It's called communism and although not pure in form, it was used in the USSR between about 1910 and 1989. The USSR, as you may know, dissolved in 1989 due to its inability to keep pace with a (mostly) free market economy, that of the United States.
What about China? They seem to be doing extremely well.
Anyway that really wasn't your point here. If people can't patent things (like AIDS medication) they will not invent it because they will never recoup their R&D costs if it is to be just given away or "legally pirated"...
They'll recoup their costs if the government pays them. Right now, the government pays out hundreds of millions for cures for rare diseases which would never recoup their costs because too few people need them.
It costs just as much to develop a drug for a disease that only affects a few thousand people as it does for heart disease and cancer. Tax money could easily fund research on those diseases as well.
It would cost a lot, but the difference is that we're all paying for it with health insurance premiums and drug costs.
Which is why we should tariff the import of intellectual property. Businesses want their intellectual property protected just as if it were actual physical property (DMCA, copyright law, patent law, etc), but they import intellectual property in the form of code, legal advice, chemical formulas, genetics research, etc, into the country without paying any value-based tariff.
In general, I would oppose this. In fact, the vast majority of goods from Canada, Mexico, China, Japan, and many others (basically most of the first world) are not tariffed Free trade reins supreme. So tariffs are outmoded anyway. Why do you think France and the rest of the EU were able to sue us, and win, over Bush's steel tariffs?
But, an important thing to remember is that Americans have to pay taxes on the income they make from their employers, but outsourced workers do not. I mean they may need to pay local taxes, but those are probably a lot less.
So what we end up with is a reverse tariff. The federal government is actually charging people to hire Americans over other workers. Even if people in other countries demanded the same wages as Americans, they would still be a cheaper option for US companies to hire.
I think we should get rid of income tax and replace it with a 'service tax' that the employer pays regardless of how the work is done or by whome.
I see one major problem with this, which is that Spammers might now be able to cause problems for legitimate websites simply by including their URL in the a Spam.
I'm a little sensitive to this since a spammer is actually Jo-jobbing one of my domains (not autopr0n), and I get hundreds of "user unknown" messages every day, along with a handful of messages telling me "my" email was blocked. It's really irritating.
But, if it's done right, it could work out pretty well. In fact, this would actually be effective against a lot of the current Spam out there, and kill Spam with off-site images.
Anyway, let me throw one countermeasure out there. Suppose spammers start including commonly mailed URLs (such as those on hotornot, yahoo, etc) in their spams in order to decrease the usefulness of these things. If this thing gets popular, expect to see a lot of Spam include a lot of random URLs the way they now include lots of random words. You'll also start to see things like "Javascript decryption" and other techniques to prevent machines from figuring out which, exactly, URL it is that is being advertised, rather then random noise.
I belive that CDs are actualy made by pounding the metal into shape, and this technology would be used for making the tiny nubs which define the shape of the output CD.
I've taken about 5gb of pictures so far this year. No not porn (unforunetly:P), just snapping random pictures.
If I had a video camera, I'm sure I'd want a lot more space. But I agree. "1-2 gigs" is a lot. About twice as much as my first hard drive, and more then enough to install linux.
I can go out and buy a 256mb memory stick today for $100 or so, or get a solid-state Mp3 player with 4gb of capacity for $250 (I forget what it was, but not the mini iPod, which uses a hard drive).
In any event, non-solid state memory is always going to be a lot cheaper.
Who uses IE for the mac anyway?
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My Sony tuner from 1998 or so uses a wheel based interface for controling most of its digital features (everything that dosn't have a dedicated button). And that's a "music player".
Apple has made no false claims... The G5 is claimed to be the worlds first 64 bit Desktop . Common arguments such as "Sun was there first!" or "Alpha has been around..." are not accurate, since both of those product lines were marketed as servers or workstations . A workstation is not the same as a Desktop PC, at least as far as marketing is concerned.
