He's right. As a CTO he knows how important it is to make sure that information is delivered as correctly and as quickly as possible to a user. He's just stating that the Dell website doesn't follow his principle.
While your solution is indeed correct, that is not the point he was making.
Yeah that's great, especially in one of the following cases:
You die before you get to harvest the gains of your investments
The value of your money takes a huge blow and your 3000 dollar + interest can't even buy you a loaf of bread
You get ill when you're 30 and you keep wishing for the rest of your life you had spent your money on sex, drugs and rock&roll. (Or girls and fast cars if you'd like).
Not to say that you don't have a point, I'm just saying everybody should make the make choice for themselves.
PS: as others have said, where the hell are you going to get 3000$ a year when you're 15-18 years old?
I am right with you right up to the point where you say:
"Of course, this does pose a problem: currently, we're using up resources on a grand scale. And if our population growth continues as the average consumption of individuals go up, we may end up seeing a problem with a shortage of resources. This will cause prices for items to go up, which means that the increased salaries will have decreased worth (this is pretty much the case now in the US: you can live like a king in Beijing on $20,000 but in New York you'd barely be scraping by)."
I have heard of a bet about fossil fuel shortages: one person stated that fuel would run out somewhere in the nineties and prices would be really high and to expensive for normal people to buy. The other said it wouldn't be like that. Now, the first person was pretty sure of himself and his calculations and they placed a bet.
Turns out, prices didn't change so the first person lost the bet to which he replied "Yeah, but there were some advances in the use of fuel and technology. To which the winner replied: yeah, that was my point all along.
So, while you may be correct (I wouldn't know for a fact that what you are telling is actually correct, although I do find it a plausible explanation). The assumption you make is faulty. Because of technological advances and new processes (and shifts in type of labor, and inputs in general) companies will be able to produce at a (relatively) lower cost than under your assumption. Furthermore, people will work in new industries, which requires labor-intensive processes as well and in those new industries, the same scenario you described will occur.
In this way, constant growth (which you say is needed for "capitalism") is stil assured.
Please excuse me for any spelling and other errors, since it's pretty late overhere and I am dead tired
While this correct, but there are (at least here in Belgium, and I assume in a lot of other (free;) ) countries too) reasons why a contract is void.
For example, a contract isn't legally binding, when you sign it if you are drunk (unless you say later on that you actually agree with the terms in the contract, then it's binding). The reason for this is, that when somebody gets you drunk and lets you sign a contract, you can't possible be forced to do things you don't want. If however, you afterwards think that it's a good contract, you have a valid agreement.
Furthermore, a contract isn't legally binding if you are forced to sign it. (Either by violence, or psychological means or whatever). Let it be clear that IANAL, but I would consider buying a version of Photoshop for let's say 2000$ a way to force you to accept the agreement, if you cannot get a refund from the store/producer.
On a sidenote, you can't get drunk and then click the EULA, because that would be abusing your rights, which is also punishable here in Belgium
On the other hand, if you buy the game, and you agree to the EULA (be it one time, or every time), I don't think you can feel "forced" to click it. Even more, by paying the monthly fee (this concerns MMORPGs afterall) you actually proof everytime that you agree to the terms of service. So whilst the article is probably mostly correct, I find it disappointing that it doesn't go into further details on the contract law.
You are correct, but as the article also suggests, it's easier to put page-information (like the borders and sizes for A4, A3, letter,...) in the standard, then actually define an entire set in your "style" file.
Both have their merits, and the point of the auther was just to point out that CSS does have its purpose
Concidernig the huge trade deficit the US is facing, I think that wat the grandparent said, might very well be true. The euro might lose value to other currencies (like the yen), but it is very unlikely (not impossible though) that the confidence in the US (that's one of the main reasons the USD has had such a high value) will stay the same. Once people will start using the euro as a "standard", confidence in the USD will fall and it will keep losing value.
