Incidentally, how is Avian Flu being reported in america?
GW Bush used one of the questions in his press conference to jump into a little sidestream about bringing out the troops if the Republican majority was in jeop^W^W^W^W^W^W... uh, if there was an avian flu epidemic. In fact, he even said he'd use them to quarantine all of the voters in the blue^W^W^W^W... people in those cities where the outbreak occurred.
In fact, a majority (approx. 90% by some counts) of all programmers already do earn a living working directly for companies that use the software, rather than for those companies which sell software for others to use.
And, in fact, about 7 or 8% of the other 10 are niche products in very niche markets (think computational chemistry, IC design, fixed-income securities analysis, etc.) where the programmer encapsulates fairly complex domain knowledge. These apps are also not going away.
As for the rest - well, who needs another WordPad or gedit? And, if you do come up with the next killer text editor app, I'm sure you'll find someone to pay for it before someone codes an open source look-alike. The only difference is that you'll need to have initial payoff in 6 months rather than 6 years and need to actually improve the product afterwards if you want the revenue stream to keep flowing.
In short, the market isn't dying. It's only building YALAA (yet another look-alike app) and trying to keep the revenue stream from it going forever that is.
But by high school commencement, it's all downhill buddy.
Because by then, you should have passed your genes on to somebody who'd do something interesting with them (like crossover and mutation). The fact that you haven't just shows what a loser you are (genetically speaking). In fact, what does this say about the Slashdot crowd (many of whom never experience - at least via this site's apocrypha - the act of breeding (at least with those of the same species))? Just wonderin'...
Rheostats used rotational motion to control things like radio tuning, volume, and the like. In the case mention, the radio was likely tuned by turning a large gear on the wheel, which turned a rheostat, which adjusted the resistance in a circuit that tuned the radio.
Actually, radios (even small ones) of that era had the tuning knob attached directly to the shaft of a capacitor which was used to tune the radio. Using a rheostat (actually, a potentiometer) to tune small radios via the action of a varactor was not commonplace until the 1970's. In fact, rheostats (a two-terminal device) were seldom used in electronic design past the 1940's except in high-power work, as the more versatile potentiomer could be configured as a rheostat (by connecting the wiper contact to one of the end contacts).
The rich guy earned the money, and he'll invest it in whatever brings him the best return
No, the rich guy invests it in whatever brings him best return for the amount of risk he is willing to take.
If one can make enough money investing in government bonds (tax-free) to satisfy one's needs then one would do so. The government then should then theoretically use that borrowed money to invest in projects that would improve the well-being of all but, if the wrong people are in power, they do things like engaging in no-bid contracts and non-enforcement of prevaling wage laws that puts the majority of the money back into the hands of the investment class, so you get a wonderful feedback loop where the poor and middle class' tax burden is increased to pay for the largess of the investor class. No investment in companies that provide good wages or jobs needed, BTW.
Eventually the whole system collapses, but by then, the investment class has sold its bonds to mutual funds and foreign entities (through which the poor and unfree are allowed to assume risk at a much reduced level of reward) and have moved on to another place, because they have freedom of currency selection, capital, and personal mobility that the poor, the middle classes, and the unfree do not.
In short, funneling funds to the middle class tends to increase wealth faster than allowing the investment class to shuffle paper between themselves and the government - the middle class will take risks to start new enterprises while the investment class is content to make low risk investments in paper alone that add burden to the economy (servicing of debt payment is a burden) while adding relatively little economic advantage in the process. This is why tax cuts should be economically targeted - if you don't, you're essentially asking the government to tax you more later so that the wealthy can have tax cuts today and tomorrow. Coupon clippers are not investors and the growth of the coupon clippers correlates well (albeit with a bit of a lag) with whether Republican or Democratic administrations are in place. See Kevin Phillips' Wealth and Democracy for more information on this fascinating topic.
In short, you can't take simple economic models (i.e., "More money in the hands of the rich leads to more investment.") and apply it accurately to a complex economy. The OP's simplistic economic model is more easily explained, though - oh well, simple models for simple minds...
