You see the xserver-xorg-video-fbdev. That's the X11 framebuffer device. Typically it used to emulate X11 onto a device that doesn't support it. This is how for example X11 works on Aqua.
I'm not an expert on X11 and this is going to go over my head rather quickly but I think your listing is proving the opposite of what you think it is proving.
But why do I need a completely new GUI to use the touchscreen? Can't I just double tap on an icon to run the program?
The issue isn't running the program but the controls inside the program.
There are 3 types of touchscreens: capacitive = finger. Low resolution input but response times must be very fast (something like 10ms max) resistive = stylus. Must have higher resolution. Must be faster than a mouse but can be much slower than capacitive. capacitive / resistive = features of both.
Resistive works pretty well in place of a mouse since it is similar: slow response high resolution. Capacitive is very different. Because of the low resolution the GUI has to blow up the area where you are likely to be pressing and present large controls so that low resolution input works. At the same time this has to happen blazingly quickly so as not to be confusing (the brain is not wired to understand visual jitter). This means all sorts of event handlers need to be changed and applications most likely need to anticipate possible inputs, process them and already have their responses visuals ready to go. That's an entirely different GUI than Windows XP. On XP an applications can wait for input it doesn't have to anticipate possible inputs.
I sure wouldn't be happy if the GUI on my desktop looks totally different from the GUI on my laptop
That's Microsoft's thinking but throw in phones and tablets. Since the vast majority of people are going to need to be highly experienced with their phone / tablet wouldn't they prefer just one interface that adjusts to the form factor rather than entirely different interfaces?
Also, I think it would be a distraction to constantly take my hand away from the keyboard to stab at my display
It might be. Ironically keyboard shortcuts are getting more popular again to reduce the frequency of those interactions.
For that I go to my desktop, which has a real keyboard.
Microsoft doesn't disagree with you on the advantage of the keyboard. You'll notice their tablet line's big claim to fame is how effectively it integrates with keyboards.
When I say "desktop", I mean the thing humming next to me that contains 6 internal 1 Terabyte drives (yeah, time to upgrade), a PCI-E graphics card that needs its own power connectors, a PCI-e USB 3 card I added recently, and one or two e-SATA drives. I call that a "desktop".
And I'd call that a workstation, not a desktop. The workstation market is dead. Far too many of the people who used to buy workstations are now comfortable with more mainstream computers. That is the incremental advantage in terms of what what can be done for a 2x, 5x, 20x, or even 100x speedup isn't there for most users. That's not to say there aren't faster computers (desktop workstations) sold but they are a tiny fraction of the market. Something like one-hundreths of one percent of devices. No one is designing OSes with workstation users in mind as more than a niche. And mostly the kinds of people that use those sorts of system can also tweak and modify their OS to change features and get what they want.
Apple more than anybody else if focused on similar higher end users since they have 85-92% marketshare in the over $1k computer. Though they still aren't aiming at something like that.
Obviously Windows intends to in some ways support Workstations but they don't care to support them well. They lost the high end mostly to Apple and they are trying to move up market. But when I say upmarket they are targeting Apple's low end, the person who might buy a $1150 Apple with a Windows system at around $800 that's equally good. They aren't aiming that high at all. So at best you can expect indifferent support for Workstations. That is your relationship with Microsoft at this point.
There are Linuxes that are fairly good and because of Linux's dominance in supercomputing I'd expect Linux to continue to get stronger in this area with time.
From what you say, it appears that you believe MS is truly expecting to turn laptops and even desktops into touch interface devices.
Yes.
I'd be tracing my finger along some sort of touchpad. Why? We've gone through all this before, and most people think mice are better than the alternatives.
Over 1/2 the people who own non-mice oriented computing devices (tablets and phones) don't own mice oriented devices so they don't seem to prefer it. Apple for example is moving their desktop (iMac) customers over to a trackpad and away from mice http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/ and has been getting a very good response. Honestly I don't know anyone who has used a good quality resistive capacitive touch screen on a laptop and says they would rather use a mouse. At best they plug in an external mouse infrequently.
And as for workstation users they are a diversified lot. But quite a few of them like specialized hardware inferfaces like mixing boards as their primary interface. Secondary interfaces they are often quite flexible. Again it is entirely possible that there are niches that do like mice. But this is all with a situation where most applications are designed to work well around mice. What happens when most applications are written without mice in mind?
I haven't looked at the first link (it's a bit rude for people to make points with videos which could be a link to something NSFW for all I know)
The link is youtube it is censored.
