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The specific moment I'm referring to was in 2007. I believe it's still the case that you can not download patch clusters without a support account. I'd love to be proven wrong about this, though.

There was a previous time (circa 2002) when I was considering it for another company but they pulled the freely available x86 ISOs altogether. This lack of commitment on Sun's part means I can't trust the free stuff for test / low end, even if they started offering everything again today, because I no longer trust that they won't do the same thing again next week.
I went to Wachovia on Saturday to withdraw some money and they actually had a mini run on the bank.

They actually ran out of checks to issue to customers! It took them over an hour to actually get more checks so that they could pay people.
Wow. And it's only Monday. Things are going to get exciting this week. Dow 8-9k.. any predictions?

Fortunes are made buying in bear markets. Though I wouldn't suggest its easy to recognize the bottom.
Excellent idea. While you're at it, think about the difference between "public record" and "one corporation controlling access to information". Putting this stuff online is a great idea. Putting all this stuff into the hands of one company is not.

Has anyone else noticed that you can search the OCRed text of the Google newspaper archive, but you can't actually download it?
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Yes, of course it is. The whole stock market is.
I've been doing some thinking along the lines of using statistical mechanics and information theory to produce a self-consistent measure of risk (unlike the current rating systems). Does anyone know if there's been any work in the area?
There are also lots of kits in the Make Store. (http://makershed.com)
Makezine also has a couple of older weekend projects about electronics. Like this one about the arduino

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/09/intro_to_the_arduin...

Or this into to breadboard electronics:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/08/intro_to_breadboard...

Or the introduction to oscilloscopes:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/02/introduction_to_osc...
The Fed can still print money and screw us savers.
where do you see this I'd like it to be true.
8K would be a reasonable valuation.
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Let's use your approach to define every other number the other uses the classic counting method.

Every other number will be the same as your number for N-1 digits. So at infinity your number is the same except for the last digit but two real numbers N and N + 1/infinity are the same.
Well, we will hack through it.
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"As nine central banks used currency swaps to oil the wheels of dollar liquidity in the money markets, sterling plunged and was on course for its steepest one-day drop against the dollar for at least a decade and a half."
Stocks are only down ~6%. The Dow is regularly going up and down hundreds of points at a time these days, -571 points is not really that big of a deal.

Plus, what would you expect to happen? Investors were counting on about $1 Trillon of free money from the government, and then the government pulled it back at the last minute. In a few days there will be news of a new deal and the DJIA will be up 500 points again. And, if the House of Representatives keeps doing its job, then the DJIA will fall 500 points again when the next "no" vote comes.
Thank you for writing a coherent and interesting critique. Much appreciated.
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Ok, here's the thing: even if you disagree philosophically with the legislation that they put together, you still would be wise to be very worried about the overall state of the economy due to tight credit. Many businesses (good, solid, profitable businesses that employ hard-working people) fund their operations via credit markets that have seized up. Absent some kind of intervention (and I for one would like to see more ideas on the table), even your ideal "prudent" person will probably suffer.

Just because you've done everything prudently on your own micro scale doesn't mean macro events can't hurt you.
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Well, if you're worth nothing you have nothing to lose, that's the way I see it.
Thank you, that was the most clear and useful definition of labeling I have ever seen.
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Did anyone notice the title of the bailout?

"To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide earnings assistance and tax relief to members of the uniformed services, volunteer firefighters, and Peace Corps volunteers, and for other purposes"

I think the real reason it failed is that they didn't title it "Flags for Orphans and other stuff".
It always amazes me to see how, no matter what the crisis is, conservatives will find some way to blame the poor. Ah, let's see: just five minutes of research turns up this: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/mythbusting-rights-subpr... and http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/04/did... and http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=0... . Unlike Arrington's ridiculously stupid and uninformed ranting these articles have real numbers that show that at best just 20% of the all those "bad loans" out there originated outside of CRA-regulated banks. At this point most economists have conceded that the CRA had little, if any, contribution to the current crisis but this won't stop conservatives and their faithful wingnuts from lying and trying to blame everything on a 30 year old law.
I definitely think there aren't enough investments in B2B companies.
I doubt we do either. Procedural isn't very well defined term. Usually people mean imperative when they say procedural, and it doesn't seem like the author understands the difference between imperative and functional, other than not being able to re-assign a variable.
Agree, however Greenspan albeit the chairman of the Fed, wasn't alone. Everybody likes to print money.
Bank accounts with over $100K?  Make sure it is insured
With the recent market turmoil, I looked to make sure our company's basic finances were properly protected. FDIC insures up to $100K on checking accounts, and with some other allowances can go higher (joint accounts, retirement accounts, etc). But this wasn't enough for us.

