Were you born in 12th century Europe? I mean there is such a thing as inflation. Let us assume that program in say 1960, you had a job paying $5000 a year, a decent salary for the time. So since it isn't a cut one should keep the salary the same in 2004?
If you are paying someone in bags of grain or direct representations of them, then there is no need to increase them from year to year if the environment. Money is not so direct. Money loses value as time progresses unless something is done with it.
Jobs are a bit more complicated but not much. if you have 0 job growth and positive population growth you will end up with a bunch of people who have nothing to do in a few years.
You forgot, where are you? The economyy moves at different paces in differnet places, and also in some places the whole boom thing never really got around to raising wages so 99-2000 compensation was not that out of line.
They already do in combination with finding spam, that is why you have a list of random words at the end of some spam, in the hopes that it will be a strong hit on a word used in "ham". The real problem is that humans aren't even all that good at detecting spam. (at least not against the tumult that we get now days where some people have a couple hundred spams a day, so even a.1% error rate is still a spam or two a week.) The statistcal white list could be wonderful for dating services though:) Easy way to find people with common ground.
Since most of the problem seems to come from the 3rd party apps, what would really help them is a certification scheme. Though since when do reasonable people complain about 3rd poarty apps crashing and place the blame on the 1st party?
It is illegal under current laws (Wire fraud, misrepresentation, etc). The hard part is catching them, also there are jurisdiction issues. I mean really there was no need for new murder laws when guns came about. This is fraud, and oftentimes theft plain vanilla crime, but with a new delivery method. Also to be honest, most DAs would probably rather go after child porn then something so unlikely to get there names in the paper as white collar credit card scams
Most amnesia causes problems in learning new memories not recalling old memories. Also amnesia is (as another poster commented) not specific in selection it is doubtful that you would lose the entire past, say 3 months, 48 hours or less would be much more common with most amnesia as well. Oh and amnesia sometimes has recovery which would of course be a bad thing as well.
Umm no it would require more then a lot of power it would require the ability to turn back time. Connections are not just made, they are also broken, and while it *might* be posible to sever connections causing new ones would be a pain, also the brain loses neurons contantly, some of the new connections would be just work around for random death. Oh and add that to the current lack of ability to have that sort of precision, and near future is wishful thinking
No. Things aren't that clean nor that simple. Memory in the brane goes a lot of different places. One might remeber what some chip name did even if one had no idea where one picked that up, one might remember what a certain shape part did. Besides it would be a lot simpler just to hire them through a third party that way they never know exactly who they are working for.
Google is big but not that big, they use Linux, and what is more important they have an impending IPO so they might just pay up to get SCO to shut up. I'm just suprised they weren't sued first.
Oxygen is a dangerous poison. Most early life (and lots still extant) not only do not need oxygen but are harmed by oxygen. Early life was probably based on hot methane plumes in the Earth's oceans, which is not dependent upon the sun, nor on oxygen.
The iPod plays AAC which may not seem like a big deal but it is the successor to MP3 so I suspect you'll be seeing more and more content that way
Ummm says who?
Don't be a stupid fanboy. The successor to the MP3 format seems to be the MP3 format, as size is becoming a non-issue. Microsoft also has the very nice WMA format if you want DRM. The installed base of players still skews strongly toward WMA, and right now more players are being shipped supporting WMA then AAC. That doesn't mean the AAC format is doomed just that it wil probably never become quite as important as WMA. It doesn't really matter though look at a place like AllOfMp3 they allow you to choose what format you want your music in, and the bitrate you want it at. So AAC will probably be around for a long time, but is almost certainly not the succesor to MP3
Actually bits of it make sense conceptually. The "guide" (animated thing) was overdone yes, but it had several good ideas at the core. The idea was a task based menu (i.e. context menus), and the idea as realized in MS office (I don't think it made Bob 1.0) was for them to answer natural language queries and do tasks and retrieve information. This is not a bad idea imagine a little box where you could query various information sources, or you can just download Mozilla Firebird and see for yourself (sans animated thingy), and that doesn't even allow it to do tasks (think I guess of Hailstorm/UDDI or some such nebulous thing).
The concept of "rooms" allowing great customization of the interface is a very nice one, just poorly implemented. Also it allowed you to use multiple interfaces based on task (i.e. work, play, study, etc.). The re skinned applications that came with it, well they do have a special place in hell.
The single player campaign is actually kind of fun, you should finish it. And just because they didn't mess anyone up doesn't mean that they didn't add things. I mean the villagers are a bit smarter, and there are some other tweaks. The addition of myth units does add even more things to the countering strategy (almost too many). The terrain is more varied too, though that doens't seem to be used.
