I thought, we call it "Silicon Valley" — and it didn't need government sponsorship to come into being...
Hmm, I think you're forgetting that if you trace back further Silicon Valley has connections with the Space and Military programs - here and here. I think I'd conclude that there's a complex set of influences favoring the creation of Silicon Valley.
But, hey, don't let me get in the way of a good "private industry is inherently more efficient" fantasy...
Unfortunately, unlike you and I, most "greens" are dead set against expanding nuclear pow.
Some free market people don't like them either because they've done the math on them with and without of the government funding of the externalities - e.g. waste & securit). Though I do think we should continue to pursue fusion.
This makes total financial sense, but it's too bad. I can't think of any way as a consumer to act in a way that would give the incentive to Nintendo to retain backward compatibility so that I don't have to re-buy games I've already played.
How about if you want to play the old games, pick up a few old instances of the old hardware? Used versions are dirt cheap? Personally, I'm willing to re-buy certain titles just for the convenience of not storing physical cartridge/game systems...
If you're trying to figure it out then you haven't been paying attention to the Adam Smith's free market. Nor have you been really thinking about how we got here economically. I believe in a free market, but what are the qualities of a free market that make it work for us in society - why should we tolerate it if it doesn't work for us overall.
Well regulated in this case would mean that you are systematically removing impediments to the efficient operation of a free market. For instance, shouldn't there be significant impediments to the operation of too-big-to-fail corporations in favor of small competive, efficient businesses? Well-regulated would mean that we require the increase transparency in the holdings of banks instead of obscuring them so the market can better judge the efficacy of investments?
Try this link. It's not necessarily the comprehensive, but maybe we need to rethink what actually constitutes a free market.
If it could take care of it, why isn't any company stepping up to the plate to make some money fixing this mess? Why are we even in this situation in the first place if the market worked? Unfettered markets are different from well regulated free markets. I believe we're way to far on the former and need to fight our way back to the latter.
I'm pretty sure being a librarian requires some sort of advanced degree, but I just don't know why. From my very limited view, they perform the same task as a Blockbuster employee: help customer check out books, return to shelf when done.
What am I missing?
Nobody would want to read a library of books selected by blockbuster employees?
This, folks, is called socialism. For clarification, it is NOT communism. Sometimes, things work out a lot better with socialist ideas, but not always. Setting up municipal power, water, internet usually works out better than for-profit ventures.
I think that trying to classify approaches into Capitalism vs. Socialism is counter-productive. It's all just self interested parties - cities, corporations, and citizens. All I want is a healthy market that delivers continually improving value no matter how it's served or who serves it. Evaluating the health of a market should be done per market. Neither -ism delivers good results
Somewhat offtopic, and forgive me for being ignorant, by why havent tablets caught on?
Personally, I haven't given them even a second glance because they seem to be priced at some high-premium above regular laptops. I know the touch hardware costs more to add in, but the price differential looks like double the otherwise equivalent laptop. As an additional side issue, I'd have to deal with Windows or reduced Linux support.
How about the Bridge games by Chronic Logic. Though some of the funniest bridges are exploits of the engine...
As someone who works on engineering simulations, I know exactly what you mean. Most games design is balanced so as to not be too difficult both for the players and for the programmers implementing the game. The real-world is notably more complex and open ended.
That said, I think one can certainly hone smaller scale critical thinking skills with games.
no. the companies plan was to test all their cows and claim i was 100% safe from mad cow, which is fraud. mad cow is only detectable after 2 years which is later than most cows are slaughtered anyway. effectively the USDA just saved you from higher beef prices, you can thank them anytime now....
So prevent the company from making the claim, or give them a real set of procedures to follow to allow them to claim enhanced safety. Maybe hold back some percentage of the cows the extra two years old then test...
And they'd be wise to do so. Anyone who thinks that stealing such things once laid off is a bright idea just does not have a criminal mind.
Right on! The correct way to make them feel sorry is to get the company agree up front to pay a ridiculously huge severance package - you know something like 5% of the company's profits for the year... Oh wait, that only works for CEO's.
Today's competitive commerce does not allow that kind of research and innovation at all - any "research" investment is in applied research, and is all about short term profits.
I think dropping of research and innovation has little to do with competition and a lot to do with short term greed.
I knew damn well that the actually dangerous countries, Iran and North Korea, would be left more or less alone while the weak and harmless one was going to be invaded.
