Frankly, with the latest series of indiscriminate attacks it's starting to look less like griefers run amok and more like false-flag psyops run to reduce support for hacktivism through guilt-by-association and create fertile grounds for some new draconian legislation.
The ability to pay taxes in a certain jurisdiction merely confers a usefulness to the currency as a whole, it places no bounds on the value of any specific unit of that currency. It implies neither more or less fixed value than any medium of exchange that anyone at all accepts.
The LVM merge feature has been available for around a year now, at least it's available in F14. Or are there some issues with it that make it unsuitable for doing that?
The idea that inflation is good for the economy is dubious. It's certainly good to those nearest the origination of currency, but whether it amounts to anything but a covert taxation for many is debatable.
The threat of deflation is overstated. Many industries, particularly the computing industries, live with constant deflation. It doesn't stop people from investing in computing hardware when needed and prudent to do so. In contrast, there are no significant reasons why investment without demand would be favourable to the economy in a longer term; rather the opposite, malinvestments driven by mispricing of money are strongly implicated in boom-bust cycles.
Things becoming cheaper might not be the threat claimed by a segment of elitist economists. In fact, people might actually understand deflation a whole lot better than the current random bubble economy.
More like 'basing a UI paradigm on easter eggs may not be the least confusing way to do things'.
The lack of visual cues, lack of consistency (when are what gestures available or not?), combined with the ease of random interference with the gestures make them less than optimal.
Personally I think it works fine as long as there is a half-dozen easily distinguishable gestures. But imagine trying to use a gesture UI that incorporates most shortcuts, contexts and menus available when using more complex applications or desktops, which is where such systems are going.
Doctors treated women with 'pelvic massages' for centuries, a treatment that apparently helped with a wide variety of illnesses. Take a look at the history of the vibrator and feel a certain relief that you're not generally greeted by steam powered masturbatory equipment at your average doctors office these days.
Perhaps the Tories should heed that as well, considering the origin of the term as irish outlaw or brigand. Or perhaps the rather disparaging origin of Whig as cattle driver.
Appropriating disparaging names has a long political history.
It's a problem with large nuclear reactors. Small designs like the Toshiba 4S where the core is sunk in a sealed vault 30 meters under ground would be much easier to contain so even a catastrophic failure would have very little impact.
When it comes nuclear fuel, the economies of scale may be outweighed by the risks of scale; the more of it you stick in one place, the more dangerous and hard to control it becomes. Loss of control over a minor part of it can easily lead to loss of control of all of it.
Hardly. Apples control over the market is rooted in government protected monopoly rights in the form of copyright and patents. Without those, there would be a competitive capitalist market of IOS compatible devices where applications could be offered through a variety of competitive app stores, and such fees would not be as easy for any company to levy.
One device, one store, one channel is more akin to something one might expect from a state controlled economy...
IP addresses are fundamentally incapable of identifying a person. It doesn't matter if you make them static or close down routers; you're a malware away from a rewritten address anyway with traffic originating elsewhere anyway.
Trying to use IP addresses as identifiers simply leads to them becoming even more useless as such, as anyone who wants to avoid having their address spread simply uses proxies, vpns or darknets.
And really, the best way to deal with copyright infringement is to abolish copyright.
It's quite obvious that Microsoft is astro-turfing heavily. They like to get a couple of these in early on every story. They're getting a little bit better, but phrases like "What is great about WP7 is its support for developers." are easily identifiable as marketing drone speech.
Most likely they have a bunch of evangelists and/or subcontractors whose only job is to monitor and comment on tech sites; the debacle when Vista marketing got run over by the realitytrain made it quite obvious how expensive it could be to lose control over the narrative.
And with windows phone being a warmed over windows mobile they certainly have their job cut out for them...
One may also wonder what one will be able to do on it in a year. Maybe Sony suddenly realizes that Android uses Linux and decides to disable Android as a bootable option.
No thanks to Sony products as far as I'm concerned.
Not that many people lie on their deathbed wishing they had worked more over their lifetime. The fact that demand can't keep up with capacity means we're leaving the age of scarcity.
There are two solutions to that problem; either 25% work, and we tax them 'til they scream and divide that wealth, as there is no demand for more work.
Or everyone works 25% and we enjoy the free time.
There are of course various other variations on that theme, like indentured servitude for the majority (the 'services' economy), or make-work ('keynsian') economy where the 25% productive work is taxed and redistributed through undesired jobs instead of directly, etc.
But the least painful and wasteful way to deal is to cut down and distribute work less inequitably.
but if you've ever talked to true atheists raised in a truly atheist environment, you would probably consider them somewhat sociopathic.
