Evolution mapi depends on samba 4.x so it might be a bit more stable when samba 4.x leaves alpha. (although they are on alpha 5 even though they have not made an announcement since alpha 4 was released.)
Health care and medicine is expensive because there is no free market in it.
Um, the one country I know of with close to free market medicine has by far the highest medical costs.
A free market in medicine has an incentive for you to be sick so you are handing over money, while a socialized system (such as England) can pay doctors a bonus based on how healthy the doctors patients are.
In a free market medicines that don't cure but simply prolong life expectancy are the most desirable drugs.
Oops, just thought of a better drug, one that makes a non-contagious deadly condition a benign and extremely contagious condition, but only while you take the medicine.
That would be close to the perfect free market drug. High customer retention, low effort market saturation, Global market. What more could you ask in a product?
Free Market economics is not magic pixie dust. Milton Friedman was almost entirely correct about his observations, The usefulness of his conclusions vary based to what type of world you want to live in.
I don't want to see drug dealers and hookers on my street corner, I don't want to have to constantly look up and down the street to see if someone is going to try and rob me, and as Milton Friedman said: it may not be pleasant but people will do what the have to to survive. I'd rather not be living in that world any more than I have to. If you see no problem with that world we will just have to agree to disagree.
Although CEO pay seems inversely proportional to performance.
The percentage of the top 100 paid CEO that work for companies losing money is almost always disproportionately high compared to the S&P 500. (some like AMAT have had years where the only reason they lost millions was paying the CEO)
Some of the more profitable companies have some of the lower paid CEOs. For example, Bill Gates never cleared seven figures as CEO of Microsoft. Well run companies don't pay super star salaries. Hence the investor revolts by CALPERS and many hedge funds.
In a democracy great disparity in wealth can become a real problem if those at the top of the wealth ladder are allowed to fully utilize their wealth to influence public policy as they are able to effectively overcome their one vote issue. George Sorros and Move On are a prime example of one person doing much more than he should be able to in influencing our public policy.
PS households making about 70k generally pay the highest tax rates, as the deductions that happen as a part of life as you have more assets generally decrease the tax rates at the upper income levels.
PPS. Obama has taken money from ADM which has been convicted under RICO, voted for FISA, proposed coal to diesel followed by putting that diesel in the strategic petroleum reserves because Americans won't by diesel, and is generally as bad as McCain. So, please bash the man on his merits, as their is no need to lie and exaggerate about the man's history, even if it doesn't help because a lot of things can be said about McCain (Who probably lost the entire Hillary/feminist vote by calling his wife a cunt.)
PPPS. Vote Green, Constitution, Libertarian, or Nader.
Warren Buffet was whisked out of California when he said that Schwarzenegger needed to repeal prop 13 (limits on property taxes) because it is destroying the state.
Bill Gates Father spent more time than anyone else I know trying to KEEP the estate tax.
I suspect that you object more to Buffets taxes being raised the Buffet himself.
Sometimes you have to look at the big picture and not what is best at the moment, and not go government bad, private good.
Public roads are very useful in maintaining a free market place. As are solid bankruptcy protections so that people will take the risk to fill the various gaps in the supply/demand curve.
Single Payer Health Care would make the barriers to entry in a lot of industries much lower.
You can be a supporter of free market economics and still support government investment in the general infrastructure of society.
I know of very few people that make avoiding taxes their number one goal in life. I do know of many more that look at net ROI (return on investment) and will alter their behavior based on the economic impact of taxes, but not because they are looking to lower their taxes, just maximize their wealth. I know even more people that will give up a little of their standard of living, if it means that they never have to worry about being able to pay a bill again. (not the people that drive a country forward, but they are the people that put the next president in office.)
Good thing it wasn't cloudy. Still, those few square feet wouldn't even run the blower for my A/C, never mind the compressor. Guess I'm sticking with the nuke.