Notice that doing an internet search is called "Googling". For knowledgeable people, Yahoo has a bad reputation. For others, Yahoo has no reputation at all.
And I believe that we need a new term - Yahoodaling. Any takers for the definition? Suggested usage: "Boy, they really Yahoodled their users with that move!"
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However, once companies start utilizing tools likes Sparkle, AND start hiring legitimate "interactive designers"... we should start to see some see some really cool shit.
You're assuming that there's a market out there for "really cool shit". In my experience, shit is shit and there isn't much of a market for it unless you're fertilizing lawns.
The point is that, for 95% of the apps being developed, the bottleneck is not good visual design or integration of visual design with coding, it's usability and good task flow. All of the "cool shit" in the world won't make up for that and that's not what this suite delivers. For the one or two interesting apps that will be purchased by MSN, Yahoo, or Google (and are going to becompletely redone to make them scalable in the process, BTW), you're going to have hundreds of just as crappy apps with more complex interfaces, less obvious task flow, and overall shittiness - but they will Sparkle!
In addition, most of those 95% of the apps don't need Photoshop-quality skins either - they need a simple UI so that the data entry drudges (you and I included, if we enter data into a web app) that use them don't get distracted from their main focus - entering the f*cking data.
All in all, I really don't see the benefit here. It's a solution in search of a problem that doesn't exist. The solution providers need to be solving user focus and usability issues, not some unholy UI super-skinning scheme that might cause one in a thousand self-styled "interactive designers" to randomly stumble upon a single gold nugget while playing about with eye candy.
Are there really people with so little money that they can't afford to spend a Hamilton once every 4 years to affirm basic rights of citizenship?
Short answer, yes.
Long answer - Hell, yes. When there are families where both parents work two minimum wage jobs and still can't make enough money to purchase adequate housing and healthcare for their children (and yes, this does happen in this country), $20 every four years is another burden that they shouldn't have to pay. Especially when, as citizens, they should be enfranchised regardless of their ability to pay anything. Once we start taking arguments like your's seriously, the next person would pipe up "they can't afford to spend a Franklin every four years," and next, "they can't afford to save up four hundred dollars over a four year period," and then "well, if you can't be bothered to own property, why should you be allowed to vote?" And if you don't think that things like this happen, look at the magically extending copyright term for a counterexample.
The bottom line is that there are people who do struggle with simply keeping their heads above water. They should not be disenfranchised. And you are an ignorant jerk for suggesting that they should.
If people were using XML you could for install xmlstart and run "xml val foo.xsd foo.xml" and your configuration would be verified.
XML is a (relatively poor) solution in search of a problem that misguided people keep trying to push into domains that it won't handle well. System configuration is one of these domains. XML may give you syntactic validation (that is all XML provides, BTW), but the issues of semantic validation (which are usually more important) are still there. If your configuration file has a simple, regular syntax, syntactic validity is not usually a problem. Using XML will only insure that syntactic issues are large enough that validation will become a necessity.
Any software I create during my employment is the property of the UT System... And since the UT System is part of the Government of the State of Texas, everything I produce is owned by the State.
So what you're trying to say is that Texas is f*cked up?
Thanks for the news flash, but most of us out here in the rest of the world already know that!
Hey genius - he asked, "Why can't I add another [sic] panel," not "How can I move the taskbar." As in adding a second taskbar. As far as I know, this capability has not been in Windows since Windows 95, is not there now in Windows XP, and will still not be there in Windows Vista. Granted, you can move the one you do have around all you want, but you can't add a second (or third, or fourth) like you've been able to with Linux window managers for the last I don't know how many years.
Even if I have a great teacher that instills in me a love of math and science, if I can't find a job that pays in those areas, I'm still going to become a lawyer (probably getting into IP law because I love science and math). College costs too much these days to allow one to wait for a slow payoff or to study the things you love without any thought as to how to monetize the experience. As such, if IBM really wants to increase the number of people going into science and technology, shouldn't they be looking at decreasing the number of jobs in these areas that they ship out of the country, too?
The problem with 'post-modern' society is there are too many people with nothing meaningful to do, building 'careers'...
...constructing video games.
