Agreed, my sister-in-law tried, and still uses cloth diapers. The increase in their electric bill was equal to, and sometimes exceeding, my monthly cost of diapers.
Heck yeah, WalMart Diapers have saved me at least $1,000!! They hold "baby droppings" just as well as Huggies too!
Formula I always bought at Costco though, it's even cheaper there...
All that being said, I think that shows that computers won't drop in price just because WalMart stocks them cheaper. After all, diapers never got cheaper at the grocery store because of WalMart. Some people will still go to Dell or whomever for their high priced low quality systems.
"Well, Sweden, Norway, Canada, etc., have been doing this for a while, and they seem to do quite well. Sure, they might not have the strongest economies in the world, but I bet you they wouldn't change their social rights for the US system."
Not sure about the general population, but every well off Canadian *I* have met comes to the U.S. for routine health care. The reasons I'm given each time are the delays for office visits. From what I gathered, if you're not about to die, you get to wait a few months. Someone told me once that they *had* to come to the U.S. because his wife was 2 months from giving birth and still had not been able to see a doctor.
For the record, I agree with everything you just said. I also feel that he would likely be more appropriately punished for his crimes in the UK over the US (max 2 yrs in UK is it?). I find the notion that he'll be shipped off to Gitmo ridiculous however, but I understand why his Lawyer has thrown that out there, and would ask my Lawyer to do the same.
"would this game coming out even make as much as a splash as much as it once may have?"
I think it'll be BIGGER! Just think of the headlines on every other geek/gamer site and all the gamer mags whom all have had running jokes about this game. There will be millions of posts in blogs, some news papers will even cover it as the game that finally came to be, 10 years of development and delays. The free publicity when this thing comes out is going to be huge. I'll even go into a store just to see it there, it's the only way I'll believe it, and if they have a Mac or Linux version I may just buy it. Whether anyone else will is another story.
Who's hauling him off for torture? This is an off the wall claim made by a defense lawyer in an attempt to get the minimalist sentance within his own country.
In countries that actually respect the rights of their citizens such as sweden, all the above are much more fair
And that's why Sweden is the world leader in... oh, that's right, nothing. No innovative tech, no huge exports. Why? Because Sweden values society's use of a work over protections for the creator of the work. Whether this is good or bad I guess depends on how you feel about individual rights as a creator of a work. Many economists would agree, this type of collectivism does not do well to foster innovation in the market place. If you want companies to pay people to create new products, you need to provide sane protections for those products. Personally, I'd rather have more paying jobs than a free ride on someone else's idea.
"Then again, Oracle is the same company that sells a multiDollar enterprise product without a hot backup script"
Why would you need "hot backup" when you have RMAN backups with redo and archive logs? Simply rman restore and apply archive logs to the current time, and you have yourself an identical backup with out having to copy live datafiles that are being written to. Even on MySQL, why do those scripts even exist when you have backups and bin logs? This hot backup thing never made sense to me, it seems, well... hokey... and totally avoidable with a proper backup or replication policy.
"I just wish mysql could use/etc/passwd for authentication"
You can use MySQL for UNIX user authentication. You'll want to replicate MySQL's users table to another DB for the local host's authentication. The method might not be exactly what you where looking for, as it replaces/etc/passwd, however this completes the goal of central authentication for UNIX and MySQL users. Many other services can authenticate using a MySQL table too.
I pick up my phone, I dial 911 and it works. I've done it before in an emergency, at this house (Quest) and my previous house (Verizon). I learned about it from a friend with VoIP, who's local carrier was Pacbell. Maybe your phone is broken, or maybe your ILEC just does not give a shit, I suppose you could be a liar too...
Plug a phone into your wall outlet, or if you have a spare disconnected cell phone, keep it charged and make sure your family knows where it is. 911 service works on any phone line in the U.S. even if the service is not activated. We have Vonage, but we also have a backup phone plugged into the wall. The Internet is something I would want to rely on in an emergency.
You're correct. No where does the Bible directly say the earth is 6000 years old.
This theory is based on (in my opinion an incorrect) belief that God created the earth, and then directly followed up by creating everything else, in literally 7 days earth time. Though no where is this stated or implied. Furthermore, time is defined as infinite to God in Genesis, where it's stated that 7 days can be equal to 7 years or 7 minutes.
The 6000 year figure comes from listings of the ages of parents starting with Adam and Eve, which are given when heirs are born and upon death. This is documented in the Bible all the way up to the Kings (Known as chapters Kings I and Kings II). Historical documentation, and some on going religious calendars provide a pretty accurate way to translating dates. Most of this is based on the Bible as a historical document, if you believe the time lines are correct.
