How using facial recognition as a benchmark for computer timescales? It would take billions of cycles for the computer to recognize you (especially out of a database of faces containing a similar number of faces a human would recognize), while a human can do it in fractions of a second. Or how about SLAM/location? Or how about calculation of movement in a changing environment? 1 Sec per CPU cycle seems quite an arbitrarily long time to use to compute any comparisons.
As I mentioned earlier, the game is free to play and supported by microtransactions. Those tend to have negative connotations amongst gamers, who don't want to be forced to spend real money to be competitive. Fortunately, Grinding Gear Games has done this in a really ethical way. The majority of things you can buy are customization and vanity-related. Non-combat pets, sparkly item effects, dance animations, etc. The only quality of life purchases you can make are for extra stash tabs and extra guild slots. But you already start out with four huge stash tabs. Nothing you can buy affects gameplay. I don't typically care about the vanity stuff, so after I'd played for a while and wanted to send some money their way, just to support them, I couldn't find a single thing I wanted to buy. It was kind of a strange feeling, and the developers deserve recognition for doing microtransactions right.
Or, since corporations are "persons", why not tax them in an analogous fashion?
S-corps are already taxed by dividing their income by the number of shares allotted to each owner, and taxing the corporation's income as actual income on the owner's personal income tax statements. Therefore, these corporations ARE people - or at least a legal representation of a group of actual people - the owners.
I assume you're talking (^H^H^H^H^H^H) complaining about public stock C-corps? Of course, the stockholders hold shares in the company and can vote on board members and policy....and bought their shares with money that was already taxed as personal income....
Yeah, 'cause artificially limiting the use of available energy sources while not providing any viable alternatives won't deepen the energy crisis.
We need innovative people to come up with viable alternatives, not endlessly complain about the impacts of available options. If someone actually comes up with a feasible, scalable alternative to fossil fuels, the switch to using that idea would just take care of itself due to market forces. The ugly truth is - there's currently no real alternative to switch to and complaining without providing viable alternatives won't change that.
Re:It is bad, wrong way to go about it
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In case of 100% private health care, everybody (even insurance companies!) earns money when someone is sick. In the case of government run health care the government loses money if people are sick.
So where exactly do you think the "government" money goes? Er, to the doctors (and possibly insurers) of course - the ones the government pays to treat the sick people. And where does the government get "it's" money? That's right, the government HAS NO MONEY. It's all the taxpayer's money, paid by the taxpayers (not to be confused with the group consisting of all American citizens). So the doctors still make a profit (via the government), and the people still pay that profit (via taxes), and the government sits in the middle taking money out of the system to fund the shuttling of money around. Adding another party as a paid middleman, and disguising the true cost of healthcare through taxes doesn't (can't) make it any cheaper.
"Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of Frank's frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks."
It's open source (GPL v3), runs on Linux, Mac, or Windows, is desktop-based (not web-based), and comes in a variety of different languages . It even has some useful features for your situation, like the ability to track the amount of time spent on any task or subtask. I've used it for a while and found it to be easy to use and very helpful.
Excuse me, but Stephen fucking Hawking can use a computer and not move any part of his fucking body
Excuse ME, but maybe you didn't notice that SH can't even speak. Do you really think he'd choose to go through all the work he does to communicate through a computer if there were a more efficient way? Did you create your response with a sip and puff PC interface? No, a keyboard is easier for you - what's wrong with any person using what's easier for them? Are you saying that anyone who isn't a hacker doesn't have the intelligence to lead or be an expert in other areas? That's pretty damn narrow minded.
This entire comment sounds like self-righteous anti-American trolling to me.
If the poster had actually read previous posts, they would see that many posters did not actually pick up on the significance of the use of the word "partner" and made the very same suggestions of infidelity about his supposed girlfriend.
It is true that discrimination shows up in the oddest ways - the most odd being in the mind of a person so completely sure they are being discsiminated against they they see discrimination where there isn't any. No one even mentioned any difference between trustworthiness of hetero or homo couples - you brought it up yourself in your own mind through your own imagined prejudices.
