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You can pretty much see Big Oil dollars in this from a mile away. The US has a METRIC SHIT TON of natural gas, _and_ infrastructure delivering it right to most homes. Your car can easily be outfitted to run on that gas, and equipment can be built to liquefy it, right from the pipe. Boom! Oil companies are irrelevant, and fuel is really, really cheap all of a sudden, and there's a hundred year's worth of it, right here in the country. And it's relatively clean, so "green energy" industry slides right down the crapper.
Dude, Pentagon pisses away $1.5B _a day_ these days. If you're looking to save some of "your" taxpayer dollars, this is where it needs to come from, not from forward looking investments that did not pan out because another country subsidizes their solar panels industry more.
There are only three features I'd like to see there: 1. Proper CLI. Enough is enough, just fucking give up and port zsh and ship the OS with a suite of unix-like CLI tools. While they're at it, kill the drive letters and switch to using slashes in paths. 2. Full blown native PDF support, like in Linux and Mac OS X. 3. SSH
Do you file tax returns with IRS? Because if you aren't, you're breaking the law. The US is one of the few countries in the world which require their citizens to pay taxes no matter where they actually live.
"Economy" is an excuse losers mention when they don't get the job they wanted. There's a severe shortage of qualified engineers everywhere. We pay way above industry average and we can't get enough folks. And we don't touch anyone's balls and don't require a FB password.
I'm sorry, the company that demands full access to my private life is not the one I would want to work for anyway. This has nothing to do with being righteous. If they required a colonoscopy, or HR person wanted to feel your balls before you get the offer, would you go for it? This is the same thing.
The country is circling down the shitter, and this is the best thing the Congress has to occupy themselves with? If a prospective employer asks me to provide my FB account, I'll tell them to go pound sand, and so should everybody else. My photos of funny kittens shall be mine alone.
Where did I say anything about my personal investments not getting affected? Closing loopholes would certainly affect them in the short term. Depending on which loopholes are closed, they might even decide to bring more manufacturing back to the US. I would gladly pay a few extra bucks for that.
If Apple broke the law, sue them. If they didn't—STFU and call your congresscritter and tell them to close the loopholes. If law allows this, they aren't doing anything wrong. Moreover, they'd be doing wrong if they did not do this, because all of their competitors are doing this, some (Amazon, anyone?) even more aggressively, and I don't see a reason why they should pay a dime over what the law requires. Heck, some companies pay _negative_ taxes in this country. That is, IRS pays them for the privilege of their doing business here.
Speaking of hypocrisy, when you filed taxes this year, did you take all the deductions? How about paying a little more in this difficult time? IRS lets you do it, after all.
Not doing this would be a breach of fiduciary duty. As a shareholder, I would not approve them putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage by not using tax optimization permitted by law. As a citizen, I want the loopholes closed, however, so that everyone plays by the same rules.
I think 30 million dead Russians had something to do with that as well. Not to diminish Turing's contribution, but how much did it matter compared to that?
Not functional. Epic fail. Why (in the second decade of the 21st century!) would anyone want a fully imperative language for this? It's been done already, numerous times.
Instead, just take Scala and idiomatically port packages to it instead.
I'm sorry, but you're not very smart if you bought an iPad 2 recently. Just look at it side by side with iPad 3, and it's immediately and blindingly obvious that the Retina display is worth the extra $100. This is like a litmus test. Anyone who buys the older iPad right now, is not worth listening to when it comes to their opinion on technology.
I'm not a luddite, I work in high tech, but could someone explain the lure of 4G to me? I can already stream video on 3G, I can send and receive email in arbitrary volumes, browse the web, everything is reasonably speedy. Why would I want this kind of speed? I'd rather carriers focused on building up the capacity for the existing 3G devices and improving the efficiency of spectrum utilization (so that 3G would not crap out in SF and NY), and handset manufacturers focused on battery life. I couldn't care less about loading a web page half a second sooner, if the price for it is half a day in battery life and cap on my data plan.
