What I found asthonising was the ability of Turner to declass his interviewer who threw some sticky phrases at him. I am as you probably notice no native speaker, and I really admire the different shapes of British language, in particular the more sophisticated ones. He doesn't say: "bullshit!". He says "I think it is a bit odd..."
Then there is the French person, Trichet, who is totally different. He sounds like a French EU technocrat. He has authority, so he dumps some thoughts on the interviewer. These are the kind of personalities whose main task is to find and shield brilliant people who work for them.
So if I had to chose I would take Trichet because I know that personalities as Turner are very direct and sophisticated on a message level but they are not effective and too risk averse in their communication, too vulnerable politically, too intellectual.
It is not the computers or the communication standards. Sorry, not our poor computers, not the right target for the blame game.
The challenge of the crisis is intellectual. Look, I remember that economists always explained me that they have no clue where the US growth rates come from systemically or can explain where the financial markets make all that money. The surprise was that it didn't crash earlier.
Maybe the whole Microsoft tool is a 60 000 Eur investment or a "Oh, you coded that?" or a "So we also acquired that Notebook tool..." or made for some corporate functionality checklist, you know, no one likes Ballmer to throw a chair.
Still, Microsoft is looking for the "don't do evil" technology licensing. It is really hard to get that stuff.
Which way round they are geographically I don't know, and culturally I know _very_ little about them. Kosovo, Montenegro, and Macedonia I have little knowledge of, apart from the recent (comparatively) wars. Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan I've got basically 0 knowledge of (though I did meet someone from Georgia a while back, coincidently when the whole South Ossetia invasion was kicking off, so I know a little about Georgia). Slovenia? I wouldn't be able to find it on an unmarked map. Then there's Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Monaco, and the Vatican which are all countries technically. And Kaliningrad Oblast, which I just found out about now, which is a part of the Russian Federation I never knew about.
Kaliningrad is the core of East Prussia and was invaded and overtaken by Stalin, actually part of Russia, the rest of the territory was stolen by Poland. Thanks for the f*cking Americans for the destruction of Prussia who didn't understand the political role of that nation! The other nations are leftover of the Soviet Union, not really "European". None of them has significant economic importance or would be a travel desination, it is second world, more bandit territories under Russian influence than part of the European culture. Kosovo, FYROM etc. are leftovers from Yugoslavia. The Baltic nations are more economically relevant and European but all you need to know is that they are Baltic nations.
But negative prices are still possible! Microsoft should offer the netbooks with Windows away for free to schools. Otherwise the schools pay the lock-in costs and do product training and platform marketing for the monopolist for free. It is like paying for a galley seat and workout.
Indeed, this is why the governments need to invest more in open source. It does not matter if they use it, it is just a fantastic tool to get really cheap procurement contracts.
And when you use a more efficient Linux environment as LXDE the maschine gets faster and more eco-efficient. If teaching applications move the cloud as Microsoft pretends the client operating system does not matter.
Efficiency means that you invest and have real impact and direct your investments to the archilles heel.
"Since patent laws have not been reformed, despite the tremendous energy that has been put forth already to do so, I question the efficiency of the approach."
This is true for the US, basically because the analysis of the patent critics is premature. The patent system is technocratic and shielded against intervention. If you get your community trapped in the most trivial defense nets, no progress can be achieved.
Think of the patent community. They have about seven important conferences per year. Be there and influence the debate.
Educate the software community how to crack the system, and do not attempt to convince developers with arguments made up for them because they are not the target.
Trade agreements, a thing to watch.
Legislation, educate your legislators and keep reform talks.
The point is that the author of the article is Bruce Byfield and he is known as a news troll. There is nothing wrong in projects which try to extend the realm of free software by going into free hardware.
As of the philosophical concerns we know that proprietary drivers for Linux often lack quality (Linux is not an important platform for hardware manufacturers) and we can't fix them.
It is not so easy. Greepeace actually has a "computer waste" focus for quite some time and they developed some good pratices. All companies do now Green IT, not only APPLE.
I would suspect that the solution to computer problems lies in the software. You can install less resource-consuming applications, for instance as a Linux user the LXDE desktop environment, this is organic software. These days hardware *burns* a lot of energy but responsible is also software-as-a-brake (Saab). The environmental effects of speed optimisation would be great.
How come that your Vista-desktop is slower than your good old Win98 installation although you basically just do the very same things. A 1998 style processor today consumes very little energy. A fast low carbon desktop would make a lot of sense for many commercial and private users in times where energy pricing explodes.
Just 5% of IT energy reduction would have massive effects on the economy at large.
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The question is of course: "why is that a problem"?
The dictator had no ideological cause against the US and the allegation that he would attack the US is plain nonsense.
The United States and many other nations have these kind of weapons. Are we afraid of them?
After all the anthrax sent to journalists originated from the US, right?
Subnukem forever
What I found asthonising was the ability of Turner to declass his interviewer who threw some sticky phrases at him. I am as you probably notice no native speaker, and I really admire the different shapes of British language, in particular the more sophisticated ones. He doesn't say: "bullshit!". He says "I think it is a bit odd..."
Then there is the French person, Trichet, who is totally different. He sounds like a French EU technocrat. He has authority, so he dumps some thoughts on the interviewer. These are the kind of personalities whose main task is to find and shield brilliant people who work for them.
