> Well, one way to hold Obama's feet to the fire is to say that you will vote for McCain if Obama doesn't say that he will reform the DCMA.
Sure. This makes sense if you believe the DMCA is more important than differing stances on foreign policy, education, science, health care, economic policy, neocolonialism, women's rights, etc, etc....
Personally I have trouble imagining anybody, from either party, switching their affiliation based on the DMCA.
As painful as this is, I do take some comfort in the crisis happening now rather than a year or two from now when even more leverage would have been injected into the system.
I'm confused, and wondering what you're talking about.
The original leverage ratios were set by Basel, which pegged them at 8% (or 12.5:1). In 2004, this was updated. It's still 8%, but now assets are risk-weighted.
Claims on depository banks were were given the following risk weights: AA- 0% A- 20% BBB- 50% B- 100% (worse) 150% Unrated 100%
And to make matters worse, claims on securities firms were defined to be the same as claims on banks.
And the kicker, claims secured by residential mortgages were weighted at 35%.
As such, though the leverage ratio was officially 12.5, somebody who held nothing but mortgages could be levered up 35:1. And if you owned some bank issues, you could get nearly infinite.
But I'm wondering... what makes you think that these limits were going to be further increased?
80GB of blazing speed will find plenty of applications today, even at $600. Make the ZFS/Flash initiative happen, and I'd happily plonk down for a couple of them today, even at $600/drive.
Sure, I'm not going to pay $7.50/gb for a home media server, but there are lots of applications where that's an absolute steal.
That's the basic idea behind things like ZFS/Flash which will layer flash storage in along with traditional rotating storage.
You can do it now with some high-end SANs, but soon it'll be workable for people on more meager budgets as well. Quite exciting, really. Storage capacity has been going great for a long time, but access speeds haven't been nearly as impressive.
The other point people miss is you can get a Prius with a lot of nice stuff in it. A good stereo, built-in nav, bluetooth, HID lights, etc...
If you want to put all that in something like a Corolla, you're going to end up within spitting distance of the Prius, price-wise.
As for saving money, my wife drives a Prius and it's been great on cost. Her gas cost is ~ $30/wk. If she borrows my daily driver, her gas cost is ~ $75/wk. Okay, not the end of the world, but $180/month is substantial.
Jobs' vision of what Apple should be is now so deeply ingrained in the firm that the only really destructive possibility would be a foreign CEO who went out of his way to tell everyone to stop doing things the way they're doing them.
Anybody hired from within should end up fine, though.
If one operates from a strict principle of self-interest, then they should use whatever currently available tools best help them accomplish their tasks at hand.
There's absolutely nothing to keep a person from simultaneously thinking that AAPL legal could use a budget cut, while also deciding to purchase AAPL products in order to get things done. Not saying it's right for everyone, or denying the existence of fanboys, but this sort of nonsense comes up with every major company, especially in the computer field.
The price-elasticity of demand on SMS is such that they can make more money by doubling it, but part of that is likely because the carriers have rigged the situation.
Users pay to receive texts, but they don't really control who sends them, or when.
The situation would be quite different if the sending party was forced to purchase the entire SMS transaction, end to end.
Do you remember when it was first rumored that Colin Powell might run for president?
If so, you might remember that there was a lot of discussion as people wondered if he would run as a Democrat or a Republican. He had been so fact-based and non-partisan in all his communications that nobody really knew for sure what party he'd side with.
Or even today, where it's not plausible to predict with any significant degree of certainty what party he would endorse, simply because at least publicly, he isn't a divisive or partisan figure.
I dated a guy who was half-black, but he dumped me because I'm such a loser. Wow, I shouldn't say things like that, I'm such a pessimist... he's actually half-white.
Also, Apple tends to offer form factors that others don't. Like the 17" MBP which is still only 1" thick.
Nearly every Apple product is *significantly* smaller than the majority of PC competitors (and is usually priced very similarly to the few PC competitors that have the same spec and form factor)
So it's true... for about half the price of a Mac you can buy a computer that's a hell of a lot bulkier than a mac, and is heavier and slower.
Please retry your rant with some actual comparable products, where you value not just the size of the screen, but all the other dimensions as well. Give me com comparables for the Mini, the 24" iMac, the MBP and the Mac Pro. They must actually be comparable or better.
Until then, all you're proving is that if you define "comparable" to mean "larger and crappier", that comparable products are cheaper.
As it stands, you're akin to an arrogant kid who looks at an Infiniti or a BMW and says "you know my 4 year old Honda Civic is a better deal, you got ripped off."
Yeah, I saw this article and was moderately annoyed.
This isn't a fair use issue like the DRM-strippers that are oft covered here. This is just directions on how to straight-up defraud a company that decided that the risks of using weak authentication were worth the trade in implementation costs and ease of use.
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I specifically avoid Sony on electronics and computers, specifically because of their behavior.
Pioneer, Yamaha and Apple have all done well by Sony's nonsense. And say what you want about those companies, none of them are even close to Sony levels of dumb and evil.
I have a PS2, but I'm skipping the PS3 even though I'd love to play the new Gran Turismo.
