That does not mean that additional wealth cannot be created without infusion of additional resources.
Of course it does. It's just that you're not counting the resource you're putting in, which is the effort you're making to create the resource.
I give you $150 and you give me an hour of labor. We've both benefited by the trade. If we are really acting freely, we've both benefited (or we wouldn't have engaged in the trade), so we are both wealthier than we were before. This is the fundamental basis of perpetual economic growth... given a free market* in which to pursue trades, wealth increases as trades are made.
You've both also lost the object or service you traded away. It's still a zero sum game in terms of the resources. Pretending it's not is exactly why the economic system is so damn broken.
If you ask me all the IDEs are getting bloated to the point where I think in 2-3 years you're going to need a 64 Bit environment with 8GB or more of RAM just to develop. (Where I am we find Weblogic development using Eclipse is getting slow on 32bit machines with 2GB RAM is getting...difficult) There is some attempt to address this with each IDE by making the platform extensible, and component/plugin based. Unfortunately to do even basic things you end up finding yourself stuck needing a long list of plugins, so whilst this is theoretically a fantastic move, in practice you're still left with a bloated environment. If you need support for multiple languages or environments you find the plugin architecture is no help at all for preventing bloat. (It's still great for adding features).
- Enough qualified *on site* staff 24x7 to deal with all clients including yourself
- 24x7 phone support, with people who understand English and have immediate access to the techies
- Company financial records and history (You don't want someone almost broke or a new startup with no backing)
- These days availability of virtualisation solution and supporting hardware (depending on your application, if virtualisation is an option)
Oh and your emphasis on maintenance records may be a little misplaced. They can be faked. They also may not be available due to security concerns (of their other clients). *IF* you can get hold of them they should be complete. Hardware service level should be part of the agreement and service schedule should be part of that.
I ran a data center long, long ago...... The instant they saw the carpet, their eyebrows were up. When I didn't lie to them that there was no diesel generator on the other side of the (secretly dead) batteries, they did exactly what they should have and stormed out without saying thanks
Sounds like you ran it out of your mother's attic. (A basement wouldn't have had carpet).
Clearly you haven't dealt with MythTV. The myth is that you get to watch and record TV. The reality is you spend all your time fiddling with it and cursing at it until your head is so bloody from banging it up against a brick wall that you give up and decide to give up TV altogether.
I always thought it interesting that people think equilibrium is a ecosystem free of humans. Aren't humans a part of the ecosystem.
Perhaps when we were dumb monkeys and there were something like 40,000 - 200,000 of us you could make this argument. However we grew brains and one result is that there are over 6 billion of us and growing. Not sustainable.
Insurance is to INSURE against truely unlikely events. If you BECOME seriously ill, that is where insurance kicks in. It's not there to cover what you know is going to happen. The "insurance" provided by this bill is like my house insurance paying to mow the lawn.
No it's not. At least health insurance isn't. Everyone gets sick. People are living longer, and the longer you live the more likely you get sick.
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Dude, try a substitution - "the police" are a tool to punish innocent people who annoyed those in power. Supposedly they prevent crime as well but there's always collateral damage on legitimate behavior.
"Dude", that's a stretch and a half.
The police force may have indeed have some corruption within it, but no one in power goes around literally pulling a handgun and killing people with impunity. The law is suppose to be fair and equal for all and there is some attempt to pay at least lip service to that. (Well with one exception - try getting decent representation without lots of cash).
In contrast DRM only fucks everyone the same way by limiting what they can do with what they bought equally.
Fuck privacy between you and your health insurer. You have no expectation that your history of leaving open flames unattended be kept from your home insurer, or that your history of reckless driving be kept from your car insurer. If you have an expectation to bill $10K/month in healthcare expenses, I as a fellow premium-payer would expect you to kick a bit more in the pot than I do, since you are certain to pull more out.
So if you want people to pay propotionally to their need to use it, why have health care at all? Just have everyone pay for their own treatment. Meaning there's no safety net, and if you get seriously ill your only option become acts of desperation including violent crime, and dying. Not just you, but everyone around you.
The whole point of having a public healthcare system is that everyone pays an affordable amount, and those that need it use what everyone pays. The only benefits to you may be not having to worry about predicting if you'll get ill and not having to worry about your neighbour resorting to robbing you to pay medical expenses.
Don't "cheat" TIVO my arse. Aparently the defintion of cheat has become using something you own to do something you want to do. If they have a business model that subsides the hardware, why is that anyone else's problem?
Seriously, why do people buy a locked down piece of hardware, then wonder why they can't do anything that hasn't specifically been authorised with it? Your solution starts with not buying the damn product in the first place!!!
Stallman may be a crazy loon that I don't want representing me, but in this particular case he's absolutely right. You shouldn't be allowed to create an abomination like TIVO with open source.
