That article made no sense. Massachusetts wants to ensure that the documents handled by the government will be accessible for time eternal, not locked up in a proprietary format. What good is it to have the government store files electronically if in 10 years time there is no LEGAL program left that can open them.
My power went out, now I have to wait to watch the end of the movie...
HEY!!
I can't see how this can be done without compromising the whole DVD concept. Menus, special features, secondary audio tracks, etc., etc.
I haven't had any battery problems with my car in temperatures down to 9 deg F.
You should note that Gasoline formulas are changed in some regions during winter time. All cars will have a drop in fuel effiency because of the oxidizers put into the gasoline put there to force cleaner burning during colder weather.
I paid 23K for my 2002 Prius with the navigation system. This was only $1000 more than a Camry with the same.
I have 90K miles on the car. I've had no problems with the hybrid system. There was one recall on a battery pack issue that never affected my car. I've had one problem with the one of the doohickies in the air-quality system, it was covered under warranty. I've had two sets of tires put on the car since I bought it. The original US tires are crap, but they are low rolling resistance, so you get a 2 to 3 mpg additional mileage.
I figure I've been getting 35 to 45 mpg depending on the weather, gas formula and amount of highway driving. On average, I get 40 mpg with highway driving around 75 to 80 mph.
I figured I've more than made up the difference in price with gas savings.
I would agree, except Google currently has no* debt at the moment. So this taking the money and putting into liquid assets (aka easily converted to cash assets) means they have some immediate purchases in mind.
This could either big one big thing or many, many small things.
BTW, in comparison, Microsoft has 30+ billion in cash on hand, but with many more shares in circulation.
*no debt is actually very, very little debt. About $290K (0.3 million dollars) in debt.
Unlimited population growth has nothing to do with libertarianism.
Though a libertarian would know that population growth slows as economic freedom and prosperity grow.
A libertarian would also know that care for the environment increases as prosperity grows. And that more efficient farming and GMO plants will decrease the water and landspace needs for a population. Smaller farms providing more food than traditional farming means more land goes back to a natural state.
I'd like to see those same satellite images for the United States. There was a recent story on New Hampshire, how only 20% of New Hampshire was forest covered at the turn of the 20th century. Now it is 80% forest.
First, Europes main economies are in the dumper. France and Germany have high unemployment rates and their economies are stagnant.
Second, the Brits are worried because in mainland Europe it is much harder to drop workers off of the payroll.
Third, removing Brits, who work harder and longer, and keeping Germans and French, who have mandatory under 40 hour work weeks, will just cause continuing losses for IBM.
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With IE firmly embedded into the MS operating system, I doubt there was any development aimed at improving the web browser.
If IE changes too much, MS may have to rework the whole operating system.
A subscription is guaranteed money for one copy of the product.
For copies sold through magazine stands or vending machine, the cover price isn't guaranteed money, so the price has to reflect some risk. In addition, the cover price also has to pay for the vendor's expenses, the shipping to the vendor, the pickup of unsold copies at the vendor, the paper's own system of managing vendors, etc. etc. So there is a much higher cost for papers sold that way. Higher cost means higher price.
Why are you saying that nuclear is worse?
Nuclear is better when done right. It's just that we aren't doing it right at the moment.
Pebble Bed is the way to go.
So, the guys who haven't increased their emissions, or in fact decreased them, are off the hook... that's a shocker...
Well, that's not really the point. Russia has only decreased emissions because their economy went to hell. Germany only decreased emissions because they've shut down the old, second-hand, 1950s era, Russian equipment in East Germany. Both countries get to keep on pumping out carbon emissions at their current rate and they'll have extra emissions to sell.
What will end up happening is that other countries won't be reducing their carbon emissions, because Russia and several smaller nations that signed on to the treaty will have plenty of emission credits to sell. This market for emission credits the profits of which will simply enrich the current Russian thugocracy and the rulers of those other small countries. It's small tax on the rich for questionable beneficiaries.
But being anti-Kyoto doesn't mean you're anti-Carbon control. You're conflating the two.
I am anti-Kyoto, because it does nothing. Germany gets a free pass because it gets to include the dirty East German emissions in it's baseline. Russia gets a free pass because it's economy is in the dumper and it's 1990 baseline is much higher than it's current emissions. Russia also gets to count forest growth as carbon sinks.
All Kyoto is doing is creating a complex carbon emissions trading system. It creates carbon tax on productive nations. And with most of Western Europe in an economic slump, additional limitations on growth aren't going to help.
Now, I'm anti-carbon emissions. I drive a Prius. I want that damn wind farm off of Cape Cod built. I want to see Pebble Bed nuclear reactors succeed. I want the US electricity infrastructure improved. I want to see superconductors used for high power transmission lines. If I owned a home, I'd slap solar cells on the roof in a second.
