There are a lot of H.264-compliant encoders out there, and their quality is all over the map. With the volume that YouTube is doing, they're probably using a single-pass software encoder.
There is the right of free association, and the right of contract. The joint-stock corporation as we know it today is a government creation, but the same terms could be obtained through contract with any parties doing business with a corporation.
So if the government creates it, the government can tax it, destroy it or rule it as it sees fit.
Sure, but if they want people to keep their money in the USA, then it makes sense not to pile on the disincentives. If we actually want the economy to improve, we should abolish taxes on capital growth.
Industrialist Carnegie came from Scotland and loved the U.S., and maintained loyalty until his death. He would have never entertained the idea of moving factories to China for cheap labor.
Are you seriously going to compare Ballmer to Carnegie? How many striking workers has Ballmer had killed by Pinkerton thugs?
As for taxes, this country was founded on tax resistance. Anyone who pretends that it's unpatriotic to resist taxes today needs a remedial history course.
Anyway, it would be a good idea to read what the Chinese think about it.
I know what the Chinese think about it. I also know what the Turks think about the Armenian genocide. Tibet is an occupied country, and the claims of the occupiers are hardly an objective perspective.
I was never in the military, but I'll mention that one of the most talented analog designers I've ever met was a USAF veteran. The guy was a total hardware wizard, and he said that he learned it all in USAF radar technician training.
Has he solved the problem of evolutionary models tending to get stuck in cul-de-sacs then? Somehow I doubt it.
You didn't read what I wrote. He doesn't have to solve that problem; when a model starts to give poor results, it doesn't get to make the trading decisions.
given my "Troll" moderation. IE, they do not want my voice to be heard.
A "troll" mod is a comment on the quality of what you post, not a deletion of what you've written. A/. moderator has no ability to control whether any other person reads it or not. We each individually decide whether we want to read at -1 or lower.
I wouldn't sell them short like that. I chat with people in China all the time on Skype, and they have a very strong interest in their own history. I've sent a lot of people wikipedia articles on the cultural revolution and the Tienanmen Square massacre.
China will topple the Red Dynasty eventually, and what will bring it down will be internal communication that the government can't control.
Powering them is a solved problem. There are many engines that can deliver the necessary power-to-weight performance they'd need. The bigger problem as I see it is making them quiet enough to operate without being flooded with complaints.
They'll be taxis in the near future. Even once automation is sufficiently safe, they'll still be more efficient as a public utility than everyone owning one.
I'm sure that sharing them by various means (taxi services, pooled ownership, etc) will happen. I expect that the rate of individual ownership as costs fall will follow what happened with automobiles. There was a time when far more people used cabs than drove their own cars.
Right back at you, AC. If you were actually a quant, you'd know that the business cycle is driven by the Fed, not by all the people making their various bets in the markets.
Would it still be a one minute flight if ALL the commuters you deal with every morning were in the air with you every morning?
Yes. Very few of those people would be going from my house to my office. Think about it for a second: traveling for about a minute on a straight path, versus spending 30 minutes or so on streets which aggregate traffic into a highly concentrated volume.
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There are a lot of H.264-compliant encoders out there, and their quality is all over the map. With the volume that YouTube is doing, they're probably using a single-pass software encoder.
-jcr
It's going to be a lot easier at the next Defcon. Or, is he just going wear an "I am the fed" t-shirt for the whole conference?
-jcr
There is NO natural right to form a corporation
There is the right of free association, and the right of contract. The joint-stock corporation as we know it today is a government creation, but the same terms could be obtained through contract with any parties doing business with a corporation.
So if the government creates it, the government can tax it, destroy it or rule it as it sees fit.
Sure, but if they want people to keep their money in the USA, then it makes sense not to pile on the disincentives. If we actually want the economy to improve, we should abolish taxes on capital growth.
-jcr
corporations have to also be of the public benefit, ie, for the citizens inside the nation where they are GRANTED their incorporation charters.
No, they just have to comply with the letter of the laws that set the terms of their incorporation.
Corporations that threaten to pull out should have their charters instantly revoked.
Great. Capricious moves like that are a real incentive for investment.
You want all of the benefits, all the profits possible, but none of the *responsibilities*.
On the contrary. Corporations, just like individuals, should be held to whatever obligations they freely agree to.
traitorous scumbags.
Fuck you too, Adolph. People are not the property of the state, and neither are corporations.
-jcr
Industrialist Carnegie came from Scotland and loved the U.S., and maintained loyalty until his death. He would have never entertained the idea of moving factories to China for cheap labor.
