He means US English. Is it that hard to understand what people are talking about if everything isn't stated 100% explicitly correct? Or are you just looking for a chance to get mad at an American?
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They should also pass a law that everyone old enough to drive gets a brand new car every spring as well. Why not, wouldn't it be a good thing for everyone to get a brand new car every year?
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Aggravated assault is far less harmful than murder, should we legalize it too?
lets see how free you think it is when you get out of university and start paying taxes. I could pay for a private health care plan, and get better medical service in the US for a LOT less than I pay in taxes here.
So, an engineer who develops better equipment to increase the productivity of farming or manufacturing, a doctor who cures a fatal disease, adding years of productive life to innumerable humans, software developers who write productivity software allowing one person to do the work that used to require two or three people.....these people are just passing money around?
Makes you wonder why technologically advanced countries are so much wealthier than countries whose economy is based mainly on agriculture. Actually, it makes me wonder, it probably doesn't make you wonder, you seem to have it all figured out already.
So, what you are saying is, if Microsoft didn't exist, everyone in the US would be $14 richer per year? Microsoft brings billions of dollars per year of revenue from other countries into the United States. This is money people in other countries had in their pockets, which they then gave to Microsoft in exchange for software. Microsoft puts it into the bank for a while, and then they pay it to their employees (in the form of wages or stock options) and then those employees pay taxes to the government which uses it to build roads, educate children, etc.
A quick recap: 1) Billions of dollars is outside of the USA. 2) Those billions are given to Microsoft (which resides in the US) in exchange for products. 3) Microsoft pays its employees wages, who in turn pay taxes to the government, which then doles it out to the citizens of the USA.
Now, if Microsoft ceased to exist tomorrow, would each American be $14/yr richer? Or did I misunderstand you?
Well, myself, I'll choose to work at the place that pays me $55/hr and let me use the microsoft toolset and produce actual results. Proprietary I suppose but OS religion isn't much of a concern with capitalists.
Code is also money to your employer or client. Thats if you work for a living. If you just sit around and recompile your kernel all day its not so important I suppose.
How are you going to guarantee this wise guy? Are you going to send me money if you're wrong?
Are you saying it is absolutely impossible that Microsoft could have done appropriate QA on this product? What if someone from the open source community had headed up the QA team, could it then have less bugs, or would the inherent superiority of open source be overwhelmed by the inherent inferiority of Microsoft?
He was concerned about performance of batteries in cold weather, not electricity. As far as I know, cold weather has no negative effects on electricty. It does affect batteries quite severely though (if you've ever tried to start your car at -40 you'll know what I'm talking about.) That's why you can buy battery warmers for your car.
Did you even read my post? How about this: Life Expectancy (at Birth) India: 1960: 43 Current: 63.4 USA: 1960: 70 Current: 76.2
(I assume statistics, for India at least, before 1960 may be a little patchy. Do you see a pattern though? I do.)
If you don't consider an increase in life expectancy of 20 years in the last 40 years alone an improvement, then I guess we have nothing to discuss. Maybe their lives aren't worth living and therefore this isn't an improvement. They may have a slightly different opinion on that subject though I suspect.
One reason for their lower standard of living is political meddling in the economy (price controls, etc) The U.S. has historically had a free market economy which is probably the number one requirement for things getting done the right way, letting individuals decide. Just because someone else's future is not as bright as your does not mean that is not bright.
As for your mom, the U.S. hasn't yet achieved the welfare state utopia we have here in Canada. But don't worry, you'll probably drag yourselves down to our level eventually. People are not worse off absolutely. The poor relative to the rich may be another story and I don't dispute that.
The poor are relatively worse off, not absolutely worse off. Just because the CEO of your company makes 10000% more than you now compared to 100% more than you before does not make you worse off absolutely. The standard of living and life expectancy (if you think thats important; a lot of people I know do.) in an absolute sense is higher for everyone, even though disparity is greater.
RE: Most nations and peoples in the world were far worse at the 20th century's end than at the beginning.
Care to give some specific examples on this?
Also, as for "the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer", I'd like to see some examples of that as well. I suspect what you really mean is the rich got richer to a greater extent than the poor did, which I believe has happened in some cases, at least here in North America. However, the poor are not worse off. A person here (Canada) can go on social assistance (or whatever they call it these days so as not to hurt the feelings of the recipients) forever and have a higher standard of living than a wealthy person 100 years ago (warm, clean accomodations, refrigerated fresh food, cable TV, free medical care, etc etc). Worst case they have to go out and panhandle a few hours a month to make ends meet. If you can point to a case of a group being worse off, check the political climate in the time and place it happened and it might give you a hint as to why they're worse off.
