Libertarians in general oppose monopolies when they interfere with personal property rights through de jure mechanisms. If you agreed with Libertarians you would be calling for the repeal of the laws that allow Microsoft to exist as a monopoly.
Microsoft is CLEARLY such a monopoly because they exist in this position of monopoly due to intellectual property rights. Such monopolies are anathema to libertarians.
Fram a libertarian viewpoint the agreement with Novell is evil incarnate - it is clearly an attempt to use legal mechanisms to enforce it's de jure monopoly over one of its competitors.
We have lots of unethical and immoral laws in this country.
Yes, and we have a lot of people who ignore a wide range of laws in the pursuit of commercial gain. Some of these people have defrauded millions of consumers, compromised public safety, and destroyed the life savings of their employees. Some, but not most of these people end up in jail.
In business it is far too often the case that it is not a matter of what the law states, but rather what you can get away with.
Just because my government tells me that something is illegal, doesn't make it wrong.
So what are you proposing? That we just go and do what we feel like doing, without consequences? Surely not. Rule of law is paramount for a civilized society to exist. Under all conditions there must be accountability for violation of the law. You seem to feel that the Sherman Antitrust act is immoral. I rather disagree - I do not think that a business or group of businesses acting en masse should be allowed to engage in bid rigging, price fixing and market allocation schemes to artificially raise prices to consumers.
If you don't like the law, yes you are free to violate it. But not to escape the consequences of this act. Perhaps you can convince others that the law is unjust and get it repealed. This is called progress.
Microsoft has been found guilty of illegal business practices in many venues, and multiple times. I suspect they intentionally push the law as hard as possible, and live with the consequences. So far the penalties they have suffered have not hurt the company.
Is that moral and ethical? I think that is a gray area. To some people that is an acceptable way to do business. Others might not agree.
BUT if you do this you have to realize that it will hurt the public image of your company.
It's still not a particularly wonderful idea. The best way of handling this sort of process is use of a microporous material like zeolites, ion exchange resins and so on. You still get an extremely high specific surface area - zeolites typically have areas on the order of 50 m^2 / g, which is about 10x the area claimed for the nanorust. Ion exchange resins can get up to 500 m^2 per gm (100x the nanorust). These materials because of their size can be separated using physcal processes (less capital intensive) and regenerated for reuse. In some cases they can be used in flow through systems so separation is not needed.
I disagree that the problem should be ignored. If the grammar and spelling is actually bad, rather than just an occasional error the problem should be brought to the writer's attention, and perhaps the student should be referred for some additional help.
1. Care to put your money where your mouth is? Like refund the price of Vista if my copy gets infected? That should be fair. 2. Care to share what you are smoking? Sounds really kickin' 3. LOL 4. Famous last words - like we aren't ever going to need more than 640K of RAM or the Internet is a passing fad like CB radio. 5. ROTFL
We can't even solve the simplest problems in machine intelligence. Any talk of the singularity is unjustified. A more realistic view is that trees don't grow to the sky, and never will.
IT is a boom and bust field that will gradually decay in its value as the technologies it is based on mature.
The business cycle drives investment in IT so it should be regarded as a cyclical industry just the way any capital intensive business is. As growth in IT technologies peter out (Moore's law hockey-stick growth) inevitably flat-lines as technologies hit their limits growth will fall to the same growth as the economy as a whole. Like the railroads, utilities etc.
If you are 50 or so and are looking to make a career change IT is not a bad choice - it will probably be a sound field for at least the next 10-20 years.
But for somebody who is just entering college I think that other fields, particularly anything associated with health care are better opportunities. They will surely offer careers with better sustainability than IT.
Even though it was permissible to do this in the past I never felt comfortable travelling outside the US without a passport. I've travelled with some non-US citizens working or studying in the who have had problems entering the US on return - after seeing this I've always felt it was a good idea to have the documentation.
Well, actually the Katrina death toll isn't as far off 9/11 as you might think. Katrina is blamed for about 1900 deaths, while the 9/11 attack is blamed for 2700 or so.
And as for natural causes, you had better believe that you can do something about most of them. The single greatest advance towards increasing life expectancy is chlorinated drinking water.
While meteors are too rare to worry about on an individual basis, there are programs to look out for large asteroids. Also people certainly do worry and do something about lightning, earthquakes, floods and tornados.
Some things do trigger irrationally large responses. For example the US spends 10 times more money per death on AIDs research than on breast cancer, which in turn gets more than 10 times the spending per death than pancreatic cancer.
