You tax apologists don't understand simple economics. There is a terrible economic illiteracy in this country probably caused by our terrible inefficient public schools.
All taxes on businesses are paid by consumers. Think about that.
The plumber passes his tax burden down in the form of higher prices. Claiming he charges what the market will bear ignores all other plumbers. They all compete based on the same variables. The market price is set by itself and it includes taxes.
If taxes were eliminated in our example the prices would fall to $75 for the plumbing services because all plumbers would also not be paying 25% tax. That's how competition and the free market works.
What the UN lies to support global warming hoax? That's strange almost like there is a conspiracy of scientists to trick the 1st world public. Huh. Go figure.
But, I'm sure some East Anglia "scientists" can "prove" that global warming is real.
Oh, what's that? Temps are declining for the past 10 years? INCONCEIVABLE!
But, mod me down you are the one denying the truth.
I really enjoyed that old wired article were you equated intelligence with deception. Do you think that without deception there is no intelligence and do you think that we are tricking ourselves into thinking we are intelligent.
I heard another researcher compare intelligence to the ability to make decisions after evaluating possible outcomes to different actions. Do you think ALICE does this? How would you program software to evaluate feedback from a user. Perhaps you could have the users give feedback to the software by clicking a button depending on how accurate the bot was at giving a humanlike response.
I thought perhaps AI would be made by designing a computer to think like a infant and then teaching it like you would an infant for years. But how would you give it postitive and negative feedback. Without biological impetous and positive and negative emotions how could you stimulate or motivate a bot to learn? How would you make desires in software similar to biological creatures desires and emotions.
Often it is said that todays computers have the eqivalent brains of small insects. When will computers have enough power to equal that of a mammalian brain? Or even a human? 50 years? or 1000? Will the invention of clusters of computers accelerate the process of AI? Have you had any experience w/ clustered or distributed computing with AIML.
Thanks Doc. I really enjoy your research and hope to contribute if I ever get the chance.
Won't the pollen from the hemp interbreed with cannibis and dillute the high quality product. God forbid this should reduce the quality of our highest grossing crop.
She is a indestructable policewoman from Ambrosia's best game Escape Velocity. She would pester the user to register the game and became increasing more annoying after the 30 day trial expired.
Of course, she disappeared after the user registered.
You got to love a game whose strongest weapon was a gun that shot forklifts.
You're a fool if you think the families of your soldier who died would keep quiet about the death of their son or daughter. The families could give a shit if it's classified. And the families have to be told. Think about it. You think a soldier lives in a vacuum? They all have friends and families.
DOBBS: Apple Computer today launching its flagship desktop computer, the iMac, Apple hoping the new product line will lead it out of a slump in the computer industry. The original iMac produced three years ago helped to revitalize the company. CEO Steve Jobs unveiled this new lines of computers at the annual Mac World gathering in San Francisco, and he joins us from there now. Steve, good to have you with us.
STEVE JOBS, CEO, APPLE COMPUTER: Good to be here.
DOBBS: The reception, there's been a lot of talk about the new product line. The fact of the matter is, you've got another winner on your hands?
JOBS: Well, we'll find out soon enough. We just launched it today, so we'll see the orders start to stream in over the next month and we're hopeful.
DOBBS: Now, there were also a number of people looking for the G5 introduction, some other products as well and some disappointed about that. When do we see that?
JOBS: Well, you know, we introduced an all new iMac which is a huge seller for us.
DOBBS: Right.
JOBS: We introduced the new I-book today and anew digital hub application called I-photo, which is sort of the missing link in digital photography. You can't do everything in one day, so we'll just have to wait for that one.
DOBBS: Give us a sense of when.
JOBS: You know, we can't talk about unannounced products, but.
DOBBS: All right. I know a number of people watching you and following you very carefully were, hopefully were looking for that product introduction. One of the things that you have to struggle with at Apple, and despite the fact you've done a terrific job since you came back, driving the company ahead, restoring its stock price. Your stock is up almost what, 60 percent over the past year.
The fact is, you're still locked at five percent of the market. Are you going to be able to break Apple out of that? Because you get ringing endorsements for the innovation in products, for the new marketing and everything else, but still you're at five percent. When do we see the breakout?
JOBS: Well, I'd say a few things. Number one, our share of the personal computer market is larger than either Mercedes or BMW's share of the automotive market. So just to put that in perspective.
DOBBS: Sure.
