And that elitist attitude is exactly why Windows has the market share it does. You guys expect everyone to know how to change their own oil, tune-up their car, adjust the timing belt, and balace the tires.
No, but they are happy to drive to the nearest garage and get the car serviced. Not that many people think the same way about computers - they should still get a proper service (adaware, defrag etc).
Oh, and they should also know how to fill up the tank with gas. And lock the car up when they leave it. And make sure they dont drive with a puncture or broken headlights.
because we're too heavily entrenched in Microsoft crap to be among the first.
And also because a country like Sweeden adopting open source, means its imports go down (less money sent to Bill in america), and its IT industry is boosted (more money spent on local sweedish support & programmers for localization and development)
given the current economic trend of the world, the space program makes little sense anyways.
Not really.
Government pays $1billion to space program $500 million of that pays wages, $500 million pays for hardware
HARDWARE $500,000,000 goes to other companies Out of that, $250,000,000 pays wages of other companies, $250,000,000 pays for components
COMPONENTS $250,000,000 goes to other companies producing components Out of that, $125,000,000 pays wages of component companies, $125,000,000 pays for raw materials
RAW MATERIALS $125,000,000 goes to companies producing raw materials $61,000,000 goes on wages, $64,000,000 goes on machines needed to extract the material from the ground And so on
Wages As you see, all of that initial investment in the space industry ends up as paying wages. (OK, we reduce the resources in the ground at the same time).
40% of those wages then go back as tax to pay for government programs like the space program 10% of those wages are saved in a bank (the bank then lends out that money to other people to spend) The rest is spent on buying food, rent, computers, etc. The rest then eventually goes back to paying wages (minus the tax)
Every dollar that the government spends in a program either 1) Goes abroad (citizens importing foreign cars, for example) 2) Goes back to the treasury. They also receieve money from exporting goods (France buys an intel computer, the U.S. benefits)
Ideally the net imports and exports are zero.
Assuming there is a supply of raw materials, and there is a supply of labour, then there is no net cost for any government program.
Whats better, 30,000 people employed, or 30,000 people unemployed? Might as well have them emplyed. If theres a major lack of available people in one industry, then prices and wagese of that industry go up, and things even out.
Aside from water, all of those are perishable, not a very good investment.
Wood would be good (fire), but not worth much as its pretty common.
I'm assuming that society as we know it will be hit, however society in general will continue. Weapons are always good though as the other poster mentioned.
Gold is only worth something as long as people demand it. Admittably Gold is worth something in the real world (electronics, beauty), but so are cigarettes. A good medium of exchange is 1) Small enough to handle 2) Split into small denominations 3) Durable (If gold is useful in electronics, it means its less durable, like cigarettes that are smoked, and pigs that die) 4) Most importantly, accepted as payment
If people suddenly decided not to accept gold as payment, then you're stuffed. Diversity will save you. Keep some physical assests that dont depreciate much (or even get more valuable as time goes on), keep bundles of cash from US Dolalrs, Euros, Yen, Sterling, Brazillian currency, couple of middle eastern ones, austrailian, south africa and maybe Russian and keep gold, platinum, silver, oil and other valuable commodities in various locations arround the world (in case of nuclear attack/change of government).
its last printed issue will go out to subscribers on Dec. 2
Ahh, my 21st birthday. 'll be sure to have a drink to remember.
(of course, living in the UK I've been legally able to drink in pubs for 3 years, have been drinking in pubs for 5, and have been drinking at home for arround 10)
Why does the U.S. have such dumb alcohol controls?
pound-for-pound (or dollar for dollar), Which is a faster video editing system. I'm using a Athlon 1800+ with 256MB ram (upgrading *very soon* after tonight). I'm currently rendering a 25 minute full size PAL DV program, its going at arround 10fps (transparencies, cheesy transitions etc)
This system cost me less then $1000 plus software (the big cost was the external analog/firewire converter).
How much is a comparable mac? How much is it to add another 100GB hard drive that will easilly give me 5MBytes/second (UDMA100, 7200RPM)? How many can I add?
Fine, code locally, test locally, do some funky distributed compiling. 5 develpoers on old machines, 5 graphics artists on new machines. USe the CPU power of the graphics machines (when not running filters etc.), to compile.
It's funny really, this article is about supporting Windows. What about supporting Linux? I loathe the idea of telling my mom (who lives 3,000 miles alway) to open a 'shell window' and type in badly spelt commands in a case sensitive manner.
Assuming she's got to the stage where se's on the internet (most distros wil do this fine), you can just ssh (or hell, VNC) in and fix things for her. Much quicker then asking her to rad out the message on the screen.
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Iwht enough connections are redundent dynamic rerouting - it should work.
The reason it doesnt is that any large scale implementation would be stopped (somehow) by media companies - wireless is only used by terrorists!
And that elitist attitude is exactly why Windows has the market share it does. You guys expect everyone to know how to change their own oil, tune-up their car, adjust the timing belt, and balace the tires.
No, but they are happy to drive to the nearest garage and get the car serviced. Not that many people think the same way about computers - they should still get a proper service (adaware, defrag etc).
Oh, and they should also know how to fill up the tank with gas. And lock the car up when they leave it. And make sure they dont drive with a puncture or broken headlights.
because we're too heavily entrenched in Microsoft crap to be among the first.
And also because a country like Sweeden adopting open source, means its imports go down (less money sent to Bill in america), and its IT industry is boosted (more money spent on local sweedish support & programmers for localization and development)
Microsoft earns the U.S a lot of money each year
Of course this doesnt mean be stupid. Cook had a surgeon on board, for example. Risk management is not the same as risk elimination though.
Not really.
