Things going from 25-50 cents in the 70's to 6-10 bucks... That's a hell of alot of inflation -- alot more than the
supposed 2-4% reported by government figures each year. Over 3 decades, 4% would be a 324% price inflation.
Instead, I commonly see things more in line with 20x (2000%). It's not just housing.
Can you point out a couple things that have gone from costing '25-50 cents' to 6-10 bucks?? Ringtones don't count that is a superfluous example.
The democratic primaries apportion delegates from each state. Obama won the democratic nomination, but if it was done winner-take-all, as the real election is, he would have lost to Hillary, who did much better in key states like Ohio. Polling numbers also show she did better than Obama in Florida and Michigan, which weren't allowed to seat any/all (didn't follow up on how that turned out) of their delegates.
Right you may be, but the reality of the nominating contest was apportioned delegates. If it was a different reality, you can be sure that Obama's campaign strategy would have been completely different, which regardless might have meant his victory.
ESX Ranger Pro http://www.vizioncore.com/ is what we have been using. Does hot backups of virtual machines. We have a small setup, with 2 ESX hosts, containing at this point 9 guest machines. Ranger works well. Restore times are great too. We were just testing our restore procedure today on several servers, for our 37GB Exchange store, it took 1hr 10min to restore to an alternate ESX host.
Also, Vizioncore has a product vConverter, which lets you do P2V, and V2V for Windows guests. Pretty great.
I think they've gone terribly wrong in the level of integration they have with these 3rd party merchants.
There is no way to limit searches for items to be stricly from Amazon. I've had mixed experiences with the 3rd party folks, and really I would prefer to buy directly from Amazon, but hunting through hundreds of search results to find what Amazon ACTUALLY sells is incredibly difficult and a major PIA. This has sent me to others for recent purchases.
Okay, this isn't a Microsoft bashing outright, but why the fsck does MS want to "kill" Google?
Think about the future Jack! At the current time it does not look like MS and Google's businesses intersect, but consider the future. All traditional advertising models are setup around a principle of scarcity. There are only so many allotments of radio frequencies, or tv frequencies, or newspaper pages, so advertising on them is very expensive. With internet based distribution of ads there is no physical scarcity, its simply a matter of delivering the right ad to the right person at the right time.
Consider podcasts, now being touted as a killer of traditional media. Once everyone and their mother has a podcast, how do you find the podcast for you? How does an advertiser know which podcast in which to spend ad dollars?
How about the death of physical media? Music is at this point, and I suggest the books will be next (once an appropriate hardware device is constructed). All of the businesses that exist to bring you this media are being challenged, because the real cost WILL BE in marketing to you (i.e. helping you find the music YOU like), and not in distribution. The costs of this are based around scarcity --> there are only so many 'Today' shows on which an author or musician can be displayed to market themselves.
Google or a company like them is poised to be that solution. Gmail, Talk, Wifi or whatever all give them insight into how to market digital media to you in a highly targeted manner. This represents a huge amount of money and potential revenue growth. MS revenue growth has slowed. One could suggest that this is because the OS has become a commodity and everyone has it already. So for a company to keep growing, new business models are needed. MS could be that company and that is how they are trying to position themselves.
Someone on here the other day was going on about how TV shows are not the product of a media corp, rather YOU the viewer are, and the TV show is the net they capture you in.
Similarly, today, how often are you using google? All day at work, at home, on the weekend, etc. You are being served in a very targeted manner to advertisers on a continual basis.
This is all fine and well, I dislike Bush as much as any one, but this statement:
During these critical times of concentrating power, der Schutzstaffein (SS) made sure that Hitler's critics and opponents were kept far away and silenced so that it would appear as though he had complete national support and, indeed, a mandate. Thus peacefully began Nazi totalitarianism.
What parallel can you draw in our (US) society today??
And even if you succeed in making the terrorists' jobs "harder", that will not stop them either. They will simply find another way to accomplish their goals.
True, but it certainly slows them down. Why has al-quaeda not perpetrated another atrocity along these lines since 9/11?