I live in foggy San Francisco and the solar panels on my roof turn the electric meter the correct direction on cloudy days.
For polar climates that have periods of minimal day time lack of light is an issue, but clouds are not much of an issue.
Diesel buses are a much bigger issue as they leave sediment that requires cleaning the damn roof.
If solar was given the same tax breaks as petro chemical fuels are the US would probably be about 50% solar.
My best guess from my understanding of SFGOV is that his boss answers directly to the mayor.
Most of San Francisco government answers directly to the mayor. San Francisco is a city and county so it has no city council, or city manager only county supervisors, a controller and a mayor, along with many other oddities that are only in San Francisco.
Fortunately/unfortunately there is a civil service commission and fairly strong employees unions that cover all but the political appointees, somewhat muting the mayors power. (oh and the board of supervisors and the voters can override the mayor when ever they feel like it, but the mayor still has ultimate control, unless he has been over ridden. )
People may be asking some really hard questions of the head of DTIS. (hard questions as in "Why should we keep funding your job when we have a multi-million dollar budget shortfall?")
Yeah yeah, but the real world doesn't run on 'should'. The reality is lots of executive types won't be thrilled with the idea sensitive data being hosted on a website.
Sunguards primary business is doing almost exactly that. (not with a web interface last time I dealt with them, but still)
Most of the Petro industry info I have seen suggest that "peak oil" hit about 2003-2005.
The definition of peak oil that I have seen is that the month to month reserves economically extractable will trend in the negative direction. (note that this has almost nothing to do with the gross supply of oil going up or down.)
This maybe more due to the solar power initiative in Germany, T. Boone Pickens wind farm endeavor, and other non petro power initiatives than with any production factor of the supply of oil. But that is not the question the petro industry is asking the question they are asking is, "How do you price oil if you believe (like OPEC and company do) that there will be a greater supply imbalance tomorrow than today, leading to substitution effects? Or do you make more money selling today to people with SUVs or do you make more money selling crude oil at $700 per barrel to people that need lubricants for their electric cars?
If you say that we are unlikely to ever run out of oil you are probably correct. The issue is what will the supply demand curve look like, and what does that curve look like over time as people substitute solar, wind, nuclear, energy efficiency, lifestyle changes, building densities, and the million other little things that change in economic viability as the price of oil fluctuates.
For example if the price of oil were to hit $300/barrel at the beginning of August and still be there at the end of August, Ford would rebrand some tiny 50+MPG car and sell it as a Ford in September.
This is basic economics. The problem is are you missing an important variable in your model. As the option traders disclosure statement says, Complexity is a risk factor. The more complicated something is the more opportunities for someone to make a significant mistake, and the greater the chance that the mistake will not be caught until it is too late.
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one error that you are making is that you are comparing standard rail to airlines instead of high speed rail (HSR).
HSR is about as fast as prop planes.
Also, you chose an outlier of US cities (Denver) that is geographically very isolated from other US cities.
HSR in the northeast corridor and california would be much faster than flying as amtrack is almost competative with flying as is.
Not that Denver, Salt Lake City, and other western cities may never be practical for HSR unless they are a stop connecting the west coast to the mid west, but looking at Las Vegas, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento 9-11 security theater makes HSR look very attractive.
The story I have heard is that the docx filter is basically a wrapper around the doc importer that was coded up pretty quickly because a doc importer already existed.
What feature(s) (besides cost and idealism)does an open source OS allow someone like me that windows doesn't?
I have an O'Reilly vi handbook that was published before you were born.
Everything in that book works on FreeBSD, Linux, OSX, and most other operating systems except Windows. (although there is a port of vim for windows.)
A windows book from that era would probably be of no use what soever.
Look at the XP -> Vista outrage. That is a relatively minor windows change and it is causing all sorts of havoc. What of your current skills will be of any use when Vista is end-of-lifed? My guess would be just the little bit you picked up from playing with kubuntu.
