It's not inconcievable I could be charged a dollar a day, $365 per year. Can I afford that? And how about the stuff which charges whole cents per pageview, such as maybe news sites?
People recognize instinctively that small stuff adds up, and that small stuff for which you can't easily do the math in your head will wind up biting you.
...but I could summarize my response as: the very things you mention are often enough handled privately, successfully, right now. This is not atypical.
As a Libertarian, I don't support tax funded anything, and that includes weather measuring.
But, also as a libertarian, I find it daft to deliberately block people who know stuff from telling it, so as to "create a market". Trade is a way to mitigate the unpleasant fact that some things in life aren't free. In aggregate it efficiently allocates resources and effort towards making things cheaper, ie: approaching closer to free.
When things actually are free for the taking, "creating a market" isn't efficient, it's wasteful. It's directly analogous to going around with a sack of rocks, "creating a market" for glaziers.
PS: this is also why copyrights and patents are a bad idea...
security loss: - passwords and sensitive data will persist in/proc/kcore indefinitely - powering down the machine will no longer prevent people snooping what you were doing beforehand - I encrypt my swap. It would be a bitch to have to encrypt most of my RAM as well.
stability loss: - any sort of "instant on" would be vulnerable to "repeating the mistake" - any sort of "instant on" would be a virus writer's wet dream. - it's a whole lot quicker and easier for a runaway process to overwrite and erase all the nvram, than to overwrite all the data on the hard disk.
It's a.txt file, it's not going to get slashdotted, it's not going to get taken down or altered in situ. So why the heck are you posting the whole durned thing into the comments section?
Hard vacuum is only one negative atmosphere of relative pressure, 14.7 psi. A small leak would be loud but manageable. Explosive decompression could only happen through a large hole.
Sure you can turn C++ into Java, after all that's how the thing's made, it's compiled from C or whatever. The test is how the standard language fares. Thus eg, using gjc to "enchance" the java by precompiling it would be cheating too.
Inflatable soft structures might not be such a dumb idea. A stray counter-orbiting bolt that would blow a hole the size of a dinner plate into ISS, would punch two small neat bolt-shaped holes through a soft structure and keep going. Rubber cement, a couple patches, repressurize from storage tanks, problem solved.
C++ is lame, so, for the race to be fair, Java has to have one leg strapped behind its back? Rubbish. Java CG is supposed to defer memory stuff into efficient rare operations rather than faffing about with allocation and deallocation in the antique manual style of C.
"Folder structure should be simple and as shallow as possible", what utter rot. Folder structure is a matter of individual preference, and in practise when you're organizing a squillion files, it's semantically useful to build n-levels-deep categorizations. Imagine a person with several thousand PDFs - a variety of language manuals, specific program manuals, tutorials, misc textbooks, howtos, ebooks both fiction and non... and they all sit scrambled together in a "my PDFs" folder. My ass, more like. Stupid prescriptive halfbaked interface nazis. You kiss your gnome browser's ass, and I'll use konqueror in tree mode.
...would be disconnected operation. Neither machine would need to be networked. Networking isn't always trivial, try getting HTTP data off a machine behind a seperate NAT, or down a congested line.
The idea of requiring connectivity to a shared "pen manager server" and unique IDs on all pens, is so much more complex and messy than just sticking the data in flash inside the pen. Their solution is worse than this "mistaken assumption".
Leave the links, edit the text to read something like "worthless scumbag, scamming git, googlebomb, please die, low quality, boring" - and lock the page.
...the latching shift-lock that some early-80s home computers had? If you pressed it, it literally latched down until you pressed it again, and it behaved exactly like a held shift key. Now that would be infinitely more useful, both for the ability to physically feel it latch down (and thus avoid accidental pressing) and for the fact it affects more than just cap letters, it affects anything shifted.
Oh, oops, I just gave away my location to everyone not wearing night-vision specs, owing to lighting up a literal spotlight in a darkened theater in the middle of a movie...
You do realize, that by rigging the price, you'll simply make it uneconomic to broadcast anime at all? The market may be depressed, but your "reform" would "help" it like a bullet to the head.
That is by the way exactly the same as what minimum-wage laws (and other imposed expenses of employee hiring) do. They set a cutoff, below which it's simply not profitable to employ someone.
The laws of the market are as unbreakable as the laws of physics.
Slashdot Mirror
...that's the get-out for brunettes. Put the box on its side.
...a slightly more advanced version of writing "other side up" on both ends of a box.
Suppose I'm charged $0.005 per pageview.
It's not inconcievable I could be charged a dollar a day, $365 per year. Can I afford that? And how about the stuff which charges whole cents per pageview, such as maybe news sites?
People recognize instinctively that small stuff adds up, and that small stuff for which you can't easily do the math in your head will wind up biting you.
This is why micropayments are DOA.
We even call it that.
...but I could summarize my response as: the very things you mention are often enough handled privately, successfully, right now. This is not atypical.
As a Libertarian, I don't support tax funded anything, and that includes weather measuring.