Time frames from the Kings on rely on secular historical data, such as the resignation of King Solomon after the destruction of Solomon's temple by the Babylonians. By the time Jesus is born the history of *man* is calculated as being just under 4,000 years old.
Taking everything at face value you *at best* could define when humans started to record history, and place it at 6,000 years. To define a time line for the universe... I think that's better left to scientists than cave men chiseling in stone...
The "ISP revolution" exhibits it's own problems in anti-competitive behavior, and provides a good case study on why forced breakups don't work. The problem is, breaking up a company does not solve the inherent problems that are allowing for the anti-competitive behaviors to exist to begin with. Not to mention it is not an inherent right the government has... they just made up their ability to do this legally, though the courts.
The problem is that monopolies are still able to define the rules as they go along. Verizon for example, sells "circuits" to Verizon Online and other ISPs. Verizon Online may buy them at a "on paper" loss from it's parent Verizon, to start. Once Verizon Online has built up a customer base, they are able to constantly rewrite the terms of "circuit" costs and rebates to become more profitable, which may or may not have a negative impact on competitors. Restrictive licensing and fees are not limited to deals with Parent and/or Sister companies, as we've seen with Microsoft OEM licensing. It's these types of licensing schemes, as you've also mentioned, that companies use on a regular basis to hinder competition that needs to be regulated. Not the composition of a company, or what it can and can not sell.
The error in the handling of the Microsoft case is the regulation of a product, rather than a proper regulation of a market.
I'm not advocating an Anarchy Market, and neither do the principles of libertarian institutions such as CATO. The 1994 Microsoft ruling which was overturned sought to impose artificial limits on what a software vendor may include in their product by legally separating a company and forcing them to negotiate business independently. A market where a government dictates which products you can and can not bundle together neither "guarantees competition" or is "free".
A separate case which holds merit would have been one in which Microsoft is solely tried on it's "bulling tactics" imposed by it's licensing terms to OEM vendors. These tactics are ones which should be regulated by a government to protect a free market, but to break up a company simply to artificially define it's product line is only in the best interest of big government.
Why should Microsoft be singled out on what products they can and can not bundle together? Should Redhat be regulated for packaging software bundles? How about Apple? This case was sloppy, and outside the bounds of what government should and should not be able to regulate. Microsoft was judged not on their violations in a free market, though the use of a monopoly power, but on their inclusion of other products within a single package. Something that should never be illegal.
Ahem... "without a Republican government to protect Microsoft"...
What the DOJ did in 2001 is protect a free market by agreeing with a D.C. court of appeals. The court of appeals saw written and verbal testimony by hundreds of economists, that concluded that breaking up Microsoft would not protect consumers, and is counter productive to a free market economy.
What has been gained from the break up of the big bell? We had over a decade of artificially inflated prices due to "connection fees" the "baby bells" where all imposing on each other, followed by mergers back into large geographically dominant super powers. And it cost tax payers how many millions of dollars to do?
Forced government regulation such as this on a company is a very dangerous precedent, and provides no tangible benefits to the consumer. In the end innovation wins. We're seeing this with Firefox gaining ground on IE and VoIP taking market share from the bells. Government regulation did not cause these products to become available, nor did it influence people to use them, talented people with innovative ideas did.
I can't speak for the parent, but in my case, we use Redhat EL because it's certified to work with Oracle, IBM DB2 and about a dozen other relatively expensive application vendors. Sure we could go with Fedora or some other unsupported flavor of linux, but what's the advantage? Redhat vs. LinuxY, it's comparing apples to apples, they are all the same thing. Free is almost never a single selling point for the Enterprise. Especially when the downside is not ever getting support from your vendors.
When you're buying high end servers and software licenses in the thousands, the cost of Redhat EL is really next to nothing. That being said, on my personal web server I use an unsupported configuration. I don't need 99.99% uptime, or support on my personal webserver however.
These guys where not just potential spammers, their active spamming is what got the secret service involved in the first place. You don't get the title "Spam King" for one job. The secret service simply followed the money trail to them, offered a job and busted them. Now there's likely a warrant allowing agents to sniff through their computers to find needed evidence on other shady spam dealings they where involved in. This is akin to the police buying crack from the local dealer in the park and then busting him. Nothing wrong here...
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Agreed, my sister-in-law tried, and still uses cloth diapers. The increase in their electric bill was equal to, and sometimes exceeding, my monthly cost of diapers.
Heck yeah, WalMart Diapers have saved me at least $1,000!! They hold "baby droppings" just as well as Huggies too!
