The rightist rationale is that taxing the rich discourages entrepreneurship or something. Fine. Move taxation away from income and put it on weatlh; that way, people will have EVEN more incentive to make money, but those who just sit on it will be more penalized.
Of course they don't really believe this, as evidenced by their bullshit on the "death tax." If they weren't fundamentally aiming to reinstate feudalism, they would prefer that people be taxed when they don't need the damn money anymore. But what they want is to keep the rich rich,from generation to generation, at the expense of society.
He clearly has a personal problem with Assange, and while he might have a modicum of arguments to criticize that organization, they sound quite a bit like post facto rationalization of his personal feelings to me.
You can play any 3D MMO right now, in fact it's existed for over 10 years, and be pretty well immersed already. Going even further is IMO going to be more annoying than not. Being able to minimize or temporary disable fullscreen mode you can go look something up on the web while still playing. Sure you could display that in the game, but seriously, is it better for the user? It'd be just a gimmick, the browser would look different than what the user is used to, and would cause all kinds of usability issues. In the end, if we don't do it it's more because the benefit to cost ratio is rather low, not because we can't.
Now if you look what's done today with full immersion and that's really fucking amazing, it's FPV RC vehicles. It's a bitch to find good goggles, for one simple reason: there's not much of a market for them. But you usually find leftovers from defunct VR startups on eBay. What's amazing is that this shit hasn't been explored much by science fiction -- just like mobile phones before or laptop computers. Oh yes it's in scifi right now: in Avatar or SG:U. But notice how they got the idea for the distant "future" from what hobbyists have been doing for a decade already!
And here the reason why you want the immersion is twofold: first you get the thrill of flying, without the risks/costs. Second the interface is better this way, you need all your attention concentrated (i.e. you're not going to want to fire up google while piloting), and you can use head tracking intuitively to have the camera move on the plane, while your hands are controlling it.
So yeah, it's here. Right now. You can get a plane+FPV kit for less than $1k.
I recently had a conversation about Moore's law with an executive in the microelectronics industry. He pointed out something interesting: it's not just the physical building blocks that are getting better (smaller), the whole process feeds on itself. For instance, while 20 years ago armies of tester were manually checking the chips for defects, it's become largely automated. Now you have even more people writing and maintaining tools to perform automated testing. And those tools are being themselves designed and maintained through some sort of test-driven development.
But doing so requires huge processing power and large amount of storage and memory -- it wouldn't have been possible to implement 20 years ago, at least so pervasively. Now you have terabytes of test data and corresponding results, and lots of servers running simulations as soon as a change is committed. That's before actual hardware is produced, but of course the same is done after the prototypes are out, they're plugged into test boards and fed test code and input, with teams devoted to having them run 24/7.
You can write unreadable Perl, but it's not that hard to write fine code. PHP on the other hand... So much line noise for so little expressiveness. Java or Perl? PHP's got the worst of both worlds.
The value of a human life is routinely computed for insurance purposes. Depending on the jurisdiction it's on the order of $100k to $1m; possibly more but definitely much less than $10m. In other words, the amount she's asked to pay is roughly equivalent to that she would owe in restitution for killing someone.
I worked briefly in car insurance, and one of the many questions asked by one of the top insurer was how long the client usually kept his car. (Note that this was an information asked from brokers about their customers, not direct b2c)
Turns out people who renew their car often take better care of them so as to maximise resale value, and consequently produce less claims. It wasn't a big difference but it was apparently statistically significant.
This hypothesis is ridiculously useless from the beginning; when you want a 1:1 image of something that looks like an imprint, it's a million times easier to make an imprint. Occam's razor's rolling on the floor laughing.
It works reasonably well under Wine, doesn't crash more often than on XP (where it is kinda crashy I've been told), the performance kind of sucks though. It would be nice to have a native version. Shouldn't be too hard to port from the MacOSX version, should it? It would
The part that is not actually theirs and where they can't easily upgrade ("non-dégroupé"). They're not shaping AFAIK on their fully owned network (unbundled loop).
They will have to have at least one person full time handling problems. Most likely half a dozen. Remember that those mails have some sort of legal value, and if they don't get delivered because of a bug in Free's infrastructure, they're on the hook. So it's better for them to refuse entirely than to give the assholes a free pass. Plus it annoys the shit out of the assholes so it's good.
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Most servers sold are quad core.
The rightist rationale is that taxing the rich discourages entrepreneurship or something. Fine. Move taxation away from income and put it on weatlh; that way, people will have EVEN more incentive to make money, but those who just sit on it will be more penalized.
Of course they don't really believe this, as evidenced by their bullshit on the "death tax." If they weren't fundamentally aiming to reinstate feudalism, they would prefer that people be taxed when they don't need the damn money anymore. But what they want is to keep the rich rich,from generation to generation, at the expense of society.
Do you need carrier battle groups, Vtol troups transports, attack helicopters and stealth bombers to defend against Al Qaeda?