Two things factually wrong in your post: 1. You don't have to pay $99 to develop. You have to pay $99 to deploy to a device or sell your stuff on the App Store. 2. You can run interpreters on an iPad. I have Python installed, for instance, right from the App Store.
It's not a coincidence that newer Russian designs don't work. The "old guard" has retired. The new — immgirated. Just the other day international rankings came out for higher education. Not a single Russian school is on the list. That's what happens when you don't even pay starvation wages to your professors. Sooner or later they throw in the towel. It's a miracle things held together this long.
Given the scarcity of talented engineers, and the pitiful salaries Roscosmos pays to its staff, I'm kind of wondering how they expect to pull this off. They couldn't even do it when they had some of the best schools in the world (which regularly minted Nobel laureates), during the Soviet times, with essentially unlimited budget and manpower. Nowadays they can only build 20 year old rockets, and make minor improvements here and there. Put simply, after neglecting higher education for about a decade and a half, they've pissed away their technical capability to do anything they haven't already done before.
It doesn't matter if you "use less" as an individual. People will simply procreate more, and there will be 10 billion people on the planet. The worst thing anyone can do for the environment is to have a child (or a dozen, if you're in Utah). That child will produce a huge mountain of waste in their lifetime and is likely to also produce offspring. This will consume all available resources no matter what you do. This is why "fighting hunger in Africa" or "fighting poverty in India" doesn't work. China is the only country that is rational about the whole "breeding vs available resources" thing.
Forget the misguided idea that everyone is "equal" no matter their IQ or the effort they put in. "Leave" freeloaders "behind", as it were. Segregate schools into "gifted" and "not", make transition possible for those who want to get to the "gifted" track. Make the "gifted" track hard, but interesting. Sorry, kids, if you don't perform, back to the "crappy" school you go. Put the bar for "gifted" school above the internationally accepted standard, don't admit everyone. Adjust the split of resources between "gifted" and "crappy" track in accordance with the number of kids in each.
Right now the situation is absurd. My second grader is two years ahead of everyone else in his class academically (it remains to be seen if he's gifted or not, he's quite lazy), yet he can't get into a "gifted" program because spots are allocated by (wait for it...) lottery. This is his first year in public school, and probably the last. He will go to a hardcore private school starting next year, and I'll be shelling out something like 20K/year to keep him there. I find it rather unfortunate that smart kids from low income families will not be able to realize their potential. I also find it unfortunate that I'm paying real estate taxes for the shitty schools that don't teach kids anything, and have no real means to change the situation.
To put things into perspective an extra $7/day would mean 28% boost to average per-capita GDP. And once that money enters the economy it really turns into $35, since banks loan it out five times over. Russian people could live a heck of a lot better if they saw any of that wealth. Instead, they're getting tax hikes later this year to help pay for government pensions.
BTW, are you one of those paid pro-Putin shills I keep reading about? To state, point blank, that the government in Russia is interested in eliminating corruption is just not the kind of thing someone would say without getting their hand greased.
Um, no. You don't have to rely on government to get good education. You just need a brain and a student loan. Second, you don't have to start as a hired worker, though it's not a bad option, and you certainly don't have to be in your 40's before you start your own. Sergey Brin is 38 (billionaire since his early 30's). Zuckerberg is 27. Russia makes trillions on oil and gas, Russians should live like kings.
Russian government is not interested in getting rid of bribery because they rely on it for their own prosperity. Putin would not have $30K watch if it wasn't for bribery. Medvedev would not have a $20K Leica digital camera (+20K watch). Their tax declarations are pathetic. Their incomes don't match their lifestyle by several orders of magnitude. Their "friends" control something like $150B+ of wealth. Do you seriously think they P&M don't take any of that to themselves?
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You can pretty much see Big Oil dollars in this from a mile away. The US has a METRIC SHIT TON of natural gas, _and_ infrastructure delivering it right to most homes. Your car can easily be outfitted to run on that gas, and equipment can be built to liquefy it, right from the pipe. Boom! Oil companies are irrelevant, and fuel is really, really cheap all of a sudden, and there's a hundred year's worth of it, right here in the country. And it's relatively clean, so "green energy" industry slides right down the crapper.
