War would be good for ratings but I'm not sure that the CNN people want war so much as they'd be willing to accept a war to get rid of Trump. The 7th Floor always wants a new war and would be glad to be rid of Trump, so you're good there.
But there is a reason - Congress socialized the insurance of nuclear reactors and it's the underwriter and actuary. It's completely stupid and causes almost all of our problems but it's not like it's inexplicable.
Thanks for doing this, Bruce. I know it's not just "taking one for the team" but If you establish a precedent here it will provide lasting benefit for discourse within the community and beyond.
We're told by many here on/. that music HAS no intrinsic value because it CAN be copied. That pirating music OK, because the artist made their money once on the sale of the first recording, so there is no need for them to make money on later sales of that product.
Who says that? All value is relative and individual.
*Many* people are willing to pay eighty-nine cents or a buck twenty nine for a song. Others are willing to pay fourteen dollars a month for unlimited music.
Some people are willing to pay three dollars for the utility that a crypto provides; others are willing to pay twenty thousand.
In all those cases a market allocates the resources from the people who value something more to the people who value something less.
It's only in the Socialist ideal of one fixed value for a commodity that anybody can dare announce that an orange is worth more than an apple. But that fails every time it's tried, and for obvious reasons. Mises's "Economic Calculation Problem" paper is a good read on the technical subject, or Hazlit's "Economics in One Lesson" is a more gentle introduction. Both are available for free just a google search away, but that doesn't mean nobody values them. It's left as an exercise for the reader to figure out what additional actors may be involved in the value chain.
Because people have use cases for portable workstations with a built-in screen and are smart enough to understand that more power requires a lower battery life, and they're willing to make that trade-off. This is how every market-based purchasing decision anywhere and everywhere is made.
It's probably not the same person you see at Starbucks with a MacBook Air sipping a flat white while being outraged on Twitter.
Google, Microsoft, and Lockheed are all going to have useful quantum computers by next year. This is just the government pretending that they were involved.
You'll get fired for buying Cisco in my company but not in the Fortune 500, where blame is paramount to functionality. Cisco sells "blame us" for huge dollar values.
Speaking of which, are any of the open-platform linux 10-gig switches under $5K yet?
The "National Security" issue is that the NSA didn't have access to ZTE devices. Now they will. Go read a few hundred Snowden slide decks if you don't know that this is how they work.
They'll need to get the latency below the perception threshold to avoid motion sickness but it's achievable on their timeline.
Personally I'd love a cabin with no overhead storage and a 180* view of the clouds (all-cabin OLED surface) but that's an amusement park ride, not a logistically-sensible transport system.
Without windows they can have more freedom on reconfigurability which I'm sure they'd prefer.
It was to clobber Google over the head with patents and now copyright for Android, to try to force them into a patent cross-licensing deal with their distributed database patents (because Oracle doesn't scale). Check the litigation history.
The attempt at manufactured controversy is transparent. If this developer ever valued that domain name at more than $10 he would have registered it. If he had the company would have a different domain.
The engineers and the marketing department got locked in a room and battled it out to the death. I'll let you figure out who won.
Tricky question. The Marketing people won. At least in the US. Netburst was a huge engineering failure.
Luckily, some folks at Intel Israel had been working on making the PIII more energy efficient. When Intel's fortunes looked very bleak, somebody noticed this work and from there the Core line was born and AMD got set back a decade in terms of competitiveness.
And yet buildings fall down and airplanes fall apart mid-flight.
I'll compare Linus's competence with that of a PE any day. Neither are perfect, but some magic certificate wouldn't make Linus* any better at what he does.
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Best /. comment this year. TYFYS.
War would be good for ratings but I'm not sure that the CNN people want war so much as they'd be willing to accept a war to get rid of Trump. The 7th Floor always wants a new war and would be glad to be rid of Trump, so you're good there.
But there is a reason - Congress socialized the insurance of nuclear reactors and it's the underwriter and actuary. It's completely stupid and causes almost all of our problems but it's not like it's inexplicable.
Doesn't anyone else see this as insane?
Americans either enjoy this crazy legal system or feel powerless to change it. None of these matches any theories of a benevolent government.
Thanks for doing this, Bruce. I know it's not just "taking one for the team" but If you establish a precedent here it will provide lasting benefit for discourse within the community and beyond.
