It might not matter if you are scanning novels to produce ebooks, but for technical works with equations you want to see the actual text layout in a pdf, and for small subscripts less than 300dpi (preferably 400) is a no-go.
That's true. (Heck, I scan everything at 600.) But 1) this scanner is not less than 300dpi, and 2) 10MP is barely over 300dpi. So the grandparent post was still completely silly;-)
About the fifth time you get the this accessory is not supported by this iPhone [google.com] message on the included cable and charger, you'll start to realize why the whole Lightning system is a horrible idea.
Flaky USB hub. Seriously, I had this problem too. Eventually the USB hub went ahead and died completely. Since replacing it, I have never had that message again, not once in 6 months now.
The Fujitsu SV600 is low res compared to a modern flatbed scanner. He'd be better off using a high quality 10MP+ digital camera to take the scans and post-processing them using software that's dedicated to that kind of thing.
I see simple math is beyond the grasp of this AC;-)
Sure in a sane world it would use a reliable sensor that determines when it's clean coupled with other things like higher pressure or other things to be more effective while maintaining reliability.
Good dishwashers today are far better at getting dishes clean than the old ones you guys are whining about missing. (Maybe the mediocre ones today are worse than the mediocre ones of years gone by. I don't know. I try to avoid buying crappy appliances.)
Consider the perspective of the sponsor:... And then of course, the perspective of the website:...
Hell, consider the perspective of the reasonable user. I don't mind at all non-obtrusive ads that don't screw up my browsing with too much data down, or burning CPU cycles with JavaScript, or blocking the main content. I find that a very few sites I visit actually have ads like that, which sometimes are for something I want to check out, and actually get clicked. But intrusive ads, not only do I not click them, I quit going to the site entirely--I have *never* found a site that I needed badly enough to put up with that crap.
When CNN went over the top with autoplay videos and giant animated ads that push the content out of the way or cover it, I went to the Washington Post, and found that I liked it much more--so much more that I'm probably going to subscribe after the holidays.
Just like web developers from that era who didn't go to college wrote the best web pages because they shunned Front Page server/network guys who didn't go to college had a leg up from not being taught bad habits. Pair that up with the modern PC (not the computer type) culture being taught at school you're pretty much guaranteed a brainwashed in multiple ways spineless slug if you hire a college grad, whereas a self starter got a real education in the school of hard knocks.
Maybe you should stop thinking of DeVry as "college";-)
But at the end of the day, it seems like no matter what he does he's going to have a shitton less money than he would have had if he'd just sold the stock and paid the taxes. How does Zuckerberg end up ahead on this deal?
Ah, see, your mistake is that you're letting math get in the way of prejudice...
Seems to be a common meme lately, to talk about the vast amount of tasks which cannot be parallelized. One sees it particularly around discussions of mobile processors for phones & tablets--the claim is made again & again that mobile devices cannot benefit much from higher core counts, totally ignoring that the most CPU-intensive, and extremely common, tasks we do with these things are processing of photos and videos, which are extremely amenable to parallel algorithms--in fact, the built-in libraries for such things are almost certainly highly parallel, which means that pretty much any developer working with those data types will be using parallel implementations.
...I did actually have a relationship with a lady who nearly fits the description and *might* fit as I could just be deluding myself into thinking there was some empathy and something other than greed or self-interest inside.:/
The successful ones become really good at mimicking normal reactions, so it's hard to tell unless the relationship goes on way longer than is healthy... Best to extricate ASAP, and let somebody else discover the answer to that question!
The difference here chief is that the tax of $350,000 is a lot less then what you would have to pay on those billions.
The billions which you will never touch for yourself, which will be used for the foundation's purposes. $350,000/year is a hell of a lot less than the annual gains on $45,000,000,000. Less income leads to less taxes, how on earth is that a problem?
(In fact, $350,000 is a just a small fraction of the annual gains on the $450,000,000 that they're keeping for themselves. Thus demonstrating that: 1) there would be no need whatsoever to use the foundation to pull out a measly $350,000 salary; 2) you are clueless about the scale of the numbers.)
You've done nothing to refute my points other than argue semantics.
I have demonstrated the foundation of your point to be completely false.
What's a few hundred thousand given away to poor souls for free when you can have a passive income from some BS foundation.
Once again demonstrating that you have no understanding whatsoever of the scale of the numbers nor of the tax laws. They'll actually be having to disburse, at minimum, required by law, about $225,000,000/year to start (over 600x your hypothetical salary to his daughter).
In fact, since Zuck is opening up a foundation he can "donate" his shares to an organization he wholly controls who can then sell that stock capital gains tax free.
