There's tons of great music being made today. However, like great music of other eras, its greatness won't be recognized until the creator is long dead.
This is great. Now when conservatives say that the Daily Show will fail if Hillary gets elected, we can point directly to how badly they ripped into the first Clinton administration.
This seems to fall into the trap of signaling one problem as the source of a larger, more complex problem, when in fact there is a composite of multiple problems to deal with. One may also see this in pointing to video games as the problem in school shootings.
Patent examiner quotas may be a big problem and I'm glad it's being pointed out, but companies stocking up on patents as a strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction is a separate problem.
In terms of opportunity cost, you'll likely spend that same $2-5k making a custom solution. Also, realize that the modern POS has over a century of lessons learned about securing cash registers from theft (particularly employee theft). You'll want to find developers who have specifically worked on POS applications before, or you won't benefit from all that knowledge.
[platinum] does not have anywhere near the uses that gold does.
Platinum is fantastically useful as a catalyst. It's only being held back from many practical uses because it's extremely rare.
You're saying we can only call the economy as "expanding" if prices are going up, or GDP is going up, correct?
I won't speak for the GP, but prices alone have nothing to do with whether the economy is expanding or not. Economic expansion happens when money moves around more. Keeping money under your mattress doesn't help you or anyone else. That money has to be buying goods or making investments to be of any use. Which is one reason why civilization has moved from barter, to metal coins, to paper money, and then to fiat--each step has made it more convenient to move that money.
Rarity, longevity, storage requirements, transportation requirements and usefulness are all valuable towards the price of a product.
The only thing important to the price of a product is its perceived value to people. All the traits listed above may play into that perception. But good marketing can and often does increase the perceived value without the product itself actually being better in any tangible way.
The poor have no savings because they have no incentive to save -- their savings is destroyed by inflation.
Interest on a bank account, as small as it may be, will surpass yearly inflation.
The big problem with a return to the gold standard is that it ultimately fails in the face of key technological advances, namely:
Cheep transmutation
Asteroid mining
Either one of these will make gold as cheep as lead. While I don't really expect cheep transmutation to work in the near future, orbital launch costs are only going to come down. At some point, that alone will make asteroid mining economical.
When that happens, I wouldn't want to have my money stored up in gold or any other metal. Fiat currency appears to be the only monetary system that will hold up under technological change.
The entire point of the book is that the Fed has NOT managed the monetary system properly, best evidenced by the fact the value of the US dollar has declined by 98% since the Fed was created.
Inflation happens, and in manageable amounts, isn't particularly worrying.
Banks issue loans by stealing part of the value of your money, then they collect interest on it. The author knows this, but doesn't seem to find anything wrong with it.
When you use loaded terms, you can find something wrong with anything.
I personally don't have the capital to invest in larger personal loans. Banks can collect the capital of several people like me and issue loans. They charge interest on those loans, part of which normalizes the loan against inflation, part of which goes to me and the other people who have money in the bank, and the rest goes to the bank itself. They expect to make a profit in the end. There's nothing in this process that's a secret. You agree to let the bank use your money this way when you put your savings in there. Nobody is stealing from anybody.
Now, Mutual Funds pool money together for investments in a similar way, and typically have a higher rate of return than any savings account, but then you must weigh the risk/reward and liquidity of the money. Those belong in a separate discussion.
They are parasites and this was at the heart of it all, the reason for World War II and for every major conflict since then.
*blink*
Power-hungry dictators existed long before the Fed.
he's still used regularly as a talking-head on news programs talking about video game violence (or at least was, before his recent crazy-turn; that my have been the nail in the coffin).
He's really only well-known for craziness in gaming circles on the Internet. Outside of those, he's known well enough to get on CNN, but not enough that most people would recognize his name. Most of his interviews are filled with factual errors about cases he was personally involved in, but to a random member of the public he seems like a reasonable expert.
There's a portion of the community that feels that Jack should be simply ignored. However, even if the community ignores him, he'll still show up on CNN. Therefore, the best course of action would be to directly confront his statements.
IIRC, IPv6 autoconfig is based on the device's MAC address, similar to how IPX handled the same problem. Since the first 3 bytes of the MAC address is specific to each vendor, this means information about your equipment is going out over the public Internet. I'd prefer that information remain private.