Not to be too obnoxious, but the people who promulgate these laws wouldn't be put into power unless a fair number of our fellow citizens saw similar problems or had a rising distaste for what they see in the modern video game. And although I am a firm believer in the First Amendment rights of anyone who wants to publish anything they want in a video game, neither the manufacturers nor the fans do a very good job of describing why large amounts of violence are somehow integral to the games being designed. As such, when y'all get attacked for promoting something that is relatively unwholesome for entertainment purposes, don't go around whining to each other. This battle (as was most of the battle having to do with mor extreme forms of art, pr0n, etc.) will only be won in the courts. Good luck - with your maturity level, you'll need it.
No, but it is intellectually malodorous. The first thing that the author says is that variations of IQ within racial and gender categories is *much* wider than those among racial and gender categories, yet in his controversial book he claims that this smaller variation leads to the disparity in achievement found between various racial and gender groups (since this is what IQ was meant to characterize). He discounts any refutation of his specious argument on statistical basis or characterizes as "political correctness run amok" suggestions that a well-credentialed researcher who chose to publish his findings not in a refereed journal but in a popular book having political overtones might have alterior motives. He then tars everyone who makes these claims as opponents of academic freedom.
All-in-all, not overtly racist, but very, very suspicious.
The real problem with technical computer security is the poor quality of software (software designed without security, or without enough security in mind), and the general lack of general system protection (NoExec memory, Stack Smashing/Active Bounds Checking, Targetted/Strict ACLs, etc).
(a) If you had the first, you wouldn't need as much of the second; (b) If you had the second, issues of the first wouldn't lead to such dire consequences; and (c) It doesn't matter because no one seems to want to pay for either and so they end up paying in a much more diffuse way for both - look at it as job security in action.
But those facilities could be anywhere, really - even farther up the Mississippi, or the Hudson for that matter...
Yeah. But then where would they find the state enviromental regulators who'd look the other way when toxic waste is dumped (or the big ol' body of water into which to dump it) or the cheap, non-union workforce?
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GW Bush used one of the questions in his press conference to jump into a little sidestream about bringing out the troops if the Republican majority was in jeop^W^W^W^W^W^W... uh, if there was an avian flu epidemic. In fact, he even said he'd use them to quarantine all of the voters in the blue^W^W^W^W... people in those cities where the outbreak occurred.
1. Write movie review.
2. Put on secret magic underpants.
3. ????
4. Profit!
Of course not. You can save a keystroke by calling it GNU/LinuX.
And, in fact, about 7 or 8% of the other 10 are niche products in very niche markets (think computational chemistry, IC design, fixed-income securities analysis, etc.) where the programmer encapsulates fairly complex domain knowledge. These apps are also not going away.
As for the rest - well, who needs another WordPad or gedit? And, if you do come up with the next killer text editor app, I'm sure you'll find someone to pay for it before someone codes an open source look-alike. The only difference is that you'll need to have initial payoff in 6 months rather than 6 years and need to actually improve the product afterwards if you want the revenue stream to keep flowing.
In short, the market isn't dying. It's only building YALAA (yet another look-alike app) and trying to keep the revenue stream from it going forever that is.
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That oughta be good for some kind of karma!
Because by then, you should have passed your genes on to somebody who'd do something interesting with them (like crossover and mutation). The fact that you haven't just shows what a loser you are (genetically speaking). In fact, what does this say about the Slashdot crowd (many of whom never experience - at least via this site's apocrypha - the act of breeding (at least with those of the same species))? Just wonderin'...
No, that's the Authors' Guild and the AAP. Geez, get your organizations and respective crimes straight!
Actually, radios (even small ones) of that era had the tuning knob attached directly to the shaft of a capacitor which was used to tune the radio. Using a rheostat (actually, a potentiometer) to tune small radios via the action of a varactor was not commonplace until the 1970's. In fact, rheostats (a two-terminal device) were seldom used in electronic design past the 1940's except in high-power work, as the more versatile potentiomer could be configured as a rheostat (by connecting the wiper contact to one of the end contacts).
So does this end with TG being the goatse guy?
Which would explain why (especially as regressives) they know everything about hot air.
