"No, not like WoW gold. There is no legitimate currency exchange for in-game currency in WoW. "
Just like for EVE.
The point is for 99% of people it doesn't matter whether a market is black or white (as long it has a good reputation), as they don't intend to mention it in their tax forms anyway.
Many of your concerns can be addressed by having CCTV data not running directly to police, rather handled by court (like search warrants) or a similar independent institution, where citizens can have a right to access all the recordings where they are present.
Actually, everything that's not kernel code "runs in a VM". Operating systens do memory address translation and bounds check (i.e. not violating other processes memory) during runtime.
Nuclear? It's still more manageable than fracking. These chemicals are usually carciogens. Just look up burning tap water, and the health statistics in the affected regions.
A notebook is still a PC i.e. it has x86 processor. (Netbooks are a different category.) Also, the same computing power is much cheaper in desktop form factor than in a laptop form, and it won't change. Also a lot of people don't want to buy two separate devices for work and entertainment.
However Hitler and Mussolini weren't free-market, free-trade advocates either. Wikipedia says: "The Nazis argued that capitalism damages nations due to international finance, the economic dominance of big business, and Jewish influences within it.[97] Adolf Hitler, both in public and in private, held strong disdain for capitalism; he accused modern capitalism of holding nations ransom in the interests of a parasitic cosmopolitan rentier class.[99] He opposed free-market capitalism's profit-seeking impulses and desired an economy where community interests would be upheld.[100] "
" The Nazis claimed that communism was dangerous to the well-being of nations because of its intention to dissolve private property, its support of class conflict, its aggression against the middle class, its hostility to small businessmen, and its atheism.[97] Nazism rejected class conflict-based socialism and economic egalitarianism, favouring instead a stratified economy with classes based on merit and talent, retaining private property, and the creation of national solidarity that transcends class distinction.[23]"
"Private property rights were conditional upon the economic mode of use; if it did not advance Nazi economic goals, the state could nationalize it.[182] Nazi government corporate takeovers, and threatened takeovers, encouraged compliance with government production plans, even if unprofitable for the firm. [...] Agricultural and industrial central planning was a prominent feature of Nazi economics. To tie farmers to the land, selling agricultural land was prohibited; farm ownership was nominally private, but discretion over operations and residual income were proscribed. That was achieved by granting business monopoly rights to marketing boards, to control production and prices with a quota system. Quotas also were established for industrial goods, such as pig iron, steel, aluminium, magnesium, gunpowder, explosives, synthetic rubber, fuels, and electricity. [...] In place of ordinary profit-incentive determining the economy, financial investment was regulated per the needs of the state. The profit incentive for businessmen remained, but was greatly modified: “Fixing of profits, not their suppression, was the official policy of the Nazi party”; however, Nazi agencies replaced the profit-motive that automatically allocated investment, and the course of the economy.[189] Nazi government financing eventually dominated private financial investment, which the proportion of private securities issued falling from over half of the total in 1933–34 to approximately 10 per cent in 1935–38. Heavy business-profit taxes limited self-financing of firms. The largest firms were mostly exempt from taxes on profits, however, government control of these were extensive enough to leave “only the shell of private ownership”. "
" Lets not forget about the VAT that most EU states have to tax imports and the US is ostracized with the mere mention of a tariff."
I think you're mischaracterising VAT. It's not an import tariff, as it's put on intrernal produced products as well. It doesn't provide internal producers any market advantage. On the other hand if I order something from an online shop I will have to pay VAT as well.
Hitler had socialistic policies for the preferred race. (See Lebensborn camps.)
"Private property rights were conditional upon the economic mode of use; if it did not advance Nazi economic goals, the state could nationalize it.[182] Nazi government corporate takeovers, and threatened takeovers, encouraged compliance with government production plans, even if unprofitable for the firm."
Just imagine all the printed out e-mails and it will suddenly make sense. Or you can just print a news article, and you don't have to stare at a glowing screen. Of course it has to become cheap enough.
" If you're selling a harmful product (it is crap which falls apart, made in toxic conditions by people in the third world who can't say no, literally in many cases) to people who are addicted to it (through marketing messages which make them feel inferior if they don't have it) then you're going to have to take at least partial responsibility when they go nuts and steal the crap as the only expression of their ability to influence their world."
They also thrashed hairdresser saloons. How are the evil hairdressers ruling the world, and what can you steal from them?
I think there are a lot of math articles that are more confusing than needed, but are well sourced, and they're hard to improve without pissing the original editors off.
"In VS 2010, the editor actually uses a full-fledged C++ compiler front end to build the AST and associated data structures to drive code completion. "
It's great to hear that. Eclipse does that for Java too. However getting that for C++ is quite feat.
Slashdot Mirror
"No, not like WoW gold. There is no legitimate currency exchange for in-game currency in WoW. "
Just like for EVE.
The point is for 99% of people it doesn't matter whether a market is black or white (as long it has a good reputation), as they don't intend to mention it in their tax forms anyway.
You mean like WOW gold?
Same story with phlogiston ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory ), and aether ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether ).
We would just download Word docs that point to each other.
... because he already has invested in solar ...
Many of your concerns can be addressed by having CCTV data not running directly to police, rather handled by court (like search warrants) or a similar independent institution, where citizens can have a right to access all the recordings where they are present.
