Those that like either fork can use either one. And a good number of "forks" can actually be reconciled back into one codebase bringing the strengths of both sides to all its users. Think samba-tng or egcs.
So moving pieces of paper around between addresses can't possibly be done by anything else then the government?
Sure they can. The problem is the nature of the logistics. Two companies purchasing large airplane and truck fleets will always find it cheaper to just buy the other company. Then you have one company, charging whatever it feels like. And you don't want that, because then there is no choice in the market. The government-run monopoly is to ensure that this position doesn't occur, by legislating the natural end-result.
Postal service is a "natural monopoly." Other services of this sort include powerline transmission, power generation, and last-mile phone cabling. We've seen what deregulation in power markets have done in states like California and Ohio.
Ignorance and the user won't step out of their bounds beyond their Internet Explorer and Outlook. Unfortunately, others like Gator and BetterInternet will do it on their behalf.
In the end, a computer is more like a car than an oven, capable of great power but requiring a good deal of knowledge to use (and not run over people in the process).
Fro everybody that has to manage computers for people who think this is a good thing, let it go completely. If you're using domain-lookup for anti-spoofing of email addresses, let the email through (for those users). Let the chaos ensue as the end-users actually get what they ask for.
Then there's the solution proposed before, to totally DDOS the system with http://www.dev_random_cleaned.com/ and see the Verisign servers go down in smoke.
(I'd say the same about open-source software. Twenty-four hours of no open-source on the network being run, and see the chaos. See those sendmail deployments shut down, those BIND deployments go down, all Apache sites go down. Make sure you prepared your popcorn ahead of time, you may not be able to build fires in the ensuing entertainment.)
I can't see the keyboard taking off. I don't know about you, but I like feeling the keys putting up resistance and knowing that I pressed the keys correctly. Well, that's what they've said so far about the infrared projector keyboard, and I certainly don't see anybody using those.
That projector pen would definitely be nice though, I hope they make it project far and wide (and sharp).
So let's take a look at how "fair" even the most "fair" tax rate, the flat tax, is.
The richest 10% made 44.9% of the income, and thus pay 44.9% of the taxes. The lowest 90% made 54.1% of the income, and thus pay 54.1% of the taxes. This doesn't look fair to your numbers game either.
There are benefits of taxes that the rich are privy to but the poorer are not. Like tourism and promotions budgets that help local businesses. Or government-sponsored research and selective tax breaks on new industries. Infant-industry protection. Or government-sponsored invasions. Take your pick.
For non-developers, a non-issue. For programmers working on the clean-room Java implementations (gcj, kaffe, classpath, etc etc) this could cause another SCO or XFree86 mess.
Main difference: Solver constraints. Goal Seek can target whatever value it feels like, but if I need my variables to be "binary" or "integer" or "less than 5" Goal Seek doesn't cut it.
Excel Solver. Or at least something of that nature that will do that kind of optimization. Please don't suggest deployment of Matlab in a work environment like this.
When you're working at the Tablet range, every ounce matters.
(I'm assuming you have a desktop of sufficient use for your "power" needs.) It's worth nearly every tradeoff to get those pounds off. How often do you REALLY need a CD-ROM drive when you're out? Or floppy disk? Serial port? Parallel port? Firewire? ZV (rca) port? Heck, 2GHz and the associated bigger battery?
I used to use a 7lb laptop. Now switched to 3.5lb. Still calling it heavy. But much better than before ^^. Drool over the Thinkpad X40, 2.9lb
Trusted Computing is damage. Providers will rush to meet the void - be it the major backbone providers, or something as "primitive" as wide propagation radio signals.
People have tasted the Freedom, they won't give it up that easily.
Hmm...I wonder if he tinkers with his car? Me, I know the basics of how a car engine works, and sure, I understand electronics and wiring and so forth. But I have no clue what goes on in today's modern multi-processor-controlled engine -- it might as well be a black box to me. Actually, it is -- my car is a tool, a device to get me from point A to point B in reasonable comfort.
