Estonia with a GDP $200 can easily increase it to $400 and seem like an economic wonder if we just look at the percent change. If their GDP was $3 Trillion I don't think privitazation would still show the same gains no matter who you are. These numbers are made up of course but you get my point.
Who are these dummies that write these columns? By his own argument anyone with out big bucks would be excluded from the market for frequency. The FCC was put into place to dole out freqs and if they just stuck to that everything would be fine. Unfortunately there are those in positions of power that which to make it a moral issue they have to regulate that also. If it were all privatized companies will try and fill it with advertising just as they do now. Now that is what I call a public good;(
By their thinking TV's should be free but they are not. Why can't I just signup for that Cable Infomercial channel and get my TV for free. Because no one would do it. The content would be crap and I would not have the option to go to different vendor easily. When they say free they mean you signup for a 2 year subscription like the cell phone companies offer and pay for the software. But you are actually paying for both regardless. The software makers want you to think that software is the only thing of value.
After Reading some of these post I now understand why computer jobs are being shipped over seas to areas that value education and math skills.
Why should you learn math? The very act of learning calculus, probably one of the great human acheivements, develops analytical skills necessary to solve a universe of problems. The 6 months you would spend learning it is nothing compared to the years of boredom you will encounter refactering you code for the umpteenth time:)
The problem with Ethanol is two fold. One, up until this point, has been the amount of energy needed to produce it which would be drastically reduced by these enzymes as long as the enzymes themselves do not take a lot of energy to make and the source material is waste.
Second Ethanol evaporates quite rapidly. Much faster than normal gas and at lower temperatures. This evaporated Ethanol does 2 things, it reduces the amount available for fuel and it adds carbons to the atmosphere which is one of the things we are trying to avoid.
$110 million for enzymes for clean renewable fuel.
How many useful enzymes might we develop for the $90 billion we are spending in Iraq per year or the $$$$ developing a laser cannon (see Airborn Laser ) Makes you wonder why the rest of the world might think the US a tad militaristic.
If you convert it to rupees then you'll see how much more money than your Indian counterpart is getting paid. Of course he/she is not getting any medical benefits or 401k and the CEO of his company is not making the $23 million per year that the average CEO for a multinational is making in the US. Of course he must deserver that much money because he made that extra tough decision that you are getting paid too much for a skilled job in the US. Of course his job is so tough he/she has time to be on some phoney commision for the government (think Carlie F here) and still run the company.
Be thankful you even have a job and are not in Iraq:)
I don't know about anyone else but I still have not received my CA settlement money. Paper work I sent in almost six months ago has not produced a check. I guess we have to bring up a lawsuit to get then to pay the money they already own us from the previous law suit.
Once again we see Cringley stating the obvious but phrasing it a little differently. The EPA fines many polluters each year but quite often the fines are much less than what the polluters make polluting. The gov't gets a little extra cash, the polluters continue to get rich and pollute and we breath foul air.
So maybe we should view M$ programs as a form of digital pollution and turn them into the EPA. I know my health would improve if they fixed a few of their bugs:)
With Cringley's scheme since you only own say 1/10000000 of the entire record collection does that mean I can only listen to 2 sec's of music. I would assume that being a partial owner of the entire collection restricts me from copying more than my share.
It is true that at one time you had to hire a musician to play the music but the person who wrote the music was usually only remunirated once. Currently with all the new technology the artist both performing and writing the music get paid even when they do nothing but let some else play the music.
PLEEEASE this is just a case of MBA's trying to squeeze everylast penny from a cash cow. The buggy whip manufactures did the same and the future whatitz MBA's will do it in the future.
The truth is they want to receive all the benefits of the technology without suffering any of the down side.
I have always felt the same way about the whole drop down menu system. Those types of menus where available in DOS before the Mac but changing to a bit mapped graphics displayed made enough difference to get the patent eventhough the essential idea was the same.
Same here. I'm 42 returning to University to get a degree in Biology. Although there are still good paying jobs in the computer industry they are becoming overwhelmingly entertainment and marketing oriented. I will still probably program but at least it will be for something other than convincing people to buy some useless gadget or play some waste of their time for midnless entertainment.
I like paying the Phone Company. They provide me a service I need. But suppose I do business with some company that charges me a dollar for a monthly service which I accidently sign up for. They charge me a dollar a month with gets mixed in with several hundred other micro payments. Suppose they do this to a million other people per month and it goes without notice because it is a small amount. It is too big of a pain to track all these stupid little payments. It is not worth the time it would take.
