Yes, but if you try to wholesale your milk for $0.01 more than the market rate, you get no buyers. The subsidies effect the market clearing price but the behavior of the market is near perfect competition because the goods are uniform, there are many producers with few barriers to entry or exit. One the fundamentals of micro-economics is that in a perfectly competitve market you can not make an economic profit (which profit above your oppurtunity cost) unless you have a sustainable cost advantage over the competition.
I'm excluding organic or other high end milk that you find a Whole Foods from these claims since both organic certification and brand can play a role on the high end. Milk produced for mass market is a true commodity product. Same goes for potatoes or apples.
Clearly, you've never any taken any economics classes or you learned nothing.
Your statement is only true in market segments approaching perfect competition, and there are very few of those outside farming. In market segements where sellers or services providers have market power, which banks do evidenced by their enormous profits, it's simply false to claim that all costs are passed on to customers. Often the factor that dominates prices is the marginal revenue lost by reducing prices rather the level of marginal cost per unit.
If someone forged your driver's license and went to the bank to withdraw your money in person, it's the bank's fault for giving it to them. Same principle should hold for online transactions. If the bank gives the wrong person your money, it's not your problem.
If the liability moves to customers, the banks won't have any incentive to improve security. Worse, the bank will start blaming you for breeches that are completely their fault. The bank will claim you didn't protect your password when their systems are comprised and your account is drained.
The federal government not only should have figured out standards for first responder radios, it ought to have provided the radios to all first responders. Any time you hear a politician compare the Al Queda threat to WWII, try to remember that if President Roosevelt had responded in the slow, unfocused manner President Bush has, we would all be speaking german now. In WWII, this country completely transformed its economy in less than 2 years to rapidly produce ships, planes and tanks. In 2006, we can't even get working radios. How the mighty have fallen.
Now I can finally see Windows Media DRMed content on my mac. I really don't care whether M$ supports DRM on the mac or somebody else breaks it. I'm just sick of the "macs not supported" errors when trying to view video on the mac.
You must be working with multiple clients even if sequentially over the course of a year. If one wants to claims something you do later is owned by them, seems like they would have to fight all your other clients for it. I'd be interested to see what an attorney would say about the multiple client issue.
The problem is that his passion vs results never goes both ways. Can a manager at Genetech who misses his numbers tell Art Levinson, "It's not about the money, it's about helping cancer paitients so you should just forget about those numbers I missed"? I seriously doubt it.
Actually, I like to see every citizen get a special line item on their property tax showing how much their share of police misconduct payouts is. In some cities, like Oakland, these settlements and verdicts run into the millions every year. The citizens don't realize how much of their dollars are being wasted because of police misconduct. If the voters knew they were paying $50/year a piece so the police could abuse the citizenry, they might pay a little more attention at the ballot box.
A posted warning about about audio & video recording on private property should be sufficient. If you don't wish to be recorded, stay off the other person property. In fact, you can look it the reverse way. Entering private property an refusing the consent to the recording is illegal trepassing since you don't have the owner's permission to be there without being recorded.
From artcile, it looks like the Nahsua police department has no problem breaking the law. The article clearly says the policman did not have warrant yet and refused to leave the property when asked. This is all too typical, the police see the need to vigourously enforce this wiretapping law but will NEVER charge the officer with trepass even though there's video tape envidence of the crime. If the police are so concerned about illegal wiretapping, I suggest they get some warrents to search the local at&t switch room and see what they find.
Since the citizenery of the US doesn't like to pay adequate taxes for the services they demand, US cities are forced to get their revenue from really irrating sources like parking tickets. Cities like San Francisco don't actually want you put money in the meter since that deprives them of the oppurtunity for "revenue enchancement." This is why they make it diffcult to use the meter through tactics like quarters only and not fixing broken meters.
If rich people and nerds automatically create the culture, why does it not exist in NYC? The financial services industry has created a lot of rich people in NYC (I'd wager far more than Silicon Valley). The financial services industry has brought in many nerds to build their IT systems. Yet you don't see the same kind of innovation in "Silicon Alley" that you do in Silicon Valley. I'd say the answer is culture. The financial services industry is a risk adverse culture due to its banking roots. Culture changes very slowly.
