That is why I was reall sad when my 860 died. It seemns to only have a dead reckoning of the ink status so I was able to use catridges way past thier official demise. For some printing it does not matter if all the ink is there.
As much as the US would want to malign command economies, they are in fact the way that much, if not most of the money and productivity is managed. Corporations are not free markets. They do have some aspects of the early USA, such as the ability to vote by the landed gentry, but the leaders are as autonomous and shielded as any dictator, as can be seen by Disney. They tend to decide products and strategies independently. They are also as ruthless and difficult to force the rule of law upon, the apparent example being Stewert.
The problem with OSS, like the free market, is that it it requires inefficiencies. In a free market we may have 10 companies producing a product that only requires 2, or things being produced that are of no value at all. Sure, eventually the free market will sort out the inefficiencies, but the command economy tends to not have them at all. We see this now with companies refusing to hire anyone. New employees are sort of needed, but they would still represent an inefficiency. So no one is hiring. With MS and SCO, they can control development and focus efforts and consumer attention on a single product. Closed source companies do not have four competing GUIs and three competing APIs.
I personally find the free market, and by extension OSS, to be exciting and wonderfully innovative. However, it is easy to see how the Mr. Tators of the corporations would find such a free for all of ideas and strategies to be as disturbing as a bunch of upstart, uneducated, uncultured colonialist believing they were anything other than agents to be used a the King wished.
I was around and i didn't think the media overestimated the damage. Maybe initially, but as more information came out, the numbers came in line. The damage, as has been widely reported, was to an area, an economy, and a small group of people.
Also, lower order animals are often going to survive. Higher metabolism also means shorter life spans and faster adaptation. Unless these animals are directly or indirectly targeted, they will usualy be fine. I live a happier life knowing that if humans off themselves we won't take all other species with us.
I am sure the horses are happy. There are few humans around to bother them.
BTW, for a good fictionalization of the event, try Pohl's Chernobly.
I think you also have to take into account the change in technology and Apple's willingness to break compatibility to make use of current technology. This is good as it prevents the situation in which one is using kludged 20 year old assumptions on contemporary machines. Of course, to make these ancient machines look modern, various flavors of the month are tacked on.
So remember that System and Finder was designed for a 9 inch screen, for a single application, for a single user, for a simple directory structure, for a machine that would be turned off and therefore had to start quickly.
Let me give you two examples of why this matters, both of which have a negative impact on the vendor and customer.
First, i use bigfoot for email forwarding. Have used them forever, even since before many of the people on this site had email addresses. They are also a big spam target and may facilitate spam. I have in the past paid them money for my account so I would not run into the limits on email. The problem is that on paid accounts, all the email gets through, including spam, which eats up most of the benifit of paying them email. They cannot seem to afford to pay for all customers to have a filter, and I cannot afford even a modest fee on a spam account. Therefore, a very good service gets demolished because of spam. Bad for both sides. I am not paying for bandwidth, but why should I pay to recieve spam? Hotmail does the same thing. Even with the filters, the amount of SPAM coming in would tend to encourage users to pay for Hotmail so as not to accidently get other email deleted.
A more fundemental issue is that all ISPs bill out bandwidth. They have to. Otherwise they would not make a profit. It is likely that they bill the spammer for thier bandwidth use, as well as extra costs associaated with complaints, but it is unlikely that UUNet bills enough to cover the cost of bandwidth of the targets. Therefore those costs, however slight, get included in month access fees.
In short, this is unlikely to be a US postal service scenario in which commercial mail subsidizes other mail. It is much more likely that the ISP likes spam because it maximizes the email, therefore justifies higher prices. Spam, like the virus ridden MS OS, also spawns software projects which may result in the diversion of resources from other more important projects.
And, of course, email is now neccesary. No one is holding a gun to our head to drive a car, or use a phone, or shit in a toilet instead of your living room. But we are civilized people.
You are correct in that the problem of protecting an territory from an ICBM and protecting the earth from an asteroid is completely different.
However, you assumption of the power we are looking at may be in error. First, while liquid propelled missiles are thin skinned, solid fuel missiles are thick skinned. The later are quicker and harder to defend against, so most proposals skirt the issue and cite intelligence stating that solid fuel missiles are too technologically advanced for the backwater of the axis of evil. The reality is that the current generations of laser systems, which are intended to heat the skin until structural failure occurs, are much less effective against solid fuel missiles. If instead of a laser we use a grenade, that is another problem. Some estimate give a mere 200 seconds after launch to intercept the missle. And we probably do not need the grenade. Due to the kinetic energy, a simple rock will do.
