Just curious... which one do you consider "pinkier"? Canada? Just in case Switzerland != Sweden.
Of {US, Canada, Denmark}, and of the top 10 countries in both lists, the impression I have is that Denmark is the "pinkest". Maybe I'm just assuming "Nordic = most social-democratic", but that's the impression I have. (And I'd rate Sweden as pinker than Switzerland - yes, I'm quite aware that they're different countries.)
Canada's overall probably to the left of the US (socialized health insurance and stronger unions, for example), but to the right of most if not all of Western Europe, as far as I know. Then again, in terms of socialized health provision, the impression I have is that the UK's to the left of at least some European countries that might otherwise be considered to the left of the UK.
I do taxes in the early bits of the year, and I've never had a nightmare story about how their clearly legitimate tax return was mangled by incompetent IRS agents.
I know of one tax return that was audited by somebody at the IRS who misread the item on line 22, "Tax preparation fees", of Schedule A, as being line 21, "Unreimbursed employee expenses", asked for supporting documents for the "unreimbursed employee expenses" they mistakenly thought were being claimed, and asked for supporting documents for charitable contributions while they were at it. So, yes, there are occasions when the IRS screws up.
However, I'm not about to tar that person as "incompetent"; I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, as the two lines are next to each other, and maybe they were tired.
And one data point, even if the problem was incompetence rather than "normal" human error (I'm sure nobody here has ever screwed up a code change, for example...), most definitely does not back a ridiculously broad statement such as ""I'm going to work for the IRS" said no competent, industrious individual. Ever."
The heritage foundation places a huge focus on "economic freedom" AKA the right to exploit your serfs, any nation with a low tax rate on their high income brackets gets a lot of bonuses for "freedom".
Which explains why some of countries with higher taxes and more gummint commie socialist pinko national health insurance systems rated above the US in their survey.
Which is exactly why the U.S. government is against it.
Or maybe it was, as TFA's author guesses, just that the development of OSS by not-for-profit organizations with for-profit businesses or employees of for-profit businesses as members means that there might be tax issues. To quote the passage that TFA quotes:
These organizations are requesting either 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) exemption in order to collaboratively develop new software. The members of these organizations are usually the for-profit business or for-profit support technicians of the software.
(And the IRS scrutiny of "Tea Party"/"Progressive"/"Occupy"/etc. organizations might be similar - I have the impression that some forms of political advocacy affect the tax treatment of organizations, e.g. that an organization that explicitly says "vote {for, against} Person A" or "vote {for, against} Referendum B" may be taxed in ways that say "person A believes X, person B believes Y" or "don't forget to vote this Tuesday" or even advocates "we need {lower taxes, more government spending on education, etc.}" aren't.)
/* $FreeBSD$ *//* $KAME: altq.h,v 1.10 2003/07/10 12:07:47 kjc Exp $ *//*
* Copyright (C) 1998-2003
* Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc. All rights reserved.
So Sony Computer Science Laboratories developed ALTQ and gave it back. Whether other parts of Sony will do the same with whatever stuff they develop for the PS4 is another matter.
The gauge bosons are excitations of a quantized gauge field, but gauge fields are not real
Well, something underlying them must be real in the sense of being able to affect fermions, otherwise my Wi-Fi, radio, and light bulbs wouldn't be working....
The reason why rural america isn't like rural china? Acts like the electrification act, and now, proposals like the broadband act. Straight up, 100%. There were people without running water or indoor toiletry in the rural US in the 1950s, when that bill passed!
Just the opposite. The policies are doing exactly what the lobbyists intended, feed the corporate coiffures at the expense of the people. Remember, the government no longer represents the voters, only those who buy pay their way to get elected.
I agree with your intended point, but you presumably meant "coffers"; feeding corporate coiffures would be amusing to watch....
Perhaps he intended for "lead" to be in the past tense? It's that silly English language...
If so, he should have left the "a" out - it should have been "America's Broadband Networks Led the World". At least in that case, English is not so silly as to have the past and present tenses spelled the same.
Sorry; this was written by another slashdotter; not sure who, but I clipped and saved for re-use someday and now here it is.
