I think what my sibling post is trying to say is that the "price" differs from the "value" in that the buyer and seller may have asymmetric information and or be acting irrationally. In fact I would be nearly certain of it. Furthermore, the faster the trade takes place, the more likely one of these is to be true.
Government economic stimulus: Treating a patient for anemia with an iron supplement made from his own extracted blood.
I can't resist replying to your Sig... It's like treating a patient for anemia with iron supplements made from his own extracted blood from the future. We are taking on debt, not trying to push through a one year ballenced budget. I'm not sure it's a good idea, but it's a much better one than what your describing.
I can say for sure that he doesn't "get it". While he does make several good points about the advantages of payed work, it seems that he is ignorant about the advantages of free contribution, and the way OSS uses a blend paid and unpaid work to advance projects.
He also doesn't seem to understand that the large companies that are supporting OSS are not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, they are doing it to try to disrupt other businesses.
In short, the man is not a troll, but he has no idea what he is talking about. Move along.
Actually, (at least according to the urban planning master's major's who I have been hanging out with) telecommuting doesn't seem to save any miles driven out in the real world.
This was something of a shock to me, but apparently, according to the studies of actual telecommuting implementations, people still end up coming into the office once or twice a week, as well as running a whole lot more errands during the day. Because they are telecommuting they tend to be willing to live much farther from their employer, making those one or two trips weigh in extra heavy, and they tend to move out to the boonies where their daily errands mean a lot more driving.
I was pretty surprised by the results of the study, and I got the impression that the people who conducted it were as well, but it seems to be pretty much cannon for urban planners at this point.
I actually have some modifinill, (which can be acquired by prescription under the name pro-vigil) and have used to stay up before. Its not at all how I expected it to be though. See, what is weird about modifinill is that it doesn't keep you from getting tired, it just keeps you from getting slow, groggy or stupid. It does work really well for that though. I suppose that some of what is making me feel "tired" when I use it might be my social conditioning telling me that I should be in bed at four am. But it's hard to tell.
My understanding is that the military gives a similar substance to it's pilots for long runs (I believe that they use adrinifil, which is the chemical that your liver turns modifinill into)
Well, actually what they should have done is sold the first wave of consoles by auction themselves. That way they pick up some extra cash and all this shady BS is cut out of the deal.
How? You're going to force copyright holders to sue more than one infringing party at once? Surely going after one case to get the precedent is the oldest one in the book?
That's a very good point. I'm not even going to pretend to know, much less understand the law concerning this. The truth is that IP law is a big complicated hairy mess. I do know that in a criminal trial selective enforcement is a valid defense, and the state would be forced to either drop the charges or bring them against everyone.
Even if that were not the case here, I think almost the same benefit could be reaped. By demonstrating in a court that what they are doing is quite similar to the actions of other tech giants they still pick up allies. Its sort of like if their are 10 criminals hiding in a room and a lone cop wanders in but only spots one of them. If that one guy shouts "hey look at these other nine guys" suddenly its in all of their interest to overbear the cop.
Insightful, possibly, from a "what would your mother say" point of view, but not necessarily form a legal standpoint.
Well, actually there is a another legal angle that makes the "everybody else is doing it to" argument useful. If they can show something like selective enforcement (I don't know what the civil equivalent of this is, but I'm pretty sure that their is one) Then the suit would either need to be dropped or expanded to include MS, Yahoo and all the rest.
This would be to google's advantage because of the additional legal and political weight that the other players could bring to bear, and because it would make their opposition's case seem that much more absurd.
I know this was a joke, but actually it's pretty interesting. She doesn't feel it on her chest she feels it on her arm (the one that isn't their anymore). The weird thing is that their are parts of her chest that you can poke her in, and she will feel it in her arm (so its sort of the opposite of what you were suggesting)
This, of course is the result of some pretty cutting edge surgery.
still supprised at the $250 price tag.
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I honestly think that if Nintendo had released at a $200 price tag they would have simply covered every gamer out there, as well as the broader audience that they are shooting for. At $250 its so easy to say "well... I could drop an extra $50 and buy a xbox 360 core system" (even though its a striped down hunk of junk compared to its real older brother)
So the thing I'm curious about is if they are trying to do this in order to make bank on the release. (Nintendo always tries to turn a profit on the console as well as the games. What an insane business model) and then once the period where they sell out instantly every time a shipment comes in is over they will drop the price, hopefully causing another huge wave of adoption.
Its good to know that we Discordians have the pull in the scientific community that one would exspect us to.
ON PRAYER Mal-2 was once asked by one of his Disciples if he often prayed to Eris. He replied with these words:
No, we Erisians seldom pray, it is much too dangerous. Charles Fort has listed many factual incidences of ignorant people confronted with, say, a drought, and then praying fervently -- and then getting the entire village wiped out in a torrential flood.
"Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I'm mad but not ill"
I would really love to see some survey results on this (not from the slashdot crowd who obviously all see through this sort of inane security theater)
Does anyone have links to polls of the general community that ask questions like: "do you feel that the security measures being taken in airports are appropriate?"
and
"does the ban on liquids on a plane make you feel safer?"
