If the per capita GDP is the same as the united states, that means the country produces the same amount of goods as someone in the united states.
Right so far.
These goods are going to be used by the citizens of China.
Swing and a miss. Those goods can be shipped overseas. Those goods might be consumed by corporations in China. For example, a bulldozer will up the GDP of the country by a certain amount, but will not help the standard of living of the citizenry.
I'm certain that more Chinese will have smaller cars and mass transit. I'm certain that they'll have electronics. But not everything that leads to a rise in per capita GDP (which is a measure of the economic output of the entire country, divided by the number of citizens) is a consumer good that is used in that country.
How about the air filter in your car? And your furnace filter? How about your roof? Your fuel filter? Fuel pump? Wiper blades? And I bet you've never hit 3001 miles before that oil change, right?
Fixed, and/or replaced regularly. The amount of time it takes to do each of those things is far less than the extra hours I would have to work to be able to pay should any of those systems need repair.
I guarantee there is something you've lapsed on, so I'd move out of that glass house.
Glass house? I said their were consequences for not doing routine maintenance. There have been numerous times where shit broke because I didn't maintain it. As it should be. A couple of years ago, I got to buy some bits and pieces due to a water pump in the car going bad. Serves me right for not taking 15 minutes to change the fluid.
Right, because it's reasonable to expect all computer users to become experts to use their machine. Apply that standard to cars and, well, traffic would be great anbd you wouldn't be driving. Blame the company who set up such a ridiculous situation. Or use another OS.
Right, because all items of every sort work perfectly and never need tuning, adjustment, repair, or maintenance. I know there has only ever been one Linux kernel, because it was perfect with no security problems right out of the chute. Further, how does my switching to another operating system (you don't even know which one(s) I use) change how other people's computer do or do not annoy me. No matter whether I use Eudora on a PC, Pine on Mac, or Netscape Mail on Linux, I get deluged from spam due to someone else's machine being hijacked.
But if you're trying to imply that people should spend every waking hour performing routine maintenance and leading completely miserable lives...all I can say is you really need to get laid.
It takes less time to change the oil than to get a new engine put in. It takes less time to change a furnace filter than to buy a new air handler. It takes less time to run dselect or Windows Update than it does to clean up an infected system.
As far as getting laid, I've got physical proof of having done the act upstairs taking a nap right now. I'm sure it's more proof than you'll ever have of partking in that activity.
if the growth rate didn't change, China would reach our standard of living in the year 2030! Of course, China's growth rate will slow down at some point.
Economic growth doesn't necessarily have anything to do with standard of living. The per capita GDP might be the same as the US, but that doesn't mean that the average citizen will have an SUV, four televisions, etc.
Your point number two is wrong. If hard core gamers are 20-25% of the market and influence the remainder, you really don't want those people pissed off. Doing that causes you to lose two ways. First, tossing out 25% of your sales is no good thing. In software, with such trivial marginal costs, that could be pure profit on a game as big as Quake. The other way you lose is that if these people truly are influential, you may lose one sale additional for each of the hard core gamers you piss off. So there goes 50% of your gross revenue. Ouch.
I agree that many of the 'hard core' in anything are serious dipshits. As consumers, you and I can (and likely will) ignore them with abandon. A profit-making corporation does so at the risk of their future.
It costs the same or less to rent a movie than to see it in the theatre. All of your friends can come over and you can all watch it without having to pay more.
I don't have any friends, you insensitive clod! And my crappy living room only has room for two sofas.
No ringing cell phones and crying children.
Nope, ringing regular phone, and crying child. Hardly a net gain.
You don't have to be subjected to 30 second commercials before the previews and the movie.
What movies are you getting on DVD? Seems like every movie I get makes me sit through an ad or two, some trailers, an FBI warning, an Interpol statement, and the beginning of some seriously lame ass animated menus.
With each of these actions (or inactions) there are consequences.
Don't change your oil? Your warranty can be voided or you can get a fat repair bill if out of warranty anyway.
Don't go to dentist? Check the price on bridges, caps, dentures.
Don't get an annual physical? Check the price on a coronary bypass.
Don't have your recall done on your car? Die.
Etc.