As an aside, it is hard to see what star wars was intended to do. Was it to defend against major enemies like the USSR, or small rogue states? Certainly any system that might be used to destroy projectiles in mid flight could be overwhelmed so easily with counter measures or even genuine threats that most competent researches gave up on the idea long ago. In theory such a system could be turned to defend us against space, but since that was never a design goal, spending money on such extra capabilities would be moot. In any case, what killed Star Wars was the realization that it was in fact a scheme to defraud the US out of billions of dollars.
The monopoly is not alleged. In the US the monopoly has been proven in the court of law. This means that those that respect law and order, and those that use law and order to justify other actions, must take the definition as proven and not alleged. Whether it is a monopoly by other definitions is open to discussion, but alleged is typically used only with respect to an entity that has not have the full process of law, i.e. alleged draft dodger.
If the Chinese were doing something illegal wrt to clothing, the most likely of which would be dumping products in US markets, then the US would likely appeal to the appropriate trade organization and ask the practice to stop. This might result in tariffs placed on China and theoretically increase sales of US domestic products in that category.
The interesting thing is that MS claims it is not a monopoly, and the prices it charges are determined by a competitive market and are generally the cheapest it can sell the products for and still make a profit. If we accept this as fact, and look at the deep discounts offered to in certain US and non-US markets, it appears that in fact MS is dumping product, a practice that is defined as unacceptable under many treatise.
We therefore have a situation in which MS is a monopoly and charges arbitrary prices not controlled by the free market, or it is the habit of dumping product onto certain markets, with the assumed intention of destroying competition. In either case, the action warrants defensive measures to protect those markets.
It really seems like this is a the 100 foot pole issue. Is there an application in which the lock is really the weak link? In most bussiness setting, the lock is not the weak link. Even when I have been in somewhat 'secure' environments, the lock was merely a COA thing, in which the users were tracked and if some broke in, it was because they really wanted to, not accidental. Also, i wonder how many power failures would occur before the users would insist on a less-than-secure failure mode.
I had one of those swedish (or whatever they were) chairs you kneel in and found my upper back became very sore, so that didn't last.
I had one of these in high school and college. It was fully adjustable and worked very well. I have recently seen some in the stores, but these were fixed position POS.
I still want one. i think it would be very good for my back. Office chairs seem to give me very bad posture. The only thing I worry about is how it will be on my knees.
The other problem with a statistical approach the general assumption the the data is largely unbiased. The problem with search engines is that they assume that information gathered from a self selected unmonitored population is valid. In the pre-google days this meant that we assumed that individual keywords were meaningful. Now we assume that links are meaningful. Neither of these are strictly true as we have intelligent agents with the mean and motivation to lie.
Statistically we should have some information gathering and analysis targeted towards assessing the validity of the information. Are the links themselves information or entropy? This is what google is working on. I think we are going to need some human processing, which is the link at the bottom of the pages asking if the results are useful.
agreed. But I think it is more a peer pressure to not take relationsips seriously, at least not in public. Or a fear of relationships and the power they have over us. Or a fear of losing the relationship. In private many of these men are unable to exert any influence on a relationship.
At the base it is an objectification of women. Something we would not like to happen, but in men's defense, look at what even women like to watch on tv. Women being led into humiliating relationships. Look at politics. Women are having touble with the fact that democratic candidates wives actually feel they have the right to open their mouths and express an opinion. They should more demure and differential like our current first lady.
You also have to take into account the number of adolescents who appear to post here. There are repeating things without understanding what it means. Like some six year old boys I had in a class a few weeks back. They all came into class repeating "look at my big burrito."
Disturbing, but perhaps they will learn to be better.
I think like car-building, airlines and railway, the operating systems should be left to private commercial markets.
The government had always spent money in infrastructure, either directly or indirectly. The examples you choose illustrate this point.
Cars-building would not be so lucrative if there were not good roads. The government pays for these. In addition, most factories are now subsidized by tax incentives. We would probably have almost no cars built in this country if local and federal authorities did not pay the manufacturers to locate here.
