I would not calling living on minimum wage in the US as surviving, at least in major cities. Take for example Chicago, since I am most familiar with it. For simplicity, lets assume you work 4*40 hrs/ month. this equates to 160 / month. Minimum wage in Illinois is $8.25/hr (which is more than the national minimum btw). this is a net of $1320/month. Looks good, but Illinois now take 5% leaving $1254. The feds will take 15%, leaving $1056. I don't know the exact rates for Medicare and SS, but lets assume that it will put you under $1k.
So you pretty much need a place to live. The rent for a studio apartment, assuming you don't get a roommate, is going to run about $600 - $700/month leaves you with about $300-$400/ month. Transportation is going to be about another $100/month for a monthly CTA pass. Taking you down to $200-$300 month. Oh, you want to eat too? ~$200/month (granted, you probably qualify for food stamps, but you still need to pay some money out of pocket). An viola, you are out of money. I didn't even mention utilities or other living expenses.
tl;dr version:
Living on minimum wage is hardly a living wage. It is hardly enough to cover the bare necessities in the US. Most likely you will need to get a second job to make ends meet.
It makes me think you don't actually know what the word means, hmm? Or even what Animal Farm was about, which was more of a statement about the ills Stalinism and communism. But you know, go ahead and carry on about how much you don't know.
If I recall correctly, the access to the diesel room was not much more than a deck plating segment that had hinges on it. Now this may not be true to all Sturgeon class submarines*, but I would think that it might do an ok job suffocating a fire, but I wouldn't count on it.
* More interesting submarine trivia. The Sturgeon class submarine was horrible for 'configuration management'. If a chief wanted to add a sheet metal locker somewhere in the engine room, he could pretty much get it. However, on LA class subs, this was strictly verbotten, from what I have been told. An LA class, is an LS class! The reason I put in the caveat about the deck plates on Sturgeon class boats is that the Sturgeon class was the wild west for custom fixes/hacks.
Hi there. Ex-submariner here. One reason was that they likely could not close the hatches. Being in one of these extended dry dock periods usually means that they have all sorts of hoses, wires, etc. going through the hatches making them neigh impossible to close without taking a hatchet to them all. Not to mention, if they were doing any sort of work on the sea water piping, which may be plausible since they were in dry dock, then the fire would still be supplied from the lack of piping that is normally there due to the repair.
My first guess of how this fire happened is that someone had done some welding in a compartment and something caught fire. Usually the Navy is pretty good about removing flamables in the area. They even go so far to have a "fire watch" for several hours after the welding was done to ensure that nothing catches fire. it will be interesting to hear what the root cause is.
Another interesting fact about L.A. class submarines, of which the Miami is included. There is only one water tight door interior to the sub, and that is the one that separates the forward part of the ship to the rear (ie engineering which was apparently not affected). Compare that to the submarine that I was on (Sturgeon Class), there were two water right doors for just the forward part of the ship, and two in the engine room. Basically, if you ever have flooding in an LA class sub, you are going down. At least in a Strugeon class, if 3 of the 5 compartments were completely flooded, you could still survive.
You can perfectly represent any signal with a frequency less than half of your sampling frequency.
Sorry to nit pick, but this not entirely true for ANY signal. It only applies to real signals (ie no imaginary part). If you have a signal which has a real and imaginary part, you can use the entire bandwidth up to Fs. A neat trick that I would recommend verifying yourself. I at one time thought the same thing until someone told me this gem.
As a simple experiment, suppose you have a Fs = 2khz. plot the fft of cos(2*pi*1100*t) and the fft of cos(2*pi*1100*t) + j*sin(2*pi*1100*t). What you will find is the the real signal will have two peaks in the spectrum (one at 990Hz, and the other at -990Hz), where as with the second signal you should see a single tone at 1100 Hz.
And in a way, this makes sense. Companies don't make money on support. Once the product has shipped, they don't want to deal with it since they want to move on to the next "big" thing. This certainly makes Apple the odd ball here. Certainly, Motorola has a history of not providing too much support, but it appears that HTC at least makes a token effort to keep their stuff up to date.
Who is going to pay a team of digital artists $100 an hour to create a 3D model of something when you can just tell Jimmy Olsen to go take a picture of it for a pittance?
