Microsoft has a badging program and has a huge bully pulpit that they could use to teach everybody that coding software that requires you to run it as administrator is bad practice and end users should not buy such software because it's a security disaster waiting to happen. They've had several years to get the message out and they've declined, all the while earning a well deserved reputation for security laxity.
MS doesn't bear all the fault but they do bear quite a bit of it.
Sure, it's not the fault of Windows per se but it is the fault of MS to not build their software tools to encourage properly security practice, to include proper security modeling in their OS certification program, and, in general, not getting the message out to their developer community in their mailings, educational programs, and developer conventions.
Actually, long before an actual run out, the thirsty hordes who can't afford it are likely to move someplace with more water.
Let's not forget that the poor of america have a middle class income compared to a lot of the rest of the world.
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This does not sound like furniture that will stand up to my two year old. Some people have children who spill, puke, pee, and even crap on the furniture before we get them toilet trained. And pets? forget about it. And how will this biodegradable furniture work with hot water extraction cleaners? How about their ability to stand up to tropical or even subtropical weather?
No, the real world is not so antiseptic and dry as you seem to make it out.
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I would imagine that they would be on coasts where they can pull seawater out to split hydrogen for pipeline or tanker truck transport and eventual use in fuel cells.
Corporatism is the usual term for that situation. Fascism is sometimes used but that gets the relationship backwards. Fascism is actually the state control of the means of production.
Of course if you were to count actual forested land we've got more of that than ever before (or at least since the plains indians started setting massive fires to create range for the buffalo). Not all replanted forest is monoculture but if its been cut once, it counts as not wooded according to the environuts whether or not the actual ecosystem is wooded or not.
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Sure, we can supply all our energy needs with solar but then we'd be building a dyson sphere or some real world hybrid like Ringworld. I think both variants are so far off that we've got to come up with intermediates between here and there. Nuclear sounds just fine to me.
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Actually resources are literally becoming more plentiful via arrival from space but they also are becoming more plentiful in a practical economic sense. If oil shoots up to $40 a barrel, Canada becomes the #1 oil nation in the world. Canada doesn't extract that oil because it's too expensive. Availability is there, it's just that nobody but the scientists are exploiting it. In practical terms, price increases (which decrease consumption) trigger expansion in supply of commodity (as more expensive sources become economically viable).
There are real ceilings on resource prices. It's one of those phenomena that is important but woefully understudied.
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Solar energy is too diffuse because we've got this thing called an atmosphere that filters out most of it. Orbital solar stations that turn the energy into microwaves and beam it down to earth are theoretically practical in a way that ground based solar will never be because microwaves will lose much less energy travelling through the atmosphere than unconvertad solar radiation.
I'm with you on nuclear power as it's likely to be much easier to make when the third world starts waking up and ditching their crony capitalist/socialist/klepto governing systems and try honest to goodness rule of law capitalism.
The problem is that we need practical fusion very quickly or we're going to soon run low on fissionables.
I'd bet more of my money on a Transmeta PPC compatibility layer being released as a firmware update and Apple signing OEM contracts with HPaq and other hardware manufacturers to put an Apple case/label on their hw where Apple isn't producing an entry in that field. With Jaguar's Inkwell handwriting recognition being rolled in, an OEM Apple machine sporting a Transmeta chip would actually fit the Steve desire for clones, something that would add, not cannibalize from the Apple lineup, something that would strategically benefit Apple like if HPaq sales channels would offer the Apple OEM line to their enterprise customers), and something that would generally fit with Apple culture. Steve hates fans, Transmeta is a very cool chip, Steve might be tempted here in a way that he wouldn't be with an intel line.
Transmeta would be validated as well since they would become the hardware to go for if you want to protect your investment. After all, if MS and/or Intel implodes under a Supreme Court ruling, you have maximum flexibility to the point of changing your emulation layer to the new most viable chip line.
The world price of crude collapsed because all of a sudden the Saudi's were pumping like there was no tomorrow. Absolutely, purely coincidental like, the US started selling advanced air defense systems to the Saudis like AWACS planes.
