You forgot the part where everyone but the richest guy is working for a living, and the richest guy doesn't, since he gets a cut off of everyone else's work.
I hear this a lot. Can you back it up. And no Bill Gates and co don't count. These guys worked bloody hard and took big risks to get their respective companies started and keep them going. They didn't just sit around collecting everyone else's "tax".
I think its just jealously. You think you deserve to be "rich" more than the next fellow. Well you don't. Some are rich because they worked hard and got a little bit lucky, some are rich because they got lucky and some are rich cus daddy was lucky. But that makes them no less deserving of wealth than you.
Then you would need to, well license the device that they indeed comply to the "regulations". The the point of the unlicensed band is that you don't need a FCC (full) license, but you may get interference and its not anyone else problem.
Also because of the interference problem, IIRC it was ruled that a commercial operator cannot use the ISM bands for a cell network in Canada. This is not the first time its been tried.
AC is not right. What i am saying is that if money is suppose to represent what you can buy, then "growth" means there must be a lot more "stuff" to buy/use etc. Yet earth is very finite. The idea of perpetual growth is as crazy as perpetual motion.
At 9% for 110 years thats a total "growth" of over 13000. Or in other words there is 13000 times more stuff to buy/sell/use/rent whatever than there was 110 years ago. Its also historically true that in terms of consuming resources, much of which is not renewable, the last 50 years dominate the entire history of humanity. Thats the exponential curve. Only the last short time interval really matters, because that swamps any previous production or consumption.
Another 110 years at 9% implies that there would need to be 171 million times more stuff in 2130 than there was in 1900. It is very clear that there just isn't enough stuff left.
Don't you mean a whole generation of people that are jaded by how in 1968 we were on the moon yet now, 40 years later, we still don't have XXX.
The moon shot was a pissing contest. Nothing more. Thats why nothing long term came from it. Once you pissed further than the other guy, there is no reason to keep on pissing.
And how many crashes will their be in 100 years? How many 401k did well after last time? Boom bust cycles is the way the current economy works. Your 2Billion today would not look anything like 100 billion in a 100 years no matter how confidant the guy is that takes your money.
Mainly because the 10billion figure is BS. After spending 10billion on constellation, they can't even get to the moon let along mars. And well 10billion was what the ISS cost before they had anything even in space.
10billion was pulled out of a hole. Not a nice hole either.
NAT does not provide any security and is *not* a firewall. In fact it breaks security, things like IPSec struggle with NAT and make VPN hard to get right. IPv6 removes the need for NAT, but not firewalls. If you want dynamic IPv6 numbers, they have them too.
Seriously NAT provides no security. Otherwise hole punching wouldn't work.
Many people get confused because a lot of routers have NAT and firewall functions.
The point I was making its that it *should* not *matter* what you make your presentation in. You save and you can run it on *anything*.
Right now if you don't plug your mac in at the conference or at the class. Your out of luck. And more and more conferences are demanding that the talks are uploaded onto a single computer to avoid the laptop changeover time.
And they pick the lowest common denominator. Powerpoint. Not keynote. However they do almost always allow pdf. Animations are for wimps and communists;).
Grandma is lucky if she can figure out where the plug goes. If she plugs into windows, it will usually hold her hand, at the very least say something.
Grandma gets someone else to "fix" her computer for her. Seriously, how many window users can install windows? Or a printer? About all they can do is download a exe, double click and say OK as many times as a dialog pops up. Then they ask others to fix it.
I run only linux at home. All Slackware boxs. A friend is over and ask to use a machine. No problem. Well the first thing he tries to do is install some MS crapola so he can use MSN chat or whatever. Later he gets done what he wanted (print some airline tickets). Finally he tells me about how windows just "works" better for him and then says, "Oh by the way I can't get my printer/scanner to work and my computers is getting really slow. You know computers right, can you come around and fix it."
Since quite a few of the 3d software folks have started supporting Linux, i was expecting adobe to as well. Its really not that hard even with a existing code base. Something like photoshop on linux would a pretty big deal for some graphics shops i know.
