When SS was created it was during the time of FDR's new deal. Few would argue that it didn't work at that time.
In purely economic terms it is a good idea to have as large as possible a class of people who are economically active, i.e. have income and spend it, rather than a class of very rich people and another one of very poor ones, as was the case until into the 20th century, which gave us revolutions and wars galore.
What you suggest would likely create more than temporary pain. It would take a great deal of skill and education to avoid returning to 19th century economics and their robber barons.
Reaganomics and neocon economics create their own share of problems. For instance debt repayment is now over 9% of the Federal budget. I don't think this is sustainable either.
The first death were the three for Apollo I and the three near misses for Apollo XIII. There is a case to be made for Apollo to be the worst NASA program until the Shuttle. Mercury and Gemini were both incident free with plenty of people sent to orbit.
There was one failure in the Apollo program before XI: Appolo I with an electrical fire on board during a test, that killed all 3 astronauts. After that VII, VIII, IX and X were incident free, as well as XI and XII. XIII had a major problem but made it back home. Until XVII and the cancellation of the program there was no more incident.
Hang on, I personnally know a sexy hacker chick, not doing kung fu but Aikido, which is almost as good. She was dating construction workers though, lending some strength to your argument.
That is very nicely put. In other cultures there is the notion of "public service" where people working in state jobs do their best to actually serve the public. This is the case in various parts of Europe but I've also found it in Australia and New Zealand.
Amazingly some people can be really productive if you let them do what they like (and what they are good at) doing. Witness just about any number of scientists.
Also at top universities there is huge competition and pressure to deliver world-quality research and results both within and without.
Why would the road owner have an incentive to make the traffic faster? Assuming they pay themselves on toll, throughput and speed are two different concepts, and for the owner only the former is important. Also note that the owner of a road has a perfect monopoly on that one road and can do whatever they wish.
Just like perfect communism, your system is an ideal that cannot be attained. In fact perfect communism and perfect free market system are exactly the same.
You are being disingenuous at best. Are your roads in order, is the traffic calm and orderly? Do you have electricity in your home? Are you being raided by armed bandits? what about clean water, can you drink the water coming out of your faucet? What about the mail, is it being delivered?
Need I go on? You are suggesting local, state and federal government do nothing.
There is nothing in your post that doesn't speak of luxury. You can perfecty survive without any and all of your examples.
The era of the cheap convenient individual oil-powered car may soon be over. It's not a question of making you give it up, you will make that choice yourself willingly, when the gallon of petrol exceeds $50, and when you lose your job thanks to the recession. Next year.
I guess it is a testament to Xian-Jin Li excellent reputation and the importance of the topic that these two mathematical superstars took the time to look at his proof.
This is a very nice article, freely available to boot. However this is not the end of the story. Connectivity was discovered throught DT-MRI, essentially today yields an orientation tensor at each voxel. At present DT-MRI is really low resolution. There is quite a bunch of guesswork in the final result.
The puzzle isn't as simple as this. For a start one needs to understand analytic continuation as the usual formula for Zeta does not hold for arbitrary complex numbers.
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1TB of data costs $150 a *month* through S3 just sitting there. I would not call that cheap.
And the IBM-PCs were not proprietary how? They were reverse-engineered, exploiting a intellectual property loophole, by Compaq (now HP).
Had BG and MS not been there at the right time, we would have had CPM-86 instead, everything as horrid and capable as DOS 1.0, and just as licensable to everybody. Not much would have changed. IBM could even have decided to licence USCD-Pascal as the OS and we would have had a high-level language, a virtual machine and a preemptive multitasking O/S in consumer PCs in 1981! Java-like concepts almost 20 years ahead of their time.
Like you write, it is the competition in the hardware place that drove the prices down. MS contribution in that domain is close to zero unless you count mice and keyboard as important.
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When SS was created it was during the time of FDR's new deal. Few would argue that it didn't work at that time.
In purely economic terms it is a good idea to have as large as possible a class of people who are economically active, i.e. have income and spend it, rather than a class of very rich people and another one of very poor ones, as was the case until into the 20th century, which gave us revolutions and wars galore.
What you suggest would likely create more than temporary pain. It would take a great deal of skill and education to avoid returning to 19th century economics and their robber barons.