On a serious note, it's pretty much an open secret that we hiked our security guarantees of the Saudis in exchange for them dropping the price of crude to the point where it bankrupted the USSR. This has relevance today because Russia is about to return the favor.
Any tests of a developmental system start with very unrealistic tests and then as success demonstrates that component units work, the tests become more and more realistic. The idea that because an intermediate unit test of a large, complex system isn't completely realistic is a sign that the development program should be stopped is virtually pathological in its bias.
Funny, they've been caught deploying ABM radars in violation of treaty and they sure are selling ABM systems like the SS-300. It must be that magical communist economics that means that these systems and others like them didn't cost anything to research, produce, and deploy.
Like the class act he is, the Pope doesn't claim a thing. All the people he helped escape from the evil of communism seem to give him lots of props though. Ditto with Reagan who is very well liked by those he helped free.
Not to mention that stepping out of the ABM treaty means that they don't have to keep Aegis systems crippled so you can float a short range ABM system in anytime you want to. I'm guessing the Taiwanese *really* want Aegis at this point.
Of course Reagan bleeding the Soviet Army dry in Afghanistan didn't have anything to do with them not having the resources or the aggressiveness to reinvade Poland. Reagan's reversal of the Brezhnev doctrine and pulling off specific instances of rollback didn't provide the groundwork for more reformist elements to fight against the hardliners. And Ronald Reagan wasn't hip deep in Poland funding and teaching Solidarity along with the Catholic Church.
Oh, Reagan's secret treaty with the Saudi's to bleed the Soviets dry of money by keeping oil prices low also had nothing to do with the USSR's collapse. Ronald Reagan is recognized by all the old Comecon block people as a major force in their fall. Why the revisionism?
Since a large chunk of PPC production goes into embedded applications, they take heat seriously. Chip too hot = no sales Steve Jobs has always hated fan noise so until there is a zero noise fan, PPC, Transmeta, or some other low heat chip will be what macs run on.
Actually, ideas are at best a funny sort of property. If they weren't why would there be fair use rights, public domain, limited terms for copyright and patents, and the rest of the unique IP features that distinguish ideas from, let's say, ball bearings or land.
In most countries, including the US, in order to advance the arts and sciences, inventors and other IP creators get exclusivity for awhile but then the idea eventually goes into the public domain. If centuries of western legal tradition really held that IP was the same as real property Disney would have never gotten away with making Snow White or Cinderella without paying hefty royalties to the estate of the Grimm brothers et al.
It's a Wireless ISP (WISP). Running a T-1 to the house is MCI/Worldcom's problem (and they no doubt have *excellent* relations with the PUC in every state). Beyond that it's a bunch of antennas on the roof that don't impact much more than a TV setup.
Even if an unlicensed spectrum antenna were zonable outside the house, it just drives the cost up by making you go directional inside the attic. The type of nit picking municipalities that would bother with this crap also have a lot of rich professionals who could bear the extra cost.
All I can say is that it sucks to be you. I can't help you out on 1 and 2, 3 just means you have to sign up more customers before it's practical at a lower price point and the SLA is worth a good deal depending on how bad the DSL/cable modem service is. 4 well, if you're in granola-technophobe land you're SOL. 5 just means you're lazy and you haven't figured out that for those cheap bastards, you shoehorn an ethernet card into their PII which will have drivers and you get them an access point. 6 is just laziness again plus poor imagination and planning.
If you're considering changing countries to get broadband, try downtown pittsburgh instead. The city's wiring itself for wireless access for free now and a lot less than $50 later.
I'm a one man consulting shop so I'm already paying the business overhead. I live in a subdivision filled with doctors and other white collar professionals and a ritzy country club (also without broadband) is right next door. Since my wife (a doctor) gets calls at 2 AM anyway it's not like a late ringing phone is going to be new to the household.
I'm not saying that setting up a WISP is for everybody (clearly it's not) but I am saying that the "awww, I'm gettin screwed by the man" line is overblown and that there are real limits to how badly you can be screwed if you know what you're doing. Once you know the technology and you understand the economics, you are free of the crippling effects of learned helplessness.
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What peer reviewed journal would have published this 10 year 1000+ page opus? Who could fit it?
