I predict that the converters that are universally $50 now that the coupons are available will suddenly cost $10 within a month or two of the switch over. I am betting that the manufactures an retailers have concluded that $10 is what the consumer will pay for a converter. So, the funding for this ends up doing nothing for the general public.
I have a whole bunch of amazing quality items in my garage that you might want to buy. I know that those old Easter baskets don't look like much, but since I am going to charge you $50k each, they must be worth it, right? Oh, and that old pair of sneakers that smell kind of funny. You can be sure that you are going to get what you pay for when you pay me $75k for them.
Seriously. The "You get what you pay for." line is complete and utter BS. It is demonstrably false, and is almost exclusively repeated when someone is trying to overcharge for an item.
And a machine that was built with those 80's specs as it's goal would have cost $25 and made the OLPC look fragile. I can take my C64 in a joystick and literally throw it across the street and it will work fine, and it runs just fine off of 4 AA batteries.
This is part of the problem. At the same 24k starting salary, you were making WAY more than your non-teaching full time counterparts. You were making 24k part time. I've known plenty of teachers, and the myth that they work 60 hours a week for 73 weeks a year is just that, a myth. They are part time employees, yet people want to ignore that very relevant fact when talking about pay.
I realize that you are talking about the early 90's and New Orleans, but the data I have looked up is about today in California, so I will talk about that. Today in California, the average public school teacher's salary is 55k. While that isn't rich by any means, it is certainly a very reasonable salary level for a part time job. Remember, this isn't a MAX of 55k. It is an Average of the salaries that teachers make, so there are a ton of them that are making much more.
That case is a perfect example of why I say that ALL cops are "bad" cops. That it is just a question of whether they are just "bad" or "REALLY BAD". Even if the shooting itself wasn't a crime, what the police officers did following the shooting certainly was. It was absolutely clear that police officers committed crimes following the shooting. That means that every single officer that has jurisdiction to make an arrest in that area that does not make that arrest is an accomplice in those crimes.
While I could believe that there might be a few remote police districts with few enough officers that the ones there are not the ones actually committing the crimes, and thus are never faced with the choice of whether to get involved in a cover up or not, but those would be outliers at best.
Unfortunately, getting rid of the cops is not an option. One set of criminals that are pretending not to be is certainly better than the chaos and bloodshed we would have if they were not there. The only answer is for the population to wake up and start demanding that the law apply to the police with at least the same force that it does to other citizens. Even more unfortunately, this doesn't seem likely, as this particular case shows that even over the top police crimes like this, just don't outrage that many people.
The same thing they did recently when a cop shot a restrained BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) passenger. They would seize every cell phone that they could find calling it "evidence", and the CCTV cameras in the area would just happen to not be working. Of course, just like in the recent shooting, it might turn out a week later that one of the cctv cameras was working after all, as long as nothing incriminating can be seen from it's angle.
Overclocking is like tricking out your Honda Accord. It is a hobby in and of itself. It isn't a good idea for people who just want a computer that works well, just as constant modification to an Accord isn't a good idea for people that just want a reliable form of transportation. That doesn't mean that they are not perfectly reasonable hobbies. It just means that they are not hobbies for me, not hobbies for most people, and most people will think you are wasting your time because it is not their form of entertainment.
Personally, I have purchased a brand new homebrew Amiga clone within the last year, and have purchased 2 C64 clones within the last 5 years. I certainly know what it means to enjoy a hobby that the vast majority of people "don't get".
The biggest problem with overclocking for the masses is that if you don't enjoy the act of overclocking in and of itself, you can achieve better results through procrastination.
The OPs point is not valid. There are already multiple data lines going into most houses. So, the argument that the market can only support one data line going into a house is demonstrably false. The same goes for the engineering side of it. As for the fact that the laws restrict who can lay wire, that is exact the the opposite of a NATURAL monopoly. That is a government mandated monopoly. If it really were a natural monopoly, there wouldn't need to be laws to restrict it to a monopoly. It would happen without laws.
The problem is that only software is expected to be perfect. No other product the average person or business buys is expected to live up to even close to the quality that software is. Go walk through any brand new house. Look close. I know that I could find literally tens of thousands of "bugs". In fact, flaws in houses are so common that parts are now standard who's primary purpose is to hide the flaws, or make it look like the flaws are 'supposed to be there'. The same can be said of cars, books, furnature, food, etc. Mind you, the less complex an item is, the fewer flaws you will find, but it still comes down to the fact that people just accept flaws in virtually every product they buy. So, no, IBM did not invent the idea that errors are to be expected. That concept has existed long before IBM ever came around.
