I dont think you can really demonstrate (conclusively) that power generation is always going to be significantly more efficient when done in One Big Place. I'm quite sure if you can extract X% of the energy from something in a Big Plant you can at least get damn close to that in a smaller one. All you can really say is having Less People Profiting From It allows One Big Place to sell their energy off cheaper than if they were 10 separate places with totally separate staffs and blah blah blah. But if NO ONE is profiting from it, then your "economies of scale" stuff is not even relevent. As long as they all extract X% of the energy from their fuel, just like the Big Plant (which neither of us can really say is possible or impossible) then it really doesnt matter. Economies of Scale, and just about everything in Economics, rarely applies directly to Real World stuff. People think it does, its their little religion thingy, but IMHO, its mainly crap.
I, for one, think that this is a GREAT idea because it helps decentralize energy production. That way we dont have a few people feeding ALL INDUSTRY, getting BUHZILLIONS of dollars, and the totally obscene amount of influence such money grants you. Then, we wont have our country's policy being written by people who have been hammered by lobbies representing people with endlessly deep pockets. Of course you can pick flaws in this. Maybe the corn co-ops will become the next big bastard. Whatever. If you think people becoming empowered to power their homes themselves is a Bad idea, you are on crack.
That sounds like a GREAT IDEA! It would finally gives us FREEDOM from the SPAMMERS and their WEAPONS OF MASS MAILING. From now on, we should only buy stuff from MICROSOFT CERTIFIED ONLINE STORES.
"possess...*[more usage verbs]*... any unlawful communication device:... to recieve...*[more signal-recieving/transmitting verbs]*...any communication service without the express consent [blah blah blah]
So who determines if something is MADE to recieve such and such a service. This is all so ridiculous. Are you proud to live in the united states of corporate america?
Most people can only hold 7 "things" in their short term memory. Some less, some more. I think I'm a 7-er, toss 8 numbers at me quickly and I'm a bumbling idiot. If they change from 7-digit phone numbers, I will buy stock in Post-it notes.
Sorry, I doubt it. An MP3 on Kazaa was borna studio, using an A/D conversion process that is most likely on par if not better than yours. Sure, it was originally uncompressed digital audio, and the Mp3 in some sense slaughters that, but I'd really like to have someone like you listen to a couple songs. Uncompressed, and Mp3, and tell me which is which. You wont be able to. If you think a couple anonomolies in the 100 Khz range is perceptible, you are mistaken.
I dont know guy. Pretty much anything is just as easy for you to rip as anything else. But they are "harder to rip" in the sense that you arent just taking a bunch of bits and dumping them. instead, you are taking an analog stream, sampling it and converting it to digital data via an A/D converter, and hoping you haven't introduced too much noise. To get a "perfect" copy of a CD is easy. to get a "perfect" copy of an LP or a tape is impossible.
Only about 2 million people that make over 200,000 a year.
Now, keep that in your head, and think about the fact that 98% of this country's wealth is controlled by less than half of one percent of the population. Amazing isnt it? Thats "Statefication" Now heres where your argument really is flawed though. You listed a couple, say, 5 or 6 cases of people who tried hard and made it big. And you are trying to use that to argue that the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS CAN ALL DO THE SAME THING. Yes, a few people got Really, Really, REALLY LUCKY. I cant believe you are trying to extend that to hundreds of millions of people. But go on thinking everythings OK and the poor dont get screwed. It'll make your SUV trip to the office in the morning that much more relaxing.
oh my god they are going to take over the world. Seriously though, its high time someone developed a peer to peer wireless solution that would be totally open, so all you need to to is buy, or build, a device to talk on it, and you funky computer scientists can come up with some dank routing algorithm, and some company can give out a million of them for free across the country to populate the country with nearby peers for everyone, then sell them, and boy oh boy we'd be all set.
