This is nothing new, IBM did this 100 years ago with type writters and POS machines. They bought out 2nd hand shops covertly, then priced stuff super cheap to kill competitors, but destroyed their own equipment. Then they shut the stores down and then using that customer list of 2nd hand buyers, go out and use their sales force teams to sell new machines.
A great scam.
But one that MS cant do, they cant just 'get rid of' old OS's, or can they? using viruss hmmmmm maybe they have covert coding teams making or 'releasing' exploits so that old 95/98 machines are hacked to death.
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No where did he quote EQUAL, though making a bike QUICKLY by the 10000s/day requires OIL, making them by hand at 5/person/day can require zero oil, but its 100x slower.
So overall, you could make 20-30 bikes per same energy input as a car, but it still takes OIL to make it by the 10000s/day.
Meanwhile USA GOVT has in storage about 1 billion gallons of dried powerded milk in storage from the excess milk they bought to keep the market prices stable without falling too much coz of too much supply.
So what happens to this HUGE hoard of powdered milk? You cant give it away, it would screw the retail price of milk down, sell it? again cant be too cheap. Keep it just in case of WW3? I bet.
But this is where current high taxes work in favor when prices start rising. The governments can gradually reduce the taxes to keep the retail petrol price static while it rises in USA because their tax is so low, there is little movement that can be made down.
i agree, www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
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Check that site out, www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
It explains it all.
Either find the oil, or make it cheap using slave labour, or find a magic alternative.
Who knows, the fight of oil may be cause a www3 to start.
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Remember ages ago about adams platform the so called super uber codec that could do DVD quality on modems.
Well if you thought it was crap or some.com scam, they are back!!!
www.adamsplatform.com.au
They say its verified etc...
They did advertise for job positions under video codec programmers and hardware engineers, and encryption experts for up to 100k AU. Not sure where they found any from, since they didnt do a good process on the first round and had to restart.
Personally, i think they should let the DECODER be 100% free and take over all codecs, and sell a n encoder package system and licence the codec, but they probly dont want to and think its worth 10x more. What I think is its worth more in volume, than more in single seats.
One things for sure, if its out and is that good, and it will be whipped up as warez real fast.
I personally think the old 32 students per room and 18th century black board and 8-3pm, fixed yearly grades and quarterly tests are very antiquated and old.
Sure we need structure, but lets be a little flexible.
Now back to computers, any science geek/computer geek knows how much easier it is to show concepts and ideas on computer animations, use celestia to understand our solarsystem in realtime rather than a crappy crud 3rd rate diagram on paper. Learing biology and virtual disections etc... alot of stuff looks better on the computer (or dvd presentation) rather than badass books. Basically we are moving from books to interative tutorials and thats the future for both schools and book producers. A book is basically a static powerpoint presentation on paper. We can do so much more with interactive diagrams/tooltips that can be better displayed acoording to reference/persons knowledge, kind of like 'novice/expert' mode in GUIs/Games.
Not to mention the added bonus of storying 1000 books on a laptop instead of carring them like in the 4th century. And quick delivery of new information cheaply, no more excuses like "oh this book is $135 because its 950 pages of quality paper in gloss" , just put it on DVD for 50cents bulk costs.
because the argument is, "patents are good for technological progess" which is not true, they are only good for business.
NOTE, some business plans/projects WONT go ahead if there is NO patent on the product, therefore, no patent = no business = no product = no progress.
I thought patents are meant to PROMOTE progress, but sometimes not all progress requires a patent so they get ignored.
So in this case, patents prevent progress.
OT, business perspectives arent so hard to learn as technical sciences. Basically its all supply/damand vs resources/profit. Thats it, if you can build it, and theres demand, and you can calculate a profit from it then thats all you need, Oh and good "contacts" business partnerships to make it happen.
Here is were opensource fills the gap, making things that dont need a profit, but benefit people.
I am sure theres not much dust being gathered at the moment, if they took a photo now, or looked at the energy stats, it would be clean for years, unless theres a big dust storm.
The thing that kills it first, is the batteries, constantly charging from -150c to 20c will limit it chemically.
The "DUST" theory is so minor its not an issue unless we get batteries lasting 2+years on mars.
Though the rover should still work even with really crap batteries or if they are dead, as long as it gets power from solar panels constantly. So they will run this baby until it no longer responds, though being nasa a govt org, they might in their wisdom pull the plug coz of lack of funding even though they are working 100% in 6months time.
Just charge em 2 bottles of good scotch each time to fix it, im sure the will get the hint sooner or later or you will enjoy 2 bottles a week for ever:)
Unless you are a developer for windows or need windows only specific crap, USE A MAC!!!!
