You've got to be kidding me?
You actually think that modern day oil companies that rape us at the pumps for 400% profits somehow wouldnt be doing this if they were deregulated?
To cite a famous futurama quote; "Oh man, I think that hippie is starting to kick in.."
Lets say you sell widgets. Lets say you even have some competition, 2 other companies sell widgets. You sell them for $1 per widget, and so does the competition (give or take a few cents on different models). You tolerate the competition, which keeps your prices at a mostly set state, because you have too. You are prohobited by "The State" from abusive anti-trust tactics which could bully widget retailers to only sell your widgets (lets say you had the clout to bully them) thus creating a monopoly on widgets. Lets also assume in this magic land that "the state" actually had the gumption to enforce said laws. Suddenly, "the state" deregulates the widget market. Explain to me without making me laugh what your rationale would be how this would benefit anyone but you, the only widget maker with the clout for bullying tactics..... Explain to me without too many fallacies how "the state" preventing a widget monopoly is a bad thing somehow.
No, actually, the problem is that the state(s) dont have enough.. coljones.. to break-up big guys like microsoft anymore, the way they did with standard oil "back in the day".
Your anarchocapitalist (most decidedly NOT free market) dreamland would create more, not less, big monopolists. Especially if you combined the situation where the state didnt have enough power to break up abusive monopolies with very loose "defend yourself" crime/firearm laws, we start to run into problems simmilar to the street wars the bootleggers had back in the prohabition days. But I digress.
Yeah, just what I always wanted... nothing in place to stop microsoft from just suddenly and more intentionally than they do now breaking compatibility with all non-MS systems. As it stands, what do you think is the ONE AND ONLY thing that stops them from doing this now? I'll give you 2 hints, it has nothing to do with customers and begins with an "s"....
Explain to me again how less controls over abusive business practices somehow helps auntie joan's cookie shop and not wal-mart?
It means percentage of -new- roles that will be put on each platform. If my 100% windows shop adds a new ms sql server, thats -new- windows workload as long as the server isnt a replacment.
This considered, the numbers are far more damning for redmond.
But will there be drivers for anything?
I mean, booting the kernel is fine and dandy but if we dont get video out (even for text console) or network (to ssh into or whatever) than what actual use will it be ?
Yes, "More Forgiving" in that now they wont sue you into the abyss... just offer to let you pay them more money willingly...
"Nice computer you have there... just make sure not to upgrade that same PC too far, since our platinum-level partners over at Dell and HP would be upset if anything were to 'happen' to your OS install...."
I thought I heard that Vista was coming out in january?
Whew, close call! Here I was thinking that I needed to make a vista strategy for the company, but after hearing this and knowing Vista wont be out till 2008, thats a big load off my back.
Will I be able to wander on foot for a month and brave the chaos wastes and end up in naggaroth surrounded by dark eleves? Or will there be a big black impassable wall at the edge of the "old world"?
Will it run on linux?
How about my solaris box?
I mean, of course your largest market is the windows users, but if a quality MMO was around with good naitive linux/mac/whatever ports, you'd have a clear advantage over the other competitors... ok, well competitor....
I've mocked intel in previous threads for not beating AMD by a much larger margin with core2 than they actually did. This stuff (mentioned in post) is the kind of performance jump I was expecting to see. Bravo! If they get this stuff out the door ontime, Intel just might make it back onto my vendor list.
Perhaps we should design our consumables in such a manner that the trash is less of an impact? This would/will/does not happen if left to invisible forces as is evidenced by CF lightbulbs vs tungsten burners.....
Actually all of that is nonsense. In your so-called "free" market, the costs would be exponentially high as we have seen with attempts at free-market systems where the wealth continually travels upwards to the most greedy who find ways to exploit excesses of labour (cheap or otherwise) and charge "whatever the market will bear" for the product... thus, for things that people actually need like homes and food, the maximum possible will be charged, and NOT a fair price. And before you try and claim that scores of oppressive taxes or something cause the prices to artificially go up, for markets like pharmesuticals there are more grants and government subsidies then there are taxes, and the prices are STILL way too high.
