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"You're taking advantage of the market, not circumventing it." When you figure out a way for me to circumvent the market and survive in this society let me know. I haven't found it yet. But at least I can try to mess with it via the internet.

You come out with comments like 'The "smart" people want the "dumb" people to stay dumb because the smart people can figure out ways to make money of the desperation of the dumb.' "As if intelligent people are deliberately working to keep stupid people stupid. That does sound like paranoid conspiracy theorising." I didn't say INTELLIGENT I said SMART. I didn't say STUPID I said DUMB. When I was accepted for a job at IBM after 3 interviews they gave me a contract to sign which basically said if I came up with any new ideas they belonged to IBM. They weren't hiring me to come up with ideas, they were hiring me to FIX THEIR EXISTING TECHNOLOGY. I considered refusing to sign an walking out, but my objective was to get into the computr industry. I just decided I wouldn't come up with any ideas while I worked there. Plenty of "intelligent" people are working for "smart" people who aren't as intelligent as themselves. That is the nature of economic power games. Plenty of intelligent people don't know accounting. It is quite boring actually. "As for car depreciation not being mentioned in economics textbooks. That's pretty feeble. So what?" The depreciation of 200,000,000 cars not being mentioned FEEBLE. REALLY? Of course that is not the total number of cars since WWII. People with PhDs from Harvard and the University of Chicago failing to solve a grammar school algebra problem since WWII? FEEBLE? OH, I understand! The economists are FEEBLE MINDED. You're absolutely right.

"So... you don't think college students should be allowed to pursue degrees in English, or whatever major they choose?" Where did I say that? "Or are you just saying that a little accounting should be thrown into the mix as part of a wider curriculum?" That's what I said, but I wasn't sufficiently clear. I meant high school. "I also had to have "macro" and "micro" economics. All required. Is that not commonplace anymore for Bachelor of Science programs?" What did they say about the depreciation of all of the cars purchased by consumers in that macroeconomics course? Surprise, Surprise! Economists define depreciation as applying to capital goods ONLY. "Are you aware of what a computer with your exact specifications cost five years before you bought it? Do you know why the price went down?" I've only been in the computer biz since 1978. I soldered my first computer together then. "he's directly responsible for that price change." Do you expect me to be grateful to him for his stupidity. The Wright brothers used a piston engine in their plane 66 years before the moon landing. It is now 36 years after the moon landing. The airlines switched from pistons to turbines in the 60's. A turbine car almost won the Indy 500 in 1968. It was banned from the race. I recall some announcer saying it was banned because it was too fast. Should I be grateful to all the people dumb enough to buy new piston cars so the auto industry won't switch to turbines. The airlines had to overhaul piston engines every 500 hours of operation. Turbines go 10,000 hours between overhauls. A company, Rosen Motors, was working on a gas turboelectric car that used electromagnetic braking and stored the braking energy in a flywheel in a vacuum. The auto industry wasn't interested. "And the funny thing is, five years from now you may need that 300 gigabytes hard drive in order to run the software you need to run. And you'll be able to buy it for only $200. All thanks to your bragging neighbor. That's what *I* meant by "churning"." What kind of crappy software is going to use up 300 Gig. MacroScam is making bloatware already. I'm typing this on Linux right now. Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and TAH TAH Longhorn is coming. That is what I meant by churning. And you did too. LOL! Turn over the suckers for the investors. "but apparently we're just exchanging opinions here -- it's not like you cited a scientific study." Is it a matter of OPINION that the economics profession doesn't say anything about how much consumers loose on depreciation of automobiles each year? Someone who has taken courses in micro and macro economics needs a "scientific study" to notice the obvious once it is pointed out? Have you always had this problem with AUTHORITY?

