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Unless he has proof, that would be libel, no? Of course not - in his world, when a competitor gets more business by offering a substantial discount that you cant match - thats bribery. When you do it, that's good business.
Maybe, maybe not. When Standard Oil undercut all its competitors by pricing its products BELOW production costs in order to drive them to bankruptcy and buy them out, that was ruled A Bad Thing and led to SO being broken up. There is a point where offering "special deals" is considered anti-competitive. If Standard Oil got nailed simply for offering product for too low a price, it's not unreasonable that Intel should likewise be nailed for offering product for a super low price, but only to companies that don't buy from Intel competitors. That's kind of shady territory there.
For example: BobComp buys Intel and AMD CPUs, so they get P4s for $35 each. JoeComp buys only Intel so they get the "deal" of $30 each. If BobComp buys 1000 CPUs a year from Intel and JoeComp buys only 500, then it's clearly not a "bulk discount".; it's a "helping us ace out the competition" discount. Now if $30 represents a significant loss of profit margin over $35 for Intel, then I'd say Intel is edging into some pretty anti-competitive territory.
In your own words that you'd rather be exploited
making 30k etc.. That is perhaps rather
accurate, since you recognize that indeed its
not a choice of freedoms, its a choice of who
you'll be exploited by.
I was only making a rhetorical point about the spurious logic of comparing factory work to IT work. Whether or not being paid less than you're worth necessarily qualifies as "exploitation" is a different matter entirely. I am not currently exploited at $30K a year. I may be worth more than that, but I also know that my boss is going nuts trying to make payroll. I doubt that he's making even $20K right now. I could look for another job, but 1) I'm still in school and need the flexible schedule, and 2) I am willing to continue working for an employer who's been fair over the years, even if the pay is low.
The entrpreneur risks bankruptcy. . .
Not really. This is what incorporation is all about. The entrepreneur incorporates, then risks seeing the corporation go bankrupt. His or her personal finances are unaffected by the corporation's bankruptcy status.
Except that usually it was the entrepreneur's personal finances that went into founding the company in the first place. If the company goes bankrupt, none of that is magically returned. Duh.
you get $566 simply for providing the capital, more than 250% of what the worker doing the actual work gets.
Exactly. You speak as if this is free money. How much capital was provided initially? How long does it take at $566 an pop to break even? Additionally, very few people just "provide capital"; they usually run the business as well. Should they get paid? Or should they have to get an outside job somewhere else for money? Should they make the same as the mechanic? If so, why don't they just become mechanics? Just because the mechanic is doing the manual labor doesn't mean higher-ups don't work. IF the "capital provider" is making so much more money than he should, why is it the mechanic who's getting cheated? Isn't it the customer that's getting the shaft? In short, if the customer is willing to pay X, and the mechanic is willing to work for Y, then where's the problem? If the mechanic feels he should make more, he needs to market his skills to another buyer, or (heaven forbid) to the customer directly by opening his own garage. You can't have the extra money without taking on the responsibility.
Maybe the clowns in road crews don't do any work...
Just as an aside, I'd like to put in a good word for those "clowns". I worked on a road crew putting in buried cabling, and I'll never disparage a man leaning on his shovel again. When you're working with a shovel, pick, or breaker bar, it is physically impossible to work for 8 hours without stopping. For every 10-15 minutes spent shoveling/picking/breaking, you need 3-5 minutes of rest in order to reoxygenate your muscles and clear lactic acid. Digging is hard work. When you see 5 guys standing around a trench waiting for the Ditch Witch to finish before they start shoveling again, don't think "lazy", think "tired".
But you yourself used the word evil repeatedly in your post. How about you believe the crap you're spouting about morals being irrelevant, and then you can tell us.
Touche, friend. I perhaps should have put "lesser of two evils" in quotes.
No, temperature is a characteristic of energy. And there's enough microwave radiation floating around in space to bring anything up to equilibrium at 4K.
errrm...the word "anything" above...does that word by chance refer to MATTER? If so, my question stands...Is it not MATTER in space that has a temp of 4deg K?
If you think a factory is better, go work in a factory!
