... but at the same time much of us live in a market reality where far end puritanical, "unimpeachable" (to use your word) views don't fit well with the rest of the world...
Well, he has a right to put forth his views. Somehow, I get the feeling that, even though the "market reality" of the world has quite the upper hand in this situation, many feel threatened by his views. And I don't know why - since when did one or two idealists ever change the world?
Bell Labs was the result of a large regulated monopoly running the national phone system...
Then explain the demise or radical downsizings and/or retooling of HP Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research, Tek Labs, et. al. None of them had "regulated monopolies", yet all of them seemed to have funds for relatively advanced R&D (and mostly R) back in the bad old days, but today are shells of themselves (if in existence at all). I personally blame corporate mismanagement of other functions reducing funds for most initial changes, but it is amazing to me that companies that once treated their research labs as their crown jewels and as drivers of innovation now think the best thing to do is to either shut them down or not fund them. I guess that all of those bright ideas are just going to appear out of the air somewhere fully formed (personally, I think in Asia or Europe). Oddly enough, the only companies that appear to be funding R are Microsoft and Google which lends credence to the "monopoly" argument posted above. But my question still stands - why was research funded, even by non-monopoly companies back in the seventies and eighties, while they are almost completely unfunded today?
How much of this is due to lazy software development by 3rd party vendors in the past 12 years since Windows 95 came on the scene? Many of the incompatibilities are due to hard coded file and data paths, poorly implemented file and registry permissions that require administrative user access to run the software, or non-standard GUI implementations.
How much of this was implicitly encouraged by Microsoft by their provision of backward compatibility, even when old code went against their own guidelines? Microsoft and their fanboys can't have it both ways, by touting superior backwards compatibility and reaping the benefits of customer lock-in while bitching at programmers (or more importantly, their management who didn't want to pay to upgrade working code) for taking advantage of this feature.
Krugman is actually quite the economist. His text, "Economics," written by him and Robin Wells is used in many universities in introductory courses (it's the number two text, I believe, after the venerable Samuelson), and his text "International Economics," written by him and Maurice Obstfeld is in it's ninth edition. He's a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton and has had numerous publications during his career, including 38 books. He also was the winner of the American Economics Association's John Bates Clark Medal in 1991 and is considered one of the country's foremost neo-Keynesian economists. As such, I'm fairly sure he has enough fact checkers at his disposal to make sure that his figures and conceptual grounding is much better than yours. You may not believe him or agree with his politics, but he is certainly not a "fruit".
I (occasionally) do support / repair / recovery for individuals. Never do I look into media like this, let alone copy it.
Amen. Usually when I have to repair a crappy Windows system (And let's face it, it's always a crappy Windows system, isn't it?), the last thing I want to do, after spending an hour or two cleaning the crap out, is to poke around in a bunch of files made and/or collected by someone too stupid to run anything other than Windows. Probably looks at goat (or goatse) porn anyhow, that person does.
Want to improve all the issues pointed out in the article, stop having a two party system.
Yes, I'd like that, too. But I'd also like everyone to have a nice puppy and a (OMG!!!1!!) pony. Since neither of these things are realistically going to happen in the next few years, do you have any suggestions? I do. It's called keep voting, vote for the best person in the primary, and then vote for the best person that can possibly win in the election. Because, until your ideal world comes about (Oh yeah, and can we have a visit from Harry Potter, too?), we all have to live under whoever actually does get elected.
I find all of this complaining by the (small-L)ibertarians quite amusing anyhow, as the ones who didn't go over the edge and vote (big-L)ibertarian usually support "the party of small government" (actually, "the party of cheap labor", but that's another rant), who have been the driving force behind this loss of freedom over the past seven years (Not to absolve the other party who has participated by their acquiescence - but acquiescence is a hell of a lot better than instigation in this case).
You really want to help? Convince your (small-l)ibertarian friends to hold their noses, vote D, and convince the R's (and, at the same time, the D's) that this level of corruption of our Constitution will not be tolerated. Repeat. Contrary to/. belief, these folks are not (necessarily) stupid and, eventually, they will get a clue.
Only with the oversight of the FISA court. And that's what the big deal is - will there be checks on who is being listened to or not. Given that the FISA court could be asked for wiretap privilege up to three days retroactively and that it had turned down a total of three (out of thousands of) requests during the Clinton years, this does not seem to be an overly harsh hurdle to overcome. Unless, of course, you're a couple of assholes like Bush and Cheney who think that the law need not apply to them.
