That's what they taught us in econ 101/102, using a text by Lester Thurow, and called it the circular flow economy, and basically said the same thing, that manufacturing has to pay the factors of production (labor) enough to BUY BACK the stuff produced.
My tape drive advertised it's transfer rate as "Up To 60 megabytes / minute", and just like the claim truthfully says, it has never exceeded that amount.
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Off Topic but semi-relevant: did you know that photo portrait studios reatain the rights to you family photos? That's right! If you take your cute-as-a-button 3 year old daughter to Nolan Frills studio for pictures, they own the photos! You just get some prints. Conceivably they could sell those photos to some magazine and make big bucks from them. Read it here - they might release the copyright for a fee.
Depends on what you mean by 'best' - if you mean 'cheap and convient' then yes, rather like popping into McDonwalds for a quickie burger is the 'best' lunch, they're everywhere, just drive thru, you don't even have to get out of the car, passably tasty and relatively inexpensive, and who cares if it's nutricious or not. But if you mean 'best' as a healthy meal made by an trained dietecian and chef that's delicious, but costs a bit, you'll have to pick stuff from an complicated menu, and will have to wait a while - then Msft isn't even close.
Can anybody verify this story? There is a Cruft Hall at Harvard, and someone (not me) claims that:
"I was a Harvard engineering student once upon a time (early '60s) and took classes and worked in the Cruft laboratory. A few years later, I heard an MIT person saying, "What's all that cruft?"
I later discovered the story. The Harvard guys found out the IF frequency the MIT radar folks were using and beamed a little modulated RF energy their way. MIT got pretty good at building shielded IF strips, yessir. The name of the interfering signal? You guessed it, Cruft, named for the place it originated."
Yeah, and last weekend while hiking in the woods I spied a buried cable marker warning of a "Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company" underground cable - that name dates back to 1917, became Bell Atlantic in 1984, and Verizon in 2000. I wonder when they're going to get around to changing it?
How about, "Cost's users more than they expected by design" - I often wonder, how can something that makes so much income for the owners have such lousy quality? The only answer I can think of is that it creates so many jobs and revenues from upgrades, etc, whereas a 'finished' product would have been the end of the gravy train. So YES I do think they purposely allow bugs out the door just to keep people wanting more (the old 'ship now, patch later' method was standard operating procedure for a LONG time) Hey, it's worked so far! There's an old saying in show biz: always leave 'em wanting more. It's the same old sales gimmick (and $$$ is ALL it's about) advertise something wonderful for a low, low price - and once the suckers have committed, they find out after the sale that, oh! I need to buy something else, then something else, then something else, etc. I heard a Symantec person on national news the other day, it was almost just a sales pitch to buy their security add on products. What a racket! Msft get's to make a bundle forcing their stuff on the unsuspecting, then another compney makes a bundle cleaning up after it! Security, schmurity - the only thing that matters is earnings for everyone on the gravy train - if that entails releasing not-quite-ready-for-prime-time stuff, then that's what they'll release.
Robert Quinn, AT&T's [T] vice president of regulatory affairs, said the FCC's released order "ensures competitors access to essential network elements as long as impairments to competition continue and thus guarantees consumers a choice of local service providers
Whaha - who else does he write comedy for? Hehehe.
Verizon completely gates MY access to DSL, and has said "NO", even thoough I'm less than 2 miles from a big urban co.
A long time ago in a galaxy not far from here, Novell servers would send out broadcasts looking for identical serial numbers and would complain if it found itself. That was before widespread connectivity so it couldn't report back to hq - I can't ever remember if it stopped working or not. Some people didn't like the extra network traffic being used to 'spy' on itself.
Here is my mechanical TTY terminal, a VERY SIMPLE interface is all it took to get my Model 33ASR wired to a notebook running RH8, the 'history simulator' (simh) simulating a PDP/8 running OS/8 and playing BASIC games, just like a student would be doing in 1972.
(Will be adding more to the page eventually, like how to configure Linux to run a 110 baud ASCII terminal, etc. Lost my previous host!)