As for Enlightenment once Tizen which uses X11 gets those features working then it is fair to say Enlightenment supports them. Supporting them on a desktop ain't the same thing, desktops don't have to use hardware which is power efficient.
As for the Enlightenment pager that's new to me. Whose pager are you talking about?
I think the graphics were handled by the Qt framebuffer driver. Obviously it could run X11, the way you can on an Mac, but that's different than saying X11 was the primary display system.
X11 couldn't possibly run this GUI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-lVkBCUrAY X11 does not support touch. X11 does not support theme based icon recoloring. X11 does not support 1/4 sizing screens etc..
To the best of my knowledge Sailfish already has the Android runtime subsystem same as BB10, I think it just runs them full screen only. But these are independent projects.
Sailfish runs Android apps and has a better interface. I could see Jolla being bought by Motorola or HTC or Sony as a way to get back into the game against Samsung. I could also see Samsung buying them if Tizen doesn't work out for Samsung.
If I had to guess 25% Sailfish is picked up by a mainstream brand by 2018.
I agree. If you aren't following both phones and LInux that summary had undefined vocab. And even if someone understood what the works meant it wasn't clear why the port mattered.
Agreed. Jolla is way ahead of Canonical. And their people know a lot more about the phone business. I'd need really good odds to put money on Mir in that fight.
Is it much different from the fdisk build in to OSX?
Do you mean fdisk or disk utility? OSX's fdisk is much harder to use, less user friendly, less interactive and also less powerful. All around worse. Diskutility.app has a better GUI than Linux's FDISK but is much less powerful.
There are of course nice partition managers available for OSX with proper UIs, if you enjoy playing with that kind of thing.
Probably. But the standard one on Linux is as good as a commercial one on OSX. That's saying something.
Okay so now you have to track market value for all of your assets. That's a bit more work than tracking basis, especially for non-liquid assets.
non-liquid is very tricky. Most non-liquid are: real estate = mass land appraisal which is done today and used jewelry = mostly tracks cost + inflation art = use insured value
But for a brokerage account this is standard. They just compute the total value on Dec 30th close, bank accounts, homes... You don't track anything. They just report. Or they just grab something like 2 basis points everyday at close of business. This could be done any number of ways.
would he have to track bullion value, or collectible value?
Is he insuring them as bullion or collectibles? If collectibles then collectable value.
Also it sounds like you will have to determine if you meet some sort of threshold before being taxed.
No. I'd tax the $15 bank account for its thirty cents. I'm just saying from an enforcement standpoint I don't care about the 100k in coins.
ala AMT to make sure they are not liable
AMT could go away. Why bother if you are taxing assets anyway?
Now it sounds like you are really looking to tax net worth, so now you have to deduct loans from your assets. Or do only mortgages count? How about margin accounts?
Of course margin counts. Margin counts today. What's unfair about the tax code today (and it didn't used to be this way) is that margin and mortgage are deductible while credit card isn't. I want this fair.
I think just raising the capital gains tax would serve nearly the same purpose and would have the added effect of stabilizing the market.
No. A high capital gains tax requires people to construct artificial transactions to create pairs of gains and losses that are matched. They then take the artificial losses along with their real realized gains. That's the sort of nonsense we had in the 1970s, no reason to bring that back. I agree with Republicans on that.
Jolla is a bunch of x-Nokia engineers continuing the work Nokia was doing on MeeGo. The name of their version of MeeGo is Sailfish. Wayland is a next generation display manager similar to Aqua on Mac that is currently looking to replace some of X11's functionality. Jolla ported the Android drivers over to Wayland so that Sailfish can run on GPUs designed for Android. This allows Jolla to buy off the shelf (cheap) GPUs and run Sailfish on it i.e. keep hardware parts costs down.
The use of inexpensive hardware means that Jolla is not going to be only at higher price points. They are producing a mainstream phone and there had been debate about that. This is important because we now for sure that Sailfish is going with Wayland unlike MeeGo which used a more primitive direct system.
In short a) Wayland is cool b) Sailfish is cool c) Jolla is cool
You don't think the $200,000+ total compensation packages that companies like Facebook routinely offer (including to H-1B holders, BTW) are "high paying" enough or "secure" enough?
At $200k I'd have serious trouble Facebook was having trouble recruiting talent. As for secure no, that's a different issue than salary. That's a contract.