JOBS: But one of the things we're doing to increase our market share is we've actually opened 27 retail stores in the U.S. And what's interesting, is those stores, those 27 stores in the month of December alone had 800,000 visitors and 40 percent of the customers that bought a computer at our stores didn't own Mac when they bought it.
So, I think we're starting to see a little bit of optimism about that, and I think we're going to really focus on that in the next year or two to try to get our market share up a little bit.
DOBBS: Well, as you try to drive that share of market, at the same time you're in an industry caught in a recession and a tough recession. Do you see the computer industry, the PC industry itself recovering anytime soon?
JOBS: Well, you know right now the winners are going to be the survivors.
DOBBS: Right.
JOBS: Because it's a pretty tough industry right now.
DOBBS: Yes. JOBS: But yes, I think what we're focused on right now is that we see the next great age of personal computing coming, and that is where the personal computer becomes the digital hub for all these other cool little digital devices we have, like digital camcorders or digital cameras.
DOBBS: Right.
JOBS: DVD players, et cetera, and we're doing a lot of work in that area, and we're getting a lot of good feedback.
DOBBS: OK, well Steve Jobs, as always, it is good to have you here and much continued success.
JOBS: I have to show you one thing before I leave, Lou.
DOBBS: Do we have time?
JOBS: Check this out.
DOBBS: If you can show it to us in two seconds in two seconds.
Oh, that's cool. I will admit that's cool, Steve.
JOBS: Thanks.
DOBBS: Designed, I understand, inspired by the sunflower?
JOBS: We want to keep the flat screen flat.
DOBBS: You got it. Well again, all the very best Steve.
JOBS: Thanks.
DOBBS: Keep promoting -- Steve Jobs.
JOBS: Wait, I'm not finished you fat fuck. The new imac is also inspired by large breasted women.
DOBBS: Shut up you turtle-neck-wearing hippie. I thought you just liked little boys anyway.
JOBS: Fuck off pig. Isn't it time for your six martini lunch?
DOBBS: Ironically I ate an entire roasted pig for lunch today. You smoke a lot of marijuana don't you, Steve?
JOBS: Hell yeah, dude. It inspires me to open up my mind and let the karma flow. I do alot of TM too. It roxors.
DOBBS: TM? Ah yes, transcendental meditation. I can imagine you running around with your fairy friends. You must drop acid, too. I used to do that back in my younger days. Oh, the stories I could tell.
JOBS: Lou, I love acid. I didn't get to where I am today by ignoring the health benefits of regular acid trips.
DOBBS: So Steve how did you really come up the with iMac.
JOBS: Alright Lou, just don't eat me. Ha-ha-ha, mind if I smoke...
DOBBS: Go ahead.
JOBS: I dreamed of the new imac while I was having a wonderful acid trip. Jonathan Ive and I went out the the desert and we ate peyote and this awesome acid. While I was smoking some weed to take the edge off I had this wonderful vision. I had a pair of dragon wings and I was flying through a canyon when a distant mesa began to transform into a giant breast. I could smell the colors. It was just like when I had discovered Aqua. Then the giant breast erupted in a explosion of milk that glomed into a giant LCD. Then I realized my purpose for being here on Earth. I must make a new imac. Then Jon and I had sex.
DOBBS: Well, that's a great story Steve. Thanks for being with us today.
JOBS: Anytime, want a hit?
DOBBS: Yeah, thanks. And now, let's turn to Wolf Blitzer for the very latest. His show begins in just a few minutes. Wolf, tell us what's up.
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Cost of goods is one input? One input? Come on.
You tax apologists don't understand simple economics. There is a terrible economic illiteracy in this country probably caused by our terrible inefficient public schools.
All taxes on businesses are paid by consumers. Think about that.
The plumber passes his tax burden down in the form of higher prices. Claiming he charges what the market will bear ignores all other plumbers. They all compete based on the same variables. The market price is set by itself and it includes taxes.
If taxes were eliminated in our example the prices would fall to $75 for the plumbing services because all plumbers would also not be paying 25% tax. That's how competition and the free market works.
What the UN lies to support global warming hoax? That's strange almost like there is a conspiracy of scientists to trick the 1st world public. Huh. Go figure.
But, I'm sure some East Anglia "scientists" can "prove" that global warming is real.
Oh, what's that? Temps are declining for the past 10 years? INCONCEIVABLE!
But, mod me down you are the one denying the truth.
I would be shocked if this doesn't reach -2.
I'm in the military and I obey and question.
FUD is rated as interesting?
