"Here in San Diego [...] Businesses are closing, people are getting laid off, and most everyone is shutting off every power consuming device they can."
San Diego, and parts of neighboring Orange county, are the only parts of Califorina where something actually has been deregulated (don't ask me why the media doesn't seem to mention this). As a result, all the pent up market imbalance is forced through this tiny valve. The results are predictable (and were predicted).
Basic economic theory says that supply and demand meet each other on a free market by finding a price where they are eqeual. Here, supply is fixed, and price fixed in 96% of the state, thus ever increasing demand there. All the demand adjustment has to take place in the 4% of the state with free pricing. As mentioned ain the quote, San Diegans are reacting exactly as economic theory would predict.
The absurd thing is that they are asked to bear all the burden of decreasing demand for the entire state. If prices were set free in the rest of California, we could get through this by a minor reduction in use.
But let's not forget that the other part of this government caused shortage is that constructing new power plants is for practical purposes outlawed, thus capping supply.
Here's an article with some actual analysis and facts around the issue.
"The so-called free market in electric power in California consists of the fact that, last summer, price controls were removed from the power supplies of San Diego County and the southern portion of adjacent Orange County, while remaining in force throughout the rest of the state. "
You can watch either standard on computer screens all over the world.
But for playing it on a consumer DVD player it needs to be in the frame rate (25/30) and line number (~600/~500) of the TV it's playing it on.
When sending your baby movies to the grand parents, you'll certainly have to consider whether they're in NTSC or PAL parts of the world.
Interestingly, the PAL world is futher divided by PAL-SECAM, which is used in France and a few other places. It has a different color encoding scheme, and maybe also audio difference (don't remember). But since the frame rate and line numbers are the same, both formats use the same discs. The players put out the different signals.
Apple sells the same systems all over the world and goes to great lengths to see that it works everywhere. Besides, the main application is (supposedly, at least) as a medium for your home movies.
You'll probably have to pick NTSC or PAL though. Or have both side by side.
And it only writes 4.7 Gig, which is about 1 hour of video.
While Jobs announced 667 and 733 MHz machines, they will not be available until "February". In the special world that is Steve Jobs keynotes "right now" have been known to mean "in three months, if you're lucky", so what "February" really means in this case is anybodys guess.
Only the 466 and 533MHz are actually possible to buy "now".
You can also do OO programming in assembler. In fact, any OO program does get translated into assembler code before being executed.
But what's the point?
You can do any fancy language construct manually in lower level languages. That doesn't mean it's a good idea. If you're gonna do OO programming it makes sense to use an OO language. Let your tools work for you.
One of the basic assumptions is that the human brain is built to think about the world in terms of things that have properties and behaviour. We can think in terms of procedures and execution flow as well, but we're not nearly as good at it.
"the paperwork associated with approval requests appears to be minimal, and approvals, when granted, are granted swiftly, some within twenty-four hours."
If a web page takes 10 seconds to load, people get frustrated. So that it takes 24 hours at best in Virginia is still a serious problem, even if the people granting the requests by some miracle are enlightened and fair people.
Their FAQ mentions $250 and up for the first figure, and $15 per head after that. They don't do the bodies, but they will mount it on any 12" action figure out there.
First Ericsson decided to get rid off my (expensive) category of employees, so I was given 6 months notice. 2 months later they decided to close down the company, and gave everyone 3 months notice.
That's CNets rumor. The AppleInsider rumor is the opposite. More people seem to believe AppleInsider, but we won't know until Tuesday, when Steve hold his show.
"I can't see myself or anyone else justifying a purchase of a ~$3000US G4 cube with 2 500 Mhz processors compared with the ultra cheap Athlons and P3's (and 4's) now available."
Another reason to not get that configuration may be that such beast doesn't exist. Not even close.
The G4 cube has 1 processor and costs $1499 (450), $2299 (500) or $2799 (500).
The dual tower models cost $1999 (450) or $2499 (500).
"I'd hardly say that a cool case and mouse consititute a valid reason to switch processor types:-)."
The cool thing with a cool (in the literal sense) case is that it can be made fanless. That's a big advantage if you sleep in the same room.
The 450/500 MHz G4s they put in the dual systems had been out for almost a year, and are probably pretty cheap.
But these freshly baked 733MHz wonders will be much more expensive at first. And it would add a lot to the price of the system to add an extra processor.
It's FAR from perfect, but we don't have military coups even when our election process is completely hosed.
