Yes - I just finished reading a 1953 book called "Fire in the Ashes" by Theodore H. White, where the author interviews industrialist Willi Schlieker. Theo reports that in 1942: "Willi, with the simplicity of a bright young man, did the simplest of all things. He put German heavy industry on a punch-card basis. Each item ordered by the Army had to be ordered through Willi's office and each order had to be accompanied by punch cards breaking down the end-item requirement of 1,000 tanks, say, into so many tons of broad-guage amror plate, so many tons of chain, so many tons of light-guage steel, so many tons of tubing. All the rolling capacity of Europe's steel mills were similarly broken down into their monthly productive capacity of special categories of steel. Running a million punch cards a month through his filing machines, Willi made a balance sheet. On one side were the war's requirements listed in tonnages of each type of steel; on the other side, Europe's capacity that month to produce what tonnage of the needed kinds of steel."
is pictured here - is that undisputable enough? But seriously, in a razor close election the losers are always going to try to tip the balance by complaining about something, no matter what you do or use.
Or analyze the expressions on the other player's faces to determine if perhaps that they are bluffing, and call the bluff? Human intelligence can do this
Is it really something called "intelligence" that can read a face? Nobody every wrote an academic tome called "Advanced Face Reading" that details an intellectual process to go thru to read an opponent that might be turned into some algorithm. Doesn't a poker player relay on intuition, hunches, empathy and other subtle emotional cues to decide on a game strategy - and if so how would you even begin to code such an undefined thing in any traditional language like lisp, c++, etc?
Intelligence, like consciousness, seems to flee every time you define it; conversely, evertime you define it, it's no longer 'it'.
It was less a war than it was "ramming down the throat" of the developer.
Just like the 'browser wars' days when IE was playing catchup - all that's left of Netscape now is lawyers dwelling over fine points. The so-called 'competition' now? Just install QuickTime and RealPlayer on your XP and watch the battle! If history is any guide, Apple and Real should just quit now because Msft owns the areana of competition. There was never a 'home team advantage' as great as apps going thru a charade of so-called 'competition' on Msft turf - it might as well be the Harlem Globetrotters vs the Washington Generals, the outcome is a forgone conclusion.
The original 7 astronauts wouldn't qualify!
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At least from what you pick up from "The Right Stuff" drinkin' and driving was an admired ability amongst the eary crews. Not a very good role model tho, not at all.
Ah, these things come up every so often and are soon forgotten when people wise up to what the deal it - I've some old magazines with pictures of an experiment in Canada with 'pay per view' tv that actually had a coin box on the consumers set in their house! This was in the late 50's early 60's or so. That's right, to watch tv you had to put a nickle in, and a collector would come around and get the change. Needless to say, it didn't catch on.
just like the qotd says, "In a land where the sun is worshipped, studying thermodynamics is probably illegal". Some people still have the antiquated notion that life is, haha, sacred or something, hahah. Silly people. They still haven't gotten over the evolution thing yet.
One of the few time I checked their web site there was an article about a VA Beach "Inventor" who created one of those "magic fuel line magnetic gas mileage booster" - just gas running thru a couple of perm mags, JC Whitney sells them; they come up every few years (once the last scam is forgotten) to bite the gullible - local govts have been known to buy them for school buses, etc. I wrote CSICOP about it and, probably coincidentally, someone wrote an article about similar claims.
Well, when you consider that "IQ" (Intelligence QUOTIENT) is the ratio of mental age to chronological age, that's a tautaolgical statement - someone who attains the intelligence of a 'normal' 18 year old at the age of 24 has an iq of 75, so indeed, "It just takes longer".
Sure, why not. If an 'internet' is a network of networks, we should be able to build a cluster of clusters. One cluster calculates the reality I'm flying thru while another one calculates the effects of the nuclear device I just heaved, both feed into the headmounted 3D stereo graphics processor with surround sound audio helmet on the hydraulically actuated platform, while an input/output cluster handles sim data from the other players over the fibre channel...
Wow! I'm sitting on a friggin' gold mine. Who in their right mind would ever pay upwards of $35 for ONE MINUTE of time on a PC?? You can buy a good system that's paid for itself in just one hour of time!! Lets see, going by the usual inflated legal dollers, this 1.5Ghz P4 I've been burning in for the last two weeks has just wasted $713,000. boggle.
I've been marvelling at how easy the latest & greatest PC stuff is. The last P4/XP box I built could be easily setup so that the user only has to:
1) Just hit spacebar to power on
2) Just press the little grey button on the Logitech kbd marked "www", IE launches and
3) A box appears asking to connect to an ISP
So, all someone has to do now is hit space, wait, press one button, then return and they're at their home page, Yahoo, google, bank, ebay, whatever. Having always on cable would bring the ordeal down to only hitting space, then the 'www' button.
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In a free market system, monopolies NATURALLY result from good business practices.