Now, if on the other hand you are advocating a survivalist-economy ala little house on the prarie, then you are correct about your assertations on price. However, enjoy living without electricity and without paved roads.
So your choice of what car you purchased or what fast food joint you ate at last was compulsary forced on you personally, at gunpoint, by Mike Dukakis and his tank I suppose then?
Re: The US consumes nearly 25% of the worlds energy though it has only 5 % of the worlds population and has the highest per capita oil consumption worldwide. Each american produces about 2.3 kg of trash a day, the current rate is about 5 times that in developing countries."
Just like the last story, cue the anarcho-capitalists who will ask "Would you rather have it any other way?"
A compassionate conservative sees a man and his family eating grass on the side of the road. The CC pulls over and asks "what are you doing?" the man replies, "we are too poor to eat, and cannot find work because of ethnic and religious discrimination". The CC tells him "thats terrible, hop in my car" so the man and his family joyfully get in the car hoping for a hand-up for a job offer of some kind.
After driving a ways, the man asks the CC "So where are we going? Do you know where I can find work?" to which the CC laughs, and says "Oh no heh, I dont have a lawn mower, and the grass is much taller in my yard."
..........
They never understand.
Cue all the anarcho-capitalists about how people "deserve" poverty for some reason if they have difficulty performing economically, and how they are "sure" he could work at mcdonalds or something...
/me rolls his eyes
How about some of us who havent read his books consider buying a copy?
It would be nice to know what kind of containment they used for this? I'm sure they didnt want thier nuclear pile melting through the floor or anything.....
Having actually used red flag linux, supporting it will not be much different than supporting redhat. Most of the internals are simple text replaces with "red hat" to "red flag" with most of the added-value being the comprehensive chinese localisation and translation stuff. For those like me who dont need the extra support for chinese, its just another redhat clone.
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You've got to be kidding me? You actually think that modern day oil companies that rape us at the pumps for 400% profits somehow wouldnt be doing this if they were deregulated? To cite a famous futurama quote; "Oh man, I think that hippie is starting to kick in.." Lets say you sell widgets. Lets say you even have some competition, 2 other companies sell widgets. You sell them for $1 per widget, and so does the competition (give or take a few cents on different models). You tolerate the competition, which keeps your prices at a mostly set state, because you have too. You are prohobited by "The State" from abusive anti-trust tactics which could bully widget retailers to only sell your widgets (lets say you had the clout to bully them) thus creating a monopoly on widgets. Lets also assume in this magic land that "the state" actually had the gumption to enforce said laws. Suddenly, "the state" deregulates the widget market. Explain to me without making me laugh what your rationale would be how this would benefit anyone but you, the only widget maker with the clout for bullying tactics..... Explain to me without too many fallacies how "the state" preventing a widget monopoly is a bad thing somehow.
No, actually, the problem is that the state(s) dont have enough .. coljones .. to break-up big guys like microsoft anymore, the way they did with standard oil "back in the day".
....
Your anarchocapitalist (most decidedly NOT free market) dreamland would create more, not less, big monopolists. Especially if you combined the situation where the state didnt have enough power to break up abusive monopolies with very loose "defend yourself" crime/firearm laws, we start to run into problems simmilar to the street wars the bootleggers had back in the prohabition days. But I digress.
Yeah, just what I always wanted... nothing in place to stop microsoft from just suddenly and more intentionally than they do now breaking compatibility with all non-MS systems. As it stands, what do you think is the ONE AND ONLY thing that stops them from doing this now? I'll give you 2 hints, it has nothing to do with customers and begins with an "s"
Explain to me again how less controls over abusive business practices somehow helps auntie joan's cookie shop and not wal-mart?
It means percentage of -new- roles that will be put on each platform. If my 100% windows shop adds a new ms sql server, thats -new- windows workload as long as the server isnt a replacment. This considered, the numbers are far more damning for redmond.
But will there be drivers for anything? I mean, booting the kernel is fine and dandy but if we dont get video out (even for text console) or network (to ssh into or whatever) than what actual use will it be ?
Yes, "More Forgiving" in that now they wont sue you into the abyss ... just offer to let you pay them more money willingly ...
