If Linux succeeds in displacing Windows, you will start to see non-free versions of it appear. Versions with enough modification that the "free" part is no longer the significant portion of its value. And the free versions will be obsoleted by their remnant bugs.
You wrote a very long post showing virtually nothing about whether I was right or wrong, because you don't understand economics at all.
One woman sewing will not compete on the scale of Dockers.
But if Dockers was paying $4.75/hr in America and China could pay its workers $0.80/hr, then dump them in the American market at a price below that cost, Dockers would have a complaint.
This has been done hundreds of times and is a cornerstone of world trade negotiations.
P.S. Giving your code away for free is stealing from your own retirement.
I read your post half a dozen times or so and but I can't tell. Do you charge your loved one for making her happy? (I know, I know, I'm making a few assumptions here.)
No. Of course not. I keep the price low so she won't have another reason to think my competitors are superior.
Anyone buying one of these things remotely will be rather surprised, maybe sorely disappointed, when they receive them in the mail.
They're very shoddily built. Almost laughably unartistic. Nothing like the realism and solidity and quality they seem on the television.
An acquaintance of mine, who worked for a company building props for ST:TNG, explained the illusion this way:
Seeing something on TV is like catching it out of the corner of your eye going 60 mph in a rainstorm.
So, since time is their least resource, they don't bother with fine detail that would just disappear, and they don't care about alignment, overspray, or fit, which you can't measure or even apprehend, nor durability, since almost everything is used for a very short time in a zero-stress environment by someone whose standing orders are "don't break the props".
Much of the "metal" will be painted foam or extruded plastic. Controls won't operate. The costumes will appear cobbled together from the cheapest possible fabric and will have strange and coarse alterations, plus any damage that's accumulated since it became junk. Literally all the value left in these items is bragging rights, sentimentality, and ego boost.
You have been told this from the moment you first entered the Internet.
Anyone and everyone can see and record every byte you emit from your computer.
The only detail is that the NSA, being a government entity, can not use the information as evidence in a court action against you, nor can they use any information that they gather only because they had this information.
So I don't understand why people are outraged about the privacy issue. It's the issue of being able to prosecute those caught using this method that's the real problem. The existence of this intelligence program taints every case against anyone accused of any crime involving information transiting the internet.
It's more guided towards "tiny independent things."
So the nanometer features of your microchips aren't strictly nanotechnology, because they aren't going anywhere without the other 50 million that are there.
The RAM/NVRAM thing for one... RAM is for speed; NVRAM (including disk drives with random-access method drivers) is for persistent storage. There's no reason to believe that the two won't be the same, but there's also no information given here showing that this stuff is as fast as any RAM.
Thermodynamics for another.
The scaling of density figures ignoring spacing elements.
The phone companies need to realize that it wasn't their investment. It was the government grants, and my money, that created the Internet. And it certainly wasn't any cable provider.
Then, when things were just going good, they sent all the valuable work over to India and China, stealing a trillion dollars in sunk costs from this country and giving it to them.
It's about time they learned who's really boss in this Democracy.
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Lolzers, Taco.
Vast Collection?
I got to Medal of Honor, discovered online play, and haven't bought a FPS since.
South Dakota's Homestake gold mine is 8,000 feet deep. 16 times deeper than this thing can reach. What's needed are acoustical communicators that can ping through the rock with a coded signal telling the miner's location. But given the safety record of mine operators, they won't update the codes as new side-tunnels are dug, won't keep the batteries charged, won't keep the receivers in working order, and won't train the safety personnel.
Psst. Star Wars was an umbrella term that included the high-power laser program for killing missiles in flight. Doing the same to satellites would require MORE power and accuracy. Thus making the missile-killing a matter of entering a different program into the targeting computer.
He was using another guy's blood and fingerprints. I think it'd be trivial to dupe and/or swap the rfid as well.
Frankly, preemptive security is a disastrous waste of money promoted by preemptive security companies. It just makes your security system ultra-vulnerable to coordinated attacks on their weaknesses.
The only thing that really works is constantly monitoring your good stuff, then publicly punishing the people you catch taking it. And making the entire society believe that harming other people without legal justification is morally wrong. And making sure everyone has enough money so they don't have to become criminals (the primary driver of crime is inaccessibility to reasonable wages).
Because, as you'll recall, Star Wars was the program that Bush revived when he took office. The one that totally supplanted any thoughts of fighting terrorism in the days between the Inauguration and 9/11/2001. After Clinton, Gore, and Sandy Berger had all told their incoming replacements that Terror was Job 1.
Unless it has a smaller beam concentration and/or energy than the weapons labs have, it will end up as a weapons research facility, even if it does somehow also make our breakfast cereals a little more "coo-coo" in the process.
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If Linux succeeds in displacing Windows, you will start to see non-free versions of it appear. Versions with enough modification that the "free" part is no longer the significant portion of its value. And the free versions will be obsoleted by their remnant bugs.
You wrote a very long post showing virtually nothing about whether I was right or wrong, because you don't understand economics at all.
I love watching you dolts totally miss the point.
One woman sewing will not compete on the scale of Dockers.
But if Dockers was paying $4.75/hr in America and China could pay its workers $0.80/hr, then dump them in the American market at a price below that cost, Dockers would have a complaint.
This has been done hundreds of times and is a cornerstone of world trade negotiations.
P.S. Giving your code away for free is stealing from your own retirement.
I read your post half a dozen times or so and but I can't tell. Do you charge your loved one for making her happy? (I know, I know, I'm making a few assumptions here.)
No. Of course not. I keep the price low so she won't have another reason to think my competitors are superior.
