Well it's not quite as black and white as you make it out to be. There's a little wrinkle I'd like to point out.
First, some definitions. A "secondary market" is when people can sell assets to each other after the original creator has sold them. For example, a collectors bookstore selling a used book, or EB selling a used video game. The existance of a secondary market increases the "liquidity" of the asset, in that you're able to resell your asset quickly/easily for a fair price. This creates value for the asset holder.
In other words, a functioning used book market increases the value for all book holders. By getting rid of the secondary market, the value is destroyed for potential new-book buyers. They're still paying the same amount for a new book, but they won't have the option of receiving a salvage value when they're sick of the book. One person's actions can't get rid of the secondary market on their own of course, but if everyone did it... tragedy of the commons.
That said, in the provided example, I'd probably go for the ebook. Just consider the above when talking about used books in general.
Quick tangent: this is why I get pissed off at the videogame publisher group the ESA (EA, Ubisoft, etc) with their DRM and lawsuits. They're trying to kill off both trading and the selling of used games. They are reducing the value of their product by depriving me of a secondary market, while still increasing their prices every year. Of course they have an incentive to remove the secondary market; they want to increase the primary market to make money for themselves. Jerks.
Have you ever heard of a "block heater"? Here in Canada, our winters can get so cold that the oil the engine becomes very viscous and starting the car cold can damage it. Therefore, most parking lots (at least, university, home, and company parking lots) have an electrical outlet for each parking space which you "plug your car into". The block heater keeps the engine slightly warm for you.
Clearly charging cars takes more energy than running a small heater, but it's not that infeasible to have plugs in all parking lots. There are ways to get around it, like cycling power every 20 minutes, etc.
I don't think incompatability is really an issue anymore for basic webbrowsing. My personal experience is that 99% of the webpages that I regularly visit render perfectly in Opera. I love this browser.
ATI contracted out their fabrication in the past, correct? Since AMD acquired them, perhaps they now realize this might work for their x86 stuff. Disclaimer: I have absolutely no expertise in this area.
My first thought was "It's good that these people are taking a stand against injustice.", but my second thought was "These principled people just resigned. Norway's board is entirely corrupt now." Bummer.
Man, what is up with these comments? Who has the time to come up with these wacky conspiracy theories? It's kind of creepy that someone just sits in their basement all day and ruminates on this kind of stuff.
They can only lend money if they have extra liquid assets. Most of them do not.
When a bank's assets fall in value, they need to either cut back in lending, or raise more capital. Lending isn't cut back by the value of the loss either, it's the loss times the leverage ratio, of say 10x. In other words, if a bank has a loss of $10 billion, they need to cut back lending by $100 billion, or raise $10 billion in cash from some new source.
With all the banks lossing such huge sums of money, how the hell are they going to lend more money? They can't, and in fact they're cutting back lending. That's why we call it "the credit crunch". To give you an idea, banks have lost approximately $100 billion. That means there is now $1 trillion less lending going on.
If you think they're magically going to start lending more, think again.
Meh, I used to play Empires and then switched to Dystopia. Empires had some god-awful maps (district? Whatever that street map with the tickets was called), and team-stacking was a major problem. Aircraft sounded cool, but as far as I can tell they're never going to arrive.
Dystopia is amazing. All the new maps look fantastic, the action is fast paced, and cyberspace is really trippy.
An often overlooked scripting language is Mumps...
Hiss! It burns!
MUMPS (originally, Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System) is conceptually different from just about every other programming language out there. The primary design goal MUMPS was to create code that, once written, can never be maintained by anyone ever again. The syntax is somewhat reminiscent of FORTRAN and SNOBOL (no, not the toilet cleaner), only much, much worse. Ironically, being inflicted with mumps (the disease) is much more pleasant that actually working with MUMPS (the language). A more apt name for the language certainly would have been EXPLOSIVE-DIARRHEA; Im sure they could have even worked SNOBOL (the language, or, heck, even the toilet cleaner) in there as well....
Keep in mind that MUMPS is not one of those esoteric joke languages. It should be, but it isnt. MUMPS is very real, and has been used for the past thirty years to create and maintain colossal medical information systems.