I think you mean "which could allow them to make more money". It all depends on the buyers' willingness to pay (i.e. the demand curve). If you price-discriminate you should carefully pick your prices, because if you pick them the wrong way, you might end up worse. Furthermore, if there is more profit (producer surplus) for the company, this still has to make up for the cost of region encoding their cartridges. Not to mention copy-protection schemes, because people will probably hack the printers anyway. What's stopping me from buying a printer overseas (got to love the cheap dollar) and ordering cartridges for me and my friends? One of the requirements of price-discrimination is that you have to make sure your customers can't "resell" to people with a higher willingness to pay. My friend in the US buying a printer for me and then selling it with a little surplus for his own, might very well be cheaper than buying a printer here in the EU.
So all in all, I don't think this is a good idea from HP. Even if the price-discrimination allows them to make more profit, this still has to cover for the extra cost of the encoding, protection schemes and making sure the printer doesn't work outside of its region.
As a side-note, they can't actually create different connections for pc's, because that would make them sale less, and I don't think power cords and stuff will make such a big difference.
Although I wouldn't call this a study. In a study you would also highlight (or at least mention) some of the disadvantages. P2P is se isn't perfect, it might needs some corrections. I like your idea, and as you will probably reply to my post, it's up to people to adress these disadvantages and come up with solution. Still, doing a "study" or a "project" without naming the possible disadvantages, seems more like astroturfing et al. than actually contributing to the subject. I will now go on and read the pages:).
My apologies if you actually did insert some limitations, but the blurb doesn't mention any, and as any other/. reader, I reply without reading TFA:)
Not to be rude or anything, but do you have facts to back that up? You say: "but tying them to each other such that using one means you almost have to have the other is indeed illegal." (emphasis mine).
I don't think "almost" will get you very far in court. Furthermore, this is just a case of "tie-in sales", I don't think it is "vendor lock-in". The former could be found illegal in the US (Clayton Act) if it would seem that you have to much market power. Studies have proven (F.M. Scherer et al.) that if you don't have (a lot of) market power (to be determined by the court) you can actually get away with tie-in sales.
Some experts have predicted that once China has embraced IPv6, Western countries that wish to do business with Asia will have to upgrade their own networks.
There is actually some truth in this, and might increase the accepetance rate. Same thing is happening to governments using OOo file formats is all, but at a smaller scale.
However, the other article said that it is backward compatible with ipv4, are they using some kind of NAT then, or is it just backward compatible in the sense that the Chinese network can read of ipv4 networks.
Another critique is that, whilst this network uses ipv6, it is mainly used to connect university networks, therefore, business won't be as much pushed to adopt ipv6, hence the article...
As said in other postings, you are changing the subject of your agreement "tv becomes bottle of soda" and even if you were right about the fact that you make a counter-offer, I highly doubt that a cashier can legally bind the store and therfore you contract would be void. (At least, that's how it is here in Belgium)
Me too, I guess using Gentoo wasn't such a good idea afterall (Yeah, it's meant to be a joke, if you don't like it, don't laugh en just ignore it. And no, I'm not a gentoo user)
While this might be a good idea, it's easy to expolit the system. Suppose I sell cheap BertCola and I don't want people to see ads for CheapCola via google, I could just write a "virus" that fake-clicks on the CheapCola ads and get them thrown out of the system.
1 Click per IP, well yeah, but what about proxies and stuff?
Have you read the moderator guidelines yet?(sic) I know it bugs you all the time, but the purpose of moderation is actually to create a good discussion.
I can understand why the parent gets modded insightful, the guy (an AC btw) makes some good points, put he really ought to work on his way of presenting this ideas.
So please, if you have some mod points (now or in the future) please mod posts like the parent one down.
Quality in business comes from many different people in any given project.
While this might be true in some (a lot of) cases, I would argue that QUality in business comes from right decisions. A manager that makes "the" right decision doesn't need to listen to his staff. (It's probably always better to do so, but still, you can't force him).