However sound the sound api on linux has not been... well. I can understand why sound apps tend to support a single OS.
Well as a 64bit person, i have had problems with wine too. However i am also getting older. So i just don't boot to windows at all anymore because my wife and I are happy enough with quake3 (quake live has some issues for me). I like RTSs, and finally got taspring to compile and work on my slack boxes.
These days, a game is just not enough to boot to windows. I don't even really know how to use windows anymore.
But i do miss battle for middle earth 2.. nothing like 5+ attack trolls laying waste to some nancy boy elf's... especially when they are my wifes elf's.
You actually care what *tool* someone uses to create a portable document? Oh wait.
That really is the bit that bugs me the most. Why do i need to care *what* word processor or presentation software you are using? I don't care when i read a book, or look at a report. And i create PDF presentations, and then it does not matter what i use, i can run my presentation on any machine.
The problem is lack of open document *formats*. Then anyone can use any tool they like... I don't get stuck with some word 2003 document that won't even open properly on a windows machine because MS is not really all that compatible with MS.
Its not that low for optimal cruse speed. I forget the exact numbers, but its about 50%. Also the big engines are often designed to not require a gear box (often only 80% efficient), so fuel to water energy transfer can be about 20% or so. Not bad at all. However there is still wave drag and skin friction over the hull. Technically you don't need energy to keep moving if there are no losses.
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You forgot the part where everyone but the richest guy is working for a living, and the richest guy doesn't, since he gets a cut off of everyone else's work.
I hear this a lot. Can you back it up. And no Bill Gates and co don't count. These guys worked bloody hard and took big risks to get their respective companies started and keep them going. They didn't just sit around collecting everyone else's "tax".
I think its just jealously. You think you deserve to be "rich" more than the next fellow. Well you don't. Some are rich because they worked hard and got a little bit lucky, some are rich because they got lucky and some are rich cus daddy was lucky. But that makes them no less deserving of wealth than you.
Then you would need to, well license the device that they indeed comply to the "regulations". The the point of the unlicensed band is that you don't need a FCC (full) license, but you may get interference and its not anyone else problem.
Also because of the interference problem, IIRC it was ruled that a commercial operator cannot use the ISM bands for a cell network in Canada. This is not the first time its been tried.
AC is not right. What i am saying is that if money is suppose to represent what you can buy, then "growth" means there must be a lot more "stuff" to buy/use etc. Yet earth is very finite. The idea of perpetual growth is as crazy as perpetual motion.
At 9% for 110 years thats a total "growth" of over 13000. Or in other words there is 13000 times more stuff to buy/sell/use/rent whatever than there was 110 years ago. Its also historically true that in terms of consuming resources, much of which is not renewable, the last 50 years dominate the entire history of humanity. Thats the exponential curve. Only the last short time interval really matters, because that swamps any previous production or consumption.
Another 110 years at 9% implies that there would need to be 171 million times more stuff in 2130 than there was in 1900. It is very clear that there just isn't enough stuff left.
Reminds me of a quote from one of the economists my wife works with.
Humans don't understand exponential curves.
Nice. And all proposed mars mission will have a similar long term result.
Don't you mean a whole generation of people that are jaded by how in 1968 we were on the moon yet now, 40 years later, we still don't have XXX.
The moon shot was a pissing contest. Nothing more. Thats why nothing long term came from it. Once you pissed further than the other guy, there is no reason to keep on pissing.
And how many crashes will their be in 100 years? How many 401k did well after last time? Boom bust cycles is the way the current economy works. Your 2Billion today would not look anything like 100 billion in a 100 years no matter how confidant the guy is that takes your money.
Mainly because the 10billion figure is BS. After spending 10billion on constellation, they can't even get to the moon let along mars. And well 10billion was what the ISS cost before they had anything even in space.
10billion was pulled out of a hole. Not a nice hole either.
Neither should the US.
