Give away the core Windows OS for free. Charge for the applications (which only work with Windows.)
Move to subscription based application software and/or charge the larger third party application developers a small fee to make up the loss (SDKs, programming tools, license fees for using SDKs/DirectX, etc..) The Microsoft tax moves from the PC manufacturer to the software developers and users. Either way, the customers pay the cost as normal. More importantly, people will choose free Windows, Microsoft eventually gets a stable OS, and finally focuses more on making quality applications. Applications, not operating systems, make a computer useful, eh?
Instead of a depending on near monopoly status and lawyers, it would be nice to see MS compete by producing quality products for a change.
The best game in all of history would have to be the one that's been played the most, which is "killing." Started with Cain (for the creationists) or with the first bacteria that ate another bacteria (for the Darwinists) and has been going strong throughout history.
The bloody poll was for the '100 best videogames' and not 'greatest ever' or 'of all time'. The BBC should spank the person(s) who wrote that news article.
In its small way, it's a vital part of the food chain and the environment of that area, yet your personal right to a pleasure cruise is more important than the survival of the local ecological community?
Are you implying that humans are not part of the food chain/environment/ecological community?
If we're not part of the ecological community, then we're above it and can do as we please.
If we're part of the ecological community, then any changes we make are "natural." I don't see people getting up in arms when a beavers dams a river and changes the ecological environment. As humans we just build bigger dams.
Granted, it is pretty stupid to destroy the ecology you rely upon to survive. And I would hate for the Vogons to use that kind of logic to justify destroying the Earth and Humanity to make space for a hyperspace bypass.
I squirt mine down with Windex and then soak it in the tub with hot water. I also pop the keys off to clean the gunk out (cat hair.) Give it a day or two to dry in the sun and it's fine.
I think the analogy works even better if you replace "car" with "children's playground in a public park" and "case of beer" with "unlocked cooler with a 'Free Kool-Aid!' sign on it."
Passports are the same throughout the states, license plates are the same.. social security numbers are the same... What's the big deal? Who is it hurting? Basically immigrants and those who don't want to be followed by "the man".
People who don't want to be followed by the man might be: gays, non-whites, "dissidents", members of political parties (such as libertarians , communists, NORML), religions (Mormons, non-Protestants, Muslims, cults), political activists, anyone who doesn't like Bush, activists who want to legalize drugs (California) & prostitution (Nevada), whistle-blowers, people who buy violent video games, nosy reporters, and so on.
It's not that a National ID wouldn't be useful. It's just that we do not trust a strong centralized government to do what's right, especially when everyone has a different definition of right. Do you think the people of California, Nevada, and Utah want to keep giving power to the federal government until the feds can one day overturn their state laws?
Looks like you can get a similarly configured HP dv9500t for ~$1700. Uses 2.2Ghz instead of the 2.4Ghz CPUs. Pretty sure that an extra 200 mhz on the CPUs isn't worth $1,000. Plus HP gives you the options of upgrading to a better screen, bigger and faster hard drives, HD-DVD player, etc.. You can also downgrade to the 8600GT to a 8400GT and save $150 for those non-gamers out there.
Now as to whether it's worth $1,000 to have an Apple instead of an HP...
It's probably just a PR stunt to advertise how serious Microsoft is about making sure that every large corporation that uses Linux signs a Novell or Xandros style deal.
Linux isn't free until you pay Microsoft. That's free as in unencumbered by lawsuits, not free as in beer or speech.
So don't branch, and DON'T allow concurrent checkout of any code - FORCE the DEVELOPERS who need to work on the same code to COORDINATE their work EARLY in the development cycle. Of course they'll bitch.
That's very naive. At a minimum, you will (eventually) need:
a) main trunk (2.0 development)
b) emergency production patch (1.0.1)
c) QA Patch (1.1) 1.1 is in QA for a week or two. People are working on 2.0. You will need to branch to fix the odd bug in 1.1 that QA finds.
