It's not about the money. Want to make more? Just run the printing presses faster. Money hasn't been reliable enough to be used as a measure of performance for nearly a decade now.
Really it's about influence, and that's what Microsoft are losing, have been for several years.
IMHO *no* company should be able to influence the direction of general education by handing over wonga. What planet are you living on? Why do you think the education system is the way it is? It's training future employees. If it were educating citizens it would be rather different.
Basically they (and indeed most other 'geniuses' of the modern economics) are treating money reserves that have been unrealistically inflated by the housing bubble as if it is real, cash-in-your-pocket money. Yes... This is the nature of the "real bills doctrine".
Market research; data mining Product optimisation; finite element analysis Software builds; distributed application builds Drug searches; protein folding
There are lots of reasons for getting your hands on super computing power. You just need people who understand the worth of these types of techniques.
It's not even terribly difficult to set up if you add a general purpose virtualisation system like vmware to every machine. You just distribute out the image of the platform you want to run it on and you have a uniform resource. Just a little bit of organisation required.
No, its not. Even if it was, so what? Credit crunch. Boom and bust are built in to the monetary system itself. By basing your currency on debt you are required to inflate forever (exponentially) to pay the previous round of debts. When you can't inflate any more a contraction begins.
Fiat currency has, on balance, everywhere in the world, worked better than commodity or representational currency ever has, because it isn't as subject to short-term extreme fluctuations based on the market for a single commodity of any commodity or representational system This is simply wrong. You've heard of the business cycle? That is caused by our monetary system's requirement for continual inflation, to the point where they're selling debt to those who cannot afford to pay (sub prime). Fiat currencies embody huge boom/bust cycles.
Then there's the long term devaluation of the currency, essentially the theft of wealth from those who can least afford it. A dollar is now worth a tiny fraction of it's original value, something like 5%. Even short term requirements for particular requirements for a particular commodity don't even come close to that effect.
If you don't need a driver. Why do you need to own a car? You just call one from the local driverless cab company, which is dirt cheap because there's no driver to pay. Each car will be able to service tens to hundreds of people per day. Which translates to selling 1/10th to 1/100th of the numbers of vehicles. Which means the end of car parks and most car producers.
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You get free portability to the Apple Macintosh built in.
Just encouraged me to switch to XFCE...
And people say there should be a single desktop...
Yes. And...
By the size of the bits of canvas left after they hit the tents.
It's not about the money. Want to make more? Just run the printing presses faster. Money hasn't been reliable enough to be used as a measure of performance for nearly a decade now.
Really it's about influence, and that's what Microsoft are losing, have been for several years.
Germany is a nation, not a race.
HTH.
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
Such as OpenAFS.
Something like coda might be nicer but progress on global filesystems seems to have pretty much stalled.
Market research; data mining
Product optimisation; finite element analysis
Software builds; distributed application builds
Drug searches; protein folding
There are lots of reasons for getting your hands on super computing power. You just need people who understand the worth of these types of techniques.
It's not even terribly difficult to set up if you add a general purpose virtualisation system like vmware to every machine. You just distribute out the image of the platform you want to run it on and you have a uniform resource. Just a little bit of organisation required.
Young people are more impatient than older ones.
Methinks you need to look up the words pretend and fiat.
Then there's the long term devaluation of the currency, essentially the theft of wealth from those who can least afford it. A dollar is now worth a tiny fraction of it's original value, something like 5%. Even short term requirements for particular requirements for a particular commodity don't even come close to that effect.
What do you think is backing the US Dollar? The Saudis... And look at all the trouble that has caused.
Think about it for a second.
If you don't need a driver. Why do you need to own a car? You just call one from the local driverless cab company, which is dirt cheap because there's no driver to pay. Each car will be able to service tens to hundreds of people per day. Which translates to selling 1/10th to 1/100th of the numbers of vehicles. Which means the end of car parks and most car producers.
One requires unquestioning faith, the other requires healthy scepticism.
They were probably put here, by me or whoever, to make the game more interesting. Ah... Life through the eyes of a sociopath.