In fact, I may try to buy some carbon emission units. They're expected to be $30 to $40 per ton of emissions. I'll by them and hold on to them. That way I can keep tons of carbon emissions out of the air all by myself.
Obviously Oracle is going to price their product in whatever way will earn them the most money.
Their pricing schemes are very opaque. The customer really doesn't know how much they are going to be charged until they see the price quote from Oracle. I think this is going to hurt them much more in the end.
IBM's MQ series has been around for a very long time. A oversimplified way of looking at is as a an improvement over FTP for reliably transporting large numbers of messages across diverse platforms. (For example from Solaris to Mainframe's).
It also allows for secure/encrypted data transport across platforms. And round-robin processing. And fail-over support. And many other things that FTP on it's own cannot support.
MQ is very big in the mainframe world and it is catching on in smaller systems.
Africans are dying of AIDS because there is no infrastructure to distribute the drugs that are available.
For Africans, the costs of patented drugs is actually cheaper than the generics made in India and Brazil. And the Fixed Dose combinations offered by the same generic companies wind up being more expensive than the individual drugs made by the patent holders.
Yeah, open source biotech sounds like a great idea. However, the high cost of drugs isn't caused by the research end of the work. The high cost comes from getting the drugs approved for human use. This cannot be open sourced since it is really, realy controlled testing.
The only way I can think of to reduce this cost is to create an independent, non-profit organization that does the work to get the drugs FDA approved (or even supplants the FDA as an arbiter of drug safety, like Underwriter's Labs does for electronics.)
Actually, it is a valid comparison. Although, not in the way he thinks. You can't directly compare the costs of to produce something that is likely to sell ten million copies (the DVD) versus something that only going to sell 1 million copies (The CD). Plus the content on the DVD has already made back the cost to produce and license it when it was in the theaters.
However, you can compare the costs to the consumer for each product versus the value of what is purchased. With the DVD you get the music, extra features, the whole movie, etc, etc for four dollars less than just the music. As far as value goes, the DVD outclasses the CD by a lot. If I, like most consumers, have limited funds, I will likely buy the best value.
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That's exactly what the US, Australia and Great Britain are doing.
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And they are getting crap for it.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7744
That article made no sense. Massachusetts wants to ensure that the documents handled by the government will be accessible for time eternal, not locked up in a proprietary format. What good is it to have the government store files electronically if in 10 years time there is no LEGAL program left that can open them.
Does the format support secret capturing of changes so government documents can be sent out with easily recovered redacted text?
My power went out, now I have to wait to watch the end of the movie... HEY!! I can't see how this can be done without compromising the whole DVD concept. Menus, special features, secondary audio tracks, etc., etc.
I haven't had any battery problems with my car in temperatures down to 9 deg F.
You should note that Gasoline formulas are changed in some regions during winter time. All cars will have a drop in fuel effiency because of the oxidizers put into the gasoline put there to force cleaner burning during colder weather.
I paid 23K for my 2002 Prius with the navigation system. This was only $1000 more than a Camry with the same.
I have 90K miles on the car. I've had no problems with the hybrid system. There was one recall on a battery pack issue that never affected my car. I've had one problem with the one of the doohickies in the air-quality system, it was covered under warranty. I've had two sets of tires put on the car since I bought it. The original US tires are crap, but they are low rolling resistance, so you get a 2 to 3 mpg additional mileage.
I figure I've been getting 35 to 45 mpg depending on the weather, gas formula and amount of highway driving. On average, I get 40 mpg with highway driving around 75 to 80 mph.
I figured I've more than made up the difference in price with gas savings.
It isn't "global warming". It's that big hole we poked in the Ozone layer that's causing all these problems.
I would agree, except Google currently has no* debt at the moment. So this taking the money and putting into liquid assets (aka easily converted to cash assets) means they have some immediate purchases in mind.
This could either big one big thing or many, many small things.
BTW, in comparison, Microsoft has 30+ billion in cash on hand, but with many more shares in circulation.
*no debt is actually very, very little debt. About $290K (0.3 million dollars) in debt.
Unlimited population growth has nothing to do with libertarianism.
Though a libertarian would know that population growth slows as economic freedom and prosperity grow.
A libertarian would also know that care for the environment increases as prosperity grows. And that more efficient farming and GMO plants will decrease the water and landspace needs for a population. Smaller farms providing more food than traditional farming means more land goes back to a natural state.
I'd like to see those same satellite images for the United States. There was a recent story on New Hampshire, how only 20% of New Hampshire was forest covered at the turn of the 20th century. Now it is 80% forest.
First, Europes main economies are in the dumper. France and Germany have high unemployment rates and their economies are stagnant. Second, the Brits are worried because in mainland Europe it is much harder to drop workers off of the payroll. Third, removing Brits, who work harder and longer, and keeping Germans and French, who have mandatory under 40 hour work weeks, will just cause continuing losses for IBM.
