The study has one flaw in that it doesn't deal with the issue that paying $100k this year is worse than paying $100k in ten years from now. But the increase in healthcare costs for the elderly probably keep it such that it is still cheaper for people to dies of lung cancer than to live to old age.
Would be good to see a few more of those studies though.
In 1993 it was more or less impossible to buy a PC without dos and Windows 3.x on it because Microsoft charged a lot less to OEMs if they agreed to ship a copy of Windows 3.x with every PC sold. (IIRC it was $99 per copy or $19 per copy if you agreed to ship Windows on every machine.)
So you can buy a new computer today with DOS on it from a major manufacturer. Minix is still alive and being used by Prof. Tanenbaum. Microsoft had all OEMs shipping Windows with every PC, and you claim it was a rich time in computing history? I am sorry but the writing was on the wall that Microsoft was going to win (painted on the wall by Microsoft, with their competitors blood)
Ironically, Bill Gates was one of the few people to see that web browsers could eventually be the Desktop OS. Hence, the decision to cut of Netscape's oxygen.
How exactly is it a win for Oracle? They now have a competing VM that can run Java code. Considering Android's position in the mobile market, I'd say for Oracle this means Java goes into a slow eclipse.
If Oracle had "won", IBM would have sent cease and desist orders to all of Oracle's customers that use the IBM API called SQL. (with help migrating to DB2 for a small fee no more than twice what they had already paid Oracle, plus the occasional surcharge for things like returning phone calls.)
Really, about the best Oracle could have hoped for.
It opened at 100 went to 113 over a few days, then fell back to 99 and then went on a run. So the miss remembering of the grandparent is that GOOG fell below the opening price, but it never fell to the IPO price.
Clearly GOOG was under priced. as Google would have raised 20% more had it been priced correctly, but due to wanting to get people to buy the IPO's the bankers really try to convince management that it is OK to under price the offering for all the good press it will generate.
Was the 16% discount worth it to Google? Nobody will know, but clearly it survived the discount just fine.
If the bankers did their job, an IPO should fall below it's IPO price at some point. The IPO (and secondary offerings, and warrants, and employee stock options) are the only time that the company makes money from the sale of shares.
A company that goes public rarely puts out any news that would cause the company to go up in value for 90 days after the stock goes public. Therefore if the stock goes up significantly from the IPO price in the 90 days after the IPO it is almost definitely because of a wink shake agreement between management and the bankers to bleed money out of the company to investors at the expense of the long term health of the company.
No matter what happens to the stock price, facebook put $8,000,000,000 in its bank account. If the price had been lowered to 16 Facebook would only have raised $4,000,000,000 and would be in a much worse position financially, despite the fact that everyone would be going on about how great the stock was doing.
IPO's that pop like in the dot com days are the sign that the company is actively being looted, and probably won't make it as a public company very long.
The question of whether or not you think Facebook is a good investment or not is whether or not you think that they are going to successfully use their cash to figure out how to make money off of their mobile users.
But people that work from home and use skype for collaboration easily hit just under that. (~200GB to ~250GB is typical in my household, with skype, youtube, dropbox, and sendspace being about ~90% of the traffic.)
Bittorrent traffic at my house tends to be under 10Gig per month, with some months being 0 (for comparison, ssh tends to average about 30GB per month)
I guess if I was out more and used a cell phone for a large percentage of my internet usage my usage would be a lot less.
It makes that burst rates sort of meaningless though, as they all have the same data cap.
So everyone runs their own updater? How is that different that what happens today? Ok, there is one screen, but all the updaters have to becareful not to step on each others toes when doing reboots, killing processes, etc.
The little update icon in the task bar is close enough to what you are asking for.
Python fits that description for the most part. It doesn't mean that there are not clever idiots writing crap in python, but the idiots have to work at it.
The reason why people use php is because of wordpress, drupal, joomla, symfony, yii, cake, and the rest of the eco system around the language.
I wonder how much of the reason php, asp, and java are just because of marketing that allowed them to figure out how to get new developers interested in the technology.
No but it is a cool first real program for an intro to programming class.