Variations of this was heard again and again during the recent election fiasco. I seems many Americans actually believe that their country is the only one in the world who would not have a coup, riots in the streets, etc in such a situation.
You could take a train from any where on the planet to anywhere else. Sounds like it has a small amount of value if you ask me..
Maybe americans have never seen this, but travelling in Europe it's pretty common to take the train across water where there is neither bridge nor tunnel. You just drive the train wagons on to a ferry.
That's MUCH cheaper. The only downside is that it's slower. When going from London to Paris it's important if you can cut the time from 5 hours to 3. But when going from Seattle to Vladivostok, cutting it from 5 days to 4 days 22 hours is not.
These waters may not be ferriable a lot of the year, though. I don't know.
Also, about regulation on a general scale, safety regs (such as those in the airline industry) can increase customer confidence, and generate a larger market.
If so, the airlines would set up a trusted certification scheme by themselves. It happens all the time in uregulated industries.
Pill makers should be regulated on their products, otherwise what would cause them to print the long term side-effects on the labels?
1. See above
2. Lawsuits if they recklessly endanger people this way would be very costly.
3.
Regulation isn't something the big-bad-government does to impede business and make itself feel important. It's one of the ways that a society defines its value system and generates accountability for when it's not being upheld.
Regulation is one way the state excercises power over society. What you say here is exactly what it wants you to think. Good boy!
1. It's itself not a standardized standard, and the different dialects are evolving continuously.
2. A document can be rendered quite differently by different browsers.
3. You can't even get things like page numbers in HTML documents.
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"Here in San Diego [...] Businesses are closing, people are getting laid off, and most everyone is shutting off every power consuming device they can."
San Diego, and parts of neighboring Orange county, are the only parts of Califorina where something actually has been deregulated (don't ask me why the media doesn't seem to mention this). As a result, all the pent up market imbalance is forced through this tiny valve. The results are predictable (and were predicted).
Basic economic theory says that supply and demand meet each other on a free market by finding a price where they are eqeual. Here, supply is fixed, and price fixed in 96% of the state, thus ever increasing demand there. All the demand adjustment has to take place in the 4% of the state with free pricing. As mentioned ain the quote, San Diegans are reacting exactly as economic theory would predict.
The absurd thing is that they are asked to bear all the burden of decreasing demand for the entire state. If prices were set free in the rest of California, we could get through this by a minor reduction in use.
But let's not forget that the other part of this government caused shortage is that constructing new power plants is for practical purposes outlawed, thus capping supply.
Here's an article with some actual analysis and facts around the issue.
F S= California+Screaming+under+Gov%27t+Blows
"The so-called free market in electric power in California consists of the fact that, last summer, price controls were removed from the power supplies of San Diego County and the southern portion of adjacent Orange County, while remaining in force throughout the rest of the state. "
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=575&
You can watch either standard on computer screens all over the world.
But for playing it on a consumer DVD player it needs to be in the frame rate (25/30) and line number (~600/~500) of the TV it's playing it on.
When sending your baby movies to the grand parents, you'll certainly have to consider whether they're in NTSC or PAL parts of the world.
Interestingly, the PAL world is futher divided by PAL-SECAM, which is used in France and a few other places. It has a different color encoding scheme, and maybe also audio difference (don't remember). But since the frame rate and line numbers are the same, both formats use the same discs. The players put out the different signals.
As CEO of Pixar and semi-major player in Disney Movies Steve is part of Hollywood, and probably even a member of RIAA.
So that would make any attempts to subvert their interest intriguing. But there's probably a catch in the fine print.
Apple sells the same systems all over the world and goes to great lengths to see that it works everywhere. Besides, the main application is (supposedly, at least) as a medium for your home movies.
You'll probably have to pick NTSC or PAL though. Or have both side by side.
And it only writes 4.7 Gig, which is about 1 hour of video.
The iDvd info pages are up now.
While Jobs announced 667 and 733 MHz machines, they will not be available until "February". In the special world that is Steve Jobs keynotes "right now" have been known to mean "in three months, if you're lucky", so what "February" really means in this case is anybodys guess.
Only the 466 and 533MHz are actually possible to buy "now".
You can also do OO programming in assembler. In fact, any OO program does get translated into assembler code before being executed.
But what's the point?
You can do any fancy language construct manually in lower level languages. That doesn't mean it's a good idea. If you're gonna do OO programming it makes sense to use an OO language. Let your tools work for you.
