Yeah, and a little more than a year ago, Lehman Brothers collapsed, (etc.) and we just finished the regulation to prevent 'Too Big to Fail' again. Except it doesn't go far enough, and 'Too Big to Fail' CAN happen again.
I am not an economist, but I understand they dislike uncertainty, along with the financial markets. But if Wall Streets lobbyists can keep skewing regulation like they do, the markets are inherently unstable, and uncertainty exists.
Why do I feel like when we're assessing BP's cleanup efforts, well-paid lobbyists will have successfully lowered damage awards, and everyone not reaping the rewards of BP stock ownership, will have suffered more? Perhaps my fear is warranted.
Wait, I heard about this. It's called Reaganomics. But maybe the kids have a new name for it these days, what do I know?
I am not an economist, not really; but I think it goes something like this: Smaller government is good, and the free sector can best self-regulate, and grow. As a result, great wealth is possible to accumulate, and it will naturally be dispersed across the community, and economy.
And that is exactly what we have here. A very large, profitable, and dare I say efficient company, well except in safety perhaps. But they are very profitable for their shareholders, and the wealth grows and gets passed around.
Oh dear, I hope this will not be misconstrued as an argument for wealth-distribution, when I really want is more regulation and accountability. And penalties imposed by the government, not penalties imposed by BP on the environment and everything pertaining to it. Big Polluters (BP) should PAY, and if they went under and the cost of energy rose, I see that as a good thing.
Another name for Reaganomics was the 'trickle-down' theory. Of course that's a slight misnomer, because it is difficult to get that stuff back down there at all, but I digress.
As a result of BP's growth and success over the years, now wealth is being transferred to a new, emerging sector of the economy, and thousands of smaller entrepeneurs engage in the clean up effort, lawsuits, etc. As a result of BP's largess, new smaller oil collection and recycling companies will grow; (nevermind they used to shrimp).
Just put your trust in the markets. Free-market economics can overcome civilization, because its more powerful.
Personally, if it means the price of oil is increased, I say OK, because then people will then use less.
[some things I wrote in sarcasm folks]
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NY Times:
...an important force behind this upheaval is a small Kenyan-born organization called Ushahidi, which has become a hero of the Haitian and Chilean earthquakes and which may have something larger to tell us about the future of humanitarianism, innovation and the nature of what we label as truth.
Not to argue against your very strong valid points, however I would like to remind you of the seemingly similar high odds of super-market checkout scanners being adopted, everywhere, within a reasonable amount of time.
upgrading to Lucid (10.04), going back to Karmic? (I assume this one...)
Ah. Thanks for requesting clarity. I told my accountant I never wanted to see that Dell again, and if he upgraded to 10.4 Lucid (thx!) not to bring it back to me. Although as someone else posted, maybe there is an answer after all.
btw, that Dell from Hell has 1Gb RAM soldered on the mobo; no upgrade is possible although it runs ok w/ Ubuntu. And opening and closing the gawdaful case to learn that much, ouch. I upgraded my Asus Eee with 2Gb quick, easy, & cheap.
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Word of warning friend. Check to see if your unit has Poulsbo graphics. If it does, like my accountant's Dell Mini 10 From Hell, I could only manage to compile the graphics driver from this script, below. And this must be re-done every time my accountant overwrites the compiled drivers with Ubuntu updates.
Now here's the real news. That script works fine for fixing Pulsbo graphics on the Dell Mini-10 from Hell. BUT BE WARNED, upgrading to karmic will just ruin the Poulsbo graphics completely, with no hope for repair, aside from formatting and going back to 9.10.
But yeah, other than that, my accountant's Dell Mini 10 From Hell runs YouTube videos very well.
So does my Asus Eee HD1000-something. It is pure delight with Ubuntu remix, and a fully encrypted disk (install Ubuntu fully encrypted using the alternate installer, then via Synaptec, add the 'task' Ubuntu Netbook).
Yes, Wired had an article about this years ago. It might be considered a good idea on islands near very cold deep water, because the condensation from the pipes is also a source of fresh water. These same islands often find fresh water extremely hard to come by otherwise. Haven't heard of this advancing beyond a lab-stage though.
I'm gonna rate this as informative, and really interesting, and even genuinely cool as well; as in global warming cool.
Oh wait, I don't have mod points when I post. C'est la vie. I love useful information anyway. Now, I am contemplating some upgrades, cost savings, etc.
