Every US taxpayer should be outraged. If it weren't for practices such as these, the individual tax payer wouldn't have the burden it suffers today.
Just how many times do you feel the need to tax money before it becomes "legitimate"?
Let me count the ways...
Gross income coming in is taxed via sales/VAT tax.
Gross income paid to employees is taxed via individual withholding taxes.
Operating costs out of gross income include one or all of state, county and city real estate taxes.
Raw materials for manufacturing, office supplies, etc. suffer sales/VAT taxes. In the case of capital assets, an additional capital gains tax may apply (with no provision for capital losses).
If transportation is involved, a corporation will pay Federal/State/County/City gasoline/fuel taxes.
Net income is taxed via corporate income tax.
Net income paid out via dividends is taxed to the stockholder.
In the USA today, you could consider corporate contributions to DC an additional tax. Do not pay them and lose out on protection against losers with no understanding of accounting such as yourself.
Any way you look at it, a unit of currency suffers at least two layers of taxation going through a corporation and what's left continues to be taxed.
Actually there are three catches. You have to sit down while you eat and if you get up from the table too soon, you won't notice the full benefits of the dish you just ate, which time out anyway in a few minutes.
I recommend the Ravager Dogs, except that you don't want to know where the meat comes from.
Yeah, it made me "connect" when I started my Death Knight and was told to slay some helpless prisoner. There was no option for "Do your own damned killing, you pompous teakettle", so I don't have a Death Knight in the game. I'm funny that way.
It gets worse after that. In one quest you have to kill a bunch of townspeople and they are either running away from you or cowering in terror inside the buildings. It sure gives one a good feeling to kill women and children NPCs who do not fight back.
I hated the Death Knight starting quests. Hated them. On my way to pledge allegiance to King Wrynn, I rather sympathized with the NPCs throwing rotten fruit and insults at me along the way.
The Death Knight is an awesome class if you can get past the beginning. I do not blame you if you cannot. The starting quests suck big time.
That quest is disturbing. One of the other dailies for that faction, where you net some fish, then lead a Reef Bull across the bay by throwing fish at him where he falls in love with a Reef Cow is hilarious. The final rewards for Exalted rep with that faction (the 186DPS epic fishing pole and Penguin vanity pet) are worth it though.
I did not like the Death Knight starting quests at all, least of all the grand welcome I got entering Stormwind City the first time...
If this company goes tits up, the patent portfolio can be bought by patent sharks and used for exactly what it was intended to prevent.
Something very much like that happened with the Chaum digital money patents. Digicash was on the verge of some remarkable things before they went tits up and NOBODY was allowed to use the technology.
I worked at a convenience store for a summer and my wife worked at a coffee shop for a while. Both of us stopped getting paid when the doors were locked despite the fact that there was still cleanup to be done.
I experienced something similar in my very first job. Closing crew were allowed 30 paid minutes to clean up the shop before leaving - one hour was more usual for the time it actually took.
Those of us who grumbled eventually found ourselves not working there any more which suited me fine.
Nobody "ran it through" in under 30 hours. What some people did was say "we beat what we consider the important bits, so we call the game beat"
That is most insightful.
What Blizzard has done with WoW is create a game with soooooo many different ways to "win" the game. And yes, if any Blizzard person ever decides to write a book about it, it will be as important or more important than Fred Brooks' book about OS/360, _Mythical Man Month_.
That's why we should make a nethack game that uses the WoW graphics engine.
I've played NetHack since it was called Hack. The biggest feature of NetHack is that once you die, you die, and you must start over. That will never work in a pay-to-play game.
Personally, I think that WoW *is* a logical successor to NetHack. It runs on Unix and it has completely replaced whatever need I felt to play NetHack.
Blizzard dropped the ball between levels 1 and 50: it's very misrepresentative of the "real" WoW. Many play it to 10, think "okay this is getting repetative/boring", try a different character, find no difference and then make a post on slashdot.
It could be. Certainly, you learn very little about what the rest of the game will be like from the first 10 levels and you have to get up much higher to really take advantage of whatever class you have chosen.
The Death Knights are an interesting attempt to "fix" that. By the time you finish the starting quests you are around level 58, have an epic ground mount and a full set of blues. You have no professions other than First Aid, preleveled to 275, which is nice because otherwise it would be a horrible grind on cloth.
