But, but... that's not how the free market works, is it? If I can offer services (me) for less than someone else, why shouldn't I?
But what is best for you personally is NOT always what is best for the economy of the USofA.
The "Free Market" is a fantasy based upon impossible assumptions. Only if the consumers and producers have PERFECT knowledge of ALL the ramifications and costs of the transaction does it work. And then only if the population as a whole shares the same values.
Which is why we end up with all kinds of regulations on it.
If you really want to stimulate the economy, you have to spend the dollars directly to the wages (that is, massive government hiring).
Yep. The problem is that the government is (with a few exceptions) extremely bad at producing anything other than paperwork and hindrances.
In my opinion, the government SHOULD hire some more people... who will determine which citizens belong to the group that will spend the MOST money on legal, local services and start pumping the cash into that segment.
It's easier for the local pizza place to hire more cooks and delivery people if there is additional demand for pizza delivery due to the locals having more pizza money available.
Whereas is you just give the pizza store owner additional cash, he's not going to expand his business. There won't be additional demand for him to service.
Focus on funding the demand and let the supply grow itself.
And the way I see it, it IS all about using the taxes gathered by our government (or money borrowed by our government) to improve OUR economy in the most effective and efficient fashion.
It's very simple. If you reduce the taxes of a billionaire by a million dollars, he will spend it differently than if that million dollars was spread amongst people making $20,000 a year.
Probably when they send their terrorist training film in to be made into a DVD.
All three of your points depend upon the terrorists being so stupid that they're discussing their plans on a phone system, in the clear, which is tapped.
The government isn't at any risk from losing "intel" on those cases.
Intelligent terrorists (the kind that could actually carry out an attack) would be using encryption and anonymous email accounts.
It was something like "Live Free or Die Hard". And it was hosted by that "I'm a Mac" guy. So you know it is factual.
This is so completely NOT like bunches of kids with spray paint messing up building walls.
Oblig auto analogy.
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So manual transmission cars don't work if all you know is an automatic transmission?
Motorcycles don't work if all you know is how to drive a car?
18-wheelers... don't even ask about 18-wheelers.
The point being that many things DO work. And they work very well. And you probably depend upon them even if you are not aware of it.
Your point is incorrectly stated. Rather than whether something "works" it should be whether YOU can handle it.
And that is different for every person out there. Some people will not need a book like this. Some will. Others will need a human to teach them. Whatever the case, that does not change the fact that Linux is Free (like beer, like speech).
These people are not in the periphery; these are people with whom he's tightly tied. But that doesn't matter any more, he's elected. Just remember you asked for it. He'll make history, alright.
From the context, it sounds like you are phrasing that as a negative.
So, make a statement that can be tested as to what, specifically, you believe he will do.
Otherwise you're the same as the people you denigrate.
This 'digital revolution' will do nothing but help THEIR causes, not truth.
Truth is a difficult thing. I'll stick to facts. They're easier to validate.
The question is more along the lines of "what is a journalist".
Right now, it seems that a transcription machine meets the criteria. The current "journalists" simply do not ask (and follow up on) meaningful questions. They ask crap questions and focus on non-issues. And then they accept non-answers to those questions.
I'd be very surprised if the majority (51%+) of "political" "journalists" could even name their own Congress Critters.
And tech "journalism" is even worse.
About the only fields where they get it right are "sports" and "fashion".
The auto-negotiate feature on NIC's and switches / hubs.
I set them all to auto-negotiate and if they don't use the highest possible setting then I start replacing things until they do.
Other people lock them down to the highest setting.
The worst case I saw was when the tech had locked them down to the highest setting (100Mb / full duplex) and then used crappy CAT 3 cable. And had not cleaned it up so their power strips were sitting on top of loops of cable.
All because he believed that auto-negotiation meant that every single packet had to be negotiated and that meant that the network would be slower. A theory that he should have been able to verify with a very simple test.
Not to mention the old HP printers with the old HP print server cards that would NOT do full duplex.
There was an older woman who had trouble understanding the mouse. She had to hold it steady with one hand while clicking the buttons on the mouse with her other hand.