Oh, and the real reason not to bother trying to score points, the original poster lied about Apple forcing him to charge money for the application.
Given that he was willingly putting forth lies, there was no reason to believe that he had any intention of an honest discussion in the first place.
I'm unsurprised that you think rude (but honest) words are somehow more evil than a plain lie. It's sad that so many people prefer polite dishonesty to truth.
Maybe someday you'll grow up and we can have an honest conversation, until then there's no point in doing anything but telling you to fuck off and die, and to get the fuck off my lawn. After all, you've proven that you don't care about truth, so nothing else matters.
No. You're as stupid as the original whiner. Maybe more so.
The GPLv3 has absolutely nothing to do with freeing your own code. It's all about forcing everyone else to make a decision "Do you want to use my code, or do you want to use commercial software? You can't do both."
Now many PRAGMATIC people like to do both. But the GPLv3 is against pragmatism. It wants to force everyone to do as the author has chosen to do.
So essentially the author of that app has opted out of society, but then has the balls (and/or the lack of reason) to complain that now he's alone because of this.
I'm not trying to win points for BSD because I know that GPL-tards are too fucking stupid to understand that they are anti-freedom. Convincing you that BSD is superior on the internet is as likely as convincing a diehard Marxist that they're wrong. The fact is that if you're so far gone on the idea of IP that you support the GPLv3, then you're past the point of no return. It's like trying to talk to somebody who still thinks that Bush is a good president, or that the moon landing was a hoax. In short, you're too fucking stupid to be reasoned with.
As such, I'm not trying to win points. I'm just trying to remind you that you have taken an IDIOTIC FRINGE POSITION and that the world thinks you're really fucking stupid.
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> Well, one way to hold Obama's feet to the fire is to say that you will vote for McCain if Obama doesn't say that he will reform the DCMA.
Sure. This makes sense if you believe the DMCA is more important than differing stances on foreign policy, education, science, health care, economic policy, neocolonialism, women's rights, etc, etc....
Personally I have trouble imagining anybody, from either party, switching their affiliation based on the DMCA.
I have to say, looking at youtomb, it's really hard to figure out what McCain is complaining about.
Even if you just search on McCain, the only takedowns I see are Daily Show clips, making fun of him.
I'm confused, and wondering what you're talking about.
The original leverage ratios were set by Basel, which pegged them at 8% (or 12.5:1). In 2004, this was updated. It's still 8%, but now assets are risk-weighted.
Claims on depository banks were were given the following risk weights:
AA- 0%
A- 20%
BBB- 50%
B- 100%
(worse) 150%
Unrated 100%
And to make matters worse, claims on securities firms were defined to be the same as claims on banks.
And the kicker, claims secured by residential mortgages were weighted at 35%.
As such, though the leverage ratio was officially 12.5, somebody who held nothing but mortgages could be levered up 35:1. And if you owned some bank issues, you could get nearly infinite.
But I'm wondering... what makes you think that these limits were going to be further increased?
80GB of blazing speed will find plenty of applications today, even at $600. Make the ZFS/Flash initiative happen, and I'd happily plonk down for a couple of them today, even at $600/drive.
Sure, I'm not going to pay $7.50/gb for a home media server, but there are lots of applications where that's an absolute steal.
That's the basic idea behind things like ZFS/Flash which will layer flash storage in along with traditional rotating storage.
You can do it now with some high-end SANs, but soon it'll be workable for people on more meager budgets as well. Quite exciting, really. Storage capacity has been going great for a long time, but access speeds haven't been nearly as impressive.
The other point people miss is you can get a Prius with a lot of nice stuff in it. A good stereo, built-in nav, bluetooth, HID lights, etc...
If you want to put all that in something like a Corolla, you're going to end up within spitting distance of the Prius, price-wise.
As for saving money, my wife drives a Prius and it's been great on cost. Her gas cost is ~ $30/wk. If she borrows my daily driver, her gas cost is ~ $75/wk. Okay, not the end of the world, but $180/month is substantial.
Technocratic positions used to be assigned without any real political bias.
It was routine for Republicans to appoint Democrats and vice versa. They simply decided that a person was the best qualified expert and hired them.
Absolutely agreed.
Jobs' vision of what Apple should be is now so deeply ingrained in the firm that the only really destructive possibility would be a foreign CEO who went out of his way to tell everyone to stop doing things the way they're doing them.
Anybody hired from within should end up fine, though.
Reprimand and job termination are risks.
I just lost The Game.
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Perhaps they don't put ideology first.
If one operates from a strict principle of self-interest, then they should use whatever currently available tools best help them accomplish their tasks at hand.
There's absolutely nothing to keep a person from simultaneously thinking that AAPL legal could use a budget cut, while also deciding to purchase AAPL products in order to get things done. Not saying it's right for everyone, or denying the existence of fanboys, but this sort of nonsense comes up with every major company, especially in the computer field.
$1200 20" iMac.
$600 Mini.
$1100 Macbook.
Heck, even the $2800 17" MBP or the $3,000 Mac Pro.
Which of these am I supposed to compare to a $400,000+ Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupé again?
