If it is actually true, I would still say yes, our representative democracy did work, as the economic decline we are seeing now would be a great deal worse if the plan had not passed.
I have a feeling that the actual number of people who understand exactly how marginal taxes work would be shocking and disappointing. I can recall several conversations where people sweated making more money -- they were concerned that the tax increases would have them ending up with less.
Bizzaro dot in action. OP gets modded down for making sarcastic remark about Democrats being just as bad as Republicans, and AC gets modded up for sticking up for the Republicans (while making a fun statement about a jump to conclusions mat).
Most businesses that employ people to do things with computers end up paying them more than $50,000 a year (more like $100,000 with overhead). At those rates, the $0 alternative better not get in the way for very long (my thesis is not that paying for software is a good thing, my thesis is that even when the competition costs $1,000 more, software mostly competes on quality (and even then, perception is often more important than reality...)).
I bet hand optimized assembly would still be faster (I do understand what you are driving at, but even on the 'garbage' available today, a huge swath of programming tasks are 'fast enough', even if implemented in something like Ruby or Python).
For a lot of businesses, for $1,000 every three years, the $0 alternative better be really really equivalent, or even better (because of retraining; Office 2007 makes this an interesting discussion, as it apparently requires more learning than past upgrades have).
Is OpenOffice.org 3 actually better than Office 2003?
I haven't used either, so I have not idea, but that would seem to be an important factor for people who are worried about how well the software works, rather than about how recently it was released.
I imagine they spend a lot of that energy staying warm. Overheating is apparently a key issue for human athletes (so dumping a bunch of heat to the environment lets the birds work harder):
The upper limit would be their weight in calories of fat (unless you count energy that they capture from the wind or whatever as 'required'). Apparently, a large female weighs about 1.4 pounds, which is about 4,900 Calories (kcals...).
Figure in that they are made out of stuff that they won't use up and it seems likely that it is some fraction of that.
I was under the impression that fortran enjoyed wide use because the routines are A. already written and B. already debugged.
I doubt all that many people care about 6 minute calculations taking 4 minutes, or 8 hour calculations taking 6 hours (I'm sure there are a few, but I'm also pretty sure that there are only a few...).
The market is tiny. If you include a lot of etc. with the telescopes, it looks like there is a need for a few hundred hardened processing modules. Given those numbers, plug and play better save money over other methods (rather than just being convenient).
Any internal conflict would result in massive demoralization, mutiny and desertion.
If the U.S. government decided to make war on the American people, (former) members of the military would likely be the largest contingent fighting on the side of the people.
The U.S. military in Iraq is trying pretty hard not to kill people. If they weren't doing that, the few dedicated persons with nothing but small arms would be nothing but small pieces of corpses.
If most people wanted whatever OS was cheapest, you would have a point. As it is, most people want whatever OS is closest to what they are currently using, which is Windows.
(This is changing, but most people really do want 'the thing that works with what I have', and that isn't Linux just yet)
The resource-as-machine aspect seems like a big part of the definition to me. Incremental billing also seems like part of it, but maybe that should be incremental resource tracking, with billing being a specific case of that tracking.
That article predates service pack 2. The firewall in service pack 2 and later prevents inbound connections from opening ports.
Preventing malicious software from opening outbound ports is a feature, but it doesn't really do a whole lot to add to the security of a machine (Yay!, my machine is compromised, but at least it isn't working for the bad guys, Yay!).
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Where are you getting your 80%?
If it is actually true, I would still say yes, our representative democracy did work, as the economic decline we are seeing now would be a great deal worse if the plan had not passed.
I have a feeling that the actual number of people who understand exactly how marginal taxes work would be shocking and disappointing. I can recall several conversations where people sweated making more money -- they were concerned that the tax increases would have them ending up with less.
Bizzaro dot in action. OP gets modded down for making sarcastic remark about Democrats being just as bad as Republicans, and AC gets modded up for sticking up for the Republicans (while making a fun statement about a jump to conclusions mat).
