Economics 101: Economics is not a zero sum game. Of course, that doesn't mean the economy will always grow. It may shrink. It all depends on how the money is spent.
The point of borrowing is that the rate of growth will exceed the cost of borrowing. That's the gamble the government is making.
Whether they will do it better than the private sector would is an open questions, but it's also counter-factual because the government is the only entity that can borrow at this time.
In any case, what you are describing makes about zero economic sense to me.
Americans didn't "get it". They tired of paying high fuel costs. Now that oil is under $30 a barrel I expect SUV sales will tick up shortly just as Detroit is being forced to switch to models of cars (e.g. electric, etc) that will be too expensive. Ah, the irony. Don't get me wrong I think electric is the future but with fuel costs so low the only way it'll work is with a fuel tax which is political suicide. Oh well.
Some (admittedly vague) requirements for something to be a computer are allowing variable inputs that produce variable outputs based on a programmable function. If there were only one function it would be a (primitive) calculator. This is not even a calculator. It's a clock. As one would expect there is natural evolution here from less complex to more complex.
As an aside I'm not sure why everyone wants to find examples of our ancestors having super advanced technology that was lost in the mists of time. Obviously it does happen (e.g. steam power, firearms in Japan, etc), but it's the exception not the norm. I guess it's just more sexy and attention grabbing to have some kind of mystery around it.
I suppose we can keep the bits that do the rovers, satellites, etc, but we really need to kill the manned space exploration bits. It's a colossal waste of money. Don't even start with the "They developed x, y, z technology while trying to go to space." Who cares? Do you seriously believe they wouldn't have been developed more efficiently and cheaper in the private sector?
The article says the image is 100-pixels; presumably that means 10 pixels by 10 pixels. So you are correct. I think this is about the same resolution that they have for electronically enhanced eyes for the blind.
I totally agree. It's almost as if people forget that some of the efficiency attained by using computers is attained via abstraction. It's the same problem with "3D" desktop/web UIs. The desktop level of abstraction is exactly right for the kind of work most of us do with computers. Now, if there were a type of work that could be made more efficient via a 3D UI, then go for it, but that seems to be a very small percentage of work being done with a computer.
Since this is totally bombastic and ridiculous...
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clearly somebody is going to make money from all of this hype. Let's follow the money trail...
Hrm. Not really. We use maths to describe all sorts of things that are not intuitive. How intuitive is a Riemann Sphere or any of the higher dimensional geometries? Things may have started out that way but we've gone off to describe worlds that could never exist in our universe.
Anyhow, all of this is beside the point. It's not the fact that mathematics describes reality very well that is interesting because as you say that is obvious. The point is that something that is true about the physical world is also true of the world of mathematics, about the nature of mathematics.
He sold his soul a long time ago and is now forced to ask the same crap, unanswerable questions and make the same bombastic, unprovable assertions over and over again for the rest of his life. I think he got a book deal out of it and the amazing ability to get publications to pay attention to him even though he became old news about ten years ago.
I suppose it depends on how you define secure. What evidence do you have the Linux is any more secure than Windows? What's your criteria? EAL isn't an absolute measure it's basically a standard. The more things you can check off the higher your rating. What's your checklist? Judging by your post it seems just pure prejudice.
Microsoft is trying to maintain maximum backwards compatibility with Vista in order to avoid the nightmare that was Vista. Mucking around in the innards of the kernel is probably a good way to break hardware drivers. No, I think Microsoft is going to rely on processor improvements to increase the use-ability of Windows 7.
"Again, work machines have been noticeably slower. Win 2k is the slowest. If you replace the boot files of 2K with XP, it should cut down boot times by 2 minutes (seriously it does work)."
That's interesting. There must be trade off somewhere. Anyhow, I won't mess with it since it is a work computer.
Funny but true. I turn on my computer. Go start a cup of coffee in the brew machine. Come back and type in my password. Go finish making my coffee. Chit-chat with some of my co-workers. When I return to my desk the Windows desktop is finally responsive even though it appeared about 2 minutes previously. Finally I load Outlook and that takes another two minutes.
So, 5-10 minutes of my day every day is spent waiting for Windows. That's 40 hours a year. Microsoft owes my company 1 week of my salary. If they were forced to pay, they'd have to raise their prices for windows and office a whole hell of a lot to be profitable.
Granted some of this is a function of hardware, login scripts that MS has no control over, etc, etc, etc, but it is a fun thought experiment.
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Economics 101: Economics is not a zero sum game. Of course, that doesn't mean the economy will always grow. It may shrink. It all depends on how the money is spent.
The point of borrowing is that the rate of growth will exceed the cost of borrowing. That's the gamble the government is making.
Whether they will do it better than the private sector would is an open questions, but it's also counter-factual because the government is the only entity that can borrow at this time.