Not only that, but if you read the wikipedia article about the flight, they were calculating clearance required to go above, or around high Indonesian mountains, as they descended steadily without power.
My 3 year old Nokia N95 multitasks fine. I can be logged into IMAP email, browse w/ Opera mini, listen to internet radio, on bluetooth A2DP headphones that softly mute when a VOIP/SIP call arrives. (Why buy a phone that doesn't support VOIP/SIP?)
It also tethers via USB to provide 3g internet to my Ubuntu Asus Eee, for several hours on batteries. (And it is easy to hotswap an AA rechargeable for extra power; a great accessory)
Those are some of the highlights, not an exhaustive list.
GPS and Nokia's SportTracker free online service is great!
The N79 has all this, costs half what I paid when the N95, and has a Polar heart meter receiver built-in too. So when you upload your workout to SportTracker, images and videos are geo-tagged to your route, (and pop-up in an Ajax window to play), playlists listened-to are also recorded, along with heart-performance along the route.
When I upgrade eventually, I'm leaning towards the N900, or whatever follows it. Nokia likes linux folks like us.
WERTHEIMER: What does eight hours get you? What does it buy you?
Mr. CROWDER: Currently, and as you mentioned, we've got a single transmission line that was built over 60 years ago, and when we lose that line, we have no electrical connection to Presidio. What we have in place and what we've had for years is an agreement with the Mexican government that we can transfer the Presidio load over to Mexico, but that takes some time, and during that period of time, the townspeople don't have power.
WERTHEIMER: So it just sort of gives you a bridging amount of power.
Mr. CROWDER: That's right. It's key for short period of time or bridging the power until we can find a long-term connection. It also has benefits of just being there in the area. Generators are needed near where electricity is consumed to provide what we call voltage support, and this ensures that the power quality is high, and you don't have flickering of lights or resetting of VCRs...
WERTHEIMER: No fluctuations, computers quitting on you.
A buddy of mine who is in the electrical contractors union tells a tale of what went wrong once. You know those huge ( I think they're called) step-down transformers? Someone was briefly working amongst, walking across, (am unclear precisely on this) and this unfornate person dropped a wrench, which caused the current to arc, in a Big Way. This person became One with a Big Mass of Metal. You'd think this wouldn't happen, but apparently things go wrong sometimes.
Not to detract at all from your point, however there's something worth pointing out I learned while listening to NPR.
This particular city has a contract with a Mexican power company, to provide backup power during the all-too frequent times the lone cable to the US power is broken. However 'some time' is required to switch the city from US to the Mexican power grid. The purpose of this battery is to make the switch from US to Mexican power seamless to the end-user. Therefore, 8hrs is plenty of time for the battery power to last.
Perhaps the battery buys the town time in more ways than one. Now the town is less reliant on someone building out that spare US transmission line for awhile longer. And I'm sure that price varies on which year the 2ns US power line is built.
So what you are saying is not only are we talking about war-driving at hypersonic speeds, but we're also bombing away at the Great Firewall of China in the process. I get it. Sort of like Top Gun meets The Matrix.
Only please God, please don't let Tom Cruise ever be Nemo, Mr. Anderson; whatever. No.
Thank you very much for the clarification, and the original information! I never really considered a VIA NAS PC, but yeah, disk encryption makes much sense for such an application.
And I had no idea the VIA CPU offered such disk-encryption in-chip performance. As someone who really enjoys Ubuntu full-disk-encryption on notebooks, and also as someone who has considered this type of CPU for home/soho NAS-use but hasn't gotten so deep yet... Thank you very much for the low-power, home/soho security CPU tip! (I was looking for something like this for awhile)
What are you using AES encryption for, hard disk encryption? If so, this is a little unusual for a server, which are normally found in secure facilities, but make sense for a home perhaps.
I'm thinking a home NAS isn't something one would want a common house-thief to walk away with. But TFA article talks about sorting, and not NAS work, hence my request for clarity. I'm curious what your application, and OS is. Your setup is certainly interesting.
So... "like a great many voices cried out in terror before being suddenly silenced."
But who is Alderaan here, exactly? Isn't China supposed to be The Empire, that just wants its Order? I thought GOOG was the eViL global empire awhile ago but now the rebels control the Death Star? This all so very confusing.
