Its not the servers it is having a group within Microsoft capable of responding to issues. Microsoft is trying to wean their customers off XP before their is an emergency and no one who can help them. They don't want them to wait until there are serious problems not solvable by anything other than XP.
Further, even if it were free, I'm hard pressed to see why it is in Microsoft's interest to enable people to not pay them. Vista was released in 2006. They never agreed to support XP until the sun exploded.
If 43% of businesses are really happy with XP then they should continue to support it./b?
Why? Microsoft doesn't work for free. Vista was released in 2005. Why is it in Microsoft's interest to encourage their bad customers not to pay them at all?
The original speced hardware upgrades for Longhorn were going to be much larger than those needed for Vista. Virtually no PC except for IBM Thinkpad at the time of SA had dedicated encryption hardware. They also would have needed to be able to support the extra RAM and drive speed for running a small database server on every desktop and and above what was supposed to be 3D acceleration mandatory Aero.
Its not just Eisenhower. Richard Nixon was considerably to his right. Our current Marxist Kenyan is more or less doing what Nixon would have done in most areas.
The reason the Fed doesn't use M3 is it doesn't set policy based on M3.
2) Wages are a price. Falling wages don't increase or decrease productivity but obviously if wages are out of wack with the rest of the economy inflation can be a quick way of adjusting them downwards. That's not what's needed in the USA at this point however.
3) If inflation adjusted were understating inflation then fixed goods like gas, bread, a men's haircut... would reflect actual inflation. These things track the CPI rather well.
4) Prior to 9/11 government to gdp was about 18% which is lower than it had been at an point since WWII. Government was shrinking not growing.
4') I'll agree Keynes never considered systematic inflation priced into goods with automatic adjustment. Those sorts of things didn't exist in his life. That required a minor adjustment to the theory, and everything went smoothly.
5) How does debt touch the non debt sectors of the economy, that doesn't make sense.
What were banks supposed to do, put out advertisements saying "If you are a minority and have good credit, why not buy a house?" in order to increase the number of 'qualified minority' mortgage applications? Couldn't the government have just sent in the military and made people buy houses at gunpoint?
What they would normally do to attract business a) Open branches in minority neighborhoods. b) Advertise in minority publications c) Offer services designed to appeal to minority applicants. For example a promise of multilingual branches. d) Engage in targeted promotions like. e) Call current homeowners and try and refinance at attract rates. etc..
Well the right solution here was get an expensive phone on contract and sell it new in the box, and buy the phone you are going to use for $150. And then of course self insure.
As for Asurion that plan is setup for a more expensive phone. You just weren't insuring it properly. I'll agree the carrier seems to have been somewhat at fault here.
I think it is working rather well. While things are very bad, they are far better in countries that used stimulus than those that used austerity. They are far better in 2012 then they were in 1933. We don't have anywhere near enough Keynesianism.
As for inflation... we are currently at 1.2%. I'd say the wheel barrel is a bit far away.
That's not true. Look at the phone networks. The phones are migrating first and I suspect the majority are already v6. After that consumers will migrate. So by the time you need to move you'll be fine.
DynDns worked because cycle speeds were slow; often months almost never worse than daily. In a few years your ISP is going to be recycling that v4 address much more quickly. When it becomes every 10 minutes that DynDNS doesn't hold up so well.
There are no True IPV4/IPV6 NAT or PAT protocols; how am I supposed to set up a proper DMZ without that?
Firewalls between physical connections.
Say you have 2 networks A and B. A has a firewall on it which goes in from the internet. It blocks all traffic to or from any non A address. The connection between A and B goes through a firewall. That firewall blocks any traffic to or from B that's not routed to A.
The registries don't have many addresses. They felt, rightly, that any attempt to do things like that a few years back would be rejected and they would be seen as "burdensome regulations" so they just exhausted their supply. This way v4 addresses become expensive and the economic incentives for transitioning exist.
You are absolutely right on this. Though I blame lack of government help here. Had the government set hard dates for cross over points and shepherd this whole process the Suns of the world would have built their ILOM to support v6 before customers needed it.
The reason people starting using dynamic IPv4 addresses was not disliking servers but contention. When v4 addresses were abundant no one had to worry. As the space became more crowded by late 80's / early 90's the idea of slicing up the network to make routing as simple as possible was dropped.
With v6 we return to a situation where addresses are plentiful and fast routing becomes possible again. It becomes easy for them to tie you v6 address to physical connections and use table free routing. That's a huge win for IPSs.
1) Inflation is the measure of price increases not the increase in base currency. If the Fed were to create tons of MZM but no increase in minted dollar we would have massive inflation. Conversely if the Fed/Treasury/Mint printed 10x as many dollar but didn't change MZM there wouldn't be any inflation.