This is why pure capitalism doesn't work.... Which is of course why communism doesn't work either. Because of people.
Since every sistem is going to involve people, are you saying that no system will work? What's the point of saying that? We need *some* system, so throwing them all out and going home is sort of pointless. Instead, you should be evaluating them (Highest utility, lowest cost, whatever), and going with the best one. It may not be perfect, but we don't really have a choice in the matter.
It's a simple supply and demand problem. The supply is scarce so the cost rises. This allows oil speculators to raise the price even higher.
What's up with this "speculation" scapegoat recently? Like you said, oil price is a supply and demand problem: oil future's trading doesn't effect supply or demand since most of the contracts are never physically settled. To quote the Economist, "And since no oil is ever held back from the market, these bets do not affect the price of oil any more than bets on a football match affect the result."
I bloody hate people who trash futures and the basic derivatives, because these instruments can be extremely helpful for the economy. For example, hedging costs and reducing revenue volatility.
Read this article on the Economist, and maybe you'll learn something.
These guarantees made Freddie Mac have an impeccable credit rating, despite the fact that, to continue growing their profit, they kept buying more and more debt that was downright awful.In other words, Freddie Mac's credit rating didn't reflect the junk nature of their assets.
Excuse me? The problem isn't that these GSEs were buying bad assets at all. Read this article by the Economist, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - End of Illusions. It is a far more credible source than a random post on Slashdot.
"Investors have got quite a bit of protection against a housing bust because of the type of deals that Fannie and Freddie guaranteed. The duo focused on mortgages to borrowers with good credit scores and the wherewithal to put down a deposit. This was not subprime lending.... Although they tended to buy AAA-rated paper, that designation is not as reliable as it used to be, as the credit crunch has shown." - The Economist
I haven't heard of a "water rower" before, is it similar to an ergometer? Ergometer's are great exercise, but you really need good form or you're going to mess up your back. I would highly recommend having a trainer teach you how to use it, and to periodically check up on your form for a few weeks.
If you live in a city with a rowing club, you could take up one-person sculling. It's non-impact, relaxing, and you get out in the fresh air. Unfortunately, you can't do it in the winter, and it's really difficult to carry the boat to the water on your own, so you have to have some social interaction. The solitude out on the water is nice though.
My first ever program was written in Basic: it had a simple prompt to enter your name, output "Hello &name", and then had the screen flash hundreds of different colours to try and give you a seisure. It was my finest work.
Though seriously, the best fun I ever had was programming my own text adventure. When I wanted to add new features, I HAD to learn more. Best high-school programming class ever.
The University of Cambridge has poured cold water on reports its most famous physicist might be coming to Canada to work, saying Wednesday Stephen Hawking "has no plans" to leave.
A report in the Daily Telegraph in the U.K. said Hawking was contemplating joining his colleague Neil Turok at Waterloo, Ont.'s Perimeter Institute. The South African-born cosmologist Turok, 49, is leaving Cambridge to take over the role of executive director at the institute, which was founded in 2000 by Research in Motion co-founder Mike Lazaridis and is devoted to the study of theoretical physics.
Cambridge's statement called the report "unfounded speculation."
Actually, I believe it was a federal court that decided that JT would not be allowed to file court papers with them, unless they were also signed by another attorney. That didn't really have anything to do with this bar trial, other than JT trying to cut off the bar trial by going to the federal court, which slapped him down. I'm just a layman, so check out these links for better info: link 1link 2
What has happened, is that the bar trial judge has found JT guilty, and her recommendation is PERMANENT disbarment, which wasn't mentioned in the summary. It's old news that he was found guilty, but we originally thought he'd only get disbarred for 10 years. Now it's being made permanent AND he has to pay costs.
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Well it's not quite as black and white as you make it out to be. There's a little wrinkle I'd like to point out.
First, some definitions. A "secondary market" is when people can sell assets to each other after the original creator has sold them. For example, a collectors bookstore selling a used book, or EB selling a used video game. The existance of a secondary market increases the "liquidity" of the asset, in that you're able to resell your asset quickly/easily for a fair price. This creates value for the asset holder.