I can barely verify that all the payments I currently make are valid and accurate. Having thousands of unverifiable micropaymetns would be just another nightmare. The problem is not one of implementation it is that people do not want it.
Is ther so little real news that we have to see articles twice. This isn't the first time. The brittle star lens article ran about a year ago. We still haven't seen any new lenses from the research yet. Or maybe it was the BBC repeating them selves.
The sad part about this is that it will encourage companies to simply repackage there existing crap without producing anything new. The longer they can milk the cash cow the more they will.
The Free Market -- like yeah. The free market isn't going to get the carriers to make phone numbers transferable to other carriers -- like that is high on there list. The free market isn't stopping SBC from bleeding the their DSL competition until it goes away and shutting out local competition by raising their access fees. The free market isn't free from regulation for historical reasons. Companies have abused their position in the past, some are doing so now and will do so in the future. The Founding Fathers didn't write a constirtution that said "Everybody should do whatever they want." They set some RULES to guide people in making REGULATIONS. I know that due process and REGULATIONS get in the way of DOING WHAT YOU WANT but so what. What is the alternative? In a perfect world we have free market in an imperfect one we have REGULATION.
The wireless industry paid the Gov't for the spectrum that they use. An indirect tax that is now simply being passed along to the users. They do not have the money to finish the infrastructure because they are heavily leveraged to buy the spectrum. Net result we get crappy service and higher fees and Washington can say it didn't raise taxes. Good deal -- I think not.
Up to a million dollar fine, 4 years in a country club prison and you get to keep your 100 million dolar bonus after your 50 billion dollar company goes bankrupt wiping out thousands of pensions.
Everyone seens to be missing the big picture here. This is the first artifically created life form. A bunch of chemicals were ordered, put into a container. The result being something that replicates itself.
They didn't suck the nucleus from an already viable life and transfer it to another container like cloning.
BTW: It doesn't take $300K of DARPA grants and 2 yrs to make DNA. I do it all the time.
Face it, letting people download your songs or books is another form of promotion. The real threat record companies are feeling is pressure on their control of distribution.
Downloading provides a realatively cheap means for independent artist to promote their own work without giving a cut to a middleman.
If you look at the lost sales as a promotional expense rather than theft while cutting out the middlemen, expensive promotional campaigns and packaging it might be that the artist just comes out ahead.
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Who are these dummies that write these columns? By his own argument anyone with out big bucks would be excluded from the market for frequency. The FCC was put into place to dole out freqs and if they just stuck to that everything would be fine. Unfortunately there are those in positions of power that which to make it a moral issue they have to regulate that also. If it were all privatized companies will try and fill it with advertising just as they do now. Now that is what I call a public good;(
By their thinking TV's should be free but they are not. Why can't I just signup for that Cable Infomercial channel and get my TV for free. Because no one would do it. The content would be crap and I would not have the option to go to different vendor easily. When they say free they mean you signup for a 2 year subscription like the cell phone companies offer and pay for the software. But you are actually paying for both regardless. The software makers want you to think that software is the only thing of value.
After Reading some of these post I now understand why computer jobs are being shipped over seas to areas that value education and math skills.
Why should you learn math? The very act of learning calculus, probably one of the great human acheivements, develops analytical skills necessary to solve a universe of problems. The 6 months you would spend learning it is nothing compared to the years of boredom you will encounter refactering you code for the umpteenth time:)
Second Ethanol evaporates quite rapidly. Much faster than normal gas and at lower temperatures. This evaporated Ethanol does 2 things, it reduces the amount available for fuel and it adds carbons to the atmosphere which is one of the things we are trying to avoid.
How many useful enzymes might we develop for the $90 billion we are spending in Iraq per year or the $$$$ developing a laser cannon (see Airborn Laser ) Makes you wonder why the rest of the world might think the US a tad militaristic.
Something to think about.
If you convert it to rupees then you'll see how much more money than your Indian counterpart is getting paid. Of course he/she is not getting any medical benefits or 401k and the CEO of his company is not making the $23 million per year that the average CEO for a multinational is making in the US. Of course he must deserver that much money because he made that extra tough decision that you are getting paid too much for a skilled job in the US. Of course his job is so tough he/she has time to be on some phoney commision for the government (think Carlie F here) and still run the company.
Be thankful you even have a job and are not in Iraq:)
I don't know about anyone else but I still have not received my CA settlement money. Paper work I sent in almost six months ago has not produced a check. I guess we have to bring up a lawsuit to get then to pay the money they already own us from the previous law suit.
Once again we see Cringley stating the obvious but phrasing it a little differently. The EPA fines many polluters each year but quite often the fines are much less than what the polluters make polluting. The gov't gets a little extra cash, the polluters continue to get rich and pollute and we breath foul air.