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DRM is not the devil. It is a tool.
Yes, it's a tool to shut people out of using what they bought. Supposedly it prevents criminal copyright infringement but there is always collateral damage on legitimate use. That damage doesn't stop with the current owner either. In the future there will be entire groups of historians specialising in breaking ancient copyright to get an incite on our culture.
The sooner we stop crying about buzz words
DRM isn't a buzzword. It describes an intent to restrict the use of a resource. If you ask me we're not crying loud enough. The boiling frog analogy may not be scientifically correct but it's as good an analogy as any.
...with a range of 20-30m or so. One that lets you tune the frequency within a nice large range. Provided it's legal where you live. Then all you need in each room is a standard radio to receive it. If you already have one, total cost is the purchase and running cost of the transmitter. Won't give you optimal quality but it's cheap.
These guys don't just want it both ways. They want it every which way and twice on Sunday. Take your meds boys, and put on this comfy straight jacket before the multiple personality disorder results in a paradox so vast that the only way the Universe will be able to resolve it is implode. LHC eat your heart out. WIPOs got your black holes beat!
Yes, after reading the original letter I have one: how does that letter prove that Microsoft is evil? The only thing Gates is saying is that he and his company has invested around $40000 in building and supporting the software, and the return was so small, it was just enough to break even.
Um Microsoft hasn't exactly done so badly has it now? You could only claim to have just barely broken even founding and running Microsoft with some VERY creative accounting. Like writing off hookers, beer and multi-million dollar mansions and cars as business expenses. I suppose we should all feel very sorry for the CEOs who after all only pay themselves $1 a year in salary. Would YOU work for just $1 a year (and a few hundred billion in stock)?
Come on people, you can't have it both ways. If you can't "steal" music, you can't "steal" code. MS "stealing" this code
1) Yes you can have it both ways, when you're talking about a large community with widely differing views on the matter
2) The megacorps like Microsoft are CONSISTENTLY backing all kinds of draconian methods to enforce their copyright including legislative changes that make the punishment for copyright infringment much more severe than any violent crime. It is therefore only right to hold them to task when they also infringe copyright.
3) It's been beaten to death but there is a difference between copyright infringement and theft. Nothing was stolen here, but copyright may have been infringed. Why is this important? Because it's a different crime with different implications for all involved and such sloppiness with definitions means any rational argument becomes clouded unnecessarily. Stealing a car has far different implications for the owner, manufacturer, supplier/dealer and insurance company than having a copied made.
'This case ensures that other law enforcement agencies throughout the state aren't going to have to fight a case like this where GPS is used to cast doubt on radar,' said Sgt. Ken Savano,
Well if the summary is true (and I know it might not be), it actually means the opposite since the GPS data was considered at the trial. That means others may try to present their GPS data in future. It certainly doesn't mean that people can't try that defense. There was no precedent set that the GPS data was less reliable than the radar. It's just that the GPS data could be interpretted to be in agreement with the radar data. Also, this is only applicable to one kind of GPS unit under one very limited set of circumstances.
In other words Sgt. Ken Savano is either misrepresenting the whole situation or is incompetent when it comes to the prosecution of speeding violations. Either way he's coming across as dim witted and it raises serious doubts for me about his ability to perform his duties as a police officer, since he can't seem to understand the law.
Since when is it now laughable or stupid to ask questions to relieve oneself of ignorance? I'd say it's stupid to want to stay ignorant.
Basing your actions entirely on one or two less than credible sources might be stupid. I wouldn't put peroxide in my ear for instance without making sure I had plenty of credible sources to back that action. However asking the question on a search engine which might lead me to such credible sources is anything but stupid.
Whoever came up with this tripe is the one that's stupid. We don't need to praise willful ignorance, when knowledge is just a google query away...
One wonders how much it would take to put some kind of roofing over the most vulnerable exterior equipment. Something like corrugated tin on a steel frame or whatever.
You slashdot wise guys! Do you REALLY think PROFESSIONAL scientists would leave critical equipment exposed? That professionals paid to design and engineer a multi-billion dollar piece of equipment would forget a basic piece of covering? That you sitting there and speculating behind your keyboard sitting in your underwear in your mother's basement might have a better idea of how to protect delicate scientific equipment than hundreds of scientists and engineers with post graduate degrees?
Well in this instance it looks like you might be right?
A slashdot community without a sense of humour, that couldn't tell the difference between a troll and a joke to save themselves, and a self-rigthteous twit who likes to lay in the boot.
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That does not mean that additional wealth cannot be created without infusion of additional resources.
Of course it does. It's just that you're not counting the resource you're putting in, which is the effort you're making to create the resource.
