Right - to elaborate, some of the volunteer-tourism folks will, say, go over to Africa and do some carpentry work for free. Great, other than you've just put a local carpenter out of business because he can't compete with your free labor.
Go teach some proverbial men to fish, or do something else were you are sure there isn't local labor available to do the work.
You might think, "oh, but there is so much carpentry to be done in Africa". That's a natural reaction, but it doesn't seem to actually grow economic output, which is the desired goal. If you can do something that will also help reduce corruption (I don't know how), then double-plus good.
public schools run by private companies, which supposedly makes them more accountable
That's a broken model. Perhaps they'll be more accountable because they can be fired, but what students need is competing methods of education, not competing administrators for the same old broken system.
Gates gets half a cookie, perhaps, but this sounds like he's missed the boat. Has he not learned his monoculture lessons?
a first-world country - you know, the kind with enough money, and a society as a whole that cares enough about everyone in it and decides everyone should have access to free healthcare, paid for by general taxation.
You don't get to redefine words to meet your political preferences. The phrase 'socialist democracy' is already available and apt to describe the type of place you like to live. Some places value freedom more than safety and that's their business to decide. The economic fate of each will be seen soon enough.
Is there an insecurity you have about using the proper terms that you wish to co-op others?
All that the internet has helped raise more money for the same old candidates pushing the same old agenda.
Many people have been woken up to the ideas of Liberty though Ron Paul's campaigns. He's run before, but it didn't have much effect because of the media preferences. In 2007, there was the Internet, and his supporters spread his message using the Internet. I can't say he used the Internet, because he really didn't, it was organic groundswell by ordinary folks.
But this theft did not involve the card itself. It involved data files from corporate computers. Short of a merchant specific CC numbers, (which are available from some credit card companies) there is no way to allow repetitive payments without retention of card data by the merchant.
Not just repetitive payments, but refund processing as well. There is some hope - some payment processors are handling the online payments directly and giving the merchants API's to do some secure payments. Look up 'tokenization'.
Right, the Tea Party members in Congress do not have enough power to actually decide agendas. They can have influence as a block, but in the end they're going to pass a debt ceiling increase, for instance.
I don't agree with them on many issues (personal liberty ones, mostly) but at least their policies would be preferable to the establishment [R,D] corporatism.
Then again, even if they're successful, all they can really do is postpone the collapse. Maybe it's just better to get it over with.
Politicians need to practice saying, "I'm very sorry to have to tell you this, but you were lied to by the previous governments. The arithmetic simply doesn't work. I'm also sorry your government school education didn't prepare you better to understand this yourselves."
Most Americans think that here in Central America we live in huts and grass skirts in the jungle.
That's part of the narrative portrayed by the government/media complex. "Oh, no, don't go there, it's unsafe and uncomfortable!" "Don't go to Costa Rica for your medical care, stay here where the FDA can make sure you're safe and we have real doctors." Etc.
That said, I don't fall for it, but I don't have a really great mental image of what many countries I haven't visited look like. I'd love to see a "Meet _____________ " kind of show on TV or YouTube that gives a nice virtual tour of the real life of each country, not just the tourist destinations or the slums. We have both of those things in the US too.
When there's no accountability, there's no incentive to fix anything.
Here's how I'd run government: "When the satellite reaches proper orbit and tests out, you'll get the first 80% of the $12.4B. When it's operational for a year, you'll get the remainder.
A decent mix of investors, lenders, and insurance would allow this kind of project, yet every player would demand excellent quality.
Are the requirements so different that the KDE and GNOME guys can't work together to establish a common framework that would work well for both of them, and free up some additional cycles, say for keeping virtuoso from filling up the disk with.xsession errors or making GNOME 3 more configurable?
I'm surprised to see Wikipedia listed as "social media".
They might be confused with anti-social media. Try adding an edit to a page with a neurotic editor who doesn't share your world view, facts being irrelevant to his agenda.
It's pretty obvious they knew about these patents but ignored them so that puts them in the wrong.
I'm sure you're right, legally. But morally... "An unjust law is no law at all" is among the most agree upon paradigms of the great thinkers. Google didn't just steal and ship Java - they improved upon it to actually be the first ones to make the promise of mobile Java a reality. Building upon the work of those who have come before is an essential element of progress. Yeah, the patent system was intended to create more of this, but that's not the actual outcome. Perhaps a noble experiment, but continuing a failed experiment is ignoble.
It seems like Sun's residual value was ultimately as a patent holding tank. Not surprising that Oracle snatched them up, then.
It looks like market support is about $250 right now. I wonder, when Apple starts selling the no-contract ones for $350, what the market will prefer.
No other phone holds that type of value over 2 years after its introduction. Thus the original claim holds true: Apple hardware is amazingly ahead of any competitor at resale value.