You know (for example), it seems some people would rather go without running water if it means that their neighbour who invented economical running water will be running his into a gold-plated tub.
If you have an open mind and would care to read about the actual progress we have made in the last 100 years (as opposed to popular opinion and what you read in the newspapers), try picking up The Ultimate Resource 2 by Julian Simon. It won't change your mind, but it does make you feel a lot better about the future of our world.
>>I find that I generally work 50-64 hours a week during development and 40-50 when winding things down or starting them up. Since I generally whore myself out at $50-$100 and hour, not including 8000 - 20000+ per month, and you only put away "a min of $600 a month away for retirement". Either you need a financial adviser, or else I'd like to see your toy collection!:)
i agree, it'd be in the best interest of the RIAA if they just bought them out, if they shut them down surely they'll release the source code, and then who do they sue? Why don't they just accept the internet is here and develop a business model, I'd pay a reasonable amount for mp3 (and software), but if you gouge me, I think I'll just take it for free thank you very much.
Then obviously you've never used Napster before. Thats what I thought as well until I tried it. I downloaded over 300 **specific** songs in a matter of a few hours. Its fairly buggy but more than good enough for now.
Since most (all?) of these patents are being made by internet companies, could some sort of an internet based patent watch-dog group be established in some way to monitor companies **enforcing** their patents? I can understand a company filing a patent with no intention of enforcing it, but just to be first so no one else beats them to it and brings lawyers down upon them. However, if CDNow for example was to try to enforce this braindead patent on a competitor, the competitor could bring their case to this de-factt internet watch dog group who could then debate it in a forum like this and if the user community strongly agreed that the patent was invalid, they could highly recommend to CDNow that they cease enforcement of the patent or face the consequences, ie: anything from simple bad publicity (RealNetworks recent privacy problems) to coordinated attacks upon their servers until they see the err in their ways. Of course the debate would have to be a little more professional than many of the discussions we have here at/. but I really think this type of a de-facto watchdog agency could be very effective, despite having no official legal powers whatsoever. Whatdyathink?
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He means US English. Is it that hard to understand what people are talking about if everything isn't stated 100% explicitly correct? Or are you just looking for a chance to get mad at an American?
SQL Server 2000 does partitioned tables.
They should also pass a law that everyone old enough to drive gets a brand new car every spring as well. Why not, wouldn't it be a good thing for everyone to get a brand new car every year?
Aggravated assault is far less harmful than murder, should we legalize it too?
lets see how free you think it is when you get out of university and start paying taxes. I could pay for a private health care plan, and get better medical service in the US for a LOT less than I pay in taxes here.
So, an engineer who develops better equipment to increase the productivity of farming or manufacturing, a doctor who cures a fatal disease, adding years of productive life to innumerable humans, software developers who write productivity software allowing one person to do the work that used to require two or three people.....these people are just passing money around?
Makes you wonder why technologically advanced countries are so much wealthier than countries whose economy is based mainly on agriculture. Actually, it makes me wonder, it probably doesn't make you wonder, you seem to have it all figured out already.
Yes, you're correct, Pedersen is wrong. But I'm sure he won't let the facts get in his way.
So, what you are saying is, if Microsoft didn't exist, everyone in the US would be $14 richer per year? Microsoft brings billions of dollars per year of revenue from other countries into the United States. This is money people in other countries had in their pockets, which they then gave to Microsoft in exchange for software. Microsoft puts it into the bank for a while, and then they pay it to their employees (in the form of wages or stock options) and then those employees pay taxes to the government which uses it to build roads, educate children, etc.
A quick recap:
1) Billions of dollars is outside of the USA.
2) Those billions are given to Microsoft (which resides in the US) in exchange for products.
3) Microsoft pays its employees wages, who in turn pay taxes to the government, which then doles it out to the citizens of the USA.
Now, if Microsoft ceased to exist tomorrow, would each American be $14/yr richer? Or did I misunderstand you?
Well, myself, I'll choose to work at the place that pays me $55/hr and let me use the microsoft toolset and produce actual results. Proprietary I suppose but OS religion isn't much of a concern with capitalists.
Code is also money to your employer or client. Thats if you work for a living. If you just sit around and recompile your kernel all day its not so important I suppose.
How are you going to guarantee this wise guy? Are you going to send me money if you're wrong?
Are you saying it is absolutely impossible that Microsoft could have done appropriate QA on this product? What if someone from the open source community had headed up the QA team, could it then have less bugs, or would the inherent superiority of open source be overwhelmed by the inherent inferiority of Microsoft?
Vaporware refers to pre-marketing of software that doesn't exist. Windows 2000 does exist and it has already been released to manufacturing.
It seemed that IE4 had repartitioned the users hard disk...
