Re:Where's the market force? Where's technology?
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However, if two doctors offer two different prices for the same operation, you are going to go with the cheaper one.
Congratulations on completely missing my point...
No. I, and most anyone else, would spend as much money as necessary, to get the operation done by the surgeon with the lowest mortality rate. That's assuming this is a major operation, of course.
Not gallon to gallon... No. They are completely different fuels.
If you're running a power station you definitely do compare coal and natural gas.
Not by some ridiculous standard like gallons, pounds, etc.
why are most heavy duty 4x4s and commercial trucks in the UK diesel powered?
Diesel doesn't inherently have anything to do with power. You can have underpowered diesels, just as easily as you can have underpowered gasoline engines.
And how come more Americans die on the road than in many other countries?
More people, more cars, more miles of road, more spread-out populace, etc.
Money needs to circulate between the two counties for trade to occur so China needs to send the dollars they they accumlate back here, somehow, to keep the price of the dollar from totally collapsing.
Go look up the exchange-rate for US-Chinese currency, some time. I'll wait. (Hint: It will be VERY boring.)
As China has locked their own currency to the USD, their advancing industry and strengthening currency is likely doing more to stablize the dollar, than their trade-imbalance with the US is doing to destablize it.
Replace "China" and the US, in your statement, with two US states (perhaps California and New York), and you'll see just how much sense your comment really makes.
From cars to consumer products, everything is manufactured abroad.
The world's biggest car company would tend to disagree with you...
The world's largest aerospace manufacturers would tend to disagree with you.
etc.
The complex and expensive industries aren't likely to go anywhere. The US has a ready pool of the most intelligent people, infrastructure (necessary for every industry), big-money investors, and more. These are not things that can be exported to foreign countries easily.
Re:Business is good - just get healthcare clients
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Long term I worry though, as healthcare isn't fundamentally 'productive' in any sense. It's not making anything new, it's just chewing up a larger and larger percentage of our paychecks in the form of social security, medicare and insurance payments.
I'd say that making many more people capable of working, and working for many more years, is quite 'productive'.
Re:Where's the market force? Where's technology?
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If, when you consider going to a clinic or hospital, you're not thinking, "oh shit, how much will this cost?" then you're not going to exert a market force.
Problem is... even if you directly bear the cost... you're going to be thinking "oh shit, I don't want to die. Damn the cost."
Lastly, nobody wants to spend > $50,000 on a $10,000 car with an electric drive train that needs to be parked for 15 hours to charge after every 200 miles of travel.
No, that would be an all-electric car. A hybrid can be unplugged for it's entire life, and operate just fine.
What I'd personally like to see is a serial hybrid... Much less weight. Much less complexity. Potentially much less expensive. Much more flexible. Easy to install larger battery packs. etc.
Sure we all need red peppers, but not $50 a week in red peppers.
We do? If the price of red peppers trippled over the course of a few months... I think I could do without any red peppers at all.
Companies that use red peppers, instead of raising prices, would probably switch to other types of peppers immediately.
3). Free Money!. Cashback bonus cards give you money. It's free. Why wouldn't you want free money?
That's a good point. Some people drive many miles out of their way to find stores WITHOUT such cards, as the prices, even with those bonuses, are lower.
Buy an electric car, ride a bicycle, use more public transportation.
There are no electric cars (than can do more than 25MPH) available for sale in the US. And that 50 mile bicycle ride to/from work everyday will be quite interesting, since 75MPH freeways (which are legally restricted to only motorized vehicles, as well) are the only reasonably direct route.
People *are* reducing their oil consumption, but switching it off is not something that can happen overnight, and 98% of the population, certainly are almost entirely powerless to hasten the switch to alternatives.
Own some of the oil companies, take their profits, and use it for good instead of evil.
Whilst American cars struggle to reach 25MPG, the average MPG of a European car is over 40MPG (source).
Okay, forget the rest of the OP's points. Europe, this is your problem right here.
In your over-zealous lust to prove yourselves superior to America, you do all kinds of apples-to-oranges comparisons.
You CAN'T just compare GASOLINE with DIESEL. The two are vastly different in so many ways. You might as well compare the miles-per-pound of coal, to the miles-per-pound of natural gas.
How can the country that has MIT have such crappy MPG?
Partially because diesel isn't popular here. But also because people in the US refuse to buy tiny, underpowered, and/or incredibly unsafe vehicles.
In other countries, being able to sit in a car 18+ hours a day, going 80+MPH up the side of a steep mountain, in the same car you use to drive around town, isn't much of a concern.
presumably the HLT in the kernel idle loop drops the CPU into low-power mode.
