I would refuse to give my business to a school that attempted this, and if I were already attending a school that adopted this policy, I would refuse to carry anything with an RFID tag in it to any classes I attended.
When HP first started making PCs, they were a solid and reliable as HP's computers always had been. They couldn't keep that up though, because once Dell and Gateway started that race to the bottom, all the margin got squeezed out, and it simply became infeasible for a company of HP's size to stay in business making more expensive, higher-quality hardware. HP's machines ran windows, and so did the screwdriver-shop shitboxes, and their performance was comparable for the year or so they'd be in use before they failed.
The same thing happened to DEC and IBM. Rather sad, really.
I have very fond memories of MPE-3. It was the first timesharing system I ever used. I can't remember ever seeing an HP3000 crash in four years of high school, usually running around 100 user sessions.
They certainly lost a lot of their power of intimidation when Longhorn cratered. I'd say the Zune debacle was another big blow, because it showed all the companies that jumped on the "Plays for sure" bandwagon that Microsoft would happily toss them under the bus to take another shot at unseating the iPod. Then you've also got their repeated failures to make a decent mobile OS. Seems to me that if I were in the consumer electronics business, I'd be very wary of anything that Microsoft was asking me to participate in.
Most of the H.264 patent holders are hardware companies. Apple, Sony, JVC, and so on. What exactly do you think they have to gain from making their products more expensive to pay royalties into the patent pool?
Don't be ridiculous. Apple is one of the participants in the H.264 patent pool, and the revenue they get from it isn't even a rounding error. H.264 licensing is extremely cheap, and you don't even pay per decoder before you're over 100K units. The H.264 consortium wants widespread adoption, and they've priced it accordingly.
Are you seriously trying to tell me that with an unemployment rate of over 10% nation wide that we need illegals taking americans jobs?
Are you seriously trying to tell me that Americans are lining up for those fruit-picking jobs? Try sending all the mexicans home, you'll see food prices jump 30% in the first week.
The local economy would collapse. There's this myth that illegal immigrants loot the welfare system, but the truth is that they're here to work, and we couldn't afford to do without them.
Maginot was built to fight WWI technology and tactics....and today, we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a navy which is ideally suited to win world war two. A carrier can be sunk with missiles that cost vastly less than even one of its fighter planes.
A man I worked for many years ago, one of my engineering mentors, told me about a mistake made during World War Two, where a large number of very large castings were discarded because the specification called for a much smaller tolerance on the location of an exhaust port than was actually necessary. As I recall, the spec allowed it to be 1/4" away from its nominal location, but it actually was connected to a flexible hose and it could have been a couple inches off in any direction without causing any problem. This mistake wasn't discovered until several millions of dollars worth of tank bodies had been scrapped and melted down unnecessarily.
Some years ago, I saw a news item on a proposal to flood the sahara by digging a canal through Libya, and powering pretty much all of North Africa and Southern Europe with electricity generated by turbines in the canals. As I recall, it was supposed to drop the world sea level by about a foot or so.
>Would this private entity be something like a rating agency?
The model I have in mind is something like the Underwriters' Laboratories, or Consumer Reports. When you're making an investment, you want to be sure that the researcher you hire doesn't stand to gain or lose whether or not you make the investment in question (as opposed to vendors like real estate appraisers who want future business from one of the parties to the transaction.)
By giving people a false sense of security, the SEC keeps people from even making the barest attempt at due diligence before handing over their money to the Bernie Madoffs of the world. If you're going to delegate this responsibility to anyone, it should be to a private agency that has something to lose if they fuck up, not to a bureaucracy which will in all likelihood get a budget increase after a major failure.
. If they're going to spend $8 billion just to piss it away by killing ARM's revenue they'd be better served by spending the money to subsidize iPhone sales by cutting the price.
Don't you just hate it when economics debunks a good conspiracy theory? I remember the rumor that McDonald's was adding worms to their burgers getting quashed when someone looked up what worms cost, and how much more expensive they are than beef.
Alcoa dropped the price of aluminum by something around 80% over the time when it was the only supplier in the United States. Carnegie never actually obtained a monopoly, but he came close by dropping the price of steel rails by over 90%. When a monopoly isn't government-enforced, the only way it can maintain its position is by keeping their prices low enough to deter new competitors from entering the market.
"Conspiracy to deprive a person of their civil rights under color of authority". That's good for a ten-year stretch in fort leavenworth, if you can get a federal prosecutor to pursue it.
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I was never in QA. What gave you that idea?
Anyhow, this issue is news to me. If you don't want your Mac to use IPv6, all you have to do is unselect it in the network prefs pane.
-jcr
I would refuse to give my business to a school that attempted this, and if I were already attending a school that adopted this policy, I would refuse to carry anything with an RFID tag in it to any classes I attended.
-jcr
When HP first started making PCs, they were a solid and reliable as HP's computers always had been. They couldn't keep that up though, because once Dell and Gateway started that race to the bottom, all the margin got squeezed out, and it simply became infeasible for a company of HP's size to stay in business making more expensive, higher-quality hardware. HP's machines ran windows, and so did the screwdriver-shop shitboxes, and their performance was comparable for the year or so they'd be in use before they failed.
