Flexibility and shock resistance are two different things. Think of a piece of taffy - you can bend it slowly, but smack it against a table and it breaks into pieces.
The real solution, though, is for your friends to take better care of their shit.
"That's assuming contracts ignore fluctuating currency values, and that these values are very volatile. Otherwise you could simply build these facts into the contract."
Absolute value based on what, exactly? If not the currency itself, loaves of bread? Then why not just make bread loaves the currency?
"The only time when deflation and inflation are problematic is when you have an asymmetrical reduction or increase of the money supply."
That's not true. If I have a contract to pay for something with bitcoins over time, my real cost increases if there's such deflation (I now have to pay a greater part of my wealth than originally contracted). e.g. if I have 10 BC, agree to pay you 1 in the future for X in return, then everyone throws away half their bitcoins, I now have to pay you 1:5 instead of 1:10 my holdings.
But that's not necessarily a bad thing - it encourages saving and investment rather than borrowing. Governments have used inflation to pay their debts for a long time, hurting those who save rather than follow their government into debt.
"f what he was, was a whistle-blowerâ"to pick up the phone and call the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee,"
Those thugs continue to support government spying on citizens. Whistleblowing does nothing unless it's brought to the attention of someone who both cares and is in a position to do something.
BTW, Mike Rogers is complaining that "Federal data hub threatens privacy," with regard to the Federal Data Services Hub, a component of the health insurance exchanges created by Obamacare, but supports the NSA. He's a disingenuous hypocrite.
"I on the other hand, much enjoy an extra hour of daylight during the summer."
Are you really so daft to believe that DST increase the length of the daylight hours? There's no extra daylight. Just get up earlier (at "the break of dawn," as they say) if you want more daylight while you're awake.
You don't know your computer history. The advent of PC compatibles was not because of openness, or even by design. The IBM PC BIOS was protected by copyright, and was never licensed. Compaq and others did eventually reverse engineer it. That's what allowed "clones" to come to market, in addition to the fact that IBM relied on a third party (Microsoft) for their operating system.
No one was ever able to reverse engineer the Macintosh ROMs, so no clones.
That's got absolutely nothing to do with "openness." Both PC and Mac were equally open - the information necessary to develop both software and hardware to work with them was freely available.
The paradox of our time in history
Is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers
We have wider freeways but narrower viewpoints
We spend more but we have less
We buy more but we enjoy it less
We have bigger houses and smaller families
More conveniences and less time
We have more degrees but less depth
More knowledge but less judgment
More experts but more problems
More medicine but less wellness
Apple was famous for their cheapness and that "hardware that could support GUIs" was a 9" monochrome monitor with terrible resolution. PC's had better than that from the start.
The ur-Mac had a bit mapped 512x342 display with excellent sharpness and contrast, and used a 32/16 bit 68000 processor. The PC offered 640x200 with CGA (VGA wasn't until 3 years later) on a fuzzy-pixeled display (color, though), and used a 16/8 bit 8088 processor.
"Apple made the same mistake with smartphones as in the 80s with the computers. It followed a practice of a closed ecosystem,"
What are you babbling about? Sure, iPhone is closed, what with the company store and all. But Macintosh never was. Development info was freely available (Inside Mac, etc.), software sold on the open market without needing Apple's approval, hardware was mostly based on standards like SCSI and NuBus (AppleTalk and ADB were exceptions, but there were no comparable standards based alternatives at the time), which anyone could develop for.
They didn't license the OS (well, for a short time), but that's not what makes a system "closed."
the people who actually live in English look at the system of units in use in the USA and wonder why they are still using a system of units that they depreciated while the USA was still a colony.
That's not hard to figure out - they lost to not only the colonies, but to the French. But I'm being facetious. They're "imperial units," not "English units." They're based on the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which postdates your claim that they deprecated such measures in colonial times. Britain didn't really embrace the SI system until the late 20th centuy.
It's one thousand (mille) paces of a Roman soldier, as modified through history. That seems to be as reasonable a basis for a unit of length as the meter, which is 1/10000000th the distance between the poles and the equator, as modified through history. Mileposts were markers placed by Roman roadbuilders as reference points.
Why do you ask - do you live in some backwards nation without a good educational system?
âoeNSA does collect information on terrorists and our national intelligence priorities but we are not authorized to go into a U.S. companyâ(TM)s servers and take data,â Alexander said.
So, they claim they don't break into servers. So what? That's entirely different than tapping the links between the servers. And you can bet he knows the difference.
The Republic of China (informally, Taiwan) is taking this wrong. The RoC claims sovereignty over all of China, including the mainland. The PRC claims sovereignty over the mainland and Taiwan.
Google is simply agreeing with both of them - it's one China. Let the governments sort out which one holds the legitimate claim to everything. Only if the RoC formally gives up any claim to the mainland will they have a complaint.
I believe it's collective noun, so it's more commonly used as a singular in the US. Britain may be different, they tend to treat collective nouns as plural "The team are playing..."
Why is it "maths" in British English, but "math" in American English? In America, it's "mathematics," "physics," "electronics," etc. Only "math" is singular.
I suspect we need a liberal arts person to explain it.
Replying to myself, because on further review, HP does still make optical drives. You can get an HP CD-R/DVD-R from Newegg for ~$100, comparable to ones from other manufacturers which cost $20.
And HP is saying the competition is overpriced? WTF?
Or do they just badge engineer theirs these days, and the ~5x markup isn't enough for them?
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Flexibility and shock resistance are two different things. Think of a piece of taffy - you can bend it slowly, but smack it against a table and it breaks into pieces.
The real solution, though, is for your friends to take better care of their shit.