So I showed her how to play solitaire on the computer.
A week later she had mastered the mouse.
It's all about finding the right way for that particular person to learn.
Faced with crushing reporting costs if they go public, new companies are instead selling themselves to big, existing corporations. For the last four years it has seemed that every new business plan in Silicon Valley has ended with the statement "And then we sell to Google."
Ummmm, that's been the plan for YEARS. The only thing that changes is the name of the company that you hope will buy you.
I could make the argument that it is "IP" patents that are the real problem.
"The Long Tail" did not suggest that Harry Potter would sell less. It suggested that a less well-known, or liked, book could make as much money as a Harry Potter or more because the internet would allow those who liked such things to find them more easily.
Not exactly.
It is the hypothesis that ALL of the non-Harry Potter books COLLECTIVELY will sell as much or more than the Harry Potter books themselves.
Even that is wrong. It isn't a single book or a single series. It's the percentages. It is the hypothesis that the 80% of lesser selling titles will equal or exceed the sales of the top 20%. Or 90% / 10%. Or wherever you want to make the cut.
In theory, it is easy to demonstrate. Suppose there are 2 blockbusters released in a category... and the average person buy 10 items in that category. So, 20% of the sales would go to the blockbusters... but 80% would go to the "long tail".
The problem is that the average person does NOT operate that way. They might by the latest Harry Potter book... and no other book that year. The same with music. The same with movies.
For Windows 7 it just needs to be an approvment on Vista, if it can be released by the End of 2009 anything longer (people will start expecting more from it)
I'd say that it needs to as good as WinXP.
Otherwise Microsoft is going to be facing another wave of people demanding that sales of WinXP be extended again.
And from their perspective, why not? Why should they be forced to "license" (not purchase) a product that they see as inferior to the last product they "licensed" from that vendor? Particularly since there will, once again, be all kinds of "legacy" compatibility problems that enterprise customers love so much.
The original TLD's were fine back when the Internet was primarily a US system.
Now that it is worldwide, they need to look at getting away from new TLD's and going to country code domains(example,.us or.cn). That way each country can establish its own standards for what is and is not allowed.
And for those people who are going to say that it makes more work for the Pepsi people (or whatever) to register pepsi.whatever in each country, there should not be a problem with SCRIPTING that. And I'm sure that they can afford it.
That way, if someone in the UK has a great idea for a LOCAL business name they can register it in the UK and not have to work around someone in the US who has already registered that name.com.
What we're dealing with now are people who made bad assumptions about the economy, got cocky, and now we all are paying the price for the lack of oversight and auditing done on the decision-makers responsible.
But those same people were "geniuses" for making so much money for their investors BEFORE it all collapsed.
It is not the American Constitution that has no teeth, it is the American people and I say this as an American. I am disgusted with how sad, feeble, and pathetic the average American is and how unwilling they are to fight for anything.
And the Congress Critters are elected from those same Americans.
Some of them are good. I'm in Washington state and all of my Congress Critters voted against the telcom immunity. And I voted for them again.
But the Constitution does not have any magical power to protect us. It is a statement that WE must support. Our forefathers died for those words.
Now, our Congress Critters won't even risk re-election to uphold them. Hell, they won't even risk the CHANCE that their opponents might say something mean about them.
Which is why Congress's approval rating is even lower than Bush's.
Get educated. Get organized. Then hold your Congress Critters accountable for their votes and their absences. That's the only way to get real change.
But if you really must go digital, then you're going to have to put in a little bit of work and money every 5 years or so.
Just store a machine that can read the CURRENT media. Then, 5 years from now, get a controller for the old machine that can handle the NEW media. And transfer your files from the old stuff to the new stuff. And repeat the process every 5 years or so.
Don't go with whatever the cool tech is. Always go with the mainstream stuff.
I have a friend who recently copied over all her Zip Disks to USB sticks. Now she's set until that format is replaced.
Of course, this only addresses the files themselves. Who knows if there will be anything that can read the data from them in 50 years? There are word processors from 20 years ago that created files that it is very difficult to find a reader for now.
