Some areas of Europe and North America would become uninhabitable. Shelters and transportation would need to be provided for migration from those areas.
Why do people insist that everybody needs to be "provided" for? Fend for yourself. And don't come trying to help me, either, 'cause when you do I'm sure you'll have all sorts of conditions about "how" and whatnot.
I'd rather have the mini over the dell just from the difference between the slow-ass Celeron 440 and the Core 2 Duo with twice the cores and 4x the cache...
Of course, you can probably upgrade the Dell to the better processor for less than the $300 price difference between the two machines. At the end of the day you're paying for the form-factor.
Which leads me to the question I always end up asking. Why doesn't Apple offer low-end machines, in larger, less-expensive form factors? (They'd get bonus-points if the video card was in a slot instead of on-board.) If they took the mini's specs, and were able to use cheaper 3.5" drives, desktop sized optical drives, and lower density desktop-sized DIMMs, I'd be inclined to buy one.
As we move further from the time where computers were new, rare, and novel, the chance of your second theorem becoming true for a new system approaches zero. I would argue that the probability for any system currently manufactured is already sufficiently small as to be insignificant.
investment
n 1: the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an
enterprise with the expectation of profit
No. No it is not. And every computer and used car salesman that refers to the purchase of something guaranteed to decrease in value over time should be sued for false advertising.
Just like the types of people who bitch that rich people should pay more in taxes than poor people, to then bitch when they get taxed more.
That's what progressive taxation looks like. You asked for it, and you got it. You don't get to whine that it's making it hard to balance your budget. You're rich (as a state). Pay your dues to the fed, and then get your house in order. It should be easy, after all. You're rich, right?
Per capita is what matters. California has the biggest population in the country. That's the biggest contributing factor to it's "#1 GDP in the country" position. It makes the total figure pretty irrelevant. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
Tenth. Certainly not nation-leading. But they act like they are. It's down from 7th in 2000. Seems like a pretty bad trend to try and copy. And we haven't even talked about their budget, credit rating, poverty rate....
Obama says "top 2%". Congress makes the law. When Obama asks Congress for a tax increase on the rich, the Democrats in Congress are going to do what they always do. They're going to raise taxes on the top three brackets. And Obama is going to sign the bill.
The top three tax brackets are $78,850 and up. There are places in this country where the cost of living is high enough to make $78k lower middle class.
With Bush's tax cuts, everybody got a 1% cut, except for the lowest earners who got a 5% cut and pay practically nothing. It's only a bigger cut for the rich if you're counting dollars instead of percentage points. Conveniently, people who favor progressive taxes like to use dollars when talking about the size of a cut, but percentage points when they're talking about how the rich don't pay enough.
18 20-minute episodes for $90 million... That's $4166 per second.
Let's say he does 20 30-second spots for Microsoft for the $10 million they're paying him. That's $16666 per second. Four times as much... And I doubt they'll get 20 ads out of him...
It seems you're implying that I was saying "It's not as bad as Chana, so the problems don't matter". As is the case with many of the other responders, and the cowards who modded me down under the non-meta-moderatable "Overrated" tag.
It's hard to take people seriously when the claim they want you to listen, yet they don't listen themselves. I hope you take that into account when you rant or protest.
You mean by your "too busy being outraged to pay attention" reading of my logic.
What I said amounts to recognizing the good along with the bad instead of damning the whole system because of its inadequacies. I'm curious to know how you got to your interpretation of what I said though.
Rosa Parks was given a speedy trial, fined $14, and on appeal wreaked havoc on the laws that were the foundation of racial segregation in the United States.
Since this guy is a US citizen, the Chinese government will probably let him live. A Chinese citizen probably wouldn't be so lucky.
Hopefully this event teaches him, and and others in his home country to appreciate the freedom that they have when they're spewing their typical "baby out with the bathwater" rants about how fascist the US government is.
You made the fundamental mistake of assuming the parent to your comment knew what he was talking about. Blah, blah, solid vibrates more than liquid, blah blah.... Oh well he must be right! Let's fire those engineers. Let's hire SpaceX! Except that liquid fueled engines weigh more than solid fueld engines... Probably much more than the weight of the shock absorbers... And SpaceX's rockets keep vibrating themselves to death.
It's so easy to write readable code in perl.... I don't understand why some developers insist on doing things in obfuscated ways.
In some software I recently worked on, I handed off some bogs to another developer who replaced code like:
if ($var =~/expression/) {
stuff(); }
with
$var =~ s/expression/stuff()/e;
Now, I like perl, and I think it's the right tool for many jobs, but shit like that pisses me off. It's less readable. It's less efficient.... They only thing it's got going for it is that it fits on one line, but it's not readily obvious what the intent of the code is. (Is the side effect of overwriting the matched bit of string with the return value of the operation important to the function of the program?) Plus to make matters worse, it gives perl a bad rep.
