Yeah, but the idea is that at any reasonable distance, observers wouldn't notice. Indeed, this is the idea behind all camouflage. And even if the light did appear to come from a slightly different place, it would still be better than the current system of "little splotches of color that might have some hues in common with the area we are fighting in."
Of course, if the light, like the article claims, would appear to come from the same angle and position as if no object had interferred, then there would be no way for an observer to notice.
*sigh* Yet more evidence that economics is like chemistry: while advice from someone with a lot of knowledge is far safer than no advice at all, advice from someone with a little knowledge is more dangerous than just applying common sense.
Also, the most important lesson about economics, that many of my peers have yet to learn is that economics is not a theoretical thing or a force of its own. It exists in the real world. To confront _charity_ from a purely economic standpoint is misguided.
Furthermore, if you really want to get into the economics of the thing, the real products they are making are not computers, but rather bundles of goodwill. They are giving you an opportunity to spend money to make yourself happier by making others happier. If knowing that you are helping someone you will probably never meet doesn't do anything for you, then you are looking for the wrong product. You should buy a laptop with similar specs on eBay. Just like how if you don't want to give $200 to help NPR or PBS, you go to walmart to get your tote bag instead.
What's really scary about that are the number of posts on that page that are basically 'Good, you don't agree with our favorite policies, so you shouldn't have any rights.' or 'If you aren't with the president, then you're with the enemy, so of course you're gonna get wiretapped.' This is coming from so-called conservatives. Way to defend the constitution guys. Good hustle.
How do they get off demanding that sun release java under a license? Well, how about it's their distribution and they can make whatever standards they want for inclusion. Don't like it? Pick a different distro. Where do you get off telling Red Hat what to do with their distribution?
Bush isn't the problem. I'm not only worried about a one man state, but also a one party state. If the republicans can continue to game the system term after term, ensuring that the dems have a shrinking minority in congress while their popular vote remains, that is exactly what will happen. Yes, I would be just as worried if the democrats were stringing together a long list of 'irregularities' to prevent the republicans from ever taking office.
What's happening now is that the republicans are working outside of the system (through Diebold, through nepotism, through the NSA, the CIA and the big corporate backers) to make certain that no matter what the popular outcome is, they will remain in office.
Seriously, I know microkernels are great in theory. That's what Professor T is always reminding us of. However, those of us in the real world realize that in theory, theory and reality are the same, while in reality, theory and reality aren't.
Actually, he's dead on. The only reason these people are a 'burden to society' is that they don't pay taxes (because they aren't in the system), but they still use government services (because hospitals can't turn away the sick [and for good reason too]. If you allow them to be here legally, they pay taxes and pay into the system like everyone else. People want to deport illegals, but don't want to give them the option to be here legally, because they don't understand the economics of the thing.
By the way, you can't be fiscally conservative and in favor of a free market without being in favor of open immigration policies. Well, at least without being a hypocrite. Economic conservatives would be against tariffs or quotas for capital equipment or raw materials. Why do they support quotas on the import of the other input of production? Doing so keeps our markets from clearing, hurts our ability to compete internationally, and prevents our economy from operating at its full potential. Why do people support this? Politics politics politics...
Who, exactly, would you like to manage large projects (or large companies)? People who don't know anything about management or business, because they are educated in tech? Yes, occasionally companies run from the top down by techies work, but that's not the reason why they work.
Believe it or not, the ability to lead, to allocate resources, to plan ahead, to determine whether something is marketable, to deal with supply chains and distribution, and to keep people happy are skills. Good MBA programs teach those skills.
The second/. heresy in this post is the following: the best piece of software doesn't always make the best product! Look, I've been programming since I was 5 years old and so I have the same feelings as the most of you about great software. At the same time, I realize the business world isn't a perfect world. Sometimes your clients don't want it perfect-- they need it now. Sometimes you _could_ spend a few more weeks adding really great functionality to your project-- but marketing research says that it won't change sales numbers a bit.
Regardless of it there is or isn't global warming on mars, there might or not not be global warming on earth. It might or might not be from natural sources. Mars and Earth are different planets (or haven't you heard?). There's no rule that says that the explaination for climate changes on one planet has to be the same as on another. In fact, get this, there might be _gasp_ multiple factors influencing the climate of a planet!
So in summary, I would suggest you just admitted irrelevant material as evidence.
Generally, the way to go about it is to find a professor or a group of professors doing interesting research, and apply for those programs. Most people I know that followed that path were happy with where they ended up.
And, as a side note, don't get caught up looking at a program that says "Computer Forensics" on it. There are only a few for a reason. It takes a strong general education in math and computer science and computer engineering to do that sort of work. So, you should get a detail look at some CS and CE programs. I would say, actually, that Computer Engineering programs might be the best of all. A lot of computer security issues, as you know, occur at low levels that CS people _generally_ muck around with (because of their twin fascinations with Java and theory;).
Because it helps teach people to recognize malicious code?
