If there really was a shortage then wages would rise.
What makes you think wages are not rising? To tell the truth, when I looked around the web for good statistics on historical wages I did not come up with much. Anybody have some links, for say, salaray trends by IT segment in the US over the last 20 years?
Why can't I just run my PC off a battery that's kept charged by a DC current from a single power supply?
Because your battery will degrade faster? Because you are converting the power three times (two of them chemical) instead of one? Just a couple of possibilities.
Yes, let's use big power supply for all computers, so they all share the same exact point of failure.
Hmm, your post modded troll? Somebody was indeed a) clueless about the very real SPOF potential b) abusing their moderator privilege. Let's try a more rational approach: indeed, supplying multiple processors from a single power supply is a potential SPOF. However, M power supplies per N processing nodes would mitigate this at a modest cost in complexity and cabling.
And I find Apple be a company that makes great products and doesn't abuse my data.
How do you know that Apple does not abuse your data, or does not intend to once they manage to get hold of some? After all, Apple's reputation for ethics is not exactly stellar.
I bet my last buck you give her that with Seamonkey and thunderbird and she WILL be a happy camper
I won't take your buck. It's only relatively recent versions of thunderbird that look enough like Outlook Express to fool my mom. And Seamonkey (which I use myself, but only for html editing) is just way too ancient. Agreed that KDE 3.x is good. But so is 4.x these days, which my mom had no issues with.
I would seriously consider Vector Linux for what it was originally intended for: a server. But there I'm using Debian stable these days, which works just fine, especially with a few backports.
The argument at hand fits right into this larger drama. You got some people on one hand who are so blinded by the need to obey the rules!!, they can't pull their heads out of their asses for half a second to look around and see that there is really no good, logical reason why you can't source from any cite you like, Wikipedia included.
And apparently, you should never call them "fast fooders" whether it makes sense or not. I can only imagine that I accidentally hit some nail right on the head.
Lovely plausible theory. But it is wrong, in fact their search applicance just doesn't work very well so people don't buy it. If they buy it, they don't buy more of them.
Oh, they did go after that enterprise market, they just failed. For technical reasons, if you can believe that. They just couldn't figure out how to implement intranet search that actually worked well. Not because it's a really hard problem, but because they threw the wrong people at it.
Doubt it. DARPA with its well deserved reputation for fostering science projects is just viewed as a good source of new Googlers. An easy sell to the hiring committee.
When YT was acquired it obviously had its own account system and over time, that has been integrated with the regular Google account system. As part of that accounts have been merged together.
See, that is the issue. The user did not explicitly ask for any merge, even if they "explicitly" logged into both. Users don't like it make things just happen to them they did not ask for, it is a basic human instinct.
Who has both that kind of money and that kind of time these days? I don't know about you, but most of the blockbusters I bought I didn't even finish. Some, like Final Fantasy XIII, not even properly started. Just play until the game obviously sucks, and put it on the shelf forever. Out of the whole last console generation there are exactly two "big" games that ever had replay value for me: 1) Obvion 2) Civ 4. Out of the rest... Drake? Pheh, linear. Burnout? Another racing game, you have got to be kidding. Madden? Please, I have a brain. Red dead? Nice graphics and voice acting, but I am not putting up with that lame save system, sorry. In truth I got a lot more play value out of some $10 games: Flower was different, still gets played from time to time, or at least demoed. Fat princess.... hey, where's the sequel??? Mushroom wars... just great. Age of Booty, highly entertaining.
The big disappointment for me was Skyrim. Basically, the only AAA title I bought in the last year. Big? Yes. Shiny? You bet. Great finishing moves? Yup. Fun? Uh... ok, let's just say I'm not on the edge of my seat waiting for Elder Scrolls 6. Nor the PS4, the XBox 1280, or whatever. I'll just take a pass on "big game" from now on I think, unless something major changes. Definitely not worth $60 to spend a few hours being unwhelmed to the point of not bothering to finish yet another samey-same epic on rails.
