I really doubt that anyone *needs* to edit their registry ever.
So why does anyone do it?
I take your point, that in the world of Excel, Word, and IE users need never edit the registry, and need not even know it exists. But if you're doing something more sophisticated, there are times you need to edit the registry, and no other solution exists. The larger part of the complexity is trying to identify whether you are in such a situation or not.
Intentionally ambiguous?? C'mon, everyone should have realized by now that Google is an arm of the US National Security Agency.
They continually index the Web, and monitor our searches for intelligence purposes. Google mail and Google groups expand this capability substantially. And of course Google Earth allows them to monitor what IP addresses are imaging what portions of the globe.
They are fighting communism/fascism/terrorism/narcotics trafficking/internal dissent/etc. by advanced search tecnology and traffic analysis. The fact that their stock is overvalued should be looked at as a boon to the American taxpayer.
While there is much truth to what you say, it's not quite as simple as that.
For instance Dell's business model seems fairly straightforward, but yet no one has yet come along to replicate their competencies, and challenge them in their own backyard (in terms of marketplace.)
With Amazon, for an outsider it's difficult to see how much of their competitive advantage stems from technical infrastructure, marketing (in the broad sense) or their distribution infrastructure.
Your access point is not being contacted. The signal put out by your access point is being observed passively. It's no different than taking advantage of your porch light while I walk down the street. Unless you want to be paid for that as well.
The FCC, as a proxy for 'the public', allows you to take a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum for free. In return, you have no recourse to people passively monitoring the signal. Were they to access your network, then that would be criminal.
Your access point is not being contacted. The signal put out by your access point is being observed passively. It's no different than taking advantage of your porch light while I walk down the street. Unless you want to be paid for that as well.
CDs are a poor example, since you are paying for content and not technology. A better analogy would be CD players, which are remarkably cheap, cheaper in fact than the turntables which they made extinct originally on a quality-and-convenience basis.
Simple macro-economics will tell you that if people are willing to pay that much for a product, then you sell it at that price point even if your product isn't that expensive.
Microeconomics describes the profit maximization of the firm. Macroeconomics describes the relationship between wages, interest rates, employment and economic activity.
The way I see it, corporations actually pay all of the taxes, since any taxes we pay are covered by the corporations in the higher gross wages we demand for work and the higher gross returns we demand on corporate assets.
Personal income taxes are simply an indirect tax on corporations.
But it would have been the Soviets who would have defeated the Japanese rather than the US in that scenario. And it was this last bit that had the US more worried than the prospect of a long drawn-out war.
The Soviet Union, after suffering more casualties than any of the Allies, virtually losing an entire generation of men to the Germans, was prepared to mount an invasion of Japan's home islands? Think again.
The Soviet Union was not a signatory of the Potsdam Declaration, as they were not at war with Japan. They signed on to the Potsdam Declaration after they declared war on Japan on August 8th, two days after the the Hiroshima bomb. The Soviet declaration of war was to claim a place at the postwar table, rather than an expression of intent to mount an invasion.
Actually, you've got it quite backwards. The Potsdam Declaration (July 26) was quite clear:
We call upon the government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.
It was rejected by the government of Japan, who hoped that a costly invasion of the home islands would allow them to negotiate a surrender. On August 6th Hiroshoma was bombed, indicating that 'prompt and utter destruction' was not merely bluster. August 8th Russia declared war on Japan. August 9th Nagasaki was bombed. August 13th the emporer signalled for Japanese forces to surrender.
The subway ridership in Tokyo is about twice that of New York, not the 9 times you seem to imply http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762446.html . If that 27 million number is for total mass transit ridership and you want to compare apples to apples, you'd need to include New York's four commuter rail systems (LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit, PATH), two municipal bus systems (MTA, NJ Transit) and the Staten Island Ferry.
Privately owned companies have a responsibility to deliver to their shareholders. The true test of whether a company is a monopoly or not is whether there is a willingness to fund basic research science without a myopic focus on the bottom line. Monopolies can afford this.
