You know where the US gets most of the oil from, right? Hint, it aint Iran or Iraq.
Totally irrelevant. This has bugger all to do with where the USA buys it's oil.
The rest of the world buys US dollars so that they can buy oil. This allows the US to print (borrow) dollars into existence and then spend them on whichever projects they want to without inflation sky rocketing. Military, healthcare, whatever is the pet project of the people in charge.
This is why Iraq and Iran are so important, particularly to the USA. Saudi is even more important in this regard and why they are America's bestest friends, particularly after having seen Iraq invaded and unrest is being incited in Iran.
Does anyone actually believe that the Iranian elections have ever been anything but fixed? Oh, come on... So why all the unrest now? The Iranian Oil Bourse is due to start trading oil in euros, not dollars, real soon now. So now would be a great time to prevent that by say funding opposition to the incumbent leadership.
Petrodollars. Iran is threatening to sell oil in Euros. If people didn't have to buy dollars in order to pay for oil, the US government couldn't create as many as it wanted, which means that the military spending would have to stop.
At the moment it and email run over tcpip, but before that, both ran just as well over UUCP which meant connectionless and completely decentralised. The flood fill nature of usenet means that it only takes a single transfer to completely bypass all centralised control.
You could run a similar content (text, documents, photos, videos, etc) sharing architecture over wireless or bluetooth, completely bypassing the centralised networks. It would have to be something store and forward, similar in concept to usenet or email. Phones would then only have to be within 10-100m to transmit and receive information.
I wouldn't worry too much about being caught, cos they're kill you anyway whether they have evidence of you doing something or not. It would be nice though if this could be dressed up as a "file/music sharing" application like edonkey etc and marketed at kids giving you a ready built routing infrastructure.
That's right. When rabbits were introduced in Australia, they died off right away because they were less competitive than their wild-type relatives who were much better suited to the niche they already occupied.
The correct comparison would be more wild rabbits vs the same species which have had a gene introduced which makes them glow in the dark, or somesuch.
If you don't have any value to store then you don't need gold.
If however, you do, then well, what're you going to do with e.g. 100,000 dollars worth of dog food (~300,000 cans)? You can't carry it, you can't move it, what're you going to trade it for? 100,000 dollars worth of ammo?
You'd pretty much have to hang around it and hope that someone isn't hungry enough to take it away from you.
100,000 dollars worth of dog food: ~300,000 cans 100,000 dollars worth of ammo: 200,000 shotgun cartridges 100,000 dollars worth of gas: 30,000 gallons (110,000 litres) 100,000 dollars worth of bottled water (evian or bon aqua?): no clue, but hundreds of thousands of litres.
On the other hand, $100,000 in gold is only 100 coins.
So... With gold, I can have all the dogfood I can carry. All the ammo I can carry. All the gas I can carry. All the water I can carry and still store a shit load of value in a small easily concealed package which can be traded bit by bit for something else later.
If the carrier doesn't market the phone then the manufacture will
There is no point manufacturing something and marketing it (both *hugely* expensive operations) if the carriers are not going to provide it to customers, and customers can't switch to competing carriers who will.
US handsets are in general a year or two behind the handsets available in the rest of the world largely because of this. The US mobile comms market is a nice little walled garden for favoured (by the carriers) manufacturers. Take a look at the handsets which Verizon actually provides vs what the *same* manufacturer provides to the rest of the world.
Nokia (largest phone manufacturer in the world) for example:
Verizon: Nokia 7205 (silver keypad) Nokia 7205 (pink keypad) just LOOK at that innovation... Nokia 6205 Nokia 2605 Mirage
All (wow, a whole, 3 of them) of these are ancient.
And take a look at the handsets available from Nokia:
124 produced and available (in the UK) vs 3 from a carrier.
The rest of the world, the carriers want the latest phones and network services because if they don't provide it, someone else will. The US, far less incentive, you take what you're given. I like the spin that monopoly promotes innovation though.
I doubt it would hurt the manufacture at all.
Not the manufacturer. You are the one getting the bad deal.
If a business service owner signs off then what is the problem? They are the ones getting fired when it all goes to shit.
Just make sure your change management board includes them, and finance as well. If you have a change management system you can even point to the change number and the requestor and say this guy caused N million doillars worth of bad press/whatever to the share price,
It isn't ITs job to say no, it's ITs job to explain the risks.
It's IT management from a wholistic point of view.
SLAs are only one aspect of IT management.
There is no point measuring something unless you are going to do something with the information. Are your metrics getting better because things are getting better or are you just getting better at fighting the same old problems. Are you measuring a metric because it's easy to meassure or because the business needs that metric to be good?
