What baffles me is the same people who are so religious about the magic of the free market get so indignant when tickets get marked up 1000% by a scalper. Either embrace the free market and accept the associated consequences or accept the fact that the free market doesn't always yield the most optimal solution to all social and economic problems. Tickets (to sporting events) and oil need the same treatment in my opinion. Tax away the *unearned* profits. I.e. pay the bills, give the investors a reasonable chunk of change and then give the rest to the government. The hope is that the government can then tax incomes a little less. In the case of the tickets the creative solution would be for the government to give out "sporting event stamps" to the less fortunate (about 90% of the population:-) ).
Sounds like you should buy two of 'em and tie the screens together with x2vnc or such like. Hmmm... then get open mosix running on it. Migrate processes back and forth. Geek heaven. Me, I want AFS running on mine. How about a fanfold of a half dozen n8x0's? Oh god, I can't stop shaking. Must order now...
If it doesn't you could try "Scheme in a grid" http://siag.nu/siag/ (supports scheme, tcl and a C like extension language). I've used it but must admit I usually resort to chicken scheme + sqlite for any data processing needs that go beyond what an ordinary spreadsheet can do.
What kind of terminals? vt100, xterminals or some sort of windows citrix or similar terminals? I've used all and with splitvt and screen I'd rather be on a 19200 vt100 terminal than a citrix terminal on a lously network. In all seriousness though for a lot of applications I think text only would make more sense than gui based. At the dentist the other day and the receptionist was going back and forth between the mouse and the keyboard. I think that if she had been forced to learn the , and similar keystrokes it would have saved a good two minutes for getting my data in the system.
Fancy new stuff ain't necessarily better for everything.
Sorry. Doesn't work that way. The application of this chip will push the temp of the device being cooled up even higher. If you care about the life of your semiconductor devices you will be trying to get them to run as cool as possible. Yes, even semiconductors wear out. Look up electromigration. Take any scenario and apply the thermoconversion device to it (heat direct to elec. is not new btw, don't all geeks make a copper/iron thermoelectric candle powered radio as a kid?) and compare with an equivalent cost best of breed heat sink and the theroconversion device will lose because the chip being cooled will be running hotter. It is the same thing as those guys who think they can put a steam or stirling engine into their cars and get better gas mileage. Sure you can do it but it doesn't make economical sense.
Beautifully said! In fact I suspect that the price cycles we seem to be currently experiencing are a twist on this same idea. Oil powers raise the price for a while to tap into the available windfall profits. Watch consumption carefully, when it shows signs of dropping (people start to change habits, buying hybrids instead of SUVs etc.) nip the trend in the bud by dropping prices.
The solution is simple of course. Tax the oil at the well or tanker. Use the taxes thus raised to displace income taxes meaning no net change in tax burden. Consumption trends down a little. Oil powers are forced to a net lower price point and $$ are kept inside the country. Of course free market fundamentalists have trouble with this idea and non-deep thinkers see only as far as words "tax oil" and their brains switch off so it'll never happen. Too bad. I've never seen a coherent argument against the idea. Oh well. I'm off to buy a nice big F250 pickup. I can be pretty sure that oil will cycle from high to low prices until the peak is hit and overall will stay affordable.
Can windows do process migration (aka mosix)? I'm sure it is technically feasible but are there tools to do it available now? Can you run Word, Excel etc. on a machine and display to another machine (a single application, not the entire display)?
You are a biologist, nutritionist, biochemist, geneticist etc? By what authority do you assert that the protiens are identical? I don't trust that they are identical. More importantly I don't trust that other, more subtle, chemical/biological changes haven't taken place. All I want is a label so I can make an informed decision when I go to the supermarket. This tiny cost is apparently a big deal to you. The beef already has a label. Add one or two more words and we're done. I suspect you wish to force your values (anything goes, big business can do no wrong, the free market is perfect) on the population. If cloning really works and saves so much money and doesn't have any unintended consequences then with labeling it should still "win" in the market.
