The point of the article is that macs aren't overpriced.
I'm not convinced. While the article does tally with my experience when shopping around for a laptop, I had a student discount on the MacBook which made me go for it. And it was the last generation. I'm not sure if this still holds as PC laptops have gotten much cheaper in the last 6 months.
Also, it was in the UK where Macs are priced similarly in real terms to the States and PCs are twice as expensive ("strong currency tax" anyone?).
It's genitive, isn't it? Also res publicam does mean 'the public thing' literally but it was always used to mean what we would call the state, hence my [somewhat liberal] translation.
I have read very little Cicero, but what I have read was fantastic.
It's not communism. The closest I can think of is Plato's Republic, a benevolent dictatorship of a clique of philosopher kings.
The trouble is, his government was tremendously, terrifyingly fascist (the name comes from the Latin translation of the Greek title, res publicam which means "of the state").
Because without mods, nobody had rated it and it couldn't be overrated. Instead it should have been moderated with a real reason (e.g. Flamebait, as it is now, though I'm still not sure I see it).
Republican!=Conservative, just as Democrat!=trade-unionist rent-seekers.
There is a brand of republicanism which wants to dictate to everyone what happens in people's underpants, but there's also a brand which just wants to government to sod off, thank you.
It really depends on what you mean by investing. If you bundle the short into a black box into which you put your money and out of which you get returns then it is an investment for you. On the other hand, from the point of view of the companies shorted it is not an investment.
This distinction between speculation as 'bad' and investment as 'good' is foolish anyway. Both speculation and investment have good reasons to exist. At the moment speculators are driving down the price of oil. Is anybody complaining? No. They only complain when things go badly and they need a scapegoat.
p.s. Buttonwood had a good piece on shorting recently.
I always prefer Airbus because they rely on computers more. Human judgement is pretty poor, for the most part. The majority of crashes are caused by mechanical and pilot errors.
Plus they're more comfortable and I just trust European engineering more...
The IMF was and still is right. The way the US and UK are dealing with the banking crisis is silly. We're propping up a failed business model. The Scandinavians did a good job with their mechanism (they basically wiped the institution empty, eliminating stockholders and management, then nationalised it to protect savers).
The only institutions too big to fail are Fannie/Freddie, the federally created duopoly. And that's a problem unique to the US. The UK has no institutions too big to fail.
Lehman Bros got bought out by foreigners (Barclays). I think we should allow the sovereign wealth funds of the Middle East and Far East to buy out our failed banks.
Well, the true cost of Gordon's PFI deals could get out and undermine his reputation for economic competence.
Fortunately he has nothing to worry about as the global economy has collapsed and already outed him.
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Because you did it in a bad way. Let's see how to explain this...
Every Linux user was a Linux newbie once. Being new to Linux does not make someone a bad person, nor does being confused by piles of jargon or the 20 different version numbers you have to face to understand the OS.
What you're doing is like going into a preschool and yelling, "Call that writing? You're such a n00b!" and then slapping the kids. It's not pleasant, necessary or acceptable, not even on the internet.
Besides, I'm not even sure the poster was even wrong, he may have just been using a weird terminology (Ubuntu 2.6.27 for the version of Ubuntu to use the 2.6.27 kernel).
In essence, you've not broken taboo, you've just been arrogant and uncivil. I suggest you break both habits forthwith.
As has been noted many times on Slashdot, writing something on a piece of paper and it being legally binding are rather different things. Common law, class action lawsuits in front of judges would probably strike this down.
nearly every netbook on the market currently comes in WindowsXP form
Considering that the Linux version is usually a series of large buttons saying exactly what they do I'm not convinced that the Linux version isn't easier to use. [devil's advocate]It's also more similar to the iPhone UI[/devil's advocate]
If you have a 3G USB modem is your machine running Linux? I ask because I got my grandad onto an Aspire One with Linux as the OS and he can't get a (vodafone UK) 3G modem working with it. I haven't had a look myself (he's halfway across England from me), was just wondering if you could shed light?
Doesn't sound like any phone manual I've read. They're normally ten pages long with pretty, glossy pictures for the hard-of-thinking. Of course, the technical manuals might be different, but they don't normally get shipped with the phone anyway.