But Intellectual "Property" isn't natural law. It's a purely human construct of extremely recent vintage
Why do you have to make the distinction between 'human' and 'natural' as if 'humans' were some kind of foreign body that didn't come FROM nature in the first place? The 'human' mind and it's creativity is it's defense and survival mechanism, just like any other animal. You might as well say that "streatching one's neck and eating leaves right off tall trees and a purely giraffe construct that isn't natural". People create things, like pottery, and have the right to enjoy their creations without other people stealing it, whether it's the pots or the design of them, just like a lion will enjoy the gazelle it bagged, and will naturally get angry if some jackles try to take it; an artist or coder who wants to earn their bread and butter from their art or code is perfectly naturally, and will understandably get rightfull upset and mad if someone else copies and profits from their efforts w/o compensation.
Jeesh, it's sad to see this rationalization for theft become so almost mainstream, but what part of earning a living do you moochers not understand? If we want artists and coders to have full time paying jobs doing what they do best we have to have IP laws. If you want every artist and coder by do it just as an after day-job hobby in their spare time then sure, call IP laws an unnatural 'human construct' that should be banished. Once anyone can freely copy and distribut your favorites band's work, they'll have to find other employment and create their art on weekends and evenings in their spare time, after 'real' work.
"Man is the best computer we can put aboard
a spacecraft... and the only one that can
be mass produced with unskilled labor."
However a *lot* has changed since von Braun's statement: Harris, Intel, AMD and a host of other's can mass produce radiation hardened computers to put aboard spacecraft (not to mention telemetry back to earth for human processing, albeit with a lag that renders it non-realtime, I'll grant you that) for far less that it takes to stow oxygen plants, food pills, water, tang, entertainment, exercise equipment, medical supplies, etc etc etc.
However, for public relations purposes, the taxpaying public would be fascinated by sex in space, the first space kid, etc;)) If they could make a orbital version of 'Survivor' or 'Big Brother' a weekly episode it might pay for itself.
Yes, she certainly is - I got a cheap SGI recently and one of the first things I did was put FSN on it - then check out the movie and verified it's the same. Not extremely useful, but it does make a filesystem tree you can fly over in 3D. I think it was something they whipped up for the moive - as opposed to a real tool.
This is great news, but like all pioneering events, it's just the beginning of a brave new future. Someday, regularly scheduled model airplane flights over the Atlantic, as well as to other destinations, will be a commonplace occurance. In the future, everyone will have unmaned aerial vehicle service available right in their backyards. Soon, inexpensive GPS programmable reusable UAV's with automatic colision avoidance will be available to anyone for less than the price of an automobile at stores everywhere.
A little philosophy for all the kneejerkers decrying the focus on guns instead of butter, on swords instead of plowshares: life is a struggle, and utopia's are always the abodes of the dead. It is the power of the procreative urge that ensures there will always be more hungry mouths to feed than there is food to go around. If the money spent on defense, which employs many people, were simply given away to 'the poor', you only get more poor families. Believe it or not, we actually want more self sufficient famlies, not more beggars who don't know how to raise responsible, self sufficient children.
It was once the religious rationalition of the industrialist that mass production was the solution of mankinds neverending poverty: simply make more things cheaper and faster and everyone can enjoy plenty. Now we live with that legacy as industrial waste and environmenal degradation, shipping factories off to developing countries and let them deal with the runoff. However, the lesson learned is that whenever you produce n amount of goods, humanity produces n+1 people wanting those goods and squabling (ocassionally going to war) over how to obtain those goods. Also, on the economic treadmill, poverty is always relative - people under the poverty line in one country would be considered well-to-do in another. A person with a low-status-symbol automobile might be pitiful in one land, but envied in a land where few people at all have autos.
Now, the eternal question is: Am I My Brothers Keeper? The well off say no, those in need say yes. The well to do can give away everything they have, and the needy will only consume it and come back for more - except there isn't any more, and now there are more of them hungrier than before (including the formerly wealthy one who just gave up everything he had).