That has to be one of the most insightful posts that I have read in a long time. People like to throw this "Democracy" word around, and they clearly don't know what it means.
What this also tells us it that people want an honest to goodness real life physical copy of their media in professional packaging. We constantly hear how everything is going digital, and how the physical medium is dead. Personally, I have never, and will do my best to never "buy" a digital copy of media. I have given in on a couple of software applications, but those were only in programs that are updated often enough that a couple of months after receiving the media, it would already be an outdated version. For something like movies and music and games, I want to know that I can still use it when the company goes out of business, and if I have to do the manufacturing myself, I see no reason to pay.
I watch a LOT of movies, and I mean a LOT. Netflix has been my friend, and the Roku has been great. The vast majority of the movies suck, and while I will get mild enjoyment out of watching a bad movie, I will definitely not be watching them a second, third, or tenth time. The movies that I will be watching again and again, I buy on DVD. I have no interest what so ever to "buy" a download of them. I want packaging that I can put on my shelf and when I pass by and see it, it will remind me, "Oh, yeah, I think I want to watch that today." That just doesn't happen with downloaded movies and music. These numbers seem to show that I am not the only one who feels this way.
Since XP needs activation servers, our project is doomed to fail. DRM has large chunks of our current culture to be a dark age. I assume that this being a school, you are not going to illegally crack the DRM.
Your using different definitions of "needs". If the preacher is right, and there is a god, then everyone already has god. Whether they decide to utilize that resource is a different story. So your preacher is not saying everyone needs god to be in their home, as he already believes god is there. He is saying everyone must USE god.
The people here are saying that the broadband needs to be there for everyone. No one here is saying that you must use it. Just that most of the people will change their mind if it becomes available.
The guy hasn't even been president for a week. Most presidents are given 100 days before people start complaining that they are not doing enough. Seriously, you can't expect him to get anything done, the half day that he was inaugurated, and the it is safe to assume that his first full day is spent figuring out where a punch of stuff was put. I'm actually pleasantly surprised that we have something so soon. I particularly pleased that it is something good instead of something seriously bad.
I have found that a large part of the energy problem is that a suprisingly high percentage of the population doesn't know how electricity is made or what it is made from.
Honestly, that isn't fair. They won't start doing that to the current adults. They will just make it 'mandatory' for entrance into public schools, kind of like immunizations. Then it is just a matter of waiting for it to become universal.
Don't forget to factor in that ridiculously low price calculated for electricity. I know that we pay a lot for electricity here in CA, but is there anywhere in the country that they are paying $0.06/kwh?
The problem is that there are tones of once great companies that have increased profit in the short term, only to see itself whither later because of those decisions. There once was a time that you could buy anything from Sears. Heck, you could even buy your house from Sears, and many people did. No doubt that each time they made a change that caused long term damage, they also made short term profits. And what are we left with today. A big floundering clothes store that happens to sell some tools appliances and TVs. Just because people still send you money does not inherently mean that your business is sustainable. Of course, Sears has been riding its legacy for almost half a century now, so all is not lost, even if MS is floundering.
Honestly, the solution for Quicken or Photoshop isn't to have Wine on the system requirements. It is to fork Wine so that it is used only for their application. If general Wine upgrades can break their applications, they have a problem. On the other hand, if they can release QWine which is nothing more than a version of Wine that has been certified to properly run Quicken, they remove the risk that Quicken will fail to run when someone does an upgrade. This would also mean that while they could officially support a single distro like Ubuntu, they would not need to stop people from running on other distros.
Since QWine would be nothing more than a snapshot of Wine that has been certified to run Quicken, there would be virtually no development overhead for Intuit, and they wouldn't need to worry about the fact that it is GPL since there would be nothing to hide in QWine.
I know I have far more fear that my child will be arrested and excommunicated (what else can we call it) from society for doing nothing wrong than I have of any 'terrorist' blowing him up. The US/state/local governments are definitely more of a threat to him than the 'terrorist' and the 'internet pedophiles' by a wide margin.
That is ONE of the reasons that I chose to home school. Neither I, nor any school wants to pay the huge legal fees that would inevitably result from the lawsuits over the continuous violations of my kids civil rights. Our public orphanages..er... schools are well known to violate the civil rights of our youth.
Pretty much everybody is happier that my kid isn't in the system.
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I predict that the converters that are universally $50 now that the coupons are available will suddenly cost $10 within a month or two of the switch over. I am betting that the manufactures an retailers have concluded that $10 is what the consumer will pay for a converter. So, the funding for this ends up doing nothing for the general public.