Secular humanism has no dependencies on religious culture; empathy and reasoning serves as foundations, and much more caring and considerate foundations than religion, as it is much less dependent on sometimes quite bigoted and inconsiderate dogma.
On the other hand, I've certainly noted common sociopathic tendencies among religious adherents...
Still, with the amount of prestige that the board and executive have invested in this decision, I suspect they'd rather let the company burn than back out of the partnership. It's an interesting demonstration of just how badly a company can be run; backed in to a corner, chose the absolutely worst option conceivable and make sure there are no alternative strategies.
Unless some stockholders manage to get the board fired, I expect Nokia will collapse and get taken private.
Copyright is economically equivalent to a sales tax (the fact that it's privately collected makes no functional difference). We could tax air as well and create a whole industry around breath measurement, or the classic burying and digging up of money and create a whole lot of artificially inflated GDP through that. That does not necessarily mean we're getting any extra wealth into the economy, nor any desirable work done. Unqualified claims that copyright is good for the economy is basically the same as unqualified claims that taxes are.
On more useful economic terms, if you calculate the value of copyrighted works at all possible consumers experienced value (and thus the values causing transactions), you'll note a huge dead weight loss in the economic system as marginal cost is zero while marginal benefit for the millions of consumers where the benefit is above 0 but far below available price per copy.
Ie, in economic terms it's quite easy to observe just how severely damaging copyright is to the wealth of an economy. It's not surprising to see far more vigour in non-encumbered economies.
As creative incentive systems vastly more efficient than copyright could easily be envisioned (say, for example, where the creator gets an automatic payment per copy until reasonable salaries are achieved), it's quite obvious that copyright is both counter productive and harmful and should be abolished and, if absolutely necessary, replaced with incentive systems more adequately geared towards maximizing creative endeavours rather than incentivizing rent-seeking.
A mod of -1 shill or astroturf would probably be more accurate.
It's quite obvious that Microsoft has been practicing their astroturfing, in particular on WP stories, and it's actually improving away from utterly blatant marketingspeak. But it's still fairly obvious. Unfortunately for Microsoft, such behaviour means that nobody will actually believe genuine reviews should any such ever be positive.
The number of seconds since 1/1 1970 is, however, not arbitrary. Which makes it a whole lot more useful as a measure of actual time and for determining a particular point of time, than labels randomly calling a specific moment 4pm, 5pm, lunch or teatime.
The labels are a utility. Changing them several times per year reduce the utility of those labels, as well as causing the multitude of other problems, just because some people apparently can't get over their desire for calling the start of work a particular label while changing the actual time around.
the summer is better for the extra hour of outdoor time in the evening.
Hate to break it to you; it's a number on a display. You're not getting an extra hour, you're getting a different number.
fix the rest of capitalism before you get excited about trivial things like DST.
As long as people actually appear to think that they magically get extra time because the numbers on the display say one thing I'm afraid fixing capitalism is out of reach. After all, if the boss turned the clock back eight hours I'd assume that people would just keep working at the end of the day...
I believe they allow some degree of respeccing among soul trees (the name of which I am surely getting wrong) depending on which you've collected/unlocked/???
You can obtain up to four roles per character, each of which can have a completely different spec built out of up to three of any combination of your classes souls that you have unlocked. You can shift between roles at will (as long as you're out of combat). You can reset and respec a complete role for a small fee in town.
Anyone with an ounce of pride should strive to be on the list, but some countries have caved because they think that USTR blustering actually means something.
Thanks to the attacks on file sharing and other information dissemination VPN tunnels are virtually mainstream these days. Anonymous, prepaid, VPN tunnels. Run them embedded and in multiple jurisdictions and even add a public wifi, with a clean install VM, and you'd be quite hard to trace.
Creating such a massive and widespread desire for anonymity has been enough of an incentive, monetary and philosophical, that spy-novel levels of untracability are available for everyone and from hundreds or thousands of providers.
The new policies rally the MS troops with deepest access to WP7 source with incentive to develop specifically for the platform.
Ah, yes, the incentive of taking 30% of the profit the employee makes on his own time. What's next, encouraging employee stock ownership by only requiring 30% repayment to the company of any profits (excepted upper management of course)?
The humorous part is that management probably thinks employees should be grateful for such incentive, while it will only serve to educate the employees that their contracts shaft them, reducing morale and certainly not creating a desire to work for free in their spare time.
Microsoft seems more out of touch every year, and this certainly won't help windows mobile. Poor Nokia.
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Frankly, with the latest series of indiscriminate attacks it's starting to look less like griefers run amok and more like false-flag psyops run to reduce support for hacktivism through guilt-by-association and create fertile grounds for some new draconian legislation.
