Wealth is slavery, the real artificial disparity is between goods and services.
You pay for people's time, when you buy a product you pay for the time to gather the resources, design it, build it, transport it and sell it.
Some products do have disproportionate levels of cost for the human effort involved, software can definitely be one of those depending on how many people use it.
It's sad to think of the dollars in your pocket as your ability to control people, but it's true.
I've been thinking about this and I'm not sure it's an advantage, when I'm not doing anything on my computer and I close all the apps I know do periodic access it shouldn't do anything at all.
If my HD makes noise I know I have malware...
I'm not terribly paranoid about it but I like having a physical indicator that my system isn't being monitored or pwned.
Hey I found a HTC phone video on youtube. It looks sexy as hell but could definitely use a slide out keyboard. Does anyone have a link to a video where one does?
One of my English profs said "Everything is representation." and he's right in a very literal as well as metaphorical sense.
Everything is programmed into us except our reaction to the first stimulus we receive.
The more similar the programming the more identical we are... Travelling to different cities around the world I found that people had similar ways of viewing things.
It's the interaction between different viewpoints that creates the tension that produces innovation.
A brilliant mind sees things more clearly, a genius sees things differently.
Taking a step back and asking what you're really trying to accomplish can make all the difference, that's the great thing about programming... we solve a problem forever the better you become the more global your solution...
"God sees the grain of sand in the beach and also the world in a grain of sand."
I like to think I'm open minded about the different mentalities of software companies, that said... When you sign up with Apple you give up some control options you would have with other vendors (not just open source). Apple is very good at doing things in ways that are consistent intuitive and easy, the price of that is a lack of control.
It will become possible to disable this feature (almost certainly) but it should be obvious to everyone by now that Apple isn't about diversity or individuality... those are way down their list of priorities behind ease of use and automatic and generic initial setup.
real degradation of patch-download time if you tried.
Why the Upstream is still there, sitting unused in AT&T's cabling... they can just sell the upstream to Blizzard... problem solved they make so much money!
AT some point upstream becomes downstream so the two are equal (in specific instances there are compromises but for the vast majority...)
So how come we get less upstream? I have NEVER heard a good answer to this question.
Where does this division of upstream and downstream take place?
The only thing that's clear is net neutrality is mythical, there is a system in place to stop non-commercial users being content hosts and has been since dialup.
Like a Theocracy some political systems such as communism require more communal methods of looking at problems than others.
Look at the U.S. military... it's difficult to debate that original thought is actively discouraged.
Chinese citizens still have freedom of movement so in essence they are willing participants in their state.
As far as a facist ideal, the two party closed system in the U.S. produces a single ruler. I don't use that word lightly as we live post Manhattan project.
The 25 leaders in China are in some ways closer to the original European form of democracy that we emulate today, it is impossible to form the ideals of a billion people into a single all encompassing representation and compromises must be made. China, is neither a true communist not facist state, it has elements of Democracy and Capitalism.
Communism has radically changed China's economic and developmental curves... most of the paranoia about China stems from the belief that their growth will continue, which seems unlikely as they have to make the transition from a technological to a scientific nation... a feat few nations have successfully managed (After working to "catch up" with elements of other societies).
As with soviet Russia, the line between external military and economic strength and internal human rights issues is blurred by the external media, you may remember the WTO and U.S. Oil protests spurred by the Iraq and Afghanistan wars... try to remember that Capitalist countries disassociate themselves from the direct application of power through corporations. I'm not going to debate that public provided services are subject to coruption and inefficiency however I would point out that corporations have an enormously cut throat and bottom line driven mentality treating their workers as poorly as the state and competition will allow.
Before we attack a communist state we need to remember that the U.S. government is responsible (by allowing them to hold a corporate charter) for Enron, Nike, Pepsi, Coke, Nestle and their questionable dealings.
Maybe it will go down as a sign that the world doesn't irrationally hate communism... and accepts that communists states have all the responsibilities of Capitalist states AND corporations.
Maybe when they see that there is no irrational hatred and dread they will open up more and more... parent.
Of course given your post it seems unlikely.
Why is everyone in a glass house holding a stone... I live in Canada and I don't think my nation is perfect, I wish it was better and I wish it was more open so that we could find constructive solutions to our problems. Attacking every lapse as systematic and a reason for revolution doesn't resolve anything.
He had time to examine the BIOS for a $40 piece of hardware... He is unemployed or a student... someone should give him a job.
If you're a wealthy Japanese person, westerner's not shelling out thousands for Sony products that are 10% smaller doesn't make any sense either... Different needs different markets.
