I was thinking of investing in precious metals a few years ago. I tried to convince my old man to do so as the stock market became very violatile. He told me its risky and after the discussion the value of gold and silver went down considerable. Also he had a friend buy some gold only to have it devalue as soon as the stock market went up in the mid 1980's.
Right now is a good time to buy as the price went back down again and it maybe more stable. However I am a little skeptical on using for currancy purposes. It is a lower risk investment but it may not return as much as other opportunities.
The market was very unstable before 1913 with huge inflation when it grew and bad recessions when it didn't grow.
The government needs to run the currency to help slow inflation and also regulate interest rates to both slow and expand growth.
There are several theories in economics. One is supply side with minimal government intervention in which the economy will explode and take care of itself (the side your on), demand side economics which state the opposite that the government can create jobs and manipulate demand through regulations that effect the whole market (my side and FDR's), as well as the monitarist (Clinton) which tries to create a stable banking system with low interest rates so businesses can make easy loans to grow and people's savings are well secured.
The idea of the SOX law is to help investment in all businesses which benefit everyone in the long run.
Its interesting that you talk about savings. Most demand side economists hate savings as every dollar in your wallet is not being spent and that means it does not help inflate the economy to grow. However the average american savings is the worst since the great depression and it scares me that we are crediting everything now and paying back later. I think its going to bite us all in the ass. especially with the new bankruptacy laws going into effect.
Well we are letting them go wild in deregulation and we are experiencing things like all the telecoms merging back together again. They never learn.
The people who oppose big government and any regulation are accountants with clipboards and calculators who make no business decisions. They only tell their corporations if they met expectations or didn't in the current quarter and penalize anyone who doesn't financially.
Its like swallowing yoru own tail as government intervention is taught as a good thing in any micro or macro economics 101 course in college. Supply side economics doesn't work in every situation and we are having problems now due to it. The debt is one and the other is R&D.
For example why dont we have a cure for AIDS or cancer? These big few drug companies who own a monopololy and patents for all the drugs dont have an incentive for research because of their monopoly status on this precious little pills. Funny how they use that same argument for not splitting them up. Its just more popular to sell impotence drugs and expensive common cold prescriptions than saving people.
This is where more government intervention is needed and if AT&T was not split up the internet would not be here today for the public. Think about that one?
Business can not happen without the government. Its in any economics101 course and certain services can not be done by business. Mainly things in public consumption since its not profitable to help everyone.
The free market works best when the market is stable. The government tries to setup the market as free as possible and to stabilize it so it can grow.
Without SOX you would have problems of more problems of bad accounting reporting which would hurt the general market more.
The government is not always the bad guy here and many market purist forget withotu the government regulating currency, providing roads, educating yoru workforce, and making trade negotiations with foreign nations we wouldn't have a market for you to sell products to.
It seems all these mu8lti billion dollar right wing think tanks sponsored by big businesses have quite a few followers today. I just dont understand the American obsession agaisnt government but not at all agaisnt big business?
Management runs the company not its BSD founders. Also they sell their own embedded systems and highly discourage using your own as it would cost htem money.
Management wants to kill linux as much as possible so you can run netbsd instead.
It seems they are desperate at this point and bashing linux was not a good way to make a customer. It seems they have incompentant salesmen and upper management probably had a role in training them.
According to SOX you need to give an account on who owns all your IP.
The counterlink given in this article is just as biased.
Here is the problem. You run linux and your software is an asset used to help run your company. Who owns it? Does Linus own the kernel? What about the distro owner? How about the 250 people who contributed to the kernel?
Wasabi is saying that you need to keep track of all the thousands of kernel and FOSS developers since they own the copyright on the code in your accounting reports. Since that is impossible you therefore break the SOX law and your business can be held liable.
The GPL is not an EULA but just a license for the code. The issue of proper credit and who owns what is what the fud is all about.