The ability to pay taxes in a certain jurisdiction merely confers a usefulness to the currency as a whole, it places no bounds on the value of any specific unit of that currency. It implies neither more or less fixed value than any medium of exchange that anyone at all accepts.
The LVM merge feature has been available for around a year now, at least it's available in F14. Or are there some issues with it that make it unsuitable for doing that?
Statistically, nobody is a terrorist.
The idea that inflation is good for the economy is dubious. It's certainly good to those nearest the origination of currency, but whether it amounts to anything but a covert taxation for many is debatable.
The threat of deflation is overstated. Many industries, particularly the computing industries, live with constant deflation. It doesn't stop people from investing in computing hardware when needed and prudent to do so. In contrast, there are no significant reasons why investment without demand would be favourable to the economy in a longer term; rather the opposite, malinvestments driven by mispricing of money are strongly implicated in boom-bust cycles.
Things becoming cheaper might not be the threat claimed by a segment of elitist economists. In fact, people might actually understand deflation a whole lot better than the current random bubble economy.
More like 'basing a UI paradigm on easter eggs may not be the least confusing way to do things'.
The lack of visual cues, lack of consistency (when are what gestures available or not?), combined with the ease of random interference with the gestures make them less than optimal.
Personally I think it works fine as long as there is a half-dozen easily distinguishable gestures. But imagine trying to use a gesture UI that incorporates most shortcuts, contexts and menus available when using more complex applications or desktops, which is where such systems are going.
Doctors treated women with 'pelvic massages' for centuries, a treatment that apparently helped with a wide variety of illnesses. Take a look at the history of the vibrator and feel a certain relief that you're not generally greeted by steam powered masturbatory equipment at your average doctors office these days.
Perhaps the Tories should heed that as well, considering the origin of the term as irish outlaw or brigand. Or perhaps the rather disparaging origin of Whig as cattle driver.
Appropriating disparaging names has a long political history.
It's a problem with large nuclear reactors. Small designs like the Toshiba 4S where the core is sunk in a sealed vault 30 meters under ground would be much easier to contain so even a catastrophic failure would have very little impact.
When it comes nuclear fuel, the economies of scale may be outweighed by the risks of scale; the more of it you stick in one place, the more dangerous and hard to control it becomes. Loss of control over a minor part of it can easily lead to loss of control of all of it.
Hardly. Apples control over the market is rooted in government protected monopoly rights in the form of copyright and patents. Without those, there would be a competitive capitalist market of IOS compatible devices where applications could be offered through a variety of competitive app stores, and such fees would not be as easy for any company to levy.
One device, one store, one channel is more akin to something one might expect from a state controlled economy...
IP addresses are fundamentally incapable of identifying a person. It doesn't matter if you make them static or close down routers; you're a malware away from a rewritten address anyway with traffic originating elsewhere anyway.
Trying to use IP addresses as identifiers simply leads to them becoming even more useless as such, as anyone who wants to
avoid having their address spread simply uses proxies, vpns or darknets.
And really, the best way to deal with copyright infringement is to abolish copyright.
It's quite obvious that Microsoft is astro-turfing heavily. They like to get a couple of these in early on every story. They're getting a little bit better, but phrases like "What is great about WP7 is its support for developers." are easily identifiable as marketing drone speech.
Most likely they have a bunch of evangelists and/or subcontractors whose only job is to monitor and comment on tech sites; the debacle when Vista marketing got run over by the realitytrain made it quite obvious how expensive it could be to lose control over the narrative.
And with windows phone being a warmed over windows mobile they certainly have their job cut out for them...
One may also wonder what one will be able to do on it in a year. Maybe Sony suddenly realizes that Android uses Linux and decides to disable Android as a bootable option.
No thanks to Sony products as far as I'm concerned.
Not that many people lie on their deathbed wishing they had worked more over their lifetime. The fact that demand can't keep up with capacity means we're leaving the age of scarcity.
There are two solutions to that problem; either 25% work, and we tax them 'til they scream and divide that wealth, as there is no demand for more work.
Or everyone works 25% and we enjoy the free time.
There are of course various other variations on that theme, like indentured servitude for the majority (the 'services' economy), or make-work ('keynsian') economy where the 25% productive work is taxed and redistributed through undesired jobs instead of directly, etc.
But the least painful and wasteful way to deal is to cut down and distribute work less inequitably.
Would there be concern if a previous Anti-Copyright campaigner got the seat?