Government pays $1billion to space program
$500 million of that pays wages, $500 million pays for hardware
$500,000,000 goes to other companies
Out of that, $250,000,000 pays wages of other companies, $250,000,000 pays for components
$250,000,000 goes to other companies producing components
Out of that, $125,000,000 pays wages of component companies, $125,000,000 pays for raw materials
$125,000,000 goes to companies producing raw materials
$61,000,000 goes on wages, $64,000,000 goes on machines needed to extract the material from the ground
And so on
Wages
As you see, all of that initial investment in the space industry ends up as paying wages. (OK, we reduce the resources in the ground at the same time).
40% of those wages then go back as tax to pay for government programs like the space program
10% of those wages are saved in a bank (the bank then lends out that money to other people to spend)
The rest is spent on buying food, rent, computers, etc.
The rest then eventually goes back to paying wages (minus the tax)
Every dollar that the government spends in a program either
1) Goes abroad (citizens importing foreign cars, for example)
2) Goes back to the treasury.
They also receieve money from exporting goods (France buys an intel computer, the U.S. benefits)
Ideally the net imports and exports are zero.
Assuming there is a supply of raw materials, and there is a supply of labour, then there is no net cost for any government program.
Whats better, 30,000 people employed, or 30,000 people unemployed? Might as well have them emplyed. If theres a major lack of available people in one industry, then prices and wagese of that industry go up, and things even out.
Visa issues don't matter to me.
Yup, same here, I use mastercard
Aside from water, all of those are perishable, not a very good investment.
Wood would be good (fire), but not worth much as its pretty common.
I'm assuming that society as we know it will be hit, however society in general will continue. Weapons are always good though as the other poster mentioned.
Gold is only worth something as long as people demand it. Admittably Gold is worth something in the real world (electronics, beauty), but so are cigarettes. A good medium of exchange is
1) Small enough to handle
2) Split into small denominations
3) Durable (If gold is useful in electronics, it means its less durable, like cigarettes that are smoked, and pigs that die)
4) Most importantly, accepted as payment
If people suddenly decided not to accept gold as payment, then you're stuffed. Diversity will save you. Keep some physical assests that dont depreciate much (or even get more valuable as time goes on), keep bundles of cash from US Dolalrs, Euros, Yen, Sterling, Brazillian currency, couple of middle eastern ones, austrailian, south africa and maybe Russian and keep gold, platinum, silver, oil and other valuable commodities in various locations arround the world (in case of nuclear attack/change of government).
fp BTW - I guess it was easy given I didnt read the post as it was so UGLY
Is it me, or is that massive paragraph of half bold half "normal" text the ugliest thing ever?
its last printed issue will go out to subscribers on Dec. 2
Ahh, my 21st birthday. 'll be sure to have a drink to remember.
(of course, living in the UK I've been legally able to drink in pubs for 3 years, have been drinking in pubs for 5, and have been drinking at home for arround 10)
Why does the U.S. have such dumb alcohol controls?
The EFF has posted a nice HOWTO document to make your comments as effective as possible.
Incase it gets slashdotted, here's the probably content:
1) Include lots of money with your letter
2) Legistature change
3) There is no step three!
pound-for-pound (or dollar for dollar), Which is a faster video editing system. I'm using a Athlon 1800+ with 256MB ram (upgrading *very soon* after tonight). I'm currently rendering a 25 minute full size PAL DV program, its going at arround 10fps (transparencies, cheesy transitions etc)
This system cost me less then $1000 plus software (the big cost was the external analog/firewire converter).
How much is a comparable mac? How much is it to add another 100GB hard drive that will easilly give me 5MBytes/second (UDMA100, 7200RPM)? How many can I add?
what comes after 'forever'
"And again"
Fine, code locally, test locally, do some funky distributed compiling. 5 develpoers on old machines, 5 graphics artists on new machines. USe the CPU power of the graphics machines (when not running filters etc.), to compile.
I'm still mourning the passing of DOSSHELL (Or DOS-HELL, take your pick)
/me turns head and looks at pile of old cases, containing semi-working bits and bobs.
$30 a piece? Thats more then it'd cost to send them to a random address with no return address on.
MPAA anyone?
A version of DOS becomes public domain (70?) years after the last compile - hence dos 6.0 (abour 93 IIRC), will be free to all in January 2054.
"Abondonware" is still copyright infringment.
(I make no moral judgements on abandonware of course)
You wouldn't expect your brother-in-law the mechanic to fix your car for free, would you?
Hell no, I buy the parts and get him a (beer, bottle of scotch, case of scotch depending on how long it took)
0 load (ok, maybe it was just the past 15 minutes) is not a convincing argument (however the first two heavily-loaded and long-running hosts are).
Last 15 minutes, look at the time, 1AM. Not many people arround in a buisness then, I assume he sshed from home.
It's funny really, this article is about supporting Windows. What about supporting Linux? I loathe the idea of telling my mom (who lives 3,000 miles alway) to open a 'shell window' and type in badly spelt commands in a case sensitive manner.
Assuming she's got to the stage where se's on the internet (most distros wil do this fine), you can just ssh (or hell, VNC) in and fix things for her. Much quicker then asking her to rad out the message on the screen.
You cant afford $60? Or your want a real router?
Google/Linux router floppy gives Linux router project
Carter: "neutrinos pass though anything, no matter how dense. A milion of them just passed though you colenel" ...
O'Neill: "no matter how dense..."
O'Neill: "We cant go back while those nintendos are flying arround"
same here, but for the last 7 years before the latest moz I could never display anything. Doesnt help reading or pronoucing it though
read japanese? Hell I've had problems displaying it before!
I find it amazing how people from a Latin, or even Greek upbringing can understand, or even pronounce "". How do you do it?