Seems to be getting hit by filtering. So they are attacking legal forms of high volume, low priority traffic.
There was an article a few days ago about a man with an $85,000 phone bill, something VOIP could cure if we could trust it to work consistently.
If the ISPS can "lower" priority on some packets can't they just raise the priority of VOIP and html requests. Eventually P2P would mimic them (and in the meantime it would blend with other traffic so it shouldn't take a significant loss.
A lot of ISPS have a "heavy traffic lane" high latencies but unlimited throughput, that is probably the wrong solution why not a "low traffic lane" to support the small fast transfers (IM,VOIP,SSH).
If they can sniff the general hidden packets for patterns that show it's p2p it should be easy to find the stuff that isn't p2p.
On a small university project porting a gps app to android. Because of the GPS/android interface the project won't be properly tested until I can get my hands on some hardware.
I keep seeing prototype systems running android in videos from conventions, I've been assuming they were modded in (after just working with the Symbian API an overlay seems possible).
Can anyone fill me in on purchasing from Google or the hacker's guide to Android?
You're wrong, shit you can even encase it in aerodynamic copper and protect it from recoil for under 70KG.
as far as critical mass goes, that has to do with the point where your Uranium is dense enough to begin spliting from random netrons flying through it, sure you could use a lot of uranium or you could use REALLY strong conventional explosive to make it really really dense.
As you know the technology, stability, and reliability of high explosive have improved by orders of magnitude since that footage.
The way I think of it is, ICBM's cost billions of dollars, you need silos, personel, launch codes, maintenance AND the international community looks over your shoulder! Cost to build micronuke $100,000,000 (Cheaper the more you make!). Cost to smuggle a shipping container with a strange lead box, $8000 (Secret agents are so patriotic they work for free, make it $80,000 if you want... total deniability), Cost of bribing/putting a convenient girlfriend near a construction worker, suggesting he put a seisemometer in the base of a skyscraper encased in concrete with only a tiny piece of wire exposed? $5-10,000 (Hell, he's a construction worker no one will miss him anyway).
Value of having nuclear munitions anonymously detonatoble in every major city in the world? Priceless.
Now it's fiscally irresponsible for government's to have ICBM's (and obviously they do proving the conservative libertarian "government is inefficient" hypothesis) however the socialist "sometimes the government is the cheapest way to get good results" mentality suggests that not all of them are morons.
I'm not sure it makes me happy knowing that Switzerland can blow up any major city for $130,000,000, but it does make me happy to know that if you act like a dick... you might find out, not who you pissed off but what the consequences of dickishness are.
Plausible yes, easy, for a government, fuck yes. So let's all chill the fk out, keep going in circles around the sun and come to some kind of agreement...
We get a million comments saying how no one can afford this let's run some analysis.
GPU size, 65/55nm , pipelines 240 vs Mainstream 192, Mem-Bus 512 vs 448 Mainstream , so basically this means that the next generation mainstream card will be 80% as fast as this card.
Allright, so for $250-300 (in aproxx 6 months)you can get a GFX9800 x 1.2. Not too shabby, especially as this is the generation of PC games that kicks console asses.
Rock on nVidia, catch up time ATI... god I hope these things are user programmable.
Send them to one of the services that recycles systems from businesses for schools and disadvantaged families. A lot of corporations are afraid that their systems contain priveledged info but since yours had large chunks of decompressed video, most of which has liscencing attached and has been released, you are in a unique position to provide HDs.
500 GB Hd's cost $100 buy 4, donate the smaller drives, and save the recyclers thounsands of dollars.
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Wealth is slavery, the real artificial disparity is between goods and services.
You pay for people's time, when you buy a product you pay for the time to gather the resources, design it, build it, transport it and sell it.
Some products do have disproportionate levels of cost for the human effort involved, software can definitely be one of those depending on how many people use it.
It's sad to think of the dollars in your pocket as your ability to control people, but it's true.
"And give him head whenever he wants." - Sidney Poitier.
absolute silence while working
I've been thinking about this and I'm not sure it's an advantage, when I'm not doing anything on my computer and I close all the apps I know do periodic access it shouldn't do anything at all.
If my HD makes noise I know I have malware...
I'm not terribly paranoid about it but I like having a physical indicator that my system isn't being monitored or pwned.
WD is pretty good, Seagate has also been kind to me (Kind enough I ran my OS off a Raid0 for 5 years o_0).