Nerds and rich people are not enough. Silicon Valley works because there's a culture of risk taking. Starting a company that fails is considered good expirence in Silicon Valley. In many places, such a failure would make it very difficult to find a job or ever find investors again.
This a minority view point but I think one of the reasons for for declining enrollment in computer science and engineering in general is that these fields pay too little. Yes, there are million statistics that say average salaries are high for CS grads. However, if you compare the top 10% of computer scientists (in terms of skill and effectiveness) vs the top 10% of investment managers and then look at the their pay, you'll see radical difference. A really taltented and well paid computer scienceist might make a 180K a year. A talented investment manager is going to be paid in the millions. Really talnented doctors aren't as well comp'ed as investment managers but make much more than computer scienctists. Same for lawyers.
Sure, you can gamble on stock options but its a gamble. This is not field where talent alone gives so any certainty of retiring rich. Most of really smart CS people I know are leaving the field and getting MBAs.
I have the understanding that flash memory has a finite number of writes and that conventional filesystems with their update of metadata even on file read could essentially wear out a flash drive quickly if it was used as the main disk drive (as opposed to digital camera use or the like where access is comparably infrequent)
Apple clearly expects to lose the technical battle to keep OS X from running on non-Apple hardware. Calling out the lawyers means they are accepting defeat, at least for the moment on the locking the software front. In a way, this is good news for those who want to run OS X on non-Apple hardware. The information will migrate to being hosted in country without the absurd DMCA.
License agreements are a quirk of copyright law. Car companies would love license you their car to require you get it a serviced only by a dealer and to forbid you from using after market parts.
Those who believe producers who should be able to legally restrict how their customers can use a product should be writing their Congress critter to sponsor bills to allow the other 98% of economy to get in on this business innovation. Those who produce physical products are being denied their "rights" to control their customers by EULAs.
I only reason to have patents of any kind is to encourage invention. If Congress were to amend the patent statue tomorrow to disallow software patents, no one would quit innovating. Trade secret and copyright provide more than enough protection for commercial software interests. Software patents only benefit the lawyers who get paid to create the plague in the first place.
For those who have never had an MRI of their head, it is important to understand that an MRI is not a trivial undertaking. I had one last year and had to be given anti-anxiety medication to be able to tolerate being stuck in a narrow tube for 45 minutes. I had never had a claustrophobic incident in my life previously but the confined space of an MRI gave me one. Anti-anxiety medication would likely affect the ability to do lie detection.
Unless my health or life is at stake, I would not have an other one. If what the doctor was checking for wasn't a very serious condition, I would canceled test after getting in the machine. I would never take an job where I'd have to agree to be screened by MRI as lie dectector.
You only think it's a straw man because you haven't serious thought it through. Pulling out a hand gun and shooting somebody sounds dramatic but the less dramatic real life scenario is that the Bush administration has argued that Bush can imprison any American citizen captured on US soil as an enemy combatant indefinitely (which effectively means the rest of his life) and the courts have no jurisdiction to review that imprisonment.
Once one accepts the notion that the president defines the limits of his constitutional powers, he effectively becomes a king or dictator since he define any action to be one of his constitutional powers. In this case, Congress acted to set rules for wire taps, and the president ignored them. Your choice is either unitary executive power or that the limits of the executive power be defined by Congress and/or the Judicial branch of government. Congress is the logical choice to set the rules as the Judiciary is not in the business of making policy.
The problem with your (Powerline's) argument is that it allows the President without restriction to interpret the Constitution determine what his powers are. Under that argument, if he decides any citizen is a threat to national security, he can personally execute them in front TV cameras without a trial or any other troublesome due process to get in the way of his commander in chief powers and their is not anything Congress or the courts can do about it.
Additionally, the president has never stated who he spied on. You are assuming it's only Al Qaeda operatives. WIthout any review from Congress or the Judicial branches, the President can (and I am 100% sure a this or future one will if this bogus legal theory is accepted) his political opponents.
