Unlike previous races where robotic vehicles had to conquer the rugged desert, next year's challenge will test how well they can carry out a mock military supply mission through bottlenecked traffic.
The goal for this challenge is considerably different.
So what? Do you call it double taxation when the profits are taxed at the corporate level, then taxed when payroll is dispersed to employees?
No, because it's not. Your sequence of events is reversed. Employee salaries are business expenses, and come out of corporate revenues. Corporate profit is determined after that, and any profit is taxed, not the original revenues. Thus, salaries are taxed only at the personal income level.
When someone receives income, they pay taxes. Double taxation isn't some strange exception, it's a natural result of incorporating to form a new legal entity. The corporation adds an extra someone to the chain of payment, and that someone pays taxes. Calling for an end to the dividend tax is essentially asking to have one link in the circular chain of income to not have to pay taxes while the rest of the links still do. It's a shameful handout to a subset of the population. Taxes on dividends no more encourages companies to see other ways to pay shareholders than taxes on salaries encourages companies to find other ways to pay employees. Maybe it will change some details (indeed, benefits like health insurance are a common non-taxed form of compensation), but people still want the cash.
Taxes on dividends certainly affect the decisions that corporations make about whether and how much to pay out in dividends. A variety of search terms will yield many articles in the media that relate the upward trend in dividend payments since the dividend tax cuts.
The wisdom of those cuts, however, is an entirely unrelated matter.
The first rule of evolutionary techniques is: if there is a better-known, more specific optimization technique for the problem at hand, use it instead. In this case, there wasn't one.
Is that true? My point was that he didn't try any other algorithms, so we don't know one way or the other...
Simulated annealing has a lot in common with GAs, but they tend to not do so well on multidimensional discontinuous fitness landscapes.
I think the number of local optima and relative fitness of those optima are much more of a problem for SAs than the dimensionality or discontinuity. I did a project comparing GAs and SA on (among others) the k-color map problem, and found solution quality was similar--but the SA implementation was much faster. KC certainly qualifies as a multidimensional discontinous space.
I'm sure annealing could eventually be used to come up with a solution; I'm just amazed whenever somebody does something cool with Tool X, and all of slashdot immediately jumps all over it with, "why didn't they use [my favorite tool]? why this one?"
Considering I've posted about 20 comments in 3 years, I'm not sure I'm representative of/. And I'm not concerned he didn't use simulated annealing or any other algorithm in particular, I just would be curious to see it compared with any other implementation.
I'm not trying to rain on someone's parade, I'm just looking at it from a research point of view: one of the first thing anyone asks about any project is the justification for the approach.
In general, the literature suggests that GAs tend to be a kind of 'jack of all trades, master of none' type approach. See, e.g., Russell & Norvig's AI: A Modern Approach textbook.
As such, is there any justification for using a GA to do this rather than, say, simulated annealing? I'd would be interested to see a comparison of the two approaches. Especially in light of papers like this one.
I mentioned this on another thread, but check out winbolo. It's a pretty damn good imitation for Linux/Windows, and a reasonably active userbase. But more would be better, esp. if enough registered to give the new developer (John Morrison) some dough:).
Microsoft is sitting on a $38 billion pile of cash. $6 million is 0.15 cents on the dollar.
Not to mention the fact that $6 mil. would have ranked somewhere around 25th in lobbying money...in 1999. I would imagine they would be no higher than that now. People are huffing and puffing about amounts of money that (in the bizarre scheme of things) isn't that wacky.
This is interesting. The court is basically saying that if you can do "everyday life tasks" (brushing your hair, cooking dinner, whatever), you're not disabled for the purposes of the ADA. But on my disability policy, it states that if I can't do my regular job, they consider me disabled. Since my job (like most of yours) involves lots of typing, losing both legs wouldn't make me disabled, but C-T would. So now the question is, how does this court decision affect my policy? Can I expect a call from my agent telling me they've changed their definition to line up with the court?