A lot less, as they actually would represent the people and their interest rather than a specific economic group.
passion can come from being paid to care
Eh, no. It cant.
but if you've ever talked to true atheists raised in a truly atheist environment, you would probably consider them somewhat sociopathic.
Secular humanism has no dependencies on religious culture; empathy and reasoning serves as foundations, and much more caring and considerate foundations than religion, as it is much less dependent on sometimes quite bigoted and inconsiderate dogma.
On the other hand, I've certainly noted common sociopathic tendencies among religious adherents...
Still, with the amount of prestige that the board and executive have invested in this decision, I suspect they'd rather let the company burn than back out of the partnership. It's an interesting demonstration of just how badly a company can be run; backed in to a corner, chose the absolutely worst option conceivable and make sure there are no alternative strategies.
Unless some stockholders manage to get the board fired, I expect Nokia will collapse and get taken private.
Copyright is economically equivalent to a sales tax (the fact that it's privately collected makes no functional difference). We could tax air as well and create a whole industry around breath measurement, or the classic burying and digging up of money and create a whole lot of artificially inflated GDP through that. That does not necessarily mean we're getting any extra wealth into the economy, nor any desirable work done. Unqualified claims that copyright is good for the economy is basically the same as unqualified claims that taxes are.
On more useful economic terms, if you calculate the value of copyrighted works at all possible consumers experienced value (and thus the values causing transactions), you'll note a huge dead weight loss in the economic system as marginal cost is zero while marginal benefit for the millions of consumers where the benefit is above 0 but far below available price per copy.
Ie, in economic terms it's quite easy to observe just how severely damaging copyright is to the wealth of an economy. It's not surprising to see far more vigour in non-encumbered economies.
As creative incentive systems vastly more efficient than copyright could easily be envisioned (say, for example, where the creator gets an automatic payment per copy until reasonable salaries are achieved), it's quite obvious that copyright is both counter productive and harmful and should be abolished and, if absolutely necessary, replaced with incentive systems more adequately geared towards maximizing creative endeavours rather than incentivizing rent-seeking.
A mod of -1 shill or astroturf would probably be more accurate.
It's quite obvious that Microsoft has been practicing their astroturfing, in particular on WP stories, and it's actually improving away from utterly blatant marketingspeak. But it's still fairly obvious. Unfortunately for Microsoft, such behaviour means that nobody will actually believe genuine reviews should any such ever be positive.
The number of seconds since 1/1 1970 is, however, not arbitrary. Which makes it a whole lot more useful as a measure of actual time and for determining a particular point of time, than labels randomly calling a specific moment 4pm, 5pm, lunch or teatime. The labels are a utility. Changing them several times per year reduce the utility of those labels, as well as causing the multitude of other problems, just because some people apparently can't get over their desire for calling the start of work a particular label while changing the actual time around.
the summer is better for the extra hour of outdoor time in the evening.
Hate to break it to you; it's a number on a display. You're not getting an extra hour, you're getting a different number.
fix the rest of capitalism before you get excited about trivial things like DST.
As long as people actually appear to think that they magically get extra time because the numbers on the display say one thing I'm afraid fixing capitalism is out of reach. After all, if the boss turned the clock back eight hours I'd assume that people would just keep working at the end of the day...
I believe they allow some degree of respeccing among soul trees (the name of which I am surely getting wrong) depending on which you've collected/unlocked/???
You can obtain up to four roles per character, each of which can have a completely different spec built out of up to three of any combination of your classes souls that you have unlocked. You can shift between roles at will (as long as you're out of combat). You can reset and respec a complete role for a small fee in town.
Anyone with an ounce of pride should strive to be on the list, but some countries have caved because they think that USTR blustering actually means something.
Thanks to the attacks on file sharing and other information dissemination VPN tunnels are virtually mainstream these days. Anonymous, prepaid, VPN tunnels. Run them embedded and in multiple jurisdictions and even add a public wifi, with a clean install VM, and you'd be quite hard to trace.
Creating such a massive and widespread desire for anonymity has been enough of an incentive, monetary and philosophical, that spy-novel levels of untracability are available for everyone and from hundreds or thousands of providers.
The new policies rally the MS troops with deepest access to WP7 source with incentive to develop specifically for the platform.
Ah, yes, the incentive of taking 30% of the profit the employee makes on his own time. What's next, encouraging employee stock ownership by only requiring 30% repayment to the company of any profits (excepted upper management of course)?
The humorous part is that management probably thinks employees should be grateful for such incentive, while it will only serve to educate the employees that their contracts shaft them, reducing morale and certainly not creating a desire to work for free in their spare time.
Microsoft seems more out of touch every year, and this certainly won't help windows mobile. Poor Nokia.