Think about it this way. You're the head dev on a big software project and are in charge of committing changes that the other programmers have made to the code base into the repository. You screen all the pieces of code to make sure they are reasonable before they get merged, right? Well, if you don't know anything about clever techniques that can be used to hide backdoors and other malicious code, one could sneak by you. Nobody finds the bad code until after the next release. Thousands of people have already downloaded and installed the code. Oops?
No. It would be extortion if he were threatening to put security holes in SunSSH. He's just saying that without Sun's support, he can't be expected to analyze and warn them of bugs in their product. Or are you saying I have a legal requirement to disclose every bug I notice in every piece of software I use to the developer?
They were talking about 50 year useful life of the ship, not the individual components. I imagine they plan on using spare parts when things break down.
Ah, I see. I guess your local profs just work differently than mine did. Most of mine had the handouts availible online, so you could grab them over the wifi from class.
As far as taking notes, I took my notes in TeX, and made PDFs when I was done. That took care of the equations for me. I could also recreate a lot of the diagrams in my particular classes with something like GNUPlot.
On the other hand, I've moved to a college where nobody takes notes on a laptop. For some reason, here it is considered a faux pas (I think it has to do with the small size of the classes/classrooms-- no one wants to hear the keystrokes, and the classes are far more discussion driven).
There's a difference between real damages and measurable damages. For example, we can't tell for sure what "caused" the cancer in a given person. You can't assign blame in an accounting manner: ok, exxon pays $2. Reynolds pays $1.50, etc.
Your point about "criticizing one or the other" doesn't follow. The whole point of an externality is that one person should be getting "criticized" (paying an additional cost). Instead, everyone else is. If you regulate away the externality, you eliminate both the cost to society (via a reduction in consumption of the good to the optimal level) and the undeserved benefit is eliminated directly. In the situation you mention, there is merely a disequillibrium, which is a different, self-correcting, problem.
And there is no need to tip for societal benefits of free trade itself. If no other externalities exist, the gains from trade as experienced by society are exactly equal to the gains from trade as experienced by the participants.
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Yeah, but the idea is that at any reasonable distance, observers wouldn't notice. Indeed, this is the idea behind all camouflage. And even if the light did appear to come from a slightly different place, it would still be better than the current system of "little splotches of color that might have some hues in common with the area we are fighting in."
Of course, if the light, like the article claims, would appear to come from the same angle and position as if no object had interferred, then there would be no way for an observer to notice.
*sigh* Yet more evidence that economics is like chemistry: while advice from someone with a lot of knowledge is far safer than no advice at all, advice from someone with a little knowledge is more dangerous than just applying common sense.
Also, the most important lesson about economics, that many of my peers have yet to learn is that economics is not a theoretical thing or a force of its own. It exists in the real world. To confront _charity_ from a purely economic standpoint is misguided.
Furthermore, if you really want to get into the economics of the thing, the real products they are making are not computers, but rather bundles of goodwill. They are giving you an opportunity to spend money to make yourself happier by making others happier. If knowing that you are helping someone you will probably never meet doesn't do anything for you, then you are looking for the wrong product. You should buy a laptop with similar specs on eBay. Just like how if you don't want to give $200 to help NPR or PBS, you go to walmart to get your tote bag instead.
What's really scary about that are the number of posts on that page that are basically 'Good, you don't agree with our favorite policies, so you shouldn't have any rights.' or 'If you aren't with the president, then you're with the enemy, so of course you're gonna get wiretapped.' This is coming from so-called conservatives. Way to defend the constitution guys. Good hustle.
I hear Cuba is sunny and warm this time of year. Enjoy.
but as a bachelor, I feel that we, as a society, should be confronting an altogether different problem-- SIBS, or Sudden Infant Birth Syndrome. ...
Then again, it seems like most people here are doing their part for the cause.
How do they get off demanding that sun release java under a license? Well, how about it's their distribution and they can make whatever standards they want for inclusion. Don't like it? Pick a different distro. Where do you get off telling Red Hat what to do with their distribution?
Bush isn't the problem. I'm not only worried about a one man state, but also a one party state. If the republicans can continue to game the system term after term, ensuring that the dems have a shrinking minority in congress while their popular vote remains, that is exactly what will happen. Yes, I would be just as worried if the democrats were stringing together a long list of 'irregularities' to prevent the republicans from ever taking office.
What's happening now is that the republicans are working outside of the system (through Diebold, through nepotism, through the NSA, the CIA and the big corporate backers) to make certain that no matter what the popular outcome is, they will remain in office.
Oh wait, they already did.
Seriously, I know microkernels are great in theory. That's what Professor T is always reminding us of. However, those of us in the real world realize that in theory, theory and reality are the same, while in reality, theory and reality aren't.
hate our freedom?
Could the answer be 'They have history departments'?
Actually, he's dead on. The only reason these people are a 'burden to society' is that they don't pay taxes (because they aren't in the system), but they still use government services (because hospitals can't turn away the sick [and for good reason too]. If you allow them to be here legally, they pay taxes and pay into the system like everyone else. People want to deport illegals, but don't want to give them the option to be here legally, because they don't understand the economics of the thing.