It's possible, but I would think unlikely. Aside from the fact that the case hasn't fully concluded, the ADA is a federal law perscribing the minimum employers must do to accomodate their employees' disabilities. Disability, for the purposes of the ADA, is defined as an impairment that affects everyday life tasks (as you stated)--but an employer is not required to restrict its policy just to that definition.
My understanding is that your employer would be free to change its policy, but not compelled to do so.
Humm, first generation unix partitioning from IBM, or 5th generation partitioning from Sun (with help from Cray early on). BTW, a 10k can be in 16 partitions. No it doesn't require a domain to contain 4 processors--that's the max. A single board domain can have 1 i/o card, 1 cpu and some memory--typically a gig. The 15k and 6800 are similar, although the cpu/memory cards are typically maxed. It is *very* rare to find a company who would buy these sorts of systems to not max them out.
Without addressing the rest of your post:
It has been well publicized that the p690 contains a number of features adapted from IBM's mainframe legacy. So "1st generation UNIX partitioning," while literally true, discounts 30 years of IBM big iron partitioning experience.
Addressing the rest of your post:
You are leaving out the IBM's performance claims that their processors vastly outperform Sun's. If nothing else, some benchmarks validate IBM's assertions.
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These are both Motorola chips based on the same Power PC architecture, right? Will someone more informed than I am explain the differences between them, and explain why IBM is using Power 4's instead of G4's?
The POWER4 is an IBM chip, for one, and a different chip architecture as well (thought IBM's line is an offshoot of the IBM/Motorola chip allicance). The POWER4 is an industrial-strength chip designed for high-test number crunching and processing power--IOW, it's designed with machines like the p690 in mind. And since IBM makes it, it's a no-brainer.
When you walk into an IBM office, you see IBM computers running Windows. They may be "promoting linux" with their left hand, but their right hand is actively supporting Microsoft.
Yes, and you also see people running Linux, some as their primary OS. It just depends on what division you're in.
How are you coming up with these figures? It's like you didn't read the article carefully enough or something...
how can the end numbers be so far apart from eachother, you ask? ah, the Linux solution doesn't need support. Ah, so users can add/configure/remove/backup/restore their own GROUPWARE data and do their OWN support! how neat. (while on exchange they need a $990,000,- costing support team. huh?).
The article clearly states that they included $1,149,000 in support costs for the Linux/390 solution...that's hardly not "need[ing] support."
The mainframe also doesn't need an UPS, the exchange servers need it. I wonder, does the mainframe, costing $125,000,- come with a $135,000,- costing UPS? if so, why not buy a mainframe just for the UPS in the Exchange situation! Saves you $10,000.- plus you have a mainframe for free!
What do you think the line that says "IBM 9672-X27 z/VM and ESS: $1,252,100" means? The UPS costs the same in each situation.
* Law enforcement and the judiciary form a pretty much closed loop system. They come from similar backgrounds, they consider themselves the "good guys", and they prohibit investiations into their own motives/failures/biases. So when there is a problem with a request for a warrent the odds are that the judiciary will approve the request anyway.
I think most people wouldn't consider police and judges/lawyers as coming from anything close to similar backgrounds. Police are generally come from working-class backgrounds, while lawyers (and especially judges) are generally more upper crust.
Judges are sympathetic to warrant requests, but not because of their backgrounds.
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Not to jump to conclusions, but his name is Thomas H. Maugh II. Maybe he's got family money? Most people that are 'II' content themselves with 'Junior.'
FWIW, many people who are 'II' are so named because they were named for a grandfather or an uncle (or great-uncle)--such people aren't sons of a man with the same name so they aren't generally 'Jr.'s. I'm gonna guess the Ph. D. has more to do with his apparent wealth:).
Look, every emerging art or music form is first decried as an abominaiton, against god, trash, junk, etc. Look at Van Gogh (hell most impressionists), Picasso, Beethoven, Wagner, Miles, McCartney...
