If you had attended advanced maths classes, you would know that the price is set partly by supply vs demand, and partly by the rate of change of supply and demand - this makes it a differential equation in time, and oscillation is inevitable once the rate of change approaches the actual value. However, most economists are not numerate, in the sense of understanding numbers - they may be able to add and subtract, and in some cases, even multiply and divide, but knowning how numbers behave in a complex plane? No chance.
So - How can you stop boom and bust - the simplest way is to flood the market, and not let anyone know! Good luck with that strategy.
Alternatively, you can try lying a lot, and hoping no one notices (its called communism). Doesn't work very well in practice.
Poverty does not discriminate between those who are educated and those who are not.
Maybe not on your planet, but here on earth, educated people have a much better chance of making money, and people with money are likely to get a better education. People with poor reading skills, or other problems with communication are likely to be on very low incomes all their lives.
I acknowledge that educated people can be poor whether short or long term, but they are not the same boat at all.
I think you will find there is no law against stupidity. In fact, the truly stupid get an award named after a famous scientist - its called the "Darwin Award".
If you use a closed version of what was originally BSD'd code, then you are using closed source code. If you get shafted as a result of the senario you described, then I would expect you to be sacked for terminal stupidity.
Does that mean I would sack any of my employees who use closed source code - yes, if they used it for corporate infrastructure, or had no fall back plan for the code becoming unmaintained.
Why? Because Oracle have burned me three times already.
You don't know how to do use FPGAs for this type of application. Its not like what you are doing. It needs a totally different approach. (I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you).
If you are using Verilog, you are not doing anything right.
You can take C code and compile it into an FPGA, and have been able to do it for more than 7 years. There are at least two perfectly good C comilers available for Xilinx.
These bits you got right: they probably have a very specific application that doesn't change much.
You need a conventional CPU for management.
No - your hotel probably has insanely expensive wifi
at least in the UK, France and Spain, and quite probably other EU countries I have not tried it in,
Broadband over GSM in spain appeared to be so expensive no one bothered to sell a means of providing it, or so it seemed to me last year. Internet cafes are cheap everywhere though - especially if run by Somalians.
the fact that you put "stability" at #1 means you've probably never owned an iPhone
Id bet actual money he has never had a Windows Mobile anything either - it makes jello look stable. And no one who has ever touched a WinCE product would consider letting MS near his/her data ever angain.
And mod down the moron that thinks you can't type anything meaningful in under 30 seconds. Some of us use used the copy of "Learn Typing with Mavis Deacon" we pirated^H^H^H^H^Hbought.
Ford and General Motors - can they co-exist? Even in the face of Korean car manufacturers, with their cheaper product. Obviously its hopeless - consumers won't know what to buy with all this choice. On top of that, there's all that fragmentation in the Ford market - Ka, Fiesta, etc, who will know what they are buying after market parts for?
He is a socialist - he would prefer 1/8 of the 2cm pie, because that would share it out with more people. Even better - shove the pie down the toilet, so we can all be equal!
They failed to mention that it takes a billion lines of COBOL to do what one line of Perl would do. Of course, all COBOL programmers would know what the COBOL does, while only one in a billion Perl programmers would know what the Perl actually does.
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So - How can you stop boom and bust - the simplest way is to flood the market, and not let anyone know! Good luck with that strategy.
Alternatively, you can try lying a lot, and hoping no one notices (its called communism). Doesn't work very well in practice.
Of course being told "that estimate is too long, you need to halve it" has nothing to do with it.
Or maybe http://www.dilbert.com/ where you will find out how the true professionals do it.
The vital point you have missed is that Oracle is "the OpenJDK guys". Yes, once again Oracle screws its customers. Thats what Oracle does.
As soon as you have anything to do with Oracle, you are screwed. Sorry pal, thats how it is!
And its only now you noticed? This has been their policy for years!
Maybe not on your planet, but here on earth, educated people have a much better chance of making money, and people with money are likely to get a better education. People with poor reading skills, or other problems with communication are likely to be on very low incomes all their lives.
I acknowledge that educated people can be poor whether short or long term, but they are not the same boat at all.
I think you will find there is no law against stupidity. In fact, the truly stupid get an award named after a famous scientist - its called the "Darwin Award".
People can be productive using Windows? It all depends what you mean by "productive".
After my experiences, I would definitely fire anyone who spec'd Oracle products for anything.
As opposed to retraining when Windows completely changes?
Is that you Bill?
You might want to google "bread, circuses and Rome"
Does that mean I would sack any of my employees who use closed source code - yes, if they used it for corporate infrastructure, or had no fall back plan for the code becoming unmaintained.
Why? Because Oracle have burned me three times already.
Mod parent up.
If you are using Verilog, you are not doing anything right.
You can take C code and compile it into an FPGA, and have been able to do it for more than 7 years. There are at least two perfectly good C comilers available for Xilinx.
These bits you got right: they probably have a very specific application that doesn't change much. You need a conventional CPU for management.
No - your hotel probably has insanely expensive wifi at least in the UK, France and Spain, and quite probably other EU countries I have not tried it in,
Broadband over GSM in spain appeared to be so expensive no one bothered to sell a means of providing it, or so it seemed to me last year. Internet cafes are cheap everywhere though - especially if run by Somalians.
Id bet actual money he has never had a Windows Mobile anything either - it makes jello look stable. And no one who has ever touched a WinCE product would consider letting MS near his/her data ever angain.
Yeah, That will outsell Android, with its robots.
I would short Nokia, but I already did.
I hate MS because of what they have done to me with DOS1.0 and ever since.
I would probably hate Apple if they did the same to me, but since I can't afford their kit, they have not had a chance.
I hate Oracle a whole lot more because they did me worse.
My HTC Android phone seems to work fine now it has Cyanogen mod on it and not the carrier's software.
In tests, Bing search results were quicker, but Google searches returned relevant information
And mod down the moron that thinks you can't type anything meaningful in under 30 seconds. Some of us use used the copy of "Learn Typing with Mavis Deacon" we pirated^H^H^H^H^Hbought.
Then, in my book, you are mentally unfit to drive at any time, as you are clearly incapable of appropriately assessing risks.
I would ban the use of phones, but permit hands-free (where phone is in dock or similar, not on lap or falling about the palce, loose).
We are all doomed to return to the horse-buggy!
He is a socialist - he would prefer 1/8 of the 2cm pie, because that would share it out with more people. Even better - shove the pie down the toilet, so we can all be equal!
They failed to mention that it takes a billion lines of COBOL to do what one line of Perl would do. Of course, all COBOL programmers would know what the COBOL does, while only one in a billion Perl programmers would know what the Perl actually does.