In the 8 years I've been in Silicon Valley, the prevailing wage for software engineers at top companies has increased by more than 50%. To suggest that there aren't jobs at companies like Facebook and Google and Apple for high-skilled American workers is crazy. How high would our salaries have to rise for you to admit there's a shortage?
There is data on salaries. Salaries today are probably lower than they were 15 years ago and jobs are harder to come by. I'd believe there is a shortage when companies view their employees as precious resources and try to make sure they have retention. When this applies much more broadly than the top 1%. I honestly don't care much about the top 1%, I'm interested in the 20th, 50th and 80th percentile and how they are doing.
OK then the problem with your analysis is the t-bond has to fufill two functions:
a) Be an interest rate risk adjusted estimate for the t-bill interest b) Be a risk free estimate for commercial paper of a similar duration
Under a situation of low t-bill interest and huge t-bond interest you would banks making a ton of money cheaply and easily and people sliding down the duration curve. That might counteract the effect you are talking about in part or in full. It is hard to know. But I like I said I don't have a problem with the belief that 1% comes back as higher interest rates with a 2% assets tax.
would you also tax hard commodities? How?
Yes. How, you ask people to declare them. If they don't declare them they can't insure them and they don't get theft protection. And you don't worry about it below a certain amount. I don't care about some guy with $100k in gold coins the goal is to go after the guy with $100m in coins and the thieves will do a great job there to makes sure he reports more or less every penny.
Would you tax stock market value?
Absolutely.
Poor people invested in Apple would get nailed at the peak and will be hurting now. The tax would effectively reduce asset value, Also when long term rates increase, credit card rates also increase so those people are screwed.
Credit card interest is usually based on the prime rate not long term interest rates. CC debt is short term debt, commercially it is sold most commonly as 60 day paper.
People with fixed mortgages would certainly be better off, but people looking for mortgages will have a hard time.
You forget the mortgage is a huge negative. So people looking for mortgages would be getting a massive tax break. Also my intent was to tax real property the same way.
I see no reason as an American that I should persue economic policies that make me a "commodity". Whether to have free trade in labor or no trade in labor is a matter of government policy. And last time I looked I lived in a democracy. In so far as free trade benefits me, then fine. But if the goal is to reduce my wages then screw trade.
And no your 8 old year or you for that matter can't code me under the table.
Yes they can. The board agrees on your behalf. You get the cash assigned to you or if you really want to be a pain about it you get to keep the now worthless stock certificates for a company that no longer exists.
You shouldn't invest in a t-bill ever. t-bills are short term notes for people who need safety of principle, they are questionable as a savings vehicle and terrible as an investment vehicle.
So the Feds have to increase the interest paid on the t-bill in order to attract investors.
The Federal Reserve controls the demand for t-bills. This analogy might work better if you were talking about long term and not short term debt.
Old: Pay $300, get $100 back in income taxes, paid investor $200 New: Pay $600, get $200 back in income taxes, get $200 back in asset taxes, paid investor $200
That's unlikely. When assets are taxed returns go down. There might be some increase in interest rates but not enough to compensate. Lets take something like a 10 year B corporate paying 7% today and going to 8% in the future. Absolutely the investor loses some of the return.
but you would still be raising interest rates on everyone else, which is not good for the 99%.
Raising long term interest rates is bad for everyone. But it is much worse for asset holders than people in debt. For net debtors it is very good. So it would be best for people with credit card debt, probably out a net even for people with a large mortgage and hugely negative for the 1%.
And not only does your OSX machine has a swap file it has other reserved partitions.
And while OSX doesn't handle partitioning well, for example breaking user space off, the OS itself end up creating problems for itself because of that. As an aside, as I mention above, last time I cared about partitions on my OSX machine was two weeks and I need Linux FDSIK to do what diskutility.app couldn't. Linux's FDISK is fantastic software. If you don't need to care about partitions then of course it isn't going to do anything for you, why would you expect it to?
First off I don't agree. I think there are lots of people who are good at many things and would do them if they paid well. And I think there are lots of crappy jobs that are able to attract works through high wages. Lets assume I agree and so lets exclude the "best STEM people". Zuckerburg was talking about a shortage. So what about the 2% or so who don't care about wages. The rest do care a great deal and can be attracted.
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You see the xserver-xorg-video-fbdev. That's the X11 framebuffer device. Typically it used to emulate X11 onto a device that doesn't support it. This is how for example X11 works on Aqua.
I'm not an expert on X11 and this is going to go over my head rather quickly but I think your listing is proving the opposite of what you think it is proving.