Seriously, what he did was illegal, immoral, and just plain a bad idea. Apparently Gates still feels that the law doesn't apply to him.
You get what you pay for.
I have a whole bunch of amazing quality items in my garage that you might want to buy. I know that those old Easter baskets don't look like much, but since I am going to charge you $50k each, they must be worth it, right? Oh, and that old pair of sneakers that smell kind of funny. You can be sure that you are going to get what you pay for when you pay me $75k for them.
Seriously. The "You get what you pay for." line is complete and utter BS. It is demonstrably false, and is almost exclusively repeated when someone is trying to overcharge for an item.
And a machine that was built with those 80's specs as it's goal would have cost $25 and made the OLPC look fragile. I can take my C64 in a joystick and literally throw it across the street and it will work fine, and it runs just fine off of 4 AA batteries.
Seriously, a 20W CFL is no where near the output of a 100W incandescent. More like a 60W incandescent.
This is part of the problem. At the same 24k starting salary, you were making WAY more than your non-teaching full time counterparts. You were making 24k part time. I've known plenty of teachers, and the myth that they work 60 hours a week for 73 weeks a year is just that, a myth. They are part time employees, yet people want to ignore that very relevant fact when talking about pay.
I realize that you are talking about the early 90's and New Orleans, but the data I have looked up is about today in California, so I will talk about that. Today in California, the average public school teacher's salary is 55k. While that isn't rich by any means, it is certainly a very reasonable salary level for a part time job. Remember, this isn't a MAX of 55k. It is an Average of the salaries that teachers make, so there are a ton of them that are making much more.
That case is a perfect example of why I say that ALL cops are "bad" cops. That it is just a question of whether they are just "bad" or "REALLY BAD". Even if the shooting itself wasn't a crime, what the police officers did following the shooting certainly was. It was absolutely clear that police officers committed crimes following the shooting. That means that every single officer that has jurisdiction to make an arrest in that area that does not make that arrest is an accomplice in those crimes.
While I could believe that there might be a few remote police districts with few enough officers that the ones there are not the ones actually committing the crimes, and thus are never faced with the choice of whether to get involved in a cover up or not, but those would be outliers at best.
Unfortunately, getting rid of the cops is not an option. One set of criminals that are pretending not to be is certainly better than the chaos and bloodshed we would have if they were not there. The only answer is for the population to wake up and start demanding that the law apply to the police with at least the same force that it does to other citizens. Even more unfortunately, this doesn't seem likely, as this particular case shows that even over the top police crimes like this, just don't outrage that many people.
The same thing they did recently when a cop shot a restrained BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) passenger. They would seize every cell phone that they could find calling it "evidence", and the CCTV cameras in the area would just happen to not be working. Of course, just like in the recent shooting, it might turn out a week later that one of the cctv cameras was working after all, as long as nothing incriminating can be seen from it's angle.
Overclocking is like tricking out your Honda Accord. It is a hobby in and of itself. It isn't a good idea for people who just want a computer that works well, just as constant modification to an Accord isn't a good idea for people that just want a reliable form of transportation. That doesn't mean that they are not perfectly reasonable hobbies. It just means that they are not hobbies for me, not hobbies for most people, and most people will think you are wasting your time because it is not their form of entertainment.
Personally, I have purchased a brand new homebrew Amiga clone within the last year, and have purchased 2 C64 clones within the last 5 years. I certainly know what it means to enjoy a hobby that the vast majority of people "don't get".
The biggest problem with overclocking for the masses is that if you don't enjoy the act of overclocking in and of itself, you can achieve better results through procrastination.
The OPs point is not valid. There are already multiple data lines going into most houses. So, the argument that the market can only support one data line going into a house is demonstrably false. The same goes for the engineering side of it. As for the fact that the laws restrict who can lay wire, that is exact the the opposite of a NATURAL monopoly. That is a government mandated monopoly. If it really were a natural monopoly, there wouldn't need to be laws to restrict it to a monopoly. It would happen without laws.
Telecom is NOT a natural monopoly.
The problem is that only software is expected to be perfect. No other product the average person or business buys is expected to live up to even close to the quality that software is. Go walk through any brand new house. Look close. I know that I could find literally tens of thousands of "bugs". In fact, flaws in houses are so common that parts are now standard who's primary purpose is to hide the flaws, or make it look like the flaws are 'supposed to be there'. The same can be said of cars, books, furnature, food, etc. Mind you, the less complex an item is, the fewer flaws you will find, but it still comes down to the fact that people just accept flaws in virtually every product they buy. So, no, IBM did not invent the idea that errors are to be expected. That concept has existed long before IBM ever came around.