Just found this on the web: http://www.cdars.com

Supposedly it is a network of FDIC insured banks that work together so that all your accounts are FDIC insured -- up to $50MM. And you only still work with that one bank.

There are probably other networks out there as well. In this economic climate, make sure you're protected!

Anyone else with better strategies, speak up!
This is what I would expect from AT&T, Verizon or Comcast, not a company like GoDaddy. It's so hard to know who to trust.
So an administration that no one trusts can't pass a bill that would enact the largest transfer of wealth in history - from American people - to reckless financial institutions that don't even trust themselves? Astounding!
I don't know anything about their hosting. But I have registered domains with them. So far, they have been the best of any registrar I have used: domains are ready as soon as I've paid for them, nameserver requests are processed immediately, etc. Some of their competitors took 20+ hours just to process my domain order. Plus, they are consistently the cheapest.

Their name and their marketing is really something else. I'm not going to pass judgment on it. No doubt there are many people offended by it, but it has been extremely profitable for them.
Let's see if I understand it well:

You define a numbering scheme that goes like this:

- the first number is, say, 0

- the Nth number is so that, its Mth digit for M<N is different to the Mth digit in M

Do I understand you well?
I can't pretend that I understand this whole thing, and am quite suspicious of anyone that says they do, who does not report on it more or less full time and have a good grasp of economics, but... one analogy that's come to mind is a car stopping. In one case, with the brakes, in another, by hitting a rock wall. The end result is still a stopped car, but there are some other differences that might be of interest to the occupants.

In any case, most of the discussion that's worth anything is coming from economists, of which there are a wide variety to read. Most people on sites like this one don't seem to have the expertise to say much that's useful, either for or against (and that includes me, thanks).

http://economistsview.typepad.com/

http://econlog.econlib.org/

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://delong.typepad.com/

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/290ca9f6-8d8b-11dd-83d5-0000779fd1...

As you can see even those guys are peddling their own ideologies to various degrees, along with everyone else with vested interests - and that's a lot of people, because 700 billion combined with a potential collapse of the economy is pretty high stakes. This doesn't make it easier to understand.
I came here to post the same thing. I was sure that I had found the wrong roll call aftering seeing the title of the bill.
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If that's what you mean, then I define a new number, R, that is different to all numbers in the sequence. It's defined as usual.

How do I know that this R number is different to all numbers in your sequence? Well, I can take any M number from your sequence and compare it to R. However, the Mth number is different to R in its Mth digit.

About the limit in the infinite... it doesn't matter at all... You can't take a M value that's infinite, as we have only numbers that have a finite size (there are infinite numbers with finite size, that's the trick on this; there aren't integers with an infinite size for example). And if you take an M that's finite, then you have to say that such Mth element is different to my R.

And so on for any sequence you can build (even for sequences you can't build, like random sequences).

Edit: possibly the big thing that's confusing you is that you can't have an infinite number, even if there are infinite numbers. So, taking the limit of a function is something that has a very restrict meaning that is actually not directly related to the concept of infinity. If you check the definition of limit it doesn't talk about infinities but about deltas, and if you use such definition your proposed problem stops being a problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_(mathematics)#Formal_definition
Charging customers for data overages is an inexcusable sham. Any respectable hosting company would just apply a space quota to each customer and if quota execeeded then no more data is stored.
That's a great analogy.

There's a brick wall looming up ahead, and we just cut the line to the brakes.
Here are the energy densities in MJ/kg:
Deuterium-Tritium fusion - 337,000,000 MJ/kg
Nuclear fission (of U-235) - 88,250,000 MJ/kg
Natural uranium (99.3% U238, 0.7% U235) in fast breeder reactor - 24,000,000 MJ/kg
Enriched uranium (3.5% U235) in light water reactor - 3,456,000 MJ/kg
Natural uranium (0.7% U235) in light water reactor - 443,000 MJ/kg

The higher output is a function of the higher energy density.

