I don't see any reason to disbelieve that MS will actually go through with it. This is the "vapourware" strategy that MS is famous for. MS knows that it has two major problems with customers: increasing licensing costs and massive insecurity. They can't stop increasing the licensing costs because they need to re-inflate their stock price because so much rides on them having an increasing stock price. So, they can attempt to reassure customers who might be considering jumping ship that they will have security 'real soon now', so there's no need to use a different product.
There isn't a single piece of technology that isn't a double edged sword. Computerized processes are faster and more accurate, but on the flip side they require fewer jobs.
What, using a human robot instead of a mechanical one is a good thing? Useless jobs and higher prices increases my standard of living? Even a Communist should recognize the waste of inefficiency.
In terms of corruption, there is an index maintained by some university or something. (I'd actually have to put effort into finding it.) The US came in at about position 11 in terms of least corrupt. Canada came in at about #5, and I think it was Denmark that was #1. America does have a good deal of corruption, but it's a Saint compared to the third world.
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If the US prints 1,000,000,000,000,000 1 dollar bills a day, then they'd be worth a damned sight less a week later.
This is slightly simplified, but quite valid. You don't need to print paper to create money. But, supply and demand determine how much a currency is "worth", i.e., how much stuff you can buy with it. The US money supply grows every year. But, if it grew by $1-quadrillion per day, the US monetary system would collapse within hours by unimaginable inflation.
GDP is a measure of the "value" of production, and not just a measure of a currency.
GNP counts only stuff made by US citizens made on US soil. Smaller number.
I was under the impression that GNP counted everything produced by assets (and/or people?) owned by a Country, anywhere in the world.
On a per-capita-income basis, the country of "Me" is the wealthiest in the world, if we don't include the country of "max(You)".
I'd assume that per-capita income and per-capita GDP are highly correlated.
Also, on average, for example, Americans have a higher per-capita GDP (and presumably income) than Canadians, but the bulk of that wealth is distributed much greatly to the higher-income levels than it is in Canada. Thus, 80% of Canadians enjoy a higher standard of living than 80% of Americans, even though the "average" figure might suggest otherwise. America's a great place to be a multi-millionaire, but it's probably fairly far down on the list of first-world nations to be someone in the middle class.
GNP attempts to measure the complete value of the production in a country or place.
This isn't quite right. My understanding is that GDP is the value of everything produced within the borders of a country, and GNP is the total value of everything produced by assets *owned* by the country in question (or its citizens).
This is the same way that you can figure out, in dollars, the GNP of a place like North Korea. The closest analog to this would be to try to figure out how many things are sold by USians to USians for dollars in Mexico.
This seems a little confusing. Economists use "purchasing power parity" to attempt to normalize the relationship between currencies in order to compare GDPs. It is calculated based on how much it costs you to buy various things in each country. For example, the Canadian dollar is worth about US$0.62 in foreign exchange, whereas it is worth about US$0.78 in purchasing-power parity. Canada's CA$1-trillion economy is worth about US$780-billion.
If you look at all combinations from 000,000 to 999,999 (might as well include zero), each digit in each position appears 100,000 times. So, since the sum of 0 to 9 is 45, the summation for each digit position is 4.5e6. So, the total for six digits is 27e6. Add 1 for the 1,000,000 final input number, and you get 27,000,001. Now where's my degree?
Just because 100 students were offered admission doesn't mean that the students accepted or that the university could handle all of them if every one of them did accept.
So, if it was discovered over a year ago, was this hardware bug ever fixed? We bought a dual-athlon 1.53-GHz (1900+?) machine recently; do these processors still have the bug?
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I don't see any reason to disbelieve that MS will actually go through with it. This is the "vapourware" strategy that MS is famous for. MS knows that it has two major problems with customers: increasing licensing costs and massive insecurity. They can't stop increasing the licensing costs because they need to re-inflate their stock price because so much rides on them having an increasing stock price. So, they can attempt to reassure customers who might be considering jumping ship that they will have security 'real soon now', so there's no need to use a different product.
There isn't a single piece of technology that isn't a double edged sword. Computerized processes are faster and more accurate, but on the flip side they require fewer jobs.
What, using a human robot instead of a mechanical one is a good thing? Useless jobs and higher prices increases my standard of living? Even a Communist should recognize the waste of inefficiency.
In terms of corruption, there is an index maintained by some university or something. (I'd actually have to put effort into finding it.) The US came in at about position 11 in terms of least corrupt. Canada came in at about #5, and I think it was Denmark that was #1. America does have a good deal of corruption, but it's a Saint compared to the third world.