What is needed is actually a new computing platform that is Internet-centric, but not bound by OS, or computer language limitations.
That sounds like my brain.
And in all honesty the most creative and artistic people are not techincally inclined.
Phooey. The process of creation of art requires mastery of a craft. The most creative people in human history often mastered a very technical craft in order to create their works.
Which do you think is easier - a Flash animation, or this:
UNESCO, WHO and UNICEF have not exactly as pure as the driven snow. For example, consider the Children's Vaccine Initiative which collapsed in the 1990's due to internecine war between WHO and UNICEF.
The result of this has been a drop in world wide vaccination rates for children.
It has taken a private contributor's intervention (Gates Foundation) to bring this back to life. So much for UN competency.
There is some truth that whenever a tragedy like this happens all nations must share the blame. But to state the US played any active role is totally false. This is an area that has been primarily influenced by French and Belgian foreign adventures.
You do realise that the US is the country that's used its veto more than any other country with that right?
WRONG
The US has used its veto 13 times. When the Soviet Union was on the Security Council it issued 79 vetos. The USSR in fact issued more vetos than the rest of the security council combined.
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I tend to agree with Libertarians on this one.
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Libertarians in general oppose monopolies when they interfere with personal property rights through de jure mechanisms. If you agreed with Libertarians you would be calling for the repeal of the laws that allow Microsoft to exist as a monopoly.
From http://fare.tunes.org/liberty/microsoft_monopoly.
Microsoft is CLEARLY such a monopoly because they exist in this position of monopoly due to intellectual property rights. Such monopolies are anathema to libertarians.
Fram a libertarian viewpoint the agreement with Novell is evil incarnate - it is clearly an attempt to use legal mechanisms to enforce it's de jure monopoly over one of its competitors.
We have lots of unethical and immoral laws in this country.
Yes, and we have a lot of people who ignore a wide range of laws in the pursuit of commercial gain. Some of these people have defrauded millions of consumers, compromised public safety, and destroyed the life savings of their employees. Some, but not most of these people end up in jail.
In business it is far too often the case that it is not a matter of what the law states, but rather what you can get away with.
Just because my government tells me that something is illegal, doesn't make it wrong.
So what are you proposing? That we just go and do what we feel like doing, without consequences? Surely not. Rule of law is paramount for a civilized society to exist. Under all conditions there must be accountability for violation of the law. You seem to feel that the Sherman Antitrust act is immoral. I rather disagree - I do not think that a business or group of businesses acting en masse should be allowed to engage in bid rigging, price fixing and market allocation schemes to artificially raise prices to consumers.
If you don't like the law, yes you are free to violate it. But not to escape the consequences of this act. Perhaps you can convince others that the law is unjust and get it repealed. This is called progress.
Microsoft has been found guilty of illegal business practices in many venues, and multiple times. I suspect they intentionally push the law as hard as possible, and live with the consequences. So far the penalties they have suffered have not hurt the company.
Is that moral and ethical? I think that is a gray area. To some people that is an acceptable way to do business. Others might not agree.
BUT if you do this you have to realize that it will hurt the public image of your company.
Microsoft has made thier choice.
Can't they just inform Novell that they no longer have the right to distribute Samba under the GPL
You can't retract the terms of a license. All you can do is issue future versions under a new license.
The element of truth in that is that most software development is maintenance or adding features to a P.O.S. that is at least 5 years old.
The same place you buy inexpensive nanorust.
i.e. nowhere.
It's still not a particularly wonderful idea. The best way of handling this sort of process is use of a microporous material like zeolites, ion exchange resins and so on. You still get an extremely high specific surface area - zeolites typically have areas on the order of 50 m^2 / g, which is about 10x the area claimed for the nanorust. Ion exchange resins can get up to 500 m^2 per gm (100x the nanorust). These materials because of their size can be separated using physcal processes (less capital intensive) and regenerated for reuse. In some cases they can be used in flow through systems so separation is not needed.
I disagree that the problem should be ignored. If the grammar and spelling is actually bad, rather than just an occasional error the problem should be brought to the writer's attention, and perhaps the student should be referred for some additional help.
I have a some thoughts on this one:
1. Care to put your money where your mouth is? Like refund the price of Vista if my copy gets infected? That should be fair.
2. Care to share what you are smoking? Sounds really kickin'
3. LOL
4. Famous last words - like we aren't ever going to need more than 640K of RAM or the Internet is a passing fad like CB radio.
5. ROTFL
More likely these 733t h4x0rs reporgrammed the voting machines to write in Cowboy Neal.