You will need decent branching and merging tools to get the bug fixes from 1.0.1 and 1.1 into 2.0. It's also amusing when someone finds a bug in 2.0 that needs to get back ported to 1.0.1 and 1.1. Agile/continuous integration only reduces the chance of needing to branch and merge, it doesn't completely eliminate it. The price for trying to figure out a branching/merging plan at the last minute is very high. And don't forget that the change control system (the "red tape") also needs to support branching.
Pegasus was in drydock for upgrades at the time of the attack. Ensign Ro, err Commander Cain stated that she lost a large chunk of her crew who were off ship and were killed. The implication is that the Pegasus didn't receive any of the virus vulnerable upgrades.
A joke of a country that takes better care of its poor than the United States.
Fine, fine. How about we take your computer and redirect the money you spend on broadband and software and give it to the poor? After all, using your money to give food and shelter to the homeless is much more important than your "need" to post on slashdot, yes?
If war has ceased in Europe, then why isn't the EU in charge of Europe's armed forces? If the various countries trust each other then why haven't they relinquished control of their local militaries to a central authority?
As for EU members going to war with other, I agree that today they wouldn't mainly due to economic interdependencies. But what if France really starts cracking down on immigrants to protect French jobs and French culture? I'm talking about the really hard core cracking down, not the hot-air and watered down legislation kind of crack downs. France cracks down on Arab and African immigrants (establishing road blocks, and bussing immigrants to the Spanish, Italian and German borders.) Turkey gets angry (lots of Arab and African muslims.) Middle East gets angry. Gas prices go way up, again. The UN and EU mumble about human rights. Spain, Italy and Germany tell France not to dump their garbage..err.. problems on them and send their militaries to quarantine..err.. establish temporary refugee camps until a lasting solution can be found. The U.N. mumbles about helping with the camps. The U.S. offers/threatens to help in order to stabilize the situation/gas_prices. Turkey threatens to leave the EU (oooooh look at gas prices now!) France seriously threatens to leave the EU (it's economy and culture is in a dive, so what has it got to lose by leaving?) which causes serious market disruptions as all sorts of market and security rules are now ambiguous. Powder keg just waiting for a spark.
Of course, none of this would have happened if Arab and African immigrants had their own military to force France to find a diplomatic solution instead of a tossing them out to appease the Real French voters. si vis pacem, para bellum
And don't forget external threats. If Putin's New and Improved Russia takes off, 18 year olds in the EU might get called up to possibly die for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But not to worry, the EU is primarily an economic union, not a powerful central government, and thus would be more likely to cut a smaller member loose rather than go to war for them. Which is another reason for individual members to keep their militaries ready.
P.S. I'm not cynical. I just have a healthy respect for the extreme diversity of ideas, cultures and opinions in this world, and the extreme lengths that many people are willing to go to share them.
Nah. The U.S. Constitution allows the government to raise and support Armies (but with a two year limit on funding at a time.) Plus it allows the government to 'provide and maintain a Navy.' And the Commander in Chief is in charge of the Army, Navy, and Militia. The militia clauses allow the government to organize militias, draft people for the militia or use State militias.
So the Constitution allows America to have an Army, a Navy, and a Militia. Not only is your militia only idea bogus, it's frightenly naive and suicidal.
I mean really, do you expect everyone will just jump into their family F-16s and Abrams tanks, gas up at the local Citgo, load up on cluster bombs and depleted uranium tank rounds at Wal-Mart, and then head down I-85 to the Middle East and war?
Relying on untrained and minimally equipped militias will get you squashed by anyone with a professional army and a desire for conquest. The French had a professional army right up until the German Blitzkrieg. A French militia-only "army" would have died so quickly that the British expeditionary force would have been wiped out and England would have been without a professional army. With no British army, surrounded by u-boats, and the Battle of Britain starting weeks earlier, means the Germans could have conquered England. With England gone, the u-boats would have wiped out all US Atlantic shipping. Which means that by the time America geared up for war, we wouldn't have a way to invade Europe. Germany then starts up an atomic bomb program, improves its V2 rockets to be intercontinental or ship launched, and *poof* the last of the Free World is gone.