Say two farmers own the same amount land and produce the same amount of the same crops. Each one produces enought to feed a family of 8. One has 12 children, and the other has 3 children. One is needy, and the other has a surplus. Is it the social obligation for the one with a surplus to just freely give his surplus to the other? Or should he just sell it and buy a new tractor, to heck with the other guy?
I've made redundant copies (some games on as many as three different floppies) just in case a disk goes bad.
Atari enthusiasts have some called the Atari Peripheral Emulator that allows your modern day PC serial port to act like a floppy disk drive. That way, we can keep 'tons' of old software on CD-ROM, load and boot up F-15 Strike Eagle, Blue Max, Raster Blaster or Kennedy Approach;) Software on a real floppy can easily be copied to the PC, and archived on CD's etc.
HD also has an answer to the Segway - it uses a much more powerful engine, and this really neat completely mechanical balancing mechanism based on the gyroscopic effect: two large turning wheels keep the unit upright, and when you lean to one side or the other, the front wheel, which is pivoted, actually turns into the direction of the lean, simultaneously providing a turning and self righting function.
It's amazingly fun! You ought to ride one someday.
They come in models that go fast enough to keep up with the fastest hiway traffic, and are quickly and easily 'recharged' at any widely available automobile service center.
Then there's the question of... what do you need a supercomputer for?
One glaring need: The US Patent and Trademark office is in desparate need of some better method of researching 'prior art' in the info explosion age. Just give 'em vast storage, indexing and a bank of workstations and I bet those examiners could easily shoot down some of the 'one click wonders' currently being 'invented'.
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That's what they taught us in econ 101/102, using a text by Lester Thurow, and called it the circular flow economy, and basically said the same thing, that manufacturing has to pay the factors of production (labor) enough to BUY BACK the stuff produced.
My tape drive advertised it's transfer rate as "Up To 60 megabytes / minute", and just like the claim truthfully says, it has never exceeded that amount.
BTW - what has four legs and flies?
Yep, a dead horse.
So ships are not important. I see.
Favorite line: "Although Unix is more reliable, Redman said, NT may become more reliable with time"
I live in that area, and there are a LOT of Msft job openings requiring security clearance these days.
Off Topic but semi-relevant: did you know that photo portrait studios reatain the rights to you family photos? That's right! If you take your cute-as-a-button 3 year old daughter to Nolan Frills studio for pictures, they own the photos! You just get some prints. Conceivably they could sell those photos to some magazine and make big bucks from them. Read it here - they might release the copyright for a fee.
they did a lot of things best
Depends on what you mean by 'best' - if you mean 'cheap and convient' then yes, rather like popping into McDonwalds for a quickie burger is the 'best' lunch, they're everywhere, just drive thru, you don't even have to get out of the car, passably tasty and relatively inexpensive, and who cares if it's nutricious or not. But if you mean 'best' as a healthy meal made by an trained dietecian and chef that's delicious, but costs a bit, you'll have to pick stuff from an complicated menu, and will have to wait a while - then Msft isn't even close.
Can anybody verify this story? There is a Cruft Hall at Harvard, and someone (not me) claims that:
"I was a Harvard engineering student once upon a
time (early '60s) and took classes and worked in the Cruft laboratory. A
few years later, I heard an MIT person saying, "What's all that cruft?"
I later discovered the story. The Harvard guys found out the IF frequency
the MIT radar folks were using and beamed a little modulated RF energy
their way. MIT got pretty good at building shielded IF strips, yessir. The
name of the interfering signal? You guessed it, Cruft, named for the place
it originated."
Yeah, and last weekend while hiking in the woods I spied a buried cable marker warning of a "Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company" underground cable - that name dates back to 1917, became Bell Atlantic in 1984, and Verizon in 2000. I wonder when they're going to get around to changing it?
So the terrorists have already won, the Msft backed FUD bomb worked...