This will scare some of the suits from using linux but they would typically find a reason not to use it anyway.
So its for work only but you can view right wing websites and radio shows online.
Left wing radio shows and sites are banned.
I dont buy your argument and its pure illegal censorship by the government in order to brainwash our soldiers. If Clinton did this with right wing sites the republicans would be screaming a riot and demanding hearings immediately. If a republican does this then its not the job of the military to use the net for civilian purposes.
The computer will be obsolete by the time you really need the processor speeds and ram (assuming your an engineering student or cs student).
So you can get a crappy $900 laptop that has a limited warranty, bad storage, unreliable parts, poor batter life, no dvd.
Or for $300 less for $600 you can get last years state of the art powerbook or and old IBM thinkpad with a 1.6ghz processor. The units would come with 512 megs of ram, dvd player, high definition wide screen, good battery life, wifi, and quality parts to make sure it would last to your senior year.
Yes the cpu would be lower but like a car its better to buy a good quality brand used with 20-40k miles vs a brand new Kia or some crappy car for the same price. Maintance will be cheaper with the quality used one if the miles aren't too high. Same principle not to mention the car is nicer.
His gateway is dying. Well I figured in 10 years that the mac would have made progress in available software but it has declined seriously since the mid 1990's.
He needs to do his taxes and turbotax and other software is only available for windows now even if the marketshare is higher.
Tax season is coming so guess who is getting another wintel system?
Besides FOSS there is nothing besides a few niche graphical apps. Its still dying and FOSS is great for programmers but not average joes.
PS.. I was looking into getting a macbook pro for school as I am a MIS major and love the FOSS software. I am not anti-mac. But just stating the truth.
Unless Apple can get these vendors to ship products for the mac its not going to be a reality. I blame Microsoft for making c++ on windows so damn proprietary that its not even funny. Its so hard to port for anythign but windows taht many firms who produce software just gave up on non windows platforms.
THey are only in existance due to Microsoft and Sun laundering money through baystar and silly licenses they have no plans on using.
They make no money and haven't in a long time. They are dying and will die soon. I want to see them crumble.
Not to mention we would award their shareholders and Mcbribe... err McBride and they could retire in their hawiian dreamhouse and profit from damaging Linux's reputation.
I want to see these guys in jail after the case fails for fraud. Let them drown in their own blood. These guys are sharks and its nice to see them bleed for once.
Which is why web developers tend to now avoid java and use activeX instead.
I have seen mac web developers standardize on WMV instead of quicktime even though they can't view them on thier own system! Why? Because the user will go to a different site rather than download quicktime.
IE is the standard and java is not included so its best not to use and stick with Microsoft based standards.
And you wonder how MS is able to retain its monopoly?
Didn't the MPAA wanted HD-dvd because it uses more advanced compression codecs which in return would make it harder to pirate over the superior blue-ray?
I wonder if MS is backing hd-dvd to please the MPAA so they maybe more willing to use MS Media Player store rather than Itunes when Vista comes out?
You can authorize up to 5 computers and you deauthorize so you can move them on different computers indefinitely.
I made a mistake where I lost my music during a windows reinstallation. Itunes will let you redownload the purchased music for free and it saved my ass.
But yes its drmed. Show me an alternative that is not crippled and has the same music selection as Itunes and I would switch?
I support ITunes because the RIAA would blame any loss on piracy and I want to show them I am willing to pay for music *legally* if they treated me like a customer. Also the fact that I dont have to buy expensive discs if I only like 1 or 2 songs is a plus as well.
Microsoft is betting on and hoping blackberry will be gone on purpose so they can have their own blackberry killer.
It will be a windowsCE device (err windows powered) that will play media files (itunes killer) sync with media player store (with vista) and may or may not include cell phone capabilities. My guess is all the pocket word and excel software for their pda's will be included as well.
Microsoft just may have made the ultimate ipod killer, phone, and blackberry.