Yet people have time to go out drinking, watch 'The Swan', and masturbate (not necessarily in that order). Frankly, I couldn't care less what happens to people who are infected. What pisses me off is how their infection affects me.
Depends on the environment. It's pretty easy to pull off at the mall. Just look inside the occasional store, and mutter things like 'how much of my money is she spending this time...' and 'I shoulda got that damned vasectomy'.
Not only will muggers avoid you, so will the chicks!
You are so unbelievably wrong. Nothing gets the women to hit on you like a diaper bag. It's even better than walking a dog. Carrying a diaper bag shows that somewhere, some woman has declared you worthy of being a sperm donor. That's bonus one. Bonus two is that you are secure enough to help out with the child rearing.
If you have solar, geothermal, etc. and create more energy than you need, you can feed it back into the grid, and the utility has to pay you for it. At least that's my understanding; read it in an offgrid magazine a couple of years ago.
A GP who scrubbed as much for each patient as a surgeon would be wasting quite a bit of time. And considering the difference in patient load, I bet the GP would have worn his hands literally to the bone within a week:)
I hope the study mentioned in the Reuter's article was a bit better than the blurb made it appear. The 'control' was a security guard. I can think of at least a dozen differences between the guard and the medical staff that could account for this. What's more interesting is that ~50% of the docs were clean. Let's hear about the differences in actions (and cases, and etc. ad nauseum) in those two groups.
Mmm... Sorry. I gotta allow American Graffitti for Lucas, disallow for Ford. Sure, Bob Falfa was important at the end, but I'm not sure that it couldn't have been done quite well by plenty of others.
Send him to federal 'pound me in the ass prison'. He caused *me* to waste 10 minutes updating systems that should have already been updated.
Oooh, what's this? Violating copyrights of RIAA/MPAA member companies? Give that man a medal.
Similarly: violate the GPL, burn down their offices. Distribute a zero day crack for UT2k4, fellate the guy.
What a fucking bunch of hypocrites. (Blah, blah, blah,/. isn't a monolithic entity, it's a collection of individuals. Bullshit. Look at the average of comments on articles like these. Worm writers get arrested stories, more than 50% want to hang him. When a new p2p software is released, everyone extolls the virtues and points to download links.)
In the US, you most certainly can be tried more than once for the same crime. You get your local trial, a federal civil rights violation trial, then a civil suit or three (even if restitution was part of the criminal trials). Yet another case where the common sense of the US Constitution has been bastardized by lawyers. (Another example being playing games with states of war or lack thereof in attempts to legitimize torture and/or abuse, depending on the situation.)
Funny. I bought the game yesterday, and was cruising some KOTOR sites. If I hit 'back' in my browser window, immediately before the/. frontpage is the LucasArts official announcement of KOTOR II.
Really should have picked this up and waited for Deus Ex: IW. Live and learn.
OTOH, having just finished Icewind Dale, KOTOR is very, VERY obviously cut from the same cloth. With the same pattern. But with pinking shears instead of regular ones.
Why aren't you multiplying the gross pay to get Fox's totals? Who do you think pays that tax to the government? Underpants gnomes? More accurately, take $125k, multiply by about 1.13, then multiply by 22 (I'm not sure, but several other posters reference this figure for number of episodes) to get the cost to Fox. OTOH, consider that the cast will get those benefits back at some point in time.
Also, your figures are a bit off. For the first $68000 per year, the 50% figure is probably about right in that tax bracket. But after $68k per year, you don't pay social security or medicare, just your state, federal, and local income tax.
I looked at her site, and saw lots of icons, and a few widgets, but I didn't see anything that I would call a logo. I'm not sure that the two fields overlap. Anything to substantiate that and prove me wrong? (I'm curious. I can't even draw a stick figure in MS Paint or Gimp)
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If the per capita GDP is the same as the united states, that means the country produces the same amount of goods as someone in the united states.
Right so far.
These goods are going to be used by the citizens of China.
Swing and a miss. Those goods can be shipped overseas. Those goods might be consumed by corporations in China. For example, a bulldozer will up the GDP of the country by a certain amount, but will not help the standard of living of the citizenry.
