K-12 teachers are underpaid, and generally lack a lot of computer skills that are necessary to make free-OSS work. Few initiatives exist to get the message out to teachers that there's both remediation software as well as technical skills development source trees available for use, with a few exceptions.
School systems by either OS X or XP these days, and aren't very compelled to get Linux or OSS alternatives for many reasons, including lack of knowledge of what's available, belief that support doesn't exist, fears of application cracks (like they don't exist elsewhere, eh?), and basic fundamental experience with OSS apps and environments in general.
This changes as a younger generation replaces older teachers, but it will take time for educators to get smart on what OSS is, and how to use it effectively for both skills and remediation.
I might enjoy the chaos that would ensue, but it could also get worse, not better. The reason that Jobs got the blessing of the RIAA to make the iTunes phenomenon work is that he methodically respects rights in how iTunes works and is deployed.
Apple's core Mac operating system becomes more distant now from OSS fundamentals and philosophies as time goes on. Numerous articles cite Apple's drift from core OpenDarwin into something that's actually little known-- just based on Mach and the Darwin leg. It's not a stretch to reason additionally that the trusted computing environment that Intel had (and IBM had no analog of) was the reason for the jump from the PPC family to Intel's-- seemingly a huge leap. It's not when you consider that the trusted environment eventually leads to DRM-protected home media infrastructure that makes the media rights holders very happy-- little conflict with them at all.
A joiner between the two doesn't change any number of fundamentals, however: Pixar/Disney media holdings continue to be protected through the convergence era.... despite others that are vociferous about what asset protection means. This leads me to further believe that a distance between Apple's philosophies of shareholder value vs Disney/Pixar's continue to work very well in an unmerged future. I'm not sure that I'd have much respect for a computer system with Mickey's logo on it... despite how humorous that might be. So, the joiner doesn't work for me for a long list of reasons.
Instead, I'd like to see Apple play their hands more frequently regarding just how deeply they can OEM their products into successful, high-return media devices along either iTunes or Mac product lines. Mac-powered HDTVs and media centers could become quite the rage if they can add 'Tivo-like' functionality to the core offerings, leveraging their media distribution smarts with home devices that become empowered by Apple hardware/software/DRM guts. Then, Apple domination in new markets could become quite powerful.... for better and worse.
Jobs isn't interested in muddying up Apple's revenue streams by merging with Disney. He'd gain the wrath of the RIAA and all of his billion-selling iTunes partners. But is Disney too big? Too bloated? Not producing revenues like they should? Jobs votes more shares than anyone in each organization. Think about that.
I think that Jobs doesn't rock the boat; Icahn at least had some business sense in trying to break up TW, not that I agree necessarily with his motives (make Carl richer).... his methods would likely increase all shareholder value of TW shareholders by realigning business units (splits, tracking stocks, new issues) in a burgeoning market that's turning bull right now. There's nothing inherently wrong with shareholder value increase, when it's done ethically. That's why, and although I abhor SBC/ATT, I understand why they're up on Capitol Hill bribing their way back into as many monopolistic practices as they can. They make money by doing it. I doubt anyone has the guts to stop them, and that's a bad thing, but a reality right now.
It fits none of Apple's agendas to do so, in fact it would create numerous difficulties for both companies. Instead, it would be better to break up Disney into new pieces that reflect operating income better, just like Icahn was trying to do to Time Warner AOL.
Barrons had too many martinis before they wrote that one.
Yet there's a legacy about what made them viable in the first place: small, low-rent, distributed strip mall and small town shops that were convenient and supplied things you needed. The concept of a radio shack grew out of the ham radio, and CB days, when a solder jockey could build something as basic a crystal radio kit and then graduate beyond. Digikey now sells zillions of dollars of components in all conceivable varieties and types, and others like MCM supply the consumer electronic tech repair trade with replacement parts like magnetrons for blown microwave ovens, Cat 6 cable, and so on.
Heathkit, then Heath/Zenith also had trouble staying relevant and their locations died a slow and profit-less death. Radio Shack is in the same danger.
And amusingly, I too go to Tandy leather to get items to fix items I own. They're going well in my area... while the Radio Shack down the street is likely to fold shortly.
Pity.