Say it again, brother. I once worked in a factory that made plastic buckets. You know how handles get put on buckets? It ain't a machine what does it. It's people. People standing at tables and trying to make a quota for minimum wage. Argh. I have a co-worker who once worked in a factory where they made the coily handset cords for telephones. When the "kids" at our workplace complain about their slacker jobs, we like to trot out our factory stories. Doesn't help though. People who haven't worked in factories usually don't appreciate the mind-numbing repetition that goes on in a factory. I'd rather be exploited for $30K a year in a job that requires thinking than be exploited for $9K in a job that encourages brain death.
Personal computers are not "frontiers" in any sense of the word. They are evolutionarily designed tools that can be traced back to the abacus, whereas a frontier is an undeveloped field or area for discovery. There was no great "push" required to get computers from the drawing board to reality. Spacecraft are a different story. Come on, people, think a little.
The reason why I find this type of search difficult is because most notes are part of a larger group of notes. And if you do a search on this larger group you will get most documents in the group.
I'm sorry, but to me it seems that results like that indicate that you haven't refined your search terms well enough, and if you can't seem to refine any better then it sounds like you're not sure what you're looking for. These are problems not with the medium the notes are in, but with the person doing the searching.
In other news Mustang owners say they don't really notice much of a difference with their 320hp vs. the 120hp Escort that costs much less.
More like "On average, people with Mustangs don't seem to drive much faster than people with Escorts, so speed must not be important."
But yeah, the study's conclusions are idiotic.
unfortunately for you the inky blackness of space is about 4 degrees kelvin
But isn't temperature a characteristic of matter? Isn't the inky blackness of space mostly vacuum? How can a vacuum have a temperature? If you put a thermometer in a vacuum, you're getting the temperature of the thermometer glass, right?
OH silly me. So when Bush says "evil", he is using the ALTERNATE definition of "not currently aligned with our short term geopolitical interests."
Cripes, if nothing else, haven't you figured out that you can't take what politicians say at face value? Soundbites are about morality, but the underlying geopolitics aren't, and never were.
Dude, I was like 12 when I read it the first time. Do people lurk on this board waiting for the opportunity to lash out and prove their intellectual superiority?
Hah! I read it when I was 9! Now I'm intellectually superior!;)
This regime is just bad, unless you think they made up history for Kurds, Kuwait and Iran.
Like America has any moral foot to stand on, considering we funded the war against Iran.
Politics isn't all black and white. It's about hedging your bets and backing the lesser evils if necessary in order to thwart the greater evils. People like to make a lot of noise about how the US supported Iraq, but take a look at Iraq's military: it's hardware is 90% Soviet made and 10% European. Remember the USS Stark, which Iraq shot with a French Exocet missile fired from a French Mirage fighter? Everyone was helping Iraq a little back then because we all wanted to see Iran defeated. Iran came out of an Islamic fundamentalist revolution and immediately engaged in a war of conquest with Iraq. Most of the world was not so happy with this. Fast forward 10 years, and Iraq becomes the greater evil. It's the reality of geopolitics. Counting the moral legs of various countries as they stand on them misses the point entirely. It's not about morality and no one ever claimed it was. Get over it.
Over here in Europe, we like to elect leaders that aren't greedy, selfish, and evasive about their motives.
Oh, please. As if Europeans have somehow discovered the secret to altruism. Nearly all politicians are greedy, selfish, and evasive, and to think that the electorate could really spot them if they were trying to hide it is ludicrous. Europe just elects better actors.
Conspiracy Theorists Will see these photographs and say "Wow, those are excellent fakes."
Yeah, there's no reasoning with lunatics (pardon the pun). Reminds me of an apocryphal story my psychology teacher told about an intern at a psych hospital interviewing a man who thought he was dead. The intern was convinced he could help some of these people by using reason to disprove their delusions. "Yes," the man said, "I've been dead for years."
"Do dead people bleed?" asked the intern.
"Don't be silly," laughed the man, "Dead people don't bleed!"
So the intern grabs the man's hand, and pokes the ball of his thumb with a pin. Slowly, a drop of blood wells up.
"Well what do you know," said the man with a look of utter disbelief, "Dead people do bleed!"
DAmn straight. I use mine for keeping track of technical installation info at job sites (I install telecom systems), but the most important thing my Palm M500 provides is reading material while I'm taking a crap.