If you really must use a windows ONLY APP, then get Citrix for windows server, and you can run a remote APP inside a browser VNC style login on the main server.
99% of business as it seams CAN LIVE without windows, they should really eveluate about what they are really using.
Apple should also advertise/promote more as an alternative,and their machines are prettier, but no IT dude is going to recomend macs since they will be soon out of a job when nothing goes wrong.
it just goes to show you that a billion dollars and 70 product managers and a team of marketing and QA drones cant OUT DO one guy working in his bedroom with dedication.
Does MS care? no. Does MS have a clue? No
Lets hope theres some class action suit when a hospital goes down and 7 kids die bacuse of IE bugs and spy ware stuffing up medical orders and patients dosage/history info.
Big deal, my comp teacher in Year 10 told me this back in the 80s, "hardware is dropping in price, until it will be almost free". Yeah right, it takes 2.5tonnes of materials to make each PC, which with increasing energy costs (lifeaftertheoilcrash.com) and commodity metals increasing in price, whos going to pay for that? $2500 for Win2008 ? 1/2 of that going to miners/enron?
Not to mention that one 250watt CPU that costs $95 will consume $200 of energy yearly by 2008 if price trends increase, unless USA builds a super fusion reactor making 2000 terrawatts of power.
Someone do the requirement costs of 500million P4 CPUs consuming 60watts daily 24/7 for 12 months. Its a damn lot of power needed.
Start putting your cash in power companies not Intel/MS/IBM.
Intel would need to ship 1kwatt solar panels with each CPU to stick on your bedroom window to power it:)
1. Dude, the govt is for the corporates , not the people. It has lost the plot.
2. The govt's have been stealing from us sheaple for 90years + , its time we say, phuckyou, and steal some back. How did they steal stuff? well... 1. fractional reserve banking making money out of thin air, which causes inflation which is it self really pure THEFT (read the bible re weights and measures). So those phuckers are getting richer with the 30 room mansions and 3 islands and 200 cars, and unlimited money compared to us. A revolution is coming slowly, nothing is fair any more.
The artists can make money of real work, not spend 2 days writing lyrics (yes some big time songs took 1 day to write). Ill pay for concerts and real WORK, but the music as mp3 should be considered free advertising, if the artists just makes a song in 4hrs and sits back on his ass to reap in the profits, then hes not going to miss a few $ if he has already made 6 figures for 9hrs work.
AHahaha, one attorney against MS? You can never win.
You will be in court for 50 years!!!
Your suggestion is hopeless in that case.
You can mix both rules tho, in australia, even if the police/DPP arrest you and charge you, and you pay to defend your self, and you win, the govt pays for your lawyers coz they were wrong to arrest you, thats fair. Everything should return to normal to the same state before you got 'fucked'.
In MS's case, spending $ on 10 lawyers is but 0.000001% of their revenue, so in that logic, the law should state, that its insignificant and not fair for an average guy to pay MS. Sure, its not 'fair' on paper, but its fair to the average joe. One you amas billions of $$$$ in assets/cash, nothing should be on your side, since you should be damn lucky to have that cash and with that all your equalness GOES AWAY, because your VALUE is unequal to the average JOE.
Failing that, the average joe will get pissed off and go postal on the CEOs and in that case, NO ONE WINS. SO be fair, or Jesus will come back to send you to HELL!!!! And this time he will use his FULL FURY of FORCE and no lawyers can stop that;-)
They promised years ago to take detailed photos of the moon landings down to less than a foot per pixel.
Still nothing!!!!
Yes I believe they are there, but perhaps there is MORE THERE perhaps.
I know you need some pretty small arc seconds to get high res on the moon, and it does MOVE fast in the sky. But its hardly hubble technology, it shouldnt be too hard.
Just point at the damn moon, if its too bright, take a photo of the DARK portions exposed for longer or use IR/UV.
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This is nothing new, IBM did this 100 years ago with type writters and POS machines. They bought out 2nd hand shops covertly, then priced stuff super cheap to kill competitors, but destroyed their own equipment. Then they shut the stores down and then using that customer list of 2nd hand buyers, go out and use their sales force teams to sell new machines.
A great scam.
But one that MS cant do, they cant just 'get rid of' old OS's, or can they? using viruss hmmmmm maybe they have covert coding teams making or 'releasing' exploits so that old 95/98 machines are hacked to death.
No where did he quote EQUAL, though making a bike QUICKLY by the 10000s/day requires OIL, making them by hand at 5/person/day can require zero oil, but its 100x slower.
So overall, you could make 20-30 bikes per same energy input as a car, but it still takes OIL to make it by the 10000s/day.
So buy your bike TODAY and be happy for TOMMOROW.