Just like search warrants. The only question is how to regulate it, not whether to use it or not.
I guess he misunderstood the "information superhighway" metaphor.
" It is not some kind of C++ interpreter or VM"
Actually, everything that's not kernel code "runs in a VM". Operating systens do memory address translation and bounds check (i.e. not violating other processes memory) during runtime.
Nuclear? It's still more manageable than fracking. These chemicals are usually carciogens. Just look up burning tap water, and the health statistics in the affected regions.
Since the I'm a Mac and I'm a PC ads ;)
A notebook is still a PC i.e. it has x86 processor. (Netbooks are a different category.) Also, the
same computing power is much cheaper in desktop form factor than in a laptop form, and it won't change. Also a lot of people don't want to buy two separate devices for work and entertainment.
However Hitler and Mussolini weren't free-market, free-trade advocates either.
Wikipedia says:
"The Nazis argued that capitalism damages nations due to international finance, the economic dominance of big business, and Jewish influences within it.[97] Adolf Hitler, both in public and in private, held strong disdain for capitalism; he accused modern capitalism of holding nations ransom in the interests of a parasitic cosmopolitan rentier class.[99] He opposed free-market capitalism's profit-seeking impulses and desired an economy where community interests would be upheld.[100] "
" The Nazis claimed that communism was dangerous to the well-being of nations because of its intention to dissolve private property, its support of class conflict, its aggression against the middle class, its hostility to small businessmen, and its atheism.[97] Nazism rejected class conflict-based socialism and economic egalitarianism, favouring instead a stratified economy with classes based on merit and talent, retaining private property, and the creation of national solidarity that transcends class distinction.[23]"
"Private property rights were conditional upon the economic mode of use; if it did not advance Nazi economic goals, the state could nationalize it.[182] Nazi government corporate takeovers, and threatened takeovers, encouraged compliance with government production plans, even if unprofitable for the firm.
[...]
Agricultural and industrial central planning was a prominent feature of Nazi economics. To tie farmers to the land, selling agricultural land was prohibited; farm ownership was nominally private, but discretion over operations and residual income were proscribed. That was achieved by granting business monopoly rights to marketing boards, to control production and prices with a quota system. Quotas also were established for industrial goods, such as pig iron, steel, aluminium, magnesium, gunpowder, explosives, synthetic rubber, fuels, and electricity.
[...]
In place of ordinary profit-incentive determining the economy, financial investment was regulated per the needs of the state. The profit incentive for businessmen remained, but was greatly modified: “Fixing of profits, not their suppression, was the official policy of the Nazi party”; however, Nazi agencies replaced the profit-motive that automatically allocated investment, and the course of the economy.[189] Nazi government financing eventually dominated private financial investment, which the proportion of private securities issued falling from over half of the total in 1933–34 to approximately 10 per cent in 1935–38. Heavy business-profit taxes limited self-financing of firms. The largest firms were mostly exempt from taxes on profits, however, government control of these were extensive enough to leave “only the shell of private ownership”. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism#Private_property
Also, the Lebensborn camps are like a pimped up social benefits program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn
" Lets not forget about the VAT that most EU states have to tax imports and the US is ostracized with the mere mention of a tariff."
I think you're mischaracterising VAT. It's not an import tariff, as it's put on intrernal produced products as well. It doesn't provide internal producers any market advantage.
On the other hand if I order something from an online shop I will have to pay VAT as well.
Hitler had socialistic policies for the preferred race. (See Lebensborn camps.)
"Private property rights were conditional upon the economic mode of use; if it did not advance Nazi economic goals, the state could nationalize it.[182] Nazi government corporate takeovers, and threatened takeovers, encouraged compliance with government production plans, even if unprofitable for the firm."
"If you can blank it by applying a current to the entire paper, can you blank a portion of it by applying a small current to that part of the paper?"
Do you want print AJAX driven web pages, or what?
Just imagine all the printed out e-mails and it will suddenly make sense.
Or you can just print a news article, and you don't have to stare at a glowing screen.
Of course it has to become cheap enough.
" If you're selling a harmful product (it is crap which falls apart, made in toxic conditions by people in the third world who can't say no, literally in many cases) to people who are addicted to it (through marketing messages which make them feel inferior if they don't have it) then you're going to have to take at least partial responsibility when they go nuts and steal the crap as the only expression of their ability to influence their world."
They also thrashed hairdresser saloons. How are the evil hairdressers ruling the world, and what can you steal from them?
Swapping should only occur when you activate a particular window, not when swithcing desktops.
That hate however goes towards their own countrymen mostly.
" To me the Arduino platform is much better suited to teaching programming skills to people who are new to the process."
This is a robotic platform, more powerful than Arduino, and its goal isn't teaching.
It's the Great October Revolution all over again.
I think there are a lot of math articles that are more confusing than needed, but are well sourced, and they're hard to improve without pissing the original editors off.
"In VS 2010, the editor actually uses a full-fledged C++ compiler front end to build the AST and associated data structures to drive code completion. "
It's great to hear that.
Eclipse does that for Java too. However getting that for C++ is quite feat.
That's great news for people worrying about the compatibility of OpenJDK.