I'm certain that more Chinese will have smaller cars and mass transit. I'm certain that they'll have electronics. But not everything that leads to a rise in per capita GDP (which is a measure of the economic output of the entire country, divided by the number of citizens) is a consumer good that is used in that country.
How about the air filter in your car? And your furnace filter? How about your roof? Your fuel filter? Fuel pump? Wiper blades? And I bet you've never hit 3001 miles before that oil change, right?
Fixed, and/or replaced regularly. The amount of time it takes to do each of those things is far less than the extra hours I would have to work to be able to pay should any of those systems need repair.
I guarantee there is something you've lapsed on, so I'd move out of that glass house.
Glass house? I said their were consequences for not doing routine maintenance. There have been numerous times where shit broke because I didn't maintain it. As it should be. A couple of years ago, I got to buy some bits and pieces due to a water pump in the car going bad. Serves me right for not taking 15 minutes to change the fluid.
Right, because it's reasonable to expect all computer users to become experts to use their machine. Apply that standard to cars and, well, traffic would be great anbd you wouldn't be driving. Blame the company who set up such a ridiculous situation. Or use another OS.
Right, because all items of every sort work perfectly and never need tuning, adjustment, repair, or maintenance. I know there has only ever been one Linux kernel, because it was perfect with no security problems right out of the chute. Further, how does my switching to another operating system (you don't even know which one(s) I use) change how other people's computer do or do not annoy me. No matter whether I use Eudora on a PC, Pine on Mac, or Netscape Mail on Linux, I get deluged from spam due to someone else's machine being hijacked.
But if you're trying to imply that people should spend every waking hour performing routine maintenance and leading completely miserable lives...all I can say is you really need to get laid.
It takes less time to change the oil than to get a new engine put in. It takes less time to change a furnace filter than to buy a new air handler. It takes less time to run dselect or Windows Update than it does to clean up an infected system.
As far as getting laid, I've got physical proof of having done the act upstairs taking a nap right now. I'm sure it's more proof than you'll ever have of partking in that activity.
Mine says OEM.
if the growth rate didn't change, China would reach our standard of living in the year 2030! Of course, China's growth rate will slow down at some point.
Economic growth doesn't necessarily have anything to do with standard of living. The per capita GDP might be the same as the US, but that doesn't mean that the average citizen will have an SUV, four televisions, etc.
Your point number two is wrong. If hard core gamers are 20-25% of the market and influence the remainder, you really don't want those people pissed off. Doing that causes you to lose two ways. First, tossing out 25% of your sales is no good thing. In software, with such trivial marginal costs, that could be pure profit on a game as big as Quake. The other way you lose is that if these people truly are influential, you may lose one sale additional for each of the hard core gamers you piss off. So there goes 50% of your gross revenue. Ouch.
I agree that many of the 'hard core' in anything are serious dipshits. As consumers, you and I can (and likely will) ignore them with abandon. A profit-making corporation does so at the risk of their future.
Hopefully trollback has seen this comment. You really riled up the fanboys.
It costs the same or less to rent a movie than to see it in the theatre. All of your friends can come over and you can all watch it without having to pay more.
I don't have any friends, you insensitive clod! And my crappy living room only has room for two sofas.
No ringing cell phones and crying children.
Nope, ringing regular phone, and crying child. Hardly a net gain.
You don't have to be subjected to 30 second commercials before the previews and the movie.
What movies are you getting on DVD? Seems like every movie I get makes me sit through an ad or two, some trailers, an FBI warning, an Interpol statement, and the beginning of some seriously lame ass animated menus.
it's just that I don't have a 100 foot screen and 30,000 watt sound system at my house
I don't have one in my local theatre either.
I don't see any in Mozilla. What broken browsers are these people using? Probably something about as technically advanced as lynx.
With each of these actions (or inactions) there are consequences.
Don't change your oil? Your warranty can be voided or you can get a fat repair bill if out of warranty anyway.
Don't go to dentist? Check the price on bridges, caps, dentures.
Don't get an annual physical? Check the price on a coronary bypass.
Don't have your recall done on your car? Die.
Etc.
