cash - If you mean cash as greenbacks. I dispute this: as I said no one wants to sit on cash for the long term. If you mean checking accounts etc. you are right to a point: yeah rich people will have a high ballance, but they will not keep it higher than they think necessary, because again it is sitting there earning interest at a rate lower than inflation. Keep in mind that anything sustainable that pays interest is ultimately going to be investing somehow. That is why it can pay interest.
properties - depending on the type (commercial, rental properties, a house in the Hamptons) you might be able to argue this is a form of hoarding. Even if it is buying somem non-productive pice of land that is being used for nothing it is still an indirect investment insofar as it is then freeing up someone else's capital. But most people who are using real estate as an investment are going to favor those forms that pay an annual return (e.g., rental property of one form or another) on top of the simple appreciation. (btw, real estate is NOT a very liquid asset: it can take months to sell any piece of property at a good price and it often takes much longer if it is high end residential since the market is smaller)
annuities - this is investing. How do you think the annuity can afford to pay out?
The trickle-down economics theory is bust because wealth is often HOARDED instead of spent
Maybe we have different ideas of hoarding, but what do you mean? The wealthy do not generally hold much cash. They either spend or invest it, because they know that holding cash is a net loss due to inflation, to say nothing of opertunity cost.
I differ with you on your definition of 'literacy'. Literacy is being able to read and write effectively (in a field). By extention it means generally being knowledgeable in a field. A large part of literacy in any techincal field is going to include knowing basic trivia. (Is someone computer literate who doesn't know what RAM or OS stands for or how big a KB is?) Knowing how much of the earth is covered in water may not be the best possible question to determine this, but your list of how-to critera (while perhaps a list of skills more important that scientific literacy) is IMHO off mark.
It's not really nitpicking; the sentence was poorly constructed and because of this failed to communicate. I for one thought the sentence was saying that 47% of the earth is covered in water, as did the original poster.
Although the actual device... cannot even light up an LED..., the energy that might be stored in this way could potentially run a car for miles.
This is one of the least informative lines ever included in a tech summary.
Any energy storing tech that's worth it's salt can potentially run a car for miles. It's a question of efficiency and cost. I can potentially power a car for miles with twisted up rubberbands if I want to, but that isn't a breakthrough in the field.
And of course "miles" tells nothing. Powering a car 3-5 miles is next to worthless. If they said 10's of miles we would know this had the potential to replace current tech or at least come close. If they said 100's of miles we would be facing a revolutionary improvement.
IANAL nor do I pretend to know much of the topic, but I understand that the person who wrote and distributed the software tha uses MS's workaround for using long filenames on FAT would have to pay the license, not the end user.
Yeah I still think things like this are a dumb idea. I just don't get how they will be usable (mainly being big and clumsy: do you really want to hold a 10" monster in one arm and try to navigate with the other?). Then again, Apple has a good track-record or making things that are quite usable so I'm kind of excited to see what they come up with (if it pans out).
It isn't worth the effort. . . Linux has no viruses because the market is too small.
Sure I agree this is a factor, but dosn't the fact that unix-like OSes have a well-integrated and enforced system of permissions and trust have at least something to do with it? I, at least, tend to think it is a both/and situation: the combination of the difficulty of writing something that can effectively compromise linux systems coupled with the low pay-off for the effort gives us our current state of having (practically) zero linux malware in the wild. Of course there are other factors that can be mentioned too, like the typical Linux user's being more computer-savvy than the average Windows user, making them less open to techniques reliying on social engeneering. But still one has to ask whether part of this isn't built in to the system--Linux requires a user to have a certain level of knowlegability (e.g., knowing how to use svn and make) and jump thorough certain hoops (setting execute permissions) to do certain things that might be dangerous while making it trivial and safe to do common things (e.g., installing a package from a trusted repository) The last example is a nice highlight on the point: Installing from an official repo is easier than installing from a non-trusted 3rd party repo where again you need to have a certain level of know-how and think about what you are doing. This is very different from the windows model where installing directly from third parties is the typical way to install software and where it is always the user's job to determine who to trust. I'm not being a fanboi (I know it has vulnerabilities, and I know the lack of market share is a huge factor), I just think there is something to calling Linux more secure than just the marketshare.
