I want this partnership to be big. Huge big. Earth shatteringly massively big. Why? Because I want it to go down in massively big flames. So massively big that it lands on the first page of the New York Post.
I love a funy headline.
No, not really. The government couldn't have been expecting taxes from income that wouldn't be reported. The government hasn't lost anything, it's just upset to find out that there was income it couldn't tax.
Also, whereas a corporation can and will pass along increased costs to the consumer, the government cannot act similarly with regards to tax revenue because of how the system works. If revenue from corporate taxes is $10billion less then expected, they can't just go ahead and collect annother $10 billion from individual taxpayers because they can't change the tax rates for the current fiscal year. What they will do it talk about changing the rates for the next year, but in the end things will likely stay as they were as everyone hopes revenue will go back up.
Of course, if you meant that they would borrow the money, and we would all be on the hook to pay it back, that much is true.
What they did was not only legal, it was rational!
The senate is unhappy, but they shouldn't direct their ire at apple for the fault lies with the law that unintentionally encouraged the behavior.
I suppose the only way to prevent the exploitation of national tax laws by those operating internationally is by establishing an international tax regime. And good luck with that!
iPads draw 2 amps to charge, the USB standard is.5 amps, which is why it takes foreder to charge one on your typical PC. Some newer PC's and motherboards (like my kickass Asus) support the extra current, but I assume that this is just apple saying, "screw your standards. We're special, and we don't want you dirtying up our beautiful products with your smelly pc."
Well, from our understanding of physics, engineering and biology, we may infer that the likelihood of harm is infentesimally low. We cannot however, through any process of logic or experimentation, prove the absence of harm.
Thus we have the central fallacy of the "precautionary principal," as absence can not be proven.
Isn't it interesting, though, that if the Universe really follows this principle, that such a system would evolve into finite lives?
How about how intelligence burns out the universe on the micro scale in order to maximize macro scale entropy? Over time you could see ever increasing amounts of work done in order to preserve the universe, causing the decay to accelerate.
I wonder if the universe hates us. We are killing it, faster every day. I'm reminded of a story in Analog about an alien race that discovered that there was in fact an afterlife, but it was one of eternal torment because the universe hated life.
Oh, this is one of my favorite topics - The Law, Justice and Incompleteness!
Its why we have judges and why we give cops discretion. The Law must be consistent. If you drive over the posted limit, you broke the law and you get a ticket. Justice, on the other hand, must be complete. So you run into that sticky problem Godel (I know, needs an umlaut) described way back when.
I remember getting pulled over once when I was a teenager. My mom was driving in great excess of the speed limit, but the cop didn't giver her a ticket. In fact he gave her an escort. Why? Because I was bleeding to death and we were en route to the hospital.
Now, if there had been an automated system involved, an appeal could have been made after the fact and I think it unlikely that a Judge would have done anything other than throw out the generated ticket, but I think that the load all these appeals would place on the system would cause more trouble than its worth.
Exactly.
Every department or agency affected by the sequester is getting 1.5% more than they did the previous year.
It doesn't take a whole lot of math to work out that the furloughs and closings must be a load of nonsense. Adjusted for inflation (that's the 1.5%) they have just as much funding this year as they did last. The notion then that they don't have enough funds to do everything they did last year is clearly absurd.
But more to the specific point, when I was a kid I thought the Blue Angels were about the coolest people/planes in the universe. Inspiring thoughts of patriotism and instilling a desire for service. Of course I eventually realized how early you have to get up in the morning if you are in the military, so I went into IT.
It does seem like a classic espionage issue. I don't see why the CIA or equivalent agency wouldn't be justified in denying any involvement in the tragic, mysterious, and totally accidental death of someone working for a foreign military in a wholly legitimate, non-military capacity that couldn't possibly involve launching cyber attacks.
What happens when pointers are censored for appearing critical of the regime?
I also expect an announcement like this:
"the try and catch keywords have been banned, as exceptions disrupt the harmony of the glorious People's Republic. Functions that do not return data are also impermissible. No void can exist thanks to the fulfilling and benevolent rule of the Party."
Lets say apple wins all these suits, what then? If they get what they want, they would be the only manufacturer of smartphones. A monopoly. What happens then? Well, the justice department would have to break them up under the Sherman Anti-Trust act. If they win in the near-term, they lose in the long term.
The idea cracks me up, since I remember when Microsoft bailed them out to avoid the same fate.
This seems like the sort of thing that will be fixed with the next update to iOS. Of course if you, like me, are using an older device like my first gen iPad, then there will be no update because apparently we are not worth supporting anymore.
I really hate Apple sometimes.