"We only said we had the fastest car!! Clearly that thing over there was the fastest automobile"
If a computer can fit on a desk, it's a desktop. That's all it means. "Workstation" is a marketing term used for some desktops.
Anyway. You can twist the language all you want and make obnoxious little claims all day. The fact is, Apple intended to convey the idea that they were the first 64 bit computer, the fastest computer, that you could buy and put on a desk and use to play games/develop software/make websites/desktop publish/etc/etc/etc. In other words what a "PC" can do. That was not true.
The price for the dell cluster was the price for the entire "center", of which the computers were only a small part. We're talking about the cost of the building, salaries for hundreds of people, etc. Hardly comparable.
Absolutely not! Would you ask Porsche to fight for market share with Honda and use cheap, generic components? After all, a car is a car.
You could probably make the claim that Apple is like Porsche, and Dell is like ford.
But compare a new Porsche 900 series with a Ford 2k4 ford GT. The GT will kick it's ass, and cost less money. There is a perception that "Porsche == good, ford == crap" but that isn't true in all cases. It's just market perception held by people who don't research things as carefully as they could. The fact is, Apple isn't perfect. And the "apple touch" is as much about marketing as anything else.
Wow, I think it's hilarious how all these apple zealots, after hearing this add campaign have suddenly started acting like there's a huge difference between a "PC" and a "Workstation". The terms are interchangeable, really, and most of the time the designation a machine goes by means nothing more then what target market the maker was going after. I do know lots of people who ran Windows NT 4 on their PCs (and lots of people who ran 2000/2003 server on their desktops).
Hell, an alpha muta is a lot smaller in physical size then a G5 tower.
And let's not forget Windows CE, and the 64 bit PDAs running on MIPS chips out there. Those are certanly "personal computers."
But seriously, if Dells are faster, and cheaper...why didn't Va Tech use those instead? They didn't get a deal from Apple you know...they bought them all right through the online Apple store.
Actually, they had been looking not just at Intel, but Dell specifically, but Apple gave them a better deal. A deal you probably wouldn't be able to get. VT may also have liked the internal 1gb ethernet, and other features that make remote management easier. (assuming they have any, I dunno).
Trying to see whether an ad campaign has succeeded or failed based on the number of sales versus what was predicted in a given quarter is kind of like trying to infer causal effects for a graph showing correlation between two independently measured variables with no other data--a big mistake.
In other news. Using a cellphone out of range is kind of like using an undirected radio transmitter somewhere such that the broadcast power over the distance r cubed is less then what's needed to detect the signal at the reciver.
Also, taking a digital picture is like using millions of CCD sensors to mesure the light hitting various points on a Chip, and recording that as pixle data on a CCD.
Finaly, commenting on slashdot is kind of like sending an HTTP post message filled with erm, information, at a server which will take that data and store it in a MySQL database.
Global organizations, especially those dominated by third-countries (or soon to be third-world countries like France), are notorious for using the fascade of internationalism as a mask for the pursuit of their own selfish interests.
Do you even know what 'third-world' means? How is france becomming third-world? Because they don't support Bush?
I'm sorry. If you do a million dollar deal, and a month later 'regret it', it's definitely not a good think if you own stock in the company. At this point, it wouldn't surprise me to see this guy canned. He fucked up big.
And on top of that, he can barely spell (if you read his posts in the forum) and is to lazy to spellcheck.
The reason those people like this ruling is because they see it as the US getting it's comeuppance. The US pushed for these laws, and now they're getting fux0red by them, as they should.
Personaly, I'm all for this because I think it would be fun to setup an online casino.
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It's called communism and although not pure in form, it was used in the USSR between about 1910 and 1989. The USSR, as you may know, dissolved in 1989 due to its inability to keep pace with a (mostly) free market economy, that of the United States.
What about China? They seem to be doing extremely well.
Anyway that really wasn't your point here. If people can't patent things (like AIDS medication) they will not invent it because they will never recoup their R&D costs if it is to be just given away or "legally pirated"...
