This is an excellent example. Instead of limiting it to just Compaq, the example should be extended to the entire IBM clone industry including any x86 you're reading this on right now.
Money itself is destined to die? In a cosmic, "in a million years we'll all be dead" sort of way, maybe. In the real world, in our lifetimes, I doubt it.
Human beings need to keep score. As pack animals societal status is important to us, and distribution of resources is difficult. Money and monetarism does a good job of handling both problems. It doesn't do an ideal job, but it gives us a good handle to approach the problems.
And if you really believe what you say, put a name to your posts.
While I'm certain some sort of minor repeal of the DMCA will come about, I'm also certain that the partial repeal will take effect about ten minutes before another more restrictive bill called something like "The Save America From Terror Act" will go into effect, putting all the DMCA restrictions plus more new ones in place.
This is just a chance to vent so you can feel like you actually had a hand in the process. The only real hands in the process, of course, belong to the hands with dollar bills in them, headed for political coffers.
This is what's known as a "write my column for me" appeal. Cringely does it occasionally, but the real champion of the form is the recently fired Bob Greene of the Chicago Tribune.
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Check the Economist from Aug 5th, 2002. Birth rate for the US is up in large part due to immigration. Europe continues to fall.
The article is titled "Half a billion Americans?"
I'd link to it, but it's premium content on their site.
No, but you might be the only one who didn't have a lot of it in "Growth Funds" or "Index Funds" that are in the crapper now.
That's a major flaw in this article. Maybe these people have a little bit of money in their 401K's, but I bet it was a lot more befroe the tumble.
As long as we leave it in the market and don't try to panic bargain-hunt, we should be OK. I'm planning on working in something for the next 20+ years (I'd go nuts without some sort of work), so I'll make a bet that at some point my 401K will be back up where it was and beyond. Remember how insane Dow 5000 seemed at the time?
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You know that Europe's shrinking (despite Italy, France, Poland and other Catholic countries) while the US birth rate is rising, right?
They're at under replacement rate while we've just gone over 2.1 births/woman/lifetime.
If you built a prison, asked someone to test it and they were able to be released by telling the guards "Um, there's been a mistake. I'm the warden," you'd judge that to be a pretty piss-poor prison, wouldn't you?
He's got nothing to complain about except a bruised ego. The Danish people should have put him onto docs or tutorials on-line to help him secure his server if they really wanted to prevent SPAM, however. Teach a guy to fish.
It meant a really sore neck from sitting all the way at the end of the first row because my stupid friends couldn't get their act together to get to theater on time opening night.
No government of course works really really well. Unless you're one of those big government lovers that likes highways, defense, clean water, clean air, etc...
What have the Romans ever done for us!?
No, you're right.
The reason America attracted innovation and capital was once that it was so wide open - there was no entrenched oligarchy that would prevent a smart person from making a mint.
Now, there are huge barriers to entry in almost every industry and we have a government with an interest in keeping those entrenched interests entrenched.
This idea goes back to the automat restaurants of the 1920's and 1930's in New York. Like most things, the trend away from human interaction is cyclical but progressive.
We'll swing back to a more personal touch eventually (as unemployment rises, no doubt), but some things will stay automated and self-service.
The best edit they could make to that movie is removing Tom Hanks.
I love when Gary Sinise is told he's not going to the moon. He singlehandedly demonstrates why he's the only real actor in the movie by his work in that scene.
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This is an excellent example. Instead of limiting it to just Compaq, the example should be extended to the entire IBM clone industry including any x86 you're reading this on right now.
Money itself is destined to die?
In a cosmic, "in a million years we'll all be dead" sort of way, maybe. In the real world, in our lifetimes, I doubt it.
Human beings need to keep score. As pack animals societal status is important to us, and distribution of resources is difficult. Money and monetarism does a good job of handling both problems. It doesn't do an ideal job, but it gives us a good handle to approach the problems.
And if you really believe what you say, put a name to your posts.