/. for digg.
a des_greater_internet_fuckwad_theory
This is why I left
\. is proof of the internet fuckwad theory.
http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2004/04/02/penny_arc
yes, modding down different opinions is why groupthink will always prevail. Congrats!
Isn't this luddite stance ridiculous for a technology website?
/. editors wouldn't be running these anti-electronic voting stories if the democrats were in power.
I bet
Think about it. When you can't win at the ballot box, the last resort of the incompetent is to claim fraud.
Get over it.
airbus recieves a huge amount of euro subsidies, you seem to be under the illusion it doesn't.
Intelligent man.
Mytmmo.com $89/yr commercial free mp3s of show.
It's what I do.
This from a country that has a tv tax gestapo that will hunt you down for having an unlicensed tv set. Ha! Yeah some freedom they have.
Get over it.
i agree
Shove it up your ass karmawhore! why don't you get a real job instead of posting on /. all the time
Yeah, because if you can't learn programming you're not wanted on shitdot.
my comment was unfairly moderated...
but that's par for the course at shitdot.
My views aren't the same as the damn socialist-hippie-techies hippies.
I'm a libertarian like Arnold. I support the US and W.
I have NOTHING in common politically with most techies.
And since the web is worldwide. I despise European Techies and their perverted brand of socialism.
As a proud American, I ABSOLUTLY have NOTHING politically in common with europeans.
"they'd include rather shockingly blunt quotes by Bush on religion"
What the hell does that mean? Do you have a link to these dastardly speeches? Or do you just not like Bush because he is Republican?
Apple needs to figure out that different doesn't meant better.
A new ceo would help too.
I really enjoyed that old wired article were you equated intelligence with deception. Do you think that without deception there is no intelligence and do you think that we are tricking ourselves into thinking we are intelligent.
I heard another researcher compare intelligence to the ability to make decisions after evaluating possible outcomes to different actions. Do you think ALICE does this? How would you program software to evaluate feedback from a user. Perhaps you could have the users give feedback to the software by clicking a button depending on how accurate the bot was at giving a humanlike response.
I thought perhaps AI would be made by designing a computer to think like a infant and then teaching it like you would an infant for years. But how would you give it postitive and negative feedback. Without biological impetous and positive and negative emotions how could you stimulate or motivate a bot to learn? How would you make desires in software similar to biological creatures desires and emotions.
Often it is said that todays computers have the eqivalent brains of small insects. When will computers have enough power to equal that of a mammalian brain? Or even a human? 50 years? or 1000? Will the invention of clusters of computers accelerate the process of AI? Have you had any experience w/ clustered or distributed computing with AIML.
Thanks Doc. I really enjoy your research and hope to contribute if I ever get the chance.
Won't the pollen from the hemp interbreed with cannibis and dillute the high quality product. God forbid this should reduce the quality of our highest grossing crop.
Log: slash2000
pass: slash2000
:)
I normally don't reply to posts. But your post was brilliant. Bravo!
It takes guts to take the kind of stand you did.
She is a indestructable policewoman from Ambrosia's best game Escape Velocity. She would pester the user to register the game and became increasing more annoying after the 30 day trial expired.
Of course, she disappeared after the user registered.
You got to love a game whose strongest weapon was a gun that shot forklifts.
You're a fool if you think the families of your soldier who died would keep quiet about the death of their son or daughter. The families could give a shit if it's classified. And the families have to be told. Think about it. You think a soldier lives in a vacuum? They all have friends and families.
Yeah, its the real thing til steve starts curseing. I'm glad you liked it. :)
DOBBS: Apple Computer today launching its flagship desktop computer, the iMac, Apple hoping the new product line will lead it out of a slump in the computer industry. The original iMac produced three years ago helped to revitalize the company. CEO Steve Jobs unveiled this new lines of computers at the annual Mac World gathering in San Francisco, and he joins us from there now. Steve, good to have you with us.
STEVE JOBS, CEO, APPLE COMPUTER: Good to be here.
DOBBS: The reception, there's been a lot of talk about the new product line. The fact of the matter is, you've got another winner on your hands?
JOBS: Well, we'll find out soon enough. We just launched it today, so we'll see the orders start to stream in over the next month and we're hopeful.
DOBBS: Now, there were also a number of people looking for the G5 introduction, some other products as well and some disappointed about that. When do we see that?
JOBS: Well, you know, we introduced an all new iMac which is a huge seller for us.
DOBBS: Right.
