You've always believed this? Wait, how old are you? Right... you're at least older than 20, so then if you've always believed that 20 years from when you first started believing it that we'd have all have persistent video, then that would mean we already have it!? What are you hiding? What secret online store do I have to visit to get it? Do I gotta be a spook and have some security clearance, or be secretly enslaved to the CIA once I have it?
If there hadn't been so many trailer-trash penny-ante entrepreneurs requesting the coupons and then buying converters with no intention of using them but rather re-selling them on eBay and the like, there would have been plenty of funding to get the converters into the hands of the people who arguably need them. The trailer-trash entrepreneurs were quite probably the early adopters in the program, and the government had no way to guarantee that the converters being purchased with coupons were actually being used by the same people.
That's what happens when you let capitalist foxes into the socialist henhouse, so to speak.
Legal documents aren't inherently perfect just because it's intended that they be perfect. Legalese is "code" intended to solve a problem just as surely as anything written in COBOL; legalese can have bugs in it, too.
I'm also getting sick of the lack of objectivity demonstrated by Slashdotters allowed to moderate: my comment was moderated as Troll. If I had to choose one reason to desire being the world's benevolent Overlord, this would be it: surgical removal of the VMPC from the brains of every human and putting a stop to this sort of (re)action.
It's only impossible to people who fail to comprehend it. It's that ignorance you demonstrated that fuels capitalism. A lot of people smarter than you (or both of us) have described means, at least theoretical, to implement objective valuation. Such a system would be pre-scriptive rather than darwinian de-scriptive (like capitalism), and would require a nearly unanimous consensus in order to work. Humans, still being innately selfish, cannot achieve that degree of consensus (about much of anything), so objective valuation languishes as a theory. Communism was a lousy and hypocritical failed attempt to implement it.
Actually it's OUR job to hype it, by word of mouth. I've been doing that for years, but my audience is limited and my cats don't have opposable thumbs.
For navigation, my hx4700 offers an even more general purpose solution: I use a bluetooth GPS (20-hour battery life) and Tom-Tom's ARM software. Tom-Tom at least didn't ignore this market segment. There's actually a LOT of both free and for-pay ARM software out there, but as you said it's largely unknown BECAUSE there's not this huge marketing campaign constantly waving it in people's faces. And it was all years ahead of the iPod and iPhone. I can actually show you "prior art" third-party today-screen and productivity apps that arguably pioneered the iPhone's touch-friendly interface before the iPhone did, and available for at least a couple years beforehand. Once the iPhone appeared, with all that marketing, it had the effect of focusing even the ARM Pocket PC market on software that had that touch-friendly paradigm; there was a lot of Pocket PC software that got redesigned after the iPhone appeared, even though such touch-friendly apps had already existed before that. The iPhone's marketing campaign diverted everyone's attention to that single aspect of the software, and suddenly nothing else mattered.
I have an iPAQ hx4700 that has a touchscreen bigger than the iPhone's, a 624MHz CPU, and both SD and CF slots; how about an "app" for that, hmmm, Amazon?
I'm frankly getting sick of these Apple "there's an app for that" ads, ads that once again twist reality to make it sound like the planets revolve around a big glowing apple rather than the sun. Pretty much every non-3G app that exists for the iPhone would be just as functional and applicable on an hx4700, but Apple doesn't want people to know that.
This is exactly the sort of shenanigans that Marx and other historical socialists were trying to prevent. The reason this "bubble" emerged in the first place, AND the reason it burst, is precisely because we value everything subjectively rather than objectively.
Call me a socialist if you think it will break my bones, but had we taken the principles of socialism a bit more seriously in the last century it's unlikely the Great Depression would have happened at all.
The only way to stop these "bubbles" and recessions and depressions is to stop valuing everything subjectively. Yes, I realize that's a ridiculously tall order, but I'm just sayin'.
We might never know, if no research to investigate possible one-shot long-term cures is ever funded, because that's not where the big money is. You're deliberately baiting me, because you have a reasonable expectation that I would know nothing about "Strongyloides" (and I've never even heard of it). The fact that I personally haven't found such a cure nor ever even tried is not relevant. What is relevant is that it's conceivable that someone could find such a cure, IF all the research funding wasn't being focused into projects that promise to maximize the profit potential rather than maximize the value of the cure.
We get minimal cures because those are what maximizes profit.
Sony isn't actually participating in the open source lifestyle, they're merely dancing around the margins so they can profit from it... like companies that like to crow about how they're "going green". It's just marketing. Sony itself is about as open source as a magician's bag of tricks. I refer you back to the original quoted comment in TFA....
I only expect him to RTFA if he thinks he has something to say about the matter... if he doesn't, then he can skim and delete to his heart's contentment. That's not to say I expect him to spend a week researching the topic and become an EXPERT... life is (or should be) a collective learning process for us all, and we all make wrong conclusions now and then. Nevertheless there is such a thing as due diligence, and I think that R'ingTFA upon which one feels compelled to comment is a bare minimum of diligence, n'est-ce pas?:-)
Did you read or just fire from the hip? I think you're inferring a fact not in evidence; no fab closure was mentioned in the ARSTechnica report about this. In fact, it was stressed that this was an agreement for fabbing projects in addition to what both companies had independent of each other.