Maybe I just live in and with abnormal people, but NO ONE I know seems to feel that this is a reasonable course of action for our country to be following. I sort of want to know if anyone in this republic does, as I know my sample is more than a little bit off center.
So the article says they will make an exception for "prescription medicine with a name that matches the passenger's ticket". Because we know that no terrorist would be able to forge those labels, right?
Terrorists could clearly never put something else in a legitimately obtained labeled bottle either. After all we know that each of the security stations has at least one trained pharmacist who can tell if your pills match your labels.
As David Brin would say: Shame on you for thinking that there was a golden age in the past. The only golden age we will ever have is one that we build.
In the past men polluted as aggressively as they could. There was no thought at all given to protecting the planet. People if anything are much, much cleaner now. The key difference is that we are slowly but surely running out of space. We are not worse polluters than our ancestors, we are just being held to an effectively higher standard. (Don't get me wrong, I think it is vital that we meet it) Oh and G.M. crops are about as far away from pollution as you can get. Don't be such a neo-phoebe, if you don't want us all to starve your going to have suck it up and accept some G.M. crops, its another case of higher populations chaining the standards.
As far as the stripping of man's values, I don't think you are looking at the horrors of history quite carefully enough. Man has been cruel and brutal for almost his entire history. It is only very recently that democracy, the abolishment of slavery, or the emancipation of women has occurred. Torture was considered a defacto standard for basically all of human history. We have come a long way, and I think we are still on an upward trend.
I will be the first to admit that we are in a local valley. Things are worse in a lot of ways than they were 5-10 years ago from the perspective of cultural progress. But if you thing that this is the beginning of the end you are being overly pessimistic and melodramatic. Sure things are bad, and I bet that they are going to get a little worse in the next two years or so, but then they will start to get better.
My god do I see the seeds for a bright future being planted today. A future of liberty, equality and trust. Technology is starting to enable some really increadable community tools. People are waking up and seeing that they need to play a part in the way the environment is handled. And we really are all getting smarter.
The trend is still up! Its just the moment which is down. Honestly the only thing that scares me is the mass retirement of the baby-boomers, but hopefully that won't hit us too hard.
Well, not if there techs are any good (which they probably wont be) But all it would take would be a public key encryption scheme to stop that from happening. The boxes all have a public key, the central server they talk to has the private half and presto.. they can insure that they are talking to the real server.
So I'm very fortunate to have all the opportunities I've had. I had four or five job offers the same week I was let go. Ultimately I'll be making even more money, I'll have a better title at the end of my name and I'll be very near the beach. So it's a bit hard to complain I suppose.
This sort of thing just makes me weap. I don't know which is worse, this one because a newspaper pushed credit card data out to a bunch of its users, or the ameriprise one http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/business/26data. html because you would think that american exspress would be more carefull, after all it is there job.
From the article on American Exspress:
[American Exspress Lost] included the names and Social Security numbers of about 70,000 current and former financial advisers and the names and internal account numbers of about 158,000 customers, about 6 percent of its 2.8 million clients.
Slashdot Mirror
This seems pretty much exactly like an old parody video that was out a while back...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msmRwlg23Qc
I think what my sibling post is trying to say is that the "price" differs from the "value" in that the buyer and seller may have asymmetric information and or be acting irrationally. In fact I would be nearly certain of it. Furthermore, the faster the trade takes place, the more likely one of these is to be true.
mod parent up.
Government economic stimulus: Treating a patient for anemia with an iron supplement made from his own extracted blood.
I can't resist replying to your Sig...
It's like treating a patient for anemia with iron supplements made from his own extracted blood from the future. We are taking on debt, not trying to push through a one year ballenced budget. I'm not sure it's a good idea, but it's a much better one than what your describing.
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I can say for sure that he doesn't "get it". While he does make several good points about the advantages of payed work, it seems that he is ignorant about the advantages of free contribution, and the way OSS uses a blend paid and unpaid work to advance projects.
He also doesn't seem to understand that the large companies that are supporting OSS are not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, they are doing it to try to disrupt other businesses.
In short, the man is not a troll, but he has no idea what he is talking about. Move along.
Actually, (at least according to the urban planning master's major's who I have been hanging out with) telecommuting doesn't seem to save any miles driven out in the real world.
This was something of a shock to me, but apparently, according to the studies of actual telecommuting implementations, people still end up coming into the office once or twice a week, as well as running a whole lot more errands during the day. Because they are telecommuting they tend to be willing to live much farther from their employer, making those one or two trips weigh in extra heavy, and they tend to move out to the boonies where their daily errands mean a lot more driving.
I was pretty surprised by the results of the study, and I got the impression that the people who conducted it were as well, but it seems to be pretty much cannon for urban planners at this point.
I don't know, the bubbles sound like they would be kind of fun. Do you think they would float?
I actually have some modifinill, (which can be acquired by prescription under the name pro-vigil) and have used to stay up before. Its not at all how I expected it to be though. See, what is weird about modifinill is that it doesn't keep you from getting tired, it just keeps you from getting slow, groggy or stupid. It does work really well for that though. I suppose that some of what is making me feel "tired" when I use it might be my social conditioning telling me that I should be in bed at four am. But it's hard to tell.