Your examples should be a little more accurate; Beethoven was quite well received during his time:
...Yet the Viennese were conscious of Beethoven's greatness: they applauded the Choral Symphony even though, understandably, they found it difficuit, and though baffled by the late quartets they sensed their extraordinary visionary qualities. His reputation went far beyond Vienna: the late Mass was first heard in St. Petersburg, and the initial commission that produced the Choral Symphony had come from the Philharmonic Society of London. When, early in 1827, he died, 10,000 are said to have attended the funeral. He had become a public figure, as no composer had done before. Unlike composers of the preceding generation, he had never been a purveyor of music to the nobility he had lived into the age - indeed helped create it - of the artist as hero and the property of mankind at large.
I'm not sure whether "...Van Gogh (hell most impressionists)..." implies that Van Gogh was himself an impressionist, but in any case he certainly wasn't.
As for central argument--some music and art forms are sneered at and some are not at their introduction. I hardly think that a cross in a jar of urine will be remembered as art years hence, and it certainly generated its share of sneers. I'm not sure where I fall on computer generated images--I'm mostly not sure how it adds anything that you can't do already.
Many have noted that there are lots of non-4-year institutions with.edu domains. The AP story at news.com explains:
The.edu domain category has been restricted to four-year colleges and universities almost since its inception. But about a quarter of community colleges got.edu addresses before the restriction took effect. Educause plans to allow the rest of the community colleges to obtain.edu addresses.
It also notes how Verisign does state that it was eager to give up the domain.
Again, a US centric/. article - if Katz would take his USian specs off and done some digging, it would have been nice to see where the rest of the world is on this...
...indeed was addressed in Katz's article. He notes quite plainly that other countries have enacted more privacy-related legislation. The article is US-centric, but then again he's an American writer writing in the US, complaining about a problem that is primarily an American one.
If you have a sexual disorder and plan on going to a Virginia university hospital, perhaps you should reconsider - your doctor is barred by law from researching your disorder online.
This might be relevant if doctors needed to "research" your disorder on porn sites. As it is, this strikes me as Just Another Slashdot Editor Overreaction (tm). Aside from the fact that I'm quite sure that doctors have plenty of off-line material at hand, I'm not sure that www.sexualdisorderfetish.com is the best place to gather information anyway.
Why michael chose to put in a jab at the law over doctors, rather than a legitimate gripe about professors (perhaps) being unable research/writing on pornography or some other sexually explicit topic, is beyond me.
What's all this noise about "stealing" votes from Gore?
A simple example: assume there are 100 people in a state and that if only Bush and Gore were running, 51 would vote for Gore and 49 for Bush. In most states, electoral votes are done in a winner-take-all format (the exceptions being Maine and Nebraska), so Gore would get all of our ficticious state's electoral votes. Enter Nader--since most of Nader's supporters are liberal and most liberals would vote for Gore over Bush, if Nader then gets 3 Gore supporters to switch, voila! 3 votes for Nader, 49 for Bush and 48 for Gore. Bush wins that state's electoral votes and Nader 'stole' enough votes to give the state to Bush--even though he won zero electoral votes. And since this is a close election, the importance of Nader getting would-be Gore supporters' votes is magnified.
Who did Perot steal votes from?
To answer your other question, Perot's supporters were a pretty motley crew, but AFAIK the consensus is that he 'stole' mostly from the Bush/Quayle ticket more than the Clinton/Gore one.
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FYI, this is called the Peter Principle.
The article is informative:
The goal for this challenge is considerably different.Taxes on dividends certainly affect the decisions that corporations make about whether and how much to pay out in dividends. A variety of search terms will yield many articles in the media that relate the upward trend in dividend payments since the dividend tax cuts.
The wisdom of those cuts, however, is an entirely unrelated matter.No--don't you think it's reasonable to assume that he would have written about it if he had?
I'm not trying to rain on someone's parade, I'm just looking at it from a research point of view: one of the first thing anyone asks about any project is the justification for the approach.
As such, is there any justification for using a GA to do this rather than, say, simulated annealing? I'd would be interested to see a comparison of the two approaches. Especially in light of papers like this one.
I mentioned this on another thread, but check out winbolo. It's a pretty damn good imitation for Linux/Windows, and a reasonably active userbase. But more would be better, esp. if enough registered to give the new developer (John Morrison) some dough :).
