Considering McCain is more likely to die in the next four (or eight) years than Obama, the choice of VP for McCain is more likely to determine who becomes the President after next. I know there's some Yoda joke here, but I just can't find it.
It's a common misconception that the U.S. is badly in debt.
I agree with your post except for that sentence for the following reasons:
Passengers on the Titanic would have been mistaken to say their situation wasn't bad because others around them were the same as them or worse off.
The baby boom generation is retiring, leaving a greater tax load on the relatively small generation X. As a large voting block the boomers will vote themselves more entitlements. Were our debt not so severe we could handle it. (Japan already experienced this, and this is a major explanatory principle of their decade plus of economic stalemate.)
Debt alone isn't a big deal, but we add to ours every year at a faster rate than GDP grows.
The core idea is that rasterization scales linear while raytracing scales logarithmically...
Wouldn't that be just the opposite? If something scales logarithmically, each additional unit increase in the independent variable produces less increase in the dependent variable. IANAGP (graphics programmer), but I have heard it said that it is raytracing that scales linearly.
It has been modded funny since. You see, the key was the "50 years" which is a long standing joke. Fusion is always 50 years out. Now that we've beaten the fun out of that, maybe we can move on.
Parent is a lying bastard. I read all articles linked to, including the second page of the first article. Linux in not in the text of any of them. Please mod accordingly.
Seriously. I think the best thing Microsoft could do to speed the adoption of Linux and Mac is crack down on those wanting its software at below market prices.
the median income in the US adjusted for inflation is seven times what it was a century ago, and several orders of magnitude above pre-industrial revolution levels... So yes, industrialisation made everyone better off, even though all those farm laborers lost their jobs.
I don't necessarily oppose your thesis, but thought I should comment on the part of your post meant to "head off" opposition.
Income and wealth are not the same thing. To borrow language from Alvin Toffler in his book The Third Wave, there is an economic continuum with people filling the role of producer and consumer at one end and people being "prosumers" (consumers of their own production) at the other end. The pendulum has swung from the latter to the former, with the industrial revolution and its after-effects being the primary driver.
To further illustrate, consider the skills of former generations compared to ours. They generally produced their own clothing, often build their own homes including production of building materials, raised and processed much of their own food, etc, and little of this work was converted into income. They were generalists. We, conversely, are specialists. We do one kind of job, and use the income produced to buy the things other generations produced for their own use.
That is why I cannot simply accept inflation-adjusted income as a measure of prosperity. Wealth needs to be a factor. Goods produced for personal consumption need to be considered.
My sense from the Cringely article is that the "six times" number refers to net energy. Then again, I read the article Friday and my memory is subject to exponential decay.
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Considering McCain is more likely to die in the next four (or eight) years than Obama, the choice of VP for McCain is more likely to determine who becomes the President after next. I know there's some Yoda joke here, but I just can't find it.
I'll go out on a limb here and guess that Linux will still look like a penguin.
You're not his friend, pal.
What, are we not old enough to remember that one?
Newer rule: Anyone posting suggestions for changes to slashdot's moderation system must not post as AC.
I remember an engineer I used to work with used Solidworks. I am curious what he would think of BRL-CAD.
It's a common misconception that the U.S. is badly in debt.
I agree with your post except for that sentence for the following reasons:
Careful with the Beowulf references, buddy. Mod's don't like them.
"Imagine a beowulf cluster of those..." has a better ring to it.
That's Jiggawat, you insensitive clod! -- Doc Brown
I guess there are those that read TFS and those who don't.
So is there?
Do you suppose the "frist psot"-ing troll I replied to actually read TFA?
First, it's Marines, not soldiers (I was one of the former). Second, it's obvious you are talking out your ass.
Well, at least 42.
It has been modded funny since. You see, the key was the "50 years" which is a long standing joke. Fusion is always 50 years out. Now that we've beaten the fun out of that, maybe we can move on.
I believe GP knows this and was making a joke. Whooosh?
Parent is a lying bastard. I read all articles linked to, including the second page of the first article. Linux in not in the text of any of them. Please mod accordingly.
Luigi: He (Homer) gave me a bad review. My friend put a horse head in his bed, and he ate it and gave it a bad review.
In vino, veritas.
Seriously. I think the best thing Microsoft could do to speed the adoption of Linux and Mac is crack down on those wanting its software at below market prices.
I don't necessarily oppose your thesis, but thought I should comment on the part of your post meant to "head off" opposition.
Income and wealth are not the same thing. To borrow language from Alvin Toffler in his book The Third Wave, there is an economic continuum with people filling the role of producer and consumer at one end and people being "prosumers" (consumers of their own production) at the other end. The pendulum has swung from the latter to the former, with the industrial revolution and its after-effects being the primary driver.
To further illustrate, consider the skills of former generations compared to ours. They generally produced their own clothing, often build their own homes including production of building materials, raised and processed much of their own food, etc, and little of this work was converted into income. They were generalists. We, conversely, are specialists. We do one kind of job, and use the income produced to buy the things other generations produced for their own use.
That is why I cannot simply accept inflation-adjusted income as a measure of prosperity. Wealth needs to be a factor. Goods produced for personal consumption need to be considered.
My sense from the Cringely article is that the "six times" number refers to net energy. Then again, I read the article Friday and my memory is subject to exponential decay.