I'm not sure where you come from, but in most places in America, a company that hires you as a full time employee gives you at least a week's paid vacation plus a couple sick days...
If you're not full-time, all bets are off, but that's not what we're talking about.
If market value for labor was ever heading for 0, people in ancient Rome must have been hella rich, or we'd all BE at 0 by now. Or maybe that theory of yours is a load of bollocks.
However, you might have a clue with your "if people are stupid, other people will take advantage of that fact" bit. And I fail to see the issue with that. If you're stupid, you get what you earn...
I'm not sure what your calculator is telling you, but $13.05/hr is nowhere near 35k a year. To whit: 13.05 x 40 x 52 = $27144. Surprisingly, the number I've seen elsewhere in this thread.
You asshat. GAIM might have failed for you personally, but it sure as shit doesn't blow (hard or otherwise).
GAIM kicks ass for me on Win32. I use it all the time, every day, and it has yet to crash.
Damn, I love jackasses that assume because they messed up something, it must suck and suck for everyone.
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Oh come on now!
You're a Oracle DBA so of course Oracle is just as nice as MySQL for "ease of use". But please! Oracle is the worst, most painful, most obfuscated piece of shit software I have ever seen with regards to administration!
It's terminology is obtuse, it's "help" is a joke, it's fragile as shit unless you know exactly what you're doing, and it can crash horribly and not come back up.
Please.
Not everyone wants to have to pay a damn DBA (nothing personal mind you) to run a simple DB-driven app. It's sad watching all the haters moan about how MySQL isn't this, isn't that... all things it's not MEANT to be.
My only point is that things are far better in America now ("things": the average standard of living for the average person) than they have ever been, anywhere in the world, ever.
Are there troubles? Sure. Are there issues relating to jobs, healthcare, public assistance? Sure. Are we still wayyyyyyy better than ever before: Absolutely.
The main point here is that none of the "issues" that we think are so horrendous today are really all that bad. Consider the effect of disease and famine for the vast majority of human history. Today, we have very little disease and certainly no famine in America.
Life is so good, we can be picky about relatively minor details and blow them out of proportion.
There aren't very many real poor people in America right now, in relative terms.
Yeah, you're right, we should forget doing any research at all, it's just too dangerous.
And we should stop paying people who want the opportunity, because then we're exploiting them, even if we're looking after them with real care (because a few dead subjects and we're totally fucked).
Players like levels because they're addicted to the idea of video game-style RPGs. Players who love levels are not the sort who play for the sake of creating a story... which is sad.
Go ahead and kill the d20 player base if you ask me: there are far better systems out there if you want to tell stories, and if you like levels that much, just go play Diablo!
I admit I'm not sure on the number of servers stat, but for the OS issue: Isn't it better then, to be running something that adds a little more obscurity?
"Arrggh! I sound like I'm apologizing for Micro$oft!"
First off, shame on the public school system for your spelling and grammar mad skillz.:)
That out of the way, I never said there was a ny gigantic market for it.
When phones first came out, did you know you wanted text messaging on them? I sure didn't (still don't, but that's beside the point).
I don't expect things like UT2 on a freakin phone (not when you need GHz to get it to run at all), but I can easily see better, more colorful, more interesting pong and tetris, can't you?
Again, just because you don't want feature X in your phone doesn't mean there isn't a market for it. And if the market doesn't support it long term, than the companies wasted their money. So what?
Not sure why you got modded as flamebait, I agree with you.
I rarely use Windows any more at home, but am forced to at work... no viruses in either place in years. Even before switching to Linux nearly full-time at home I ran on the net bare-back. It's not that hard if you know what you're doing.
Unfortunately, there are many who can't figure out how to plug in speakers, so.....
Hmm, funny, I don't remember you being declared the only person to own a cell phone.
How about realizing that there are other users out there? How about realizing that teenagers ( a gigantic market, by any measure ) might WANT their phones to play games?
Exactly. Then you can even "soak the rich" because they'll be buying expensive things. 23% of their $150k Mercedes is a lot more than 23% of your $12k Kia...
