How much tax the big corporations pay to the IRS is only one side of the coin.
The article fails to look at how much the big corporations getting FREE MONEY from the government.
There are so many FREE MONEY the government is giving to the big corporations. From loans to Wall Street firms to subsidies for "promoting American products overseas" to incentive to encourage "American Business to open branches abroad".
Most importantly, NONE OF THOSE FREE MONEY is available to you and me, or the Joe Sixpack on the street.
You have to consider the American legal system. After they're done threatening legal action, then they'll drag him into court. It won't be a one-hearing thing either. It'll span years. They may get a court order that he can't develop nor distribute such software until the conclusion of the case.
I am not very familiar with the legal system so I will post my question here:
In the scenario you posted above, could it happen in reverse?
Say... a class action suit suing Facebook for infringing on the Users' Rights, since the greasemonkey thing is taking place on users' browsers, with nothing to do with Facebook's server site.
Would that class action suit be valid?
Can someone in the legal profession please help sorting this out?
Of course, replace the pentagon with something like the russian mob and it is just like saying "please kill me", because they are not a public organisation, they don't have a reputation to keep clean.
How sure are you on the "Pentagon never do Russian Mob Thingie" ?
Contract killers are not that uncommon, my friend.:)
If we want efficient code, we have to figure out ways to reward the programmers that write it. I don't see any sign that people anywhere are interested in doing this. Anyone have suggestions for how it might be done?
Simple. When testing the program, put the programmer's nuts in a vise. Give the vise a quarter-turn for every second you spend waiting for the program to respond to your input.
What if the programmer is a SHE? No nut to twist, man.
No glory in it either. Even when you're doing it for free, nobody seems to care if you produce an optimization.
Plus, there are many more coders who have limited depth of understanding of OS interfacing, than there are coders who would go in after them to optimize. Heck, forget multicore -- how many applications fail to use vector units?
Sometimes optimizations get dropped from code as too difficult to maintain. Rarely, enough of them get collected in one spot to make a library out of them. Even more rarely, those libraries actually get used.
And it will stay that way until the consumer starts showing a preference for performance over features.
There are two layers of optimization we need to be awared about.
1. Optimization on the application side.
2. Optimization on the OS side.
Even if optimization taken place on the application side, if the OS isn't optimized - just like the article has stated - on a multi-core machine, the OS will gonna retard the execution of the application anyway.
So... it falls back to item #2.
If the OS isn't optimized, the whole thing will still run sub-par.
The title of this thread is "Flaw In Emergency Response System May Have Killed Hundreds"
The first sentence contains the following: "... a flaw in the way emergency response software was set up to handle Category A responses in Great Britain may have cost hundreds of lives over the past ten years"
BOTH ARE VERY MISLEADING !!
The FLAW of the whole thing is the BRITISH GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE which decides that a fall of more than six (6) feet SHOULD BE DEEMED LESS URGENT, AND EXCLUDED FROM AN EIGHT (8) MINUTE CATEGORY A TARGET RESPONSE TIME" !!
Why blame the software or the emergency controllers when it's the idiotic British bureaucracy which has fcuked up in the first place?
I don't see a relation between sound and shape of letters
Actually, there are !!
And I tried to illustrate it on an earlier message in this thread but unfortunately Slashdot does NOT support double-byte Unicode and I couldn't post that very useful trick my Chinese language teacher taught me.
I tried to post something illustrating a trick to learn the Chinese language (I learn the language that way) but when I post Chinese characters (double-byte Unicode) here everything messed up.
It's totally inconceivable to imagine that when the Japanese Astronauts, the Chinese Taikonauts and the Indian Hehenauts live and work in their respectable moon-bases, we Americans are still stuck in the bottom of the gravity well.
The worst of all is this --- Not only are we stuck here, we rather waste time debating if we want to give the degenerates free healthcare than find ways to send our troopers to the moon.
you need to think about what interactions you need (want) from an application perspective - then look for a solution that meets that specification
What you've said is very true !
Since I am more of a user than a DB programmer, I have yet to find a way to look for the right solution without knowing which package has which features.
That was why I was looking for a "comparison chart" or something similar, to enable me to, at a glance, know which package has what, and which hasn't.
MANY THANKS AGAIN for your reply !! I sure will take a look at Oracle.
I find it ironic that in the online world there are places where the Terrorists and those who support them are calling us, the Freedom Loving People, terrorists !
By the original Terrorists I mean those who strap bombs to themselves and go KABOOM ! taking themselves with innocent people around them.
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The article has failed.
How much tax the big corporations pay to the IRS is only one side of the coin.
The article fails to look at how much the big corporations getting FREE MONEY from the government.
There are so many FREE MONEY the government is giving to the big corporations. From loans to Wall Street firms to subsidies for "promoting American products overseas" to incentive to encourage "American Business to open branches abroad".
Most importantly, NONE OF THOSE FREE MONEY is available to you and me, or the Joe Sixpack on the street.
It's only available to the corporations.
At the rate we are creating space junk, 50 years from now it would be nearly impossible for anyone to keep their bird flying up there safely.
They say the Devil Particle's greatest accomplishment was convincing Fermilab it didn't exist.
What that say about the accomplishment of the God Particle?
Didn't Intel already do that with Pentium 4?
But Intel didn't get the joke, or do they?
I don't get it !
If they can patent the way I work (while listening to music), why can't I patent my own genes?
Double standards??
Since news are going proprietory why don't we start an open-source alternative?