Dude, Pentagon pisses away $1.5B _a day_ these days. If you're looking to save some of "your" taxpayer dollars, this is where it needs to come from, not from forward looking investments that did not pan out because another country subsidizes their solar panels industry more.
If true, Foxconn is not getting the next contract for it. Loose lips sink ships, Terry. Learn to keep your pie hole shut.
There are only three features I'd like to see there:
1. Proper CLI. Enough is enough, just fucking give up and port zsh and ship the OS with a suite of unix-like CLI tools. While they're at it, kill the drive letters and switch to using slashes in paths.
2. Full blown native PDF support, like in Linux and Mac OS X.
3. SSH
Do you file tax returns with IRS? Because if you aren't, you're breaking the law. The US is one of the few countries in the world which require their citizens to pay taxes no matter where they actually live.
Those stolen Russian designs are hard to replicate, I guess: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ohOKthO18
"Economy" is an excuse losers mention when they don't get the job they wanted. There's a severe shortage of qualified engineers everywhere. We pay way above industry average and we can't get enough folks. And we don't touch anyone's balls and don't require a FB password.
Yes, I'll tell them all to pound sand. They are not the only option out there. And if they were, I would sue and win.
I'm sorry, the company that demands full access to my private life is not the one I would want to work for anyway. This has nothing to do with being righteous. If they required a colonoscopy, or HR person wanted to feel your balls before you get the offer, would you go for it? This is the same thing.
The country is circling down the shitter, and this is the best thing the Congress has to occupy themselves with? If a prospective employer asks me to provide my FB account, I'll tell them to go pound sand, and so should everybody else. My photos of funny kittens shall be mine alone.
Where did I say anything about my personal investments not getting affected? Closing loopholes would certainly affect them in the short term. Depending on which loopholes are closed, they might even decide to bring more manufacturing back to the US. I would gladly pay a few extra bucks for that.
If Apple broke the law, sue them. If they didn't—STFU and call your congresscritter and tell them to close the loopholes. If law allows this, they aren't doing anything wrong. Moreover, they'd be doing wrong if they did not do this, because all of their competitors are doing this, some (Amazon, anyone?) even more aggressively, and I don't see a reason why they should pay a dime over what the law requires. Heck, some companies pay _negative_ taxes in this country. That is, IRS pays them for the privilege of their doing business here.
Speaking of hypocrisy, when you filed taxes this year, did you take all the deductions? How about paying a little more in this difficult time? IRS lets you do it, after all.
Not doing this would be a breach of fiduciary duty. As a shareholder, I would not approve them putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage by not using tax optimization permitted by law. As a citizen, I want the loopholes closed, however, so that everyone plays by the same rules.
Let's compare the devices that are actually somewhat comparable: 2nd gen iPad is $399.
When first installed, it lets you select between Yahoo, Google and Bing (so basically between Google and Bing, because Yahoo uses Bing for search).
I think 30 million dead Russians had something to do with that as well. Not to diminish Turing's contribution, but how much did it matter compared to that?
Not functional. Epic fail. Why (in the second decade of the 21st century!) would anyone want a fully imperative language for this? It's been done already, numerous times.
Instead, just take Scala and idiomatically port packages to it instead.
I'm sorry, but you're not very smart if you bought an iPad 2 recently. Just look at it side by side with iPad 3, and it's immediately and blindingly obvious that the Retina display is worth the extra $100. This is like a litmus test. Anyone who buys the older iPad right now, is not worth listening to when it comes to their opinion on technology.
I'm not a luddite, I work in high tech, but could someone explain the lure of 4G to me? I can already stream video on 3G, I can send and receive email in arbitrary volumes, browse the web, everything is reasonably speedy. Why would I want this kind of speed? I'd rather carriers focused on building up the capacity for the existing 3G devices and improving the efficiency of spectrum utilization (so that 3G would not crap out in SF and NY), and handset manufacturers focused on battery life. I couldn't care less about loading a web page half a second sooner, if the price for it is half a day in battery life and cap on my data plan.