Personall, I find your faith in our corporate overlords disturbing.
Well, it has been a while since I studied economics but as I remember it economic theory makes the base assumption that information needs to flow efficiently for the economic laws to apply in the ideal sense.
If information is expensive then you end up with an inefficient market. Look at what the net has done to buying electronic goods. I can do a search for reviews, find out technical specifications and prices and make an informed decision about an item before I buy it. That is an efficient market. Making the information difficult to obtain puts power into the hands of the manufacturer. As a consumer I want that information readily available to make my day to day consumer choices. You called the manufacturer a week ago and the product on the shelf manufactured yesterday now has 10x the fat and you don't know it. You are not buying what you thought you were buying and you have zero recourse when you find out you were duped. If the manufacturer lies on their label they risk being caught and being sued.
Anyway, what is the harm in requiring manufacturers to label their products? My wife and I ran a food business and I generated the data and labels for the products. It really wasn't that big a deal and didn't add significantly to the cost of the product. Your stance seems almost fundamentalistic in nature. Who cares whether labeling is socialistic or capitalistic? Which yields a better result for the economy and our quality of life - a requirement to disclose important information up front or the "freedom" to hide the information and make it difficult to obtain, which is historically what manufacturers have done.
Wow. A crazy post with +5 insightful. You know that one of the tenets of a working free market is an equally free flow of information? No free information means consumers (and producers) can't make good economic decisions. If you have the time and resources to call the manufacturer of every good you care about then bully to you. For the rest of us labeling is very important. The quality of the lables is a separate issue not to be confused with the need for labels. I think "Organic" and "zero trans fats" are pretty well defined and meaningful but would agree with you that "low sugar" is not. Labeling is working and those who pay attention to the information and make use of it are much the healthier for it.
As far as cloning goes, I have a hunch that there is some hidden unintended consequence that will manifest itself down the road but only time (and research) will tell.
Nice sum up. I'd say that there is little hope of substantial change either. With plurality voting and corportate $$ the current system will always trend to the two party non-choice we face now. With the economy now based on Housing and Medical industries and real wages for most of us substantially down but not down far enough to cause revolution it seems that the US is on a collision course with "has been" status.
Oh man! Can we trade families? Mine has nearly cost me my marriage AND my sanity! But back on the topic: saying no works wonders. I no longer do any significant maintenance on Windows PC's. The work laptop is taken care of by IT and the family ones are maintained by their respective owners. The key phrase: "I don't know how to run a Windows PC! Try Googling for a fix". They now know how to do it themselves and I am happy and peaceful again. And my home machine? Runs Ubuntu and all my stuff works great for me. With cygwin on the work laptop I'm fairly happy and productive.
Since a) actual pronunciation drifted and b) the extra letters were (something unintelligible)dde I propose a third solution: Leave spelling as it is and pronounce the words as you see fit. When someone tries to correct your pronounciation simply retort that they are stuck in the old world and yours is the new pronunciation. Over time we can converge on a new pronunciation standard.
Better solution. With ruby. Maybe not so easy for some but I find a ruby script easier to maintain and debug than a spreadsheet. Use the csv module and you can still use the spreadsheet for final manipulation of the data.
If you didn't like their rates, you were free to build your own railroad.
With one very big difference: The freight in this case (packets) can be quickly and easily re-routed and there are already existing alternative tracks in place for most routes. Bottom line: there isn't a monopoly on the digital "rails" from (for example) Boston to Los Angeles. If the biggest pipe between those two cities decides to start preferentially charging google traffic then ISP's on either end will have an incentive to find a cheaper path and pass that differential on to customers in an effort to win customers away from other ISPs.
i'm sure that given this new income, the phone companies will lower their rates and it will all balance out.
