Remember the transportation bill passed by Congress just after the Republicans won control of the House and Senate in 1994? Largest transportation expenditure ever passed and full of more pork than the Democrats had ever attempted.
Democrats: Tax More and Spend More.
Republicans: Cut Taxes and Still Spend More.
The Republican philosophy just means that its your children who will have to be taxed for your profligate ways. I'm not convinced that either party has a viable philosophy.
I remember driving through CT a few years ago when they were working on the Interstate Hwy. They had a Getsapo^h^h^h^h^h^h^h State Trooper posted every 1/2 mile to keep the speed of the traffic down to a resonable level in the construction zone. They must have had 9/10s of the state cops standing by their cars on the Interstate. Funny thing was, the traffic wasn't moving any faster than 35 MPH anyway due to the density of the traffic and construction itself. If CT's Troopers are Gestapo, I wouldn't worry too much 'cause they must be the most inefficient bunch of cops around.
When do you post the new privacy policy? Rumor has it that you'll be using Passport for user logins and giving our email addresses to Cantor and company in exchange for Green Cards for some of the slashstaff.
That's what monopolies do, maximise the difference between marginal revenue and marginal cost.
Er, not quite. All companies seek to hit the spot where MR = MC. Why? If I sell one more unit, the extra revenue (MR) is more than the extra cost (MC). That's called profit. Its true for a monopolist as well as for a company in a competetive market. So how does a monopolist differ from a company in a competetive situation? For the individual company in a competetive market, MR (dR/dQ where Q is the Quantity sold) is constant since they face a linear demand curve for their individual share of the total demand supplied by all companies in the market. The monopolist, on the other hand, faces a negatively-sloped market demand curve. So dR/dQ is negative. Each extra unit sold brings in less revenue than the previous unit. I'll leave it as an exercise for the student to show that the Q sold by a monopolist is less than the quantity sold by the sum of the companies in a competetive market. By MR = MC for both.
Thawte requires that you send them your Social Security Number, Passport Number, Drivers License Number or other ID number depending on your home country. This bothers me that my SSN is required to get a personal cert from Thawte. My SSN is already used in too many places.
Let me propose a different scheme. Suppose I printed out an application from a cert seller and took the application to my bank where I presented my ID and had my signature notorized. For extra protection, I could take the notorized page to my local or state government and have the local government provide certified proof that the notory is a legal notory in that jurisdiction (my wife and I had to do this recently for an international adoption). Now I return the application via snail mail (perhaps certified mail) and the cert seller issues me a certificate. The cert seller is protected since they have my notorized signature on file. And now there is no need for them to even know my government ID number.
Thanks for the info. I do regard the OO behavior as a bug and not a feature. The reason that I never thought about this with Netscape is that I start Netscape Navigator and then pick Messenger from the menu so it sorta made sense that exit quits all (at least I adjusted to it). But I've always started OO apps seperately so exit killing all seemed wierd. For an office app like a word editor where I can have multiple docs open but they show up in a single window, close should offer to save and kill the current doc, not the entire app. Exit should save/kill the app, not the entire suite of apps. Netscape close isn't broken this way since there is a one-to-one correspondence between a window and a document. But Netscape exit could be considered broken depending on whether you view Netscape as a single app or a suite of related apps. Yeah, I'll file a bug report just to stir the pot a little.
I'm using a 641 build of OO. It claims to have done away with the monolithic interface. But when I start calc and writer as seperate apps, if I exit one, it exits all of the office apps. So it looks to me as if they have only removed the single startup. How about removing the single exit feature as well?
Agreed. My wife and I were in India in Oct/Nov of last year. (Detroit -> Amsterdam -> Mumbai -> Bangalore -> New Delhi -> Amsterdam -> Detroit). In all three Indian airports, our carryons, tickets, and boarding passes were inspected 3 very thorough times before we got on the plane. To go through the metal detectors, you step up two stairs so that your body can be more conveniently wanded as well as forcing your feet to be checked. There were guards next to every plane parked on the tarmac and it looked like they inspected the maintance workers before they were allowed to do their work. Amsterdam had a reasonable interview process (Who are you? What do you do for a living? Why are you traveling? etc.). The US? Same old pathetic might-be-working xray machines as pre 9/11.