In the early days airlines made their profits delivering mail. It was a while before they were independent. Also, airports are generally built and heavily subsidized by local and federal money.
It is my understanding that the railroads were given land. They wanted to own the rails so they built them, with immigrant labor, externalizing a number of costs related to said labor. Lately the rail lines have been complaining that they have to pay for maintain of the rails with the government pays for the airports. The difference is that the rail didn't want to share. Of course, the government spend huge amounts of money subsidizing the rail lines. Which is good because for many thing rail is more efficient than road or air. The rail people later used their exclusive use of the right-of-way to develop long distance telephone service, another thing that would not exist with heavy government support.
Operating systems are infrastructure. It is proper that the government helps to make sure that this important business tool is suitable. The government has always subsidized the development of these technologies through research grants, not to mention the computer time that gates and co original took from university computers. On a higher level, some analysts think much of the profit MS generates is due to specific tax breaks they have been given.
2) Be able to 0wnz0r any non-American's boxen.
I think that needs to be changed to 2) Be able to 0wnz0r any terrorist boxen. This group includes everyone who is not a citizen of USA and many who are, including, according to our secretary of education, all teachers.
I think the comparison with fast food is apropos. Like fast food, MS puts lots of things together, each of little value, and charges a fee. If they sell the individual parts, it is at an inflated cost. Furthermore, what they do sell is tasteless product of little nutritional value. It is targeted to the ignorant masses. The powers that be like it because it allows people to survive on sustenance wages, and kills them off before they can collect retirement.
The cost issue important as it relates to the business model. McDonalds at one time tried to provide quality food at a fair price. Now they just compete on cost. MS would do well to use it's billions to figure out what quality if product it can supply at a fair price rather than trying figure out how it can continue it's monopoly. It didn't work for McDonalds. It didn't work for IBM
And the entire thing is irrelevant anyway. Sampling without paying is now illegal. It was made so that the estates of hasbins like the beatles and rolling stones and elvis could continue to make millions off stuff that was done 40 years ago. No one really cares. All it really does in let people like Michael Jackson take out large loans to pay for lavish lifestyles.
And, that is arguable why we have hip hop, instead of good old rap.
I suspect the court would first ask the label to prove that using the song is directly using eminem for promotion, as eminems likeness, name, or voice is never used. If is not, then the fee would ential merely the rights to use the songs music and lyrics. If it is, then the label would have to show that the 10 million fee is reasonable.
I agree that Apple should have cleared the lyrics first.
I really must ask the same question. I have other companies want to do this, even those in financial trouble, and it really seems silly.
By moving out of Austin to california means
Higher electricity costs. Texas produces energy, and those that produce it keep the Texas costs minimal because they don't want to overcharge themselves. Even going to Oklahoma can result in higher costs
Higher real estate costs. There is massive amounts of empty land around Austin. It is beautiful county. In Austin people work as managers for retail chains and end up with small lots of the lake.
Trading earthquakes for mild winter, no hurricanes of note, and few tornados.
probably less clean air.
loss of tax breaks, since Texas is a place you can get tax breaks for hiring 10 people makeshift warehouse
more aggressive courts, since in Texas a supervisor could shoot a worker and the company would still not be found in violation of any labor laws, or any violation would be overturned by the circuit court.
Which means there must some irrational desire to live in a place where no one can get house and everyone has pretty cars that average 2 miles an hour.
Apple says it makes no money on music, and it is possible they don't. If we believe the number, the division brings in about half a million that Apple get to keep. So it would seem that any other service would try to minimize start up costs, are at least those that could not be deferred. So why it is that Napster claims to have lost 15 million in the first two months of operation? During that time, they probably brought in less than half a million after paying royalties. Even if much of this loss was start up costs, do they actually expect to make millions of dollars a month off the 20 cents of so they keep from each track sold?
Perhaps some accounting type can shed some light on how so much money can be spent on a market that, for the foreseeable future, is only going to generate a million or so after royalties. Haven't we left magic money fairies behind us in the dot com bust? Or are the respected economists of the 80's back to haunt us.
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That is why I was reall sad when my 860 died. It seemns to only have a dead reckoning of the ink status so I was able to use catridges way past thier official demise. For some printing it does not matter if all the ink is there.