I give you $150 and you give me an hour of labor. We've both benefited by the trade. If we are really acting freely, we've both benefited (or we wouldn't have engaged in the trade), so we are both wealthier than we were before. This is the fundamental basis of perpetual economic growth... given a free market* in which to pursue trades, wealth increases as trades are made.
You've both also lost the object or service you traded away. It's still a zero sum game in terms of the resources. Pretending it's not is exactly why the economic system is so damn broken.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one...."
...is Buzzword Compliance Magazine.
If you ask me all the IDEs are getting bloated to the point where I think in 2-3 years you're going to need a 64 Bit environment with 8GB or more of RAM just to develop. (Where I am we find Weblogic development using Eclipse is getting slow on 32bit machines with 2GB RAM is getting...difficult) There is some attempt to address this with each IDE by making the platform extensible, and component/plugin based. Unfortunately to do even basic things you end up finding yourself stuck needing a long list of plugins, so whilst this is theoretically a fantastic move, in practice you're still left with a bloated environment. If you need support for multiple languages or environments you find the plugin architecture is no help at all for preventing bloat. (It's still great for adding features).
You forgot a few:
- Enough qualified *on site* staff 24x7 to deal with all clients including yourself
- 24x7 phone support, with people who understand English and have immediate access to the techies
- Company financial records and history (You don't want someone almost broke or a new startup with no backing)
- These days availability of virtualisation solution and supporting hardware (depending on your application, if virtualisation is an option)
Oh and your emphasis on maintenance records may be a little misplaced. They can be faked. They also may not be available due to security concerns (of their other clients). *IF* you can get hold of them they should be complete. Hardware service level should be part of the agreement and service schedule should be part of that.
I ran a data center long, long ago...... The instant they saw the carpet, their eyebrows were up. When I didn't lie to them that there was no diesel generator on the other side of the (secretly dead) batteries, they did exactly what they should have and stormed out without saying thanks
Sounds like you ran it out of your mother's attic. (A basement wouldn't have had carpet).
I don't believe it! Miley Cyrus is wooden one dimensional, never mind 2 or 3. This has to be a hoax.
Clearly you haven't dealt with MythTV. The myth is that you get to watch and record TV. The reality is you spend all your time fiddling with it and cursing at it until your head is so bloody from banging it up against a brick wall that you give up and decide to give up TV altogether.
I always thought it interesting that people think equilibrium is a ecosystem free of humans. Aren't humans a part of the ecosystem.
Perhaps when we were dumb monkeys and there were something like 40,000 - 200,000 of us you could make this argument. However we grew brains and one result is that there are over 6 billion of us and growing. Not sustainable.
Insurance is to INSURE against truely unlikely events. If you BECOME seriously ill, that is where insurance kicks in. It's not there to cover what you know is going to happen. The "insurance" provided by this bill is like my house insurance paying to mow the lawn.
No it's not. At least health insurance isn't. Everyone gets sick. People are living longer, and the longer you live the more likely you get sick.
Dude, try a substitution - "the police" are a tool to punish innocent people who annoyed those in power. Supposedly they prevent crime as well but there's always collateral damage on legitimate behavior.
"Dude", that's a stretch and a half.
The police force may have indeed have some corruption within it, but no one in power goes around literally pulling a handgun and killing people with impunity. The law is suppose to be fair and equal for all and there is some attempt to pay at least lip service to that. (Well with one exception - try getting decent representation without lots of cash).
In contrast DRM only fucks everyone the same way by limiting what they can do with what they bought equally.
Fuck privacy between you and your health insurer. You have no expectation that your history of leaving open flames unattended be kept from your home insurer, or that your history of reckless driving be kept from your car insurer. If you have an expectation to bill $10K/month in healthcare expenses, I as a fellow premium-payer would expect you to kick a bit more in the pot than I do, since you are certain to pull more out.
So if you want people to pay propotionally to their need to use it, why have health care at all? Just have everyone pay for their own treatment. Meaning there's no safety net, and if you get seriously ill your only option become acts of desperation including violent crime, and dying. Not just you, but everyone around you.
The whole point of having a public healthcare system is that everyone pays an affordable amount, and those that need it use what everyone pays. The only benefits to you may be not having to worry about predicting if you'll get ill and not having to worry about your neighbour resorting to robbing you to pay medical expenses.
Don't "cheat" TIVO my arse. Aparently the defintion of cheat has become using something you own to do something you want to do. If they have a business model that subsides the hardware, why is that anyone else's problem?
Seriously, why do people buy a locked down piece of hardware, then wonder why they can't do anything that hasn't specifically been authorised with it? Your solution starts with not buying the damn product in the first place!!!
Stallman may be a crazy loon that I don't want representing me, but in this particular case he's absolutely right. You shouldn't be allowed to create an abomination like TIVO with open source.
DRM is not the devil. It is a tool.