Project management is not only for the managers. Grab some basic books on the subject (hopefully based around software development) and have the coders read them.
If nothing else, it gives everyone a shared vocabulary for the situations and approaches that they'll face.
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But what is best for you personally is NOT always what is best for the economy of the USofA.
The "Free Market" is a fantasy based upon impossible assumptions. Only if the consumers and producers have PERFECT knowledge of ALL the ramifications and costs of the transaction does it work. And then only if the population as a whole shares the same values.
Which is why we end up with all kinds of regulations on it.
Yep. The problem is that the government is (with a few exceptions) extremely bad at producing anything other than paperwork and hindrances.
In my opinion, the government SHOULD hire some more people ... who will determine which citizens belong to the group that will spend the MOST money on legal, local services and start pumping the cash into that segment.
It's easier for the local pizza place to hire more cooks and delivery people if there is additional demand for pizza delivery due to the locals having more pizza money available.
Whereas is you just give the pizza store owner additional cash, he's not going to expand his business. There won't be additional demand for him to service.
Focus on funding the demand and let the supply grow itself.
Congratulations. Very nicely stated.
And the way I see it, it IS all about using the taxes gathered by our government (or money borrowed by our government) to improve OUR economy in the most effective and efficient fashion.
It's very simple. If you reduce the taxes of a billionaire by a million dollars, he will spend it differently than if that million dollars was spread amongst people making $20,000 a year.
Probably when they send their terrorist training film in to be made into a DVD.
All three of your points depend upon the terrorists being so stupid that they're discussing their plans on a phone system, in the clear, which is tapped.
The government isn't at any risk from losing "intel" on those cases.
Intelligent terrorists (the kind that could actually carry out an attack) would be using encryption and anonymous email accounts.
It was something like "Live Free or Die Hard". And it was hosted by that "I'm a Mac" guy. So you know it is factual.
This is so completely NOT like bunches of kids with spray paint messing up building walls.
So manual transmission cars don't work if all you know is an automatic transmission?
Motorcycles don't work if all you know is how to drive a car?
18-wheelers ... don't even ask about 18-wheelers.
The point being that many things DO work. And they work very well. And you probably depend upon them even if you are not aware of it.
Your point is incorrectly stated. Rather than whether something "works" it should be whether YOU can handle it.
And that is different for every person out there. Some people will not need a book like this. Some will. Others will need a human to teach them. Whatever the case, that does not change the fact that Linux is Free (like beer, like speech).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/magazine/04risk-t.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/magazine/04risk-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
From the context, it sounds like you are phrasing that as a negative.
So, make a statement that can be tested as to what, specifically, you believe he will do.
Otherwise you're the same as the people you denigrate.
Truth is a difficult thing. I'll stick to facts. They're easier to validate.
The question is more along the lines of "what is a journalist".
Right now, it seems that a transcription machine meets the criteria. The current "journalists" simply do not ask (and follow up on) meaningful questions. They ask crap questions and focus on non-issues. And then they accept non-answers to those questions.
I'd be very surprised if the majority (51%+) of "political" "journalists" could even name their own Congress Critters.
And tech "journalism" is even worse.
About the only fields where they get it right are "sports" and "fashion".
From TFA:
e-bomb
Middle Eastern cybercartels
And so forth. Lots of technobabble, not much factual information.
Make sure that the port forwarding is correctly set up. It helps a LOT with the speed. :)
The auto-negotiate feature on NIC's and switches / hubs.
I set them all to auto-negotiate and if they don't use the highest possible setting then I start replacing things until they do.
Other people lock them down to the highest setting.
The worst case I saw was when the tech had locked them down to the highest setting (100Mb / full duplex) and then used crappy CAT 3 cable. And had not cleaned it up so their power strips were sitting on top of loops of cable.
All because he believed that auto-negotiation meant that every single packet had to be negotiated and that meant that the network would be slower. A theory that he should have been able to verify with a very simple test.
Not to mention the old HP printers with the old HP print server cards that would NOT do full duplex.
There was an older woman who had trouble understanding the mouse. She had to hold it steady with one hand while clicking the buttons on the mouse with her other hand.
