If your clients do not request documents uniformly, then caching will have an effect. Say 100 clients get DNS A, and another 100 get DNS B. Now let's say, 75 of the first quit and decide to browse elsewhere, but only 25 of the latter do the same. You now how 3 times as much traffic going to DNS B despite your round-robining. This will probably show up due to things like proxies, where a proxy will grab a DNS entry and cache it and serve thousands of clients behind it from that DNS.
Perhaps this needs to be taken somewhere else, but your signature intrigued me. I have several critiques though. The essay makes the two following assertions:
"The first states that information conveyed by market prices is necessary to determine how best to use scarce resources in production."
"The second states that a centralized planner can never acquire all of the information that is in the hands of decentralized economic actors, and that prices allow that information to be harnessed by individual decision-makers."
1) I would argue that information conveyed by market prices is necessary to determine how to best use scare resources in production, *for producers* - not for society in general. For example, Whizzy Advertising Agency manages to convince 100% of the population that they should buy 5 times more Widgets than they currently do. Has any efficiency been gained? Of course! Widget Co. can take advantage of economies of scale in their production of Widgets! Hurrah! But, universally, is it efficient to artificially raise demand for Widgets? Of course not. The essay further goes on to say in a centralized economy "there will be no market prices to serve as an "invisible hand," guiding production to the best interests of society". That may be true. But in absence of absolutely rigorous and universal public awareness (a rock solid free press), this "invisible hand" will not guide production to the best interests of society, it will guide production to the best interests of *producers*. You need only look to recent Wall Street scandals to see where this can obviously go astray. So I think the mere presence of price information doesn't inherently and necessarily guide the economy to highest efficiency (this is obviously true if you disregard human rights, labor laws, free press, etc.). Furthermore, I'm not even certain that a free market *will* produce these efficiencies. Example: 5 companies are started, and produce cakes. After a while it is found that consumers only like the type of cake one company makes...the rest all crash and burn in bankruptcy. Is this efficient? Is it more efficient than some other process, for example, a scientific inquiry into consumer predilictions? Don't laugh, you get my point, and I think it is an open question. That pure and brazenly socialist and/or communist regimes have failed miserably at this doesn't bode well for them, then again, have there been any such governments which included the prerequisites of human rights, labor laws, and free press?
2) This may very well be true, but the assertion is that because in the absence of a free market you have absence of economic information, therefore a free market is the best. There are other ways of course to convey economic information. For instance, under a dictatorship, perhaps owners of companies that produce products that the regime doesn't like, are murdered. That surely provides *some* economic information right? But you wouldn't argue that we should keep such a system merely because in absence of it we would have *less* economic information (anything is better, i.e. provides more economic information, than anarchy, right?). So again, although it may be true that free markets supply freely available economic information (regardless of the value of that information), I don't think that is *sufficient* justification of such a system.
My conclusion I guess is that a free market is not automatically magically and universally better. A free market corrupted by accounting malpractice, advertising propaganda, and anything but absolutely rigorous press oversight, and public disclosure, is not inherently better than any other system (although you could have a separate arguement over which types of systems are more or less prone to said corruption).
To realize the benefits of the free market, it is absolutely fundamental that the consumer is informed, and that the government works with the larger society to root out corruption in financial systems, and break up monopolies (which are the natural tendency of an unregulated free market) which threaten the touted efficiency-gaining competition.
Microsoft could just be a platform for taking money from stupid rich bourgeois Americans, and funnelling 98% of it into charity to the third world. If that is in fact the case, then this man has to, ironically, be my hero. It's mandatory charity.:)
The challenge is to somehow avoid making yet another game which devolves into manic packratting...
Even though I love these series, all these games, Fallout, Baldur's Gate, the TSR Gold Box series, devolve into micro-managing inventory. Should I take the sniper rifle or the laser rifle? Let's see multiply weight by probability I won't use it by my skill, etc.... Do I want to keep 100 necklaces I picked up, one of which might be magical, or the extra 5 full plate armors I can sell in town, or this sword I pulled off this boss? Aggh!
Maybe I'm just neurotic but these games always devolve into inventory micro-management and totally take away from the game. Like another poster, I typically try to make a "uber"-character just so I can avoid managing 5 extra characters. But then I end up attaining 5 "mule" characters just to hold the junk I collect on my missions...
Java packages are delimited by dot (.) not slash (/). I don't know why someone would distribute a start script with slashes instead of dots in the class name.