Besides the new graphics are so purty:-P
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Actually I would say the opposite. Launch forces aren't that much for a drive esp. as it can be off (or at least not spinning), while the "Vomit Comet" would almost certainly force the drive to be on and take Gs.
I mean the big reason hard drives fail if dropped is that they are hard bodies and if dropped on a hard thing there isn't much room for compresion so you have near instanareous decelleration. a steady pressure like a launch shouldn't be that bad this desktop IDE drive can take 400 Gs when not on. As for 0g operation, well I wouldn't think that to be much of an issue, as all the drives I know of can be opperated in any position.
My biggest worry would be heat. Modern drives do get hot, and that might cause problems.
If one were really worried you could hook up notebook drives in an IDE raid config. High RPM SCSI drives are probably out as it is, and honestly I can't think of much one would be doing in a 0g enivronment that would need the performance.
Packet8 has a low priced plan(5.95). Don't know if it would work fo rthat though. I remember for Vonage there was talk of a special command for TiVo taht would make it work (slowed down the speed I think).
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Bad example, the internet(arpanet, etc.) started small, and grew. The idea that unviersities and military could share data is a good idea even now. You might complain about the price but why would you complain about the principle.
That being said just because some of the things in the article are useless to the author, doesn't mean they are useless to everyone.
As someone who has ridden on the Indianapolis Bus system I can tell you that thier are some routes that are just dangerous. I mean there is no reason to worry until the driver is worried, but when the driver fondles thier mace nearly the entire route... well that is a bad situation.
The trick is that we have so far focused on making public transport really cheap, what public transport needs to be is really fast. I mean if most people could cut thier commute time, they would pay for the privelege.
Pointy sticks are all well and good, but China is on the other side of a large ocean from the US. Who controls the seas (hint: it isn't the British anymore)? Besides that China's sea lift power is puny. It isn't enough to properly invade Taiwan, much less the US. Oh and China has a lack of the support ships needed too.
You do realize that what is so called "lost to bereaucracy" is actually spent on salaries, and other hard goods. It isn't normally a good thing, but when the basic goal is to a) buy stuff to pump more money into the economy, and b) restore the confidence of businesses and consumers so they start buying stuff again, even what is normally considered waste becomes acceptable.
Also government spending can help, if it choses something that tends to A) be circulated far and fast, and B) the actual object tends to lower waste in the economy. For example, a road expansion requires Blue collar workers (people who will tend to spend money fast), lots of raw material (a sector that tends to use more blue collar workers, and heavy equipment), and heavy equipment (which lasts a while unfortunately). A new expansion might also speed comute time reducing expenses for gas, and allowing both more spending and more productivity. Of course if there is nothing but slack in those industries (i.e. the workers are employed but not fully used, the material is piled high in storage, and the equipment is bought, but not being used) then you must eat up the slack to produce the desired effects. So the government wants something that will grow an industry, not just maintain it.
The private consumer though is motivated by minimum risk for maximum reward. With the stock market not so great (and people afraid of it) that means bonds. Now normally buying bonds is great as it allows companies to expand on the cheap, but since the demand is often not there for the expansion you end up with companies using them to cover losses that could be trimmed through layoffs etc., or just not using them (if there is no demand, even if you could expand on 0% interest there would be no reason to, unless you got a real cost savings). So the current situation means that private investment is not generating as much growth as it could be.
Tax cuts have another problem over goverment programs, they are slow to get the money out. You can do that odd little pre refund on expected benefits, but that is slow, cumbersome, and inefficent (i.e. you can't give out the entire estimated savings becuase there will be people who do not deserve it this year, but did last year). Also some of the people will take that savings and dump it into... governemnt bonds. So a certain ammount will be well and truely wasted (i.e. you issue bonds for people to buy those same bonds, the only benefit is the waste involved in distributing the money). Tax Cuts are great if you are taking in too much money, and want to allow the economy to step it up even more, but they aren't as good as targeted spending in the short term.
It is not really a welfare program in itself, but is supposed to further annother welfare program Social security. I.E. it is supposed to be a deferment on the payroll tax. It isn't that bad of an idea. The payroll tax can eat you alive if you are not earning a lot. EIC just softens the blow, and makes the *very* regresive payroll tax slightly less so.
More info: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p596.pdf
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Were you born in 12th century Europe? I mean there is such a thing as inflation. Let us assume that program in say 1960, you had a job paying $5000 a year, a decent salary for the time. So since it isn't a cut one should keep the salary the same in 2004?