"Actually, in a democracy that would be the voters."
We don't live in a democracy, it's a republic, remember. I'm just going to ask a few questions to probe this a little more, not that I necessarily believe what I'm asking:
Who came to the decision that society should work for the benefit of all? I think there's never been one.
Who's to say a creative person shouldn't be allowed to retire on his book royalties? How is his work different from the guy who invents a medical device (an idea), patents it, and in the 20-odd years his patent is in effect, he makes enough to retire many times over?
One point: Money sitting in a bank does not, in fact, sit in the bank. The bank turns around and invests it in all kinds of things. So don't make the mistake of thinking guys like Cheney are sitting on mattresses full of money that is therefore not in the economy.
Why should inheritance be taxed just because it is inheritance? That money has been taxed once as income, and once with capital gains, do you really think the same money should be taxed a third time?
Who decides what a "large" estate is, anyway?
Of course there are extremes to any proposal, but who wants to live in a country where some faceless power takes away their income in arbitrary, capricious ways?
Can't argue your point. It's an interesting thought experiment to consider the result if 'they' were able to pass every possible copyright restriction. What would the world look like then? How far would they go before their whole system collapsed like a deck of cards?
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And last I checked, your wondrous regulations and unions have been around for what, a few grains of sand in the historical hourglass?
I think plenty of people made money pre 1890's...
I'm not sure where you come from, but in most places in America, a company that hires you as a full time employee gives you at least a week's paid vacation plus a couple sick days...
If you're not full-time, all bets are off, but that's not what we're talking about.
Ummm, dude.
If market value for labor was ever heading for 0, people in ancient Rome must have been hella rich, or we'd all BE at 0 by now. Or maybe that theory of yours is a load of bollocks.
However, you might have a clue with your "if people are stupid, other people will take advantage of that fact" bit. And I fail to see the issue with that. If you're stupid, you get what you earn...
I'm not sure what your calculator is telling you, but $13.05/hr is nowhere near 35k a year. To whit: 13.05 x 40 x 52 = $27144. Surprisingly, the number I've seen elsewhere in this thread.
Refrigerator has a 'd' in it? NIIIIIIICE attempt at th English language, self...
I wonder what you could do with the magnets. Holding shit on your refridgerator?
You asshat. GAIM might have failed for you personally, but it sure as shit doesn't blow (hard or otherwise).
GAIM kicks ass for me on Win32. I use it all the time, every day, and it has yet to crash.
Damn, I love jackasses that assume because they messed up something, it must suck and suck for everyone.
Oh come on now!
You're a Oracle DBA so of course Oracle is just as nice as MySQL for "ease of use". But please! Oracle is the worst, most painful, most obfuscated piece of shit software I have ever seen with regards to administration!
It's terminology is obtuse, it's "help" is a joke, it's fragile as shit unless you know exactly what you're doing, and it can crash horribly and not come back up.
Please.
Not everyone wants to have to pay a damn DBA (nothing personal mind you) to run a simple DB-driven app. It's sad watching all the haters moan about how MySQL isn't this, isn't that... all things it's not MEANT to be.
Not to be pedantic but what you've written says that the Camry is 14.2 in shorter than the Prius, not the other way around.
:)
04 Prius is obviously not meant as a cargo hauler, but tiny it is not. I just put 10 3-cubic foot bags of mulch in the back.
My only point is that things are far better in America now ("things": the average standard of living for the average person) than they have ever been, anywhere in the world, ever.
Are there troubles? Sure. Are there issues relating to jobs, healthcare, public assistance? Sure. Are we still wayyyyyyy better than ever before: Absolutely.
The main point here is that none of the "issues" that we think are so horrendous today are really all that bad. Consider the effect of disease and famine for the vast majority of human history. Today, we have very little disease and certainly no famine in America.
Life is so good, we can be picky about relatively minor details and blow them out of proportion.
There aren't very many real poor people in America right now, in relative terms.