:snort: That's the best description of Haskell I've seen.
We're told by many here on /. that music HAS no intrinsic value because it CAN be copied. That pirating music OK, because the artist made their money once on the sale of the first recording, so there is no need for them to make money on later sales of that product.
Who says that? All value is relative and individual.
*Many* people are willing to pay eighty-nine cents or a buck twenty nine for a song. Others are willing to pay fourteen dollars a month for unlimited music.
Some people are willing to pay three dollars for the utility that a crypto provides; others are willing to pay twenty thousand.
In all those cases a market allocates the resources from the people who value something more to the people who value something less.
It's only in the Socialist ideal of one fixed value for a commodity that anybody can dare announce that an orange is worth more than an apple. But that fails every time it's tried, and for obvious reasons. Mises's "Economic Calculation Problem" paper is a good read on the technical subject, or Hazlit's "Economics in One Lesson" is a more gentle introduction. Both are available for free just a google search away, but that doesn't mean nobody values them. It's left as an exercise for the reader to figure out what additional actors may be involved in the value chain.
I mean, why
Because people have use cases for portable workstations with a built-in screen and are smart enough to understand that more power requires a lower battery life, and they're willing to make that trade-off. This is how every market-based purchasing decision anywhere and everywhere is made.
It's probably not the same person you see at Starbucks with a MacBook Air sipping a flat white while being outraged on Twitter.
That's actually OK.
that it is being spun
The /. editors post "stupid people saying stupid things" stories just to get reacts and ad impressions. Topical comments are what ad farms crave.
Yeah, but we hogged the phone line.
And, seriously, 1989 for me.
Prisoners work for low wages. Refurbishing and testing equipment would build marketable skills.
Have they stopped those too due to the risk of default?
Jobs made beautiful technology but Cook has a beautiful balance sheet.
It turns out coasting on the past is more profitable than taking risks. For now (this scenario is why interruptors can emerge).
Google, Microsoft, and Lockheed are all going to have useful quantum computers by next year. This is just the government pretending that they were involved.
You'll get fired for buying Cisco in my company but not in the Fortune 500, where blame is paramount to functionality. Cisco sells "blame us" for huge dollar values.
Speaking of which, are any of the open-platform linux 10-gig switches under $5K yet?
No, the deal made between Disney and the People are the terms as established in 1928 or whatever.
The Government and Disney can't keep renegotiating the deal while the People are a party to it.
If they don't want the monopoly grant terms they don't have to participate.
Contact your state representatives and have NN enacted at the state level.
Yes. Please do. It'll make my state more competitive against yours.
You're looking for the Labor Force Participation Rate. 62% of the people who could work are currently working.
The u3 unemployment number is just rigged nonsense, so the headline of this story is also nonsense.
The "National Security" issue is that the NSA didn't have access to ZTE devices. Now they will. Go read a few hundred Snowden slide decks if you don't know that this is how they work.
They'll need to get the latency below the perception threshold to avoid motion sickness but it's achievable on their timeline.
Personally I'd love a cabin with no overhead storage and a 180* view of the clouds (all-cabin OLED surface) but that's an amusement park ride, not a logistically-sensible transport system.
Without windows they can have more freedom on reconfigurability which I'm sure they'd prefer.
It was to clobber Google over the head with patents and now copyright for Android, to try to force them into a patent cross-licensing deal with their distributed database patents (because Oracle doesn't scale). Check the litigation history.
The attempt at manufactured controversy is transparent. If this developer ever valued that domain name at more than $10 he would have registered it. If he had the company would have a different domain.
It's landing in a controlled fashion that's tough.
Next time a plane flies into the side of a mountain I'll look for anybody in the world calling it "a very uncontrolled landing".
The engineers and the marketing department got locked in a room and battled it out to the death. I'll let you figure out who won.
Tricky question. The Marketing people won. At least in the US. Netburst was a huge engineering failure.
Luckily, some folks at Intel Israel had been working on making the PIII more energy efficient. When Intel's fortunes looked very bleak, somebody noticed this work and from there the Core line was born and AMD got set back a decade in terms of competitiveness.
P4 was the end of the line for that technology.
And yet buildings fall down and airplanes fall apart mid-flight.
I'll compare Linus's competence with that of a PE any day. Neither are perfect, but some magic certificate wouldn't make Linus* any better at what he does.
* or any other quality software developer