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Big box consumer electronics retailers have usurped the role of the neighborhood consumer electronics store. Remember that not long ago, this was Tandy Leather Company. Although the company has changed over the years, each of their markets has big competition:
- Cell phones and 2-way phones are in the big box retailers - Fry's and others have edged the electronic components and tech tool offerings - TVs, computers, stereos, and others are the domain of Best Buy, Circuit City, etc... - Tech toys have also been gnawed on by a slew of retailers
So it's no fun to be Radio Snack, as my uncle calls them. Closing 700 stores is only the first step on a long journey back to health for these guys, as they try to find identity and appeal in the major and tiny markets they once did well in.
Getting smeared because of their ex-CEO's dubious credentials is just another nail in the coffin if they're not careful.
Check the facts at the USDA, or other places. Hydrogen adoption rates in NA are very small. It's a shame, but nonetheless, you can't get much done with hydrogen-powered vehicles here. There are lots of reasons why, but the Mazda piece was a PR move that got picked up by/. and moved around like it was a big deal. Instead, they were suckered. That's my whole point.
Move over to alcohol, and things are much different, as are the engine dynamics. Oxygen sensor technology, coupled with over-large fuel injectors that can handle alcohol, are here and working. But not hydrogen. It's a different techology that requires a different engine design and fuel system delivery methodology. And it's not only not standardized, but it's unfortuantely a joke in NA. It'll change, but $3.5K/month for a hydrogen vehicle is rubbish.
If you purchased the card for its qualities, then found out that you were LIED to, how are you going to justify purchasing again from that vendor?
Let's say that in a fit of egalitarianism, Apple allowed the iPod to play Ogg Vorbis. You bought one, then found out they lied and covered it up. You have a huge library of media, some of it in Ogg format.
Would that affect your decision to buy something from Apple again, especially an iPod? You'd want to check to make sure that it indeed does play that format. Extending this analogy, let's say that you want to make sure that Vista works on your machine with an ATI card, and ATI says, sure, it works fine. But it doesn't. Are you going to make damn sure that it does? How will you check if the drivers are unvavailable to you because the product, as yet, is unreleased?
Has ATI shown that they're both trustworthy and willing to admit mistakes and deal with the issue? No. Instead, they covered it up. I can't predict whether they'll suffer enough to go into Ch11, but it's not out of the realm of possibilities. What other product promises have they made that are now suspect? No, this is an ethics problem, not to mention fraud. ATI doesn't get away so easily with this.
You can't hide what was on the website; there are too many archiving mechanisms out there that will reveal the truth. Then, if a fraud has occurred, there'll be class-action litigation undertaken.
If you have ATI stock, dump it, now, before the Chapter 11 filing; you might get a few cents out of it. Otherwise, make plans to obtain another adapter. If ATI can make good on the adapter, it'll be a miracle for them.
But if the info in the article is true, it's the harbinger of the end of ATI as we knew them. Pity.
SAP has their own developer network, and doesn't need any of that stinking open sauce stuff.
But there's some wisdom in thinking that mature, reliable code should be used. Being able to see the freaking SOURCE might help make a wise judgment on the merits of good code, wouldn'tcha think?
Maybe SAP's incapable of finding interesting OSS companies to buy, as their entire ecosystem surrounds SAP which also stands for NOT INVENTED HERE. I hope the helium he inhaled in San Francisco doesn't give him a headache.
Even if someone wanted to pay the $3400+ lease (not including local taxes, licenses, delivery, etc.) there are but a handful of places in North America where you could find a fill. Not that there's even a standard fueling nozzle, nor one proposed to ANSI at this point. You could buy land in Illinois, grow corn, distill your own alchohol and at least have a few places to not only fuel up but some cars that can actually use the fuel for that kind of money.
And so, this is Mazda's PR machine cooking up hope where it'll be a decade or more before consumers will see something tangible on this side of the Pacific. Must be a dull news day.
Any self-respecting geek that's flying to Japan has an extra battery or an inline APC battery, etc. The power consumption life only counts in SoCal and Houston where they pay $1/kw. Heat dispersion is another thing. Got a nice fan? Good. You need to blow that stack with some cool breeze.
Where does it matter: bang for the buck. Both seem to do that. AMD has better math, but this is no surprise as their FPU has eaten Intel's for years now. Bad memory moves? Ah yes, that damn FS bus. Sigh.
The bucks? The same, roughly. And now that dual cores are here, as mentioned above, it's all irrelevant for those of us that must fly with nitro-injected rendering machines or compilers from hell. Multi-core or die. Mobetta cores, please. I got juice, and I got code to burn. Get out of my way, slow stuff.
