When the rules apply equally to all countries, no problem. When China and India get a pass and the US would get economy destroying limits, well, then it's a major problem.
I have news for you - the US is a drop in the bucket compared to China and India.
Throughout history, there have been lots of questions that science has not been able to answer. But science is not static. Over time, it has been able to answer more and more questions and close more and more of the 'gaps.'
For any theist, the 'God of the Gaps' defense is pretty weak. Just because we don't understand something doesn't require a God (or gods) to explain it.
This is not a rejection of theism, but simply a comment on science - just because we don't have an answer now doesn't mean we won't have an answer in the future. And not having an answer does not imply that there is a (or many) God(s).
True enough. I buy something (computer, phone TV) when the features and price match what I think is reasonable. OR, if I absolutely have to have the device (which is rare), I understand the premium paid
In the end, I know that very soon after my purchase there likely be a better/faster/cooler/more powerful device - that's how it's been since my first computer back in 1978. It's pretty much a fact of life
But it's not being screwed. You and I willingly bought G1 phones, and have used them. Nobody forced us to buy them, nor enter into the contract. So when the G2 hits, if I really want it that bad, I'll pay the price. If not, I can wait out the 2 years and get the discount(*).
(*)I have 5 lines on the family plan, so in the end, I can pretty much upgrade any time I like. My kids love getting the hand-me-down cool phones, and my wife isn't into technology.:-)
In my 'actual threat' notion I was thinking of both making the threat and inciting others - in other words, I agree with you on this one. But saying "All FOO's should be killed" is neither a threat nor an inducement, as I see it.
There's always a fine line where free speech "goes to far".
Really? And what would that be? Something you don't like? Something your mom doesn't like? Something Senator Bedfellow doesn't like? Sorry, Free Speech means that you are going to be offended and hear lots of things you don't like.
but should someone be allowed to say they want to kill all members of [group X]? If so, do members of [group X] have the right to take that threat seriously and act accordingly by pre-emptively defending themselves against the threat?
An actual threat is one thing - and it's already covered in current law. So is a conspiracy to commit a crime. But saying that all XXX's ought to be killed? That's free speech. Acting on it or threatening by saying "I am going to kill all XXX's" is not.
Calling someone names is NOT, and should NOT be a crime. Ever.
Complaining is one thing. Fining you and sending you to jail is a completely different thing. Free Speech pretty much guarantees that you are going to be offended by someone, somewhere, sometime. Deal with it.
This would likely lower the amount the government could collect for the spectrum, since any business plan would have to recoup whatever you paid for the spectrum in 20 years and assume that all your infrastructure investment could be lost at then end of the 20-year cycle. This could mean serious disruption of a very useful service simply because it wasn't as efficient as a new service in the eyes of some government regulator (or court, more likely).
Other side effects would be lack of investment in improvements as the 20-year mark neared, huge gaps in usage of the spectrum while the old carrier's equipment was deactivated and the new carriers was built out, significant costs to consumers who would have to replace their equipment and find a new provider, etc.
Rather than improve things, this plan would likely stifle them,
With regard to V, the graphic novel and the movie tell different stories. The movie is certainly inspired by the novel, but it's not the same story. Some of it was conversion, but other parts were artistic license. Personally, I loved both. I like the story of the graphic novel better, but I do understand that selling a hero who is an anarchist to movie goers is pretty difficult, but selling a hero who is anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian and something of a Jeffersonian revolutionary is much easier.
I saw the movie before I read the novel, so perhaps that colors my view...
Dell and Apple are not even remotely the same. Dell is all about large volumes of low-margin equipment. Apple is all about high-margin equipment. Apple sells relatively few Mac mini's compared to MacBooks. Apple's gross margins are out of sight, Dell's barely register.
Tightly controlled? Like the onerous copy protection schemes in Windows? Or Spore? Just how to you 'tightly control' software? I would submit it can't be done.