The touch me button and zooming gave a hint too of a portable device and the fact the site advertised that it can go anywhere.
Media player already monopolizes the market due to the fact that it comes with windows. I think Apple should be scared once Vista comes into play. I think this is why MS waited for this long. They wanted ot make sure only they could sell software, music, and video's for this phone with drm
However I sense its death maybe here soon. Google products require Xp or vista and the new api's in Vista and XP with.net 2.0 will make alot of software only run on that platform.
Linux is not that stable as it once was and buggy. I wonder if I could just upgrade to XP or just bite teh bullet with Vista? I may need windows anyway if I want to stay in IT. My skills are rapdily getting rusty.
You know I never even heard of web 2.0 until a few months ago on slashdot. I asked plainly wtf is web2.0?
The response was a website with buzzwords and nothing more. I heard its the new thing today in software development. Just throw buzzwords and let the salesman tell the user what your product actually does.
I dunno.
Its silly and I agree. At least the hype with ruby on rails, or some other new thing is that its an actual product. Not a vague concept blown out of proportions. A site is just a site as far as I am concenred.
Or the fact we overhired during the 1990's and have been laying off, firing, and outsourcing people to increase productivity?
Well now we have no secretaries helping out and we do the work of mroe than one person to make our shareholders happy.
Its natural and unrelated to technology. Since the economy is improving and adding jobs just wait until we see huge productivity improvements as companies have bigger budgets to hire more people so they can focus on 1 task rather than several jobs at once.
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I was thinking of investing in precious metals a few years ago. I tried to convince my old man to do so as the stock market became very violatile. He told me its risky and after the discussion the value of gold and silver went down considerable. Also he had a friend buy some gold only to have it devalue as soon as the stock market went up in the mid 1980's.
Right now is a good time to buy as the price went back down again and it maybe more stable. However I am a little skeptical on using for currancy purposes. It is a lower risk investment but it may not return as much as other opportunities.
Well I respect other opinions.
The market was very unstable before 1913 with huge inflation when it grew and bad recessions when it didn't grow.
The government needs to run the currency to help slow inflation and also regulate interest rates to both slow and expand growth.
There are several theories in economics. One is supply side with minimal government intervention in which the economy will explode and take care of itself (the side your on), demand side economics which state the opposite that the government can create jobs and manipulate demand through regulations that effect the whole market (my side and FDR's), as well as the monitarist (Clinton) which tries to create a stable banking system with low interest rates so businesses can make easy loans to grow and people's savings are well secured.
The idea of the SOX law is to help investment in all businesses which benefit everyone in the long run.
Its interesting that you talk about savings. Most demand side economists hate savings as every dollar in your wallet is not being spent and that means it does not help inflate the economy to grow. However the average american savings is the worst since the great depression and it scares me that we are crediting everything now and paying back later. I think its going to bite us all in the ass. especially with the new bankruptacy laws going into effect.
Well we are letting them go wild in deregulation and we are experiencing things like all the telecoms merging back together again. They never learn.
The people who oppose big government and any regulation are accountants with clipboards and calculators who make no business decisions. They only tell their corporations if they met expectations or didn't in the current quarter and penalize anyone who doesn't financially.
Its like swallowing yoru own tail as government intervention is taught as a good thing in any micro or macro economics 101 course in college. Supply side economics doesn't work in every situation and we are having problems now due to it. The debt is one and the other is R&D.
For example why dont we have a cure for AIDS or cancer? These big few drug companies who own a monopololy and patents for all the drugs dont have an incentive for research because of their monopoly status on this precious little pills. Funny how they use that same argument for not splitting them up. Its just more popular to sell impotence drugs and expensive common cold prescriptions than saving people.
This is where more government intervention is needed and if AT&T was not split up the internet would not be here today for the public. Think about that one?
Do you believe that?
Business can not happen without the government. Its in any economics101 course and certain services can not be done by business. Mainly things in public consumption since its not profitable to help everyone.