Meanwhile USA GOVT has in storage about 1 billion gallons of dried powerded milk in storage from the excess milk they bought to keep the market prices stable without falling too much coz of too much supply.
So what happens to this HUGE hoard of powdered milk? You cant give it away, it would screw the retail price of milk down, sell it? again cant be too cheap. Keep it just in case of WW3? I bet.
But this is where current high taxes work in favor when prices start rising. The governments can gradually reduce the taxes to keep the retail petrol price static while it rises in USA because their tax is so low, there is little movement that can be made down.
Check that site out, www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
It explains it all.
Either find the oil, or make it cheap using slave labour, or find a magic alternative.
Who knows, the fight of oil may be cause a www3 to start.
Remember ages ago about adams platform the so called super uber codec that could do DVD quality on modems.
.com scam, they are back!!!
Well if you thought it was crap or some
www.adamsplatform.com.au
They say its verified etc...
They did advertise for job positions under video codec programmers and hardware engineers, and encryption experts for up to 100k AU. Not sure where they found any from, since they didnt do a good process on the first round and had to restart.
Personally, i think they should let the DECODER be 100% free and take over all codecs, and sell a n encoder package system and licence the codec, but they probly dont want to and think its worth 10x more. What I think is its worth more in volume, than more in single seats.
One things for sure, if its out and is that good, and it will be whipped up as warez real fast.
I personally think the old 32 students per room and 18th century black board and 8-3pm, fixed yearly grades and quarterly tests are very antiquated and old.
Sure we need structure, but lets be a little flexible.
Now back to computers, any science geek/computer geek knows how much easier it is to show concepts and ideas on computer animations, use celestia to understand our solarsystem in realtime rather than a crappy crud 3rd rate diagram on paper.
Learing biology and virtual disections etc... alot of stuff looks better on the computer (or dvd presentation) rather than badass books. Basically we are moving from books to interative tutorials and thats the future for both schools and book producers. A book is basically a static powerpoint presentation on paper. We can do so much more with interactive diagrams/tooltips that can be better displayed acoording to reference/persons knowledge, kind of like 'novice/expert' mode in GUIs/Games.
Not to mention the added bonus of storying 1000 books on a laptop instead of carring them like in the 4th century. And quick delivery of new information cheaply, no more excuses like "oh this book is $135 because its 950 pages of quality paper in gloss" , just put it on DVD for 50cents bulk costs.
because the argument is, "patents are good for technological progess" which is not true, they are only good for business.
NOTE, some business plans/projects WONT go ahead if there is NO patent on the product, therefore, no patent = no business = no product = no progress.
I thought patents are meant to PROMOTE progress, but sometimes not all progress requires a patent so they get ignored.
So in this case, patents prevent progress.
OT, business perspectives arent so hard to learn as technical sciences. Basically its all supply/damand vs resources/profit. Thats it, if you can build it, and theres demand, and you can calculate a profit from it then thats all you need, Oh and good "contacts" business partnerships to make it happen.
Here is were opensource fills the gap, making things that dont need a profit, but benefit people.
I am sure theres not much dust being gathered at the moment, if they took a photo now, or looked at the energy stats, it would be clean for years, unless theres a big dust storm.
The thing that kills it first, is the batteries, constantly charging from -150c to 20c will limit it chemically.
The "DUST" theory is so minor its not an issue unless we get batteries lasting 2+years on mars.
Though the rover should still work even with really crap batteries or if they are dead, as long as it gets power from solar panels constantly. So they will run this baby until it no longer responds, though being nasa a govt org, they might in their wisdom pull the plug coz of lack of funding even though they are working 100% in 6months time.
Just charge em 2 bottles of good scotch each time to fix it, im sure the will get the hint sooner or later or you will enjoy 2 bottles a week for ever :)
Unless you are a developer for windows or need windows only specific crap, USE A MAC!!!!
If you really must use a windows ONLY APP, then get Citrix for windows server, and you can run a remote APP inside a browser VNC style login on the main server.
99% of business as it seams CAN LIVE without windows, they should really eveluate about what they are really using.
Apple should also advertise/promote more as an alternative,and their machines are prettier, but no IT dude is going to recomend macs since they will be soon out of a job when nothing goes wrong.
it just goes to show you that a billion dollars and 70 product managers and a team of marketing and QA drones cant OUT DO one guy working in his bedroom with dedication.
Does MS care? no. Does MS have a clue? No
Lets hope theres some class action suit when a hospital goes down and 7 kids die bacuse of IE bugs and spy ware stuffing up medical orders and patients dosage/history info.
Just tell people that using IE means funding terrorists and being un patriotic.