You have nothing to loose but Ferengi. "Most people simple aren't interested in that kind of education." What kind of education do you think people are interested in? You think I was interested in 4 years of English literature? I worked for IBM for 4 years. Nobody asked me about Shakespeare or Canterbury tales. I only got B's in the garbage because it was so easy. "Nor do I see any particular reason why I'm obligated to give it to them." Are you paying taxes being used for education? Why is 4 years of English literature better than 3 years of English and 1 year of accounting? Does English cost more than accounting? "You proceed on a false assumption in saying that society would be better off with higher net worth for individuals (or as you put it, "what state would the global economy be in today?"). The churning of money has produced a much wealthier society than ever existed in the land-based and collectivist cultures of the past. The United States is successful *because* it invented concepts like "making money", not in spite of them." I'm glad you use the word "churning." That word is also used to apply to stock brokers who encourage clients to trade because they make comissions on the trades not on clients holding stock with its price going up. Wealth for who? The car dealers and salesman? The same applies to computers. I am typing this on a used 1.3 GHz machine that cost me $300. In 1998 a 300 MHz machine cost $3000. I have talked to men who payed that much for computers. The man that had 2 mirrored 300 Gig drives didn't need it he built it to brag about it. Of course the wealth of the United States is based on annihilating the Indians. Do they make more if the land appreciates in value? NET WORTH is the estimated value of any WEALTH that can be sold. The only way to realize the wealth of your house is to sell it and then you don't have anyplace to live. You can borrow money against it but then you have to pay interest. If the value goes up the taxes probably go up too so you pay more for wealth trapped in your house. The "smart" people want the "dumb" people to stay dumb because the smart people can figure out ways to make money of the desperation of the dumb. OH! I intended to point out that the woman in England said she was an accountant. She said my site did a good job of pointing out the treadmill of debt. "Know your enemy, know yourself and you will win 100 battles." - Sun Tzu I find it interesting that you use the word "collectivist" are the right-wing anti-communist leanings peaking out?

I have talked to people who don't know what the word depreciation means. I have seen a website that says 50% of Americans have less than $10,000 in NET WORTH. When have you ever heard the TOTAL amount that Americans loose on depreciation of automobiles? Your tone comes across like you're trying to paint me as a paranoid conspiracy theorist. A culture is a kind of conspiracy. It teaches people within each subgroup within a society to think in a certain way. I had an accounting page on my website. Someone on a message board said I should remove it. I asked him why and he said to check with an accountant or an economist. Interestingly I was communicating with a woman in England a few months later who said that everything on my site was correct. I am 50+ years old. I have caught people hiding information about things often enough. I have seen it in computers a lot. The distribution of relevant knowledge affects how our society works. The internet is a new way to mess with society. http://www.simpleliving.net/ymoyl/default.asp

If you bought a new car for $30,000 last year that car would now be worth about $22,000. That is an $8,000 loss is depreciation. If that car had been purchased by Hertz they could file the depreciation with the IRS. According to the book, THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR, 36% of millionaires by used cars. Why would a millionaire buy a used car? To avoid depreciation. 200,000,000 cars in the US at $1500 in depreciation per year would amount to $300,000,000,000. That assumes linear depreciation on $18,000. In the real world the depreciation isn't linear and some cars cost less and some more but I think that figure isn't a bad rough estimate. Funny how our economists never say anything about it. My senior year in highschool I was in the financial section of a major book store trying to find a book to help me figure out how to run my life. One book said that a household should be run like a business. This society promotes the idea that you should go to school, get properly educated, so you can have a good career until you retire. The more NET WORTH you have the less you need a JOB. I consider my grammar school education to have been 80% a waste of time and high school 50% a waste of time. And I have had people tell me they think I went to good schools. I think accounting should be mandatory though I also think the way it is taught could use some modification. I have a Glencoe Accounting book that claims to be a first year course. Accounting is so simple that what the average person needs to know could be covered in a semester. Well rounded or dumbed down?

"All warfare is based on deception." - Sun Tzu Every culture depends on keeping most people ignorant. Do you ever hear politicians saying that accounting/personal finance should be mandatory in highschool? But you hear politicians talking about education all of the time. If everyone had been taught to concentrate on NET WORTH since 1945, what state would the global economy be in today? Bacteria don't watch television commercials incorporating Freudian psychology to get them to consume. Maybe bacteria are smarter than we are.