The evidence supporting is TJ Watson, Bell Labs, and Xerox Parc. Sadly, as the monopoly is eliminated so is the research.
And while their output hasn't been earth shattering yet, this is further evidence of Microsoft's monopoly.
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You won't see it on Slashdot, but there are noble positions on illegal P2P. If I reject the notion of intellectual property, than P2P is fine.
I could say that intellectual property is an ethical fiction, merely a pragmatic and artificial creation of the state to foster development in arts and sciences, with no more ethical relevance parking laws.
I might further argue that since these monopoly rents granted to the intellectual property holders, are entirely absent any calculus of the relationship between the costs borne and the benefits reaped other than a blind faith in the mechanism of the market, especially in this case a monopoly-distorted market, that so-called intellectual property is no longer morally neutral, but in fact wrong.
I could say that, but I don't. IP is good, and stealing is stealing.
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So 40% of the households take home $29K or less....
By your interpretation of your own statistics, 100% of the housholds take home $141K or less. I think you may need to reinterpret . . .
Everyone likes to bemoan the United States' dependence on foreign oil, and somehow blame the auto industry. Th real culprit isn't the cars, it's the zoning.
We live in a car culture, not because of some rugged American individualism, but because that's the way we've zoned it. We've made it impossible to live without a car (except in Manhattan -- possibly the only place in the US where a car is a liability.) People can talk till there blue in the face about public transportation, but it just doesn't make sense when the population density is below a certain level.
While I agree cities are organic, they can be zoned to grow in the proper way. The way to end foreign fuel dependence is:
1) Zone higher density residential.
2) Zone commercial within walking (or 5 minute bus) distance.
3) Stop building roads 'to reduce congestion' -- new roads lead to more traffic not less.
4) Stop building parking lots.
[5) Profit]
(I must also note that along with dependence on foreign oil, this suburban sprawl zoning has led to the evil growth of the mall and superstore.)
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I really doubt that anyone *needs* to edit their registry ever.
So why does anyone do it?
I take your point, that in the world of Excel, Word, and IE users need never edit the registry, and need not even know it exists. But if you're doing something more sophisticated, there are times you need to edit the registry, and no other solution exists. The larger part of the complexity is trying to identify whether you are in such a situation or not.
Intentionally ambiguous?? C'mon, everyone should have realized by now that Google is an arm of the US National Security Agency.
They continually index the Web, and monitor our searches for intelligence purposes. Google mail and Google groups expand this capability substantially. And of course Google Earth allows them to monitor what IP addresses are imaging what portions of the globe.
They are fighting communism/fascism/terrorism/narcotics trafficking/internal dissent/etc. by advanced search tecnology and traffic analysis. The fact that their stock is overvalued should be looked at as a boon to the American taxpayer.
Those are justifications, not causes.
And apart from the vacuous, post hoc, reasoning of those justifications, it's not terribly clear who you mean by 'we'.
While there is much truth to what you say, it's not quite as simple as that.
For instance Dell's business model seems fairly straightforward, but yet no one has yet come along to replicate their competencies, and challenge them in their own backyard (in terms of marketplace.)
With Amazon, for an outsider it's difficult to see how much of their competitive advantage stems from technical infrastructure, marketing (in the broad sense) or their distribution infrastructure.
Your access point is not being contacted. The signal put out by your access point is being observed passively. It's no different than taking advantage of your porch light while I walk down the street. Unless you want to be paid for that as well. The FCC, as a proxy for 'the public', allows you to take a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum for free. In return, you have no recourse to people passively monitoring the signal. Were they to access your network, then that would be criminal.
Your access point is not being contacted. The signal put out by your access point is being observed passively. It's no different than taking advantage of your porch light while I walk down the street. Unless you want to be paid for that as well.
CDs are a poor example, since you are paying for content and not technology. A better analogy would be CD players, which are remarkably cheap, cheaper in fact than the turntables which they made extinct originally on a quality-and-convenience basis.