No. You already knew the answer, though. Homeopathy isn't a cure, either, it's shamanism, small-scale greed and manipulation (or self-delusion) as opposed to the large-scale orchestrated variety.
Actually, using drugs to "cure" diseases IS pretty evil shit, when the act of imagining, researching, producing, and distributing them retards the discovery and development of actual one-time CURES for those diseases.
DRUGS ARE A LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION "CURE".
Do you think Big Pharma is in the business of finding CURES? Nope: they're in the business of getting people DEPENDENT upon something and then continuing to sell that something to them for a LIFETIME. They engage in other behavior identical to drug lords, too, like GIVING AWAY FREE SAMPLES to encourage people to become dependent, and they use doctors as their street corner pushers to do that. Meanwhile, actual cures that could collectively save humanity billions of dollars may go unresearched and undiscovered, because Big Pharma isn't interested in encouraging research that doesn't promise them more subscription-model profits.
How are the actions of Big Pharma so much more ethical and legal than those of drug lords and pushers, when those actions AND THE MOTIVATIONS for them are so disturbingly similar?
It's all about getting people hooked and then selling them a lifetime subscription to assuage that addiction they helped create. Really that underpins a pretty sizable chunk of our so-called "economy", if you look closely enough.
Why do you folks think Big Pharma is so successful? One of the prongs of their attack on medical knowledge (and ultimately research also) is mis-education and indoctrination of physicians themselves, through both subtle whispering in their ears as well as brute-force constant bombardment. The knowledge of physicians is pretty much under attack from the day they toss that cap in the air, if not sooner.
BTW, I've heard from a family member who is a Kaiser HMO patient that Kaiser does not allow Big Pharma reps direct access to its staff phyicians, and instead funnels them to some sort of departmental liaison; if that's true, that is certainly one good thing that an HMO is doing.
Somebody at Netflix realized, "Hey, why pay or go to any effort finding qualified beta testers when we can just corral our users for free and re-brand them as beta testers?"
"Honest, it'll only hurt for a moment, the sting will go away."
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You've always believed this? Wait, how old are you? Right... you're at least older than 20, so then if you've always believed that 20 years from when you first started believing it that we'd have all have persistent video, then that would mean we already have it!? What are you hiding? What secret online store do I have to visit to get it? Do I gotta be a spook and have some security clearance, or be secretly enslaved to the CIA once I have it?
I think you understand ad hominem quite a bit better than you understand socialism. Thanks for the deep insight.
If there hadn't been so many trailer-trash penny-ante entrepreneurs requesting the coupons and then buying converters with no intention of using them but rather re-selling them on eBay and the like, there would have been plenty of funding to get the converters into the hands of the people who arguably need them. The trailer-trash entrepreneurs were quite probably the early adopters in the program, and the government had no way to guarantee that the converters being purchased with coupons were actually being used by the same people.
That's what happens when you let capitalist foxes into the socialist henhouse, so to speak.
Legal documents aren't inherently perfect just because it's intended that they be perfect. Legalese is "code" intended to solve a problem just as surely as anything written in COBOL; legalese can have bugs in it, too.
Not at all.
I'm also getting sick of the lack of objectivity demonstrated by Slashdotters allowed to moderate: my comment was moderated as Troll. If I had to choose one reason to desire being the world's benevolent Overlord, this would be it: surgical removal of the VMPC from the brains of every human and putting a stop to this sort of (re)action.
It's mis-framing, like you just did in responding to my comments.
It's only impossible to people who fail to comprehend it. It's that ignorance you demonstrated that fuels capitalism. A lot of people smarter than you (or both of us) have described means, at least theoretical, to implement objective valuation. Such a system would be pre-scriptive rather than darwinian de-scriptive (like capitalism), and would require a nearly unanimous consensus in order to work. Humans, still being innately selfish, cannot achieve that degree of consensus (about much of anything), so objective valuation languishes as a theory. Communism was a lousy and hypocritical failed attempt to implement it.
It doesn't, however, mean that it's "impossible".
Actually it's OUR job to hype it, by word of mouth. I've been doing that for years, but my audience is limited and my cats don't have opposable thumbs.
Just as soon as I manage to get my 10,000 hours in. In other words, Real Soon Now.
For navigation, my hx4700 offers an even more general purpose solution: I use a bluetooth GPS (20-hour battery life) and Tom-Tom's ARM software. Tom-Tom at least didn't ignore this market segment. There's actually a LOT of both free and for-pay ARM software out there, but as you said it's largely unknown BECAUSE there's not this huge marketing campaign constantly waving it in people's faces. And it was all years ahead of the iPod and iPhone. I can actually show you "prior art" third-party today-screen and productivity apps that arguably pioneered the iPhone's touch-friendly interface before the iPhone did, and available for at least a couple years beforehand. Once the iPhone appeared, with all that marketing, it had the effect of focusing even the ARM Pocket PC market on software that had that touch-friendly paradigm; there was a lot of Pocket PC software that got redesigned after the iPhone appeared, even though such touch-friendly apps had already existed before that. The iPhone's marketing campaign diverted everyone's attention to that single aspect of the software, and suddenly nothing else mattered.