We may not be the "best" at network speed and access; but here's what we are truly "number one" at:
To be fair, some of those items appear to be absolute counts rather than percentages; for example, number of $CRIMEs is less interesting than number of $CRIMEs per 1,000 people.
Others, however, are rates/percentages, and, yes, a higher rate/percentage of $BAD_THING does make you interestingly #1 in $BAD_THING.
I'm guessing you live In Sweden, which has lovely network access but apparently doesn't teach geography for shit. Call me when you can find Bulgaria on the map and tell me what continent it's on.
Call me when you can find Bulgaria on this chart and tell me where it is relative to the US on that chart.:-)
(Or indicate why the chart is unrealistic. If it is realistic, perhaps Italy, for example, would have been a better choice.)
(And, no, that chart isn't a chart of fiber deployment, but if the countries below the US have more fiber deployed, one is tempted to ask what good it's doing.)
I believe that most asteroids are just a huge dust ball held together by gravity, no big rocks, just lots and lots of small particles gathering around a small core. With that view of an asteroid, an explosion in the atmosphere would be expected, and almost no solids would reach the ground.
And the evidence that supports this belief, and doesn't also support other beliefs, is?
Sometimes it's really convenient to just reboot and get to work, instead of launching an extra environment. Yes, virtualisation works, but unless one has to multitask between os-dependant applications,
And some do. (I do development on cross-platformsoftware, and it's Way Cool to be able to try stuff on various non-OS X OSes without having to reboot and not have my regular development/Web access/e-mail/etc. environment handy and without having to have other machine on which to do it. The downside is that, given that I want multiple versions of those OSes, about 1/3 of my "disk" is filled up with VMs....)
A network trace and the output of "sudo fs_usage -w -f {pid of Finder}" while it's trying to show the contents of the directory might be interesting. Is the performance terrible for ls, or just for the Finder?
(And, yes, I recognized the reference immediately, but, then again, I can't even remember what year I first signed up here any more, but it was definitely in the 1990's.)
RAID is dead Thunderbolt reigns supreme. You heard it here first folks.
In other news, variouspieces of hardware simultaneously vanished from the earth as, given that "RAID is dead" and that "Thunderbolt reigns supreme", it was logically impossible for a Thunderbolt-attached RAID device to exist.
My wife is an architect and she likes the mac desktop, but she needs to run windows only cad software.
And, presumably, can't do so in VMware Fusion or Parallels Workstation (which avoid the reboot and the "can't run your OS X apps and your Windows apps at the same time") or doesn't want to spend the money for them. (Yes, I can imagine that there are apps that don't work well enough in a simulated Windows box, for whatever reason.)
For forcible power-cycling, but if you're doing that a lot, you have bigger problems (or are doing development, especially kernel-mode code development).
(And if you want to power the machine down, rather than reboot, the "Shut Down..." menu option handles that.)
I believe the power button is on the back of the Mac mini and iMacs.
Correct for the iMac, as I remember; I'm not sure about the Mac mini, but I could easily believe it to be the case.
I could certainly imagine the first of those being true (the stuff above UNIX has been known to implicitly assume that file system operations are cheap, when they might not be cheap for remote file systems).
Some of the stuff above UNIX was significantly redone in Snow Leopard or Lion or both to provide new APIs that do fewer system calls to get file system information, and I think the Finder was changed to use that, so things may have improved somewhat.
There were also VFS-layer changes in Lion to allow system calls to make file system requests that bundle multiple operations into one, so that an open/create could be done in a single VFS-layer call, allowing a single over-the-wire call to be made.
The cited discussion stated with a post from somebody running Snow Leopard (10.6.1); I don't remember whether the stuff above UNIX was changed in Snow Leopard or not (yes, I know, Snow Leopard was mainly a performance release, but that doesn't mean no significant performance changes were made after that), but the VFS-layer changes were in Lion, so there could have been some improvements post-Snow Leopard.
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Just curious... which one do you consider "pinkier"? Canada? Just in case Switzerland != Sweden.
Of {US, Canada, Denmark}, and of the top 10 countries in both lists, the impression I have is that Denmark is the "pinkest". Maybe I'm just assuming "Nordic = most social-democratic", but that's the impression I have. (And I'd rate Sweden as pinker than Switzerland - yes, I'm quite aware that they're different countries.)