The free market works best when the market is stable. The government tries to setup the market as free as possible and to stabilize it so it can grow.
Without SOX you would have problems of more problems of bad accounting reporting which would hurt the general market more.
The government is not always the bad guy here and many market purist forget withotu the government regulating currency, providing roads, educating yoru workforce, and making trade negotiations with foreign nations we wouldn't have a market for you to sell products to.
It seems all these mu8lti billion dollar right wing think tanks sponsored by big businesses have quite a few followers today. I just dont understand the American obsession agaisnt government but not at all agaisnt big business?
Management runs the company not its BSD founders. Also they sell their own embedded systems and highly discourage using your own as it would cost htem money.
Management wants to kill linux as much as possible so you can run netbsd instead.
It seems they are desperate at this point and bashing linux was not a good way to make a customer. It seems they have incompentant salesmen and upper management probably had a role in training them.
According to SOX you need to give an account on who owns all your IP.
The counterlink given in this article is just as biased.
Here is the problem. You run linux and your software is an asset used to help run your company. Who owns it? Does Linus own the kernel? What about the distro owner? How about the 250 people who contributed to the kernel?
Wasabi is saying that you need to keep track of all the thousands of kernel and FOSS developers since they own the copyright on the code in your accounting reports. Since that is impossible you therefore break the SOX law and your business can be held liable.
The GPL is not an EULA but just a license for the code. The issue of proper credit and who owns what is what the fud is all about.
This will scare some of the suits from using linux but they would typically find a reason not to use it anyway.
So its for work only but you can view right wing websites and radio shows online.
Left wing radio shows and sites are banned.
I dont buy your argument and its pure illegal censorship by the government in order to brainwash our soldiers. If Clinton did this with right wing sites the republicans would be screaming a riot and demanding hearings immediately. If a republican does this then its not the job of the military to use the net for civilian purposes.
I find this very hypocritical
Tell that to SCO?
Where I work Blackberry's are banned. Simply because my employer doesn't want to be sued by NTP for patent violations.
The computer will be obsolete by the time you really need the processor speeds and ram (assuming your an engineering student or cs student).
So you can get a crappy $900 laptop that has a limited warranty, bad storage, unreliable parts, poor batter life, no dvd.
Or for $300 less for $600 you can get last years state of the art powerbook or and old IBM thinkpad with a 1.6ghz processor. The units would come with 512 megs of ram, dvd player, high definition wide screen, good battery life, wifi, and quality parts to make sure it would last to your senior year.
Yes the cpu would be lower but like a car its better to buy a good quality brand used with 20-40k miles vs a brand new Kia or some crappy car for the same price. Maintance will be cheaper with the quality used one if the miles aren't too high. Same principle not to mention the car is nicer.
Is it just me or is it that we went from cisc to risc and now going back to risc again?
I assumed less complex chips with optimizations coming from compile time were more efficient or cost effective?
I was looking for a mac for my father.
.. I was looking into getting a macbook pro for school as I am a MIS major and love the FOSS software. I am not anti-mac. But just stating the truth.
His gateway is dying. Well I figured in 10 years that the mac would have made progress in available software but it has declined seriously since the mid 1990's.
He needs to do his taxes and turbotax and other software is only available for windows now even if the marketshare is higher.
Tax season is coming so guess who is getting another wintel system?
Besides FOSS there is nothing besides a few niche graphical apps. Its still dying and FOSS is great for programmers but not average joes.
PS
Unless Apple can get these vendors to ship products for the mac its not going to be a reality. I blame Microsoft for making c++ on windows so damn proprietary that its not even funny. Its so hard to port for anythign but windows taht many firms who produce software just gave up on non windows platforms.
Just let them die.
THey are only in existance due to Microsoft and Sun laundering money through baystar and silly licenses they have no plans on using.
They make no money and haven't in a long time. They are dying and will die soon. I want to see them crumble.