It's not a big deal, in any case. Autoconfig was never the biggest argument in IPv6's favor. Usable address space is and always will be the deciding factor. Now if only someone could come up with a feasible migration plan.
On a serious note, if it is dark outside you can actually see better with no lights causing your pupils to contract than with the constant glare of them.
Car headlights aren't just so you can see what's ahead, though. It's also for other drivers to see you. That's the thinking behind daytime-running lights.
Also, the new Mercedes S-class has night vision in an embedded dashboard display that lets you see better than any headlights. Though there are headlamps on it, too.
We do have apples to apples comparisons, though. Linux has surpassed OpenBSD in some areas, and OpenBSD has surpassed Linux in other areas. This is simply to be expected in comparisons with any sufficiently complex pieces of software. I don't think this situation will prove your theory any more than the data points we already have.
This evidences the simple fact that the GPL doesn't attract high-quality developers as readily as a BSD licensed project does.
I highly doubt that the license has anything to do with the quality of developers. As a converse to your example, OpenBSD sat without SMP support for an embarrassingly long time, and only got it once multi-core CPUs made it almost a necessity. But I don't think that had anything to do with the BSD license.
OpenBSD has better wireless support because the developers made a concentrated effort to get wireless drivers. I see no reason to read more into it than that.
Supposedly, the BSD license encourages sharing of code more than the GPL does. That's why BSD people are OK with Microsoft using a BSD-derived TCP/IP stack. Nor is this the first time BSD code has been borrowed by Linux (I believe the/dev/random driver comes from OpenBSD). To say that Linux shouldn't be allowed to use OpenBSD wireless drivers looks childish and hypocritical.
The next generation might handle this specific situation better, but it will have its own advancements to deal with, too. The alternative is that scientific advancement stagnates, which would be an even worse outcome (IMHO).
It'll probably be high-density flash memory rather than battery-backed RAM. This has been the way PDAs and cell phones have worked for a while. In practice, it's easy enough to erase or ignore the flash memory being used transiently on reboot.
According to United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, passed in 1982, does not allow artificial islands to become sovereign nations. Sealand may have a valid claim to sovereignty before 1982, but any new attempts at creating a new nation will have to be based on a natural land mass.
Eh? Microsoft is a software company that had a few minor hardware peripherals before the XBox (joysticks, mice, and keyboards, which were admittedly pretty good). The original XBox was thrown together using common PC parts. The RAM they got, for instance, varied wildly in quality. On boot, the XBox would test the RAM, and if it didn't pass, it would underclock it and run the tests again, repeating until the tests passed. This resulted in some XBoxes being significantly slower than others.
I wonder is Sony has better relations with the better fabricators
In many cases, Sony is the fabricator. Their production lines are large enough that they can build most of the PS3 parts in-house. Most other consumer electronics brands have at least a few Sony parts in them. Microsoft and Nintendo don't have that luxury.
I can count the number of times a movie made me jump out of my seat on one hand (notably, three of them came from "The Forgotten"), but Half Life's head crabs still give me chills. They weren't even that threatening, really, but somehow they always scare me. Even when I was sure the developers had put a head crab in the dark hallway just around the corner, and even after a few replays, they still managed to make me jump.
Half Life 2's head crabs never struck me the same way, but seeing the fast zombie leaping at me in Ravenholm for the first time sure did it.
My question: is there ever a case for letting national security issues dictate the limits of an open source project?"
Crypto was kept out of the Linux kernel for a long time, since the US had regulation on exporting crypto systems. These were mostly lifted under Clinton, though there's still a list of countries that it's illegal to export to (Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria, according to: http://www.epic.org/crypto/export_controls/regs_1_ 00.html).
RMS has stated that if copyright laws in the vein of the DMCA continue to be passed, Free Software development could no longer take place in US borders.
Germany was recently hit with a law that outlawed "hacking software", apparently including nmap or packet sniffers.
It's nice to say that you want to do things for the good of humanity, but beaurocrats have other ideas.
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There's tons of great music being made today. However, like great music of other eras, its greatness won't be recognized until the creator is long dead.
This is great. Now when conservatives say that the Daily Show will fail if Hillary gets elected, we can point directly to how badly they ripped into the first Clinton administration.
This seems to fall into the trap of signaling one problem as the source of a larger, more complex problem, when in fact there is a composite of multiple problems to deal with. One may also see this in pointing to video games as the problem in school shootings.