The ease of maintenance comes through good design, not from the language.
There are few alternatives that even match perl's capabilities. To call any of them "better" is purely subjective.
Many languages make it easier to write bad code than good code.
The reason Perl does poorly is the same reason that python does poorly in the corporate space (Yes, python fans. Get over it. Business types don't take your language less seriously than perl.) No marketing. If there's no trade rag telling your out-of-touch ex-engineer manager that it's awesome, he/she isn't going to want your company's software written in it.
It cracks me up when developers think their language holy wars have impact on business decisions about which language to use.
And yes, I'm a bitter ex-perl developer who recently had to port a mature, well documented, high performance, easy to maintain perl application to Groovy where the syntax is more cumbersome, maintenance is complicated by a lack of stability in the syntax of the language itself (it's new, and changing), and we're bitten just as often by bugs in the interpreter as we are by our own bugs in the code. But some trade rag told our CTO that it was the next big thing, and perl is obviously old and crufty, right?
Yup. The other problem is that you have to actually know regular expressions to understand them. You can't fumble your way through by the implied meaning of the syntax.
It weeds out the people who don't know what they're doing, lest they make the same mistake writing java code for you and use '==' instead of.equals() to compare objects and create the same types of problems without the excuse that regular expressions are "unreadable".
The one in the article. I watched the first 20 seconds of it, and even though nothing up to that point (article or slashdot summary) said it was just the face that was animated, it was obvious. It was obvious in exactly the same way that obects which can be manipulated used to stand out in old video games before full screen animation was possible. They may as well have drawn a black line around the bit that wasn't real.
I didn't realize that they later did the overlay stuff on her face until you mentioned it and went back and looked again.
Don't get me wrong... This is really impressive motion capture. I'm just calling bullshit on the "uncanny valley" claim.
I don't know.. I think the line around her face at the seam where the colors and textures didn't match up were a dead giveaway. Even not knowing what it was (while she was telling you what it was), I don't see how I could have watched that and not thought something was done to the video and that her face had been altered in some way.
This would be a great technology for creating "ransom note" videos though.
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Some areas of Europe and North America would become uninhabitable. Shelters and transportation would need to be provided for migration from those areas.
Why do people insist that everybody needs to be "provided" for? Fend for yourself. And don't come trying to help me, either, 'cause when you do I'm sure you'll have all sorts of conditions about "how" and whatnot.
Since when is a government imposed a tax for the express purpose of influencing a behavior "market-based"?
Also, good luck with the "require trading partners to have a similar tax" bit.
I'd rather have the mini over the dell just from the difference between the slow-ass Celeron 440 and the Core 2 Duo with twice the cores and 4x the cache...
Of course, you can probably upgrade the Dell to the better processor for less than the $300 price difference between the two machines. At the end of the day you're paying for the form-factor.
Which leads me to the question I always end up asking. Why doesn't Apple offer low-end machines, in larger, less-expensive form factors? (They'd get bonus-points if the video card was in a slot instead of on-board.) If they took the mini's specs, and were able to use cheaper 3.5" drives, desktop sized optical drives, and lower density desktop-sized DIMMs, I'd be inclined to buy one.
It happens sometimes. I've had them blow the 2-day delivery and gotten games from them a week late too though.
As we move further from the time where computers were new, rare, and novel, the chance of your second theorem becoming true for a new system approaches zero. I would argue that the probability for any system currently manufactured is already sufficiently small as to be insignificant.
investment
n 1: the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an
enterprise with the expectation of profit
No. No it is not. And every computer and used car salesman that refers to the purchase of something guaranteed to decrease in value over time should be sued for false advertising.
Just like the types of people who bitch that rich people should pay more in taxes than poor people, to then bitch when they get taxed more.
That's what progressive taxation looks like. You asked for it, and you got it. You don't get to whine that it's making it hard to balance your budget. You're rich (as a state). Pay your dues to the fed, and then get your house in order. It should be easy, after all. You're rich, right?
Per capita is what matters. California has the biggest population in the country. That's the biggest contributing factor to it's "#1 GDP in the country" position. It makes the total figure pretty irrelevant. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per_capita_(nominal)
Tenth. Certainly not nation-leading. But they act like they are. It's down from 7th in 2000. Seems like a pretty bad trend to try and copy. And we haven't even talked about their budget, credit rating, poverty rate....
Obama says "top 2%". Congress makes the law. When Obama asks Congress for a tax increase on the rich, the Democrats in Congress are going to do what they always do. They're going to raise taxes on the top three brackets. And Obama is going to sign the bill.
The top three tax brackets are $78,850 and up. There are places in this country where the cost of living is high enough to make $78k lower middle class.