That's why he pays a mechanic to fix it. And if the mechanic says he were a moron to not change the oil or tires or whatnot when he were due four months ago, he takes heed. And he doesn't do it again (unless he happens to like paying for his stupidity).
A person refusing to not open anonymous attachments despite all those warnings should not be given the same benefit as those that do. All ISPs have "safe surfing" guidelines that remove 99% of the problems these people face. These people are deliberately not following them.
The last shift was towards knowledge based industries, and now there isn't anything to shift too (sic).
There's at least one: culture-based industries. Think of the global influence of American television and movies, or of Japanese anime and manga locally.
The reams of new knowledge and information have brought new demands for systems to process the information - the backbone of our information technology infrastructure. Now, the principles of information management are more set than before, when everybody had their own incompatible methods. Innovation was the key to gaining market advantage - witness the financial success of Wal-Mart with their tight inventory information management, or of Dell and their ship-to-order JIT tracking system.
Now we have seen the fallout of those that failed and those that have adapted. The principles that guided the companies that have risen from obscurity in the late 90s are now known to the public - to use them now only prevents competitive disadvantage. Information management systems - while still a young field - is rapidly becoming commoditized, and innovation in this field is hitting diminishing returns. In short, programming and information development projects are now becoming less cost-effective; the new programs just don't add enough value. Look at the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in the industrialized nations: automation everywhere. The people that work to maintain these systems are well paid but the fact is that there are not many people in these positions, as more are unnecessary. So it will be in programming.
Open Source can be considered the logical conclusion to all of this - the ways to make the best software are known, and everybody knows them (they just have to implement it, no mean feat). Software development costs must be drilled to the ground - leaving only maintenance and upkeep. Sure, there are jobs there, just not that many, it takes fewer people to watch over a system than to build one after all.
You already see the problem of staying in the same industry with old techniques and philosophies with the RIAA and MPAA trying to defend their old methods of business. Don't fall in the same trap.
Or not, since in the end they will all fall over trying to determine whether the halting problem has been accounted for in their theory-making systems.
Everybody would agree with your statement of fact, that people are in for their own self-interest. I certainly hope this is the case - much of market economics depends on it.
When the price of the legitimate good exceeds the cost of the pirate good and the implicit legal cost, you get the pirate good.
Punish the customers less. Then every lesser punishment will feel like a reward.
Of course, that would just mean they still get to ream you up the ass the first time around... I say we should set an example of Intuit instead, and completely shut them down, so other companies take note of the blazing carcass left.
Well... let's thus more than QUADRUPLE the amount of data to fit the 720x480 data that a DVD contains?
Sure, it may not all be necessary. And there are gains in increased correlation. But that's still a lot more data to fit on, to meet the standard that is DVD.
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Your 300MB number is coming from where? Most probably from sizes you can get with DivX - that is to say, MPEG4. DVDs are MPEG2, using slightly different algorithms and definitely a different quantization matrix... one that emphasizes sharpness instead of the H.264 used in MPEG4 that emphasizes low frequencies.
"all the features" would mean you're turning on stuff that are totally useless or aren't worth the effort to calculate out... 10% time for 0.1% improvement in average quantizer just isn't worth it for most people. And decoding XviD takes about 500mhz (Celeron).
Don't blame the software or the hardware for what is clearly PEBKAC.
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As for me, I can't really help you. I run AIX.
I would say you're beyond assistance there.
And that's where the real power of OSS lies.
Those that like either fork can use either one. And a good number of "forks" can actually be reconciled back into one codebase bringing the strengths of both sides to all its users. Think samba-tng or egcs.
So moving pieces of paper around between addresses can't possibly be done by anything else then the government?