How about, "Cost's users more than they expected by design" - I often wonder, how can something that makes so much income for the owners have such lousy quality? The only answer I can think of is that it creates so many jobs and revenues from upgrades, etc, whereas a 'finished' product would have been the end of the gravy train. So YES I do think they purposely allow bugs out the door just to keep people wanting more (the old 'ship now, patch later' method was standard operating procedure for a LONG time) Hey, it's worked so far! There's an old saying in show biz: always leave 'em wanting more. It's the same old sales gimmick (and $$$ is ALL it's about) advertise something wonderful for a low, low price - and once the suckers have committed, they find out after the sale that, oh! I need to buy something else, then something else, then something else, etc. I heard a Symantec person on national news the other day, it was almost just a sales pitch to buy their security add on products. What a racket! Msft get's to make a bundle forcing their stuff on the unsuspecting, then another compney makes a bundle cleaning up after it! Security, schmurity - the only thing that matters is earnings for everyone on the gravy train - if that entails releasing not-quite-ready-for-prime-time stuff, then that's what they'll release.
Woohoo, hahaa, heehehehe
Robert Quinn, AT&T's [T] vice president of regulatory affairs, said the FCC's released order "ensures competitors access to essential network elements as long as impairments to competition continue and thus guarantees consumers a choice of local service providers
Whaha - who else does he write comedy for? Hehehe.
Verizon completely gates MY access to DSL, and has said "NO", even thoough I'm less than 2 miles from a big urban co.
A long time ago in a galaxy not far from here, Novell servers would send out broadcasts looking for identical serial numbers and would complain if it found itself. That was before widespread connectivity so it couldn't report back to hq - I can't ever remember if it stopped working or not. Some people didn't like the extra network traffic being used to 'spy' on itself.
this crap is infiltrating critical systems throughout the Federation
Here is my mechanical TTY terminal, a VERY SIMPLE interface is all it took to get my Model 33ASR wired to a notebook running RH8, the 'history simulator' (simh) simulating a PDP/8 running OS/8 and playing BASIC games, just like a student would be doing in 1972.
(Will be adding more to the page eventually, like how to configure Linux to run a 110 baud ASCII terminal, etc. Lost my previous host!)
But Intellectual "Property" isn't natural law. It's a purely human construct of extremely recent vintage
Why do you have to make the distinction between 'human' and 'natural' as if 'humans' were some kind of foreign body that didn't come FROM nature in the first place? The 'human' mind and it's creativity is it's defense and survival mechanism, just like any other animal. You might as well say that "streatching one's neck and eating leaves right off tall trees and a purely giraffe construct that isn't natural". People create things, like pottery, and have the right to enjoy their creations without other people stealing it, whether it's the pots or the design of them, just like a lion will enjoy the gazelle it bagged, and will naturally get angry if some jackles try to take it; an artist or coder who wants to earn their bread and butter from their art or code is perfectly naturally, and will understandably get rightfull upset and mad if someone else copies and profits from their efforts w/o compensation.
Jeesh, it's sad to see this rationalization for theft become so almost mainstream, but what part of earning a living do you moochers not understand? If we want artists and coders to have full time paying jobs doing what they do best we have to have IP laws. If you want every artist and coder by do it just as an after day-job hobby in their spare time then sure, call IP laws an unnatural 'human construct' that should be banished. Once anyone can freely copy and distribut your favorites band's work, they'll have to find other employment and create their art on weekends and evenings in their spare time, after 'real' work.
"Man is the best computer we can put aboard
;)) If they could make a orbital version of 'Survivor' or 'Big Brother' a weekly episode it might pay for itself.
a spacecraft... and the only one that can
be mass produced with unskilled labor."
However a *lot* has changed since von Braun's statement: Harris, Intel, AMD and a host of other's can mass produce radiation hardened computers to put aboard spacecraft (not to mention telemetry back to earth for human processing, albeit with a lag that renders it non-realtime, I'll grant you that) for far less that it takes to stow oxygen plants, food pills, water, tang, entertainment, exercise equipment, medical supplies, etc etc etc.