You are right about that. Of course, 1000 years from now when the polical parties are the Weaselies and the Sneezelies, it would make sense for the translator to call our democrats Sneezelies and our republicans Weaselies. That is really what "translation" is. But I was considering one of the more subtle aspects of translation, which is trying to convey the meaning of some reference to a mainly unrecorded event or fad. Here is an example. The now ex-mayor of Providence is going to jail tomorrow. If I was writing a book and said at one point "Thrown in with the Buddy Ciancies of the world", some french translator of TODAY would know that the french people dont know who Buddy is, and would probably write it as "Thrown in with a bunch of prisoners." If that translation had NOT been made, and instead, 1000 years ago, someone was left to the task of translating my text, they would have a very, very difficult time determining what I meant by "Thrown in with the Buddy Ciancies of the world."
Many, many, many people would argue that linux is a much better platform than windows. However, windows usage is all over the place. Thats because microsoft has CONTROL OF THE MARKET. thats a "monopoly". They dont just have the power to make using windows "easier". They have the power to make using unix HARDER by subtle control of software and hardware vendors.
As for the rich working hard to get their money, get real. Remember how long ago JD Rockefeller was around? Now look at how much land his god damned descendants still have. They are still all ridiculously wealthy. And to a smaller (ok, much smaller) degree that happens all over america. That is why THIS IS THE MOST STRATEFIED ECONOMY IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Do some research before saying "The poor arent getting poorer". The separation is larger than it ever has been. You talk about Bill gates having "Bad days before." It'd be nice to be so naive. Was it such a bad day when his dad, a very wealthy attorney, bought a software company for him so Billy could market their operating system to IBM? So maybe billy does have hard times, but they aren't financially hard, never have been, he has _always_ been rich, from the moment concieved. Yet another example of the rich staying rich. Know your subject before arguing with people about it.
I think you are spending too much time trying to sound smart and not enough time thinking about what you are saying. Price to Performance = Price / Performance. You are EXPRESSING that linux has both no price and "0" performance. Then you go on to say thhat "Pedants" should think about it on a different "level". Pedants are those people in school who do 10 hours of homework and never grasp what they are taking in (For those of you who ARENT pedantic;) This ambiguous reference is supposed to cause us to think Oh, he doesn't follow the rules. he's outside of the box. He doesnt CARE what you or I say about what "ratio of X to Y" means. He has his OWN meaning. He has his OWN math. He doesn't waste time with standards and conventions. He doesnt need to ever express himself to anyone. Good luck with that.
I had the same thought, but then, why would recent translations be any better than an older one? Translations made in roughly the same time period are likely to have more contextual clues as to what the author meant in certain cases. While we might THINK we have a grasp of the various aspects of life in a certain long-ago period, it is highly likely that the resources we used to develop this "grasp" left out certain things. Maybe even critical things. We may have more research at our disposal these days, but can you really compare that to actually BEING in that time period? Who knows what spin was put on the stuff we assume is factual. Imagine some futureboy trying to piece our culture together using some books by Rush Limbaugh. hahah. So my gut instinct would be to go with an older translation. But who knows? No one, right? heheheh.
A surprising result: 90% of the people seem to either stay in one place, make a trip to the convenience store, or take a bi-weekly trip to this one hippie looking guy's front porch. The map basically looks like this:
Actually I think we are 100% in agreement. I think that everyone should do their shake. In return, I think the playing field should also be fair. That is definitely not the case though, it is much easier for those who have *lots* of money to *make* lots of money. Once you have tons of money, unbelievable opportunities open up. You can afford to *effectively* lobby your congressmen to write laws in your favor. As an indirect result, you also have to pay out a much smaller share of your earnings then the little guys. You also can take Wal-Marts approach: Run stores at a LOSS until you've driven all nearby competition out of business, and then return to normal, profitible pricing strategies. A small business can not afford to do this. I have no idea how you could possibly fix this, or even if there is a CONSTITUTIONAL way to do it, maybe not, and rants like mine will become less and less common, but I hope not, I hope someday a person with a little bit of gumption can have just as much chance for making a difference as a big rich CEO. You are probably smarter than george w. bush, but look where you are, and look where he is, thats evidence enough of how unfair the playing field is. the rich get richer, the poor, as a whole, get poorer, that has been the actual economic trend of the US in the last 3 decades, and its because of how easy it is to make (big) money ONCE YOU HAVE IT (and how hard it is when you dont.) There are a few "Rags to riches" stories out there, for sure. But do you think that thats the rule? I worked at a country club in High School, and I also live in a wealthy town. I *KNOW* its the exception, at least in the population sample I am exposed to.