Actually, a lot of times.
Does anyone know what security fixes have been implemented since 5.1.1? (That being the last version of the OS available for the iPad 1)
Great. What about me, and all the other IT support folks who will have to deal with users panicking because Excel looks slightly different than it did three months ago?
I also do some VBA programming. Will I have to update my code every three months too? Let me tell you - the last thing I need is a call at 7am because something I wrote for an office administrator suddenly doesn't work anymore.
Admittedly, we're still on office '07, so my company probably won't be an early adopter here, but I'm trying to think about people other than myself. Turns out that such a thing exists!
Now, I know you all probably thought you were just figments of my imagination, but I suspect that might not actually be the case.
The point has been made by others that the "investment" is in government IOUs, but I just want to add to that by pointing out that Bush attempted to ACTUALLY invest some of the funds only to be defeated by the democrats who claimed that he was trying to throw the elderly out into the street.
That only makes sense if you look at SS like a tax, as opposed to what it actually is - a retirement and disability insurance plan. The cap is there to limit benefits to people who likely won't need them - if you make six figures, you won't be relying too heavily on SS.
If you remove the cap, some people will have to pay in more BUT they also have to get more out of it. So if we remove the cap we get a short term increase in funding, but the long term obligation goes up. And since long term solvency is the problem, you've just made things worse.
What I think you're looking for is the end of the cap on payments, and a new cap on benefits. But since that violates the fundamental guarantee of social security, as well as its sole claim on fairness, not only would it be unlikely to happen, it must NOT happen.
I'm sorry, I see that you keep blaming fiscal woes on these tax breaks for the wealthy, who you state are already stealing from us. Where do you get that? What are these special tax breaks for the wealthy? Are you sure it's not just a combination of them being able to hire clever accountants with the fact that asset based wealth doesn't produce taxable income?
You mentioned earlier that the rich don't pay their fair share, expressing a desire for a 75% tax rate. I hate this absurd notion that the top one or two percent doesn't pay their fair share. In fact, they bear the bulk of the tax burden, Even before the recent rate hike, their percentage of the tax burden was several points higher than their share of total income.
So, what is fair?
is it fair to force a minority to bear the burden of paying for services we all use? Is it fair that 47% of the population pays nothing for those services, yet they can demand that the people who are already covering them provide more and more?
I agree that it is total BS that congress gave itself permission to raid our social security though. They were never supposed to have access to those funds.
We really screwed up giving them root access.
No, it's true. The majority of people receiving their SS are getting out more than they put in. Now.
People currently paying n will not be so lucky. As it stands, when I retire SS will have been bankrupt for quite some time, so I'm not counting on it.
Of course, that's because it really is a pyramid scheme, rooted in the notion that Americans will have enough children to keep it going. The baby boomers failed to keep up their end of the bargain, deciding instead to have two or fewer children. Thusly, they will be the last ones to get out more than they put in.
HEAR HEAR!!
There is absolutely zero factual basis for all the terror being spread right now. Does it somehow cost billions more to inspect beef now than it did in 2011? Probably not.
Did we hire thousands of new ATCs last year that will now have to be let go? No. We did not.
Did the federal government suddenly start hiring teachers that will now have to be let go? No. The federal government doesn't hire, pay, supervise, or fire teachers. Except for the military academies, the Feds don't have any teachers on payroll.
If it was enough money to pay for everything last year, why do we have to spend so much more on it this year? Inflation isn't that high!
If someone comes to my house to punch me in the nose, I think I have the right to shoot him. That doesn't mean I will. Just that I should have that right to use my own judgement in the matter. If I was stealing bandwidth and booting him off his own network, I think he is justified in punching me in the nose. Won't shoot.
Wow. That's such an intensely dark view that I can't tell if you're serious or trolling.
I've never heard the qualities of devotion, responsibility, and a strong work ethic described in such a twisted fashion. No one makes, forces, or tricks American workers into foregoing their vacation and/or personal time. I know I am not. I love my job and I love the company I work for. Taking a vacation is a firkin hassle, and I'd completely forget if I didn't get warnings about it at the end of the year.
If, in the past, my boss was a bastard, or the job was garbage, I left. in fact, the only job I ever had where I actually felt mistreated was a union retail gig. They begged me to come back, but I told them exactly why I couldn't work with people like them.
Unions may still play a role in protecting certain vulnerable groups, but let's face it - it's not "The Jungle" out there anymore. Trade unions, like the carpenters or IBEW, provide important services like training, certification, and job placement; but in doing so, they become a service provider - an employee owned corporation that sells skilled labor. Unions helped guarantee the rights and livelihoods of workers, when they had none. But now, the reforms that they demanded have been put in place, and the ideals they promoted have been instilled. Non union auto workers in Georgia are at least as happy, well paid and safe as their union counterparts.