However, for public relations purposes, the taxpaying public would be fascinated by sex in space, the first space kid, etc
Yes, she certainly is - I got a cheap SGI recently and one of the first things I did was put FSN on it - then check out the movie and verified it's the same. Not extremely useful, but it does make a filesystem tree you can fly over in 3D. I think it was something they whipped up for the moive - as opposed to a real tool.
This is great news, but like all pioneering events, it's just the beginning of a brave new future. Someday, regularly scheduled model airplane flights over the Atlantic, as well as to other destinations, will be a commonplace occurance. In the future, everyone will have unmaned aerial vehicle service available right in their backyards. Soon, inexpensive GPS programmable reusable UAV's with automatic colision avoidance will be available to anyone for less than the price of an automobile at stores everywhere.
A little philosophy for all the kneejerkers decrying the focus on guns instead of butter, on swords instead of plowshares: life is a struggle, and utopia's are always the abodes of the dead. It is the power of the procreative urge that ensures there will always be more hungry mouths to feed than there is food to go around. If the money spent on defense, which employs many people, were simply given away to 'the poor', you only get more poor families. Believe it or not, we actually want more self sufficient famlies, not more beggars who don't know how to raise responsible, self sufficient children.
It was once the religious rationalition of the industrialist that mass production was the solution of mankinds neverending poverty: simply make more things cheaper and faster and everyone can enjoy plenty. Now we live with that legacy as industrial waste and environmenal degradation, shipping factories off to developing countries and let them deal with the runoff. However, the lesson learned is that whenever you produce n amount of goods, humanity produces n+1 people wanting those goods and squabling (ocassionally going to war) over how to obtain those goods. Also, on the economic treadmill, poverty is always relative - people under the poverty line in one country would be considered well-to-do in another. A person with a low-status-symbol automobile might be pitiful in one land, but envied in a land where few people at all have autos.
Now, the eternal question is: Am I My Brothers Keeper? The well off say no, those in need say yes. The well to do can give away everything they have, and the needy will only consume it and come back for more - except there isn't any more, and now there are more of them hungrier than before (including the formerly wealthy one who just gave up everything he had).
Say two farmers own the same amount land and produce the same amount of the same crops. Each one produces enought to feed a family of 8. One has 12 children, and the other has 3 children. One is needy, and the other has a surplus. Is it the social obligation for the one with a surplus to just freely give his surplus to the other? Or should he just sell it and buy a new tractor, to heck with the other guy?
there will be bombs that only kill one person
and one of these days they'll come up with a 'surgical strike' bomb that can take out the heart, but leaves the kidneys undamaged.
I've made redundant copies (some games on as many as three different floppies) just in case a disk goes bad.
;) Software on a real floppy can easily be copied to the PC, and archived on CD's etc.
Atari enthusiasts have some called the Atari Peripheral Emulator that allows your modern day PC serial port to act like a floppy disk drive. That way, we can keep 'tons' of old software on CD-ROM, load and boot up F-15 Strike Eagle, Blue Max, Raster Blaster or Kennedy Approach
HD also has an answer to the Segway - it uses a much more powerful engine, and this really neat completely mechanical balancing mechanism based on the gyroscopic effect: two large turning wheels keep the unit upright, and when you lean to one side or the other, the front wheel, which is pivoted, actually turns into the direction of the lean, simultaneously providing a turning and self righting function.
It's amazingly fun! You ought to ride one someday.
They come in models that go fast enough to keep up with the fastest hiway traffic, and are quickly and easily 'recharged' at any widely available automobile service center.
subject asks it all.
Then there's the question of ... what do you need a supercomputer for?
One glaring need: The US Patent and Trademark office is in desparate need of some better method of researching 'prior art' in the info explosion age. Just give 'em vast storage, indexing and a bank of workstations and I bet those examiners could easily shoot down some of the 'one click wonders' currently being 'invented'.
are they trying to say that file trading stinks?