After looking at the U.S. military rolling into Iraq, what strategic calculation could a smaller nation make? How does a little country hold up against a superpower who doesn't hold back from using conventional military options? If they weren't going nuclear before, it must look at lot more attractive later - even if it only serves as a bargining chip in some future diplomatic deal. Yet another reason why invading Iraq was a monumentally dumb move.
You're comparing open source SOFTWARE which can be whipped up on the spot by anyone with the skills and has as it's ONLY requirement that it adheres to its license , to a REFERENCE TEXT that has to be current, researched, sourced, proofread, factchecked, and edited, BEFORE IT CAN BE USED.
Ohhh, is that why publishers keep re-rereleasing calculus and statistics textbooks - because you know, we should recheck the central limit theorem just to make sure it still holds true...
It depends a lot on what your wiki is for, but usage pattern statistics might be a good metric. For example, repeat visitors are people who are getting some value out of the wiki. Trampoline pages (pages people hit and then bounce elsewhere from a link in the page) might be another good thing to track. As well as abort-and-retry pages, where instead of following a link the user goes to the search box and tries something else.
One can transform these types stats into quantified estimates of savings vs non-wiki information references. e.g. what is the cost of 1000 5-sec wiki searches resulting in links to documents vs 1000 5 minute searches for documents on an internal network.
What is the time saved to edit a wiki vs time to update & distribute a published manual? (or if there is no manual, what is the time required for employees to re-develop the information noted in the wiki - this one is more difficult to estimate... but still relevant)
What is the time lag in noting a exception to a procedure in a wiki vs the time to disseminate the info in other ways?
You get the idea. The metrics aren't perfect, but they capture a general scale of savings in using the wiki. If the project isn't hitting breakeven on a regular basis yet, make sure to note the growth rate of some of the stats or maybe turn that into a training project to increase use to the point where it is giving regular self-sustaining benefits...
As far as I've been able to tell, complex pricing the airlines practice only seems to confuse the themseles to the point that they can't figure out how to stay in business at a profit.
Am I the only one who recalls a statistic floating around in the 90's saying that something like 90% of all cash had traces of cocaine on it?
If the technique is so sensitive you can pickup many things at a touch, then one would expect to pickup chemicals many times removed. What if I shake the hand of some random person who transfers chemicals onto me?
It's the same problem with guilt by association. If we're all socially linked by six to eight degress of separation, how many people, just by chance are 3-4 degrees from some terrorist on the wanted list?
I do have a big problem with environmental radicals which seem to want to stop any forward progress in civilization (including BTW renewable wind power...) But, I also have problem with the nuclear industry. If nuclear power production is such a viable option, then why can't private industry fund it themselves - providing for cradle-to-grave disposal with public safety oversight? I'm skeptical if a power option isn't viable without massive public spending - and, if nothing else, there is a unmitigable physical and personnel security cost in setting up more nuclear power plants.
Further, I suspect that by the time all the dust settles on bringing the next nuclear power plant online (10+ years is my off-the-cuff guess), that the cost for solar power will have dropped by an order of magnitude or two.
My thought is to take all the nuclear public subsidy money and plug it into purchase contracts to install solar power on gov't facilities. The private PV industry is accelerated, we lower operating costs on gov't facilities which, in most cases, will be with us far beyond the payback cost on PV systems. And, for police and fire stations and public disaster gathering areas (e.g. schools), we will get built-in emergency power systems in case of blackouts, natural disaster, terroist attack, etc...
"Because the government is the people. Joe Blow did find this information - he paid the government to do it."
And what about Jane Blow who does not want to pay the government to find out that information? What choice does she have?
One has the same choices as anyone else - talk to your representatives. Beyond that, you also have the opportunity to work within the political system to elect a representative who more closely matches your values.
Or, you could fall in with the fringe tax protestor crowd that wants so badly to believe that they don't actually have to pay taxes - maybe you could ask Wesley Snipes how that's going...
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I heard that it was Somalian pirates... or post-banking-collapse Icelandic Vikings. Have you ever heard of Mad Olav!
I thought, we call it "Silicon Valley" — and it didn't need government sponsorship to come into being...
Hmm, I think you're forgetting that if you trace back further Silicon Valley has connections with the Space and Military programs - here and here. I think I'd conclude that there's a complex set of influences favoring the creation of Silicon Valley.