:(
But Fujitsu, those drives are CRAP, and they end up in laptops
Hey I found a HTC phone video on youtube. It looks sexy as hell but could definitely use a slide out keyboard. Does anyone have a link to a video where one does?
200 = 40 drinks for girls in bars.
Or 200 chocolate bars, probably the most pleasure per $ you can get.
One of my English profs said "Everything is representation." and he's right in a very literal as well as metaphorical sense.
Everything is programmed into us except our reaction to the first stimulus we receive.
The more similar the programming the more identical we are... Travelling to different cities around the world I found that people had similar ways of viewing things.
It's the interaction between different viewpoints that creates the tension that produces innovation.
A brilliant mind sees things more clearly, a genius sees things differently.
Taking a step back and asking what you're really trying to accomplish can make all the difference, that's the great thing about programming... we solve a problem forever the better you become the more global your solution...
"God sees the grain of sand in the beach and also the world in a grain of sand."
"where "me" in this case is any end-user"
I like to think I'm open minded about the different mentalities of software companies, that said... When you sign up with Apple you give up some control options you would have with other vendors (not just open source). Apple is very good at doing things in ways that are consistent intuitive and easy, the price of that is a lack of control.
It will become possible to disable this feature (almost certainly) but it should be obvious to everyone by now that Apple isn't about diversity or individuality... those are way down their list of priorities behind ease of use and automatic and generic initial setup.
real degradation of patch-download time if you tried.
Why the Upstream is still there, sitting unused in AT&T's cabling... they can just sell the upstream to Blizzard... problem solved they make so much money!
AT some point upstream becomes downstream so the two are equal (in specific instances there are compromises but for the vast majority...)
So how come we get less upstream? I have NEVER heard a good answer to this question.
Example: These guys will UPLOAD 20,000GB of data for $5.95 a month. (one of?)The best Canadian ISP(s) can only offer 200 GB of up/down for $29.95.
Where does this division of upstream and downstream take place?
The only thing that's clear is net neutrality is mythical, there is a system in place to stop non-commercial users being content hosts and has been since dialup.
Anyone with the power to ruin your life just by their word against yours should not be trusted.
:P
I agree, we should DEFINITELY not trust women
Like a Theocracy some political systems such as communism require more communal methods of looking at problems than others.
Look at the U.S. military... it's difficult to debate that original thought is actively discouraged.
Chinese citizens still have freedom of movement so in essence they are willing participants in their state.
As far as a facist ideal, the two party closed system in the U.S. produces a single ruler. I don't use that word lightly as we live post Manhattan project.
The 25 leaders in China are in some ways closer to the original European form of democracy that we emulate today, it is impossible to form the ideals of a billion people into a single all encompassing representation and compromises must be made. China, is neither a true communist not facist state, it has elements of Democracy and Capitalism.
Communism has radically changed China's economic and developmental curves... most of the paranoia about China stems from the belief that their growth will continue, which seems unlikely as they have to make the transition from a technological to a scientific nation... a feat few nations have successfully managed (After working to "catch up" with elements of other societies).
As with soviet Russia, the line between external military and economic strength and internal human rights issues is blurred by the external media, you may remember the WTO and U.S. Oil protests spurred by the Iraq and Afghanistan wars... try to remember that Capitalist countries disassociate themselves from the direct application of power through corporations. I'm not going to debate that public provided services are subject to coruption and inefficiency however I would point out that corporations have an enormously cut throat and bottom line driven mentality treating their workers as poorly as the state and competition will allow.
Before we attack a communist state we need to remember that the U.S. government is responsible (by allowing them to hold a corporate charter) for Enron, Nike, Pepsi, Coke, Nestle and their questionable dealings.
Maybe it will go down as a sign that the world doesn't irrationally hate communism... and accepts that communists states have all the responsibilities of Capitalist states AND corporations.
Maybe when they see that there is no irrational hatred and dread they will open up more and more... parent.
Of course given your post it seems unlikely.
Why is everyone in a glass house holding a stone... I live in Canada and I don't think my nation is perfect, I wish it was better and I wish it was more open so that we could find constructive solutions to our problems. Attacking every lapse as systematic and a reason for revolution doesn't resolve anything.
He had time to examine the BIOS for a $40 piece of hardware... He is unemployed or a student... someone should give him a job.
If you're a wealthy Japanese person, westerner's not shelling out thousands for Sony products that are 10% smaller doesn't make any sense either... Different needs different markets.
I dunno, you should see the finances on Air Iran! Going to be pretty hard to compete with tha.... oh right.
Maybe in Germany, German efficiency isn't a myth. At least compared to U.S. efficiency.