HLT and CnQ are two entirely seperate issues, both of which reduce your CPU's power usage, but CnQ does dramatically more than HLT ever could.
If your CPU doesn't use significantly less power when idle, than it does when heavy number-crunching, CnQ is simply not working properly. No CPU ever made, needs as much power when idle as it does when maxed-out.
With the CnQ drive unloaded, and your power draw much higher, does your CPU perform any better? If so, perhaps CnQ was (somehow) stuck in low-power mode all the time (but those power numbers still don't add up). If not, there's clearly something wrong with CnQ on your motherboard.
When is the last time you opened a bank account? They don't ask you anything they don't have to. They copy all that info from your ID, and use it everywhere, automatically.
83% of iPod owners do not buy digital music regularly... only 5% of the music on an iPod will be bought from online music stores. The rest will be from CDs
Ah yes, good old ANALOG CDs...
From TFA:
only 20 of the tracks on a iPod will be from the iTunes shop.
Well no-shit. CDs have been around for decades, and most everyone owns dozens, if not hundreds, of them by now. Meanwhile, Itunes has only been around for a few years... It seems pretty significant that in that short time, they've sold so many songs as to bring decades of CD sales down to only 80% of the tracks on an iPod... though that could have something to do with people listening to OLD CDs less than new tracks.
If I found it necessary to do business with an organization that stupid I would certainly not give them my correct Mother's maiden and DOB.
You might be able to get away with a made-up maiden name, but not DOB. It's required by federal law that you present two forms of ID to open a bank account. They don't need to ask you for your DOB.
Well, unless I'm missing something here, if it delivers 100 times more power than an ordinary battery then it also increases it's life:
You're missing a LOT, but you'll get modded up for it anyway... The article even says it's only about 2X the capacity of current capacitors, shortly after the 100X notation.
When they say 100X more power, they mean it can deliver current 100X FASTER than a battery at a certain voltage. That actually does very slightly increase the useful life of a battery, but that's not 100X.
Ah yes, the old "if someone famous said it, it must be true" argument. Besides, those quotes don't even use it in a similar context.
You must always be aware of scammers, in stores, in life, and now in email.
Scams that don't involve banks, aren't going to cost you tens of thousands of dollars. And e-mail is only the symptom... Someone impersonating a bank employee can always phone you up and ask for your info, as well, and you have no way to verify they are who they say, thanks to the current system.
Certainly banks should do better, but that is the whole point of "eternal vigilance",
No. It doesn't take eternal vigilance to implement a better system, only to keep supporting the current, broken one.
and certainly we can do better, and that is also the point of "eternal vigilance."
When limited to the current system, I don't see how. Reporting a few of these, will only slightly cut back their numbers... it's a completely futile effort.
Why on earth would you want to give Windows 95 and NT 4.0 "active-desktop" features?
Because "'active-desktop' features" include:
organize the start-menu by right-clicking on it
copy/paste or drag-and-drop folder location
Quick-launch buttons on the task bar
Image preview in folders
etc.
You got any other suggestions on how to get those significant features, without active desktop?
In any case, it's a non-starter. Whether you want it or not, it is a feature some people are going to want, and Microsoft goes out of their way to prevent anyone from getting it.
No adaware or spybotS&D is going to scrub those things. There is no escaping them. What do we do?
Standard economics. If you have a network which still shows those things continually (like FX) you stop watching that network all-together, and either the pop-ups will disappear, or the network will. Writing letters to your cable provider, asking them to stop carrying those channels can't possibly hurt, and if enough people do, the pressure on the network from the regional companies will be overwhelming.
If there's a specific show where they do that heavily (like Law and Order) you stop watching that show, and see the ratings gradually fall...
Both of those are real examples, BTW. I haven't watched either in a long time, and my cable company just gave me the brush-off, saying I should just watch another channel, but a few more customer complints, and they'll probably change their tune.
This is most CERTAINLY not about the ills of out-sourcing.
Did you read what he wrote???
He explained it very clearly: "If something is THAT important to your business, dammit, get it done yourself!"
Having your business depending on an unfinished piece of software, from a company outside your control, is quite simply, stupid. And Verizon got to find that out the kinda-hard-way... it could have been much worse.
This is most certainly a lesson in how Microsoft sucks.