Why would Google (Motorola) buy them? I think someone has missed an important development.
Good point, that's a different situation. I wasn't think about Google issue.
Do you have a link for that?
But why do I need a completely new GUI to use the touchscreen? Can't I just double tap on an icon to run the program?
The issue isn't running the program but the controls inside the program.
There are 3 types of touchscreens:
capacitive = finger. Low resolution input but response times must be very fast (something like 10ms max)
resistive = stylus. Must have higher resolution. Must be faster than a mouse but can be much slower than capacitive.
capacitive / resistive = features of both.
Resistive works pretty well in place of a mouse since it is similar: slow response high resolution. Capacitive is very different. Because of the low resolution the GUI has to blow up the area where you are likely to be pressing and present large controls so that low resolution input works. At the same time this has to happen blazingly quickly so as not to be confusing (the brain is not wired to understand visual jitter). This means all sorts of event handlers need to be changed and applications most likely need to anticipate possible inputs, process them and already have their responses visuals ready to go. That's an entirely different GUI than Windows XP. On XP an applications can wait for input it doesn't have to anticipate possible inputs.
I sure wouldn't be happy if the GUI on my desktop looks totally different from the GUI on my laptop
That's Microsoft's thinking but throw in phones and tablets. Since the vast majority of people are going to need to be highly experienced with their phone / tablet wouldn't they prefer just one interface that adjusts to the form factor rather than entirely different interfaces?
Also, I think it would be a distraction to constantly take my hand away from the keyboard to stab at my display
It might be. Ironically keyboard shortcuts are getting more popular again to reduce the frequency of those interactions.
For that I go to my desktop, which has a real keyboard.
Microsoft doesn't disagree with you on the advantage of the keyboard. You'll notice their tablet line's big claim to fame is how effectively it integrates with keyboards.
When I say "desktop", I mean the thing humming next to me that contains 6 internal 1 Terabyte drives (yeah, time to upgrade), a PCI-E graphics card that needs its own power connectors, a PCI-e USB 3 card I added recently, and one or two e-SATA drives. I call that a "desktop".
And I'd call that a workstation, not a desktop. The workstation market is dead. Far too many of the people who used to buy workstations are now comfortable with more mainstream computers. That is the incremental advantage in terms of what what can be done for a 2x, 5x, 20x, or even 100x speedup isn't there for most users. That's not to say there aren't faster computers (desktop workstations) sold but they are a tiny fraction of the market. Something like one-hundreths of one percent of devices. No one is designing OSes with workstation users in mind as more than a niche. And mostly the kinds of people that use those sorts of system can also tweak and modify their OS to change features and get what they want.
Apple more than anybody else if focused on similar higher end users since they have 85-92% marketshare in the over $1k computer. Though they still aren't aiming at something like that.
Obviously Windows intends to in some ways support Workstations but they don't care to support them well. They lost the high end mostly to Apple and they are trying to move up market. But when I say upmarket they are targeting Apple's low end, the person who might buy a $1150 Apple with a Windows system at around $800 that's equally good. They aren't aiming that high at all. So at best you can expect indifferent support for Workstations. That is your relationship with Microsoft at this point.
There are Linuxes that are fairly good and because of Linux's dominance in supercomputing I'd expect Linux to continue to get stronger in this area with time.
From what you say, it appears that you believe MS is truly expecting to turn laptops and even desktops into touch interface devices.
Yes.
I'd be tracing my finger along some sort of touchpad. Why? We've gone through all this before, and most people think mice are better than the alternatives.
Over 1/2 the people who own non-mice oriented computing devices (tablets and phones) don't own mice oriented devices so they don't seem to prefer it. Apple for example is moving their desktop (iMac) customers over to a trackpad and away from mice http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/ and has been getting a very good response. Honestly I don't know anyone who has used a good quality resistive capacitive touch screen on a laptop and says they would rather use a mouse. At best they plug in an external mouse infrequently.
And as for workstation users they are a diversified lot. But quite a few of them like specialized hardware inferfaces like mixing boards as their primary interface. Secondary interfaces they are often quite flexible. Again it is entirely possible that there are niches that do like mice. But this is all with a situation where most applications are designed to work well around mice. What happens when most applications are written without mice in mind?
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I haven't looked at the first link (it's a bit rude for people to make points with videos which could be a link to something NSFW for all I know)
The link is youtube it is censored.
As for Enlightenment once Tizen which uses X11 gets those features working then it is fair to say Enlightenment supports them. Supporting them on a desktop ain't the same thing, desktops don't have to use hardware which is power efficient.