But, also as a libertarian, I find it daft to deliberately block people who know stuff from telling it, so as to "create a market". Trade is a way to mitigate the unpleasant fact that some things in life aren't free. In aggregate it efficiently allocates resources and effort towards making things cheaper, ie: approaching closer to free.
When things actually are free for the taking, "creating a market" isn't efficient, it's wasteful. It's directly analogous to going around with a sack of rocks, "creating a market" for glaziers.
PS: this is also why copyrights and patents are a bad idea...
security loss: /proc/kcore indefinitely
- passwords and sensitive data will persist in
- powering down the machine will no longer prevent people snooping what you were doing beforehand
- I encrypt my swap. It would be a bitch to have to encrypt most of my RAM as well.
stability loss:
- any sort of "instant on" would be vulnerable to "repeating the mistake"
- any sort of "instant on" would be a virus writer's wet dream.
- it's a whole lot quicker and easier for a runaway process to overwrite and erase all the nvram, than to overwrite all the data on the hard disk.
...but they won't be the same as uses for RAM or for hard disk.
Using it for RAM would be silly - RAM is supposed to be transient, keeping it around would be a security and stability loss.
Using it for hard disk would be silly - the price per megabyte would be ridiculous unless you're doing stock-market data crunching or some such.
Some uses I can immediately see for it:
- boot the OS, and save a snapshot for an instant reboot
- use it to store persistent caches of binaries, libraries, etc
- use it for filesystem and database journals
- do RAID4 and use it to hold the parity volume
"intentionally and without authorization OR ..."
Sounds like the guy has a case. The only iffy point would be: does inserting a CD count as authorization?
It's a .txt file, it's not going to get slashdotted, it's not going to get taken down or altered in situ. So why the heck are you posting the whole durned thing into the comments section?
...is between being "a major player", and owning the game.
Hard vacuum is only one negative atmosphere of relative pressure, 14.7 psi. A small leak would be loud but manageable. Explosive decompression could only happen through a large hole.
Sure you can turn C++ into Java, after all that's how the thing's made, it's compiled from C or whatever. The test is how the standard language fares. Thus eg, using gjc to "enchance" the java by precompiling it would be cheating too.
Inflatable soft structures might not be such a dumb idea. A stray counter-orbiting bolt that would blow a hole the size of a dinner plate into ISS, would punch two small neat bolt-shaped holes through a soft structure and keep going. Rubber cement, a couple patches, repressurize from storage tanks, problem solved.
C++ is lame, so, for the race to be fair, Java has to have one leg strapped behind its back? Rubbish. Java CG is supposed to defer memory stuff into efficient rare operations rather than faffing about with allocation and deallocation in the antique manual style of C.
You want a good modern BBS, this looks like it could be a good tool for the task:
TikiWiki
"Folder structure should be simple and as shallow as possible", what utter rot. Folder structure is a matter of individual preference, and in practise when you're organizing a squillion files, it's semantically useful to build n-levels-deep categorizations. Imagine a person with several thousand PDFs - a variety of language manuals, specific program manuals, tutorials, misc textbooks, howtos, ebooks both fiction and non... and they all sit scrambled together in a "my PDFs" folder. My ass, more like. Stupid prescriptive halfbaked interface nazis. You kiss your gnome browser's ass, and I'll use konqueror in tree mode.
...would be disconnected operation. Neither machine would need to be networked. Networking isn't always trivial, try getting HTTP data off a machine behind a seperate NAT, or down a congested line.
The idea of requiring connectivity to a shared "pen manager server" and unique IDs on all pens, is so much more complex and messy than just sticking the data in flash inside the pen. Their solution is worse than this "mistaken assumption".
Right now, phones pay for broadband.
Once the public gets seriously into VOIP, which they will, phones are going byebye. So broadband will have to pay for itself.
Only sensible, really.
Leave the links, edit the text to read something like "worthless scumbag, scamming git, googlebomb, please die, low quality, boring" - and lock the page.
...the latching shift-lock that some early-80s home computers had? If you pressed it, it literally latched down until you pressed it again, and it behaved exactly like a held shift key. Now that would be infinitely more useful, both for the ability to physically feel it latch down (and thus avoid accidental pressing) and for the fact it affects more than just cap letters, it affects anything shifted.
Is it just me or is Ogg becoming quite popular - as a movie format? I've seen lots of .ogm files on Suprnova.
Hah, blinded the attendant!
Oh, oops, I just gave away my location to everyone not wearing night-vision specs, owing to lighting up a literal spotlight in a darkened theater in the middle of a movie...
You do realize, that by rigging the price, you'll simply make it uneconomic to broadcast anime at all? The market may be depressed, but your "reform" would "help" it like a bullet to the head.
That is by the way exactly the same as what minimum-wage laws (and other imposed expenses of employee hiring) do. They set a cutoff, below which it's simply not profitable to employ someone.
The laws of the market are as unbreakable as the laws of physics.