No they don't - look at any number of industries: gasoline, groceries, pharmaceuticals, etc - in all of these sectors consumers benefit from healthy competition between several major players using good business practices, with room for many minor local businesses. Even in media you have a choice of radio, tv stations, isp's, movie studios. What the big difference is in 'technology' markets that makes them so suceptible to monopolization is the ability to obfuscate your techniques so that people can no longer distinguish "good business practices" from "unfair trade practices". If the Exxon corp. put some special secret ingredient in their gas so that once you used it you could never use a competitors product without major engine damage (or forced you to change to an Exxon gas tank that only works on Exxon pumps) it would clearly be a case of "unfair trade practices", yet the major technology businesses do this all the time, make heaps, and it's suddenly (according to employees, stockholders and their lawyers) "good business practice".
Have you ever delt with a telco? They're full of people who resort to tachnobabble at the drop of a hat to get out of work, knowing full well that they can never lose business to any competitor.
Don't know why it's 'funny' - RH probably doesn't have anywhere near the marketing budget of the dominant players but they could whip up some full page ads pointing out you don't have to play the Msft licensing / vendor lock in / upgrade treadmill game just to run a modern business office.
My 12" tft display was only $500 plus it came with a p233, 32Mb, 6Gb, kybd, touchpad, cdrom, battery, sound and slots for wireless net cards to plug VNC into any box I want. It runs Linux and Win2k just fine.
(the link above is a little skimpy on disk size, 2G doesn't cut it for me).
You would also compare your product against competitive products and see where you sit in comparison to them price/value wise.
There's the problem right there. Also, 35 bln in the bank and raking in a bln / month speaks for itself. We need get the idea across that a tightly integrated software system is a natural monopoly that should be price regulated to protect consumers agains the inevitable price gouging (c'mon, is $300 for Powerpoint REALLY a 'fair' price? Sounds like just charging what the market will bear - all over the world people who need to whip up a slide show are saying, "Well, we're a Msft shop so I just have to pay it!"). Just like the power and telcos are regulated, so should Msft prices. That would have nothing to do with how they go about their business, just what the final price on the shelf is. Their 'vendor lock in' is not so much an evil act as a natural consequence of developing a tightly integrated system - anybody in their position would put making their own products work well together ahead of making competitors products work seemlessly with theirs.
is that they've not only stopped light, but made it go backwards, reversing time, so this 'discovery' got projected into the future, where we're reading about it now as if it were new, altho it's been done some time ago.
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Yes - I just finished reading a 1953 book called "Fire in the Ashes" by Theodore H. White, where the author interviews industrialist Willi Schlieker. Theo reports that in 1942: "Willi, with the simplicity of a bright young man, did the simplest of all things. He put German heavy industry on a punch-card basis. Each item ordered by the Army had to be ordered through Willi's office and each order had to be accompanied by punch cards breaking down the end-item requirement of 1,000 tanks, say, into so many tons of broad-guage amror plate, so many tons of chain, so many tons of light-guage steel, so many tons of tubing. All the rolling capacity of Europe's steel mills were similarly broken down into their monthly productive capacity of special categories of steel. Running a million punch cards a month through his filing machines, Willi made a balance sheet. On one side were the war's requirements listed in tonnages of each type of steel; on the other side, Europe's capacity that month to produce what tonnage of the needed kinds of steel."
is pictured here - is that undisputable enough? But seriously, in a razor close election the losers are always going to try to tip the balance by complaining about something, no matter what you do or use.
Or analyze the expressions on the other player's faces to determine if perhaps that they are bluffing, and call the bluff? Human intelligence can do this
Is it really something called "intelligence" that can read a face? Nobody every wrote an academic tome called "Advanced Face Reading" that details an intellectual process to go thru to read an opponent that might be turned into some algorithm. Doesn't a poker player relay on intuition, hunches, empathy and other subtle emotional cues to decide on a game strategy - and if so how would you even begin to code such an undefined thing in any traditional language like lisp, c++, etc?
Intelligence, like consciousness, seems to flee every time you define it; conversely, evertime you define it, it's no longer 'it'.
It was less a war than it was "ramming down the throat" of the developer.
Just like the 'browser wars' days when IE was playing catchup - all that's left of Netscape now is lawyers dwelling over fine points. The so-called 'competition' now? Just install QuickTime and RealPlayer on your XP and watch the battle! If history is any guide, Apple and Real should just quit now because Msft owns the areana of competition. There was never a 'home team advantage' as great as apps going thru a charade of so-called 'competition' on Msft turf - it might as well be the Harlem Globetrotters vs the Washington Generals, the outcome is a forgone conclusion.
At least from what you pick up from "The Right Stuff" drinkin' and driving was an admired ability amongst the eary crews. Not a very good role model tho, not at all.
Ah, these things come up every so often and are soon forgotten when people wise up to what the deal it - I've some old magazines with pictures of an experiment in Canada with 'pay per view' tv that actually had a coin box on the consumers set in their house! This was in the late 50's early 60's or so. That's right, to watch tv you had to put a nickle in, and a collector would come around and get the change. Needless to say, it didn't catch on.
just like the qotd says, "In a land where the sun is worshipped, studying thermodynamics is probably illegal". Some people still have the antiquated notion that life is, haha, sacred or something, hahah. Silly people. They still haven't gotten over the evolution thing yet.