As for the Enlightenment pager that's new to me. Whose pager are you talking about?
I think the graphics were handled by the Qt framebuffer driver. Obviously it could run X11, the way you can on an Mac, but that's different than saying X11 was the primary display system.
Of course it can. Have you never seen a Nokia N9?
Yes I have and the N9 didn't use X11. It used the Qt framebuffer driver.
I did this in a post above yours.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3639581&cid=43427825
X11 couldn't possibly run this GUI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-lVkBCUrAY
X11 does not support touch. X11 does not support theme based icon recoloring.
X11 does not support 1/4 sizing screens
etc..
As preflex pointed out, yes Sailfish does run Android as well as several forms of Qt apps.
I agree this is about Android hardware.
To the best of my knowledge Sailfish already has the Android runtime subsystem same as BB10, I think it just runs them full screen only. But these are independent projects.
Sailfish runs Android apps and has a better interface. I could see Jolla being bought by Motorola or HTC or Sony as a way to get back into the game against Samsung. I could also see Samsung buying them if Tizen doesn't work out for Samsung.
If I had to guess 25% Sailfish is picked up by a mainstream brand by 2018.
I agree. If you aren't following both phones and LInux that summary had undefined vocab. And even if someone understood what the works meant it wasn't clear why the port mattered.
Agreed. Jolla is way ahead of Canonical. And their people know a lot more about the phone business. I'd need really good odds to put money on Mir in that fight.
Is it much different from the fdisk build in to OSX?
Do you mean fdisk or disk utility? OSX's fdisk is much harder to use, less user friendly, less interactive and also less powerful. All around worse. Diskutility.app has a better GUI than Linux's FDISK but is much less powerful.
There are of course nice partition managers available for OSX with proper UIs, if you enjoy playing with that kind of thing.
Probably. But the standard one on Linux is as good as a commercial one on OSX. That's saying something.
Okay so now you have to track market value for all of your assets. That's a bit more work than tracking basis, especially for non-liquid assets.
non-liquid is very tricky. Most non-liquid are:
real estate = mass land appraisal which is done today and used
jewelry = mostly tracks cost + inflation
art = use insured value
But for a brokerage account this is standard. They just compute the total value on Dec 30th close, bank accounts, homes... You don't track anything. They just report. Or they just grab something like 2 basis points everyday at close of business. This could be done any number of ways.
would he have to track bullion value, or collectible value?
Is he insuring them as bullion or collectibles? If collectibles then collectable value.
Also it sounds like you will have to determine if you meet some sort of threshold before being taxed.
No. I'd tax the $15 bank account for its thirty cents. I'm just saying from an enforcement standpoint I don't care about the 100k in coins.
ala AMT to make sure they are not liable
AMT could go away. Why bother if you are taxing assets anyway?
Now it sounds like you are really looking to tax net worth, so now you have to deduct loans from your assets. Or do only mortgages count? How about margin accounts?
Of course margin counts. Margin counts today. What's unfair about the tax code today (and it didn't used to be this way) is that margin and mortgage are deductible while credit card isn't. I want this fair.
I think just raising the capital gains tax would serve nearly the same purpose and would have the added effect of stabilizing the market.
No. A high capital gains tax requires people to construct artificial transactions to create pairs of gains and losses that are matched. They then take the artificial losses along with their real realized gains. That's the sort of nonsense we had in the 1970s, no reason to bring that back. I agree with Republicans on that.
Jolla is a bunch of x-Nokia engineers continuing the work Nokia was doing on MeeGo. The name of their version of MeeGo is Sailfish. Wayland is a next generation display manager similar to Aqua on Mac that is currently looking to replace some of X11's functionality. Jolla ported the Android drivers over to Wayland so that Sailfish can run on GPUs designed for Android. This allows Jolla to buy off the shelf (cheap) GPUs and run Sailfish on it i.e. keep hardware parts costs down.
The use of inexpensive hardware means that Jolla is not going to be only at higher price points. They are producing a mainstream phone and there had been debate about that. This is important because we now for sure that Sailfish is going with Wayland unlike MeeGo which used a more primitive direct system.
In short
a) Wayland is cool
b) Sailfish is cool
c) Jolla is cool
So all around a classic /. news for nerds story.
You don't think the $200,000+ total compensation packages that companies like Facebook routinely offer (including to H-1B holders, BTW) are "high paying" enough or "secure" enough?
