There is not a SINGLE European country with a worse ratio than the US. Granted, the aforementioned Georgia along with Portugal and the UK are coming close to it, but none of them is actually WORSE. Most central European (and let's also lump in the Scandinavian) countries revolve around a disparity factor of about 5-8.
That means that we're looking at about three times more equality in Europe than the US.
I'm not saying you don't have a point. Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. But if you're going to compare inequality in Europe to inequality in the USA, you can't compare the USA with individual European countries.
Smaller inequality in all individual European countries doesn't imply smaller inequality in Europe as a whole.
Inequality inside Albania, for example, might be small, but there's a great deal of inequality between Albania and the Netherlands.
How many more votes will that give the party in power in the next election? Probably none, so it won't happen.
Democracy works hard to please the 51% -- not the 5% of parents that have a gifted child.
Of course those parents pay taxes just like other parents, but that doesn't mean the state has to give a damn.
Democracy doesn't require that the state please everyone -- it only must please 51%. And the system is constantly adjusting to figure out how to screw the 49% to please the 51%. Public education gets caught up in the process like everything else touched by the democratic process.
And later went on to liberate almost all of Europe. Do your point is ?
You exaggerate (probably because you're some sort of Soviet apologist).
The Soviets were doomed without the help of the rest of the Allies. The entire world would have been better off if the Soviets and Nazis had just been allowed to kill each other off. They were made for each other.
Communists, Nazis -- how anyone could pick one as better than the other is beyond reason.
Tell me again why college in the US costs sooooo much? It's not like you are getting a super special top notch education that is not comparable to top Canadian universities for example.
The same reason health care costs so much: the more money that's made available, the higher the price that can be asked.
In supply and demand terms, prices rise to balance the supply of education services with the demand for those services until demand is restrained or supply is increases.
What's happened in education and health care tells us that supply isn't keeping up with demand and so we have rationing based on price to match supply with demand. High prices keep some out of school or out of the doctor's office so that the available services match those able to pay for them.
I have issues with them, too; but I'd rather a non-corporate entity build out and even own our infrastructure than profitmongers!
I have news for you: local governments are incorporated, too.
And don't think for a second that the people involved in local government aren't interested in making decisions that personally profit themselves and their friends.
It's hard to know anymore what anyone really means when they use the terms "communist" and "socialist".
Marx used both of them to refer to societies where the means of production were collectively owned, where socialism was a transitional period before full communism.
In practice, collective ownership has meant state ownership.
Are you suggesting that it's the form of state ownership that distinguishes socialism from communism?
Because the clipped waveform has more area underneath it than the smaller unclipped waveform, the amplifier produces more power than its rated (sine wave) output when it is clipping.
Which is why a designer shouldn't assume the amplifier is going to just produce a sine wave.
I personally don't do this sort of engineering, but I can see the reasoning. And if you are trying to push high volumes out of your laptop speaker, you probably should be carrying external speakers. There are physical limitations to systems designed to be portable.
The trouble is that the audio chipset hardware is by design meant to output arbitrary waveforms, including squarewaves, which is what VLC produces in the most extreme form of clipping.
A wave file can hold the very same signal.
Neither the user nor software is responsible for trying to figure out what waveforms are a problem on a system where the built in amp can destroy the built in speaker. It's the responsibility of the maker to limit the output of their own amp so that it doesn't cause damage. They put the amp in there in the first place. There's nothing about putting in a proper amp that in any way would affect portability.
This is what's wrong with the legal system in my opinion. Intent means nothing these days. Crossing your T's and dotting your I's is all that matters...
Technically correct -- and to the bureaucrat that's the best and only kind of correct.
Memory was shared poorly between the CPU and video. Compared to the Amiga and Atari ST, the Mac128K ran very slowly. While the Amiga and ST could overlap CPU memory cycles and video memory cycles running the CPU at nearly full speed, the Mac designers had the CPU waiting every other four CPU cycles to give video time to access memory. The CPU effectively ran just slightly faster than half speed for most codes during pixel display.
It only ran at full speed out of ROM and during video blanking intervals.
This is just more proof that religion is just evil. It is a means of controlling what you believe. This is why the religious right in the USA is determined to get creation in the schools. So they can indoctrinate children before they learn critical thinking and realize that it is just a means of controlling them.
Zealots of all sorts need to be held in check and kept away from the children, IMO, even those on the left.
This was a fuckup, sure, but it's on the scale of "we hit something we knew we were going to hit (although not exactly where), we removed it when we hit it, but it turns out it fucked up the drill head when we tried to drill through it." I wouldn't bet on this causing the whole billion-dollar project to fail - it's most likely to be a couple hundred grand, maybe a few million in repairs.
The problem could be serious in terms of time and effort, though. The machine is meant to only go forward -- there is no reverse. Repairing the bits on the face of the machine will require excavating a large void in front of the machine just to create room for the repair work itself. That probably means old and slow classic mining techniques will need to be used.