Are you seriously going to compare Ballmer to Carnegie? How many striking workers has Ballmer had killed by Pinkerton thugs?
As for taxes, this country was founded on tax resistance. Anyone who pretends that it's unpatriotic to resist taxes today needs a remedial history course.
-jcr
First sale doctrine. They can want it all they want, there's no reason why they should get it.
-jcr
If they want to tax us for the alleged value of a downloaded file, then shouldn't we be able to claim a tax loss if that file gets deleted?
-jcr
Why are we buying the products of these fascist dictatorships?
We aren't. We're buying products made by businesses in China, which are not the government of China.
Embargoes strengthen criminal regimes. Trade reduces their power.
-jcr
These people are being persecuted because of their beliefs and their willingness to stand up for their beliefs.
Hogwash. They're being excluded from using someone else's property because they behaved badly when they had access to that property.
Want to talk about persecution? Google for Keith Henson.
-jcr
I think the problem with privately owned flying cars is they could theoretically be converted into privately owned cruise missiles.
So what? Anyone who wants to wreak havoc can do the same thing with a truck bomb today, and have a rather larger payload.
-jcr
I don't really want to go on; there's just nothing connection your suggestions here to reality
Gosh, you're so clever. I bet someone just like you told the Wright brothers to forget it.
-jcr
Anyway, it would be a good idea to read what the Chinese think about it.
I know what the Chinese think about it. I also know what the Turks think about the Armenian genocide. Tibet is an occupied country, and the claims of the occupiers are hardly an objective perspective.
-jcr
I was never in the military, but I'll mention that one of the most talented analog designers I've ever met was a USAF veteran. The guy was a total hardware wizard, and he said that he learned it all in USAF radar technician training.
-jcr
Has he solved the problem of evolutionary models tending to get stuck in cul-de-sacs then? Somehow I doubt it.
You didn't read what I wrote. He doesn't have to solve that problem; when a model starts to give poor results, it doesn't get to make the trading decisions.
-jcr
China are only torturing their own citizens
The Tibetans aren't Chinese citizens, they're people living under a foreign occupation.
-jcr
given my "Troll" moderation. IE, they do not want my voice to be heard.
A "troll" mod is a comment on the quality of what you post, not a deletion of what you've written. A /. moderator has no ability to control whether any other person reads it or not. We each individually decide whether we want to read at -1 or lower.
-jcr
the vast majority of Chinese don't care.
I wouldn't sell them short like that. I chat with people in China all the time on Skype, and they have a very strong interest in their own history. I've sent a lot of people wikipedia articles on the cultural revolution and the Tienanmen Square massacre.
China will topple the Red Dynasty eventually, and what will bring it down will be internal communication that the government can't control.
-jcr
There are many in America (and an astounding amount on Slashdot) who would love to have religion banned forever.
I'm an atheist myself, and I've never called for banning superstition. I just don't accept superstition as a basis for policy.
-jcr
1973, the year that economists generally peg as the point where the "middle class" stopped getting any richer
That was about when the inflation that followed Nixon's devaluation of the dollar really started to hit home.
-jcr
Powering them is a solved problem. There are many engines that can deliver the necessary power-to-weight performance they'd need. The bigger problem as I see it is making them quiet enough to operate without being flooded with complaints.
-jcr
You're essentially asking computers to be perfect
No, just better than humans do on the surface, which isn't that high a bar to clear, actually.
-jcr
They'll be taxis in the near future. Even once automation is sufficiently safe, they'll still be more efficient as a public utility than everyone owning one.
I'm sure that sharing them by various means (taxi services, pooled ownership, etc) will happen. I expect that the rate of individual ownership as costs fall will follow what happened with automobiles. There was a time when far more people used cabs than drove their own cars.
-jcr
what seems far more likely is that you simply don't actually have the intellectual firepower to argue the actual economics,
That's what's known as a courtier's reply.
Keynes is to economics as Lysenko is to biology.
-jcr
with all due respect, you're an idiot
Right back at you, AC. If you were actually a quant, you'd know that the business cycle is driven by the Fed, not by all the people making their various bets in the markets.
-jcr
Would it still be a one minute flight if ALL the commuters you deal with every morning were in the air with you every morning?
Yes. Very few of those people would be going from my house to my office. Think about it for a second: traveling for about a minute on a straight path, versus spending 30 minutes or so on streets which aggregate traffic into a highly concentrated volume.
-jcr