I will admit that Linux distributions are not as polished as Vista, but you can see how Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Mandriva, SuSE, and RedHat, could get there. (one of the reasons why it is so frustrating that they are not there now.)
If you are looking at a startup web company, Amazon web services are only available to you if you run Linux, (FreeBSD support is being worked on, limited by Xen support in FreeBSD.) $72/month plus actual usage is a lot cheaper than $1500/month for space in a colo, plus hardware, plus bandwidth.
One thing you also get is unified software updates of all your software. Image if windows update grabbed the latest version of photoshop, firefox, Norton, Google Earth, in addition to Windows and Microsoft office.
Another thing you get from open source software at the moment, is better compatibility with Microsoft Word and Excel. I have a client that uses NeoOffice to open OfficeXP.doc and.xls files because MS office for the mac does not open them. (however office for the mac will open.xls and.doc files saved from NeoOffice, as will OfficeXP)
Also, end-of-life is less final in the open source world than in the closed source world. FreeBSD 4.x was EOL in 2005 but there have been security patches issues for it after that date as there are still companies like verio with large installs of FreeBSD 4.x
While driver support for NVidia, and ATI video cards is poor under linux compared to windows, for obscure hardware linux has much better support for it.
I am sure one could come up with more things you get out of open source, like developers tools, niche products etc. but I hope this gives you a bit a taste for why you might take the time to learn a Linux distribution or one of the BSDs.
Finally, if you insist on being Windows centric you might keep an eye on http://www.reactos.org/. Which could use some help in trying to become a successor to XP.
The problem is they can unilatirally declare that you have violated the license and then you get to sue them saying you have not breached the license.
The conclusion of the debian legal forum was that the following would be reasonable, Microsoft invalidates everyones licenses, everyone sues (at a cost of $N where N is large) and then Microsoft goes, oops guess your right, our mistake, if you can prove you did not violate the license.
There is an expectation that Yahoo is going to change the two details as they are quite trivial to Yahoo, but probably why they are not in most distributions.
Well there is this clause in the yahoo public license that Yahoo (Microsoft) gets to invalidate your license and then you can sue to get your license reinstated.
This is why zimbra is not in debian. (well that and the clause mandating all disputes be resolved in Sunnyvale, California)
Invalidation a la the GPL and limiting the jurisdictional issues to disputes involving Yahoo would help zimbra adoption. apt-get install zimbra would drive installations, I don't know about revenues.
I would say the lesson is that if you think of the hardware on your desk as outdated trash that needs updated as frequently as you update your software you will be in sync with the hardware manufacturers.
If you think that someone should support your ancient 2007 Hardware you are going to find that the hardware vendors are in strong disagreement and believe that you should take that 42" printer to the computer recycling center and help the economy by getting a new printer.
Expense with no return == bad. Expense with revenue == good.
Of course there is the upset customer issue, but if all the manufacturers fail to support the old hardware then the threat of using another supplier is hollow.
Hence, the laws about implied warranty and fitness for a purpose.
Sort of sucks all around.
Buy an ati card get crappy support today, Buy an nvidia card and be stuck with a card without 3D drivers tomorrow, Buy an intel card and get a crappy card with with good support today and tomorrow.
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Evolution mapi depends on samba 4.x so it might be a bit more stable when samba 4.x leaves alpha. (although they are on alpha 5 even though they have not made an announcement since alpha 4 was released.)
An MBA that is ignorant about everything outside of the executive suite?
(you know like firing all the highest paid commission sales staff for cost cutting)
Um, the one country I know of with close to free market medicine has by far the highest medical costs.
A free market in medicine has an incentive for you to be sick so you are handing over money, while a socialized system (such as England) can pay doctors a bonus based on how healthy the doctors patients are.
In a free market medicines that don't cure but simply prolong life expectancy are the most desirable drugs.
Oops, just thought of a better drug, one that makes a non-contagious deadly condition a benign and extremely contagious condition, but only while you take the medicine.