In other words, a functioning used book market increases the value for all book holders. By getting rid of the secondary market, the value is destroyed for potential new-book buyers. They're still paying the same amount for a new book, but they won't have the option of receiving a salvage value when they're sick of the book. One person's actions can't get rid of the secondary market on their own of course, but if everyone did it... tragedy of the commons.
That said, in the provided example, I'd probably go for the ebook. Just consider the above when talking about used books in general.
Quick tangent: this is why I get pissed off at the videogame publisher group the ESA (EA, Ubisoft, etc) with their DRM and lawsuits. They're trying to kill off both trading and the selling of used games. They are reducing the value of their product by depriving me of a secondary market, while still increasing their prices every year. Of course they have an incentive to remove the secondary market; they want to increase the primary market to make money for themselves. Jerks.
Crap, the one time I don't have mod points. 10 replies and this is the only sensible one.
Re-entry vehicle? Getting a little far away from our core competencies are we, the ESA? Oh... we're not talking about videogames.
Have you ever heard of a "block heater"? Here in Canada, our winters can get so cold that the oil the engine becomes very viscous and starting the car cold can damage it. Therefore, most parking lots (at least, university, home, and company parking lots) have an electrical outlet for each parking space which you "plug your car into". The block heater keeps the engine slightly warm for you.
Clearly charging cars takes more energy than running a small heater, but it's not that infeasible to have plugs in all parking lots. There are ways to get around it, like cycling power every 20 minutes, etc.
Wooo! Best mud ever.
http://mud.arctic.org/ port 2700
I don't think incompatability is really an issue anymore for basic webbrowsing. My personal experience is that 99% of the webpages that I regularly visit render perfectly in Opera. I love this browser.
ATI contracted out their fabrication in the past, correct? Since AMD acquired them, perhaps they now realize this might work for their x86 stuff. Disclaimer: I have absolutely no expertise in this area.
My first thought was "It's good that these people are taking a stand against injustice.", but my second thought was "These principled people just resigned. Norway's board is entirely corrupt now." Bummer.
... and to back up your point, here is an Economist article which explains it nicely.
Man, what is up with these comments? Who has the time to come up with these wacky conspiracy theories? It's kind of creepy that someone just sits in their basement all day and ruminates on this kind of stuff.
They can only lend money if they have extra liquid assets. Most of them do not.
When a bank's assets fall in value, they need to either cut back in lending, or raise more capital. Lending isn't cut back by the value of the loss either, it's the loss times the leverage ratio, of say 10x. In other words, if a bank has a loss of $10 billion, they need to cut back lending by $100 billion, or raise $10 billion in cash from some new source.
With all the banks lossing such huge sums of money, how the hell are they going to lend more money? They can't, and in fact they're cutting back lending. That's why we call it "the credit crunch". To give you an idea, banks have lost approximately $100 billion. That means there is now $1 trillion less lending going on.
If you think they're magically going to start lending more, think again.
Meh, I used to play Empires and then switched to Dystopia. Empires had some god-awful maps (district? Whatever that street map with the tickets was called), and team-stacking was a major problem. Aircraft sounded cool, but as far as I can tell they're never going to arrive.
Dystopia is amazing. All the new maps look fantastic, the action is fast paced, and cyberspace is really trippy.
Here is one I found:
Needs flash. I don't know how strong their server is though, hopefully it doesn't burn.
An often overlooked scripting language is Mumps...
Hiss! It burns!
MUMPS (originally, Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System) is conceptually different from just about every other programming language out there. The primary design goal MUMPS was to create code that, once written, can never be maintained by anyone ever again. The syntax is somewhat reminiscent of FORTRAN and SNOBOL (no, not the toilet cleaner), only much, much worse. Ironically, being inflicted with mumps (the disease) is much more pleasant that actually working with MUMPS (the language). A more apt name for the language certainly would have been EXPLOSIVE-DIARRHEA; Im sure they could have even worked SNOBOL (the language, or, heck, even the toilet cleaner) in there as well. ...
Keep in mind that MUMPS is not one of those esoteric joke languages. It should be, but it isnt. MUMPS is very real, and has been used for the past thirty years to create and maintain colossal medical information systems.
- http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx
This is why pure capitalism doesn't work. ... Which is of course why communism doesn't work either. Because of people.
