Thursday, May 20, 2010

Linux?

On superuser.com, a question and answer site for general computer topics (i.e. installing programs, troubleshooting devices, etc.), there are 4029 questions tagged 'windows' and there are 3335 questions tagged 'linux'.

It wasn't quite easy enough the last time I tried. Windows was far better for Internet than any Linux setup I could configure.

But maybe it's better now.

Monday, May 17, 2010

An Important Benefit of Free Markets

Prices provide signals to make possible the continuous provision of something desired.

Subsidies, tariffs, and all the milder distortions too, merely mismatch our aggregate desires and our own incentives to fulfill them.