Canada's overall probably to the left of the US (socialized health insurance and stronger unions, for example), but to the right of most if not all of Western Europe, as far as I know. Then again, in terms of socialized health provision, the impression I have is that the UK's to the left of at least some European countries that might otherwise be considered to the left of the UK.
I do taxes in the early bits of the year, and I've never had a nightmare story about how their clearly legitimate tax return was mangled by incompetent IRS agents.
I know of one tax return that was audited by somebody at the IRS who misread the item on line 22, "Tax preparation fees", of Schedule A, as being line 21, "Unreimbursed employee expenses", asked for supporting documents for the "unreimbursed employee expenses" they mistakenly thought were being claimed, and asked for supporting documents for charitable contributions while they were at it. So, yes, there are occasions when the IRS screws up.
However, I'm not about to tar that person as "incompetent"; I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, as the two lines are next to each other, and maybe they were tired.
And one data point, even if the problem was incompetence rather than "normal" human error (I'm sure nobody here has ever screwed up a code change, for example...), most definitely does not back a ridiculously broad statement such as ""I'm going to work for the IRS" said no competent, industrious individual. Ever."
Let's be real, we've had the NSA spying on us for who knows how long, and suddenly, by accident, the IRS is picking on some political groups
"Suddenly"? That's also been going on for who knows how long.
The heritage foundation places a huge focus on "economic freedom" AKA the right to exploit your serfs, any nation with a low tax rate on their high income brackets gets a lot of bonuses for "freedom".
Which explains why some of countries with higher taxes and more gummint commie socialist pinko national health insurance systems rated above the US in their survey.
Which is exactly why the U.S. government is against it.
Or maybe it was, as TFA's author guesses, just that the development of OSS by not-for-profit organizations with for-profit businesses or employees of for-profit businesses as members means that there might be tax issues. To quote the passage that TFA quotes:
(And the IRS scrutiny of "Tea Party"/"Progressive"/"Occupy"/etc. organizations might be similar - I have the impression that some forms of political advocacy affect the tax treatment of organizations, e.g. that an organization that explicitly says "vote {for, against} Person A" or "vote {for, against} Referendum B" may be taxed in ways that say "person A believes X, person B believes Y" or "don't forget to vote this Tuesday" or even advocates "we need {lower taxes, more government spending on education, etc.}" aren't.)
So Sony Computer Science Laboratories developed ALTQ and gave it back. Whether other parts of Sony will do the same with whatever stuff they develop for the PS4 is another matter.
How did Ken Thompson get into my system
See bunratty's comment.
I hope that wasn't a whooshing sound I just heard....
The gauge bosons are excitations of a quantized gauge field, but gauge fields are not real
Well, something underlying them must be real in the sense of being able to affect fermions, otherwise my Wi-Fi, radio, and light bulbs wouldn't be working....
The reason why rural america isn't like rural china? Acts like the electrification act, and now, proposals like the broadband act. Straight up, 100%. There were people without running water or indoor toiletry in the rural US in the 1950s, when that bill passed!
Actually, the first Rural Electrification Act was passed in the 1930's (1936).
If you have the time to read a ~70-page report, here's the report mentioned at the end of the op-ed.
Sorry; this was written by another slashdotter; not sure who
fullback, in this comment. He also commented on this story, noting that we lead the world in cognitive dissonance....
Just the opposite. The policies are doing exactly what the lobbyists intended, feed the corporate coiffures at the expense of the people. Remember, the government no longer represents the voters, only those who buy pay their way to get elected.
I agree with your intended point, but you presumably meant "coffers"; feeding corporate coiffures would be amusing to watch....
Perhaps he intended for "lead" to be in the past tense? It's that silly English language...
If so, he should have left the "a" out - it should have been "America's Broadband Networks Led the World". At least in that case, English is not so silly as to have the past and present tenses spelled the same.
Sorry; this was written by another slashdotter; not sure who, but I clipped and saved for re-use someday and now here it is.
We may not be the "best" at network speed and access; but here's what we are truly "number one" at:
To be fair, some of those items appear to be absolute counts rather than percentages; for example, number of $CRIMEs is less interesting than number of $CRIMEs per 1,000 people.