Civil service unions, on the other hand, make no sense. Governments are extensions of the populace, including civil servants. They get to vote for their management, for the budget for their pay... Civil service unions essentially pit their members against the people in The labor/capital framework. Their organization and resources give them excessive political power, which gives them a huge advantage in negotiations. Negotiations with, and against, the taxpayers.
Truly, a lack of visualization is at the core, but it is more than that. Khchung's point about abstract mathematical spaces is also key, but there is more than that as well. Cyberspace is a virtual universe based on simple mathematical rules governing the behavior of subatomic particles who's activity is hidden at the level of abstraction where we perceive that things occur. An isometric reflection of _our_ universe.
Start from there and you can have all kinds of fun. If you want to know how things in cyberspace would be phenomenologically represented to a local observer, you would need to construct one from the "stuff" of cyberspace capable of constructing a subjective reality and communicating that to you. Let's call it... Oh, I don't know... Adam. You would then have it run around telling you what it sees - naming things if you like. But what does it look like? Make a copy! Change it a bit so they can be told apart, and have them observe together. But watch out, in being presented with an "other" they may begin to perceive "self", and before you know it they eat your iProduct and have to be kicked out of Eden.
I think a big part of the problem is that windows has always used that naive approach for the calculation. How fast did the last block move during the last cycle, divide remaining data by that number. It's a simple, fast calculation involving exactly one FLOP. A more accurate moving average adds one more FLOP and one more chunk of ram for each additional data point the calculation. A weighted average needs 2(n)+1 FLOPS per data point plus the added RAM. If you don't want the IO controller and the CPU to get out of sync, you need another set of ops. In the end you could find yourself having the CPU predict how fast the last transfer happened so that the IO controller doesnt have to wait for it to finish calculating.
When IO ops were CPU bound (before the era of DMA bus mastering) each op would have halted the transfer, butchering the speed. It wouldn't be so bad now what with DMA and multiple cores/threads, but it's still a lot of overhead just to move something from one directory to another.
If you want really accurate progress bars, you'd need to add some fast logic and cache to the IO controller to handle the calculations
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Doesn't NTP handle all of that?
I want this partnership to be big. Huge big. Earth shatteringly massively big. Why? Because I want it to go down in massively big flames. So massively big that it lands on the first page of the New York Post. I love a funy headline.
No, not really. The government couldn't have been expecting taxes from income that wouldn't be reported. The government hasn't lost anything, it's just upset to find out that there was income it couldn't tax. Also, whereas a corporation can and will pass along increased costs to the consumer, the government cannot act similarly with regards to tax revenue because of how the system works. If revenue from corporate taxes is $10billion less then expected, they can't just go ahead and collect annother $10 billion from individual taxpayers because they can't change the tax rates for the current fiscal year. What they will do it talk about changing the rates for the next year, but in the end things will likely stay as they were as everyone hopes revenue will go back up. Of course, if you meant that they would borrow the money, and we would all be on the hook to pay it back, that much is true.
What they did was not only legal, it was rational! The senate is unhappy, but they shouldn't direct their ire at apple for the fault lies with the law that unintentionally encouraged the behavior. I suppose the only way to prevent the exploitation of national tax laws by those operating internationally is by establishing an international tax regime. And good luck with that!
iPads draw 2 amps to charge, the USB standard is .5 amps, which is why it takes foreder to charge one on your typical PC. Some newer PC's and motherboards (like my kickass Asus) support the extra current, but I assume that this is just apple saying, "screw your standards. We're special, and we don't want you dirtying up our beautiful products with your smelly pc."
Wait.... What?
Well, from our understanding of physics, engineering and biology, we may infer that the likelihood of harm is infentesimally low. We cannot however, through any process of logic or experimentation, prove the absence of harm. Thus we have the central fallacy of the "precautionary principal," as absence can not be proven.
Its clear that the big winner in all this is one Mr. Pete Townsend.
Isn't it interesting, though, that if the Universe really follows this principle, that such a system would evolve into finite lives?
How about how intelligence burns out the universe on the micro scale in order to maximize macro scale entropy? Over time you could see ever increasing amounts of work done in order to preserve the universe, causing the decay to accelerate.
I wonder if the universe hates us. We are killing it, faster every day. I'm reminded of a story in Analog about an alien race that discovered that there was in fact an afterlife, but it was one of eternal torment because the universe hated life.
