Eventually hobbies become too boring. We are mentally programmed to be creative producers. You cannot sleep in until noon everyday, and do nothing for a long period of time.
So, your wish is a death wish, in some sense.
What is social welfare, if not a guaranteed basic income. Most people want to work, and yes, there are a few biggots (work avoidance or religious), who will not want to work. Why religious? Because these kinds of faithful decided to study the bible and it's commentaries full time, and let the wife do the income creation.
I live in Quebec Canada, We have ample water and thus hydro-electric power. My city (Montreal) with around 2 million homes, have these homes entirely heated and cooled by electricity. At 4c per kwh, why not.
We like clean unpolluted air and ground water. We like electric cars, not gas or oil fueled vehicles, but the major limitation to conversion to all electric cars is the battery. It needs to be able to work at -30F as well as +90F. We are mainly anti-energy polluting industries. Our overall cancer rates are lower than our neighbors. We think we know why.
When I started, we had 8 bit processors and no 32 bit arithmetic support. We had to code 32bit arithmetic ourselves.
Today we have 64bit arithmetic, and shortly, 96 or 28 bit arithmetic will be common in a few years.
I like a website and establish a link to it for my own site. There is nothing wrong with that.
But I do not control that linked-to website and some time later, they do something perceived to be illegal. Therefore I am I guilty?
Normally, where the service time is very short, relative to the transaction time, the SQMS works very well (line up at a group of ATM terminals).
In a situation where there are multiple servers to a tool-crypt facility, (One or two windows), the servers actually interfere with each other and therefore, each of the server's times is increased, However, the total wait time for an individual (queuing + service) is still the least.
Walmart has a fast queue system (1-8 items), where they use single queue multiple cashiers. It works well for them because the path through the queue is filled on each side with candy, magazines, batteries for toys, etc. Cherry picking while waiting for service is very important aspect of adding sales dollars.
In the multiple server, multiple queues, there is queue jumping, which takes place more often then you think, and since the time for service is long, you have time to read / purchase a magazine, consume a chocolate bar, or buy some crap before your turn at the cashier arrives.
I also think that the MSMQ may require less floor space too due to arrangements to not manage a queue when volumes are customers are low.
Thats my 2Cents worth.
Perhaps in the future you will buy your internet service from a remote provider, just as you can buy your electricity from a remote (out of regional area) provider. The provider pumps in the amount of electricity you pull out, the net result is your domestic provider does not have to burn fuel to provide you with electricity.
There must be something like that in the USA. We have it in Canada.
I can buy internet services from a Toronto ISP, and Bell Canada is required to provide me with a dry loop for $8.00. I have 800kb DSL with unlimited DL for $20/mo. I also do VOIP with that ISP on the same DSL line. Quality is great.
To my mind, the internet is an electronic highway. Every highway has posted speeds, that are state or federally imposed.
Therefore, net neutrality to me means that all those on the same highway, are allowed to go to the maximum legal speed.
I-xxx highway is more than interstate, it is intercontinent, and we must not discriminate.
Also, I have not made up my mind about a tax, that is, the governments charge a tax for Internet use, and use the money to subsidize an increase of bandwidth, and to bring the internet speeds to rural areas. As highways are public, the Internet must be backbone and government owned. The government can contract out support.
As for bytes transferred, and charging for it, to some extent I agree. In today's world, I would allow 100gig per month per user as a base, and a small fee, perhaps $0.01 (1 cent) per gig for the excess. Later on, we could reduce prices to 1 cent per 2 gigs for the excesses over 100gigs. And like our electric company with intelligent meters, the 7am to 9am and 5pm to 10 pm are high rate hours and lower rates outside of those times.
The rates in Canada are around 60 cents per letter. Actually 57cents plus federal and provincial taxes. We let the post office make a profit so that far away places like the frozen north can have regular delivery.
Sometimes, the old generation of managers, who lived with land-line and dial up modems, won't retire. Therefore, they look at the economics of sustaining an infrastructure that is the noose around progress to create better networks.