Your numbers may be correct about how much uranium there is in the earth's crust but you are missing two very important points. Only a tiny fraction of the uranium is in concentrated enough deposits to allow for economic recovery of the mineral. This and the fact that U-235, the fissile isotope of natural uranium, occurs in only 0.711% of uranium containing minerals leaves only enough uranium with reprocessing for the next 1000 years.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ENF_Exploration_drives_ura...

Thorium required a breeder reactor in order to produce the U-233 necessary for fission, and as stated in another comment, these reactors are still in experimental stages and have a much lower level of operational safety record.
You guys are much better off. Those of us with houses and bills are going to hurt. Those of us with stretched lines of credit and a penchant for living above our means are really going to hurt.
ill be following up with my own post btw.
Like I said, to be honest I do not know if it is in any way an accurate analogy, but it seems to capture the sentiment I hear from some economists saying "yeah, giving money to people who screwed up sucks, but the alternative is much worse".
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The bailout isn't to help taxpayers get credit. It's to help businesses get credit so the prudent will still have jobs in a month. Everything may go on sale, but you can't go on a shopping spree when you're unemployed.

The vast majority of the bailout criticisms I've heard are woefully uninformed.
This is precisely correct. Not a joke at all.

To first order, this is great for you. Stocks are going on sale. You want to do your saving immediately after the massive crash, not before.

Of course, that's just the first-order analysis. The second-order problems are potentially, um, annoying: If the economy tanks you might not earn any money to save next year. And your joy at being able to invest in a bear market (because you've got plenty of time to wait for the recovery) might be dampened by the sight of your parents moving in with you to save money because their retirement fund just evaporated. (They don't have time to wait for a recovery.)
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Apple is effectively a luxury item vendor, and they may end up getting hit by a recession far more seriously than other tech companies.
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http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/house/2/vote...

If you're interested in how specific Representatives voted, we (I work at the Post) grabbed the data before house.gov keerashed.
I don't care how your define 1/0 as long as my program keeps running. I always found it to be inexcusable that a run-time environment would halt a program that tried to do N/0 as if it allowing it would cause a complete and utter loss of data and property. Is returning NaN, null, or undefined instead really so hard? Lazy frigging compilers, I hate you!
The higher output is a function of the higher energy density.

That might have cleared everything up for me, except that I do not know what you mean by "higher output". Are you referring to power output? You are saying that, generally, in a given case of equal-sized reactors, a fusion reactor would be able to produce higher power than a fission reactor?
I'm still not convinced that you can't just say that x/0 equals infinity.

Certainly, there's nothing to stop you from saying that. We could quite easily define a number called Infinity (or, say, Frank) such that x/0 = Frank, the same way we defined a number i such that sqrt(-1) = i. People have thought about this for centuries, I'm sure, but the reason that it hasn't taken off the way i has is that positing the existence of "i" gets you a whole lot of new and useful mathematics (e.g. a new field of complex numbers which is closed under arbitrary roots) whereas positing the existence of Frank doesn't buy you much except trouble.

For instance, consider our new number system consisting of the reals plus Frank. We'll have to define operations on Frank now. Clearly, Frank + Frank = Frank and Frank * Frank = Frank. But what about Frank - Frank and Frank/Frank? You can't define them as 0 and 1 respectively, or else you find yourself with proofs like this:

Frank = Frank + Frank

Frank/Frank = Frank/Frank + Frank/Frank

1 = 2

which is undesirable. So you've still got undefined numbers in your number system, and your number system no longer has lots of the nice properties that you get when you have a field.

Also, Frank doesn't share all that many of the properties that are usually associated with what we now know about infinities -- e.g. the idea that there are "different sizes" of infinite sets which can't be mapped onto one another.
Great points made as to why angel investors seem to favor consumer Internet.

As an angel investor myself, I'd add one more reason why:

Consumer internet is just a lot more fun than enterprise software. Who wants to talk about enterprise intrusion detection for the Fortune 500 when you don't have to?
I agree. I wouldn't consider Twitter or Facebook or craigslist innovative. They are really simple technologies (ignoring the software scaling challenges) that have been marketed extremely effectively.

