number cruncher, I always need a few more orders of magnitude in speed. From the first PC until now, I picked up an order of magnitude with each hardware replacement cycle. But now it looks like the next order of magnitude will have to wait until 16-core chips reach commodity prices. So go for it.