They'll recoup their costs if the government pays them. Right now, the government pays out hundreds of millions for cures for rare diseases which would never recoup their costs because too few people need them.
It costs just as much to develop a drug for a disease that only affects a few thousand people as it does for heart disease and cancer. Tax money could easily fund research on those diseases as well.
It would cost a lot, but the difference is that we're all paying for it with health insurance premiums and drug costs.
Which is why we should tariff the import of intellectual property. Businesses want their intellectual property protected just as if it were actual physical property (DMCA, copyright law, patent law, etc), but they import intellectual property in the form of code, legal advice, chemical formulas, genetics research, etc, into the country without paying any value-based tariff.
In general, I would oppose this. In fact, the vast majority of goods from Canada, Mexico, China, Japan, and many others (basically most of the first world) are not tariffed Free trade reins supreme. So tariffs are outmoded anyway. Why do you think France and the rest of the EU were able to sue us, and win, over Bush's steel tariffs?
But, an important thing to remember is that Americans have to pay taxes on the income they make from their employers, but outsourced workers do not. I mean they may need to pay local taxes, but those are probably a lot less.
So what we end up with is a reverse tariff. The federal government is actually charging people to hire Americans over other workers. Even if people in other countries demanded the same wages as Americans, they would still be a cheaper option for US companies to hire.
I think we should get rid of income tax and replace it with a 'service tax' that the employer pays regardless of how the work is done or by whome.
I see one major problem with this, which is that Spammers might now be able to cause problems for legitimate websites simply by including their URL in the a Spam.
I'm a little sensitive to this since a spammer is actually Jo-jobbing one of my domains (not autopr0n), and I get hundreds of "user unknown" messages every day, along with a handful of messages telling me "my" email was blocked. It's really irritating.
But, if it's done right, it could work out pretty well. In fact, this would actually be effective against a lot of the current Spam out there, and kill Spam with off-site images.
Anyway, let me throw one countermeasure out there. Suppose spammers start including commonly mailed URLs (such as those on hotornot, yahoo, etc) in their spams in order to decrease the usefulness of these things. If this thing gets popular, expect to see a lot of Spam include a lot of random URLs the way they now include lots of random words. You'll also start to see things like "Javascript decryption" and other techniques to prevent machines from figuring out which, exactly, URL it is that is being advertised, rather then random noise.
I belive that CDs are actualy made by pounding the metal into shape, and this technology would be used for making the tiny nubs which define the shape of the output CD.
This tech is just another way of pressing CDs and other optical media, including Blu-ray disks, up to 50gb/disk.
This technology is going to be used to press blu-ray DVDs and other high-end optical formats, which will then be read by a laser.
I've taken about 5gb of pictures so far this year. No not porn (unforunetly :P), just snapping random pictures.
If I had a video camera, I'm sure I'd want a lot more space. But I agree. "1-2 gigs" is a lot. About twice as much as my first hard drive, and more then enough to install linux.
I can go out and buy a 256mb memory stick today for $100 or so, or get a solid-state Mp3 player with 4gb of capacity for $250 (I forget what it was, but not the mini iPod, which uses a hard drive).
In any event, non-solid state memory is always going to be a lot cheaper.
IEs CSS on PC works extreemly well.
.. he runs a porn site. he doesn't need to think.
Care to elaborate?
My Sony tuner from 1998 or so uses a wheel based interface for controling most of its digital features (everything that dosn't have a dedicated button). And that's a "music player".
Seriously lame.
Apple has made no false claims... The G5 is claimed to be the worlds first 64 bit Desktop . Common arguments such as "Sun was there first!" or "Alpha has been around..." are not accurate, since both of those product lines were marketed as servers or workstations . A workstation is not the same as a Desktop PC, at least as far as marketing is concerned.