First of all, furnacefishmedia.com gives hope that even as a geek, I'll have a chance.
Those poor girls... It's clear that Canada's socialized medical system simply doesn't have our advanced breast augmentation technology (or at least doesn't give those poor girls access to it)! I pity those poor Canadian girls. Have 'em come on down here to the US. They won't have to wait for years behind whiners like burn patients, children with birth defects, and so on, for the plastic surgery they need to compete with the US's actresses and other "beautiful people".
Even without salary, an average employee costs Microsoft about $400k/year.
Now I call BS. The "normal" burden cost for a Seattle-area software engineer is ~$150K-200K. The only way MS has a total burden cost > $500K (which is what it would come to, according to your figure) is if they're stuffing gold bricks in their employees' pants every day. They could be decorating each person's office with genuine Louis XIV antiques, too, I suppose. I truly doubt your figure.
They intend to create new life forms that are optimized for alcohol production. "Microbes that produce ethanol from sugar will be built for speed and efficiency."
Damn! And here I am built for consuming ethanol with speed and efficiency! And not even a microbe, either.
That gel is in an absolutely sealed envelope. Nothing (wires) needs to get in or out, whereas with a hard drive, unless you are powering by induction and have a wireless (radio or optical) way of transmitting data, you need wires to penetrate the envelope. *That* is where failure occurs.
Yes, if both the wires and enclosure were not well bonded, this would be where failure would be likely to occur. However, if you thermally bond the HD enclosure to the insulation of the wires, attach the HD through an open end of the enclosure , fill it with gel, seal the exposed enclosure end, and support both enclosure and the wires coming out to minimize relative movement of the two, you probably would not have much of a chance of the enclosure leaking. In addition, I'd think that they'd also use a non-conductive gel to minimize any problems even in the case of a small leak. Sony may be scum, but they still have a few good engineers that work there.
I own a similar model (P1120). I dual boot mine between Win 2K and Ubuntu. There was a bit digging about for the touch screen drivers and mucking about with the Xconfig file (for the wonky screen form factor), but otherwise wireless worked without a hitch. Since I don't use the modem, I don't know about its support. I'm still running Breezy on it, though. I haven't upgraded it to Feisty, so you might not even need to do the stuff I did.
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And you're happy with that situation? Oh, in Linus we trust, I guess. The gullible are easily led...
Well, he has a right to put forth his views. Somehow, I get the feeling that, even though the "market reality" of the world has quite the upper hand in this situation, many feel threatened by his views. And I don't know why - since when did one or two idealists ever change the world?
Man, things are getting awfully oxymoronic around here...
Remember... the search part is ancillary to it's actual economic function. I'd start calling it what it actually is: Google! The Ad Delivery Engine!
Then explain the demise or radical downsizings and/or retooling of HP Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research, Tek Labs, et. al. None of them had "regulated monopolies", yet all of them seemed to have funds for relatively advanced R&D (and mostly R) back in the bad old days, but today are shells of themselves (if in existence at all). I personally blame corporate mismanagement of other functions reducing funds for most initial changes, but it is amazing to me that companies that once treated their research labs as their crown jewels and as drivers of innovation now think the best thing to do is to either shut them down or not fund them. I guess that all of those bright ideas are just going to appear out of the air somewhere fully formed (personally, I think in Asia or Europe). Oddly enough, the only companies that appear to be funding R are Microsoft and Google which lends credence to the "monopoly" argument posted above. But my question still stands - why was research funded, even by non-monopoly companies back in the seventies and eighties, while they are almost completely unfunded today?
... that's really crispy and comes in a can. Oh yeah, nacho cheese flavor wouldn't be bad either.
Dammit, Simonyi, no one asked you! Now just go away.
Since MVS is the dominant OS as of today it is only logical for another OS to have some form of compatibility with MVS.
How much of this was implicitly encouraged by Microsoft by their provision of backward compatibility, even when old code went against their own guidelines? Microsoft and their fanboys can't have it both ways, by touting superior backwards compatibility and reaping the benefits of customer lock-in while bitching at programmers (or more importantly, their management who didn't want to pay to upgrade working code) for taking advantage of this feature.
I like silvery and goldy better.