The same thing happened to DEC and IBM. Rather sad, really.
-jcr
MP/E and HP-UX are what? Chopped Liver?
I have very fond memories of MPE-3. It was the first timesharing system I ever used. I can't remember ever seeing an HP3000 crash in four years of high school, usually running around 100 user sessions.
-jcr
They certainly lost a lot of their power of intimidation when Longhorn cratered. I'd say the Zune debacle was another big blow, because it showed all the companies that jumped on the "Plays for sure" bandwagon that Microsoft would happily toss them under the bus to take another shot at unseating the iPod. Then you've also got their repeated failures to make a decent mobile OS. Seems to me that if I were in the consumer electronics business, I'd be very wary of anything that Microsoft was asking me to participate in.
-jcr
I remember when Microsoft was able to kill a platform like Go Penpoint with just a vaporware announcement.
-jcr
The fee doesn't even apply before you hit 100K units, and then it's about twenty cents per decoder.
-jcr
Compuserve GIF, anyone?
Most of the H.264 patent holders are hardware companies. Apple, Sony, JVC, and so on. What exactly do you think they have to gain from making their products more expensive to pay royalties into the patent pool?
-jcr
Don't be ridiculous. Apple is one of the participants in the H.264 patent pool, and the revenue they get from it isn't even a rounding error. H.264 licensing is extremely cheap, and you don't even pay per decoder before you're over 100K units. The H.264 consortium wants widespread adoption, and they've priced it accordingly.
-jcr
Are you seriously trying to tell me that with an unemployment rate of over 10% nation wide that we need illegals taking americans jobs?
Are you seriously trying to tell me that Americans are lining up for those fruit-picking jobs? Try sending all the mexicans home, you'll see food prices jump 30% in the first week.
-jcr
The local economy would collapse. There's this myth that illegal immigrants loot the welfare system, but the truth is that they're here to work, and we couldn't afford to do without them.
-jcr
And how do you protect a carrier from a cavitating torpedo? You don't. Carriers are as obsolete as manned combat aircraft.
-jcr
can we please stop accepting "fuck off" as acceptable debate discourse? And then cheerfully modding it up?
Fuck, no.
-jcr
Maginot was built to fight WWI technology and tactics. ...and today, we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a navy which is ideally suited to win world war two. A carrier can be sunk with missiles that cost vastly less than even one of its fighter planes.
-jcr
Didn't Intel release manuals for the 8086 months before they shipped the part?
-jcr
A man I worked for many years ago, one of my engineering mentors, told me about a mistake made during World War Two, where a large number of very large castings were discarded because the specification called for a much smaller tolerance on the location of an exhaust port than was actually necessary. As I recall, the spec allowed it to be 1/4" away from its nominal location, but it actually was connected to a flexible hose and it could have been a couple inches off in any direction without causing any problem. This mistake wasn't discovered until several millions of dollars worth of tank bodies had been scrapped and melted down unnecessarily.
-jcr
>If Microsoft wants to get ahead, stop trying to imitate and start innovating.
You realize you're talking about a total shift in their corporate culture, right?
-jcr
Some years ago, I saw a news item on a proposal to flood the sahara by digging a canal through Libya, and powering pretty much all of North Africa and Southern Europe with electricity generated by turbines in the canals. As I recall, it was supposed to drop the world sea level by about a foot or so.
-jcr
>Would this private entity be something like a rating agency?
The model I have in mind is something like the Underwriters' Laboratories, or Consumer Reports. When you're making an investment, you want to be sure that the researcher you hire doesn't stand to gain or lose whether or not you make the investment in question (as opposed to vendors like real estate appraisers who want future business from one of the parties to the transaction.)
-jcr
If you want them to get code written, don't treat them like cattle.
-jcr
By giving people a false sense of security, the SEC keeps people from even making the barest attempt at due diligence before handing over their money to the Bernie Madoffs of the world. If you're going to delegate this responsibility to anyone, it should be to a private agency that has something to lose if they fuck up, not to a bureaucracy which will in all likelihood get a budget increase after a major failure.
-jcr
. If they're going to spend $8 billion just to piss it away by killing ARM's revenue they'd be better served by spending the money to subsidize iPhone sales by cutting the price.
Don't you just hate it when economics debunks a good conspiracy theory? I remember the rumor that McDonald's was adding worms to their burgers getting quashed when someone looked up what worms cost, and how much more expensive they are than beef.
-jcr
Alcoa dropped the price of aluminum by something around 80% over the time when it was the only supplier in the United States. Carnegie never actually obtained a monopoly, but he came close by dropping the price of steel rails by over 90%. When a monopoly isn't government-enforced, the only way it can maintain its position is by keeping their prices low enough to deter new competitors from entering the market.
-jcr
"Conspiracy to deprive a person of their civil rights under color of authority". That's good for a ten-year stretch in fort leavenworth, if you can get a federal prosecutor to pursue it.
-jcr
I wish you were right, but you're not. Roosevelt fucked us over, big time.
-jcr