If the Government suddenly provided the high-speed backbone, then we could see many ISPs arriving on the scene, and with good competition, prices and service would increase. The last mile, could continue to be fibre, and with fibre, one should expect at least 8mbytes/sec bandwidth download, and at least 1 to 2 mbytes/sec upload.
My son lived 3 years in Riga Latvia (Ask Sahara P if she knows where that is), and when I visited 3 years ago, his phone connection was VOIP, and 8 megabytes download rate for the net. The result was the ability every day, to watch Movies, or to stream and record them for later watching. One has to appreciate though, that Latvia is a small country, so building an infrastructure for high speed communications was not a costly venture.
However, if we assume the USA is made up of many states, each with the ability to emulate Latvia, then the information highway becomes a reality, rather than a dream.
I wonder how long it will take before companies will be bypassing US designed and written software due to fears of being sued. Moreover, since software written outside of the USA in countries in Africa, India, Asia, etc, will be functional and will not contain an iota of consideration for any business process considered under USA jurisdictions as patentable, the only consequence I see is that end-user businesses will stop purchasing or running the software in the USA or its jurisdictions.
The cloud has made patents a penalty for American software designers and businesses.
Have India or China host your business systems. There will be security provided. If one can steal from a server in China, one could steal from a server located anywhere in the universe.
I may generate a link to my website or another, which is a perfectly logical thing to do. However many days later, someone posts something to that website. So, which came first, the chicken or the egg.
Links don't have ways to validate dates that links were established.
Cold wars only end when both parties have equally powerful weapons, and each thinks that they have the advantage.
But the sad fact is it can never end, as we are dealing with humans and vested interests.
I see nothing wrong with wanting domestic credit card transactions to be processed domestically. For Russia, a Russian Visa card should be processed in Russia. The same rule applies to the USA. An American Visa card should be processed in the USA, and not, for example, in India.
I petitioned our local transportation system to require the new buses to have cameras to replace the large mirrors at the front passenger side door. I have seen elderly women get hit by the mirror in wintertime. When one stands on a snow bank (in winter), one is at least 1 foot off the level of the sidewalk, and therefore the mirror and one,s skull are in alignment.
With cameras to replace the sidewalk side mirror, a few serious casualties can be avoided.
Interestingly enough
A survey of multi-millionaires asked that they be more heavily taxed. They felt that they were accumulating too much wealth and that the middle class and poor was being asked to pay for their undeserved benefits.
just a bit of feedback after being in contact with quite a few vendors of security products.
If the information is private, it is encrypted, and it may be embedded with extraneous information (example merge a set of poems with your information, byte for byte, then compress and encrypt.
If voice, use encrypted voice and vpn tunneling.
If cell phone, use encrypted voice with algorithms that change keys every few time intervals.
Only the naive use unencrypted communications.
With small drones as offered by the Chinese, there should be a large number of organizations who are interested in surveillence (possibly illegal) to insure that smuggling can continue without fear of discovery. Watch the enemy is the keyword.
In 1980, The IBM mainframe operating systems included "Performance Groups". Workloads were classified into Low CPU interactive and High CPU background and also some must complete performance group(s).
It like being born again to see it coming to Linux as a new patch.
Now I would love to see a "VM CMS" environment under the linux kernel
When we could not choose our *.com domain, we chose *.biz. About 100 seconds after completing registration, I got marketing phone calls from GD inviting me to purchase additional names to a) protect our name and b) and insurance. The additional proposed costs exceeded the initial payment by quite a bit.
When the USA causes it's cost of education to be a lifetime debt, then the student who can, will look to getting an advanced degree in a lower cost (downhill!!) country. And often, this student marries and remains in that alternate society. Why? Because owning ipods, Ipads, cars, flatscreen TVs, etc does not make for a quality life. They are just adult toys.
So, the USA is exporting their brainiest people.
My employees are from other countries, and boy, can they deliver. Not even my Canadian student graduates can compare.
The USA has to lower the cost of university education. It has to include apprenticeships with industry, even at the undergraduate level.
I am a disbeliever. If you have proof, show it to me. Otherwise, know that jobloss has lead to foreclosures on homes, and a big drop in standard of living.
