The purpose of Java is to get companies to write fancy enterprise apps in Java and sell them Oracle products as the database back-end. Why exactly they'd buy the #1 tool which people use to access your flagship application, and then proceed to alienate everyone who uses it, is beyond me... but I don't see how it helps Oracle make money.
I wasn't really incensed about textbooks until the bookstore tried to sell our class what looked like a marginally-more-professional version of "photocopy the whole book" (cheap paper - including the cover, pages rotated 90 degrees, that stupid plastic binding) for $90 when you can get the hardcover for $45 on Amazon.
Apocalyptic superstition and nonsense! I mean.... Didn't you see the study where they looked at our interpretations that calender and determined that, astronomically, the apocalypse would be about 9 months later, in February 2013?
I would also like to point out that we also have water and gold on Earth, and a lot easier and cheaper to get to, using any technologies available now or likely to be available in the intermediate future. You're not getting gold off the moon unless you have heavy industry on the Moon, and putting that sort of investment there would be a monumentally stupefying waste when there are trillions of other things we can invest in down here on the surface and get much better returns much sooner.
So, nice to think about it, but don't expect it to be a really big deal this century.
1. Company makes money overseas. 2. Uncle Sam demands 35% if company repatriates this money. 3. Company spends money overseas. 4. OMG they're taking our jobs!!! 5. Duh?
That doesn't make it his money. It makes it someone else's money that he was planning on having taken for his benefit. While there are many practical benefits to this, there needs to be a limit to the intensity of the Moral Outrage / I Was Entitled To It angle.
Practically speaking, do you really believe that the nation and the economy would be better served by the government spending another $3 billion than Google retaining it? I mean, when Google spends money, it typically creates some pretty high-quality jobs. That's a high standard for anyone to match, let alone the federal government.
I had gathered that asbestos is perfectly safe and fine as long as it stays out of your lungs; it's a physical contaminant, not a chemical one. (Am I wrong?) BPA contamination has the potential to be much more insidious.
What they must not have mentioned is that at least 26 of that 50 has to be spent on music providers which are approved by the government as being sufficiently culturally French!
Hey, look on the bright side. At least you don't have to take a shuttle bus and go through security again to get to your connecting flight (*cough* PHX *cough*)
A public good is nonrival and nonexcludable... like national defense. Your examples may suffer from free-rider problems, but they're definitely rival (omg silicon valley traffic) and reasonably excludable.
Shipping stuff on giant boats is actually remarkably efficient, per-unit. That's why cheap stuff from China is still cheap. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's cheaper to ship water via tanker than it is to desalinate it.
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TFA says it's "fully functional". I say, rocket-jumping and missile launch or it doesn't count. :b
(Why does Wikipedia have an article on the stupid band, anyway? *grumble grumble deletionist nazi sentiments go here, grumble*)
It's called a MIRV.
The purpose of Java is to get companies to write fancy enterprise apps in Java and sell them Oracle products as the database back-end. Why exactly they'd buy the #1 tool which people use to access your flagship application, and then proceed to alienate everyone who uses it, is beyond me... but I don't see how it helps Oracle make money.
I wasn't really incensed about textbooks until the bookstore tried to sell our class what looked like a marginally-more-professional version of "photocopy the whole book" (cheap paper - including the cover, pages rotated 90 degrees, that stupid plastic binding) for $90 when you can get the hardcover for $45 on Amazon.
I mean, come on.
They just want a more effective way to shut used-textbook merchants out of the market so they can more fully exploit their students.
Apocalyptic superstition and nonsense! I mean.... Didn't you see the study where they looked at our interpretations that calender and determined that, astronomically, the apocalypse would be about 9 months later, in February 2013?
I don't know about rocket launchers, but did you want to play Asteroids in your browser with any web site?
Oh no! Google has my Gmail password?!?!!? :)
Google policy is inadequate to protect your data. Encrypt your wifi. That is all.
I would also like to point out that we also have water and gold on Earth, and a lot easier and cheaper to get to, using any technologies available now or likely to be available in the intermediate future. You're not getting gold off the moon unless you have heavy industry on the Moon, and putting that sort of investment there would be a monumentally stupefying waste when there are trillions of other things we can invest in down here on the surface and get much better returns much sooner.
So, nice to think about it, but don't expect it to be a really big deal this century.
1. Company makes money overseas.
2. Uncle Sam demands 35% if company repatriates this money.
3. Company spends money overseas.
4. OMG they're taking our jobs!!!
5. Duh?
That doesn't make it his money. It makes it someone else's money that he was planning on having taken for his benefit. While there are many practical benefits to this, there needs to be a limit to the intensity of the Moral Outrage / I Was Entitled To It angle.
Practically speaking, do you really believe that the nation and the economy would be better served by the government spending another $3 billion than Google retaining it? I mean, when Google spends money, it typically creates some pretty high-quality jobs. That's a high standard for anyone to match, let alone the federal government.
Given all the publicity it's received, maybe this was a net win for the campaign then? :)
You will be able to buy an app and use it on all the systems you own, from what I heard.
I had gathered that asbestos is perfectly safe and fine as long as it stays out of your lungs; it's a physical contaminant, not a chemical one. (Am I wrong?) BPA contamination has the potential to be much more insidious.
This is risk mitigation.
What they must not have mentioned is that at least 26 of that 50 has to be spent on music providers which are approved by the government as being sufficiently culturally French!
Isn't France supposed to be doing austerity right now? Like raising the retirement age from 60 to 62? (and omg protests!!!!!)
Could this be an end to mystery-meat navigation? :)
Hey, look on the bright side. At least you don't have to take a shuttle bus and go through security again to get to your connecting flight (*cough* PHX *cough*)
A public good is nonrival and nonexcludable... like national defense. Your examples may suffer from free-rider problems, but they're definitely rival (omg silicon valley traffic) and reasonably excludable.
Shipping stuff on giant boats is actually remarkably efficient, per-unit. That's why cheap stuff from China is still cheap. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's cheaper to ship water via tanker than it is to desalinate it.
Obviously worth it to them. And probably about what they're used to paying for land in Cupertino. :b