"Hell, its against the law to camp at a CAMPGROUND for two weeks."
No, it isn't. And shouldn't be. It may be against a campgrounds rules, but there's nothing in the law preventing it. Why in the hell would you think that there is or should be?
You reasoning is mostly right, but your conclusion is wrong.
Teeth = not reasonably sub-divisible, fragile Lego = easily mass producible Shiny/Wearable = irrelevant
You are correct in that not having at least all of the properties I mentioned before (and there are others that are useful as well) will disqualify a specific substance.
Also you are correct that if you get rid of 90% of the demand, presumably by convincing people there is a better way to store value that cannot easily be taken/devalued by social and political winds, the gold market would collapse.
"The gold price is more based on a circular logic: It's valuable because everyone thinks so."
Incorrect. It's called intrinsic value and gold has it. It's hard to dig up and there's not much of it. It never deteriorates (silver does) and is easy to work/subdivide (platinum isn't). It is also highly portable and easily storable (vs oil, wheat, etc). Aristotle laid it out pretty well when he wrote that something used as money should have the following properties: Durable, Portable, Divisible, Intrinsic Value
Those are the reasons gold has retained it's status for thousands of years, and continues to do so today. See my sig for confirmation even from one of our modern economic 'masterminds'. I would suggest that somewhere around nothing has changed concerning the status of gold since he said that. The fact that it looks nice and can be worn is just a bonus that influences the weak minded.
Nearly every word that comes out of Chinese officials' mouths is painful to listen to. If it served their purposes they would claim the sky is red, forbid anyone from discussing it, jail/torture/disappear those who dared to still say it was blue, and denounce other countries for meddling in their internal affairs by stating the obvious. And do it with a straight face and a clear conscience. If that government not fucking evil, I don't know what is and I'm sick of hearing their blatant bullshit and absolutist statements. They are simply a slightly more moderate and much larger version of North Korea, and without the cult of personality.
To be clear, I think the Chinese culture is rich and ancient, and that the common, thinking people there feel much the same when they witness their own government's bullshit. It's their political structure and those who populate it that need to die in a fucking fire.
What amazes me is that so many people think that raising taxes on 'the wealthy' will solve anything. I can't recall the site where I saw the calcs, but in a nutshell, even doubling the tax rate on everyone with over $250k of yearly income would do exactly two things to help our budget problems: Jack and Shit. The numbers are just that big.
Forcibly sticking your penis in someone and catching a glimpse of their undies are in no way comparable acts. The fact that you and a number of mouth-breathing mods seem to think so is genuinely disturbing.
"Memory management and logical-to-physical address translation can still be implemented on top of a flat memory model in order to facilitate the operating system's functionality, resource protection, multitasking or to increase the memory capacity beyond the limits imposed by the processor's physical address space, but the key feature of a flat memory model is that the entire memory space is linear, sequential and contiguous from address zero to MaxBytes-1."
Compared with the (user hostile) x86 segmented model, it's not so stupid after all.
When I looked into them 2-3 years ago, the Arduino was pretty obviously targeted at artists and less technical hobbyists. Using eclipse and uploading/debugging right from it was the route I took with the Mega128's in my bot. Maybe things have changed, but at the time the price/performance of the Arduino stuff just wasn't there for me. There were/are many really nice controller boards (for the Mega's anyway) that far outstrip the capabilities of what Arduino offers, and cost less.
If I'm following you, it still won't be plain-text information. It will still be html markup, just sans CSS. What you are describing is implemented in a much more robust fashion (imho) using a content repository such as Jackrabbit/Sling or Day CRX/CQ. You can request.html,.txt,.pdf or whatever you choose to support, all rendered from one content node. For what you describe above you could even create a selector like.simple.html. It just seems like overloading CSS to use it to mimic that behavior, and in a rather limited fashion.
What is your alternative proposal? Centralized planning of the economy? Government ownership of the means of production? Price controls? Tariffs? Rationing? I can't help but think that all the folks on slashdot decrying a free market economy weren't alive to watch that thinking fail spectacularly in the USSR. And aren't paying attention to the countries still doing that stuff and their epic levels of fail now (USA included). Like freedom itself, there must be safeguards, but to throw the baby out with the bathwater is just stupid.
Probably a solid state analog fuel/ignition 'controller', not really a computer in the modern sense. I guess it's a gasser thing. An '81 Jeep I used to own had one, but the '84 MB diesel I have now has no 'black boxes' at all. You can disconnect the battery after it's running if you want.
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Cling very, very tightly to that foaming patriotism. It's all you'll have left if things keep going like they are.
"Hell, its against the law to camp at a CAMPGROUND for two weeks."
No, it isn't. And shouldn't be. It may be against a campgrounds rules, but there's nothing in the law preventing it. Why in the hell would you think that there is or should be?
You reasoning is mostly right, but your conclusion is wrong.
Teeth = not reasonably sub-divisible, fragile
Lego = easily mass producible
Shiny/Wearable = irrelevant
You are correct in that not having at least all of the properties I mentioned before (and there are others that are useful as well) will disqualify a specific substance.
Also you are correct that if you get rid of 90% of the demand, presumably by convincing people there is a better way to store value that cannot easily be taken/devalued by social and political winds, the gold market would collapse.