Sure they can. The problem is the nature of the logistics. Two companies purchasing large airplane and truck fleets will always find it cheaper to just buy the other company. Then you have one company, charging whatever it feels like. And you don't want that, because then there is no choice in the market. The government-run monopoly is to ensure that this position doesn't occur, by legislating the natural end-result.
Postal service is a "natural monopoly." Other services of this sort include powerline transmission, power generation, and last-mile phone cabling. We've seen what deregulation in power markets have done in states like California and Ohio.
Ignorance and the user won't step out of their bounds beyond their Internet Explorer and Outlook. Unfortunately, others like Gator and BetterInternet will do it on their behalf.
In the end, a computer is more like a car than an oven, capable of great power but requiring a good deal of knowledge to use (and not run over people in the process).
Fro everybody that has to manage computers for people who think this is a good thing, let it go completely. If you're using domain-lookup for anti-spoofing of email addresses, let the email through (for those users). Let the chaos ensue as the end-users actually get what they ask for.
Then there's the solution proposed before, to totally DDOS the system with http://www.dev_random_cleaned.com/ and see the Verisign servers go down in smoke.
(I'd say the same about open-source software. Twenty-four hours of no open-source on the network being run, and see the chaos. See those sendmail deployments shut down, those BIND deployments go down, all Apache sites go down. Make sure you prepared your popcorn ahead of time, you may not be able to build fires in the ensuing entertainment.)
NANAE Rule #3: Spammers are stupid.
Spammers will pay smarter and trickier blackhats to write more insidious trojans and viruses, but that's about the limit.
I can't see the keyboard taking off. I don't know about you, but I like feeling the keys putting up resistance and knowing that I pressed the keys correctly. Well, that's what they've said so far about the infrared projector keyboard, and I certainly don't see anybody using those.
That projector pen would definitely be nice though, I hope they make it project far and wide (and sharp).
So let's take a look at how "fair" even the most "fair" tax rate, the flat tax, is.
The richest 10% made 44.9% of the income, and thus pay 44.9% of the taxes. The lowest 90% made 54.1% of the income, and thus pay 54.1% of the taxes. This doesn't look fair to your numbers game either.
There are benefits of taxes that the rich are privy to but the poorer are not. Like tourism and promotions budgets that help local businesses. Or government-sponsored research and selective tax breaks on new industries. Infant-industry protection. Or government-sponsored invasions. Take your pick.
For Debian, 2008.
Viewable, but not Open Source.
For non-developers, a non-issue. For programmers working on the clean-room Java implementations (gcj, kaffe, classpath, etc etc) this could cause another SCO or XFree86 mess.
Goal Seek != Solver
Main difference: Solver constraints. Goal Seek can target whatever value it feels like, but if I need my variables to be "binary" or "integer" or "less than 5" Goal Seek doesn't cut it.
Excel Solver. Or at least something of that nature that will do that kind of optimization. Please don't suggest deployment of Matlab in a work environment like this.
/me ducks
PowerPoint Pack-n-Go.
and of course, Clippy.
When you're working at the Tablet range, every ounce matters.
(I'm assuming you have a desktop of sufficient use for your "power" needs.) It's worth nearly every tradeoff to get those pounds off. How often do you REALLY need a CD-ROM drive when you're out? Or floppy disk? Serial port? Parallel port? Firewire? ZV (rca) port? Heck, 2GHz and the associated bigger battery?
I used to use a 7lb laptop. Now switched to 3.5lb. Still calling it heavy. But much better than before ^^. Drool over the Thinkpad X40, 2.9lb
Now go work with those nice professional 11 to 20 megapixel cameras. 2GB = 20 pictures isn't going to cut it.
Trusted Computing is damage. Providers will rush to meet the void - be it the major backbone providers, or something as "primitive" as wide propagation radio signals.
People have tasted the Freedom, they won't give it up that easily.
Hmm...I wonder if he tinkers with his car? Me, I know the basics of how a car engine works, and sure, I understand electronics and wiring and so forth. But I have no clue what goes on in today's modern multi-processor-controlled engine -- it might as well be a black box to me. Actually, it is -- my car is a tool, a device to get me from point A to point B in reasonable comfort.