But, hey, don't let me get in the way of a good "private industry is inherently more efficient" fantasy...
Glenn Derene is puzzled that the candidates have yet to be challenged on a vital issue directly related to both those topics
Perhaps the candidates and their supporters are distracted by their retirement investments disappearing in the post-free/greed market meltdown?
Unfortunately, unlike you and I, most "greens" are dead set against expanding nuclear pow.
Some free market people don't like them either because they've done the math on them with and without of the government funding of the externalities - e.g. waste & securit). Though I do think we should continue to pursue fusion.
This makes total financial sense, but it's too bad. I can't think of any way as a consumer to act in a way that would give the incentive to Nintendo to retain backward compatibility so that I don't have to re-buy games I've already played.
How about if you want to play the old games, pick up a few old instances of the old hardware? Used versions are dirt cheap? Personally, I'm willing to re-buy certain titles just for the convenience of not storing physical cartridge/game systems...
well regulated free markets
I'm trying to figure this one out.
If you're trying to figure it out then you haven't been paying attention to the Adam Smith's free market. Nor have you been really thinking about how we got here economically. I believe in a free market, but what are the qualities of a free market that make it work for us in society - why should we tolerate it if it doesn't work for us overall.
Well regulated in this case would mean that you are systematically removing impediments to the efficient operation of a free market. For instance, shouldn't there be significant impediments to the operation of too-big-to-fail corporations in favor of small competive, efficient businesses? Well-regulated would mean that we require the increase transparency in the holdings of banks instead of obscuring them so the market can better judge the efficacy of investments?
Try this link. It's not necessarily the comprehensive, but maybe we need to rethink what actually constitutes a free market.
If it could take care of it, why isn't any company stepping up to the plate to make some money fixing this mess? Why are we even in this situation in the first place if the market worked? Unfettered markets are different from well regulated free markets. I believe we're way to far on the former and need to fight our way back to the latter.
Dude, this question is pretty irrelevant, I mean, when would a situation like that ever arise?
Quit asking trick questions, everybody knows that the free market has this all taken care of!
I'm pretty sure being a librarian requires some sort of advanced degree, but I just don't know why. From my very limited view, they perform the same task as a Blockbuster employee: help customer check out books, return to shelf when done.
What am I missing?
Nobody would want to read a library of books selected by blockbuster employees?
It really is very simple, Douglas Adams is dead, and no amount of 'franchising' is going to change that one
You've never heard of L. Ron Hubbard have you?
This, folks, is called socialism. For clarification, it is NOT communism. Sometimes, things work out a lot better with socialist ideas, but not always. Setting up municipal power, water, internet usually works out better than for-profit ventures.
I think that trying to classify approaches into Capitalism vs. Socialism is counter-productive. It's all just self interested parties - cities, corporations, and citizens. All I want is a healthy market that delivers continually improving value no matter how it's served or who serves it. Evaluating the health of a market should be done per market. Neither -ism delivers good results
Somewhat offtopic, and forgive me for being ignorant, by why havent tablets caught on?
Personally, I haven't given them even a second glance because they seem to be priced at some high-premium above regular laptops. I know the touch hardware costs more to add in, but the price differential looks like double the otherwise equivalent laptop. As an additional side issue, I'd have to deal with Windows or reduced Linux support.
How about the Bridge games by Chronic Logic. Though some of the funniest bridges are exploits of the engine...
As someone who works on engineering simulations, I know exactly what you mean. Most games design is balanced so as to not be too difficult both for the players and for the programmers implementing the game. The real-world is notably more complex and open ended.
That said, I think one can certainly hone smaller scale critical thinking skills with games.
The technical term you're looking for is Potting.
no. the companies plan was to test all their cows and claim i was 100% safe from mad cow, which is fraud. mad cow is only detectable after 2 years which is later than most cows are slaughtered anyway. effectively the USDA just saved you from higher beef prices, you can thank them anytime now....
So prevent the company from making the claim, or give them a real set of procedures to follow to allow them to claim enhanced safety. Maybe hold back some percentage of the cows the extra two years old then test...
And they'd be wise to do so. Anyone who thinks that stealing such things once laid off is a bright idea just does not have a criminal mind.
Right on! The correct way to make them feel sorry is to get the company agree up front to pay a ridiculously huge severance package - you know something like 5% of the company's profits for the year... Oh wait, that only works for CEO's.