I don't understand why you don't think that's innovative. The definition of innovative is to introduce something as though it was new (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/innovate), which is a far cry from invention. Innovation isn't about creating new things, it's about taking established things and making them appeal to people in a new way.
Only a tiny fraction of the uranium is in concentrated enough deposits to allow for economic recovery of the mineral.

Given that that very point was addressed at the link I provided, one might suspect that you did not visit it before answering.

It is not merely 40 trillion tons of uranium that are in the crust. It is 40 trillion of uranium that is also economically-recoverable. Why is nearly all of the uranium in the crust is economically-recoverable? It is because the energy density of uranium is so high. The same goes for thorium.
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We all are a mystery to ourselves, and will keep it till the end of our days...

(Poor humans, they will never be able to stop God from smiling about their relatively poor scientific investigations...)

;)
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Unfortunately they're using the term "Cloud computing" when they really mean "Software as a service". I could be wrong, but I think RMS would have no problem with people using open-source software to manage their data on a rented slice at Slicehost or Amazon.
Good. Google's P/E is less than 25...and they're a growth company. I can't wait to slowly start buying (weighted average cost please) some of these money earning stocks over the next few months (value, growth, everything). This is why you invest for the long-term and always diversify. If you have some extra money outside your emergency fund lying around, dump it in to a Roth IRA (Vanguard & Fidelity are excellent) and slowly start buying.
Electricity is a commodity. There's no inherent "freedom" lost in paying someone to give it to you, any more than there is for buying your bread from a market instead of growing your own wheat.

The proper analogy would be not to electricity in general, but to (in the US) 220V 60Hz two-phase alternating current. What if you could only buy that power format from one vendor, who then decided to increase the price or change the format such that you'd have to replace all your existing electrical hardware or be at their mercy? Then you might feel that your freedom to operate your equipment was being infringed, no?
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U-235, the fissile isotope of natural uranium, occurs in only 0.711% of uranium

If I had disregarded that, how do you figure I got a 60x energy boost by applying fuel-breeding?
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Very good point. Will quote it in my post i'm working on.
What would it mean, in this context, for a measure of risk to be "self-consistent"?
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Canonical is a small loss-making company which has managed to expand their user-base and mind-share at a dramatic rate.

Is it fair to compare directly their contributions with larger long-standing profitable companies like Red Hat or Novell? And is it fair to measure their community involvement on kernel contributions alone when they primarily focus on consumer-facing elements of their distribution?
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Maybe the banks and whomever else holds mortgages will start to seriously restructure mortgages to generate cashflow from those so far behind and feeling hopeless they have just stopped paying altogether.

This way the following doesn't collapse:
http://www.nomoneylimitsblog.com/blog/_archives/2008/1/10/34...
Because it's a quite convenient tool for (practical, not magical) mind-control.
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That pretty much sums up my view point. I really don't understand much of what is going on (who really does honestly?), but I certainly know I can't trust anyone involved in this clusterfuck.
Ultimately it comes down to sematics but I think of DNA as source code. DNA is already human-comprehensible. The organisation of genes within the sequence is actually fairly straightforward and probably not that different from how you would invent it from first principles given the constraints of the storage medium. We can routinely mix and match existing sequence components with predictable consequences. There is no need to invoke a higher level of abstraction than this.

I would say that the object code is the set of RNAs present in the cell and the program is the state of all of the macromolecules in the cell - proteins, lipids, carbohydrates etc. Essentially the program is running on the organic chemistry virtual machine.

When it comes to 'writing' artificial DNA the complexities are that firstly we do not understand the intricacies of how genes are turned on and off, although there is not reason that we should not come to understand this. This is the area that I am working in. The second major problem is that we cannot 'invent' new proteins as we do not how to predict the 3D shape and chemical behaviour 'folding' from the protein sequence. With massive increases in computational power and clever algorithms it is possible that this difficulty will be overcome.
On the contrary the article you provided did not once mention the words 'economically recoverable'. What you are looking for is the reserves of Uranium in the world. Reserves, in mining means the amount of ore that can be economically removed from the earth. For those numbers please refer to the link that I listed previously. If the percent of uranium oxide in an ore is less than 0.1% (by weight) then it is not economical to mine.
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