What good are thin clients? You don't have to worry about trojans and viruses coming in due to installation of new programs...and if your hard drives die, you don't lose your data.
FYI, a friend of mine lives in Crystal City, and was at home Sept. 11, 2001, and heard the plane coming in very low before it hit the Pentagon. And yes, it sounded like a commercial jet, not a military jet.
Because of 1) broadcast Closed Captioning requirements and 2) advanced in speaker-independent phoneme analysis, I can easilly imagine Google providing an "Adsense for Video" from broadcast, cable, and satellite content sources.
Keywords in Closed Caption text or "key phonemes" noted during a program segment could drive Adsense to have relevant ad spots to be digitally inserted into the MPEG-2 transport stream in the next break using SCTE 35 Digital Program Insertion information.
Alternatively, Google could give you the TV, except CC keywords and key phonemes would drive on-screen text advertising...
Has it ever occured to you how much farther technology would have advanced if those of us who are non-Windows would not have had to expend *so* *much* energy fighting a monopoly off of our backs that is determined to crush us?
I remember back when there was not an OS monopoly for microcomputers...has it ever occured to you how annoying it is to have to write a program in 10 different operating systems?;)
Windows is a monopoly because there is a convenient network-effect from having an OS standard, and Linux just doesn't stand up on the desktop for most people at all, viruses or no viruses. Yes, I run a Linux web server.
At the same time, it is clear to me that competition from Linux has made Windows 2000 much more stable than Windows NT, and Windows XP and 2003 are beginnng to address real security problems.
This whole talk of DDT immunity is silly because DDT has a combination of repellent, irritant, and slow-acting toxic actions to mosquitos. It is becoming evident that its repellent activity is actually most useful in reducing actual malaria deaths (moving the vector away from people through wide area spraying, as well as impregnated bed netting).
But in 2000, [South Africa] saw malaria cases skyrocket to 65,000 and 458 people were killed.
Provincial health minister Seaparo Sekwati defends the use of DDT, saying it saves lives.
"We have decided that as South Africa, as a developing country, we are going to use the most accessible DDT which is also cost effective because we cannot go for expensive things which we cannot afford as a country.
"We are going to continue using DDT as it has worked and has worked for those developed countries in the past."
But still, Singapore has infant moratlity of 2.0/1000, and Kuwait has infant mortality of around 10/1000, but the author was probably correct that on the whole, countries with lower infant mortality have lower population growth, with a couple of notable outliers.
population grows the slowest in nations that have low infant mortality
This is BS. Population growth is dominated by number of the number of times women get pregnant, much more than infant mortality.
The top countries in population growth (as a percent) are Marshall Islands, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Afghanistan, Somalia, Oman, Kuwait, Yemen, Chad. Some of these countries are rich places with low infant mortality, but most are extremely poor countries with very high numbers of birth per mother for economic reasons (more kids to farm land) or cultural reasons (barefoot & pregnant).
For example, Somalia is number 7 in the world for highest infant mortality, with 118.52 deaths for every 1000 births, but that still is just a 10% reduction in population, whereas having kid #2 after kid #1 is a 100% increase in population.
Afghanistan, Somalia, Chad, and Sierra Leone are all on the top 10 in population growth and top 20 in infant mortality.
what happens when the population spikes in many desperately poor and often politically dysfunctional (of not openly anarchic) nations when a leading cause of death is eliminated?
It isn't too hard to find the Microsoft SQL client GUI tools to work with MSDE...they are available in books on Microsoft SQL, and also there are third-party GUIs available as well.
you are simply parroting back the pseudo-stuff you've read in the media
No, what I am saying is mainstream economic science. I suggest you read what Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke said about the Great Depression, or here where he says about the Fed's behavior leading to the Depression "You're right, we did it. We're very sorry." This is someone who holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, was a visiting professor of economics at MIT, an associate professor of economics at Stanford, and a professor and department chair of economics at Princeton, a Fed Governor, and now the Fed Chairman.
You can believe in mainstream science (such as the IPCC results) and still be against the Kyoto Protocol. Even if you feel there is a good case for a certain global warming, it is unclear if the benefits of Kyoto outweigh the economic damage it could cause.