If you are paying someone in bags of grain or direct representations of them, then there is no need to increase them from year to year if the environment. Money is not so direct. Money loses value as time progresses unless something is done with it.
Jobs are a bit more complicated but not much. if you have 0 job growth and positive population growth you will end up with a bunch of people who have nothing to do in a few years.
You forgot, where are you? The economyy moves at different paces in differnet places, and also in some places the whole boom thing never really got around to raising wages so 99-2000 compensation was not that out of line.
They already do in combination with finding spam, that is why you have a list of random words at the end of some spam, in the hopes that it will be a strong hit on a word used in "ham". The real problem is that humans aren't even all that good at detecting spam. (at least not against the tumult that we get now days where some people have a couple hundred spams a day, so even a .1% error rate is still a spam or two a week.) The statistcal white list could be wonderful for dating services though :) Easy way to find people with common ground.
Since most of the problem seems to come from the 3rd party apps, what would really help them is a certification scheme. Though since when do reasonable people complain about 3rd poarty apps crashing and place the blame on the 1st party?
It is illegal under current laws (Wire fraud, misrepresentation, etc). The hard part is catching them, also there are jurisdiction issues. I mean really there was no need for new murder laws when guns came about. This is fraud, and oftentimes theft plain vanilla crime, but with a new delivery method. Also to be honest, most DAs would probably rather go after child porn then something so unlikely to get there names in the paper as white collar credit card scams
Most amnesia causes problems in learning new memories not recalling old memories. Also amnesia is (as another poster commented) not specific in selection it is doubtful that you would lose the entire past, say 3 months, 48 hours or less would be much more common with most amnesia as well. Oh and amnesia sometimes has recovery which would of course be a bad thing as well.
Umm no it would require more then a lot of power it would require the ability to turn back time. Connections are not just made, they are also broken, and while it *might* be posible to sever connections causing new ones would be a pain, also the brain loses neurons contantly, some of the new connections would be just work around for random death. Oh and add that to the current lack of ability to have that sort of precision, and near future is wishful thinking
No. Things aren't that clean nor that simple. Memory in the brane goes a lot of different places. One might remeber what some chip name did even if one had no idea where one picked that up, one might remember what a certain shape part did. Besides it would be a lot simpler just to hire them through a third party that way they never know exactly who they are working for.
My emphasis. Yes they added it later when everyone realized what a pile of trash 3 was, and they needed to stop migration away from winamp.
Google is big but not that big, they use Linux, and what is more important they have an impending IPO so they might just pay up to get SCO to shut up. I'm just suprised they weren't sued first.
Oxygen is a dangerous poison. Most early life (and lots still extant) not only do not need oxygen but are harmed by oxygen. Early life was probably based on hot methane plumes in the Earth's oceans, which is not dependent upon the sun, nor on oxygen.
The iPod plays AAC which may not seem like a big deal but it is the successor to MP3 so I suspect you'll be seeing more and more content that way
Ummm says who?
Don't be a stupid fanboy. The successor to the MP3 format seems to be the MP3 format, as size is becoming a non-issue. Microsoft also has the very nice WMA format if you want DRM. The installed base of players still skews strongly toward WMA, and right now more players are being shipped supporting WMA then AAC. That doesn't mean the AAC format is doomed just that it wil probably never become quite as important as WMA. It doesn't really matter though look at a place like AllOfMp3 they allow you to choose what format you want your music in, and the bitrate you want it at. So AAC will probably be around for a long time, but is almost certainly not the succesor to MP3
It will mean that spyware can now be described as a legal regulated industry which will mean companies will be more likely to use it.
Actually bits of it make sense conceptually. The "guide" (animated thing) was overdone yes, but it had several good ideas at the core. The idea was a task based menu (i.e. context menus), and the idea as realized in MS office (I don't think it made Bob 1.0) was for them to answer natural language queries and do tasks and retrieve information. This is not a bad idea imagine a little box where you could query various information sources, or you can just download Mozilla Firebird and see for yourself (sans animated thingy), and that doesn't even allow it to do tasks (think I guess of Hailstorm/UDDI or some such nebulous thing).
The concept of "rooms" allowing great customization of the interface is a very nice one, just poorly implemented. Also it allowed you to use multiple interfaces based on task (i.e. work, play, study, etc.). The re skinned applications that came with it, well they do have a special place in hell.
The single player campaign is actually kind of fun, you should finish it. And just because they didn't mess anyone up doesn't mean that they didn't add things. I mean the villagers are a bit smarter, and there are some other tweaks. The addition of myth units does add even more things to the countering strategy (almost too many). The terrain is more varied too, though that doens't seem to be used.
