"It was originally conceived as a fund where you'd pay in to as you worked, and your funds would be used to pay for your retirement."
No, it was never conceived that your money would pay for your retirement. Really how could it, unless you started the program collecting money and didn't pay out benefits until the people paying in retired. The Act was put together so that elderly people at the time wouldn't live in poverty. Remeber, this was after the depression, and what we call poverty now would probably make those people laugh at us.
Also, You are not "paying into" SS, you are paying the benefits for the current benefactors. Someday, if you collect, the current people paying SS taxes will be paying your benefits. SS is not an investment, it's a program.
Here's a quote from FDR:
"We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which gives some measure of protection to the average citizen and his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age."
IMHO the only problem with SS today is the retirement age. When the Act was originally passed, the average time people collected SS payments was something like 3 years. Now it's like 15 years. The Act was not originally meant to support people for such a long time, and I don't believe it should.
This seems a lot more like a demo that would be appropriate for nvidia than for intel. Intel better hurry up their larrabbee thing or they are going to get crushed.
In your case you are talking about theft. The **AA are talking about copyright infringement. Two different things, although **AA would like you to think they are the same.
Hmm? I don't think so. BSP trees and other tricks like this allow you to only draw what's visible. When you are ray-tracing you would still need a way to prune away geometry that isn't visible, or it would take forever to find ray itersections.
Brand new, state of the art spy satellite stops working. Are you going to risk parts of it falling and being salvageable, or are you going to blow it up?
And a lot states already have laws against this...
From the Texas law: "Any activity that intimidates or threatens the student with ostracism, that subjects the student to extreme mental stress, shame or humiliation"
I know this was intended for fraternities/sororities, but I don't see anything in the writing that limits the law to colleges.
This is a pretty good example of broken copyright laws. How long has Scrabble been out, 60 years? And because of the crazy long copyright terms now, innovation is being stifled. This is not what copyright was intended for...
There are few people around my office with desks where they stand all day. I have no idea how much this helps, but I've got to think it's better than sitting on your bum all day.
There are basically two ways to accrue revenue. You can accrue at time of sale, or over the expected life of the product. Since they wanted to recognize revenue immediately they accrue at time of sale, and the GAAP rules basically make it so they can't do a software upgrade for free. Hence the charge.
Now, they could give it away for free, but then they'd have to change how they accrue their revenue, which they don't want to do.
1) Intel is doing this because they've run out of optimizations on single core systems, basically this is the only thing they have left to preserve their market. I expect this time next year you'll see ARM SoC's with 1Ghz+ processors that draw under 1W of power and sell for under $10. These cores will be changing the low end of the market. Intel won't be able to continue to charge $50 for a processor when you get the same or better perf for 1/5 the cost. The only real advantage Intel has is that Windows XP/Vista doesn't run on ARM.
2) The Processor Company Graveyard is filled with companies that have touted parallel processing solutions that were going to revolutionize the world of computing. Parallel processing is extremely difficult, and only fits a subset of computing needs, we will need fast single processor systems for a long time to come. I wish Intel luck on this endeavor, everyone else has failed miserably.
This is ridiculous. The 2nd amendment says: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Now, what kind of militia, armed with 18th century type weapons (i.e. no automatic weapons) would be considered well armed.
I think the issue is much more one of how corporate culture has changed over the decades. Companies of past decades invested in their employees, and provided career paths for them. Most engineering and IT jobs now basically have no career path, except for backstabbing your way to the top. Also, most companies had other benefits to make you want stay, for example they had these things called pensions. Of course now that the pension funds are going under, younger people want nothing to do with those, don't blame them, I don't either. At the time tough pensions were a huge incentive to stay at the same company.
Nowadays, there's really no incentive to stay at the same company, and most companies are willing to just work you until you drop and then replace with the next person standing in line.
With the disk manager you can create an encrypted disk image. Truecrypt is still better for various reason, like the hidden volumes so it's a welcome change.
Anyone using this on their Mac might want to make sure your swap is also encrypted.
Frankly I'm sick of non-American schools teaching their kids that "American school system that produces children who are brought up to believe that America IS the world and anything that goes on outside is irrelevant. Children so stupid they think America invented the Internet, computer, motor car, light bulb, telephone etc ad infinitum...."
Why do non-Americans teach their kids that Americans believe this stuff? I'm sure anywhere you go in the world you will find ignorant self-righteous people. America does not have a lock on that class of people yet!:)
First, check if you have a local ebgames or gamestop. If you don't, sorry I can't help you.
1) Order a Wii bundle from ebgames or gamestop. 2) When the package arrives sort out stuff you want, and stuff you don't want 3) Play wii till you pass out, or get bored (hopefully the wii is one of the items you want) 4) When you wake up, take receipt, and unopened items that you didn't want to your local store 5) Ask clerk at store for a refund. 6) rejoice
alternate path
You can return everything but the wii to the local store, and then scalp the system on ebay. You'd be a total jerk to do this, but I couldn't blame you if you did...
Yes I know, I'm terrible at math. I missed a factor of 60 in my calculation of seconds/day.
I think clearly the problem is that the RIAA should be suing ISP's for giving people the ability to download so many songs per day! Clearly the Internets is a tool of copyright infringement and needs to be stopped!!!:)
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"It was originally conceived as a fund where you'd pay in to as you worked, and your funds would be used to pay for your retirement."
No, it was never conceived that your money would pay for your retirement. Really how could it, unless you started the program collecting money and didn't pay out benefits until the people paying in retired. The Act was put together so that elderly people at the time wouldn't live in poverty. Remeber, this was after the depression, and what we call poverty now would probably make those people laugh at us.