Per user/computer.
Most businesses that employ people to do things with computers end up paying them more than $50,000 a year (more like $100,000 with overhead). At those rates, the $0 alternative better not get in the way for very long (my thesis is not that paying for software is a good thing, my thesis is that even when the competition costs $1,000 more, software mostly competes on quality (and even then, perception is often more important than reality...)).
I bet hand optimized assembly would still be faster (I do understand what you are driving at, but even on the 'garbage' available today, a huge swath of programming tasks are 'fast enough', even if implemented in something like Ruby or Python).
Physically, microSD is up to (at least) 8 GB these days:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2000070068%201053131144&name=Micro%20SDHC
Of course, an SDHC card won't work in an SD reader, so there is room to argue about what is what.
For a lot of businesses, for $1,000 every three years, the $0 alternative better be really really equivalent, or even better (because of retraining; Office 2007 makes this an interesting discussion, as it apparently requires more learning than past upgrades have).
Is OpenOffice.org 3 actually better than Office 2003?
I haven't used either, so I have not idea, but that would seem to be an important factor for people who are worried about how well the software works, rather than about how recently it was released.
You can refer to a specific version of a Wikipedia page by url. For instance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Page_history&oldid=246972212#Linking_to_a_specific_version_of_a_page
It still isn't really something that should be used a reference though.
What if he is a janitor?
I took it as an extremely well crafted troll.
I imagine they spend a lot of that energy staying warm. Overheating is apparently a key issue for human athletes (so dumping a bunch of heat to the environment lets the birds work harder):
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/bemore.html
Still pretty impressive.
The upper limit would be their weight in calories of fat (unless you count energy that they capture from the wind or whatever as 'required'). Apparently, a large female weighs about 1.4 pounds, which is about 4,900 Calories (kcals...).
Figure in that they are made out of stuff that they won't use up and it seems likely that it is some fraction of that.
We can test them on those pesky border crossing Canadians.
Or when you said "illegal to use on US citizens", did you mean that no government should use these against the people it governs?
I was under the impression that fortran enjoyed wide use because the routines are A. already written and B. already debugged.
I doubt all that many people care about 6 minute calculations taking 4 minutes, or 8 hour calculations taking 6 hours (I'm sure there are a few, but I'm also pretty sure that there are only a few...).
If you really are an old timer, you might not be aware of just how much meaning Chappelle Show added to keeping it Real.
When you say "Real Programmer", I imagine them smashing keyboards over other programmer's heads, all in the name of Real.
The market is tiny. If you include a lot of etc. with the telescopes, it looks like there is a need for a few hundred hardened processing modules. Given those numbers, plug and play better save money over other methods (rather than just being convenient).
Any internal conflict would result in massive demoralization, mutiny and desertion.
If the U.S. government decided to make war on the American people, (former) members of the military would likely be the largest contingent fighting on the side of the people.
The U.S. military in Iraq is trying pretty hard not to kill people. If they weren't doing that, the few dedicated persons with nothing but small arms would be nothing but small pieces of corpses.
If most people wanted whatever OS was cheapest, you would have a point. As it is, most people want whatever OS is closest to what they are currently using, which is Windows.
(This is changing, but most people really do want 'the thing that works with what I have', and that isn't Linux just yet)
The resource-as-machine aspect seems like a big part of the definition to me. Incremental billing also seems like part of it, but maybe that should be incremental resource tracking, with billing being a specific case of that tracking.
Isn't the U.S. already at war with OPEC?
Why did you put stars in Morgan Stanley?
That article predates service pack 2. The firewall in service pack 2 and later prevents inbound connections from opening ports.
Preventing malicious software from opening outbound ports is a feature, but it doesn't really do a whole lot to add to the security of a machine (Yay!, my machine is compromised, but at least it isn't working for the bad guys, Yay!).
Maybe.
I'll get real concerned when the only guitars on the market are manufactured by Harmonix.
Until then, live music will be an option.