You argue passionately for your point, but you are wrong. An Encyclopedia may be cited, just as any other credible reference. If you do not believe me, perhaps you might believe the Harvard Style Guide. Or any of a large number of other available style guides. And have you read through a style guide for a peer reviewed publication lately? I have. You should too, then get back to me with your assertions about what may or may not be cited. Or try out your opinion that Encyclopedia Britannica may not be cited on somebody with a peer reviewed article to their name.
By the way, I find it odd the way you fling about accusations of insulting posting sytle, when your own posts tend to be more than a little insulting themselves. Another point you might consider: use your real name when you post, as I do. Perhaps then you would be more polite.
I reiterate: spoken like a true fast fooder who has never actually read a Britannica article. Many of those articles are essentially learned works in themselves, and many are written by recognized experts in the fields. Encyclopedia Brittanica is not a link farm, far from it. And it is not just any encylopedia.You really do need to go read an article or two and please do not be so defensive. Is it at all possible you were given a bum steer in middle school?
That said, Wikipedia is of far more use to humanity overall if only because Encylopedia Britannica is stuck behind a paywall. Hopefully they will figure out what's wrong with that idea before they die completely.
The ONLY reason why rare earth minerals are dominated by China is because no other country is willing sacrifice the environment to extract these minerals.
Wrong, it is because China's ore deposits are more highly concentrated than any other, by a very wide margin.
From my vantage point, China has every right to restrict this trade to protect its environment.
I don't know about your argument (which seems wildly far fetched to me) but do know that subsidizing domestic industry with favorable pricing of raw materials is, in general, not allowed by the WTO.
Some commentators on this article seem to be blithely unaware of the relative concentrations of the Chinese deposits versus others worldwide, and how the consequent low production cost might be abused to establish and exercise power over the market.
j/k. Well, I like Vector Linux, but for my mother I will put in something a lot more bloaty and featureful. At this point, most probably Debian testing, as Ubuntu has just proved to be too much of a crapshoot in terms of stability. I might also consider OpenSuse which seems to be getting lots of care and attention these days, in spite of the fact that rpm gives me boils.
They'll just toss the whole thing out of the Window - no pun intended
I can't take that claim about your intentions seriously.
Now, if my mother's reaction is anything to go by - she resents any changes at all to the way her computer works. She absolutely hates the strange things that happened to Windows 7 menus and the fact that Outlook Express disappeared. To make her happy again, I made everything called "Windows Live" or similar also disappear, and installed Mozilla Thunderbird... which she judges to be close enough to her old way of emailing that she is happy. Obviously, she is also ready to move to Linux because all she uses now is Thunderbird, Firefox and LibreOffice.
My mother is therefore a great example of lockin working against Microsoft. My mother is locked in to the way Windows used to work, not the way it works today, and she is therefore ready to move without complaint to a computer that works the way Windows used to work. Namely, Linux with KDE. Alternatively, she will be perfectly happy with anything that looks and works like her iPad (which at the moment is mainly for playing Bookworm) and that demonstrably includes my Xoom tablet.
For Microsoft, the moral of this story is: live by the lockin, die by the lockin.
Microsoft has Btrfs envy. Specifically, they want filesystem-level snapshots. Whether they can imitate Btrfs is not in doubt. Whether they can manage Linux-level quality control is the big question.
This has happened before, and it will happen again.
Last time there was no credible threat from Apple and Linux, this time there is. Not that a Microsoft collapse would cause me any sorrow, mind you. In the end the story will be about price elasticity: the price that Microsoft can charge for operating system software, hitherto fueled by monopoly control, is likely to collapse. So that Microsoft, while still profitable, would become a much smaller organization. Better for us all, I think.
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If there really was a shortage then wages would rise.
What makes you think wages are not rising? To tell the truth, when I looked around the web for good statistics on historical wages I did not come up with much. Anybody have some links, for say, salaray trends by IT segment in the US over the last 20 years?
Why can't I just run my PC off a battery that's kept charged by a DC current from a single power supply?
