They have a flat tax for every income category - income, gains, munis, etc.
So you give your fed-taxable-income, add back the state tax deduction, multiply the tax rate, subtract prepaid tax to obtain refund/owed. I could say/do this on an elevator ride.
I find the one tax rate unfair for investment income and poor people. But its damn simple.
The US only has bought four seats on the ISS for each of 2011 and 2012 ($50M each). And nothing firm after that.
The ISS capacity is three four-month rotations of six astronauts (18 seats). That requires six Soyuz launches, which is a stretch. The US quota is 2 astronauts per rotation.
So the new compromise is "half a spaceship"- one that can land, but not launch. Only a politician could invent that one. NASA programs have horizons of 10 -2 5 years, but politicians respond to two year election cycles. Bush cancels shuttle. Obama cancels is successor. Obama need better science advice.
And none of them has come close to the dynamism seen in Silicon Valley. They often lack one of the key components: a university, insatiable entreprenuerism, intelligent capital, etc. The main advantage Russia might have is previous experience with top-rated Science Cities like Novasibirsk.
Like MicroSoft used to make it hard to use other browsers Windows. The Apple "platform" isnt quite a utility yet. Nor has pervasive market share. But its getting there.
Apple is 2nd to none in hardware and UI design. On top of that they add pretty good software and 2nd to none app availability & delivery system. Google is inferior in all three of these, especially the first item. They could give away their hardware for free and not catch up to Apple.
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However that was six years after the early versions came out. Gates was the "Rockefeller" of the PC industry, consolidating the software anarchy using dubious business means. And made a fortune out of it too.
His OS is used 90% of US computers, including military ones. And it security holes you could sail an aircraft carrier through.
MicroSoft has been more diligent about security lately. But the damage has already been done.
One of my MIT classmates said his technique to becoming world scrabble champ was to create alphabetized letter lists out of allowed words and memorize them. I dont know whether to believe him.
They are only mid-way through their structural life. However it costs a fortune to refurbish them for each mission.
Note that B-52 bombers have been used for 55 years and likely for at least 75 years. there are several cold-war era planes that have passed the half-century mark.
But to detect that, you'd have sequence much of their DNA. Perhaps partially sequencing using a SNP array chip might catch a mutation or two (23andMe uses these chips). Both techniques would be expensive. Conventional forensic DNA analysis looks at 30 markers. These would be the same for most identical twins.
The 60 mutation number comes from a study reported a few weeks ago fully sequencing parents and an offspring.
I recall being unable to watch that movie without a lump in my stomach for a few months after 9-11. The urban destruction scenes were too close to the mark. Doesnt both now that Los Angeles or New York is now destroyed in every apocalyptic movie.
Cosmology is is changing rapidly and made several sharp turns during my lifetime. And the vast amount of new astronomical data pouring in thanks to Moore's Law suggests we'll see a few more sharp turns before its over.
On the other hand particle physics appears to have stagnated the past couple decades after verifying the last couple quarks and the Standard Theory. Its now wallowing in untestable theories like Strings and Quantum Gravity.
The Total Cost of Operation of a data center is more than half facilities and power than the chips. It looks to be more economical (TCO) to use low-power chips, and more of them, over the long run.
Runner's high, weightlifters high, etc.
Sometimes people then chase this higher and exercise more than their body needs to the brink of injury.
Otherwise this makes the exercise pass pleasantly for those in control.
That seems like the obvious way to interact verbally with the computer. At least for parts of applications where you are selecting or entering text.
Touch and gesture has its niches for visual information, where pointing is more succinct than talking or typing about the action.
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They have a flat tax for every income category - income, gains, munis, etc. So you give your fed-taxable-income, add back the state tax deduction, multiply the tax rate, subtract prepaid tax to obtain refund/owed. I could say/do this on an elevator ride.
I find the one tax rate unfair for investment income and poor people. But its damn simple.
Circular TV monitors in interior cabins. You can select ocean wave or aquarium scenes.
The US only has bought four seats on the ISS for each of 2011 and 2012 ($50M each). And nothing firm after that.
The ISS capacity is three four-month rotations of six astronauts (18 seats). That requires six Soyuz launches, which is a stretch. The US quota is 2 astronauts per rotation.
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How many TV-to-movie sequels can one make?
So the new compromise is "half a spaceship"- one that can land, but not launch. Only a politician could invent that one. NASA programs have horizons of 10 -2 5 years, but politicians respond to two year election cycles. Bush cancels shuttle. Obama cancels is successor. Obama need better science advice.
And none of them has come close to the dynamism seen in Silicon Valley. They often lack one of the key components: a university, insatiable entreprenuerism, intelligent capital, etc. The main advantage Russia might have is previous experience with top-rated Science Cities like Novasibirsk.
Like MicroSoft used to make it hard to use other browsers Windows. The Apple "platform" isnt quite a utility yet. Nor has pervasive market share. But its getting there.
Its all relative, folks.
So by the time I get the book and read the book I am already losing money. Thats before I do any of the work.
If i was a broke college student like Linus, then that might be another issue.
Apple is 2nd to none in hardware and UI design. On top of that they add pretty good software and 2nd to none app availability & delivery system. Google is inferior in all three of these, especially the first item. They could give away their hardware for free and not catch up to Apple.
"No facts to see here. Move along" -Obiwan Kenobi
However that was six years after the early versions came out. Gates was the "Rockefeller" of the PC industry, consolidating the software anarchy using dubious business means. And made a fortune out of it too.
His OS is used 90% of US computers, including military ones. And it security holes you could sail an aircraft carrier through.
MicroSoft has been more diligent about security lately. But the damage has already been done.
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One of my MIT classmates said his technique to becoming world scrabble champ was to create alphabetized letter lists out of allowed words and memorize them. I dont know whether to believe him.
They are only mid-way through their structural life. However it costs a fortune to refurbish them for each mission.
Note that B-52 bombers have been used for 55 years and likely for at least 75 years. there are several cold-war era planes that have passed the half-century mark.
But to detect that, you'd have sequence much of their DNA. Perhaps partially sequencing using a SNP array chip might catch a mutation or two (23andMe uses these chips). Both techniques would be expensive. Conventional forensic DNA analysis looks at 30 markers. These would be the same for most identical twins.
The 60 mutation number comes from a study reported a few weeks ago fully sequencing parents and an offspring.
I recall being unable to watch that movie without a lump in my stomach for a few months after 9-11. The urban destruction scenes were too close to the mark. Doesnt both now that Los Angeles or New York is now destroyed in every apocalyptic movie.
Cosmology is is changing rapidly and made several sharp turns during my lifetime. And the vast amount of new astronomical data pouring in thanks to Moore's Law suggests we'll see a few more sharp turns before its over.
On the other hand particle physics appears to have stagnated the past couple decades after verifying the last couple quarks and the Standard Theory. Its now wallowing in untestable theories like Strings and Quantum Gravity.
With a delay of two and a half years. Some in the Bush and Obama administrations were ready to cancel this.
The Total Cost of Operation of a data center is more than half facilities and power than the chips. It looks to be more economical (TCO) to use low-power chips, and more of them, over the long run.
Runner's high, weightlifters high, etc.
Sometimes people then chase this higher and exercise more than their body needs to the brink of injury.
Otherwise this makes the exercise pass pleasantly for those in control.
That seems like the obvious way to interact verbally with the computer. At least for parts of applications where you are selecting or entering text.
Touch and gesture has its niches for visual information, where pointing is more succinct than talking or typing about the action.
APIs for both systems are necessary.
People then spend too much time figuring out how to be the tax and not on how to write Great Software.