Furthermore, this bogus theory would overturn Marbury vs Madison since Congress should entitled to the same deference in their legislative power. The Supreme Court would be unable to overturn an act of Congress no matter how unconstitutional. Not that the Judicial branch would matter anymore as President would be free to nullify any Act of Congress that he determined through whatever means he deems appropriate, including a magic 8-ball, to conflict with his powers.
To get the the full value out of.mac, you have to upgrade your iLife every year as well and $178/year ($99 + $79) is a bit pricey..Mac would be more compelling if I received a free iLife upgrade with it.
You understand that ifyou fear the consequences of reading a book, we're living in a police state and not a free country. Guess Bush was right when he said the Constituion is just "a goddamned piece of paper."
Everyone go checkout Mao's book from your local library. If enough people do this, the FBI will have to give up on this type of spying as I don't think they can visit 100,000 people.
I looked at it some more, and Chuck, I think you are right that's it was more complicated. GoDaddy has apparently fixed the problem though, as the example page, www.photosparks.com now works with Safari
When I first tried with telnet, I immediately got back a 302 after sending the request line. Now, telneting gets the correct response. I took a packet trace of Safari and it seems that Safari sends headers in such a way the headers can end up in multiple TCP packets. My guess is that GoDaddy's server was getting confused if the request did not come in one packet. This is a a common bad implementation practive where the code incorrectly assumes if it does a successful read on a new connection that it gets the complete header.
So much for GoDaddy's whining that it was Apple's problem. The RFC is very clear that the header is not over until empty line is received. Each byte can come in its own packet and the server should be able to handle it.
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Content-Length: 0 Location:/?ABCDEFGH
This is a violation of RFC 2616. Section 14.30 specifies the Location header to contain an absolute URI:
The field value consists of a single absolute URI. Location = "Location" ":" absoluteURI
Firefox is tolerant of the spec violation and Safari and Opera are apparently not. I spent many years writing HTTP proxies and after working around many broken clients and server, I have little sympathy for those who violate the spec and then whine that others should work around the problem. GoDaddy needs to fix their server. Accomodating their brokeness, just will encourage others to be sloppy as well.
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Yes, but if you try to wholesale your milk for $0.01 more than the market rate, you get no buyers. The subsidies effect the market clearing price but the behavior of the market is near perfect competition because the goods are uniform, there are many producers with few barriers to entry or exit. One the fundamentals of micro-economics is that in a perfectly competitve market you can not make an economic profit (which profit above your oppurtunity cost) unless you have a sustainable cost advantage over the competition.
I'm excluding organic or other high end milk that you find a Whole Foods from these claims since both organic certification and brand can play a role on the high end. Milk produced for mass market is a true commodity product. Same goes for potatoes or apples.
Clearly, you've never any taken any economics classes or you learned nothing. Your statement is only true in market segments approaching perfect competition, and there are very few of those outside farming. In market segements where sellers or services providers have market power, which banks do evidenced by their enormous profits, it's simply false to claim that all costs are passed on to customers. Often the factor that dominates prices is the marginal revenue lost by reducing prices rather the level of marginal cost per unit.
If someone forged your driver's license and went to the bank to withdraw your money in person, it's the bank's fault for giving it to them. Same principle should hold for online transactions. If the bank gives the wrong person your money, it's not your problem.
If the liability moves to customers, the banks won't have any incentive to improve security. Worse, the bank will start blaming you for breeches that are completely their fault. The bank will claim you didn't protect your password when their systems are comprised and your account is drained.
The federal government not only should have figured out standards for first responder radios, it ought to have provided the radios to all first responders. Any time you hear a politician compare the Al Queda threat to WWII, try to remember that if President Roosevelt had responded in the slow, unfocused manner President Bush has, we would all be speaking german now. In WWII, this country completely transformed its economy in less than 2 years to rapidly produce ships, planes and tanks. In 2006, we can't even get working radios. How the mighty have fallen.
Now I can finally see Windows Media DRMed content on my mac. I really don't care whether M$ supports DRM on the mac or somebody else breaks it. I'm just sick of the "macs not supported" errors when trying to view video on the mac.