Formula I always bought at Costco though, it's even cheaper there...
All that being said, I think that shows that computers won't drop in price just because WalMart stocks them cheaper. After all, diapers never got cheaper at the grocery store because of WalMart. Some people will still go to Dell or whomever for their high priced low quality systems.
"Well, Sweden, Norway, Canada, etc., have been doing this for a while, and they seem to do quite well. Sure, they might not have the strongest economies in the world, but I bet you they wouldn't change their social rights for the US system."
Not sure about the general population, but every well off Canadian *I* have met comes to the U.S. for routine health care. The reasons I'm given each time are the delays for office visits. From what I gathered, if you're not about to die, you get to wait a few months. Someone told me once that they *had* to come to the U.S. because his wife was 2 months from giving birth and still had not been able to see a doctor.
For the record, I agree with everything you just said. I also feel that he would likely be more appropriately punished for his crimes in the UK over the US (max 2 yrs in UK is it?). I find the notion that he'll be shipped off to Gitmo ridiculous however, but I understand why his Lawyer has thrown that out there, and would ask my Lawyer to do the same.
"would this game coming out even make as much as a splash as much as it once may have?"
I think it'll be BIGGER! Just think of the headlines on every other geek/gamer site and all the gamer mags whom all have had running jokes about this game. There will be millions of posts in blogs, some news papers will even cover it as the game that finally came to be, 10 years of development and delays. The free publicity when this thing comes out is going to be huge. I'll even go into a store just to see it there, it's the only way I'll believe it, and if they have a Mac or Linux version I may just buy it. Whether anyone else will is another story.
Who's hauling him off for torture? This is an off the wall claim made by a defense lawyer in an attempt to get the minimalist sentance within his own country.
You do understand that you are subscribing to a defense attorneys scare tactics, and that he's not really going to Gitmo?
Amnesty International turned down an offer to visit Guantanamo Bay. They are no more an authority on the issue than your average news subscriber.
I was not aware, thanks. What language is that?
In countries that actually respect the rights of their citizens such as sweden, all the above are much more fair
And that's why Sweden is the world leader in... oh, that's right, nothing. No innovative tech, no huge exports. Why? Because Sweden values society's use of a work over protections for the creator of the work. Whether this is good or bad I guess depends on how you feel about individual rights as a creator of a work. Many economists would agree, this type of collectivism does not do well to foster innovation in the market place. If you want companies to pay people to create new products, you need to provide sane protections for those products. Personally, I'd rather have more paying jobs than a free ride on someone else's idea.
"Then again, Oracle is the same company that sells a multiDollar enterprise product without a hot backup script"
Why would you need "hot backup" when you have RMAN backups with redo and archive logs? Simply rman restore and apply archive logs to the current time, and you have yourself an identical backup with out having to copy live datafiles that are being written to. Even on MySQL, why do those scripts even exist when you have backups and bin logs? This hot backup thing never made sense to me, it seems, well... hokey... and totally avoidable with a proper backup or replication policy.
"I just wish mysql could use /etc/passwd for authentication"
/etc/passwd, however this completes the goal of central authentication for UNIX and MySQL users. Many other services can authenticate using a MySQL table too.
You can use MySQL for UNIX user authentication. You'll want to replicate MySQL's users table to another DB for the local host's authentication. The method might not be exactly what you where looking for, as it replaces
Total nonsense.
I pick up my phone, I dial 911 and it works. I've done it before in an emergency, at this house (Quest) and my previous house (Verizon). I learned about it from a friend with VoIP, who's local carrier was Pacbell. Maybe your phone is broken, or maybe your ILEC just does not give a shit, I suppose you could be a liar too...
take a debate class, troll
Plug a phone into your wall outlet, or if you have a spare disconnected cell phone, keep it charged and make sure your family knows where it is. 911 service works on any phone line in the U.S. even if the service is not activated. We have Vonage, but we also have a backup phone plugged into the wall. The Internet is something I would want to rely on in an emergency.
I wonder if they are still using the default mysql root password of '' too?
You're correct. No where does the Bible directly say the earth is 6000 years old.
This theory is based on (in my opinion an incorrect) belief that God created the earth, and then directly followed up by creating everything else, in literally 7 days earth time. Though no where is this stated or implied. Furthermore, time is defined as infinite to God in Genesis, where it's stated that 7 days can be equal to 7 years or 7 minutes.
The 6000 year figure comes from listings of the ages of parents starting with Adam and Eve, which are given when heirs are born and upon death. This is documented in the Bible all the way up to the Kings (Known as chapters Kings I and Kings II). Historical documentation, and some on going religious calendars provide a pretty accurate way to translating dates. Most of this is based on the Bible as a historical document, if you believe the time lines are correct.
