Latin America is not really socialist, except the obvious places like Cuba. You are definitely right to call it popularist - the government puts huge invisible taxes in place (i.e. import taxes), then spends big on bread and circuses. That's partly the political climate (feudal lords looking after their subjects), and partly expediency (fair taxes are difficult with a thriving black market). But it's not really socialism.
Atlas Shrugged? Those 600,000 words only count if you finish it. Fountainhead and Anthem were readable, honestly, how many words to you need to say "socialism bad"?
In 70 years, Britney Spears would be extremely lucky to make the same sort of residuals as Billie Holiday would be making now.
The 70 year rule is ridiculous. If you do the net-present-value calculations, almost any money you make in a few decades is pretty much worthless. Almost all the profits come in the first few months even before interest rates. When you consider interest, the last few decades are worthless to the artist.
The only reason the 70 (or even 50) rule exists is to limit free alternatives. They don't want to pay current artists a fair cut. They want to kill the public domain, so we need to keep churning out new works.
5 million is not really a huge investement for really big organizations. That's a pool of 1000 potential new hires. Consider what it would cost to get recruit 1000 new graduates, and have them working for 3 months while you find out whether they are any good. Consider what it would cost to supervise them, if it wasn't for the mentor organizations.
That's impossible. Microsoft would never exclude their own applications from the limit - that would be an abuse of their market power and monopoly position.
I don't care whether it's for ethical reasons, or just to save bandwidth, I welcome it.
The more draconian things get on the net, the more people shift to anonymous IP stuff. I don't personally use them (I don't have anything worth hiding, and I'd rather read a book than pirate a DVD), but free and anonymous communication is a great boon to society.
But that would mean that any self-important twat couldn't just freely post his own egotistical rantings online for everyone to see. I won't stand for it!
Including the time it takes, Linux and Mac are just better.
If you use a computer for testing out new libraries / frameworks / etc, Linux is a lot easier to use. apt-get install is a real time saver. I just don't have the time to tinker on Windows - that's for OS geeks, not people who want to get stuff done.
If you just surf the web, Mac is better, but it really doesn't matter. Linux PPPOE was a bit behind (on Dapper Drake, maybe it's improved) which is a big initial cost, but the stability and lack of viruses pay off in the long term.
Correlation is not causation. Stress will have some physiological impact, but I'd say that overeating (or eating junk) as a result of stress (or because you are busy, which also causes the stress) is probably what causes the weight gain.
Either that, or fat people get stressed more easily.
Perhaps game shops should follow a proposal-review-implementation, and use that Technology Readiness Levels (or whatever it's called by NASA), and a better systems engineering methodology.
You also forgot the flexibility and adaptability of the electric car market.
A petrol car has to be carefully integrated. That means that only car manufacturers can make them.
An electric car can be built by competing manufacturers of electric motors, batteries, transmissions, chassis, trimmings, and so on. They integrate a lot easier (electric currents vs. fuel, and a better performance curve from the engine - you barely need a gear box), so you won't have manufactures getting fat, inefficient, and too big to fail.
That's why the big companies hate the idea of electric cars - the margins will go through the floor!
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Microsoft is offering quality, selection, variety, and freedom.
At least, I'm pretty sure that the banned list wouldn't exclude "shake-a-baby" apps. That's quality, selection, variety, and freedom. Of a sort.
You think it will converge with nethack one day? That could be cool.
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So slashdot should wait for the Tech sections in the newspaper to reprint the article, and then link to the credible news source?
Is lithium still popular as an anti-depressant, or has it fallen out of favor now that the patents have expired?
Python? Real girls go for perl programmers. And they have beards.
Isn't it UNIX? Couldn't you just run Ubuntu, and switch the kernel, or isn't UNIX a standard?
Latin America is not really socialist, except the obvious places like Cuba. You are definitely right to call it popularist - the government puts huge invisible taxes in place (i.e. import taxes), then spends big on bread and circuses. That's partly the political climate (feudal lords looking after their subjects), and partly expediency (fair taxes are difficult with a thriving black market). But it's not really socialism.
Atlas Shrugged? Those 600,000 words only count if you finish it. Fountainhead and Anthem were readable, honestly, how many words to you need to say "socialism bad"?
Why not write to your local member of parliament? Or better still, let the marketeers write to your local member of parliament.
Quick, somebody ask it what "the first number not nameable in under ten words" is!
You would have to add in the cost of the beef and cheese in the cheeseburger. I'm not sure that 25 cents is low enough.
In 70 years, Britney Spears would be extremely lucky to make the same sort of residuals as Billie Holiday would be making now.
The 70 year rule is ridiculous. If you do the net-present-value calculations, almost any money you make in a few decades is pretty much worthless. Almost all the profits come in the first few months even before interest rates. When you consider interest, the last few decades are worthless to the artist.
The only reason the 70 (or even 50) rule exists is to limit free alternatives. They don't want to pay current artists a fair cut. They want to kill the public domain, so we need to keep churning out new works.
Similar story. Gave up on the X-server setup. Come Ubuntu, and apt-get, the tables turned and Linux was just easier.
5 million is not really a huge investement for really big organizations. That's a pool of 1000 potential new hires. Consider what it would cost to get recruit 1000 new graduates, and have them working for 3 months while you find out whether they are any good. Consider what it would cost to supervise them, if it wasn't for the mentor organizations.
What's the headhunter fee for a good engineer?
This is a smart move by Google.
That's impossible. Microsoft would never exclude their own applications from the limit - that would be an abuse of their market power and monopoly position.
Isn't their motto "don't do evil"?
I don't care whether it's for ethical reasons, or just to save bandwidth, I welcome it.
The more draconian things get on the net, the more people shift to anonymous IP stuff. I don't personally use them (I don't have anything worth hiding, and I'd rather read a book than pirate a DVD), but free and anonymous communication is a great boon to society.
How about spotting and correcting errors in wikipedia?
The only problem would be vandel-bots who would correct their own errors :s
But that would mean that any self-important twat couldn't just freely post his own egotistical rantings online for everyone to see. I won't stand for it!
Including the time it takes, Linux and Mac are just better.
If you use a computer for testing out new libraries / frameworks / etc, Linux is a lot easier to use. apt-get install is a real time saver. I just don't have the time to tinker on Windows - that's for OS geeks, not people who want to get stuff done.
If you just surf the web, Mac is better, but it really doesn't matter. Linux PPPOE was a bit behind (on Dapper Drake, maybe it's improved) which is a big initial cost, but the stability and lack of viruses pay off in the long term.
Can we offer to deliver them complimentary building materials through their windows, with an opt out clause?
Antibiotics = genocide?
Now, what is the name of that law about internet forums?
Correlation is not causation. Stress will have some physiological impact, but I'd say that overeating (or eating junk) as a result of stress (or because you are busy, which also causes the stress) is probably what causes the weight gain.
Either that, or fat people get stressed more easily.
Perhaps game shops should follow a proposal-review-implementation, and use that Technology Readiness Levels (or whatever it's called by NASA), and a better systems engineering methodology.
As a penance for inventing MMOPRGs.
You also forgot the flexibility and adaptability of the electric car market.
A petrol car has to be carefully integrated. That means that only car manufacturers can make them.
An electric car can be built by competing manufacturers of electric motors, batteries, transmissions, chassis, trimmings, and so on. They integrate a lot easier (electric currents vs. fuel, and a better performance curve from the engine - you barely need a gear box), so you won't have manufactures getting fat, inefficient, and too big to fail.
That's why the big companies hate the idea of electric cars - the margins will go through the floor!