Others, however, are rates/percentages, and, yes, a higher rate/percentage of $BAD_THING does make you interestingly #1 in $BAD_THING.
I'm guessing you live In Sweden, which has lovely network access but apparently doesn't teach geography for shit. Call me when you can find Bulgaria on the map and tell me what continent it's on.
Call me when you can find Bulgaria on this chart and tell me where it is relative to the US on that chart. :-)
(Or indicate why the chart is unrealistic. If it is realistic, perhaps Italy, for example, would have been a better choice.)
(And, no, that chart isn't a chart of fiber deployment, but if the countries below the US have more fiber deployed, one is tempted to ask what good it's doing.)
I believe that most asteroids are just a huge dust ball held together by gravity, no big rocks, just lots and lots of small particles gathering around a small core. With that view of an asteroid, an explosion in the atmosphere would be expected, and almost no solids would reach the ground.
And the evidence that supports this belief, and doesn't also support other beliefs, is?
And you think a CAD package (which really needs GPU acceleration) is not one of those?
I think no such thing.
Sometimes it's really convenient to just reboot and get to work, instead of launching an extra environment. Yes, virtualisation works, but unless one has to multitask between os-dependant applications,
And some do. (I do development on cross-platform software, and it's Way Cool to be able to try stuff on various non-OS X OSes without having to reboot and not have my regular development/Web access/e-mail/etc. environment handy and without having to have other machine on which to do it. The downside is that, given that I want multiple versions of those OSes, about 1/3 of my "disk" is filled up with VMs....)
I'm running Lion. The performance is terrible.
A network trace and the output of "sudo fs_usage -w -f {pid of Finder}" while it's trying to show the contents of the directory might be interesting. Is the performance terrible for ls, or just for the Finder?
It has less space than a Nomad.
Most computers have less space than a Nomad.
(And, yes, I recognized the reference immediately, but, then again, I can't even remember what year I first signed up here any more, but it was definitely in the 1990's.)
RAID is dead Thunderbolt reigns supreme. You heard it here first folks.
In other news, various pieces of hardware simultaneously vanished from the earth as, given that "RAID is dead" and that "Thunderbolt reigns supreme", it was logically impossible for a Thunderbolt-attached RAID device to exist.
My wife is an architect and she likes the mac desktop, but she needs to run windows only cad software.
And, presumably, can't do so in VMware Fusion or Parallels Workstation (which avoid the reboot and the "can't run your OS X apps and your Windows apps at the same time") or doesn't want to spend the money for them. (Yes, I can imagine that there are apps that don't work well enough in a simulated Windows box, for whatever reason.)
and who knows what sort of pressure the government was leveraging on these companies to get them on board.
"Nice business you have there selling to defense/intelligence/etc. government customers. Shame if something happened to it...."
Why is the power button needed?
For forcible power-cycling, but if you're doing that a lot, you have bigger problems (or are doing development, especially kernel-mode code development).
(And if you want to power the machine down, rather than reboot, the "Shut Down..." menu option handles that.)
I believe the power button is on the back of the Mac mini and iMacs.
Correct for the iMac, as I remember; I'm not sure about the Mac mini, but I could easily believe it to be the case.
I could certainly imagine the first of those being true (the stuff above UNIX has been known to implicitly assume that file system operations are cheap, when they might not be cheap for remote file systems).
Some of the stuff above UNIX was significantly redone in Snow Leopard or Lion or both to provide new APIs that do fewer system calls to get file system information, and I think the Finder was changed to use that, so things may have improved somewhat.
There were also VFS-layer changes in Lion to allow system calls to make file system requests that bundle multiple operations into one, so that an open/create could be done in a single VFS-layer call, allowing a single over-the-wire call to be made.
The cited discussion stated with a post from somebody running Snow Leopard (10.6.1); I don't remember whether the stuff above UNIX was changed in Snow Leopard or not (yes, I know, Snow Leopard was mainly a performance release, but that doesn't mean no significant performance changes were made after that), but the VFS-layer changes were in Lion, so there could have been some improvements post-Snow Leopard.