My dad is a photographer. While you might think that you could just hire any old "Jimmy Olsen" to capture some pictures, your quality will usually suffer if you go for the lowest bidder just like in anything else. The going rate for most professional photographers is probably greater than the $100/hr. I honestly don't know how much my dad bills per hour. If I recall he typically bills by day or by half day. But what you do get when you hire him is someone with years of experience doing photo shoots, where you need to balance the needs of the customer and artistic director, knows all the lighting tricks to emphasize or de-emphasize attributes of the object being photographed, and someone with a deft hand at Photoshop to fix things that were not caught on the day of the photo shoot.
To make a comparison, I know how to point my camera and take pictures. However I usually just let the camera figure out the aperture and speed settings. This typically results in a picture that has so much flash that it wipes out the backgrounds of most photos, for better or for worse. My dad on the other hand would go through the motions of setting his own aperture and speeds to convey the proper mood of the entire setting and still have them turn out properly without much trial and error. And as you might expect, his pictures are much, much better than mine.
I would say that when I was younger I spent plenty of time outside by hiking, playing soccer, swimming in lakes, playing in the woods, etc. I would say that I was allergy free up until recently. I am an engineer (implying I don't get to go outside much anymore) in my mid 30s now, and I noticed last year in the spring that I started to get really congested and sneezing in the spring. It was/is especially bad this season. While I haven't gone to the doctor to officially get diagnosed, I have a strong suspicion that I have developed allergies based on my experiences of other with allergies. My older sister, who is a nurse, experienced something pretty similar too.
Now back to your original hypothesis. I would guess from my own experience that genetics may be a partial factor. My parents, to my knowledge, don't have allergies. My sister and I started off without them but have since developed them. Maybe the genes were enough when we were younger, but as we started working in doors because of our jobs we became more sensitive to things like pollen and other springtime allergy culprits.
I agree with you, but at the same time you would think that a server would be able to count how many login attempts to the same account and deny say after trying 100k passwords in under a minute. That to me would automatically flag this as a non-human trying to gain access to an account, where maybe you might try 10 passwords a minute if you actually pause to think about each password attempt. While I don't do mail server programming and not to familiar with much of the details on detecting intrusions like this, but I would think something like this should be easy to spot.
I suspect the true root here isn't that technology itself is to blame for the lack of saving, but that people are driven to spend, spend, spend anyway, and technology has made it far easier to do so without ever even leaving the couch.
ARRGH! The one time I don't hit preview and I fsck up the HTML. Here is a clearer version of my post.
I think. Along these lines is pretty much what I was thinking, but I will expand on it. By having such conveniences as the internet, there is a lower threshold for impulse buying. there is no need to go the brick and mortar shop anymore. And the transaction is more of an abstraction than it ever was before when actually having to go to a retail shop to purchase something, where you grab for you wallet and either pay in cash or credit card. Now I just type a few letters and numbers on the keyboard, and viola, I have something new and shiny to consume. I know that I too am not immune to this. There are probably things that I wouldn't have bought otherwise without the convenience of the internet. I am just fortunate that I have enough restraint to keep from going hog wild. Unfortunately, most Americans aren't good at self restraint:(
I suspect the true root here isn't that technology itself is to blame for the lack of saving, but that people are driven to spend, spend, spend anyway, and technology has made it far easier to do so without ever even leaving the couch. If you're not motivated to save already, technology isn't going to help you, I think.
Along these lines is pretty much what I was thinking, but I will expand on it. By having such conveniences as the internet, there is a lower threshold for impulse buying. there is no need to go the brick and mortar shop anymore. And the transaction is more of an abstraction than it ever was before when actually having to go to a retail shop to purchase something, where you grab for you wallet and either pay in cash or credit card. Now I just type a few letters and numbers on the keyboard, and viola, I have something new and shiny to consume. I know that I too am not immune to this. There are probably things that I wouldn't have bought otherwise without the convenience of the internet. I am just fortunate that I have enough restraint to keep from going hog wild. Unfortunately, most Americans aren't good at self restraint:(
The best way that I can explain this is how the whole system is made. One big distinction is tube vs solid state amps. When operating any amp in compression, it will generate harmonics. (think of the difference between a sine wave vs a square wave when looking at the frequency spectrum). If you add multiple sine waves (ie a chord on a guitar). Each frequency for each note of the chord will mix together when going through the amp, which are called intermodulation products. These intermod products give a certain profile to the sound that come out of the amplifier that give each amp its own unique sound. The differences come from the design of the amp. Many people claim that tubes give a 'warmer' sound from the better intermods that they create. This is probably true, but I don't have any evidence one way or the other. It would make sense that the transition from linear to nonlinear (ie approaching saturation) in a tube amp would be different vs a solid state amp which will affect the harmonic creation.