Microsoft sucks, but Verizon was stupid to depend so much on them (or any other company) in the first place.
who should be responsible? The customer for not being more careful? The bank for not making it more difficult for people to impersonate customers
Umm, the bank for using the brain-dead stupid authentication methods they use, and not taking easy steps to make it impossible to imitate the bank. There's no reason authentication has to be entirely one-way, as is is now. The banks could easily change their system, but that would cost a bit of money, and they'd rather eat the cost of the fraud.
and banks claim to guarantee protection against that.
For the record, it's not the banks that guarantee that, but federal law.
You have to report the fraud within just a few days of getting your monthly statement, and then also mailing-in a written statement of the same. As long as you do that, you can only be charged a maximum of $50 for the incident, and the bank has to reimburse you the rest, not too long afterwards.
They require 3 pieces of information. (Mother's maiden, DOB, SSN, etc). Once the caller answers those questions, they HAVE TO treat the caller as the account owner and do whatever they ask.
Those 3 pieces of information are NOT secret, and SHOULD NOT be used as authentication info. As soon as you sign them up, generate a few secret words, numbers, etc., and authenticate them with that info. Authenticate in steps, so the bank give backs information which also proves to the customer that they are legitimately talking with the bank, and not a 3rd party.
The phishers are criminals, but the banks are the ones using methods so stupidly insecure to make that fraud possible.
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Congratulations on completely missing my point...
No. I, and most anyone else, would spend as much money as necessary, to get the operation done by the surgeon with the lowest mortality rate. That's assuming this is a major operation, of course.
Not gallon to gallon... No. They are completely different fuels.
Not by some ridiculous standard like gallons, pounds, etc.
Diesel doesn't inherently have anything to do with power. You can have underpowered diesels, just as easily as you can have underpowered gasoline engines.
More people, more cars, more miles of road, more spread-out populace, etc.
Go look up the exchange-rate for US-Chinese currency, some time. I'll wait. (Hint: It will be VERY boring.)
As China has locked their own currency to the USD, their advancing industry and strengthening currency is likely doing more to stablize the dollar, than their trade-imbalance with the US is doing to destablize it.
Replace "China" and the US, in your statement, with two US states (perhaps California and New York), and you'll see just how much sense your comment really makes.
The world's biggest car company would tend to disagree with you...
The world's largest aerospace manufacturers would tend to disagree with you.
etc.
The complex and expensive industries aren't likely to go anywhere. The US has a ready pool of the most intelligent people, infrastructure (necessary for every industry), big-money investors, and more. These are not things that can be exported to foreign countries easily.
I'd say that making many more people capable of working, and working for many more years, is quite 'productive'.
Problem is... even if you directly bear the cost... you're going to be thinking "oh shit, I don't want to die. Damn the cost."
No, that would be an all-electric car. A hybrid can be unplugged for it's entire life, and operate just fine.
What I'd personally like to see is a serial hybrid... Much less weight. Much less complexity. Potentially much less expensive. Much more flexible. Easy to install larger battery packs. etc.
We do? If the price of red peppers trippled over the course of a few months... I think I could do without any red peppers at all.
Companies that use red peppers, instead of raising prices, would probably switch to other types of peppers immediately.
That's a good point. Some people drive many miles out of their way to find stores WITHOUT such cards, as the prices, even with those bonuses, are lower.
There are no electric cars (than can do more than 25MPH) available for sale in the US. And that 50 mile bicycle ride to/from work everyday will be quite interesting, since 75MPH freeways (which are legally restricted to only motorized vehicles, as well) are the only reasonably direct route.
People *are* reducing their oil consumption, but switching it off is not something that can happen overnight, and 98% of the population, certainly are almost entirely powerless to hasten the switch to alternatives.
That's the classic prisoner's dilemma.
Okay, forget the rest of the OP's points. Europe, this is your problem right here.
In your over-zealous lust to prove yourselves superior to America, you do all kinds of apples-to-oranges comparisons.
You CAN'T just compare GASOLINE with DIESEL. The two are vastly different in so many ways. You might as well compare the miles-per-pound of coal, to the miles-per-pound of natural gas.
Partially because diesel isn't popular here. But also because people in the US refuse to buy tiny, underpowered, and/or incredibly unsafe vehicles.
In other countries, being able to sit in a car 18+ hours a day, going 80+MPH up the side of a steep mountain, in the same car you use to drive around town, isn't much of a concern.
HLT and CnQ are two entirely seperate issues, both of which reduce your CPU's power usage, but CnQ does dramatically more than HLT ever could.
If your CPU doesn't use significantly less power when idle, than it does when heavy number-crunching, CnQ is simply not working properly. No CPU ever made, needs as much power when idle as it does when maxed-out.