Hell, we saw the "power" of militias in the Revolutionary War, where militia men were required to fire three rounds before fleeing and letting the professional Continental army fight. Seriously, if George Freaking Washington didn't exclusively rely on militias, why should we?
The reason we have a standing professional army is because the risk of not having one is intolerable. All a militia will do is enable you to fight a guerilla style war in your home town. Personally, I much prefer to fight them over there, on our terms, on their soil, killing their civilians, and destroying their way of life over my own and my family's.
Castrating the military won't banish the spectre of war. Look towards your political leaders. It's their job to win wars before they start.
There are two potential crimes. The first is bypassing the encryption. The second is copyright infringement.
The Danes are saying that the first is no longer a crime. However, you are still required to respect copyright.
A better analogy would be U.S. laws on drug paraphenalia and drugs. Owning a crack pipe is illegal. Owning crack is illegal. The Danes are saying that since it's so easy to obtain a crack pipe, owning a crack pipe is no longer illegal. However, owning crack is still a no-no.
I've worked in it extensively, and it is still the best version control system I've ever used.
SVN would be great if it had merge tracking (and true renames.) As much as I like SVN, the merge issues are a deal breaker:
No merge tracking. You have to manually record merge information in the checkin comment, which is inherently error prone. If merge tracking isn't done or is done incorrectly (e.g. merge -r 100:HEAD) there's no way to recover except to redo the merge with extra double checking.
The svnmerge.py merge tracking script only considers the current directory. It doesn't do any recursive analysis so you want to do all your merges at the project's root dir to be accurate.
Lack of true renames. When you rename or move a file, it does a delete + add, which leaves you open to missed merges. Ex: Branch. Rename branch/a.java to branch/b.java. Make an enhancement change to branch/b.java. Make a bug fix in trunk/a.java. Merge branch to trunk. SVN will delete a.java (which has the bug fix) and add b.java. Congrats, you just lost the bug fix change. SVN should have merged b.java with a.java.
Bi-directional merges. When you merge between branches multiple times, any merge conflicts resolved in previous merges get re-flagged as conflicts, thus giving you an ever increasing number of spurious merge conflicts that hide the real, new merge conflicts. The workaround is to skip merge revisions, which has the drawbacks of requiring multiple merges, and any extraneous changes made during a merge (such as a quick and simple bug fix) are not merged.
Serious training to understand merges. You basically need a merge-meister or two who understands the implications and pitfalls of SVN's merging and merge-tracking.
There's also no way to 'lock down' merges via hooks/triggers. (Such as requiring svnmerge.py to be used for all merges.)
Once merge tracking is added to SVN (maybe in 1.5?) it would be great. Until then, I wouldn't use it except on small teams using Agile and few, short lived branches in order to minimize the merge issues.
Err... wouldn't that mean that you could pay a traffic fine immediately? Which translates to:
"Do you really want your state government having easy access to your bank account?"
"How fast will the state legislature pass a law requiring the immediate and direct payment of fines via the license/debit card?"
"A hold has been placed on your account for the amount of the fine. The hold will be removed if you are found innocent. Your court date is in 30 days."
it s nice to see humanity win one for a change who can really put a price on that?
You have. I have. Putting a price on humanity is easy. Neither you nor I are willing to give up frivolous luxury goods such as caffeinated beverages, computer games, expensive video cards to play the computer games, movies, music, SUVs, air conditioning, designer clothing, collectibles, etc., to help subsizide AIDs drugs for those who have trouble affording them.
Everyone is ready and willing to share in the profits (or benefits in this case,) but no one is willing to share the cost of failure. Where are the cries for humanity to help defray the R&D, manufacturing, and legals costs of a failed drug like fen-phen?