That would be close to the perfect free market drug. High customer retention, low effort market saturation, Global market. What more could you ask in a product?
Free Market economics is not magic pixie dust. Milton Friedman was almost entirely correct about his observations, The usefulness of his conclusions vary based to what type of world you want to live in.
I don't want to see drug dealers and hookers on my street corner, I don't want to have to constantly look up and down the street to see if someone is going to try and rob me, and as Milton Friedman said: it may not be pleasant but people will do what the have to to survive. I'd rather not be living in that world any more than I have to. If you see no problem with that world we will just have to agree to disagree.
Although CEO pay seems inversely proportional to performance.
The percentage of the top 100 paid CEO that work for companies losing money is almost always disproportionately high compared to the S&P 500. (some like AMAT have had years where the only reason they lost millions was paying the CEO)
Some of the more profitable companies have some of the lower paid CEOs. For example, Bill Gates never cleared seven figures as CEO of Microsoft. Well run companies don't pay super star salaries. Hence the investor revolts by CALPERS and many hedge funds.
In a democracy great disparity in wealth can become a real problem if those at the top of the wealth ladder are allowed to fully utilize their wealth to influence public policy as they are able to effectively overcome their one vote issue. George Sorros and Move On are a prime example of one person doing much more than he should be able to in influencing our public policy.
PS households making about 70k generally pay the highest tax rates, as the deductions that happen as a part of life as you have more assets generally decrease the tax rates at the upper income levels.
PPS. Obama has taken money from ADM which has been convicted under RICO, voted for FISA, proposed coal to diesel followed by putting that diesel in the strategic petroleum reserves because Americans won't by diesel, and is generally as bad as McCain. So, please bash the man on his merits, as their is no need to lie and exaggerate about the man's history, even if it doesn't help because a lot of things can be said about McCain (Who probably lost the entire Hillary/feminist vote by calling his wife a cunt.)
PPPS. Vote Green, Constitution, Libertarian, or Nader.
Warren Buffet was whisked out of California when he said that Schwarzenegger needed to repeal prop 13 (limits on property taxes) because it is destroying the state.
Bill Gates Father spent more time than anyone else I know trying to KEEP the estate tax.
I suspect that you object more to Buffets taxes being raised the Buffet himself.
Sometimes you have to look at the big picture and not what is best at the moment, and not go government bad, private good.
Public roads are very useful in maintaining a free market place. As are solid bankruptcy protections so that people will take the risk to fill the various gaps in the supply/demand curve.
Single Payer Health Care would make the barriers to entry in a lot of industries much lower.
You can be a supporter of free market economics and still support government investment in the general infrastructure of society.
I know of very few people that make avoiding taxes their number one goal in life. I do know of many more that look at net ROI (return on investment) and will alter their behavior based on the economic impact of taxes, but not because they are looking to lower their taxes, just maximize their wealth. I know even more people that will give up a little of their standard of living, if it means that they never have to worry about being able to pay a bill again. (not the people that drive a country forward, but they are the people that put the next president in office.)
Welcome to Democrat "logic".
I live in foggy San Francisco and the solar panels on my roof turn the electric meter the correct direction on cloudy days.
For polar climates that have periods of minimal day time lack of light is an issue, but clouds are not much of an issue.
Diesel buses are a much bigger issue as they leave sediment that requires cleaning the damn roof.
If solar was given the same tax breaks as petro chemical fuels are the US would probably be about 50% solar.
At 82 I doubt he will be doing much of anything for a long time.
Although without the indictment, maybe senator porkbarrel would have stayed till his dying day.
Enron, and WorldCom might have had an ROI on the accounting department.
My best guess from my understanding of SFGOV is that his boss answers directly to the mayor.
Most of San Francisco government answers directly to the mayor. San Francisco is a city and county so it has no city council, or city manager only county supervisors, a controller and a mayor, along with many other oddities that are only in San Francisco.
