And I knew a guy who could see the difference between 57fps and >60fps reliably (below 60fps looked "choppy" to him but glass smooth to the rest of us.
Well, most LCD refresh rates are 60fps (or a multiple thereof), so 57fps as an "average" means that you get 60 FPS, but 2% of the time skip a frame (or more). You don't need to have the best eyesight in the world to notice dropped frames..
One of the problems that I have long had with the idea of robot soldiers is that it makes war too easy
More importantly, it allows a tiny group of people to rule over the country / world by force. Today (with super advanced weaponry and even with nuclear weapons), if a dictator or "really bad group of people" took over the any mostly homogenous society (ie. the US) for example, they wouldn't be able to maintain power because the military would simply not follow orders to kill other civilians. Nuclear weapons are overly blunt to control a population.
With fully autonomous robots, this becomes possible.
Do you know how little it costs to fully stock candy / snacks / soda? In my previous company, I volunteered to make sure that the kitchen in our startup was fully stocked and I basically ordered anything that people wanted that was available through Costco business delivery (never had to say no to anyone). It costed less than 500 dollars a month for 15 people. That is virtually nothing compared to salary and office rent, especially when you take into account taxes -- the fact that paying a salary is taxed while spending the money on stuff is deducted.
Yeah, full meals would be more expensive, but not supplying free premium drinks and snacks is just cutting costs in the wrong places.
The last thing the cable companies want to happen is for HBO to realize that, "Hey people might pay us $15 a month to watch HBO online without the cable fee."
HBO probably already realizes that. But of course they are owned by Time Warner...
But everyone does buy at least once and sell at least once. Insider trading can hurt those people significantly if they happen right around when you buy or sell.
Wow. No one I've ever met has said, "I would make more but I'd just get taxed more." No one.
Actually, to be fair, that's not entirely true. This comes up often enough in households where one partner makes considerably more than the other. The one that makes less may be more inclined to stay home and take care of the kids / house full time rather than spend money on extra child care because of high taxes, even though they may enjoy their job and already have good quality time with the kids. Judging on a pure economic output basis, having the lower income partner work is favorable.
On the flip side, I totally agree that income taxes in the US are not progressive enough.
What's with all these new CPUs being labeled for "Windows 8 only?" First it was the new Intel processor, now AMD. Does Microsoft have some new ridiculous "partnership" strategy going on that we need to be aware of?
The simplest explanation -- that Microsoft is handing over bags of cash to get this Windows 8 exclusivity -- both fits the facts and Microsoft's past behavior. So I'd say, yes.
But it really doesn't make sense, for especially Intel. They are deathly afraid of ARM making them irrelevant in the post-PC world*. Why would they be so short sighted when cash isn't a problem for them.
* I can't believe I used that phrase. I feel dirty.
Be careful what you wish for. While I think its the right way to go to unbundle channels, watch out for the unintended consequences. Less popular channels will be removed because they are not profitable. Think about what makes up for popular TV (in America at least). You may end up the choice of watching the Kardashians or Jersey Shore.
Japan already has severe problems with its demographics and its only going to get worse. They could use the immigration.
China will also get there not too long from now. Their one-child policy simply was too draconian. Stable - slow population growth is good, shrinking population bad, rapidly growing population with not enough resources -- very bad.
Indeed. There's plenty of time to polish up your resume during college. Spend your last free summer buying cigarettes for slutty high school girls. Remember, if she smokes, she pokes.
I'm not sure I'd want to be with a girl that "pokes". I guess if that's your kind of thing, go for it.
If you are in the industry and just step back and look at whats going on, its pretty clear why we have the situation of companies complaining that there aren't enough workers and tons of workers looking for jobs.