Yet people have time to go out drinking, watch 'The Swan', and masturbate (not necessarily in that order). Frankly, I couldn't care less what happens to people who are infected. What pisses me off is how their infection affects me.
We already knew Eugenia needed a distemper booster, now we find she missed her rabies shot as well?
Depends on the environment. It's pretty easy to pull off at the mall. Just look inside the occasional store, and mutter things like 'how much of my money is she spending this time...' and 'I shoulda got that damned vasectomy'.
Not only will muggers avoid you, so will the chicks!
You are so unbelievably wrong. Nothing gets the women to hit on you like a diaper bag. It's even better than walking a dog. Carrying a diaper bag shows that somewhere, some woman has declared you worthy of being a sperm donor. That's bonus one. Bonus two is that you are secure enough to help out with the child rearing.
Well, as little text as you are allowed in a slashdot post. Much better to waste a few k in db storage and bandwidth than to allow one liners.
If you have solar, geothermal, etc. and create more energy than you need, you can feed it back into the grid, and the utility has to pay you for it. At least that's my understanding; read it in an offgrid magazine a couple of years ago.
A GP who scrubbed as much for each patient as a surgeon would be wasting quite a bit of time. And considering the difference in patient load, I bet the GP would have worn his hands literally to the bone within a week:)
I hope the study mentioned in the Reuter's article was a bit better than the blurb made it appear. The 'control' was a security guard. I can think of at least a dozen differences between the guard and the medical staff that could account for this. What's more interesting is that ~50% of the docs were clean. Let's hear about the differences in actions (and cases, and etc. ad nauseum) in those two groups.
Mmm... Sorry. I gotta allow American Graffitti for Lucas, disallow for Ford. Sure, Bob Falfa was important at the end, but I'm not sure that it couldn't have been done quite well by plenty of others.
The quick versatile penguin jumped over the broken windows.
You didn't use x, y, or z for starters.
Send him to federal 'pound me in the ass prison'. He caused *me* to waste 10 minutes updating systems that should have already been updated.
/. isn't a monolithic entity, it's a collection of individuals. Bullshit. Look at the average of comments on articles like these. Worm writers get arrested stories, more than 50% want to hang him. When a new p2p software is released, everyone extolls the virtues and points to download links.)
Oooh, what's this? Violating copyrights of RIAA/MPAA member companies? Give that man a medal.
Similarly: violate the GPL, burn down their offices. Distribute a zero day crack for UT2k4, fellate the guy.
What a fucking bunch of hypocrites. (Blah, blah, blah,
I guess Germany has no laws against cruel and inhumane punishment?
In the US, you most certainly can be tried more than once for the same crime. You get your local trial, a federal civil rights violation trial, then a civil suit or three (even if restitution was part of the criminal trials). Yet another case where the common sense of the US Constitution has been bastardized by lawyers. (Another example being playing games with states of war or lack thereof in attempts to legitimize torture and/or abuse, depending on the situation.)
Funny. I bought the game yesterday, and was cruising some KOTOR sites. If I hit 'back' in my browser window, immediately before the /. frontpage is the LucasArts official announcement of KOTOR II.
Really should have picked this up and waited for Deus Ex: IW. Live and learn.
OTOH, having just finished Icewind Dale, KOTOR is very, VERY obviously cut from the same cloth. With the same pattern. But with pinking shears instead of regular ones.
Why aren't you multiplying the gross pay to get Fox's totals? Who do you think pays that tax to the government? Underpants gnomes? More accurately, take $125k, multiply by about 1.13, then multiply by 22 (I'm not sure, but several other posters reference this figure for number of episodes) to get the cost to Fox. OTOH, consider that the cast will get those benefits back at some point in time.
Also, your figures are a bit off. For the first $68000 per year, the 50% figure is probably about right in that tax bracket. But after $68k per year, you don't pay social security or medicare, just your state, federal, and local income tax.
I looked at her site, and saw lots of icons, and a few widgets, but I didn't see anything that I would call a logo. I'm not sure that the two fields overlap. Anything to substantiate that and prove me wrong? (I'm curious. I can't even draw a stick figure in MS Paint or Gimp)
You also cannot get another familiar for a year unless you raise dead.
A year and a day.
Fucking rules lawyers.