People with huge storage needs will be left stranded. The rest of us who will never need 10 terabytes of storage will be fine (yeah, yeah, I know video and the next thing, but I already don't give two shits about video, so the next thing better really need a lot of storage and be awesome).
Sure, and gives a lot of people a very clear picture of how far their behavior is from what RMS is espousing (I tend to believe that behavior paints a nice picture of principles).
Have those things actually gotten worse? Cable probably has (mostly by adding crap), but then, it is a lot more universal than it was 15 or 20 years ago, and there are stupid things like on demand available (stupid being sarcastic here). Cell phones, I don't think that prices have even kept up with inflation, even in the U.S. (this was worse 5 years ago, but these days, unlimited long distance with nationwide service is $50 from Boost mobile). AMPS coverage was probably better (though the digital networks are pretty complete at this point), but I doubt that an unlimited nationwide plan was anywhere near $50, if it was even available.
Really, they should make it very clear what they do and then always do that (some users may find it desirable to receive a promise that data is destroyed when the relationship ends; it is only a promise, but it may be more attractive than a vague statement that the data might eventually be destroyed).
I don't think the relative lack of complexity on the server at Delicious makes it particularly less useful as an example, and unless you can explain in about 15 words why it isn't SaaS, we are stuck with 'poetmatt knows it when he sees it', which is going to be incredibly boring for everybody in the room but you.
Based on what? (not in the spirit of attacking your statement, but in the spirit of wanting to understand your reasoning)
I doubt that the public health response will be completely impotent, but there isn't much behind that (just a belief that basic measures can be effective). To an extent, containment appears to have failed already (poorly sourced reports of cases all around the world), but I'm not sure that means that more local measures will be completely useless.
Delicious currently gives me full access to the data that I have generated using the service, and they are actively developing new features.
Where's the problem? I guess I could worry that they might change what they are offering, but for something like a bookmark, access to the data is 99% of the equation for me, not access to the software.
Alcohol based sanitizers are fine, they more or less physically destroy the bacteria, rather than disrupting their biology. Personally, I'd be happier if triclosan was less used, or not used at all, but there isn't much out there showing that resistance to it is actively becoming a problem.
Yes, but you are depending on a company, not the low wage folks that they employ.
The company has plenty of reason to ensure that their product is reasonably reliable (by testing or whatever other means). I guess some people wouldn't do anything about it if 25% of the cables they bought from company A failed, but enough people will that company B can make a business out of making a better product.
What happens when you factor in better public health systems and the much higher rate at which information travels (for instance, we probably have more information about this outbreak than public health official in 1918 did at a similar point).
If you figure that those factors operate on the transmission rate, you could easily be looking at a lower number.
All you need is to make sure the party doing the borrowing has productivity that is higher than their consumption. Credit and growth happen to go hand in hand much of the time, as borrowing is used to finance activities or whatnot that hugely enhance productivity and growth, and because someone who knows their production is going to grow will be more willing to borrow against their current production.
If there wasn't any consumption, the interest might be a problem, but there is plenty of consumption (the vast majority of GDP is consumed).
From the little I have read about it, I gather that the problem arises on long conductive structures like high voltage lines and pipelines. So as long as your stuff isn't attached to a power system that has an event, it probably won't be affected (you could probably figure out the magnitude of the currents induced in something as small as a hard disk circuit board, but I wouldn't know where to start).
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It may be demonstrably untrue, but that isn't what you did.
People with huge storage needs will be left stranded. The rest of us who will never need 10 terabytes of storage will be fine (yeah, yeah, I know video and the next thing, but I already don't give two shits about video, so the next thing better really need a lot of storage and be awesome).
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Sure, and gives a lot of people a very clear picture of how far their behavior is from what RMS is espousing (I tend to believe that behavior paints a nice picture of principles).
Have those things actually gotten worse? Cable probably has (mostly by adding crap), but then, it is a lot more universal than it was 15 or 20 years ago, and there are stupid things like on demand available (stupid being sarcastic here). Cell phones, I don't think that prices have even kept up with inflation, even in the U.S. (this was worse 5 years ago, but these days, unlimited long distance with nationwide service is $50 from Boost mobile). AMPS coverage was probably better (though the digital networks are pretty complete at this point), but I doubt that an unlimited nationwide plan was anywhere near $50, if it was even available.
Airlines, I don't have any basis for commenting.
Apparently thinking of it as communication makes it different.
"This smells like those 15 year old girls" probably isn't among the better idioms to go around using.
With Google providing free POP and IMAP, that is sort of a bad example.
Really, they should make it very clear what they do and then always do that (some users may find it desirable to receive a promise that data is destroyed when the relationship ends; it is only a promise, but it may be more attractive than a vague statement that the data might eventually be destroyed).
So is it not software, or is it not a service?
I don't think the relative lack of complexity on the server at Delicious makes it particularly less useful as an example, and unless you can explain in about 15 words why it isn't SaaS, we are stuck with 'poetmatt knows it when he sees it', which is going to be incredibly boring for everybody in the room but you.
Based on what? (not in the spirit of attacking your statement, but in the spirit of wanting to understand your reasoning)
I doubt that the public health response will be completely impotent, but there isn't much behind that (just a belief that basic measures can be effective). To an extent, containment appears to have failed already (poorly sourced reports of cases all around the world), but I'm not sure that means that more local measures will be completely useless.
Delicious currently gives me full access to the data that I have generated using the service, and they are actively developing new features.
Where's the problem? I guess I could worry that they might change what they are offering, but for something like a bookmark, access to the data is 99% of the equation for me, not access to the software.
Alcohol based sanitizers are fine, they more or less physically destroy the bacteria, rather than disrupting their biology. Personally, I'd be happier if triclosan was less used, or not used at all, but there isn't much out there showing that resistance to it is actively becoming a problem.
Yes, but you are depending on a company, not the low wage folks that they employ.
The company has plenty of reason to ensure that their product is reasonably reliable (by testing or whatever other means). I guess some people wouldn't do anything about it if 25% of the cables they bought from company A failed, but enough people will that company B can make a business out of making a better product.
Depending on wages and such, the commercial cables could easily have 10x the labor and still be cheaper.
The 5 million lines cut down on the execution time.
What happens when you factor in better public health systems and the much higher rate at which information travels (for instance, we probably have more information about this outbreak than public health official in 1918 did at a similar point).
If you figure that those factors operate on the transmission rate, you could easily be looking at a lower number.
All you need is to make sure the party doing the borrowing has productivity that is higher than their consumption. Credit and growth happen to go hand in hand much of the time, as borrowing is used to finance activities or whatnot that hugely enhance productivity and growth, and because someone who knows their production is going to grow will be more willing to borrow against their current production.
If there wasn't any consumption, the interest might be a problem, but there is plenty of consumption (the vast majority of GDP is consumed).
From the little I have read about it, I gather that the problem arises on long conductive structures like high voltage lines and pipelines. So as long as your stuff isn't attached to a power system that has an event, it probably won't be affected (you could probably figure out the magnitude of the currents induced in something as small as a hard disk circuit board, but I wouldn't know where to start).
Have you come across any good research that shows the immune system gets stronger from exercise, like a muscle?
People say this all the time, and it sounds nice to our intuition, but I haven't seen anything that actually took a nice objective look at it.
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If you are in the U.S., brown skin and Mexican origin aren't going to be particularly important indicators of infection.
Irradiation probably does kill viruses. So does cooking.