That said, Apple makes significant margins on their hardware. They aren't Dell or Acer. Take away that revenue, and the Mac is done for. OS X does not, and could not, generate the same kind of revenue as a 'stand-alone' product.
Huh? I've used my T-Mobile phone all over the country and never had a problem. Sure, it's mostly major cities and along interstates, but the coverage is just fine for my needs. I just switched from my crappy Motorola phone to a G1 and I'm happy. It works everywhere I go....
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It's in downtown Chicago. Can't say the name of the company. If you are in the area, send me an email - yes I have 2 positions open right now.
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Exactly. As someone who has moved up through the IT organization and manages a large group, I spend FAR more time managing my boss and his boss than my staff. They get their assignments, with enough authority to get them done and responsibility to get them done. My job is to secure the necessary resources, provide a sounding-board, review technical decisions they make and run LOTS of interference to keep my boss out of their hair so they can actually get the work done.
I've had very little turnover in my years of managing, and have had people who seek jobs for companies I go to work for to work for me again. Guess I'm doing something right.:-)
Exactly. I believe the last reported peak was in the 2200/sec range. And we expect our volumes to double. Fortunately, our System-i (AS/400) team can simply license additional processors 'on the fly' to improve performance. My team even has some of our Unix stuff (I'm the Unix Manager) running in a logical partition on the System-I. And it's freaking fast.
Raw IO power, in our case. With the number of transactions we process per day (financial services - clearing, trade matching, reconciliation, etc) nothing beats the System-i in terms of raw IO in getting the data in, massaging it and spitting it out...and far easier to manage than a server farm, at least for our use. The same vendor that provides our software also provides a JAVA version, but it's not going to handle the 2 billion+ transactions we do in a quarter.
And this software isn't legacy - it's relatively new and updated on a regular basis to take into account developments in the kinds of products offered.
"Horses for courses" as my British friends like to say./p?
For what? You get the OS with the machine - you don't buy it separately. There are no license codes, no activation, nothing. The only time it could come into play is at upgrade time, and I am sure that a corporate sale of 2500 copies (for example) would garner a discount.
Fundamentally, Apple operates in a different fashion.
In the last 5 years, I have seen significant uptake in Apple computers in the corporate world, from small to large. I work for a fairly large financial services firm and all of our Unix/Linux admins have Macbook Pros. And they are spreading to other groups as well.
Exactly what I did. And promptly told them to remove me from their mailing lists and cancel any 'benefits' that came from my last donation. I'm done with them.
"It takes about 5 freaking seconds to pick up a movie in the queue and to drop it somewhere else. Does your computer even have a mouse? Are you using some utterly complicated command-line version of Netflix?"
Right now, I have 200+ movies in my queue. My wife and kids have about 40. Everything is on auto-pilot. About once a month I go in and mess with my queue, adding movies, changing the order, etc. Otherwise, I spend zero time even thinking about it. My wife and kids handle it the same way - queue a bunch of stuff once or twice a month and movies just show up.
I don't want to have to update my queue every day, or end up with no movie to watch because the 'wrong' one shows up, which can not happen now. It's a very useful feature. Without it, Netflix doesn't make sense for my family and we'll cancel.
Well, this feature is what makes Netflix make sense for us. I divide up our plan into two queues - one for me, one for the wife & kids. They get what they want, I get what I want (I have less time to watch, so sometimes I have a movie at home for a week or more) and we don't get in each other's way.
Fundamentally, without this feature, Netflix becomes a pain in the butt to manage for us. Right now, I can be sure that when I send a movie back, I get one of my movies. The same goes for the others.
I'm going to cancel on Aug 31 (and have told them so) if they don't keep this feature.
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Greenspan is pretty damned smart - but he isn't quite as smart as he thinks he is.
Isn't that pretty much the problem with ALL elected and appointed political figures?
There aren't all that many Sun employees left. A couple of major layoffs and I've seen my rep get RIFd 3 times in the past year....