However, if a manager doesn't know a lot about the subject he has to decide on, chances of taking a (close to) optimal decision decrease. That's why managers should listen to their programmers. imho
Note: I use "the" right decision, because there isn't always a "keep everyone happy" solution.
I know this is slashdot and we're not supposed to even remotely like MS & stuff.
But just maybe, this might be logical, if you have to update everyone about a glitch in your software then that would take time*. If everyone starts to download patches at the same time you just might get slow downloads
It would be a Bad Thing for MS if their premium customers were the last ones to be notified (as in, turn the story around) or had to wait just as long as some John Doe who copied Windows, to get a patch or download it at some lame speed.
What I personnaly like, is the fact that you can actually write it in asm or a higher language language, while I haven't got enough time, I can think of some people who'd enjoy writing a little interpreter for, let's say, perl to handle the syntax and then run the asm file through the assembler.
I always thought these kind of things were great, reminds of me of gridwars and stuff
response improved 100% procent,
time wasn't reduced 100%
i guess time was reduced 50%, however it's still early, so you can brag with numbers if you know better:)
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He's right. As a CTO he knows how important it is to make sure that information is delivered as correctly and as quickly as possible to a user. He's just stating that the Dell website doesn't follow his principle.
While your solution is indeed correct, that is not the point he was making.
Not to say that you don't have a point, I'm just saying everybody should make the make choice for themselves.
PS: as others have said, where the hell are you going to get 3000$ a year when you're 15-18 years old?
According to dictionary.com:
cruel
"Of course, this does pose a problem: currently, we're using up resources on a grand scale. And if our population growth continues as the average consumption of individuals go up, we may end up seeing a problem with a shortage of resources. This will cause prices for items to go up, which means that the increased salaries will have decreased worth (this is pretty much the case now in the US: you can live like a king in Beijing on $20,000 but in New York you'd barely be scraping by)."
I have heard of a bet about fossil fuel shortages: one person stated that fuel would run out somewhere in the nineties and prices would be really high and to expensive for normal people to buy. The other said it wouldn't be like that. Now, the first person was pretty sure of himself and his calculations and they placed a bet.
Turns out, prices didn't change so the first person lost the bet to which he replied "Yeah, but there were some advances in the use of fuel and technology. To which the winner replied: yeah, that was my point all along.
So, while you may be correct (I wouldn't know for a fact that what you are telling is actually correct, although I do find it a plausible explanation). The assumption you make is faulty. Because of technological advances and new processes (and shifts in type of labor, and inputs in general) companies will be able to produce at a (relatively) lower cost than under your assumption. Furthermore, people will work in new industries, which requires labor-intensive processes as well and in those new industries, the same scenario you described will occur.
In this way, constant growth (which you say is needed for "capitalism") is stil assured.
Please excuse me for any spelling and other errors, since it's pretty late overhere and I am dead tired
For example, a contract isn't legally binding, when you sign it if you are drunk (unless you say later on that you actually agree with the terms in the contract, then it's binding). The reason for this is, that when somebody gets you drunk and lets you sign a contract, you can't possible be forced to do things you don't want. If however, you afterwards think that it's a good contract, you have a valid agreement.
Furthermore, a contract isn't legally binding if you are forced to sign it. (Either by violence, or psychological means or whatever). Let it be clear that IANAL, but I would consider buying a version of Photoshop for let's say 2000$ a way to force you to accept the agreement, if you cannot get a refund from the store/producer.
On a sidenote, you can't get drunk and then click the EULA, because that would be abusing your rights, which is also punishable here in Belgium
On the other hand, if you buy the game, and you agree to the EULA (be it one time, or every time), I don't think you can feel "forced" to click it. Even more, by paying the monthly fee (this concerns MMORPGs afterall) you actually proof everytime that you agree to the terms of service. So whilst the article is probably mostly correct, I find it disappointing that it doesn't go into further details on the contract law.