Another way that the sound is different would be what kind of speaker cabinet the amplifier is connected to. The acoustic performance will also shape the sound.
So my question is, what is going to happen to Blago's hair now that he is in prison. Will it stand the test of time there and still look perfect? Will it be able to deflect bullets? Will he donate it to charity?
I am going to miss the comedy he has provided over the last three years to the fine state of Illinois.
As a former submariner myself, here is my read on the scenario you linked to (and in short I agree with the GP post). I think that saying the US did not know the sub was there is unlikely. It is nothing more that a show of hubris on the part of the Chinese since they knew the US would not act without causing a huge international incident. China knew this, so they figured that it would be better to embarrass the US since there really was no downside to their actions.
While you are probably right about the RHCP (as well as any other CD released lately) about the gain compression, there is no reason why you still cant do quantitative analysis to see differences between the two different compression schemes when they are decompressed. It would just be a matter of comparing the bytes of decompressed files to the original, never compressed (ie from the CD) data. Compute the variance of the errors in the two different schemes referenced to the CD and the check to see if they are statistically significant. There you go, you have just tested to see if the compression schemes are different.
That being said, you would probably have a better indicator of errors if you did use a source that was not heavily gain compressed before data compression, but that is another debate.
Thanks for the info, but I did have two particular countries in mind when I wrote my initial comment and that would be Iran and Egypt. In Iran, the US had its hand in over throwing the government (Operation Ajax) to support an autocratic dictator. In Egypt, we continually supported Hosni Mubarak, who was also a well known oppressor of his people.
Now you are probably right to some extent about the western media distorting some of my knowledge, but I do at least try to get an informed opinion from other sources. And I have not forgotten about the unilateral support we give Israel and how that irks most other Arabic countries, as you pointed out, but I think that goes in hand with us keeping our noses out their business.
Is it possible thought that many of these places don't like the US is because we support their oppressive dictator? What is the causality for their 'hate' of the US? Not that I know the answer is here, but we should at least know what caused their dislike of the US first. Perhaps getting out of their business would be a good first step to winning their support.
Your math is bad. Taxed at 35% brings $1 to $0.65. Then the 15% for capital gains when distributed to the other investors would kick in and then be computed to be $0.0975. Round that up to a dime and you get $0.55 remaining. That is assuming, as the other poster noted, if they don't get a credit for the money already paid in taxes to the other country. Now $0.45 in taxes from the original dollar isn't great, but you can't just add the percentages like that.
Additionally, it is the wrong perspective to take anyway. The company keeps $0.65 for every dollar of profit. The company can the chose to keep it in the form of cash*, or they can the distribute the money as dividends. Suppose the company opts to pay a dividend. At the point, the company is paying from the $0.65 pile and paying no additional taxes on it. The recipient of the dividend however is now receiving an income from the company. Why would the recipient not pay taxes on it? It is income now, right? Hence why the capital gains tax applies.
* Realistically, they would find something R&D to put this in the expense column of their balance sheet to take away from total profit, but I am assuming they convert all profit to cash
While in general I agree with you, my own experience tells a different tale. I currently weigh about 20 lbs more than I did about a year and a half ago when I switched jobs. This new job is about an hour commute each way from where I live now compared to about the 30 minute commute that I had before. I would say that my diet hasn't really changed too much from then.