The problem with OSS, like the free market, is that it it requires inefficiencies. In a free market we may have 10 companies producing a product that only requires 2, or things being produced that are of no value at all. Sure, eventually the free market will sort out the inefficiencies, but the command economy tends to not have them at all. We see this now with companies refusing to hire anyone. New employees are sort of needed, but they would still represent an inefficiency. So no one is hiring. With MS and SCO, they can control development and focus efforts and consumer attention on a single product. Closed source companies do not have four competing GUIs and three competing APIs.
I personally find the free market, and by extension OSS, to be exciting and wonderfully innovative. However, it is easy to see how the Mr. Tators of the corporations would find such a free for all of ideas and strategies to be as disturbing as a bunch of upstart, uneducated, uncultured colonialist believing they were anything other than agents to be used a the King wished.
the point of Dexter's laboratory. Some kid driven to demented acts of violence and creativity by the inane action of his older sister.
The only fraud in that example is the implicit claim that you might be able to satisfy her.
I would prefer pupish
Also, lower order animals are often going to survive. Higher metabolism also means shorter life spans and faster adaptation. Unless these animals are directly or indirectly targeted, they will usualy be fine. I live a happier life knowing that if humans off themselves we won't take all other species with us.
I am sure the horses are happy. There are few humans around to bother them.
BTW, for a good fictionalization of the event, try Pohl's Chernobly.
So remember that System and Finder was designed for a 9 inch screen, for a single application, for a single user, for a simple directory structure, for a machine that would be turned off and therefore had to start quickly.
Still trying to figure out why we ever need all the crap after. Although the extra memory of the /// was nice.
So does this mean Heinlein won the bet?
First, i use bigfoot for email forwarding. Have used them forever, even since before many of the people on this site had email addresses. They are also a big spam target and may facilitate spam. I have in the past paid them money for my account so I would not run into the limits on email. The problem is that on paid accounts, all the email gets through, including spam, which eats up most of the benifit of paying them email. They cannot seem to afford to pay for all customers to have a filter, and I cannot afford even a modest fee on a spam account. Therefore, a very good service gets demolished because of spam. Bad for both sides. I am not paying for bandwidth, but why should I pay to recieve spam? Hotmail does the same thing. Even with the filters, the amount of SPAM coming in would tend to encourage users to pay for Hotmail so as not to accidently get other email deleted.
A more fundemental issue is that all ISPs bill out bandwidth. They have to. Otherwise they would not make a profit. It is likely that they bill the spammer for thier bandwidth use, as well as extra costs associaated with complaints, but it is unlikely that UUNet bills enough to cover the cost of bandwidth of the targets. Therefore those costs, however slight, get included in month access fees.
In short, this is unlikely to be a US postal service scenario in which commercial mail subsidizes other mail. It is much more likely that the ISP likes spam because it maximizes the email, therefore justifies higher prices. Spam, like the virus ridden MS OS, also spawns software projects which may result in the diversion of resources from other more important projects.
And, of course, email is now neccesary. No one is holding a gun to our head to drive a car, or use a phone, or shit in a toilet instead of your living room. But we are civilized people.
However, you assumption of the power we are looking at may be in error. First, while liquid propelled missiles are thin skinned, solid fuel missiles are thick skinned. The later are quicker and harder to defend against, so most proposals skirt the issue and cite intelligence stating that solid fuel missiles are too technologically advanced for the backwater of the axis of evil. The reality is that the current generations of laser systems, which are intended to heat the skin until structural failure occurs, are much less effective against solid fuel missiles. If instead of a laser we use a grenade, that is another problem. Some estimate give a mere 200 seconds after launch to intercept the missle. And we probably do not need the grenade. Due to the kinetic energy, a simple rock will do.
As an aside, it is hard to see what star wars was intended to do. Was it to defend against major enemies like the USSR, or small rogue states? Certainly any system that might be used to destroy projectiles in mid flight could be overwhelmed so easily with counter measures or even genuine threats that most competent researches gave up on the idea long ago. In theory such a system could be turned to defend us against space, but since that was never a design goal, spending money on such extra capabilities would be moot. In any case, what killed Star Wars was the realization that it was in fact a scheme to defraud the US out of billions of dollars.
If the Chinese were doing something illegal wrt to clothing, the most likely of which would be dumping products in US markets, then the US would likely appeal to the appropriate trade organization and ask the practice to stop. This might result in tariffs placed on China and theoretically increase sales of US domestic products in that category.