Today's competitive commerce does not allow that kind of research and innovation at all - any "research" investment is in applied research, and is all about short term profits.
I think dropping of research and innovation has little to do with competition and a lot to do with short term greed.
I knew damn well that the actually dangerous countries, Iran and North Korea, would be left more or less alone while the weak and harmless one was going to be invaded.
After looking at the U.S. military rolling into Iraq, what strategic calculation could a smaller nation make? How does a little country hold up against a superpower who doesn't hold back from using conventional military options? If they weren't going nuclear before, it must look at lot more attractive later - even if it only serves as a bargining chip in some future diplomatic deal. Yet another reason why invading Iraq was a monumentally dumb move.
You're comparing open source SOFTWARE which can be whipped up on the spot by anyone with the skills and has as it's ONLY requirement that it adheres to its license , to a REFERENCE TEXT that has to be current, researched, sourced, proofread, factchecked, and edited, BEFORE IT CAN BE USED.
Ohhh, is that why publishers keep re-rereleasing calculus and statistics textbooks - because you know, we should recheck the central limit theorem just to make sure it still holds true...
It depends a lot on what your wiki is for, but usage pattern statistics might be a good metric. For example, repeat visitors are people who are getting some value out of the wiki. Trampoline pages (pages people hit and then bounce elsewhere from a link in the page) might be another good thing to track. As well as abort-and-retry pages, where instead of following a link the user goes to the search box and tries something else.
One can transform these types stats into quantified estimates of savings vs non-wiki information references. e.g. what is the cost of 1000 5-sec wiki searches resulting in links to documents vs 1000 5 minute searches for documents on an internal network.
What is the time saved to edit a wiki vs time to update & distribute a published manual? (or if there is no manual, what is the time required for employees to re-develop the information noted in the wiki - this one is more difficult to estimate... but still relevant)
What is the time lag in noting a exception to a procedure in a wiki vs the time to disseminate the info in other ways?
You get the idea. The metrics aren't perfect, but they capture a general scale of savings in using the wiki. If the project isn't hitting breakeven on a regular basis yet, make sure to note the growth rate of some of the stats or maybe turn that into a training project to increase use to the point where it is giving regular self-sustaining benefits...
What?
Make all the movies you want, but there are no real zombies.
Of course there are real zombies, aren't we were talking about the american voter here?
As far as I've been able to tell, complex pricing the airlines practice only seems to confuse the themseles to the point that they can't figure out how to stay in business at a profit.
Am I the only one who recalls a statistic floating around in the 90's saying that something like 90% of all cash had traces of cocaine on it?
If the technique is so sensitive you can pickup many things at a touch, then one would expect to pickup chemicals many times removed. What if I shake the hand of some random person who transfers chemicals onto me?
It's the same problem with guilt by association. If we're all socially linked by six to eight degress of separation, how many people, just by chance are 3-4 degrees from some terrorist on the wanted list?
I do have a big problem with environmental radicals which seem to want to stop any forward progress in civilization (including BTW renewable wind power...) But, I also have problem with the nuclear industry. If nuclear power production is such a viable option, then why can't private industry fund it themselves - providing for cradle-to-grave disposal with public safety oversight? I'm skeptical if a power option isn't viable without massive public spending - and, if nothing else, there is a unmitigable physical and personnel security cost in setting up more nuclear power plants.
Further, I suspect that by the time all the dust settles on bringing the next nuclear power plant online (10+ years is my off-the-cuff guess), that the cost for solar power will have dropped by an order of magnitude or two.
My thought is to take all the nuclear public subsidy money and plug it into purchase contracts to install solar power on gov't facilities. The private PV industry is accelerated, we lower operating costs on gov't facilities which, in most cases, will be with us far beyond the payback cost on PV systems. And, for police and fire stations and public disaster gathering areas (e.g. schools), we will get built-in emergency power systems in case of blackouts, natural disaster, terroist attack, etc...
"Because the government is the people. Joe Blow did find this information - he paid the government to do it."
And what about Jane Blow who does not want to pay the government to find out that information? What choice does she have?
One has the same choices as anyone else - talk to your representatives. Beyond that, you also have the opportunity to work within the political system to elect a representative who more closely matches your values.
Or, you could fall in with the fringe tax protestor crowd that wants so badly to believe that they don't actually have to pay taxes - maybe you could ask Wesley Snipes how that's going...