It just seems better for the Gvmt to strike MS, and split the company. They should also levy massive fines...
MS stock is owned by a lot of mutual funds which are in turn held in a lot of 401k plans (your's, perhaps?). On balance I think you are right, but there will be some short term pain suffered by a lot of folks as a result. I suspect that this is part of the reason that the Republicans are reluctant to push a breakup.
My brother thinks MS should be broken into three new companies representing the major divisions in the company: Marketing, Sales, and Legal.
I worked on a digital archive project at a library research institiute (OCLC). Digital archives are a royal pain. You first have to transfer the analog material to digital. Doable, but costly. Then you have to have a way of indexing it. And remember, we need an index scheme that can handle poetry, baseball cards, and music scores as well as gov't docs and books. Then you need to be able to store it. Finally, there is retrieval and display.
Now make it all last a zillion or two years. Any digital media we have today (tape, cd, etc.) might last 20 years if you are lucky. Even if you built a special purpose computer to store it, the silicon chips themselves might last only 20 years before they break down. If you can find a media that lasts, then you have to guarantee that the format will be readable. This requires that you archive the software that reads the format and perhaps the OS that the software runs on.
A digital library also loses a lot as well. If we archive the Domesday Book and lose the original, we have lost any opportunity to learn about the paper and ink technology of the original copy.
There is a branch of Library and Information Sciences that studies these problems. There have also been a couple of ACM CACM issues devoted to some of this.
Much of the Midwest is in SBC territory since they bought out Ameritech. They have a terrible reputation for service and have been fined several times lately by the Ohio Public Utilities Commission. A letter to your PUC is probably in order.
I telecommute, but I use TW RoadRunner. The service has been pretty reliable for me. I think I've had one outage of 4 hours in the past two years.
You are using the wrong word. A mistake like this does not imply a lack of professionalism. The best professionals make mistakes. It implies only a lack of perfection. And if Linux and everything about it were perfect, then why would it need patching at all?
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Remember the transportation bill passed by Congress just after the Republicans won control of the House and Senate in 1994? Largest transportation expenditure ever passed and full of more pork than the Democrats had ever attempted.
Democrats: Tax More and Spend More.
Republicans: Cut Taxes and Still Spend More.
The Republican philosophy just means that its your children who will have to be taxed for your profligate ways. I'm not convinced that either party has a viable philosophy.
I remember driving through CT a few years ago when they were working on the Interstate Hwy. They had a Getsapo^h^h^h^h^h^h^h State Trooper posted every 1/2 mile to keep the speed of the traffic down to a resonable level in the construction zone. They must have had 9/10s of the state cops standing by their cars on the Interstate. Funny thing was, the traffic wasn't moving any faster than 35 MPH anyway due to the density of the traffic and construction itself. If CT's Troopers are Gestapo, I wouldn't worry too much 'cause they must be the most inefficient bunch of cops around.
When do you post the new privacy policy? Rumor has it that you'll be using Passport for user logins and giving our email addresses to Cantor and company in exchange for Green Cards for some of the slashstaff.
That's what monopolies do, maximise the difference between marginal revenue and marginal cost.
Er, not quite. All companies seek to hit the spot where MR = MC. Why? If I sell one more unit, the extra revenue (MR) is more than the extra cost (MC). That's called profit. Its true for a monopolist as well as for a company in a competetive market. So how does a monopolist differ from a company in a competetive situation? For the individual company in a competetive market, MR (dR/dQ where Q is the Quantity sold) is constant since they face a linear demand curve for their individual share of the total demand supplied by all companies in the market. The monopolist, on the other hand, faces a negatively-sloped market demand curve. So dR/dQ is negative. Each extra unit sold brings in less revenue than the previous unit. I'll leave it as an exercise for the student to show that the Q sold by a monopolist is less than the quantity sold by the sum of the companies in a competetive market. By MR = MC for both.
Thawte requires that you send them your Social Security Number, Passport Number, Drivers License Number or other ID number depending on your home country. This bothers me that my SSN is required to get a personal cert from Thawte. My SSN is already used in too many places.