NAT does not provide any security and is *not* a firewall. In fact it breaks security, things like IPSec struggle with NAT and make VPN hard to get right. IPv6 removes the need for NAT, but not firewalls. If you want dynamic IPv6 numbers, they have them too.
Seriously NAT provides no security. Otherwise hole punching wouldn't work.
Many people get confused because a lot of routers have NAT and firewall functions.
You only need to live in a college town for that benefit.
This is really what i meant.
The point I was making its that it *should* not *matter* what you make your presentation in. You save and you can run it on *anything*.
;).
Right now if you don't plug your mac in at the conference or at the class. Your out of luck. And more and more conferences are demanding that the talks are uploaded onto a single computer to avoid the laptop changeover time.
And they pick the lowest common denominator. Powerpoint. Not keynote. However they do almost always allow pdf. Animations are for wimps and communists
Grandma is lucky if she can figure out where the plug goes. If she plugs into windows, it will usually hold her hand, at the very least say something.
Grandma gets someone else to "fix" her computer for her. Seriously, how many window users can install windows? Or a printer? About all they can do is download a exe, double click and say OK as many times as a dialog pops up. Then they ask others to fix it.
I run only linux at home. All Slackware boxs. A friend is over and ask to use a machine. No problem. Well the first thing he tries to do is install some MS crapola so he can use MSN chat or whatever. Later he gets done what he wanted (print some airline tickets). Finally he tells me about how windows just "works" better for him and then says, "Oh by the way I can't get my printer/scanner to work and my computers is getting really slow. You know computers right, can you come around and fix it."
That is the MO of the average windows user...
Time to stop reading Slashdot, and moving to do something better.
Any suggestions? I keep tring, but as much as /. sucks sometime with a perfectly average slice of the internet... the competition is worse....
Since quite a few of the 3d software folks have started supporting Linux, i was expecting adobe to as well. Its really not that hard even with a existing code base. Something like photoshop on linux would a pretty big deal for some graphics shops i know.
However sound the sound api on linux has not been... well. I can understand why sound apps tend to support a single OS.
Well as a 64bit person, i have had problems with wine too. However i am also getting older. So i just don't boot to windows at all anymore because my wife and I are happy enough with quake3 (quake live has some issues for me). I like RTSs, and finally got taspring to compile and work on my slack boxes.
These days, a game is just not enough to boot to windows. I don't even really know how to use windows anymore.
But i do miss battle for middle earth 2.. nothing like 5+ attack trolls laying waste to some nancy boy elf's... especially when they are my wifes elf's.
Don't feed a troll... either people already know you, or they don't. Either way i doubt they will listen to AC.
Thats not a conspiracy theory... is the correct application of Occam's razor.
Well close enough.
Clubbing some baby seals is a bonus.
You actually care what *tool* someone uses to create a portable document? Oh wait.
That really is the bit that bugs me the most. Why do i need to care *what* word processor or presentation software you are using? I don't care when i read a book, or look at a report. And i create PDF presentations, and then it does not matter what i use, i can run my presentation on any machine.
The problem is lack of open document *formats*. Then anyone can use any tool they like... I don't get stuck with some word 2003 document that won't even open properly on a windows machine because MS is not really all that compatible with MS.
What? like USA? At war with two other countries as an *occupying* force.
USA is the badly behaved one here. USA is the one behaving like a school yard bully. USA is the one that needs to grow up.
Its not that low for optimal cruse speed. I forget the exact numbers, but its about 50%. Also the big engines are often designed to not require a gear box (often only 80% efficient), so fuel to water energy transfer can be about 20% or so. Not bad at all. However there is still wave drag and skin friction over the hull. Technically you don't need energy to keep moving if there are no losses.
If America can have them? Why not other countries? Your not the world police you know.
It has been said that cheap energy often determines what we can and cannot do for a given price. This nicely illustrates the trade off.
Another important consideration, is that flash evaporation desalination can run on low grade heat. Like the waste heat from a power station.