XML is perfectly suitable for long term data storage and exchange. You have namespaces, schemas, and a millions of tools to handle it.
YAML is OK for storing configuration data. It's not even that good for anything else.
Also anyone who "parses in ad hoc ways" deserves to be slapped in the face.
the death of the author at most.
The Omega logo is over 2500 years old.
He clearly has a personal problem with Assange, and while he might have a modicum of arguments to criticize that organization, they sound quite a bit like post facto rationalization of his personal feelings to me.
Charles Manson spent the vast majority of his time not committing mass murders.
You can play any 3D MMO right now, in fact it's existed for over 10 years, and be pretty well immersed already. Going even further is IMO going to be more annoying than not. Being able to minimize or temporary disable fullscreen mode you can go look something up on the web while still playing. Sure you could display that in the game, but seriously, is it better for the user? It'd be just a gimmick, the browser would look different than what the user is used to, and would cause all kinds of usability issues. In the end, if we don't do it it's more because the benefit to cost ratio is rather low, not because we can't.
Now if you look what's done today with full immersion and that's really fucking amazing, it's FPV RC vehicles. It's a bitch to find good goggles, for one simple reason: there's not much of a market for them. But you usually find leftovers from defunct VR startups on eBay. What's amazing is that this shit hasn't been explored much by science fiction -- just like mobile phones before or laptop computers. Oh yes it's in scifi right now: in Avatar or SG:U. But notice how they got the idea for the distant "future" from what hobbyists have been doing for a decade already!
And here the reason why you want the immersion is twofold: first you get the thrill of flying, without the risks/costs. Second the interface is better this way, you need all your attention concentrated (i.e. you're not going to want to fire up google while piloting), and you can use head tracking intuitively to have the camera move on the plane, while your hands are controlling it.
So yeah, it's here. Right now. You can get a plane+FPV kit for less than $1k.
I recently had a conversation about Moore's law with an executive in the microelectronics industry. He pointed out something interesting: it's not just the physical building blocks that are getting better (smaller), the whole process feeds on itself. For instance, while 20 years ago armies of tester were manually checking the chips for defects, it's become largely automated. Now you have even more people writing and maintaining tools to perform automated testing. And those tools are being themselves designed and maintained through some sort of test-driven development.
But doing so requires huge processing power and large amount of storage and memory -- it wouldn't have been possible to implement 20 years ago, at least so pervasively. Now you have terabytes of test data and corresponding results, and lots of servers running simulations as soon as a change is committed. That's before actual hardware is produced, but of course the same is done after the prototypes are out, they're plugged into test boards and fed test code and input, with teams devoted to having them run 24/7.
No floating point is ever required for filesystems or encryption.
You can write unreadable Perl, but it's not that hard to write fine code. PHP on the other hand ... So much line noise for so little expressiveness. Java or Perl? PHP's got the worst of both worlds.
The technique was pioneered by the Tamil tigers, which had political, not religious motivations.
by several orders of magnitude.
The value of a human life is routinely computed for insurance purposes. Depending on the jurisdiction it's on the order of $100k to $1m; possibly more but definitely much less than $10m. In other words, the amount she's asked to pay is roughly equivalent to that she would owe in restitution for killing someone.
Those capitals have won me over. Truly you must be a great writer to employ them so aptly.
I worked briefly in car insurance, and one of the many questions asked by one of the top insurer was how long the client usually kept his car. (Note that this was an information asked from brokers about their customers, not direct b2c)
Turns out people who renew their car often take better care of them so as to maximise resale value, and consequently produce less claims. It wasn't a big difference but it was apparently statistically significant.
of silicon.
We would have to run out of gravel, sand, rock, pebbles, stones and dirt first.
At ambient temperature & pressure? You can't, you can only measure its weight plus that of its container.
Also it evaporates.
This hypothesis is ridiculously useless from the beginning; when you want a 1:1 image of something that looks like an imprint, it's a million times easier to make an imprint. Occam's razor's rolling on the floor laughing.
It's a Zerg rush! /plays way too much
It works reasonably well under Wine, doesn't crash more often than on XP (where it is kinda crashy I've been told), the performance kind of sucks though. It would be nice to have a native version. Shouldn't be too hard to port from the MacOSX version, should it? It would
dancing blinking crap?
The part that is not actually theirs and where they can't easily upgrade ("non-dégroupé"). They're not shaping AFAIK on their fully owned network (unbundled loop).
> They have the exact opposite: Copyright owners are expected to be paid every time a work changes owners.
There's some weird shit (you theoretically can't lend a book to a friend w/o a license), but I don't believe that's true.
They will have to have at least one person full time handling problems. Most likely half a dozen. Remember that those mails have some sort of legal value, and if they don't get delivered because of a bug in Free's infrastructure, they're on the hook. So it's better for them to refuse entirely than to give the assholes a free pass. Plus it annoys the shit out of the assholes so it's good.
But there is every indication that Sarkonazy and his fellow reichwingers are actually paid for by Hollywood and the USUK music industry.