I guess if someone feels less adequate for their life's choices, they keep trying to justify those feelings through the supposed actions or thoughts of other people. Those homosexual couples I know that are truly comfortable with themselves don't see discrimination around every corner or in every universal life situation that just so happens to involve a gay couple.
How can you "lie" without knowing it? The definition of a lie is to know the truth, yet say something contrary to it. In the article topping this thread:
"Precisely how knowledge of the intelligence dispute traveled through the upper reaches of the administration is unclear. Ms. Rice knew about the debate before her Sept. 2002 CNN appearance, but only learned of the alternative rocket theory of the tubes soon afterward, according to two senior administration officials. President Bush learned of the debate at roughly the same time, a senior administration official said."
This whole "lie" thing is just trumped up by the Kerry kool-aid drinkers to bolster their waffle-man. There was no lie - there was no misleading. They stated the intelligence as they knew it and as all governments believed it (including the Germans and French) at the time.
There WAS controversy, but not everyone who needed to know knew it. They WERE wrong, but that's not lying. The only liars here are those purporting that there was any kind of black-helicopter-theory coverup (read: Kerry supporters).
Radiation is WHAT?!
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Help! Help! I'm covered in rediation! Get it off!.....
What the HELL are you talking about? SUVs, guns,.... what?! If you think that global politics has to do with a car I don't drive, or that the conservative point of view is concerned solely with tools, you're eiter grossly uninformed or completely insane.
Do they have a site like this that DOESN'T have such an obviously slanted liberal bias? I wouldn't call what this site is reporting "censorship" - it's more like "a complaint that the already leftist biased media doesn't cater more to my extreme left point of view"
So, here, if any cell-phone manufactuers are listening, are my upmost feature requests for phones:
Sync with my PC: They have it. my Nokia can sync with my computer - even via the infrared port on my laptop.
A better alert system: They have it. Ever hear of alarms? You can also set task reminders and calendar events on my Nokia phone.
Website Control: They have it. I can browse the web, get email and even play online games from my Nokia phone.
Voice mail Messages ->.wav can't be that difficult. They have it. I can get my voicemail via web or phone.
In short - you need a new phone. Get with the times!
In the communications industry, this isn't anything new. The idea of having multiple computers on blades in a chassis is a (the) standard called 'PICMG', based on CompactPCI technology. It's been around a long while. I validate systems like this at work.
You can get 4, 8, 16, or even 24 SBCs (Single Blade Computers) in a chassis, and link these chassis together via switches. Each chassis has a switch that links all the SBCs in the backplane together and has external ports to hook it up to the outside world.
Check this out:
http://www.picmg.org/compactpci.stm
and this:
http://www.intel.com/network/csp/products/cpci_i nd ex.htm
If EVERYONE is annoyed by spam then you would think that the spammers would get no return on their spamming efforts. They'd simply stop because it would be a waste of their time. Where is this hidden group of morons who keep buying things advertised to them via spam? Who is making it worthwhile for them?
What you have to stop and think about is WHY do they want the apology so badly? What's in it for the Chinese if we apologize? It goes way beyond cultural norms. It would be the equivalent of the US saying "China is better, stonger, smarter, and more politically savvy than we are.... and always really has been. The Chinese gov't owns our ass." to the entire international community. We CAN'T do that (for one thing because it's not true). It really isn't 'just a simple apology.' The Chinese gov't knows that with the 24 hostages they might be able to make the US cry "UNCLE!" and are going to use that to their advantage to make themselves look good and the US look bad for a situation they caused in the first place.
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Or redouble their efforts to find/create as many more exploits as possible to capitalize on the guaranteed market created by the government......
How using facial recognition as a benchmark for computer timescales? It would take billions of cycles for the computer to recognize you (especially out of a database of faces containing a similar number of faces a human would recognize), while a human can do it in fractions of a second. Or how about SLAM/location? Or how about calculation of movement in a changing environment? 1 Sec per CPU cycle seems quite an arbitrarily long time to use to compute any comparisons.