Oh, this is one of my favorite topics - The Law, Justice and Incompleteness! Its why we have judges and why we give cops discretion. The Law must be consistent. If you drive over the posted limit, you broke the law and you get a ticket. Justice, on the other hand, must be complete. So you run into that sticky problem Godel (I know, needs an umlaut) described way back when. I remember getting pulled over once when I was a teenager. My mom was driving in great excess of the speed limit, but the cop didn't giver her a ticket. In fact he gave her an escort. Why? Because I was bleeding to death and we were en route to the hospital. Now, if there had been an automated system involved, an appeal could have been made after the fact and I think it unlikely that a Judge would have done anything other than throw out the generated ticket, but I think that the load all these appeals would place on the system would cause more trouble than its worth.
Exactly. Every department or agency affected by the sequester is getting 1.5% more than they did the previous year. It doesn't take a whole lot of math to work out that the furloughs and closings must be a load of nonsense. Adjusted for inflation (that's the 1.5%) they have just as much funding this year as they did last. The notion then that they don't have enough funds to do everything they did last year is clearly absurd. But more to the specific point, when I was a kid I thought the Blue Angels were about the coolest people/planes in the universe. Inspiring thoughts of patriotism and instilling a desire for service. Of course I eventually realized how early you have to get up in the morning if you are in the military, so I went into IT.
It does seem like a classic espionage issue. I don't see why the CIA or equivalent agency wouldn't be justified in denying any involvement in the tragic, mysterious, and totally accidental death of someone working for a foreign military in a wholly legitimate, non-military capacity that couldn't possibly involve launching cyber attacks.
What happens when pointers are censored for appearing critical of the regime? I also expect an announcement like this: "the try and catch keywords have been banned, as exceptions disrupt the harmony of the glorious People's Republic. Functions that do not return data are also impermissible. No void can exist thanks to the fulfilling and benevolent rule of the Party."
Lets say apple wins all these suits, what then? If they get what they want, they would be the only manufacturer of smartphones. A monopoly. What happens then? Well, the justice department would have to break them up under the Sherman Anti-Trust act. If they win in the near-term, they lose in the long term. The idea cracks me up, since I remember when Microsoft bailed them out to avoid the same fate.
This seems like the sort of thing that will be fixed with the next update to iOS. Of course if you, like me, are using an older device like my first gen iPad, then there will be no update because apparently we are not worth supporting anymore. I really hate Apple sometimes. Actually, a lot of times. Does anyone know what security fixes have been implemented since 5.1.1? (That being the last version of the OS available for the iPad 1)
Great. What about me, and all the other IT support folks who will have to deal with users panicking because Excel looks slightly different than it did three months ago? I also do some VBA programming. Will I have to update my code every three months too? Let me tell you - the last thing I need is a call at 7am because something I wrote for an office administrator suddenly doesn't work anymore. Admittedly, we're still on office '07, so my company probably won't be an early adopter here, but I'm trying to think about people other than myself. Turns out that such a thing exists! Now, I know you all probably thought you were just figments of my imagination, but I suspect that might not actually be the case.
The point has been made by others that the "investment" is in government IOUs, but I just want to add to that by pointing out that Bush attempted to ACTUALLY invest some of the funds only to be defeated by the democrats who claimed that he was trying to throw the elderly out into the street.
That only makes sense if you look at SS like a tax, as opposed to what it actually is - a retirement and disability insurance plan. The cap is there to limit benefits to people who likely won't need them - if you make six figures, you won't be relying too heavily on SS. If you remove the cap, some people will have to pay in more BUT they also have to get more out of it. So if we remove the cap we get a short term increase in funding, but the long term obligation goes up. And since long term solvency is the problem, you've just made things worse. What I think you're looking for is the end of the cap on payments, and a new cap on benefits. But since that violates the fundamental guarantee of social security, as well as its sole claim on fairness, not only would it be unlikely to happen, it must NOT happen.
I'm sorry, I see that you keep blaming fiscal woes on these tax breaks for the wealthy, who you state are already stealing from us. Where do you get that? What are these special tax breaks for the wealthy? Are you sure it's not just a combination of them being able to hire clever accountants with the fact that asset based wealth doesn't produce taxable income? You mentioned earlier that the rich don't pay their fair share, expressing a desire for a 75% tax rate. I hate this absurd notion that the top one or two percent doesn't pay their fair share. In fact, they bear the bulk of the tax burden, Even before the recent rate hike, their percentage of the tax burden was several points higher than their share of total income. So, what is fair? is it fair to force a minority to bear the burden of paying for services we all use? Is it fair that 47% of the population pays nothing for those services, yet they can demand that the people who are already covering them provide more and more? I agree that it is total BS that congress gave itself permission to raid our social security though. They were never supposed to have access to those funds. We really screwed up giving them root access.
