rcrsn51 wrote:I'm still waiting for an example of where demand varies inversely as supply.

I said it would take some time.

The short answer is water and airline seats.

I'm still working on a longer answer having erased a number of rough drafts. I'm not sure examples are the best way to get the idea across.

(especially with Puppy), a tool for learning how to use computers effectively. So it is necessary to run Linux to learn how to use computers effectively. Could that be because it is impossible to use computers effectively in Windows? That's certainly why I use Linux, although I can't say it took mu...

There have been nonverbal IQ tests for more than 50 years. Not all deal with numbers as some in deep jungles don't know numbers. Not all deal with vocabulary as some in deep jungles have limited language with no words for some concepts in Western civilization. IQ tests are ALL divided into verbal a...

There has never been a capitalist economic system in human history. I'm interested in this part? Historically, has a capitalist society ever existed? No. A pure laissez-faire capitalist society has never existed. The closest any country has come to pure capitalism is 19th century America. Twentieth...

Modern quantum physics questions the notion of causality which is based on thought from two thousand years ago. No, it does not. Causality stands, but limitations of the precision of instruments have forced physicists to deal with the particles in terms of probability rather than absolute or relati...

For those who say Linux is worthless; Red Hat Inc. Revenue for 4thQ year end March 2011: $244.8M Profit $33.5M M=million Bernie, stop bs'ing. Red Hat isn't selling Linux, which is free as the air. Red Hat is selling support telling people how to use Linux. Linux needs a lot of support to use it eff...

Intelligence tests are comprised of little tasks that you can measure, like putting together little puzzles, doing arithmetic in your head, recalling strings of numbers forward and backwards, knowledge of vocabulary words, etc.; great for academia. They don't measure talent, creativity, wisdom, soc...

ADDENDUM Speaking of Internet connection costs back when I paid one dollar per minute (phone company) for a long distance web connection through Juno (free) I used agora to browse the web. Any of you ever heard of agora? You sent an email with an URL to an agora server and they sent you back the web...

@B_b_t_S I'm surprised with all your knowledge and wealth you haven't bought yourself a wifi or satellite repeater/amplifier and a decent high gain aerial Distances of over 100mls are possible on Wifi, and further on Satellite I'm not surprised you keep making impractical or impossible suggestions....

One, I’ll post examples of Supply and Demand later. I need to think more about that. I haven’t discussed economics in forty years. I think I may use water ;) as my prime example. Two, Microsoft is winning its war against Linux. Linux is often thought to hold the server market, yet in legal documents...

It's called the Law of Supply and Demand, about the only "law" in the soft sciences that has some validity. Supply goes up, demand goes down. Supply goes down, demand goes up. No. Price goes up, demand goes down. Price goes down, demand goes up. For example, my local utility company can s...

The second problem found was the lack of recognition by grub4dos. Guess that grub4dos doesn't work with reiserfs. My workaround is that Pinguy, an Ubuntu derivative using grub2, picks up Knoppix after doing an update-grub . Well, reiserfs isn't required. I have Knoppix on a FAT32 partition. Natural...

Bernie_by_the_Sea wrote:A near-infinite supply always tends towards zero demand.

rcrsn51 wrote: What economic theory is that?

It's called the Law of Supply and Demand, about the only "law" in the soft sciences that has some validity. Supply goes up, demand goes down. Supply goes down, demand goes up.

A near-infinite supply always tends towards zero demand. Your problem is twofold: you've used two meanings of "demand," one which hinges upon market and retail value and one which you have used to denigrate the worth of Linux, and you ignore that I am addressing the notion of causality an...

Knoppix is a bitch and remains a bitch not just because of the built in "protection" It's not just running as spot a non-privileged user. It's not just running without a "persistent image file" and thus not able to save personal preferences. It is built to run as live image or u...

The future of Linux is what it is today, a toy for tinkerers and hobbyists to play with, taken seriously only up to a point. That's right! Only amateurs and naive idealists, like the US DOD, IBM and Google, for example, care about Linux! There's another one of those cultic emotive symbols. I did sa...

just as a quick note, copyrighted material has been around in various forms for centuries before the industrial revolution - I know it is not at all important to correct anyone on this, I know... To correct anyone you'd first have to know something about copyrights. Before the invention of printing...

Where I live dialup at $12.50 per month or satellite at $89 are my only choices What, no 3G dongle.....? Only £10/pm [probably about $16] unless you're a heavy downloader (1Gb, £15/3Gb) Else, mobile phone as a modem, surely, is yet another option Cellular/wireless reception is marginal where I live...

[quote="Bernie_by_the_Sea"]That’s cultic propaganda for the most part but being an absolute believer in the cult you can’t know that. “Micro$oft

MS stockholders' money made OpenOffice possible. Excuse me? Stardivision and Sun customers made Openoffice possible. By directly stealing the ideas of Microsoft Office... Gimp volunteers made Gimp possible. By directly stealing the ideas of PhotoShop... OpenSource is often a form of thievery. Why a...