Microsoft has a badging program and has a huge bully pulpit that they could use to teach everybody that coding software that requires you to run it as administrator is bad practice and end users should not buy such software because it's a security disaster waiting to happen. They've had several years to get the message out and they've declined, all the while earning a well deserved reputation for security laxity.
MS doesn't bear all the fault but they do bear quite a bit of it.
Sure, it's not the fault of Windows per se but it is the fault of MS to not build their software tools to encourage properly security practice, to include proper security modeling in their OS certification program, and, in general, not getting the message out to their developer community in their mailings, educational programs, and developer conventions.
Actually, long before an actual run out, the thirsty hordes who can't afford it are likely to move someplace with more water.
Let's not forget that the poor of america have a middle class income compared to a lot of the rest of the world.
This does not sound like furniture that will stand up to my two year old. Some people have children who spill, puke, pee, and even crap on the furniture before we get them toilet trained. And pets? forget about it. And how will this biodegradable furniture work with hot water extraction cleaners? How about their ability to stand up to tropical or even subtropical weather?
No, the real world is not so antiseptic and dry as you seem to make it out.
I would imagine that they would be on coasts where they can pull seawater out to split hydrogen for pipeline or tanker truck transport and eventual use in fuel cells.
Corporatism is the usual term for that situation. Fascism is sometimes used but that gets the relationship backwards. Fascism is actually the state control of the means of production.
Of course if you were to count actual forested land we've got more of that than ever before (or at least since the plains indians started setting massive fires to create range for the buffalo). Not all replanted forest is monoculture but if its been cut once, it counts as not wooded according to the environuts whether or not the actual ecosystem is wooded or not.
Sure, we can supply all our energy needs with solar but then we'd be building a dyson sphere or some real world hybrid like Ringworld. I think both variants are so far off that we've got to come up with intermediates between here and there. Nuclear sounds just fine to me.
Actually resources are literally becoming more plentiful via arrival from space but they also are becoming more plentiful in a practical economic sense. If oil shoots up to $40 a barrel, Canada becomes the #1 oil nation in the world. Canada doesn't extract that oil because it's too expensive. Availability is there, it's just that nobody but the scientists are exploiting it. In practical terms, price increases (which decrease consumption) trigger expansion in supply of commodity (as more expensive sources become economically viable).
There are real ceilings on resource prices. It's one of those phenomena that is important but woefully understudied.
Solar energy is too diffuse because we've got this thing called an atmosphere that filters out most of it. Orbital solar stations that turn the energy into microwaves and beam it down to earth are theoretically practical in a way that ground based solar will never be because microwaves will lose much less energy travelling through the atmosphere than unconvertad solar radiation.
I'm with you on nuclear power as it's likely to be much easier to make when the third world starts waking up and ditching their crony capitalist/socialist/klepto governing systems and try honest to goodness rule of law capitalism.
The problem is that we need practical fusion very quickly or we're going to soon run low on fissionables.
I'd bet more of my money on a Transmeta PPC compatibility layer being released as a firmware update and Apple signing OEM contracts with HPaq and other hardware manufacturers to put an Apple case/label on their hw where Apple isn't producing an entry in that field. With Jaguar's Inkwell handwriting recognition being rolled in, an OEM Apple machine sporting a Transmeta chip would actually fit the Steve desire for clones, something that would add, not cannibalize from the Apple lineup, something that would strategically benefit Apple like if HPaq sales channels would offer the Apple OEM line to their enterprise customers), and something that would generally fit with Apple culture. Steve hates fans, Transmeta is a very cool chip, Steve might be tempted here in a way that he wouldn't be with an intel line.
Transmeta would be validated as well since they would become the hardware to go for if you want to protect your investment. After all, if MS and/or Intel implodes under a Supreme Court ruling, you have maximum flexibility to the point of changing your emulation layer to the new most viable chip line.
The world price of crude collapsed because all of a sudden the Saudi's were pumping like there was no tomorrow. Absolutely, purely coincidental like, the US started selling advanced air defense systems to the Saudis like AWACS planes.
On a serious note, it's pretty much an open secret that we hiked our security guarantees of the Saudis in exchange for them dropping the price of crude to the point where it bankrupted the USSR. This has relevance today because Russia is about to return the favor.