2) Inflation generally does at least in the short term increase productivity. The lag between printing of money and raising of prices creates artificial wealth which creates artificial demand. If the economy is demand constrained, which is often the case when governments start engaging in inflationary policies, production increases.
3) "This is why inflation (money printing) hurts the poor much more than the wealthy, because the poor live on various fixed incomes, they are getting less and less with every check, be it a salary or a dividend or a pension check, whatever." In most countries at this point the fixed income is inflation adjusted. The real issue is quite a lot of the bottom 99% are net debtors while the top 1% tend to be creditors. Policies designed to shift wealth from creditors to debtors benefit the bottom not the top.
4) During the period of time prior to the 1930s where we had a lightly regulated financial system we had frequent panics. Once we had a highly regulated financial system we had few if any. As we moved back to a lightly regulated financial system we had several major panics. I'd say the correlation is not that government causes the problem.
5) If busts were just restructuring of debt we wouldn't see panics depress activity in areas of the economy with little or no debt. They would be more localized than they are. The fact that panics seem to depress activity across almost all sectors means that they just depress demand and this sets off a chain reaction.
In case anyone is believing this. The government hit the banks with branch availability and willingness to consider mortgages. In real life and not republican world, having objective criteria which were clear cut and non discriminatory would have been fine if they had upped their number of minority applications.
The issue was never trying to get unqualified minorities mortgages but rather trying to get qualified minorities mortgages.
That sounds like their old higher end Android plan. Why use it on a less than $100 phone? Had it been $8 / mo, with $100 deductible for a $500 phone you'd have been happy.
That sounds like Asurion: http://www.asurion.com/ Most of the carriers are agents for Asurion. They are great to do business with. I've had multiple claims over the last decade and they've handled them well. When I got my iPhone Asurion was $11 / mo iphone. It seems like they are down to $6.99 again for "advanced devices". Apple care is like $4 / mo and includes technical support but can be more of a PIA for trade ins.
I think I'd go Apple, but for my daughter, where the loss protection matters more, go with Asurion. In either case good recommendation.
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Why would Microsoft want businesses on a 10 year upgrade cycle? They sell OSes.
Its not the servers it is having a group within Microsoft capable of responding to issues. Microsoft is trying to wean their customers off XP before their is an emergency and no one who can help them. They don't want them to wait until there are serious problems not solvable by anything other than XP.
Further, even if it were free, I'm hard pressed to see why it is in Microsoft's interest to enable people to not pay them. Vista was released in 2006. They never agreed to support XP until the sun exploded.
If 43% of businesses are really happy with XP then they should continue to support it. /b?
Why? Microsoft doesn't work for free. Vista was released in 2005. Why is it in Microsoft's interest to encourage their bad customers not to pay them at all?
The 4P is an ancient printer almost 20 years old. Yes it is time to upgrade.
That being said. the 4P is a postscript printer. It doesn't even need a driver and the generic postscript driver should work fine.
The original speced hardware upgrades for Longhorn were going to be much larger than those needed for Vista. Virtually no PC except for IBM Thinkpad at the time of SA had dedicated encryption hardware. They also would have needed to be able to support the extra RAM and drive speed for running a small database server on every desktop and and above what was supposed to be 3D acceleration mandatory Aero.
Its not just Eisenhower. Richard Nixon was considerably to his right. Our current Marxist Kenyan is more or less doing what Nixon would have done in most areas.
The reason the Fed doesn't use M3 is it doesn't set policy based on M3.
2) Wages are a price. Falling wages don't increase or decrease productivity but obviously if wages are out of wack with the rest of the economy inflation can be a quick way of adjusting them downwards. That's not what's needed in the USA at this point however.
3) If inflation adjusted were understating inflation then fixed goods like gas, bread, a men's haircut... would reflect actual inflation. These things track the CPI rather well.
4) Prior to 9/11 government to gdp was about 18% which is lower than it had been at an point since WWII. Government was shrinking not growing.
4') I'll agree Keynes never considered systematic inflation priced into goods with automatic adjustment. Those sorts of things didn't exist in his life. That required a minor adjustment to the theory, and everything went smoothly.
5) How does debt touch the non debt sectors of the economy, that doesn't make sense.
Good so lets support Keynesianism to help the process along
Yes but only by this and last decade's definition. Used to be both parties liked providing policy to help industries coordinate.
What were banks supposed to do, put out advertisements saying "If you are a minority and have good credit, why not buy a house?" in order to increase the number of 'qualified minority' mortgage applications? Couldn't the government have just sent in the military and made people buy houses at gunpoint?
What they would normally do to attract business
a) Open branches in minority neighborhoods.
b) Advertise in minority publications
c) Offer services designed to appeal to minority applicants. For example a promise of multilingual branches.
d) Engage in targeted promotions like.
e) Call current homeowners and try and refinance at attract rates.
etc..
There are two different issues here:
1) Should companies be moving. -- Absolutely.