I have an iPAQ hx4700 that has a touchscreen bigger than the iPhone's, a 624MHz CPU, and both SD and CF slots; how about an "app" for that, hmmm, Amazon?
I'm frankly getting sick of these Apple "there's an app for that" ads, ads that once again twist reality to make it sound like the planets revolve around a big glowing apple rather than the sun. Pretty much every non-3G app that exists for the iPhone would be just as functional and applicable on an hx4700, but Apple doesn't want people to know that.
This is exactly the sort of shenanigans that Marx and other historical socialists were trying to prevent. The reason this "bubble" emerged in the first place, AND the reason it burst, is precisely because we value everything subjectively rather than objectively.
Call me a socialist if you think it will break my bones, but had we taken the principles of socialism a bit more seriously in the last century it's unlikely the Great Depression would have happened at all.
The only way to stop these "bubbles" and recessions and depressions is to stop valuing everything subjectively. Yes, I realize that's a ridiculously tall order, but I'm just sayin'.
Why exactly has this been modded as Troll? Is Riddick or one of his minions haunting this discussion as a faceless anonymous moderator?
Hey, I hear the Denny's over there is hiring.
*ducks*
We might never know, if no research to investigate possible one-shot long-term cures is ever funded, because that's not where the big money is. You're deliberately baiting me, because you have a reasonable expectation that I would know nothing about "Strongyloides" (and I've never even heard of it). The fact that I personally haven't found such a cure nor ever even tried is not relevant. What is relevant is that it's conceivable that someone could find such a cure, IF all the research funding wasn't being focused into projects that promise to maximize the profit potential rather than maximize the value of the cure.
We get minimal cures because those are what maximizes profit.
Sony isn't actually participating in the open source lifestyle, they're merely dancing around the margins so they can profit from it... like companies that like to crow about how they're "going green". It's just marketing. Sony itself is about as open source as a magician's bag of tricks. I refer you back to the original quoted comment in TFA....
I only expect him to RTFA if he thinks he has something to say about the matter... if he doesn't, then he can skim and delete to his heart's contentment. That's not to say I expect him to spend a week researching the topic and become an EXPERT... life is (or should be) a collective learning process for us all, and we all make wrong conclusions now and then. Nevertheless there is such a thing as due diligence, and I think that R'ingTFA upon which one feels compelled to comment is a bare minimum of diligence, n'est-ce pas? :-)
Did you read or just fire from the hip? I think you're inferring a fact not in evidence; no fab closure was mentioned in the ARSTechnica report about this. In fact, it was stressed that this was an agreement for fabbing projects in addition to what both companies had independent of each other.
No. You already knew the answer, though. Homeopathy isn't a cure, either, it's shamanism, small-scale greed and manipulation (or self-delusion) as opposed to the large-scale orchestrated variety.
Or to fund research that could find actual cures, rather than lifetime subscriptions for stopgap kludges?
Doctors don't need to know more about drugs, when they aren't actually CURES for anything if they have to be taken for the rest of a person's life.
Surely Microsoft is the only company that does that, right?
Actually, using drugs to "cure" diseases IS pretty evil shit, when the act of imagining, researching, producing, and distributing them retards the discovery and development of actual one-time CURES for those diseases.
DRUGS ARE A LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION "CURE".
Do you think Big Pharma is in the business of finding CURES? Nope: they're in the business of getting people DEPENDENT upon something and then continuing to sell that something to them for a LIFETIME. They engage in other behavior identical to drug lords, too, like GIVING AWAY FREE SAMPLES to encourage people to become dependent, and they use doctors as their street corner pushers to do that. Meanwhile, actual cures that could collectively save humanity billions of dollars may go unresearched and undiscovered, because Big Pharma isn't interested in encouraging research that doesn't promise them more subscription-model profits.
How are the actions of Big Pharma so much more ethical and legal than those of drug lords and pushers, when those actions AND THE MOTIVATIONS for them are so disturbingly similar?
It's all about getting people hooked and then selling them a lifetime subscription to assuage that addiction they helped create. Really that underpins a pretty sizable chunk of our so-called "economy", if you look closely enough.
Why do you folks think Big Pharma is so successful? One of the prongs of their attack on medical knowledge (and ultimately research also) is mis-education and indoctrination of physicians themselves, through both subtle whispering in their ears as well as brute-force constant bombardment. The knowledge of physicians is pretty much under attack from the day they toss that cap in the air, if not sooner.
BTW, I've heard from a family member who is a Kaiser HMO patient that Kaiser does not allow Big Pharma reps direct access to its staff phyicians, and instead funnels them to some sort of departmental liaison; if that's true, that is certainly one good thing that an HMO is doing.
Somebody at Netflix realized, "Hey, why pay or go to any effort finding qualified beta testers when we can just corral our users for free and re-brand them as beta testers?"
"Honest, it'll only hurt for a moment, the sting will go away."