Re:Why do we measure things with money?
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Some countries have tried this. The problem with the math of twice as many workers at half the hours each is that there is a bit of overhead associated with each worker, and doubling that is not a happy thing. Most of the economic problems in many European countries (France, Germany) come from the state mandating 'worker friendly' policies. Make it hard to fire lousy workers? Fine, I'll reduce hiring to mitigate the risk of getting stuck with slackers. 35 hour maximum work week? Well, production is going to have to go down. No way I can afford any more workers.
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You can't ride a bike or hike in those fancy shoes if the people decide to not work the factories anymore. Most people's idea of recreation requires a good deal of industry to be as enjoyable as it is. You work hard to give yourself the ability to take some time off and enjoy the fruits of humanity's labors.
WHen you have rules on how to make the system work inefficiently, you know there's a problem. It would be nice if we could get *something* done when part of the body doesn't want to talk about a particular issue.
Live-action versions of the first few books were made for television in the late 80's. I watched them on video from the local library, and found them pretty decent.
The globalized economy likes dumb people. The system prefers people who do precisely what they are told, don't ask questions, and aren't always coming up with some nonstandard way of doing things. When something innovative is actually done, it was in direct opposition to whatever authority managed the person who did it. Hurrah for the benefits of cheap labor!
What does the administration have to do with murder investigation? I'm pretty sure that the local jurisdiction will be more than happy to investigate the wrongful death of an upstanding member of the community. While it is an interesting question as to the lengths the cartel is willing to go, the unecessary authority bashing weakens your point. A better jab would be 'and the RIAA even has the money to make the case disappear'.
I know there will be about a million posts in this thread on the topic of preferred laptop pointing device, but I don't see why. One of the reasons that I love Thinkpads so much is that they come with both a touchpad and a nubbin. I'm happy with my proportional mousing (mouse moves in proportion to how my finger moves), and my friends who prefer it get differential mousing (finger movement controls the rate of change of cursor position) when they use my machine.
I'm not really seeing the writings of some shaman from a few thousand years back, translated and altered through a dozen languages, as relevant to this discussion.
All TiVo has done is move the ads into the shows. Particularly irritating is watching a movie like Hunt for Red October where key pieces of dialog are subtitled, and having an ad consume the bottom third of the screen. The transparent network logo in the corner has become a high-saturation animated extravaganza.
It used to be Pigs Fly -> The Second Coming -> DNF, now the schedule has been altered to Pigs Fly -> DNF -> The Second Coming. It seems minor, but the change will reverberate throughout the industry!
The DMCA prevents you from circumventing a protection device to access the copytrighted content. In this case, the content owner is the person who wants the protection removed. The reason that there are problems with the circumvention is that the device itself is protected as a work of Nikon (and other manufacturers) and thus there are problems with Adobe et al reverse engineering it.
I suppose that clearing up the scope within which the lines exist is an improvement to readability, however even gotos get a (potentially) descriptive label.
I understand that gotos result in difficult to read code. What I am says is that inlined functions called in only one place result in very similar code, where you unconditionally jump somewhere else, so it is still difficult to navigate the spagetti.
If you move the code into a function and inline it, you're going to get the same result: you're unconditionally going from one part of the code to another. How is 'needlessinlineproc()' different from 'goto someproc'? I still have to figure out where the hell you put the next bit of code.
I figure you'd use a 'make link' command. Ever use ln under *NIX? What adds metadata to your files? The metadata fairy? I think not...
In any case, the great thing about links is that the criteria AREN'T arbitrary. You aren'y limited to labelling files with a given set of fields; you can create a grouping (by creating a directory and filling it with links) by any criteria.
Really, if the filesystem supports linking on a basic level, any file browser will work. A link is simply another path, and works transparently, just like you can refer to a file using a relative path. If the browser displays file info (in the manner of ls -l), you might need to handle a new attribute type, but that's all.
If you have a hard linking filesystem, you CAN browse in any way the file is sorted. As a plus, doing on the filesystem level allows you to organize a variety of types of file and have them opened by your prefered application. The idea is, if you can give a file multiple paths via linking, you don't need metadata, and you don't need a specialized program for viewing the structure.
So, you need every file format in the collection to support the same sort of metadata, and then you need to use a special client to display this metadata. Of course, the OS could embed the metadata and hide it from programs reading the files. I suppose you could also build the metadata viewer into the normal filesystem navigation program. Of course, by the time we get to that point, its pretty much hard linking anyway.
Why? For example, you can have all of your MP3s stuck somewhere, and then have links to them sorted into directories by different criteria. As long as confirmations for stuff like deletion prints the actual path, I don't see the problem.
At least from a personal perspective, I think that part of the incentive to donate is that if you're just over a tax bracket, you may be able to drop to a lower bracket.