JOBS: We introduced the new I-book today and anew digital hub application called I-photo, which is sort of the missing link in digital photography. You can't do everything in one day, so we'll just have to wait for that one.
DOBBS: Give us a sense of when.
JOBS: You know, we can't talk about unannounced products, but.
DOBBS: All right. I know a number of people watching you and following you very carefully were, hopefully were looking for that product introduction. One of the things that you have to struggle with at Apple, and despite the fact you've done a terrific job since you came back, driving the company ahead, restoring its stock price. Your stock is up almost what, 60 percent over the past year.
The fact is, you're still locked at five percent of the market. Are you going to be able to break Apple out of that? Because you get ringing endorsements for the innovation in products, for the new marketing and everything else, but still you're at five percent. When do we see the breakout?
JOBS: Well, I'd say a few things. Number one, our share of the personal computer market is larger than either Mercedes or BMW's share of the automotive market. So just to put that in perspective.
DOBBS: Sure.
JOBS: But one of the things we're doing to increase our market share is we've actually opened 27 retail stores in the U.S. And what's interesting, is those stores, those 27 stores in the month of December alone had 800,000 visitors and 40 percent of the customers that bought a computer at our stores didn't own Mac when they bought it.
So, I think we're starting to see a little bit of optimism about that, and I think we're going to really focus on that in the next year or two to try to get our market share up a little bit.
DOBBS: Well, as you try to drive that share of market, at the same time you're in an industry caught in a recession and a tough recession. Do you see the computer industry, the PC industry itself recovering anytime soon?
JOBS: Well, you know right now the winners are going to be the survivors.
DOBBS: Right.
JOBS: Because it's a pretty tough industry right now.
DOBBS: Yes. JOBS: But yes, I think what we're focused on right now is that we see the next great age of personal computing coming, and that is where the personal computer becomes the digital hub for all these other cool little digital devices we have, like digital camcorders or digital cameras.
DOBBS: Right.
JOBS: DVD players, et cetera, and we're doing a lot of work in that area, and we're getting a lot of good feedback.
DOBBS: OK, well Steve Jobs, as always, it is good to have you here and much continued success.
JOBS: I have to show you one thing before I leave, Lou.
DOBBS: Do we have time?
JOBS: Check this out.
DOBBS: If you can show it to us in two seconds in two seconds.
Oh, that's cool. I will admit that's cool, Steve.
JOBS: Thanks.
DOBBS: Designed, I understand, inspired by the sunflower?
JOBS: We want to keep the flat screen flat.
DOBBS: You got it. Well again, all the very best Steve.
JOBS: Thanks.
DOBBS: Keep promoting -- Steve Jobs.
JOBS: Wait, I'm not finished you fat fuck. The new imac is also inspired by large breasted women.
DOBBS: Shut up you turtle-neck-wearing hippie. I thought you just liked little boys anyway.
JOBS: Fuck off pig. Isn't it time for your six martini lunch?
DOBBS: Ironically I ate an entire roasted pig for lunch today. You smoke a lot of marijuana don't you, Steve?
JOBS: Hell yeah, dude. It inspires me to open up my mind and let the karma flow. I do alot of TM too. It roxors.
DOBBS: TM? Ah yes, transcendental meditation. I can imagine you running around with your fairy friends. You must drop acid, too. I used to do that back in my younger days. Oh, the stories I could tell.
JOBS: Lou, I love acid. I didn't get to where I am today by ignoring the health benefits of regular acid trips.
DOBBS: So Steve how did you really come up the with iMac.
JOBS: Alright Lou, just don't eat me. Ha-ha-ha, mind if I smoke...
DOBBS: Go ahead.
JOBS: I dreamed of the new imac while I was having a wonderful acid trip. Jonathan Ive and I went out the the desert and we ate peyote and this awesome acid. While I was smoking some weed to take the edge off I had this wonderful vision. I had a pair of dragon wings and I was flying through a canyon when a distant mesa began to transform into a giant breast. I could smell the colors. It was just like when I had discovered Aqua. Then the giant breast erupted in a explosion of milk that glomed into a giant LCD. Then I realized my purpose for being here on Earth. I must make a new imac. Then Jon and I had sex.
DOBBS: Well, that's a great story Steve. Thanks for being with us today.
JOBS: Anytime, want a hit?
DOBBS: Yeah, thanks. And now, let's turn to Wolf Blitzer for the very latest. His show begins in just a few minutes. Wolf, tell us what's up.
***
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