No, the rich guy invests it in whatever brings him best return for the amount of risk he is willing to take.
If one can make enough money investing in government bonds (tax-free) to satisfy one's needs then one would do so. The government then should then theoretically use that borrowed money to invest in projects that would improve the well-being of all but, if the wrong people are in power, they do things like engaging in no-bid contracts and non-enforcement of prevaling wage laws that puts the majority of the money back into the hands of the investment class, so you get a wonderful feedback loop where the poor and middle class' tax burden is increased to pay for the largess of the investor class. No investment in companies that provide good wages or jobs needed, BTW.
Eventually the whole system collapses, but by then, the investment class has sold its bonds to mutual funds and foreign entities (through which the poor and unfree are allowed to assume risk at a much reduced level of reward) and have moved on to another place, because they have freedom of currency selection, capital, and personal mobility that the poor, the middle classes, and the unfree do not.
In short, funneling funds to the middle class tends to increase wealth faster than allowing the investment class to shuffle paper between themselves and the government - the middle class will take risks to start new enterprises while the investment class is content to make low risk investments in paper alone that add burden to the economy (servicing of debt payment is a burden) while adding relatively little economic advantage in the process. This is why tax cuts should be economically targeted - if you don't, you're essentially asking the government to tax you more later so that the wealthy can have tax cuts today and tomorrow. Coupon clippers are not investors and the growth of the coupon clippers correlates well (albeit with a bit of a lag) with whether Republican or Democratic administrations are in place. See Kevin Phillips' Wealth and Democracy for more information on this fascinating topic.
In short, you can't take simple economic models (i.e., "More money in the hands of the rich leads to more investment.") and apply it accurately to a complex economy. The OP's simplistic economic model is more easily explained, though - oh well, simple models for simple minds...
And I believe that we need a new term - Yahoodaling . Any takers for the definition? Suggested usage: "Boy, they really Yahoodled their users with that move!"
Facts:
Weapons and gear:
Testimonial:
Apple ninja lawyers can sue anyone they want! Apple ninja lawyers get injunctions ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this Apple ninja lawyer who was eating at a diner. And when some dude said the word "Quartz" the ninja sued the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a Apple ninja lawyer totally sue some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don't believe that Apple ninja lawyers have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will sue your ass off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
Apple ninja lawyers are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants. I can't believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart. These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact. Apple ninja lawyers are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start yoga next year. I love Apple ninja lawyers with all of my body (including my pee pee).
Q and A:.
Q: Why is everyone so obsessed about Apple ninja lawyers?
A: Apple ninja lawyers are the ultimate paradox. On the one hand they don't give a crap, but on the other hand, Apple ninja lawyers are very careful and precise.
Q: I heard that Apple ninja lawyers are always cruel or mean. What's their problem?
A: Whoever told you that is a total liar. Just like other reptiles, Apple ninja lawyers can be mean OR totally awesome.
Q: What do Apple ninja lawyers do when they're not cutting off heads or flipping out?
A: Most of their free time is spent flying, but sometime they review legal briefs. (Ask Mark if you don't believe me.)
You're assuming that there's a market out there for "really cool shit". In my experience, shit is shit and there isn't much of a market for it unless you're fertilizing lawns.
The point is that, for 95% of the apps being developed, the bottleneck is not good visual design or integration of visual design with coding, it's usability and good task flow. All of the "cool shit" in the world won't make up for that and that's not what this suite delivers. For the one or two interesting apps that will be purchased by MSN, Yahoo, or Google (and are going to becompletely redone to make them scalable in the process, BTW), you're going to have hundreds of just as crappy apps with more complex interfaces, less obvious task flow, and overall shittiness - but they will Sparkle!
In addition, most of those 95% of the apps don't need Photoshop-quality skins either - they need a simple UI so that the data entry drudges (you and I included, if we enter data into a web app) that use them don't get distracted from their main focus - entering the f*cking data.
All in all, I really don't see the benefit here. It's a solution in search of a problem that doesn't exist. The solution providers need to be solving user focus and usability issues, not some unholy UI super-skinning scheme that might cause one in a thousand self-styled "interactive designers" to randomly stumble upon a single gold nugget while playing about with eye candy.