Even if MS has done it on purpose, wich I doubt, is that really illegal or that bad? If I produce an addon for a PS2 then you can't really complain if it doesn't work with an X-box even if the connectors look the same.
Maybe your right about the mouse, I really dont know. And your right about the PS2 add-on, too. Its if something was actually designed into something, ADDED to something, to make it incompatible with anything but a different product, that makes me furious. I dont know if thats the case, but when a manufacturer spends extra money to effectively strip functionality out of a device to use as leverage to sell another, mostly unrelated product, it is very very unfair to both the consumer and smaller businesses which have a much tighter budget. An example that gets me fuming is Apple's DVD burning software. From my understanding, otherwise compatible DVD burners are unusable from this software because Apple wanted to use their software to increase sales of their hardware. If it was a case of having to write drivers for the other DVD burners, fine, of course, why the heck would Apple do that? (Unless they were concerned more with making a great product and less about money, but not many think that way, not even me, unfortunately) But, and this may be a weak weak understanding of this, I was lead to think that Apple had DISABLED support for devices that would have worked had that disabling-code not been _added_ to the software. Thats the stuff that makes me cringe. Its an example of how it gets easier and easier to make money, the more money you have. Side note: This is the most stratefied our economy has ever been. There has never been a more uneven distribution of the country's wealth. Thats what lights my fires these days.
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I dont think you can really demonstrate (conclusively) that power generation is always going to be significantly more efficient when done in One Big Place. I'm quite sure if you can extract X% of the energy from something in a Big Plant you can at least get damn close to that in a smaller one.
All you can really say is having Less People Profiting From It allows One Big Place to sell their energy off cheaper than if they were 10 separate places with totally separate staffs and blah blah blah. But if NO ONE is profiting from it, then your "economies of scale" stuff is not even relevent. As long as they all extract X% of the energy from their fuel, just like the Big Plant (which neither of us can really say is possible or impossible) then it really doesnt matter.
Economies of Scale, and just about everything in Economics, rarely applies directly to Real World stuff. People think it does, its their little religion thingy, but IMHO, its mainly crap.
I, for one, think that this is a GREAT idea because it helps decentralize energy production. That way we dont have a few people feeding ALL INDUSTRY, getting BUHZILLIONS of dollars, and the totally obscene amount of influence such money grants you.
Then, we wont have our country's policy being written by people who have been hammered by lobbies representing people with endlessly deep pockets.
Of course you can pick flaws in this. Maybe the corn co-ops will become the next big bastard. Whatever. If you think people becoming empowered to power their homes themselves is a Bad idea, you are on crack.
That sounds like a GREAT IDEA! It would finally gives us FREEDOM from the SPAMMERS and their WEAPONS OF MASS MAILING. From now on, we should only buy stuff from MICROSOFT CERTIFIED ONLINE STORES.
THANK GOD WE WON THE WAR ON SPAM.
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"possess...*[more usage verbs]*... any unlawful communication device:
So who determines if something is MADE to recieve such and such a service. This is all so ridiculous. Are you proud to live in the united states of corporate america?
Boy that shouldnt have *any* effect on innocent civilians..
Now, you can test applications all the way to failure without breaking the host system
isnt that the point of a protected mode operating system?
Most people can only hold 7 "things" in their short term memory. Some less, some more. I think I'm a 7-er, toss 8 numbers at me quickly and I'm a bumbling idiot. If they change from 7-digit phone numbers, I will buy stock in Post-it notes.
I guess one way to "End cable clutter" is to leave out the cable-connecting when making your annimation!!!