Most students can do it in someplace between 500 and 1500 lines. The only problem is to introduce it late enough and with enough help so that they don't just try and copy it.
The help isn't because they really need it, it is so that they have the self confidence to actually try it.
Out of the box it supports slave db servers for all read requests, and supports reverse proxies.
If you said D7 has a large memory footprint you would be right, but that is different form scaling.
There are several high volume sites that run on Drupal, they might be able to run on less hardware if they used something else, but being more expensive is different from being terrible.
The single claimant believes that there are other people that have the identical claim and it would be in Nokia and the courts interest if there was one lawsuit instead of many lawsuits.
The problem for Nokia share holders is that it appears that their CEO is getting more compensation from Microsoft than Nokia, furthering this appearance of impropriety is his decisions that appear to favor Microsoft over Nokia.
The biggest thing that I can think of is that the later versions of PSD formats are not freely licensed, which is why they are not in the gimp.
If I read this correctly it is possible for European software developers to use competitors file formats, which does not seem to be the case for American developers.
So how come Linux supports more hardware than any other kernel?
FreeBSD has a stable ABI, and supports many fewer devices than Linux. The evidence supports the hypotheses that having a stable ABI encourages proprietary drivers which is a short term win, while reducing the number of universal drivers that work on many devices that are substantially similar, resulting in the stable ABI supporting fewer devices over the long run.
Does it enter into it that the sales people targeted people likely to have a lack of financial knowledge?
I know of no DINK (dual income no kids) households that entered into neg-am loans. I know of lots of single women, and people that were have minimal English skills (enough to get by, but not enough to understand a legal contract, whether because of lack of education, or English being a second language that they had not yet mastered.)
The real idiots are the investment managers that bought the Asset Back Securities. Those people should be barred from managing anyone else's finances under any situation, and probably have their own assets put in a receivership for their own protection, a la Britney Spears.
Reforming the bankruptcy laws so people can keep their primary residence requires repealing existing law, not creating more law.
No, but selling neg am mortgages to to homeowners was fraud.
Selling neg-am mortgages to developers that have all their permits ready to go for construction is providing a service.
The fact that the statute of limitations on TILA(truth in lending act) fraud is three years tollable to four years and the neg am mortgages blowing up on the homeowner in 4.5 years on average is the result of bipartisan support for the fraud.
The only fair way to clean up the foreclosure mess is to allow bankruptcy judges to on a case by case basis, restructure home loans so that as many creditors get paid and people can keep their homes.
The disincentives for fraud in bankruptcy court are extreme. (the court can claw back all the concessions, your creditors made, keep you from filing bankruptcy again, and send you to jail)
The regulations about short selling is primarily that the client has to agree, in an unequivocal way, that the understand that there is unlimited downside risk, no limit to how much you can lose. once the client agrees to that, then you can dream up what ever scheme you and the client want.
Informed consent just does not happen at the retail level in finance and the courts are unwilling to face that fact.
Most of the patents in this case have been invalidated by the copyright office after google requested a re-examination of the patents. This is why the Billions has gone down to something less then 35 million.
And then there are those that use the least amount of closed source software they can, while still accomplishing the task at hand.
We will re-evaluate if there are some situations that the open source driver may be usable now where it wasn't just a few months ago.
I would expect the days of compiling the nvidia kernel module to be coming to a close in the next couple of years, the driver looks like it might actually be faster than the binary blob when the clock setting issues are figured out.
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Thanks for the link.
The study has one flaw in that it doesn't deal with the issue that paying $100k this year is worse than paying $100k in ten years from now. But the increase in healthcare costs for the elderly probably keep it such that it is still cheaper for people to dies of lung cancer than to live to old age.
Would be good to see a few more of those studies though.
Dell ships computers with freedos on them today.
In 1993 it was more or less impossible to buy a PC without dos and Windows 3.x on it because Microsoft charged a lot less to OEMs if they agreed to ship a copy of Windows 3.x with every PC sold. (IIRC it was $99 per copy or $19 per copy if you agreed to ship Windows on every machine.)