Krugman is actually quite the economist. His text, "Economics," written by him and Robin Wells is used in many universities in introductory courses (it's the number two text, I believe, after the venerable Samuelson), and his text "International Economics," written by him and Maurice Obstfeld is in it's ninth edition. He's a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton and has had numerous publications during his career, including 38 books. He also was the winner of the American Economics Association's John Bates Clark Medal in 1991 and is considered one of the country's foremost neo-Keynesian economists. As such, I'm fairly sure he has enough fact checkers at his disposal to make sure that his figures and conceptual grounding is much better than yours. You may not believe him or agree with his politics, but he is certainly not a "fruit".
"Pretty bad" that is...
If it doesn't have four processor sockets and room for 32GB of RAM, what good is it?
Although the first two steps are optional based on the age of the sysadmin...
Isn't being a physicist enough of a punishment in itself?
Amen. Usually when I have to repair a crappy Windows system (And let's face it, it's always a crappy Windows system, isn't it?), the last thing I want to do, after spending an hour or two cleaning the crap out, is to poke around in a bunch of files made and/or collected by someone too stupid to run anything other than Windows. Probably looks at goat (or goatse) porn anyhow, that person does.
Yes, I'd like that, too. But I'd also like everyone to have a nice puppy and a (OMG!!!1!!) pony. Since neither of these things are realistically going to happen in the next few years, do you have any suggestions? I do. It's called keep voting, vote for the best person in the primary, and then vote for the best person that can possibly win in the election. Because, until your ideal world comes about (Oh yeah, and can we have a visit from Harry Potter, too?), we all have to live under whoever actually does get elected.
I find all of this complaining by the (small-L)ibertarians quite amusing anyhow, as the ones who didn't go over the edge and vote (big-L)ibertarian usually support "the party of small government" (actually, "the party of cheap labor", but that's another rant), who have been the driving force behind this loss of freedom over the past seven years (Not to absolve the other party who has participated by their acquiescence - but acquiescence is a hell of a lot better than instigation in this case).
You really want to help? Convince your (small-l)ibertarian friends to hold their noses, vote D, and convince the R's (and, at the same time, the D's) that this level of corruption of our Constitution will not be tolerated. Repeat. Contrary to /. belief, these folks are not (necessarily) stupid and, eventually, they will get a clue.
Only with the oversight of the FISA court. And that's what the big deal is - will there be checks on who is being listened to or not. Given that the FISA court could be asked for wiretap privilege up to three days retroactively and that it had turned down a total of three (out of thousands of) requests during the Clinton years, this does not seem to be an overly harsh hurdle to overcome. Unless, of course, you're a couple of assholes like Bush and Cheney who think that the law need not apply to them.
Those poor girls... It's clear that Canada's socialized medical system simply doesn't have our advanced breast augmentation technology (or at least doesn't give those poor girls access to it)! I pity those poor Canadian girls. Have 'em come on down here to the US. They won't have to wait for years behind whiners like burn patients, children with birth defects, and so on, for the plastic surgery they need to compete with the US's actresses and other "beautiful people".
Now I call BS. The "normal" burden cost for a Seattle-area software engineer is ~$150K-200K. The only way MS has a total burden cost > $500K (which is what it would come to, according to your figure) is if they're stuffing gold bricks in their employees' pants every day. They could be decorating each person's office with genuine Louis XIV antiques, too, I suppose. I truly doubt your figure.
Damn! And here I am built for consuming ethanol with speed and efficiency! And not even a microbe, either.
Yes, if both the wires and enclosure were not well bonded, this would be where failure would be likely to occur. However, if you thermally bond the HD enclosure to the insulation of the wires, attach the HD through an open end of the enclosure , fill it with gel, seal the exposed enclosure end, and support both enclosure and the wires coming out to minimize relative movement of the two, you probably would not have much of a chance of the enclosure leaking. In addition, I'd think that they'd also use a non-conductive gel to minimize any problems even in the case of a small leak. Sony may be scum, but they still have a few good engineers that work there.
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And here I thought McCain wanted him for "Chair man" of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I own a similar model (P1120). I dual boot mine between Win 2K and Ubuntu. There was a bit digging about for the touch screen drivers and mucking about with the Xconfig file (for the wonky screen form factor), but otherwise wireless worked without a hitch. Since I don't use the modem, I don't know about its support. I'm still running Breezy on it, though. I haven't upgraded it to Feisty, so you might not even need to do the stuff I did.