Time frames from the Kings on rely on secular historical data, such as the resignation of King Solomon after the destruction of Solomon's temple by the Babylonians. By the time Jesus is born the history of *man* is calculated as being just under 4,000 years old.
Taking everything at face value you *at best* could define when humans started to record history, and place it at 6,000 years. To define a time line for the universe... I think that's better left to scientists than cave men chiseling in stone...
The "ISP revolution" exhibits it's own problems in anti-competitive behavior, and provides a good case study on why forced breakups don't work. The problem is, breaking up a company does not solve the inherent problems that are allowing for the anti-competitive behaviors to exist to begin with. Not to mention it is not an inherent right the government has... they just made up their ability to do this legally, though the courts.
The problem is that monopolies are still able to define the rules as they go along. Verizon for example, sells "circuits" to Verizon Online and other ISPs. Verizon Online may buy them at a "on paper" loss from it's parent Verizon, to start. Once Verizon Online has built up a customer base, they are able to constantly rewrite the terms of "circuit" costs and rebates to become more profitable, which may or may not have a negative impact on competitors. Restrictive licensing and fees are not limited to deals with Parent and/or Sister companies, as we've seen with Microsoft OEM licensing. It's these types of licensing schemes, as you've also mentioned, that companies use on a regular basis to hinder competition that needs to be regulated. Not the composition of a company, or what it can and can not sell.
The error in the handling of the Microsoft case is the regulation of a product, rather than a proper regulation of a market.
I'm not advocating an Anarchy Market, and neither do the principles of libertarian institutions such as CATO. The 1994 Microsoft ruling which was overturned sought to impose artificial limits on what a software vendor may include in their product by legally separating a company and forcing them to negotiate business independently. A market where a government dictates which products you can and can not bundle together neither "guarantees competition" or is "free".
A separate case which holds merit would have been one in which Microsoft is solely tried on it's "bulling tactics" imposed by it's licensing terms to OEM vendors. These tactics are ones which should be regulated by a government to protect a free market, but to break up a company simply to artificially define it's product line is only in the best interest of big government.
Why should Microsoft be singled out on what products they can and can not bundle together? Should Redhat be regulated for packaging software bundles? How about Apple? This case was sloppy, and outside the bounds of what government should and should not be able to regulate. Microsoft was judged not on their violations in a free market, though the use of a monopoly power, but on their inclusion of other products within a single package. Something that should never be illegal.
Ahem... "without a Republican government to protect Microsoft"...
What the DOJ did in 2001 is protect a free market by agreeing with a D.C. court of appeals. The court of appeals saw written and verbal testimony by hundreds of economists, that concluded that breaking up Microsoft would not protect consumers, and is counter productive to a free market economy.
What has been gained from the break up of the big bell? We had over a decade of artificially inflated prices due to "connection fees" the "baby bells" where all imposing on each other, followed by mergers back into large geographically dominant super powers. And it cost tax payers how many millions of dollars to do?
Forced government regulation such as this on a company is a very dangerous precedent, and provides no tangible benefits to the consumer. In the end innovation wins. We're seeing this with Firefox gaining ground on IE and VoIP taking market share from the bells. Government regulation did not cause these products to become available, nor did it influence people to use them, talented people with innovative ideas did.
For more in depth analyses of how this type of government regulation is bad for consumers and our economy I'd recommend: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-296es.html
Fold...
I can't speak for the parent, but in my case, we use Redhat EL because it's certified to work with Oracle, IBM DB2 and about a dozen other relatively expensive application vendors. Sure we could go with Fedora or some other unsupported flavor of linux, but what's the advantage? Redhat vs. LinuxY, it's comparing apples to apples, they are all the same thing. Free is almost never a single selling point for the Enterprise. Especially when the downside is not ever getting support from your vendors.
When you're buying high end servers and software licenses in the thousands, the cost of Redhat EL is really next to nothing. That being said, on my personal web server I use an unsupported configuration. I don't need 99.99% uptime, or support on my personal webserver however.
These guys where not just potential spammers, their active spamming is what got the secret service involved in the first place. You don't get the title "Spam King" for one job. The secret service simply followed the money trail to them, offered a job and busted them. Now there's likely a warrant allowing agents to sniff through their computers to find needed evidence on other shady spam dealings they where involved in. This is akin to the police buying crack from the local dealer in the park and then busting him. Nothing wrong here...
Why would I want to play AVI?
"actually i predict he'll go mysteriously "missing" next week....."
...and no one will report it for fear of having their pay docked...