I have 2 level 70s who are still level 70s, plus a few bars. I have a Death Knight who is now Artisan Cooking/Fishing and will be Master in both in an hour or so of game time. I'm not in a hurry, though I know that will change as I get near level 80. I'm not bored and I'm having more fun than ever. WoW is awesome because it caters to players of all kinds, even dufuses like me.
Assuming you can get past the first 50 levels.;)
I got my first character, a Night Elf Druid to level 50 and then abandoned it to try another class. That druid is still at level 51...
I'm not trolling. I'm kinda pointing out that it may be easier to support a lot of devices if you have the freedom to recompile your kernel.
Well, yes. You can even write your own device drivers.
Which is great. It can be done.
Which also sucks. *I* shouldn't need to do it.
And I guess I still do not understand you. You sound like a standard lkml troll looking to pick a fight because XYZ proprietary driver broke with the last kernel update from Linus.
I don't think I would call a form of programming that has been pretty-much the dominant form for nearly 20 years now
In 1988, Ada was in its infancy and pretty much junk commercially. I wouldn't call any other OO language (or wanna-bes like Perl5) "dominant" until some years later and Ada was only dominant because it was mandated by the US DOD for all new software and they later backed down.
When you have been around since practically the beginning of time (LISP was one of the first languages and is still around and thriving in various applications), then you can talk about not being a fad.
Functional programming is a discipline (around greater than half a century and counting) and OO is a fad (around about 20 years, but only implemented in decent fashion a decade ago) in the same sense that the difference between a cult and a religion is that a cult is something you join, a religion is something you inherit from your parents.
"DLL Hell" - Linux-style. It's never been as bad for me with RH or SuSE as it ever was for Windows, but my paranoia showed through, and I eventually made my switch to Gentoo. Funny thing is, I get mismatched libraries far more often, but I also upgrade software far more often.
There's a reason for that, but you already wrote it down.
You also wrote:
Granted, it's a *hard* problem that isn't easily solvable in a binary distribution.
True it's a hard problem, except that it _is_ solved in a binary distro. That's what you're paying for.
Binary distros do not distribute out-of-date packages. If the one you are using is, then you are using the wrong distro.
Once you start using a package manager,./configure; make; su root -c "make install" becomes most hazardous unless you know what you're doing (and easier if you just let the package manager work out the dependencies and install software that way).
Are you reading this, Greg? And if not, how do we get in touch with you, anyway? I can't find an email address in my (admittedly cursory) search of your web pages.
I'm not going to post his email address, but he's not exactly an unreachable kind of guy. JFGI.
I think what Greg KH has done is great and his program for pushing drivers into the kernel earlier and earlier is good.
While I respect Kernighan and Plauger, I don't accept a definition of Programming IQ as a standard just because some smart and famous guys propose one.
Did you ever read the book? Just asking.
(Applying the sum total of the wisdom in that book as a definition of Programming IQ was my derivation, but I am certain it is correct and I've coded everything from device drivers to text editors).
For example, claiming that there's nothing unique about real-time programming.
It is clear that you have not read the book. Just about everything they wrote is applicable to real-time programming. You're forced to use tricky algorithms sometimes, but they still covered that.
No, I was quite serious. It's not often we get cool articles like this one, I do not often get a chance to discuss programming on-topic.
That said, OO seems to have some good tenets such as design patterns. So why is it that OO geeks seem to love piling layers upon layers?
It seems like a good idea at the time, especially to PHBs.
I've been involved off and on, mostly on with "reusable" software projects at work for over 2 decades now. The only conclusion I've come to is that it sounds very, very good, but does not quite work out in practice.
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Every US taxpayer should be outraged. If it weren't for practices such as these, the individual tax payer wouldn't have the burden it suffers today.
Just how many times do you feel the need to tax money before it becomes "legitimate"?
Let me count the ways ...
Gross income coming in is taxed via sales/VAT tax.
Gross income paid to employees is taxed via individual withholding taxes.
Operating costs out of gross income include one or all of state, county and city real estate taxes.
Raw materials for manufacturing, office supplies, etc. suffer sales/VAT taxes. In the case of capital assets, an additional capital gains tax may apply (with no provision for capital losses).
If transportation is involved, a corporation will pay Federal/State/County/City gasoline/fuel taxes.
Net income is taxed via corporate income tax.
Net income paid out via dividends is taxed to the stockholder.
In the USA today, you could consider corporate contributions to DC an additional tax. Do not pay them and lose out on protection against losers with no understanding of accounting such as yourself.
Any way you look at it, a unit of currency suffers at least two layers of taxation going through a corporation and what's left continues to be taxed.
