There are other reasons you have to de-value currency as well... the main one being that the whole purpose of currency is to act as a representitive unit of someone's work product. Work product is not constant every day, the world produces more work. At the end of that day, somehow, somewhere, that work needs to be accounted for in the economy... and it will end up happening by creating more currency, via one method or another. When more currency is created, the value of all the existing currency is IMPLICITLY de-valued.
This is also why all "gold standard" currencies end up as nonsense... because gold is finite... at some point, it will all be gone... then what will you represent the next day of global labour with?
What I do not understand is why every single update in Firefox breaks at least one of my add-ons.
Chrome has no such problem - it updates CONSTANTLY and I have NEVER seen it break an add-on.
I don't know if this is because the Chrome add-on system is just better than Firefox's, or if it is because Chrome goes to an effort to maintain backward compatibility layers - all I know is this is a MAJOR reason I stopped using Firefox.
If Mozilla is not careful they are going to auto-update themselves out of existance... come on guys, you are supposed to be smart people, you can do better than whatever the current status-quo is with the addon system.
It seems like Google would be in a position to quickly nip problems like this in the bud. If they implemented whatever the checks these systems are doing on their search result page, 99% of those infected would know about it.
LFS is a great learning process that shows you exactly WHAT makes your Linux tick, and what packages depend on eachother. Anyone who uses Linux should do it at least once.
And really, it is not that difficult.. if you follow the guide it is very unlikely you will have problems. And on modern hardware the compile is very fast.
When Wine works well, it is far superior to running the app in a VM, for a number of reasons
- Performance - When an app runs well under Wine, it runs as fast as it does under Windows on the same machine, or sometimes it runs even faster. Running under a VM is never as fast as running native on the same hardware.
- Desktop integration - When an app is installed under Wine, it automatically integrates with your GNOME/KDE desktop... the application is available in the menu, same window manager, etc. Yes there are solutions for this under VMs like VMWare Fusion, but it is not as clean and frankly usually is buggy as all get out.
When an app runs in Wine well, I prefer to run it that way over a VM. VMs are much better though to be sure the app is running the exact way it was meant to run.
Theatres, restaurants, and other such buildings could easily solve this problem without jammers, simply by incorporating wire mesh into the walls of the theatre when they are built. This will block all radio signals in and out of that area without being illegal and without any jammers.
Add a well-marked emergency wired phone on the wall, and you are all set.
The incentive for me is to have proper control of my privacy settings and sane sharing defaults. Zuckerberg's whole "everyone should share their whole lives with the world" mantra just does not fit with me and that is why Facebook does not fit with me. I had 200+ friends on facebook and only a tiny fraction of that on G+ - yet I spend way more time on G+ than I ever did on Facebook.
Actually it is very arguable that in this day and age where families are routinely split across the country and routinely make regular flights, that this would end up violating the freedom of movement stipulations of the constitution. It is not reasonable to tell someone in New York that they are perfectly free to drive to California, but not fly.
So now you have the constitution in conflict with itself, and off to the supremes you go.
With HTML5 browsers, Google Docs works offline now. You don't have to worry about connectivity or Google going down when working on something critical. For al intents and purposes, it is an offline suite - so I fail to see why someone should not "trust Google Docs to run a business" any more than Microsoft Office.
Secondly - there is no "Gmail man" scanning your mail. It is just a computer. And if you think there is no simmilar algorithm analyzing your hotmail, yahoo mail, or nay other webmail - you have rocks in your heard. If it is really that big of a problem, then use IMAP, where you have no ads and thus no scanning.
Honey doesn't expire or go bad, so I don't know what you are going on about there. The only thing that can happen to honey is if it is exposed to air it can solidify, but you can always just re-heat it and use it again.
Microsoft is not stupid. The future of office is not on the desktop, it is in the cloud. This is why they made Office 365, which works on any modern web browser, including the iPad.
There is not need for a "native app" for an office suite. If anything, just do what 50% of developers already to and wrap the website in a "native app" UI so that it shows up on the appstore.