High market entry costs and other entrance barriers like FCC registration make start-ups difficult. Also I think you guys have a less open market than here in Europe. I'm pretty sure operators have to sell on capacity on their towers here, which makes it much cheaper for small phone companies to operate. Can't find a link though.
The US phone market is nutty. You still operate on a receiver-pays contract-based model, whereas the majority of the rest of the world runs on caller-pays prepaid.
Okay, well. He fulfills the requirements of 'blackness' for racial stereotyping, or at least he fills in the checkbox on two items on the list, for the camera.
Er, he also fits the white guy by racial stereotyping. Is it any wonder the blacks in America have such a crappy time if people question their "blackness" as soon as they start to achieve? It's like to be black is to fail from these posts.
I haven't found one either but I mostly listen to independent releases. It may be that if I was a devout follower of Ms. Spears I'd have come across one...
I mean that common law allows judges (wise men, if you will) to legislate, much as Shari'a does, or did for a long time. I was trying to avoid the implication that it has the same goal, because it most certainly doesn't.
I think that generally the judges and lawyers seem to make better decisions than the politicians. Consider the role of the Law Lords in defending civil liberties here in the UK.
Known as double jeopardy(I think) it is a constitutional right in the US. It was part of English law after the Norman Conquest of 1066, so a little before Napoleon's time*. I say was because the Criminal Justice Act 2003 did away with it in certain, vague conditions.
The reason the strategy you mentioned before works in the US is because legal costs are shared, whereas in the UK the loser pays the costs. This prevents people being sued into silence as they can be in the US (where even if they win their case they pay legal fees). Each suit is a new case and so does not immediately come under the restrictions of double jeopardy.
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I did qualify it quite a lot...
You did well to get that machine for £400. The only decent PC I've seen on sale in that price range is a refurb from the college.
The point of the article is that macs aren't overpriced.
I'm not convinced. While the article does tally with my experience when shopping around for a laptop, I had a student discount on the MacBook which made me go for it. And it was the last generation. I'm not sure if this still holds as PC laptops have gotten much cheaper in the last 6 months.
Also, it was in the UK where Macs are priced similarly in real terms to the States and PCs are twice as expensive ("strong currency tax" anyone?).
It's genitive, isn't it? Also res publicam does mean 'the public thing' literally but it was always used to mean what we would call the state, hence my [somewhat liberal] translation.
I have read very little Cicero, but what I have read was fantastic.
It's not communism. The closest I can think of is Plato's Republic, a benevolent dictatorship of a clique of philosopher kings.
The trouble is, his government was tremendously, terrifyingly fascist (the name comes from the Latin translation of the Greek title, res publicam which means "of the state").
Because without mods, nobody had rated it and it couldn't be overrated. Instead it should have been moderated with a real reason (e.g. Flamebait, as it is now, though I'm still not sure I see it).
Republican!=Conservative, just as Democrat!=trade-unionist rent-seekers.
There is a brand of republicanism which wants to dictate to everyone what happens in people's underpants, but there's also a brand which just wants to government to sod off, thank you.
It really depends on what you mean by investing. If you bundle the short into a black box into which you put your money and out of which you get returns then it is an investment for you. On the other hand, from the point of view of the companies shorted it is not an investment.
This distinction between speculation as 'bad' and investment as 'good' is foolish anyway. Both speculation and investment have good reasons to exist. At the moment speculators are driving down the price of oil. Is anybody complaining? No. They only complain when things go badly and they need a scapegoat.
p.s. Buttonwood had a good piece on shorting recently.
I always prefer Airbus because they rely on computers more. Human judgement is pretty poor, for the most part. The majority of crashes are caused by mechanical and pilot errors.
Plus they're more comfortable and I just trust European engineering more...
(p.s. Parent modded 0; -1 overrated. How?)
Not every single one of those 10,000 is going to be using 3Mbps at the same time.
Not unless they're all watching YouTube videos while driving. Maybe they'll want to merge without looking. Rumsfeld!
Some people are actually trying to minimize their carbon footprint using carpool
And god forbid you have a conversation with your friends or colleagues in the process...
Quite. Anti-terrorism laws have already been abused.
The IMF was and still is right. The way the US and UK are dealing with the banking crisis is silly. We're propping up a failed business model. The Scandinavians did a good job with their mechanism (they basically wiped the institution empty, eliminating stockholders and management, then nationalised it to protect savers).