At $200k I'd have serious trouble Facebook was having trouble recruiting talent. As for secure no, that's a different issue than salary. That's a contract.
In the 8 years I've been in Silicon Valley, the prevailing wage for software engineers at top companies has increased by more than 50%. To suggest that there aren't jobs at companies like Facebook and Google and Apple for high-skilled American workers is crazy. How high would our salaries have to rise for you to admit there's a shortage?
There is data on salaries. Salaries today are probably lower than they were 15 years ago and jobs are harder to come by. I'd believe there is a shortage when companies view their employees as precious resources and try to make sure they have retention. When this applies much more broadly than the top 1%. I honestly don't care much about the top 1%, I'm interested in the 20th, 50th and 80th percentile and how they are doing.
Sorry, typo... t-bill -> t-bond.
OK then the problem with your analysis is the t-bond has to fufill two functions:
a) Be an interest rate risk adjusted estimate for the t-bill interest
b) Be a risk free estimate for commercial paper of a similar duration
Under a situation of low t-bill interest and huge t-bond interest you would banks making a ton of money cheaply and easily and people sliding down the duration curve. That might counteract the effect you are talking about in part or in full. It is hard to know. But I like I said I don't have a problem with the belief that 1% comes back as higher interest rates with a 2% assets tax.
would you also tax hard commodities? How?
Yes. How, you ask people to declare them. If they don't declare them they can't insure them and they don't get theft protection. And you don't worry about it below a certain amount. I don't care about some guy with $100k in gold coins the goal is to go after the guy with $100m in coins and the thieves will do a great job there to makes sure he reports more or less every penny.
Would you tax stock market value?
Absolutely.
Poor people invested in Apple would get nailed at the peak and will be hurting now. The tax would effectively reduce asset value, Also when long term rates increase, credit card rates also increase so those people are screwed.
Credit card interest is usually based on the prime rate not long term interest rates. CC debt is short term debt, commercially it is sold most commonly as 60 day paper.
People with fixed mortgages would certainly be better off, but people looking for mortgages will have a hard time.
You forget the mortgage is a huge negative. So people looking for mortgages would be getting a massive tax break. Also my intent was to tax real property the same way.
I see no reason as an American that I should persue economic policies that make me a "commodity". Whether to have free trade in labor or no trade in labor is a matter of government policy. And last time I looked I lived in a democracy. In so far as free trade benefits me, then fine. But if the goal is to reduce my wages then screw trade.
And no your 8 old year or you for that matter can't code me under the table.
Yes they can. The board agrees on your behalf. You get the cash assigned to you or if you really want to be a pain about it you get to keep the now worthless stock certificates for a company that no longer exists.
So why would you invest in a t-bill?
You shouldn't invest in a t-bill ever. t-bills are short term notes for people who need safety of principle, they are questionable as a savings vehicle and terrible as an investment vehicle.
So the Feds have to increase the interest paid on the t-bill in order to attract investors.
The Federal Reserve controls the demand for t-bills. This analogy might work better if you were talking about long term and not short term debt.
Old: Pay $300, get $100 back in income taxes, paid investor $200
New: Pay $600, get $200 back in income taxes, get $200 back in asset taxes, paid investor $200
That's unlikely. When assets are taxed returns go down. There might be some increase in interest rates but not enough to compensate. Lets take something like a 10 year B corporate paying 7% today and going to 8% in the future. Absolutely the investor loses some of the return.
but you would still be raising interest rates on everyone else, which is not good for the 99%.
Raising long term interest rates is bad for everyone. But it is much worse for asset holders than people in debt. For net debtors it is very good. So it would be best for people with credit card debt, probably out a net even for people with a large mortgage and hugely negative for the 1%.
And not only does your OSX machine has a swap file it has other reserved partitions.
And while OSX doesn't handle partitioning well, for example breaking user space off, the OS itself end up creating problems for itself because of that. As an aside, as I mention above, last time I cared about partitions on my OSX machine was two weeks and I need Linux FDSIK to do what diskutility.app couldn't. Linux's FDISK is fantastic software. If you don't need to care about partitions then of course it isn't going to do anything for you, why would you expect it to?
First off I don't agree. I think there are lots of people who are good at many things and would do them if they paid well. And I think there are lots of crappy jobs that are able to attract works through high wages. Lets assume I agree and so lets exclude the "best STEM people". Zuckerburg was talking about a shortage. So what about the 2% or so who don't care about wages. The rest do care a great deal and can be attracted.