From the transcript:
As I mentioned earlier, the game is free to play and supported by microtransactions. Those tend to have negative connotations amongst gamers, who don't want to be forced to spend real money to be competitive. Fortunately, Grinding Gear Games has done this in a really ethical way. The majority of things you can buy are customization and vanity-related. Non-combat pets, sparkly item effects, dance animations, etc. The only quality of life purchases you can make are for extra stash tabs and extra guild slots. But you already start out with four huge stash tabs. Nothing you can buy affects gameplay. I don't typically care about the vanity stuff, so after I'd played for a while and wanted to send some money their way, just to support them, I couldn't find a single thing I wanted to buy. It was kind of a strange feeling, and the developers deserve recognition for doing microtransactions right.
Or, since corporations are "persons", why not tax them in an analogous fashion?
S-corps are already taxed by dividing their income by the number of shares allotted to each owner, and taxing the corporation's income as actual income on the owner's personal income tax statements. Therefore, these corporations ARE people - or at least a legal representation of a group of actual people - the owners.
I assume you're talking (^H^H^H^H^H^H) complaining about public stock C-corps? Of course, the stockholders hold shares in the company and can vote on board members and policy....and bought their shares with money that was already taxed as personal income....
That's why I voted against it even though I wouldn't have been taxed.
.... yet.
You fail to see how whether the proposed tax was passed or not it would have absolutely NO IMPACT on the $2 billion in shares he sold?
Yeah, 'cause artificially limiting the use of available energy sources while not providing any viable alternatives won't deepen the energy crisis.
We need innovative people to come up with viable alternatives, not endlessly complain about the impacts of available options. If someone actually comes up with a feasible, scalable alternative to fossil fuels, the switch to using that idea would just take care of itself due to market forces. The ugly truth is - there's currently no real alternative to switch to and complaining without providing viable alternatives won't change that.
In case of 100% private health care, everybody (even insurance companies!) earns money when someone is sick. In the case of government run health care the government loses money if people are sick.
So where exactly do you think the "government" money goes? Er, to the doctors (and possibly insurers) of course - the ones the government pays to treat the sick people. And where does the government get "it's" money? That's right, the government HAS NO MONEY. It's all the taxpayer's money, paid by the taxpayers (not to be confused with the group consisting of all American citizens). So the doctors still make a profit (via the government), and the people still pay that profit (via taxes), and the government sits in the middle taking money out of the system to fund the shuttling of money around. Adding another party as a paid middleman, and disguising the true cost of healthcare through taxes doesn't (can't) make it any cheaper.
"Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of Frank's frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks."
http://www.taskcoach.org/
It's open source (GPL v3), runs on Linux, Mac, or Windows, is desktop-based (not web-based), and comes in a variety of different languages . It even has some useful features for your situation, like the ability to track the amount of time spent on any task or subtask. I've used it for a while and found it to be easy to use and very helpful.
Excuse me, but Stephen fucking Hawking can use a computer and not move any part of his fucking body
Excuse ME, but maybe you didn't notice that SH can't even speak. Do you really think he'd choose to go through all the work he does to communicate through a computer if there were a more efficient way? Did you create your response with a sip and puff PC interface? No, a keyboard is easier for you - what's wrong with any person using what's easier for them? Are you saying that anyone who isn't a hacker doesn't have the intelligence to lead or be an expert in other areas? That's pretty damn narrow minded.
Um.... that's called an airplane.
This entire comment sounds like self-righteous anti-American trolling to me.
If the poster had actually read previous posts, they would see that many posters did not actually pick up on the significance of the use of the word "partner" and made the very same suggestions of infidelity about his supposed girlfriend.