They have indicated a clear willingness to attack again, and they appear to have a ready supply of persons willing to end their own lives in this endeavor. So why has nothing else happened? What is stopping them from getting on planes every month and doing this?
If you can't work in multiple/different softwares, I am sure there is a new-comer college grad who would love your job for less that CAN do it, and will get a kick out of using something that is not the norm.
Yeah, that is frickin great until it is the president of your company, or someone else who is paid an obscene amount of money to make money . Not figure out how to format a fax in 3 different software packages. Thats your job!
Second, interesting thing is that the problem is fixed by a *software upgrade*
and not something physical.
Seems like the *only* thing to do would be to lock the user out of the machine if power levels drop too much. Its surprising that they would not have thought of this problem prior to releasing the product.
I concede that corporate software purchases would be more than piddly. Not having any experience in purchasing such things, do 'click thru' licenses exist at that level?
Are you kidding? They go through it because of the amount of money involved with the transaction, typically 6 figures worth. Why should anyone go through such hoops for a piddly software purchase??
From the article: "Since markets provide incentives for good judgment and self-selection, the market will effectively aggregate information among knowledgeable participants"
How on earth is this possible. Investors with knowledge about tech companies still managed to fuel the 'tech bubble' that we are still recovering from!
If you want to dispute the charges, for whatever reason, the cash is gone from your account until the dispute is resolved - if ever. This is unlike a credit card where the credit card company takes the risk. With online bill paying or debit cards, you take all the risk. So, if someone rips you off, well, you eat it!!
I have to disagree with you here. If your debit card says "Visa" in the lower right hand corner, you are in fact protected:
http://www.usa.visa.com/personal/cards/visa_check. html
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Things going from 25-50 cents in the 70's to 6-10 bucks... That's a hell of alot of inflation -- alot more than the supposed 2-4% reported by government figures each year. Over 3 decades, 4% would be a 324% price inflation. Instead, I commonly see things more in line with 20x (2000%). It's not just housing.
Can you point out a couple things that have gone from costing '25-50 cents' to 6-10 bucks?? Ringtones don't count that is a superfluous example.
The democratic primaries apportion delegates from each state. Obama won the democratic nomination, but if it was done winner-take-all, as the real election is, he would have lost to Hillary, who did much better in key states like Ohio. Polling numbers also show she did better than Obama in Florida and Michigan, which weren't allowed to seat any/all (didn't follow up on how that turned out) of their delegates.
Right you may be, but the reality of the nominating contest was apportioned delegates. If it was a different reality, you can be sure that Obama's campaign strategy would have been completely different, which regardless might have meant his victory.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060304268_pf.html
Since reality was what it was, we won't know if he would have lost.
ESX Ranger Pro http://www.vizioncore.com/ is what we have been using. Does hot backups of virtual machines. We have a small setup, with 2 ESX hosts, containing at this point 9 guest machines. Ranger works well. Restore times are great too. We were just testing our restore procedure today on several servers, for our 37GB Exchange store, it took 1hr 10min to restore to an alternate ESX host.
Also, Vizioncore has a product vConverter, which lets you do P2V, and V2V for Windows guests. Pretty great.
Freakin hilarious. Thanks!
I think they've gone terribly wrong in the level of integration they have with these 3rd party merchants.
There is no way to limit searches for items to be stricly from Amazon. I've had mixed experiences with the 3rd party folks, and really I would prefer to buy directly from Amazon, but hunting through hundreds of search results to find what Amazon ACTUALLY sells is incredibly difficult and a major PIA. This has sent me to others for recent purchases.
http://monarch.datawatch.com/monarch-pro.asp
Lets you configure models to pull data from excel, access, text files of all sorts.
Scriptable with COM as well!
-Rob
Okay, this isn't a Microsoft bashing outright, but why the fsck does MS want to "kill" Google?
Think about the future Jack! At the current time it does not look like MS and Google's businesses intersect, but consider the future. All traditional advertising models are setup around a principle of scarcity. There are only so many allotments of radio frequencies, or tv frequencies, or newspaper pages, so advertising on them is very expensive. With internet based distribution of ads there is no physical scarcity, its simply a matter of delivering the right ad to the right person at the right time.