Yes, it's a tool to shut people out of using what they bought. Supposedly it prevents criminal copyright infringement but there is always collateral damage on legitimate use. That damage doesn't stop with the current owner either. In the future there will be entire groups of historians specialising in breaking ancient copyright to get an incite on our culture.
The sooner we stop crying about buzz words
DRM isn't a buzzword. It describes an intent to restrict the use of a resource. If you ask me we're not crying loud enough. The boiling frog analogy may not be scientifically correct but it's as good an analogy as any.
Security is a process, not a product.
Where can I buy that process? Who's the best supplier?
...with a range of 20-30m or so. One that lets you tune the frequency within a nice large range. Provided it's legal where you live. Then all you need in each room is a standard radio to receive it. If you already have one, total cost is the purchase and running cost of the transmitter. Won't give you optimal quality but it's cheap.
These guys don't just want it both ways. They want it every which way and twice on Sunday. Take your meds boys, and put on this comfy straight jacket before the multiple personality disorder results in a paradox so vast that the only way the Universe will be able to resolve it is implode. LHC eat your heart out. WIPOs got your black holes beat!
Yes, after reading the original letter I have one: how does that letter prove that Microsoft is evil? The only thing Gates is saying is that he and his company has invested around $40000 in building and supporting the software, and the return was so small, it was just enough to break even.
Um Microsoft hasn't exactly done so badly has it now? You could only claim to have just barely broken even founding and running Microsoft with some VERY creative accounting. Like writing off hookers, beer and multi-million dollar mansions and cars as business expenses. I suppose we should all feel very sorry for the CEOs who after all only pay themselves $1 a year in salary. Would YOU work for just $1 a year (and a few hundred billion in stock)?
Come on people, you can't have it both ways. If you can't "steal" music, you can't "steal" code. MS "stealing" this code
1) Yes you can have it both ways, when you're talking about a large community with widely differing views on the matter
2) The megacorps like Microsoft are CONSISTENTLY backing all kinds of draconian methods to enforce their copyright including legislative changes that make the punishment for copyright infringment much more severe than any violent crime. It is therefore only right to hold them to task when they also infringe copyright.
3) It's been beaten to death but there is a difference between copyright infringement and theft. Nothing was stolen here, but copyright may have been infringed. Why is this important? Because it's a different crime with different implications for all involved and such sloppiness with definitions means any rational argument becomes clouded unnecessarily. Stealing a car has far different implications for the owner, manufacturer, supplier/dealer and insurance company than having a copied made.
'This case ensures that other law enforcement agencies throughout the state aren't going to have to fight a case like this where GPS is used to cast doubt on radar,' said Sgt. Ken Savano,
Well if the summary is true (and I know it might not be), it actually means the opposite since the GPS data was considered at the trial. That means others may try to present their GPS data in future. It certainly doesn't mean that people can't try that defense. There was no precedent set that the GPS data was less reliable than the radar. It's just that the GPS data could be interpretted to be in agreement with the radar data. Also, this is only applicable to one kind of GPS unit under one very limited set of circumstances.
In other words Sgt. Ken Savano is either misrepresenting the whole situation or is incompetent when it comes to the prosecution of speeding violations. Either way he's coming across as dim witted and it raises serious doubts for me about his ability to perform his duties as a police officer, since he can't seem to understand the law.
Since when is it now laughable or stupid to ask questions to relieve oneself of ignorance? I'd say it's stupid to want to stay ignorant.
Basing your actions entirely on one or two less than credible sources might be stupid. I wouldn't put peroxide in my ear for instance without making sure I had plenty of credible sources to back that action. However asking the question on a search engine which might lead me to such credible sources is anything but stupid.
Whoever came up with this tripe is the one that's stupid. We don't need to praise willful ignorance, when knowledge is just a google query away...
One wonders how much it would take to put some kind of roofing over the most vulnerable exterior equipment. Something like corrugated tin on a steel frame or whatever.
You slashdot wise guys! Do you REALLY think PROFESSIONAL scientists would leave critical equipment exposed? That professionals paid to design and engineer a multi-billion dollar piece of equipment would forget a basic piece of covering? That you sitting there and speculating behind your keyboard sitting in your underwear in your mother's basement might have a better idea of how to protect delicate scientific equipment than hundreds of scientists and engineers with post graduate degrees?
Well in this instance it looks like you might be right?
What I really wanted to know is how much information they keep when I occasionally perform search using Google while being logged into Google
In other words, you want to know if they're logging your porn searches ;-)
Their dashboard simply reveals what they want you to know you keep.
Love or hate Google it would be naive to think otherwise.
A troll with score -1?
A slashdot community without a sense of humour, that couldn't tell the difference between a troll and a joke to save themselves, and a self-rigthteous twit who likes to lay in the boot.