Also, any capitalist system will recognize basic principles of the free market - like how the price of something approaching its marginal cost, if the system is efficient. So "free software" makes perfect sense.
Check out the Winston-Salem, NC Dell plant. $280 million in tax breaks, and now they're laying people off. The baseball-stadium deal is a boondoggle too - basically the movers and shakers in town patting the movers and shakers on the back...
Well, giving tax breaks to businesses is Doing Something, which makes headlines, which helps get politicians elected, even though in practice the case for doing so is usually pretty marginal. Great deal if you're the business, mind you. Check out the Dell plant near Winston-Salem which got a boatload of incentives, and then started cutting jobs when the going got rough...
The nice thing about post-its is that they can be updated very easily when you're fiddling with the device.
That doesn't work if you're configuring it remotely, though.:|
The next step up from a Post-It, though, is a snazzy label-maker. My portion of the company uses these extensively to document our development lab (we do some NMSy stuff). Of course, it's not a production network, and standards are a little different.
Yeah, they've got a few glitches, but you should see what they have to go through to make the legacy system they're replacing work. You're talking years of training, each unit.
This has been done before in a variety of cases... in particular, there's a variety of hardware platforms running custom operating systems where you can add (say) a "Firewall" license to your router/switch, or an "802.11n" license for your wireless access point. Are these close enough / earlier enough to be Prior Art-y?
Businesses commonly make territory designations (for sales or distribution purposes) that do things like lump "Australia" in with "Asia". It often makes a lot more sense to base things off of "physical proximity" or "economic interconnectedness" (or maybe even "cultural similarity", though that's not the case here) than basing everything off of plate tectonics.
He's afraid of the local police, though, who will have a harder time going a hundred miles away and raiding the Internet cafe records on a whim. Something about jurisdiction.
I mean, if he were a real criminal, they'd be able to work through it readily enough, but it ought to be enough to deter a casual fishing expedition.
Image file metadata for the standard formats can be erased with a good lightweight image-manipulation tool (on Windows, look for IrfanView - I'd be sure to install all the plugins just in case, too, in case one of them supports a different metadata type, et cetera). There's probably more specialized tools as well. Google it up, schmucks.
.doc has a Microsoft "remove hidden data" widget, and you can look at a variety of the properties directly, but I still wouldn't trust it. Try text,.rtf, maybe HTML? where you can scan the entire file as ASCII and see exactly what's in there.
The New York rail system is fantastic at takes people where they're actually going: from their homes to their jobs. And, recessions notwithstanding, their jobs are mostly in New York City. If you built a rail line from Poughkeepsie to New Haven, nobody would care.
If you need to get from Poughkeepsie to New Haven without cars, consider installing a bus. There's already a perfectly good road system along the way there.
I'm thinking, "solar train? why? Electricity is fungible. Why not build the electric train, if it's a good idea, and worry about making that work, and then add solar power? I guess there is some advantage to not having construction gear in the way of operating trains for the "over the track" deal, but that part sounds stupid anyway- build a few real solar thermal-concentrator style plants next to the track a few miles out in the desert and you'll probably do better than a series of photovoltaics-on-a-stick.
You know what else is cheap right now? Microsoft stock. Compared to last year, anyway (it's down a third)... and possibly compared to next year? They could invest in themselves: buy back company stock now while debt is N%, possibly leaving the (remaining) shareholders with a more-than-N-% return several years down the line when their stock rises due to other reasons.
Actually, Microsoft can probably get a pretty good deal on debt, considering how safe they are and how risky everyone else looks. This is a way to exploit an advantage they have right now, and they can wait for a chance to use it in the future. They must think that the interest on a bond must be cheaper than waiting (or waiting-and-spending-their-own-cash. since cash is a handy buffer and a hedge against risk in These Turbulent Economic Times (tm) and possibly worth it.)
On the other hand, in an efficient free market, the price of a good will approach the marginal cost - in the case of software, that's zero-per-copy or pretty darned close to it. Since most software is not free, you can infer that the software market is not efficient, and software is probably being under-produced. This is consistent with the notion that the production of free software has significant positive externalities.