Because your battery will degrade faster? Because you are converting the power three times (two of them chemical) instead of one? Just a couple of possibilities.
Yes, let's use big power supply for all computers, so they all share the same exact point of failure.
Hmm, your post modded troll? Somebody was indeed a) clueless about the very real SPOF potential b) abusing their moderator privilege. Let's try a more rational approach: indeed, supplying multiple processors from a single power supply is a potential SPOF. However, M power supplies per N processing nodes would mitigate this at a modest cost in complexity and cabling.
What is off topic about linking evidence of Apple's questionable ethical standards in a discussion about Apple's integrity, or lack of it?
And I find Apple be a company that makes great products and doesn't abuse my data.
How do you know that Apple does not abuse your data, or does not intend to once they manage to get hold of some? After all, Apple's reputation for ethics is not exactly stellar.
I bet my last buck you give her that with Seamonkey and thunderbird and she WILL be a happy camper
I won't take your buck. It's only relatively recent versions of thunderbird that look enough like Outlook Express to fool my mom. And Seamonkey (which I use myself, but only for html editing) is just way too ancient. Agreed that KDE 3.x is good. But so is 4.x these days, which my mom had no issues with.
I would seriously consider Vector Linux for what it was originally intended for: a server. But there I'm using Debian stable these days, which works just fine, especially with a few backports.
The argument at hand fits right into this larger drama. You got some people on one hand who are so blinded by the need to obey the rules!!, they can't pull their heads out of their asses for half a second to look around and see that there is really no good, logical reason why you can't source from any cite you like, Wikipedia included.
And apparently, you should never call them "fast fooders" whether it makes sense or not. I can only imagine that I accidentally hit some nail right on the head.
They didn't miss that opportunity, they dismissed it.
No they didn't, they tried to execute on it and failed. Even after the bushels of advertising money started flooding in.
Lovely plausible theory. But it is wrong, in fact their search applicance just doesn't work very well so people don't buy it. If they buy it, they don't buy more of them.
Oh, they did go after that enterprise market, they just failed. For technical reasons, if you can believe that. They just couldn't figure out how to implement intranet search that actually worked well. Not because it's a really hard problem, but because they threw the wrong people at it.
Doubt it. DARPA with its well deserved reputation for fostering science projects is just viewed as a good source of new Googlers. An easy sell to the hiring committee.
When YT was acquired it obviously had its own account system and over time, that has been integrated with the regular Google account system. As part of that accounts have been merged together.
See, that is the issue. The user did not explicitly ask for any merge, even if they "explicitly" logged into both. Users don't like it make things just happen to them they did not ask for, it is a basic human instinct.
Hmm, last time I saw you here on Slashdot you were turboposting in support of Apple. What am I to make of that?
Wit is best appreciated dry.
Who has both that kind of money and that kind of time these days? I don't know about you, but most of the blockbusters I bought I didn't even finish. Some, like Final Fantasy XIII, not even properly started. Just play until the game obviously sucks, and put it on the shelf forever. Out of the whole last console generation there are exactly two "big" games that ever had replay value for me: 1) Obvion 2) Civ 4. Out of the rest... Drake? Pheh, linear. Burnout? Another racing game, you have got to be kidding. Madden? Please, I have a brain. Red dead? Nice graphics and voice acting, but I am not putting up with that lame save system, sorry. In truth I got a lot more play value out of some $10 games: Flower was different, still gets played from time to time, or at least demoed. Fat princess.... hey, where's the sequel??? Mushroom wars... just great. Age of Booty, highly entertaining.
The big disappointment for me was Skyrim. Basically, the only AAA title I bought in the last year. Big? Yes. Shiny? You bet. Great finishing moves? Yup. Fun? Uh... ok, let's just say I'm not on the edge of my seat waiting for Elder Scrolls 6. Nor the PS4, the XBox 1280, or whatever. I'll just take a pass on "big game" from now on I think, unless something major changes. Definitely not worth $60 to spend a few hours being unwhelmed to the point of not bothering to finish yet another samey-same epic on rails.