Numbers I've seen seem to indicate 1 saved millikelvin in global warming for every for $100 billion in economic loss.
No matter how anti-science you argue the US is, it is far more Anti-Economics!
How many people actually get a real basic understanding of economics, compared with a basic understanding of science? How many years of study of each in school?
This is not competition, this is lowering labor costs...
It means competition in that Americans can no longer afford to be low-skill workers. People have to get educated to survive now, because globally more and more low-skill workers are coming on the global market.
The results would be no different than if robotics technology improves to remove all low-skill labor jobs globally. This will happen, of course.
What the actual effect is to destroy the tax base of this country
I don't see any evidence of the tax base of the U.S. decreasing. From 1987 to 2004, only 2002 and 2003 saw income tax revenue decreases (a result of a brief recession plus Bush tax cuts). In 2004, income tax revenues were up compared to 2003, and 2005 is supposed to be even higher.
The Great Depression was caused by a combination of a stock market bubble and what is today considered horrific monetary policy by the Federal Reserve (tightening during the downturn), with the bad results extended by many New Deal policies.
This last time when a stock bubble burst, the Fed moved to appropriately loosen monetary policy, and the government reduced tax rates, thus the recovery (and results like last quarter's 3.8% GDP increase).
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It isn't that they need cash from us, there is plenty of savings in China, the problem is that their financial systems is not advanced enough to efficiently funnel those savings into useful capital investments. It is happening to some extent now, but Chinese capital investment will accelerate rapidly as their banking and financial system becomes more modern and market-oriented.
Currently the Chinese financial sector is mainly state-owned, loans are made on a political basis, and there are many non-performing (i.e. bad) loans outstanding especially to other state-owned industries.
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What happens when the US runs out of financial reserves and Beijing decides to stop buying US Treasury bonds????
Current US Treasury debt as a percentage of GDP is not at unprecedented levels, but certainly it cannot continue to grow at the same rate it has been recently.
The Chinese banking and financial industries are currently highly state-owned and screwed-up. The savings glut of China is significantly responsible for high US current account deficits. This is what leads to the odd situation of a developing country lending to a developed one.
As Chinese financial institutions are modernized (and opened to foriegn competition, i.e. those millionaire suits from New York), we can expect that investment will rise in the reverse direction, that is, from America back to China. This will lead to savers in the industrial countries earning higher returns and enjoying increased diversification through investments in China, and borrowers there would have the funds to make the capital investments needed to promote growth and higher living standards.
This could raise interest rates, but the enhanced return in investments should negate inflationary losses.
CEOs are sacrificing long-term viability for short-term profits
Where is your evidence for this? Except for a quarter here and there, US GDP continuously grows. There is zero evidence that the US does not have long-term viability.
"The Bottom" of the US is a big improvement from where they are coming from.
A billion people are now being added to the global economy in India and China, because their governments are finally getting a grip on basic economics.
It doesn't really matter whether they come here on H1-B, or stay there with offshoring, they are coming, and we better be ready to compete, but also to enjoy the benefits of enhanced global wealth, because we will all benefit in the end.
Is there an open source "human filter" for web aps (like the kind that makes you type what is in an image of noisy and/or distorted numbers and letters?
Hopefully human beings will trancend their animal natures one day with science and technology.
But it is the profit motive that has driven the development of humanity to arrive at the current level of science and technology, so perhaps profit isn't such a bad idea after all.
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What good are thin clients? You don't have to worry about trojans and viruses coming in due to installation of new programs...and if your hard drives die, you don't lose your data.
If you go to www.live.com and click on "Top Feeds", Slashdot is the #1 feed!
It isn't a beauty or function issue, it is a usability issue. OSX seems to have conquered this issue.
(I like Knoppix on my laptop, but my non-geek friends don't.)
FYI, a friend of mine lives in Crystal City, and was at home Sept. 11, 2001, and heard the plane coming in very low before it hit the Pentagon. And yes, it sounded like a commercial jet, not a military jet.