The only institutions too big to fail are Fannie/Freddie, the federally created duopoly. And that's a problem unique to the US. The UK has no institutions too big to fail.
Lehman Bros got bought out by foreigners (Barclays). I think we should allow the sovereign wealth funds of the Middle East and Far East to buy out our failed banks.
Well, the true cost of Gordon's PFI deals could get out and undermine his reputation for economic competence.
Fortunately he has nothing to worry about as the global economy has collapsed and already outed him.
Because you did it in a bad way. Let's see how to explain this...
Every Linux user was a Linux newbie once. Being new to Linux does not make someone a bad person, nor does being confused by piles of jargon or the 20 different version numbers you have to face to understand the OS.
What you're doing is like going into a preschool and yelling, "Call that writing? You're such a n00b!" and then slapping the kids. It's not pleasant, necessary or acceptable, not even on the internet.
Besides, I'm not even sure the poster was even wrong, he may have just been using a weird terminology (Ubuntu 2.6.27 for the version of Ubuntu to use the 2.6.27 kernel).
In essence, you've not broken taboo, you've just been arrogant and uncivil. I suggest you break both habits forthwith.
As has been noted many times on Slashdot, writing something on a piece of paper and it being legally binding are rather different things. Common law, class action lawsuits in front of judges would probably strike this down.
nearly every netbook on the market currently comes in WindowsXP form
Considering that the Linux version is usually a series of large buttons saying exactly what they do I'm not convinced that the Linux version isn't easier to use. [devil's advocate]It's also more similar to the iPhone UI[/devil's advocate]
If you have a 3G USB modem is your machine running Linux? I ask because I got my grandad onto an Aspire One with Linux as the OS and he can't get a (vodafone UK) 3G modem working with it. I haven't had a look myself (he's halfway across England from me), was just wondering if you could shed light?
Doesn't sound like any phone manual I've read. They're normally ten pages long with pretty, glossy pictures for the hard-of-thinking. Of course, the technical manuals might be different, but they don't normally get shipped with the phone anyway.
High market entry costs and other entrance barriers like FCC registration make start-ups difficult. Also I think you guys have a less open market than here in Europe. I'm pretty sure operators have to sell on capacity on their towers here, which makes it much cheaper for small phone companies to operate. Can't find a link though.
The US phone market is nutty. You still operate on a receiver-pays contract-based model, whereas the majority of the rest of the world runs on caller-pays prepaid.
I have to admit, it's a pretty good parody of OSS projects. Lines like
Just type dial voice +1-555-1212 â"ntwk verizon â"prot cdma2000 â"ssh-version 2 -a -l -q -9 -b -k -K 14 -x and away you go! Simple and obvious!
and
Actual successful voice calls are expected by 2011 to 2012.
are pretty good satire.
Okay, well. He fulfills the requirements of 'blackness' for racial stereotyping, or at least he fills in the checkbox on two items on the list, for the camera.
Er, he also fits the white guy by racial stereotyping. Is it any wonder the blacks in America have such a crappy time if people question their "blackness" as soon as they start to achieve? It's like to be black is to fail from these posts.
I haven't found one either but I mostly listen to independent releases. It may be that if I was a devout follower of Ms. Spears I'd have come across one...
I didn't, I meant California. I thought the ex-Spanish colonies still used elements of civil law, but I was wrong. Mea culpa.
I mean that common law allows judges (wise men, if you will) to legislate, much as Shari'a does, or did for a long time. I was trying to avoid the implication that it has the same goal, because it most certainly doesn't.
I think that generally the judges and lawyers seem to make better decisions than the politicians. Consider the role of the Law Lords in defending civil liberties here in the UK.
Known as double jeopardy(I think) it is a constitutional right in the US. It was part of English law after the Norman Conquest of 1066, so a little before Napoleon's time*. I say was because the Criminal Justice Act 2003 did away with it in certain, vague conditions.
The reason the strategy you mentioned before works in the US is because legal costs are shared, whereas in the UK the loser pays the costs. This prevents people being sued into silence as they can be in the US (where even if they win their case they pay legal fees). Each suit is a new case and so does not immediately come under the restrictions of double jeopardy.
*Though it still came via France.