I also believe there is a decent chance that climate change is not caused by humanity. But I also believe the consequences are so severe that we should at least devote 5-10% of the world's GDP towards preventative measures to hedge the risk
My objection to your proposal, is that when you demand a tithe, you increase the power of the state. Don't forget that the most egregious polluters are usually state enterprises.
I get rather sick of skeptics being tagged as "deniers". By doing so, you're 1) trivializing the holocaust and 2) claiming a certainty that never exists in science, only in politics.
Lowering interest rates. Which, in the long run, creates inflation.
Let's be clear on this: inflation is the increase in the money supply. A general rise in prices is the eventual result of inflation. By pretending that increased prices are inflation, the Fed deceives the public and distracts us.
That's a great way to prepare them for the real world, isn't it, where corporate computers are locked down pretty hard.
In my career (since 1982), there have only been two places I've worked where the computers were "locked down", and these restrictions were trivially bypassed. There were policies in effect at these companies, including one where you supposedly had to apply to your manager for permission to access each indivdual web site. In practice, it took about two or three days before any new employee or contractor was told the IP number of the unrestricted proxy.
I'll never forget that "world shortage of glass" line they gave me as an excuse for my monitors being delayed. They were flatpanels.
I don't think they were lying to you. I recall hearing about a fire a couple of years ago at some plant in Japan that specialized in glass for LCD substrates. It affected Samsung and Matsushita.
When I realize how many employees at Apple, Adobe, Canon, and hundreds of other vendors are forced to skip Christmas vacation every year to get products and show displays ready
When I was at Apple, we shut down between Christmas and New Year's day, and most of us who had anything to do for MWSF made sure we were ready well in advance.
More like, trade shows aren't cost-effective anymore, and Apple was also getting pretty tired of someone else's schedule driving the timing of their product introductions.
I for one, don't expect anything amazing this year.
I do. I just don't expect them to happen only at MacWorld or WWDC.
That's why I've never like the term "faithless" elector. The way the electoral college is supposed to work, is that we should know who our electors are, and they should be people we trust to make the best choice they can.
Apple has shown the world that customers do care about quality
One lesson I take from Apple, Snap-on, Vice Grip and Virgin, (just to name a few that spring to mind), is that no matter how crowded a market is, you can still compete with higher quality instead of lower pricing.
Middle management has no clue how to foster innovation.
That may be true of a majority of middle managers, but that's an awful lot of people to be dismissing in one shot. I'd say it's not so much middle management in particular, but the attitude of senior management that determines whether an organization will promote or inhibit innovation.
Motorola used to be a place where innovation was the way to get ahead. Pity how that company degenerated since the days when they invented the cellular system.
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Isn't water vapor one of the biggest greenhouse gasses?
Not just "one of the biggest", it's far and away the biggest.
The scheme that TFA proposes is absurd on its face. It would be cheaper to just paint New Mexico white.
-jcr
What's the win here? He's capacitively coupling the transmitter to its antenna, or what?
-jcr
I'll never do another conference here...
The unions have always been one of the worst parts of being a trade show exhibitor.
-jcr
I also believe there is a decent chance that climate change is not caused by humanity. But I also believe the consequences are so severe that we should at least devote 5-10% of the world's GDP towards preventative measures to hedge the risk
My objection to your proposal, is that when you demand a tithe, you increase the power of the state. Don't forget that the most egregious polluters are usually state enterprises.
-jcr
climate change deniers
I get rather sick of skeptics being tagged as "deniers". By doing so, you're 1) trivializing the holocaust and 2) claiming a certainty that never exists in science, only in politics.
-jcr
Lowering interest rates. Which, in the long run, creates inflation.
Let's be clear on this: inflation is the increase in the money supply. A general rise in prices is the eventual result of inflation. By pretending that increased prices are inflation, the Fed deceives the public and distracts us.
-jcr
. I *like* having inflation stay in the single digits.
Too late. Look up what Bernanke's been doing since he got the job.
-jcr
Without your tax dollars, all that stuff that the military, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc., do wouldn't happen.
Either that, or they'd just have the Federal Reserve edit a number in government account and create all the "money" they could want out of thin air.
The current bailouts have rendered taxation by direct collection pretty much irrelevant. They're taking far more from us by debasing the currency.
-jcr
Sounds dangerous as hell to me. It's a lot tougher to tow a submarine back to port if it's underwater and descending when it crashes.
-jcr
That's a great way to prepare them for the real world, isn't it, where corporate computers are locked down pretty hard.
In my career (since 1982), there have only been two places I've worked where the computers were "locked down", and these restrictions were trivially bypassed. There were policies in effect at these companies, including one where you supposedly had to apply to your manager for permission to access each indivdual web site. In practice, it took about two or three days before any new employee or contractor was told the IP number of the unrestricted proxy.
-jcr
I'll never forget that "world shortage of glass" line they gave me as an excuse for my monitors being delayed. They were flatpanels.
I don't think they were lying to you. I recall hearing about a fire a couple of years ago at some plant in Japan that specialized in glass for LCD substrates. It affected Samsung and Matsushita.
-jcr
care to guess which team this AC is on?
Sure, but I wouldn't post my guess on /. Don't want to get anyone in hot water.
-jcr
as a Unix admin, there is almost nothing there for me anymore.
There's a pretty good sysadmin track at WWDC these days, I hear. Not my bailiwick, so I haven't been to those sessions, though.
-jcr
When I realize how many employees at Apple, Adobe, Canon, and hundreds of other vendors are forced to skip Christmas vacation every year to get products and show displays ready
When I was at Apple, we shut down between Christmas and New Year's day, and most of us who had anything to do for MWSF made sure we were ready well in advance.
-jcr
Hmm. Most people would also want coffee to brew in it, but to each his own, I guess.
-jcr
I think a lot of investors would be OK with Steve Ballmer keeling over.
Remember how HP's shares jumped when they threw Carlie over the side?
If I could get a tip from Ballmer's cardiologist, I just might buy some MSFT calls.
-jcr
they want absolute control
More like, trade shows aren't cost-effective anymore, and Apple was also getting pretty tired of someone else's schedule driving the timing of their product introductions.
I for one, don't expect anything amazing this year.
I do. I just don't expect them to happen only at MacWorld or WWDC.
-jcr
Yep, that pretty much covers it. I'd mod you up if I had the points.
-jcr
presumably you meant "Vise Grip"
I did, yes. I occasionally use British spelling accidentally.
-jcr
Oh yea, it's called "checks and balances."
Now if there was just some way to make the congress actually step up and assert the power it has instead of shirking it...
-jcr
after 2004, some of us have a lot of doubt about democracy
What took you so long?
-jcr
he could not in good conscience vote for Nixon.
That's why I've never like the term "faithless" elector. The way the electoral college is supposed to work, is that we should know who our electors are, and they should be people we trust to make the best choice they can.
-jcr
iPhone sells due to marketing.
The key to Apple marketing is the quality of the product.
-jcr
Apple has shown the world that customers do care about quality
One lesson I take from Apple, Snap-on, Vice Grip and Virgin, (just to name a few that spring to mind), is that no matter how crowded a market is, you can still compete with higher quality instead of lower pricing.
-jcr
Middle management has no clue how to foster innovation.
That may be true of a majority of middle managers, but that's an awful lot of people to be dismissing in one shot. I'd say it's not so much middle management in particular, but the attitude of senior management that determines whether an organization will promote or inhibit innovation.
Motorola used to be a place where innovation was the way to get ahead. Pity how that company degenerated since the days when they invented the cellular system.
-jcr