But doesn't that lose a lot of the value of a shutdown (i.e., getting back to a fresh state?) I think it would be better to preform a memory dump after each real boot, and save that in a special file, then on each "shutdown to instant boot" you just move that saved fresh state into swap so on boot it does a resume into a fresh state instead of into a been-running-5-months state. But I have no idea whether this is practical.
MSN msgr, Yahoo chat, ICQ, Google talk et al. all reinvented IRC each in their own mutually incompatible way. Then they added file transfer that wasn't FTP.
Except that the IM's got around the NAT problem (without the limits of port forwarding). To say nothing of eliminating the need to configure an ftp server. For most people, transfering a morderately large file over the internet, IM is much easier than ftp. IMHO, IM file transefer ability is a nice feature and not just a new wheel.
but if the maker of notepad++ and dell wanted to enter into an agreement, and Microsoft said "if you do that I will jack up your licensing fees" then that's abuse of monopoly power. Dell has no choice, and that's a bad thing. That translates into no choice for the consumer.
But what happens when an investigator hired by a movie studio joins the swarm? How do you decide who gets a key and gets to participate in the network?
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Usually its either cash, property, or annuities.
cash - If you mean cash as greenbacks. I dispute this: as I said no one wants to sit on cash for the long term. If you mean checking accounts etc. you are right to a point: yeah rich people will have a high ballance, but they will not keep it higher than they think necessary, because again it is sitting there earning interest at a rate lower than inflation. Keep in mind that anything sustainable that pays interest is ultimately going to be investing somehow. That is why it can pay interest.
properties - depending on the type (commercial, rental properties, a house in the Hamptons) you might be able to argue this is a form of hoarding. Even if it is buying somem non-productive pice of land that is being used for nothing it is still an indirect investment insofar as it is then freeing up someone else's capital. But most people who are using real estate as an investment are going to favor those forms that pay an annual return (e.g., rental property of one form or another) on top of the simple appreciation. (btw, real estate is NOT a very liquid asset: it can take months to sell any piece of property at a good price and it often takes much longer if it is high end residential since the market is smaller)
annuities - this is investing. How do you think the annuity can afford to pay out?
Yeah but even if the system supported Greek he would be screwed just the same 'cause he spoke an archaic version of Ionic Greek.
The trickle-down economics theory is bust because wealth is often HOARDED instead of spent
Maybe we have different ideas of hoarding, but what do you mean? The wealthy do not generally hold much cash. They either spend or invest it, because they know that holding cash is a net loss due to inflation, to say nothing of opertunity cost.
if it's latency, shouldn't increasing rwin take care of it? Or if you are using vista/w7 or linux shouldn't the OS do it automatically?
Maybe I'm totally confused, But wasn't weren't the licenses that MS sold Walmart one of these large sales that the article says didn't happen?
I differ with you on your definition of 'literacy'. Literacy is being able to read and write effectively (in a field). By extention it means generally being knowledgeable in a field. A large part of literacy in any techincal field is going to include knowing basic trivia. (Is someone computer literate who doesn't know what RAM or OS stands for or how big a KB is?)
Knowing how much of the earth is covered in water may not be the best possible question to determine this, but your list of how-to critera (while perhaps a list of skills more important that scientific literacy) is IMHO off mark.
It's not really nitpicking; the sentence was poorly constructed and because of this failed to communicate. I for one thought the sentence was saying that 47% of the earth is covered in water, as did the original poster.
Although the actual device... cannot even light up an LED..., the energy that might be stored in this way could potentially run a car for miles.
This is one of the least informative lines ever included in a tech summary.