Can't these be abused by mass UCE mailers?
One of the few time I checked their web site there was an article about a VA Beach "Inventor" who created one of those "magic fuel line magnetic gas mileage booster" - just gas running thru a couple of perm mags, JC Whitney sells them; they come up every few years (once the last scam is forgotten) to bite the gullible - local govts have been known to buy them for school buses, etc. I wrote CSICOP about it and, probably coincidentally, someone wrote an article about similar claims.
subj says it all.
Well, when you consider that "IQ" (Intelligence QUOTIENT) is the ratio of mental age to chronological age, that's a tautaolgical statement - someone who attains the intelligence of a 'normal' 18 year old at the age of 24 has an iq of 75, so indeed, "It just takes longer".
Sure, why not. If an 'internet' is a network of networks, we should be able to build a cluster of clusters. One cluster calculates the reality I'm flying thru while another one calculates the effects of the nuclear device I just heaved, both feed into the headmounted 3D stereo graphics processor with surround sound audio helmet on the hydraulically actuated platform, while an input/output cluster handles sim data from the other players over the fibre channel...
Why Win2K? Why not the latest and greatest XP? It's all Win2K is and then some.
Wow! I'm sitting on a friggin' gold mine. Who in their right mind would ever pay upwards of $35 for ONE MINUTE of time on a PC?? You can buy a good system that's paid for itself in just one hour of time!! Lets see, going by the usual inflated legal dollers, this 1.5Ghz P4 I've been burning in for the last two weeks has just wasted $713,000. boggle.
Sure, just like XP is a "completely new Windows!".
I've been marvelling at how easy the latest & greatest PC stuff is. The last P4/XP box I built could be easily setup so that the user only has to:
1) Just hit spacebar to power on
2) Just press the little grey button on the Logitech kbd marked "www", IE launches and
3) A box appears asking to connect to an ISP
So, all someone has to do now is hit space, wait, press one button, then return and they're at their home page, Yahoo, google, bank, ebay, whatever. Having always on cable would bring the ordeal down to only hitting space, then the 'www' button.
In a free market system, monopolies NATURALLY result from good business practices.
No they don't - look at any number of industries: gasoline, groceries, pharmaceuticals, etc - in all of these sectors consumers benefit from healthy competition between several major players using good business practices, with room for many minor local businesses. Even in media you have a choice of radio, tv stations, isp's, movie studios. What the big difference is in 'technology' markets that makes them so suceptible to monopolization is the ability to obfuscate your techniques so that people can no longer distinguish "good business practices" from "unfair trade practices". If the Exxon corp. put some special secret ingredient in their gas so that once you used it you could never use a competitors product without major engine damage (or forced you to change to an Exxon gas tank that only works on Exxon pumps) it would clearly be a case of "unfair trade practices", yet the major technology businesses do this all the time, make heaps, and it's suddenly (according to employees, stockholders and their lawyers) "good business practice".
Have you ever delt with a telco? They're full of people who resort to tachnobabble at the drop of a hat to get out of work, knowing full well that they can never lose business to any competitor.
Yipper, pirate central of Montana fer sure!
Don't know why it's 'funny' - RH probably doesn't have anywhere near the marketing budget of the dominant players but they could whip up some full page ads pointing out you don't have to play the Msft licensing / vendor lock in / upgrade treadmill game just to run a modern business office.
My 12" tft display was only $500 plus it came with a p233, 32Mb, 6Gb, kybd, touchpad, cdrom, battery, sound and slots for wireless net cards to plug VNC into any box I want. It runs Linux and Win2k just fine.
(the link above is a little skimpy on disk size, 2G doesn't cut it for me).
You would also compare your product against competitive products and see where you sit in comparison to them price/value wise.
There's the problem right there. Also, 35 bln in the bank and raking in a bln / month speaks for itself. We need get the idea across that a tightly integrated software system is a natural monopoly that should be price regulated to protect consumers agains the inevitable price gouging (c'mon, is $300 for Powerpoint REALLY a 'fair' price? Sounds like just charging what the market will bear - all over the world people who need to whip up a slide show are saying, "Well, we're a Msft shop so I just have to pay it!"). Just like the power and telcos are regulated, so should Msft prices. That would have nothing to do with how they go about their business, just what the final price on the shelf is. Their 'vendor lock in' is not so much an evil act as a natural consequence of developing a tightly integrated system - anybody in their position would put making their own products work well together ahead of making competitors products work seemlessly with theirs.
That's like saying "Fred the Fox and Wally the Wolf will become the most important allies in defending the core values of the henhouse".
Yup...
Then, is was revolutionary and exciting, todays it's just another product launch.
is that they've not only stopped light, but made it go backwards, reversing time, so this 'discovery' got projected into the future, where we're reading about it now as if it were new, altho it's been done some time ago.