That has to be one of the most insightful posts that I have read in a long time. People like to throw this "Democracy" word around, and they clearly don't know what it means.
What this also tells us it that people want an honest to goodness real life physical copy of their media in professional packaging. We constantly hear how everything is going digital, and how the physical medium is dead. Personally, I have never, and will do my best to never "buy" a digital copy of media. I have given in on a couple of software applications, but those were only in programs that are updated often enough that a couple of months after receiving the media, it would already be an outdated version. For something like movies and music and games, I want to know that I can still use it when the company goes out of business, and if I have to do the manufacturing myself, I see no reason to pay.
I watch a LOT of movies, and I mean a LOT. Netflix has been my friend, and the Roku has been great. The vast majority of the movies suck, and while I will get mild enjoyment out of watching a bad movie, I will definitely not be watching them a second, third, or tenth time. The movies that I will be watching again and again, I buy on DVD. I have no interest what so ever to "buy" a download of them. I want packaging that I can put on my shelf and when I pass by and see it, it will remind me, "Oh, yeah, I think I want to watch that today." That just doesn't happen with downloaded movies and music. These numbers seem to show that I am not the only one who feels this way.
Since XP needs activation servers, our project is doomed to fail. DRM has large chunks of our current culture to be a dark age. I assume that this being a school, you are not going to illegally crack the DRM.
Your using different definitions of "needs". If the preacher is right, and there is a god, then everyone already has god. Whether they decide to utilize that resource is a different story. So your preacher is not saying everyone needs god to be in their home, as he already believes god is there. He is saying everyone must USE god.
The people here are saying that the broadband needs to be there for everyone. No one here is saying that you must use it. Just that most of the people will change their mind if it becomes available.
3. Find me a computer that can use a RAM drive that can be persistent through reboots without having to save the contents to something else.
That would be any computer running Amiga OS4.
The guy hasn't even been president for a week. Most presidents are given 100 days before people start complaining that they are not doing enough. Seriously, you can't expect him to get anything done, the half day that he was inaugurated, and the it is safe to assume that his first full day is spent figuring out where a punch of stuff was put. I'm actually pleasantly surprised that we have something so soon. I particularly pleased that it is something good instead of something seriously bad.
I have found that a large part of the energy problem is that a suprisingly high percentage of the population doesn't know how electricity is made or what it is made from.
Honestly, that isn't fair. They won't start doing that to the current adults. They will just make it 'mandatory' for entrance into public schools, kind of like immunizations. Then it is just a matter of waiting for it to become universal.
Don't forget to factor in that ridiculously low price calculated for electricity. I know that we pay a lot for electricity here in CA, but is there anywhere in the country that they are paying $0.06 /kwh?
The problem is that there are tones of once great companies that have increased profit in the short term, only to see itself whither later because of those decisions. There once was a time that you could buy anything from Sears. Heck, you could even buy your house from Sears, and many people did. No doubt that each time they made a change that caused long term damage, they also made short term profits. And what are we left with today. A big floundering clothes store that happens to sell some tools appliances and TVs. Just because people still send you money does not inherently mean that your business is sustainable. Of course, Sears has been riding its legacy for almost half a century now, so all is not lost, even if MS is floundering.
Honestly, the solution for Quicken or Photoshop isn't to have Wine on the system requirements. It is to fork Wine so that it is used only for their application. If general Wine upgrades can break their applications, they have a problem. On the other hand, if they can release QWine which is nothing more than a version of Wine that has been certified to properly run Quicken, they remove the risk that Quicken will fail to run when someone does an upgrade. This would also mean that while they could officially support a single distro like Ubuntu, they would not need to stop people from running on other distros.
Since QWine would be nothing more than a snapshot of Wine that has been certified to run Quicken, there would be virtually no development overhead for Intuit, and they wouldn't need to worry about the fact that it is GPL since there would be nothing to hide in QWine.
I know I have far more fear that my child will be arrested and excommunicated (what else can we call it) from society for doing nothing wrong than I have of any 'terrorist' blowing him up. The US/state/local governments are definitely more of a threat to him than the 'terrorist' and the 'internet pedophiles' by a wide margin.
That is ONE of the reasons that I chose to home school. Neither I, nor any school wants to pay the huge legal fees that would inevitably result from the lawsuits over the continuous violations of my kids civil rights. Our public orphanages..er... schools are well known to violate the civil rights of our youth.
Pretty much everybody is happier that my kid isn't in the system.