If you follow that logic... boarding a jet liner would freak you out.
Only if it's an Airbus. Oh wait, I meant to write Airbu$. What was I thinking?
Actually there are three catches. You have to sit down while you eat and if you get up from the table too soon, you won't notice the full benefits of the dish you just ate, which time out anyway in a few minutes.
I recommend the Ravager Dogs, except that you don't want to know where the meat comes from.
Yeah, it made me "connect" when I started my Death Knight and was told to slay some helpless prisoner. There was no option for "Do your own damned killing, you pompous teakettle", so I don't have a Death Knight in the game. I'm funny that way.
It gets worse after that. In one quest you have to kill a bunch of townspeople and they are either running away from you or cowering in terror inside the buildings. It sure gives one a good feeling to kill women and children NPCs who do not fight back.
I hated the Death Knight starting quests. Hated them. On my way to pledge allegiance to King Wrynn, I rather sympathized with the NPCs throwing rotten fruit and insults at me along the way.
The Death Knight is an awesome class if you can get past the beginning. I do not blame you if you cannot. The starting quests suck big time.
That quest is disturbing. One of the other dailies for that faction, where you net some fish, then lead a Reef Bull across the bay by throwing fish at him where he falls in love with a Reef Cow is hilarious. The final rewards for Exalted rep with that faction (the 186DPS epic fishing pole and Penguin vanity pet) are worth it though.
I did not like the Death Knight starting quests at all, least of all the grand welcome I got entering Stormwind City the first time ...
If this company goes tits up, the patent portfolio can be bought by patent sharks and used for exactly what it was intended to prevent.
Something very much like that happened with the Chaum digital money patents. Digicash was on the verge of some remarkable things before they went tits up and NOBODY was allowed to use the technology.
It *was* a troll or astroturf.
Here's another troll:
"Let's see, does Internet Explorer run on any of the systems I have at home or work? No. So, who cares?"
It just happens to be true.
Oh wait, Internet Explorer is an integral part of the O/S so it cannot be ported to another system.
Down with non-portable software!
This is insightful. Been there, done that, too.
I worked at a convenience store for a summer and my wife worked at a coffee shop for a while. Both of us stopped getting paid when the doors were locked despite the fact that there was still cleanup to be done.
I experienced something similar in my very first job. Closing crew were allowed 30 paid minutes to clean up the shop before leaving - one hour was more usual for the time it actually took.
Those of us who grumbled eventually found ourselves not working there any more which suited me fine.
games are entertainment. they are what you do, AFTER you get to home.
Stan! Stan! Can I join you guys? I'm playing from work.
Dad! Get off our teamspeak line.
In the end were all corpses,
I don't know about you, but I'm just going to run back to my corpse from the nearest graveyard and resurrect.
Nobody "ran it through" in under 30 hours. What some people did was say "we beat what we consider the important bits, so we call the game beat"
That is most insightful.
What Blizzard has done with WoW is create a game with soooooo many different ways to "win" the game. And yes, if any Blizzard person ever decides to write a book about it, it will be as important or more important than Fred Brooks' book about OS/360, _Mythical Man Month_.
That's why we should make a nethack game that uses the WoW graphics engine.
I've played NetHack since it was called Hack. The biggest feature of NetHack is that once you die, you die, and you must start over. That will never work in a pay-to-play game.
Personally, I think that WoW *is* a logical successor to NetHack. It runs on Unix and it has completely replaced whatever need I felt to play NetHack.
Blizzard dropped the ball between levels 1 and 50: it's very misrepresentative of the "real" WoW. Many play it to 10, think "okay this is getting repetative/boring", try a different character, find no difference and then make a post on slashdot.
It could be. Certainly, you learn very little about what the rest of the game will be like from the first 10 levels and you have to get up much higher to really take advantage of whatever class you have chosen.
The Death Knights are an interesting attempt to "fix" that. By the time you finish the starting quests you are around level 58, have an epic ground mount and a full set of blues. You have no professions other than First Aid, preleveled to 275, which is nice because otherwise it would be a horrible grind on cloth.
I have 2 level 70s who are still level 70s, plus a few bars. I have a Death Knight who is now Artisan Cooking/Fishing and will be Master in both in an hour or so of game time. I'm not in a hurry, though I know that will change as I get near level 80. I'm not bored and I'm having more fun than ever. WoW is awesome because it caters to players of all kinds, even dufuses like me.