Good luck with that.
"The gold price is more based on a circular logic: It's valuable because everyone thinks so."
Incorrect. It's called intrinsic value and gold has it. It's hard to dig up and there's not much of it. It never deteriorates (silver does) and is easy to work/subdivide (platinum isn't). It is also highly portable and easily storable (vs oil, wheat, etc). Aristotle laid it out pretty well when he wrote that something used as money should have the following properties: Durable, Portable, Divisible, Intrinsic Value
Those are the reasons gold has retained it's status for thousands of years, and continues to do so today. See my sig for confirmation even from one of our modern economic 'masterminds'. I would suggest that somewhere around nothing has changed concerning the status of gold since he said that. The fact that it looks nice and can be worn is just a bonus that influences the weak minded.
I think you meant Comrade.
That you Baghdad Bob? We love you!
Nearly every word that comes out of Chinese officials' mouths is painful to listen to. If it served their purposes they would claim the sky is red, forbid anyone from discussing it, jail/torture/disappear those who dared to still say it was blue, and denounce other countries for meddling in their internal affairs by stating the obvious. And do it with a straight face and a clear conscience. If that government not fucking evil, I don't know what is and I'm sick of hearing their blatant bullshit and absolutist statements. They are simply a slightly more moderate and much larger version of North Korea, and without the cult of personality.
To be clear, I think the Chinese culture is rich and ancient, and that the common, thinking people there feel much the same when they witness their own government's bullshit. It's their political structure and those who populate it that need to die in a fucking fire.
The MC folks should donate their progress bar code to MS. It's by far the most informative and accurate I've ever seen.
What amazes me is that so many people think that raising taxes on 'the wealthy' will solve anything. I can't recall the site where I saw the calcs, but in a nutshell, even doubling the tax rate on everyone with over $250k of yearly income would do exactly two things to help our budget problems: Jack and Shit. The numbers are just that big.
Forcibly sticking your penis in someone and catching a glimpse of their undies are in no way comparable acts. The fact that you and a number of mouth-breathing mods seem to think so is genuinely disturbing.
However, it's not news. It would be news if China suddenly grew a pair and _didn't_ censor it.
How do you know that for certain? Oh yeah, you don't. You're just being an internet asshole.
A flat memory model has nothing directly to do with memory protection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_memory_model
"Memory management and logical-to-physical address translation can still be implemented on top of a flat memory model in order to facilitate the operating system's functionality, resource protection, multitasking or to increase the memory capacity beyond the limits imposed by the processor's physical address space, but the key feature of a flat memory model is that the entire memory space is linear, sequential and contiguous from address zero to MaxBytes-1."
Compared with the (user hostile) x86 segmented model, it's not so stupid after all.
"Now that people can do art and music without being lined against a wall and shot"
Now they just disappear: Ai Weiwei
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/16/aiweiwei.china/?hpt=C1
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2063218_2063273_2063222,00.html
"China is a command economy, but it isn't an extreme country (now that the nuts like Mao are cozily dead)"
WTFever. Tiananmen Square.
That was a monumentally stupid comment from someone with such a low id.
When I looked into them 2-3 years ago, the Arduino was pretty obviously targeted at artists and less technical hobbyists. Using eclipse and uploading/debugging right from it was the route I took with the Mega128's in my bot. Maybe things have changed, but at the time the price/performance of the Arduino stuff just wasn't there for me. There were/are many really nice controller boards (for the Mega's anyway) that far outstrip the capabilities of what Arduino offers, and cost less.
You don't 'run' C, you compile it.
And from the gcj page:
"It can compile Java source code to Java bytecode (class files) or directly to native machine code, and Java bytecode to native machine code."
The compiled native code would then be dl'd to the device you describe, and executed directly. No VM involved.
If I'm following you, it still won't be plain-text information. It will still be html markup, just sans CSS. What you are describing is implemented in a much more robust fashion (imho) using a content repository such as Jackrabbit/Sling or Day CRX/CQ. You can request .html, .txt, .pdf or whatever you choose to support, all rendered from one content node. For what you describe above you could even create a selector like .simple.html. It just seems like overloading CSS to use it to mimic that behavior, and in a rather limited fashion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
Yep! They did it again!
Same reasons criticizing Israel gets you labeled an anti-Semite - stupidity and ignorance.
Astonishing. You really think that's the ONLY reason not to let them drill closer to land, considering the topic we are discussing?
What is your alternative proposal? Centralized planning of the economy? Government ownership of the means of production? Price controls? Tariffs? Rationing? I can't help but think that all the folks on slashdot decrying a free market economy weren't alive to watch that thinking fail spectacularly in the USSR. And aren't paying attention to the countries still doing that stuff and their epic levels of fail now (USA included). Like freedom itself, there must be safeguards, but to throw the baby out with the bathwater is just stupid.
Probably a solid state analog fuel/ignition 'controller', not really a computer in the modern sense. I guess it's a gasser thing. An '81 Jeep I used to own had one, but the '84 MB diesel I have now has no 'black boxes' at all. You can disconnect the battery after it's running if you want.
Don't forget that GM is still over 70% government owned.
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/04/gm-repays-government-debt-its-still.html