One time with my Athlon 1.4ghz, I took the heatsink and fan off, to see what it would be like if I turned the computer on without them. The CPU kind of... melted, within a couple of seconds
Moron. Did you then drain the water and oil from your car and drive it around to see what it would do?
Nope. As far as stability, availability of drivers, windows compatability, and non-forced updates, win2k is the best windows IMO
A strange, non-factual opinion. XP and 2K have (nearly) the same NT5 kernal, use the same drivers, the same API, and updates aren't mandatory in XP. Essentially, going from 2K to XP is going from WinNT 5.0 to WinNT 5.1. I've noticed considerable improvement in stability, but then again, most stability data I hear is anecdotal so it's probably the same as 2K. THe one thing I've found much improved is startup time. Win 2K takes almost 3 minutes from poweron to desktop ready, whereas XP takes about 45 seconds.
I don't agree. It's trivial to argue that one hundred years is too short. Many currently extant companies, families, and institutions have been around for longer than 100 years.
But copyright isn't about guaranteeing a living to companies, families, an institutions; it's about encouraging creators to create through monetary incentive. After 100 years, chances are the creator is gone. Any half-assed notion that he ought to be able to pass on his "cash cow" to his descendents is just bunk. My grandfather was a brilliant mechanical engineer, but I won't ever expect money from the folks he designed machines for: he's already been paid. He passed on the business to my uncle, but that was just a list of customers and his good name. My uncle has to make money in the business by being a brilliant mechanical engineer himself. The children of a brilliant author shouldn't expect any more than the children of a brilliant engineer. If they want the money, they should do the work.
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Unless he has proof, that would be libel, no? Of course not - in his world, when a competitor gets more business by offering a substantial discount that you cant match - thats bribery. When you do it, that's good business.
Maybe, maybe not. When Standard Oil undercut all its competitors by pricing its products BELOW production costs in order to drive them to bankruptcy and buy them out, that was ruled A Bad Thing and led to SO being broken up. There is a point where offering "special deals" is considered anti-competitive. If Standard Oil got nailed simply for offering product for too low a price, it's not unreasonable that Intel should likewise be nailed for offering product for a super low price, but only to companies that don't buy from Intel competitors. That's kind of shady territory there.
For example: BobComp buys Intel and AMD CPUs, so they get P4s for $35 each. JoeComp buys only Intel so they get the "deal" of $30 each. If BobComp buys 1000 CPUs a year from Intel and JoeComp buys only 500, then it's clearly not a "bulk discount".; it's a "helping us ace out the competition" discount. Now if $30 represents a significant loss of profit margin over $35 for Intel, then I'd say Intel is edging into some pretty anti-competitive territory.
In your own words that you'd rather be exploited making 30k etc.. That is perhaps rather accurate, since you recognize that indeed its not a choice of freedoms, its a choice of who you'll be exploited by.
I was only making a rhetorical point about the spurious logic of comparing factory work to IT work. Whether or not being paid less than you're worth necessarily qualifies as "exploitation" is a different matter entirely. I am not currently exploited at $30K a year. I may be worth more than that, but I also know that my boss is going nuts trying to make payroll. I doubt that he's making even $20K right now. I could look for another job, but 1) I'm still in school and need the flexible schedule, and 2) I am willing to continue working for an employer who's been fair over the years, even if the pay is low.
The entrpreneur risks bankruptcy. . .
Not really. This is what incorporation is all about. The entrepreneur incorporates, then risks seeing the corporation go bankrupt. His or her personal finances are unaffected by the corporation's bankruptcy status.
Except that usually it was the entrepreneur's personal finances that went into founding the company in the first place. If the company goes bankrupt, none of that is magically returned. Duh.
you get $566 simply for providing the capital, more than 250% of what the worker doing the actual work gets.