If only a few countries do this, then the drug industry R&D should be ok. I think I'm ok with drug companies raising prices to offset occasional actions like Brazil, since it's more efficient for the drug companies to charge more for drugs than for everyone to get together and figure out a fair subsidization plan. However, if a lot of countries follow Brazil's example, then there's a serious risk that new drugs won't be developed. What is the humanitarian cost of stalled drug development?
Communism instills ownership of the state on all tangible assets.
Corporatism instills that ownership is of the corporation via all applicable tools to do so.
Ask yourself this: How much stuff do you OWN (not rent, borrow, lease, or other keywords) ?
In communism the state owns everything. Therefore you own 0%, which is a much lower rate than under coporate capitalism.
In communism, one owner owns everything. We call this a monopoly. Under coporate capitalism, I can choose between several coporations to sell my soul to. Even better, I can choose to sell just parts of my soul to various coporations instead of being force to sell 100% of my soul to one state monopoly.
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Err... call me old-fashioned, but aren't code reviews supposed to focus on the business logic implementation, potential side effects, and the algorithms used? Don't get me wrong, it's nice that to have an automated tool to check syntax and for duplicated code, but that's not where the savings comes from. Until you get a human level A.I. to do code reviews, automated code review tools are just gravy and not the meat to solving code problems.
"Yes, yes it should indeed be free."
"This is why public libraries, schools, and lectures were created,"
"Charging $20 a month for access to information is an outrageous idea"
Public libraries, schools and lectures aren't free. Our tax dollars and/or tuition are paying for them.
The infrastructure needed to support free information isn't free.
TANSTAAFL
As the cost of cameras and digital storage approaches zero, is it inevitable that every machine you interact with will take your photograph and store it?
I'll start worrying when the cost to analyze all that data in real-time approaches zero.
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Give away the core Windows OS for free. Charge for the applications (which only work with Windows.)
Move to subscription based application software and/or charge the larger third party application developers a small fee to make up the loss (SDKs, programming tools, license fees for using SDKs/DirectX, etc..) The Microsoft tax moves from the PC manufacturer to the software developers and users. Either way, the customers pay the cost as normal. More importantly, people will choose free Windows, Microsoft eventually gets a stable OS, and finally focuses more on making quality applications. Applications, not operating systems, make a computer useful, eh?
Instead of a depending on near monopoly status and lawyers, it would be nice to see MS compete by producing quality products for a change.
The best game in all of history would have to be the one that's been played the most, which is "killing." Started with Cain (for the creationists) or with the first bacteria that ate another bacteria (for the Darwinists) and has been going strong throughout history.
The bloody poll was for the '100 best videogames' and not 'greatest ever' or 'of all time'. The BBC should spank the person(s) who wrote that news article.
The actual Edge article and poll: http://www.edge-online.co.uk/archives/2007/07/the_ 100_best_vi.php
In its small way, it's a vital part of the food chain and the environment of that area, yet your personal right to a pleasure cruise is more important than the survival of the local ecological community?
Are you implying that humans are not part of the food chain/environment/ecological community?
If we're not part of the ecological community, then we're above it and can do as we please.
If we're part of the ecological community, then any changes we make are "natural." I don't see people getting up in arms when a beavers dams a river and changes the ecological environment. As humans we just build bigger dams.
Granted, it is pretty stupid to destroy the ecology you rely upon to survive. And I would hate for the Vogons to use that kind of logic to justify destroying the Earth and Humanity to make space for a hyperspace bypass.
I squirt mine down with Windex and then soak it in the tub with hot water. I also pop the keys off to clean the gunk out (cat hair.) Give it a day or two to dry in the sun and it's fine.
Studies have shown that keyboards often contain more bacteria than toilet seats.
Studies have shown that cities often contain more people than maximum security prisons. It's quality, not quantity that worries me.