Patent examiner quotas may be a big problem and I'm glad it's being pointed out, but companies stocking up on patents as a strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction is a separate problem.
Yes, it is. Apature Science is explicitly mentioned in Ep2, and should play a bigger role in Ep3.
In terms of opportunity cost, you'll likely spend that same $2-5k making a custom solution. Also, realize that the modern POS has over a century of lessons learned about securing cash registers from theft (particularly employee theft). You'll want to find developers who have specifically worked on POS applications before, or you won't benefit from all that knowledge.
"Break-in" provides a increase in the dynamic structure of an audiophile company's bank account.
Remember, without audiophiles, the Internet would be at least 13% less funny.
[platinum] does not have anywhere near the uses that gold does.
Platinum is fantastically useful as a catalyst. It's only being held back from many practical uses because it's extremely rare.
You're saying we can only call the economy as "expanding" if prices are going up, or GDP is going up, correct?
I won't speak for the GP, but prices alone have nothing to do with whether the economy is expanding or not. Economic expansion happens when money moves around more. Keeping money under your mattress doesn't help you or anyone else. That money has to be buying goods or making investments to be of any use. Which is one reason why civilization has moved from barter, to metal coins, to paper money, and then to fiat--each step has made it more convenient to move that money.
Rarity, longevity, storage requirements, transportation requirements and usefulness are all valuable towards the price of a product.
The only thing important to the price of a product is its perceived value to people. All the traits listed above may play into that perception. But good marketing can and often does increase the perceived value without the product itself actually being better in any tangible way.
The poor have no savings because they have no incentive to save -- their savings is destroyed by inflation.
Interest on a bank account, as small as it may be, will surpass yearly inflation.
The big problem with a return to the gold standard is that it ultimately fails in the face of key technological advances, namely:
Either one of these will make gold as cheep as lead. While I don't really expect cheep transmutation to work in the near future, orbital launch costs are only going to come down. At some point, that alone will make asteroid mining economical.
When that happens, I wouldn't want to have my money stored up in gold or any other metal. Fiat currency appears to be the only monetary system that will hold up under technological change.
Only for the contacts, due to it's oxidation resistance. For the internal wires, silver is better and plain copper isn't that far behind.
Plus, if you RTFA, he alleges that the company he's filling against made hardcore porn available to children.
He's quite bright, that one.
The entire point of the book is that the Fed has NOT managed the monetary system properly, best evidenced by the fact the value of the US dollar has declined by 98% since the Fed was created.
Inflation happens, and in manageable amounts, isn't particularly worrying.
Banks issue loans by stealing part of the value of your money, then they collect interest on it. The author knows this, but doesn't seem to find anything wrong with it.
When you use loaded terms, you can find something wrong with anything.
I personally don't have the capital to invest in larger personal loans. Banks can collect the capital of several people like me and issue loans. They charge interest on those loans, part of which normalizes the loan against inflation, part of which goes to me and the other people who have money in the bank, and the rest goes to the bank itself. They expect to make a profit in the end. There's nothing in this process that's a secret. You agree to let the bank use your money this way when you put your savings in there. Nobody is stealing from anybody.
Now, Mutual Funds pool money together for investments in a similar way, and typically have a higher rate of return than any savings account, but then you must weigh the risk/reward and liquidity of the money. Those belong in a separate discussion.
They are parasites and this was at the heart of it all, the reason for World War II and for every major conflict since then.
*blink*
Power-hungry dictators existed long before the Fed.
he's still used regularly as a talking-head on news programs talking about video game violence (or at least was, before his recent crazy-turn; that my have been the nail in the coffin).
He's really only well-known for craziness in gaming circles on the Internet. Outside of those, he's known well enough to get on CNN, but not enough that most people would recognize his name. Most of his interviews are filled with factual errors about cases he was personally involved in, but to a random member of the public he seems like a reasonable expert.
There's a portion of the community that feels that Jack should be simply ignored. However, even if the community ignores him, he'll still show up on CNN. Therefore, the best course of action would be to directly confront his statements.
Next thing you know, they'll be telling you your petrol car won't run on diesel.
You can make that work if you try hard enough. Getting it to stop again can be a real trick.
Easy: they'll have a picture of a dancing alien to promote their interest-only 50yr loans. Who wouldn't want to click on a picture of a dancing alien?