The way I see it, corporations actually pay all of the taxes, since any taxes we pay are covered by the corporations in the higher gross wages we demand for work and the higher gross returns we demand on corporate assets.
Personal income taxes are simply an indirect tax on corporations.
At eight stories, the Dakota doesn't truly count as a high rise. But I still get the irony...
But it's innovative when MS does it.
It's been done. Watch out for Walter Matthau and Jerry Stiller.
But it would have been the Soviets who would have defeated the Japanese rather than the US in that scenario. And it was this last bit that had the US more worried than the prospect of a long drawn-out war.
The Soviet Union, after suffering more casualties than any of the Allies, virtually losing an entire generation of men to the Germans, was prepared to mount an invasion of Japan's home islands? Think again.
The Soviet Union was not a signatory of the Potsdam Declaration, as they were not at war with Japan. They signed on to the Potsdam Declaration after they declared war on Japan on August 8th, two days after the the Hiroshima bomb. The Soviet declaration of war was to claim a place at the postwar table, rather than an expression of intent to mount an invasion.
The subway ridership in Tokyo is about twice that of New York, not the 9 times you seem to imply http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762446.html . If that 27 million number is for total mass transit ridership and you want to compare apples to apples, you'd need to include New York's four commuter rail systems (LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit, PATH), two municipal bus systems (MTA, NJ Transit) and the Staten Island Ferry.
I, for one, welcome our dark matter overlords.
I believe he was a partner at Goldman when they went public. He's doing OK.
Privately owned companies have a responsibility to deliver to their shareholders. The true test of whether a company is a monopoly or not is whether there is a willingness to fund basic research science without a myopic focus on the bottom line. Monopolies can afford this.
The evidence supporting is TJ Watson, Bell Labs, and Xerox Parc. Sadly, as the monopoly is eliminated so is the research.
And while their output hasn't been earth shattering yet, this is further evidence of Microsoft's monopoly.
Or the 2004 US basketball team.
You won't see it on Slashdot, but there are noble positions on illegal P2P. If I reject the notion of intellectual property, than P2P is fine.
I could say that intellectual property is an ethical fiction, merely a pragmatic and artificial creation of the state to foster development in arts and sciences, with no more ethical relevance parking laws.
I might further argue that since these monopoly rents granted to the intellectual property holders, are entirely absent any calculus of the relationship between the costs borne and the benefits reaped other than a blind faith in the mechanism of the market, especially in this case a monopoly-distorted market, that so-called intellectual property is no longer morally neutral, but in fact wrong.
I could say that, but I don't. IP is good, and stealing is stealing.
So 40% of the households take home $29K or less....
By your interpretation of your own statistics, 100% of the housholds take home $141K or less. I think you may need to reinterpret . . .
Exactly.
Everyone likes to bemoan the United States' dependence on foreign oil, and somehow blame the auto industry. Th real culprit isn't the cars, it's the zoning.
We live in a car culture, not because of some rugged American individualism, but because that's the way we've zoned it. We've made it impossible to live without a car (except in Manhattan -- possibly the only place in the US where a car is a liability.) People can talk till there blue in the face about public transportation, but it just doesn't make sense when the population density is below a certain level.
While I agree cities are organic, they can be zoned to grow in the proper way. The way to end foreign fuel dependence is:
1) Zone higher density residential.
2) Zone commercial within walking (or 5 minute bus) distance.
3) Stop building roads 'to reduce congestion' -- new roads lead to more traffic not less.
4) Stop building parking lots.
[5) Profit]
(I must also note that along with dependence on foreign oil, this suburban sprawl zoning has led to the evil growth of the mall and superstore.)
That's where Mono comes in. By the time they're finished rewriting Office in .NET, Mono will be up to speed. Voila, MS Linux, and MS Office for Linux.
When there's enough traction, they'll fork it, break it, and everyone who want to run MS Office for Linux will need to run MS Linux.