I think the analogy works even better if you replace "car" with "children's playground in a public park" and "case of beer" with "unlocked cooler with a 'Free Kool-Aid!' sign on it."
Passports are the same throughout the states, license plates are the same.. social security numbers are the same... What's the big deal? Who is it hurting? Basically immigrants and those who don't want to be followed by "the man".
People who don't want to be followed by the man might be: gays, non-whites, "dissidents", members of political parties (such as libertarians , communists, NORML), religions (Mormons, non-Protestants, Muslims, cults), political activists, anyone who doesn't like Bush, activists who want to legalize drugs (California) & prostitution (Nevada), whistle-blowers, people who buy violent video games, nosy reporters, and so on.
It's not that a National ID wouldn't be useful. It's just that we do not trust a strong centralized government to do what's right, especially when everyone has a different definition of right. Do you think the people of California, Nevada, and Utah want to keep giving power to the federal government until the feds can one day overturn their state laws?
Looks like you can get a similarly configured HP dv9500t for ~$1700. Uses 2.2Ghz instead of the 2.4Ghz CPUs. Pretty sure that an extra 200 mhz on the CPUs isn't worth $1,000. Plus HP gives you the options of upgrading to a better screen, bigger and faster hard drives, HD-DVD player, etc.. You can also downgrade to the 8600GT to a 8400GT and save $150 for those non-gamers out there.
Now as to whether it's worth $1,000 to have an Apple instead of an HP...
It's probably just a PR stunt to advertise how serious Microsoft is about making sure that every large corporation that uses Linux signs a Novell or Xandros style deal.
Linux isn't free until you pay Microsoft. That's free as in unencumbered by lawsuits, not free as in beer or speech.
So don't branch, and DON'T allow concurrent checkout of any code - FORCE the DEVELOPERS who need to work on the same code to COORDINATE their work EARLY in the development cycle. Of course they'll bitch.
That's very naive. At a minimum, you will (eventually) need:
a) main trunk (2.0 development)
b) emergency production patch (1.0.1)
c) QA Patch (1.1) 1.1 is in QA for a week or two. People are working on 2.0. You will need to branch to fix the odd bug in 1.1 that QA finds.
You will need decent branching and merging tools to get the bug fixes from 1.0.1 and 1.1 into 2.0. It's also amusing when someone finds a bug in 2.0 that needs to get back ported to 1.0.1 and 1.1. Agile/continuous integration only reduces the chance of needing to branch and merge, it doesn't completely eliminate it. The price for trying to figure out a branching/merging plan at the last minute is very high. And don't forget that the change control system (the "red tape") also needs to support branching.
Pegasus was in drydock for upgrades at the time of the attack. Ensign Ro, err Commander Cain stated that she lost a large chunk of her crew who were off ship and were killed. The implication is that the Pegasus didn't receive any of the virus vulnerable upgrades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_PegasusA joke of a country that takes better care of its poor than the United States.
Fine, fine. How about we take your computer and redirect the money you spend on broadband and software and give it to the poor? After all, using your money to give food and shelter to the homeless is much more important than your "need" to post on slashdot, yes?
If war has ceased in Europe, then why isn't the EU in charge of Europe's armed forces? If the various countries trust each other then why haven't they relinquished control of their local militaries to a central authority?
As for EU members going to war with other, I agree that today they wouldn't mainly due to economic interdependencies. But what if France really starts cracking down on immigrants to protect French jobs and French culture? I'm talking about the really hard core cracking down, not the hot-air and watered down legislation kind of crack downs. France cracks down on Arab and African immigrants (establishing road blocks, and bussing immigrants to the Spanish, Italian and German borders.) Turkey gets angry (lots of Arab and African muslims.) Middle East gets angry. Gas prices go way up, again. The UN and EU mumble about human rights. Spain, Italy and Germany tell France not to dump their garbage ..err.. problems on them and send their militaries to quarantine ..err.. establish temporary refugee camps until a lasting solution can be found. The U.N. mumbles about helping with the camps. The U.S. offers/threatens to help in order to stabilize the situation/gas_prices. Turkey threatens to leave the EU (oooooh look at gas prices now!) France seriously threatens to leave the EU (it's economy and culture is in a dive, so what has it got to lose by leaving?) which causes serious market disruptions as all sorts of market and security rules are now ambiguous. Powder keg just waiting for a spark.
