To subsidize something may very well be more ecomonically efficient than to let the free market decide the level of production. A tax break for the production of open-source software results in higher production. If the resulting utility for society is greater than the cost (or equal), it is, per definition ecomonically efficient to produce at that level.
I use the Off-the-Record plugin for gaim for all my illegal activites
Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:
Encryption
No one else can read your instant messages.
Authentication
You are assured the correspondent is who you think it is.
Deniability
The messages you send do not have digital signatures that are checkable by a third party. Anyone can forge messages after a conversation to make them look like they came from you. However, during a conversation, your correspondent is assured the messages he sees are authentic and unmodified.
Perfect forward secrecy
If you lose control of your private keys, no previous conversation is compromised.
IPv4, the previous version, supports 4.2 billion (4.294 × 109) addresses, which is inadequate for giving even one address to every living person, much less support the burgeoning market for connective devices. IPv6 addresses this problem by supporting 340 undecillion (3.4 × 1038) addresses. For scale, this would allow an average of about 430 quintillion (4.3 × 1020) unique addresses per square inch, or 670 quadrillion (6.7 × 1017) per square millimeter, of the Earth's surface.
I don't think we need to worry about running out of ipv6 adresses any time soon:)
You make many good points, but without patents even small inventors would be able to use exiting consepts and build upon these. Kinda like how open source works:)
I think software patents are a BAD idea (maybe 1 year on new algorithms or something) but patents on other stuff is healty (provided they doesn't last for ever)
OK we get it.. podcasting is gonna diminish the power of global media. Just like blogging, the internet and linux on the desktop...
Jeez
I wonder when we'll see podcasts.google.com
Volume discounts are OK because the producer still sells the product for more than the cost of producing it. Big sells often results in less fluctuation in factory output, and thus leads to lower production costs (less overtime work, more efficient machinery) The problem is when producers "dump" (sells with losses over time) their products on the market to strangle competitors.
I's rather give friends / family / coworkers a CD, than giving them a list of URLs and installation instructions. Not to mention the convinience of having all this software on an easy to share CD
But can it pick up Sub-Etha TV? And does it measure the local gravity and orbital movment, track the sun, pick up clues from its enviroment as to what the local unit conventions are and reset itself appropriately? If not, i'm not interested
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To subsidize something may very well be more ecomonically efficient than to let the free market decide the level of production. A tax break for the production of open-source software results in higher production. If the resulting utility for society is greater than the cost (or equal), it is, per definition ecomonically efficient to produce at that level.
You can read more about beneficial externalities at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExternalitiesI use the Off-the-Record plugin for gaim for all my illegal activites
http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
From procmailrc:
You make many good points, but without patents even small inventors would be able to use exiting consepts and build upon these. Kinda like how open source works :)
I think software patents are a BAD idea (maybe 1 year on new algorithms or something) but patents on other stuff is healty (provided they doesn't last for ever)
And that is why 11 out of 10 firemen recommend off-site backup! How do you backup clay btw?
OK we get it.. podcasting is gonna diminish the power of global media. Just like blogging, the internet and linux on the desktop... Jeez I wonder when we'll see podcasts.google.com
Ups.. I stand corrected. What I meant was "doesn't include non-free software"
Volume discounts are OK because the producer still sells the product for more than the cost of producing it. Big sells often results in less fluctuation in factory output, and thus leads to lower production costs (less overtime work, more efficient machinery) The problem is when producers "dump" (sells with losses over time) their products on the market to strangle competitors.
I's rather give friends / family / coworkers a CD, than giving them a list of URLs and installation instructions. Not to mention the convinience of having all this software on an easy to share CD
Many distros doesn't include these plugins because of politics. (only GPL software)
But can it pick up Sub-Etha TV? And does it measure the local gravity and orbital movment, track the sun, pick up clues from its enviroment as to what the local unit conventions are and reset itself appropriately? If not, i'm not interested
Hopefully somebody will do a KDE-frontend. The Gnome-HIG and especially their new dialogs are just a pain.
yeah.. 1 april..
Yeah, walking trough an airport security control with 10 cellphones in your bag won't draw any suspicion at all...