Two things factually wrong in your post:
1. You don't have to pay $99 to develop. You have to pay $99 to deploy to a device or sell your stuff on the App Store.
2. You can run interpreters on an iPad. I have Python installed, for instance, right from the App Store.
It's not a coincidence that newer Russian designs don't work. The "old guard" has retired. The new — immgirated. Just the other day international rankings came out for higher education. Not a single Russian school is on the list. That's what happens when you don't even pay starvation wages to your professors. Sooner or later they throw in the towel. It's a miracle things held together this long.
Given the scarcity of talented engineers, and the pitiful salaries Roscosmos pays to its staff, I'm kind of wondering how they expect to pull this off. They couldn't even do it when they had some of the best schools in the world (which regularly minted Nobel laureates), during the Soviet times, with essentially unlimited budget and manpower. Nowadays they can only build 20 year old rockets, and make minor improvements here and there. Put simply, after neglecting higher education for about a decade and a half, they've pissed away their technical capability to do anything they haven't already done before.
It doesn't matter if you "use less" as an individual. People will simply procreate more, and there will be 10 billion people on the planet. The worst thing anyone can do for the environment is to have a child (or a dozen, if you're in Utah). That child will produce a huge mountain of waste in their lifetime and is likely to also produce offspring. This will consume all available resources no matter what you do. This is why "fighting hunger in Africa" or "fighting poverty in India" doesn't work. China is the only country that is rational about the whole "breeding vs available resources" thing.
Forget the misguided idea that everyone is "equal" no matter their IQ or the effort they put in. "Leave" freeloaders "behind", as it were. Segregate schools into "gifted" and "not", make transition possible for those who want to get to the "gifted" track. Make the "gifted" track hard, but interesting. Sorry, kids, if you don't perform, back to the "crappy" school you go. Put the bar for "gifted" school above the internationally accepted standard, don't admit everyone. Adjust the split of resources between "gifted" and "crappy" track in accordance with the number of kids in each.
Right now the situation is absurd. My second grader is two years ahead of everyone else in his class academically (it remains to be seen if he's gifted or not, he's quite lazy), yet he can't get into a "gifted" program because spots are allocated by (wait for it...) lottery. This is his first year in public school, and probably the last. He will go to a hardcore private school starting next year, and I'll be shelling out something like 20K/year to keep him there. I find it rather unfortunate that smart kids from low income families will not be able to realize their potential. I also find it unfortunate that I'm paying real estate taxes for the shitty schools that don't teach kids anything, and have no real means to change the situation.
Andrei Sakharov (of Soviet Union) is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov#Development_of_thermonuclear_devices
To put things into perspective an extra $7/day would mean 28% boost to average per-capita GDP. And once that money enters the economy it really turns into $35, since banks loan it out five times over. Russian people could live a heck of a lot better if they saw any of that wealth. Instead, they're getting tax hikes later this year to help pay for government pensions.
BTW, are you one of those paid pro-Putin shills I keep reading about? To state, point blank, that the government in Russia is interested in eliminating corruption is just not the kind of thing someone would say without getting their hand greased.
Um, no. You don't have to rely on government to get good education. You just need a brain and a student loan. Second, you don't have to start as a hired worker, though it's not a bad option, and you certainly don't have to be in your 40's before you start your own. Sergey Brin is 38 (billionaire since his early 30's). Zuckerberg is 27. Russia makes trillions on oil and gas, Russians should live like kings.
Russian government is not interested in getting rid of bribery because they rely on it for their own prosperity. Putin would not have $30K watch if it wasn't for bribery. Medvedev would not have a $20K Leica digital camera (+20K watch). Their tax declarations are pathetic. Their incomes don't match their lifestyle by several orders of magnitude. Their "friends" control something like $150B+ of wealth. Do you seriously think they P&M don't take any of that to themselves?