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Eventually hobbies become too boring. We are mentally programmed to be creative producers. You cannot sleep in until noon everyday, and do nothing for a long period of time. So, your wish is a death wish, in some sense.
What is social welfare, if not a guaranteed basic income. Most people want to work, and yes, there are a few biggots (work avoidance or religious), who will not want to work. Why religious? Because these kinds of faithful decided to study the bible and it's commentaries full time, and let the wife do the income creation.
I live in Quebec Canada, We have ample water and thus hydro-electric power. My city (Montreal) with around 2 million homes, have these homes entirely heated and cooled by electricity. At 4c per kwh, why not. We like clean unpolluted air and ground water. We like electric cars, not gas or oil fueled vehicles, but the major limitation to conversion to all electric cars is the battery. It needs to be able to work at -30F as well as +90F. We are mainly anti-energy polluting industries. Our overall cancer rates are lower than our neighbors. We think we know why.
When I started, we had 8 bit processors and no 32 bit arithmetic support. We had to code 32bit arithmetic ourselves. Today we have 64bit arithmetic, and shortly, 96 or 28 bit arithmetic will be common in a few years.
I like a website and establish a link to it for my own site. There is nothing wrong with that. But I do not control that linked-to website and some time later, they do something perceived to be illegal. Therefore I am I guilty?
Normally, where the service time is very short, relative to the transaction time, the SQMS works very well (line up at a group of ATM terminals). In a situation where there are multiple servers to a tool-crypt facility, (One or two windows), the servers actually interfere with each other and therefore, each of the server's times is increased, However, the total wait time for an individual (queuing + service) is still the least. Walmart has a fast queue system (1-8 items), where they use single queue multiple cashiers. It works well for them because the path through the queue is filled on each side with candy, magazines, batteries for toys, etc. Cherry picking while waiting for service is very important aspect of adding sales dollars. In the multiple server, multiple queues, there is queue jumping, which takes place more often then you think, and since the time for service is long, you have time to read / purchase a magazine, consume a chocolate bar, or buy some crap before your turn at the cashier arrives. I also think that the MSMQ may require less floor space too due to arrangements to not manage a queue when volumes are customers are low. Thats my 2Cents worth.
Perhaps in the future you will buy your internet service from a remote provider, just as you can buy your electricity from a remote (out of regional area) provider. The provider pumps in the amount of electricity you pull out, the net result is your domestic provider does not have to burn fuel to provide you with electricity. There must be something like that in the USA. We have it in Canada. I can buy internet services from a Toronto ISP, and Bell Canada is required to provide me with a dry loop for $8.00. I have 800kb DSL with unlimited DL for $20/mo. I also do VOIP with that ISP on the same DSL line. Quality is great.
To my mind, the internet is an electronic highway. Every highway has posted speeds, that are state or federally imposed. Therefore, net neutrality to me means that all those on the same highway, are allowed to go to the maximum legal speed. I-xxx highway is more than interstate, it is intercontinent, and we must not discriminate. Also, I have not made up my mind about a tax, that is, the governments charge a tax for Internet use, and use the money to subsidize an increase of bandwidth, and to bring the internet speeds to rural areas. As highways are public, the Internet must be backbone and government owned. The government can contract out support. As for bytes transferred, and charging for it, to some extent I agree. In today's world, I would allow 100gig per month per user as a base, and a small fee, perhaps $0.01 (1 cent) per gig for the excess. Later on, we could reduce prices to 1 cent per 2 gigs for the excesses over 100gigs. And like our electric company with intelligent meters, the 7am to 9am and 5pm to 10 pm are high rate hours and lower rates outside of those times.
In Canada we have the one and two dollar coins. We are thinking of abandoning the penny.
I thought the three letter abbreviation was NFW (No Foolish Way)
The rates in Canada are around 60 cents per letter. Actually 57cents plus federal and provincial taxes. We let the post office make a profit so that far away places like the frozen north can have regular delivery.