It's the repetition that changes the brain chemistry by the mentioned expressions. It explains a lot about the 'walking wounded' that I know of in life, the agorophobics, anti-socials, and the like.
Hardening them would help, as you mention; but identifying them is diffficult because by their nature, they're going to hide and not interact. This describes too many people that I know.... and unfortunately makes a lot of sense.
Reducing them to programs, however, is perhaps mis-applied. I'm thinking now this is more of an algorithm or a subroutine, not a whole main(). It's a response to stimulus.... a sophisticated one.
The rabbit will live in the iPod. Oswald will read his Powerbook, to gain Intel. His ferocity will grow into a dual core personality. Although we're not sure what comes NeXT, we're sure that there's no need for pesky sports announcers, after all. They just bitch and complain.
There are so many icons within SGi's horrid past, that it needs to die. It's cancerous. It's stupid. It's hateful, it's small.
And it's now, hopefully gone. I love it when companies threaten CH 11. It's so like a guy pointing a pistol at his head, saying if I don't get a handout soon, I'm going to kill myself. Instead, he's killing the vendors, the stockholders, and most of his good friends off.
Michael Woods, in his great book on SGi, should put an addendum to it, on how the mighty have not only fallen, but passed awful gas for years on the way down.
Huge proprietary one-off systems, divisions that fight each other, a virtual pinball machine of executive changes, marketing that would make even DEC blush, it's no wonder why SGI is toying with Chapter 11. This after several years of trying to get themselves sold, is just so amusing.
I have a strong pity for people that thought SGI was a Silicon Valley progenitor and captain, only to find that it was really a dopey engineering company determined to constantly reinvent the wheel, never use anything anyone else did, and had the quintessential not-invented-here sickness that nearly killed Silicon Valley after co-inventing it.
It's my fervent hope that they just liquidate, and get it over with. My advice: skip Chapter 11 and go straight for seven, and put SGI and its employees (I've known many) out of its constant misery and pain.
He's going beyond special relativity by allowing both special relativity, but also the unions among geometries which, with their relativistic delays and apparencies (e.g. red shifts), explain a lot:
1) time is non-linear within the same object, when the object is accelerating (and all objects are accelerating at all times; there is no restful object in the universe--relativistically), so measurements that were thought to be predictable through redshifts are not in fact predictable through the means we've been using and
2) these new domains of time can be thought of not as time-coherency but rather non-red shift, individual object domains. Calculating domains then becomes possible, as newly defined 'red shifts among red shifts' rather than the simplistic comparison from Einstein's equations. Einstein's equations were right, but didn't consider all objects can have their own relativistic differentials in time; hence the new 'geometric' concept. I like the idea, and will mosh it through my Mathematica constructs to see what happens.
Your knowledge of AIDs is pretty dusty.... it's gone beyond needle users and gay anal sex into the mainstream of Africa. But people are people, and the infection vectors around the world will disfavor the promiscuous/practitioners of sex where vectors commonly exist. In this country, four of my friends died in the early stages of the pandemic. Nothing could help them. Today, they'd be alive, but with difficult prognosis.... and they were all insured and had money. That money and their insurance was gone, spent, by their deaths.
Uneeded surgery? We're a beauty culture, favoring the young, hung, or well-breasted. No wrinkles. New and/or straightened teeth. Nip, tuck. Make up. Razors to shave things. Dye. Clothing. Jewelry. We're not that far out of the Stone Age. Media permeates the sense that we must all be young to be vital. But these things are rhetorical, and won't be easily changed.
It was the article, seemingly extolling the virtues of the described madness that set me reeling. Written as though this was a marvel somehow. Sure, the failed concept of trickle-down economics is at play. Stolen, as it were, from purposes less grandiose, less Taj Mahal. Less conspicuous consumption.
There are superlatives, and there are sick superlatives. This one ranks among the ill, this monument to rooms to poop and shower in.
So where is the line then. A few years ago, we expanded our home to add another bedroom and replace/expand the master bath. The cost of the project was about $50,000. A bit over half of that was for the bathroom. Is this exhuberant; it is if you live in an apartment and can't afford anything else, but not if you live in a bigger house that already had a large master bath.
It might exhuberant, but it's plausibly exhorbitant. So, that's $25K for each bathroom. Very McMansion-ish, but not irrational.