Both have their merits, and the point of the auther was just to point out that CSS does have its purpose
Concidernig the huge trade deficit the US is facing, I think that wat the grandparent said, might very well be true. The euro might lose value to other currencies (like the yen), but it is very unlikely (not impossible though) that the confidence in the US (that's one of the main reasons the USD has had such a high value) will stay the same. Once people will start using the euro as a "standard", confidence in the USD will fall and it will keep losing value.
So all in all, I don't think this is a good idea from HP. Even if the price-discrimination allows them to make more profit, this still has to cover for the extra cost of the encoding, protection schemes and making sure the printer doesn't work outside of its region.
As a side-note, they can't actually create different connections for pc's, because that would make them sale less, and I don't think power cords and stuff will make such a big difference.
My apologies if you actually did insert some limitations, but the blurb doesn't mention any, and as any other /. reader, I reply without reading TFA :)
Okay, thanks for the explanation :)
I don't think "almost" will get you very far in court. Furthermore, this is just a case of "tie-in sales", I don't think it is "vendor lock-in". The former could be found illegal in the US (Clayton Act) if it would seem that you have to much market power. Studies have proven (F.M. Scherer et al.) that if you don't have (a lot of) market power (to be determined by the court) you can actually get away with tie-in sales.
Some experts have predicted that once China has embraced IPv6, Western countries that wish to do business with Asia will have to upgrade their own networks.
There is actually some truth in this, and might increase the accepetance rate. Same thing is happening to governments using OOo file formats is all, but at a smaller scale.
However, the other article said that it is backward compatible with ipv4, are they using some kind of NAT then, or is it just backward compatible in the sense that the Chinese network can read of ipv4 networks.
Another critique is that, whilst this network uses ipv6, it is mainly used to connect university networks, therefore, business won't be as much pushed to adopt ipv6, hence the article...
As said in other postings, you are changing the subject of your agreement "tv becomes bottle of soda" and even if you were right about the fact that you make a counter-offer, I highly doubt that a cashier can legally bind the store and therfore you contract would be void. (At least, that's how it is here in Belgium)
Me too, I guess using Gentoo wasn't such a good idea afterall (Yeah, it's meant to be a joke, if you don't like it, don't laugh en just ignore it. And no, I'm not a gentoo user)
1 Click per IP, well yeah, but what about proxies and stuff?
Have you read the moderator guidelines yet?(sic) I know it bugs you all the time, but the purpose of moderation is actually to create a good discussion.
I can understand why the parent gets modded insightful, the guy (an AC btw) makes some good points, put he really ought to work on his way of presenting this ideas.
So please, if you have some mod points (now or in the future) please mod posts like the parent one down.
Thanks in advance
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and of course
5)Profit!
While this might be true in some (a lot of) cases, I would argue that QUality in business comes from right decisions. A manager that makes "the" right decision doesn't need to listen to his staff. (It's probably always better to do so, but still, you can't force him).
However, if a manager doesn't know a lot about the subject he has to decide on, chances of taking a (close to) optimal decision decrease. That's why managers should listen to their programmers. imho
Note: I use "the" right decision, because there isn't always a "keep everyone happy" solution.
But just maybe, this might be logical, if you have to update everyone about a glitch in your software then that would take time*. If everyone starts to download patches at the same time you just might get slow downloads
It would be a Bad Thing for MS if their premium customers were the last ones to be notified (as in, turn the story around) or had to wait just as long as some John Doe who copied Windows, to get a patch or download it at some lame speed.
This is just economics, nothing to see here
*Especially if bugs are your business
I always thought these kind of things were great, reminds of me of gridwars and stuff
You mean the US pradtice politics? Good Lord!! (This is meant as a joke, not flamebait)
My bad I guess...
I am new here, can you tell?
response improved 100% procent, time wasn't reduced 100% i guess time was reduced 50%, however it's still early, so you can brag with numbers if you know better :)
Yeah, the non-registration link really tells me a lot more than the blurb... or not ...
them evil registrations...