Consider podcasts, now being touted as a killer of traditional media. Once everyone and their mother has a podcast, how do you find the podcast for you? How does an advertiser know which podcast in which to spend ad dollars?
How about the death of physical media? Music is at this point, and I suggest the books will be next (once an appropriate hardware device is constructed). All of the businesses that exist to bring you this media are being challenged, because the real cost WILL BE in marketing to you (i.e. helping you find the music YOU like), and not in distribution. The costs of this are based around scarcity --> there are only so many 'Today' shows on which an author or musician can be displayed to market themselves.
Google or a company like them is poised to be that solution. Gmail, Talk, Wifi or whatever all give them insight into how to market digital media to you in a highly targeted manner. This represents a huge amount of money and potential revenue growth. MS revenue growth has slowed. One could suggest that this is because the OS has become a commodity and everyone has it already. So for a company to keep growing, new business models are needed. MS could be that company and that is how they are trying to position themselves.
I don't know it may not be that off base.
Someone on here the other day was going on about how TV shows are not the product of a media corp, rather YOU the viewer are, and the TV show is the net they capture you in.
Similarly, today, how often are you using google? All day at work, at home, on the weekend, etc. You are being served in a very targeted manner to advertisers on a continual basis.
Perhaps that is where this high value comes from.
Yeah, the inability to get network outage reports is really akin to an atrocity on the scale of what happened to Jews in Germany. . . .
Give me a break.
This is all fine and well, I dislike Bush as much as any one, but this statement:
During these critical times of concentrating power, der Schutzstaffein (SS) made sure that Hitler's critics and opponents were kept far away and silenced so that it would appear as though he had complete national support and, indeed, a mandate. Thus peacefully began Nazi totalitarianism.
What parallel can you draw in our (US) society today??
And even if you succeed in making the terrorists' jobs "harder", that will not stop them either. They will simply find another way to accomplish their goals.
True, but it certainly slows them down. Why has al-quaeda not perpetrated another atrocity along these lines since 9/11?
They have indicated a clear willingness to attack again, and they appear to have a ready supply of persons willing to end their own lives in this endeavor. So why has nothing else happened? What is stopping them from getting on planes every month and doing this?
If you can't work in multiple/different softwares, I am sure there is a new-comer college grad who would love your job for less that CAN do it, and will get a kick out of using something that is not the norm.
Yeah, that is frickin great until it is the president of your company, or someone else who is paid an obscene amount of money to make money . Not figure out how to format a fax in 3 different software packages. Thats your job!
Seems like the *only* thing to do would be to lock the user out of the machine if power levels drop too much. Its surprising that they would not have thought of this problem prior to releasing the product.
An article from the atlantic on this subject. I'm not sure if it contradicts what you are saying, but is interesting.
I concede that corporate software purchases would be more than piddly. Not having any experience in purchasing such things, do 'click thru' licenses exist at that level?
Are you kidding? They go through it because of the amount of money involved with the transaction, typically 6 figures worth. Why should anyone go through such hoops for a piddly software purchase??
I've wondered the same thing. I guess its to change the 'byte signature' of the message to get around some types of automated filtering.
From the article: "Since markets provide incentives for good judgment and self-selection, the market will effectively aggregate information among knowledgeable participants"
How on earth is this possible. Investors with knowledge about tech companies still managed to fuel the 'tech bubble' that we are still recovering from!
Is to collectively refuse to do any work, until you get fired or laid off. You can't collect unemployment when you quit, you know.
Nor can you collect unemployment if you are fired for not doing your job!
If you want to dispute the charges, for whatever reason, the cash is gone from your account until the dispute is resolved - if ever. This is unlike a credit card where the credit card company takes the risk. With online bill paying or debit cards, you take all the risk. So, if someone rips you off, well, you eat it!!
. html
I have to disagree with you here. If your debit card says "Visa" in the lower right hand corner, you are in fact protected: http://www.usa.visa.com/personal/cards/visa_check