We can't even solve the simplest problems in machine intelligence. Any talk of the singularity is unjustified. A more realistic view is that trees don't grow to the sky, and never will.
IT is a boom and bust field that will gradually decay in its value as the technologies it is based on mature.
The business cycle drives investment in IT so it should be regarded as a cyclical industry just the way any capital intensive business is. As growth in IT technologies peter out (Moore's law hockey-stick growth) inevitably flat-lines as technologies hit their limits growth will fall to the same growth as the economy as a whole. Like the railroads, utilities etc.
If you are 50 or so and are looking to make a career change IT is not a bad choice - it will probably be a sound field for at least the next 10-20 years.
But for somebody who is just entering college I think that other fields, particularly anything associated with health care are better opportunities. They will surely offer careers with better sustainability than IT.
this new translation technology would definitely shrink the globe again, bringing us all closer. Isn't that a good thing?
I don't what to know what people really think of me.
And of course if you are an evangelical all you have to do is confess your sins and ask forgiveness. Then you are good to go.
Reinvention is an anti-pattern.
Even though it was permissible to do this in the past I never felt comfortable travelling outside the US without a passport. I've travelled with some non-US citizens working or studying in the who have had problems entering the US on return - after seeing this I've always felt it was a good idea to have the documentation.
When I was graduating, I considered a number of jobs overseas.
Yes, when I greaduated there were a number of US Gov't opportunities in Southeast Asia.
Well, actually the Katrina death toll isn't as far off 9/11 as you might think. Katrina is blamed for about 1900 deaths, while the 9/11 attack is blamed for 2700 or so.
And as for natural causes, you had better believe that you can do something about most of them. The single greatest advance towards increasing life expectancy is chlorinated drinking water.
While meteors are too rare to worry about on an individual basis, there are programs to look out for large asteroids. Also
people certainly do worry and do something about lightning, earthquakes, floods and tornados.
Some things do trigger irrationally large responses. For example the US spends 10 times more money per death on AIDs research than on breast cancer, which in turn gets more than 10 times the spending per death than pancreatic cancer.
What is needed is actually a new computing platform that is Internet-centric, but not bound by OS, or computer language limitations.
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That sounds like my brain.
And in all honesty the most creative and artistic people are not techincally inclined.
Phooey. The process of creation of art requires mastery of a craft. The most creative people in human history often mastered a very technical craft in order to create their works.
Which do you think is easier - a Flash animation, or this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jet%C3%A9_-_St
or:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sistine.chapel
It is clearly stating that they're only concerned with benchmarks against .net 3.0.
It's THAT bad?
UNESCO, WHO and UNICEF have not exactly as pure as the driven snow. For example, consider the Children's Vaccine Initiative which collapsed in the 1990's due to internecine war between WHO and UNICEF.
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The result of this has been a drop in world wide vaccination rates for children.
It has taken a private contributor's intervention (Gates Foundation) to bring this back to life. So much for UN competency.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/africa/policy23.sht
I didn't realize corruption had to be legally actionable and prosecuted in order to count as corruption
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I thought the general principle that civilized people lived by was rule of law, not some form of innuendo and guilt by association.
The fact that other countries are even further in debt than the US doesn't alter the fact that your objection to the UN also applies to the US.
a. The US is not bankrupt like the UN is.
b. You claimed that the US was more in debt than any other nation. False.
Think that might have anything to do with the deaths?
The facts are very clear that the primary blame for this lies at the feet of the UN.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/568566.st
There is some truth that whenever a tragedy like this happens all nations must share the blame. But to state the US played any active role is totally false. This is an area that has been primarily influenced by French and Belgian foreign adventures.
I hate to correct a corrector, but the US has used a security council vote 81 times.
Doesn't matter. The USSR / Soviet Union number was also wrong. It is 122. The US still is not the leader as the OP claimed.
No government, including North Korea, China or any other alleged combination is so completely untrustworthy
It is some bizzaro word you live in, fella.
Those responsible should be sacked.
You do realise that the US is the country that's used its veto more than any other country with that right?
WRONG
The US has used its veto 13 times. When the Soviet Union was on the Security Council it issued 79 vetos. The USSR in fact issued more vetos than the rest of the security council combined.
Like the US government? Enron, Diebold, secret energy council meetings?
And exactly what government corruption was present here? None that met any legal standards.
And isn't the US running the largest spending deficit in world history?
Many nations run much larger deficits as a percentage of GNP.
Like the US government during Katrina, you mean?
Rwanda - 8 million deaths. Katrina - 1400. Those are REALLY CLOSE.
Give Me A Break.