Reaganomics and neocon economics create their own share of problems. For instance debt repayment is now over 9% of the Federal budget. I don't think this is sustainable either.
The first death were the three for Apollo I and the three near misses for Apollo XIII. There is a case to be made for Apollo to be the worst NASA program until the Shuttle. Mercury and Gemini were both incident free with plenty of people sent to orbit.
There was one failure in the Apollo program before XI: Appolo I with an electrical fire on board during a test, that killed all 3 astronauts. After that VII, VIII, IX and X were incident free, as well as XI and XII. XIII had a major problem but made it back home. Until XVII and the cancellation of the program there was no more incident.
These days it seems the Chinese gov. have a crackdown on just about everything. The people of Beijin are going to be so relieved after the Olympics.
Really?
You can do whatever you want on Slashdot. The worst that can happen is getting a bad moderation. So what?
Even worse, Francium.
Even worse : Francium
Yes. Manufacturing now represents less than 11% of jobs in the US.
Even in the presence of an encrypted disk ? Brute force it might take a while...
very good :-)
Hang on, I personnally know a sexy hacker chick, not doing kung fu but Aikido, which is almost as good. She was dating construction workers though, lending some strength to your argument.
That is very nicely put. In other cultures there is the notion of "public service" where people working in state jobs do their best to actually serve the public. This is the case in various parts of Europe but I've also found it in Australia and New Zealand.
Amazingly some people can be really productive if you let them do what they like (and what they are good at) doing. Witness just about any number of scientists.
Also at top universities there is huge competition and pressure to deliver world-quality research and results both within and without.
Why would the road owner have an incentive to make the traffic faster? Assuming they pay themselves on toll, throughput and speed are two different concepts, and for the owner only the former is important. Also note that the owner of a road has a perfect monopoly on that one road and can do whatever they wish.
Just like perfect communism, your system is an ideal that cannot be attained. In fact perfect communism and perfect free market system are exactly the same.
That's not what he wrote. He wrote that *after* the computerized payroll was done, he could do in 2h what would have required him a full day before.
You are being disingenuous at best. Are your roads in order, is the traffic calm and orderly? Do you have electricity in your home? Are you being raided by armed bandits? what about clean water, can you drink the water coming out of your faucet? What about the mail, is it being delivered?
Need I go on? You are suggesting local, state and federal government do nothing.
Aluminum is also light.
This might be of interest to you
There is nothing in your post that doesn't speak of luxury. You can perfecty survive without any and all of your examples.
The era of the cheap convenient individual oil-powered car may soon be over. It's not a question of making you give it up, you will make that choice yourself willingly, when the gallon of petrol exceeds $50, and when you lose your job thanks to the recession. Next year.
Just wanted to point out that Professor Connes is also a Fields medalist (1982).
I guess it is a testament to Xian-Jin Li excellent reputation and the importance of the topic that these two mathematical superstars took the time to look at his proof.
This is a very nice article, freely available to boot. However this is not the end of the story. Connectivity was discovered throught DT-MRI, essentially today yields an orientation tensor at each voxel. At present DT-MRI is really low resolution. There is quite a bunch of guesswork in the final result.
The puzzle isn't as simple as this. For a start one needs to understand analytic continuation as the usual formula for Zeta does not hold for arbitrary complex numbers.
1TB of data costs $150 a *month* through S3 just sitting there. I would not call that cheap.
Read the LA times article the parent talks about please, this is indeed both very interesting and a cause for despair.
Essentially the B&MG foundation is doing more harm than good, it seems.
And the IBM-PCs were not proprietary how? They were reverse-engineered, exploiting a intellectual property loophole, by Compaq (now HP).
Had BG and MS not been there at the right time, we would have had CPM-86 instead, everything as horrid and capable as DOS 1.0, and just as licensable to everybody. Not much would have changed. IBM could even have decided to licence USCD-Pascal as the OS and we would have had a high-level language, a virtual machine and a preemptive multitasking O/S in consumer PCs in 1981! Java-like concepts almost 20 years ahead of their time.
Like you write, it is the competition in the hardware place that drove the prices down. MS contribution in that domain is close to zero unless you count mice and keyboard as important.