When the rules apply equally to all countries, no problem. When China and India get a pass and the US would get economy destroying limits, well, then it's a major problem.
I have news for you - the US is a drop in the bucket compared to China and India.
Kyoto is broken.
Throughout history, there have been lots of questions that science has not been able to answer. But science is not static. Over time, it has been able to answer more and more questions and close more and more of the 'gaps.'
For any theist, the 'God of the Gaps' defense is pretty weak. Just because we don't understand something doesn't require a God (or gods) to explain it.
This is not a rejection of theism, but simply a comment on science - just because we don't have an answer now doesn't mean we won't have an answer in the future. And not having an answer does not imply that there is a (or many) God(s).
True enough. I buy something (computer, phone TV) when the features and price match what I think is reasonable. OR, if I absolutely have to have the device (which is rare), I understand the premium paid
In the end, I know that very soon after my purchase there likely be a better/faster/cooler/more powerful device - that's how it's been since my first computer back in 1978. It's pretty much a fact of life
But it's not being screwed. You and I willingly bought G1 phones, and have used them. Nobody forced us to buy them, nor enter into the contract. So when the G2 hits, if I really want it that bad, I'll pay the price. If not, I can wait out the 2 years and get the discount(*).
(*)I have 5 lines on the family plan, so in the end, I can pretty much upgrade any time I like. My kids love getting the hand-me-down cool phones, and my wife isn't into technology. :-)
In my 'actual threat' notion I was thinking of both making the threat and inciting others - in other words, I agree with you on this one. But saying "All FOO's should be killed" is neither a threat nor an inducement, as I see it.
There's always a fine line where free speech "goes to far".
Really? And what would that be? Something you don't like? Something your mom doesn't like? Something Senator Bedfellow doesn't like? Sorry, Free Speech means that you are going to be offended and hear lots of things you don't like.
but should someone be allowed to say they want to kill all members of [group X]? If so, do members of [group X] have the right to take that threat seriously and act accordingly by pre-emptively defending themselves against the threat?
An actual threat is one thing - and it's already covered in current law. So is a conspiracy to commit a crime. But saying that all XXX's ought to be killed? That's free speech. Acting on it or threatening by saying "I am going to kill all XXX's" is not.
Calling someone names is NOT, and should NOT be a crime. Ever.
Complaining is one thing. Fining you and sending you to jail is a completely different thing. Free Speech pretty much guarantees that you are going to be offended by someone, somewhere, sometime. Deal with it.
This would likely lower the amount the government could collect for the spectrum, since any business plan would have to recoup whatever you paid for the spectrum in 20 years and assume that all your infrastructure investment could be lost at then end of the 20-year cycle. This could mean serious disruption of a very useful service simply because it wasn't as efficient as a new service in the eyes of some government regulator (or court, more likely).
Other side effects would be lack of investment in improvements as the 20-year mark neared, huge gaps in usage of the spectrum while the old carrier's equipment was deactivated and the new carriers was built out, significant costs to consumers who would have to replace their equipment and find a new provider, etc.
Rather than improve things, this plan would likely stifle them,
TV is a dead business model, and they need to get on the bandwagon.
You mean just like the RIAA and MPAA have understood that their industries are changing and are on the bandwagon?
There is a shakeout in process and the folks whose oxen are being gored are fighting tooth and nail to keep their failed business models alive.
With regard to V, the graphic novel and the movie tell different stories. The movie is certainly inspired by the novel, but it's not the same story. Some of it was conversion, but other parts were artistic license. Personally, I loved both. I like the story of the graphic novel better, but I do understand that selling a hero who is an anarchist to movie goers is pretty difficult, but selling a hero who is anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian and something of a Jeffersonian revolutionary is much easier.
I saw the movie before I read the novel, so perhaps that colors my view...