Let me propose a different scheme. Suppose I printed out an application from a cert seller and took the application to my bank where I presented my ID and had my signature notorized. For extra protection, I could take the notorized page to my local or state government and have the local government provide certified proof that the notory is a legal notory in that jurisdiction (my wife and I had to do this recently for an international adoption). Now I return the application via snail mail (perhaps certified mail) and the cert seller issues me a certificate. The cert seller is protected since they have my notorized signature on file. And now there is no need for them to even know my government ID number.
Thanks for the info. I do regard the OO behavior as a bug and not a feature. The reason that I never thought about this with Netscape is that I start Netscape Navigator and then pick Messenger from the menu so it sorta made sense that exit quits all (at least I adjusted to it). But I've always started OO apps seperately so exit killing all seemed wierd. For an office app like a word editor where I can have multiple docs open but they show up in a single window, close should offer to save and kill the current doc, not the entire app. Exit should save/kill the app, not the entire suite of apps. Netscape close isn't broken this way since there is a one-to-one correspondence between a window and a document. But Netscape exit could be considered broken depending on whether you view Netscape as a single app or a suite of related apps. Yeah, I'll file a bug report just to stir the pot a little.
I'm using a 641 build of OO. It claims to have done away with the monolithic interface. But when I start calc and writer as seperate apps, if I exit one, it exits all of the office apps. So it looks to me as if they have only removed the single startup. How about removing the single exit feature as well?
So run a magnet over it if you're that concerned. A razor blade will likely obfuscate the info as well.
Agreed. My wife and I were in India in Oct/Nov of last year. (Detroit -> Amsterdam -> Mumbai -> Bangalore -> New Delhi -> Amsterdam -> Detroit). In all three Indian airports, our carryons, tickets, and boarding passes were inspected 3 very thorough times before we got on the plane. To go through the metal detectors, you step up two stairs so that your body can be more conveniently wanded as well as forcing your feet to be checked. There were guards next to every plane parked on the tarmac and it looked like they inspected the maintance workers before they were allowed to do their work. Amsterdam had a reasonable interview process (Who are you? What do you do for a living? Why are you traveling? etc.). The US? Same old pathetic might-be-working xray machines as pre 9/11.
Did they write it this way because its truly better or were they just trying to avoid flunking Tanenbaum's class?
Heh, I tried that on WinNT once. Instant BSOD.
It just seems better for the Gvmt to strike MS, and split the company. They should also levy massive fines...
MS stock is owned by a lot of mutual funds which are in turn held in a lot of 401k plans (your's, perhaps?). On balance I think you are right, but there will be some short term pain suffered by a lot of folks as a result. I suspect that this is part of the reason that the Republicans are reluctant to push a breakup.
My brother thinks MS should be broken into three new companies representing the major divisions in the company: Marketing, Sales, and Legal.
I worked on a digital archive project at a library research institiute (OCLC). Digital archives are a royal pain. You first have to transfer the analog material to digital. Doable, but costly. Then you have to have a way of indexing it. And remember, we need an index scheme that can handle poetry, baseball cards, and music scores as well as gov't docs and books. Then you need to be able to store it. Finally, there is retrieval and display.
Now make it all last a zillion or two years. Any digital media we have today (tape, cd, etc.) might last 20 years if you are lucky. Even if you built a special purpose computer to store it, the silicon chips themselves might last only 20 years before they break down. If you can find a media that lasts, then you have to guarantee that the format will be readable. This requires that you archive the software that reads the format and perhaps the OS that the software runs on.
A digital library also loses a lot as well. If we archive the Domesday Book and lose the original, we have lost any opportunity to learn about the paper and ink technology of the original copy.
There is a branch of Library and Information Sciences that studies these problems. There have also been a couple of ACM CACM issues devoted to some of this.
I'm rooting for injuries.
Much of the Midwest is in SBC territory since they bought out Ameritech. They have a terrible reputation for service and have been fined several times lately by the Ohio Public Utilities Commission. A letter to your PUC is probably in order.
I telecommute, but I use TW RoadRunner. The service has been pretty reliable for me. I think I've had one outage of 4 hours in the past two years.
You are using the wrong word. A mistake like this does not imply a lack of professionalism. The best professionals make mistakes. It implies only a lack of perfection. And if Linux and everything about it were perfect, then why would it need patching at all?
Is also out now and according to the changelog, it finally works with gcc 3.