If he's going to jail, I bet he wishes he'd leaked a better movie...
While I'm certain some sort of minor repeal of the DMCA will come about, I'm also certain that the partial repeal will take effect about ten minutes before another more restrictive bill called something like "The Save America From Terror Act" will go into effect, putting all the DMCA restrictions plus more new ones in place.
This is just a chance to vent so you can feel like you actually had a hand in the process. The only real hands in the process, of course, belong to the hands with dollar bills in them, headed for political coffers.This is what's known as a "write my column for me" appeal. Cringely does it occasionally, but the real champion of the form is the recently fired Bob Greene of the Chicago Tribune.
Check the Economist from Aug 5th, 2002. Birth rate for the US is up in large part due to immigration. Europe continues to fall.
The article is titled "Half a billion Americans?"
I'd link to it, but it's premium content on their site.
No, but you might be the only one who didn't have a lot of it in "Growth Funds" or "Index Funds" that are in the crapper now.
That's a major flaw in this article. Maybe these people have a little bit of money in their 401K's, but I bet it was a lot more befroe the tumble.
As long as we leave it in the market and don't try to panic bargain-hunt, we should be OK. I'm planning on working in something for the next 20+ years (I'd go nuts without some sort of work), so I'll make a bet that at some point my 401K will be back up where it was and beyond. Remember how insane Dow 5000 seemed at the time?
You know that Europe's shrinking (despite Italy, France, Poland and other Catholic countries) while the US birth rate is rising, right?
They're at under replacement rate while we've just gone over 2.1 births/woman/lifetime.
Go secular humanism!
Should they come down from their high hog?
Metaphors unmixed here.
If they're selling $500K McMansions, who are they selling them to? Someone must still be making money. You need a buyer for every sale.
If you built a prison, asked someone to test it and they were able to be released by telling the guards "Um, there's been a mistake. I'm the warden," you'd judge that to be a pretty piss-poor prison, wouldn't you?
He's got nothing to complain about except a bruised ego. The Danish people should have put him onto docs or tutorials on-line to help him secure his server if they really wanted to prevent SPAM, however. Teach a guy to fish.
ThinkGeek has a tiny little thing, no bigger footprint than the CD/DVD drive. Still holds a P3 1.2, 30Gb HD, 512Mb RAM http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a98.shtm l
Israel And the reply timer is really annoying for those of us who don't want to be long-winded boors.
It meant a really sore neck from sitting all the way at the end of the first row because my stupid friends couldn't get their act together to get to theater on time opening night.
No government of course works really really well. Unless you're one of those big government lovers that likes highways, defense, clean water, clean air, etc... What have the Romans ever done for us!?
No, you're right. The reason America attracted innovation and capital was once that it was so wide open - there was no entrenched oligarchy that would prevent a smart person from making a mint. Now, there are huge barriers to entry in almost every industry and we have a government with an interest in keeping those entrenched interests entrenched.
This idea goes back to the automat restaurants of the 1920's and 1930's in New York. Like most things, the trend away from human interaction is cyclical but progressive.
We'll swing back to a more personal touch eventually (as unemployment rises, no doubt), but some things will stay automated and self-service.
The best edit they could make to that movie is removing Tom Hanks. I love when Gary Sinise is told he's not going to the moon. He singlehandedly demonstrates why he's the only real actor in the movie by his work in that scene.
The "big one" will be caused by a site called -
"Nude Brittney Spears advocates Linux, Star Trek, over Windows, Star Wars."
It always reminds me of Og Mandingo, the greatest salesman of them all (tm).
http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migration/index.htm l
Score your chance to migrate to New Zealand. If you have IT experience and a degree, you're pretty much in.
That's a lot of Pringles cans. Do they even sell Pringles in New Zealand?
What about portable hardware? Not laptops but Rio-type devices.
So who's got a list of Ogg Vorbis or other Open Source alternatives to MP3 players?