I suppose it might save the phone if you carry it in a back pocket and sit on it. That seems to be a common failure mode.
Other than that, it's a marketing gimmick.
"That's assuming contracts ignore fluctuating currency values, and that these values are very volatile. Otherwise you could simply build these facts into the contract."
Absolute value based on what, exactly? If not the currency itself, loaves of bread? Then why not just make bread loaves the currency?
"The only time when deflation and inflation are problematic is when you have an asymmetrical reduction or increase of the money supply."
That's not true. If I have a contract to pay for something with bitcoins over time, my real cost increases if there's such deflation (I now have to pay a greater part of my wealth than originally contracted). e.g. if I have 10 BC, agree to pay you 1 in the future for X in return, then everyone throws away half their bitcoins, I now have to pay you 1:5 instead of 1:10 my holdings.
But that's not necessarily a bad thing - it encourages saving and investment rather than borrowing. Governments have used inflation to pay their debts for a long time, hurting those who save rather than follow their government into debt.
"f what he was, was a whistle-blowerâ"to pick up the phone and call the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee,"
Those thugs continue to support government spying on citizens. Whistleblowing does nothing unless it's brought to the attention of someone who both cares and is in a position to do something.
BTW, Mike Rogers is complaining that "Federal data hub threatens privacy," with regard to the Federal Data Services Hub, a component of the health insurance exchanges created by Obamacare, but supports the NSA. He's a disingenuous hypocrite.
It doesn't go on road. This thing is obviously not capable of meeting the requirements for a vehicle to be driven on public roads.
"A late night dinner at 23:00 withe a red horizon is something different than a 22:00 ordinary dinner with a red horizon."
You're either trolling, or a fool.
"I on the other hand, much enjoy an extra hour of daylight during the summer."
Are you really so daft to believe that DST increase the length of the daylight hours? There's no extra daylight. Just get up earlier (at "the break of dawn," as they say) if you want more daylight while you're awake.
You don't know your computer history. The advent of PC compatibles was not because of openness, or even by design. The IBM PC BIOS was protected by copyright, and was never licensed. Compaq and others did eventually reverse engineer it. That's what allowed "clones" to come to market, in addition to the fact that IBM relied on a third party (Microsoft) for their operating system.
No one was ever able to reverse engineer the Macintosh ROMs, so no clones.
That's got absolutely nothing to do with "openness." Both PC and Mac were equally open - the information necessary to develop both software and hardware to work with them was freely available.
The paradox of our time in history
Is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers
We have wider freeways but narrower viewpoints
We spend more but we have less
We buy more but we enjoy it less
We have bigger houses and smaller families
More conveniences and less time
We have more degrees but less depth
More knowledge but less judgment
More experts but more problems
More medicine but less wellness
Saying it doesn't make it so.
Thanks for the warning about what was to follow!
The ur-Mac had a bit mapped 512x342 display with excellent sharpness and contrast, and used a 32/16 bit 68000 processor. The PC offered 640x200 with CGA (VGA wasn't until 3 years later) on a fuzzy-pixeled display (color, though), and used a 16/8 bit 8088 processor.
"Apple made the same mistake with smartphones as in the 80s with the computers. It followed a practice of a closed ecosystem,"
What are you babbling about? Sure, iPhone is closed, what with the company store and all. But Macintosh never was. Development info was freely available (Inside Mac, etc.), software sold on the open market without needing Apple's approval, hardware was mostly based on standards like SCSI and NuBus (AppleTalk and ADB were exceptions, but there were no comparable standards based alternatives at the time), which anyone could develop for.
They didn't license the OS (well, for a short time), but that's not what makes a system "closed."
It depends on whether the defects are in architecture or implementation.
That's not hard to figure out - they lost to not only the colonies, but to the French. But I'm being facetious. They're "imperial units," not "English units." They're based on the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which postdates your claim that they deprecated such measures in colonial times. Britain didn't really embrace the SI system until the late 20th centuy.
(BTW, ITYM "England," not "English." HTH! HAND!)
It's one thousand (mille) paces of a Roman soldier, as modified through history. That seems to be as reasonable a basis for a unit of length as the meter, which is 1/10000000th the distance between the poles and the equator, as modified through history. Mileposts were markers placed by Roman roadbuilders as reference points.
Why do you ask - do you live in some backwards nation without a good educational system?
So, they claim they don't break into servers. So what? That's entirely different than tapping the links between the servers. And you can bet he knows the difference.
The Republic of China (informally, Taiwan) is taking this wrong. The RoC claims sovereignty over all of China, including the mainland. The PRC claims sovereignty over the mainland and Taiwan.
Google is simply agreeing with both of them - it's one China. Let the governments sort out which one holds the legitimate claim to everything. Only if the RoC formally gives up any claim to the mainland will they have a complaint.
A deficiency in English, no doubt.
I believe it's collective noun, so it's more commonly used as a singular in the US. Britain may be different, they tend to treat collective nouns as plural "The team are playing..."
It wasn't Mark Stephens, who was the third writer paid by Infoworld to write under the Robert X. Cringley pseudonym, but the only one to steal it.
Why is it "maths" in British English, but "math" in American English? In America, it's "mathematics," "physics," "electronics," etc. Only "math" is singular.
I suspect we need a liberal arts person to explain it.
Is this the real Robert X. Cringley, or the dishonest Sears Robert X. Cringley.
You sure showed me. They were $22, with free shipping, in 2009.
Replying to myself, because on further review, HP does still make optical drives. You can get an HP CD-R/DVD-R from Newegg for ~$100, comparable to ones from other manufacturers which cost $20.
And HP is saying the competition is overpriced? WTF?
Or do they just badge engineer theirs these days, and the ~5x markup isn't enough for them?