This could keep you busy for a few months. http://www.contractor-books.com/MG/Teach_Yself_Elec.htm

In some applications a 64-bit processor can be more than twice as fast as a 32-bit processor. The 64-bit machine should have a 64-bit Arithmetic Logic Unit, so it should be able to do a 64-bit multiply in one step. If each letter represents 32 bits then the 64-bit chip should work like this: AB * CD = XXXX The 32-bit chip would have to break the numbers up and manipulate the pieces like this: (D*B+D*A) + (C*B+C*A) = XXXX But how many applications need to do this kind of thing and how much? A lot of the word processing I see people do isn't any faster than what was done on 8 MHz 286's but the software uses lots of graphics that would choke a 286. I've seen WYSIWYG and realtime spell check force typists to slow down on a 486/66. Software can be created to waste CPU power. But more bits may not always make for better use. I used to keep a Pentium/90 running Windows 3.1 next to my Pentium/250 running Windows 2000 because the 16-bit Telnet worked a lot better than the 32-bit Telnet which would shift characters around and not line up columns correctly. I needed this to manage a Hewlett-Packard UNIX minicomputer. I don't know if it couldn't handle tabs properly or what. They will make money selling 64-bits largely because plenty of people will buy it to say they have it, not because they need it.

http://atu.cjb.net/software/grub/GRUB_Guide.html Found this. Haven't studied it yet.

http://www.linux-directory.com/linux/Linux-Programming-by-Example-The-Fundamentals.shtml

The Drake equation has already been mentioned. If you want to look at it from a more metaphysical perspective. The universe is a REALLY BIG place, to use an understatement. If some God created this big place, then whatever reason HE/SHE/IT had for putting what passes for intelligent life here, that same reason should apply elsewhere in the universe. What kind of incompetent God would just put aliens here?

Just looked in a book. It says DHCP stands for Dynamic Host CONFIGURATION Protocol. That's why I flunked computer science. Couldn't memorize enough acronyms.

Your computer must have an ethernet address, also known as MAC address, to function on an ethernet network. The mac address is hard wired into the ethernet card and can only be changed by replacing the card. But this is not the address that the internet uses. The Internet Protocol address can be typed in manually at an individual computer, so it is in software. But this presents a problem of IP address management on a large network. Would you want to run around typing addresses into 200 computer making sure there are no duplicates? DHCP sets up a DHCP server that sends an IP address to a computer when it boots up and requests an IP address. This works fine until there are more users than the server has addresses to give out. So the tail end charlies are out of luck. So if you are late to log in during a high traffic period then you don't get in. This is a problem for your internet access provider. It will cost him to get more addresses.

I'm using GRUB 0.95. The Linux 2.4 and 2.6 both boot fine but win2k gives the error. It is merely a nuisance to stick in the floppy at home but I couldn't get away with this on a user's machine. What does "chainload" mean? I never heard of it.

You said "In the evening I tend to be told", does that mean at other times it works? Is this system using DHCP? Cause it sounds like the Dynamic Host Control Protocol might be running out of addresses at certain times because of too many users.

I wanted to be an architect when I was in 1st grade for some unknown reason. But I started reading science-fiction in 4th grade. This was during the 60's and the space program was going strong. By 7th grade I was building and launching rockets and was going to be a scientist or engineer. Narrowed it down to electrical engineering by junior year.

"On the other hand, you did say your neighbour was drunk. So you might give him the benefit of the doubt when you next meet him sober." On the other hand he may have been more honest about his feelings than he would be if he was sober. So maybe you now you have an idea what an as**ole he really is. Sorry, I'm a cynic from way back.

OK! I took the test and I got a page saying results could not be displayed. Too many people were taking the test and crashing the server. Does that mean I go to the worst level of cyberhell for crashing a server? psikeyhackr

How much money is borrowed to buy cars every year? Look at the specifications of some WWII airplanes. The British Spitfire, The P-51 Mustang and the P-38 Lightning. All of those planes were designed 25+ years before the moon landing by engineers with SLIDERULES. Now here we are 36 years after the moon landing, we have computers coming out of our ears, robots running around on Mars, and the automobile industry keeps redesigning machines that roll along the ground at less than 130 mph. Do the bankers talk about how much consumers loose on the depreciation of all of those cars each year? psikeyhackr