With Bush's tax cuts, everybody got a 1% cut, except for the lowest earners who got a 5% cut and pay practically nothing. It's only a bigger cut for the rich if you're counting dollars instead of percentage points. Conveniently, people who favor progressive taxes like to use dollars when talking about the size of a cut, but percentage points when they're talking about how the rich don't pay enough.
Silicosis, while serious, is not cancer.
That is all.
Of course now I wish I had seen the original post in this thread before I replied to your comment. Lame.
The price was too low.
18 20-minute episodes for $90 million... That's $4166 per second.
Let's say he does 20 30-second spots for Microsoft for the $10 million they're paying him. That's $16666 per second. Four times as much... And I doubt they'll get 20 ads out of him...
It seems you're implying that I was saying "It's not as bad as Chana, so the problems don't matter". As is the case with many of the other responders, and the cowards who modded me down under the non-meta-moderatable "Overrated" tag.
It's hard to take people seriously when the claim they want you to listen, yet they don't listen themselves. I hope you take that into account when you rant or protest.
You mean by your "too busy being outraged to pay attention" reading of my logic.
What I said amounts to recognizing the good along with the bad instead of damning the whole system because of its inadequacies. I'm curious to know how you got to your interpretation of what I said though.
Rosa Parks was given a speedy trial, fined $14, and on appeal wreaked havoc on the laws that were the foundation of racial segregation in the United States.
Since this guy is a US citizen, the Chinese government will probably let him live. A Chinese citizen probably wouldn't be so lucky.
Hopefully this event teaches him, and and others in his home country to appreciate the freedom that they have when they're spewing their typical "baby out with the bathwater" rants about how fascist the US government is.
You made the fundamental mistake of assuming the parent to your comment knew what he was talking about. Blah, blah, solid vibrates more than liquid, blah blah.... Oh well he must be right! Let's fire those engineers. Let's hire SpaceX! Except that liquid fueled engines weigh more than solid fueld engines... Probably much more than the weight of the shock absorbers... And SpaceX's rockets keep vibrating themselves to death.
Yay armchair rocket-science!
The update killed your parents!!!!!eleven11!!
It's so easy to write readable code in perl.... I don't understand why some developers insist on doing things in obfuscated ways.
In some software I recently worked on, I handed off some bogs to another developer who replaced code like:
if ($var =~ /expression/) {
stuff();
}
with
$var =~ s/expression/stuff()/e;
Now, I like perl, and I think it's the right tool for many jobs, but shit like that pisses me off. It's less readable. It's less efficient.... They only thing it's got going for it is that it fits on one line, but it's not readily obvious what the intent of the code is. (Is the side effect of overwriting the matched bit of string with the return value of the operation important to the function of the program?) Plus to make matters worse, it gives perl a bad rep.
There are tons of perl developers.
The ease of maintenance comes through good design, not from the language.
There are few alternatives that even match perl's capabilities. To call any of them "better" is purely subjective.
Many languages make it easier to write bad code than good code.
The reason Perl does poorly is the same reason that python does poorly in the corporate space (Yes, python fans. Get over it. Business types don't take your language less seriously than perl.) No marketing. If there's no trade rag telling your out-of-touch ex-engineer manager that it's awesome, he/she isn't going to want your company's software written in it.
It cracks me up when developers think their language holy wars have impact on business decisions about which language to use.
And yes, I'm a bitter ex-perl developer who recently had to port a mature, well documented, high performance, easy to maintain perl application to Groovy where the syntax is more cumbersome, maintenance is complicated by a lack of stability in the syntax of the language itself (it's new, and changing), and we're bitten just as often by bugs in the interpreter as we are by our own bugs in the code. But some trade rag told our CTO that it was the next big thing, and perl is obviously old and crufty, right?
Yup. The other problem is that you have to actually know regular expressions to understand them. You can't fumble your way through by the implied meaning of the syntax.
It weeds out the people who don't know what they're doing, lest they make the same mistake writing java code for you and use '==' instead of .equals() to compare objects and create the same types of problems without the excuse that regular expressions are "unreadable".
The one in the article. I watched the first 20 seconds of it, and even though nothing up to that point (article or slashdot summary) said it was just the face that was animated, it was obvious. It was obvious in exactly the same way that obects which can be manipulated used to stand out in old video games before full screen animation was possible. They may as well have drawn a black line around the bit that wasn't real.
I didn't realize that they later did the overlay stuff on her face until you mentioned it and went back and looked again.
Don't get me wrong... This is really impressive motion capture. I'm just calling bullshit on the "uncanny valley" claim.
I don't know.. I think the line around her face at the seam where the colors and textures didn't match up were a dead giveaway. Even not knowing what it was (while she was telling you what it was), I don't see how I could have watched that and not thought something was done to the video and that her face had been altered in some way.
This would be a great technology for creating "ransom note" videos though.
Is a Turing test valid if the human is an idiot?
It's ridiculously clear from the video that the face was the "animated" bit.