Likewise, undoubtedly the first indoor bathrooms were considered rediculous wastes of money. The first outhouses were probably seen that way as well. But at least in civilized countries, not too many people crap in the woods or in outhouses any more.
Thank heavens for that.
The real issue here is jealousy, and if it isn't, lead by example. Calculate the average worldwide annual income (I believe around $5k in 1999) and every cent you make over that, give to someone who earns less than that average. Socialism starts with you.
Balderdash. You still cannot, with a straight face, rationalize a $200,000.00 restroom. If you do, you've lapsed into a vortex where the unreal live. You can rationalize any idiocy, and somehow justify it. A decent capitalist or economist would cringe. I know I do.
The fact that some peoples parents left them some money, and they want to use it on a bathroom, doesn't really bother me. I want to build a giant luxury home some day, it's a good goal to keep me motivated in my business.
We agree that it's ok to have been left money. But it's anti-capitalist to believe that such dynastic approaches to wealth conservations are good, as in good for either the recipient or the economy.
The great thing about America, is that there is no dynasty or caste system. My grandfather started out living in the ghetto of Baltimore city. Through years of hard work, he moved out of the city into a nice area he could afford in the suburbs. He built the house himself so that he could afford it.
Good heavens man. Working hard, then reaping the rewards are fine. But there is a dynasty in the US, numerous ones. The death of the Death Tax is just one more brick in the wall of dynasties. The Bush dynasty is an other good example. (and I fondly hope that Hilary stays away from the White House, too). Let's take Balitimore as an example. An incredible difference between the downtown areas, the the McMansions of the burbs. Gated communities, rife with a shrinking middle class. The uber-rich carefully conserve it all, and the poor have little capacity to rise up. Some do, and good for them. Others languish in the abyss called downtown Baltimore. A good example of the increasing amount of dynasties that permeate the landscape.
He motivated his sons to do better for themselves, and they went to college, got a good education, and good white collar jobs. They did the same with there sons. My cousin graduated from high school, college, and then law school first in his class thanks to his fathers motivations. He is now a very successful lawyer. I started a business with the help of my father, and am becoming successful as well. Every generation in our family has worked a little harder, been a little smarter, and tried a little harder to get where we are today.
Excellent. I love success stories.
My point is, if I make enough money to be able to afford a $200k bathroom someday, I am going to have a $200k bathroom, because I earned it. I fully expect that someday I'll be able to groom my son into being a self sufficient and successful person as well, hopefully even moreso than myself. All of those things you mentioned will ultimated be cured by capitalism. If AIDS becomes enough of a threat, it will become a big enough cash (or glory) cow to be worth curing. Alternate fuel sources are also starting to be addressed by the free market.
Here we depart. You do indeed have the right to spend your money in any insane way you desire, and a $200K b
they made a provision that Americans couldn't accept titles of royalty without an action of Congress. This anti-dynastic move was designed to help buck the mindset that some are better than others, a very populist move.
In a similar way, and without the titles, we use trust funds to create dynasties, ersatz royalty. These incorporate bodies of funds only occasionally serve the purpose of protecting those that need protection-- youth, the handicapped or misfortuned. Today, they're bags of money to hand to the kids. Some use it wisely, others not. I have no quibble with what they do with it, or that they're endowed.
My truck with a $200,000.00 bathroom is that it's far over the top. Trusts are another issue for another time. This issue, one of excess, hubris, all rationalized for the sake of the extreme, benefits no one except the twit that will now try to make a $250,000.00 bathroom. In the interim, many needed things will remain unfunded. Like a cure for AIDS, or an alternate fuel from petrochemical-based ones, or a way to better mental health, or a method re-enthuse people about governance, or a better programming language than Python... Who knows what might happen? But a goddamn quarter-mil bathroom? Your defence of it is lunacy.
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K-12 teachers are underpaid, and generally lack a lot of computer skills that are necessary to make free-OSS work. Few initiatives exist to get the message out to teachers that there's both remediation software as well as technical skills development source trees available for use, with a few exceptions.
School systems by either OS X or XP these days, and aren't very compelled to get Linux or OSS alternatives for many reasons, including lack of knowledge of what's available, belief that support doesn't exist, fears of application cracks (like they don't exist elsewhere, eh?), and basic fundamental experience with OSS apps and environments in general.