Do you think politicians who steal our tax money for education want to produce people who think? They might figure out how dumb politicians are. I think a lot of the specialization is artificailly created with the help of the schools. I've been in computers since 1978. Information that is important but easy to understand is difficult to find and tons of complicated trivia is all over the place. Use Google to do a search on "computers are von Neumann machines" then search on "how computers work". 60,000+ on "how computers work" but the 4th edition of the OXFORD DICTIONARY OF COMPUTERS says almost all computers are von Neumann machines. That assumes you already know enough to look up the definition of von Neumann machine. The best explanation I have seen in 20+ years is in chapter 10 on THE ART OF ELECTRONICS, but that book doesn't contain the term von Neumann machine. I have never seen it in an electronics book. It is the property of COMPUTER SCIENCE. psikeyhackr

I've tried Slackware, Red Hat and Mandrake. I'm currently trying an accidental discovery and liking it. I bought the book, POINT & CLICK LINUX! by Robin 'Roblimo' Miller. The book is broad in coverage but shallow in detail. That is good for showing what Linux can do but bad for learning how to do it. Chapter 20 on THE GIMP is 5 pages long. It would probably difficult to cover this program with 50 pages. The best thing about the book is the SimplyMEPIS CD that comes with it. It can boot and run from the CD or it can be installed. It found the network connection and printer with no problems. I've downloaded cartoons from the internet. Transferred them to a page and edited it with OpenOffice.org and printed to an HP 4550 color laser printer. NO PROBLEMS! I once had a Red Hat Linux that would print a great test page to an Okidata printer but I had to fiddle about for hours to get it to print from a text editor. Three problems so far. When I tried to set up a dual boot on a Win 2000 system with a 30 gig drive. The repartitoning worked and data was preserved but it won't boot 2000. It says "NTLDR is missing". I can boot with NTLDR on a floppy but not from the dual boot menu. The MEPIS disk doesn't have the KOrganizer information manager that is on other distros. A rather wierd thing is that the UNIX/Linux 'at' command isn't on the system. I find that very odd but plenty of people would never learn about it. To learn something about Linux I'd suggest HOW LINUX WORKS by Brian Ward. It has well organized info that is scattered around in 5 other books I have. Lastly LINUX DESK REFERENCE by Scott Hawkins. This book goes into far more detail about Linux/UNIX commands than HOW LINUX WORKS and the commands are organized by function instead of alphabetically like most books. How do you find a command you know exists and what it does but can't remember the name of? Psikeyhackr

IQ test are TIMED TESTS. How many answers does the subject get correct within the time limit. The SATs given in the US are timed. Let us suppose you give two men tests with a time limit and one man can read faster and has better comprehension then the other and this man scores higher. You then give the two men another IQ test but you break the rules. No time limit. The man that reads faster finishes sooner but gives up on stuff he can't figure out. The man that reads more slowly takes a lot longer but solves more problems and gets a higher score. Who is more intelligent? My sister who is 5 years older than me reads a lot faster than I do. I didn't discover this until I was in my twenties. We went to the same grammar school. She told me that the nuns had speed reading machines when she was being taught. I had never heard of any such machines. In the 80+ years of IQ testing shouldn't the psych guys have thought that reading speed and comprehension could affect the tests? Have you ever heard any mention of this in IQ testing. Would upper classes tend to encourage reading more than lower classes hence affecting TEST SCORES without affecting INTELLIGENCE. Isn't a child who isn't given sufficient intellectual stimulation to develop his/her abilities brain damaged? Psikeyhackr

Machivelli said there were three kinds of people: People who can learn without help. People who can learn with help. People who can't learn. I wonder why we don't have a national recommended reading list for people who can and will self-educate. In Nicollo's day they just had books. Now we have books, video tapes, audio tapes, CDs, DVDs, computers and the internet. The percentage of people in each category should be different now with this technology. The 3rd category should have shrunk. So let's use them. I've been suggesting these books for electronics. TEACH YOURSELF ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS by Stan Gibilisco THE ART OF ELECTRONICS by Horowitz and Hill THE ART is a great book but too compicated for beginners. 500 pages of Stan's book should get you ready for THE ART. http://www.sciencewriter.net/ Psikeyhackr

This chart is of IQ scores and percentile scores. The 75 next to 111 means 75% of the population is below that score. I don't put much faith in IQ tests though. That is part of the JOKE! http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/combnorm.html psikeyhackr