... just make sure not to upgrade that same PC too far, since our platinum-level partners over at Dell and HP would be upset if anything were to 'happen' to your OS install ...."
"Nice computer you have there
I thought I heard that Vista was coming out in january? Whew, close call! Here I was thinking that I needed to make a vista strategy for the company, but after hearing this and knowing Vista wont be out till 2008, thats a big load off my back.
Will I be able to wander on foot for a month and brave the chaos wastes and end up in naggaroth surrounded by dark eleves? Or will there be a big black impassable wall at the edge of the "old world"?
Will it run on linux? How about my solaris box? I mean, of course your largest market is the windows users, but if a quality MMO was around with good naitive linux/mac/whatever ports, you'd have a clear advantage over the other competitors... ok, well competitor....
When (not "will") we be able to play as one of the "bad guys" like a skaven or a chaos warrior?
These: http://www.sun.com/training/certification/
Everyone retires or downgrades thier career. Most of us even change gears once or twice. Nothing to see, move along.
I've mocked intel in previous threads for not beating AMD by a much larger margin with core2 than they actually did. This stuff (mentioned in post) is the kind of performance jump I was expecting to see. Bravo! If they get this stuff out the door ontime, Intel just might make it back onto my vendor list.
Perhaps we should design our consumables in such a manner that the trash is less of an impact? This would/will/does not happen if left to invisible forces as is evidenced by CF lightbulbs vs tungsten burners.....
You dont see bullshit, you see my standpoint. I agree completely that the issue isnt chaining anyone down, but rather advancing the rest of the pack.
Actually all of that is nonsense. In your so-called "free" market, the costs would be exponentially high as we have seen with attempts at free-market systems where the wealth continually travels upwards to the most greedy who find ways to exploit excesses of labour (cheap or otherwise) and charge "whatever the market will bear" for the product... thus, for things that people actually need like homes and food, the maximum possible will be charged, and NOT a fair price. And before you try and claim that scores of oppressive taxes or something cause the prices to artificially go up, for markets like pharmesuticals there are more grants and government subsidies then there are taxes, and the prices are STILL way too high.
Now, if on the other hand you are advocating a survivalist-economy ala little house on the prarie, then you are correct about your assertations on price. However, enjoy living without electricity and without paved roads.
You make the presumptions that A) what the US is producing is also what it is consuming, and B) globalization is a benefit to all. Neither are knowns.
Yes actually. I would.
So your choice of what car you purchased or what fast food joint you ate at last was compulsary forced on you personally, at gunpoint, by Mike Dukakis and his tank I suppose then?
Re: The US consumes nearly 25% of the worlds energy though it has only 5 % of the worlds population and has the highest per capita oil consumption worldwide. Each american produces about 2.3 kg of trash a day, the current rate is about 5 times that in developing countries."
Just like the last story, cue the anarcho-capitalists who will ask "Would you rather have it any other way?"
They just dont get it.
A compassionate conservative sees a man and his family eating grass on the side of the road. The CC pulls over and asks "what are you doing?" the man replies, "we are too poor to eat, and cannot find work because of ethnic and religious discrimination". The CC tells him "thats terrible, hop in my car" so the man and his family joyfully get in the car hoping for a hand-up for a job offer of some kind.
..........
After driving a ways, the man asks the CC "So where are we going? Do you know where I can find work?" to which the CC laughs, and says "Oh no heh, I dont have a lawn mower, and the grass is much taller in my yard."
They never understand.
Key Word: Consider.....
Cue all the anarcho-capitalists about how people "deserve" poverty for some reason if they have difficulty performing economically, and how they are "sure" he could work at mcdonalds or something...
/me rolls his eyes
How about some of us who havent read his books consider buying a copy?
It would be nice to know what kind of containment they used for this? I'm sure they didnt want thier nuclear pile melting through the floor or anything .....
Having actually used red flag linux, supporting it will not be much different than supporting redhat. Most of the internals are simple text replaces with "red hat" to "red flag" with most of the added-value being the comprehensive chinese localisation and translation stuff. For those like me who dont need the extra support for chinese, its just another redhat clone.
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