For software, every company wants to hire only the cream of the crop, because the difference in productivity between the cream of the crop and "average" is so huge (for the sake of argument, lets say N times). If the market was perfect, they should be paid N times the amount the "average" workers get paid. Its not, due to societal issues -- its hard to get people's minds around someone being paid multiple times what you are being paid (although society does tolerate CEO pay being ridiculous, but I digress) and also the fact that being able to tell the difference between the "average" and the cream of the crop is challenging.
I would also argue that its hard to train an "average" worker to have the productivity of a great coder. Even so, companies don't do enough here, and companies that are effective in this may end up just training workers for their competition.
So with this imbalance, economics would predict there being a shortage of the cream of the crop and a surplus of the "average" kind of workers, which is exactly what we are seeing here.
I agree with most of what you say but equally how sad is it that the world judges someone's suitability to run a multinational based on their qualifications rather than the many years of experience they have had since then and / or how good they are at their job. That bit of paper doesn't make someone better suited to run a company than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates etc. just because they didn't complete their courses.
For the 100th time, its pretty clear he isn't getting canned because he doesn't have the degree, its because he lost credibility to everyone because of the lie.
I bet you Yahoo has huge issues retaining "good people" right now. If I was still working at Yahoo when I heard that the guy was still (attempting to) stay on, I'd probably give notice and semi-publicly explain why (can't go fully public because it would affect hiring at future jobs). People don't want to work for someone who has no integrity.
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8% tax free return is pretty damn good. S&P 500 does not do 8% consistently, no way in hell.
It's OK, but not stellar.
And since it is solar power, it is also clearly stellar.
I was thinking more on the lines of:
http://xkcd.com/1200/
And I knew a guy who could see the difference between 57fps and >60fps reliably (below 60fps looked "choppy" to him but glass smooth to the rest of us.
Well, most LCD refresh rates are 60fps (or a multiple thereof), so 57fps as an "average" means that you get 60 FPS, but 2% of the time skip a frame (or more). You don't need to have the best eyesight in the world to notice dropped frames..
One of the problems that I have long had with the idea of robot soldiers is that it makes war too easy
More importantly, it allows a tiny group of people to rule over the country / world by force. Today (with super advanced weaponry and even with nuclear weapons), if a dictator or "really bad group of people" took over the any mostly homogenous society (ie. the US) for example, they wouldn't be able to maintain power because the military would simply not follow orders to kill other civilians. Nuclear weapons are overly blunt to control a population.
With fully autonomous robots, this becomes possible.
I'd rather have a larger paycheck.
Do you know how little it costs to fully stock candy / snacks / soda? In my previous company, I volunteered to make sure that the kitchen in our startup was fully stocked and I basically ordered anything that people wanted that was available through Costco business delivery (never had to say no to anyone). It costed less than 500 dollars a month for 15 people. That is virtually nothing compared to salary and office rent, especially when you take into account taxes -- the fact that paying a salary is taxed while spending the money on stuff is deducted.
Yeah, full meals would be more expensive, but not supplying free premium drinks and snacks is just cutting costs in the wrong places.
Are you kidding me? As a skilled software engineer, it is much easier to get a work permit to nearly all developed western nations than in the U.S.
The last thing the cable companies want to happen is for HBO to realize that, "Hey people might pay us $15 a month to watch HBO online without the cable fee."
HBO probably already realizes that. But of course they are owned by Time Warner...
Not all cars have a kill switch you can just shut things down.
Only if it is a legitimate acceleration. Then, the car has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
Obviously you don't know about the "Ballmer peak"
But everyone does buy at least once and sell at least once. Insider trading can hurt those people significantly if they happen right around when you buy or sell.
Wow. No one I've ever met has said, "I would make more but I'd just get taxed more." No one.
Actually, to be fair, that's not entirely true. This comes up often enough in households where one partner makes considerably more than the other. The one that makes less may be more inclined to stay home and take care of the kids / house full time rather than spend money on extra child care because of high taxes, even though they may enjoy their job and already have good quality time with the kids. Judging on a pure economic output basis, having the lower income partner work is favorable.