Philosophy of greed = corrupt politicians, who knew.
Is getting smaller and denser all the time!
KEEP WITH IT
With JBOD rebuilding and MTF of flash we could have switchable 5 slot uber raid in every laptop.
Don't go back to HD's they are big, noisy, clunky and prone to failure!
This is what storage will look like .
PUT AIR PASSANGERS TO SLEEP! Charge less than 1/10th and stack us like wood!
I can't fly and I doubt anyone else can either!
Promise faster flights and even the business "I work while I fly" types will submit.
Being a great driver won't save your ass when you need to get away from a truck and you've got 8.5hp under the hood...
I hope the hybrid system works out, should get some crazy acceleration if they can fit a light enough drive train in there.
by his lack of grasp of the English language.
:P
Lol... (/English Major)
Wrong parenthesis added for humour
Seems to be getting hit by filtering. So they are attacking legal forms of high volume, low priority traffic.
There was an article a few days ago about a man with an $85,000 phone bill, something VOIP could cure if we could trust it to work consistently.
If the ISPS can "lower" priority on some packets can't they just raise the priority of VOIP and html requests. Eventually P2P would mimic them (and in the meantime it would blend with other traffic so it shouldn't take a significant loss.
A lot of ISPS have a "heavy traffic lane" high latencies but unlimited throughput, that is probably the wrong solution why not a "low traffic lane" to support the small fast transfers (IM,VOIP,SSH).
If they can sniff the general hidden packets for patterns that show it's p2p it should be easy to find the stuff that isn't p2p.
On a small university project porting a gps app to android. Because of the GPS/android interface the project won't be properly tested until I can get my hands on some hardware.
I keep seeing prototype systems running android in videos from conventions, I've been assuming they were modded in (after just working with the Symbian API an overlay seems possible).
Can anyone fill me in on purchasing from Google or the hacker's guide to Android?
Disclaimer: IWOT (I want one too). - Z
You're wrong, shit you can even encase it in aerodynamic copper and protect it from recoil for under 70KG.
as far as critical mass goes, that has to do with the point where your Uranium is dense enough to begin spliting from random netrons flying through it, sure you could use a lot of uranium or you could use REALLY strong conventional explosive to make it really really dense.
As you know the technology, stability, and reliability of high explosive have improved by orders of magnitude since that footage.
The way I think of it is, ICBM's cost billions of dollars, you need silos, personel, launch codes, maintenance AND the international community looks over your shoulder!
Cost to build micronuke $100,000,000 (Cheaper the more you make!).
Cost to smuggle a shipping container with a strange lead box, $8000 (Secret agents are so patriotic they work for free, make it $80,000 if you want... total deniability),
Cost of bribing/putting a convenient girlfriend near a construction worker, suggesting he put a seisemometer in the base of a skyscraper encased in concrete with only a tiny piece of wire exposed? $5-10,000 (Hell, he's a construction worker no one will miss him anyway).
Value of having nuclear munitions anonymously detonatoble in every major city in the world? Priceless.
Now it's fiscally irresponsible for government's to have ICBM's (and obviously they do proving the conservative libertarian "government is inefficient" hypothesis) however the socialist "sometimes the government is the cheapest way to get good results" mentality suggests that not all of them are morons.
I'm not sure it makes me happy knowing that Switzerland can blow up any major city for $130,000,000, but it does make me happy to know that if you act like a dick... you might find out, not who you pissed off but what the consequences of dickishness are.
Plausible yes, easy, for a government, fuck yes. So let's all chill the fk out, keep going in circles around the sun and come to some kind of agreement...
We get a million comments saying how no one can afford this let's run some analysis.
GPU size, 65/55nm , pipelines 240 vs Mainstream 192, Mem-Bus 512 vs 448 Mainstream , so basically this means that the next generation mainstream card will be 80% as fast as this card.
Allright, so for $250-300 (in aproxx 6 months)you can get a GFX9800 x 1.2. Not too shabby, especially as this is the generation of PC games that kicks console asses.
Rock on nVidia, catch up time ATI... god I hope these things are user programmable.
But a company can start releasing components and obfuscating the original codebase with proprietary libraries.
Send them to one of the services that recycles systems from businesses for schools and disadvantaged families.
A lot of corporations are afraid that their systems contain priveledged info but since yours had large chunks of decompressed video, most of which has liscencing attached and has been released, you are in a unique position to provide HDs.
500 GB Hd's cost $100 buy 4, donate the smaller drives, and save the recyclers thounsands of dollars.
-D