About software bloat.
If efficiency is the driving factor. Market demand will drive software efficiency when hardware efficiency peaks. Unless government intervention influences price.(intellectual property carve outs) The price will be zero plus cost of transit infrastructure. So what else is GNU?
.016? - How much money has the government printed? Only banks and drug dealers could mark up "cut" their product by 1/5 (21 percent interest on credit cards + 75 - 150 per yr to issue a card.)
Next up:"Stagflation" Stagflation occurs when the economy isn't growing but prices are, which is not a good situation for a country to be in. This happened to a great extent during the 1970s, when world oil prices rose dramatically, fueling sharp inflation in developed countries. For these countries, including the U.S., stagnation increased the inflationary effects. - courtesy investopedia
Daddy Warbucks wants a new contract hires a private investigator, bids low wins, and isn't too concerned about cost over runs.
Journalism student Talks to a electronics worker at a bar and finds waste and cost cutting that jeopardizes Wunder device. His credit report is filled with errors and pictures are taken from his home computer and posted.
Sen. Family Values invites a friend to a weekend retreat. The wife doesn't know it yet. Would anything change his vote?
Vice president Paranoia sees a threat behind every kafir. Hires Web Google Bomb Inc. The next day thousands of sympathetic computer generated posts appear on influential blogs.
Wikileaks clones promise security and don't keep their promise. etc, etc.
SKYPE Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announce the acquisition of 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion from E-Bay, valuing the business at $2.75 billion
From the Wikipedia
"Early investors in KKR included the Hillman Family and the Griffith family (who are also large shareholders in MGM and Time-Warner)[6] By 1978, with the revision of the ERISA regulations, the nascent KKR was successful in raising its first institutional fund with approximately $30 million of investor commitments.[7]"
This is a very selective selection of links and is in no way comprehensive. What do you think?
Slashdot Mirror
How many movies can you store on a drobo with 3TB drives? Price per TB keeps falling with no end in sight.
Pretty soon you will have more movies in your library than you can ever watch.
Movie companies are terrified.
10MB TinyCore Linux
1.3MB tomsrtbt
Why?
Haha - You sent that email "Reply all"
"Ross Kemp Extreme World Mexico"
Just so you know what you are in for.
It's much easier to claim bravery than take action.
Time for a 'shrink wrap license"?
"Open Hardware Submarines.." Inspired by submarine patents?
You have (courage?) to deride open source on Slashdot?
It wasn't Linux that sank the OLPC it was price.
We voted out Grey Davis. Enron left him without constitutional authority to do anything. - talk about shoot the messenger. - lol
"the last seven decades would be pretty much seven decades of being eighty..."
Hugh Hefner eighty or George Burns eighty?
Go Sparta!
Police union is an important donor to Democratic campaigns.
Don't like your legislator?
Open your wallet and buy another one. Tell your friends to do the same.
About software bloat.
If efficiency is the driving factor. Market demand will drive software efficiency when hardware efficiency peaks.
Unless government intervention influences price.(intellectual property carve outs) The price will be zero plus cost of transit infrastructure.
So what else is GNU?
.016? - How much money has the government printed?
Only banks and drug dealers could mark up "cut" their product by 1/5 (21 percent interest on credit cards + 75 - 150 per yr to issue a card.)
Next up:"Stagflation"
Stagflation occurs when the economy isn't growing but prices are, which is not a good situation for a country to be in. This happened to a great extent during the 1970s, when world oil prices rose dramatically, fueling sharp inflation in developed countries. For these countries, including the U.S., stagnation increased the inflationary effects. - courtesy investopedia
Because the guy with a low balance got hit with overdrafts more than once a year. Think debits before credits..
whispersys - binary installer no obvious link to gpl source code. No invitation to developers either. - security software?
MSNBC on XBOX? - Rupert Murdoch buys Nintendo? - lol
What to do when Moores Law arrests profits... Sell entertainment.
"..seven of the ten most-censored books are now available on Amazon's Kindle — more than twice as many as last year."
I lol'ed
Just when each of us can afford a "printing press" the government decides we shouldn't any opinions.
Clear this up for me, We allow each government controlled DNS server to protect us from exposure to "harmful" ideas?
Multi-Terabyte disks X 24 disk RAID controller. + $1,000 Computer = Entertainment execs. are terrified.
Next up."Renting a movie or game is PIRACY!."
Regulation is their last best hope.
Bet on a prequel. If the first try sucks Mr. Scott can roll the dice again with a sequel.
Daddy Warbucks wants a new contract hires a private investigator, bids low wins, and isn't too concerned about cost over runs.
Journalism student Talks to a electronics worker at a bar and finds waste and cost cutting that jeopardizes Wunder device. His credit report is filled with errors and pictures are taken from his home computer and posted.
Sen. Family Values invites a friend to a weekend retreat. The wife doesn't know it yet. Would anything change his vote?
Vice president Paranoia sees a threat behind every kafir. Hires Web Google Bomb Inc. The next day thousands of sympathetic computer generated posts appear on influential blogs.
Wikileaks clones promise security and don't keep their promise. etc, etc.
The worst thing for a book, movie, or band is to be ignored.
Entertainment is made more desirable by exposure.
This thread and "Third Reich the Rise." on TV tonight.Then Rupert Murdock etc.
Unsettling.
Chernobyl - also begins a discussion of "Xenon Poisoning'
You may find this article interesting.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.html
For your clicking convenience - lol
KKR Pioneer in leveraged buy-outs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg_Kravis_Roberts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Kohlberg,_Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kravis
Silverlake Partners
also tech investors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake_Partners
SKYPE
Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announce the acquisition of 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion from E-Bay, valuing the business at $2.75 billion
From the Wikipedia
"Early investors in KKR included the Hillman Family and the Griffith family (who are also large shareholders in MGM and Time-Warner)[6] By 1978, with the revision of the ERISA regulations, the nascent KKR was successful in raising its first institutional fund with approximately $30 million of investor commitments.[7]"
This is a very selective selection of links and is in no way comprehensive.
What do you think?