Sorry, I doubt it. An MP3 on Kazaa was borna studio, using an A/D conversion process that is most likely on par if not better than yours. Sure, it was originally uncompressed digital audio, and the Mp3 in some sense slaughters that, but I'd really like to have someone like you listen to a couple songs. Uncompressed, and Mp3, and tell me which is which. You wont be able to. If you think a couple anonomolies in the 100 Khz range is perceptible, you are mistaken.
I dont know guy. Pretty much anything is just as easy for you to rip as anything else. But they are "harder to rip" in the sense that you arent just taking a bunch of bits and dumping them. instead, you are taking an analog stream, sampling it and converting it to digital data via an A/D converter, and hoping you haven't introduced too much noise. To get a "perfect" copy of a CD is easy. to get a "perfect" copy of an LP or a tape is impossible.
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I thought you said turn-key.
They also drastically reduce the chance of fire.
Who knew, a dried up dead tree strapped full of extension cords pumping mad current could be a fire hazard?!?!
Heh heh I dont think you understand "Stratefied".
Only about 2 million people that make over 200,000 a year.
Now, keep that in your head, and think about the fact that 98% of this country's wealth is controlled by less than half of one percent of the population.
Amazing isnt it? Thats "Statefication"
Now heres where your argument really is flawed though. You listed a couple, say, 5 or 6 cases of people who tried hard and made it big. And you are trying to use that to argue that the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS CAN ALL DO THE SAME THING. Yes, a few people got Really, Really, REALLY LUCKY. I cant believe you are trying to extend that to hundreds of millions of people. But go on thinking everythings OK and the poor dont get screwed. It'll make your SUV trip to the office in the morning that much more relaxing.
oh my god they are going to take over the world.
Seriously though, its high time someone developed a peer to peer wireless solution that would be totally open, so all you need to to is buy, or build, a device to talk on it, and you funky computer scientists can come up with some dank routing algorithm, and some company can give out a million of them for free across the country to populate the country with nearby peers for everyone, then sell them, and boy oh boy we'd be all set.
You are right about that. Of course, 1000 years from now when the polical parties are the Weaselies and the Sneezelies, it would make sense for the translator to call our democrats Sneezelies and our republicans Weaselies. That is really what "translation" is. But I was considering one of the more subtle aspects of translation, which is trying to convey the meaning of some reference to a mainly unrecorded event or fad. Here is an example. The now ex-mayor of Providence is going to jail tomorrow. If I was writing a book and said at one point "Thrown in with the Buddy Ciancies of the world", some french translator of TODAY would know that the french people dont know who Buddy is, and would probably write it as "Thrown in with a bunch of prisoners."
If that translation had NOT been made, and instead, 1000 years ago, someone was left to the task of translating my text, they would have a very, very difficult time determining what I meant by "Thrown in with the Buddy Ciancies of the world."
Many, many, many people would argue that linux is a much better platform than windows.
However, windows usage is all over the place.
Thats because microsoft has CONTROL OF THE MARKET. thats a "monopoly". They dont just have the power to make using windows "easier". They have the power to make using unix HARDER by subtle control of software and hardware vendors.
As for the rich working hard to get their money, get real. Remember how long ago JD Rockefeller was around? Now look at how much land his god damned descendants still have. They are still all ridiculously wealthy. And to a smaller (ok, much smaller) degree that happens all over america. That is why THIS IS THE MOST STRATEFIED ECONOMY IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Do some research before saying "The poor arent getting poorer". The separation is larger than it ever has been.
You talk about Bill gates having "Bad days before." It'd be nice to be so naive. Was it such a bad day when his dad, a very wealthy attorney, bought a software company for him so Billy could market their operating system to IBM?
So maybe billy does have hard times, but they aren't financially hard, never have been, he has _always_ been rich, from the moment concieved. Yet another example of the rich staying rich. Know your subject before arguing with people about it.