Joking aside, maybe not the phone company but why not ISP vs ISP and (at the next level) Telco vs Telco? Unless there are no alternative routes for the data it seems to me that there will be competition. Sure, asinine ISP "A" will put the brakes on data from source X but the word will get around and over time customers will move to alternative ISP "B" where the data is moving faster. While not everyone has access to multiple suppliers it seems to me that there is pretty healthy competition in this market and, best of all, for many customers it really isn't too hard to switch suppliers.
Ok. So the one time I don't RTFA I goof and don't get it. Effectively TicketMaster is representing the Artists/Sports team/Venue owners etc. here. I don't get why people are so upset about this. It makes perfect free-market sense.
[rant]Of course the free market is horribly broken and distorted so the end result is that "we the people" are screwed. There is a solution. The solution is easy to implement. The solution would improve the quality of life for everyone in the middle class and below. The solution will screw those who got wealthy or are staying wealthy by controlling resources (NB// that explicitly excludes those who have done productive things for their wealth). Stands to reason the unworthy wealthy will do everything in their power to ensure the solution never gets implemented. The wealthy are fortunate to have about 90% of "we the people" on their side by virtue of the fact that it takes effort to find and understand the solution and "we the people" are fat and only mildly unhappy and would rather whine about ticket prices than get off our duffs and do stuff. *sigh*.[end rant]
The solution seems so easy and simple to me. Who cares about ticket master? The artists should be auctioning off the tickets themselves. The artists or sports team whatever simply buy as many tickets as possible as part of their contract. Then they auction them off on ebay or set up their own site. What am I missing?
True - no bugs. But the comment was no bugs or deficiencies and your program has some serious deficiencies. You gotta have a database backend with a sophisticated 3D browser to select the greeting and scope. Salutations, Greetings, Hello, Good day, Gi'day, Hey, Hi etc. Then you need to be able to set the font, color, angle, window size etc. and finally, maybe you don't want to say hello to the whole world; what about country, state, town. I think with some concerted effort we can get this app up to a 10 meg executable with a 10 second load time.
Having had malaria countless number of time, almost dying after doctors gave up on me and then barely making it
I'm curious. What did they try to treat you with? Apparently there is a plant based treatment (Sweet wormwood/Artemesian?) that does both prevention and cure and outdoes the conventional solutions but hasn't become widely known yet. Here is a powerpoint with some information: http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/biopharm/ppt/artemi s.ppt. My wife (who is an Herbalist) had us take the stuff while on a trip to Belize. It doesn't prove much but we didn't get Malaria:-)
Thats a good point and I retract my statement. It is easy to forget about the indirectly affected people. If the dismalists are right the fallout from the housing bubble bursting will be very painful for a lot of people and not just those who played the game.
Personally, it feels like something's got to give.
Maybe. However since bubbles are really a sort of cross between a pyramid scheme and a lottery the only people who are hurt are those who are not paying attention. Case in point: we sold our house at or near the peak and we are now renting. There is a pretty good chance that when we buy at the bottom we will have made 30% or more. Only people who are buying right now when all indicators suggest that prices haven't reached the bottom will be hurt. I.e. paying attention pays off! Look at basic forces. House values historically grow at 1-2% a year over the long term. If prices grow faster than that there had better be a very strong driving force or - its a bubble. Now, if you detect a bubble early and can afford the risk by all means take advantage of the idiots but be aware that what you are doing requires impecable timing or you can be severly burned!
The house bubble was created by FED policy (follow the links at http://www.patrick.net/housing/crash.html#links) but I think there is a deeper problem. Our taxation methodolgy is fundamentally broken. The solution (IMHO) - the Georgist "one tax". NOTE: That is NOT a flat tax.