Speaking of which, I can just imagine pages of Slashdot being preserved, antiqued, and hung in nice frames in the future, just as we frame "quaint" prints of 1840's newspapers proclaiming the wonders of "Magical Magnetic Belts" and "Rejuvinating Electric Hair Brushes".
I think the most exciting thing, something that is just now becoming evident (at least to me), is the immediacy of history provided by permanent, perfect audio-visual record. Generations born now, will possibly not KNOW what is to NOT know exactly what the past was like. Our historical conciousness (at least mine, i'm young) only goes back a few decades at best. Our culture definately shorter than that. What happens, when every person existing is as tied in to, say, the culture of 40 years ago, as they are to "modern" culture. What happens when the past and the present become indistinguishable with regard to culture? What will life be like when it is unimaginable not to have a perfect record of the last 200 years.
I'm conflicted on whether this is a good thing or not. On the one hand people will be more familiar with history, and culture will probably be pushed a bit back into the hands of the people at large. On the other hand, the quaint notion that anybody is doing anything original will probably be eviscerated (why bother consuming "new" culture, when "old" culture is available? Why listen to a cover of a Lious Armstrong song, when you can materialize a perfect 3D hologram of Lious Armstrong and band to do it right here?).
"Cheating" in the online sense, for example, includes running an aimbot proxy that has hooks into your game so that you have 100% accurate robotic aim.
Slashdot Mirror
"I am so fast you cannot even read my decals."
What, you mean the ones that say TYPE-R?
I second this suggestion. I use jedit day in day out for coding, etc.
Nobody reads more than 60% of an article anyway, so does it really matter?
If your clients do not request documents uniformly, then caching will have an effect. Say 100 clients get DNS A, and another 100 get DNS B. Now let's say, 75 of the first quit and decide to browse elsewhere, but only 25 of the latter do the same. You now how 3 times as much traffic going to DNS B despite your round-robining. This will probably show up due to things like proxies, where a proxy will grab a DNS entry and cache it and serve thousands of clients behind it from that DNS.
As long as we are talking Latin...
vir means man, and viri is the plural, meaning men. So it probably isn't the best idea to justify using the term 'viri' from a Latin basis...
Perhaps this needs to be taken somewhere else, but your signature intrigued me. I have several critiques though. The essay makes the two following assertions:
"The first states that information conveyed by market prices is necessary to determine how best to use scarce resources in production."
"The second states that a centralized planner can never acquire all of the information that is in the hands of decentralized economic actors, and that prices allow that information to be harnessed by individual decision-makers."
1) I would argue that information conveyed by market prices is necessary to determine how to best use scare resources in production, *for producers* - not for society in general. For example, Whizzy Advertising Agency manages to convince 100% of the population that they should buy 5 times more Widgets than they currently do. Has any efficiency been gained? Of course! Widget Co. can take advantage of economies of scale in their production of Widgets! Hurrah! But, universally, is it efficient to artificially raise demand for Widgets? Of course not. The essay further goes on to say in a centralized economy "there will be no market prices to serve as an "invisible hand," guiding production to the best interests of society". That may be true. But in absence of absolutely rigorous and universal public awareness (a rock solid free press), this "invisible hand" will not guide production to the best interests of society, it will guide production to the best interests of *producers*. You need only look to recent Wall Street scandals to see where this can obviously go astray. So I think the mere presence of price information doesn't inherently and necessarily guide the economy to highest efficiency (this is obviously true if you disregard human rights, labor laws, free press, etc.). Furthermore, I'm not even certain that a free market *will* produce these efficiencies. Example: 5 companies are started, and produce cakes. After a while it is found that consumers only like the type of cake one company makes...the rest all crash and burn in bankruptcy. Is this efficient? Is it more efficient than some other process, for example, a scientific inquiry into consumer predilictions? Don't laugh, you get my point, and I think it is an open question. That pure and brazenly socialist and/or communist regimes have failed miserably at this doesn't bode well for them, then again, have there been any such governments which included the prerequisites of human rights, labor laws, and free press?
2) This may very well be true, but the assertion is that because in the absence of a free market you have absence of economic information, therefore a free market is the best. There are other ways of course to convey economic information. For instance, under a dictatorship, perhaps owners of companies that produce products that the regime doesn't like, are murdered. That surely provides *some* economic information right? But you wouldn't argue that we should keep such a system merely because in absence of it we would have *less* economic information (anything is better, i.e. provides more economic information, than anarchy, right?). So again, although it may be true that free markets supply freely available economic information (regardless of the value of that information), I don't think that is *sufficient* justification of such a system.