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You know what? It's nice to finally see "climate change" being less of a parareligious asceticism movement and more results-oriented. About time.
Also, any capitalist system will recognize basic principles of the free market - like how the price of something approaching its marginal cost, if the system is efficient. So "free software" makes perfect sense.
Check out the Winston-Salem, NC Dell plant. $280 million in tax breaks, and now they're laying people off. The baseball-stadium deal is a boondoggle too - basically the movers and shakers in town patting the movers and shakers on the back...
Well, giving tax breaks to businesses is Doing Something, which makes headlines, which helps get politicians elected, even though in practice the case for doing so is usually pretty marginal. Great deal if you're the business, mind you. Check out the Dell plant near Winston-Salem which got a boatload of incentives, and then started cutting jobs when the going got rough...
The next step up from a Post-It, though, is a snazzy label-maker. My portion of the company uses these extensively to document our development lab (we do some NMSy stuff). Of course, it's not a production network, and standards are a little different.
That's not the UI. That's just avatars. The UI is the part that tells you you are now on Blu!
Can he swim underwater like a real seal? .... and if you inflate him with helium, does he fly?
That's debit, silly.
Theoretically, JetPack's API could be implemented by multiple browsers, so you could write one cutesy little extension for all of them.
Yeah, they've got a few glitches, but you should see what they have to go through to make the legacy system they're replacing work. You're talking years of training, each unit.
Some people are expressing concerns about Mexico's stability in the face of drug-cartel related violence.
This has been done before in a variety of cases... in particular, there's a variety of hardware platforms running custom operating systems where you can add (say) a "Firewall" license to your router/switch, or an "802.11n" license for your wireless access point. Are these close enough / earlier enough to be Prior Art-y?
That list isn't adjusted for inflation, either. Gone with the Wind dominated the charts for a long time, inflation-adjusted.
Because the people where you live have too much money, and like showing off how virtuously eco-huggy they are.
Businesses commonly make territory designations (for sales or distribution purposes) that do things like lump "Australia" in with "Asia". It often makes a lot more sense to base things off of "physical proximity" or "economic interconnectedness" (or maybe even "cultural similarity", though that's not the case here) than basing everything off of plate tectonics.
Forget the artists.
(Their distributors certainly do! badum-chunk)
He's afraid of the local police, though, who will have a harder time going a hundred miles away and raiding the Internet cafe records on a whim. Something about jurisdiction. I mean, if he were a real criminal, they'd be able to work through it readily enough, but it ought to be enough to deter a casual fishing expedition.
Yes, because we broke out the Queen. Magnifico.
If you need to get from Poughkeepsie to New Haven without cars, consider installing a bus. There's already a perfectly good road system along the way there.
I'm thinking, "solar train? why? Electricity is fungible. Why not build the electric train, if it's a good idea, and worry about making that work, and then add solar power? I guess there is some advantage to not having construction gear in the way of operating trains for the "over the track" deal, but that part sounds stupid anyway- build a few real solar thermal-concentrator style plants next to the track a few miles out in the desert and you'll probably do better than a series of photovoltaics-on-a-stick.
You know what else is cheap right now? Microsoft stock. Compared to last year, anyway (it's down a third)... and possibly compared to next year? They could invest in themselves: buy back company stock now while debt is N%, possibly leaving the (remaining) shareholders with a more-than-N-% return several years down the line when their stock rises due to other reasons.
Actually, Microsoft can probably get a pretty good deal on debt, considering how safe they are and how risky everyone else looks. This is a way to exploit an advantage they have right now, and they can wait for a chance to use it in the future. They must think that the interest on a bond must be cheaper than waiting (or waiting-and-spending-their-own-cash. since cash is a handy buffer and a hedge against risk in These Turbulent Economic Times (tm) and possibly worth it.)
jail.
On the other hand, in an efficient free market, the price of a good will approach the marginal cost - in the case of software, that's zero-per-copy or pretty darned close to it. Since most software is not free, you can infer that the software market is not efficient, and software is probably being under-produced. This is consistent with the notion that the production of free software has significant positive externalities.