Assuming you can get past the first 50 levels. ;)
I got my first character, a Night Elf Druid to level 50 and then abandoned it to try another class. That druid is still at level 51 ...
For some odd reason I'm still using XEmacs.
Because we're very good at what we do?
Any real Emacs-based editor has the *huge* advantage that you can both tweak behavior very easily and you also can make extensions very easily.
I've been an Emacs user for over 2 decades now. I haven't seen anything remotely close to making me want to switch[1].
Of course, I'm biased ...
[1] If XEmacs were to become suddenly unavailable, I'd use Stallman-Emacs (or grab an old copy of XEmacs 21.1).
Dropping things like this:
in random directories in files named ".exrc" used to be great sport.
I see sadly, that VIM actually starts up from that as "~/.exrc".
(kill -9 still works, but is not as fun ...)
I'm not trolling. I'm kinda pointing out that it may be easier to support a lot of devices if you have the freedom to recompile your kernel.
Well, yes. You can even write your own device drivers.
Which is great. It can be done.
Which also sucks. *I* shouldn't need to do it.
And I guess I still do not understand you. You sound like a standard lkml troll looking to pick a fight because XYZ proprietary driver broke with the last kernel update from Linus.
I don't think I would call a form of programming that has been pretty-much the dominant form for nearly 20 years now
In 1988, Ada was in its infancy and pretty much junk commercially. I wouldn't call any other OO language (or wanna-bes like Perl5) "dominant" until some years later and Ada was only dominant because it was mandated by the US DOD for all new software and they later backed down.
When you have been around since practically the beginning of time (LISP was one of the first languages and is still around and thriving in various applications), then you can talk about not being a fad.
Functional programming is a discipline (around greater than half a century and counting) and OO is a fad (around about 20 years, but only implemented in decent fashion a decade ago) in the same sense that the difference between a cult and a religion is that a cult is something you join, a religion is something you inherit from your parents.
OB xkcd - http://xkcd.com/297/
You write:
"DLL Hell" - Linux-style. It's never been as bad for me with RH or SuSE as it ever was for Windows, but my paranoia showed through, and I eventually made my switch to Gentoo. Funny thing is, I get mismatched libraries far more often, but I also upgrade software far more often.
There's a reason for that, but you already wrote it down.
You also wrote:
Granted, it's a *hard* problem that isn't easily solvable in a binary distribution.
True it's a hard problem, except that it _is_ solved in a binary distro. That's what you're paying for.
Binary distros do not distribute out-of-date packages. If the one you are using is, then you are using the wrong distro.
Once you start using a package manager, ./configure; make; su root -c "make install" becomes most hazardous unless you know what you're doing (and easier if you just let the package manager work out the dependencies and install software that way).
Are you reading this, Greg? And if not, how do we get in touch with you, anyway? I can't find an email address in my (admittedly cursory) search of your web pages.
I'm not going to post his email address, but he's not exactly an unreachable kind of guy. JFGI.
I think what Greg KH has done is great and his program for pushing drivers into the kernel earlier and earlier is good.
He's a hero in my book and I've told him so.
Distros should have that worked out.
If you're trolling, like I suspect you are, begone.
The in-kernel interfaces change. They will always change and the developers have made that clear.
run
# lslimo > output.txt
You mean
# roblimo > output.txt
While I respect Kernighan and Plauger, I don't accept a definition of Programming IQ as a standard just because some smart and famous guys propose one.
Did you ever read the book? Just asking.
(Applying the sum total of the wisdom in that book as a definition of Programming IQ was my derivation, but I am certain it is correct and I've coded everything from device drivers to text editors).
For example, claiming that there's nothing unique about real-time programming.
It is clear that you have not read the book. Just about everything they wrote is applicable to real-time programming. You're forced to use tricky algorithms sometimes, but they still covered that.
Or am I missing something?
Yup. It's a programming article and interesting to many of us.
You're not +5 insightful (as I see the moderation right now). If you did not like the topic it was your choice to read it and respond to it.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic.
No, I was quite serious. It's not often we get cool articles like this one, I do not often get a chance to discuss programming on-topic.
That said, OO seems to have some good tenets such as design patterns. So why is it that OO geeks seem to love piling layers upon layers?
It seems like a good idea at the time, especially to PHBs.
I've been involved off and on, mostly on with "reusable" software projects at work for over 2 decades now. The only conclusion I've come to is that it sounds very, very good, but does not quite work out in practice.