* Improves wording in the progress indicator window when copying a large file to an iDisk or WebDAV volume ("5 seconds remaining" could previously for much longer than five seconds).
Sacrificing one's own people in deference to a war game is murder. The terrorists have won if our government fails to help us protect ourselves from a known impending attack.
Seeing this sort of comment [which is made quite frequently in discussions of corporate behavior] drives me batty. Like so much of economics that gets parroted to justify a bad decision, it's not as true or simple as so many people insist. "Maimizing shareholder value", a corporation's obligation, does not mean "making today's stock price as high as possible". It means whatever the makes the shareholders' investment return value, and this value need not be purely financial, and it certainly need not be immediate.
You are forgetting about externality, and pollution is always the standard example case.
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=ext ernality :
2.b: An incidental condition that may affect a course of action: Åur economic system treats environmental degradation as an externality, a cost that does not enter into the conventional arithmetic that determines how we use our resources¦(Barry Commoner).
See also:
http://cee.org.au/economic-issues/Gambling.html:
"Externalities
An externality is said to occur when the consumption or production of a good by one person affects the welfare of another. Pollution is a common policy-relevant example, but there are many others."
Saying that "economics has proved that the market is perfect" is like saying F=ma. It's a first-semester textbook approximation that's not blatantly wrong, but it's not precisely right, and when you apply it to issues on a global scale, the error is huge.
Apples website http://store.apple.com advertises a 5GB hard drive. What is the source for Majik's correction?
Also, the NYT article mentions that the iPod can't upload songs to a different computer. Does anyone know if that means:
(a) is the whole drive bound to a specific machine when formatted? (Perhaps one could write a program to lie to the iPod about the identity of the base station); or
(b) is non-MP3 data (since it's just a FireWire HD) also non-transferable?
(c) what the point is of this copy-protection? you can still copy your iPod to 10 CDs with no effort, Apple itself advertises.
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does 3.0 finally work?
Its' from the Swedish Chef's recipe for Chocolate Mooose, silly.
http://www.messygourmet.com/creations.html
* Improves wording in the progress indicator window when copying a large file to an iDisk or WebDAV volume ("5 seconds remaining" could previously for much longer than five seconds).
Classic.
Ben and Jerry's sold out to a multinational concern years ago.
Sacrificing one's own people in deference to a war game is murder. The terrorists have won if our government fails to help us protect ourselves from a known impending attack.
Yep.
An asteroid impact will have many and diverse consequences,
But a communications disruption can mean only one thing.
Seeing this sort of comment [which is made quite frequently in discussions of corporate behavior] drives me batty. Like so much of economics that gets parroted to justify a bad decision, it's not as true or simple as so many people insist. "Maimizing shareholder value", a corporation's obligation, does not mean "making today's stock price as high as possible". It means whatever the makes the shareholders' investment return value, and this value need not be purely financial, and it certainly need not be immediate.
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=ext ernality :
2.b: An incidental condition that may affect a course of action: Åur economic system treats environmental degradation as an externality, a cost that does not enter into the conventional arithmetic that determines how we use our resources¦(Barry Commoner).
See also:
http://cee.org.au/economic-issues/Gambling.html: "Externalities An externality is said to occur when the consumption or production of a good by one person affects the welfare of another. Pollution is a common policy-relevant example, but there are many others."
Saying that "economics has proved that the market is perfect" is like saying F=ma. It's a first-semester textbook approximation that's not blatantly wrong, but it's not precisely right, and when you apply it to issues on a global scale, the error is huge.
Apples website http://store.apple.com advertises a 5GB hard drive. What is the source for Majik's correction?
Also, the NYT article mentions that the iPod can't upload songs to a different computer. Does anyone know if that means:
(a) is the whole drive bound to a specific machine when formatted? (Perhaps one could write a program to lie to the iPod about the identity of the base station); or
(b) is non-MP3 data (since it's just a FireWire HD) also non-transferable?
(c) what the point is of this copy-protection? you can still copy your iPod to 10 CDs with no effort, Apple itself advertises.