Fortunately/unfortunately there is a civil service commission and fairly strong employees unions that cover all but the political appointees, somewhat muting the mayors power. (oh and the board of supervisors and the voters can override the mayor when ever they feel like it, but the mayor still has ultimate control, unless he has been over ridden. )
People may be asking some really hard questions of the head of DTIS. (hard questions as in "Why should we keep funding your job when we have a multi-million dollar budget shortfall?")
It could be an interesting month.
Yeah yeah, but the real world doesn't run on 'should'. The reality is lots of executive types won't be thrilled with the idea sensitive data being hosted on a website.
Sunguards primary business is doing almost exactly that. (not with a web interface last time I dealt with them, but still)
A sample implementation
Give up and supplement your income via corporate espionage selling accounts that have their passwords displayed on post-it notes.
Though, doesn't every implementation look something like this?
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Sockpuppets and meme seeding just seem to be strange background behavior to an already odd culture. ;)
Sort of sounds like a new book on geek culture is due out with the latest twists.
First post about twitter that has made me laugh.
Personally the whole thing is overdone, but then all sport is overdone, that's what makes it sport.
Makes it easier to ignore twitter and those that complain about twitter.
Most of the Petro industry info I have seen suggest that "peak oil" hit about 2003-2005.
The definition of peak oil that I have seen is that the month to month reserves economically extractable will trend in the negative direction. (note that this has almost nothing to do with the gross supply of oil going up or down.)
This maybe more due to the solar power initiative in Germany, T. Boone Pickens wind farm endeavor, and other non petro power initiatives than with any production factor of the supply of oil. But that is not the question the petro industry is asking the question they are asking is, "How do you price oil if you believe (like OPEC and company do) that there will be a greater supply imbalance tomorrow than today, leading to substitution effects? Or do you make more money selling today to people with SUVs or do you make more money selling crude oil at $700 per barrel to people that need lubricants for their electric cars?
If you say that we are unlikely to ever run out of oil you are probably correct. The issue is what will the supply demand curve look like, and what does that curve look like over time as people substitute solar, wind, nuclear, energy efficiency, lifestyle changes, building densities, and the million other little things that change in economic viability as the price of oil fluctuates.
For example if the price of oil were to hit $300/barrel at the beginning of August and still be there at the end of August, Ford would rebrand some tiny 50+MPG car and sell it as a Ford in September.
This is basic economics. The problem is are you missing an important variable in your model. As the option traders disclosure statement says, Complexity is a risk factor. The more complicated something is the more opportunities for someone to make a significant mistake, and the greater the chance that the mistake will not be caught until it is too late.
one error that you are making is that you are comparing standard rail to airlines instead of high speed rail (HSR).
HSR is about as fast as prop planes.
Also, you chose an outlier of US cities (Denver) that is geographically very isolated from other US cities.
HSR in the northeast corridor and california would be much faster than flying as amtrack is almost competative with flying as is.
Not that Denver, Salt Lake City, and other western cities may never be practical for HSR unless they are a stop connecting the west coast to the mid west, but looking at Las Vegas, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento 9-11 security theater makes HSR look very attractive.
Openoffice.org opens docx files pretty well.
The story I have heard is that the docx filter is basically a wrapper around the doc importer that was coded up pretty quickly because a doc importer already existed.
I would use amazon's web services, if the business plan showed that I could make better than minimum wage.
:-)
Step one is write up a business plan and price out your hosting costs and try and pay yourself something even if it is a hobby.
Amazon instances have no SLA, so your backup will have to be rock solid (it was going to be anyways, right? so that's not an issue
The advantage of using Amazon is no unused inventory; scale up as you need; and about a seventy dollar a month minimum.
If Google looks like they will make it out of beta before you are going to be ready to launch you might look at it.
I have an O'Reilly vi handbook that was published before you were born.