Does someone keep an archive of stupid comments by uninformed people? This one belongs near the top.
AOL Market Cap: 141 B RHAT Market Cap 18 B
He was concerned about performance of batteries in cold weather, not electricity. As far as I know, cold weather has no negative effects on electricty. It does affect batteries quite severely though (if you've ever tried to start your car at -40 you'll know what I'm talking about.) That's why you can buy battery warmers for your car.
Wow, are you ever smart, thanks for filling us in. How many more geniuses going to rant about this in the next year?
Did you even read my post?
How about this:
Life Expectancy (at Birth)
India: 1960: 43 Current: 63.4
USA: 1960: 70 Current: 76.2
(I assume statistics, for India at least, before 1960 may be a little patchy. Do you see a pattern though? I do.)
If you don't consider an increase in life expectancy of 20 years in the last 40 years alone an improvement, then I guess we have nothing to discuss. Maybe their lives aren't worth living and therefore this isn't an improvement. They may have a slightly different opinion on that subject though I suspect.
One reason for their lower standard of living is political meddling in the economy (price controls, etc) The U.S. has historically had a free market economy which is probably the number one requirement for things getting done the right way, letting individuals decide.
Just because someone else's future is not as bright as your does not mean that is not bright.
As for your mom, the U.S. hasn't yet achieved the welfare state utopia we have here in Canada. But don't worry, you'll probably drag yourselves down to our level eventually. People are not worse off absolutely. The poor relative to the rich may be another story and I don't dispute that.
The poor are relatively worse off, not absolutely worse off. Just because the CEO of your company makes 10000% more than you now compared to 100% more than you before does not make you worse off absolutely. The standard of living and life expectancy (if you think thats important; a lot of people I know do.) in an absolute sense is higher for everyone, even though disparity is greater.
RE: Most nations and peoples in the world were far worse at the 20th century's end than at the beginning.
Care to give some specific examples on this?
Also, as for "the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer", I'd like to see some examples of that as well. I suspect what you really mean is the rich got richer to a greater extent than the poor did, which I believe has happened in some cases, at least here in North America. However, the poor are not worse off. A person here (Canada) can go on social assistance (or whatever they call it these days so as not to hurt the feelings of the recipients) forever and have a higher standard of living than a wealthy person 100 years ago (warm, clean accomodations, refrigerated fresh food, cable TV, free medical care, etc etc). Worst case they have to go out and panhandle a few hours a month to make ends meet.
If you can point to a case of a group being worse off, check the political climate in the time and place it happened and it might give you a hint as to why they're worse off.
You know (for example), it seems some people would rather go without running water if it means that their neighbour who invented economical running water will be running his into a gold-plated tub.
If you have an open mind and would care to read about the actual progress we have made in the last 100 years (as opposed to popular opinion and what you read in the newspapers), try picking up The Ultimate Resource 2 by Julian Simon. It won't change your mind, but it does make you feel a lot better about the future of our world.
ummm, I think you mean Visio don't you?
>>I find that I generally work 50-64 hours a week during development and 40-50 when winding things down or starting them up. Since I generally whore myself out at $50-$100 and hour, not including 8000 - 20000+ per month, and you only put away "a min of $600 a month away for retirement". Either you need a financial adviser, or else I'd like to see your toy collection! :)
COBOL **was** the language of business. There's a whole other world outside your place of employment.
i agree, it'd be in the best interest of the RIAA if they just bought them out, if they shut them down surely they'll release the source code, and then who do they sue? Why don't they just accept the internet is here and develop a business model, I'd pay a reasonable amount for mp3 (and software), but if you gouge me, I think I'll just take it for free thank you very much.
Then obviously you've never used Napster before. Thats what I thought as well until I tried it. I downloaded over 300 **specific** songs in a matter of a few hours. Its fairly buggy but more than good enough for now.
Since most (all?) of these patents are being made by internet companies, could some sort of an internet based patent watch-dog group be established in some way to monitor companies **enforcing** their patents? I can understand a company filing a patent with no intention of enforcing it, but just to be first so no one else beats them to it and brings lawyers down upon them. However, if CDNow for example was to try to enforce this braindead patent on a competitor, the competitor could bring their case to this de-factt internet watch dog group who could then debate it in a forum like this and if the user community strongly agreed that the patent was invalid, they could highly recommend to CDNow that they cease enforcement of the patent or face the consequences, ie: anything from simple bad publicity (RealNetworks recent privacy problems) to coordinated attacks upon their servers until they see the err in their ways. Of course the debate would have to be a little more professional than many of the discussions we have here at /. but I really think this type of a de-facto watchdog agency could be very effective, despite having no official legal powers whatsoever. Whatdyathink?