This changes as a younger generation replaces older teachers, but it will take time for educators to get smart on what OSS is, and how to use it effectively for both skills and remediation.
I might enjoy the chaos that would ensue, but it could also get worse, not better. The reason that Jobs got the blessing of the RIAA to make the iTunes phenomenon work is that he methodically respects rights in how iTunes works and is deployed.
Apple's core Mac operating system becomes more distant now from OSS fundamentals and philosophies as time goes on. Numerous articles cite Apple's drift from core OpenDarwin into something that's actually little known-- just based on Mach and the Darwin leg. It's not a stretch to reason additionally that the trusted computing environment that Intel had (and IBM had no analog of) was the reason for the jump from the PPC family to Intel's-- seemingly a huge leap. It's not when you consider that the trusted environment eventually leads to DRM-protected home media infrastructure that makes the media rights holders very happy-- little conflict with them at all.
A joiner between the two doesn't change any number of fundamentals, however: Pixar/Disney media holdings continue to be protected through the convergence era.... despite others that are vociferous about what asset protection means. This leads me to further believe that a distance between Apple's philosophies of shareholder value vs Disney/Pixar's continue to work very well in an unmerged future. I'm not sure that I'd have much respect for a computer system with Mickey's logo on it... despite how humorous that might be. So, the joiner doesn't work for me for a long list of reasons.
Instead, I'd like to see Apple play their hands more frequently regarding just how deeply they can OEM their products into successful, high-return media devices along either iTunes or Mac product lines. Mac-powered HDTVs and media centers could become quite the rage if they can add 'Tivo-like' functionality to the core offerings, leveraging their media distribution smarts with home devices that become empowered by Apple hardware/software/DRM guts. Then, Apple domination in new markets could become quite powerful.... for better and worse.
Jobs isn't interested in muddying up Apple's revenue streams by merging with Disney. He'd gain the wrath of the RIAA and all of his billion-selling iTunes partners. But is Disney too big? Too bloated? Not producing revenues like they should? Jobs votes more shares than anyone in each organization. Think about that.
I think that Jobs doesn't rock the boat; Icahn at least had some business sense in trying to break up TW, not that I agree necessarily with his motives (make Carl richer).... his methods would likely increase all shareholder value of TW shareholders by realigning business units (splits, tracking stocks, new issues) in a burgeoning market that's turning bull right now. There's nothing inherently wrong with shareholder value increase, when it's done ethically. That's why, and although I abhor SBC/ATT, I understand why they're up on Capitol Hill bribing their way back into as many monopolistic practices as they can. They make money by doing it. I doubt anyone has the guts to stop them, and that's a bad thing, but a reality right now.
It fits none of Apple's agendas to do so, in fact it would create numerous difficulties for both companies. Instead, it would be better to break up Disney into new pieces that reflect operating income better, just like Icahn was trying to do to Time Warner AOL.
Barrons had too many martinis before they wrote that one.
Looks like Microsoft won't be competing soon with RIM if they get past this one; MS plans of world domination will be held off for a while.
Yet there's a legacy about what made them viable in the first place: small, low-rent, distributed strip mall and small town shops that were convenient and supplied things you needed. The concept of a radio shack grew out of the ham radio, and CB days, when a solder jockey could build something as basic a crystal radio kit and then graduate beyond. Digikey now sells zillions of dollars of components in all conceivable varieties and types, and others like MCM supply the consumer electronic tech repair trade with replacement parts like magnetrons for blown microwave ovens, Cat 6 cable, and so on.
Heathkit, then Heath/Zenith also had trouble staying relevant and their locations died a slow and profit-less death. Radio Shack is in the same danger.
And amusingly, I too go to Tandy leather to get items to fix items I own. They're going well in my area... while the Radio Shack down the street is likely to fold shortly.
Pity.
Big box consumer electronics retailers have usurped the role of the neighborhood consumer electronics store. Remember that not long ago, this was Tandy Leather Company. Although the company has changed over the years, each of their markets has big competition:
- Cell phones and 2-way phones are in the big box retailers
- Fry's and others have edged the electronic components and tech tool offerings
- TVs, computers, stereos, and others are the domain of Best Buy, Circuit City, etc...
- Tech toys have also been gnawed on by a slew of retailers
So it's no fun to be Radio Snack, as my uncle calls them. Closing 700 stores is only the first step on a long journey back to health for these guys, as they try to find identity and appeal in the major and tiny markets they once did well in.