My understanding is that the military gives a similar substance to it's pilots for long runs (I believe that they use adrinifil, which is the chemical that your liver turns modifinill into)
Well, actually what they should have done is sold the first wave of consoles by auction themselves. That way they pick up some extra cash and all this shady BS is cut out of the deal.
after all,
it has long been known that piracy is directly linked to global warming.
http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/
That's a very good point. I'm not even going to pretend to know, much less understand the law concerning this. The truth is that IP law is a big complicated hairy mess. I do know that in a criminal trial selective enforcement is a valid defense, and the state would be forced to either drop the charges or bring them against everyone.
Even if that were not the case here, I think almost the same benefit could be reaped. By demonstrating in a court that what they are doing is quite similar to the actions of other tech giants they still pick up allies. Its sort of like if their are 10 criminals hiding in a room and a lone cop wanders in but only spots one of them. If that one guy shouts "hey look at these other nine guys" suddenly its in all of their interest to overbear the cop.
Well, actually there is a another legal angle that makes the "everybody else is doing it to" argument useful. If they can show something like selective enforcement (I don't know what the civil equivalent of this is, but I'm pretty sure that their is one) Then the suit would either need to be dropped or expanded to include MS, Yahoo and all the rest.
This would be to google's advantage because of the additional legal and political weight that the other players could bring to bear, and because it would make their opposition's case seem that much more absurd.
I know this was a joke, but actually it's pretty interesting. She doesn't feel it on her chest she feels it on her arm (the one that isn't their anymore). The weird thing is that their are parts of her chest that you can poke her in, and she will feel it in her arm (so its sort of the opposite of what you were suggesting)
This, of course is the result of some pretty cutting edge surgery.
I honestly think that if Nintendo had released at a $200 price tag they would have simply covered every gamer out there, as well as the broader audience that they are shooting for. At $250 its so easy to say "well... I could drop an extra $50 and buy a xbox 360 core system" (even though its a striped down hunk of junk compared to its real older brother)
So the thing I'm curious about is if they are trying to do this in order to make bank on the release. (Nintendo always tries to turn a profit on the console as well as the games. What an insane business model) and then once the period where they sell out instantly every time a shipment comes in is over they will drop the price, hopefully causing another huge wave of adoption.
I would really love to see some survey results on this (not from the slashdot crowd who obviously all see through this sort of inane security theater)
Does anyone have links to polls of the general community that ask questions like:
"do you feel that the security measures being taken in airports are appropriate?"
and
"does the ban on liquids on a plane make you feel safer?"
Maybe I just live in and with abnormal people, but NO ONE I know seems to feel that this is a reasonable course of action for our country to be following. I sort of want to know if anyone in this republic does, as I know my sample is more than a little bit off center.
unless you live in Hawaii
As David Brin would say: Shame on you for thinking that there was a golden age in the past. The only golden age we will ever have is one that we build.
In the past men polluted as aggressively as they could. There was no thought at all given to protecting the planet. People if anything are much, much cleaner now. The key difference is that we are slowly but surely running out of space. We are not worse polluters than our ancestors, we are just being held to an effectively higher standard. (Don't get me wrong, I think it is vital that we meet it) Oh and G.M. crops are about as far away from pollution as you can get. Don't be such a neo-phoebe, if you don't want us all to starve your going to have suck it up and accept some G.M. crops, its another case of higher populations chaining the standards.
As far as the stripping of man's values, I don't think you are looking at the horrors of history quite carefully enough. Man has been cruel and brutal for almost his entire history. It is only very recently that democracy, the abolishment of slavery, or the emancipation of women has occurred. Torture was considered a defacto standard for basically all of human history. We have come a long way, and I think we are still on an upward trend.
I will be the first to admit that we are in a local valley. Things are worse in a lot of ways than they were 5-10 years ago from the perspective of cultural progress. But if you thing that this is the beginning of the end you are being overly pessimistic and melodramatic. Sure things are bad, and I bet that they are going to get a little worse in the next two years or so, but then they will start to get better.
My god do I see the seeds for a bright future being planted today. A future of liberty, equality and trust. Technology is starting to enable some really increadable community tools. People are waking up and seeing that they need to play a part in the way the environment is handled. And we really are all getting smarter.
The trend is still up! Its just the moment which is down. Honestly the only thing that scares me is the mass retirement of the baby-boomers, but hopefully that won't hit us too hard.
Well, not if there techs are any good (which they probably wont be) But all it would take would be a public key encryption scheme to stop that from happening. The boxes all have a public key, the central server they talk to has the private half and presto.. they can insure that they are talking to the real server.
http://www.ps3week.com/blogs/ps3week.php?title=ti
And yes, I'm karmawhoring.
Though as it points out in the article, he took the post that got him fired down, and will never be putting it back up.
/.ing him harder (he has allready been dugg) I'm going to link to a google cache ...
: weblogs.asp.net/josh.robinson/+josh+robinson&hl=en &lr=&strip=1
To avoid
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:jgeFRxdfvuIJ
you mean like japan?
From the article on American Exspress: