sending email should be free
why ?
your assignement is to write a 500 word essay defending the proposition that email should () shouldnot (X) be free.
I mean, why ?
In the original article, or in the NYTimes version I read, the number of email per order was something like 12.8 million email
So, if you charged even 0.001 penny per email, you would completly shut downn spam.
Since email goes thru the web, which has ISPs and routers and so forth, I really don't see an implementation problem
The current generations of machines are the equivalents of PDP or Data Generals (for serious work) or the Kim for hobbyists (eg, maker bot)
In 10 or 15 years, you will be able to buy a 3D printer from HP or Epson or Canon that is....amazing.
Aside from hardware, cheap, usable 3D printers will also requrie cheap, sophisticated software that is seamless from design to tool path; none of htis clunky crap you get with CNC mills where you need $$ software to design the part (solid works) and $$ software to translate the solidwork into tool paths
Also, I don't get why you need a rigid mill for CNC - can't you compensate for that with on the fly adjustments ? to take an extreme example, suppose you have 3 laser beams shining on the tool, so you have realtime 3D locations; it doesn't matter if the mill spindle is moving around in cheap bearings, or the table is flexing - software compensates in real time...
Scientists show that they can drill a hole 16 miles into the earth, and lower down Bar-B-Q ribs, and cook them in 30seconds....
Am I the only one seeing scientist welfare here ?
I guess you have to give them the benefit of a doubt, and say that you don't know where research will lead you, but this seem particularly stupid and pointless.
Question: As I understand it, a bitcoin represents some fraction of global processing power. What happens, if bitcoins become widely accepted, and someone develops new hardware/software ? Won;t they make a killing ?
Back in the what will we do with spam days, there use to be this very funny post, which went something like
Your proposal for spam prevention won't work because (check all that apply)
(a) costs to much (b) relies on users to know something
etc
where is that list when you need it ?
1
I use gmail, and the interface sucks.
If this is an example of google's approach to user interface engineering and design, then chrome won't work any better then windows.
another example is that googles main event - the search engine - sucks; most people don't realize that cause there is no std or alternative to guage google against. For windows, and esp office, we have alternatives - MacOS, wordperfect for you oldtimers, etc, so people have some standard by which to guage MS
PS: if you don't realize that googles search sucks, I would politely suggest that you need to go back and do some studying....
2)
how long before google the cutting edge tech company becomes the borg, the soul suckingn marketing driven corporation that can't be trusted ? IMHO, this has already happened, but wait till they kill MS Office and become a monopoly with YOUR data on their servers.
sure, I can find 5 celebritys or super succesful people with any character trait you can name.
but what about the 99% who are not successful ? (unlike lake wobegon, most people are not above avg, much less above the 99th percentile)
The way to do this experiment is to measure say 1,000,000 million people for various character traits in High School, and then follow them for 40years
you could also do it retrospectively, going back 40 years in time, ifyou could measure people from historical data
i dont know what you need to be a good plumber, but there are an awful lot of bad plumbers out there.
we had a guy put two new faucets in our bathroom sink, a dead nuts simple job, and left one of the handles loose.
another time, a guy put a new burner in our gas furnace, and left with it turned up dangerously high - the exhaust flue to the chimmney was getting hot enough to cause a fire.
lets stipulate that insurance costs 30K/yr (yes, I know Obgyns on Long Island NY pay 10x roughly)
For a medium size buisness, that doesn't sound out of hand, espicially given how the doctors never censure themselves (when was the last time you saw a doc loose his license ?) and they make no effort to have a pool of money with people with serious problems (lets say, for the sake of argument, they gave you to much of a toxic drug, and you need $ kidney dialysis for the rest of your life - if there was a pool of money to compensate people like this, maybe jurys wouldn't be so harsh)
the other think, in the USA, circa 2011, it is clear that the rich - which roughly includes doctors - is waging class warfare on the rest of us. I don't have a lot of sympathy for the doctors, who seem to be cousings to goldman sachs or angelo marzulli
At 400 bucks an hour for a hot shot lawyer, that works out to....200 hours
me thinks the lawyers are gouging the docs, the AMA had any balls, they'd have 100 dollar an hour lawyers on retainer
You are 1/3 right
the USPS is a goverment monopoly that provides (roughly) equal service to everyone in the country, rich or poor, NYC or Alaska.
If you go to a private company, it may be cheaper, but aside from cutting wages for rank and file, and greatly boosting wages in the c suite, the main way they will save mmoney is cherry picking - what happens in health insurance.
you live in NYC, in an apt building, doesn't cost anything to deliver mail. You live in Alaska, you outta luck.
just what the health insurance companies do - you sick, no health insurance for you !!
all those forms for cert/registered mail...can't they have one form that is easier to use ? some label printer for those forms ? preprinted forms with IRS address at tax season ?
you wait on a long line to get some nice stamps, and the guy only has one type of stamp that you don't like, *and he can't get a different type of stamp*
un effin believable
how about a bag for the 40 bucks of stamps you just bought on a rainy day ?
the idea that a 5gb mp3 player was at all unusual at the *time the ipod was launched* is BS. There were lots of players. Focusing on hardware you totally miss the whole jobs shtick: (1) make it look nice; from the time the 2st cave man or cave woman put red dye on their hair, people have been willing to pay a premium for "luxury" whatever that happens to be at the time; (2) create an app that does something - in this case, easy to do music; prior to the ipod, it was hard (in the sense of the proverbial slashdot grandmother) to put mp3s on your player - with itunes, it was click and play.
If you look at apple, the term gilded cage really applies; jobs understands the number one rule of sales people are lazy, if you cater to their lazyness you will do well.
As some of you young'uns may not know, during WWII, Galbraith, as a very young economists, was given control over the OPA - the federal office that set mandatory prices and wages during the war.
After the war, JKG led the group that evaluated how bombing of germany affected the Nazis ability to carry out the war; famously, the group found that bombing had almost no effect.
somewhere galbraith, a very amusing writer, has a short piece call "advice to a young beauraucrate (sic)". One of his rules is to never trust experts - no matter how firmly they state their opinions, they can always be wrong.
The guy has a 25 *million* dollar bounty on his head, he knows the worlds biggest military is hunting him 24/7, and he has large amounts of data near his person ?
?Whenever you hear or read of someone who is descrbing bin Ladin as the evil mastermind, you can take out the mind part....
Or, as Smiley says, Moscow rules - you write on edible paper, one sheet of paper at a time on a glass surface, and always have a means of disposing of hte info should you be captured.
if you look at google, facebook, linkedin, etc, it is we - the users - who make them rich.
I think 50%, gross, of the IPO should be given to charity, with charitys chosen by the users.
I'm about 10 minutes in, and bored out of my skull, as it doesn't seem that we are going anywhere.....
right now, Lessign is reviewing copyright law back to the 1700s in teh house of lords.....
what I have learned is that he is a typical Harvard Preparation H: he constantly mentions his fellow H profs as , at a minimum as able to walk on water...
For academic science, this is how it works:
most science is funded by NIH/NSF/Howard Hughes. The grant (award of money) is to a principal investigator - typically a tenure track professor, or a group for a large grant.
Most of hte work is done by Grad Students (people with a BS working toward an MS or PHD) or by postdocs (people with a PhD, but in an explicitly temporary position). These people work long hours for relatively little pay; certainly at the top, in the prestigous labs, the GSs and PDs are people who could have gone to med school or bschool.
Not only are they ill paid, particularly in view of hte hours, but they are also indentured servants, so to speak: their careers are almost totally dependent on the letter of recommendatin from their advisor, or, if hteir advisor is a whack job, from another faculty person
The carrot, to compensate for the stick of penury, is supposedly that you progress to a professor ship of your own.
the problem is that each person costs, roughly 100-200K a year, and it is clearly an exponential growth situation: you start with N professors in year 0; each produces x graduates a year, who in turn become professors producing grad students...
the empirical evidence to support the assertion that this is a pyramid scheme is of two sorts: first, the job prospects have been gettting worse and worse since year zero (roughly, the start of hte war on cancer in the 60s) and every 20 years or so, as expected for an exponential growth, there is a "sudden crisis" when there is a great "shortage" of funding.
the last few crisis, the scientists have managed to pursuade congress to double the NIH budget; the predictable response is that all the universitys go out an build enormous new research buildings, and hire new slots (science faculty are a profit center)
thanks
I don't know ifyou follow, say, Brad Delong's blog, but the economists at the PhD level can't seem to agree that 2+2=4, which suggests that at least half of em (genereous here) don't know what they are talking about.
interested in your opinion: I always assumed they use all that math cause (a) people with math get paid more and get more respect, and (b) others can't criticize em - I mean, how many people are gonna have an opionion on heteroscedastic trends in blah blah blah.....
for the same user experience (applications) it means that mac users are stupid or exemplars of conspicous consumption.
Wintel may be sleazy corporate duopoly, where they do absolutely nothing unless they have to (if not for S Jobs, we'd be on DOS17 now) but only a moron pays extra for useless glitz
This cuts both ways; true, apple has a huge pile of cash, but they have limited time for senior management.
And if Samsung starts lawsuits in Korea, apple gonna be at a disadvantage.
In any event, does anyone in this thread have any idea how much a lawsuit costs, compared to say, S Jobs compensation, or the amount that Apple spends on marketing or some other number that puts cost into perspective ?
As anon once said, a hundred million here, a hundred million there, pretty soon it adds up to real money
I mean, these are the guys selling toxic mortgage backed securities as "AAA" while simultaneously shorting the securities as junk
Wall Str is where one number can come out, and suddenly a company is worth 10, or even 20% less then yesterday
I could go on, but this blind faith in the "market" - which is really a relatively small # of conservative white guys who all live suburbs that are the same across the country - this faith is silly.
I did a search on the american chem soc website, for "helium oxide" and "helium compounds"
the first had no relevant hits, the second gave the hit below, which suggests that HeO doesn't exist (or may exist transiently, as some unstable species)
http://pubs.acs.org.ezproxy.rit.edu/doi/pdf/10.1021/jp908254r
Slashdot Mirror
sending email should be free
why ? your assignement is to write a 500 word essay defending the proposition that email should () shouldnot (X) be free.
I mean, why ?
In the original article, or in the NYTimes version I read, the number of email per order was something like 12.8 million email So, if you charged even 0.001 penny per email, you would completly shut downn spam. Since email goes thru the web, which has ISPs and routers and so forth, I really don't see an implementation problem
The current generations of machines are the equivalents of PDP or Data Generals (for serious work) or the Kim for hobbyists (eg, maker bot)
In 10 or 15 years, you will be able to buy a 3D printer from HP or Epson or Canon that is....amazing.
Aside from hardware, cheap, usable 3D printers will also requrie cheap, sophisticated software that is seamless from design to tool path; none of htis clunky crap you get with CNC mills where you need $$ software to design the part (solid works) and $$ software to translate the solidwork into tool paths
Also, I don't get why you need a rigid mill for CNC - can't you compensate for that with on the fly adjustments ? to take an extreme example, suppose you have 3 laser beams shining on the tool, so you have realtime 3D locations; it doesn't matter if the mill spindle is moving around in cheap bearings, or the table is flexing - software compensates in real time...
Scientists show that they can drill a hole 16 miles into the earth, and lower down Bar-B-Q ribs, and cook them in 30seconds....
Am I the only one seeing scientist welfare here ?
I guess you have to give them the benefit of a doubt, and say that you don't know where research will lead you, but this seem particularly stupid and pointless.
Question: As I understand it, a bitcoin represents some fraction of global processing power. What happens, if bitcoins become widely accepted, and someone develops new hardware/software ? Won;t they make a killing ?
Back in the what will we do with spam days, there use to be this very funny post, which went something like
Your proposal for spam prevention won't work because (check all that apply)
(a) costs to much (b) relies on users to know something
etc
where is that list when you need it ?
1
I use gmail, and the interface sucks. If this is an example of google's approach to user interface engineering and design, then chrome won't work any better then windows.
another example is that googles main event - the search engine - sucks; most people don't realize that cause there is no std or alternative to guage google against. For windows, and esp office, we have alternatives - MacOS, wordperfect for you oldtimers, etc, so people have some standard by which to guage MS
PS: if you don't realize that googles search sucks, I would politely suggest that you need to go back and do some studying.... 2)
how long before google the cutting edge tech company becomes the borg, the soul suckingn marketing driven corporation that can't be trusted ? IMHO, this has already happened, but wait till they kill MS Office and become a monopoly with YOUR data on their servers.
sure, I can find 5 celebritys or super succesful people with any character trait you can name.
but what about the 99% who are not successful ? (unlike lake wobegon, most people are not above avg, much less above the 99th percentile)
The way to do this experiment is to measure say 1,000,000 million people for various character traits in High School, and then follow them for 40years
you could also do it retrospectively, going back 40 years in time, ifyou could measure people from historical data
i dont know what you need to be a good plumber, but there are an awful lot of bad plumbers out there.
we had a guy put two new faucets in our bathroom sink, a dead nuts simple job, and left one of the handles loose.
another time, a guy put a new burner in our gas furnace, and left with it turned up dangerously high - the exhaust flue to the chimmney was getting hot enough to cause a fire.
you say that most ("usually") people suing are douchebags. You got any evidence, or is that just your unsupported opinion ?
lets stipulate that insurance costs 30K/yr (yes, I know Obgyns on Long Island NY pay 10x roughly)
For a medium size buisness, that doesn't sound out of hand, espicially given how the doctors never censure themselves (when was the last time you saw a doc loose his license ?) and they make no effort to have a pool of money with people with serious problems (lets say, for the sake of argument, they gave you to much of a toxic drug, and you need $ kidney dialysis for the rest of your life - if there was a pool of money to compensate people like this, maybe jurys wouldn't be so harsh)
the other think, in the USA, circa 2011, it is clear that the rich - which roughly includes doctors - is waging class warfare on the rest of us. I don't have a lot of sympathy for the doctors, who seem to be cousings to goldman sachs or angelo marzulli
At 400 bucks an hour for a hot shot lawyer, that works out to ....200 hours
me thinks the lawyers are gouging the docs, the AMA had any balls, they'd have 100 dollar an hour lawyers on retainer
You are 1/3 right
the USPS is a goverment monopoly that provides (roughly) equal service to everyone in the country, rich or poor, NYC or Alaska.
If you go to a private company, it may be cheaper, but aside from cutting wages for rank and file, and greatly boosting wages in the c suite, the main way they will save mmoney is cherry picking - what happens in health insurance.
you live in NYC, in an apt building, doesn't cost anything to deliver mail. You live in Alaska, you outta luck.
just what the health insurance companies do - you sick, no health insurance for you !!
all those forms for cert/registered mail...can't they have one form that is easier to use ? some label printer for those forms ? preprinted forms with IRS address at tax season ? you wait on a long line to get some nice stamps, and the guy only has one type of stamp that you don't like, *and he can't get a different type of stamp*
un effin believable
how about a bag for the 40 bucks of stamps you just bought on a rainy day ?
the idea that a 5gb mp3 player was at all unusual at the *time the ipod was launched* is BS. There were lots of players. Focusing on hardware you totally miss the whole jobs shtick: (1) make it look nice; from the time the 2st cave man or cave woman put red dye on their hair, people have been willing to pay a premium for "luxury" whatever that happens to be at the time; (2) create an app that does something - in this case, easy to do music; prior to the ipod, it was hard (in the sense of the proverbial slashdot grandmother) to put mp3s on your player - with itunes, it was click and play.
If you look at apple, the term gilded cage really applies; jobs understands the number one rule of sales people are lazy, if you cater to their lazyness you will do well.
As some of you young'uns may not know, during WWII, Galbraith, as a very young economists, was given control over the OPA - the federal office that set mandatory prices and wages during the war.
After the war, JKG led the group that evaluated how bombing of germany affected the Nazis ability to carry out the war; famously, the group found that bombing had almost no effect.
somewhere galbraith, a very amusing writer, has a short piece call "advice to a young beauraucrate (sic)". One of his rules is to never trust experts - no matter how firmly they state their opinions, they can always be wrong.
The guy has a 25 *million* dollar bounty on his head, he knows the worlds biggest military is hunting him 24/7, and he has large amounts of data near his person ?
?Whenever you hear or read of someone who is descrbing bin Ladin as the evil mastermind, you can take out the mind part....
Or, as Smiley says, Moscow rules - you write on edible paper, one sheet of paper at a time on a glass surface, and always have a means of disposing of hte info should you be captured.
if you look at google, facebook, linkedin, etc, it is we - the users - who make them rich.
I think 50%, gross, of the IPO should be given to charity, with charitys chosen by the users.
I'm about 10 minutes in, and bored out of my skull, as it doesn't seem that we are going anywhere..... right now, Lessign is reviewing copyright law back to the 1700s in teh house of lords.....
what I have learned is that he is a typical Harvard Preparation H: he constantly mentions his fellow H profs as , at a minimum as able to walk on water...
For academic science, this is how it works:
most science is funded by NIH/NSF/Howard Hughes. The grant (award of money) is to a principal investigator - typically a tenure track professor, or a group for a large grant.
Most of hte work is done by Grad Students (people with a BS working toward an MS or PHD) or by postdocs (people with a PhD, but in an explicitly temporary position). These people work long hours for relatively little pay; certainly at the top, in the prestigous labs, the GSs and PDs are people who could have gone to med school or bschool.
Not only are they ill paid, particularly in view of hte hours, but they are also indentured servants, so to speak: their careers are almost totally dependent on the letter of recommendatin from their advisor, or, if hteir advisor is a whack job, from another faculty person
The carrot, to compensate for the stick of penury, is supposedly that you progress to a professor ship of your own.
the problem is that each person costs, roughly 100-200K a year, and it is clearly an exponential growth situation: you start with N professors in year 0; each produces x graduates a year, who in turn become professors producing grad students...
the empirical evidence to support the assertion that this is a pyramid scheme is of two sorts: first, the job prospects have been gettting worse and worse since year zero (roughly, the start of hte war on cancer in the 60s) and every 20 years or so, as expected for an exponential growth, there is a "sudden crisis" when there is a great "shortage" of funding.
the last few crisis, the scientists have managed to pursuade congress to double the NIH budget; the predictable response is that all the universitys go out an build enormous new research buildings, and hire new slots (science faculty are a profit center)
thanks
I don't know ifyou follow, say, Brad Delong's blog, but the economists at the PhD level can't seem to agree that 2+2=4, which suggests that at least half of em (genereous here) don't know what they are talking about.
interested in your opinion: I always assumed they use all that math cause (a) people with math get paid more and get more respect, and (b) others can't criticize em - I mean, how many people are gonna have an opionion on heteroscedastic trends in blah blah blah.....
for the same user experience (applications) it means that mac users are stupid or exemplars of conspicous consumption.
Wintel may be sleazy corporate duopoly, where they do absolutely nothing unless they have to (if not for S Jobs, we'd be on DOS17 now) but only a moron pays extra for useless glitz
This cuts both ways; true, apple has a huge pile of cash, but they have limited time for senior management.
And if Samsung starts lawsuits in Korea, apple gonna be at a disadvantage.
In any event, does anyone in this thread have any idea how much a lawsuit costs, compared to say, S Jobs compensation, or the amount that Apple spends on marketing or some other number that puts cost into perspective ?
As anon once said, a hundred million here, a hundred million there, pretty soon it adds up to real money
"lifelong [happy] windows user" I mean, really !!
Couldn't get the laptop I wanted (256 gb SSD), I mean really - you represent 0.01% of the market ?
I mean, these are the guys selling toxic mortgage backed securities as "AAA" while simultaneously shorting the securities as junk
Wall Str is where one number can come out, and suddenly a company is worth 10, or even 20% less then yesterday
I could go on, but this blind faith in the "market" - which is really a relatively small # of conservative white guys who all live suburbs that are the same across the country - this faith is silly.
I did a search on the american chem soc website, for "helium oxide" and "helium compounds" the first had no relevant hits, the second gave the hit below, which suggests that HeO doesn't exist (or may exist transiently, as some unstable species) http://pubs.acs.org.ezproxy.rit.edu/doi/pdf/10.1021/jp908254r