The price-elasticity of demand on SMS is such that they can make more money by doubling it, but part of that is likely because the carriers have rigged the situation.
Users pay to receive texts, but they don't really control who sends them, or when.
The situation would be quite different if the sending party was forced to purchase the entire SMS transaction, end to end.
Do you remember when it was first rumored that Colin Powell might run for president?
If so, you might remember that there was a lot of discussion as people wondered if he would run as a Democrat or a Republican. He had been so fact-based and non-partisan in all his communications that nobody really knew for sure what party he'd side with.
Or even today, where it's not plausible to predict with any significant degree of certainty what party he would endorse, simply because at least publicly, he isn't a divisive or partisan figure.
I dated a guy who was half-black, but he dumped me because I'm such a loser. Wow, I shouldn't say things like that, I'm such a pessimist ... he's actually half-white.
I RMA'd a MacBook Pro that had 4GB of 3rd party RAM in it, that I had forgot about.
Apple put my old 3rd party RAM in a static bag and mailed that back to me, as well as sending me a replacement laptop.
They pretty clearly don't care about RAM upgrades, whatsoever.
Also, Apple tends to offer form factors that others don't. Like the 17" MBP which is still only 1" thick.
Nearly every Apple product is *significantly* smaller than the majority of PC competitors (and is usually priced very similarly to the few PC competitors that have the same spec and form factor)
If you're going to claim you've proved your point, first you should prove it.
MBP $2800
HP $1300
MBP Dimensions 1.0h x 15.4w x 10.4d
HP Dimensions 1.57h x 15.16w x 11.65d
MBP Weight: 6.8lbs
HP Weight: 7.7lbs, 8.2lbs (dual lamp) - weight varies
MBP CPU: 2.5Ghz C2D
HP CPU: 1.83Ghz C2D
So it's true... for about half the price of a Mac you can buy a computer that's a hell of a lot bulkier than a mac, and is heavier and slower.
Please retry your rant with some actual comparable products, where you value not just the size of the screen, but all the other dimensions as well. Give me com comparables for the Mini, the 24" iMac, the MBP and the Mac Pro. They must actually be comparable or better.
Until then, all you're proving is that if you define "comparable" to mean "larger and crappier", that comparable products are cheaper.
As it stands, you're akin to an arrogant kid who looks at an Infiniti or a BMW and says "you know my 4 year old Honda Civic is a better deal, you got ripped off."
The most likely result being that next time I try using my iPhone in an AT&T hotspot, I'll have to authenticate via a more obnoxious method.
So you get to annoy AT&T's customers forever, to punish AT&T for what.... for being naive?
Yeah, I saw this article and was moderately annoyed.
This isn't a fair use issue like the DRM-strippers that are oft covered here. This is just directions on how to straight-up defraud a company that decided that the risks of using weak authentication were worth the trade in implementation costs and ease of use.
I specifically avoid Sony on electronics and computers, specifically because of their behavior.
Pioneer, Yamaha and Apple have all done well by Sony's nonsense. And say what you want about those companies, none of them are even close to Sony levels of dumb and evil.
I have a PS2, but I'm skipping the PS3 even though I'd love to play the new Gran Turismo.
Oh, and the real reason not to bother trying to score points, the original poster lied about Apple forcing him to charge money for the application.
Given that he was willingly putting forth lies, there was no reason to believe that he had any intention of an honest discussion in the first place.
I'm unsurprised that you think rude (but honest) words are somehow more evil than a plain lie. It's sad that so many people prefer polite dishonesty to truth.
Maybe someday you'll grow up and we can have an honest conversation, until then there's no point in doing anything but telling you to fuck off and die, and to get the fuck off my lawn. After all, you've proven that you don't care about truth, so nothing else matters.
No. You're as stupid as the original whiner. Maybe more so.
The GPLv3 has absolutely nothing to do with freeing your own code. It's all about forcing everyone else to make a decision "Do you want to use my code, or do you want to use commercial software? You can't do both."
Now many PRAGMATIC people like to do both. But the GPLv3 is against pragmatism. It wants to force everyone to do as the author has chosen to do.
So essentially the author of that app has opted out of society, but then has the balls (and/or the lack of reason) to complain that now he's alone because of this.
I'm not trying to win points for BSD because I know that GPL-tards are too fucking stupid to understand that they are anti-freedom. Convincing you that BSD is superior on the internet is as likely as convincing a diehard Marxist that they're wrong. The fact is that if you're so far gone on the idea of IP that you support the GPLv3, then you're past the point of no return. It's like trying to talk to somebody who still thinks that Bush is a good president, or that the moon landing was a hoax. In short, you're too fucking stupid to be reasoned with.
As such, I'm not trying to win points. I'm just trying to remind you that you have taken an IDIOTIC FRINGE POSITION and that the world thinks you're really fucking stupid.
Bloomberg gives out dual-monitor dells with raid standard, as their bottom of the line terminal. Most people then tag on a few more monitors.
You can buy an equivalent spec box from Dell today for $1162, excluding the monitors.
Maybe there are some people whose boxes are crappier than mine, but it's hard to claim my setup is rare.