So I showed her how to play solitaire on the computer.
A week later she had mastered the mouse.
It's all about finding the right way for that particular person to learn.
Ummmm, that's been the plan for YEARS. The only thing that changes is the name of the company that you hope will buy you.
I could make the argument that it is "IP" patents that are the real problem.
Not exactly.
It is the hypothesis that ALL of the non-Harry Potter books COLLECTIVELY will sell as much or more than the Harry Potter books themselves.
Even that is wrong. It isn't a single book or a single series. It's the percentages. It is the hypothesis that the 80% of lesser selling titles will equal or exceed the sales of the top 20%. Or 90% / 10%. Or wherever you want to make the cut.
In theory, it is easy to demonstrate. Suppose there are 2 blockbusters released in a category ... and the average person buy 10 items in that category. So, 20% of the sales would go to the blockbusters ... but 80% would go to the "long tail".
The problem is that the average person does NOT operate that way. They might by the latest Harry Potter book ... and no other book that year. The same with music. The same with movies.
I'd say that it needs to as good as WinXP.
Otherwise Microsoft is going to be facing another wave of people demanding that sales of WinXP be extended again.
And from their perspective, why not? Why should they be forced to "license" (not purchase) a product that they see as inferior to the last product they "licensed" from that vendor? Particularly since there will, once again, be all kinds of "legacy" compatibility problems that enterprise customers love so much.
The original TLD's were fine back when the Internet was primarily a US system.
Now that it is worldwide, they need to look at getting away from new TLD's and going to country code domains(example, .us or .cn). That way each country can establish its own standards for what is and is not allowed.
And for those people who are going to say that it makes more work for the Pepsi people (or whatever) to register pepsi.whatever in each country, there should not be a problem with SCRIPTING that. And I'm sure that they can afford it.
That way, if someone in the UK has a great idea for a LOCAL business name they can register it in the UK and not have to work around someone in the US who has already registered that name.com.
I'm with you on that. It's funny the first time it is done.
It takes real skill to make a funny satire of it. Microsoft tried playing it seriously and their ads sucked.
Now, to make a decent ad following a sucky remake following a funny ad ... no, that takes too much skill.
They can fire you, at will, for any LEGAL reason.
Discrimination based upon religious preference is NOT a legal reason.
But those same people were "geniuses" for making so much money for their investors BEFORE it all collapsed.
See Bernard Madoff.
And it will happen again.
And the Congress Critters are elected from those same Americans.
Some of them are good. I'm in Washington state and all of my Congress Critters voted against the telcom immunity. And I voted for them again.
But the Constitution does not have any magical power to protect us. It is a statement that WE must support. Our forefathers died for those words.
Now, our Congress Critters won't even risk re-election to uphold them. Hell, they won't even risk the CHANCE that their opponents might say something mean about them.
Which is why Congress's approval rating is even lower than Bush's.
Get educated. Get organized. Then hold your Congress Critters accountable for their votes and their absences. That's the only way to get real change.
Stone tablets last a fairly long time.
But if you really must go digital, then you're going to have to put in a little bit of work and money every 5 years or so.
Just store a machine that can read the CURRENT media. Then, 5 years from now, get a controller for the old machine that can handle the NEW media. And transfer your files from the old stuff to the new stuff. And repeat the process every 5 years or so.
Don't go with whatever the cool tech is. Always go with the mainstream stuff.
I have a friend who recently copied over all her Zip Disks to USB sticks. Now she's set until that format is replaced.
Of course, this only addresses the files themselves. Who knows if there will be anything that can read the data from them in 50 years? There are word processors from 20 years ago that created files that it is very difficult to find a reader for now.
Project management is not only for the managers. Grab some basic books on the subject (hopefully based around software development) and have the coders read them.
If nothing else, it gives everyone a shared vocabulary for the situations and approaches that they'll face.
If nothing else, read a website on it.
http://www.stevemcconnell.com/rdenum.htm
or
http://www.stevemcconnell.com/rdmistak.htm
From TFA:
Do you think that she used that phrasing?
If not, then why quibble over another word that may or may not have been the word used?