In any case, what you are describing makes about zero economic sense to me.
Americans didn't "get it". They tired of paying high fuel costs. Now that oil is under $30 a barrel I expect SUV sales will tick up shortly just as Detroit is being forced to switch to models of cars (e.g. electric, etc) that will be too expensive. Ah, the irony. Don't get me wrong I think electric is the future but with fuel costs so low the only way it'll work is with a fuel tax which is political suicide. Oh well.
Don't be ashamed! Just stick your head in there eat as much of the tax-payers money as you can!
Actually I'm wrong. It may be a calculator and a clock might be a calculator, but it's not a computer. Computers require programmable functions.
No. It's not. Try again. A computer allows for variable input. Some things that are called clocks are computers, but this isn't one of them.
Actually it was probably created to predict religious holidays... just as the Catholic Church funded many of the works that would later threaten them.
Some (admittedly vague) requirements for something to be a computer are allowing variable inputs that produce variable outputs based on a programmable function. If there were only one function it would be a (primitive) calculator. This is not even a calculator. It's a clock. As one would expect there is natural evolution here from less complex to more complex.
As an aside I'm not sure why everyone wants to find examples of our ancestors having super advanced technology that was lost in the mists of time. Obviously it does happen (e.g. steam power, firearms in Japan, etc), but it's the exception not the norm. I guess it's just more sexy and attention grabbing to have some kind of mystery around it.
I suppose we can keep the bits that do the rovers, satellites, etc, but we really need to kill the manned space exploration bits. It's a colossal waste of money. Don't even start with the "They developed x, y, z technology while trying to go to space." Who cares? Do you seriously believe they wouldn't have been developed more efficiently and cheaper in the private sector?
America has gone from rewarding the innovative and industrious to rewarding idiots. I suppose I should wait till the verdict...
The article says the image is 100-pixels; presumably that means 10 pixels by 10 pixels. So you are correct. I think this is about the same resolution that they have for electronically enhanced eyes for the blind.
I totally agree. It's almost as if people forget that some of the efficiency attained by using computers is attained via abstraction. It's the same problem with "3D" desktop/web UIs. The desktop level of abstraction is exactly right for the kind of work most of us do with computers. Now, if there were a type of work that could be made more efficient via a 3D UI, then go for it, but that seems to be a very small percentage of work being done with a computer.
clearly somebody is going to make money from all of this hype. Let's follow the money trail...
Hrm. Not really. We use maths to describe all sorts of things that are not intuitive. How intuitive is a Riemann Sphere or any of the higher dimensional geometries? Things may have started out that way but we've gone off to describe worlds that could never exist in our universe.
Anyhow, all of this is beside the point. It's not the fact that mathematics describes reality very well that is interesting because as you say that is obvious. The point is that something that is true about the physical world is also true of the world of mathematics, about the nature of mathematics.
You mean people use the internet for things other than bittorrent? ;-)
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He sold his soul a long time ago and is now forced to ask the same crap, unanswerable questions and make the same bombastic, unprovable assertions over and over again for the rest of his life. I think he got a book deal out of it and the amazing ability to get publications to pay attention to him even though he became old news about ten years ago.
I suppose it depends on how you define secure. What evidence do you have the Linux is any more secure than Windows? What's your criteria? EAL isn't an absolute measure it's basically a standard. The more things you can check off the higher your rating. What's your checklist? Judging by your post it seems just pure prejudice.
Microsoft is trying to maintain maximum backwards compatibility with Vista in order to avoid the nightmare that was Vista. Mucking around in the innards of the kernel is probably a good way to break hardware drivers. No, I think Microsoft is going to rely on processor improvements to increase the use-ability of Windows 7.
Or one stop shopping if you're an identity thief.
"Again, work machines have been noticeably slower. Win 2k is the slowest. If you replace the boot files of 2K with XP, it should cut down boot times by 2 minutes (seriously it does work)."
That's interesting. There must be trade off somewhere. Anyhow, I won't mess with it since it is a work computer.
Thanks, genius.
Yeah, did that... That's like Windows OS 101.
Hah. I meant if they had to do it for everyone but thanks for the narcissism points and assuming I'm a retard.
Funny but true. I turn on my computer. Go start a cup of coffee in the brew machine. Come back and type in my password. Go finish making my coffee. Chit-chat with some of my co-workers. When I return to my desk the Windows desktop is finally responsive even though it appeared about 2 minutes previously. Finally I load Outlook and that takes another two minutes.
So, 5-10 minutes of my day every day is spent waiting for Windows. That's 40 hours a year. Microsoft owes my company 1 week of my salary. If they were forced to pay, they'd have to raise their prices for windows and office a whole hell of a lot to be profitable.
Granted some of this is a function of hardware, login scripts that MS has no control over, etc, etc, etc, but it is a fun thought experiment.