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What baffles me is the same people who are so religious about the magic of the free market get so indignant when tickets get marked up 1000% by a scalper. Either embrace the free market and accept the associated consequences or accept the fact that the free market doesn't always yield the most optimal solution to all social and economic problems. Tickets (to sporting events) and oil need the same treatment in my opinion. Tax away the *unearned* profits. I.e. pay the bills, give the investors a reasonable chunk of change and then give the rest to the government. The hope is that the government can then tax incomes a little less. In the case of the tickets the creative solution would be for the government to give out "sporting event stamps" to the less fortunate (about 90% of the population :-) ).
Sounds like you should buy two of 'em and tie the screens together with x2vnc or such like. Hmmm... then get open mosix running on it. Migrate processes back and forth. Geek heaven. Me, I want AFS running on mine. How about a fanfold of a half dozen n8x0's? Oh god, I can't stop shaking. Must order now...
If it doesn't you could try "Scheme in a grid" http://siag.nu/siag/ (supports scheme, tcl and a C like extension language). I've used it but must admit I usually resort to chicken scheme + sqlite for any data processing needs that go beyond what an ordinary spreadsheet can do.
Coconut cream is bad? Damn, I thought it was on the "good fats" list. *sigh*
What kind of terminals? vt100, xterminals or some sort of windows citrix or similar terminals? I've used all and with splitvt and screen I'd rather be on a 19200 vt100 terminal than a citrix terminal on a lously network. In all seriousness though for a lot of applications I think text only would make more sense than gui based. At the dentist the other day and the receptionist was going back and forth between the mouse and the keyboard. I think that if she had been forced to learn the , and similar keystrokes it would have saved a good two minutes for getting my data in the system.
Fancy new stuff ain't necessarily better for everything.
Sorry. Doesn't work that way. The application of this chip will push the temp of the device being cooled up even higher. If you care about the life of your semiconductor devices you will be trying to get them to run as cool as possible. Yes, even semiconductors wear out. Look up electromigration. Take any scenario and apply the thermoconversion device to it (heat direct to elec. is not new btw, don't all geeks make a copper/iron thermoelectric candle powered radio as a kid?) and compare with an equivalent cost best of breed heat sink and the theroconversion device will lose because the chip being cooled will be running hotter. It is the same thing as those guys who think they can put a steam or stirling engine into their cars and get better gas mileage. Sure you can do it but it doesn't make economical sense.
Beautifully said! In fact I suspect that the price cycles we seem to be currently experiencing are a twist on this same idea. Oil powers raise the price for a while to tap into the available windfall profits. Watch consumption carefully, when it shows signs of dropping (people start to change habits, buying hybrids instead of SUVs etc.) nip the trend in the bud by dropping prices.
The solution is simple of course. Tax the oil at the well or tanker. Use the taxes thus raised to displace income taxes meaning no net change in tax burden. Consumption trends down a little. Oil powers are forced to a net lower price point and $$ are kept inside the country. Of course free market fundamentalists have trouble with this idea and non-deep thinkers see only as far as words "tax oil" and their brains switch off so it'll never happen. Too bad. I've never seen a coherent argument against the idea. Oh well. I'm off to buy a nice big F250 pickup. I can be pretty sure that oil will cycle from high to low prices until the peak is hit and overall will stay affordable.
Can windows do process migration (aka mosix)? I'm sure it is technically feasible but are there tools to do it available now? Can you run Word, Excel etc. on a machine and display to another machine (a single application, not the entire display)?
You are a biologist, nutritionist, biochemist, geneticist etc? By what authority do you assert that the protiens are identical? I don't trust that they are identical. More importantly I don't trust that other, more subtle, chemical/biological changes haven't taken place. All I want is a label so I can make an informed decision when I go to the supermarket. This tiny cost is apparently a big deal to you. The beef already has a label. Add one or two more words and we're done. I suspect you wish to force your values (anything goes, big business can do no wrong, the free market is perfect) on the population. If cloning really works and saves so much money and doesn't have any unintended consequences then with labeling it should still "win" in the market.
Personall, I find your faith in our corporate overlords disturbing.