And those gains will go to the foundation and the causes it supports, not to buying millionaire toys for Zuck.
The best part is he can use that f*ck all amount as a tax write off on his future earnings as well.
No, the basis for the write-off is the price paid for the property, not the appreciated price.
His daughter when she comes of age can then become a "director" or some other BS title and get paid $350,000 or more for the privilege of doing so.
And here $350,000 salary will be taxed like any other salary.
Whenever money comes out of the trust, it either gets used for charitable purposes, or it gets taxed. And no, they cannot just let the capital sit there and appreciate forever. Charitable trusts are subject to minimum distribution requirements, so if you try that, you get taxed anyway.
There's plenty wrong with our society in terms of income inequality and the super-wealthy having too much power, but your post is just way off base, and is grounded in petty jealousy rather than any real issue.
Infinite? On a machine/network with finite memory, CPU, and storage? You know what? I think not, duh. So I actually went to the article. The number he demonstrated was 13. So, how old do you typically have to be before you can count past 13???
Or at least learn the minimum necessary to post reasonably accurate summaries. I don't even have to go to the linked article to know that the research did not "demonstrate" what he claimed. What the research did was theorize about what happens when planets pass through dark matter, and demonstrate that such an effect is consistent with, in other words predicted by, current theories.
Demonstrating that dark matter is concentrated that way by a passing planet would mean detecting the dark mark and measuring the concentrations. If that had happened, I'd be reading about it in more places than here.
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It might not matter if you are scanning novels to produce ebooks, but for technical works with equations you want to see the actual text layout in a pdf, and for small subscripts less than 300dpi (preferably 400) is a no-go.
That's true. (Heck, I scan everything at 600.) But 1) this scanner is not less than 300dpi, and 2) 10MP is barely over 300dpi. So the grandparent post was still completely silly ;-)
About the fifth time you get the this accessory is not supported by this iPhone [google.com] message on the included cable and charger, you'll start to realize why the whole Lightning system is a horrible idea.
Flaky USB hub. Seriously, I had this problem too. Eventually the USB hub went ahead and died completely. Since replacing it, I have never had that message again, not once in 6 months now.
The Fujitsu SV600 is low res compared to a modern flatbed scanner. He'd be better off using a high quality 10MP+ digital camera to take the scans and post-processing them using software that's dedicated to that kind of thing.
I see simple math is beyond the grasp of this AC ;-)
Is this out of your budget? Buy one, sell it on eBay it when you're done. Anything else, you'll just be wasting huge amounts of your time.
Sure in a sane world it would use a reliable sensor that determines when it's clean coupled with other things like higher pressure or other things to be more effective while maintaining reliability.
Good dishwashers today are far better at getting dishes clean than the old ones you guys are whining about missing. (Maybe the mediocre ones today are worse than the mediocre ones of years gone by. I don't know. I try to avoid buying crappy appliances.)
Consider the perspective of the sponsor:... And then of course, the perspective of the website:...
Hell, consider the perspective of the reasonable user. I don't mind at all non-obtrusive ads that don't screw up my browsing with too much data down, or burning CPU cycles with JavaScript, or blocking the main content. I find that a very few sites I visit actually have ads like that, which sometimes are for something I want to check out, and actually get clicked. But intrusive ads, not only do I not click them, I quit going to the site entirely--I have *never* found a site that I needed badly enough to put up with that crap.
When CNN went over the top with autoplay videos and giant animated ads that push the content out of the way or cover it, I went to the Washington Post, and found that I liked it much more--so much more that I'm probably going to subscribe after the holidays.
...maybe they're like the first researchers for Rogaine who have some strange evidence...
No, Rossi and his supporters are NOTHING AT ALL like that ;-)
How exactly are we supposed to critique, deconstruct, and falsify their vile propaganda if we are not even allowed to know what it is???
This is IDC we're talking about...
Just like web developers from that era who didn't go to college wrote the best web pages because they shunned Front Page server/network guys who didn't go to college had a leg up from not being taught bad habits. Pair that up with the modern PC (not the computer type) culture being taught at school you're pretty much guaranteed a brainwashed in multiple ways spineless slug if you hire a college grad, whereas a self starter got a real education in the school of hard knocks.
Maybe you should stop thinking of DeVry as "college" ;-)
I vaguely remember Apple doing that with its OpenGL stuff.
CoreImage transforms.
But at the end of the day, it seems like no matter what he does he's going to have a shitton less money than he would have had if he'd just sold the stock and paid the taxes. How does Zuckerberg end up ahead on this deal?