You must be working with multiple clients even if sequentially over the course of a year. If one wants to claims something you do later is owned by them, seems like they would have to fight all your other clients for it. I'd be interested to see what an attorney would say about the multiple client issue.
The problem is that his passion vs results never goes both ways. Can a manager at Genetech who misses his numbers tell Art Levinson, "It's not about the money, it's about helping cancer paitients so you should just forget about those numbers I missed"? I seriously doubt it.
Actually, I like to see every citizen get a special line item on their property tax showing how much their share of police misconduct payouts is. In some cities, like Oakland, these settlements and verdicts run into the millions every year. The citizens don't realize how much of their dollars are being wasted because of police misconduct. If the voters knew they were paying $50/year a piece so the police could abuse the citizenry, they might pay a little more attention at the ballot box.
A posted warning about about audio & video recording on private property should be sufficient. If you don't wish to be recorded, stay off the other person property. In fact, you can look it the reverse way. Entering private property an refusing the consent to the recording is illegal trepassing since you don't have the owner's permission to be there without being recorded.
From artcile, it looks like the Nahsua police department has no problem breaking the law. The article clearly says the policman did not have warrant yet and refused to leave the property when asked. This is all too typical, the police see the need to vigourously enforce this wiretapping law but will NEVER charge the officer with trepass even though there's video tape envidence of the crime. If the police are so concerned about illegal wiretapping, I suggest they get some warrents to search the local at&t switch room and see what they find.
Since the citizenery of the US doesn't like to pay adequate taxes for the services they demand, US cities are forced to get their revenue from really irrating sources like parking tickets. Cities like San Francisco don't actually want you put money in the meter since that deprives them of the oppurtunity for "revenue enchancement." This is why they make it diffcult to use the meter through tactics like quarters only and not fixing broken meters.
If rich people and nerds automatically create the culture, why does it not exist in NYC? The financial services industry has created a lot of rich people in NYC (I'd wager far more than Silicon Valley). The financial services industry has brought in many nerds to build their IT systems. Yet you don't see the same kind of innovation in "Silicon Alley" that you do in Silicon Valley. I'd say the answer is culture. The financial services industry is a risk adverse culture due to its banking roots. Culture changes very slowly.
Nerds and rich people are not enough. Silicon Valley works because there's a culture of risk taking. Starting a company that fails is considered good expirence in Silicon Valley. In many places, such a failure would make it very difficult to find a job or ever find investors again.
This a minority view point but I think one of the reasons for for declining enrollment in computer science and engineering in general is that these fields pay too little. Yes, there are million statistics that say average salaries are high for CS grads. However, if you compare the top 10% of computer scientists (in terms of skill and effectiveness) vs the top 10% of investment managers and then look at the their pay, you'll see radical difference. A really taltented and well paid computer scienceist might make a 180K a year. A talented investment manager is going to be paid in the millions. Really talnented doctors aren't as well comp'ed as investment managers but make much more than computer scienctists. Same for lawyers.
Sure, you can gamble on stock options but its a gamble. This is not field where talent alone gives so any certainty of retiring rich. Most of really smart CS people I know are leaving the field and getting MBAs.
I have the understanding that flash memory has a finite number of writes and that conventional filesystems with their update of metadata even on file read could essentially wear out a flash drive quickly if it was used as the main disk drive (as opposed to digital camera use or the like where access is comparably infrequent)
Apple clearly expects to lose the technical battle to keep OS X from running on non-Apple hardware. Calling out the lawyers means they are accepting defeat, at least for the moment on the locking the software front. In a way, this is good news for those who want to run OS X on non-Apple hardware. The information will migrate to being hosted in country without the absurd DMCA.
License agreements are a quirk of copyright law. Car companies would love license you their car to require you get it a serviced only by a dealer and to forbid you from using after market parts.
Those who believe producers who should be able to legally restrict how their customers can use a product should be writing their Congress critter to sponsor bills to allow the other 98% of economy to get in on this business innovation. Those who produce physical products are being denied their "rights" to control their customers by EULAs.