Since every sistem is going to involve people, are you saying that no system will work? What's the point of saying that? We need *some* system, so throwing them all out and going home is sort of pointless. Instead, you should be evaluating them (Highest utility, lowest cost, whatever), and going with the best one. It may not be perfect, but we don't really have a choice in the matter.
It's a simple supply and demand problem. The supply is scarce so the cost rises. This allows oil speculators to raise the price even higher.
What's up with this "speculation" scapegoat recently? Like you said, oil price is a supply and demand problem: oil future's trading doesn't effect supply or demand since most of the contracts are never physically settled. To quote the Economist, "And since no oil is ever held back from the market, these bets do not affect the price of oil any more than bets on a football match affect the result."
I bloody hate people who trash futures and the basic derivatives, because these instruments can be extremely helpful for the economy. For example, hedging costs and reducing revenue volatility.
Read this article on the Economist, and maybe you'll learn something.
Here are the Dell models which have BIOS updates, from TFA:
Inspiron 1420
Latitude D630
Latitude D630c
Dell Precision M2300
Vostro Notebook 1310
Vostro Notebook 1400
Vostro Notebook 1510
Vostro Notebook 1710
XPS M1330
XPS M1530
These guarantees made Freddie Mac have an impeccable credit rating, despite the fact that, to continue growing their profit, they kept buying more and more debt that was downright awful.In other words, Freddie Mac's credit rating didn't reflect the junk nature of their assets.
Excuse me? The problem isn't that these GSEs were buying bad assets at all. Read this article by the Economist, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - End of Illusions. It is a far more credible source than a random post on Slashdot.
"Investors have got quite a bit of protection against a housing bust because of the type of deals that Fannie and Freddie guaranteed. The duo focused on mortgages to borrowers with good credit scores and the wherewithal to put down a deposit. This was not subprime lending.... Although they tended to buy AAA-rated paper, that designation is not as reliable as it used to be, as the credit crunch has shown." - The Economist
I haven't heard of a "water rower" before, is it similar to an ergometer? Ergometer's are great exercise, but you really need good form or you're going to mess up your back. I would highly recommend having a trainer teach you how to use it, and to periodically check up on your form for a few weeks.
If you live in a city with a rowing club, you could take up one-person sculling. It's non-impact, relaxing, and you get out in the fresh air. Unfortunately, you can't do it in the winter, and it's really difficult to carry the boat to the water on your own, so you have to have some social interaction. The solitude out on the water is nice though.
My first ever program was written in Basic: it had a simple prompt to enter your name, output "Hello &name", and then had the screen flash hundreds of different colours to try and give you a seisure. It was my finest work.
Though seriously, the best fun I ever had was programming my own text adventure. When I wanted to add new features, I HAD to learn more. Best high-school programming class ever.
According to the wiki timeline it wasn't until around 2000 when a 'free' version became available
...and this stops you from using it now, why?
Personally, I'm waiting for "Web for Workspaces 3.1".
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/16/hawking-perimeter.html
The University of Cambridge has poured cold water on reports its most famous physicist might be coming to Canada to work, saying Wednesday Stephen Hawking "has no plans" to leave.
A report in the Daily Telegraph in the U.K. said Hawking was contemplating joining his colleague Neil Turok at Waterloo, Ont.'s Perimeter Institute. The South African-born cosmologist Turok, 49, is leaving Cambridge to take over the role of executive director at the institute, which was founded in 2000 by Research in Motion co-founder Mike Lazaridis and is devoted to the study of theoretical physics.
Cambridge's statement called the report "unfounded speculation."
Actually, I believe it was a federal court that decided that JT would not be allowed to file court papers with them, unless they were also signed by another attorney. That didn't really have anything to do with this bar trial, other than JT trying to cut off the bar trial by going to the federal court, which slapped him down. I'm just a layman, so check out these links for better info: link 1 link 2
What has happened, is that the bar trial judge has found JT guilty, and her recommendation is PERMANENT disbarment, which wasn't mentioned in the summary. It's old news that he was found guilty, but we originally thought he'd only get disbarred for 10 years. Now it's being made permanent AND he has to pay costs.