Of course, none of this would have happened if Arab and African immigrants had their own military to force France to find a diplomatic solution instead of a tossing them out to appease the Real French voters. si vis pacem, para bellum
And don't forget external threats. If Putin's New and Improved Russia takes off, 18 year olds in the EU might get called up to possibly die for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But not to worry, the EU is primarily an economic union, not a powerful central government, and thus would be more likely to cut a smaller member loose rather than go to war for them. Which is another reason for individual members to keep their militaries ready.
P.S. I'm not cynical. I just have a healthy respect for the extreme diversity of ideas, cultures and opinions in this world, and the extreme lengths that many people are willing to go to share them.
Nah. The U.S. Constitution allows the government to raise and support Armies (but with a two year limit on funding at a time.) Plus it allows the government to 'provide and maintain a Navy.' And the Commander in Chief is in charge of the Army, Navy, and Militia. The militia clauses allow the government to organize militias, draft people for the militia or use State militias.
So the Constitution allows America to have an Army, a Navy, and a Militia. Not only is your militia only idea bogus, it's frightenly naive and suicidal.
I mean really, do you expect everyone will just jump into their family F-16s and Abrams tanks, gas up at the local Citgo, load up on cluster bombs and depleted uranium tank rounds at Wal-Mart, and then head down I-85 to the Middle East and war?
Relying on untrained and minimally equipped militias will get you squashed by anyone with a professional army and a desire for conquest. The French had a professional army right up until the German Blitzkrieg. A French militia-only "army" would have died so quickly that the British expeditionary force would have been wiped out and England would have been without a professional army. With no British army, surrounded by u-boats, and the Battle of Britain starting weeks earlier, means the Germans could have conquered England. With England gone, the u-boats would have wiped out all US Atlantic shipping. Which means that by the time America geared up for war, we wouldn't have a way to invade Europe. Germany then starts up an atomic bomb program, improves its V2 rockets to be intercontinental or ship launched, and *poof* the last of the Free World is gone.
Hell, we saw the "power" of militias in the Revolutionary War, where militia men were required to fire three rounds before fleeing and letting the professional Continental army fight. Seriously, if George Freaking Washington didn't exclusively rely on militias, why should we?
The reason we have a standing professional army is because the risk of not having one is intolerable. All a militia will do is enable you to fight a guerilla style war in your home town. Personally, I much prefer to fight them over there, on our terms, on their soil, killing their civilians, and destroying their way of life over my own and my family's.
Castrating the military won't banish the spectre of war. Look towards your political leaders. It's their job to win wars before they start.
There are two potential crimes. The first is bypassing the encryption. The second is copyright infringement.
The Danes are saying that the first is no longer a crime. However, you are still required to respect copyright.
A better analogy would be U.S. laws on drug paraphenalia and drugs. Owning a crack pipe is illegal. Owning crack is illegal. The Danes are saying that since it's so easy to obtain a crack pipe, owning a crack pipe is no longer illegal. However, owning crack is still a no-no.
SVN would be great if it had merge tracking (and true renames.) As much as I like SVN, the merge issues are a deal breaker:
- No merge tracking. You have to manually record merge information in the checkin comment, which is inherently error prone. If merge tracking isn't done or is done incorrectly (e.g. merge -r 100:HEAD) there's no way to recover except to redo the merge with extra double checking.
- The svnmerge.py merge tracking script only considers the current directory. It doesn't do any recursive analysis so you want to do all your merges at the project's root dir to be accurate.
