How do you propose to compensate me and others for the loss of value and liquidity created by your arbitrary market rules and centrally controlled economy? Will you or the government either put up part of the purchase price to compensate for your partial control, or allow me to write off losses caused by the proposed rules?
What's wrong with me immediately changing my mind after a trade?
I'm not sure how hard it would be to pull this off in practice, but kudos to the team for improving (or at least thinking about) better usability from the kernel out.
Actually, both approaches can succeed. consider: (1) most incremental product improvements [e.g., an improvement in fuel efficiency between model years in cars] answer a known need, but (2) nobody knew they needed a diamond engagement ring until DeBeers told them so.
Hand-held transistor radios. They were the new hot thing in the 60s-70s. Usually poor or spotty reception, but they were small enough to be hand held and were typically powered by 1-2 AA or 9v batteries. They provided the first way for people to take music with them when they were walking around.
Seriously? Replacing every clock in the involved countries is the most obvious solution? It would be technically, economically, and socially easier to just leave things as they are.
Since World War II, it has been mostly about saving energy. In the US, FDR made it mandatory under the name "War Time." Early uses go back to World War I, before school buses were in common use. It's not about children or crime.
Logically people who participate in subsistence farming are far more capable of controlling their behaviour and people who don't farm are far less capable of controlling their behaviour (it comes with being able to defer or ignore gratification and focusing concentration on a tedious/repetitive task in order to survive). Clearly we should send the prisoners farm implements. Not to do so seems much more like an attack on hardworking types to force cooperation not only upon them but on their associates outside of prison...
Non sequitur? Mistaking the cause for the effect? Just plain ol' weirdness?
I would think this is really bad news in disguise for bitcoin, because it discourages the use of bitcoin for commerce both because of the tax issue and because of the reporting requirements. (Who wants to deal with computing a wash sale just to buy a cup of coffee?) If people are inspired to sit on bitcoin until they cross the 1-year capital gains threshold, that behavior change could move bitcoin one step away from use as a currency, and put it in the same illiquid category as gold or bearer bonds.
that the only reasonable explanation for the lack of equal time is that God doesn't want the creationists to have it. How could a just and righteous creator hang his PR department out to dry like this? One might make the mistake of thinking that it is all just bullshit and that we reasonable people won't gain anything by engaging with the creationists...
Happily, "Dr." Roache isn't an MD, she's a philosophy professor and apparently unaware of the Hippocratic Oath. That gives her substantially reduced capacity to do harm compared to someone in actual medical practice working with actual human beings.
You can do the job with a mere 128 million single sided, single density 160K disks, like the one on the original IBM PC. When in doubt, go with proven technologies. Assuming a stack of 4 disks is 1cm thick, you should get away with around 1000 m^3 storage space.
Like it or not, MS Office is the most widely used office software package in the world. Local government needs to serve the people it represents (mostly MSO users) more than it needs to engage in petty social engineering about IP rights. Citizens' need for utilities, civic infrastructure, enforcement of regulations, and due process of law trumps your desire for Open Office. Don't wanna be without your FOSS? Try a few weeks without working traffic lights or a safe water system.
If you don't like it, then convince the public to change their preferences.
It’s interesting and probably fatal that none of the arguments in favor or Open Office mentioned in the article provide justification in terms of constituent service. I’d like my local government to user FOSS software, but I’m much more concerned with their ability to communicate with the public and provide services. Given the public’s commitment to MS software, Open Office may just not be a realistic choice in this case. It’s a shame, but the government’s first job is not software policy.
Excepting Ho-Ho’s I won’t really miss Hostess products. Most of them tasted like cardboard, with Crisco and sugar in varying amounts. I do think that we’re losing a cultural touchpoint here though, something most people understand and identify with in some way, and to which most people ascribe some value judgment.
Even my Indian wife who’s never eaten a twinkie knows what “twinkie” implies in terms of inflexible industrial weirdness, post-modern food culture, and unimaginable chemistry and preservatives.
We’re losing that, and because of the shared loss of context, I grieve.
So with every other animal, we define intelligence by the ability to solve problems present in the animal's environment. Much of the dicussion above implies that there is some final, fixed set of cognitive skills that are environmentally independent. This has gotta be wrong. Excellent flint-knapping knowledge won't help in a data center, and calculus is not much use to a hunter-gatherer.
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A week?! A month?!!