What did change was certainly my exercise regimen. At the old job, I would play racquetball twice a week for at least an hour. Occasionally I would get out to play tennis after work as well. I was also going on hour long bike rides on Saturdays pushing myself pretty hard. I also had a pretty good weight lifting routine. Fast forward to the new job I lost on out on most of the these opportunities to work out after work. One reason being the longer commute and the second being that I work for a much smaller company and just don't have exposure to enough people of similar hobbies to do some of the things mentioned above. And as a result I have added the above weight. I have certainly been making an effort to fix this lately, but it is still difficult to find time with the long commute.
Now I will also admit that i can improve my diet. The Mrs. loves the carbs (pasta, breads, etc.) and she does most of the cooking and menu planning. I get the feeling gives me a look of disdain when I suggest salads even when I think she knows they are the right choice (even I admit that salads are boring). But this is just one battle that I have let her win. Fortunately in the last week or so, she has joined weight watchers which I think has been a bit of an eye opener on what she was eating before. As a plus, it means that she will be cooking more lean meals so I get the benefit too.
I can envision their super powers now:
Bach- He will put you in a fugue with this fugues
Mozart - He summons Il Commendatore to take you to hell
Strauss - Has a viscous 1-2-3 combo that will take you down
Beethoven - Even while deaf, he could hear you
If only. The reason ICs cost so little is that the cost is spread out over millions of parts. As my analog circuits Prof would say. "Your very first IC off the line is going to cost a million dollars. Everything else after that is free." So to buy one or two ICs that are radiation hardened is probably going to cost that much since it will most likely be custom. Now that's not to say they can't reuse some of the masks for an existing IC to make it cheaper, but It won't be that much cheaper. My guess is that they would want to redesign the part anyway if it is going to be in a radiation intense environment. The radiation could cause some weird quantum effects in the IC that might mean they want the transistors to be larger for reliability purposes. But that last part is just a guess since I am not an IC designer and thought my electronic materials class was nothing short of voodoo.
Long story short, they probably saved more than $5 for using a COTS part, but they probably lost the probe by the part not being radiation hardened.
So as a follow up then, after looking at the API, would a call to 'removeAll' or 'remove' keep this situation from occurring? (using the 'List' interface as my reference for function calls).
So explain to me how a memory leak could part of the coders problem? The language for development is Java, which should handle the memory automatically. It would sound more like a problem with the VM than the program itself. It is my understanding, that while possible, it is pretty hard to code a memory issue that the GC can't find.
To me this is a serious question. I guess I know enough about Java to be dangerous. Just curious and not trying to troll.
Just a small nit pick about the ars technica article that you link to. Their basis for cost of games is for systems that were using cartridges and not CDs for the media. In these cartridges are EPROMs and other electronics that are certainly more expensive than a piece of painted silicone. That minor detail aside, their point is still valid. I just would like to add that the cost of the consumable material is orders of magnitude different.
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I would not calling living on minimum wage in the US as surviving, at least in major cities. Take for example Chicago, since I am most familiar with it. For simplicity, lets assume you work 4*40 hrs/ month. this equates to 160 / month. Minimum wage in Illinois is $8.25/hr (which is more than the national minimum btw). this is a net of $1320/month. Looks good, but Illinois now take 5% leaving $1254. The feds will take 15%, leaving $1056. I don't know the exact rates for Medicare and SS, but lets assume that it will put you under $1k.
/month leaves you with about $300-$400/ month. Transportation is going to be about another $100/month for a monthly CTA pass. Taking you down to $200-$300 month. Oh, you want to eat too? ~$200/month (granted, you probably qualify for food stamps, but you still need to pay some money out of pocket). An viola, you are out of money. I didn't even mention utilities or other living expenses.
So you pretty much need a place to live. The rent for a studio apartment, assuming you don't get a roommate, is going to run about $600 - $700
tl;dr version:
Living on minimum wage is hardly a living wage. It is hardly enough to cover the bare necessities in the US. Most likely you will need to get a second job to make ends meet.
That's pretty funny that you would invoke Orwell, who was a known Socialist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_orwell#Political_views
It makes me think you don't actually know what the word means, hmm? Or even what Animal Farm was about, which was more of a statement about the ills Stalinism and communism. But you know, go ahead and carry on about how much you don't know.
Glad I could oblige :D
If I recall correctly, the access to the diesel room was not much more than a deck plating segment that had hinges on it. Now this may not be true to all Sturgeon class submarines*, but I would think that it might do an ok job suffocating a fire, but I wouldn't count on it.