- Lack of true renames. When you rename or move a file, it does a delete + add, which leaves you open to missed merges. Ex: Branch. Rename branch/a.java to branch/b.java. Make an enhancement change to branch/b.java. Make a bug fix in trunk/a.java. Merge branch to trunk. SVN will delete a.java (which has the bug fix) and add b.java. Congrats, you just lost the bug fix change. SVN should have merged b.java with a.java.
- Bi-directional merges. When you merge between branches multiple times, any merge conflicts resolved in previous merges get re-flagged as conflicts, thus giving you an ever increasing number of spurious merge conflicts that hide the real, new merge conflicts. The workaround is to skip merge revisions, which has the drawbacks of requiring multiple merges, and any extraneous changes made during a merge (such as a quick and simple bug fix) are not merged.
- Serious training to understand merges. You basically need a merge-meister or two who understands the implications and pitfalls of SVN's merging and merge-tracking.
- There's also no way to 'lock down' merges via hooks/triggers. (Such as requiring svnmerge.py to be used for all merges.)
Once merge tracking is added to SVN (maybe in 1.5?) it would be great. Until then, I wouldn't use it except on small teams using Agile and few, short lived branches in order to minimize the merge issues.Err... wouldn't that mean that you could pay a traffic fine immediately? Which translates to:
"Do you really want your state government having easy access to your bank account?"
"How fast will the state legislature pass a law requiring the immediate and direct payment of fines via the license/debit card?"
"A hold has been placed on your account for the amount of the fine. The hold will be removed if you are found innocent. Your court date is in 30 days."
Cars already do this with remote keyless entry. I just don't need to encrypt my car.
The information can only be accessed by a host if the host can respond to random challenges asked by the disk drive.
or
The car can only be unlocked by a person if the keyless remote can respond to a challenge asked by the car.
who can really put a price on that?
You have. I have. Putting a price on humanity is easy. Neither you nor I are willing to give up frivolous luxury goods such as caffeinated beverages, computer games, expensive video cards to play the computer games, movies, music, SUVs, air conditioning, designer clothing, collectibles, etc., to help subsizide AIDs drugs for those who have trouble affording them.
Everyone is ready and willing to share in the profits (or benefits in this case,) but no one is willing to share the cost of failure. Where are the cries for humanity to help defray the R&D, manufacturing, and legals costs of a failed drug like fen-phen?
If only a few countries do this, then the drug industry R&D should be ok. I think I'm ok with drug companies raising prices to offset occasional actions like Brazil, since it's more efficient for the drug companies to charge more for drugs than for everyone to get together and figure out a fair subsidization plan. However, if a lot of countries follow Brazil's example, then there's a serious risk that new drugs won't be developed. What is the humanitarian cost of stalled drug development?
In communism the state owns everything. Therefore you own 0%, which is a much lower rate than under coporate capitalism.
In communism, one owner owns everything. We call this a monopoly. Under coporate capitalism, I can choose between several coporations to sell my soul to. Even better, I can choose to sell just parts of my soul to various coporations instead of being force to sell 100% of my soul to one state monopoly.
Err... call me old-fashioned, but aren't code reviews supposed to focus on the business logic implementation, potential side effects, and the algorithms used? Don't get me wrong, it's nice that to have an automated tool to check syntax and for duplicated code, but that's not where the savings comes from. Until you get a human level A.I. to do code reviews, automated code review tools are just gravy and not the meat to solving code problems.
"Yes, yes it should indeed be free." "This is why public libraries, schools, and lectures were created," "Charging $20 a month for access to information is an outrageous idea" Public libraries, schools and lectures aren't free. Our tax dollars and/or tuition are paying for them. The infrastructure needed to support free information isn't free. TANSTAAFL
I'll start worrying when the cost to analyze all that data in real-time approaches zero.
What ads? How can I watch ads while IM is minimized? If I'm in chat with someone, I'm not watching ads.
Seriously, do ads really provide a meaningful about of money to offset the costs of IM providers?