1. The Cable Company You can get a Satellite Dish any day of the week.
2. The Phone Company Where I live there is a bunch around. If you dont like them, there is always getting a cell only. Even a satellite cell phone is available-- and thats no matter where you are.
3. The Electric Company Those have recently been privatized too. There is competition, plus you could buy a generator.
4. Microsoft No. They are a dominant firm in monopolistic competition (they have a strong impact on prices and control a large market share). Software (except some specialized stuff) is mostly a monopolistic competition kind of environment. Lots of Product Differentiation, Advertisement etc. Versioning is important here too.
5. Viacom Come on. There is other players in the entertainment business too. Oligopoly, maybe. Monopolistic Competion, most likely.
"NO ACCOUNTABILITY WHATSOEVER" Well, sometimes it seems that way, but that is really not the case quite yet.
Believe me, I do not like this "PIRATE Act" either, but it is a piece of legislation and needs to be addressed that way. Write a letter to your senators / presidential candidate.
Thanks for pointing it out.
From the conclusion of the article:
The comparison we've made here is a very important one; it identifies Intel's strengths and their weaknesses with Xeon, and it crowns Opteron a clear multiprocessor winner. An area that we didn't touch on is cost, which is where AMD truly shines. The Opteron 848 processors we tested are around 1/2 the price of Intel's 2MB L3 Xeon MPs and we have not seen retail data on how expensive the 4MB parts will be.
In a 4-way configuration AMD's Opteron cannot be beat, and thus it is our choice for the basis for our new Forums database server. We'll be documenting that upgrade in a separate article so stay tuned.
You raise an interesting point. In my personal experience stress resulting from computer technology largely depends on the software I was running at the time. A {windowmanager,desktop,GUI} which reacts too slow can cause stress for me. I believe that less is sometimes more in this case. A small, lightweight window manager, properly configured, reacting fast is alleviate much of the stress. Interestingly enough the GUI of the graphics program GIMP sped up my work on images tremendously, once I got a window manager which supported tabs so that I could group utility windows together, thus taking up less screen space.
Now an argument for the "other side". The integrated work environments (KDE, Gnome) when providing coherent interfaces can also speed up work, alleviating stress.
All in all however, technology is only a small contributor to my stress levels.
In my home directory I have a bunch of files, but they are all in neat folders like: work, school, download. These in turn contain subfolders according to my employers, classes and types of downloaded files, respectively.
As a program to access stuff fast I use the ROX Filer. That is the fastest for organizing with a nice graphical representation of stuff (unless you want to use commandline that is).
...I was starting to lose hope for the generations to come too quickly. And while I disagree with some of the people on there (Marlene Dietrich is, but Corrie ten Boom isn't...), it is a good development to see that people still have heroes.
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I'm sorry, but they are really not monopolies:
1. The Cable Company
You can get a Satellite Dish any day of the week.
2. The Phone Company
Where I live there is a bunch around. If you dont like them, there is always getting a cell only. Even a satellite cell phone is available-- and thats no matter where you are.
3. The Electric Company
Those have recently been privatized too. There is competition, plus you could buy a generator.
4. Microsoft
No. They are a dominant firm in monopolistic competition (they have a strong impact on prices and control a large market share). Software (except some specialized stuff) is mostly a monopolistic competition kind of environment. Lots of Product Differentiation, Advertisement etc. Versioning is important here too.
5. Viacom
Come on. There is other players in the entertainment business too. Oligopoly, maybe. Monopolistic Competion, most likely.
"NO ACCOUNTABILITY WHATSOEVER"
Well, sometimes it seems that way, but that is really not the case quite yet.
Believe me, I do not like this "PIRATE Act" either, but it is a piece of legislation and needs to be addressed that way. Write a letter to your senators / presidential candidate.
Thanks for pointing it out. From the conclusion of the article:
Not quite as the /. story reads.
You raise an interesting point. In my personal experience stress resulting from computer technology largely depends on the software I was running at the time. A {windowmanager,desktop,GUI} which reacts too slow can cause stress for me. I believe that less is sometimes more in this case. A small, lightweight window manager, properly configured, reacting fast is alleviate much of the stress. Interestingly enough the GUI of the graphics program GIMP sped up my work on images tremendously, once I got a window manager which supported tabs so that I could group utility windows together, thus taking up less screen space.
Now an argument for the "other side". The integrated work environments (KDE, Gnome) when providing coherent interfaces can also speed up work, alleviating stress.
All in all however, technology is only a small contributor to my stress levels.
just a thought
In my home directory I have a bunch of files, but they are all in neat folders like: work, school, download. These in turn contain subfolders according to my employers, classes and types of downloaded files, respectively.
As a program to access stuff fast I use the ROX Filer. That is the fastest for organizing with a nice graphical representation of stuff (unless you want to use commandline that is).
just my 2 cents....I was starting to lose hope for the generations to come too quickly. And while I disagree with some of the people on there (Marlene Dietrich is, but Corrie ten Boom isn't...), it is a good development to see that people still have heroes.
--ms