Any tests of a developmental system start with very unrealistic tests and then as success demonstrates that component units work, the tests become more and more realistic. The idea that because an intermediate unit test of a large, complex system isn't completely realistic is a sign that the development program should be stopped is virtually pathological in its bias.
Funny, they've been caught deploying ABM radars in violation of treaty and they sure are selling ABM systems like the SS-300. It must be that magical communist economics that means that these systems and others like them didn't cost anything to research, produce, and deploy.
Like the class act he is, the Pope doesn't claim a thing. All the people he helped escape from the evil of communism seem to give him lots of props though. Ditto with Reagan who is very well liked by those he helped free.
Not to mention that stepping out of the ABM treaty means that they don't have to keep Aegis systems crippled so you can float a short range ABM system in anytime you want to. I'm guessing the Taiwanese *really* want Aegis at this point.
Of course Reagan bleeding the Soviet Army dry in Afghanistan didn't have anything to do with them not having the resources or the aggressiveness to reinvade Poland. Reagan's reversal of the Brezhnev doctrine and pulling off specific instances of rollback didn't provide the groundwork for more reformist elements to fight against the hardliners. And Ronald Reagan wasn't hip deep in Poland funding and teaching Solidarity along with the Catholic Church.
Oh, Reagan's secret treaty with the Saudi's to bleed the Soviets dry of money by keeping oil prices low also had nothing to do with the USSR's collapse. Ronald Reagan is recognized by all the old Comecon block people as a major force in their fall. Why the revisionism?
Well I guess then that I'm in trouble.
Since a large chunk of PPC production goes into embedded applications, they take heat seriously.
Chip too hot = no sales
Steve Jobs has always hated fan noise so until there is a zero noise fan, PPC, Transmeta, or some other low heat chip will be what macs run on.
Actually, ideas are at best a funny sort of property. If they weren't why would there be fair use rights, public domain, limited terms for copyright and patents, and the rest of the unique IP features that distinguish ideas from, let's say, ball bearings or land.
In most countries, including the US, in order to advance the arts and sciences, inventors and other IP creators get exclusivity for awhile but then the idea eventually goes into the public domain. If centuries of western legal tradition really held that IP was the same as real property Disney would have never gotten away with making Snow White or Cinderella without paying hefty royalties to the estate of the Grimm brothers et al.
It's a Wireless ISP (WISP). Running a T-1 to the house is MCI/Worldcom's problem (and they no doubt have *excellent* relations with the PUC in every state). Beyond that it's a bunch of antennas on the roof that don't impact much more than a TV setup.
Even if an unlicensed spectrum antenna were zonable outside the house, it just drives the cost up by making you go directional inside the attic. The type of nit picking municipalities that would bother with this crap also have a lot of rich professionals who could bear the extra cost.
All I can say is that it sucks to be you.
I can't help you out on 1 and 2, 3 just means you have to sign up more customers before it's practical at a lower price point and the SLA is worth a good deal depending on how bad the DSL/cable modem service is. 4 well, if you're in granola-technophobe land you're SOL. 5 just means you're lazy and you haven't figured out that for those cheap bastards, you shoehorn an ethernet card into their PII which will have drivers and you get them an access point. 6 is just laziness again plus poor imagination and planning.
If you're considering changing countries to get broadband, try downtown pittsburgh instead. The city's wiring itself for wireless access for free now and a lot less than $50 later.
I'm a one man consulting shop so I'm already paying the business overhead. I live in a subdivision filled with doctors and other white collar professionals and a ritzy country club (also without broadband) is right next door. Since my wife (a doctor) gets calls at 2 AM anyway it's not like a late ringing phone is going to be new to the household.
I'm not saying that setting up a WISP is for everybody (clearly it's not) but I am saying that the "awww, I'm gettin screwed by the man" line is overblown and that there are real limits to how badly you can be screwed if you know what you're doing. Once you know the technology and you understand the economics, you are free of the crippling effects of learned helplessness.
Actually, it's a discussion in furtherance of anti-terrorist goals so I guess that makes us super patriots
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