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Besides the new graphics are so purty
Actually I would say the opposite. Launch forces aren't that much for a drive esp. as it can be off (or at least not spinning), while the "Vomit Comet" would almost certainly force the drive to be on and take Gs.
I mean the big reason hard drives fail if dropped is that they are hard bodies and if dropped on a hard thing there isn't much room for compresion so you have near instanareous decelleration. a steady pressure like a launch shouldn't be that bad this desktop IDE drive can take 400 Gs when not on. As for 0g operation, well I wouldn't think that to be much of an issue, as all the drives I know of can be opperated in any position.
My biggest worry would be heat. Modern drives do get hot, and that might cause problems.
If one were really worried you could hook up notebook drives in an IDE raid config. High RPM SCSI drives are probably out as it is, and honestly I can't think of much one would be doing in a 0g enivronment that would need the performance.
Packet8 has a low priced plan(5.95). Don't know if it would work fo rthat though. I remember for Vonage there was talk of a special command for TiVo taht would make it work (slowed down the speed I think).
Bad example, the internet(arpanet, etc.) started small, and grew. The idea that unviersities and military could share data is a good idea even now. You might complain about the price but why would you complain about the principle.
That being said just because some of the things in the article are useless to the author, doesn't mean they are useless to everyone.
As someone who has ridden on the Indianapolis Bus system I can tell you that thier are some routes that are just dangerous. I mean there is no reason to worry until the driver is worried, but when the driver fondles thier mace nearly the entire route... well that is a bad situation.
The trick is that we have so far focused on making public transport really cheap, what public transport needs to be is really fast. I mean if most people could cut thier commute time, they would pay for the privelege.
Pointy sticks are all well and good, but China is on the other side of a large ocean from the US. Who controls the seas (hint: it isn't the British anymore)? Besides that China's sea lift power is puny. It isn't enough to properly invade Taiwan, much less the US. Oh and China has a lack of the support ships needed too.
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You do realize that what is so called "lost to bereaucracy" is actually spent on salaries, and other hard goods. It isn't normally a good thing, but when the basic goal is to a) buy stuff to pump more money into the economy, and b) restore the confidence of businesses and consumers so they start buying stuff again, even what is normally considered waste becomes acceptable.
... governemnt bonds. So a certain ammount will be well and truely wasted (i.e. you issue bonds for people to buy those same bonds, the only benefit is the waste involved in distributing the money). Tax Cuts are great if you are taking in too much money, and want to allow the economy to step it up even more, but they aren't as good as targeted spending in the short term.
Also government spending can help, if it choses something that tends to A) be circulated far and fast, and B) the actual object tends to lower waste in the economy. For example, a road expansion requires Blue collar workers (people who will tend to spend money fast), lots of raw material (a sector that tends to use more blue collar workers, and heavy equipment), and heavy equipment (which lasts a while unfortunately). A new expansion might also speed comute time reducing expenses for gas, and allowing both more spending and more productivity. Of course if there is nothing but slack in those industries (i.e. the workers are employed but not fully used, the material is piled high in storage, and the equipment is bought, but not being used) then you must eat up the slack to produce the desired effects. So the government wants something that will grow an industry, not just maintain it.
The private consumer though is motivated by minimum risk for maximum reward. With the stock market not so great (and people afraid of it) that means bonds. Now normally buying bonds is great as it allows companies to expand on the cheap, but since the demand is often not there for the expansion you end up with companies using them to cover losses that could be trimmed through layoffs etc., or just not using them (if there is no demand, even if you could expand on 0% interest there would be no reason to, unless you got a real cost savings). So the current situation means that private investment is not generating as much growth as it could be.
Tax cuts have another problem over goverment programs, they are slow to get the money out. You can do that odd little pre refund on expected benefits, but that is slow, cumbersome, and inefficent (i.e. you can't give out the entire estimated savings becuase there will be people who do not deserve it this year, but did last year). Also some of the people will take that savings and dump it into
10 plus probably 7 for one hour film. Still not bad but it is an important cost. I personally would just wait for a camera/phone gets a bit better.
You mean like This or slightly cheaper
It is not really a welfare program in itself, but is supposed to further annother welfare program Social security. I.E. it is supposed to be a deferment on the payroll tax. It isn't that bad of an idea. The payroll tax can eat you alive if you are not earning a lot. EIC just softens the blow, and makes the *very* regresive payroll tax slightly less so.
More info:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p596.pdf