Well, it has been a while since I studied economics but as I remember it economic theory makes the base assumption that information needs to flow efficiently for the economic laws to apply in the ideal sense.
If information is expensive then you end up with an inefficient market. Look at what the net has done to buying electronic goods. I can do a search for reviews, find out technical specifications and prices and make an informed decision about an item before I buy it. That is an efficient market. Making the information difficult to obtain puts power into the hands of the manufacturer. As a consumer I want that information readily available to make my day to day consumer choices. You called the manufacturer a week ago and the product on the shelf manufactured yesterday now has 10x the fat and you don't know it. You are not buying what you thought you were buying and you have zero recourse when you find out you were duped. If the manufacturer lies on their label they risk being caught and being sued.
Anyway, what is the harm in requiring manufacturers to label their products? My wife and I ran a food business and I generated the data and labels for the products. It really wasn't that big a deal and didn't add significantly to the cost of the product. Your stance seems almost fundamentalistic in nature. Who cares whether labeling is socialistic or capitalistic? Which yields a better result for the economy and our quality of life - a requirement to disclose important information up front or the "freedom" to hide the information and make it difficult to obtain, which is historically what manufacturers have done.
Wow. A crazy post with +5 insightful. You know that one of the tenets of a working free market is an equally free flow of information? No free information means consumers (and producers) can't make good economic decisions. If you have the time and resources to call the manufacturer of every good you care about then bully to you. For the rest of us labeling is very important. The quality of the lables is a separate issue not to be confused with the need for labels. I think "Organic" and "zero trans fats" are pretty well defined and meaningful but would agree with you that "low sugar" is not. Labeling is working and those who pay attention to the information and make use of it are much the healthier for it.
As far as cloning goes, I have a hunch that there is some hidden unintended consequence that will manifest itself down the road but only time (and research) will tell.
Nice sum up. I'd say that there is little hope of substantial change either. With plurality voting and corportate $$ the current system will always trend to the two party non-choice we face now. With the economy now based on Housing and Medical industries and real wages for most of us substantially down but not down far enough to cause revolution it seems that the US is on a collision course with "has been" status.
9 /b4002001.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_busines sweek+exclusives
Economy: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_3
For housing you'll have to do your own research there are hundreds of articles, try google with "housing bubble" for a start.
Oh man! Can we trade families? Mine has nearly cost me my marriage AND my sanity! But back on the topic: saying no works wonders. I no longer do any significant maintenance on Windows PC's. The work laptop is taken care of by IT and the family ones are maintained by their respective owners. The key phrase: "I don't know how to run a Windows PC! Try Googling for a fix". They now know how to do it themselves and I am happy and peaceful again. And my home machine? Runs Ubuntu and all my stuff works great for me. With cygwin on the work laptop I'm fairly happy and productive.
Since a) actual pronunciation drifted and b) the extra letters were (something unintelligible)dde I propose a third solution: Leave spelling as it is and pronounce the words as you see fit. When someone tries to correct your pronounciation simply retort that they are stuck in the old world and yours is the new pronunciation. Over time we can converge on a new pronunciation standard.
Try chicken scheme. http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/ most of what you want and an (IMHO) elegant language.
With a pencil. haha.
Better solution. With ruby. Maybe not so easy for some but I find a ruby script easier to maintain and debug than a spreadsheet. Use the csv module and you can still use the spreadsheet for final manipulation of the data.
Yes but you do need more than 0 people.
If you didn't like their rates, you were free to build your own railroad.
With one very big difference: The freight in this case (packets) can be quickly and easily re-routed and there are already existing alternative tracks in place for most routes. Bottom line: there isn't a monopoly on the digital "rails" from (for example) Boston to Los Angeles. If the biggest pipe between those two cities decides to start preferentially charging google traffic then ISP's on either end will have an incentive to find a cheaper path and pass that differential on to customers in an effort to win customers away from other ISPs.
i'm sure that given this new income, the phone companies will lower
their rates and it will all balance out.