Exactly. You speak as if this is free money. How much capital was provided initially? How long does it take at $566 an pop to break even? Additionally, very few people just "provide capital"; they usually run the business as well. Should they get paid? Or should they have to get an outside job somewhere else for money? Should they make the same as the mechanic? If so, why don't they just become mechanics? Just because the mechanic is doing the manual labor doesn't mean higher-ups don't work. IF the "capital provider" is making so much more money than he should, why is it the mechanic who's getting cheated? Isn't it the customer that's getting the shaft? In short, if the customer is willing to pay X, and the mechanic is willing to work for Y, then where's the problem? If the mechanic feels he should make more, he needs to market his skills to another buyer, or (heaven forbid) to the customer directly by opening his own garage. You can't have the extra money without taking on the responsibility.
Maybe the clowns in road crews don't do any work...
Just as an aside, I'd like to put in a good word for those "clowns". I worked on a road crew putting in buried cabling, and I'll never disparage a man leaning on his shovel again. When you're working with a shovel, pick, or breaker bar, it is physically impossible to work for 8 hours without stopping. For every 10-15 minutes spent shoveling/picking/breaking, you need 3-5 minutes of rest in order to reoxygenate your muscles and clear lactic acid. Digging is hard work. When you see 5 guys standing around a trench waiting for the Ditch Witch to finish before they start shoveling again, don't think "lazy", think "tired".
But you yourself used the word evil repeatedly in your post. How about you believe the crap you're spouting about morals being irrelevant, and then you can tell us.
Touche, friend. I perhaps should have put "lesser of two evils" in quotes.
No, temperature is a characteristic of energy. And there's enough microwave radiation floating around in space to bring anything up to equilibrium at 4K.
errrm...the word "anything" above...does that word by chance refer to MATTER? If so, my question stands...Is it not MATTER in space that has a temp of 4deg K?
If you think a factory is better, go work in a factory!
Say it again, brother. I once worked in a factory that made plastic buckets. You know how handles get put on buckets? It ain't a machine what does it. It's people. People standing at tables and trying to make a quota for minimum wage. Argh. I have a co-worker who once worked in a factory where they made the coily handset cords for telephones. When the "kids" at our workplace complain about their slacker jobs, we like to trot out our factory stories. Doesn't help though. People who haven't worked in factories usually don't appreciate the mind-numbing repetition that goes on in a factory. I'd rather be exploited for $30K a year in a job that requires thinking than be exploited for $9K in a job that encourages brain death.
Earliest known uses of each word from the OED2:
1297 R. Glouc. 283 Upe e hexte bowe tueye applen he sey.
c1250 Gen. & Ex. 602 Fowerti dais after ðis, Arches windoze undon it is.
(earlier uses of each exist, but these are the first with nearly modern spelling)
Ever heard of Personal Computers?
Personal computers are not "frontiers" in any sense of the word. They are evolutionarily designed tools that can be traced back to the abacus, whereas a frontier is an undeveloped field or area for discovery. There was no great "push" required to get computers from the drawing board to reality. Spacecraft are a different story. Come on, people, think a little.
...beurocracy...
...beaurocracy...
crimony, people. If y'all are gonna use the word so many times, spell it right: BUREAUCRACY.
The reason why I find this type of search difficult is because most notes are part of a larger group of notes. And if you do a search on this larger group you will get most documents in the group.
I'm sorry, but to me it seems that results like that indicate that you haven't refined your search terms well enough, and if you can't seem to refine any better then it sounds like you're not sure what you're looking for. These are problems not with the medium the notes are in, but with the person doing the searching.
In other news Mustang owners say they don't really notice much of a difference with their 320hp vs. the 120hp Escort that costs much less.
More like "On average, people with Mustangs don't seem to drive much faster than people with Escorts, so speed must not be important."
But yeah, the study's conclusions are idiotic.
unfortunately for you the inky blackness of space is about 4 degrees kelvin
But isn't temperature a characteristic of matter? Isn't the inky blackness of space mostly vacuum? How can a vacuum have a temperature? If you put a thermometer in a vacuum, you're getting the temperature of the thermometer glass, right?
OH silly me. So when Bush says "evil", he is using the ALTERNATE definition of "not currently aligned with our short term geopolitical interests."
Cripes, if nothing else, haven't you figured out that you can't take what politicians say at face value? Soundbites are about morality, but the underlying geopolitics aren't, and never were.
Dude, I was like 12 when I read it the first time. Do people lurk on this board waiting for the opportunity to lash out and prove their intellectual superiority?