Also, You are not "paying into" SS, you are paying the benefits for the current benefactors. Someday, if you collect, the current people paying SS taxes will be paying your benefits. SS is not an investment, it's a program.
Here's a quote from FDR:
"We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which gives some measure of protection to the average citizen and his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age."
IMHO the only problem with SS today is the retirement age. When the Act was originally passed, the average time people collected SS payments was something like 3 years. Now it's like 15 years. The Act was not originally meant to support people for such a long time, and I don't believe it should.
This seems a lot more like a demo that would be appropriate for nvidia than for intel. Intel better hurry up their larrabbee thing or they are going to get crushed.
In your case you are talking about theft. The **AA are talking about copyright infringement. Two different things, although **AA would like you to think they are the same.
Hmm? I don't think so. BSP trees and other tricks like this allow you to only draw what's visible. When you are ray-tracing you would still need a way to prune away geometry that isn't visible, or it would take forever to find ray itersections.
Brand new, state of the art spy satellite stops working. Are you going to risk parts of it falling and being salvageable, or are you going to blow it up?
And a lot states already have laws against this...
From the Texas law:
"Any activity that intimidates or threatens the student with ostracism, that subjects the student to extreme mental stress, shame or humiliation"
I know this was intended for fraternities/sororities, but I don't see anything in the writing that limits the law to colleges.
This is a pretty good example of broken copyright laws. How long has Scrabble been out, 60 years? And because of the crazy long copyright terms now, innovation is being stifled. This is not what copyright was intended for...
There are few people around my office with desks where they stand all day. I have no idea how much this helps, but I've got to think it's better than sitting on your bum all day.
Just curious, would Quark Express do what you want? I'm not familiar with how it's different than Latex, maybe someone can explain.
There are basically two ways to accrue revenue. You can accrue at time of sale, or over the expected life of the product. Since they wanted to recognize revenue immediately they accrue at time of sale, and the GAAP rules basically make it so they can't do a software upgrade for free. Hence the charge. Now, they could give it away for free, but then they'd have to change how they accrue their revenue, which they don't want to do.
Here's how I got mine:
1) Order a bundle from gamestop.
2) Wait for package
3) Take all the stuff in bundle that you don't want to the local gamestop and get a refund.
Good Luck
I have two comments:
1) Intel is doing this because they've run out of optimizations on single core systems, basically this is the only thing they have left to preserve their market. I expect this time next year you'll see ARM SoC's with 1Ghz+ processors that draw under 1W of power and sell for under $10. These cores will be changing the low end of the market. Intel won't be able to continue to charge $50 for a processor when you get the same or better perf for 1/5 the cost. The only real advantage Intel has is that Windows XP/Vista doesn't run on ARM.
2) The Processor Company Graveyard is filled with companies that have touted parallel processing solutions that were going to revolutionize the world of computing. Parallel processing is extremely difficult, and only fits a subset of computing needs, we will need fast single processor systems for a long time to come. I wish Intel luck on this endeavor, everyone else has failed miserably.
This is ridiculous. The 2nd amendment says: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Now, what kind of militia, armed with 18th century type weapons (i.e. no automatic weapons) would be considered well armed.
Some virulent virus/bacteria that's been trapped in the ice for hundreds or millions of years...
And if we do, I hope we fight them there, so we don't have to fight them here.
And I just read Duke Nukem Forever is slated to ship in 2037. :(
There is already production happening, so go ahead and take a nice long deep breath now...
I think the issue is much more one of how corporate culture has changed over the decades. Companies of past decades invested in their employees, and provided career paths for them. Most engineering and IT jobs now basically have no career path, except for backstabbing your way to the top. Also, most companies had other benefits to make you want stay, for example they had these things called pensions. Of course now that the pension funds are going under, younger people want nothing to do with those, don't blame them, I don't either. At the time tough pensions were a huge incentive to stay at the same company.
Nowadays, there's really no incentive to stay at the same company, and most companies are willing to just work you until you drop and then replace with the next person standing in line.
I just heard that this has seriously set back the release date of Duke Nukem Forever!
Finding a mate is way too hard now, can't we go back to arranged marriages? It works for India! Maybe we can outsource the arranging too!
With the disk manager you can create an encrypted disk image. Truecrypt is still better for various reason, like the hidden volumes so it's a welcome change.
Anyone using this on their Mac might want to make sure your swap is also encrypted.
Find them, so that we fight them, instead of here, and begin spreading hope and freedom across the Galaxy!
Frankly I'm sick of non-American schools teaching their kids that "American school system that produces children who are brought up to believe that America IS the world and anything that goes on outside is irrelevant. Children so stupid they think America invented the Internet, computer, motor car, light bulb, telephone etc ad infinitum...."
:)
Why do non-Americans teach their kids that Americans believe this stuff? I'm sure anywhere you go in the world you will find ignorant self-righteous people. America does not have a lock on that class of people yet!
ebgames and gamespot will take returns on items you don't want from the bundles.
First, check if you have a local ebgames or gamestop. If you don't, sorry I can't help you.
1) Order a Wii bundle from ebgames or gamestop.
2) When the package arrives sort out stuff you want, and stuff you don't want
3) Play wii till you pass out, or get bored (hopefully the wii is one of the items you want)
4) When you wake up, take receipt, and unopened items that you didn't want to your local store
5) Ask clerk at store for a refund.
6) rejoice
alternate path
You can return everything but the wii to the local store, and then scalp the system on ebay. You'd be a total jerk to do this, but I couldn't blame you if you did...
Yes I know, I'm terrible at math. I missed a factor of 60 in my calculation of seconds/day. I think clearly the problem is that the RIAA should be suing ISP's for giving people the ability to download so many songs per day! Clearly the Internets is a tool of copyright infringement and needs to be stopped!!! :)