Why does Microsoft spend tens of millions of dollars on Trident when they could not just adopt Webkit like everyone else? Then their improvements would help EVERYONE.
I totally understand why Microsoft wants to have it's own browser in Windows. I *DO NOT*, nor will I ever, understand why it needs to have it's own ground-up rendering engine.
NIH syndrome is certainly the main culprit here, I have NO doubt.
... or some other system that has plausible deniability built in. You give them the fake password, it decrypts, the information is useless, and you are scott free.
- It is widely adopted among many providers - It does not share any of your information cross-site unless you allow it - It works
Why do we need yet another standard? I do not see anything in this article, on browserid.org, or anywhere else that breaks down why Browser ID is superior.
Also, I don't see Google Chrome adopting this, since Google backs OpenID, and I don't see Microsoft adopting it either. So really this is going to end up a Firefox only scheme that will never gain enough penetration to make sites want to go to the effort to implement it.
In an urban setting, guns are like fire extinquishers. They're something you hope you never need, but you should have one around anyways.
Ever think that there is something wrong with that concept?
Ever consider that the idea that if you should even feel the need to have a gun around in an urban setting, that there is something WRONG with your urban setting to begin with?
Posted from Canada, by someone who has never even touched a firearm, and is very proud of it.
People involved with IT who do not also have a development background like to drone on and on about "where are the updates", without realizing how much incredibly different IPv6 support means than IPv4. Aside from the protocol itself, you have to remember here that each and every address takes up FOUR TIMES as much memory.
When you are dealing with devices that are routing hundreds of thousands of packets per second, this is not a small change. Think of how many maps and tables and caches now have four times the memory footprint - now think about how thin the margins are on hardware costs. A lot of these devices can not get a simple firmware upgrade to support IPv6 because the hardware they are running on simply would not be able to handle it.
Even if you are talking about simple things like a document system , the IP stack is quite possibly implemented in hardware, not software, using 32 bit registers in key locations. You can't just swap 32 bits to 128 bits and expect everything to fit when you are talking about low-level devices like this.
I pay $4 for a lattee because I know that lattee will be good, or I will get them to re-make it on the spot. If I pay $4 for an app that turns out to be crap, I am mostly up shit creek with no paddle. Combine this with the fact that the app store is so full of noise that the peer review system is totally useless, and you see where I am going.
Cyanogen Mod 9 Alpha 11 is out now and is rock solid. Anyone who is comfortable installing their own custom ROMs should not hesitate to upgrade to ICS. I have been running ICS on my i9000 GalaxyS now for almost a month, and have had very few issues , and have had no issues at all since Build 10. All functions and features on the device (camera,audio,video,hardware acceleration,etc.) work flawlessly now. And the ICS features such as Face Unlock and panoramic / time lapse camera also work. There is no reason to wait for Samsung to get off their butt.
Did he make the account on his own laptop? Or the companies?
Did he use it on his own laptop, on his own time? Or did he use it on the companies laptop, on company time, to promote company product using a company internet connection?
This is totally true. California building codes would be totally useless in Chicago, where it is a lot more important that a building be able to withstand a raging blizzard at 30 below than it is an earthquake.
Buildings in California that are fully up to code, would likely not last a single winter in the north. For one thing the way you do footings for an earthquake zone is totally different than how you do them in a frost-prone zone, and if you are trying to plan for both then things get complicated.
The salary is just one factor of the cost of employment.
If the government hired all of these sub-contractors as employees, then they would all be members of various federal unions, and the government would then be on the hook for all those unions' juice benefit plans and pensions. Also they would be paying payroll tax for them all (yes the government has to pay tax too).
If all these costs were accounted for then the supposed gap would be much narrower or potentially even non-existent.
You can't have a national currency system that is simply a "form of exchange" because every day that passes, people do more work. They have to get paid, with something. Where does it come from? Inflation.
What you are saying is based on outdated assumptions. Today's analytical models can very easily tune out noise data and get to exactly the data you want.
Slashdot Mirror
What you are describing is one of the main features of Google flight search (the quick-scroll lowest fare bar chart).
You posting this makes me think you have not even looked at it at all.