So you can buy a new computer today with DOS on it from a major manufacturer. Minix is still alive and being used by Prof. Tanenbaum. Microsoft had all OEMs shipping Windows with every PC, and you claim it was a rich time in computing history? I am sorry but the writing was on the wall that Microsoft was going to win (painted on the wall by Microsoft, with their competitors blood)
Ironically, Bill Gates was one of the few people to see that web browsers could eventually be the Desktop OS. Hence, the decision to cut of Netscape's oxygen.
How exactly is it a win for Oracle? They now have a competing VM that can run Java code. Considering Android's position in the mobile market, I'd say for Oracle this means Java goes into a slow eclipse.
If Oracle had "won", IBM would have sent cease and desist orders to all of Oracle's customers that use the IBM API called SQL. (with help migrating to DB2 for a small fee no more than twice what they had already paid Oracle, plus the occasional surcharge for things like returning phone calls.)
Really, about the best Oracle could have hoped for.
The details of your post make your statement of bing being better for hiking a useful post.
The Grandparents post is devoid of any information and merely contains opinion. (which may or may not be correct.)
It opened at 100 went to 113 over a few days, then fell back to 99 and then went on a run. So the miss remembering of the grandparent is that GOOG fell below the opening price, but it never fell to the IPO price.
Clearly GOOG was under priced. as Google would have raised 20% more had it been priced correctly, but due to wanting to get people to buy the IPO's the bankers really try to convince management that it is OK to under price the offering for all the good press it will generate.
Was the 16% discount worth it to Google? Nobody will know, but clearly it survived the discount just fine.
Probably, but that price is probably about 0.002.
If the bankers did their job, an IPO should fall below it's IPO price at some point. The IPO (and secondary offerings, and warrants, and employee stock options) are the only time that the company makes money from the sale of shares.
A company that goes public rarely puts out any news that would cause the company to go up in value for 90 days after the stock goes public. Therefore if the stock goes up significantly from the IPO price in the 90 days after the IPO it is almost definitely because of a wink shake agreement between management and the bankers to bleed money out of the company to investors at the expense of the long term health of the company.
No matter what happens to the stock price, facebook put $8,000,000,000 in its bank account. If the price had been lowered to 16 Facebook would only have raised $4,000,000,000 and would be in a much worse position financially, despite the fact that everyone would be going on about how great the stock was doing.
IPO's that pop like in the dot com days are the sign that the company is actively being looted, and probably won't make it as a public company very long.
The question of whether or not you think Facebook is a good investment or not is whether or not you think that they are going to successfully use their cash to figure out how to make money off of their mobile users.
But people that work from home and use skype for collaboration easily hit just under that. (~200GB to ~250GB is typical in my household, with skype, youtube, dropbox, and sendspace being about ~90% of the traffic.)
Bittorrent traffic at my house tends to be under 10Gig per month, with some months being 0 (for comparison, ssh tends to average about 30GB per month)
I guess if I was out more and used a cell phone for a large percentage of my internet usage my usage would be a lot less.
It makes that burst rates sort of meaningless though, as they all have the same data cap.
So everyone runs their own updater? How is that different that what happens today? Ok, there is one screen, but all the updaters have to becareful not to step on each others toes when doing reboots, killing processes, etc.
The little update icon in the task bar is close enough to what you are asking for.
While in theory the programming may be trivial, in practice the QA is far from trivial.
How do you convince Adobe that they need to conform to you packagemanager?
Python fits that description for the most part. It doesn't mean that there are not clever idiots writing crap in python, but the idiots have to work at it.
The reason why people use php is because of wordpress, drupal, joomla, symfony, yii, cake, and the rest of the eco system around the language.
I wonder how much of the reason php, asp, and java are just because of marketing that allowed them to figure out how to get new developers interested in the technology.
No but it is a cool first real program for an intro to programming class.
Most students can do it in someplace between 500 and 1500 lines. The only problem is to introduce it late enough and with enough help so that they don't just try and copy it.
The help isn't because they really need it, it is so that they have the self confidence to actually try it.
D7 and pressflow scale pretty well.
Out of the box it supports slave db servers for all read requests, and supports reverse proxies.
If you said D7 has a large memory footprint you would be right, but that is different form scaling.