Getting smeared because of their ex-CEO's dubious credentials is just another nail in the coffin if they're not careful.
Check the facts at the USDA, or other places. Hydrogen adoption rates in NA are very small. It's a shame, but nonetheless, you can't get much done with hydrogen-powered vehicles here. There are lots of reasons why, but the Mazda piece was a PR move that got picked up by /. and moved around like it was a big deal. Instead, they were suckered. That's my whole point.
Move over to alcohol, and things are much different, as are the engine dynamics. Oxygen sensor technology, coupled with over-large fuel injectors that can handle alcohol, are here and working. But not hydrogen. It's a different techology that requires a different engine design and fuel system delivery methodology. And it's not only not standardized, but it's unfortuantely a joke in NA. It'll change, but $3.5K/month for a hydrogen vehicle is rubbish.
Mistrust kills companies.
If you purchased the card for its qualities, then found out that you were LIED to, how are you going to justify purchasing again from that vendor?
Let's say that in a fit of egalitarianism, Apple allowed the iPod to play Ogg Vorbis. You bought one, then found out they lied and covered it up. You have a huge library of media, some of it in Ogg format.
Would that affect your decision to buy something from Apple again, especially an iPod? You'd want to check to make sure that it indeed does play that format. Extending this analogy, let's say that you want to make sure that Vista works on your machine with an ATI card, and ATI says, sure, it works fine. But it doesn't. Are you going to make damn sure that it does? How will you check if the drivers are unvavailable to you because the product, as yet, is unreleased?
Has ATI shown that they're both trustworthy and willing to admit mistakes and deal with the issue? No. Instead, they covered it up. I can't predict whether they'll suffer enough to go into Ch11, but it's not out of the realm of possibilities. What other product promises have they made that are now suspect? No, this is an ethics problem, not to mention fraud. ATI doesn't get away so easily with this.
You can't hide what was on the website; there are too many archiving mechanisms out there that will reveal the truth. Then, if a fraud has occurred, there'll be class-action litigation undertaken.
If you have ATI stock, dump it, now, before the Chapter 11 filing; you might get a few cents out of it. Otherwise, make plans to obtain another adapter. If ATI can make good on the adapter, it'll be a miracle for them.
But if the info in the article is true, it's the harbinger of the end of ATI as we knew them. Pity.
Currently, there are 204 hydrogen purveyors in the US (source: US Dept of Agriculture).
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There are seven different fueling nozzles, for the under 450+ TOTAL hydrogen vehicles in North America (includes Canada).
We (as in US and Canada) have more hydrogen-powered vehicles than in all of the ASEAN countries combines, times 5.
Don't be a twit and twiddle your fingers on the keyboard until you get the facts.
Then you can see the Mazda PR prattle for what it is.... unwittingly picked up and placed on
And so the original post, not having been correctly put into context, is just plain alarmist and silly.
SAP has their own developer network, and doesn't need any of that stinking open sauce stuff.
But there's some wisdom in thinking that mature, reliable code should be used. Being able to see the freaking SOURCE might help make a wise judgment on the merits of good code, wouldn'tcha think?
Maybe SAP's incapable of finding interesting OSS companies to buy, as their entire ecosystem surrounds SAP which also stands for NOT INVENTED HERE. I hope the helium he inhaled in San Francisco doesn't give him a headache.
Even if someone wanted to pay the $3400+ lease (not including local taxes, licenses, delivery, etc.) there are but a handful of places in North America where you could find a fill. Not that there's even a standard fueling nozzle, nor one proposed to ANSI at this point. You could buy land in Illinois, grow corn, distill your own alchohol and at least have a few places to not only fuel up but some cars that can actually use the fuel for that kind of money.
And so, this is Mazda's PR machine cooking up hope where it'll be a decade or more before consumers will see something tangible on this side of the Pacific. Must be a dull news day.
Any self-respecting geek that's flying to Japan has an extra battery or an inline APC battery, etc. The power consumption life only counts in SoCal and Houston where they pay $1/kw. Heat dispersion is another thing. Got a nice fan? Good. You need to blow that stack with some cool breeze.
Where does it matter: bang for the buck. Both seem to do that. AMD has better math, but this is no surprise as their FPU has eaten Intel's for years now. Bad memory moves? Ah yes, that damn FS bus. Sigh.