How are you figuring the original value? It's not what you paid to AT&T for it - they subsidized Apple about $300 per phone for those (or so I read). Something like a Nokia n900 started out at $649, and now sells used for $250, but that's a real, unsubsidized price.
so maybe Redhat just introduces a few interesting little tweaks to some meta-portion of their system
They already do this - that's why CentOS 6 took nearly a year to arrive.
"Go build libfoo.so.7 under Fedora 13 using an old version of mock and then link it again the bar object files" to get a binary-compatible RPM. RHEL's build process isn't self-hosting.
Oracle is cheerfully pissing in the well. At some point that's gonna cost them.
I'm not upset for ksplice selling, I'm upset about Oracle buying it just to destroy it:(
Well, Oracle's probably gonna offer it as a feature of their RHEL clone, but the biggest mystery to me is why Redhat would have given them a pass (we have to assume they talked to Redhat before selling out). Perhaps something similar is in the offing.
See, when managing a fundamental core app (like the default webbrowser) for an ORGANIZATION, it really isn't much of a comeback to say "just set it in about:config". Yeah, I'll get right on that Chief. With the 4,000+ desktops my team would need to individually visit, you mostly sound like an ignorant ass.
See, you're not really in IT, that's why you're posting as AC. Real IT shops have deployment systems and configuration management systems. If a company wants to push out Firefox without the awesomebar, that's a near-trivial undertaking.
*It's interesting how so many on/. only talked about iphone costs in terms of the cost of the phone + plans, but no one on slashdot ever mentions Apple's high resale value when doing comparing prices of other brands vs. Apple.
You sure? I see the $599 iPhone selling for $50. I guess it depends on how long you hold onto your gear.
Hrm, that's a reasonable price for an iPod.
Macs are different because you can't go get a Mac for $50 down with a $2800 ISP contract obligation.
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Right - to elaborate, some of the volunteer-tourism folks will, say, go over to Africa and do some carpentry work for free. Great, other than you've just put a local carpenter out of business because he can't compete with your free labor.
Go teach some proverbial men to fish, or do something else were you are sure there isn't local labor available to do the work.
You might think, "oh, but there is so much carpentry to be done in Africa". That's a natural reaction, but it doesn't seem to actually grow economic output, which is the desired goal. If you can do something that will also help reduce corruption (I don't know how), then double-plus good.
here there is no such thing as "you fucking know what the guy was saying so quit acting like he ran over your dog", oh no.
Well, (-1, Overrated) works pretty well as a defense against those types.
public schools run by private companies, which supposedly makes them more accountable
That's a broken model. Perhaps they'll be more accountable because they can be fired, but what students need is competing methods of education, not competing administrators for the same old broken system.
Gates gets half a cookie, perhaps, but this sounds like he's missed the boat. Has he not learned his monoculture lessons?
a first-world country - you know, the kind with enough money, and a society as a whole that cares enough about everyone in it and decides everyone should have access to free healthcare, paid for by general taxation.
You don't get to redefine words to meet your political preferences. The phrase 'socialist democracy' is already available and apt to describe the type of place you like to live. Some places value freedom more than safety and that's their business to decide. The economic fate of each will be seen soon enough.
Is there an insecurity you have about using the proper terms that you wish to co-op others?
All that the internet has helped raise more money for the same old candidates pushing the same old agenda.
Many people have been woken up to the ideas of Liberty though Ron Paul's campaigns. He's run before, but it didn't have much effect because of the media preferences. In 2007, there was the Internet, and his supporters spread his message using the Internet. I can't say he used the Internet, because he really didn't, it was organic groundswell by ordinary folks.
... every time you sign up with a new for profit health insurance company ...
I know, insurance rates based on actuarial risk - what is the world coming to?
But this theft did not involve the card itself. It involved data files from corporate computers.
Short of a merchant specific CC numbers, (which are available from some credit card companies) there is no way to allow repetitive payments without retention of card data by the merchant.
Not just repetitive payments, but refund processing as well. There is some hope - some payment processors are handling the online payments directly and giving the merchants API's to do some secure payments. Look up 'tokenization'.
They say, 'means are, after all, means'. I would say, 'means are, after all, everything'. As the means so the end...â - MK Gandhi
Right, the Tea Party members in Congress do not have enough power to actually decide agendas. They can have influence as a block, but in the end they're going to pass a debt ceiling increase, for instance.
I don't agree with them on many issues (personal liberty ones, mostly) but at least their policies would be preferable to the establishment [R,D] corporatism.
Then again, even if they're successful, all they can really do is postpone the collapse. Maybe it's just better to get it over with.
Politicians need to practice saying, "I'm very sorry to have to tell you this, but you were lied to by the previous governments. The arithmetic simply doesn't work. I'm also sorry your government school education didn't prepare you better to understand this yourselves."
Most Americans think that here in Central America we live in huts and grass skirts in the jungle.