So if I had to chose I would take Trichet because I know that personalities as Turner are very direct and sophisticated on a message level but they are not effective and too risk averse in their communication, too vulnerable politically, too intellectual.
Probably the best comment on the current financial crisis comes from Mr. Adair Turner.
It is not the computers or the communication standards. Sorry, not our poor computers, not the right target for the blame game.
The challenge of the crisis is intellectual. Look, I remember that economists always explained me that they have no clue where the US growth rates come from systemically or can explain where the financial markets make all that money. The surprise was that it didn't crash earlier.
Maybe the whole Microsoft tool is a 60 000 Eur investment or a "Oh, you coded that?" or a "So we also acquired that Notebook tool..." or made for some corporate functionality checklist, you know, no one likes Ballmer to throw a chair.
Still, Microsoft is looking for the "don't do evil" technology licensing. It is really hard to get that stuff.
But why would you want to get the same tool from Microsoft?
The European Parliament is institutionally very weak and a democratic counter balance. It is a power game: EU/nation parliament vs. executive branch.
Which way round they are geographically I don't know, and culturally I know _very_ little about them. Kosovo, Montenegro, and Macedonia I have little knowledge of, apart from the recent (comparatively) wars. Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan I've got basically 0 knowledge of (though I did meet someone from Georgia a while back, coincidently when the whole South Ossetia invasion was kicking off, so I know a little about Georgia). Slovenia? I wouldn't be able to find it on an unmarked map. Then there's Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Monaco, and the Vatican which are all countries technically. And Kaliningrad Oblast, which I just found out about now, which is a part of the Russian Federation I never knew about.
Kaliningrad is the core of East Prussia and was invaded and overtaken by Stalin, actually part of Russia, the rest of the territory was stolen by Poland. Thanks for the f*cking Americans for the destruction of Prussia who didn't understand the political role of that nation! The other nations are leftover of the Soviet Union, not really "European". None of them has significant economic importance or would be a travel desination, it is second world, more bandit territories under Russian influence than part of the European culture. Kosovo, FYROM etc. are leftovers from Yugoslavia. The Baltic nations are more economically relevant and European but all you need to know is that they are Baltic nations.
I think Columbus was an Italian?!
So what do you expect them to say: Good work with the genocide, most Indians killed??
It is upon the teacher to apologize and get educated.
Samsung is currently top of the class.
But negative prices are still possible! Microsoft should offer the netbooks with Windows away for free to schools. Otherwise the schools pay the lock-in costs and do product training and platform marketing for the monopolist for free. It is like paying for a galley seat and workout.
Indeed, this is why the governments need to invest more in open source. It does not matter if they use it, it is just a fantastic tool to get really cheap procurement contracts.
And when you use a more efficient Linux environment as LXDE the maschine gets faster and more eco-efficient. If teaching applications move the cloud as Microsoft pretends the client operating system does not matter.
I would say that person should be fired because she is uneducated or get informed and apologise.
Efficiency means that you invest and have real impact and direct your investments to the archilles heel.
"Since patent laws have not been reformed, despite the tremendous energy that has been put forth already to do so, I question the efficiency of the approach."
This is true for the US, basically because the analysis of the patent critics is premature. The patent system is technocratic and shielded against intervention. If you get your community trapped in the most trivial defense nets, no progress can be achieved.
Think of the patent community. They have about seven important conferences per year. Be there and influence the debate.
Educate the software community how to crack the system, and do not attempt to convince developers with arguments made up for them because they are not the target.
Trade agreements, a thing to watch.
Legislation, educate your legislators and keep reform talks.
The peer2patent initiative is run by the USPTO and sponsored by IBM.
A bad software patent is a patent on software.
The way to solve the problem is reform of substantive patent law. In other words, donate to the FFII
Trademarks are different from patents.
There is only one efficient initiative and it is legislative reforms.
I would recommend to donate to the FFII.
What's the issue?
Why do you want to use the proprietary apple stuff and be part of the product hype.
I am happy with my Samsung mp3 player because it plays OGG Vorbis.
Geek or Apple? This is a confession.
Using a Zune is kool.
You own the book?
The point is that the author of the article is Bruce Byfield and he is known as a news troll. There is nothing wrong in projects which try to extend the realm of free software by going into free hardware.
As of the philosophical concerns we know that proprietary drivers for Linux often lack quality (Linux is not an important platform for hardware manufacturers) and we can't fix them.
So it is just descriptive and the premise is that you don't want to grow usenet discussions?
It is not so easy. Greepeace actually has a "computer waste" focus for quite some time and they developed some good pratices. All companies do now Green IT, not only APPLE.
I would suspect that the solution to computer problems lies in the software. You can install less resource-consuming applications, for instance as a Linux user the LXDE desktop environment, this is organic software. These days hardware *burns* a lot of energy but responsible is also software-as-a-brake (Saab). The environmental effects of speed optimisation would be great.
How come that your Vista-desktop is slower than your good old Win98 installation although you basically just do the very same things. A 1998 style processor today consumes very little energy. A fast low carbon desktop would make a lot of sense for many commercial and private users in times where energy pricing explodes.
Just 5% of IT energy reduction would have massive effects on the economy at large.