Because of 1) broadcast Closed Captioning requirements and 2) advanced in speaker-independent phoneme analysis, I can easilly imagine Google providing an "Adsense for Video" from broadcast, cable, and satellite content sources.
Keywords in Closed Caption text or "key phonemes" noted during a program segment could drive Adsense to have relevant ad spots to be digitally inserted into the MPEG-2 transport stream in the next break using SCTE 35 Digital Program Insertion information.
Alternatively, Google could give you the TV, except CC keywords and key phonemes would drive on-screen text advertising...
Has it ever occured to you how much farther technology would have advanced if those of us who are non-Windows would not have had to expend *so* *much* energy fighting a monopoly off of our backs that is determined to crush us?
;)
I remember back when there was not an OS monopoly for microcomputers...has it ever occured to you how annoying it is to have to write a program in 10 different operating systems?
Windows is a monopoly because there is a convenient network-effect from having an OS standard, and Linux just doesn't stand up on the desktop for most people at all, viruses or no viruses. Yes, I run a Linux web server.
At the same time, it is clear to me that competition from Linux has made Windows 2000 much more stable than Windows NT, and Windows XP and 2003 are beginnng to address real security problems.
This whole talk of DDT immunity is silly because DDT has a combination of repellent, irritant, and slow-acting toxic actions to mosquitos. It is becoming evident that its repellent activity is actually most useful in reducing actual malaria deaths (moving the vector away from people through wide area spraying, as well as impregnated bed netting).
Read more here for a balanced view.
DDT to fight Malaria in South Africa
But in 2000, [South Africa] saw malaria cases skyrocket to 65,000 and 458 people were killed.
Provincial health minister Seaparo Sekwati defends the use of DDT, saying it saves lives.
"We have decided that as South Africa, as a developing country, we are going to use the most accessible DDT which is also cost effective because we cannot go for expensive things which we cannot afford as a country.
"We are going to continue using DDT as it has worked and has worked for those developed countries in the past."
Last year only 89 deaths were recorded.
Fighting Malaria with DDT in South Africa
Whoops, I got the argument backwards.
But still, Singapore has infant moratlity of 2.0/1000, and Kuwait has infant mortality of around 10/1000, but the author was probably correct that on the whole, countries with lower infant mortality have lower population growth, with a couple of notable outliers.
population grows the slowest in nations that have low infant mortality
This is BS. Population growth is dominated by number of the number of times women get pregnant, much more than infant mortality.
The top countries in population growth (as a percent) are Marshall Islands, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Afghanistan, Somalia, Oman, Kuwait, Yemen, Chad. Some of these countries are rich places with low infant mortality, but most are extremely poor countries with very high numbers of birth per mother for economic reasons (more kids to farm land) or cultural reasons (barefoot & pregnant).
For example, Somalia is number 7 in the world for highest infant mortality, with 118.52 deaths for every 1000 births, but that still is just a 10% reduction in population, whereas having kid #2 after kid #1 is a 100% increase in population.
Afghanistan, Somalia, Chad, and Sierra Leone are all on the top 10 in population growth and top 20 in infant mortality.
what happens when the population spikes in many desperately poor and often politically dysfunctional (of not openly anarchic) nations when a leading cause of death is eliminated?
Starvation.
It isn't too hard to find the Microsoft SQL client GUI tools to work with MSDE...they are available in books on Microsoft SQL, and also there are third-party GUIs available as well.
Go back and closely study tax revenues from 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 - I believe you are mistaken there
Individual Income tax revenues from the IRS data,
1999 - $1,002,185,765
2000 - $1,137,077,702 Increase
2001 - $1,178,209,880 Increase
2002 - $1,037,733,908 Decrease
2003 - $987,208,878 Decrease
2004 - $990,248,760 Increase
you are simply parroting back the pseudo-stuff you've read in the media
No, what I am saying is mainstream economic science. I suggest you read what Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke said about the Great Depression, or here where he says about the Fed's behavior leading to the Depression "You're right, we did it. We're very sorry." This is someone who holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, was a visiting professor of economics at MIT, an associate professor of economics at Stanford, and a professor and department chair of economics at Princeton, a Fed Governor, and now the Fed Chairman.
