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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 03:51 AM EDT |
I read a remark "population shrinking is a deadly threat for the
Ponzi-scheme" at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9480990/Finland-prepares-for-
break-up-of-eurozone.html#disqus_thread
Is the perpetual population growth a necessity for continued financial growth? I
recall having read somewhere that US continued financial growth was in part made
possible thanks to two centuries of immigration.
Still, I haven't thought of it along the lines of a Ponzi-scheme. Could there be
anything to that idea? That as soon as a country's population stagnates the
economy collapses? Could Japan be an example of this? I have no idea how viable
the image is but thought it was a thought provoking idea, and name.
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Authored by: David Gerard on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 04:23 AM EDT |
Ken Starks, the author of the Helios blog, about putting Linux on cheap
computers for poor kids, hasn't been very active on line lately, because he's
fighting cancer. His Social Security is too high to get Medicare, so he
needs money for medical expenses (medicines and surgery). See also here. They don't have a
target dollar amount listed. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 08:10 AM EDT |
Woody Leonhard at InfoWorld writes about the final
Release to Manufacturer
version of Windows 8 and concludes
you are not
going to like
it.
In RTM, the transfer from the Vista-era Aero
interface to the boxy, opaque, shadowless, glowless, and
shine-free flatland
style pioneered in Windows 3.1 seems
complete.
I can confirm after
months in the trenches and talking
with many hundreds of testers that anyone
who defines "real
work" as typing and mousing won't like Windows 8 one little
bit.
Now that Windows 8 has arrived (today for MSDN and
TechNet
subscribers, and tomorrow for Microsoft Partner
Network members and Volume
Licensees), the harsh analogies -
- "Windows Frankenstein," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde operating
system" -- may be applied conclusively. While Windows 8
inherits many of the advantages of Windows 7 -- the
manageability, the
security (plus integrated antivirus), and
the broad compatibility with existing
hardware and software
-- it takes an axe to usability. The lagging, limited,
often
hamstrung Metro apps don't help.
Some people think that Windows
8 and Windows 8 Pro
tablets will hit the market by storm. Having used Windows 8
on desktops, a laptop, and on a tablet for almost a year
now, I'm considerably
more skeptical. Although Win8 running
on an Intel tablet will undoubtedly solve
some specific
corporate (and personal) requirements, I certainly don't
expect
a massive move to Windows 8, either in the office or
at home.
One thing
is for sure: There's going to be significant
demand for Windows 7 laptops and
desktops for the
foreseeable future.
About that last line:
I have been seeing some heavy
advertising on my local TV station for HP
UltraBooks. The
ads begin with the Windows 7 logo forming up as seen on
Windows 7 desktops. This heavy promotion of Windows 7 seemed
strange to me,
coinciding as it does with the launch of
Windows 8. My first thought was it is
capitalizing on
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- That good? - Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 08:31 AM EDT
- Ouch - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 05:33 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 09:52 AM EDT |
August 16th, 2012
The Debian community is pleased to
celebrate its 19th birthday since Ian Murdock's original
founding
announcement.
Quoting from the
official project history:
The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian
Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that
time, the whole concept of a
'distribution' of Linux was new. Ian intended Debian to be
a distribution which
would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU.
A lot has
happened to the project and its community in the past
nineteen
years.
http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120816[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 09:53 AM EDT |
Samsung Galaxy Note sales hit 10 million --- RMS: The 4
Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 10:45 AM EDT |
Germany's top court has ruled that ISPs must hand
over the names and addresses of file sharers if rights holders ask for them –
regardless of how much music has been shared.
Germany's
Federal Court of Law, the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), has ruled that users of
file-sharing sites have no right to remain anonymous, regardless of how much –
or little – music they share.
The ruling comes in the case of Naidoo Records vs Deutsche Telekom. Naidoo Records had requested
that the German ISP hand over the names and addresses of users of an IP address
behind the illegal file-sharing of a piece of music, a new album by German song
writer Xavier Naidoo.
The local courts in Cologne - first the Landgericht
Köln then the superior court Oberlandesgericht Köln - refused Naidoo Records'
request, saying that the breach of copyright would need to be on a commercial
scale before the ISP could share the identity of the IP address
owner.
The BGH has now overturned the local courts' decisions, ruling
that Naidoo Records' request should be granted.
Jakob Jung, ZDNet [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 10:59 AM EDT |
Brendan Griffen created a giant network of people, using every profile on
Wikipedia that had an "influenced by" or "influences"
field.
Each node represents a person and is sized by the number of links going in and
is colored by genre.
http://flowingdata.com/2012/07/16/graphing-every-idea-in-history/[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: kh on Saturday, August 18 2012 @ 01:17 AM EDT |
article here [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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