There are several high volume sites that run on Drupal, they might be able to run on less hardware if they used something else, but being more expensive is different from being terrible.
The single claimant believes that there are other people that have the identical claim and it would be in Nokia and the courts interest if there was one lawsuit instead of many lawsuits.
The problem for Nokia share holders is that it appears that their CEO is getting more compensation from Microsoft than Nokia, furthering this appearance of impropriety is his decisions that appear to favor Microsoft over Nokia.
Strangely, or not so strangely, law firms have greatly reduced staffs in the last few years.
The biggest thing that I can think of is that the later versions of PSD formats are not freely licensed, which is why they are not in the gimp.
If I read this correctly it is possible for European software developers to use competitors file formats, which does not seem to be the case for American developers.
What do you mean linux hasn't done the driver thing terribly well? Back in 2008 Linux had more device support than any other OS and I really don't see that changing. http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/10/how-linux-supports-more-device.html
So how come Linux supports more hardware than any other kernel?
FreeBSD has a stable ABI, and supports many fewer devices than Linux. The evidence supports the hypotheses that having a stable ABI encourages proprietary drivers which is a short term win, while reducing the number of universal drivers that work on many devices that are substantially similar, resulting in the stable ABI supporting fewer devices over the long run.
Does it enter into it that the sales people targeted people likely to have a lack of financial knowledge?
I know of no DINK (dual income no kids) households that entered into neg-am loans. I know of lots of single women, and people that were have minimal English skills (enough to get by, but not enough to understand a legal contract, whether because of lack of education, or English being a second language that they had not yet mastered.)
The real idiots are the investment managers that bought the Asset Back Securities. Those people should be barred from managing anyone else's finances under any situation, and probably have their own assets put in a receivership for their own protection, a la Britney Spears.
Reforming the bankruptcy laws so people can keep their primary residence requires repealing existing law, not creating more law.
No, but selling neg am mortgages to to homeowners was fraud.
Selling neg-am mortgages to developers that have all their permits ready to go for construction is providing a service.
The fact that the statute of limitations on TILA(truth in lending act) fraud is three years tollable to four years and the neg am mortgages blowing up on the homeowner in 4.5 years on average is the result of bipartisan support for the fraud.
The only fair way to clean up the foreclosure mess is to allow bankruptcy judges to on a case by case basis, restructure home loans so that as many creditors get paid and people can keep their homes.
The disincentives for fraud in bankruptcy court are extreme. (the court can claw back all the concessions, your creditors made, keep you from filing bankruptcy again, and send you to jail)
The regulations about short selling is primarily that the client has to agree, in an unequivocal way, that the understand that there is unlimited downside risk, no limit to how much you can lose. once the client agrees to that, then you can dream up what ever scheme you and the client want.
Informed consent just does not happen at the retail level in finance and the courts are unwilling to face that fact.
I think you are understating the risks of ketamine by quite a lot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine#Short_term which summerizes : http://www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-3924(11)00046-7/fulltext 40% of the population suffers side effects that make Ketamine unsuitable for them. I am glad it works for you, but there are a reasons why it tends to be low on the list of drugs used to treat something over the long term.
That's why we Americans have the second amendment.
The house of representatives was supposed to be about as difficult an office to obtain as city council seats.
They are still including one or two patents.
Most of the patents in this case have been invalidated by the copyright office after google requested a re-examination of the patents. This is why the Billions has gone down to something less then 35 million.
3D desktops were first created on Linux. (admittedly as a proof of concept).
There are quite a few things that are native to Linux that make use of openGL.
3D drivers are more or less a requirement for obscure software like KDE4, and Gnome 3.
I use the nvidia binary blobs, and wind up recompiling the module that loads the blob every few months, I will be happy when I don't have to.
And then there are those that use the least amount of closed source software they can, while still accomplishing the task at hand.
We will re-evaluate if there are some situations that the open source driver may be usable now where it wasn't just a few months ago.
I would expect the days of compiling the nvidia kernel module to be coming to a close in the next couple of years, the driver looks like it might actually be faster than the binary blob when the clock setting issues are figured out.