I thought it looked like the smoke stack of the Springfield Nuclear power plant in The Simpson show.
No, that's just an ICBM silo.
Is a TiVo a DVD player as well? I think a box that does both would be a compelling replacement for a VCR.
Poor boy, doesn't have a Zoom button!
You say "A DVD is just like a VCR, except there is no 'C' and no 'R', but there's plenty of 'V'."
So how is JPEG-2000 doing these days, anyway?
Attack of the Clones. *groan*. Attack of the Killer Clones from Outer Space. *Yay!*
Will the next release be called "pointy tail"?
If the US prints 1,000,000,000,000,000 1 dollar bills a day, then they'd be worth a damned sight less a week later.
This is slightly simplified, but quite valid. You don't need to print paper to create money. But, supply and demand determine how much a currency is "worth", i.e., how much stuff you can buy with it. The US money supply grows every year. But, if it grew by $1-quadrillion per day, the US monetary system would collapse within hours by unimaginable inflation.
GDP is a measure of the "value" of production, and not just a measure of a currency.
GNP counts only stuff made by US citizens made on US soil. Smaller number.
I was under the impression that GNP counted everything produced by assets (and/or people?) owned by a Country, anywhere in the world.
On a per-capita-income basis, the country of "Me" is the wealthiest in the world, if we don't include the country of "max(You)".
I'd assume that per-capita income and per-capita GDP are highly correlated.
Also, on average, for example, Americans have a higher per-capita GDP (and presumably income) than Canadians, but the bulk of that wealth is distributed much greatly to the higher-income levels than it is in Canada. Thus, 80% of Canadians enjoy a higher standard of living than 80% of Americans, even though the "average" figure might suggest otherwise. America's a great place to be a multi-millionaire, but it's probably fairly far down on the list of first-world nations to be someone in the middle class.
GNP attempts to measure the complete value of the production in a country or place.
This isn't quite right. My understanding is that GDP is the value of everything produced within the borders of a country, and GNP is the total value of everything produced by assets *owned* by the country in question (or its citizens).
This is the same way that you can figure out, in dollars, the GNP of a place like North Korea. The closest analog to this would be to try to figure out how many things are sold by USians to USians for dollars in Mexico.
This seems a little confusing. Economists use "purchasing power parity" to attempt to normalize the relationship between currencies in order to compare GDPs. It is calculated based on how much it costs you to buy various things in each country. For example, the Canadian dollar is worth about US$0.62 in foreign exchange, whereas it is worth about US$0.78 in purchasing-power parity. Canada's CA$1-trillion economy is worth about US$780-billion.
Heh, now those sleep(-1) calls that I've peppered throughout my programs will make them run faster.
Yeash, nine ISOs! How did that ever fit on a 640K machine?
A better marketing department would have called it 'SLIC'.
Or, to more accurately portray the likely discussion, 'SICK'.
There are many other things that you might want to count besides memory cells.
crap...
int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
long i, sum;
for (i=1,sum=0; i <= 1000000; i++) {
sum += (i/1000000)%10 + (i/100000)%10 + (i/10000)%10
+ (i/1000)%10 + (i/100)%10 + (i/10)%10 + i%10;
}
printf("sum = %ld\n", sum);
return( 0 );
}
$ a.out
sum = 27000001
What is wrong with Slashdot <TT> indentation?
IE: the lower numbners repeat many times.
So what? Each digit position ultimately shows each digit 0-9 the same number of times and addition is totally commutative.
int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
long i, sum;
for (i=1,sum=0; i
If 1000 people walk down a backstreet past an empty building, 998 will just pass by. 2 will throw a rock through a window and spraypaint the walls.
It's our own fault really for not picking out these two people and depositing them at the South Pole for safe keeping.
like VA Linux, which, if you're like me, you have your retirement savings invested in.
I hope you're not saying that you invested your *entire* retirement savings in VA Linux. If so, then you deserve what has happened.
If you look at all combinations from 000,000 to 999,999 (might as well include zero), each digit in each position appears 100,000 times. So, since the sum of 0 to 9 is 45, the summation for each digit position is 4.5e6. So, the total for six digits is 27e6. Add 1 for the 1,000,000 final input number, and you get 27,000,001. Now where's my degree?
If you read your spam, you can get degrees without even going to classes.
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Just because 100 students were offered admission doesn't mean that the students accepted or that the university could handle all of them if every one of them did accept.
So, if it was discovered over a year ago, was this hardware bug ever fixed? We bought a dual-athlon 1.53-GHz (1900+?) machine recently; do these processors still have the bug?