On the flip side, I totally agree that income taxes in the US are not progressive enough.
The simplest explanation -- that Microsoft is handing over bags of cash to get this Windows 8 exclusivity -- both fits the facts and Microsoft's past behavior. So I'd say, yes.
But it really doesn't make sense, for especially Intel. They are deathly afraid of ARM making them irrelevant in the post-PC world*. Why would they be so short sighted when cash isn't a problem for them.
* I can't believe I used that phrase. I feel dirty.
Apparently they open sourced it over Steve Job's dead body.
As the crowd you associate with gets older, they have more money, and thus pirate less.
I'm sure if you talk to a bunch of high schoolers, piracy becomes much more common.
Be careful what you wish for. While I think its the right way to go to unbundle channels, watch out for the unintended consequences. Less popular channels will be removed because they are not profitable. Think about what makes up for popular TV (in America at least). You may end up the choice of watching the Kardashians or Jersey Shore.
Also if you earn more than 1 million dollars, the California tax rate is 10.3. The 9.3 bracket is the one between 47,000 and 1 million
So you would fully support blood sport where two gladiators willingly fight each other to the death?
There is a line where we should not cross, and I find allowing a "drug olympics" is crossing that line.
Japan already has severe problems with its demographics and its only going to get worse. They could use the immigration.
China will also get there not too long from now. Their one-child policy simply was too draconian. Stable - slow population growth is good, shrinking population bad, rapidly growing population with not enough resources -- very bad.
Indeed. There's plenty of time to polish up your resume during college. Spend your last free summer buying cigarettes for slutty high school girls. Remember, if she smokes, she pokes.
I'm not sure I'd want to be with a girl that "pokes". I guess if that's your kind of thing, go for it.
If you are in the industry and just step back and look at whats going on, its pretty clear why we have the situation of companies complaining that there aren't enough workers and tons of workers looking for jobs.
For software, every company wants to hire only the cream of the crop, because the difference in productivity between the cream of the crop and "average" is so huge (for the sake of argument, lets say N times). If the market was perfect, they should be paid N times the amount the "average" workers get paid. Its not, due to societal issues -- its hard to get people's minds around someone being paid multiple times what you are being paid (although society does tolerate CEO pay being ridiculous, but I digress) and also the fact that being able to tell the difference between the "average" and the cream of the crop is challenging.
I would also argue that its hard to train an "average" worker to have the productivity of a great coder. Even so, companies don't do enough here, and companies that are effective in this may end up just training workers for their competition.
So with this imbalance, economics would predict there being a shortage of the cream of the crop and a surplus of the "average" kind of workers, which is exactly what we are seeing here.
... Hitler takes the cake because he actively tried to eliminate "inferior" races; Stalin, while brutal, didn't try to eliminate specific races...
In short, Stalin was less of a monster because he was an "equal opportunity" monster.
With a retina display, at least they could probably turn off anti-aliasing
If GM suddenly stopped ordering that would have killed or massively increased prices on the rest of the car companies and well as parts manufacturers.
The GM situation was not as simple as one company going under.
Killed, yeah maybe. But increased prices? Demand drops and prices go up? Car parts aren't giffen goods.
I agree with most of what you say but equally how sad is it that the world judges someone's suitability to run a multinational based on their qualifications rather than the many years of experience they have had since then and / or how good they are at their job. That bit of paper doesn't make someone better suited to run a company than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates etc. just because they didn't complete their courses.
For the 100th time, its pretty clear he isn't getting canned because he doesn't have the degree, its because he lost credibility to everyone because of the lie.
I bet you Yahoo has huge issues retaining "good people" right now. If I was still working at Yahoo when I heard that the guy was still (attempting to) stay on, I'd probably give notice and semi-publicly explain why (can't go fully public because it would affect hiring at future jobs). People don't want to work for someone who has no integrity.
Er, the lawyers?