Dell and Apple are not even remotely the same. Dell is all about large volumes of low-margin equipment. Apple is all about high-margin equipment. Apple sells relatively few Mac mini's compared to MacBooks. Apple's gross margins are out of sight, Dell's barely register.
Tightly controlled? Like the onerous copy protection schemes in Windows? Or Spore? Just how to you 'tightly control' software? I would submit it can't be done.
That said, Apple makes significant margins on their hardware. They aren't Dell or Acer. Take away that revenue, and the Mac is done for. OS X does not, and could not, generate the same kind of revenue as a 'stand-alone' product.
Huh? I've used my T-Mobile phone all over the country and never had a problem. Sure, it's mostly major cities and along interstates, but the coverage is just fine for my needs. I just switched from my crappy Motorola phone to a G1 and I'm happy. It works everywhere I go....
It's in downtown Chicago. Can't say the name of the company. If you are in the area, send me an email - yes I have 2 positions open right now.
Exactly. As someone who has moved up through the IT organization and manages a large group, I spend FAR more time managing my boss and his boss than my staff. They get their assignments, with enough authority to get them done and responsibility to get them done. My job is to secure the necessary resources, provide a sounding-board, review technical decisions they make and run LOTS of interference to keep my boss out of their hair so they can actually get the work done.
I've had very little turnover in my years of managing, and have had people who seek jobs for companies I go to work for to work for me again. Guess I'm doing something right. :-)
Exactly. I believe the last reported peak was in the 2200/sec range. And we expect our volumes to double. Fortunately, our System-i (AS/400) team can simply license additional processors 'on the fly' to improve performance. My team even has some of our Unix stuff (I'm the Unix Manager) running in a logical partition on the System-I. And it's freaking fast.
Raw IO power, in our case. With the number of transactions we process per day (financial services - clearing, trade matching, reconciliation, etc) nothing beats the System-i in terms of raw IO in getting the data in, massaging it and spitting it out...and far easier to manage than a server farm, at least for our use. The same vendor that provides our software also provides a JAVA version, but it's not going to handle the 2 billion+ transactions we do in a quarter.
And this software isn't legacy - it's relatively new and updated on a regular basis to take into account developments in the kinds of products offered.
"Horses for courses" as my British friends like to say./p?
Proof?
For what? You get the OS with the machine - you don't buy it separately. There are no license codes, no activation, nothing. The only time it could come into play is at upgrade time, and I am sure that a corporate sale of 2500 copies (for example) would garner a discount.
Fundamentally, Apple operates in a different fashion.
But businesses will never drop Wintel. Never.
Just like they would never leave IBM?
In the last 5 years, I have seen significant uptake in Apple computers in the corporate world, from small to large. I work for a fairly large financial services firm and all of our Unix/Linux admins have Macbook Pros. And they are spreading to other groups as well.
Never say 'Never'!!
Exactly what I did. And promptly told them to remove me from their mailing lists and cancel any 'benefits' that came from my last donation. I'm done with them.
Right now, I have 200+ movies in my queue. My wife and kids have about 40. Everything is on auto-pilot. About once a month I go in and mess with my queue, adding movies, changing the order, etc. Otherwise, I spend zero time even thinking about it. My wife and kids handle it the same way - queue a bunch of stuff once or twice a month and movies just show up.
I don't want to have to update my queue every day, or end up with no movie to watch because the 'wrong' one shows up, which can not happen now. It's a very useful feature. Without it, Netflix doesn't make sense for my family and we'll cancel.
Well, this feature is what makes Netflix make sense for us. I divide up our plan into two queues - one for me, one for the wife & kids. They get what they want, I get what I want (I have less time to watch, so sometimes I have a movie at home for a week or more) and we don't get in each other's way.
Fundamentally, without this feature, Netflix becomes a pain in the butt to manage for us. Right now, I can be sure that when I send a movie back, I get one of my movies. The same goes for the others.
I'm going to cancel on Aug 31 (and have told them so) if they don't keep this feature.