Ah, see, your mistake is that you're letting math get in the way of prejudice...
I tolerated some verbal abuse once and figured it might be a bad day. The second time, she had to go.
So... You were a metric shit-ton smarter than I was. Sigh...
What the hell are you talking about?
Seems to be a common meme lately, to talk about the vast amount of tasks which cannot be parallelized. One sees it particularly around discussions of mobile processors for phones & tablets--the claim is made again & again that mobile devices cannot benefit much from higher core counts, totally ignoring that the most CPU-intensive, and extremely common, tasks we do with these things are processing of photos and videos, which are extremely amenable to parallel algorithms--in fact, the built-in libraries for such things are almost certainly highly parallel, which means that pretty much any developer working with those data types will be using parallel implementations.
Oh well...
...I did actually have a relationship with a lady who nearly fits the description and *might* fit as I could just be deluding myself into thinking there was some empathy and something other than greed or self-interest inside. :/
The successful ones become really good at mimicking normal reactions, so it's hard to tell unless the relationship goes on way longer than is healthy... Best to extricate ASAP, and let somebody else discover the answer to that question!
I've known some pretty crappy people but nobody who didn't have shame...
Then you haven't known an actual sociopath. Good for you. I mean that sincerely, not sarcastically.
The difference here chief is that the tax of $350,000 is a lot less then what you would have to pay on those billions.
The billions which you will never touch for yourself, which will be used for the foundation's purposes. $350,000/year is a hell of a lot less than the annual gains on $45,000,000,000. Less income leads to less taxes, how on earth is that a problem?
(In fact, $350,000 is a just a small fraction of the annual gains on the $450,000,000 that they're keeping for themselves. Thus demonstrating that: 1) there would be no need whatsoever to use the foundation to pull out a measly $350,000 salary; 2) you are clueless about the scale of the numbers.)
You've done nothing to refute my points other than argue semantics.
I have demonstrated the foundation of your point to be completely false.
What's a few hundred thousand given away to poor souls for free when you can have a passive income from some BS foundation.
Once again demonstrating that you have no understanding whatsoever of the scale of the numbers nor of the tax laws. They'll actually be having to disburse, at minimum, required by law, about $225,000,000/year to start (over 600x your hypothetical salary to his daughter).
But I've got some helium-filled drives, and the mechanical noises from head movement etc are actually distinctively different and higher-pitched.
In fact, since Zuck is opening up a foundation he can "donate" his shares to an organization he wholly controls who can then sell that stock capital gains tax free.
And those gains will go to the foundation and the causes it supports, not to buying millionaire toys for Zuck.
The best part is he can use that f*ck all amount as a tax write off on his future earnings as well.
No, the basis for the write-off is the price paid for the property, not the appreciated price.
His daughter when she comes of age can then become a "director" or some other BS title and get paid $350,000 or more for the privilege of doing so.
And here $350,000 salary will be taxed like any other salary.
Whenever money comes out of the trust, it either gets used for charitable purposes, or it gets taxed. And no, they cannot just let the capital sit there and appreciate forever. Charitable trusts are subject to minimum distribution requirements, so if you try that, you get taxed anyway.
There's plenty wrong with our society in terms of income inequality and the super-wealthy having too much power, but your post is just way off base, and is grounded in petty jealousy rather than any real issue.
If he can't count above 13 now, chances he never will no matter how old he gets.
Excellent point.
...not that most Americans know what a savings index is...
And I'l bet that you don't know that the definition used is extremely out of date, and does not count stocks (including mutual funds) ;-)
So the negative rate is a nice sound bite, but it's not really accurate.
Infinite? On a machine/network with finite memory, CPU, and storage? You know what? I think not, duh. So I actually went to the article. The number he demonstrated was 13. So, how old do you typically have to be before you can count past 13???
Please startswithabang, go away.
Or at least learn the minimum necessary to post reasonably accurate summaries. I don't even have to go to the linked article to know that the research did not "demonstrate" what he claimed. What the research did was theorize about what happens when planets pass through dark matter, and demonstrate that such an effect is consistent with, in other words predicted by, current theories.
Demonstrating that dark matter is concentrated that way by a passing planet would mean detecting the dark mark and measuring the concentrations. If that had happened, I'd be reading about it in more places than here.
I like this new submitter Maritz; summary was grammatically decent, clear, and with a sharp twist on wording. Well done ;-)
So it was baked into SQL Server since the beginning
I believe so, but that was a long time ago. Could be my timeline is off and it was added after the MS purchase.