The bucks? The same, roughly. And now that dual cores are here, as mentioned above, it's all irrelevant for those of us that must fly with nitro-injected rendering machines or compilers from hell. Multi-core or die. Mobetta cores, please. I got juice, and I got code to burn. Get out of my way, slow stuff.
It's the repetition that changes the brain chemistry by the mentioned expressions. It explains a lot about the 'walking wounded' that I know of in life, the agorophobics, anti-socials, and the like.
Hardening them would help, as you mention; but identifying them is diffficult because by their nature, they're going to hide and not interact. This describes too many people that I know.... and unfortunately makes a lot of sense.
Reducing them to programs, however, is perhaps mis-applied. I'm thinking now this is more of an algorithm or a subroutine, not a whole main(). It's a response to stimulus.... a sophisticated one.
The rabbit will live in the iPod. Oswald will read his Powerbook, to gain Intel. His ferocity will grow into a dual core personality. Although we're not sure what comes NeXT, we're sure that there's no need for pesky sports announcers, after all. They just bitch and complain.
There are so many icons within SGi's horrid past, that it needs to die. It's cancerous. It's stupid. It's hateful, it's small.
And it's now, hopefully gone. I love it when companies threaten CH 11. It's so like a guy pointing a pistol at his head, saying if I don't get a handout soon, I'm going to kill myself. Instead, he's killing the vendors, the stockholders, and most of his good friends off.
Michael Woods, in his great book on SGi, should put an addendum to it, on how the mighty have not only fallen, but passed awful gas for years on the way down.
Huge proprietary one-off systems, divisions that fight each other, a virtual pinball machine of executive changes, marketing that would make even DEC blush, it's no wonder why SGI is toying with Chapter 11. This after several years of trying to get themselves sold, is just so amusing.
I have a strong pity for people that thought SGI was a Silicon Valley progenitor and captain, only to find that it was really a dopey engineering company determined to constantly reinvent the wheel, never use anything anyone else did, and had the quintessential not-invented-here sickness that nearly killed Silicon Valley after co-inventing it.
It's my fervent hope that they just liquidate, and get it over with. My advice: skip Chapter 11 and go straight for seven, and put SGI and its employees (I've known many) out of its constant misery and pain.
He's going beyond special relativity by allowing both special relativity, but also the unions among geometries which, with their relativistic delays and apparencies (e.g. red shifts), explain a lot:
1) time is non-linear within the same object, when the object is accelerating (and all objects are accelerating at all times; there is no restful object in the universe--relativistically), so measurements that were thought to be predictable through redshifts are not in fact predictable through the means we've been using and
2) these new domains of time can be thought of not as time-coherency but rather non-red shift, individual object domains. Calculating domains then becomes possible, as newly defined 'red shifts among red shifts' rather than the simplistic comparison from Einstein's equations. Einstein's equations were right, but didn't consider all objects can have their own relativistic differentials in time; hence the new 'geometric' concept. I like the idea, and will mosh it through my Mathematica constructs to see what happens.
We're close, I believe.
Your knowledge of AIDs is pretty dusty.... it's gone beyond needle users and gay anal sex into the mainstream of Africa. But people are people, and the infection vectors around the world will disfavor the promiscuous/practitioners of sex where vectors commonly exist. In this country, four of my friends died in the early stages of the pandemic. Nothing could help them. Today, they'd be alive, but with difficult prognosis.... and they were all insured and had money. That money and their insurance was gone, spent, by their deaths.
Uneeded surgery? We're a beauty culture, favoring the young, hung, or well-breasted. No wrinkles. New and/or straightened teeth. Nip, tuck. Make up. Razors to shave things. Dye. Clothing. Jewelry. We're not that far out of the Stone Age. Media permeates the sense that we must all be young to be vital. But these things are rhetorical, and won't be easily changed.
It was the article, seemingly extolling the virtues of the described madness that set me reeling. Written as though this was a marvel somehow. Sure, the failed concept of trickle-down economics is at play. Stolen, as it were, from purposes less grandiose, less Taj Mahal. Less conspicuous consumption.
There are superlatives, and there are sick superlatives. This one ranks among the ill, this monument to rooms to poop and shower in.
So where is the line then. A few years ago, we expanded our home to add another bedroom and replace/expand the master bath. The cost of the project was about $50,000. A bit over half of that was for the bathroom. Is this exhuberant; it is if you live in an apartment and can't afford anything else, but not if you live in a bigger house that already had a large master bath.