I've forgotten all the AP economics material I learned becuase the stuff isn't in my field and isn't relevant to me.
So how will you know if a politician is trying to sell you a proposal that goes against everything we know about economics?
Appropriate economic policies mean you avoid things like the Great Depression, etc.
Economics is MORE relevant to everyone than science.
You can believe in mainstream science (such as the IPCC results) and still be against the Kyoto Protocol. Even if you feel there is a good case for a certain global warming, it is unclear if the benefits of Kyoto outweigh the economic damage it could cause.
Numbers I've seen seem to indicate 1 saved millikelvin in global warming for every for $100 billion in economic loss.
No matter how anti-science you argue the US is, it is far more Anti-Economics!
How many people actually get a real basic understanding of economics, compared with a basic understanding of science? How many years of study of each in school?
This is not competition, this is lowering labor costs...
It means competition in that Americans can no longer afford to be low-skill workers. People have to get educated to survive now, because globally more and more low-skill workers are coming on the global market.
The results would be no different than if robotics technology improves to remove all low-skill labor jobs globally. This will happen, of course.
What the actual effect is to destroy the tax base of this country
I don't see any evidence of the tax base of the U.S. decreasing. From 1987 to 2004, only 2002 and 2003 saw income tax revenue decreases (a result of a brief recession plus Bush tax cuts). In 2004, income tax revenues were up compared to 2003, and 2005 is supposed to be even higher.
The Great Depression was caused by a combination of a stock market bubble and what is today considered horrific monetary policy by the Federal Reserve (tightening during the downturn), with the bad results extended by many New Deal policies.
This last time when a stock bubble burst, the Fed moved to appropriately loosen monetary policy, and the government reduced tax rates, thus the recovery (and results like last quarter's 3.8% GDP increase).
It isn't that they need cash from us, there is plenty of savings in China, the problem is that their financial systems is not advanced enough to efficiently funnel those savings into useful capital investments. It is happening to some extent now, but Chinese capital investment will accelerate rapidly as their banking and financial system becomes more modern and market-oriented.
Currently the Chinese financial sector is mainly state-owned, loans are made on a political basis, and there are many non-performing (i.e. bad) loans outstanding especially to other state-owned industries.
What happens when the US runs out of financial reserves and Beijing decides to stop buying US Treasury bonds????
Current US Treasury debt as a percentage of GDP is not at unprecedented levels, but certainly it cannot continue to grow at the same rate it has been recently.
The Chinese banking and financial industries are currently highly state-owned and screwed-up. The savings glut of China is significantly responsible for high US current account deficits. This is what leads to the odd situation of a developing country lending to a developed one.
As Chinese financial institutions are modernized (and opened to foriegn competition, i.e. those millionaire suits from New York), we can expect that investment will rise in the reverse direction, that is, from America back to China. This will lead to savers in the industrial countries earning higher returns and enjoying increased diversification through investments in China, and borrowers there would have the funds to make the capital investments needed to promote growth and higher living standards.
This could raise interest rates, but the enhanced return in investments should negate inflationary losses.
CEOs are sacrificing long-term viability for short-term profits
Where is your evidence for this? Except for a quarter here and there, US GDP continuously grows. There is zero evidence that the US does not have long-term viability.
"The Bottom" of the US is a big improvement from where they are coming from.
A billion people are now being added to the global economy in India and China, because their governments are finally getting a grip on basic economics.
It doesn't really matter whether they come here on H1-B, or stay there with offshoring, they are coming, and we better be ready to compete, but also to enjoy the benefits of enhanced global wealth, because we will all benefit in the end.
Is there an open source "human filter" for web aps (like the kind that makes you type what is in an image of noisy and/or distorted numbers and letters?
Genetic engineering is the new frontier - more amateurs should hack DNA. There is a lot of information on this at DNAhack.com.
Hopefully human beings will trancend their animal natures one day with science and technology.
But it is the profit motive that has driven the development of humanity to arrive at the current level of science and technology, so perhaps profit isn't such a bad idea after all.