It is true that discrimination shows up in the oddest ways - the most odd being in the mind of a person so completely sure they are being discsiminated against they they see discrimination where there isn't any. No one even mentioned any difference between trustworthiness of hetero or homo couples - you brought it up yourself in your own mind through your own imagined prejudices.
I guess if someone feels less adequate for their life's choices, they keep trying to justify those feelings through the supposed actions or thoughts of other people. Those homosexual couples I know that are truly comfortable with themselves don't see discrimination around every corner or in every universal life situation that just so happens to involve a gay couple.
Why "former"? Did he get fired?
Are there any benefits to using a Mac? I can't think of ANY.
Oh, wait - you already did!
How can you "lie" without knowing it? The definition of a lie is to know the truth, yet say something contrary to it. In the article topping this thread:
"Precisely how knowledge of the intelligence dispute traveled through the upper reaches of the administration is unclear. Ms. Rice knew about the debate before her Sept. 2002 CNN appearance, but only learned of the alternative rocket theory of the tubes soon afterward, according to two senior administration officials. President Bush learned of the debate at roughly the same time, a senior administration official said."
This whole "lie" thing is just trumped up by the Kerry kool-aid drinkers to bolster their waffle-man. There was no lie - there was no misleading. They stated the intelligence as they knew it and as all governments believed it (including the Germans and French) at the time.
There WAS controversy, but not everyone who needed to know knew it. They WERE wrong, but that's not lying. The only liars here are those purporting that there was any kind of black-helicopter-theory coverup (read: Kerry supporters).
Help! Help! I'm covered in rediation! Get it off!.....
...What? What do you mean sunlight is radiation?
They'll always fear what they can't understand.
It's that way where I work as well, and we make mission critical telecommunications systems....
What job would you suggest?
What the HELL are you talking about? SUVs, guns,.... what?!
If you think that global politics has to do with a car I don't drive, or that the conservative point of view is concerned solely with tools, you're eiter grossly uninformed or completely insane.
Do they have a site like this that DOESN'T have such an obviously slanted liberal bias? I wouldn't call what this site is reporting "censorship" - it's more like "a complaint that the already leftist biased media doesn't cater more to my extreme left point of view"
So, here, if any cell-phone manufactuers are listening, are my upmost feature requests for phones: Sync with my PC: They have it. my Nokia can sync with my computer - even via the infrared port on my laptop. A better alert system: They have it. Ever hear of alarms? You can also set task reminders and calendar events on my Nokia phone. Website Control: They have it. I can browse the web, get email and even play online games from my Nokia phone. Voice mail Messages -> .wav can't be that difficult. They have it. I can get my voicemail via web or phone.
In short - you need a new phone. Get with the times!
In the communications industry, this isn't anything new. The idea of having multiple computers on blades in a chassis is a (the) standard called 'PICMG', based on CompactPCI technology. It's been around a long while. I validate systems like this at work.
i nd ex.htm
You can get 4, 8, 16, or even 24 SBCs (Single Blade Computers) in a chassis, and link these chassis together via switches. Each chassis has a switch that links all the SBCs in the backplane together and has external ports to hook it up to the outside world.
Check this out:
http://www.picmg.org/compactpci.stm
and this:
http://www.intel.com/network/csp/products/cpci_
If EVERYONE is annoyed by spam then you would think that the spammers would get no return on their spamming efforts. They'd simply stop because it would be a waste of their time. Where is this hidden group of morons who keep buying things advertised to them via spam? Who is making it worthwhile for them?
What you have to stop and think about is WHY do they want the apology so badly? What's in it for the Chinese if we apologize? It goes way beyond cultural norms. It would be the equivalent of the US saying "China is better, stonger, smarter, and more politically savvy than we are.... and always really has been. The Chinese gov't owns our ass." to the entire international community. We CAN'T do that (for one thing because it's not true). It really isn't 'just a simple apology.' The Chinese gov't knows that with the 24 hostages they might be able to make the US cry "UNCLE!" and are going to use that to their advantage to make themselves look good and the US look bad for a situation they caused in the first place.