It might exhuberant, but it's plausibly exhorbitant. So, that's $25K for each bathroom. Very McMansion-ish, but not irrational.
Likewise, undoubtedly the first indoor bathrooms were considered rediculous wastes of money. The first outhouses were probably seen that way as well. But at least in civilized countries, not too many people crap in the woods or in outhouses any more.
Thank heavens for that.
The real issue here is jealousy, and if it isn't, lead by example. Calculate the average worldwide annual income (I believe around $5k in 1999) and every cent you make over that, give to someone who earns less than that average. Socialism starts with you.
Balderdash. You still cannot, with a straight face, rationalize a $200,000.00 restroom. If you do, you've lapsed into a vortex where the unreal live. You can rationalize any idiocy, and somehow justify it. A decent capitalist or economist would cringe. I know I do.
The fact that some peoples parents left them some money, and they want to use it on a bathroom, doesn't really bother me. I want to build a giant luxury home some day, it's a good goal to keep me motivated in my business.
We agree that it's ok to have been left money. But it's anti-capitalist to believe that such dynastic approaches to wealth conservations are good, as in good for either the recipient or the economy.
The great thing about America, is that there is no dynasty or caste system. My grandfather started out living in the ghetto of Baltimore city. Through years of hard work, he moved out of the city into a nice area he could afford in the suburbs. He built the house himself so that he could afford it.
Good heavens man. Working hard, then reaping the rewards are fine. But there is a dynasty in the US, numerous ones. The death of the Death Tax is just one more brick in the wall of dynasties. The Bush dynasty is an other good example. (and I fondly hope that Hilary stays away from the White House, too). Let's take Balitimore as an example. An incredible difference between the downtown areas, the the McMansions of the burbs. Gated communities, rife with a shrinking middle class. The uber-rich carefully conserve it all, and the poor have little capacity to rise up. Some do, and good for them. Others languish in the abyss called downtown Baltimore. A good example of the increasing amount of dynasties that permeate the landscape.
He motivated his sons to do better for themselves, and they went to college, got a good education, and good white collar jobs. They did the same with there sons. My cousin graduated from high school, college, and then law school first in his class thanks to his fathers motivations. He is now a very successful lawyer. I started a business with the help of my father, and am becoming successful as well. Every generation in our family has worked a little harder, been a little smarter, and tried a little harder to get where we are today.
Excellent. I love success stories.
My point is, if I make enough money to be able to afford a $200k bathroom someday, I am going to have a $200k bathroom, because I earned it. I fully expect that someday I'll be able to groom my son into being a self sufficient and successful person as well, hopefully even moreso than myself. All of those things you mentioned will ultimated be cured by capitalism. If AIDS becomes enough of a threat, it will become a big enough cash (or glory) cow to be worth curing. Alternate fuel sources are also starting to be addressed by the free market.
Here we depart. You do indeed have the right to spend your money in any insane way you desire, and a $200K b
they made a provision that Americans couldn't accept titles of royalty without an action of Congress. This anti-dynastic move was designed to help buck the mindset that some are better than others, a very populist move.
In a similar way, and without the titles, we use trust funds to create dynasties, ersatz royalty. These incorporate bodies of funds only occasionally serve the purpose of protecting those that need protection-- youth, the handicapped or misfortuned. Today, they're bags of money to hand to the kids. Some use it wisely, others not. I have no quibble with what they do with it, or that they're endowed.
My truck with a $200,000.00 bathroom is that it's far over the top. Trusts are another issue for another time. This issue, one of excess, hubris, all rationalized for the sake of the extreme, benefits no one except the twit that will now try to make a $250,000.00 bathroom. In the interim, many needed things will remain unfunded. Like a cure for AIDS, or an alternate fuel from petrochemical-based ones, or a way to better mental health, or a method re-enthuse people about governance, or a better programming language than Python... Who knows what might happen? But a goddamn quarter-mil bathroom? Your defence of it is lunacy.
So sure. Technology-gilded bathroom will somehow be commercialized, and the masses will soon be able to enjoy this.
This sort of rationalization is what makes people do really dumb things, all in the name of a lie they told themselves.
Imagine if trust funds could find real use.... instead of techno-tasties for bored rich kids. Sigh.