So maybe we should view M$ programs as a form of digital pollution and turn them into the EPA. I know my health would improve if they fixed a few of their bugs:)
With Cringley's scheme since you only own say 1/10000000 of the entire record collection does that mean I can only listen to 2 sec's of music. I would assume that being a partial owner of the entire collection restricts me from copying more than my share.
It is true that at one time you had to hire a musician to play the music but the person who wrote the music was usually only remunirated once. Currently with all the new technology the artist both performing and writing the music get paid even when they do nothing but let some else play the music.
PLEEEASE this is just a case of MBA's trying to squeeze everylast penny from a cash cow. The buggy whip manufactures did the same and the future whatitz MBA's will do it in the future.
The truth is they want to receive all the benefits of the technology without suffering any of the down side.
I have always felt the same way about the whole drop down menu system. Those types of menus where available in DOS before the Mac but changing to a bit mapped graphics displayed made enough difference to get the patent eventhough the essential idea was the same.
Same here. I'm 42 returning to University to get a degree in Biology. Although there are still good paying jobs in the computer industry they are becoming overwhelmingly entertainment and marketing oriented. I will still probably program but at least it will be for something other than convincing people to buy some useless gadget or play some waste of their time for midnless entertainment.
I like paying the Phone Company. They provide me a service I need. But suppose I do business with some company that charges me a dollar for a monthly service which I accidently sign up for. They charge me a dollar a month with gets mixed in with several hundred other micro payments. Suppose they do this to a million other people per month and it goes without notice because it is a small amount. It is too big of a pain to track all these stupid little payments. It is not worth the time it would take.
I can barely verify that all the payments I currently make are valid and accurate. Having thousands of unverifiable micropaymetns would be just another nightmare. The problem is not one of implementation it is that people do not want it.
Is ther so little real news that we have to see articles twice. This isn't the first time. The brittle star lens article ran about a year ago. We still haven't seen any new lenses from the research yet. Or maybe it was the BBC repeating them selves.
The sad part about this is that it will encourage companies to simply repackage there existing crap without producing anything new. The longer they can milk the cash cow the more they will.
Buy a GSM phone which is a recognized standard suported by many companies. Stay away from propietry technologies
The Free Market -- like yeah. The free market isn't going to get the carriers to make phone numbers transferable to other carriers -- like that is high on there list. The free market isn't stopping SBC from bleeding the their DSL competition until it goes away and shutting out local competition by raising their access fees. The free market isn't free from regulation for historical reasons. Companies have abused their position in the past, some are doing so now and will do so in the future. The Founding Fathers didn't write a constirtution that said "Everybody should do whatever they want." They set some RULES to guide people in making REGULATIONS. I know that due process and REGULATIONS get in the way of DOING WHAT YOU WANT but so what. What is the alternative? In a perfect world we have free market in an imperfect one we have REGULATION.
The wireless industry paid the Gov't for the spectrum that they use. An indirect tax that is now simply being passed along to the users. They do not have the money to finish the infrastructure because they are heavily leveraged to buy the spectrum. Net result we get crappy service and higher fees and Washington can say it didn't raise taxes. Good deal -- I think not.
Your sample was at best flawed at worst the fact that unemployed people tend to hang out on IRC a lot.
Why should "high level money guys" even care what happens to these people. They got theirs -- they can spend time on their yatch.
why would I sign up for another. They still owe me for a year. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
Actually there are some interesting things being done with electrical wiring as long as the buildings aren't seperated by transformers.
. html has the scoop.
Bob Cringley's http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020815
good luck...
How will marketing types hype the processors without a my clock is bigger than your clock numbering system? People won't know what to buy.
Life for hacking.
Up to a million dollar fine, 4 years in a country club prison and you get to keep your 100 million dolar bonus after your 50 billion dollar company goes bankrupt wiping out thousands of pensions.
Seems fair to me:)
Everyone seens to be missing the big picture here. This is the first artifically created life form. A bunch of chemicals were ordered, put into a container. The result being something that replicates itself.
They didn't suck the nucleus from an already viable life and transfer it to another container like cloning.
BTW: It doesn't take $300K of DARPA grants and 2 yrs to make DNA. I do it all the time.
Downloading provides a realatively cheap means for independent artist to promote their own work without giving a cut to a middleman.
If you look at the lost sales as a promotional expense rather than theft while cutting out the middlemen, expensive promotional campaigns and packaging it might be that the artist just comes out ahead.
--American's in Support of RIAA