2) Can you get a single v4 address for webservices and will there be such a brutal shortage anytime soon that will be impossible. -- No.
GP was addressing (2). You are addressing (1).
Well the right solution here was get an expensive phone on contract and sell it new in the box, and buy the phone you are going to use for $150. And then of course self insure.
As for Asurion that plan is setup for a more expensive phone. You just weren't insuring it properly. I'll agree the carrier seems to have been somewhat at fault here.
I think it is working rather well. While things are very bad, they are far better in countries that used stimulus than those that used austerity. They are far better in 2012 then they were in 1933. We don't have anywhere near enough Keynesianism.
As for inflation... we are currently at 1.2%. I'd say the wheel barrel is a bit far away.
That's not true. Look at the phone networks. The phones are migrating first and I suspect the majority are already v6. After that consumers will migrate. So by the time you need to move you'll be fine.
DynDns worked because cycle speeds were slow; often months almost never worse than daily. In a few years your ISP is going to be recycling that v4 address much more quickly. When it becomes every 10 minutes that DynDNS doesn't hold up so well.
Something atypical is going on there.
A $100 phone when you but it is generally a $350+ phone. That phone shouldn't have been $100 6 mo later. Phone prices don't drop quite that fast.
There are no True IPV4/IPV6 NAT or PAT protocols; how am I supposed to set up a proper DMZ without that?
Firewalls between physical connections.
Say you have 2 networks A and B. A has a firewall on it which goes in from the internet. It blocks all traffic to or from any non A address. The connection between A and B goes through a firewall. That firewall blocks any traffic to or from B that's not routed to A.
The registries don't have many addresses. They felt, rightly, that any attempt to do things like that a few years back would be rejected and they would be seen as "burdensome regulations" so they just exhausted their supply. This way v4 addresses become expensive and the economic incentives for transitioning exist.
There are over 10^50 atoms on earth. v6 is big it ain't that big.
You are absolutely right on this. Though I blame lack of government help here. Had the government set hard dates for cross over points and shepherd this whole process the Suns of the world would have built their ILOM to support v6 before customers needed it.
The reason people starting using dynamic IPv4 addresses was not disliking servers but contention. When v4 addresses were abundant no one had to worry. As the space became more crowded by late 80's / early 90's the idea of slicing up the network to make routing as simple as possible was dropped.
With v6 we return to a situation where addresses are plentiful and fast routing becomes possible again. It becomes easy for them to tie you v6 address to physical connections and use table free routing. That's a huge win for IPSs.
Will you stop with this Austrian nonsense.
1) Inflation is the measure of price increases not the increase in base currency. If the Fed were to create tons of MZM but no increase in minted dollar we would have massive inflation. Conversely if the Fed/Treasury/Mint printed 10x as many dollar but didn't change MZM there wouldn't be any inflation.
2) Inflation generally does at least in the short term increase productivity. The lag between printing of money and raising of prices creates artificial wealth which creates artificial demand. If the economy is demand constrained, which is often the case when governments start engaging in inflationary policies, production increases.
3) "This is why inflation (money printing) hurts the poor much more than the wealthy, because the poor live on various fixed incomes, they are getting less and less with every check, be it a salary or a dividend or a pension check, whatever." In most countries at this point the fixed income is inflation adjusted. The real issue is quite a lot of the bottom 99% are net debtors while the top 1% tend to be creditors. Policies designed to shift wealth from creditors to debtors benefit the bottom not the top.
4) During the period of time prior to the 1930s where we had a lightly regulated financial system we had frequent panics. Once we had a highly regulated financial system we had few if any. As we moved back to a lightly regulated financial system we had several major panics. I'd say the correlation is not that government causes the problem.
5) If busts were just restructuring of debt we wouldn't see panics depress activity in areas of the economy with little or no debt. They would be more localized than they are. The fact that panics seem to depress activity across almost all sectors means that they just depress demand and this sets off a chain reaction.
In case anyone is believing this. The government hit the banks with branch availability and willingness to consider mortgages. In real life and not republican world, having objective criteria which were clear cut and non discriminatory would have been fine if they had upped their number of minority applications.
The issue was never trying to get unqualified minorities mortgages but rather trying to get qualified minorities mortgages.
That sounds like their old higher end Android plan. Why use it on a less than $100 phone? Had it been $8 / mo, with $100 deductible for a $500 phone you'd have been happy.
That sounds like Asurion: http://www.asurion.com/ Most of the carriers are agents for Asurion. They are great to do business with. I've had multiple claims over the last decade and they've handled them well. When I got my iPhone Asurion was $11 / mo iphone. It seems like they are down to $6.99 again for "advanced devices". Apple care is like $4 / mo and includes technical support but can be more of a PIA for trade ins.
I think I'd go Apple, but for my daughter, where the loss protection matters more, go with Asurion. In either case good recommendation.