True! So true! In fact it isn't even necessary to sit up, or even peak out from beneath the covers. Not since Apple has published specs. for a screen--rotation-lock switch!
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Yeah, and a little more than a year ago, Lehman Brothers collapsed, (etc.) and we just finished the regulation to prevent 'Too Big to Fail' again. Except it doesn't go far enough, and 'Too Big to Fail' CAN happen again.
I am not an economist, but I understand they dislike uncertainty, along with the financial markets. But if Wall Streets lobbyists can keep skewing regulation like they do, the markets are inherently unstable, and uncertainty exists.
Why do I feel like when we're assessing BP's cleanup efforts, well-paid lobbyists will have successfully lowered damage awards, and everyone not reaping the rewards of BP stock ownership, will have suffered more? Perhaps my fear is warranted.
Wait, I heard about this. It's called Reaganomics. But maybe the kids have a new name for it these days, what do I know?
I am not an economist, not really; but I think it goes something like this: Smaller government is good, and the free sector can best self-regulate, and grow. As a result, great wealth is possible to accumulate, and it will naturally be dispersed across the community, and economy.
And that is exactly what we have here. A very large, profitable, and dare I say efficient company, well except in safety perhaps. But they are very profitable for their shareholders, and the wealth grows and gets passed around.
Oh dear, I hope this will not be misconstrued as an argument for wealth-distribution, when I really want is more regulation and accountability. And penalties imposed by the government, not penalties imposed by BP on the environment and everything pertaining to it. Big Polluters (BP) should PAY, and if they went under and the cost of energy rose, I see that as a good thing.
Another name for Reaganomics was the 'trickle-down' theory. Of course that's a slight misnomer, because it is difficult to get that stuff back down there at all, but I digress.
As a result of BP's growth and success over the years, now wealth is being transferred to a new, emerging sector of the economy, and thousands of smaller entrepeneurs engage in the clean up effort, lawsuits, etc. As a result of BP's largess, new smaller oil collection and recycling companies will grow; (nevermind they used to shrimp).
Just put your trust in the markets. Free-market economics can overcome civilization, because its more powerful.
Personally, if it means the price of oil is increased, I say OK, because then people will then use less.
[some things I wrote in sarcasm folks]
NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/weekinreview/14giridharadas.html
Not to argue against your very strong valid points, however I would like to remind you of the seemingly similar high odds of super-market checkout scanners being adopted, everywhere, within a reasonable amount of time.
Ah. Thanks for requesting clarity. I told my accountant I never wanted to see that Dell again, and if he upgraded to 10.4 Lucid (thx!) not to bring it back to me. Although as someone else posted, maybe there is an answer after all.
btw, that Dell from Hell has 1Gb RAM soldered on the mobo; no upgrade is possible although it runs ok w/ Ubuntu. And opening and closing the gawdaful case to learn that much, ouch. I upgraded my Asus Eee with 2Gb quick, easy, & cheap.
Word of warning friend. Check to see if your unit has Poulsbo graphics. If it does, like my accountant's Dell Mini 10 From Hell, I could only manage to compile the graphics driver from this script, below. And this must be re-done every time my accountant overwrites the compiled drivers with Ubuntu updates.
http://poulsbo-karmic.angelfire.com/
Now here's the real news. That script works fine for fixing Pulsbo graphics on the Dell Mini-10 from Hell. BUT BE WARNED, upgrading to karmic will just ruin the Poulsbo graphics completely, with no hope for repair, aside from formatting and going back to 9.10.
But yeah, other than that, my accountant's Dell Mini 10 From Hell runs YouTube videos very well.
So does my Asus Eee HD1000-something. It is pure delight with Ubuntu remix, and a fully encrypted disk (install Ubuntu fully encrypted using the alternate installer, then via Synaptec, add the 'task' Ubuntu Netbook).
Yes, Wired had an article about this years ago. It might be considered a good idea on islands near very cold deep water, because the condensation from the pipes is also a source of fresh water. These same islands often find fresh water extremely hard to come by otherwise. Haven't heard of this advancing beyond a lab-stage though.
I'm gonna rate this as informative, and really interesting, and even genuinely cool as well; as in global warming cool.
Oh wait, I don't have mod points when I post. C'est la vie. I love useful information anyway. Now, I am contemplating some upgrades, cost savings, etc.
Uh, that's pure blatant B.S., AC troll.