:)
Please someone out there, make a worm that downloads FIREFOX and installs it over iexplore.exe
It would be most funny and the 'good guys' would just ignore it and not patch against it
Big deal, my comp teacher in Year 10 told me this back in the 80s, "hardware is dropping in price, until it will be almost free". Yeah right, it takes 2.5tonnes of materials to make each PC, which with increasing energy costs (lifeaftertheoilcrash.com) and commodity metals increasing in price, whos going to pay for that? $2500 for Win2008 ? 1/2 of that going to miners/enron?
:)
Not to mention that one 250watt CPU that costs $95 will consume $200 of energy yearly by 2008 if price trends increase, unless USA builds a super fusion reactor making 2000 terrawatts of power.
Someone do the requirement costs of 500million P4 CPUs consuming 60watts daily 24/7 for 12 months. Its a damn lot of power needed.
Start putting your cash in power companies not Intel/MS/IBM.
Intel would need to ship 1kwatt solar panels with each CPU to stick on your bedroom window to power it
The whole of longhorn will be in .net, no exe binaryies what so ever, thats why it needs a dualcore 6ghz CPU. Now even java will run fast :)
.net binaries be a lot smaller, so the whole system would take less than 300meg?
Though where does it need 1tb? wouldnt the
1. Dude, the govt is for the corporates , not the people. It has lost the plot.
2. The govt's have been stealing from us sheaple for 90years + , its time we say, phuckyou, and steal some back. How did they steal stuff? well... 1. fractional reserve banking making money out of thin air, which causes inflation which is it self really pure THEFT (read the bible re weights and measures).
So those phuckers are getting richer with the 30 room mansions and 3 islands and 200 cars, and unlimited money compared to us.
A revolution is coming slowly, nothing is fair any more.
The artists can make money of real work, not spend 2 days writing lyrics (yes some big time songs took 1 day to write). Ill pay for concerts and real WORK, but the music as mp3 should be considered free advertising, if the artists just makes a song in 4hrs and sits back on his ass to reap in the profits, then hes not going to miss a few $ if he has already made 6 figures for 9hrs work.
AHahaha, one attorney against MS? You can never win.
;-)
You will be in court for 50 years!!!
Your suggestion is hopeless in that case.
You can mix both rules tho, in australia, even if the police/DPP arrest you and charge you, and you pay to defend your self, and you win, the govt pays for your lawyers coz they were wrong to arrest you, thats fair. Everything should return to normal to the same state before you got 'fucked'.
In MS's case, spending $ on 10 lawyers is but 0.000001% of their revenue, so in that logic, the law should state, that its insignificant and not fair for an average guy to pay MS. Sure, its not 'fair' on paper, but its fair to the average joe.
One you amas billions of $$$$ in assets/cash, nothing should be on your side, since you should be damn lucky to have that cash and with that all your equalness GOES AWAY, because your VALUE is unequal to the average JOE.
Failing that, the average joe will get pissed off and go postal on the CEOs and in that case, NO ONE WINS. SO be fair, or Jesus will come back to send you to HELL!!!! And this time he will use his FULL FURY of FORCE and no lawyers can stop that
Hah, if I lost and had .5m in fees, id say, "haha" and say, ok, ill pay it back $100/month for 2000 years, or just go bankcrupt and they get nothing.
You know those indians, they never had any technology before 1995, so everything that gets submitted isnt obvious TO THEM.
Its been confirmed by the fed.gov that there is no limit to inflation and the amount of credit with fractional reserve banking that can be made.
in 600 years our debt will be $2569663053366973200
All the warez on bittorrent are done in rar.
ie. 87 zip files, rared up into 88 rar files, zipped into one big rar file which is iso'ed.
I am sure if you said to an OO programmer,
"hey, can we paypal you $2000 US cash tax free, and you fix/add this feature"
They will surely do it if its not too complex.
MS, will say, "ahahhahaha, you have to give us $2-5million for that"
90% of the cost of MS are board meetings and legal and managers.
Then why do they refuse the $10k cost, and give themselves a $45k bonus/raise?
I hope their firestone SUV blows up one day, one less clueless bio mass.
UBC, is ultibate boot cd, really good stuff.
and it contains G4u, ghost for unix, which is a tiny NetBSD boot image with a disk imager that can backup/restore over FTP too.
google it, no need to show the url
They promised years ago to take detailed photos of the moon landings down to less than a foot per pixel.
Still nothing!!!!
Yes I believe they are there, but perhaps there is MORE THERE perhaps.
I know you need some pretty small arc seconds to get high res on the moon, and it does MOVE fast in the sky. But its hardly hubble technology, it shouldnt be too hard.
Just point at the damn moon, if its too bright, take a photo of the DARK portions exposed for longer or use IR/UV.