Yeah, you're right, we should forget doing any research at all, it's just too dangerous.
And we should stop paying people who want the opportunity, because then we're exploiting them, even if we're looking after them with real care (because a few dead subjects and we're totally fucked).
If you think American healthcare is worse now than it was 50 years ago, there's no hope for you.
I have one reason for you: "Advocates" of the poor bitch about how HOT lanes would only benefit the rich who could pay for them.
:)
Bah.
In the meantime, the Prius kicks ass, Springfield to Arlington in 20 minutes in the middle of rush hour.
I want to know what they mean by "handle correctly"?
Doesn't Via make chipsets? I don't understand where this is coming from...
/.er will enlighten me :))
Linked page is useful for figuring it out too: "Here you go, if you download it, give us feedback."
(I admit, I'm lazy and hope some fellow
Ohhhh baby, Star Fleet Battles, NOW you're talkin... :) That game gives me wood every time I think about it.
Players like levels because they're addicted to the idea of video game-style RPGs. Players who love levels are not the sort who play for the sake of creating a story... which is sad.
Go ahead and kill the d20 player base if you ask me: there are far better systems out there if you want to tell stories, and if you like levels that much, just go play Diablo!
:) Not a bad response.
:)
I admit I'm not sure on the number of servers stat, but for the OS issue: Isn't it better then, to be running something that adds a little more obscurity?
"Arrggh! I sound like I'm apologizing for Micro$oft!"
Then cut it out!
First off, shame on the public school system for your spelling and grammar mad skillz. :)
That out of the way, I never said there was a ny gigantic market for it.
When phones first came out, did you know you wanted text messaging on them? I sure didn't (still don't, but that's beside the point).
I don't expect things like UT2 on a freakin phone (not when you need GHz to get it to run at all), but I can easily see better, more colorful, more interesting pong and tetris, can't you?
Again, just because you don't want feature X in your phone doesn't mean there isn't a market for it. And if the market doesn't support it long term, than the companies wasted their money. So what?
If market share is the key factor, why is IIS much worse off than Apache?
Until someone comes up with proof of this very shaky hypothesis, please stop perpetuating it.
Not sure why you got modded as flamebait, I agree with you.
I rarely use Windows any more at home, but am forced to at work... no viruses in either place in years. Even before switching to Linux nearly full-time at home I ran on the net bare-back. It's not that hard if you know what you're doing.
Unfortunately, there are many who can't figure out how to plug in speakers, so.....
Hmm, funny, I don't remember you being declared the only person to own a cell phone.
How about realizing that there are other users out there? How about realizing that teenagers ( a gigantic market, by any measure ) might WANT their phones to play games?
Be a little more myopic next time, AC...
Exactly. Then you can even "soak the rich" because they'll be buying expensive things. 23% of their $150k Mercedes is a lot more than 23% of your $12k Kia...
"Actually, in a democracy that would be the voters."
We don't live in a democracy, it's a republic, remember. I'm just going to ask a few questions to probe this a little more, not that I necessarily believe what I'm asking:
Who came to the decision that society should work for the benefit of all? I think there's never been one.
Who's to say a creative person shouldn't be allowed to retire on his book royalties? How is his work different from the guy who invents a medical device (an idea), patents it, and in the 20-odd years his patent is in effect, he makes enough to retire many times over?
One point: Money sitting in a bank does not, in fact, sit in the bank. The bank turns around and invests it in all kinds of things. So don't make the mistake of thinking guys like Cheney are sitting on mattresses full of money that is therefore not in the economy.
Why should inheritance be taxed just because it is inheritance? That money has been taxed once as income, and once with capital gains, do you really think the same money should be taxed a third time?
Who decides what a "large" estate is, anyway?
Of course there are extremes to any proposal, but who wants to live in a country where some faceless power takes away their income in arbitrary, capricious ways?
Can't argue your point. It's an interesting thought experiment to consider the result if 'they' were able to pass every possible copyright restriction. What would the world look like then? How far would they go before their whole system collapsed like a deck of cards?