* More interesting submarine trivia. The Sturgeon class submarine was horrible for 'configuration management'. If a chief wanted to add a sheet metal locker somewhere in the engine room, he could pretty much get it. However, on LA class subs, this was strictly verbotten, from what I have been told. An LA class, is an LS class! The reason I put in the caveat about the deck plates on Sturgeon class boats is that the Sturgeon class was the wild west for custom fixes/hacks.
Hi there. Ex-submariner here. One reason was that they likely could not close the hatches. Being in one of these extended dry dock periods usually means that they have all sorts of hoses, wires, etc. going through the hatches making them neigh impossible to close without taking a hatchet to them all. Not to mention, if they were doing any sort of work on the sea water piping, which may be plausible since they were in dry dock, then the fire would still be supplied from the lack of piping that is normally there due to the repair.
My first guess of how this fire happened is that someone had done some welding in a compartment and something caught fire. Usually the Navy is pretty good about removing flamables in the area. They even go so far to have a "fire watch" for several hours after the welding was done to ensure that nothing catches fire. it will be interesting to hear what the root cause is.
Another interesting fact about L.A. class submarines, of which the Miami is included. There is only one water tight door interior to the sub, and that is the one that separates the forward part of the ship to the rear (ie engineering which was apparently not affected). Compare that to the submarine that I was on (Sturgeon Class), there were two water right doors for just the forward part of the ship, and two in the engine room. Basically, if you ever have flooding in an LA class sub, you are going down. At least in a Strugeon class, if 3 of the 5 compartments were completely flooded, you could still survive.
Sorry to nit pick, but this not entirely true for ANY signal. It only applies to real signals (ie no imaginary part). If you have a signal which has a real and imaginary part, you can use the entire bandwidth up to Fs. A neat trick that I would recommend verifying yourself. I at one time thought the same thing until someone told me this gem.
As a simple experiment, suppose you have a Fs = 2khz. plot the fft of cos(2*pi*1100*t) and the fft of cos(2*pi*1100*t) + j*sin(2*pi*1100*t). What you will find is the the real signal will have two peaks in the spectrum (one at 990Hz, and the other at -990Hz), where as with the second signal you should see a single tone at 1100 Hz.
I really think that your ire should be directed to who your cell phone manufacturer is and not with Google, per se.
http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphans-visualizing-a-sad-history-of-support
And in a way, this makes sense. Companies don't make money on support. Once the product has shipped, they don't want to deal with it since they want to move on to the next "big" thing. This certainly makes Apple the odd ball here. Certainly, Motorola has a history of not providing too much support, but it appears that HTC at least makes a token effort to keep their stuff up to date.
My dad is a photographer. While you might think that you could just hire any old "Jimmy Olsen" to capture some pictures, your quality will usually suffer if you go for the lowest bidder just like in anything else. The going rate for most professional photographers is probably greater than the $100/hr. I honestly don't know how much my dad bills per hour. If I recall he typically bills by day or by half day. But what you do get when you hire him is someone with years of experience doing photo shoots, where you need to balance the needs of the customer and artistic director, knows all the lighting tricks to emphasize or de-emphasize attributes of the object being photographed, and someone with a deft hand at Photoshop to fix things that were not caught on the day of the photo shoot.
To make a comparison, I know how to point my camera and take pictures. However I usually just let the camera figure out the aperture and speed settings. This typically results in a picture that has so much flash that it wipes out the backgrounds of most photos, for better or for worse. My dad on the other hand would go through the motions of setting his own aperture and speeds to convey the proper mood of the entire setting and still have them turn out properly without much trial and error. And as you might expect, his pictures are much, much better than mine.
I would say that when I was younger I spent plenty of time outside by hiking, playing soccer, swimming in lakes, playing in the woods, etc. I would say that I was allergy free up until recently. I am an engineer (implying I don't get to go outside much anymore) in my mid 30s now, and I noticed last year in the spring that I started to get really congested and sneezing in the spring. It was/is especially bad this season. While I haven't gone to the doctor to officially get diagnosed, I have a strong suspicion that I have developed allergies based on my experiences of other with allergies. My older sister, who is a nurse, experienced something pretty similar too.