Any energy storing tech that's worth it's salt can potentially run a car for miles. It's a question of efficiency and cost. I can potentially power a car for miles with twisted up rubberbands if I want to, but that isn't a breakthrough in the field.
And of course "miles" tells nothing. Powering a car 3-5 miles is next to worthless. If they said 10's of miles we would know this had the potential to replace current tech or at least come close. If they said 100's of miles we would be facing a revolutionary improvement.
IANAL nor do I pretend to know much of the topic, but I understand that the person who wrote and distributed the software tha uses MS's workaround for using long filenames on FAT would have to pay the license, not the end user.
IIRC it isn't about FAT, but about using long names in FAT.
Marsupial?
. . . pull it out of my pocket . . .
You must have exeptionally large pockets. ; )
Yeah I still think things like this are a dumb idea. I just don't get how they will be usable (mainly being big and clumsy: do you really want to hold a 10" monster in one arm and try to navigate with the other?). Then again, Apple has a good track-record or making things that are quite usable so I'm kind of excited to see what they come up with (if it pans out).
So it wasn't enough for it to make me miss the first post while it downloaded.
Did my computer screw it up or does the link really point to a 6MB 1p pdf? Why not just use a bmp?
GP was mocking W7's imposed limit of 3 concurrent apps in it's netbook/basic/whatever-they-call-it version. Not the power of netbooks.
It isn't worth the effort. . . Linux has no viruses because the market is too small.
Sure I agree this is a factor, but dosn't the fact that unix-like OSes have a well-integrated and enforced system of permissions and trust have at least something to do with it?
I, at least, tend to think it is a both/and situation: the combination of the difficulty of writing something that can effectively compromise linux systems coupled with the low pay-off for the effort gives us our current state of having (practically) zero linux malware in the wild.
Of course there are other factors that can be mentioned too, like the typical Linux user's being more computer-savvy than the average Windows user, making them less open to techniques reliying on social engeneering. But still one has to ask whether part of this isn't built in to the system--Linux requires a user to have a certain level of knowlegability (e.g., knowing how to use svn and make) and jump thorough certain hoops (setting execute permissions) to do certain things that might be dangerous while making it trivial and safe to do common things (e.g., installing a package from a trusted repository) The last example is a nice highlight on the point: Installing from an official repo is easier than installing from a non-trusted 3rd party repo where again you need to have a certain level of know-how and think about what you are doing. This is very different from the windows model where installing directly from third parties is the typical way to install software and where it is always the user's job to determine who to trust.
I'm not being a fanboi (I know it has vulnerabilities, and I know the lack of market share is a huge factor), I just think there is something to calling Linux more secure than just the marketshare.
But doesn't that lose a lot of the value of a shutdown (i.e., getting back to a fresh state?)
I think it would be better to preform a memory dump after each real boot, and save that in a special file, then on each "shutdown to instant boot" you just move that saved fresh state into swap so on boot it does a resume into a fresh state instead of into a been-running-5-months state. But I have no idea whether this is practical.
I'm trying to figure out how someone manages to misspell "qwerty"?
what are you talking about?
MSN msgr, Yahoo chat, ICQ, Google talk et al. all reinvented IRC each in their own mutually incompatible way. Then they added file transfer that wasn't FTP.
Except that the IM's got around the NAT problem (without the limits of port forwarding). To say nothing of eliminating the need to configure an ftp server. For most people, transfering a morderately large file over the internet, IM is much easier than ftp. IMHO, IM file transefer ability is a nice feature and not just a new wheel.
but if the maker of notepad++ and dell wanted to enter into an agreement, and Microsoft said "if you do that I will jack up your licensing fees" then that's abuse of monopoly power. Dell has no choice, and that's a bad thing. That translates into no choice for the consumer.
Mod parent up.
Even if Microsoft would manage to purchase Richard Stallman
This just hurts my head.
but it used the same number of keystrokes
But what happens when an investigator hired by a movie studio joins the swarm? How do you decide who gets a key and gets to participate in the network?