Sometimes, the old generation of managers, who lived with land-line and dial up modems, won't retire. Therefore, they look at the economics of sustaining an infrastructure that is the noose around progress to create better networks. If the Government suddenly provided the high-speed backbone, then we could see many ISPs arriving on the scene, and with good competition, prices and service would increase. The last mile, could continue to be fibre, and with fibre, one should expect at least 8mbytes/sec bandwidth download, and at least 1 to 2 mbytes/sec upload. My son lived 3 years in Riga Latvia (Ask Sahara P if she knows where that is), and when I visited 3 years ago, his phone connection was VOIP, and 8 megabytes download rate for the net. The result was the ability every day, to watch Movies, or to stream and record them for later watching. One has to appreciate though, that Latvia is a small country, so building an infrastructure for high speed communications was not a costly venture. However, if we assume the USA is made up of many states, each with the ability to emulate Latvia, then the information highway becomes a reality, rather than a dream.
I wonder how long it will take before companies will be bypassing US designed and written software due to fears of being sued. Moreover, since software written outside of the USA in countries in Africa, India, Asia, etc, will be functional and will not contain an iota of consideration for any business process considered under USA jurisdictions as patentable, the only consequence I see is that end-user businesses will stop purchasing or running the software in the USA or its jurisdictions. The cloud has made patents a penalty for American software designers and businesses. Have India or China host your business systems. There will be security provided. If one can steal from a server in China, one could steal from a server located anywhere in the universe.
I may generate a link to my website or another, which is a perfectly logical thing to do. However many days later, someone posts something to that website. So, which came first, the chicken or the egg. Links don't have ways to validate dates that links were established.
Cold wars only end when both parties have equally powerful weapons, and each thinks that they have the advantage. But the sad fact is it can never end, as we are dealing with humans and vested interests.
I see nothing wrong with wanting domestic credit card transactions to be processed domestically. For Russia, a Russian Visa card should be processed in Russia. The same rule applies to the USA. An American Visa card should be processed in the USA, and not, for example, in India.
I petitioned our local transportation system to require the new buses to have cameras to replace the large mirrors at the front passenger side door. I have seen elderly women get hit by the mirror in wintertime. When one stands on a snow bank (in winter), one is at least 1 foot off the level of the sidewalk, and therefore the mirror and one,s skull are in alignment. With cameras to replace the sidewalk side mirror, a few serious casualties can be avoided.
Interestingly enough A survey of multi-millionaires asked that they be more heavily taxed. They felt that they were accumulating too much wealth and that the middle class and poor was being asked to pay for their undeserved benefits.
just a bit of feedback after being in contact with quite a few vendors of security products. If the information is private, it is encrypted, and it may be embedded with extraneous information (example merge a set of poems with your information, byte for byte, then compress and encrypt. If voice, use encrypted voice and vpn tunneling. If cell phone, use encrypted voice with algorithms that change keys every few time intervals. Only the naive use unencrypted communications.
With small drones as offered by the Chinese, there should be a large number of organizations who are interested in surveillence (possibly illegal) to insure that smuggling can continue without fear of discovery. Watch the enemy is the keyword.
In 1980, The IBM mainframe operating systems included "Performance Groups". Workloads were classified into Low CPU interactive and High CPU background and also some must complete performance group(s). It like being born again to see it coming to Linux as a new patch. Now I would love to see a "VM CMS" environment under the linux kernel
I think it is time to move to China. Just learn the language, culture, and adjust to the lifestyle, and you will be set for life.
When we could not choose our *.com domain, we chose *.biz. About 100 seconds after completing registration, I got marketing phone calls from GD inviting me to purchase additional names to a) protect our name and b) and insurance. The additional proposed costs exceeded the initial payment by quite a bit.
When the USA causes it's cost of education to be a lifetime debt, then the student who can, will look to getting an advanced degree in a lower cost (downhill!!) country. And often, this student marries and remains in that alternate society. Why? Because owning ipods, Ipads, cars, flatscreen TVs, etc does not make for a quality life. They are just adult toys. So, the USA is exporting their brainiest people. My employees are from other countries, and boy, can they deliver. Not even my Canadian student graduates can compare. The USA has to lower the cost of university education. It has to include apprenticeships with industry, even at the undergraduate level.
I am a disbeliever. If you have proof, show it to me. Otherwise, know that jobloss has lead to foreclosures on homes, and a big drop in standard of living.