"We only said we had the fastest car!! Clearly that thing over there was the fastest automobile"
If a computer can fit on a desk, it's a desktop. That's all it means. "Workstation" is a marketing term used for some desktops.
Anyway. You can twist the language all you want and make obnoxious little claims all day. The fact is, Apple intended to convey the idea that they were the first 64 bit computer, the fastest computer, that you could buy and put on a desk and use to play games/develop software/make websites/desktop publish/etc/etc/etc. In other words what a "PC" can do. That was not true.
The price for the dell cluster was the price for the entire "center", of which the computers were only a small part. We're talking about the cost of the building, salaries for hundreds of people, etc. Hardly comparable.
Absolutely not! Would you ask Porsche to fight for market share with Honda and use cheap, generic components? After all, a car is a car.
You could probably make the claim that Apple is like Porsche, and Dell is like ford.
But compare a new Porsche 900 series with a Ford 2k4 ford GT. The GT will kick it's ass, and cost less money. There is a perception that "Porsche == good, ford == crap" but that isn't true in all cases. It's just market perception held by people who don't research things as carefully as they could. The fact is, Apple isn't perfect. And the "apple touch" is as much about marketing as anything else.
Which one will be in the top 5?
Both of them, dumbass.
Wow, I think it's hilarious how all these apple zealots, after hearing this add campaign have suddenly started acting like there's a huge difference between a "PC" and a "Workstation". The terms are interchangeable, really, and most of the time the designation a machine goes by means nothing more then what target market the maker was going after. I do know lots of people who ran Windows NT 4 on their PCs (and lots of people who ran 2000/2003 server on their desktops).
Hell, an alpha muta is a lot smaller in physical size then a G5 tower.
And let's not forget Windows CE, and the 64 bit PDAs running on MIPS chips out there. Those are certanly "personal computers."
Yeah, because Intel's new chips really speed up your internet downloads...
Well, Centrino chips do have built in Wifi now.
But seriously, if Dells are faster, and cheaper...why didn't Va Tech use those instead? They didn't get a deal from Apple you know...they bought them all right through the online Apple store.
Actually, they had been looking not just at Intel, but Dell specifically, but Apple gave them a better deal. A deal you probably wouldn't be able to get. VT may also have liked the internal 1gb ethernet, and other features that make remote management easier. (assuming they have any, I dunno).
Trying to see whether an ad campaign has succeeded or failed based on the number of sales versus what was predicted in a given quarter is kind of like trying to infer causal effects for a graph showing correlation between two independently measured variables with no other data--a big mistake.
In other news. Using a cellphone out of range is kind of like using an undirected radio transmitter somewhere such that the broadcast power over the distance r cubed is less then what's needed to detect the signal at the reciver.
Also, taking a digital picture is like using millions of CCD sensors to mesure the light hitting various points on a Chip, and recording that as pixle data on a CCD.
Finaly, commenting on slashdot is kind of like sending an HTTP post message filled with erm, information, at a server which will take that data and store it in a MySQL database.
Global organizations, especially those dominated by third-countries (or soon to be third-world countries like France), are notorious for using the fascade of internationalism as a mask for the pursuit of their own selfish interests.
Do you even know what 'third-world' means? How is france becomming third-world? Because they don't support Bush?
Why didn't you take your business elsewhere when you found out this was an MS shop? Didn't you do your research before you chose a hosting solution?
They provide both Windows and Linux hosting, and supposedly they do pretty well at both.
I'm sorry. If you do a million dollar deal, and a month later 'regret it', it's definitely not a good think if you own stock in the company. At this point, it wouldn't surprise me to see this guy canned. He fucked up big.
And on top of that, he can barely spell (if you read his posts in the forum) and is to lazy to spellcheck.
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The reason those people like this ruling is because they see it as the US getting it's comeuppance. The US pushed for these laws, and now they're getting fux0red by them, as they should.
Personaly, I'm all for this because I think it would be fun to setup an online casino.