;)
Hah! I read it when I was 9! Now I'm intellectually superior!
This regime is just bad, unless you think they made up history for Kurds, Kuwait and Iran.
Like America has any moral foot to stand on, considering we funded the war against Iran.
Politics isn't all black and white. It's about hedging your bets and backing the lesser evils if necessary in order to thwart the greater evils. People like to make a lot of noise about how the US supported Iraq, but take a look at Iraq's military: it's hardware is 90% Soviet made and 10% European. Remember the USS Stark, which Iraq shot with a French Exocet missile fired from a French Mirage fighter? Everyone was helping Iraq a little back then because we all wanted to see Iran defeated. Iran came out of an Islamic fundamentalist revolution and immediately engaged in a war of conquest with Iraq. Most of the world was not so happy with this. Fast forward 10 years, and Iraq becomes the greater evil. It's the reality of geopolitics. Counting the moral legs of various countries as they stand on them misses the point entirely. It's not about morality and no one ever claimed it was. Get over it.
Over here in Europe, we like to elect leaders that aren't greedy, selfish, and evasive about their motives.
Oh, please. As if Europeans have somehow discovered the secret to altruism. Nearly all politicians are greedy, selfish, and evasive, and to think that the electorate could really spot them if they were trying to hide it is ludicrous. Europe just elects better actors.
Conspiracy Theorists Will see these photographs and say "Wow, those are excellent fakes."
Yeah, there's no reasoning with lunatics (pardon the pun). Reminds me of an apocryphal story my psychology teacher told about an intern at a psych hospital interviewing a man who thought he was dead. The intern was convinced he could help some of these people by using reason to disprove their delusions.
"Yes," the man said, "I've been dead for years."
"Do dead people bleed?" asked the intern.
"Don't be silly," laughed the man, "Dead people don't bleed!"
So the intern grabs the man's hand, and pokes the ball of his thumb with a pin. Slowly, a drop of blood wells up.
"Well what do you know," said the man with a look of utter disbelief, "Dead people do bleed!"
You can't reason with insanity.
I use mine all the time.... to read eBooks
DAmn straight. I use mine for keeping track of technical installation info at job sites (I install telecom systems), but the most important thing my Palm M500 provides is reading material while I'm taking a crap.
Why is the Navy kowtowing to (possibly) civillian law, when as a federal jurdistiction it is explicitly not subject to those laws?
Copyright law is federal law. They are subject to it.
Anyway, FWIW, I'm sorry that I was an ass
S'ok. We all act like an ass occasionally. I only decide someone's a real ass if they do it consistently.
One time with my Athlon 1.4ghz, I took the heatsink and fan off, to see what it would be like if I turned the computer on without them. The CPU kind of... melted, within a couple of seconds
Moron. Did you then drain the water and oil from your car and drive it around to see what it would do?
Nope. As far as stability, availability of drivers, windows compatability, and non-forced updates, win2k is the best windows IMO
A strange, non-factual opinion. XP and 2K have (nearly) the same NT5 kernal, use the same drivers, the same API, and updates aren't mandatory in XP. Essentially, going from 2K to XP is going from WinNT 5.0 to WinNT 5.1. I've noticed considerable improvement in stability, but then again, most stability data I hear is anecdotal so it's probably the same as 2K. THe one thing I've found much improved is startup time. Win 2K takes almost 3 minutes from poweron to desktop ready, whereas XP takes about 45 seconds.
I don't agree. It's trivial to argue that one hundred years is too short. Many currently extant companies, families, and institutions have been around for longer than 100 years.
But copyright isn't about guaranteeing a living to companies, families, an institutions; it's about encouraging creators to create through monetary incentive. After 100 years, chances are the creator is gone. Any half-assed notion that he ought to be able to pass on his "cash cow" to his descendents is just bunk. My grandfather was a brilliant mechanical engineer, but I won't ever expect money from the folks he designed machines for: he's already been paid. He passed on the business to my uncle, but that was just a list of customers and his good name. My uncle has to make money in the business by being a brilliant mechanical engineer himself. The children of a brilliant author shouldn't expect any more than the children of a brilliant engineer. If they want the money, they should do the work.