That's why he pays a mechanic to fix it. And if the mechanic says he were a moron to not change the oil or tires or whatnot when he were due four months ago, he takes heed. And he doesn't do it again (unless he happens to like paying for his stupidity).
A person refusing to not open anonymous attachments despite all those warnings should not be given the same benefit as those that do. All ISPs have "safe surfing" guidelines that remove 99% of the problems these people face. These people are deliberately not following them.
The last shift was towards knowledge based industries, and now there isn't anything to shift too (sic).
There's at least one: culture-based industries. Think of the global influence of American television and movies, or of Japanese anime and manga locally.
The reams of new knowledge and information have brought new demands for systems to process the information - the backbone of our information technology infrastructure. Now, the principles of information management are more set than before, when everybody had their own incompatible methods. Innovation was the key to gaining market advantage - witness the financial success of Wal-Mart with their tight inventory information management, or of Dell and their ship-to-order JIT tracking system.
Now we have seen the fallout of those that failed and those that have adapted. The principles that guided the companies that have risen from obscurity in the late 90s are now known to the public - to use them now only prevents competitive disadvantage. Information management systems - while still a young field - is rapidly becoming commoditized, and innovation in this field is hitting diminishing returns. In short, programming and information development projects are now becoming less cost-effective; the new programs just don't add enough value. Look at the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in the industrialized nations: automation everywhere. The people that work to maintain these systems are well paid but the fact is that there are not many people in these positions, as more are unnecessary. So it will be in programming.
Open Source can be considered the logical conclusion to all of this - the ways to make the best software are known, and everybody knows them (they just have to implement it, no mean feat). Software development costs must be drilled to the ground - leaving only maintenance and upkeep. Sure, there are jobs there, just not that many, it takes fewer people to watch over a system than to build one after all.
You already see the problem of staying in the same industry with old techniques and philosophies with the RIAA and MPAA trying to defend their old methods of business. Don't fall in the same trap.
So we get all the bugginess of a windows driver giftwrapped in the bugginess of a linux alpha wrapper...
1. Don't give specifications away
2. Tech-savvy high-end linux users don't buy your product
3. ???
4. Profit???
welcome our Turing-complete overlords.
Or not, since in the end they will all fall over trying to determine whether the halting problem has been accounted for in their theory-making systems.
Everybody would agree with your statement of fact, that people are in for their own self-interest. I certainly hope this is the case - much of market economics depends on it.
When the price of the legitimate good exceeds the cost of the pirate good and the implicit legal cost, you get the pirate good.
By purchasing our products, you agree to be bound by the terms of this licensing agreement:
1. All your base are belong to us.
Sounds like a Dilbert type decision to me.
Punish the customers less. Then every lesser punishment will feel like a reward.
Of course, that would just mean they still get to ream you up the ass the first time around... I say we should set an example of Intuit instead, and completely shut them down, so other companies take note of the blazing carcass left.
320x240 resolution
Well... let's thus more than QUADRUPLE the amount of data to fit the 720x480 data that a DVD contains?
Sure, it may not all be necessary. And there are gains in increased correlation. But that's still a lot more data to fit on, to meet the standard that is DVD.
Your 300MB number is coming from where? Most probably from sizes you can get with DivX - that is to say, MPEG4. DVDs are MPEG2, using slightly different algorithms and definitely a different quantization matrix... one that emphasizes sharpness instead of the H.264 used in MPEG4 that emphasizes low frequencies.
Silly silly...
"all the features" would mean you're turning on stuff that are totally useless or aren't worth the effort to calculate out... 10% time for 0.1% improvement in average quantizer just isn't worth it for most people. And decoding XviD takes about 500mhz (Celeron).
Don't blame the software or the hardware for what is clearly PEBKAC.