My PC has an HD4670 1GB installed.
My sincerest apology.
The card is HD 4760 with 1GB of GDDR3 RAM.
My PC has an HD4670 1GB installed.
Do I need to upgrade?
If I do, which card should I upgrade to? ATI or Nvidia?
BTW, my PSU is rated 1,500W. Silverstone.
Now who should we blame?
China or Sweden?
Turn out the Swedes are operating the Great Firewall of China.
If the Chinese are to be blamed of censorship, the Swedes must be blamed of ENFORCING the censorship.
You have to consider the American legal system. After they're done threatening legal action, then they'll drag him into court. It won't be a one-hearing thing either. It'll span years. They may get a court order that he can't develop nor distribute such software until the conclusion of the case.
I am not very familiar with the legal system so I will post my question here:
In the scenario you posted above, could it happen in reverse?
Say ... a class action suit suing Facebook for infringing on the Users' Rights, since the greasemonkey thing is taking place on users' browsers, with nothing to do with Facebook's server site.
Would that class action suit be valid?
Can someone in the legal profession please help sorting this out?
Thank you !
Of course, replace the pentagon with something like the russian mob and it is just like saying "please kill me", because they are not a public organisation, they don't have a reputation to keep clean.
How sure are you on the "Pentagon never do Russian Mob Thingie" ?
Contract killers are not that uncommon, my friend. :)
Honestly I use a couple of OSS applications to convert SHP files to KML and then display them in Google Earth
Mind sharing with us what OSS applications you use ?
Thanks !!
I use it to view the dark fiber routes of all the different vendors we use
How ??
Mind elaborate ?
Thanks !!
There is a physics problem when your image sensor is too small - photons have size and mass
Photon has mass ??
If we want efficient code, we have to figure out ways to reward the programmers that write it. I don't see any sign that people anywhere are interested in doing this. Anyone have suggestions for how it might be done?
Simple. When testing the program, put the programmer's nuts in a vise. Give the vise a quarter-turn for every second you spend waiting for the program to respond to your input.
What if the programmer is a SHE? No nut to twist, man.
No glory in it either. Even when you're doing it for free, nobody seems to care if you produce an optimization.
Plus, there are many more coders who have limited depth of understanding of OS interfacing, than there are coders who would go in after them to optimize. Heck, forget multicore -- how many applications fail to use vector units?
Sometimes optimizations get dropped from code as too difficult to maintain. Rarely, enough of them get collected in one spot to make a library out of them. Even more rarely, those libraries actually get used.
And it will stay that way until the consumer starts showing a preference for performance over features.
There are two layers of optimization we need to be awared about.
1. Optimization on the application side.
2. Optimization on the OS side.
Even if optimization taken place on the application side, if the OS isn't optimized - just like the article has stated - on a multi-core machine, the OS will gonna retard the execution of the application anyway.
So ... it falls back to item #2.
If the OS isn't optimized, the whole thing will still run sub-par.
The article in question talks about Winblows.
What about Linux?
Does it need retooling as well?
The title of this thread is "Flaw In Emergency Response System May Have Killed Hundreds"
The first sentence contains the following: "... a flaw in the way emergency response software was set up to handle Category A responses in Great Britain may have cost hundreds of lives over the past ten years"
BOTH ARE VERY MISLEADING !!
The FLAW of the whole thing is the BRITISH GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE which decides that a fall of more than six (6) feet SHOULD BE DEEMED LESS URGENT, AND EXCLUDED FROM AN EIGHT (8) MINUTE CATEGORY A TARGET RESPONSE TIME " !!
Why blame the software or the emergency controllers when it's the idiotic British bureaucracy which has fcuked up in the first place?
Please mod parent +1
Very insighful, extremely informative !!
I don't see a relation between sound and shape of letters
Actually, there are !!
And I tried to illustrate it on an earlier message in this thread but unfortunately Slashdot does NOT support double-byte Unicode and I couldn't post that very useful trick my Chinese language teacher taught me.
I tried to post something illustrating a trick to learn the Chinese language (I learn the language that way) but when I post Chinese characters (double-byte Unicode) here everything messed up.
Slashdot doesn't support Unicode??
Up until the 20th century, the Palestinians did not hate Jews.
Look buddy ! /. isn't the place for you to spread your lie.
Crawl back under that rock of yours and spread your lies there !
I have had enough of you terrorist vermins !
It's totally inconceivable to imagine that when the Japanese Astronauts, the Chinese Taikonauts and the Indian Hehenauts live and work in their respectable moon-bases, we Americans are still stuck in the bottom of the gravity well.
The worst of all is this --- Not only are we stuck here, we rather waste time debating if we want to give the degenerates free healthcare than find ways to send our troopers to the moon.
Many, MANY THANKS for your reply !
you need to think about what interactions you need (want) from an application perspective - then look for a solution that meets that specification
What you've said is very true !
Since I am more of a user than a DB programmer, I have yet to find a way to look for the right solution without knowing which package has which features.
That was why I was looking for a "comparison chart" or something similar, to enable me to, at a glance, know which package has what, and which hasn't.
MANY THANKS AGAIN for your reply !! I sure will take a look at Oracle.
I find it ironic that in the online world there are places where the Terrorists and those who support them are calling us, the Freedom Loving People, terrorists !
By the original Terrorists I mean those who strap bombs to themselves and go KABOOM ! taking themselves with innocent people around them.
What I find ironic is THEY call us terrorists !!