With IE firmly embedded into the MS operating system, I doubt there was any development aimed at improving the web browser. If IE changes too much, MS may have to rework the whole operating system.
A subscription is guaranteed money for one copy of the product.
For copies sold through magazine stands or vending machine, the cover price isn't guaranteed money, so the price has to reflect some risk. In addition, the cover price also has to pay for the vendor's expenses, the shipping to the vendor, the pickup of unsold copies at the vendor, the paper's own system of managing vendors, etc. etc. So there is a much higher cost for papers sold that way. Higher cost means higher price.
Why are you saying that nuclear is worse? Nuclear is better when done right. It's just that we aren't doing it right at the moment. Pebble Bed is the way to go.
Well, that's not really the point. Russia has only decreased emissions because their economy went to hell. Germany only decreased emissions because they've shut down the old, second-hand, 1950s era, Russian equipment in East Germany. Both countries get to keep on pumping out carbon emissions at their current rate and they'll have extra emissions to sell.
What will end up happening is that other countries won't be reducing their carbon emissions, because Russia and several smaller nations that signed on to the treaty will have plenty of emission credits to sell. This market for emission credits the profits of which will simply enrich the current Russian thugocracy and the rulers of those other small countries. It's small tax on the rich for questionable beneficiaries.
But being anti-Kyoto doesn't mean you're anti-Carbon control. You're conflating the two.
I am anti-Kyoto, because it does nothing. Germany gets a free pass because it gets to include the dirty East German emissions in it's baseline. Russia gets a free pass because it's economy is in the dumper and it's 1990 baseline is much higher than it's current emissions. Russia also gets to count forest growth as carbon sinks.
All Kyoto is doing is creating a complex carbon emissions trading system. It creates carbon tax on productive nations. And with most of Western Europe in an economic slump, additional limitations on growth aren't going to help.
Now, I'm anti-carbon emissions. I drive a Prius. I want that damn wind farm off of Cape Cod built. I want to see Pebble Bed nuclear reactors succeed. I want the US electricity infrastructure improved. I want to see superconductors used for high power transmission lines. If I owned a home, I'd slap solar cells on the roof in a second.
In fact, I may try to buy some carbon emission units. They're expected to be $30 to $40 per ton of emissions. I'll by them and hold on to them. That way I can keep tons of carbon emissions out of the air all by myself.
Obviously Oracle is going to price their product in whatever way will earn them the most money. Their pricing schemes are very opaque. The customer really doesn't know how much they are going to be charged until they see the price quote from Oracle. I think this is going to hurt them much more in the end.
IBM's MQ series has been around for a very long time. A oversimplified way of looking at is as a an improvement over FTP for reliably transporting large numbers of messages across diverse platforms. (For example from Solaris to Mainframe's).
It also allows for secure/encrypted data transport across platforms. And round-robin processing. And fail-over support. And many other things that FTP on it's own cannot support.
MQ is very big in the mainframe world and it is catching on in smaller systems.
Leave the house? It's more like, "Leave my office." Damn job, I wished I was outsourced.
If you meet Jen Savage tell her I said "Hi!"
Look at the link I posted. That's an analysis of Medecin Sans Frontieres' (aka Doctors Without Borders') own data.
Because they still hold the patents and the African countries signed treaties that say they have to honor the patents.
If the countries are so concerned about their citizens, perhaps they could remove the importation and VAT taxes from these drugs.
I call BS on this.
Africans are dying of AIDS because there is no infrastructure to distribute the drugs that are available.
For Africans, the costs of patented drugs is actually cheaper than the generics made in India and Brazil. And the Fixed Dose combinations offered by the same generic companies wind up being more expensive than the individual drugs made by the patent holders.
Here is an analysis using MSF (Doctors without Borders) own data.
Yeah, open source biotech sounds like a great idea. However, the high cost of drugs isn't caused by the research end of the work. The high cost comes from getting the drugs approved for human use. This cannot be open sourced since it is really, realy controlled testing.
The only way I can think of to reduce this cost is to create an independent, non-profit organization that does the work to get the drugs FDA approved (or even supplants the FDA as an arbiter of drug safety, like Underwriter's Labs does for electronics.)
Actually, it is a valid comparison. Although, not in the way he thinks. You can't directly compare the costs of to produce something that is likely to sell ten million copies (the DVD) versus something that only going to sell 1 million copies (The CD). Plus the content on the DVD has already made back the cost to produce and license it when it was in the theaters.
However, you can compare the costs to the consumer for each product versus the value of what is purchased. With the DVD you get the music, extra features, the whole movie, etc, etc for four dollars less than just the music. As far as value goes, the DVD outclasses the CD by a lot. If I, like most consumers, have limited funds, I will likely buy the best value.
1 knee = 2 feet
(Thanks Mr. Madden)
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