Now back to your original hypothesis. I would guess from my own experience that genetics may be a partial factor. My parents, to my knowledge, don't have allergies. My sister and I started off without them but have since developed them. Maybe the genes were enough when we were younger, but as we started working in doors because of our jobs we became more sensitive to things like pollen and other springtime allergy culprits.
I agree with you, but at the same time you would think that a server would be able to count how many login attempts to the same account and deny say after trying 100k passwords in under a minute. That to me would automatically flag this as a non-human trying to gain access to an account, where maybe you might try 10 passwords a minute if you actually pause to think about each password attempt. While I don't do mail server programming and not to familiar with much of the details on detecting intrusions like this, but I would think something like this should be easy to spot.
ARRGH! The one time I don't hit preview and I fsck up the HTML. Here is a clearer version of my post.
:(
I think. Along these lines is pretty much what I was thinking, but I will expand on it. By having such conveniences as the internet, there is a lower threshold for impulse buying. there is no need to go the brick and mortar shop anymore. And the transaction is more of an abstraction than it ever was before when actually having to go to a retail shop to purchase something, where you grab for you wallet and either pay in cash or credit card. Now I just type a few letters and numbers on the keyboard, and viola, I have something new and shiny to consume. I know that I too am not immune to this. There are probably things that I wouldn't have bought otherwise without the convenience of the internet. I am just fortunate that I have enough restraint to keep from going hog wild. Unfortunately, most Americans aren't good at self restraint
The best way that I can explain this is how the whole system is made. One big distinction is tube vs solid state amps. When operating any amp in compression, it will generate harmonics. (think of the difference between a sine wave vs a square wave when looking at the frequency spectrum). If you add multiple sine waves (ie a chord on a guitar). Each frequency for each note of the chord will mix together when going through the amp, which are called intermodulation products. These intermod products give a certain profile to the sound that come out of the amplifier that give each amp its own unique sound. The differences come from the design of the amp. Many people claim that tubes give a 'warmer' sound from the better intermods that they create. This is probably true, but I don't have any evidence one way or the other. It would make sense that the transition from linear to nonlinear (ie approaching saturation) in a tube amp would be different vs a solid state amp which will affect the harmonic creation.
Another way that the sound is different would be what kind of speaker cabinet the amplifier is connected to. The acoustic performance will also shape the sound.
So my question is, what is going to happen to Blago's hair now that he is in prison. Will it stand the test of time there and still look perfect? Will it be able to deflect bullets? Will he donate it to charity?
I am going to miss the comedy he has provided over the last three years to the fine state of Illinois.
As a former submariner myself, here is my read on the scenario you linked to (and in short I agree with the GP post). I think that saying the US did not know the sub was there is unlikely. It is nothing more that a show of hubris on the part of the Chinese since they knew the US would not act without causing a huge international incident. China knew this, so they figured that it would be better to embarrass the US since there really was no downside to their actions.
While you are probably right about the RHCP (as well as any other CD released lately) about the gain compression, there is no reason why you still cant do quantitative analysis to see differences between the two different compression schemes when they are decompressed. It would just be a matter of comparing the bytes of decompressed files to the original, never compressed (ie from the CD) data. Compute the variance of the errors in the two different schemes referenced to the CD and the check to see if they are statistically significant. There you go, you have just tested to see if the compression schemes are different.
That being said, you would probably have a better indicator of errors if you did use a source that was not heavily gain compressed before data compression, but that is another debate.
Thanks for the info, but I did have two particular countries in mind when I wrote my initial comment and that would be Iran and Egypt. In Iran, the US had its hand in over throwing the government (Operation Ajax) to support an autocratic dictator. In Egypt, we continually supported Hosni Mubarak, who was also a well known oppressor of his people.
Now you are probably right to some extent about the western media distorting some of my knowledge, but I do at least try to get an informed opinion from other sources. And I have not forgotten about the unilateral support we give Israel and how that irks most other Arabic countries, as you pointed out, but I think that goes in hand with us keeping our noses out their business.
Is it possible thought that many of these places don't like the US is because we support their oppressive dictator? What is the causality for their 'hate' of the US? Not that I know the answer is here, but we should at least know what caused their dislike of the US first. Perhaps getting out of their business would be a good first step to winning their support.