Does OO make assumptions about human nature?
Actually it does. But it's a correct one.
One of the basic assumptions is that the human brain is built to think about the world in terms of things that have properties and behaviour. We can think in terms of procedures and execution flow as well, but we're not nearly as good at it.
the mac did this 10 years ago.
It was more like 3 years ago, when the iMac launched.
Other than that, you're right, of course.
"the paperwork associated with approval requests appears to be minimal, and approvals, when granted, are granted swiftly, some within twenty-four hours."
If a web page takes 10 seconds to load, people get frustrated. So that it takes 24 hours at best in Virginia is still a serious problem, even if the people granting the requests by some miracle are enlightened and fair people.
"However to produce blank DVDs you need to license the technology, I'll give you one guess on what the license says you're not allowed to do."
This may sound sarcastic, but I'm really just asking:
Do you know the licence contains this, or are you just assuming it does, or will when it gets written.
Their FAQ mentions $250 and up for the first figure, and $15 per head after that. They don't do the bodies, but they will mount it on any 12" action figure out there.
First Ericsson decided to get rid off my (expensive) category of employees, so I was given 6 months notice. 2 months later they decided to close down the company, and gave everyone 3 months notice.
I also have 2 brothers who are not related.
That's CNets rumor. The AppleInsider rumor is the opposite. More people seem to believe AppleInsider, but we won't know until Tuesday, when Steve hold his show.
"I can't see myself or anyone else justifying a purchase of a ~$3000US G4 cube with 2 500 Mhz processors compared with the ultra cheap Athlons and P3's (and 4's) now available."
:-)."
Another reason to not get that configuration may be that such beast doesn't exist. Not even close.
The G4 cube has 1 processor and costs $1499 (450), $2299 (500) or $2799 (500).
The dual tower models cost $1999 (450) or $2499 (500).
"I'd hardly say that a cool case and mouse consititute a valid reason to switch processor types
The cool thing with a cool (in the literal sense) case is that it can be made fanless. That's a big advantage if you sleep in the same room.
The 450/500 MHz G4s they put in the dual systems had been out for almost a year, and are probably pretty cheap.
But these freshly baked 733MHz wonders will be much more expensive at first. And it would add a lot to the price of the system to add an extra processor.
Hey, there's no need to get snippy!
Nowhere in my message did I say that the US is the only country where that doesn't happen.
And nowhere in my message did I say that you did.
It's FAR from perfect, but we don't have military coups even when our election process is completely hosed.
Variations of this was heard again and again during the recent election fiasco. I seems many Americans actually believe that their country is the only one in the world who would not have a coup, riots in the streets, etc in such a situation.
How clueless!
The oil drilling in Russia is vastly more destructive to the environment than any Alaska operation would be.
But, it's out of sight...
You could take a train from any where on the planet to anywhere else. Sounds like it has a small amount of value if you ask me..
Maybe americans have never seen this, but travelling in Europe it's pretty common to take the train across water where there is neither bridge nor tunnel. You just drive the train wagons on to a ferry.
That's MUCH cheaper. The only downside is that it's slower. When going from London to Paris it's important if you can cut the time from 5 hours to 3. But when going from Seattle to Vladivostok, cutting it from 5 days to 4 days 22 hours is not.
These waters may not be ferriable a lot of the year, though. I don't know.
I know, spelling flames are poor netiquette. But this is more than I can handle.
Besides, it's about patent issues, not copyrights.
Good link though.
I can ramble with the best of them.
Also, about regulation on a general scale, safety regs (such as those in the airline industry) can increase customer confidence, and generate a larger market.
If so, the airlines would set up a trusted certification scheme by themselves. It happens all the time in uregulated industries.
Pill makers should be regulated on their products, otherwise what would cause them to print the long term side-effects on the labels?
1. See above
2. Lawsuits if they recklessly endanger people this way would be very costly.
3.
Regulation isn't something the big-bad-government does to impede business and make itself feel important. It's one of the ways that a society defines its value system and generates accountability for when it's not being upheld.
Regulation is one way the state excercises power over society. What you say here is exactly what it wants you to think. Good boy!
...it's the only way to be sure!
I think you need a CSS license in order to produce a properly formatted DVD disc, and that is something you pay The Man to get.
1. It's itself not a standardized standard, and the different dialects are evolving continuously.
2. A document can be rendered quite differently by different browsers.
3. You can't even get things like page numbers in HTML documents.