Ultimately the idea is to get incidents themelves to zero because that means a smoothly running infrastructure operating exactly as the users and business expect it to. Not exactly possible, but at least it provides a direction to move in... And if your incident management system is any good, it'll tell you where the problems are, and where money should be spent to fix them. That may be user training, education on the portfolio of services that IT provide, or replacing a critical application that falls over every 10 minutes or is too slow, etc etc.
grows by increasing efficiency and producing more goods to an economy that grows by decreasing efficiency to keep people employed
The problem is that your money is debt and *requires* "growth" simply to stand still. The instant "growth" (debt/credit growth) stops, you have to start turning your roads to gravel in order to pay your debts. It's stupid. Monumentally stupid in fact, but there you go.
Do any if you ever question "growth"? Must be good right.
1: Distributed discovery mechanism for new servers. Servers could simply announce on a control group and automatically be added as peers for nearby (by hop) systems. 2: Automatic peer reputation system. Automatically drop peers which spew crap. 3: User reputation system, which feeds the peer reputation system. 4: All non signed messages are considered spam and dropped immediately by everyone. Non dropping affects reputation.
Reputation system being the important feature required to reduce the junk on usenet and make it actually usable again. Any reputation system is going to have to identify individuals, servers *and networks*.
1: An express passenger train requires megawatts to run. They run (here in Germany) at 200mph, not 30mph. That's a lot more energy. Power has to increase with the square of velocity for rail, in *exactly* the same way as with air travel.
2: You cannot run 200mph passenger trains over old freight lines. How many dead bodies do you want on your hands? That means thousands of miles of concrete and steel, both of which are *very* energy intensive to produce.
The difference between high speed rail and planes isn't nearly as clear cut. Why not try comparing a horses and carts against a jet and see which is more environmentally friendly.
Now, if you want to run freight over wooden sleepers at 30mph, go right ahead. Try that with a 150mph passenger train and you'll have a lot of grieving families to explain to. The result is that rail infrastructure is very energy intensive, for thousands of miles.
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I recommend you don a mask and cape, toddle off down to the nearest ghetto and challenge the thugs there in the name of everything good and righteous.
It would make the world... or at least Slashdot, a better place.
I mean is anyone really saying the previous elections were free and fair and democratic?
No, the only question really is why has trouble flared up *this* time?
But then I have all my music in a format which can be read pretty much anywhere.
Our browsers are javascript virtual machines. The web is now being delivered through javascript and not in any meaningful way through HTML.
You know where the US gets most of the oil from, right? Hint, it aint Iran or Iraq.
Totally irrelevant. This has bugger all to do with where the USA buys it's oil.
The rest of the world buys US dollars so that they can buy oil. This allows the US to print (borrow) dollars into existence and then spend them on whichever projects they want to without inflation sky rocketing. Military, healthcare, whatever is the pet project of the people in charge.
This is why Iraq and Iran are so important, particularly to the USA. Saudi is even more important in this regard and why they are America's bestest friends, particularly after having seen Iraq invaded and unrest is being incited in Iran.
Does anyone actually believe that the Iranian elections have ever been anything but fixed? Oh, come on... So why all the unrest now? The Iranian Oil Bourse is due to start trading oil in euros, not dollars, real soon now. So now would be a great time to prevent that by say funding opposition to the incumbent leadership.
Petrodollars. Iran is threatening to sell oil in Euros. If people didn't have to buy dollars in order to pay for oil, the US government couldn't create as many as it wanted, which means that the military spending would have to stop.
Without it, nobody is interested in space.
At the moment it and email run over tcpip, but before that, both ran just as well over UUCP which meant connectionless and completely decentralised. The flood fill nature of usenet means that it only takes a single transfer to completely bypass all centralised control.
You could run a similar content (text, documents, photos, videos, etc) sharing architecture over wireless or bluetooth, completely bypassing the centralised networks. It would have to be something store and forward, similar in concept to usenet or email. Phones would then only have to be within 10-100m to transmit and receive information.
I wouldn't worry too much about being caught, cos they're kill you anyway whether they have evidence of you doing something or not. It would be nice though if this could be dressed up as a "file/music sharing" application like edonkey etc and marketed at kids giving you a ready built routing infrastructure.
Cure disease
Provide clean water
Provide better food
All increase the world population.
That's right. When rabbits were introduced in Australia, they died off right away because they were less competitive than their wild-type relatives who were much better suited to the niche they already occupied.
The correct comparison would be more wild rabbits vs the same species which have had a gene introduced which makes them glow in the dark, or somesuch.
If you don't have any value to store then you don't need gold.
If however, you do, then well, what're you going to do with e.g. 100,000 dollars worth of dog food (~300,000 cans)? You can't carry it, you can't move it, what're you going to trade it for? 100,000 dollars worth of ammo?
You'd pretty much have to hang around it and hope that someone isn't hungry enough to take it away from you.
100,000 dollars worth of dog food: ~300,000 cans
100,000 dollars worth of ammo: 200,000 shotgun cartridges
100,000 dollars worth of gas: 30,000 gallons (110,000 litres)
100,000 dollars worth of bottled water (evian or bon aqua?): no clue, but hundreds of thousands of litres.
On the other hand, $100,000 in gold is only 100 coins.