No, it's true. The majority of people receiving their SS are getting out more than they put in. Now. People currently paying n will not be so lucky. As it stands, when I retire SS will have been bankrupt for quite some time, so I'm not counting on it. Of course, that's because it really is a pyramid scheme, rooted in the notion that Americans will have enough children to keep it going. The baby boomers failed to keep up their end of the bargain, deciding instead to have two or fewer children. Thusly, they will be the last ones to get out more than they put in.
HEAR HEAR!! There is absolutely zero factual basis for all the terror being spread right now. Does it somehow cost billions more to inspect beef now than it did in 2011? Probably not. Did we hire thousands of new ATCs last year that will now have to be let go? No. We did not. Did the federal government suddenly start hiring teachers that will now have to be let go? No. The federal government doesn't hire, pay, supervise, or fire teachers. Except for the military academies, the Feds don't have any teachers on payroll. If it was enough money to pay for everything last year, why do we have to spend so much more on it this year? Inflation isn't that high!
If someone comes to my house to punch me in the nose, I think I have the right to shoot him. That doesn't mean I will. Just that I should have that right to use my own judgement in the matter. If I was stealing bandwidth and booting him off his own network, I think he is justified in punching me in the nose. Won't shoot.
Wow. That's such an intensely dark view that I can't tell if you're serious or trolling. I've never heard the qualities of devotion, responsibility, and a strong work ethic described in such a twisted fashion. No one makes, forces, or tricks American workers into foregoing their vacation and/or personal time. I know I am not. I love my job and I love the company I work for. Taking a vacation is a firkin hassle, and I'd completely forget if I didn't get warnings about it at the end of the year. If, in the past, my boss was a bastard, or the job was garbage, I left. in fact, the only job I ever had where I actually felt mistreated was a union retail gig. They begged me to come back, but I told them exactly why I couldn't work with people like them. Unions may still play a role in protecting certain vulnerable groups, but let's face it - it's not "The Jungle" out there anymore. Trade unions, like the carpenters or IBEW, provide important services like training, certification, and job placement; but in doing so, they become a service provider - an employee owned corporation that sells skilled labor. Unions helped guarantee the rights and livelihoods of workers, when they had none. But now, the reforms that they demanded have been put in place, and the ideals they promoted have been instilled. Non union auto workers in Georgia are at least as happy, well paid and safe as their union counterparts. Civil service unions, on the other hand, make no sense. Governments are extensions of the populace, including civil servants. They get to vote for their management, for the budget for their pay... Civil service unions essentially pit their members against the people in The labor/capital framework. Their organization and resources give them excessive political power, which gives them a huge advantage in negotiations. Negotiations with, and against, the taxpayers.
Truly, a lack of visualization is at the core, but it is more than that. Khchung's point about abstract mathematical spaces is also key, but there is more than that as well. Cyberspace is a virtual universe based on simple mathematical rules governing the behavior of subatomic particles who's activity is hidden at the level of abstraction where we perceive that things occur. An isometric reflection of _our_ universe. Start from there and you can have all kinds of fun. If you want to know how things in cyberspace would be phenomenologically represented to a local observer, you would need to construct one from the "stuff" of cyberspace capable of constructing a subjective reality and communicating that to you. Let's call it... Oh, I don't know... Adam. You would then have it run around telling you what it sees - naming things if you like. But what does it look like? Make a copy! Change it a bit so they can be told apart, and have them observe together. But watch out, in being presented with an "other" they may begin to perceive "self", and before you know it they eat your iProduct and have to be kicked out of Eden.
I think a big part of the problem is that windows has always used that naive approach for the calculation. How fast did the last block move during the last cycle, divide remaining data by that number. It's a simple, fast calculation involving exactly one FLOP. A more accurate moving average adds one more FLOP and one more chunk of ram for each additional data point the calculation. A weighted average needs 2(n)+1 FLOPS per data point plus the added RAM. If you don't want the IO controller and the CPU to get out of sync, you need another set of ops. In the end you could find yourself having the CPU predict how fast the last transfer happened so that the IO controller doesnt have to wait for it to finish calculating. When IO ops were CPU bound (before the era of DMA bus mastering) each op would have halted the transfer, butchering the speed. It wouldn't be so bad now what with DMA and multiple cores/threads, but it's still a lot of overhead just to move something from one directory to another. If you want really accurate progress bars, you'd need to add some fast logic and cache to the IO controller to handle the calculations