IIRC, IPv6 autoconfig is based on the device's MAC address, similar to how IPX handled the same problem. Since the first 3 bytes of the MAC address is specific to each vendor, this means information about your equipment is going out over the public Internet. I'd prefer that information remain private.
It's not a big deal, in any case. Autoconfig was never the biggest argument in IPv6's favor. Usable address space is and always will be the deciding factor. Now if only someone could come up with a feasible migration plan.
On a serious note, if it is dark outside you can actually see better with no lights causing your pupils to contract than with the constant glare of them.
Car headlights aren't just so you can see what's ahead, though. It's also for other drivers to see you. That's the thinking behind daytime-running lights.
Also, the new Mercedes S-class has night vision in an embedded dashboard display that lets you see better than any headlights. Though there are headlamps on it, too.
How dare they let a Japanese company into NASCAR!
We do have apples to apples comparisons, though. Linux has surpassed OpenBSD in some areas, and OpenBSD has surpassed Linux in other areas. This is simply to be expected in comparisons with any sufficiently complex pieces of software. I don't think this situation will prove your theory any more than the data points we already have.
This evidences the simple fact that the GPL doesn't attract high-quality developers as readily as a BSD licensed project does.
I highly doubt that the license has anything to do with the quality of developers. As a converse to your example, OpenBSD sat without SMP support for an embarrassingly long time, and only got it once multi-core CPUs made it almost a necessity. But I don't think that had anything to do with the BSD license.
OpenBSD has better wireless support because the developers made a concentrated effort to get wireless drivers. I see no reason to read more into it than that.
Supposedly, the BSD license encourages sharing of code more than the GPL does. That's why BSD people are OK with Microsoft using a BSD-derived TCP/IP stack. Nor is this the first time BSD code has been borrowed by Linux (I believe the /dev/random driver comes from OpenBSD). To say that Linux shouldn't be allowed to use OpenBSD wireless drivers looks childish and hypocritical.
The next generation might handle this specific situation better, but it will have its own advancements to deal with, too. The alternative is that scientific advancement stagnates, which would be an even worse outcome (IMHO).
It'll probably be high-density flash memory rather than battery-backed RAM. This has been the way PDAs and cell phones have worked for a while. In practice, it's easy enough to erase or ignore the flash memory being used transiently on reboot.
According to United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, passed in 1982, does not allow artificial islands to become sovereign nations. Sealand may have a valid claim to sovereignty before 1982, but any new attempts at creating a new nation will have to be based on a natural land mass.
Microsoft knows how to make reliable hardware.
Eh? Microsoft is a software company that had a few minor hardware peripherals before the XBox (joysticks, mice, and keyboards, which were admittedly pretty good). The original XBox was thrown together using common PC parts. The RAM they got, for instance, varied wildly in quality. On boot, the XBox would test the RAM, and if it didn't pass, it would underclock it and run the tests again, repeating until the tests passed. This resulted in some XBoxes being significantly slower than others.
I wonder is Sony has better relations with the better fabricators
In many cases, Sony is the fabricator. Their production lines are large enough that they can build most of the PS3 parts in-house. Most other consumer electronics brands have at least a few Sony parts in them. Microsoft and Nintendo don't have that luxury.
I can count the number of times a movie made me jump out of my seat on one hand (notably, three of them came from "The Forgotten"), but Half Life's head crabs still give me chills. They weren't even that threatening, really, but somehow they always scare me. Even when I was sure the developers had put a head crab in the dark hallway just around the corner, and even after a few replays, they still managed to make me jump.
Half Life 2's head crabs never struck me the same way, but seeing the fast zombie leaping at me in Ravenholm for the first time sure did it.
My question: is there ever a case for letting national security issues dictate the limits of an open source project?"
Crypto was kept out of the Linux kernel for a long time, since the US had regulation on exporting crypto systems. These were mostly lifted under Clinton, though there's still a list of countries that it's illegal to export to (Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria, according to: http://www.epic.org/crypto/export_controls/regs_1_ 00.html).
RMS has stated that if copyright laws in the vein of the DMCA continue to be passed, Free Software development could no longer take place in US borders.
Germany was recently hit with a law that outlawed "hacking software", apparently including nmap or packet sniffers.
It's nice to say that you want to do things for the good of humanity, but beaurocrats have other ideas.