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Some countries have tried this. The problem with the math of twice as many workers at half the hours each is that there is a bit of overhead associated with each worker, and doubling that is not a happy thing. Most of the economic problems in many European countries (France, Germany) come from the state mandating 'worker friendly' policies. Make it hard to fire lousy workers? Fine, I'll reduce hiring to mitigate the risk of getting stuck with slackers. 35 hour maximum work week? Well, production is going to have to go down. No way I can afford any more workers.
You can't ride a bike or hike in those fancy shoes if the people decide to not work the factories anymore. Most people's idea of recreation requires a good deal of industry to be as enjoyable as it is. You work hard to give yourself the ability to take some time off and enjoy the fruits of humanity's labors.
WHen you have rules on how to make the system work inefficiently, you know there's a problem. It would be nice if we could get *something* done when part of the body doesn't want to talk about a particular issue.
Ecosystems managed with large predators. Now the large predators have guns. Problem? I think not.
Live-action versions of the first few books were made for television in the late 80's. I watched them on video from the local library, and found them pretty decent.
The globalized economy likes dumb people. The system prefers people who do precisely what they are told, don't ask questions, and aren't always coming up with some nonstandard way of doing things. When something innovative is actually done, it was in direct opposition to whatever authority managed the person who did it. Hurrah for the benefits of cheap labor!
What does the administration have to do with murder investigation? I'm pretty sure that the local jurisdiction will be more than happy to investigate the wrongful death of an upstanding member of the community. While it is an interesting question as to the lengths the cartel is willing to go, the unecessary authority bashing weakens your point. A better jab would be 'and the RIAA even has the money to make the case disappear'.
How is a settop convergence box in any way related to a general purpose mobile machine?
I know there will be about a million posts in this thread on the topic of preferred laptop pointing device, but I don't see why. One of the reasons that I love Thinkpads so much is that they come with both a touchpad and a nubbin. I'm happy with my proportional mousing (mouse moves in proportion to how my finger moves), and my friends who prefer it get differential mousing (finger movement controls the rate of change of cursor position) when they use my machine.
I'm not really seeing the writings of some shaman from a few thousand years back, translated and altered through a dozen languages, as relevant to this discussion.
All TiVo has done is move the ads into the shows. Particularly irritating is watching a movie like Hunt for Red October where key pieces of dialog are subtitled, and having an ad consume the bottom third of the screen. The transparent network logo in the corner has become a high-saturation animated extravaganza.
It used to be Pigs Fly -> The Second Coming -> DNF, now the schedule has been altered to Pigs Fly -> DNF -> The Second Coming. It seems minor, but the change will reverberate throughout the industry!
And people laughed at Van Gogh ... the man was simply ahead of his time!
You know of companies other than Boeing and Lockheed Martin who can design and manufacture high-end military aircraft?
The response from IT was more along the lines of, 'yeah, some people are doing a study. Congratulations, you weren't duped.'
The DMCA prevents you from circumventing a protection device to access the copytrighted content. In this case, the content owner is the person who wants the protection removed. The reason that there are problems with the circumvention is that the device itself is protected as a work of Nikon (and other manufacturers) and thus there are problems with Adobe et al reverse engineering it.
I suppose that clearing up the scope within which the lines exist is an improvement to readability, however even gotos get a (potentially) descriptive label.
I understand that gotos result in difficult to read code. What I am says is that inlined functions called in only one place result in very similar code, where you unconditionally jump somewhere else, so it is still difficult to navigate the spagetti.
If you move the code into a function and inline it, you're going to get the same result: you're unconditionally going from one part of the code to another. How is 'needlessinlineproc()' different from 'goto someproc'? I still have to figure out where the hell you put the next bit of code.
I figure you'd use a 'make link' command. Ever use ln under *NIX? What adds metadata to your files? The metadata fairy? I think not ...
In any case, the great thing about links is that the criteria AREN'T arbitrary. You aren'y limited to labelling files with a given set of fields; you can create a grouping (by creating a directory and filling it with links) by any criteria.
Really, if the filesystem supports linking on a basic level, any file browser will work. A link is simply another path, and works transparently, just like you can refer to a file using a relative path. If the browser displays file info (in the manner of ls -l), you might need to handle a new attribute type, but that's all.
If you have a hard linking filesystem, you CAN browse in any way the file is sorted. As a plus, doing on the filesystem level allows you to organize a variety of types of file and have them opened by your prefered application. The idea is, if you can give a file multiple paths via linking, you don't need metadata, and you don't need a specialized program for viewing the structure.
So, you need every file format in the collection to support the same sort of metadata, and then you need to use a special client to display this metadata. Of course, the OS could embed the metadata and hide it from programs reading the files. I suppose you could also build the metadata viewer into the normal filesystem navigation program. Of course, by the time we get to that point, its pretty much hard linking anyway.
Why? For example, you can have all of your MP3s stuck somewhere, and then have links to them sorted into directories by different criteria. As long as confirmations for stuff like deletion prints the actual path, I don't see the problem.
At least from a personal perspective, I think that part of the incentive to donate is that if you're just over a tax bracket, you may be able to drop to a lower bracket.