Everything in that book works on FreeBSD, Linux, OSX, and most other operating systems except Windows. (although there is a port of vim for windows.)
A windows book from that era would probably be of no use what soever.
Look at the XP -> Vista outrage. That is a relatively minor windows change and it is causing all sorts of havoc. What of your current skills will be of any use when Vista is end-of-lifed? My guess would be just the little bit you picked up from playing with kubuntu.
I will admit that Linux distributions are not as polished as Vista, but you can see how Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Mandriva, SuSE, and RedHat, could get there. (one of the reasons why it is so frustrating that they are not there now.)
If you are looking at a startup web company, Amazon web services are only available to you if you run Linux, (FreeBSD support is being worked on, limited by Xen support in FreeBSD.) $72/month plus actual usage is a lot cheaper than $1500/month for space in a colo, plus hardware, plus bandwidth.
One thing you also get is unified software updates of all your software. Image if windows update grabbed the latest version of photoshop, firefox, Norton, Google Earth, in addition to Windows and Microsoft office.
Another thing you get from open source software at the moment, is better compatibility with Microsoft Word and Excel. I have a client that uses NeoOffice to open OfficeXP
Also, end-of-life is less final in the open source world than in the closed source world. FreeBSD 4.x was EOL in 2005 but there have been security patches issues for it after that date as there are still companies like verio with large installs of FreeBSD 4.x
While driver support for NVidia, and ATI video cards is poor under linux compared to windows, for obscure hardware linux has much better support for it.
I am sure one could come up with more things you get out of open source, like developers tools, niche products etc. but I hope this gives you a bit a taste for why you might take the time to learn a Linux distribution or one of the BSDs.
Finally, if you insist on being Windows centric you might keep an eye on http://www.reactos.org/. Which could use some help in trying to become a successor to XP.
http://www.solarhost.co.uk/ seems priced competitively with the rest of the shared virtual hosting business.
http://www.solarhost.com/ looks like it is extremely unreliable.
It is sort of nice to have an option to http://www.aiso.net/.
The problem is they can unilatirally declare that you have violated the license and then you get to sue them saying you have not breached the license.
The conclusion of the debian legal forum was that the following would be reasonable, Microsoft invalidates everyones licenses, everyone sues (at a cost of $N where N is large) and then Microsoft goes, oops guess your right, our mistake, if you can prove you did not violate the license.
There is an expectation that Yahoo is going to change the two details as they are quite trivial to Yahoo, but probably why they are not in most distributions.
It is a very subtle problem.
Well there is this clause in the yahoo public license that Yahoo (Microsoft) gets to invalidate your license and then you can sue to get your license reinstated.
This is why zimbra is not in debian. (well that and the clause mandating all disputes be resolved in Sunnyvale, California)
Invalidation a la the GPL and limiting the jurisdictional issues to disputes involving Yahoo would help zimbra adoption. apt-get install zimbra would drive installations, I don't know about revenues.
Paypal is hyping Extended Validation certificates after Netcraft posts articles like this:
Extended Validation certificates and XSS considered harmful
Curious if nothing else.
I would say the lesson is that if you think of the hardware on your desk as outdated trash that needs updated as frequently as you update your software you will be in sync with the hardware manufacturers.
If you think that someone should support your ancient 2007 Hardware you are going to find that the hardware vendors are in strong disagreement and believe that you should take that 42" printer to the computer recycling center and help the economy by getting a new printer.
Expense with no return == bad.
Expense with revenue == good.
Of course there is the upset customer issue, but if all the manufacturers fail to support the old hardware then the threat of using another supplier is hollow.
Hence, the laws about implied warranty and fitness for a purpose.
Sort of sucks all around.
Buy an ati card get crappy support today, Buy an nvidia card and be stuck with a card without 3D drivers tomorrow, Buy an intel card and get a crappy card with with good support today and tomorrow.
Sort of sucks all around don't you think?