With the CnQ drive unloaded, and your power draw much higher, does your CPU perform any better? If so, perhaps CnQ was (somehow) stuck in low-power mode all the time (but those power numbers still don't add up). If not, there's clearly something wrong with CnQ on your motherboard.
When is the last time you opened a bank account? They don't ask you anything they don't have to. They copy all that info from your ID, and use it everywhere, automatically.
Right... perhaps that is why every subscription and rental service ever concieved, has failed miserably...
Which explains why Amazon.com's business model failed so miserably. What ever happened to them?
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And if you feel that way, you can burn all your iTMS tracks to CD, and have a physical object for 5 cents more.
Ah yes, good old ANALOG CDs...
From TFA:
Well no-shit. CDs have been around for decades, and most everyone owns dozens, if not hundreds, of them by now. Meanwhile, Itunes has only been around for a few years... It seems pretty significant that in that short time, they've sold so many songs as to bring decades of CD sales down to only 80% of the tracks on an iPod... though that could have something to do with people listening to OLD CDs less than new tracks.
You might be able to get away with a made-up maiden name, but not DOB. It's required by federal law that you present two forms of ID to open a bank account. They don't need to ask you for your DOB.
Right... there's a broad mass of eyes spotting and fixing errors in the quantum physics Wiki page...
Either you know something, or you don't. There's no number of people that can put together an accurate article on something they don't know about.
Following the information in the chemistry-related Wiki pages I've looked through, would probably get people killed...
You're missing a LOT, but you'll get modded up for it anyway... The article even says it's only about 2X the capacity of current capacitors, shortly after the 100X notation.
When they say 100X more power, they mean it can deliver current 100X FASTER than a battery at a certain voltage. That actually does very slightly increase the useful life of a battery, but that's not 100X.
Scams that don't involve banks, aren't going to cost you tens of thousands of dollars. And e-mail is only the symptom... Someone impersonating a bank employee can always phone you up and ask for your info, as well, and you have no way to verify they are who they say, thanks to the current system.
No. It doesn't take eternal vigilance to implement a better system, only to keep supporting the current, broken one.
When limited to the current system, I don't see how. Reporting a few of these, will only slightly cut back their numbers... it's a completely futile effort.
Because "'active-desktop' features" include:
etc.
You got any other suggestions on how to get those significant features, without active desktop?
In any case, it's a non-starter. Whether you want it or not, it is a feature some people are going to want, and Microsoft goes out of their way to prevent anyone from getting it.
Standard economics. If you have a network which still shows those things continually (like FX) you stop watching that network all-together, and either the pop-ups will disappear, or the network will. Writing letters to your cable provider, asking them to stop carrying those channels can't possibly hurt, and if enough people do, the pressure on the network from the regional companies will be overwhelming.
If there's a specific show where they do that heavily (like Law and Order) you stop watching that show, and see the ratings gradually fall...
Both of those are real examples, BTW. I haven't watched either in a long time, and my cable company just gave me the brush-off, saying I should just watch another channel, but a few more customer complints, and they'll probably change their tune.
Did you read what he wrote???
He explained it very clearly: "If something is THAT important to your business, dammit, get it done yourself!"
Having your business depending on an unfinished piece of software, from a company outside your control, is quite simply, stupid. And Verizon got to find that out the kinda-hard-way... it could have been much worse.
Microsoft sucks, but Verizon was stupid to depend so much on them (or any other company) in the first place.
But wouldn't that then make it an ass-scarf/ass-necklace/ass-collar/ass-helmet/ass-
Umm, the bank for using the brain-dead stupid authentication methods they use, and not taking easy steps to make it impossible to imitate the bank. There's no reason authentication has to be entirely one-way, as is is now. The banks could easily change their system, but that would cost a bit of money, and they'd rather eat the cost of the fraud.
For the record, it's not the banks that guarantee that, but federal law.
You have to report the fraud within just a few days of getting your monthly statement, and then also mailing-in a written statement of the same. As long as you do that, you can only be charged a maximum of $50 for the incident, and the bank has to reimburse you the rest, not too long afterwards.
Those 3 pieces of information are NOT secret, and SHOULD NOT be used as authentication info. As soon as you sign them up, generate a few secret words, numbers, etc., and authenticate them with that info. Authenticate in steps, so the bank give backs information which also proves to the customer that they are legitimately talking with the bank, and not a 3rd party.
The phishers are criminals, but the banks are the ones using methods so stupidly insecure to make that fraud possible.