The interesting thing is that MS claims it is not a monopoly, and the prices it charges are determined by a competitive market and are generally the cheapest it can sell the products for and still make a profit. If we accept this as fact, and look at the deep discounts offered to in certain US and non-US markets, it appears that in fact MS is dumping product, a practice that is defined as unacceptable under many treatise.
We therefore have a situation in which MS is a monopoly and charges arbitrary prices not controlled by the free market, or it is the habit of dumping product onto certain markets, with the assumed intention of destroying competition. In either case, the action warrants defensive measures to protect those markets.
It really seems like this is a the 100 foot pole issue. Is there an application in which the lock is really the weak link? In most bussiness setting, the lock is not the weak link. Even when I have been in somewhat 'secure' environments, the lock was merely a COA thing, in which the users were tracked and if some broke in, it was because they really wanted to, not accidental. Also, i wonder how many power failures would occur before the users would insist on a less-than-secure failure mode.
I had one of these in high school and college. It was fully adjustable and worked very well. I have recently seen some in the stores, but these were fixed position POS.
I still want one. i think it would be very good for my back. Office chairs seem to give me very bad posture. The only thing I worry about is how it will be on my knees.
Statistically we should have some information gathering and analysis targeted towards assessing the validity of the information. Are the links themselves information or entropy? This is what google is working on. I think we are going to need some human processing, which is the link at the bottom of the pages asking if the results are useful.
At the base it is an objectification of women. Something we would not like to happen, but in men's defense, look at what even women like to watch on tv. Women being led into humiliating relationships. Look at politics. Women are having touble with the fact that democratic candidates wives actually feel they have the right to open their mouths and express an opinion. They should more demure and differential like our current first lady.
You also have to take into account the number of adolescents who appear to post here. There are repeating things without understanding what it means. Like some six year old boys I had in a class a few weeks back. They all came into class repeating "look at my big burrito."
Disturbing, but perhaps they will learn to be better.
on the mac you would just use disk copy. It will create an image and mount it.
Or if they didn't call any group that will not cow-tow to them terrorists.
The government had always spent money in infrastructure, either directly or indirectly. The examples you choose illustrate this point.
Cars-building would not be so lucrative if there were not good roads. The government pays for these. In addition, most factories are now subsidized by tax incentives. We would probably have almost no cars built in this country if local and federal authorities did not pay the manufacturers to locate here.
In the early days airlines made their profits delivering mail. It was a while before they were independent. Also, airports are generally built and heavily subsidized by local and federal money.
It is my understanding that the railroads were given land. They wanted to own the rails so they built them, with immigrant labor, externalizing a number of costs related to said labor. Lately the rail lines have been complaining that they have to pay for maintain of the rails with the government pays for the airports. The difference is that the rail didn't want to share. Of course, the government spend huge amounts of money subsidizing the rail lines. Which is good because for many thing rail is more efficient than road or air. The rail people later used their exclusive use of the right-of-way to develop long distance telephone service, another thing that would not exist with heavy government support.
Operating systems are infrastructure. It is proper that the government helps to make sure that this important business tool is suitable. The government has always subsidized the development of these technologies through research grants, not to mention the computer time that gates and co original took from university computers. On a higher level, some analysts think much of the profit MS generates is due to specific tax breaks they have been given.
2) Be able to 0wnz0r any non-American's boxen.
I think that needs to be changed to 2) Be able to 0wnz0r any terrorist boxen. This group includes everyone who is not a citizen of USA and many who are, including, according to our secretary of education, all teachers.
The cost issue important as it relates to the business model. McDonalds at one time tried to provide quality food at a fair price. Now they just compete on cost. MS would do well to use it's billions to figure out what quality if product it can supply at a fair price rather than trying figure out how it can continue it's monopoly. It didn't work for McDonalds. It didn't work for IBM
And, that is arguable why we have hip hop, instead of good old rap.
I agree that Apple should have cleared the lyrics first.
By moving out of Austin to california means
Which means there must some irrational desire to live in a place where no one can get house and everyone has pretty cars that average 2 miles an hour.
Perhaps some accounting type can shed some light on how so much money can be spent on a market that, for the foreseeable future, is only going to generate a million or so after royalties. Haven't we left magic money fairies behind us in the dot com bust? Or are the respected economists of the 80's back to haunt us.