Which means you're the idiot. And a lousy lay.
If you don't think most Linux developers see Linux as a "Windows Killer" you're very, very mistaken.
Dumping at a value less than the cost of production (if you think coders' time is free, you're not much of a coder) isn't anticompetitive?
This judge may have just vacated a couple of hundred trade laws...
Anyone buying one of these things remotely will be rather surprised, maybe sorely disappointed, when they receive them in the mail.
They're very shoddily built. Almost laughably unartistic. Nothing like the realism and solidity and quality they seem on the television.
An acquaintance of mine, who worked for a company building props for ST:TNG, explained the illusion this way:
Seeing something on TV is like catching it out of the corner of your eye going 60 mph in a rainstorm.
So, since time is their least resource, they don't bother with fine detail that would just disappear, and they don't care about alignment, overspray, or fit, which you can't measure or even apprehend, nor durability, since almost everything is used for a very short time in a zero-stress environment by someone whose standing orders are "don't break the props".
Much of the "metal" will be painted foam or extruded plastic. Controls won't operate. The costumes will appear cobbled together from the cheapest possible fabric and will have strange and coarse alterations, plus any damage that's accumulated since it became junk. Literally all the value left in these items is bragging rights, sentimentality, and ego boost.
Which is going to have to do.
Because I want a pair of Spock's ears. Bad.
What makes it okay is that:
THE INTERNET IS NOT SECURE
You have been told this from the moment you first entered the Internet.
Anyone and everyone can see and record every byte you emit from your computer.
The only detail is that the NSA, being a government entity, can not use the information as evidence in a court action against you, nor can they use any information that they gather only because they had this information.
So I don't understand why people are outraged about the privacy issue. It's the issue of being able to prosecute those caught using this method that's the real problem. The existence of this intelligence program taints every case against anyone accused of any crime involving information transiting the internet.
How long does it take to write this stuff?
And how long to seek?
Because if it isn't faster than swapping old-technology tapes, it's not worth a damn.
"Nanotechnology" doesn't just mean "tiny things."
It's more guided towards "tiny independent things."
So the nanometer features of your microchips aren't strictly nanotechnology, because they aren't going anywhere without the other 50 million that are there.
Do what everyone else does:
obsolesce your data before you need to back them up.
Or just store a lot of crap that only you will care about losing.
Mods, the moderator who moderated my post as "flamebait" was using his moderator power to flame me.
it's because you don't know how to write
the education system in this country has been persistently diminished by 30 years of right-wing anti-tax politicking
logic, critical thinking, and communication skills are denigrated in favor of the ability to make change, cook a burger, and give a massage
why does a servant class need to write letters anyway?
Simple solution for the telecom industry:
Stop putting profits in your CEO's pocket and invest to add capacity.
Do those government critics ever criticize their government?
There are far less invasive ways to collect DNA samples.
Some cancers are caused by viral infections.
That said, poorly-shielded microwave (GHz) equipment may produce spurious lobes on their radiation pattern that could affect the wrong places.
And microwave radiation can also cause genetic damage leading to cancer.
Man...there's so much wrong with this article.
/. become Popular Science?
The RAM/NVRAM thing for one... RAM is for speed; NVRAM (including disk drives with random-access method drivers) is for persistent storage. There's no reason to believe that the two won't be the same, but there's also no information given here showing that this stuff is as fast as any RAM.
Thermodynamics for another.
The scaling of density figures ignoring spacing elements.
When did
The phone companies need to realize that it wasn't their investment. It was the government grants, and my money, that created the Internet. And it certainly wasn't any cable provider.
Then, when things were just going good, they sent all the valuable work over to India and China, stealing a trillion dollars in sunk costs from this country and giving it to them.
It's about time they learned who's really boss in this Democracy.
Lolzers, Taco.
Vast Collection?
I got to Medal of Honor, discovered online play, and haven't bought a FPS since.
See you in Brest, meat.
South Dakota's Homestake gold mine is 8,000 feet deep. 16 times deeper than this thing can reach. What's needed are acoustical communicators that can ping through the rock with a coded signal telling the miner's location. But given the safety record of mine operators, they won't update the codes as new side-tunnels are dug, won't keep the batteries charged, won't keep the receivers in working order, and won't train the safety personnel.
Psst. Star Wars was an umbrella term that included the high-power laser program for killing missiles in flight. Doing the same to satellites would require MORE power and accuracy. Thus making the missile-killing a matter of entering a different program into the targeting computer.
Shit in garbage's clothing.
He was using another guy's blood and fingerprints. I think it'd be trivial to dupe and/or swap the rfid as well.
Frankly, preemptive security is a disastrous waste of money promoted by preemptive security companies. It just makes your security system ultra-vulnerable to coordinated attacks on their weaknesses.
The only thing that really works is constantly monitoring your good stuff, then publicly punishing the people you catch taking it. And making the entire society believe that harming other people without legal justification is morally wrong. And making sure everyone has enough money so they don't have to become criminals (the primary driver of crime is inaccessibility to reasonable wages).
Have they stopped calling it "Star Wars?"
Because, as you'll recall, Star Wars was the program that Bush revived when he took office. The one that totally supplanted any thoughts of fighting terrorism in the days between the Inauguration and 9/11/2001. After Clinton, Gore, and Sandy Berger had all told their incoming replacements that Terror was Job 1.
I guess the Cold War really is Back On.
Please. You're kidding, right? You think anyone with that attitude and hobbies is anywhere else...
Unless it has a smaller beam concentration and/or energy than the weapons labs have, it will end up as a weapons research facility, even if it does somehow also make our breakfast cereals a little more "coo-coo" in the process.