You argue passionately for your point, but you are wrong. An Encyclopedia may be cited, just as any other credible reference. If you do not believe me, perhaps you might believe the Harvard Style Guide. Or any of a large number of other available style guides. And have you read through a style guide for a peer reviewed publication lately? I have. You should too, then get back to me with your assertions about what may or may not be cited. Or try out your opinion that Encyclopedia Britannica may not be cited on somebody with a peer reviewed article to their name.
By the way, I find it odd the way you fling about accusations of insulting posting sytle, when your own posts tend to be more than a little insulting themselves. Another point you might consider: use your real name when you post, as I do. Perhaps then you would be more polite.
I reiterate: spoken like a true fast fooder who has never actually read a Britannica article. Many of those articles are essentially learned works in themselves, and many are written by recognized experts in the fields. Encyclopedia Brittanica is not a link farm, far from it. And it is not just any encylopedia.You really do need to go read an article or two and please do not be so defensive. Is it at all possible you were given a bum steer in middle school?
That said, Wikipedia is of far more use to humanity overall if only because Encylopedia Britannica is stuck behind a paywall. Hopefully they will figure out what's wrong with that idea before they die completely.
The ONLY reason why rare earth minerals are dominated by China is because no other country is willing sacrifice the environment to extract these minerals.
Wrong, it is because China's ore deposits are more highly concentrated than any other, by a very wide margin.
From my vantage point, China has every right to restrict this trade to protect its environment.
I don't know about your argument (which seems wildly far fetched to me) but do know that subsidizing domestic industry with favorable pricing of raw materials is, in general, not allowed by the WTO.
Some commentators on this article seem to be blithely unaware of the relative concentrations of the Chinese deposits versus others worldwide, and how the consequent low production cost might be abused to establish and exercise power over the market.
If you're at the point where wikipedia isn't a valid reference, then no encyclopedia is really good enough...
Spoken like a true fast fooder who has never actually read a Britannica article.
Or... "those grapes were sour anyway".
This is quite sad.
The passing of illuminated scrolls was also quite sad.
Heh, now I know you are a M$ plant.
j/k. Well, I like Vector Linux, but for my mother I will put in something a lot more bloaty and featureful. At this point, most probably Debian testing, as Ubuntu has just proved to be too much of a crapshoot in terms of stability. I might also consider OpenSuse which seems to be getting lots of care and attention these days, in spite of the fact that rpm gives me boils.
They'll just toss the whole thing out of the Window - no pun intended
I can't take that claim about your intentions seriously.
Now, if my mother's reaction is anything to go by - she resents any changes at all to the way her computer works. She absolutely hates the strange things that happened to Windows 7 menus and the fact that Outlook Express disappeared. To make her happy again, I made everything called "Windows Live" or similar also disappear, and installed Mozilla Thunderbird... which she judges to be close enough to her old way of emailing that she is happy. Obviously, she is also ready to move to Linux because all she uses now is Thunderbird, Firefox and LibreOffice.
My mother is therefore a great example of lockin working against Microsoft. My mother is locked in to the way Windows used to work, not the way it works today, and she is therefore ready to move without complaint to a computer that works the way Windows used to work. Namely, Linux with KDE. Alternatively, she will be perfectly happy with anything that looks and works like her iPad (which at the moment is mainly for playing Bookworm) and that demonstrably includes my Xoom tablet.
For Microsoft, the moral of this story is: live by the lockin, die by the lockin.
A new file system? Why, what's wrong w/ NTFS?
Microsoft has Btrfs envy. Specifically, they want filesystem-level snapshots. Whether they can imitate Btrfs is not in doubt. Whether they can manage Linux-level quality control is the big question.
This has happened before, and it will happen again.
Last time there was no credible threat from Apple and Linux, this time there is. Not that a Microsoft collapse would cause me any sorrow, mind you. In the end the story will be about price elasticity: the price that Microsoft can charge for operating system software, hitherto fueled by monopoly control, is likely to collapse. So that Microsoft, while still profitable, would become a much smaller organization. Better for us all, I think.