Is it just me or is Microsoft wildly overpaying for Skype? Seems like another in a long line of decisions by Microsoft to destroy shareholder value. If they took half of the money they spent to grow their business and just doled it out to shareholders, everyone would have been better off.
People on the liberal end of the spectrum tend to view taxation in static terms. The rich have a certain amount. You raise taxes on them 10%, you get 10% more revenue. Life is way more complicated than that.
Wealth flees. People cut back in other areas. People hire less. And a bunch of other unintended consequences we can't foresee.
All of those states like California, New Jersey, and Illinois who raised taxes on the rich and instituted "millionaire's taxes" and they are still facing gaping budget holes.
The problem is that there is always good and nice things to spend on and you can only tax so much.
I hate to be mean or make excuses for them, but why would anyone be surprised by this? They are making the operating system for free. How would you expect an advertising company to monetize that?
All of higher education is in a bubble. The prices are too high. It's too easy to burden 18-22 year olds with lots of debt that will affect them for the rest of their lives. There's too many building programs. Too many faculty. Too much staff.
The bubble is going to pop and it is going to be messy.
In regards to this topic, the bubble requires as many students as possible at all levels. Universities aren't going to stop young men and women from wrecking their lives financially. What makes you think they'll say "yes, we should cut back the number of PhD students especially those doing arcane work"?
Can't do nuclear, can't put windmills up due to the birds or hurting the value of the Kennedy compound. Ethanol doesn't work. Honestly, I don't think the environmentalists will be happy until we're back to living in caves and dying at around age 25 from famine.
In a big bureaucracy, people who genuinely need a machine are prioritized. People who have a horribly slow machine aren't considered part of the group. This is the logical way to jump the queue. I've thought about it myself, but not seriously.
You are just 0.00000001% of the way home to a compelling Origin of Life scenario.
You need to get a self-replicating chemical process with metabolism that is able to stick around prior to degradation. Not to mention all left-handed amino acids and numerous other obstacles I haven't even begun to mention. Your average run-of-the-mill Young Earth Creationist can see right through this.
For all we know some people in some group, responsible for one aspect of the project, got this thing included. I doubt that the CEO of Sony and the guy who put the rootkit in the music division talked to each other and the entire PS3 group.
I'm currently working my way through the article, but I'm sure a collection of sane countries helped out on this. I would guess the Saudis, the Brits, and the Germans helped out in some form or another.
You'll find more war metaphors during the NFL playoffs as well. If some gunman cuts down Tom Brady, it won't be because of that. He'll probably be a nut.
I believe VoltDB (http://voltdb.org) uses in-memory and MPP if anyone is interested in giving it a test-spin. It's from Michael Stonebreaker of various databases (Ingres, Vertica, etc)
They've been doing a number of presentations on the topic you can probably find on the site.
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Is it just me or is Microsoft wildly overpaying for Skype? Seems like another in a long line of decisions by Microsoft to destroy shareholder value. If they took half of the money they spent to grow their business and just doled it out to shareholders, everyone would have been better off.
If only government was as limited as my brain size, we would all be much better off.
People on the liberal end of the spectrum tend to view taxation in static terms. The rich have a certain amount. You raise taxes on them 10%, you get 10% more revenue. Life is way more complicated than that.
Wealth flees. People cut back in other areas. People hire less. And a bunch of other unintended consequences we can't foresee.
The current system where you tax gasoline works fine for that purpose. If your car is heavier, you use more gas, you pay more taxes.
All of those states like California, New Jersey, and Illinois who raised taxes on the rich and instituted "millionaire's taxes" and they are still facing gaping budget holes.
The problem is that there is always good and nice things to spend on and you can only tax so much.
I'm confused. Are you saying that Skype is running Detroit?
Just grab audio from thousands of dialogs or talks on YouTube and test it out.
I hate to be mean or make excuses for them, but why would anyone be surprised by this? They are making the operating system for free. How would you expect an advertising company to monetize that?
And this is also why I avoid Chrome.
All of higher education is in a bubble. The prices are too high. It's too easy to burden 18-22 year olds with lots of debt that will affect them for the rest of their lives. There's too many building programs. Too many faculty. Too much staff.
The bubble is going to pop and it is going to be messy.
In regards to this topic, the bubble requires as many students as possible at all levels. Universities aren't going to stop young men and women from wrecking their lives financially. What makes you think they'll say "yes, we should cut back the number of PhD students especially those doing arcane work"?
Can't do nuclear, can't put windmills up due to the birds or hurting the value of the Kennedy compound. Ethanol doesn't work. Honestly, I don't think the environmentalists will be happy until we're back to living in caves and dying at around age 25 from famine.
I'm not going to say that a CS degree is worthless, but pretty much all of college is for employment.
I know it isn't my place. That's why I didn't destroy something I don't have ownership over.
In a big bureaucracy, people who genuinely need a machine are prioritized. People who have a horribly slow machine aren't considered part of the group. This is the logical way to jump the queue. I've thought about it myself, but not seriously.
My general point here is that atheism cannot provide that. Everything becomes relative.
Yes, and we live in a world that has gotten a lot of its mores from Christianity. And then say we don't need it or something similar for those mores.
You are just 0.00000001% of the way home to a compelling Origin of Life scenario.
You need to get a self-replicating chemical process with metabolism that is able to stick around prior to degradation. Not to mention all left-handed amino acids and numerous other obstacles I haven't even begun to mention. Your average run-of-the-mill Young Earth Creationist can see right through this.
For all we know some people in some group, responsible for one aspect of the project, got this thing included. I doubt that the CEO of Sony and the guy who put the rootkit in the music division talked to each other and the entire PS3 group.
Am I a Fox News victim or am I also a friend of an immigrant from Venezuela?
Ahh Venezuela.
The country that is confiscating private property and has a strongman dictator as its leader. Not to mention shortages.
Yes, Chavez isn't a wonderful human being. He's a thug.
I'm currently working my way through the article, but I'm sure a collection of sane countries helped out on this. I would guess the Saudis, the Brits, and the Germans helped out in some form or another.
And Clinton had a "war room".
You'll find more war metaphors during the NFL playoffs as well. If some gunman cuts down Tom Brady, it won't be because of that. He'll probably be a nut.
I believe VoltDB (http://voltdb.org) uses in-memory and MPP if anyone is interested in giving it a test-spin. It's from Michael Stonebreaker of various databases (Ingres, Vertica, etc)
They've been doing a number of presentations on the topic you can probably find on the site.
Yeah, but it is perfectly fine precedent for WikiLeaks to judge that they aren't putting anyone at risk.
What exactly are you entitled to know exactly and what is your basis for such an assertion?
Nuclear codes? Secret discussions with world leaders? Communications from politicians in radical Muslim countries trying to help us out?
While secrecy can be abused (that's why Congressional oversight exists in America btw), it is needed.
So how does this work?
If a SUV makes it through a blockcade, do they reconsider the ban?