By the way, you can't be fiscally conservative and in favor of a free market without being in favor of open immigration policies. Well, at least without being a hypocrite. Economic conservatives would be against tariffs or quotas for capital equipment or raw materials. Why do they support quotas on the import of the other input of production? Doing so keeps our markets from clearing, hurts our ability to compete internationally, and prevents our economy from operating at its full potential. Why do people support this? Politics politics politics...
Let me answer your question with a question...
No shit?
Who, exactly, would you like to manage large projects (or large companies)? People who don't know anything about management or business, because they are educated in tech? Yes, occasionally companies run from the top down by techies work, but that's not the reason why they work. Believe it or not, the ability to lead, to allocate resources, to plan ahead, to determine whether something is marketable, to deal with supply chains and distribution, and to keep people happy are skills. Good MBA programs teach those skills. The second /. heresy in this post is the following: the best piece of software doesn't always make the best product! Look, I've been programming since I was 5 years old and so I have the same feelings as the most of you about great software. At the same time, I realize the business world isn't a perfect world. Sometimes your clients don't want it perfect-- they need it now. Sometimes you _could_ spend a few more weeks adding really great functionality to your project-- but marketing research says that it won't change sales numbers a bit.
Regardless of it there is or isn't global warming on mars, there might or not not be global warming on earth. It might or might not be from natural sources. Mars and Earth are different planets (or haven't you heard?). There's no rule that says that the explaination for climate changes on one planet has to be the same as on another. In fact, get this, there might be _gasp_ multiple factors influencing the climate of a planet!
So in summary, I would suggest you just admitted irrelevant material as evidence.
Telecommuting is quickly becoming widespread.
Yeah, telecommuting from India.
Umm... the same could be said of real guns. That's right. In real life, it is hard to aim.
So I guess your complaint is that the new controller will allow increased realism?
Generally, the way to go about it is to find a professor or a group of professors doing interesting research, and apply for those programs. Most people I know that followed that path were happy with where they ended up.
;).
And, as a side note, don't get caught up looking at a program that says "Computer Forensics" on it. There are only a few for a reason. It takes a strong general education in math and computer science and computer engineering to do that sort of work. So, you should get a detail look at some CS and CE programs. I would say, actually, that Computer Engineering programs might be the best of all. A lot of computer security issues, as you know, occur at low levels that CS people _generally_ muck around with (because of their twin fascinations with Java and theory
Because it helps teach people to recognize malicious code?
Think about it this way. You're the head dev on a big software project and are in charge of committing changes that the other programmers have made to the code base into the repository. You screen all the pieces of code to make sure they are reasonable before they get merged, right? Well, if you don't know anything about clever techniques that can be used to hide backdoors and other malicious code, one could sneak by you. Nobody finds the bad code until after the next release. Thousands of people have already downloaded and installed the code. Oops?
No. It would be extortion if he were threatening to put security holes in SunSSH. He's just saying that without Sun's support, he can't be expected to analyze and warn them of bugs in their product. Or are you saying I have a legal requirement to disclose every bug I notice in every piece of software I use to the developer?
They were talking about 50 year useful life of the ship, not the individual components. I imagine they plan on using spare parts when things break down.
"Claria's new business model is 'a new platform designed to provide consumers with a personalized Internet experience.'"
No doubt by spying on you, showing you ads, AND making you pay for the software that does it.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Ah, I see. I guess your local profs just work differently than mine did. Most of mine had the handouts availible online, so you could grab them over the wifi from class.
As far as taking notes, I took my notes in TeX, and made PDFs when I was done. That took care of the equations for me. I could also recreate a lot of the diagrams in my particular classes with something like GNUPlot.
On the other hand, I've moved to a college where nobody takes notes on a laptop. For some reason, here it is considered a faux pas (I think it has to do with the small size of the classes/classrooms-- no one wants to hear the keystrokes, and the classes are far more discussion driven).
Engineering paper and pencil is the way to go.
Why?
He's pointing out exactly that fact, actually.
He thinks that is _why_ they aren't getting the donations they need for openssh.
You know, there is an actual vendor selling this, right? As in, there is a company that sells it, that you could go to if something goes wrong.
There's a difference between real damages and measurable damages. For example, we can't tell for sure what "caused" the cancer in a given person. You can't assign blame in an accounting manner: ok, exxon pays $2. Reynolds pays $1.50, etc.
Your point about "criticizing one or the other" doesn't follow. The whole point of an externality is that one person should be getting "criticized" (paying an additional cost). Instead, everyone else is. If you regulate away the externality, you eliminate both the cost to society (via a reduction in consumption of the good to the optimal level) and the undeserved benefit is eliminated directly. In the situation you mention, there is merely a disequillibrium, which is a different, self-correcting, problem.
And there is no need to tip for societal benefits of free trade itself. If no other externalities exist, the gains from trade as experienced by society are exactly equal to the gains from trade as experienced by the participants.