There are other reasons you have to de-value currency as well... the main one being that the whole purpose of currency is to act as a representitive unit of someone's work product. Work product is not constant every day, the world produces more work. At the end of that day, somehow, somewhere, that work needs to be accounted for in the economy... and it will end up happening by creating more currency, via one method or another. When more currency is created, the value of all the existing currency is IMPLICITLY de-valued.
This is also why all "gold standard" currencies end up as nonsense... because gold is finite... at some point, it will all be gone... then what will you represent the next day of global labour with?
What I do not understand is why every single update in Firefox breaks at least one of my add-ons.
Chrome has no such problem - it updates CONSTANTLY and I have NEVER seen it break an add-on.
I don't know if this is because the Chrome add-on system is just better than Firefox's, or if it is because Chrome goes to an effort to maintain backward compatibility layers - all I know is this is a MAJOR reason I stopped using Firefox.
If Mozilla is not careful they are going to auto-update themselves out of existance... come on guys, you are supposed to be smart people, you can do better than whatever the current status-quo is with the addon system.
It seems like Google would be in a position to quickly nip problems like this in the bud. If they implemented whatever the checks these systems are doing on their search result page, 99% of those infected would know about it.
LFS is a great learning process that shows you exactly WHAT makes your Linux tick, and what packages depend on eachother. Anyone who uses Linux should do it at least once.
And really, it is not that difficult.. if you follow the guide it is very unlikely you will have problems. And on modern hardware the compile is very fast.
When Wine works well, it is far superior to running the app in a VM, for a number of reasons
- Performance - When an app runs well under Wine, it runs as fast as it does under Windows on the same machine, or sometimes it runs even faster. Running under a VM is never as fast as running native on the same hardware.
- Desktop integration - When an app is installed under Wine, it automatically integrates with your GNOME/KDE desktop... the application is available in the menu, same window manager, etc. Yes there are solutions for this under VMs like VMWare Fusion, but it is not as clean and frankly usually is buggy as all get out.
When an app runs in Wine well, I prefer to run it that way over a VM. VMs are much better though to be sure the app is running the exact way it was meant to run.
Theatres, restaurants, and other such buildings could easily solve this problem without jammers, simply by incorporating wire mesh into the walls of the theatre when they are built. This will block all radio signals in and out of that area without being illegal and without any jammers.
Add a well-marked emergency wired phone on the wall, and you are all set.
Google DOES allow everyone to opt out of everything, if you want you can most of their services nearly anonymous.
Try that with Facebook.
The incentive for me is to have proper control of my privacy settings and sane sharing defaults. Zuckerberg's whole "everyone should share their whole lives with the world" mantra just does not fit with me and that is why Facebook does not fit with me. I had 200+ friends on facebook and only a tiny fraction of that on G+ - yet I spend way more time on G+ than I ever did on Facebook.
Actually it is very arguable that in this day and age where families are routinely split across the country and routinely make regular flights, that this would end up violating the freedom of movement stipulations of the constitution. It is not reasonable to tell someone in New York that they are perfectly free to drive to California, but not fly.
So now you have the constitution in conflict with itself, and off to the supremes you go.
With HTML5 browsers, Google Docs works offline now. You don't have to worry about connectivity or Google going down when working on something critical. For al intents and purposes, it is an offline suite - so I fail to see why someone should not "trust Google Docs to run a business" any more than Microsoft Office.
Secondly - there is no "Gmail man" scanning your mail. It is just a computer. And if you think there is no simmilar algorithm analyzing your hotmail, yahoo mail, or nay other webmail - you have rocks in your heard. If it is really that big of a problem, then use IMAP, where you have no ads and thus no scanning.
Honey doesn't expire or go bad, so I don't know what you are going on about there. The only thing that can happen to honey is if it is exposed to air it can solidify, but you can always just re-heat it and use it again.
Microsoft is not stupid. The future of office is not on the desktop, it is in the cloud. This is why they made Office 365, which works on any modern web browser, including the iPad.