I only reason to have patents of any kind is to encourage invention. If Congress were to amend the patent statue tomorrow to disallow software patents, no one would quit innovating. Trade secret and copyright provide more than enough protection for commercial software interests. Software patents only benefit the lawyers who get paid to create the plague in the first place.
For those who have never had an MRI of their head, it is important to understand that an MRI is not a trivial undertaking. I had one last year and had to be given anti-anxiety medication to be able to tolerate being stuck in a narrow tube for 45 minutes. I had never had a claustrophobic incident in my life previously but the confined space of an MRI gave me one. Anti-anxiety medication would likely affect the ability to do lie detection. Unless my health or life is at stake, I would not have an other one. If what the doctor was checking for wasn't a very serious condition, I would canceled test after getting in the machine. I would never take an job where I'd have to agree to be screened by MRI as lie dectector.
You only think it's a straw man because you haven't serious thought it through. Pulling out a hand gun and shooting somebody sounds dramatic but the less dramatic real life scenario is that the Bush administration has argued that Bush can imprison any American citizen captured on US soil as an enemy combatant indefinitely (which effectively means the rest of his life) and the courts have no jurisdiction to review that imprisonment.
Once one accepts the notion that the president defines the limits of his constitutional powers, he effectively becomes a king or dictator since he define any action to be one of his constitutional powers. In this case, Congress acted to set rules for wire taps, and the president ignored them. Your choice is either unitary executive power or that the limits of the executive power be defined by Congress and/or the Judicial branch of government. Congress is the logical choice to set the rules as the Judiciary is not in the business of making policy.
The problem with your (Powerline's) argument is that it allows the President without restriction to interpret the Constitution determine what his powers are. Under that argument, if he decides any citizen is a threat to national security, he can personally execute them in front TV cameras without a trial or any other troublesome due process to get in the way of his commander in chief powers and their is not anything Congress or the courts can do about it. Additionally, the president has never stated who he spied on. You are assuming it's only Al Qaeda operatives. WIthout any review from Congress or the Judicial branches, the President can (and I am 100% sure a this or future one will if this bogus legal theory is accepted) his political opponents. Furthermore, this bogus theory would overturn Marbury vs Madison since Congress should entitled to the same deference in their legislative power. The Supreme Court would be unable to overturn an act of Congress no matter how unconstitutional. Not that the Judicial branch would matter anymore as President would be free to nullify any Act of Congress that he determined through whatever means he deems appropriate, including a magic 8-ball, to conflict with his powers.
To get the the full value out of .mac, you have to upgrade your iLife every year as well and $178/year ($99 + $79) is a bit pricey. .Mac would be more compelling if I received a free iLife upgrade with it.
You understand that ifyou fear the consequences of reading a book, we're living in a police state and not a free country. Guess Bush was right when he said the Constituion is just "a goddamned piece of paper."
Everyone go checkout Mao's book from your local library. If enough people do this, the FBI will have to give up on this type of spying as I don't think they can visit 100,000 people.
I looked at it some more, and Chuck, I think you are right that's it was more complicated. GoDaddy has apparently fixed the problem though, as the example page, www.photosparks.com now works with Safari When I first tried with telnet, I immediately got back a 302 after sending the request line. Now, telneting gets the correct response. I took a packet trace of Safari and it seems that Safari sends headers in such a way the headers can end up in multiple TCP packets. My guess is that GoDaddy's server was getting confused if the request did not come in one packet. This is a a common bad implementation practive where the code incorrectly assumes if it does a successful read on a new connection that it gets the complete header. So much for GoDaddy's whining that it was Apple's problem. The RFC is very clear that the header is not over until empty line is received. Each byte can come in its own packet and the server should be able to handle it.
GoDaddy's server is returning:
This is a violation of RFC 2616. Section 14.30 specifies the Location header to contain an absolute URI:
Firefox is tolerant of the spec violation and Safari and Opera are apparently not. I spent many years writing HTTP proxies and after working around many broken clients and server, I have little sympathy for those who violate the spec and then whine that others should work around the problem. GoDaddy needs to fix their server. Accomodating their brokeness, just will encourage others to be sloppy as well.