Your math is bad. Taxed at 35% brings $1 to $0.65. Then the 15% for capital gains when distributed to the other investors would kick in and then be computed to be $0.0975. Round that up to a dime and you get $0.55 remaining. That is assuming, as the other poster noted, if they don't get a credit for the money already paid in taxes to the other country. Now $0.45 in taxes from the original dollar isn't great, but you can't just add the percentages like that.
Additionally, it is the wrong perspective to take anyway. The company keeps $0.65 for every dollar of profit. The company can the chose to keep it in the form of cash*, or they can the distribute the money as dividends. Suppose the company opts to pay a dividend. At the point, the company is paying from the $0.65 pile and paying no additional taxes on it. The recipient of the dividend however is now receiving an income from the company. Why would the recipient not pay taxes on it? It is income now, right? Hence why the capital gains tax applies.
* Realistically, they would find something R&D to put this in the expense column of their balance sheet to take away from total profit, but I am assuming they convert all profit to cash
While in general I agree with you, my own experience tells a different tale. I currently weigh about 20 lbs more than I did about a year and a half ago when I switched jobs. This new job is about an hour commute each way from where I live now compared to about the 30 minute commute that I had before. I would say that my diet hasn't really changed too much from then.
What did change was certainly my exercise regimen. At the old job, I would play racquetball twice a week for at least an hour. Occasionally I would get out to play tennis after work as well. I was also going on hour long bike rides on Saturdays pushing myself pretty hard. I also had a pretty good weight lifting routine. Fast forward to the new job I lost on out on most of the these opportunities to work out after work. One reason being the longer commute and the second being that I work for a much smaller company and just don't have exposure to enough people of similar hobbies to do some of the things mentioned above. And as a result I have added the above weight. I have certainly been making an effort to fix this lately, but it is still difficult to find time with the long commute.
Now I will also admit that i can improve my diet. The Mrs. loves the carbs (pasta, breads, etc.) and she does most of the cooking and menu planning. I get the feeling gives me a look of disdain when I suggest salads even when I think she knows they are the right choice (even I admit that salads are boring). But this is just one battle that I have let her win. Fortunately in the last week or so, she has joined weight watchers which I think has been a bit of an eye opener on what she was eating before. As a plus, it means that she will be cooking more lean meals so I get the benefit too.
I can envision their super powers now:
Bach- He will put you in a fugue with this fugues
Mozart - He summons Il Commendatore to take you to hell
Strauss - Has a viscous 1-2-3 combo that will take you down
Beethoven - Even while deaf, he could hear you
If only. The reason ICs cost so little is that the cost is spread out over millions of parts. As my analog circuits Prof would say. "Your very first IC off the line is going to cost a million dollars. Everything else after that is free." So to buy one or two ICs that are radiation hardened is probably going to cost that much since it will most likely be custom. Now that's not to say they can't reuse some of the masks for an existing IC to make it cheaper, but It won't be that much cheaper. My guess is that they would want to redesign the part anyway if it is going to be in a radiation intense environment. The radiation could cause some weird quantum effects in the IC that might mean they want the transistors to be larger for reliability purposes. But that last part is just a guess since I am not an IC designer and thought my electronic materials class was nothing short of voodoo.
Long story short, they probably saved more than $5 for using a COTS part, but they probably lost the probe by the part not being radiation hardened.
So as a follow up then, after looking at the API, would a call to 'removeAll' or 'remove' keep this situation from occurring? (using the 'List' interface as my reference for function calls).
So explain to me how a memory leak could part of the coders problem? The language for development is Java, which should handle the memory automatically. It would sound more like a problem with the VM than the program itself. It is my understanding, that while possible, it is pretty hard to code a memory issue that the GC can't find.
To me this is a serious question. I guess I know enough about Java to be dangerous. Just curious and not trying to troll.
Just a small nit pick about the ars technica article that you link to. Their basis for cost of games is for systems that were using cartridges and not CDs for the media. In these cartridges are EPROMs and other electronics that are certainly more expensive than a piece of painted silicone. That minor detail aside, their point is still valid. I just would like to add that the cost of the consumable material is orders of magnitude different.