The new version are a little buggier and don't play quite as well as MacBolo, but larger games play much better. Check out the website.
Happy boloing!
It's a poorly-worded way of saying that broadband availability is limited to a pretty small geographic area (densely-populated urban areas).
Not to mention the fact that $6 mil. would have ranked somewhere around 25th in lobbying money...in 1999. I would imagine they would be no higher than that now. People are huffing and puffing about amounts of money that (in the bizarre scheme of things) isn't that wacky.
My understanding is that your employer would be free to change its policy, but not compelled to do so.
Without addressing the rest of your post:
It has been well publicized that the p690 contains a number of features adapted from IBM's mainframe legacy. So "1st generation UNIX partitioning," while literally true, discounts 30 years of IBM big iron partitioning experience.
Addressing the rest of your post:
You are leaving out the IBM's performance claims that their processors vastly outperform Sun's. If nothing else, some benchmarks validate IBM's assertions.
The POWER4 is an IBM chip, for one, and a different chip architecture as well (thought IBM's line is an offshoot of the IBM/Motorola chip allicance). The POWER4 is an industrial-strength chip designed for high-test number crunching and processing power--IOW, it's designed with machines like the p690 in mind. And since IBM makes it, it's a no-brainer.
Yes, and you also see people running Linux, some as their primary OS. It just depends on what division you're in.
What do you think the line that says "IBM 9672-X27 z/VM and ESS: $1,252,100" means? The UPS costs the same in each situation.
I think most people wouldn't consider police and judges/lawyers as coming from anything close to similar backgrounds. Police are generally come from working-class backgrounds, while lawyers (and especially judges) are generally more upper crust.
Judges are sympathetic to warrant requests, but not because of their backgrounds.
FWIW, many people who are 'II' are so named because they were named for a grandfather or an uncle (or great-uncle)--such people aren't sons of a man with the same name so they aren't generally 'Jr.'s. I'm gonna guess the Ph. D. has more to do with his apparent wealth :).
Your examples should be a little more accurate; Beethoven was quite well received during his time:
-from http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/beethoven.htmlI'm not sure whether "...Van Gogh (hell most impressionists)..." implies that Van Gogh was himself an impressionist, but in any case he certainly wasn't. As for central argument--some music and art forms are sneered at and some are not at their introduction. I hardly think that a cross in a jar of urine will be remembered as art years hence, and it certainly generated its share of sneers. I'm not sure where I fall on computer generated images--I'm mostly not sure how it adds anything that you can't do already.
It also notes how Verisign does state that it was eager to give up the domain.
I have to note that your complaint:
This might be relevant if doctors needed to "research" your disorder on porn sites. As it is, this strikes me as Just Another Slashdot Editor Overreaction (tm). Aside from the fact that I'm quite sure that doctors have plenty of off-line material at hand, I'm not sure that www.sexualdisorderfetish.com is the best place to gather information anyway.
Why michael chose to put in a jab at the law over doctors, rather than a legitimate gripe about professors (perhaps) being unable research/writing on pornography or some other sexually explicit topic, is beyond me.
A simple example: assume there are 100 people in a state and that if only Bush and Gore were running, 51 would vote for Gore and 49 for Bush. In most states, electoral votes are done in a winner-take-all format (the exceptions being Maine and Nebraska), so Gore would get all of our ficticious state's electoral votes. Enter Nader--since most of Nader's supporters are liberal and most liberals would vote for Gore over Bush, if Nader then gets 3 Gore supporters to switch, voila! 3 votes for Nader, 49 for Bush and 48 for Gore. Bush wins that state's electoral votes and Nader 'stole' enough votes to give the state to Bush--even though he won zero electoral votes. And since this is a close election, the importance of Nader getting would-be Gore supporters' votes is magnified.
Who did Perot steal votes from?
To answer your other question, Perot's supporters were a pretty motley crew, but AFAIK the consensus is that he 'stole' mostly from the Bush/Quayle ticket more than the Clinton/Gore one.