Not to mention we would award their shareholders and Mcbribe... err McBride and they could retire in their hawiian dreamhouse and profit from damaging Linux's reputation.
I want to see these guys in jail after the case fails for fraud. Let them drown in their own blood. These guys are sharks and its nice to see them bleed for once.
Which is why web developers tend to now avoid java and use activeX instead.
I have seen mac web developers standardize on WMV instead of quicktime even though they can't view them on thier own system! Why? Because the user will go to a different site rather than download quicktime.
IE is the standard and java is not included so its best not to use and stick with Microsoft based standards.
And you wonder how MS is able to retain its monopoly?
Funny I thought System.Windows.Forms is not available in Linux?
Fine just use gtk+? Well the users wont have it installed on their system. oops
I have not seen any programs that are cross platforms. Not even hello World programs that are written in c#. As far as I am concerned its proprietary
Didn't the MPAA wanted HD-dvd because it uses more advanced compression codecs which in return would make it harder to pirate over the superior blue-ray?
I wonder if MS is backing hd-dvd to please the MPAA so they maybe more willing to use MS Media Player store rather than Itunes when Vista comes out?
There is no point in using a service in which you can't get songs from
Their label and not the artist actually owns the music. Its not up to them to decide. They sign all their rights away in contracts with the RIAA.
Yeah you can back it up
You can authorize up to 5 computers and you deauthorize so you can move them on different computers indefinitely.
I made a mistake where I lost my music during a windows reinstallation. Itunes will let you redownload the purchased music for free and it saved my ass.
But yes its drmed. Show me an alternative that is not crippled and has the same music selection as Itunes and I would switch?
I support ITunes because the RIAA would blame any loss on piracy and I want to show them I am willing to pay for music *legally* if they treated me like a customer. Also the fact that I dont have to buy expensive discs if I only like 1 or 2 songs is a plus as well.
Microsoft is betting on and hoping blackberry will be gone on purpose so they can have their own blackberry killer.
It will be a windowsCE device (err windows powered) that will play media files (itunes killer) sync with media player store (with vista) and may or may not include cell phone capabilities. My guess is all the pocket word and excel software for their pda's will be included as well.
Microsoft just may have made the ultimate ipod killer, phone, and blackberry.
The touch me button and zooming gave a hint too of a portable device and the fact the site advertised that it can go anywhere.
Media player already monopolizes the market due to the fact that it comes with windows. I think Apple should be scared once Vista comes into play. I think this is why MS waited for this long. They wanted ot make sure only they could sell software, music, and video's for this phone with drm
I still use windows2k.
.net 2.0 will make alot of software only run on that platform.
However I sense its death maybe here soon. Google products require Xp or vista and the new api's in Vista and XP with
Linux is not that stable as it once was and buggy. I wonder if I could just upgrade to XP or just bite teh bullet with Vista? I may need windows anyway if I want to stay in IT. My skills are rapdily getting rusty.
So does this mysterious $399 include $250 for shipping and handling? Hmmm
You know I never even heard of web 2.0 until a few months ago on slashdot. I asked plainly wtf is web2.0?
The response was a website with buzzwords and nothing more. I heard its the new thing today in software development. Just throw buzzwords and let the salesman tell the user what your product actually does.
I dunno.
Its silly and I agree. At least the hype with ruby on rails, or some other new thing is that its an actual product. Not a vague concept blown out of proportions. A site is just a site as far as I am concenred.
I wonder if they have a seperate support network for the xml crowd?
Or the fact we overhired during the 1990's and have been laying off, firing, and outsourcing people to increase productivity?
Well now we have no secretaries helping out and we do the work of mroe than one person to make our shareholders happy.
Its natural and unrelated to technology. Since the economy is improving and adding jobs just wait until we see huge productivity improvements as companies have bigger budgets to hire more people so they can focus on 1 task rather than several jobs at once.