There is not need for a "native app" for an office suite. If anything, just do what 50% of developers already to and wrap the website in a "native app" UI so that it shows up on the appstore.
Why does Microsoft spend tens of millions of dollars on Trident when they could not just adopt Webkit like everyone else? Then their improvements would help EVERYONE.
I totally understand why Microsoft wants to have it's own browser in Windows. I *DO NOT*, nor will I ever, understand why it needs to have it's own ground-up rendering engine.
NIH syndrome is certainly the main culprit here, I have NO doubt.
... or some other system that has plausible deniability built in. You give them the fake password, it decrypts, the information is useless, and you are scott free.
- It is widely adopted among many providers
- It does not share any of your information cross-site unless you allow it
- It works
Why do we need yet another standard? I do not see anything in this article, on browserid.org, or anywhere else that breaks down why Browser ID is superior.
Also, I don't see Google Chrome adopting this, since Google backs OpenID, and I don't see Microsoft adopting it either. So really this is going to end up a Firefox only scheme that will never gain enough penetration to make sites want to go to the effort to implement it.
In an urban setting, guns are like fire extinquishers. They're something you hope you never need, but you should have one around anyways.
Ever think that there is something wrong with that concept?
Ever consider that the idea that if you should even feel the need to have a gun around in an urban setting, that there is something WRONG with your urban setting to begin with?
Posted from Canada, by someone who has never even touched a firearm, and is very proud of it.
People involved with IT who do not also have a development background like to drone on and on about "where are the updates", without realizing how much incredibly different IPv6 support means than IPv4. Aside from the protocol itself, you have to remember here that each and every address takes up FOUR TIMES as much memory.
When you are dealing with devices that are routing hundreds of thousands of packets per second, this is not a small change. Think of how many maps and tables and caches now have four times the memory footprint - now think about how thin the margins are on hardware costs. A lot of these devices can not get a simple firmware upgrade to support IPv6 because the hardware they are running on simply would not be able to handle it.
Even if you are talking about simple things like a document system , the IP stack is quite possibly implemented in hardware, not software, using 32 bit registers in key locations. You can't just swap 32 bits to 128 bits and expect everything to fit when you are talking about low-level devices like this.
I pay $4 for a lattee because I know that lattee will be good, or I will get them to re-make it on the spot. If I pay $4 for an app that turns out to be crap, I am mostly up shit creek with no paddle. Combine this with the fact that the app store is so full of noise that the peer review system is totally useless, and you see where I am going.
Cyanogen Mod 9 Alpha 11 is out now and is rock solid. Anyone who is comfortable installing their own custom ROMs should not hesitate to upgrade to ICS. I have been running ICS on my i9000 GalaxyS now for almost a month, and have had very few issues , and have had no issues at all since Build 10. All functions and features on the device (camera,audio,video,hardware acceleration,etc.) work flawlessly now. And the ICS features such as Face Unlock and panoramic / time lapse camera also work. There is no reason to wait for Samsung to get off their butt.
Did he make the account on his own laptop? Or the companies?
Did he use it on his own laptop, on his own time? Or did he use it on the companies laptop, on company time, to promote company product using a company internet connection?
This is totally true. California building codes would be totally useless in Chicago, where it is a lot more important that a building be able to withstand a raging blizzard at 30 below than it is an earthquake.
Buildings in California that are fully up to code, would likely not last a single winter in the north. For one thing the way you do footings for an earthquake zone is totally different than how you do them in a frost-prone zone, and if you are trying to plan for both then things get complicated.
The salary is just one factor of the cost of employment.
If the government hired all of these sub-contractors as employees, then they would all be members of various federal unions, and the government would then be on the hook for all those unions' juice benefit plans and pensions. Also they would be paying payroll tax for them all (yes the government has to pay tax too).
If all these costs were accounted for then the supposed gap would be much narrower or potentially even non-existent.
You can't have a national currency system that is simply a "form of exchange" because every day that passes, people do more work. They have to get paid, with something. Where does it come from? Inflation.
What you are saying is based on outdated assumptions. Today's analytical models can very easily tune out noise data and get to exactly the data you want.