I think you are spending too much time trying to sound smart and not enough time thinking about what you are saying. ;) This ambiguous reference is supposed to cause us to think Oh, he doesn't follow the rules. he's outside of the box. He doesnt CARE what you or I say about what "ratio of X to Y" means. He has his OWN meaning. He has his OWN math. He doesn't waste time with standards and conventions. He doesnt need to ever express himself to anyone.
Price to Performance = Price / Performance. You are EXPRESSING that linux has both no price and "0" performance. Then you go on to say thhat "Pedants" should think about it on a different "level". Pedants are those people in school who do 10 hours of homework and never grasp what they are taking in (For those of you who ARENT pedantic
Good luck with that.
I had the same thought, but then, why would recent translations be any better than an older one? Translations made in roughly the same time period are likely to have more contextual clues as to what the author meant in certain cases. While we might THINK we have a grasp of the various aspects of life in a certain long-ago period, it is highly likely that the resources we used to develop this "grasp" left out certain things. Maybe even critical things. We may have more research at our disposal these days, but can you really compare that to actually BEING in that time period? Who knows what spin was put on the stuff we assume is factual. Imagine some futureboy trying to piece our culture together using some books by Rush Limbaugh. hahah.
So my gut instinct would be to go with an older translation. But who knows? No one, right? heheheh.
I think you mean Performance to Price ratio. :)
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A surprising result: 90% of the people seem to either stay in one place, make a trip to the convenience store, or take a bi-weekly trip to this one hippie looking guy's front porch. The map basically looks like this:
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Actually I think we are 100% in agreement. I think that everyone should do their shake. In return, I think the playing field should also be fair. That is definitely not the case though, it is much easier for those who have *lots* of money to *make* lots of money. Once you have tons of money, unbelievable opportunities open up. You can afford to *effectively* lobby your congressmen to write laws in your favor. As an indirect result, you also have to pay out a much smaller share of your earnings then the little guys. You also can take Wal-Marts approach: Run stores at a LOSS until you've driven all nearby competition out of business, and then return to normal, profitible pricing strategies. A small business can not afford to do this.
I have no idea how you could possibly fix this, or even if there is a CONSTITUTIONAL way to do it, maybe not, and rants like mine will become less and less common, but I hope not, I hope someday a person with a little bit of gumption can have just as much chance for making a difference as a big rich CEO.
You are probably smarter than george w. bush, but look where you are, and look where he is, thats evidence enough of how unfair the playing field is. the rich get richer, the poor, as a whole, get poorer, that has been the actual economic trend of the US in the last 3 decades, and its because of how easy it is to make (big) money ONCE YOU HAVE IT (and how hard it is when you dont.) There are a few "Rags to riches" stories out there, for sure. But do you think that thats the rule? I worked at a country club in High School, and I also live in a wealthy town. I *KNOW* its the exception, at least in the population sample I am exposed to.
Even if MS has done it on purpose, wich I doubt, is that really illegal or that bad? If I produce an addon for a PS2 then you can't really complain if it doesn't work with an X-box even if the connectors look the same.
Maybe your right about the mouse, I really dont know. And your right about the PS2 add-on, too. Its if something was actually designed into something, ADDED to something, to make it incompatible with anything but a different product, that makes me furious. I dont know if thats the case, but when a manufacturer spends extra money to effectively strip functionality out of a device to use as leverage to sell another, mostly unrelated product, it is very very unfair to both the consumer and smaller businesses which have a much tighter budget. An example that gets me fuming is Apple's DVD burning software. From my understanding, otherwise compatible DVD burners are unusable from this software because Apple wanted to use their software to increase sales of their hardware. If it was a case of having to write drivers for the other DVD burners, fine, of course, why the heck would Apple do that? (Unless they were concerned more with making a great product and less about money, but not many think that way, not even me, unfortunately) But, and this may be a weak weak understanding of this, I was lead to think that Apple had DISABLED support for devices that would have worked had that disabling-code not been _added_ to the software. Thats the stuff that makes me cringe. Its an example of how it gets easier and easier to make money, the more money you have.
Side note: This is the most stratefied our economy has ever been. There has never been a more uneven distribution of the country's wealth. Thats what lights my fires these days.