Short answer, yes.
Long answer - Hell, yes. When there are families where both parents work two minimum wage jobs and still can't make enough money to purchase adequate housing and healthcare for their children (and yes, this does happen in this country), $20 every four years is another burden that they shouldn't have to pay. Especially when, as citizens, they should be enfranchised regardless of their ability to pay anything. Once we start taking arguments like your's seriously, the next person would pipe up "they can't afford to spend a Franklin every four years," and next, "they can't afford to save up four hundred dollars over a four year period," and then "well, if you can't be bothered to own property, why should you be allowed to vote?" And if you don't think that things like this happen, look at the magically extending copyright term for a counterexample.
The bottom line is that there are people who do struggle with simply keeping their heads above water. They should not be disenfranchised. And you are an ignorant jerk for suggesting that they should.
XML is a (relatively poor) solution in search of a problem that misguided people keep trying to push into domains that it won't handle well. System configuration is one of these domains. XML may give you syntactic validation (that is all XML provides, BTW), but the issues of semantic validation (which are usually more important) are still there. If your configuration file has a simple, regular syntax, syntactic validity is not usually a problem. Using XML will only insure that syntactic issues are large enough that validation will become a necessity.
So what you're trying to say is that Texas is f*cked up?
Thanks for the news flash, but most of us out here in the rest of the world already know that!
Hey genius - he asked, "Why can't I add another [sic] panel," not "How can I move the taskbar." As in adding a second taskbar. As far as I know, this capability has not been in Windows since Windows 95, is not there now in Windows XP, and will still not be there in Windows Vista. Granted, you can move the one you do have around all you want, but you can't add a second (or third, or fourth) like you've been able to with Linux window managers for the last I don't know how many years.
Even if I have a great teacher that instills in me a love of math and science, if I can't find a job that pays in those areas, I'm still going to become a lawyer (probably getting into IP law because I love science and math). College costs too much these days to allow one to wait for a slow payoff or to study the things you love without any thought as to how to monetize the experience. As such, if IBM really wants to increase the number of people going into science and technology, shouldn't they be looking at decreasing the number of jobs in these areas that they ship out of the country, too?
...constructing video games.
Not to be too obnoxious, but the people who promulgate these laws wouldn't be put into power unless a fair number of our fellow citizens saw similar problems or had a rising distaste for what they see in the modern video game. And although I am a firm believer in the First Amendment rights of anyone who wants to publish anything they want in a video game, neither the manufacturers nor the fans do a very good job of describing why large amounts of violence are somehow integral to the games being designed. As such, when y'all get attacked for promoting something that is relatively unwholesome for entertainment purposes, don't go around whining to each other. This battle (as was most of the battle having to do with mor extreme forms of art, pr0n, etc.) will only be won in the courts. Good luck - with your maturity level, you'll need it.
No, but it is intellectually malodorous. The first thing that the author says is that variations of IQ within racial and gender categories is *much* wider than those among racial and gender categories, yet in his controversial book he claims that this smaller variation leads to the disparity in achievement found between various racial and gender groups (since this is what IQ was meant to characterize). He discounts any refutation of his specious argument on statistical basis or characterizes as "political correctness run amok" suggestions that a well-credentialed researcher who chose to publish his findings not in a refereed journal but in a popular book having political overtones might have alterior motives. He then tars everyone who makes these claims as opponents of academic freedom.
All-in-all, not overtly racist, but very, very suspicious.
Oh you naive fool!
Wait a couple weeks - you won't be anymore.
Has the parent post been modded funny yet?
(a) If you had the first, you wouldn't need as much of the second; (b) If you had the second, issues of the first wouldn't lead to such dire consequences; and (c) It doesn't matter because no one seems to want to pay for either and so they end up paying in a much more diffuse way for both - look at it as job security in action.
Yeah. But then where would they find the state enviromental regulators who'd look the other way when toxic waste is dumped (or the big ol' body of water into which to dump it) or the cheap, non-union workforce?
Forget the text-to-speech system! Just add a drum track and the vocal interpretations of William Shatner! Shake yer booty!