So... With gold, I can have all the dogfood I can carry. All the ammo I can carry. All the gas I can carry. All the water I can carry and still store a shit load of value in a small easily concealed package which can be traded bit by bit for something else later.
Get it?
If the carrier doesn't market the phone then the manufacture will
There is no point manufacturing something and marketing it (both *hugely* expensive operations) if the carriers are not going to provide it to customers, and customers can't switch to competing carriers who will.
US handsets are in general a year or two behind the handsets available in the rest of the world largely because of this. The US mobile comms market is a nice little walled garden for favoured (by the carriers) manufacturers. Take a look at the handsets which Verizon actually provides vs what the *same* manufacturer provides to the rest of the world.
Nokia (largest phone manufacturer in the world) for example:
Verizon:
Nokia 7205 (silver keypad)
Nokia 7205 (pink keypad) just LOOK at that innovation...
Nokia 6205
Nokia 2605 Mirage
All (wow, a whole, 3 of them) of these are ancient.
And take a look at the handsets available from Nokia:
http://shop.nokia.co.uk/nokia-uk/searchresults.aspx?page=1&culture=en-GB&search_id=47&chka=0&chkp=1&pagesize=9999&sortorder=desc
124 produced and available (in the UK) vs 3 from a carrier.
The rest of the world, the carriers want the latest phones and network services because if they don't provide it, someone else will. The US, far less incentive, you take what you're given. I like the spin that monopoly promotes innovation though.
I doubt it would hurt the manufacture at all.
Not the manufacturer. You are the one getting the bad deal.
If a business service owner signs off then what is the problem? They are the ones getting fired when it all goes to shit.
Just make sure your change management board includes them, and finance as well. If you have a change management system you can even point to the change number and the requestor and say this guy caused N million doillars worth of bad press/whatever to the share price,
It isn't ITs job to say no, it's ITs job to explain the risks.
It's IT management from a wholistic point of view.
SLAs are only one aspect of IT management.
There is no point measuring something unless you are going to do something with the information. Are your metrics getting better because things are getting better or are you just getting better at fighting the same old problems. Are you measuring a metric because it's easy to meassure or because the business needs that metric to be good?
Ultimately the idea is to get incidents themelves to zero because that means a smoothly running infrastructure operating exactly as the users and business expect it to. Not exactly possible, but at least it provides a direction to move in... And if your incident management system is any good, it'll tell you where the problems are, and where money should be spent to fix them. That may be user training, education on the portfolio of services that IT provide, or replacing a critical application that falls over every 10 minutes or is too slow, etc etc.
You just get dirtbikes instead.
HTH.
grows by increasing efficiency and producing more goods to an economy that grows by decreasing efficiency to keep people employed
The problem is that your money is debt and *requires* "growth" simply to stand still. The instant "growth" (debt/credit growth) stops, you have to start turning your roads to gravel in order to pay your debts. It's stupid. Monumentally stupid in fact, but there you go.
Do any if you ever question "growth"? Must be good right.
And you have a deal.
1: Distributed discovery mechanism for new servers. Servers could simply announce on a control group and automatically be added as peers for nearby (by hop) systems.
2: Automatic peer reputation system. Automatically drop peers which spew crap.
3: User reputation system, which feeds the peer reputation system.
4: All non signed messages are considered spam and dropped immediately by everyone. Non dropping affects reputation.
Reputation system being the important feature required to reduce the junk on usenet and make it actually usable again. Any reputation system is going to have to identify individuals, servers *and networks*.
Something like Credence: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/credence/
NNTP on it's own is useless on an unregulated and untrustworthy network.
Only a 3 megapixel camera? Decent lens? Light source for indoor? 480/320 screen?
Which has been available (free) on Nokia mobiles for... I don't know... ever. What is forever in software years? 2 years?
StatCounter confirms it.
At least compare apples with apples.
1: An express passenger train requires megawatts to run. They run (here in Germany) at 200mph, not 30mph. That's a lot more energy. Power has to increase with the square of velocity for rail, in *exactly* the same way as with air travel.
2: You cannot run 200mph passenger trains over old freight lines. How many dead bodies do you want on your hands? That means thousands of miles of concrete and steel, both of which are *very* energy intensive to produce.
The difference between high speed rail and planes isn't nearly as clear cut. Why not try comparing a horses and carts against a jet and see which is more environmentally friendly.
Rail infrastructure isn't made from wood, or iron. These days it is concrete, steel and glass. All of which are highly energy intensive to produce.
This is for example, the German cathedral to rail:
http://www.hdr-photos.com/data/media/17/Hauptbahnhof---750x499.jpg
Now, if you want to run freight over wooden sleepers at 30mph, go right ahead. Try that with a 150mph passenger train and you'll have a lot of grieving families to explain to. The result is that rail infrastructure is very energy intensive, for thousands of miles.
If resources are plentiful then there isn't much of a problem.
And slashdot doesn't get my humour.