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I'm not saying you don't have a point. Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. But if you're going to compare inequality in Europe to inequality in the USA, you can't compare the USA with individual European countries.
Smaller inequality in all individual European countries doesn't imply smaller inequality in Europe as a whole.
Inequality inside Albania, for example, might be small, but there's a great deal of inequality between Albania and the Netherlands.
How do you get from 'taking IP' to 'killing the industry'?
The free flow of ideas and techniques is what drives technology and industry.
Well taking IP has certainly driven technology in China, right?
"Just" put more money into those programs?
How many more votes will that give the party in power in the next election? Probably none, so it won't happen.
Democracy works hard to please the 51% -- not the 5% of parents that have a gifted child.
Of course those parents pay taxes just like other parents, but that doesn't mean the state has to give a damn.
Democracy doesn't require that the state please everyone -- it only must please 51%. And the system is constantly adjusting to figure out how to screw the 49% to please the 51%. Public education gets caught up in the process like everything else touched by the democratic process.
These sorts of announcements have the effect of freezing developers and keeping them from moving to superior technology.
They would have done nothing if not for AMD and now they're going to steal AMD's thunder.
This sort of thing makes my blood boil.
If you're a developer out there, please, don't let Microsoft get away with this.
After years of decline, US oil production began to rise again in 2009 with fracking technology and the increases since have been astounding.
This oil boom has kept gasoline prices in check and has probably helped the economy from slipping back into recession.
If all that money didn't increase total employment, then GDP could go up while the same number of people stayed home out of work.
The increase in congestion is actually a good sign. It suggests that the employment situation might finally be improving.
And later went on to liberate almost all of Europe. Do your point is ?
You exaggerate (probably because you're some sort of Soviet apologist).
The Soviets were doomed without the help of the rest of the Allies. The entire world would have been better off if the Soviets and Nazis had just been allowed to kill each other off. They were made for each other.
Communists, Nazis -- how anyone could pick one as better than the other is beyond reason.
Well the Russians joined the Nazi invasion of Poland on September 17th, 1939, so there's that, too.
The same reason health care costs so much: the more money that's made available, the higher the price that can be asked.
In supply and demand terms, prices rise to balance the supply of education services with the demand for those services until demand is restrained or supply is increases.
What's happened in education and health care tells us that supply isn't keeping up with demand and so we have rationing based on price to match supply with demand. High prices keep some out of school or out of the doctor's office so that the available services match those able to pay for them.
Running something at the speed it was designed and verified to run at by the maker isn't overclocking.
I have issues with them, too; but I'd rather a non-corporate entity build out and even own our infrastructure than profitmongers!
I have news for you: local governments are incorporated, too.
And don't think for a second that the people involved in local government aren't interested in making decisions that personally profit themselves and their friends.
There were actually two visible skid marks. One track from normal braking and another from pulling up the emergency brake.
It wasn't enough.
Racists much?
When did Islam become a race?
Otherwise we'd be talking about the project facing popular impedance rather than popular resistance.
It's hard to know anymore what anyone really means when they use the terms "communist" and "socialist".
Marx used both of them to refer to societies where the means of production were collectively owned, where socialism was a transitional period before full communism.
In practice, collective ownership has meant state ownership.
Are you suggesting that it's the form of state ownership that distinguishes socialism from communism?
Which is why a designer shouldn't assume the amplifier is going to just produce a sine wave.
The trouble is that the audio chipset hardware is by design meant to output arbitrary waveforms, including squarewaves, which is what VLC produces in the most extreme form of clipping.
A wave file can hold the very same signal.
Neither the user nor software is responsible for trying to figure out what waveforms are a problem on a system where the built in amp can destroy the built in speaker. It's the responsibility of the maker to limit the output of their own amp so that it doesn't cause damage. They put the amp in there in the first place. There's nothing about putting in a proper amp that in any way would affect portability.
Things have taken a bit of a dive.
I wonder what experts in other areas are complaining about.
It can't be just this one area they get wrong.
Technically correct -- and to the bureaucrat that's the best and only kind of correct.
Memory was shared poorly between the CPU and video. Compared to the Amiga and Atari ST, the Mac128K ran very slowly. While the Amiga and ST could overlap CPU memory cycles and video memory cycles running the CPU at nearly full speed, the Mac designers had the CPU waiting every other four CPU cycles to give video time to access memory. The CPU effectively ran just slightly faster than half speed for most codes during pixel display.
It only ran at full speed out of ROM and during video blanking intervals.
Zealots of all sorts need to be held in check and kept away from the children, IMO, even those on the left.
The state shouldn't be pushing any kind of faith.
Interior Australia seems to be suffering a terrible drought while Northern Australia is being inundated.
Australia: Percent of Normal Precipitation
Are they insane?
The problem could be serious in terms of time and effort, though. The machine is meant to only go forward -- there is no reverse. Repairing the bits on the face of the machine will require excavating a large void in front of the machine just to create room for the repair work itself. That probably means old and slow classic mining techniques will need to be used.