My conclusion I guess is that a free market is not automatically magically and universally better. A free market corrupted by accounting malpractice, advertising propaganda, and anything but absolutely rigorous press oversight, and public disclosure, is not inherently better than any other system (although you could have a separate arguement over which types of systems are more or less prone to said corruption).
To realize the benefits of the free market, it is absolutely fundamental that the consumer is informed, and that the government works with the larger society to root out corruption in financial systems, and break up monopolies (which are the natural tendency of an unregulated free market) which threaten the touted efficiency-gaining competition.
Computron, bah!
/me goes into epileptic nostolgia seizure
Devastator could whoop his ass any day.
Natural Selection.
And verily it rawks.
And if you want to be cynical about it...
:)
Microsoft could just be a platform for taking money from stupid rich bourgeois Americans, and funnelling 98% of it into charity to the third world. If that is in fact the case, then this man has to, ironically, be my hero. It's mandatory charity.
The challenge is to somehow avoid making yet another game which devolves into manic packratting...
Even though I love these series, all these games, Fallout, Baldur's Gate, the TSR Gold Box series, devolve into micro-managing inventory. Should I take the sniper rifle or the laser rifle? Let's see multiply weight by probability I won't use it by my skill, etc.... Do I want to keep 100 necklaces I picked up, one of which might be magical, or the extra 5 full plate armors I can sell in town, or this sword I pulled off this boss? Aggh!
Maybe I'm just neurotic but these games always devolve into inventory micro-management and totally take away from the game. Like another poster, I typically try to make a "uber"-character just so I can avoid managing 5 extra characters. But then I end up attaining 5 "mule" characters just to hold the junk I collect on my missions...
Java packages are delimited by dot (.) not slash (/). I don't know why someone would distribute a start script with slashes instead of dots in the class name.
What about: Dukatana Forever?
Just send a letter to the FBI, I'm sure they'll give you your keystrokes back ;)
Customers don't pay for intractable problems to be solved. They pay for new icons.
Dell does not have a monopoly on PC hardware. Duh.
"However, it is still possible, via reflection, to access these members if you know what you're doing."
No. Not unless the JVM is broken. These are caught at runtime by the security manager and IllegalAccessException should be thrown.
"Of course I'll be too long dead to find out."
Speaking of which, I can just imagine pages of Slashdot being preserved, antiqued, and hung in nice frames in the future, just as we frame "quaint" prints of 1840's newspapers proclaiming the wonders of "Magical Magnetic Belts" and "Rejuvinating Electric Hair Brushes".
I think the most exciting thing, something that is just now becoming evident (at least to me), is the immediacy of history provided by permanent, perfect audio-visual record. Generations born now, will possibly not KNOW what is to NOT know exactly what the past was like. Our historical conciousness (at least mine, i'm young) only goes back a few decades at best. Our culture definately shorter than that. What happens, when every person existing is as tied in to, say, the culture of 40 years ago, as they are to "modern" culture. What happens when the past and the present become indistinguishable with regard to culture? What will life be like when it is unimaginable not to have a perfect record of the last 200 years.
I'm conflicted on whether this is a good thing or not. On the one hand people will be more familiar with history, and culture will probably be pushed a bit back into the hands of the people at large. On the other hand, the quaint notion that anybody is doing anything original will probably be eviscerated (why bother consuming "new" culture, when "old" culture is available? Why listen to a cover of a Lious Armstrong song, when you can materialize a perfect 3D hologram of Lious Armstrong and band to do it right here?).
Of course I'll be too long dead to find out.
No way am I electrifying my dongle again.
Fool me once, shame on your. Fool me the fifth time, shame on me.
Uh, no...
"Cheating" in the online sense, for example, includes running an aimbot proxy that has hooks into your game so that you have 100% accurate robotic aim.
Documentation Documentation Documentation Documentation Documentation Documentation
Documentation Documentation Documentation
[image insane person running around the stage clapping his hands]
...could you please make the $20 bill worth more? k thx.
"I wonder if Episode VII-IX would be a good choice as first projects?"
So now the additional 2 dimensions can be added to the characters, cool. Mee-sa likee.
Wow, that is like 2 burns in one.
Burn #1: Slashdot is anti-MS!
Burn #2: Slashdot is not really the press!
Congratulations.
And this is a blessing or a curse? Once Safari is up to speed, will Apple really need IE?