Joking aside, maybe not the phone company but why not ISP vs ISP and (at the next level) Telco vs Telco? Unless there are no alternative routes for the data it seems to me that there will be competition. Sure, asinine ISP "A" will put the brakes on data from source X but the word will get around and over time customers will move to alternative ISP "B" where the data is moving faster. While not everyone has access to multiple suppliers it seems to me that there is pretty healthy competition in this market and, best of all, for many customers it really isn't too hard to switch suppliers.
Ok. So the one time I don't RTFA I goof and don't get it. Effectively TicketMaster is representing the Artists/Sports team/Venue owners etc. here. I don't get why people are so upset about this. It makes perfect free-market sense.
[rant]Of course the free market is horribly broken and distorted so the end result is that "we the people" are screwed. There is a solution. The solution is easy to implement. The solution would improve the quality of life for everyone in the middle class and below. The solution will screw those who got wealthy or are staying wealthy by controlling resources (NB// that explicitly excludes those who have done productive things for their wealth). Stands to reason the unworthy wealthy will do everything in their power to ensure the solution never gets implemented. The wealthy are fortunate to have about 90% of "we the people" on their side by virtue of the fact that it takes effort to find and understand the solution and "we the people" are fat and only mildly unhappy and would rather whine about ticket prices than get off our duffs and do stuff. *sigh*.[end rant]
How did Perl Jam try to fight them?
The solution seems so easy and simple to me. Who cares about ticket master? The artists should be auctioning off the tickets themselves. The artists or sports team whatever simply buy as many tickets as possible as part of their contract. Then they auction them off on ebay or set up their own site. What am I missing?
print "Hello, world!"
No bugs.
True - no bugs. But the comment was no bugs or deficiencies and your program has some serious deficiencies. You gotta have a database backend with a sophisticated 3D browser to select the greeting and scope. Salutations, Greetings, Hello, Good day, Gi'day, Hey, Hi etc. Then you need to be able to set the font, color, angle, window size etc. and finally, maybe you don't want to say hello to the whole world; what about country, state, town. I think with some concerted effort we can get this app up to a 10 meg executable with a 10 second load time.
Having had malaria countless number of time, almost dying after doctors gave up on me and then barely making it
i s.ppt. My wife (who is an Herbalist) had us take the stuff while on a trip to Belize. It doesn't prove much but we didn't get Malaria :-)
I'm curious. What did they try to treat you with? Apparently there is a plant based treatment (Sweet wormwood/Artemesian?) that does both prevention and cure and outdoes the conventional solutions but hasn't become widely known yet. Here is a powerpoint with some information: http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/biopharm/ppt/artem
Thats a good point and I retract my statement. It is easy to forget about the indirectly affected people. If the dismalists are right the fallout from the housing bubble bursting will be very painful for a lot of people and not just those who played the game.
Personally, it feels like something's got to give.
Maybe. However since bubbles are really a sort of cross between a pyramid scheme and a lottery the only people who are hurt are those who are not paying attention. Case in point: we sold our house at or near the peak and we are now renting. There is a pretty good chance that when we buy at the bottom we will have made 30% or more. Only people who are buying right now when all indicators suggest that prices haven't reached the bottom will be hurt. I.e. paying attention pays off! Look at basic forces. House values historically grow at 1-2% a year over the long term. If prices grow faster than that there had better be a very strong driving force or - its a bubble. Now, if you detect a bubble early and can afford the risk by all means take advantage of the idiots but be aware that what you are doing requires impecable timing or you can be severly burned!
The house bubble was created by FED policy (follow the links at http://www.patrick.net/housing/crash.html#links) but I think there is a deeper problem. Our taxation methodolgy is fundamentally broken. The solution (IMHO) - the Georgist "one tax". NOTE: That is NOT a flat tax.