That's part of the narrative portrayed by the government/media complex. "Oh, no, don't go there, it's unsafe and uncomfortable!" "Don't go to Costa Rica for your medical care, stay here where the FDA can make sure you're safe and we have real doctors." Etc.
That said, I don't fall for it, but I don't have a really great mental image of what many countries I haven't visited look like. I'd love to see a "Meet _____________ " kind of show on TV or YouTube that gives a nice virtual tour of the real life of each country, not just the tourist destinations or the slums. We have both of those things in the US too.
So... all those Blackberrys that run JavaME apps aren't a reality?
Yeah, I've run JavaME apps too - the reality of JavaME does not live up to its promise.
When there's no accountability, there's no incentive to fix anything.
Here's how I'd run government: "When the satellite reaches proper orbit and tests out, you'll get the first 80% of the $12.4B. When it's operational for a year, you'll get the remainder.
A decent mix of investors, lenders, and insurance would allow this kind of project, yet every player would demand excellent quality.
Are the requirements so different that the KDE and GNOME guys can't work together to establish a common framework that would work well for both of them, and free up some additional cycles, say for keeping virtuoso from filling up the disk with .xsession errors or making GNOME 3 more configurable?
I'm surprised to see Wikipedia listed as "social media".
They might be confused with anti-social media. Try adding an edit to a page with a neurotic editor who doesn't share your world view, facts being irrelevant to his agenda.
But they at least had a figurehead, Anonymous doesn't even have that.
Winning with the double entendre.
It's pretty obvious they knew about these patents but ignored them so that puts them in the wrong.
I'm sure you're right, legally. But morally ... "An unjust law is no law at all" is among the most agree upon paradigms of the great thinkers. Google didn't just steal and ship Java - they improved upon it to actually be the first ones to make the promise of mobile Java a reality. Building upon the work of those who have come before is an essential element of progress. Yeah, the patent system was intended to create more of this, but that's not the actual outcome. Perhaps a noble experiment, but continuing a failed experiment is ignoble.
It seems like Sun's residual value was ultimately as a patent holding tank. Not surprising that Oracle snatched them up, then.
And your dogs.
So what you're saying is that family dogs aren't just 'extra points' on drug raids? Somebody better revise the SWAT manual.
And yet Scientific Linux was able to release months ahead of CentOS from the same RH source....
Right, they built it all as self-hosted and did not achieve binary compatibility. Different goals.
The iPhone 3Gs still goes for over $300 on eBay.
It looks like market support is about $250 right now. I wonder, when Apple starts selling the no-contract ones for $350, what the market will prefer.
No other phone holds that type of value over 2 years after its introduction. Thus the original claim holds true: Apple hardware is amazingly ahead of any competitor at resale value.
How are you figuring the original value? It's not what you paid to AT&T for it - they subsidized Apple about $300 per phone for those (or so I read). Something like a Nokia n900 started out at $649, and now sells used for $250, but that's a real, unsubsidized price.
If not, why should we obey any of them for any reason?
They'll shoot your baby if you chose not to. That's the ugly truth, and the basis for our system of government.
Time for an evolution.
so maybe Redhat just introduces a few interesting little tweaks to some meta-portion of their system
They already do this - that's why CentOS 6 took nearly a year to arrive.
"Go build libfoo.so.7 under Fedora 13 using an old version of mock and then link it again the bar object files" to get a binary-compatible RPM. RHEL's build process isn't self-hosting.
Oracle is cheerfully pissing in the well. At some point that's gonna cost them.
I'm not upset for ksplice selling, I'm upset about Oracle buying it just to destroy it :(
Well, Oracle's probably gonna offer it as a feature of their RHEL clone, but the biggest mystery to me is why Redhat would have given them a pass (we have to assume they talked to Redhat before selling out). Perhaps something similar is in the offing.
See, when managing a fundamental core app (like the default webbrowser) for an ORGANIZATION, it really isn't much of a comeback to say "just set it in about:config". Yeah, I'll get right on that Chief. With the 4,000+ desktops my team would need to individually visit, you mostly sound like an ignorant ass.
See, you're not really in IT, that's why you're posting as AC. Real IT shops have deployment systems and configuration management systems. If a company wants to push out Firefox without the awesomebar, that's a near-trivial undertaking.
Which looks suspiciously like their "free public format" is, in fact, closed and proprietary.
I think "open and encumbered" is the description you're looking for.
I actually read about a quarter of "A New Kind of Science" and still can't believe that Wolfram doesn't get non-zero-sum games after all that.
*It's interesting how so many on /. only talked about iphone costs in terms of the cost of the phone + plans, but no one on slashdot ever mentions Apple's high resale value when doing comparing prices of other brands vs. Apple.
You sure? I see the $599 iPhone selling for $50. I guess it depends on how long you hold onto your gear.
Hrm, that's a reasonable price for an iPod.
Macs are different because you can't go get a Mac for $50 down with a $2800 ISP contract obligation.