What is this F12 application for which you speak, and what did you expect it to do?
Not only that, but if you read the wikipedia article about the flight, they were calculating clearance required to go above, or around high Indonesian mountains, as they descended steadily without power.
My 3 year old Nokia N95 multitasks fine. I can be logged into IMAP email, browse w/ Opera mini, listen to internet radio, on bluetooth A2DP headphones that softly mute when a VOIP/SIP call arrives. (Why buy a phone that doesn't support VOIP/SIP?)
It also tethers via USB to provide 3g internet to my Ubuntu Asus Eee, for several hours on batteries. (And it is easy to hotswap an AA rechargeable for extra power; a great accessory)
Those are some of the highlights, not an exhaustive list.
GPS and Nokia's SportTracker free online service is great!
The N79 has all this, costs half what I paid when the N95, and has a Polar heart meter receiver built-in too. So when you upload your workout to SportTracker, images and videos are geo-tagged to your route, (and pop-up in an Ajax window to play), playlists listened-to are also recorded, along with heart-performance along the route.
When I upgrade eventually, I'm leaning towards the N900, or whatever follows it. Nokia likes linux folks like us.
NPR Story Transcript
Negative gravitational force-fields are a real bitch, man. They can really ruin your day.
A buddy of mine who is in the electrical contractors union tells a tale of what went wrong once. You know those huge ( I think they're called) step-down transformers? Someone was briefly working amongst, walking across, (am unclear precisely on this) and this unfornate person dropped a wrench, which caused the current to arc, in a Big Way. This person became One with a Big Mass of Metal. You'd think this wouldn't happen, but apparently things go wrong sometimes.
Not to detract at all from your point, however there's something worth pointing out I learned while listening to NPR.
This particular city has a contract with a Mexican power company, to provide backup power during the all-too frequent times the lone cable to the US power is broken. However 'some time' is required to switch the city from US to the Mexican power grid. The purpose of this battery is to make the switch from US to Mexican power seamless to the end-user. Therefore, 8hrs is plenty of time for the battery power to last.
Perhaps the battery buys the town time in more ways than one. Now the town is less reliant on someone building out that spare US transmission line for awhile longer. And I'm sure that price varies on which year the 2ns US power line is built.
My wife says no more toys for me; however the argument for an N900 is getting ever stronger. (I'm saving my pennies for whatever follows the n900).
Thanks for this most-valuable information AC.
So what you are saying is not only are we talking about war-driving at hypersonic speeds, but we're also bombing away at the Great Firewall of China in the process. I get it. Sort of like Top Gun meets The Matrix.
Only please God, please don't let Tom Cruise ever be Nemo, Mr. Anderson; whatever. No.
Well the EU antitrust office did declare Microsoft to be an abusive monopoly in 2004.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=860&dat=20040323&id=BAAgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8BUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1269,2934192
Thank you very much for the clarification, and the original information! I never really considered a VIA NAS PC, but yeah, disk encryption makes much sense for such an application.
And I had no idea the VIA CPU offered such disk-encryption in-chip performance. As someone who really enjoys Ubuntu full-disk-encryption on notebooks, and also as someone who has considered this type of CPU for home/soho NAS-use but hasn't gotten so deep yet... Thank you very much for the low-power, home/soho security CPU tip! (I was looking for something like this for awhile)
What are you using AES encryption for, hard disk encryption? If so, this is a little unusual for a server, which are normally found in secure facilities, but make sense for a home perhaps.
I'm thinking a home NAS isn't something one would want a common house-thief to walk away with. But TFA article talks about sorting, and not NAS work, hence my request for clarity. I'm curious what your application, and OS is. Your setup is certainly interesting.
Where is BadAnalogyGuy when you really need him?
So... "like a great many voices cried out in terror before being suddenly silenced."
But who is Alderaan here, exactly? Isn't China supposed to be The Empire, that just wants its Order? I thought GOOG was the eViL global empire awhile ago but now the rebels control the Death Star? This all so very confusing.
Maybe you have taken his words out of context, and should reconsider what he was trying to say to you.
True! So true! In fact it isn't even necessary to sit up, or even peak out from beneath the covers. Not since Apple has published specs. for a screen--rotation-lock switch!
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/03/bed-readers-rejoice-ipad-gains-last-minute-rotation-lock.ars
But wait, there's an appeals process for that. Oh. Nevermind.