How do you propose to compensate me and others for the loss of value and liquidity created by your arbitrary market rules and centrally controlled economy? Will you or the government either put up part of the purchase price to compensate for your partial control, or allow me to write off losses caused by the proposed rules?
What's wrong with me immediately changing my mind after a trade?
No, it's adding smartphone users. I presume the basic panic information would continue to be available.
I'm not sure how hard it would be to pull this off in practice, but kudos to the team for improving (or at least thinking about) better usability from the kernel out.
1 - Bangalore is not in Asia.
Well okay, but I'm only listening to your other two points because you clearly know the details of your subject.
Actually, both approaches can succeed. consider: (1) most incremental product improvements [e.g., an improvement in fuel efficiency between model years in cars] answer a known need, but (2) nobody knew they needed a diamond engagement ring until DeBeers told them so.
Hand-held transistor radios. They were the new hot thing in the 60s-70s. Usually poor or spotty reception, but they were small enough to be hand held and were typically powered by 1-2 AA or 9v batteries. They provided the first way for people to take music with them when they were walking around.
Yup.
Seriously? Replacing every clock in the involved countries is the most obvious solution? It would be technically, economically, and socially easier to just leave things as they are.
Since World War II, it has been mostly about saving energy. In the US, FDR made it mandatory under the name "War Time." Early uses go back to World War I, before school buses were in common use. It's not about children or crime.
Logically people who participate in subsistence farming are far more capable of controlling their behaviour and people who don't farm are far less capable of controlling their behaviour (it comes with being able to defer or ignore gratification and focusing concentration on a tedious/repetitive task in order to survive). Clearly we should send the prisoners farm implements. Not to do so seems much more like an attack on hardworking types to force cooperation not only upon them but on their associates outside of prison...
Non sequitur? Mistaking the cause for the effect? Just plain ol' weirdness?
I would think this is really bad news in disguise for bitcoin, because it discourages the use of bitcoin for commerce both because of the tax issue and because of the reporting requirements. (Who wants to deal with computing a wash sale just to buy a cup of coffee?) If people are inspired to sit on bitcoin until they cross the 1-year capital gains threshold, that behavior change could move bitcoin one step away from use as a currency, and put it in the same illiquid category as gold or bearer bonds.
that the only reasonable explanation for the lack of equal time is that God doesn't want the creationists to have it. How could a just and righteous creator hang his PR department out to dry like this? One might make the mistake of thinking that it is all just bullshit and that we reasonable people won't gain anything by engaging with the creationists...
Happily, "Dr." Roache isn't an MD, she's a philosophy professor and apparently unaware of the Hippocratic Oath. That gives her substantially reduced capacity to do harm compared to someone in actual medical practice working with actual human beings.
Several?
You can do the job with a mere 128 million single sided, single density 160K disks, like the one on the original IBM PC. When in doubt, go with proven technologies. Assuming a stack of 4 disks is 1cm thick, you should get away with around 1000 m^3 storage space.
It's not a savings account--you don't get your own money back. Young people subsidize old people.
Like it or not, MS Office is the most widely used office software package in the world. Local government needs to serve the people it represents (mostly MSO users) more than it needs to engage in petty social engineering about IP rights. Citizens' need for utilities, civic infrastructure, enforcement of regulations, and due process of law trumps your desire for Open Office. Don't wanna be without your FOSS? Try a few weeks without working traffic lights or a safe water system.
If you don't like it, then convince the public to change their preferences.
Software is a tool, not an end.
It’s interesting and probably fatal that none of the arguments in favor or Open Office mentioned in the article provide justification in terms of constituent service. I’d like my local government to user FOSS software, but I’m much more concerned with their ability to communicate with the public and provide services. Given the public’s commitment to MS software, Open Office may just not be a realistic choice in this case. It’s a shame, but the government’s first job is not software policy.
Even my Indian wife who’s never eaten a twinkie knows what “twinkie” implies in terms of inflexible industrial weirdness, post-modern food culture, and unimaginable chemistry and preservatives.
We’re losing that, and because of the shared loss of context, I grieve.
So with every other animal, we define intelligence by the ability to solve problems present in the animal's environment. Much of the dicussion above implies that there is some final, fixed set of cognitive skills that are environmentally independent. This has gotta be wrong. Excellent flint-knapping knowledge won't help in a data center, and calculus is not much use to a hunter-gatherer.